Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 737 And R. 738, Edmond Bemiss, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Bemiss, Edmond or Bennis, Edmund Abigail
P. 737 and P. 738
CONTENTS

see letter to Hon J. Hunt 20 March 1829.
22.164
Vermont
Edmund Bemis
of Whitingham in the state of Vermont who was a Sergeant in the regiment commanded by Colonel Sargent of the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 22 nd of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st of June 1819 and sent to John Roberts Esq. Judge Wilmington Vermont
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819: 10 3/4 mo $83.43
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Sept 1819 $4.80
$131.43
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
[Handwritten signature/initials]

Adm.
Mr. Mayhew
Wilmington N.C. May 7 June
Rev John P. Calhoun Esq.
Secretary of War
Washington Co.

Edmund Pennis of Whitingham in the County of Windham and State of Vermont a citizen of the United States deposes testifies and declares that in the month of May 1861 he was enlisted into the Army of the United States by Captain Joel Green and served as a private soldier in a company under the command of said Captain Green in Colonel Gurnards Regiment in the Manassas - battle line for eight months which was the term of his enlistment and that he was dismissed from said Com- pany in the latter part of December 1861 or beginning of Jany 1862 that without leaving the Army he again (and about that time) enlisted into a company commanded by Captain Isaac Potts in the Second Regiment in the said Manassas battle line commanded by the said Colonel Gurnard for one year and served in the said Company and Regiment for the term of enlistment and at that time the Army was considerably reduced and owing to great shifts by the enemy and General Washington requested the year men whose time had expired to continue still longer in the service in compliance with which request he staid six weeks longer in the Army and was dismissed in the month of February 1862 and left the Army by permission of his officers and not by desertion, he further testifies that the service rendered as aforesaid was in the Continental establishment in the war of the revolution against the common enemy - he further testifies that he has a farm of about seventy acres of land in said Town of Whitingham not very well improved with a poor house and barn thereon does not know the value of said farm that he is some in debt that he has but very little personal property that he is now seventy two years of age and can labor but little that he has a wife and a son who is delirious to maintain who is a great trouble to him and a great expense to him and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he stands in need of assistance from his country for support  Edmund Pennis Sworn to this 22 nd day of April 1881 before me John Roberts - Judge of Windham County Court in the State of Vermont

State of Vermont
Windham County ss. April the 22 d A.D. 1818 Then personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the judges of the County Court within and for the County of Windham in the state of Vermont the before named Edmund Dennis who being by me duly sworn has on his oath made the foregoing declaration in order to obtain the Provision made by a certain act of Congress intitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war"
Therefor I John Roberts Judge as before certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Edmund Dennis did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration by him subscribed and sworn to 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 war department pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act
John Roberts Judge of Windham County Court State of Vermont
State of Vermont
Windham County Court Clerk's Office, Brattleborough, May 21 st A. D. 1818.
I certify, that the Honorable John Roberts, Esquire, is one of the Assistant Judges of the County Court aforesaid, and that the signatures of the foregoing certificates are in the hand writing of the said Judge.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court, the day and year above written.
Attest.
James Elliot Clerk.

I John Roberts Judge as aforesaid do hereby further certify that from my personal knowledge of the credibility of the applicant upon oath (Viz) Edward Barnes I am fully satisfied of the truth of his declaration as well as respects his circumstances as his services.
John Roberts First Judge of Wadsworth County Court Ohio

No 196 Edmond Penniss Schedule May Term 1823
W. Allen July 1823 Camp of James McIntire Battlesboro, Va.
836
Edmond Penniss Rec. 5 July 1823

State of Vermont.
COUNTY OF WINDHAM, SS. AT the Supreme Court of Judicature, begun and held at New Fane, within and for the County of Windham, on the fourth Tuesday of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty three.—Present—
HON. CORNELIUS P. VAN NESS, Esq. Chief Judge, HON. JOEL DOOLITTLE, } Esq's, Assistant Judges. HON. CHARLES K. WILLIAMS, }
On this thirtieth day of May, A. D. 1823, personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record, within and for the County of Windham, and State of Vermont—proceeding according to the course of the common law:—with a civil jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of their proceedings; and having the power of fine and imprisonment:—  Edmond Berriss resident in Whitingham in said County of Windham—Aged 76 years—Who, being first duly sworn according to law—doth, on his Oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the Acts of Congress, of the 18th of March, 1818, and the 1st of May, 1820,—That he, the said Edmond Berriss enlisted for the term of One year about the first day of November in the year 1775 in the State of Massachusetts in the Company commanded by Captain Isaac Doolittle in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Larned in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the continental establishment: that he continued to serve in the said Corps until  the whole term of enlistment when he was discharged from said service, in Springfield Feby 1777 in the State of New Jersey that his name has been placed on the pension list, and dropt therefrom on account of his property.
And, in pursuance of the Act of the 1st May, 1820, I do hereby swear—that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818—And that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an 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”—passed on the 18th day of March, 1818. And that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me: Nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Edmond Berriss
Schedule of real and personal Estate—necessary clothing and bedding excepted.
   Viz - One Cow worth $15 — five Sheep $10  $25 00    One old Chest of drawers $5 — three old chairs $0.75  5 75    2 Knives & forks 25 ct 1 pewter basin 20 ct  45    1 pewter plate 50 ct 1 small old Table $1 —  1 50    1 old Saddle 75 ct one old bridle 25 ct  1 00    One old Card $5 — 4 pewter plates 50 ct  5 50    1 1/2 plow Irons $2 —  2 00     $41 20   
That, since the exhibition of my first Schedule, the following changes have been made in my property:—
   Names of persons to whom sold.  Time of Sale.  Amount of money, or description of property received in return.          
And I do also swear—that my occupation is that of a Farmer , but from advanced age, am able to labor but little—The age of my Wife which is all the family I have is 73 years —
Edmond Berriss
SWORN to, and declared, in open Court—on the thirtieth day of May, A. D. 1823.
before Lemuel Whitney Clerk of the Supreme Court of Judicature for the County of Windham, in the State of Vermont.
Lemuel Whitney Clerk of the Supreme Court of Judicature within and for the County of Windham in the State of Vermont—do hereby certify, that it appears, to the satisfaction of the Court, that the said Edmond Berriss did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, under one engagement, on the Continental establishment—I also certify, that the foregoing Oath and Schedule hereto annexed, are truly Copied from the records of the said Court—And I do further certify—that it is the opinion of the said Court—that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is Fortyone dollars and Twenty cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court, on this thirteenth day of June A. D. 1823.
Lemuel Whitney Clerk of the Supreme Court of Judicature for the County of Windham, in the State of Vermont.

"The person hereafter named was married by me the Subscriber Edmund Reimiss to Abigail Gilbert March 12. 1778 Benja Foster"
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
WORCESTER COUNTY, ss.
I, Joseph Mason Clerk of the Judicial Courts
for the County and Commonwealth aforesaid, do hereby certify, that Henry A. Denny the fifth day of September A.D. 1853 was and still is
a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and authorized by the laws of this Commonwealth, to take the acknowledgement of deeds, and administer oaths, and that his signature to the certificate of oath upon the affidavit of J. A. Denny
hereunto annexed is genuine.
Given under my hand, and the seal of said County , this thirteenth day of September , in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. Jo. Mason Clerk.

"The person hereafter named was married by me the Subscriber Edmund Beineiss to Abigail Gilbert March 12. 1778 Benja Foster"
Leicester Mass. Sept. 5. 1853 : I hereby certify That the above is a true copy of the original entry in the records of Marriages in the Town of Leicester — Attest Jos. A. Denny Town Clerk.
Worcester P. Sept. 5. 1853 Sworn to before me Henry A. Denny. Sun. Place

State of Vermont.
Probate District of Marlboro'. In Probate Court, October 13. 1853.
I Frederick Holbrook, Register of the Probate Court for said District of Marlboro', hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been presented to said Court, that Edmund Bemis, a revolutionary pensioner of the United States, late of Whitingham, in said District, died at said Whitingham, on the 16th of July, 1829, leaving a widow named Abigail Bemis, who died at said Whitingham, on the 1st of February, 1837; that she, the said Abigail, left seven, & only seven children surviving her, whose names & residences are as follows: Polly Ellsworth, of Bennington, Vermont; Ezra Bemis, of Terra Haute, Indiana; Edmund Bemis & Caleb Bemis, both of said Whitingham; James G. Bemis, of Rowe, Massachusetts; Abigail Morgan, of Brayne, Du Page County, Illinois; & Catharine Eddy, of Goshen, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; - and I further certify that on the 26th of September, 1853, Henry Eddy, of Goshen, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, was appointed by said Court Administrator upon the Estate of said Abigail Bemis, deceased, & that he is duly authorized to act in that capacity.
Witness my hand, & the seal of said Court, at Brattleboro', in said District, the day & year first above written.
Frederick Holbrook, Register of Probate.

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section ILL Am
June 20, 1930.
Miss Jennie E. Laing 412 East Everett Street Dixon, Illinois.
Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R. 737, it appears that Edmond, (or Edmund) Bemiss , ( the name also appears Bemis) while a resident of Spencer, or Charlton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, enlisted in May 1775 and served eight months as a private in Captain Joel Green's Company, Colonel Ebenezer Learned's Massachusetts Regiment; immediately following this service, he enlisted and served as sergeant in Captain Isaac Bolster's Company, Colonel Ebenezer Learned's Massachusetts Regiment until February 1777, and was in three battles, details of these battles not given.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 22, 1818, while a resident of Whitingham, Windham County, Vermont, aged seventy-two years.
He died July 16, 1829 at Whitingham, Vermont.
Soldier married March 12, 1778 at Leicester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, Abigel (or Abigail) Gilbert.
She died February 1, 1837 at Whitingham, Vermont. In 1823, her age was stated to be seventy-three years.
The following children survived their mother, residences also are shown in 1853!
on original

   Polly Ellsworth  of  Bennington, Vermont.    Ezra (Esra) Bemis  "  Terre Haute, Indiana.    Edmund "  "  Whitingham, Vermont.    Caleb "  "  " "    James G. "  "  Rowe, Franklin County, Massachusetts.    Abigail Morgan  "  Wayne, Du Page County, Illinois.    Catharine Eddy  "  Goshen, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.   
One Henry Eddy of Goshen, Massachusetts, in 1853, was administrator of the estate of soldier's widow, Abigail, no relationship to family stated.
Very truly yours,
E. W. MORGAN, Acting Commissioner.

Nov. 26, 1853.
Letter replying & insuring in what African Business are.
with 88- Mand.
The Hon. L. Hinckley, Boston, Mass. James H. Perkins West Springfield P. G.

No 8.002
Abigail Bemiss widow of Edmund Vert
Sam l L. Hinckley Octo 26/53 same Nov 30/53
737
Rejected Married after hus- band's leave
Act July 4/1836

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
WORCESTER, ss.
I, ABIJAH BIGELOW, Clerk of the Judicial Courts holden within and for said County of Worcester, certify, that Edward D. Bangs and Simeon Drape Esquires before whom the annexed Affidavits have been made, are Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly qualified for the purpose, acting under the authority of this Commonwealth, and that their names subscribed thereto are their own proper signature.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the County seal, this Eight day of October A. D. 1818.
Abijah Bigelow, Clk.
Application of ... and Dennis

Ex'r.
INVALID.
Doc. 727
RECEIVED
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
Abigail Mrs. Dennis
P. O. via of Edmund Dennis
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____

Boston Mass Nov. 23 1853
Hon. L. P. Weld
Comm ee of Revisors Washington D.C.
Sir
I have your letter of the 25 th Oct r last, relative to the application of Abigail Bennis's dec d widow of Edward of Vermont. Her husband's name was Edmund not Edward. In absence of proof of his service in the Army after his marriage, is not the widow entitled under the Act of July 7 th 1838 to pension from 4 th March 1836 to the date of her death 1 st Feb y 1837? Edmund Bennis was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 & sec. 96 th pr. an. The Adm y who makes application as well as the children cannot prove the service after his marriage but beg to refer to the evidence on your files in the case of the original application of Edmund Bennis under the Act of 1838.
I am very respectfully Your obed serv t Sam l L. Hinkley

No Abigail Bemis widow of Edward munro Vt "
all July 4, 1836
Rejected
F 3 Died after his in 1837 - Married after her husband left the union
to Sam l L. Hinckley Nellie's mother Map

I Henry Eddy of Goshen Hampshire County Mass Administration on the Estate of Abigail Bruns widow of Edmund Bruns before saying that the said Edmund Bruns late of Whitingham Franklin County Vermont was a Rev- olutionary soldier of the United States under the Act of 18 March 1818 & drew a pension of (96) ninety six dollars per annum for one year or that he drew once under said Act & was stricken from the list of pensioners on account of his property That he died on the 10 th July 1829 leaving a widow named Abigail, who also died at said Whitingham on the first day of February 1837. That she left seven & only seven children surviving her whose names & residences are as follows. Polly Ellsworth of Brattleboro Vermont, Ezra Bruns of Iowa State Indiana Edmund Bruns & Caleb Bruns both of Whitingham aforesaid, James G. Bruns of Rowe Franklin County Mass - Abigail Morgan of Wayne Du Page County Illinois & Catherine Eddy of Goshen Hampshire County Massachusetts That the said Edmund Bruns the

person above mentioned was married to the said Abigail, whose maiden name was Gilbert, while he was in the navy, to wit as appears of record & by certificate accompanying this deposition attested in the County of Worcester in Massachusetts on the 12 March 1878; That the pension certificate of said Edmund Bennis was delivered by me a few years since to one Neill Pease to aid in procuring the pension due, said certificate has been lost or mislaid; That I have been duly appointed Administrator on the estate of said Abigail Bennis deceased & I do hereby appoint Sam l L. Hinckley of Northampton Massachusetts my attorney to examine into, demand & re- ceive from the United States the pension due to me as Administrator on the estate of P. Abigail Bennis for the benefit of her surviving children hereby requesting the pension Department at Washington to refer to the evidence filed in the original application of P. Edmund Bennis for the pension of his service & I authorize said Sam l L. Hinckley to substitute any one in his stead as my attorney for the purpose

him before expressed.
As within my hand this 27 Sept. 185-3
Henry Eddy
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire County ss Sept 27 185-3
Then the foregoing statement was subscribed & sworn to by Henry Eddy above named Before me, W. C. Gorham Justice of the Peace.

State of Vermont
Be it Remembered that at a County Court began & held (by adjournment) at Chelsea within and for the County of Orange on the third day of July in the Year of our Lord Christ one Thousand Eight hundred and twenty
Present,
The Hon'd Josiah Dana Esqr Chief Judge -
The Hon'd John S. Cotten and
Joseph Rice Esqrs Assistant Judges. -
The Court after Examination of the Schedules of property of the following named persons by them severally subscribed and sworn to, and two credible witnesses touching the value of said property, are fully of the opinion that said property is justly valued at the sums set forth in the several schedules by the said applicants severally subscribed, at its full and just value in money, and that said schedules contain true & faithful lists of all the property of said applicants, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) - and that the debts that said applicants are legally and equitably bound to pay are truly set down and exhibited in said schedules and amount to the full and just sums therein severally set down, in said schedules. - And that the several after named applicants have truly & honestly represented the situation of and health of themselves and several families, and their ability to support themselves by means of their bodily labor - to wit -
 Grey Young,  Enoch Jenkins,  Emerson Corliss,  John Chadwick,  Jeremiah Tyler James Tyler  Abraham Brigham 
 Thomas Youngham  Adams Dickey -  Charles Hurlburt  Jonathan Reed  Samuel Edson  John Fellows  Timothy Corliss  Jacob Wells -  Benjamin Lillie 
 John Smith 3 d  William Black  Luke Fletcher  Enoch Beman  Samuel Linkon  Reuben Clement  Josiah Eastman  Ebenezer Wood -  Peter Whitney 

Obadiah Davis — Samuel Judkins — Josiah Smith — Nero Crafts — Joseph Mops — Merrick Rice — Jonathan Churchill — Stephen May — John Lines — Joshua Govey — John Putnam — John Underwood — Salem Colby — Samuel M. Phillips —  Siter Youngman Samuel Linsey — Asa Woodward — Samuel Woods — Joseph Orm — William Pinkasle — Rosiah Buel — Samuel Carlip — Joel Carby — Elazer Brown — Thomas Miller — Isaac Church — Samuel Randall — Ebenezer Hildling — Gershon York — Joseph Smith — Levi Lawrence — James Nacoll — Samuel Southworth — Joseph Hickson — Nathan Hains — Samuel Galeshoe — Gideon Dickinson — Moses S. George — Jonas Gates — Enoch Hays —
Amos Allen — Frye Bayley — Moses Pearson — John Stewart — Silas ... — John Burk — Lemuel Holiness — Edward Goodry — Ephraim Cooper — John Barnes — Moses Bragg — Ariel Evertson — Levi Bacon — Timothy Abbott — John Frizzel — Israel Nichols — Thomas Kinney — Simon Curtis — Nathaniel Leeds — Daniel Flint — Jonathan Flint — Daniel Filbrick — Stephen Jenkins — James Lynde — Elias Carpenter — Benjamin George — Jedediah Johnson — Lethrapike ... — Asahel Ladd — Joseph Hinneton — Thomas Lancaster — Parachas Kellogg — Jacob Flanders — Benjamin Durkee — Tibulus Cram — Isaiah Booth — George Knox — Timothy Walnut —
John Wilske — John Dill — John P. Durrant — Ephraim Rolf — Jonathan Wells — Nathaniel Flint — Francis Tremson — Zadock Steele — Moses Bates (by his guardian Simon P. Bates) — Benjamin Durgin — Daniel Wentworth — Jonathan ... — Thomas May — Obadiah Johnson — Alexander Church — Enoch Cleveland — John M. ... — Joseph Forster — Laban Hall — Joseph Hall — John Stace — Thomas Parker — Timothy Blake — Jedediah Smith & — Solomon Strong —  A true copy of Record Exempts per A C E G W S ... AM

Ex'r.
INVALID.
738
Acts of July 14, 1802, and March 3, 1873.
Edmund Bemis Consolidated with rejected widow Abigail Bemis File ce: No 734 Jany 12. 1882 in brief
ted: _____, 18 arged: _____, 18 cation filed: _____, 18 es: _____ nlisted: _____ ney: _____
1930 - Jan Feb 20 - Mil. to Miss Jennie E. Laing - d.d.h.

Edmund Bonner Evidence

I Benjamin Fotton of Brookfield in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts Gentleman testify & declare that in the war of the Revolution I knew Edmund Benis who lived in Spencer at Charlton in this County in the beginning of said war and who now lives in Westminster in the State of Vermont, as I am informed; that he served the whole of the year 1776, as a Sargant in the Company of Isaac Bousler, in the same Regt. in which I served under a Lieutenants' Commission commanded by Ebenezer Learned, and six weeks after the expiration of said year was in three battles with him; when he was dismissed, by Genl. John Sullivan, without written discharges, so that I am not interested in this application.
Benjamin Fotton mark
Worcester ss Commonwealth of Massachusetts October 18 th 1818 personally appeared Benjamin Fotton whose mark is set to the foregoing Affidavit by reason of his being blind and made oath to the truth of the same. I also certify that said Fotton is a man of integrity.
Simon Dyer Justice Peace

I Jesse Smith of Chariton in the County of Worcester, on oath, testify and declare that in the Revolutionary Army, on the Continental Establishment, I served as a Private from January, 1776 to January 1777, in Capt. Isaac Babbitt's Company, Col. Ebenezer Darnes's Regiment; that Edmund Bemis belonged to the same Company, with me, served faithfully during the whole year in in which I served in the Massachusetts Line, and was regularly discharged at the end of said term of service, no written discharges being given at to the men in the year's service.
B. B. Smith Worcester Feb. 8. 1888. Personally appeared the above Jesse Smith and made solemn oath to the truth of the above declaration by him subscribed; he being a very credible & disinterested witness.
Before me Edw. D. Bangs Justice Peace.

412 E. Everett St. Dixon, Illinois
April 28-1930.
To The Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.
Dear Sir,
Will you please let me know if Sergt. Edmund Bennis (or Benniss ) Born Died 1746-1829 drew a pension for Service in Revolutionary War. If so - will you please tell me Volume and page - where pension record is found. For better still - send me a copy of same. And if there is a charge for such information I will gladly remit amount due you - if you will kindly let me know the amount. I need this information to complete DA-R Application papers - for a friend, who wishes to join our Chapter - A prompt reply will be greatly Appreciated. Thanking you - for any information you may send.
I am
Respectfully
Miss Jennie E. Lang
Asst: Registrar Dixon Chapter D.A.R.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Demiss, Jonas GRADE Private LINE Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER 3735 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Feb. 14, 1793 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.