Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1428, Timothy Bunce, Conn.

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Conn.
Bunce, Timothy
R 1428.
CONTENTS

1428
RECEIVED
P. O. Timothy Bunce
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: 1852.
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

✓ No 38. 421 Timothy Burnee deed Count.
Set 4 th Oct/52 to Lt. Pugh
1428
7 th June 1832

Pension Office,
Oct 4. 1852.
Sir:
The application of Theodore Bunce only child and heir at law of Timothy Bunce dec d of Conn t for a pension under the Act of 7 June 1832 has been examined and filed, but without evidence of the performance of the service claimed no allowance can be made.
S. A. Pugh. Esq r Present,

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Timothy Bunce du Compt.
Act 7 June 1832
let 4 Oct '52
S. A. Pugh. Present,
July 29. 52 Timothy Bunce
App l of Timothy Bunce deceased
S. A. Pugh Present.

State of Connecticut County of Hartford ss. St. Hartford
On this 28 th day of April A D 1832 before me Judge of the Hartford Probate Court at a Court held on the day & year aforesaid in said Hartford personally appeared Guy C Marsh and made Affirmation in due form of law and Deposes and says that he is about fifty six years of age - and is a Grandson of Timothy Bunce who was an Express Rider and Commissary of Purchases during the War of the Revolution That he has frequently heard said Bunce speak of Revolutionary Scenes, and has heard others also speak of them in Conversation with said Bunce and he has heard him relate the following facts amongst others, that he entered the War in the early part of it, and carried letters from various Officers of the Army, and also large parcels of Money from Connecticut to Cambridge, Boston and other Places in Massachusetts, and was at Boston when the City was evacuated by the British in the Year 1776.
That he afterwards was appointed a Deputy or Assistant Commissary of Purchases under Col. Jeremiah Wadsworth of Hartford and served in that capacity until the end of the War - That after his appointment

as company he was engaged in buying Cattle Beef, Pork, Horses, Grain, Flour and provisions that he was with General Washington at Wethersfield, the old house is still standing there, and went with him to West Point in 1780 when Arnold's Treason was discovered and from thence went south with the Army in its progress to Virginia and Carolina was at Williamsburgh Virginia and at various places in Carolina and continued with the army and was engaged as Deputy forage- Master after his appointment as such in all its marches south, and returned with it to the North and was discharged in 1782 or 1783 he has forgotten which, and was from four to six years in service
That he has frequently heard old Soldiers enquire why he did not apply for his pension and he always said that he did not need it therefore would not apply. Has frequently heard Jonathan Olcott and Theodore Spencer his neighbours, both of this Town who were pensioners, tell him that he could get his pension if he would apply for it - (these pensioners are now dead). That the said Pierce told him he knew Rochembeau and was well acquainted with Major Webb and other officers whose names deponent does not now recollect

that he was born in Hartford County and lived peacefully in the Town of Hartford for Ninety nine years, that he died on the 5 th day of April in the year A.D. 1832 leaving no Widow and only one child whose name is Theodon Bunce The erasure & interlining in the 3 rd line by Guy C. Marsh 2 nd line was made before signing
Subscribed and affirmed according to law before me on this 26 th day of April A.D. 1832 and it is further Certified by this Court that the aforesaid Timothy Bunce was an Officer in the War of the Revolution and did serve in the Army and the aforesaid Guy C. Marsh is a respectable resident of this Town and one whose statement is entitled to full faith and Credit and appears to be about 58 years of age
In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name & affixed my seal of Office at Hartford the day & year above written
Henry Perkins.
Judge of Probate.