Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,972, for Luther Ingalls, Connecticut

SERVICE
Ingalls, Luther
NUMBER
S. 44,972.
B.L. Mt 26079-160-55
Conn
CONTENTS
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33879 Act 3 rd week / 50 e Spnt 10 ? 155
Luther Ingalls Private
Capt B. Cutter } Conn. Col. W. Ward } Mil.
Sub. 1. May 15, 1963 Sub. 2. May 14, 1977.
Revolutionary War
20 St. H. Mar 1818
W. 16 Oct 1856 R. G. R.
Timothy Herrick Lebanon N. H.
Cin. T. Kennick Aug 18/55 Let same Sept 5/55
Vol. 3, page 65.

(2269)
New Hampshire.
Luther Ingalls, private, Connecticut line
Not "f" sent to Norwich. Han. 17 July 1820
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Andrew Ward Col.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 9 th of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 th of Augt 1815, and sent to W m H. Woodward Esqr Hanover, N. H.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818 Dred July 4 Semi-annual ending 1855 Dec 13 4 Mo. 26/30 $ 38. 93
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. } Hon. A Livermore 1 Year Rep
Discontinued $185.
Hanover, Grafton Co. Decision cont. by opinion C. H. by 1818

Not found on the Connecticut rolls. —
The testimony, on oath, of two or more disinterested and credible persons, is required, in lieu thereof, to prove the service as stated in the declaration. —
The judge is desired to certify, under the seal of the Court, that he is satisfied, the applicant is in indigent circumstances, and needs the support of his country.

State of New Hampshire
On this ninth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ten eight, and of the independence of the United States the forty second - before me William H. Woodward Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in the second district in said State comprising the county of Grafton Came Luther Ingalls of Hanover in said county, a citizen of the United States, and being duly sworn, made solemn oath that the declaration herewith annexed is just and true.
The declaration aforesaid being made in order to obtain the provisions made in and by an act of the Congress of the United States on the eighteenth day of March now last past - the said Ingalls declaring that he has now in his possession no other evidence of his said service as mentioned in said declaration.
I therefore hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Luther Ingalls served on the Continental establishment, in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy for a longer term than nine months at one period that he is in indigent circumstances and stands in need of his country's assistance for support of the war. And I do also certify that Henry Hutchinson Esq. who hath attested the annexed affidavits, is a Justice of the peace in and for said county of Grafton, qualified to take affidavits and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his attestations.
And I now transmit the declaration and affidavit aforesaid to the Secretary of the Department of War as the law requires.
In

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and caused the seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed (no particular impression or device therefor having been adopted or used by said Court) at Hanover in said county the day and year before written.
Wm H. Woodward

I Luther Ingalls of Hanover in the county of Grafton and State of New Hampshire being a Citizen of the United States on oath declare that I served as a private Soldier in the Army employed in the War of the Revolution and on the continental establishment as follows - viz that I enlisted into said service in the month of May 1776 and joined a company of infantry commanded by Capt. Benoni Cutler belonging to a regiment commanded by Col. Andrew Ward in the line of Connecticut troops commanded a part of the year by General Sullivan and a short time by General Lee - that I served the whole term of my enlistment which was one year and was then with all the rest of the Regiment discharged by General Sullivan who gave us no written evidence of said discharge at a place called Chatham near Morristown in the State of New Jersey - and that from my reduced circumstances I need the assistance of my Country for support.
Luther Ingalls
Thereby making wish my claim to my pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States.
Luther Ingalls
I Isaac Shimer of Royalton in the county of Windsor & State of Vermont do testify & say that I was in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary service on the Continental Establishment in the year 1776 & 1777 and was there & there personally acquainted with Luther Ingalls who was in the same company with me and knew that the s d Ingalls served one whole year in said service in the company commanded by Capt. Benoni Cutler.
Isaac Shimer
State of Vermont Windsor County ss
Royalton July 31 st 1818. Then personally appeared Isaac Shimer & solemnly swore that the above affidavit by him subscribed contains the truth & nothing but the truth before me. Dated: Rip L. Lusk of Peace

Declaration of Luther Ingalls
Sworn Apr. 9 th 1818
I hereby certify that I have been personally acquainted with the foregoing deponent Isaac Skinner for more than twenty years and that he is in my opinion a man of undoubted veracity & that his testimony is as much credited as any other man's where he is acquainted
David Ripley Stafford Smith - Moses Cutter
I Joshua Cushman of Hartford in the County of Windsor & State of Vermont do depose & say that I was in the United States service in the Revolutionary Army on the Continental Establishment in the years 1776 and 1777 and was then and there personally acquainted with Luther Ingalls, who belonged to the same regiment with me and know that the said Ingalls served one whole year in said service in the company commanded by Capt. Buroni Cutter - I further depose that said Regiment was commanded by Col. Andrew Ward and was discharged on the 14 th day of May 1777 -
Joshua Cushman
State of Vermont Windsor County ss. Hartford August 1. A. D. 1818 -
Then Joshua Cushman signer of the foregoing affidavit personally appeared and made solemn oaths that it contains the truth and nothing but the truth
Before me George E. Wales Justice of Peace
I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with said Joshua Cushman for seven years past and consider him a man of truth & veracity Hartford Aug. 1. 1818 George E. Wales

I Nathaniel Carpenter of Hanover in the county of Grafton in the county of Grafton and state of New Hampshire of lawful age do testify and say that I am well acquainted with Luther Ingalls of said Hanover that said Ingalls served as a private soldier in Capt. Benoni Cutler company in Col. Andrew Ward's Regiment in the Connecticut line in the army of the Revolution on the Continental establishment from May 1776 to May 1777 and was honorably discharged - that I served in said regiment the whole of said time and am knowing that said Ingalls served the whole of said time Nath Carpenter also.
State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss. August 3. o 1818. Then personally appearing the said Nathaniel Carpenter made solemn oath that the above deposition by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth -
Before me Henry Hutchinson Jus. Peace.

I do testify that I am well acquainted with Nathaniel Carpenter of Hanover in the county of Grafton and state of New Hampshire & that his reputation for truth and veracity is fair and unexceptionable
Ben. I. Gilbert
Samuel Alden
State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss. August 3. 1818. Then personally appearing the Hon. Ben I. Gilbert & Deponent Alden made att. that the above deposition by them submitted is true
Before me Henry Hutchinson Jus. Peace

I Silas Tenny of Hanover in the county of Grafton and state of New Hampshire of lawful age depose and say that I have resided near Mr Luther Ingalls of said Hanover and have been well acquainted with him for more than thirty years - that his circumstances are low in point of property and he has long been in infirm health - and that in my opinion from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his Country for Support. —
Silas Tenny
State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss. April 8. 1818. Then personally appearing the said Silas Tenny made solemn oath that the above Deposition by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth —
Before me
Henry Hutchinson Just. Peace

Luther Ingalls
2269. Hanover
1834.
2269. 14 Aug t 1818
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not on list
Sept 1818

State of New Hampshire Grafton ss At the Court of Common Pleas holden at Haverhill within and for said county of Grafton being a court of record by law established, on the first Tuesday of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty
Present the Honorable
Ezra Bartlett } Esquires Justices Dan l Blaisdell }
Personally appeared in Open Court Luther Ingalls aged sixty one years resident in Hanover in said county who being duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows viz a private Soldier in Capt Benona Cutler company & Col s Andrew Wards regiment in the Con- necticut line That his Original declaration is dated 9 th day of April 1818 And that he has received a pension and his pension certificate is numbered 2269 — And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March 1818 And that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on the 18 th day of March 1818 And that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed I further declare I am by occupation a Shoe maker but have not been able to work at my trade of any consequence for five years past and by an inflammation on my lungs have been deprived of my speech for about two years and half now last past so I could not speak a loud word

And am now very low & infirm & cannot endure hard ship I have a wife aged sixty years she is not able to keep about the house & has not been able to do her house work for three years past by reason of the Rheuma- tism. I have two children at home with me viz Elizabeth W Ingalls aged 26 years in good health she takes care of the family & lives with us and could not do with- out her or some capable person with us — The other George Ingalls aged 15 years he boards with me but is an ap- prentice of a tanner & Shoemaker & his master boards him with me & enjoys good health generally. I have four other children three of them from home one lives in the same house with me whose name is Sylvester Ingalls he is not able nor is he under any obligation to support me but as a dutifull child he has helped me or I would not have lived comfortably to the present And really stand in need of my country's bounty — Luther Ingalls —
An inventory of property shown to us the subscribers by Luther Ingalls of Rehoboth And appraised by us this 26 th day of June 1820 —————
1 Old brass Kettle 1 Iron dutch kettle 1 Small do 1 Bake kettle 1 Spider 1 Iron pail Iron kettle 2 Sad Irons 1 Tea Kettle 2 tables 6 Kitchen chairs 1 Arm Chair 1 Old side saddle 1 warming pan 1 Wire sieve 1 Salt mortar 1 Old Chest of drawers 3 pine Chests 2 looking glasses Old & small 2 Old light Stands
2 milk pans 2 earthen pots 1 pail 1 pewter platter 5 pewter basins 5 pewter plates 7 pewter spoons 1 Tea pot 8 Old knives & forks 17 Earthen plates 4 pint bowls 3 Cups & Saucers 1 Creamer 1 Iron pot 6 tumblers 1 Sugar bowl 2 Canisters 2 square bottles 1 junk bottle 1 pint decanter 6 tea spoons Iron

1 pitcher 2 mugs 2 pepper boxes 1 pair and tongs 1 pair shovel & tongs 2 candlesticks 1 coffee pot 5 sheets lake tin 2 Iron cranes 1 Old butter tub 4 Old Cedar barrels 9 dry cakes 1 loom & tackling 1 Old hay knife 1 Cow & calf —
We having examined the foregoing property appraise the same at fifty five dollars and thirty six cents and no more We also have appraised One seventh part of a dwelling house together with twenty six acres of land meaning to One seventh part of said twenty six acres of land at One hundred and twenty five dollars and forty five cents and no more Signed Silas Tenny
Amos A Brewster Suther Ingalls
State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss June 28 th 1820 Then the said Silas Tenny and Amos A Brewster personally appeared & made solemn oath that the foregoing certificate by them subscribed is true before me Henry Hutchinson Jus Peace
Sworn to & declared on this fourth day of July in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty
W. Woodworth Clerk
State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss I George Woodward Clerk of the court of Common Pleas for said county of Grafton do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of said court And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property ex- hibited in the aforesaid Schedule is One hundred eighty dollars seventy One cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this fourth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty —
W. Woodworth Clerk

33879.
Luther Ingalls

Form of Declaration
To be made by a person who has never before had a Land Warrant, or made a declaration therefor.
State of New Hampshire } ss. County of Grafton
On this twenty third day of March A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty- five personally appeared before me, a justice of the peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid, Luther Ingalls aged 96 years, a resident of Hanover in the State of New Hampshire who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is the identical Luther Ingalls who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Benjamin Cutler in the infantry regiment of of the Revolution, commanded by Col. Andrew Ward in the war with Great Britain, declared by the United States on the 18th day of June, 1812, that he enlisted at Dumfries Conn. on or about the fifteenth day of May A. D. (1776)  Seventeen Hundred and Seventy six for the term of one year and continued in actual service in said war for the term of fourteen days, and was honorably discharged at Chatham on the fourteenth day of May A. D. (1777)  Seventeen Hundred and Seventy seven.
He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which he may be entitled under the act approved March 3, 1855. He also declares, that he has not received a warrant for bounty land under this or any other act of Congress, nor made any other application therefor.
Luther Ingalls

State of New Hampshire.
Secretary's Office, Concord,
March 28, 1855.
I hereby certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation Ormyn S. Ingalls was a Justice of the Peace for the county of Grafton in the said State, duly commissioned and qualified; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the State, the date above written.
John L. Hadley Secretary of State.

WE, John W. Dodge and Elijah B. Hurlbutt residents of Hanover — — — in the State of New Hampshire upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Luther Ingalls — — — in our presence, and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that he is the identical person he represents himself to be.
_____ John W. Dodge _____ Elijah B. Hurlbutt
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person he represents himself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
_____ C. S. Ingalls Justice of the Peace.

October 4, 1938
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BA-J/MCS
Abraham Burner, W.24693
Luther Ingalls, S.44972
Honorable William L. Nelson House of Representatives Washington, D.C.
My dear Mr. Nelson:
Reference is made to your request for information relative to Revolutionary War soldiers, Abraham Burner, and Luther and Zebediah Ingalls.
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims for pension and bounty land made to the United States and based on the military service of soldiers in that war. A careful search of the records fails to show such claims on file on account of the service of a Zebediah Ingalls.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, W.24693, based on the military service of Abraham Burner.
He was born in Shenandoah County, Virginia, date not given, and was the son of Garhart Burner.
Abraham Burner enlisted at Woodstock, Shenandoah County, Virginia, in January, 1777, as private in Captain Matthias Hite's company in Colonel Abraham Bowman's Virginia regiment, was in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown and was discharged in February or March, 1778, at Valley Forge. He married on June 5, 1780, Mary Magdalen Bull of Pendleton County, Virginia. About six or eight months after his marriage he enlisted and served six months in the Virginia militia under Captain Jacob Rinker.
After his service he lived in Pendleton County, Virginia.
Abraham Burner was allowed pension on his application executed October 25, 1819, at which time he was living in Randolph County, Virginia.

Abraham Burner died June 18, 1827, in Pendleton County, Virginia.
His widow, Mary Burner, applied for pension June 3, 1839, while living in Pocahontas County, Virginia, aged seventy-six years. The claim was allowed.
She died January 18, 1840.
Abraham and Mary Burner had seven sons and two daughters but the only names given are Daniel who was the eldest and was born during the Revolution and Jacob H. whose address in 1839 was Burnersville, Lewis County, Virginia. Five of the children (names not designated) survived their mother.
The soldier's brother, Henry Burner, was born August 28, 1762, in Shenandoah County, Virginia, lived there until 1817 when he moved to Licking County, Ohio, where he was living in 1839 at which time he stated that his brother, Abraham, was about fourteen or fifteen years older than himself.
There are no further data relative to the family of Abraham Burner.
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Luther Ingalls S. 44972
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S.44972, based on the military service of Luther Ingalls.
The date and place of his birth and the names of his parents were not given.
He enlisted at Pomfret, Connecticut, May 14 or 15, 1776, and served one year as private in Captain Benoni Cutler's company in Colonel Andrew Ward's Connecticut regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 9, 1818, at which time he was living in Hanover, Grafton County, New Hampshire.

In 1820, Luther Ingalls stated that he had a wife, Lucy, aged sixty years and the following children: George, aged fifteen years; Elizabeth W. Ingalls, aged twenty-six years; Sylvester, aged thirty-five years who had a large family; and three other children whose names were not given. There are no further data relative to soldier's family.
In May, 1823, the soldier was living in Grafton County, New Hampshire, aged sixty-four years and nine months. In 1855 he was living in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Luther Ingalls died July 4, 1855.
Very truly yours
A. D. BILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss. At the Superior Court of Judicature being a court of record by law established holden at Plymouth within and for said county of Grafton on the first Tuesday of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty
Present the Honorable
William H Richardson Esq t Chief Justice
Levi Woodbury Esquire Justice
Samuel Green
Personally appeared in Open Court Luther Ingalls aged sixty two years resident in Hanover in said county of Grafton who being duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows viz a private soldier in Capt Benoni Cutler's Company in Col d Andrew Ward's regiment in the Connecticut line that his Original declaration is dated 9 th April 1818. That he has received a pension And his pension certificate is numbered 2269 — And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 And that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war passed on the 18 th day of March 1818 And that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed And by me subscribed I further declare I am by occupation a shoe maker unable to do any kind of work not even

to make my own shoes for ten years past My lungs are so affected I cannot talk loud My wife Louy aged 60 years in very poor health unable to earn any thing I live with my son Sylvester Ingalls aged 35 years who supports me at present who has a large family & much embarrassed he is under no obligation to do any thing for my support or family
The land & all the real estate I mentioned in my last schedule I have been necessitated to dispose of to pay debts I justly owed & to live upon being unexpectedly deprived of my pension led me to that necessity which was a great & serious disappointment to me & humbly beg I may be again enrolled on the pension roll. I have no other children or means to help me in any way to a living
Luther Ingalls
The following is a schedule of the whole estate & income of Luther Ingalls of Hanover in the State of New Hampshire a pensioner (his necessary clothing & bedding excepted)
   1 Old brass kettle  1 pewter platter  2 Candlesticks    1 Iron dish kettle  5 pewter bars  1 Coffee pot    1 Small do  5 pewter plates  5 heat cake tins    1 Cake kettle  7 pewter spoons  2 Iron cranes    1 Spider  1 Tea pot  1 Old butter tub    1 Five pail Iron kettle  8 Old knives & forks  4 Old Cedar Barrels    2 flat Irons  17 earthen plates  3 dry cakes    1 tea kettle  4 pint bowls  1 Room & looking    2 lobsters  3 cups & saucers  1 Old hay knife    6 kitchen chairs  1 dresser  1 Cow & Calf    1 Arm chair  1 Iron pot     1 Old side saddle  6 tumblers     1 warming pan  1 Sugar bowl     1 wire sieve  2 canisters     1 Salt master  2 quarts bottles     1 Old chest drawers  1 pint bottle     3 pine chests  1 pint decanter     2 Old looking glasses  6 Iron tea spoons     2 Old light stands  1 pitcher     2 milk pans  2 mugs     2 earthen pots  2 pepper boxes     1 nail  1 Spade & shovel      1 shovel & tongs    
Total 55.96
Luther Ingalls

Sworn to and declared on this eighth day of November Anno Domini 1820 before the justices of said Court attest S. P. Webster Clerk
State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss
I Stephen P. Webster Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for said county of Grafton do here- by certify that the foregoing Oath and Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of said Court I further certify that it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in said schedule is fifty five dollars ninety six cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court on this eighth day of November Anno Domini 1820
S. P. Webster Clerk

By which is included in the first schedule, value at $33.00.
States that the real property in the first schedule has been necessarily disposed of to pay his just debts.
Claimant & wife live with his son Sylvester, who supports him, but who has a large family, is much embarrassed, and under no obligation to support him.
Send R...
Regulators sent 11 April 82-3
George Wardevar, Hanover, N. H.
Father Ingalls private. Mrs. Humphreys.
Served 1 year from May 1776- 1st Schedule dated 4 July 1820 contains one seventh part of a dwelling house & 1/7 of 26 acres land - $125.45 Room & rent, and a long list of household & kitchen furniture
53.36 $180.81
States no debts against him. Claimant 61 years old by occupation a Shoemaker, but has not been able to pursue it for 5 years by reason of inflammation on his lungs. Wife aged 60, not able to keep about the house, and has not been able to do house-work for 3 years. He has 2 children at home with her - a daughter aged 26 years, in good health - and a son aged 18, who only boards with him, he being an apprentice to a tanner & shoemaker.
Application made to be re-closed, & rejected 24 Feb: 1821- 2nd Schedule dated 8 Nov 1820 contains no real estate. The same articles of personal property.

Family -
Property free
Nov. 3. 1820
Deed acknowledged.
Jany. 3. 1821 Restored,
Revised
June 3. 1822
He is 65 -
a Shoemaker - unable to labor -
Wife 63 - infirm
Claimant & Wife live with his son, who supports them, but has a large family, is much embarrassed, and under no obligation to support them -
E. P. Webster Cr July 24 1823 Fairchild
New Hampshire
Luther Ingalls
Probate. 1 yr. 1 st 1820
1 st Schedule July 1820.
1/7 th part of a Dwelling House & 1/7 th of 26 acres of Land
$125 - 45
Cow, calf & furniture, all valued at - $ 55. 36
Total $180. 81
Last Schedule, May 27. 1823
Cow $15, & a few articles of furniture, valued at $39. 40
The following changes have been made in my property since 1 st Schedule -
Spouse to S. Ingalls, Nov. 3. 1820 the 1/7 th part of the 25 acres & Buildings named in 1 st Schedule for $125. He paid sundry debts on me (names given) and expended the value provisions for same

1826 Luther Halle Reg 3 d mo 1818 - July 20 55 - 33829
FREE
Memoranda
Dear Josiah Minot Commission of Pensions City of Washington D.C.

26.079
5 Neo Amis

Copy Luther Ingalls
declared
Sept 1878
R. D. Webb Clerk

State of New Hampshire
County of Grafton.
At the Superior Court of Judicature held at Haverhill within and for said county of Grafton on the fourth Tuesday of May in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred & twenty three
Present The Honorable
W m M c Richardson Chief Justice
Levi Woodbury Justice
On this twenty seventh day of May A D 1823 personally appeared in Open Court being a Court of record for the county of Grafton aforesaid Luther Ingalls resident in said county aged sixty four years and nine months who being duly sworn ac- cording to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18 th March 1818 And the 1 st May 1820 That he the said Ingalls enlisted for the term of one year on or about the 16 th day of May in the year 1776 in the State of Connecticut in the Company commanded by Capt Bononi Cutter in the Reg t commanded by Col Andrew Ward in the line of the State of Connecticut on the continental establishment That he continued to serve in the said corp s the fourteenth day of May in the year 1777 when he was discharged from the said service in Chatham in the State of New Jersey That his name has been placed on the pension list and dropped therefrom on account of his property And in pursuance of the act of the 1 st May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 And that I have not since that time by gift Sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18 th day of March 1818 And that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto Annexed & by me subscribed which Schedule is as follows.
The following is a schedule of all the property now owned by Luther Ingalls necessary clothing & bedding excepted
Ver

  Viz 1 Old leaking brass Kettle Iron Pot & dish Kettle 2.99   1 do 1 do small do 1 do Bake Kettle mistake   1 do Spider 1 do five hole Kettle broken 1.50   1 Old Tea Kettle broken 2 flat Irons 2.25   2 tables 6 Kitchen chairs 2.70   1 Arm chair 1 Old side Saddle 3.00   1 Warming pan 1 leare scive 1 Salt cellar 1.84   1 Old chest with drawers 3 pine chests 2.00   2 small looking glasses 2 Old light stands 1.00   2 milk pans 2 earthen pots 1 pail 34   1 pewter platter 5 pewter basins 1.34   5 pewter plates 7 pewter spoons 1.08   1 Old tea pot 8 Old knives & forks 58   7 earthen plates 28   3 p ts Bowls 2 cups & Saucers 12   1 Creamer 3 Tumblers & Sugar bowl 25   2 Cannisters 2 square Bottles 50   1 pint decanter 1 Squirt Bottle 44   6 Iron Tea Spoons 1 Mug 2 pepper boxes 15   1 pair And Irons 1 set Shovel & tongs 1.75   2 Iron candlesticks 1 Coffee Pot 25   2 Iron irons 1 Old Butter tub 79   2 Old cider barrels 1 dry cask 56   1 loom & tackling 1 Old hay knife 1.75   1 Cow 15.00 
Southey Ingalls $391.46
I am by occupation a shoe maker but I am so infirm and in such bad health & have been so for for several years that I am, & have been for a long time unable to labour. My family residing with me consists of but one person besides myself viz Lucy my wife, I am sixty four years and nine months Old my wife is sixty three year old. She is also so infirm & in such bad health as to be unable to labour. That since the exhibition of my first schedule the following changes have been made in my property viz of the articles exhibited in my first schedule
1 pewter plate 5 sheet bake tins & have been worn out in using 2 Old cider barrels
And 10 earthen plates 1 p ts bowl 1 cup & saucer have been accidentally broken & rendered of no value 3 tumblers 1 pitcher & 1 mug
One calf has been used for food in my family. And as to the item of real Estate exhibited in my first schedule And therein estimated at one hundred & twenty five dollars being one seventh part of twenty five acres

of land in Hanover & of the buildings thereon being poor & destitute; myself & wife being both unable to labour and in very bad health and being involved in debt to obtain provisions for the support of myself & wife and pay as far as I could my just debts I sold and conveyed said item of real estate to the person at the time and for the consideration stated in the subjoined columns
   Name of person to whom sold time of Sale Amt of Money & description of property rec d in return     I sold to Sylvester Ingalls the one seventh part of said 28 acres & buildings & I annex hereto an authenticated copy of the deed of conveyance 3 d day of Nov r 1820  And I received in return discharges from several of my creditors from the following debts which I justly owed them at the date of said deed & which were paid for me by said Sylvester as a part consideration for said real estate viz 1 st from Doct Joel Brown amount of his bill & administration in my family against me for medical assistance being nineteen dollars & seventy five cents  2 d from Doct John Eaton for amt of his bill for similar assistance being five dollars & eighty three cents  3 d from Doct Reuben D. Mussey for amt of his bill for similar assistance being one dollar & fifty cents & I also rec d in return a discharge from said Sylvester of a debt I then justly owed him amounting to fifty five dollars and twenty cents I also rec d one & one half tons of hay for the subsistence of my cow estimated at eleven dollars Also six cords of wood estimated at eight dollars which was used for fuel in my family Also 100 lbs of pork & 75 lbs beef at nine dollars six Bush s of Indian corn & three Bush s of wheat at eight dollars which meat & grain have been used for food in my family Also seven yards of Woolen cloth worn by myself at six dollars seventy two cents the whole amount rec d in return being one hundred & twenty five dollars  Luther Ingalls   
Sworn to & declared on this 27 th day May 1823 before the justice of said Court
S. P. Weston Clerk

State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss. I Stephen P. Webster Clerk of the Supr Court of Judicature for said Grafton County do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Luther Ingalls did serve in the Revolution -ary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months under one engagement on the continental establishment.
I also certify that the foregoing Oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court. And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is thirty nine dollars forty six cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court on this 29 th day of
May 1823
S. P. Webster Clerk
abn

This may certify whom it may concern that I have lived within one mile of Mr Luther Ingols in the Town of Hanover State of New Hampshire County of Grafton during between two and three years last past during which time his health has been generally bad which disqualified him for performing hard labor and probably in my opinion ever will Jonathan Eaton Physician
State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss Hanover Nov 4 th 1820
Then Doctor Jonathan Eaton made solemn oath that the above certificate by him subscribed is just and true before me
Silas Tenney Justice Peace

I Silas Tenny of Hanover in the State of New Hampshire, do testify & say that I am, & have been for many years well acquainted with Luther Ingalls of said Hanover, who was lately a pensioner, & with his circumstances; that I live within the distance of half a mile from his residence - that I have seen the schedule of his property which he exhibited to the Superior Court of Judicature of New Hampshire at their last November term, the value of which was estimated by said court at fifty five dollars and ninety six cents; from my knowledge of said Ingalls circumstances I am fully satisfied that all his property is contained in said schedule - I further say that on the third day of November last said Ingalls sold and conveyed all his real property which was one seventh part of the little farm & building which he formerly owned, to pay his debts & the expenses he had incurred for his support for several months then past, he having been sick. I further say that both said Ingalls & his wife are considerably advanced in life, are very infirm, he is unable to labour; & she can do but little. I further say that the reputation of said Ingalls for veracity and integrity is unblemished - I further say that I am not related to said Ingalls, and that I am not in any way interested in the result of his application for a pension -
Silas Tenny
State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss. Hanover January 3 d 1821 then Silas Tenny
who hath subscribed the above affidavit made oath that the same contains the whole truth & nothing but the truth Attest. Bm. J. Gilbert Jus. Peace
Grafton ss 3 d January 1821 I do certify that Silas Tenny who hath subscribed & sworn to the above affidavit is a credible witness; & I fully believe he is a disinterested witness - Bm. J. Gilbert Jus. Peace

I Amos A Brewster of Hanover in the State of New Hampshire do testify and say that I am, & have been for many years well acquainted with Luther Ingals of said Hanover, who was lately a prisoner, and with his circumstances - that I have seen the schedule of his property which he exhibited to the Superior Court of Judicature at their last November term, the value of which was estimated by said Court at fifty five Dollars and ninety six cents. From my knowledge of his circumstances I am fully satisfied that all his property is contained in said schedule - I further say that on the third day of November last said Ingals sold and conveyed all his real property, which was one seventh part of the little farm & buildings which he formerly owned, to pay debts he then owed, & to defray expenses he had incurred for his support for several months there past, he having been sick - I further say that said Ingals in considerably advanced in life, is very infirm, & not able to labour; & that his reputation for integrity & veracity, is unblemished - I further say that I am not related to said Ingals, and that I am not in any way interested in the result of his application for a pension.
Amos A. Brewster
State of New Hampshire.
Grafton ss Hanover January 14 th 1821 Then Amos A Brewster Esqr who hath subscribed the above affidavit made oath that the same contains the whole truth & nothing but the truth - Attest B en A. Gilbert Justice of Peace
Grafton ss Jany 14 th 1821 I do certify that Amos A Brewster who hath subscribed and sworn to the above affidavit is a credible witness, and I fully believe he is a disinterested witness - B en A. Gilbert Justice of Peace
I further certify that the word "fully" was interlined in the above affidavit before the witness subscribed & made oath to it B en A. Gilbert Justice of Peace

I know all men by these presents that I Luther Ingalls of Hanover in the County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred and twenty five dollars to me in hand before the delivery hereof well and truly paid by Sylvester Ingalls of said town County and State aforesaid & ordainer, the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge for myself and heirs have remised released and forever quite blame and do by these presents remiss release and forever quite blame unto him the said Sylvester Ingalls his heirs and assigns forever all and every part of the seventh part of the twenty five acres of land together with the buildings thereon which the said L. Ingalls lives on and all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging.
I have and hold the above said premises together with all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging to him the said Sylvester Ingalls his heirs and assigns forever. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this third day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Luther Ingalls (Seal)
Signed sealed in presents of - John Huntsoo Jr George Ingalls
Grafton ss January 3 rd 1821 Then Luther Ingalls personally acknowledged the above instrument by him subscribed to be his free act and deed before me
Ben J. Gilbert Justice of the peace -
Grafton ss June 3. 1822 Recd recorded & examined
Attest Jph M c Kingsbury Regr

Grafton Is Registers Office May 27. 1823 The foregoing is a true copy of record see Lib o 8 o fol o 209
Jph m Kingsbury Regr
Copy examined
Attest Jph m Kingsbury Regr

Hanover N H 11 th Jany 1821
Dear Sir -
I enclose herein, the declaration & schedule of Luther Ingals of Hanover, & some affidavits - I do this at his request - He is poor - has been very unfortunate, & is very infirm - After the passage of the act of Congress of 18 th March 1818, he made his declaration, & sent it to the War Office, with proof of his services - The Secretary placed his name on the pension lists - & he afterwards drew his pension up to the September 1819 - after the passage of the act requiring the exhibition of a schedule of property Mr Ingals exhibited his  his schedule of property, made oath to it, & this was sent to the War Office; & upon inspecting it the Secretary directed Mr Ingals name to be stricken from the pension lists.
I am instructed to say, & am fully satisfied it is the truth, that Mr Ingals schedule, now in the War Office contained a list of articles of furniture, &c valued by the Court, at $55.96 - & an item of real property, being an undivided seventh part of 30 or 40 acres of land, & of a small building on it, valued by the Court at $125. - That Mr Ingals was then indebted to several individuals, & soon after experienced a severe fit of sickness of considerable continuance, the expenses of which, with the debts he previously owed, amounted to as much as the little real property was worth; & in consequence of this he has been obliged to sell it & pay those expenses and debts, & has now nothing left but the few articles of personal property contained in the enclosed schedule valued at $55.96 & this disposition of the real estate was certainly more prudent, & more honourable, than it would have been to have forced his creditors to satisfy their claims by a levy of Ex on on that estate, at an expense to them in costs of suit &c which his little personal property, if sold at the post, was altogether insufficient to discharge - I have been well acquainted with Mr Ingals for many years, he has been much of an invalid from the period when I first knew him; & is now so feeble, he is

unable to do any thing towards his support - his son is poorly able to support his own family, & cannot support him - The sale of his property was an act of prudence, I may say necessity, & not made, I am confident, with a view of bringing himself within the provisions of the pension act - He is universally esteemed, as far as he is known, to be an honest man; & I can say with truth, I believe him to be as honest a man as we have in New Hampshire - His object in forwarding the inclosed papers, is to induce the Secretary at War to restore his name to the list of pensioners -
Will you give yourself the trouble to present these papers to the Secretary at War, & make to him such explanations as this letter may enable you to do; & give him such information of the character of the witnesses whose affidavits are inclosed as your acquaintance with them will warrant - and if it is proper inform me of the success of this application -
You had my promise in September to visit you during the November term of our Superior Court - very bad health prevented my going to Holderness, & besides, I learned soon after I got to Plymouth that you were journeying to Washington -
I am, with great respect, your obedt. servant P. M. J. Gilbert

An inventory of property thereon to us the subscribers by Luther D. Dugdale of Haver, and appraised by us this 2 nd day of May 1823.
  1 old brass kettle, 1 iron pot, 1 iron dish, kettle & pot  2.99    1 iron pot & 1 iron being broken  1.50    1 spider, 1 five pail iron kettle broken  2.25    2 steel irons handles being broken & 1 broken tea kettle  2.70    2 tables old. 6 kitchen chairs old & broken  3.00    1 iron chain broken, 1 old side saddle  1.84    1 warming pan, 1 iron sieve, 1 iron masher  2.00    1 old chest of drawers 3 pine chests  1.00    2 old looking glasses, 2 old light stands  1.34    2 milk pails 2 earthen pots 1 pail  1.34    1 painted platter 5 painted bowls  1.08    5 painted plates & painted spoons  58    1 tea pot & old knives & forks  28    7 earthen plates & 2 dishes  12    3 painted bowls 3 cups & saucers  25    1 iron pot 1 sugar bowl 3 tumblers  50    2 earthen & 2 silver bowls  44    2 glass bottles (painted decorated)  15    6 iron tea spoons 1 iron & pepper boxes  1.75    1 iron and iron rods 1 iron shovel & tongs  25    2 candle sticks 1 coffee pot  79    2 iron chains 1 old butter tub  56    2 old cycles & bowls, 1 clay and  1.75    1 loom & tankling, 1 old hough knife  15.    1 loom   
for having examined the foregoing property appraised the same at thirty eight Dollars & 66 2/3 six cents & no more
Amos C. Brown John Carpenter

Grafton Js May 10 th 1823 there Amos A Brewster & John B printer who have subscribed the within certificate of apprai- sement made oath that the same contains the truth & nothing but the truth- before me Brn. J. Gilbert Clerk

Lebanon NH Aug 31, 1855
Hon J Minot, Commissioner of Pensions
Yours of August 18 th 1855 is rec d . in relation to the case of Luther Ingalls.
Mr. Ingalls was placed on the Pension list roll of the New Hampshire Agency at the rate of eight dollars per month, on the 9 th day of April, 1818, for services performed in Capt Benoni Butler's Company, Col d Andrew Ward's Regiment. Evidence of said service was forwarded to the department, with his application, for Pension, under the act of March 18 th 1818. — He has drawn a pension of $96. per annum, for thirty seven years.
At this late day, it is almost impossible to find any proof of service, unless it can be found in the records of the War Department, in Capt. Ward's Company.
Very Respectfully Yours & Gimotty Kenrick

1928, Oct. 4, hist. to Hon. Wm. L. Melson. See letter in Rev. Ch. Abraham Burner 4424693.
44972 INVALID.
Rev
File No. 44972
Luther Ingalls Prin. Rev. Wm.
Act: 18 March 1818
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 250
[Arrangement of 1870.]