Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43095, for Aaron Odell, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Odell Aaron
S 43095
CONTENTS
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Oct 19. 91 New York
Aaron Odell
of Cayuga in the State of New York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Pierce of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Michael Jackson in the Massachusetts line, for the term of three years, and served from March 1782 to December 1783.
scribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 3 rd day of October 1828
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 th of October 1828. and sent to John Grover Esq. Auburn New York.
Arrears to 4th of March 1829. 40. 51. Semi-ann. all'ce ending 00. 00
$40. 51.
{ Revolutionary Claim, Acts March, 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820.
See letter to Hon. M. Fullmore H.R. March 1. 1834 - do. to Same March 28 1834.
Oct 9 - 1835 - aB -

Copy of Aaron Odell
Declaration For Pension
Ex p original filed

Declaration
In order to be placed on the Pension List under the act of the 18 th March 1818
County of Cayuga Co
On the 18 th day of September 1828 Personally Appeared in Open Court to wit the September term of Cayuga Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace Aaron Odell resident in said County Aged 83 Years who being first duly sworn according 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 of May 1820 that he the said Aaron Odell enlisted for the term of three Years on the 26 th day of March 1782 at West Point in the State of New York in the Company commanded by Captain Michael Pierce in the regiment commanded by Colonel Michael Jackson in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment that he continued to serve in the said Corps until December 26 th 1783 when he was discharged from the service in the State of New York at West Point by General Knox that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present that his name is not on the roll of any State except Massachusetts and that the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension that he did make an application on the 9 th of April 1818 and was returned for further evidence and that and that he has since made two applications since that time but in consequence of informal proceedings the application was returned to be regulated according to the requisition of the war department relative to pensioners
Aaron Odell
And in pursuance of the act of the 1 st of 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 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 and that I am by occupation a mason as a

That by reason of bodily infirmities I am unable to gain a lively hood by said Occupation for myself and family and that my familie who are dependant on me for their support are as follows to wit Euphemia my wife aged 38 Years William Aged 8 Years Euphemia Aged Seven Months And also two Orphan Grand Children viz Alva Erwin And Aaron A. Elsworth the one aged Eleven years in October next the other aged 6 Years
And that there has not been any material change in my property since the 18 th Day of March 1818 except that at that time I was in possession of fifty Acres of Land on which there was a Mortgage of four hundred dollars given to G. H. Gay which Mortgage together with interest then amounted to six hundred ten dollars in the year 1823 And in order to pay up said Mortgage to said Gay I borrowed four hundred dollars of Brigham Fay and gave him a Mortgage on said premises dated January 23 rd 1824 And by virtue of the power contained in said Mortgage the said premises was sold at publick Auction or Vendue on the 22 nd Day of February 1826 to Abijah Keeler And the purchase money paid by Elijah Miller who now owns said premises That no part of the money obtained for the sale of said premises came into my possession nor for my benefit except for the payment of said Mortgage to Brigham Fay or his assignee And that I am now honestly and justly indebted to sundry persons over and above what I can pay more than two hundred dollars
Aaron Odell Sworn to and declared on the 16 th Day of September 1828 before me J. L. Richardson Just Judge of Cayuga County (cont.)
I Abraham Griseley Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Cayuga County do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Aaron Odell did serve in the revolutionary 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 hereto 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 seventy six dollars
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hands and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 16 th day of September 1828
Abn. Griseley Clerk

Schedule
  1 Old horse supposed to be 13 or 14 Years old 20.00   2 Cows 20.00   3 hogs 6.00   2 Heifers 8.00   1 Old Bureau 5.00   1 Old table 1.00   8 " Chairs 2.00   1 Ash Kettle 1.00   1 Pot 1.00   Knives Forks & Spoons 1.50   Kitchen furniture supposed to be worth 5.00   1 Stand Old 0.50   1 Set old waggon wheels 5.00     $78.00 
Aaron Odell

20.598
Aaron Odell
Name found on Final settlement Cubfoot Vol 2. page 58.
pen: to com: 3 rd Oct. 1828.

I Aaron Odell a revolution soldier and one that ought to have been a pensioner many years ago or on or about the 26 of March 1782 I joined the united states troops at West Point The second Brigade Eighth Regiment And Eighth Camp the Brigade Commanded by General Paterson the Regiment by Colonel Mikel Jackson the Company by Mikel Paterson of the Massachusetts Line my name registered in the book of the Regiment I received my Discharge Decem the 26 1783 by General Knox at West Point and my name Entered in the discharge Book in May 1784 Received my final settlement security I received this as good as the silver and gave a receipt to Benjamin Armstrong for that purpose When I returned home they were going very dear at 100 shillings and six pence on the pound this was as small compensation for my service in April 1815 I sent my affidavit to Washington and had a copy filed in the County of Seneca in the State of New York I had a little property at that time but by adverse Providence of sickness and Deaths in my family and other misfortunes I have been reduced so that in Feby 1826 my property was sold at the referees sale since that time I have lived on rent my affidavit being returned for want of further testimony I have traveled more than one thousand miles to obtain living witnesses But cannot find them and as no living witness can be found I do thank the Honorable Congress that the Records might be searched for my name and service And that this might serve as proof as I cannot find any

I have had the misfortune to have my Right shoulder broken twice for this five years I have had a wen come on the joint of the same which has be come so large set as to all most deprive me of the use of it. I was Born a republickin I have ever lived the same I have Allways voted on that ticket I remain the same And shall till death I am now destitute of property and all most by age and hard labor brorought to the Chary of the County will you see or hear of one of those old sol- gers go to the poor house or beg their bread God forbid be member the sufferings of the Revolution soldiers of hunger and Cold and perils and dangers for the hardships that I under went then I now suffer But if my country fails disposed to gave me anything for my services it will be Received with thankfulnes of heart I was three years in the state artillery in Connect- icut before I joined the Standing army I would not weary your patience with a long detail But bear with my scrib- ling as I can not do any better for the time that I was in the army was the time that I ought to have got Learning I must subscribe myself your humbel servant and the publickes friend Aaron Odell

Yps. I certify that I have searched the Records remain- ing in this office, and find Recorded in Liber L of Mortgages page 310 the Record of the sale of the above fifty acres of Land by virtue of the above described Mortgage, which sale took place on the twenty second day of February 1826. Said Affidavit of sale Recorded April 26 th 1826. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of the said County of Cayuga this 20 th day of February A D 1828
J. Gidley Clerk
I certify that I have been well acquainted with Aaron Odell for about sixteen years past, during which time he has been an industrious, but unfortunate man; I acted as attorney or Auctioneer, in the sale of his Farm on the mortgage above mentioned; I believe him to be almost totally destitute of property; and so infirm, as to render it difficult for him to procure a subsistence by his own labor; So far as I am acquainted with his Family and friends, I am induced to believe he has no one on whom he can depend for succor. I consider Mr. Odell a man of truth and veracity, and should he be entitled to a pension, from Government a worthy recipient of his Country's benefactions
J. Gidley

State of New York } ss Cayuga County - }
On this the 22 nd day of September 1828 Personally Appeared Aaron Odell who being duly sworn accor- ding to law doth on his oath declare that the remnants of a discharge signed by General Knox accompanying his application for a pension is parts of the identical discharge given to him by General Knox at West Point at the close of the war for his services in the three Years since on the Continental Establishment and that said discharge has remained in his possession since the revolutionary war except when it was sent to the War Department with his first application for a Pension Sworn and declared the day in year Aaron Odell
STATE OF NEW-YORK, } ss. Cayuga County Clerk's Office, }
I certify that John Grover Esquire, was on the 22 nd day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twentyeight a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Cayuga, duly commissioned and sworn as such Justice and that full faith and credit are to be given to his acts in that capacity. I further certify, that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said John Grover and verily believe the signature to the annexed affidavit to be his  genuine in his own proper hand writing
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the said county, and subscribed my name, this third day of October A. D. 1828
A. Gridley Clerk, is a of Cayuga County Common Pleas reps
John Grover Justice of the Peace

State of New York } Cayuga County - }
On this the 22 nd day of September 1828 Personally Appeared Aaron Odell who being duly sworn accor- ding to law doth on his oath declare that the remnants of a discharge signed by General Knox accompanying his application for a pension is parts of the identical discharge given to him by General Knox at West Point at the close of the war for his services in the three Years line on the Continental Establishment and that said discharge has remained in his possession since the revolutionary war except when it was sent to the War Department with his first application for a Pension
Sworn and declared the day in year Aaron Odell First Above Written before me
John Hoover Justice of the Peace
I certify that the Above named deponent is a man in good standing in society a credible witness John Hoover Justice of the Peace

December 22, 1934
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Aaron Odell-S.43095 BA-J/ANF Am
Mr. Frederick C. Haacker 325 East 194th Street New York City
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Aaron Odell, pensioner of Cayuga County, New York.
The data furnished herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S.43095, based upon the Revolutionary War services of Aaron Odell.
The date and place of birth of this soldier are not shown, nor are the names of his parents given.
Aaron Odell enlisted in West Point, New York, March 26, 1782, served in Captain Pierce's company, Colonel Michael Jackson's Eighth Massachusetts regiment, and was discharged December 22 or 26, 1783. He stated that he was in the service prior to this, but gave no dates nor names of officers.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 16, 1828, at which time he was sixty-three years of age and a resident of Cayuga County, New York. He referred, at this time to his family as follows: wife, Euphema, aged thirty-eight years; William aged eight years, Euphema aged seven months, and to two orphan grandchildren, Elvah Erwin aged eleven years, and Aaron A. Elsworth aged six years. The soldier died October 9, 1835.
The papers in this claim contain no further data

concerning the family of the soldier, Aaron Odell.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

1934. Dec 22 - liqd. by Frederick C. Haacker awd.
43 095
INVALID.
Rev
File No. 43 095
Marion Odell
Rev. Geo. Fox
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index: — Vol. 8 , Page 872
[ Arrangement of 1870. ]

HONOURABLE
REGIMENT
FORCES ON HUDSON
whereby honou service of the United States.
Given in the State of New York the 22 nd Day of June
By the General's Command,
W. M. M c Leod
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
John P. H. Stafford Asst.

Old's Discharge

Act. of 1818. (6 Vol. 264.) S. 3 d declares that pension shall commence on the day of making declara- tion. &c
Aaron Odell Rev. Soldi r . Col. A. B. Jack- =son's Reg t . of artillery Co u ts line, applied for pension April 1818. - Was finally granted 13. Oct. 1828. on proof from records in depart- ment. Why not allowed back pay? J. Millard agent.
Hon M. Fillmore H.R.

Act. of 1818. (6 Vol. 264.) S. 3 d declares that pension shall commence on the day of making declara- tion. &c
The right to the pension shall be considered to commence at the time of completing the testimony &c Act. of 1820. (6 Vol. 525. S. 2.)

Aaron Odell.
Will Mr. Edwards answer to me the following questions as to Odell's application for a pension.
1 When & under What act did he apply?
2. Was he informed that Sept 1828 his proof was not sufficient, and that his name was not found on the rolls or papers in the public offices?
3 Was his name subsequently found and pension granted, and when and on what evidence?
Did he receive his back pension, and if not on what ground was it denied?
For Mr. Fillmore House of Rep.
March 18. 1874

Mutilated Discharge of Aaron Odell, to be filed with his pa- pers, and to prevent its being lost, it must remain enclosed in this paper.

1832 28. March. 1832
G.R.
Record vol 24, Page 68

War Dept t
Pension Office
March 28. 1834
Sir,
The records of this Dep t afford no evidence that Aaron Odell's application under the act of March 18. 1818 was received here prior to 1828, though possibly it might have been here and returned to him for proof of service, in the spring of 1818, as at that period declarations under that law were frequently returned to the parties concerned, without noting the fact on our regular Books. No record of rejected or suspended claims was kept at that time. His name was found on the list of final settlements when his papers were received here in 1828. The claim was admitted on his own declaration, and an old discharge which he evidence contained in the list of certificates above mentioned. He received pay from the time when the proof  ordinance in relation to his pecuniary circumstances was completed, which was on the 3 d of October 1828. By back pension I understand you to mean pay from 1818, when, he alleges, he sent to this Dep t his first declaration. He has not received pay from that period, because this Dep t cannot under the 3 d section of the act of March 1. 1823, make such an allowance. (vide Chap. 58, p. 116, U. S. Pension Pension Laws.)
I have the honor &
hon. M. Fillmore House of Rep s
promised, will be on the

325 East 194th Street, New York City, N.Y., Dec. 7, 1934.
Veterans Administration, Washington, D.C. Dear Sirs:
The Report from the Secretary of War, regarding the Pensioners in 1835, lists among the pensioners of Cayuga County, N.Y., one Aaron Odell , who served in the Massachusetts Line .
Kindly inform me if the Pension Records contain any information concerning his parentage, or give any information concerning his family. I am also interested in his service record.
Very truly yours,
signature! Frederick C. Haacker.