Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16047, Daniel Belden, Continental. Mass.

SERVICE
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Continental Mass.
Belden, Daniel
S. 16047
carded
CONTENTS

Report
Ohio 32616
Daniel Belden, Osgood Grafton Co. in the State of Ohio who was a Private in the Comp. commanded by Captain Milly of the Regt. commanded by Col. Whitecomb in the Revolution for Mass & Continental 11 Mo. 7 days Private
Inscribed on the Roll of Cincinnati at the rate of 37 Dollars 43 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831. and ending 21 August, 1839
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of July, 1848, and sent to Wm. Putnam
Arrears to the 14th of May 1839 Semi-annual allowance ending
Payable to Beldan Belden and Sarah Shapley only Children surviving Revolutionary Claim, { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Th. D. Rumphkin Clerk, Book 62 Vol. 8 Page 4

Certificate

State of New York Madison County ss In Surrogate's Court
I James McKee Surrogate of Said County hereby certify that at a Surrogate's Court held in & for Said County at Hamilton satisfactory evidence has been exhibited that Dan- iel Belden died at Grafton — in the County of Lorain & State of Ohio on the 21 st day of August in the Year 1834. That he left no widow but did leave Two children whose names were Bildeol Belden and Sarah Belden now Sarah Shapley wife of John Shapley
That the said children are more than twenty one Years old and that Bildeol Belden & Sarah the only children of the said Daniel Belden him surviving.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of Office at Hamilton in Said County on this 19 th day of May 1847.
James McKee Surrogate

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Daniel Beldendie 9 Ohio
Act 7. Jan y '32 dis 21. aug. 1834.
Declaration
A. L. Lynde Esq r Warsaw N.Y.

State of New York
Madison County 3d At a Surrogates Court held at Hamilton in & for said County on the 19 th day of May 1847. at Hamilton personally came Sarah Shapley. For her oath by me to her duty administered according to law makes the following decla- ration in order to obtain the benefits of the pro- vision made by the act of Congress of June 7. 1832.
That she is a child of Daniel Belden who was a soldier in the American revolution and army resided at Shelburne in the State of Mass- achusetts at the date of his services. That she has frequently heard her father the said Daniel Belden speak of the following officers under whom he served in the Revolution (Civil) Capt Henry Hughes Mills
but that she is unable to state the names of any others. That she has no documentary evidence of her fathers services.
That the said Daniel Belden died at Grafton in the State of Ohio on the 21 st day of August in the Year 1834
Sarah Shapley
Subscribed & sworn to in open Court this 19 th day of May 1847. Witness my hand & seal of Office at Hamilton aforesaid
James W. Nye Surrogate

Justices fee 1.00 Clerks fee .50 paid by B. Bolden

I Daniel Belden was in the Revolution war in the year 1775 I then live in Shelburn in Massachusetts county of Hampshire I then listed in the Militia in Col Wells Company I think in Colonel Whiteoms Regiment for about Eight months and we Marched then to Cambridge then to Prospect hill there we Built a fort and the Brittans Built a fort on Bruneer's hill about half a mile from our fort and they kept firing Cannon at each other and After my time was out I listed again into Cpt Peters Company in Colonel Larnad Regiment in the year 1776 for a year to serve among the Continentals When my time was out I came home and the following year which was in the year 1777 I listed into Cpt Kimps Company for two months and Burgwine headed the Brittans and came and drove us from Tiandwaga after that our Army with the Militia came and took Burgwine and his army prisoners  Betien Belien B
THE STATE OF OHIO, } LORAIN COUNTY, ss. }
I, Myron R. Keith, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for said County, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That John R. Jones Esq., by whom the fore- going Deposition was taken was at the time of taking the same an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified, that I am acquainted with his signature and know the above to be genuine, and that the same is in due form and in accordance with the Laws of the State of Ohio.
Witness my signature and the seal of our said Court at Elyria, this 28th day of March A. D. 184 8
Mr. R. Keith Clerk. By H. Wallace Deputy

I Beldad Belden of Grafton, Lorain county, Ohio— do depose, & say that I am the only son of Daniel Belden. The said Daniel Belden was born in Milton Connecticut March 17 th 1745 & died August 21 st 1834 at my House in Grafton Ohio. When living he made application through Eber W. Hubbard for a pension for services in the Revolutionary struggle against England in 1775, 1776, & 1777, & after applied through Esq. Massie of Clermont Lorain Co. Ohio & failed of obtaining said pension, through some defect I believe in the writings, since about the year 1834 or 5, said Massie removed to Illinois ▪ their dead. I have endeavored to obtain the papers that were in possession of said agents of Daniel Belden in relation to said pension but they cannot be found but suppose them to be destroyed with the multiplicity of papers that were in possession of said Massie after his decease as being worthless - & further I do depose & say that in searching among some papers left by said Daniel Belden I found the annexed scrap of paper hereto attached by Wafers, giving a description of said Belden's services in part. I know it to be his own hand writing & believe he wrote a description in full for his agents to obtain his pension which cannot be found & to which we made affidavit.
Beldad Belden
State of Ohio Lorain Co. ss
Personally came before me this Twenty third day of March A D 1848 Beldad Belden the signer & declarant of the above instrument. I swear that the above is true as the verily believes. John R Jones Justice of the Peace

Rev. and 1812 War Section
M.E.E. Ques
May 10, 1928
Mrs. W. B. Rawson 2185 Cummington Road Cleveland, Ohio
Madam:
I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 16047 , it appears that Daniel Belden was born March 17, 1745, at Wilton, Connecticut.
While a resident of Shelburne, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, he served as a private under the following enlistments in the Massachusetts Troops:
In 1775, about eight months in Captain Agrippa Wells' Company, Colonel Asa Whitcomb's Regiment.
In 1776, one year in Captain Peters' Company, Colonel Learned's Regiment.
On May 10, 1777, two months and nine days in Captain Lawrence Kemp's Company, Colonel David Wells' Regiment.
On September 22, 1777, one month and one day in Captain Ephraim Jennings' Company, Colonel David Wells' Regiment, and was at the taking of Burgoyne.
Soldier died August 21, 1834, in Grafton, Lorain County, Ohio, leaving no widow. The name of his wife is

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not stated. He was survived by two children, - Sarah Shapley, wife of Dunham Shapley, and Bildad Belden, who was living in Grafton, Lorain County, Ohio, in 1848, and at whose home his father died.
Pension was allowed said children on the application of the daughter, Sarah, which application was executed May 19, 1847, at Hamilton, Madison County, New York.
The above history is that of the only soldier by that name (or similar spelling) found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.
Owing to the very large number of inquiries similar to yours, and the lack of a clerical force available for the purpose, the Bureau is unable to make immediate reply to requests pertaining to soldiers of the Revolution. Letters are being answered as rapidly as possible in order of receipt.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.

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1928 - May 10, List to Mrs. W.B. Rawson - M.E.E.
INVALID.
File No. 19547
Daniel Belden
Pin Row Mar
Act: James Y. 39
Index: Vol. 1 , Page 31
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Daniel Belden dis Ohio
Let to A. L. Lynde
June 17. '43
Let to Jas. Hathaway
Nov. 11 '47
Let to Hon. W. Putnam April 20th 1848.

J. S. Edwards Esq.

Warsaw N.Y.
2d June 1847
J. S. Edwards Esq. Dr. Sir
Enclosed I send papers in Core of the claim of heirs of Daniel Belden to pension due him under act of 1832. The newspaper contains notice of his death. Please send Certificate at your early convenience.
Respectfully Yours
A. L. Lynde

State of New York } Madison County } On this 19 day of May 1847 the year 1847 before me came Daniel B. Shapley of the Town of Hamilton Madison County State of New York to me known and made oath that he was well acquaint- ed with Daniel Belden in the Town of Grafton Lorain County State of Ohio and that he died at his residence as afore said on or about the 21 st day of August 1834 and this deponent further says that he did attend his funeral at the time of his burial and further says not
Subscribed and sworn Daniel B. Shapley This 19 th day of May 1847 before me H. H. Greenly Justice of the Peace

State of New York Madison County Clerk's Office
Esq. I A Scott Sloan Clerk of said County and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County hereby certify that Thomas H Greenly Esquire before whom the within affidavit purports to have been subscribed & sworn was on the day of the date thereof a justice of the Peace in & for said County duly elected and qualified. That I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said justice and verily believe that his signature thereto is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court at Herkness this 31 st day of May 1847
A Scott Sloan Clerk

No 29314
Daniel Belden dec A
act 7 June 1832
Around 11 mo 7 days in
$374 37 per ann
from 4 March 1831 to 21 August 1834 the day of his death, payable to Bildad Belden and Sarah Shapley only sur- ving Children of Daniel Belden dec
John H. Putnam House of Reps

Pension Office July 1848
Sir,
I have the honor to inform you that the account of the State of New York

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston:
April 30 1847.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Samuel Belden is borne upon a Muster Roll of Capt Agrippa Wells's Company, in Col Asa Whitecomb's Regt in the Eight Months service as a private of Shelburne, from May 10 to August 1. 1777. 2 Months and 26 days. Upon a Return of said Company, in said Regt as a private of Shelburne, No service named and said return is not noted. Upon a List of the men in Capt Wells's Company, who received pay of Col Asa Whitecomb for the month of September 1775. Said list is dated "Camp at Prospect hill, November 17 1775."
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Upon a Pay Roll of Capt Lawrence Keene's Company from the County of Hampshire in Col David Wells's Regt, as a private from May 10 to July 17 1777. 2 Months and
2. 10

9 days — said roll of Capt Keene is dated Shelburne November
10. 6 1777
Upon a Pay Roll of Capt Ephraim Jenings Company, in Col David Wells, regt, as a private from Septem 22 to October 18 1777, including all
1. 1 of 5 days for travel, 1 Month and 1
11/11/78 The preceding is all the evidence of service of any one of the name shown by the Military records in the Department.
And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said appli- cation, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Sawyer,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

State of Massachusetts, County of Suffolk and City of Boston.
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office of the services of Daniel Belden in the war of the Revolution.
He enlisted from the town of Shelburne, in the County of Franklin in said State, and was out in the year 1775, probably in the 8 months service. The only officer whose name is recollected, under whom he served is Capt. Camp. He was a private and served, it is supposed, at different times, through a greater part of the war.
Witness my hand this thirteenth day of April, A. D. 1847
Franklin Hall, Atty.
Signed by said F. Hall in my presence
L. M. Stone.
Justice of the Peace.

Nov 5 47
Miss Cane Daniel Belden
Rev. J. L. Goldsmith Washington City D. C.

Chardon Geauga Co Ohio.
October 27 th 1847.
Sir
Your letter of 21 st inst in answer to mine of the 6 th making inquiry in regard to the pension claim of Benjamin Belden, is received I have to acknowledge my mistake in the given name, I should of wrote, Daniel Belden in lieu of Benjamin Belden, which I noticed on the receipt of your letter; pleas to consider the name in my letter above alluded to, to be Daniel Belden and return me an answer.
Very Respectfully your most O. B. Servant.
James Hathaway
Hon J. L. Edwards Comm. of Pensions Washington City, D. C.

Washington April 8. 1848
Hon J. L. Edwards,
Com d of Prisoners,
Sir, I enclose to you some proof in the case of Daniel Belden and also the letter of A. L. Lynde Esq which accompanied the proof -
Please give me an early and answer as convenient -
Respectfully
Yours &
H. Putnam -

The State of Ohio Lorain County ss }
I Myron R Keith Clerk of the court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Lorain do hereby certify that a term of said court began and held at the court house in the town of Elyria in and for said county on this thirtieth day of May
A D 1848 satisfactory evidence has been produced to shew to the said court that Daniel Belden died at Grafton in said county on the 21 st day of August A D 1834 and left no widow heir surviving. That the said Daniel Belden left two children whose names are Bildad Belden and Sarah Chaplin and who are the only children of the said Daniel Belden heirs now surviving and that each of them is more than twenty one years old In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Elyria in said county this 30 th day of May A D 1848
M R Keith Clerk

Wash n July 15. 48
Hon J. L. Edwards,
Sir, I send the required proof in the case of David Belderson -
It is desired that the Certificate be made payable at Albany -
Respectfully Frank H. Newman

W. B. RAWSON MECHANICAL ENGINEER CEMENT PLANTS
Pension Bureau Washington D.C. Dear Sirs:
Will you kindly tell me if the records show whether a pension was granted the Revolutionary soldier mentioned below, and if so, I shall be glad of any information contained in said records, as all town data of the town of Shelburne Mass. was burned.
DANIEL BELDING, b. June 17, 1754 at Ashfield Mass. settled at Shelburne, Mass. (see Sheldon's His. Deerfield Mass.)
Service as given in MASS. SOLDIERS and SAILORS IN THE REVOLUTION Vol.1 page 902.
Belden, Daniel, Shelburne.
Private, Capt. Agrippa Well's Co., Col. Asa Whitcomb's Reg. Muster roll dated Aug. 1, 1775; enlisted May 10, 1775; service 2 months and 26 days; also wages for Sept. 1775, dated Prospect Hill; also company return (prob. Oct. 1775); also Capt. Lawrence Kemp's Co. Col. David Well's (Hampshire Co.) Reg.; enlisted May 10, 1777; discharged July 17, 1777; service 2 months and 9 days at the Northward; also Capt. Ephriam Jenning's Co. Col. Well's Reg.; enlisted Sept. 22, 1777, discharged Oct. 18, 1777, service on an expedition to the Northward.
Also, Thompson's His. Greenfield Mass. vol.1 page 250: Honor Roll April 20, 1775. Daniel Belden, Shelburne.
Thanking you for any help you may be able to give, I remain,
Very truly yours,
Grace Price Rawson
Mrs. H. B. Rawson 2185 Cummington Road Cleveland Ohio