Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43,890, for Lemuel Raymond, Connecticut

SERVICE
Conn.
Raymond, Samuel
NUMBER
S. 43,890
CONTENTS

9010
New York.
Samuel Raymond
of Athens, in the state of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Dutton of the Connecticut line, for the term of three years.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 2 nd of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 th of April 1819 and sent to S r Wade Egan Esq r Washington City
Arrears to 4th of March 1817 86.77
Semi-annual all'ce ending 4 th Sep r 1817 48.
128.77
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

19
Samuel Raymond Connecticut line Z. Butler's Reg't Belt's Company
Raymond 27 Connecticut line Hobson Battery Reg't Belt's Co

Raymond 27 Connecticut Line Hoback Battery Regt. Bello Co
19 James Raymond Connecticut Line J. Bello Regt Bello Company

on this 2 d day of May 1818 State of New York } before me the subscriber one County of Columbia } of the judges of the Court of Common- pleas in & for the county of State opened personally appeared Lemuel Raymond, aged thirty five years, resident in Paken 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 provision more by the 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
That he the said Lemuel Raymond enlisted at Norwalk (in Conn y ) for it was in the 2 d Connecticut or Colonel Jedidiah Butler's regiment in Capt. Bell's company in the Connecticut line of the continental army. He enlisted in February 1780 He served in the same caps until the campaign opened when he was transferred to La Fayette's infantry in Captain New Eycks company in Colonel Swifts regiment regiment. He served in La Fayette's infantry until about the first of September when he was taken sick and was transferred back to Butler's regiment in Capt. Hinckley's company.

in the same regiment until Butlers regiment was consolidated with the 49 th Connecticut when he was attached to Captain Kelys company in the regiment commanded by Col. Samuel B Webb in the 2 d brigade commanded by General Knapp.
He continued to serve in the same corps until the close of the war when he was discharged at West Point in June 1783 - He was in the battle of Springfield and in other service during all the above period - that he is in reduced circumstances, stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
To the truth of all which facts the said Samuel Raymon made solemn oath before me this 2 d day of May 1818 -
Hezekiah Dayton
a judge as aforesaid.
I Hezekiah Dayton judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Samuel Raymon did serve in the revolutionary as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy - I further certify that

1 it has been proved to my satisfaction that the said Lemuel Raymond is, in alluded circumstances and the stands in need of the assistance of his country for support — and I now transmit the testimony & proceedings taken & had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
David Hudson May  April 2. 1818
Hereticus Dayton Judge as aforesaid
State of New York Columbia, County Clerks Office — I certify that the Hereticus Dayton whose name appears to the annexed papers & which I know to be his true writing is a Judge of the Court of Sessions there in said Columbia County & that my name is the County Clerk this 2 nd May 1818. (Cornelius Miller Clerk)

April 11, 1940
BA-J/AWF AW Lemuel Raymond S. 43890
Mr. Elmer B. Myers 24 West Prospect Street New Haven, Connecticut
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Lemuel Raymond of New Canaan, Connecticut, and later lived in New York.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in claim for pension, S. 43890, based upon service of Lemuel Raymond, in the War of the Revolution. This is the record of the only Lemuel Raymond found on file in the Revolutionary War pension records of this office, who served in the Connecticut troops.
The date and place of birth of Lemuel Raymond and names of his parents were not given.
Lemuel Raymond enlisted in Norwalk, Connecticut, in the month of February, 1780, served as a private in Captain Betts' company, in Colonel Zebulon Butler's Second Connecticut Regiment, was transferred in May or June, 1780 to Captain TenEyck's company, in Colonel Swift's Connecticut regiment, and was in the battle of Springfield, about September 1, 1781, he returned to Colonel Butler's regiment, and served in Captain Hinckley's company, and in the spring of 1781, was transferred to Colonel Samuel B. Webb's Connecticut regiment, and served in Captains Reilly's and Welles' companies, and was discharged sometime in June, 1783,

at West Point.
The soldier, Lemuel Raymond, was living in 1818 in Athens, Greene County, New York, then aged sixty-five years.
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 29, 1828, at which time he was living in Athens, New York.
The papers on file in this claim contain no discernible data in regard to family.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and furnish the following data:
Lemuel Raymond Certificate #399 Issued August 3, 1829 Rate $80.00 per annum Act of May 15, 1828 New York Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

43890 INVALID.
Rev
File No. 43.890
General Raymond Col. Prov. Gen.
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 410
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Feb. 18/40 Mail, 4th, to K. B. Raymond Hampton, L. M. & Co.
Dec. 2, 1940 Mrs. Chas. R. G. de C. Cumberland Mills Me.
April 11 - 1940 - March 22 - sent to Elmer B. Myers awf

Rev Richard Rush - Secy the Treasury Washington City
Recd 8 Aug.

New York, Gran County - Thurs July 28 th 1820
Sir:
I rec d your note the 25 th Instant - and for further Information I send you the following Lines - Head of paymaster Burs Connecticut 1982
  One months pay     not One years pay In 1983 In State Notes     Da Thru final Settlements Notes 1985.     Da one of  $1000    Do Do  80    Do Do  75    Da Sum of Mompas Notes  5.    you will find the above Statement in Rec d of Mr s Beers from me
I am very Respectfully your Obedient Servant
Lemuel Haysman

Act-1828
Settled at
Treasury
Cards with
Smaller file
#
43890.

To Richard Rush Esq.
Sir
Enclosed I send what I have concerning to the foregoing papers upon the application of Lemuel Weymouth of the County of Athens County of Greece and State of New York for a pension under the act passed May fifteenth 1828. He has not appointed an agent or attorney nor given any necessary power the instructions as issued from your office supposing that you would transmit the amount due by mail to his residence of said State as he is now in the army will you do me the favour of either informing him or me as to the difficulty that may exist
respectfully yours
John Van Klief
Athens Greece Co July 8 1828

No of orig Recy 367. REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
July 29. 1828.
Greene Lemuel Raymond, of Albany , in the County of Greene , in the State of New York , has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a private in captain Willis 's company, in Col: Webb's regiment of the Connecticut line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing .
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
In order of the Secretary, H. Perkins.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
2 nd August 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Lemuel Raymond in the Connecticut line
It further appears that Lemuel Raymond is now on the pension list of the any agency, and has been so since the 3 d March 1826 at the rate of  dollars per month.
Richd Hagner Audt

In the matter of the application of Colonel Raymond for a pension under the act of May 1818
Resolutory Clause

I Samuel Raymond of the Town of Albany in the County of Albany and State of New York do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution for and during the term of one year that I continued in its service until its termination at which period I was a private in said Army and that I enlisted in the month of February in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty six according to the best of my recollection and belief in Captain Boller's Company in the Second Regiment commanded by Colonel Rutter in the Second Brigade commanded by General Washington of the Connecticut Line and that I joined the Army at Springfield in New Jersey under Captain Boller's command in which Company I served until Major June in the same year and at that time I was transferred into the Light Infantry called La Fayette's Light Infantry under Captain Van Eyck in the Regiment generally to my belief and recollection commanded by Colonel Swift and that I served in said Regiment until I was taken sick when I returned to the First Regiment Regiment into a Company by Captain Heasley in which Compa- ny I served until the next Spring and there was transferred to the Regiment commanded by Colonel Samuel Buel in the Company under Captain Riley and that I continued in service in said Company until the next winter when I was transferred to the Company under Captain Wells in which Company I served until the close of the war and that I have not in my possession any evidence of my discharge nor any documents in relation to my service.

And further that I have received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars to which I was entitled under a resolve of Congress passed the fifteenth day of May 1878
And further that I am on the list pension of the United States under the act passed the eighteenth day of March in the year 1818 and that the following is a copy of the certificate received by me from the then Secretary of War
"War Department Revolutionary Claims I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States of the 18 th of March 1818 Samuel Raymond late a private in the army of the Revolution is entitled on the pension list Roll of the New York Agency at the Rate of eight dollars per month to commence on the second day of May one thousand eight hundred and eighteen given at the War office of the United States this fifth day of April one thousand eight hundred and nineteen" J.C. Calhoun Secretary of War No: 9010
And that I received a pension and went a pension until the said act was amended
And I further declare that I was not on the fifteenth day of May in the year 1878 on the pension list of the United States and that I cannot now ascertain the precise amount I have received as a pension aforesaid but I may have had thirty-fourth day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight
Sworn & subscribed before me on this 24th day of June 1878
Samuel Raymond
Wm Polley one of the Judges of the court of common pleas in & for the county of Otsego in the State of New York

William T. Tolley one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Greene in the State of New York
I Charles C. West Clerk of the Court of the County of Greene in the State of New York do hereby certify that William Kelley before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn was at the time a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Greene and a Justice of the Peace of said County and duly commissioned to administer oaths
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this fourteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and 28
Great, Great, Great

HENRY A. L. HALL, GEORGE LEETE PECK, HARRY HALL ATWATER, CARLETON H. STEVENS.
FRANK R. GOLDMAN, PRENTICE T. CHASE, GEORGE MORRIS PECK, RICHARD J. SMITH, RUSSELL H. ATWATER, ELBERT G. MANCHESTER
Veterans Administration, Washington, D.C.
CLARK, HALL & PECK, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW SECOND NATIONAL BANK BUILDING 129 CHURCH STREET
NEW HAVEN, CONN. Mar. 2, 1940
Gentlemen:
Kindly send me to the address below, information concerning the activities of one Lemuel Raymond , formerly of New Canaan, Conn., who is reputed to have served in the Revolutionary Army about 1780, and later removed to New York, State, probably near Saugerties. He was my grandmother's grandfather. I am interested only in the Lemuel Raymond whose family resided in New Canaan, Conn.
Very Truly Yours,
Elmer B. Myers 24 West Prospect St., New Haven, Conn.

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L. B. Raymond. I. L. Stuart.
FROM
Raymond & Stuart, PRINTERS AND STATIONERS,
Publishers of The Franklin County Recorder.
Hampton, Iowa, Feb 9 1895
To H. C. Hill
Deputy Com d Pension Wash n D. C.
Sir: Will you please examine records of your office & ascertain if Lemuel Raymond was a pensioner on acct of service as Revolutionary Soldier, and if so what organization he belonged, And oblige, Yours respectfully L B Raymond

Cumberland Mills Me
O. W. & N. DIVISION JAN 17 1900 RECEIVED.
1900
Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir;
Some time ago I wrote your Dept. for the War and pension record of Lemuel Raynolds of Mass. who served in the War of the Revolution. as same means I have received the War & pension record of Samuel Raynolds, probably because I did not write the name plain enough. Will you be so kind as to send me the War and pension record of Lemuel Raynolds of Massachusetts. who served in the War of the Revolution.
Resp. Yrs.
Wm. R. Grodell
Box 14

O. W. & N. Division.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
L. S.
Bureau of Pensions,
W.C.
Washington, D. C., February 14, 1895.
Sir:-
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of --- Lemuel Raymond --- 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.
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE. CAPTAIN. COLONEL. Oct. 17 40 Hulls Butler Conn. 18 Det. Von Eyck Swift Conn. June 17 45 Linckley Butler Conn. Riley S. P. Webb Conn.
Battles engaged in, Springfield. Residence of soldier at enlistment, Norwalk, Connecticut. Date of application for pension, May 2, 1818. Residence at date of application, Athens, New York. Age at date of application, 65 years.
Remarks:
Very respectfully,
L. R. Raymond, Esq.,
1964blm
Deputy Commissioner.
Keokuk, Iowa.