Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 40-100, Thalmeno Bishop, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
conn.
Bishop, Thalmeno
B.L. Wt 40-100
CONTENTS

3-565.
Rev
No. _____
ACT OF _____, 18_____
Received _____, 18_____
Thalmens Bishop
Colerain Franklin Co. Mass
Corporal 2 Conn Regt. Revolutionary War
Warrant No. 40
FOR 100 ACRES.
1906 Jan 17. History to W.W. Cone. M.B.H. 1915 Dec. 2. History to Mrs Mary L. Holman M.B.H
1915 Dec. 11 Mrs. Mary L. Holman data to apply to Comm's Land Office for location of warrant.

Rev. War Section.
December 11, 1925.
Mrs. Mary Lovering Holman, 60 Westland Avenue, Boston, Mass.
Madam:
In response to your letter of the third instant, you are advised that in order to locate Warrant No. 40, for 100 acres of bounty land which issued May 23, 1803, on account of the services of Thalmene Bishop as Corporal in the Second Connecticut Regiment, Revolutionary War, you should apply to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, quoting the data given above.
Very respectfully,
J. M. Sawyer Commissioner.

M. B. H.
Rev. War Section.
December 2, 1915.
Mrs. Mary Lovering Holman, 4 Park Vale Avenue, Allston, Mass.
Madam:
In reaponse to your letter dated the 25 th ultimo, you are advised that Warrant No. 40 for 100 acres of bounty land was issued to Thalmeno Bishop who served as Corporal in the 2d Connecticut regiment, War of the Revolution. Names of officers and dates of service not stated.
He resided in Colerain, Hampshire County, Massachusetts in 1800.
There is no family data on file.
Very respectfully,
J. M. Sawyer Commissioner.
This warrant served May 23, 1803.

January 17, 1906.
Sir:
In response to your letter dated December 23, 1905, and received in this Bureau December 26, 1905, you are advised that the records of this Bureau show that Thalmeno Bishop served as a Corporal in the 2nd Connecticut Regiment, Revolutionary War; names of officers and dates of service not stated. He resided at Cofrain, Hampshire Co., Mass., in 1800. No family data.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Mr. W. W. Cone,
Brandsville, Mo.

MARY LOVERING HOLMAN GENEALOGIST 60 WESTLAND AVE., BOSTON, MASS.
Bureau of Pensions—
I am in receipt of a letter from you stating that "Warrant No. 40 for 100 acres of bounty land was issued to Thelma Bishop" . . . . "He resided in Colebrook Mass in 1800" — Is there any way of ascertaining where that land was.
Thanking you — I am
Sincerely yours
Mary Lovering Holman.
Dec 3, 1915

K NOW all men by these presents, that I Thalmeno Bishop of Cole Rain in the County of Hampshire Commonwealth of Massachusetts for the consideration of ten Dollars received to my full satisfaction of Abijah Holbrook of Torrington Litchfield County and State of Connecticut
Do give, grant, bargain, sell, assign, and confirm, unto Abijah Holbrook or to his heirs, or assigns forever, all my right, title, interest and demand, which I have to the bounty land, which was granted to me, by the United States, for my services as a Soldier during the late war with Great-Britain: And I do hereby appoint the said Abijah Holbrook my true and lawful attorney for me, with power of substitution, and in my name to demand, ask and receive, from the war-office of the United States, for his use and benefit, whatever land I am entitled to for my services as a Corporal in the Second Connecticut Regt. hereby irrevocably ratifying and confirming whatever my said attorney or his substitutes shall lawfully do, by virtue of these presents. In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and seal, this 29 th day of September one thousand eight hundred
In presence of
Hugh W Callen Michael M Callen
Thalmeno Bishop
PERSONALLY appeared before me, Hugh W Callen a justice of the peace, for the County of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts  Thalmeno Bishop of the town of Cole Rain in the County of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts and acknowledged the above instrument, to be his voluntary act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned. Given under my hand, this 29 th day of September one thousand eight hundred Before Hugh W Callen Justice of the Peace
I HEREBY certify, that Thalmeno Bishop who signed the above deed and power of attorney, has been personally known to me, for five years and that I verily believe him to be the soldier he represents himself to be, and he is a Cordwinder by occupation Dated this twenty fourth day of September one thousand eight hundred Hugh W Callen Justice of the Peace

I hereby Certify that the within signer, Thalmene Bishop did serve as a soldier in the Second Connecticut Regt during the war with Great Britain for me Stephen Potter Capt in 2 Connecticut Regt
I Certify that the within named Thalmene Bishop did serve as a soldier during the late war with Great in the Second Connecticut Regiment for me Stephen Potter Capt in the 2 Connecticut Regt  Thalmene Bishop Prov. Com. Issued Oct 20/40

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire ss Sep. 29th 1800. I Joseph Lyman Jr. Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court, Court of Common Pleas & Court of General Sessions of the Peace within and for said County of Hampshire do certify that Hugh St. Glallen Esq r whose sig- nature is affixed to this paper is now a Justice of the Peace within & for said County of Hampshire And that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his Acts and attestations done as aforesaid and that his attestation to this paper is in due form — In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of the said Court of General Sessions of the Peace the Day and Year above written & in the twentyfifth Year of the Independence of the United States of America —
Jos. Lyman Jr.