Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9,616, for Israel Ransom, Connecticut

SERVICE
SERVICE loan.
NUMBER _____
Ransom, Israel Lois
W. 9.616 B.L. Mt. 80,031-160-58
CONTENTS

Letter to J. R. Shields, 21 June 1838.
Letter to Col. A. G. 3rd Aug. 1. June 1839.
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 th April 1838 from 4 th March 1839 to 1 st Sept 1838 Age Notified 15 June 1839.
Col. to F. and 26 May 1840 - Do - M. C. Fitch, 28 th May 1840 -
Dead
Paid as above from 4 March to 18 Sept 1839. the day of his death. Age notified 28 June 1840
18,622
Indiana
Israel Ransom
of Harrison Co in the State of Indiana who was a private in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Grosvenor of the Connecticut Inf'ty, for the term of 3 years.
scribed on the Roll of Indiana the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 18 th of May 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 nd of May 1822 and sent to pensioner at Greenville Indiana
  Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1822  $ 364.67    Semi-ann. all'ce ending Sept. 1822  48.00    6 months  413.67    1824 4     1824 30   
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
19 May 1820.

2676 Indiana P. 104 Lois Ransom, widow of Israel Ransom, Con n who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private,
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96. Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March , 1848.
1st " " " July, Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of July 1858. and sent to
Stotsenburg & Brown New Albany Inda.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 218. Vol. H
Increased from $80.00

288.566
Act March 3/58 March 22/58
End
Lois Ransom paid of Israel Ransom priv Israel
Capt S. Gilwell } Con Col Ransom } Mil
1778
Revolutionary Wars
Ind - July 18 - no 2676
Ad 16 Oct, 1858 - 23758
Spec. B. Blyth
Stolsenburg & Brown New Albany Ind
Vol R. page 15.

RECORD.
BIRTHS.
Andrew J. Hanson was born December 17 th 1894
Sarah Gustafson was born December 25 th 1892.
Isaac Hanson was born in the year of our Lord March 14 th 1871
Amanda Melvina Hanson was born in the year of our Lord January 12 th 1886
Eliza Hanson was born in the year of our Lord February 24 th 1888
Julian Hanson was born in the year of our Lord January 18 th 1880
James Hanson was born in the year of our Lord October 18 th 1881

FAMILY H
MARRIAGES.
Francis H. Ransom was Married to Sarah Allen In the Year of Our Lord 1820 June 23 rd
Francis H. Ransom Married to Nancy Buelld his Second wife A.D. 1839 March 21 st
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Ransom, Israel Conn. W966

19312
Lois Ransom
Indiana Her.
Act. 7. July 38.

State of Indiana } } B
Warrick County } On this the 12 th day of July 1843 Personally appeared before me John Lappin an acting Magistrate in and for the County of Warrick State of Indiana Lora Ransom a resident of the said County of Warrick aged about eighty years, and who is by reason of bodily infirmity prevented from appearing in open court, and who after being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of leasing passed the 7 th day of July 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and Pensions to certain widows, to wit that she is the widow of Israel Ransom late of the County of Harrison & Floyd and who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution and belonged to the Regular troops of Connecticut and served several years in said war, and on account of his said service he was granted a Pension of $96.00 per annum and which was granted him during his life. She further declares that her said husband resided in the county of New London where he entered the service if she is not mistaken. She further declares that she is unable to state the names of the officers under whom the service of her said husband was performed, and will refer for their names, the character of the service performed, its duration and such other facts as are essential in the investigation of her claim to the evidence contained in the papers composing the matter of the applica- tion of her said husband for the aforesaid Pension. She further declares that she has no documentary evidence in favor of her claim. She further declares that she was married to the said Israel Ransom on the 6 th day of September in the year she thinks of Seventeen Hundred and eighty six & that she was just eighteen years of age the 25 th day of March previous to her said marriage and that she was just forty five years of age the 25 th day of last March. She further declares that her said husband died on the 18 th day of September 1839 that she was not married when leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January 1794 (viz) at the time above stated.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
The day and year aforesaid
John Lappin
Lora Ransom
1

And the just subscribers Magistrate hereby certify that the forgoing declarant is personally known to me & I know she is the widow of Israel Ransom deceased late of Harrison County and who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States & I know she is a Lady of High Standing and all her statements entitled to the fullest confidence and I only believe she was married at the time she states for her children in this neighborhood are doubtless over fifty years of age. I also certify that she is wholly prevented from appearing in open court, the distance being fifteen miles & she is by reason of old age & consequent infirmity and bad health confined to her room. I also certify that the distance is many miles to where there is any Justice living in said county & who could not be obtained without great inconvenience and expense to the declarant. I also certify that the County Court hereon in the said County are held only every three months and it has just terminated the last month.
My name this 12 th June 1843
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed John Lappinger Pr. Judge
And also came before me the aforesaid Magistrate Mr. Montgomery Ransom a gentleman known to be of respectability and who on oath states that he is near thirty eight years of age and that he is the son of the forgoing declarant Mr. Israel Ransom and her deceased husband Israel Ransom and that his said mother and father has ten children one older than himself as he only believes. He further states that his said mother has never again married since the death of her said husband but still continues his widow. He further states that his said mother is by reason of bad health old age & consequent infirmity wholly prevented from appearing in open court & the court is not over fifteen miles distant & that his said mother is now living with him & that there is no Justice of the Peace near his house & that his said father upon his death a Pension of $96 per annum & that he died in Harrison County the adjoining County to this.
Subscribed to and sworn before me this 12 July 1843
John Lappinger Pr. Judge
Montgomery Ransom

State of Indiana } Harrison County } Set
I Henry W. Heath Clerk of the Circuit Court of the County of Harrison within the second Judicial Circuit of said State of Indiana do hereby certify that John Lapping Esqr. whose signature appears within is an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County of Harrison duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit are due and ought to be given to all his official acts as such And that the signature within purporting to be his is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of our said Court at Corydon This 12 th day of July 1843. H. W. Heath Clerk
State of Indiana Harrison County Set I John Lapping the magistrate before whom the foregoing declaration was made certify that S d Lois Ransom the declarant from was actually bodily unable to attend in Court being confined to her bed in a low state of health
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name this 20 th day of October 1843 John Lapping J.P. Esqr.

Family Record.
BIRTHS.
BIRTHS.
Hiram Swanson was born June the 10 th 1801 Clara Swanson wife of Hiram Swanson was born August the 1 st 1803 Isabel Swanson was born Oct the 9 th 1825 Martha Swanson was born November the 9 th 1827 Israel Swanson was born January the 29 th 1830 Phebe Swanson was born April the 1 st 1832 Bernhard Swanson was born August the 27 th 1834 Louis Adalisse Swanson born December the 8 th 1837 Thomas Sidney Swanson born December the 12 th 1837

***** Family Record.
MARRIAGES.
MARRIAGES. ~~~~~*
Wm Swanson was Married to Ovanda Redfield December the second 1824

District of Indiana
On this 30 th day of November in the year one thousand and twenty personally appeared In open court being the Circuit Court in and for the County in the second Judicial Circuit in the State of Indiana having original jurisdiction as a court of law and equity. Israel Ransom aged sixty one years who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the pension made by the acts of Congress of the 18 th of March 1878. and the first May 1820. that in May in the year 1775. he enlisted at Colchester Hartford County in the state of Connecticut in Capt. Levi Wells Company Col l Willis Regiment for Eight months went to Roxbury near Boston joined the Army there staid out my time and was dis- charged in June in the year 1777. & enlisted for seven months in Capt. Collins Company, Col l John Ely's Regiment was stationed at New London see Galesburg joined Genl. Spencer in an attempt to take Rhode Island returned to New London and was discharged when his time was up in December in the year 1780. Not however being positive as to the month he enlisted at Colchester aforesaid in the first Connecticut brigade commanded by Genl. Peasey the first regiment commanded by Col l Grovenor and the company to the best of his recollection com- manded by Capt. John Quiggy for three years in June following he joined the army near Kings Ferry on the North river a few days afterwards was marched for Kings bridge where we had a number of

Skirmishes with the enemy Gauges, stayed but one night and was detached to cover the retreat of the Army under the Command of Col n Putnam and continued on the lines till the first of October was then joined with Col n Sheldon's Corps of horse and infantry went over to Long Island and took a small fort east of Fort Huntington by storm with a number of prisoners, he believes that the name of the fort was Hango and continued and continued on the lines till the beginning of Winter after the taking of Cornwallis, then joined the regiment commanded by Col n Grovenor before stated in the high lands a little above West Point at the Connecticut huts on the East side of the River and was placed in Capt n John Durye's Company. Elijah Ransom Lieutenant the next spring he was encamped at Verplank's Point the winter following he was stationed at West Point and the latter part of the winter at a redoubt a mile and a half west of the Point and was discharged in September or October in the year 1783, with the letter (V) as a badge to wear on his left arm after his discharge he started for Connecticut by the way of New York by water and in Long Island Sound was over set lost my clothing and discharge that he has no evidence in this state by which to prove his service but must appeal to the records of the War department where his name may be seen that his first application was dated the 4 th of April in the year 1818, and forwarded from Lewistown Niagara County State of New York by G. Ferris Judge

of the Court of Common Pleas of that County and in pursuance of the Act of May 1 st 1800. aforesaid solemnly swear that he was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March in the Year 1818. and that he has not since that time by gift sale or in manner disposed of his property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring himself within the provisions of the 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 the 18 th day of March 1818. and that he has not nor has any person in trust for him any property or securi- ties, contracts or debts, due him nor has he any Income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by him subscribed Schedule—
One horse, one cow & calf, one yearling. three saws and thirteen pigs, three trunks, eight chains One table, one looking glass, two barrels, six knives forks, four pots, one oven, one frying pan, one pair And irons, one shovel & tongs, one spade, two ploughs Three hoes, three axes, four augers, two chisels, one hand saw, six table spoons, six tea spoons, six bottles, table crockery, one tea board, one old wooden clock, one quarter section of land entered in my name by money given me by my son Francis in February 1819, which I am unable to pay for and that I owe the following debts. To John Kiethly eight dollars to Sproctor eight dollars to Doct r Sayden ten dollars to Amos Newton

Thirty dollars to Charles Patten two dollars and to Abram Cotton ten dollars in all - Sixty eight dollars that I have in my family - my wife Lois Ransom aged fifty three and my sons Hiram Ransom aged 49 years Montgomery aged 13 years & one daughter Julia Ann aged 12 I have one son Israel aged 26 resident in Canada and another son Francis resident in Clark County In this state aged 24 years, and that the aid I can derive from my family is insufficient to give me a comfortable support and that my business is farming and that he is ruptured and by that means rendered unable to undergo much labour
Israel Ransom
Property valued at $120.00 by the court
Memorandum of proceedings in open court on the 30th day of December 1870 before me R. M. Bell clerk
State of Indiana } Warren County } S.S.
I Henry M. Welch clerk of the Circuit Court of the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing list and the Schedule hereto annexed are truly copied from the Re- cords of the said Court and do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount of the value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is One hundred and twenty Dollars. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of our said Court at Connersville on this 9th day of December 1870
R. M. Bell clerk

286.566
WIDOW'S CLAIM.
BOUNTY LAND CLAIM
OF
Lois Ransom
widow of Muel Ransom deceased a pensioner under act of 1818
IN THE WAR WITH
Great Britain (Revolutionary) of 1776.
St. Louis REED & BROWN, ATTORNEYS FOR THE CLAIMANT.
WASHINGTON IND a New Albany Ind, T. Wrightson & Co., Printers, Cincinnati, O.

The State of Indiana } ss. Hloyd Hloyd } COUNTY,
On this Nineteenth day of March A. D. 1888 personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace  Mortimer Moore of and for the County and State aforesaid. Lois Ransom — aged 91 years, a resident of Morgan Township, Harrison County, in the State of Indiana , who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the Widow of Israel Ransom deceased, who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Stillwell in the
Regiment of Connecticut Militia, commanded by Colonel Ransom (once) in the War of the Revolution v that he was out eleven years in the service, that he died a pensioner from 1818 June to 1839 to September 1839 after he died. That her said husband enlisted at  Colchester  Connecticut , he thinks on or about the day of A. D. 177, for the term of ten years first after  for the war she thinks and continued in actual service in said War for the term of eleven years , and was honorably discharged at place not recollect, on the day of A. D. 177, his discharge he cost coming home. She further states that she was married to the said Israel Ransom on the day of A. D. 1784 by one Name not recollect a Justice of the Peace we think and that her name before her said marriage was Lois Newton that her said husband died at Morgan Township, Harrison Co Ind on the 29th day of September A. D. 1839, and that she is now a widow. He was transferred several times —
She further declares that she has heretofore made application for Bounty Land under the Act of September 28, 1850  March 1855 , and received a Land Warrant, No. which she has since legally disposed of, and cannot now claim. but thinks it never reached Washington as it has never been paid from about three years ago she sent it on & has never got a warrant
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the additional Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the Act approved March 3. A. D. 1855. She also declares that she has never applied for nor received under this or any other Act of Congress, any Bounty Land Warrant except the one above mentioned  one above mentioned  Whitaker now Attorney, Indianapolis
She hereby appoints Stites & Brown  Stites & Brown of Washington  Washington her Attorneys to prosecute said claim, and procure her Warrant, hereby authorizing and empowering her said Attorneys to procure from the proper authorities at Washington, or elsewhere, certified copies of any records or documents, or any and all other evidence that may be necessary to establish her claim, as fully as she might or could herself if present, and hereby revoking and countermand- ing all other authority that may have been heretofore given for the said purpose.
Attest Patricius Brown Her Lois Ransom mark

We, Jacob Anthony and Ovanda Ransom residents of Floyd County in the State of Indiana upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Lois Ransom in our presence, with whom we are personally acquainted, and that we believe, from the appearance, statement, and our acquaintance with the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be, and that we are dis- interested witnesses.
Jacob Anthony Ovanda Ransom
We Ovanda Ransom, Elizabeth Wilson and Jacob Anthony residents of Floyd County upon our oaths declare that we were personally acquainted with Israel Ransom and Lois Ransom during the lifetime of the said Israel Ransom husband of the said Lois Ransom and we know that the said Israel Ransom and Lois Ransom lived together as husband and wife, and were so re- garded and reputed by their neighbors; that the said Israel Ransom is dead, that the said Lois Ransom is still his widow, and that we have no interest in this claim.
Jacob Anthony Ovanda Ransom Elizabeth Wilson

State of Indiana Floyd (oruf) ss
The foregoing declaration and affidavits 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 she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim. witness my hand & notarial seal
Putnam Brown Notary Public
The State of Indiana } ss. Floyd COUNTY,
I, Salem J. Tonn, Clerk of the County Circuit Court of said County, do certify that Putnam Brown is, and was at the time of making the foregoing signatures, (which I certify to be genuine,) an acting Notary Public in and for said County, having been duly commissioned and sworn. That his signature to the foregoing certificate is genuine and that said Notary Public is duly qualified by the laws of the State of Indiana to act as such Notary Public. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court, and subscribed my name, this 19th day of March, A. D. 1888
Salem J. Tonn, Clerk

State of New York
Niagara County ss: On this eighteenth day of May 1818 before me the subscriber one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County personally appeared Israel Ransom aged Fifty Seven years resident in the Town of Newhaven & County of Bennington in said State who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the pension made by the late 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. That the said Israel Ransom enlisted in the month of December 1780 or in January 1781 in the Town of Marlborough in the State of Connecticut, and joining the Company commanded by Captain John Drake at Red Bank, Point on the North river in the month of July following in the Regiment commanded by Col. Grosvenor. That he continued to serve in that Regiment as corps or in the service of the United States until August or September 1783 when he was discharged from service at West Point in the State of New York; That he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; That he obtained an honorable discharge from the Army at West Point and that on his way home by water to the State of Connecticut the Vessel in which he sailed was upset in a squall and his discharge destroyed and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said service.
Sworn to and declared } Israel Ransom before me the day & year aforesaid
J Gideon Fisher one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Niagara as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Israel Ransom

did seem in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy; And I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the war depart- ment pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
G. W. B.
State of New York Niagara County P. Clerks Office
I Frederick B Merrill Clerk of the County of said to hereby certify that Elisha Frisbee before whom the foregoing Affidavit and Certificate appear to have been made and at the time one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County acting as such under the Authority of this State and that the same is signed in the proper hand writing of the said Elisha Frisbee
On Testimony which I have the County Seal at Buffalo
In witness whereof I have this 10th day of October 1818
F. B. Merrill (Clerk)
Israel Ransom
Israel Ransom private
I Elisha Frisbee one of the Judges of the County of Niagara as above stated do in addition to the above certificate, State that I have taken the testimony of Israel Ransom & Elisha Ransom respective witnesses to me well known to be on their oaths State that they are personally acquainted with Israel Ransom the person who claims pension for Revolutionary services as above stated, and that they know him to be in such reduced circumstances as to need assistance from his country for support
G. W. B.

State, District, of Indiana
On this 17 th day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty one personally appeared in open court being the Circuit Court of Harrison County, in the second judicial cir- cuit of said State being a court of record and having original jurisdiction in law and equity, Israel Ransom in the sixty first year of his age being the same Israel Ransom who before in this same court took on the thirtieth day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty made his declaration for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the acts of Congress of the eighteenth of March in the year one thou- sand eight hundred & eighteen & the first of May in the year one thousand eight hundred twenty and being duly sworn deposes that his residence was at the time of said application and now is in the said County of Harrison near the town of Greenville and further the said deponent saith as to the question who commanded the Regiment in which he served when he belonged to Capt. Hulwell's company, answer he does not recollect that the company were mustered with the Regiment after the "dying was men" were dis- charged & that of Col. Grosvenor did not com- mand said Regiment. He does not recollect who did, but is sure from his best recollection that

he was discharged from the first Connecticut Regiment & capt Stillwell's company, said deponent also states that the not inserting in his last de- claration his transfer into capt Stillwell's company & his discharge from said company was omit- ted by the Scribe who drew said declaration. The memorandum he gave for that purpose containing said statement. This deponent also states that the accompanying receipt of G. Bris- bee occasioned his mistake of the time in his first declaration in having no other memorandum down of the time of making said declaration, and further this deponent states that he cannot furnish any further evidence of the substantial correct- ness of his said declarations, than what the ac- companying letter of Col Libbeus Loomis, who was adjutant of the first Connecticut Regiment aforesaid furnishes & further this deponent saith that in his last declaration he is stated as sixty one years of age & that he supposes said statement to have occurred from the mistake of the person who wrote said declaration, & that he was born the twenty second of July in the year one thousand seven hundred

and sixty and therefore calculates that he was sixty one years of age July 22 d 1821 & further this deponent saith not. I worn to in open Court the day and year first above written. H. W. Heth Clk
State of Indiana Harrison County ss.
I Henry W Heth Clerk of the Circuit Court of the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the above declaration is a true transcript from the records of the said Court. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Corydon on this day of September, in the year one thousand eight hundred & twenty one.
H. W. Heth Clk

State of Indiana Harrison County 308
On this the 20 day of October 1895 Personally appeared before me John Lappung an acting Just- ice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid Mr. Francis Henry Ransom a gentleman of respectability and who after being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath make the following statements to be read as evidence on the Petition of Mrs Lois Ransom for a Pension to wit, that he deponent is near forty seven years of age having been born on the 17 day of November in the year 1796, as he only believes and accordingly some several years back entered the same in his Bible and which entry he now herewith files. And that he deponent is the son of Is- rael Ransom late of the said County who was a Revolutionary Pri- soner of the United States and of Lois Ransom now the widow of said Israel. deponent further saith that he is the sixth child of his said Father and Mother, that the first was by the name of Ruple the second was by the name of Alfro, the 3 d by the name of Garrison the 4 th by the name of John the fifth by the name of Israel and deponent the 6 th child the 7 th by the name of Louisa the 8 th by the name of Hiram and who lives near the residence of said Lois Ransom No, the younger and he will not enumerate. deponent also saith that the 1 st entry on the leaf he herewith files after that of his birth is the birth of his wife and the balance on the same leaf are the births of deponent's children. And on the opposite leaf are the dates of deponent's marriages. Deponent further saith that he has not the least doubt whatever that the mar- riage of his said Father and Mother was celebrated in

the year of 1786 - about also saith that his mother's real section is good, particularly of things of ancient date sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year of
Francis H. Ransom
John Lapping JP
and also came before me Hiram Ransom who on oath states that he is the son of Israel Ransom deceased and Lois his widow and that he is the 8 th Child (eighth Child) of his said Father and mother as he verily believes and that he was born the 10 th June 1807 as he believes and hereunto files a part of a leaf from his bible which has the entry of his birth thereon as well as other entries. He sworn to and subscribed on this the 20 th Octobr 1843 before me
Hiram Ransom
John Lapping JP
State of Indiana Harrison County by John Henry North Clerk of the Circuit Court of the County of Harrison within the second Judicial Circuit of said State of Indiana do hereby certify that John Lapping Esq. whose signature appears to the above certificates is an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County of Harrison duly commissioned and

qualified and that full faith and credit is due and ought to be given to all his official acts as such and that the signature within purporting to be his are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal this 23rd day of October 1863 J. W. Foster Clerk

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Israel Bansom , a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. 91.9.676
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     May 1775 8 mos. Pvt Israel Wells Wadsworth Conn   June 1777 7 mos. Col. Lins John Ely "   Jan 1781 John Dunkle Greene & Putnam   St. Clair + Shelton   discharged in Augst (or Oct. 1783.  
Battles engaged in, Stamford, at Kings Bridge, etc., of 1781. Stony Point.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, New London Conn.
Date of application for pension, May 18. 1818. His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, New Haven, New York Co. N.Y.
Age at date of application, born July 22. 1760, died Sept. 18. 1839 in Morgan Twp. Harrison Co. Ind.
Remarks: He married in Conn. Sept 6. 1786 Lois Newton Conn. Mch 25. 1768 and she was allowed pension on an ap. in July 12. 1843 while a resident of Harrison Co. Ind. Children: Phebe, Alfred, Gladson, John, Louisa, Israel born ab. 1794, Montgomery Pa. about 1807, Julia Ann b. 1808, William b. June 10. 1801 mar. Dec. 2. 1834 Evanda Redfield, Francis Henry b. Nov. 17. 1796 mar. June 23. 1820 Sarah Allen. and mar. Mar. 21. 1839 Nancy Budd, names of other children not stated.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
X
5-2856
for ch omitted -

1917. Apr. 3: first to Mrs Gertrude M. Walts. M.B.H.
1914. Apr 16. Mrs Gertrude Walts assumed that name of her own free will in vol. in claim. M.B.H.
1928 Aug 2. Heir to. an Mrs L. Dickinson 1930. Mch. 6. Mrs H. P. Walts age 45 parents names not shown.
Buy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 9616
Lois Ransom Wid. of Israel Ransom Pvt. Rev. War
Act: Feb. 24/48
Index: Vol. 56 , Page 145
[Arrangement of 1870.]

No 119 Joint Resolution
5.900 New Albany, Indiana,
Up 2 2 Clerks. 1838 } 1843 }
Lois Ransom, widow of Israel Ransom, who was a Pri, in the Am d Line,
Sent to J. P. Schabue Frankfort Ky.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of July 1844 and sent to
C. H. Schabue, Frankfort, Ky.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A, Vol. / Page 180.

2676 Indiana New Albany Lois Ransom widow of Israel Ransom who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 th day of Dec r 1848, and sent to
J. H. J. Trabue Frankfort Ky
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 333 Vol. 3,
Reported
Dec r 29/48
Lett to Henry Collins Sept 17, 1849.
Stotsenburg & Brown May 19, 1855
288566

No 119
Cert issued under the Reso. Jan 23 1844 - Apr 16 '45 sent to S. F. Trabue, Frankfort, Ky.
8566 Indiana
Louis Ransom widow of Israel Ransom who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 18 Sep. 1839 of Harrison in the State of Indiana who was a Pvt in the Comp. commanded by Captain _____ of the regt commanded by Governor _____ in the Conn. Line, line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of New Albany at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 18th day of Septem. 1839.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of July 1844 and sent to C. H. Trabue, Frankfort Ky.
Total amount, $
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by _____ Clerk, Book 1 Vol. 1 Page 429

Women

V N o 9372 Lois Ransom Indiana Suspended
Set to C. H. Tralne Sep. 28. 43-
Act July 7 th 1838.

Lois Ransom, widow of Israel Ransom Harrison Co. Indiana
Admitted, Acts February 2, 1848 and Joint Resolution of July 1, 1848, at rate of $96 per annum from July 1, 1848, former payments under act of Feb 2, 1848 to be deducted.
Pay widow
Certificate to
Stotsenberg & Brown New Albany Ind. Indiana.

Israel Danson, Connecticut, Nov 7 1862. — Is he still alive?
Has he not been to Poughkeepsie
Ft. McLean, Va. — The name of Israel Danson, is not returned on the record of the Connecticut line having been entitled to, or who have received bounty paid from the U. States.

Smithsonian Office. April 22 nd 1858.
Sir,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the inclosed letter of R. G. M c Lean, Esq r to State that the claim of Mary Marshall for bounty lamp is suspended for want of evidence which will be submitted when obtained.

Received Linton April 4 th 1878 of Mr Israel Mansoon a Power of Attorney authori- -zing me to substantiate his claim to a pension for Revolutionary services and also to receive the amount of said pension as it becomes due and I do hereby promise to pay to the said Israel or his order all the mon- -ies that I may receive for him by virtue of said Power of Attorney — deducting costs & charges —
John H. [unclear]

New Albany 7 th Sept 1849
Col. J. L. Edwards
I send Mrs Lois Ransom's application for a certificate under the act of 2 d Feb. 1848. She employed a gentleman in Ky, by the name of Trahne to get her certificate. I find that you have order the Agent here to pay her, and I suppose you have issued her certificate. She tells me that Mr. Trahne is dead, and if he has recieved the certificate, he died before he sent it - and she cannot now get it. I suppose another may be issued without detriment to the Government - even if the other should come to hand - Mr. Trahne had not recieved it when he died. She supposes, as she thinks he would have sent it to her.
Will you send me another for her - she has not drawn her pension since March 1848 - and is much in want of it
Your friend H. Collins

Israel Ransom Applicant Greensville, Pa. Red 22 Jan. 1822
Greenville Pa Jan 22 1822
Ransom, Israel Conn. W 96/16

Mr. Edwards
I have just now received from Mr. [unclear] a letter of the [unclear] which you will find in the [unclear] I have also to [unclear] City [unclear] requested him to [unclear] forward on to [unclear] I wish for an answer as soon as [unclear] Yours respectfully [unclear]
Harrison County Jan 1852 Israel Thompson
please to direct your [unclear] Green Hill Post Office St. [unclear]

State of Indiana Floyd County, Set
On this the 25 th day of September 1848 Before Me John DeDant an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid Person- ally appeared Lois Ransom a resident of the County of Harrison and State of Indiana aged about 82 years who after being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act 2 nd February 1848 & Resolution of 1 st July 1848 of Congress Granting and continuing and continuing allowances as pensions to Certain widows of officers and soldiers of the Revolution Know that she is the widow of Israel Ransom deceased who was as she verily believes a Private in the Army of the Revolution and in consequence of his service therein was allowed a Pension under the act of Congress passed March 18 th 1818 at the rate of $89 60 per annum That she was married to her said husband previous to the 1 st day of January nineteen hundred and nine and for the proof of which she most res- pectfully asks leave to refer to the evidence on file in the office of the Hon. Commissioners of Pensions which was made by her in order that she might ob- tain Pensions under the acts of Congress passed 7 th July 1838. 3 rd March 1842. 17 th June 1849 the allowances under which laws were made per only at the rate of $80 per annum. She further declares That she is still a widow never having inter

married since the death of her said husband That she now believing herself entitled to a Pen- sion during her life at the rate of $96 per annum under the two first mentioned laws in this Decla- ration most respectfully asks the Hon. Commis- sioners of Pensions to cause the allowance to be made and the certificate of Pension which may issue as in- dence thereof to be enclosed to her attorney G H Trapue esqr of Frankfort Kentucky and with him only and such others as he may authorise do she wish correspondence to be holden by the Hon. Commissioners of Pensions in reference to her said claim sworn to and subscribed before me on this 18th day of September 1848 Lois Ransom mark
The Last Subscribed Magistrate Certify that the foregoing Declarant is personally known to me and known to be the widow of Israel Ransom deceased late of Harrison County State of Indiana who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress passed March 18 th 1818 at the rate of $96 per annum That she is the same indi- vidual who drew a Pension under the act of Congress passed at the rate of $80 per annum and that

She has not intermarried since the death of her said husband and that she is a lady of the first respectability unto all of whose statements the fullest faith and credit should be given unto subserib In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name on this the 25 th day of September 1848 John D Daniel Justice of the peace
State of Indiana, Floyd County, ss I, Isaac P. Atkin, Clerk of the Circuit Court holden at New Albany in and for the County and State aforesaid, Certify that John D Daniel whose name is subscribed above is an acting Justice of the peace in for said County & State duly commis- sioned & qualified & the foregoing signature purporting to be his are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal & office and subscribed my name this 3rd November 1848 Isaac P. Atkin, Clerk

State of Indiana Floyd County Set
An this the 25 th day of September 1848 Before me John D. Duncan acting Justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid personally Appea- red Lois Ransom a resident of the County of Harrison and State aforesaid who after being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Resolution of Congress Approved 1 st day of July 1848 Granting allowances to certain widows as Pensions of off- icers and soldiers of the Revolution I own that she is the widow of Israel Ransom deceased who was as she firmly believes a Private in the army of the Revolution and in consequence of his service therein was allowed a pension under the act of Con- gress passed March 18 th 1818 of $96 per annum and was placed upon and paid at the Indiana agency That after his death she ap- plied for and obtained pensions under the acts of Congress passed 7 th July 1838 3 March 1843 & 12 th June 1844 but which were allowed to her only at the rate of $ per annum That she was married to her said husband previous to the first day of Janua- ry 1800 of which she most respectfully asks leave to refer to the evidence now on file in the office of the Commissioner of Pensions upon which the aforesaid allowances to her were made

She further declares that she is still a widow never having intermarried since the death of her said husband and that she always believed herself justly entitled to receive the same rate of Pension per annum under the aforesaid acts 7 th July 1838. 3 d March 1843 & 17 th June 1844 that her aforesaid husband received under the act of March 1838 and believing herself still entitled to the same both legally and equitably. She now most respectfully asks the Hon. Commissioners of Pensions to make allowances at the rate of $96 per annum under the aforesaid acts 7 th July 1838. 3 d March 1843 & 17 th June 1844 deducting therefrom the amounts already received by her under the last mentioned acts at the rate of $80 per annum and that Certificates of Pension be issued in her name and be enclosed to her Attorney G. H. Trumble esq. of Frankfort Kentucky and with him only and such others as he may authorize does she wish correspondence to be held in reference to her said claim.  Sworn to and subscribed before me this 25 th day of Sept 1848  J. H. Trumble Esq. G. H. Trumble John D. Daniel Esq. J. D. Daniel Justin M. Phelps Esq. J. M. Phelps  Jois X Ransom mark
The Just subscribed Pages certify that the foregoing Declaration is personally

Known to Me and known to be the widow of Israel Ransom deceased late of Harrison County Indiana who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of $96 per annum under the act of Congress passed March 1818 and who the That she is the same Individual who drew a Pension under the acts of Congress passed at the rate of $80 per annum and that she has not since married since the death of her said husband and that she is a lady of the first respectability unto all of whose statements the fullest faith and credit should be given In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name on this the 25 th day of September 1848
John D. Daniel Esq. Justice of the Peace
State of Indiana Floyd County, ss.
I, Isaac N. Akin, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Floyd County State of Indiana certify that John D. Daniel whose name is subscribed above is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and to all his official acts full faith & credit should be given - And the foregoing signature purporting to be his an true one
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name November 3 rd 1848.
Isaac N. Akin, Clerk

Lois Ransom
under joint resolution of 23 rd Jan'y: 1845 & act 7 July, 1838 —
Adm d at $80 per ann. from 4 March, 1836 to 18 Sept: 1839 —
In witness whereof
S. J. F. Trabue Frankfort Ky.
S. J. F. Trabue Frankfort Ky. —

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the resolution of Congress passed the 23 rd January 1845 & the act passed 20 th February 1845
Whereas the
act of 30 th April 1844 prohibited me from drawing a pension for the same period of time during which my husband received one. I therefore make this declara- tion in order to obtain an allowance as a pension from the 4 th day of March 1836 to the 18 th day of September 1839, from which date I have received a pension down to the 4 th day of March 1841 at the rate of $80. per annum & have likewise received a pension under the act of Congress of 3 rd March 1843 at said rate per annum. My declaration made in order to obtain a pension under the act of 7 th July 1838, was made in the summer of 1843 & I only believe was filed in the Pension office during said summer. I now ask that an allowance be granted me under the said act of 7 th July 1838 from the 4 th March 1836 down to the 18 th Septem- ber 1839, from which last date my pension commenced as aforesaid.
Sworn to and subscribed before me on this the 11 th day of March 1845 { Lois H. Hanson David M. Johnson Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above declarant is personally known to me and known to be the identical person she has represented herself to be in the foregoing

my declaration In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name this the 11 th day of March 1845 David M. Johnson Justice of the Peace
State of Indiana Floyd County S.S.
I, Mary W. Smith Clerk of the circuit court in and for the County of Floyd within the several Judicial Circuits in the State of Indiana. Do certify that David M. Johnson Esq. before whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed and dated was at the time of taking and subscribing the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Floyd duly commissioned, and that his name subscribed to the foregoing attestation is his own proper signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said court at office in the City of New Albany the 12 th day of March 1845
Mary W. Smith Clerk By George Symmes Dep.

6d L. Loomis letter
Indiana
Mr Israel Runnion
Mail
Greenville Suffolk Massachusetts

New York March 6. 1821
I was for a few days favored with your favor of the 3 rd of Feb y - I think Captain Stewart is mentioned as Lieut t in Col o Grosvenor Reg t at the time he was Detached at the Command of an out Post near New Point but in what year that was I do not recollect - Col o Grosvenor I think commanded the 3 rd Connecticut Reg t I have no recollection at present - whether you belonged to Captain Stewart or Durkee's Company - neither from which you were your Discharge nor the year you were Discharged - which I was much obliged as I am desirous of finding you Sir - Mr Charles Jennings who now resides in Connecticut was Pay Master of the Reg t - I the receipt of your Letter - I had thoughts of writing him on the subject in the hope that he would be enabled to forward me a certificate that your name was on the Pay Rolls in one of the Companies of the Col o Grosvenor Reg t - Mr Jennings Son

resides in this place - on supposition that you have got the information that his Father on leaving the Army - disposed all his effects & Papers in Hartford - and took a Discharge - Therefore no information can be had from that source to enable you to establish your claim for a Pension - I very much regret that it is not in my power to give you the Papers you need I rejoice to learn that you are a professor of the Lord Jesus Christ - and that so many of your family are in Communion with the Church - you have much reason to praise the Lord and rejoice in the God of your Salvation - may you and your family be enabled by a Holy Providence to be enabled to keep the faith which you profess to the end of your mortal journey. Mrs Loonis and myself are in the enjoyment of health. She joins me in kind regards to you Mrs R. and your family - Your friend Amos Lee
Libbey Loonis

New Albany, Ind o Apr. 30 th 1858,
Hon. Comm. of Pensions, Dear Sir,
We enclose application of Mrs Lois Ransom for arrears in case of pension.
Please file & examine in turn & oblige
Yours very truly,
William Brown

No 9372 Lois Ransom Indiana 7 th July 1838 No. act 1843 No. 6225 and 1824/1839
Adm o 2 years private $80.-
Commencing on 18 Sept 1839 and terminating on 4 March 1841-
adm o act 8 March 1843 $80 per an C. H. Trane Transferred 16y

Frankfort Ky Hon J L Edwards Comm of Pensions
Q pi I have enclosed you the declarations of Mrs Lois under the acts 7 th July 1838 & its supplements & the Declaration of 1 st July 1848 — also under act 7 th February '48.
You will please enclose me the Certificate of allowance to Frankfort Kentucky
I am Sir Very respectfully Your obed Servt S F J. Nahn

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office,
June 15 th 1840.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The widow of Israel Hanson, a Pensioner on the Roll of the New Albany Ind. Agency, at the rate of Eight — Dollars and — Cents per annum month, under the law of the 18 th March 1818, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March, to the 18 th Sept. 1839, the day of his death.
Respectfully yours,
Alison B. Parry
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.

Brief in the case of Lois Hanson, widow of Israel Hanson Harrison County and State of Indiana. act February 2. 1848. and It Res July 1. 1848.
Claim, (" original " or "for increase.")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Claimant is a pensioner at rate of $80 per annum. Her husband was pensioned under act of March 18, 1848, at rate of $96. Claimant surrendered her Certificate, and a new one ordered & issued at rate of $96 per annum from July 1. 1848 under Decree of that date.
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Messrs Stetsonburg & Brown } New Albany } Name and residence of Agent } Indiana }
K. Eads Examining Clerk.

Payment to be made at New Albany by
Mason C. Fitch Esq
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of Indiana
91 15 18 3/4 100 73 73 1151 73 178 5-
Payable on the 4th September and 4th March
Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 2d, 1848, Page 3 3 3 Vol. 3.
Geo. H. [unintelligible] Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
WIDOW'S PENSION.
I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2d, 1848, Lois Ransom widow of Israel Ransom who was a Private in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Eightly dollars and _____ cents per annum, commencing on the 4th of March, 1848, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.
Given at the War Office of the United States this 29th day of December one thousand eight hundred and forty eight,
M. L. Macey.
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned.
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.

Frankfort Kentucky Novr 21 st 1843
Sir
Your letter of the 28 th Sept r 1843 returning me the papers in the case of Lois Ransom that in case of her actual bodily disability to attend in court, the Magistrate before whom the Declaration was made might certify the fact of said disability; was duly received. I accordingly have caused the Magistrate to certify the fact of said disability, and herewith re-enclose you the papers. (in conjunction with the depositions of Francis H Ransom and Hiram Ransom in which are filed two leaves from their bibles conclusively showing the relationship of husband and wife between Israel and Lois Ransom previous to the first day of January 1794, as instructed to do in your letter. The parties were married in Connecticut to which place I have written and am unable to procure a copy of the license if such were issued; as I doubt whether in that State at a date so early the solemnization of Matrimony by authority of a license was necessary to its validity. I hope the evidence alluded to will be entirely satisfactory. Please enclose to me at Frankfort Ky the certificate of allowance
I am Sir Very respectfully, Your O bt Servt C No Trace
Hon J L Edwards Comm r of Pensions Washington City.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
June 8 th , 1839.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Israel Penson, — a Pensioner on the Roll of the Madison, Ind te , Agency, at the rate of eight — Dollars and _____ Cents per month  annum , under the law of the 18 th March, 1818, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March 1837, to the 4 th Sept., 1838,
Respectfully, yours, William B. Patridge Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.

New Albany, Indiana
May 31 st 1888
Rev Geo C. Whiting
Comm. of Pensions,
Dear Sir,
We enclose as directed in your letter of May 19 th the pension certif- -icate of Lois Ransom, widow of Israel Ransom, No 2676, in order that a new certificate may issue.
very respectfully
Wolsenbury Brown

Hon J. L. Edwards March 17 th 1845 Commissioner of Pensions
I herewith enclose you the declaration of Mrs Lewis Ransom of Indiana under the restriction of 23 rd January & 20 th February 1845 You will please enclose to me at Frank fort Kentucky the certificate of allow- ance
I am Sir Very respectfully Yours obed Servt S. J. Prather

Frankfort Kentucky August 2 nd 1849
Sir
I herewith enclose you the declaration of Mrs Lois Ransom of Harrison County Indiana, and other evidence in favor of her application for a Pension under the act of Congress passed the 7 th day of July 1838.
Please enclose to me at Frankfort Kentucky Certificate of allowance.
I am Sir Very Respectfully Your Obedt Servant C W Trabeu
Wm L Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington City DC

286.566

New Albany, Ind a ,
March 19 th 1858,
To the Hon Comm. of Pensions, Dear Sir,
We enclose declaration of Lois Ransom for 160 acres of Bounty land. Her husband drew under Act of 1818 a pension at $96 per year, she claims, she says $80 per year only. We desire to know what form it is necessary to use in order that she may obtain what is due back for her, & also for the remainder of her life? 2 nd She claims to have been married in 1784, & thinks she has never received the benefit of the Act of July 7 th 1838. If she has not, (her husband having died in 1839) what form would be necessary for her application? 3 rd Will she be entitled in addition to bounty land under Act of 1855, to the benefit of Act of Congress of Sept 16, 1776 (her husband having served to end of war),
very truly & respectfully
William Brown
P.S. Her claim she says for bounty land was mailed 3 years ago nearly under Act of 1855, but never heard from. S. B.

Dept t of War
Pension Office
15. Nov. r 1821.
Sir
Your claim to a pension has been examined; and I have to state, that as you do not recollect the name of the Colonel under whom you served in the Revolutionary War, and as it appears that Captain Libbards Toomey has a recollection of such a person as yourself in the army at that time, his certificate under oath setting forth your services and identifying your person, is required before a decision can be had in your case.
You must state in your schedule in what county you reside.
I am respectfully Yr Ob d Serv t J. L. Edwards
W m Israel Hanson Greenville Indiana

State of Indiana p:
I Davis Hogo presiding Judge of the Circuit Court of Harrison County State aforesaid do certify that Israel Ranson who has made application for a pension pursuant to the acts of Congress in such case made & provided on the 30 th day of November 1826 was at the time and still is resident in the County of Harrison and his Residence being omitted in his Schedule was an omission of the Clerk of the Court.
Given under my hand this 31 st day of December 1828.
Davis Hogo

Israel Ransom
Ind a
Applicant
Age
Greenville, Ind a
Rec d 28 Dec 1820.
Green - City
Section of Map
Greenville Ind a Dec 1/31

The residence of the applicant is required.
Who commanded the regiment in which applicant served, when he belonged to Capt. Stillwell's Company?
The original declaration must be sent on to this office with the papers now returned, or a certificate of the judge before whom it was made as the date thereof.
20 Jan d 1821

Dear Sir
I feel it My Duty to send to My self and family to Make a further Statement of My situation since left the Service in 1813 bread to the farmers business at the age 36 in consequence of My inability in Health I took a small house in the City of Albany St New York kept it 13 years by Misfortune left My property and was obliged to Apply to My Country for pension Moved my family to Lake Ontario near Oswego one year before the last war and then the war in consequence of that My Crops was cut off that I was not able to support My family and in March 1818 I set out with My family for this Country and when arrived at Livingston County I saw the Law of Congress in favour of the Revolutionaries I made Application before J. Knipfer Judge of the Court of Niagara and appointed him My Agent with power of Attorney and have recd no answer and in July I arrived at Steubenville County above Lowell with 6 in family and only 20$ I am now in the County of Harrison and am about or rather which disabales Me from Labour - I wish if I have My Letter answered to have it directed to Me at the Post Office of Greens Hill P. O. County of Indiana Israel Ransom
List of officers in our Regiment as enlisted Col. Groveson My left Capt. Purdy Capt. Stilwell Capt. Spalding Lieut. Libus Lieut. Adair Lieut. Hanning paymaster.

Declaration of Mrs Lois Ransom, widow of Israel Ransom , a revo- lutionary soldier for an allowance of pension and arrears.
Hotchkiss & Brown attys New Albany, Ind

State of Indiana } Harrison County } ss.
Be it known that before me, Isaac Clapp, a justice of the peace in and for said County residing in Morgan Township in said County, being duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared on this 11 day of April A.D. 1858, Mrs. Lois Ransom, aged 71 years, a resident of Morgan Township in said County and State and made oath in due form of law that she is the identical person who drew a pension under the Act of February 27 th 1841, on account of the Revolutionary Services of her husband, Israel Ransom, deceased, who was, she thinks a private in Captain Stillwell's Company of Connecticut Militia in the Revolutionary War, which also served under Colonel Ransom, which was also through two terms of service for seven years altogether in said war: That she now draws a pension at the rate of eighty dollars per year, which as she thinks commenced about three or four years after his death: That she makes this application for an increase of pension to the same rate to which her husband was entitled, viz $96 per year; and also for all arrears of pensions due her from the time of her husband's death; including the allowance due her from the time she first commenced drawing at the rate of $16 per month; That her said husband drew a pension under the Act of 1818 for his Revolutionary Services, & she refers here to a true part of

declaration the papers & records relating to her services & pension now on file. That she has not intermarried but continues to be his widow; that she now resides in Morgan Township, Harrison County, Indiana, & has hitherto resided there. She hereby affirms that Elizabeth Brown of New Albany, Indiana, her attorney to claim & receive for her all that she prays for herein, & further swith not.
We John Lapping and Samuel L. Ransom residents of Harrison County, Indiana on our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration of Lois Ransom was signed & acknowledged before us on this presence, with whom we are personally acquainted & that we have no interest in this claim. John Lapping Samuel L. Ransom
State of Indiana 3 Harrison County 3 ss.
The foregoing declaration & affidavits were sworn to & subscribed before me this 21 day of April 1888, and I certify that the said Lois Ransom is personally known to me: that by reason of her age and bodily infirmities she is utterly unable to attend at the Court House or travel any distance to appear before & judge a Court: that she is the same individual who drew a pension as stated before in the foregoing declaration, that she & the other affiants are credible witnesses & that I have no interest in this claim.
Isaac Clift
Seal
Justice of the Peace

State of Indiana Harrison County Set;
I, George W. Dunbar Clerk of the Harrison Circuit Court, hereby certify that Isaac Clipp Esq., whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing Certificate, of acknowledgment is now, and was at the date thereof, an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County aforesaid, duly elected, com- missioned and qualified; that full faith and credit are due and should be given to all his official acts as such
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at Corydon this the 29 th day of April 1838. G. W. Dunbar clk

The state of Indiana, Floyd County, The City of New Albany, ss. On This Sixth day of September, one Thousand, Eight hundred, and forty nine, personally appeared before me, Henry Collins, city Judge of the said City of New Albany, Lois Ransom, a resident of Harrison County, in said State of Indiana, aged Eighty one years last March, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 2 d February, 1848, granting Pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Israel Ransom, who was a Private in the army of the Revolution - That her said husband served under his father, James Ransom, as Waster, and after wards enlisted, but she cannot now state who was his Captain or his Colonel - She thinks one Libeus Loomis was his Lieutenant - or Colonel - or it may that he was the Lieutenant Colonel. Her said husband died in 1839, to which time he drew a pension of ninety six dollars her year, as she believes - and after his death, she drew a pension under the law of 17 th June 1844, of Eighty dollars her annum, up to 4 th March 1848. She further declares that she has never intermarried since the death of her husband said Israel Ransom, and still continues to be his widow.
8011 Rec. S. 8000
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 6 th September 1849, at my office in New Albany
Henry Collins Esq. City Judge

State of Indiana, Floyd county ss.
I, Isaac N. Akin, Clerk of the Floyd Circuit Court, certify that Henry Collins, whose genuine signature is attached to the foregoing affidavit of Deo Ransom, in said cause at the time of signing the same, acting City Judge of the city of New Albany, in said county, commissioned & sworn according to law, and by law empowered to administer oaths, &c.
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court here to affixed at New Albany, this 6th day of September 1849.
I. N. Akin, Clerk

Bureau of Pensions Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:-
Will you please send me the Revolutionary War record of Israel Ransom who enlisted May 6, 1775; I believe at Litchfield Conn.
I find this record in the Daughters of the American Revolutions 21st report; "Ransom, Israel, widow Lois, B. P. H. C."
8-0031 - 160-55-
Revolutionary Records of Conn. 83.17, 132299.
Please send statement of expenses to
Mrs Lillian Dickinson
Alpha Apts. 902-10th St.
San Diego, Calif.

W. R. WALTS 1738 EAST OAK STREET NEW ALBANY INDIANA
Mar. 3. 1930
Hon Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
In connection with Revolutionary War Records, Vid. H. 9616, I would thank you to furnish me with the names of the parents of Israel Ransom, if they are shown in the records.
Yours truly,
Mrs W.R. Walts.

Rev. Han Sect-
LHH

1738 East Oak Street,
New Albany, Indiana,
March 23, 1914.
Hon. G.M. Saetzgabor,
Commissioner Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir :
Kindly advise me if Israel Ransom drew a pension as a soldier of the Revolutionary War. He was born July 17, 1760 and died September 18, 1839 and lived during the later part of his life in Floyd County, Indiana; was supposed to have enlisted from Connecticut. If he was not a pensioner did his wife, Lois Ransom, draw a Widow's Pension from the Revolutionary War? She was born March 25, 1767 and died January 8, 1859. If the record shows it, also give date of their marriage.
These persons were my great-grandparents and I desire this information in order to establish my right to be a daughter of the American Revolution.
If possible, also kindly give me the army record of James Ransom, Jr. , father of Israel Ransom mentioned above, and supposed to be a soldier, possibly a Captain in the Revolutionary War. He was born in 1739.
Thanking you, in advance, for your prompt attention and reply, I am,
Yours respectfully,
(Mrs) Gertrude M. Walke.

M. B. H. Rev. War Section.
April 16, 1914.
Mrs. Gertrude M. Walts, 1738 East Oak Street, New Albany, Ind.
Madam:
In response to your letter dated the tenth instant, you are advised that the name of the father of Israel Ransom, Revolutionary War pensioner W. File No. 9616, is not stated in said claim.
Very respectfully,
E. C. Sieman
Acting Commissioner.

Rev.&1812 Wars Section. MNFF
March 6, 1930.
Mrs. W. R. Walts, 1738 East Oak Street, New Albany, Indiana.
Dear Madam:
I advise you that the names of parents of Israel Ransom, Revolutionary War soldier do not appear in the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, W.9616.
Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH, Commissioner.