Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 857, Gideon Bisbee, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Bisbee, Gideon
R. 857
Elizabeth.
CONTENTS

X 2983 Elizabeth Bisbee of Gideon Massachusetts
2983 Elizabeth Bisbee Declaration

State of Massachusetts ss
Hampshire County ss
On this day personally appeared before the Hon. William Conkey Judge of Probate within and/or said County, Elizabeth Bisbee a resident of Chesterfield in the County of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts aged seventy nine years who 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 Congress passed July 7 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows. That she is the widow of Gideon Bisbee who enlisted in to the Army of the United States in the early part of March in the year seventeen hundred and twenty six for the term of nine months in a company commanded by Capt Chapin of Hatfield in the aforesaid County and in Col Porters Regiment that he left Chesterfield aforesaid where he then resided soon after he enlisted for the North or Canada I am unable to state the route he took or what place he passed through but he remained in the Army until the first of the following November when he was discharged from the General Hospital at Fort George as the accompanying discharge will show that he arrived in Chesterfield aforesaid about the middle of November in a very low state of health with a fever sore on his leg which remained an open sore during his life she has no documentary evidence other than the discharge above mentioned.
She further declares that she was married to the said Gideon Bisbee on the thirtieth day of May seventeen hundred and eighty one and that her husband the aforesaid Gideon Bisbee died on the twenty third day of September eighteen hundred and twenty five that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the Marriage book place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four was at the time above stated, Sworn and subscribed on this day and day above with
Elizabeth Bisbee mark
Before William Conkey Judge of Probate

I, Samuel F. Lyman Register of the Court of Probate in and for said County of Hampshire do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original pro- ceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Elizabeth Bisbee for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this sixteenth day of October A. D. 1838 -
Sam l F. Lyman Reg t of Prob.

May thirtieth Seven hundred and eighty one Gideon Bishy was married to Betty Bryant,,
This may certify that the above extract is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows "May 30 th 1781,,
Oliver Edwards Clerk of the Town of Chesterfield
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Chesterfield Hampshire County Oct. 16 th 1828
I Oliver Edwards above named depose and say that I hold the Office of Town Clerk in the Town County and State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the record of said Town with the exception above named as verified by me.
Oliver Edwards Clerk of the Town of Chesterfield
Sworn before me
Alpheus Packard Justice of the Peace

Ex'r.
INVALID.
RECEIVED
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
Elizabeth Biber
P. O. _____
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____

Eliz Hett Bisher Massachusetts
Rejected
see 3 May 1835 C. Packard
servin up then six months.
857
At 7 July 1838
General Hospital. Fort George Oct 1776 Nov 5 th I hereby certify to whom it may concern that I have This day Discharged from the Service of the united States Gideon Bisbe late a Soldier in Colo Porters Regt. and Capt. J. Chapin Company being of opinion he can be of no farther Service this Campaign. By order of the General. For Sam l Stringer Esq r Director
Hampbell E. G. Hosp

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Hampshire ss.
I, SAMUEL F. LYMAN, Register of the Court of Probate within and for said County of Hampshire, do hereby certify that Eliphalet Packard Esquire, before whom the annexed deposition (2) was taken, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly and regularly appointed, and that the signature thereto annexed purporting to be his, I know to be genuine.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this Twenty third day of October A. D. 1838
Samuel F. Lyman Register of Probate.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Hampshire ss.
I, SAMUEL F. LYMAN, Register of the Court of Probate within and for said County of Hampshire, do hereby certify that Eliphalet Packard Esquire, before whom the annexed deposition was taken, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly and regularly appointed, and that the signature thereto annexed purporting to be his, I know to be genuine.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this Twelfth day of October A. D. 1838
Samuel F. Lyman Register of Probate.

Ms. 2983 Nov 5 7 July 1838.
Cannington Hall Nov 17
Free
Miss Elizabeth Fry
Commissaire of Penitentiary City of Newington

Cummington Hampshire Co Mass Nov 11 1838
J. L. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pension
Sir Enclosed is the declaration and affidavits of Elizabeth Basker or Betty Basker it seems that in her younger years her every day name was Betty and by that name she was published and married She was not aware of it until it was so found in the town record of Chesterfield.
No person who was in the Army with Gideon Basker can be found living to testify as to his service and no other person that knows any thing of his service excepting those aged relatives of hers but then with the discharge which has been very accidentally preserved it is hoped will be sufficient to give her a small pension for which she stands in great need being partially supported by the town of Chesterfield
Your Invaluable servant Elizabeth Basker

I Rebecca Curtis of Chesterfield in the County of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged Eighty six years of age and say that I am the Brother of Gideon Bisbee late of said Chesterfield deceased that during the Revolutionary war in the Winter or early in the Spring of seventeen hundred and seventy six then said Gideon residing in said Chesterfield enlisted into the Revolutionary Army that he left Chesterfield soon after he enlisted as was said for Canada and that late in the fall of the same year he returned to said Chesterfield in a very infirm state of health with an open sore on his leg which remained during his life I do not know the Officers he served under and I further state that the said Gideon died in the fall of the year 1825 if I do not misremember and left Betty or Elizabeth Bisbee his Widow now resident in said Chesterfield and who still remains his widow
Rebecca Curtis's true mark
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire County ss
On this Sixteenth day of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before me Rebecca Curtis who is a credible person and subscribe and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit
Elephalel Packard Justice of the Peace

I Lydia Barbee of Chesterfield in the County of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts aged eighty one years before and say that during the Revolutionary War I was well acquainted with Gideon Barbee late of said Chesterfield deceased that I married a brother of the said Gideon that in the Spring of 1776 I should think as early as the Month of March the said Gideon then resided in Chesterfield he enlisted in Capt Chasins of Hatfield Company for the term of nine months that he left said Chesterfield for the north or Canada as was said and returned to Chesterfield about the middle of November in a low state of health that he was sick at our house the winter following, the said fever or sickness causing a sore on his leg that remained during his life that the said Gideon has since until his decease in 1825 resided in said Chesterfield that he left a widow Elizabeth Barbee who resides in Chesterfield and is still living and remains the said Gideons widow
Chesterfield Sept 22 1838
Her
Lydia Barbee Mark
Hampshire Sept 22 1838 Personally appeared Lydia Barbee and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit be in substance and I further certify that the foregoing deponent is a credible person
Alpheus P. Haskell Justice of the Peace