Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12211, Jeremiah Bingham, Conn.

SERVICE
Conn.
Bingham, Jeremiah
NUMBER
S. 12211
CONTENTS
Carded

9131— Connecticut
Jeremiah Bingham of Windham in the State of Conn who was a Pri — in the Com commanded by Captain Stearns of the Reg commanded by Col. Douglas in the Conn line for State Troops. 12mo 7 d.
Inscribed on the Roll of Conn at the rate of $40. Dollars 72 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of March 1831 and sent an account Judson Canterbury Ct
Arrears to the 4th of March: 35; $44.44 Semi-ann. allowance ending Sept. 4. 37: 10 86 $51.80
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by E. D. Dillstock Clerk, Book 6 Vol. 3 — Page 3 —
Died Dec. 30, 1831 — see agency book.

Jeremiah Bringham
N o 1679
Windermere county C t
Certificate to be returned to Andrew S. Jackson Canterbury C t

Declarations, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7 th 1832.
State of Connecticut } Brooklyn County of Windham }
On the 11 th day of December 1832, personally appeared in Open Court before the County Court of the County of Windham aforesaid, now sitting, Jeremiah Brigham, a resident of the town of Windham in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut, aged eighty three years on the 24 th day of August last past, and being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States, and served as herein stated.
1 st Term of service. On the 1 st day of February 1776, I enlisted into the Connecticut State Troops, as a private, and on that day entered the service, for the term of two months, according to the terms of my enlistment. I went into said service from the town of Windham Connecticut, and entered the service on the day last aforesaid at Coonbridge Massachusetts, and served there, and at Roxbury Massachusetts the full period of my enlistment, two months, and at the expiration thereof, was there discharged. Said service was performed in Capt. James Steadman's Company, in Col. Douglass Regiment, of the Connecticut State troops. Lieut. Palmer, Lieut. Allen, and Ensign Hale were the officers of the Company. I was in sight of the English Army, on the 17 th day of March 1776, when Boston was evacuated. It may be added, that I do remember Sargeants Fuller, Hayer and Redd.
2 nd Term of service.
On the 12 th day of November 1776, I entered the service of the United States, in the Connecticut Militia, at Providence R. Island, in Capt. Jonathan Redd's Company, in Col. Brown's Regiment, and served until the 20 th day of January 1777. During this service Lieut. Nathaniel Brigham was the acting Lieutenant, and the office of Ensign was vacant; the Sargeants were as follows - viz.

Ebenezer Lathrop, John Baker, James Cary, and Jonathan Cary. I entered said service, from said town of Milford and the whole service was performed at Providence, R.I.
3 d Term of Service.
The last of August 1777, I enlisted into the Connecticut State Troops for the term of four months, and joined the Company at New London, thence marched with said Company to Little Compton, in Rhode Island - from there marched back to New London, and from thence to Norwalk in Connecticut, and was there discharged on the 12 th day of January 1778. The officers of the Regiment were as follows, Col. John Ely; Lieut. Col. Arundel, the name of the major is forgotten.
The officers of the Company were as follows; Capt. Ebenezer Morley, Lieut. Josiah Brewster; 2 d Lieut. Nathaniel Bingham and Ensign Wylie; Sergeants, Stephen Baker, Jonathan Downing, myself, and Sergeant Hoester.
During this period of service, to wit, on the 12 th day of Sept r 1777 I was appointed a sergeant of Capt. Morley's Company and received a warrant which I have preserved, and I now annex the same to this my declaration.
4 th Term of Service.
In the first part of August 1779, I entered the Connecticut militia, as a private, and served at Groton Connecticut the full period of two months, that being the time for which the militia were ordered out, and on or about the 1 st day of October 1779 I was discharged at said Groton; Col. Experience Smith commanded the Regiment. The officers of the Company were as follows viz - Capt. Nathaniel Tinker, Lieut. Nath. Bingham and Ensign Samuel Baker. Sergeants Wailes and Lillie were two of the now commissioned officers.

I do hereby relinquish every claim to a pension or annuity except the present, and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
The following interrogatories were by said Board propounded to said applicant.
1 st Where and in what year were you born?
Answer - I was born in the town of Windham, Connecticut, on the 24 th day of August 1749.
2 d Have you any record of your age; and if so where is it?
Answer. I suppose the record of my age is in said Windham Records.
3 d Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
Answer: I live in the town of Windham as since when I entered the service on each of said terms, and ever since said service have, and still do live in said town of Windham.
4 th How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute for whom?
Answer - This question has been answered in the body of my declaration.
5 th . State the names of some of the regular Officers who were with the troops when you served; such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service.
Answer. This has been answered in the body of my declaration.
6 th . Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
Answer. I never had any written discharge.
7 th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief in your service as a soldier of the revolution.
Jeremiah Burroughs

Sworn and subscribed, on the day and year aforesaid before the County Court for the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut.
Attest Armin Bolles Clerk
We Jesse Fisher a clergyman residing in the town of Windham in the County of Windham and Erastus Fisher residing in the same town hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jeremiah Bingham who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing affidavit knowing that we believe him to be 83 years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Jesse Fisher Erastus Fisher
Sworn and subscribed, on the day and year aforesaid. By me Andrew T. Judson Justice of the Peace
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Jesse Fisher who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in said town of Windham, and that Erastus Fisher who signed the same is also a resident of the town of Windham and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit. Attest.
Armin Bolles Clerk
I Armin Bolles Clerk of the County Court for the County of Windham, in the State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the foregoing con- tains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jeremiah Bingham for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 11 th day of Dec. 1832. Armin Bolles Clerk

I Ebenezer Parks of Canterbury in Windham County Connecticut, of lawfull age testify and say, that I am well acquainted with Jared Allen of said Canterbury, an applicant for a pension, and do say that the said Jared Allen served in the Army of the revolution, as a private in the Connecticut Militia, by a draft he commenced service and joined the Army at East Greenwich in Rhode Island, the latter part of July 1780 and served there one month, and was discharged at Lower Hill in R.I. where the Company had marched, on the last part of August 1780. Capt. Asaph Woodward was Commanded the Company, Peter Division was Lieut. I served in the same Company, during the same Company Period. Canterbury Decr. 10, 1832. Ebenezer Parks
Windham County ss. Canterbury No 4 December 10th. 1832. Personally appeared Ebenezer Parks signer of the foregoing affidavit and before me made solemn oaths to the truth of the facts therein stated. I do further certify that I am well acquainted with said Ebenezer Parks, the above named witness, and do say that he is a credible witness.
Andr. Hudson Justice of the Peace

Jeremiah Bingham son of Jeremiah Bingham By Mary his wife was born Windham August 24. 1748. — Certified from Record
Attest Thomas Gray Town Clerk of S. Town of Windham
are in every respect true to the best of my knowledge, and genuine. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 15 th day of January 1833. Attest, Almon B. Dole Clerk

I Armin Bolles, Clerk of the County Court, within and for the County of Windham, in the State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that Andrew S. Judson, before whom the within affidavits were taken to which his certificate of the administration of the oath, are annexed, numbered 1, 2, 3, & 4 inclusive, at the time when said certificates bear date, was an officer of the peace, for the County of Windham and that full faith & credit ought to be given to his acts as such, and that the several signatures of the said Andrew S. Judson affixed to said certificates numbered as aforesaid, are in his proper hand writing and are genuine. — I do also further certify, that on the 2 d and 30 th days of November last past, Abner Robinson Esq. whose name is affixed to the two preceding certificates, numbered 5 & 6, there was and now is a officer of the Peace for said Windham County, and due faith and credit ought to be given to his acts as such, — and that his signatures so affixed are in his hand writing, and genuine. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 15 th day of January 1833. Attest, Armin Bolles Clerk

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
WCS Am
October 26, 1927
Mr. Charles R. Hale 33 Capitol Ave. Hartford, Conn.
Sir:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 12211, it appears that JEREMIAH BINGHAM was born August 24, 1749, in Windham, Windham County, Connecticut.
While a resident of said place he enlisted and served with the Connecticut troops as follows:
From February 1, 1776, two months as a private in Captain James Stedman's Company in Colonel Douglass' Regiment.
From November 12, 1776, until January 20, 1777, as a private in Captain Jonathan Rudd's Company in Colonel Brown's Regiment.
From late in August, 1777, until January 12, 1778, in Captain Ebenezer Moseley's Company in Colonel John Ely's Regiment of Foot; on September 12, 1777, he was appointed sergeant of said company.
From August, 1779, two months as a private in Captain Nathaniel or Nehemiah Tinker's Company in Colonel Experience Storrs' or Experience Smith's Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed December 11, 1822, at which time he was living in Windham, Connecticut. He died December 30, 1835.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner

Febry - 14 - 1901 - hit to Luther Fuller - City May - 8 - 1902 same to same
1927 Oct. 26. tombstone data to Chas. R. Hale. See letter in case Abner Webb S. 14821 W.C.S.
Reoham
12.211 INVALID.
File No. 12,211
Jeremiak Bingham Prin. Rev. War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index: - Vol. 1 , Page 62
[Arrangement of 1870.]

S.F. 12,211
Jeremiah Bingham, Continental Connecticut.

John Ely Esq d Col l of a Regiment of Foot, raised by the State of Connecticut
To Jeremiah Bingham Greeting.
Reposing special Confidence in your Courage, Skill and good Conduct, I do by these Presents, constitute and appoint you the said Jeremiah Bingham to be a Serjeant in the first Company in the Regiment now under my Command. You are therefore faithfully and diligently to exercise the several Acts and Duties of Said Office, in a strict and carefull discharge of the same. And you are to observe and obey all such Orders as you may from Time to Time receive from me, or other your Superior Officers, and to instruct Said Company in the Use of Arms, and all necessary Duty, commanding them to obey you as their Serjeant, for which this Shall be your Sufficient Warrant.
Given under my Hand and Seal, at New London this twelfth day of September. Anno Domini 1777.
John Ely Col l

War Department, Pension Office October 19. th 1832.
Sir,
The evidence in support of your claim to a pension under the act of 7 June 1832. has been examined.
The time and place of your birth, and the place of your residence, when you went into the service is not stated in your declaration as is required by the regulations. The particular circumstances and the officers under which your services were performed, are not given in sufficient detail. The papers are returned for amendment in these respects.
I am, Respectfully Your ob t Serv t
J. L. Edwards
W m Jeremiah Bingham, Windham, Conn t

John Webb of Winsted in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut being eighty three years of age do testify and say that I know Jeremiah Bingham of said Winsted and have known him from a boy that the said Bingham is about eighty four years of age and has always resided in said Winsted and that I served a militia tour of two months or more at Providence Rhode Island in the year 1776 and 1777 under the following officers (viz.) Col. Thomas Brown and in Capt. Jonathan Rude's Company Nathaniel Bingham Lieut. and that the said Jeremiah Bingham was a soldier in the same Regiment and Company with myself and served the whole time that we endured the service according to the best of my recollection about the twelfth of November 1776 and were discharged on or about the 20 th of January following and further the deponent saith not
John Webb's X mark
State of Connecticut } ss. Winsted County }
Winsted Nov. 30 th 1832
Personally appeared John Webb the above named deponent and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed before me the subscribing authority. And I hereby certify that the said John Webb is a man of respectability and that his testimony is entitled to full credit
Abner Robinson Justice of the Peace

I Jacob Hebard of Windham in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut being seventy eight years of age do testify and say that I served as a soldier in the revolutionary war a period of two months at Groton Connecticut in the year 1779 commencing about the last of July or first part of August said service was performed under the following officers (viz) Captain Moses of Mansfield at Colonel and Capt Jeremiah Tinker of Windham and that I then knew Jeremiah Bingham of said Windham and that at the time the said Bingham served at the same time and place and in the same Regiment and company with myself that we were discharged after our term of service expired and returned home that the said Bingham then resided in said Windham where he still resides and I believe him to be about eighty four years of age and further the deponent saith not
Jacob Hebard
State of Connecticut } ss. ) Windham Nov. 3 d 1832 Windham County
Personally appeared the above named deponent and made solemn oath to the truth of the facts therein contained: that which was in the above deposition by him subscribed: And I hereby certify that said deponent is a man of respectability and that his testimony testimony is entitled to full credit
Sworn before me
Abner Robinson Justice of the Peace

This may certify, that Jeremiah Bingham is a man who ever has sustained a fair moral character, and is entitled to full credit to the declaration which he has given. - - -
Jesse Siskin } Pastor of the 2. Church in Windham

I Nathaniel Luce of Canterbury in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut, being of lawfull age do testify and say that I am well acquainted with Jeremias Brigham, of the town of Windham, in said County, now here present, and I do say that the said Jeremias Brigham served in the Connecticut State troops, as a private, in the Army of the revolution, from the 1 st day of February 1776 to the 1 st day of April 1776, a period of two months, said service was performed in Capt. Jonas Stebbins's Company, in Col. Douglas' Regiment, Stationed at Cambridge and Roxbury Massachusetts. I served in the same Company, during the same period and was a tent and messmate with said Brigham. I further testify that I have ever since been acquainted with said Brigham, and live in an adjoining town to him, and that it has always been reported in the neighborhood where he resides, that he was a soldier of the revolution and served on her states, and I do fully concur in that belief. Dec. 4. 1832.
Nathaniel Luce
(N o 3) Windham County ss. Canterbury December 4. 1832 Personally appeared Nathaniel Luce, signer of the foregoing affidavit, a person well known to me to be a respectable and credible witness, and before me made oath to the facts in said affidavit stated. Attest.
Andrew Johnson Justice of the Peace

Jeremiah Bingham
N o 1079.
Windham County
No 18
Lebanon Office } Office
July 26 1832
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I Nathaniel Luce of Canterbury, Connecticut, testify and say, that I am well acquainted with Jeremiah Brigham, of Windham, in said State, and know that he served in the Connecticut State troops, by enlistment as set forth and described in his declaration , as specified in the 1 st and the  second  terms of service . I served with him in the same company, and knew the same Officer as stated by him therein, which I have carefully read and examined. The 2 d and 3 d terms of service I was not personally knowing to, but verily believe the same services were performed. Said Jeremiah Brigham is well known to be a man of good character, and the general belief and opinion in the neighborhood is, that the said Brigham did so serve. July 13. 1882
Nathaniel Luce
Windham County p. Canterbury No. 2 July 13. 1882. Personally appeared Nathaniel Luce, signer of the foregoing affidavit, and made oath to the truth of the same. I further certify that he is a credible witness. Andrew T. Jackson Justice of the Peace
I Armin Bolles, clerk of the Hon. County Court, within and for the County of Windham, certify that Andrew T. Jackson, whose signature is affixed to the foregoing affidavit  certificate is a Justice of the Peace for said County and that said signature is genuine. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 20 th day of July 1882
Armin Bolles clerk

Sam Lewis Esq.
Secretary of War Washington
admit
private 12 m th / day
$40.72
Andrew T. Hudson Esq.
Canterbury
et

Canterbury January 10. 1833
Hon Lewis Cass
Secy. of War
Sir:
I send you endorsed the claims of Jeremiah Bringham, Amended . according to your letter of instructions
Yours &
Andrew J. French
att o J. Bringham
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Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D. C., March 21 st , 1902.
In reply to your communication of a recent date, you are informed that this Bureau is unable to furnish a history of the service of any soldier of the Revolutionary war or of the war of 1812 unless he or his widow was a pensioner or an applicant for pension or bounty land; and that under the rules such a history is furnished only to the soldier's descendants, and to them only when it is desired for historical or genealogical purposes.
The large number of inquiries made on this subject, and the length of time required to make a proper search of the records in each case, will not permit of information being given to any applicant concerning more than two soldiers.
In order that the soldier concerning whom you desire information may be identified, you are requested to furnish as much as possible of the data called for below.
Very respectfully,
Mr. Luther Fuller, Patent Office, Washington, D.C.
M. Clay Evans, Commissioner.
Full name of soldier, Jeremiah Bingham. Where did he enter service? Windham (Scotland Society) Windham Co., Conn. Under what officers did he serve? Do not know. Place of residence after service, Windham (Scotland Society) Windham Co., Conn. Approximate date of death, Dec. 1835. Given name of widow, Esther (Palmer) Bingham. Did either the soldier or his widow receive a pension? The soldier. Do not know about widow. Additional information, I have heard that he enlisted several times. He may have gone to Norwich, New London Co. to enlist.
Signature, Luther Fuller (Mrs. or Miss to be prefixed if a lady signs.)
Post-office address, including street and number, town, county, and State,
Patent Office, Washington, D.C.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Bingham, Jeremiah GRADE Private LINE Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER 3745 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Mar. 25, 1790 to — not shown —
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.