Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14953, Thomas F Bishop, Conn.

SERVICE
Conn.
Bishop, Thomas F.
NUMBER
S 14953
CONTENTS
carded

196
Let to A Bissell. Jany 10, 1831
Connecticut
Thomas F. Bishop
of Hartford Co. in the State of Connecticut who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Stillwells of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Durkee in the Connecticut line, for the term of three years. from 5 December 1780 to ————— 1783.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of Eighty Dollars per month, to commence on the 4 day of March 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 of August 1832 and sent to Samuel Whitman Esq. Farmington, Conn.
Arrears to 4th of March 1832 $80. — Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep " 40 — $120. —
{ Revolutionary Claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820. }
7 June 1832
Rec. Book D. Vol. 3. fol. 33.

Thomas G. Bishop Claim for Pension —
PO
July 28, 1832
2 years
$80 per an
ad.
act 7 Jan 1852
L. Whitman, Esq.
Farmington Conn
28 July rec

State of Connecticut Hartford County ss Farmington July 25 th 1832
On this 25 th day of July 1832 personally appeared before the Court of Probate for Farmington District in Hartford County, Thomas J. Bishop a resident of Avon in the County and State aforesaid aged 89 years, who being first duly sworn and State aforesaid on his oath, makes the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 - That he enlisted into the Army of the United States on the 3 rd day of December 1780 for the term of three years, and served in the first regiment of the Connecticut line, under the following named officers - - - - - Brig Gen Colonel - Thomas Goshorn Lt Colonel afterwards Colonel - - - - - Col. Major - Elias Stillwell Capt of the 6 th company in which he was enrolled - Charles Miller Lieutenant - - - - - Walnuty Ensign - at the time he entered the service he resided in Farmington County and State aforesaid, where he has ever since resided (the Town of Avon being recently set off from F. Farmington) - That he served on the Hudson river, near stationed about two years at West Point - was in the battle of Fort Independence in 1781 - soon after proceeded to York Town in the state of Virginia, and was at the capture of Gen Cornwallis same year - then returned to West Point and remained there till he was discharged in October 1783 - That he was placed on the pension list under the act of Congress of March 13 th 1818 and his name soon after struck off on account of property (the certificate herewith transmitted) - He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present - and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State.
Thomas J. Bishop
Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid -
Samuel Whitman Judge of Probate Farmington District -

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion that the above-named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and entitled to a state-
Samuel Whitman Judge of Probate Farmington District -
I, Henry Nash, Clerk of the Court of Probate for Farmington District, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Thomas T. Bishop for a pension. And I also certify, that Samuel Whitman who has affixed his name in his own proper hand writing, as above, is Judge of Probate, for Farmington District -
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office, This 25 th day of July 1832
Henry Nash, Clerk

Dec 27
Mr Cole
5 Market Street
Pension Agent Washington D. C.
PAID
10

Conon Dec 23 rd 1850
Honored Sir By the request of Thomas H Bishop I would state a few facts & ask a few questions First. He tells me that he went in to the Army August 1779 when he was 15 years & 10 months old at Horse neck under Col Beal. he was there till Dec 1780 then he went to West Point under Col Dury he was in the Battle at Kings Bridge under Col Sproat he staid there till 1781 they he then went South under Col Hamilton to York Town was under Col Hamilton at the storming of the first Redoubt at at York Town after the surrender Surrender of Cornwallis he went to West Point staid there till Oct 1783 he then left the Army. in March 1818 drew a Pension of $96 he did not draw another Pension until March 1831 he then drew $80 and has drawn drawn that yearly since he wants me to ask whether it would be according to the Rules of the Pension act to grant him a Pension from 1818 till 1831 and raise his Pension to $96. he wants me to ask whether he is entitled to any Bounty Land or not if he is please write how & what he must do to get it

I would state that I have been acquainted with Thomas H. Bishop for about thirty years & I would state that he is not rich neither is he very poor he is a farmer allways has worked a small farm he has brought up a family of eleven Children.
Please direct yours to Albert Bispell or Thomas H. Bishop of Avon. Hartford County Connecticut
Yours with respect Albert Bispell
For Thomas H. Bishop

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Thomas F. Bishop a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau. S. F. 14,953.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Dec. 5, 1780 Elias Stillwell Durkee Conn.   Grosvenor   Hamilton   Remed to Oct 28, 1783.  
Battles engaged in, Fort Independence, Kings Bridge, Yorktown. Residence of soldier at enlistment, Enlisted at Homeweeck, Conn. Date of application for pension, June 17, 1818. His cl. was al. Residence at date of application, Farmington, Hartford Co., Conn. Age at date of application, 54 yrs.
Remarks: Soldier brought up a family of eleven children, no names stated. There is no further data relative to family.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

0205 Connecticut
Thomas F Bishop
of Farmington in the state of Connecticut who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Durkee of the Connecticut line, for the term of Three years
enrolled on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 17 of June 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 of Mch 1818 and sent to Jonathan Brace Hartford Connecticut.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 68.73 semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1819 48.
$116.73
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of September next, in Middletown
Connecticut at the Branch Bank U.S.
Recorded

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
Thomas F. Bishop late a private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Connecticut Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to com- mence on the seventeenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this twenty seventh day of March one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
H. Callan
Secretary of War.

By Major General Kincaid, commanding the Garrison of West-point, and its dependencies
Thomas Bishop, formerly in the Connecticut regiment, being enlisted for three years, is hereby honorably discharged the service of the United States
Given at West-point, this 28 th
day of October 1831
THOMAS M c INTOSH
By the Generals Command
J t Lillie Aide de Camp
Registered in the Regimental Books
Ebenezer D. Loomis A.D.

W. J. G. Rev. Sec. Cincinnati, Ohio May, 22, 1916.
To the Secretary of Interior. Bureau of Pensions.
Dear Sir:-
I would like to have the record of Thomas F. Bishop, who was in Capt. E. Stillwell's 1st. Regiment. also in Col. John Chandler's, January, 1781. He was with Col. Hooker's regiment in March 1781, for a period of three years.
Thanking you for your services

I am,
Helen C. Hall
226 Ivanhoe Ave
Dayler Park
Cincinnati
Ohio.

0116-2 KANSAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
TRUSTEE OF THE STATE OF KANSAS.
JOHN MARTIN, Topeka, . . . . . President. ROBERT M. WRIGHT, Dodge City, First Vice-president. HORACE L. MOORE, Lawrence, . . Second Vice-president. JOHN GUTHRIE, Topeka, . . . . . Treasurer. GEO. W. MARTIN, Topeka, . . . . . Secretary.
THIS LIBRARY CONTAINS:
27,371 books; 79,305 pamphlets; 27,393 volumes of newspapers; 26,144 manuscripts; 7352 relics 5519 pictures; 5033 atlases and maps.
Topeka, Kan., May 23 1905.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir, —
Will you kindly give me the Pension Record of the following Revolutionary soldiers of Connecticut:
1 = W m Bishop, born 1763, at Guilford, Conn., died Madison, Conn., 1836. 2 = Reuben Bishop, born 1762, at Guilford, Conn., died (?) 3 = Johnson Bishop, " 1750 " " " ; " 1820. 4 = Thomas Fitch Bishop, born 1763; belonged to First Conn. Militia; [has a son now living in Hartford, Conn., 95 yrs. old.]
I thank you in advance for anything you may have concerning the above.
Yours truly,
Geo. A. Root, C/o State Hist. Socy.

Rev War
14953
INVALID.
1905 June 15. Geo. A. Root sent hist. of service and 1916. May 29. History to Helen C. Hall. Fr.
File No. 4 953
Thomas H. Bishop
Rev War
Act: June 1 st 32
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 33
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Connecticut
17 th June 1810
Thomas H. Bishop
alias Thomas Bishop Private
5 th Dec 1780 to 28 th Oct 1783.
Col. Durkee
1 st Conn. Regt.
See Bullard's reg t on the roll
Judge Aram Hartford
1810

DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT—ss---HARTFORD
On this 17 th day of June 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the County Court for the County of Hartford in for the said district, personally appeared Thomas H. Bishop aged fifty four years resident in Parmachuck in the said district, who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision 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 he, the said Thomas H. Bishop
on the 5 th day of Dec r 1780 enlisted in Hartford in the state of Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain Oliver Stillwell of the 1 st Conn t Reg t commanded by Col o  Durkee & afterwards by Col o  Grosvener & at his discharge by Col o  Col. Huntington ; that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States until the  after the peace was on the 28 th of October 1783 , when he was discharged from service at  at West Point state of New York , that he was in the battles of Kings Bridge & Fort-Town , at which he was detached under the command of Col o  Hamilton
and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services, except what is subjoined
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.
Jonathan Brace Judge of the County Court for the County aforesaid
I, Don a Brace Judge, &c. as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Thomas H. Bishop did serve in the
revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months , on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony
taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
Hartford June 17 th 1818. Jonathan Brace Judge aforesaid
June 17 th 1818 sealed with the seal of said Court by direction of the Hon ble Jonathan Brace who is the Presiding Judge of said Court Thomas Chester Clerk

State of Conn & } County of Hartford }
Ebenezer Woodruff & Sol o Wetton being duly sworn do depose & say that they served in the same corps with the within named Thomas Y. Bishop alias Thos Bishop in the revolutionary war & will know that he served in the manner & during the time stated within —
Sworn to & subscribed { this 17 th day of June 1818 }
Before me Jonathan Brainerd Judge of the County Court for the County aforesaid —