Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File [Blank], for Samuel Ransom, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Ransom, Samuel.
9
alive 1808.
CONTENTS

See printed list of pensioners of 1838— Vol. 1 - Contr. page 24, as follows
On the list of Invalid pensioners of the Conn. Agency whose residence could not be ascertained in consequence of the destruction of papers in the War Office in 1800 and 1814 is the name: Samuel Ransom - Pvt., annual allowance $60— sums received $1140. Rev. Army - pension com- menced March 4, 1789, Act of June 7, 1785— Died in 1808.
{There is no means of ascertaining whether above quotation} {refers to Samuel Ransom of Litchfield Co. N.Y.
No Invalid pensioner found on the New York List. " " " " " in the American State Papers.
No bounty land claim found on Conn Book prior to 1800.
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1930- May 15- Dist to Hon. R. P. Freeman for Mrs Mary B. Bishop. Letter returned to Mr. Freeman Elk

Sam! Rawson's Power of Attorney to Rev. Bartman

I know all men by these Presents that I Samuel Ran- som of the County of Tioga and State of New York do by these presents make ordain authorise constitute and app- oint my trusty Friend Nathaniel Baldwin of New- town County and State aforesaid my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name place and stead to ask for demand and Receive and Recover from the Proper Office of the United States all such Monies Land and Estate or Property which is due me as a Soldier during the war. in Capt Simon Spaldings Company in the first Con- niet Regiment in the Revolutionary war with Great Brittain and all such Monies lands or property as shall appear to be my due to Receive and further to use all law- full means to Recover thereof as shall be just and Reason- able and to put the same to his own proper use and behoof with full and Complete power of substitution one or more Attorney under him hereby Ratifying and Confirming all and Singular whatsoever my said attorney shall do in the Premises In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this 16 th day of May 1808 Signed Sealed and delivered Sam e Ransom In presence of Cyprian Knight Henry Wells

Sierra County ss Personally appeared before me Henry Wellman of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, known to me to be the person described in and who executed the within power to be his voluntary free act and deed and he personally known to me to be the person of the within power Newtown March 12, 1858
Henry Wellman

Tioga County } State of New York }
ss. I Certify that John Miller, Caleb Baker, and Henry Wells, are Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County, and also that John Ronkle is one of the Justices of the Peace of the said County.
All of whom have been duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit ought to be given to their Official Acts as such —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Affixed the Seal of the said County of Tioga the twenty sixth day of March in the Year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and eight
W. H. Carpenter C. M.

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Dictated by Miss Fruth
May 15, 1930 E.L.
W.H. Ransom for Mrs. Mary B. Bishop
From the Revolutionary War records of this bureau it appears that on March 10, 1808, one Samuel Ransom, of Tioga County, New York, filed a power of attorney in order to obtain whatever money or land that might have been due him on account of his service during the Revolutionary War.
He stated that he served as a soldier in Captain Simon Spalding's Company, First Connecticut Regiment, length of service not shown, nor is his age given.
Also, the name of Samuel Ransom appears on the report of the Secretary of War printed in 1835 with the following data:
"Samuel Ransom-Pvt., annual allowance $60- sums received $1140- Rev. Army- pension commenced March 4, 1799. Act of June 7, 1785- Died in 1808".
There is no means of ascertaining whether above quotation refers to Samuel Ransom of Tioga County, New York.
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