Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20826, Lemuel Caswell, Continental Mass.

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Continental Mass.
Caswell Lemuel Delivrance
W. 20826
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9583
Connecticut
Samuel Casmell of Holland in the state of Conn. who was a Sgt. in the regiment commanded by Colonel Balsey of the Mafey line, for the term of one year
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 30 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th of April 1819 and sent to Sylvester Gilbert Holland Conn 5
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 81.06 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 6 Sep 1819 48.00 $129.06
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Not entitled Opinion of Atty Gen: sent 22 May 1821 see over
Notification dated the 19 th July 1820, to Elisha Stearns Esq. Holland Conn Original envelope was lost
Copy of Scht. with copy of mortgage, returned Nov 16 th June 1823 to Elisha Stearns Esq. I have copy of mortgage and the mortgage deed - also the Scht. returned again on the 10 th June 1823 to my son

Samuel Laswell Declaration & Affidavit Sergeant Associate Col. Bailey Regt Maple Line 1776-17 year - dec. 30 April 1818 Adm. M c G

Samuel Caswell of Tolland in the County of Tolland in the State of Connecticut now residing in sd Tolland being sixty eight years of age - Testifies & Declares on Oath, that on the first day of Jan y A. D. 1776 he enlisted as a serjeant serjeant for the term of one year in the Company commanded by Capt. John Bridgeham &  Plympton in Massachusetts Colonel John Bailey's Regiment in the Massachusetts Line of the Continental Army & Regiment. He enlisted at Roxbury and joined sd Company & Regiment. and served on the Continental establishment from that time till the first day of January A. D. 1777 - He served in sd Company at White Plains, on Long Island in New Jersey & other places in the American Army & was in the battle at Harlem in 1776. He says that sd Regiment was then  was commanded by sd Col t Bayley during the year, & that he sd Caswell served faithfully therein the whole term, against the common enemy as a serjeant & on the first of Jan y 1777 was discharged regularly & honourably, but had no writing according to his best recollection, but a Pass to return home & draw provisions on the road He is a Resident Citizen of the United States, is reduced in his circumstances in life, and is in need of assistance from his Country for support Samuel Caswell Tolland April 30 th 1818
On the day of the date of this Declaration, the aforesaid Samuel Caswell personally appeared, & being duly sworn, made solemn oath to the truth of the facts stated therein
Before me Sylvester Gilbert Judge of County Court

State of Connecticut ss County of Tolland
I Sylvester Gilbert presiding Judge of the County Court within & for so County, do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Lemuel Coswell did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding Declaration against the common & that he ad joined & aided & abetted Enemy, & I now transmit the proceedings & testimony had & taken in this case before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the act of Congress in this behalf made & provided
Tolland April 30 th 1818
Sylvester Gilbert Judge as aforesaid

Tolland County ss Tolland April 30 th 1818 Personally came before me the Subscriber, John Philips of Stafford in sd County & made solemn oath that he served in the same Company & Regiment with Lemuel Caswell of Tolland, & was a soldier  soldier in sd Company & knows that sd Caswell served one year in the revolutionary war as he has declared, & that he was regularly discharged & was a faithful soldier Sylvester Gilbert Presiding Judge of County Ct.
Tolland County ss Tolland April 30 th 1818 Personally came before me the Subscriber, Elisha Stearns Esqr of Tolland aforesaid and made solemn oath that Lemuel Caswell of Tolland is an an unwell & infirm man has but a very small property, is in reduced circum- stances in life & is in his opinion in need of assistance from his Country for support Sylvester Gilbert Judge of County Court

Lemuel Caswell
9.583
Lemuel Caswell
(Sept. 10/19.) Declaration
Not entitled
Not entitled
Not entitled

STATE OF CONNECTICUT, County of Tolland ss. County Court or Court of Common Pleas, June term, 1820
ON this 26 day of June 1820, personally appeared in open Court, the same Court being a Court of record for said County, having the power of fine and imprisonment,
Samuel Caswell aged 70 years, resident in Tolland in the County of Tolland
who being first duly sworn according to law doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows:
In the year 1775 8 months In 1776 one year in Capt. Bridgham's company Col. John Bailey, Reg. Mass line as a sergeant - was in the retreat off of Long Island - in the Battle of Harlem - the engagement at White Plains & also at Drog Point - His original declaration was dated 30 day of April 1818 and the number of his pension certificate 9518
"And I do solemnly 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."
Schedule Value 40 acres of land 250.00 1/2 of a horse 17.00 one cow & one two year old steer 24.00 7 sheep 5.00 1 hog 6.00 Household furniture, except bedding, 15.00 Farming tools 10.00 327.00
The declarant now owns 366 doll? 67 cents and has nothing due to him.
Samuel Caswell

The declarant is by trade a taylor but through age and infirmity is incapable of much labour of any kind - he has a wife 65 years of age of a feeble constitution - he has also in his family a daughter Mary aged aged 35 years so much out of health as to be most of the time under the care of a physician and likewise a grand son aged 7 years named Philander Casswell
Sworn to and declared by said day of June
Lemuel Casswell on the 26 1820 before said Court, and it is the opinion of said Court that
the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is
327 dollars and
cents. and that
the amount of his debts is 318 doll 67 cents & that his circumstances of family are in all { I, } respect as herein stated
Eliza Stearns Clerk of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Holland aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the record of said Court. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 26 day of June 1820.
E. Stearns
Clerk of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of
Holland

1889 Oct 21
J.C. Howard history
Prior
Connecticut 212
Deliverance Gassell widow of Samuel Gassell of Tolland Co. in the State of Connecticut who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Bridgham of the regt by Col. Dooly, in the Massachusetts line for 1 yr 8 months for 1775    8 mo P.  repeated to Nov 15 1839  $26.66    1 yr Sept  have check Nov 1840 but record June 19 1840  60.      $86.66  
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 86 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834. died 15 Nov 1833
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of Nov 1836 and sent to Elisha Stearns. Tolland
  Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1836  $476.63    Semstant. allowance ending April 57  43.33     $519.96  
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1836. }
Recorded by H. H. Addison Clerk, Book Vol. Page 76

on rolls of Capt John Bridge - - has compos & note Rein Map to roll.
admitted 1 yr 8 mo
8 m P -
1 yr Sept. 60. 8 m P 26.66 $ 86.66 100
clied 15 Nov 1833

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the 3 d section of the Act of Congress of the 4 th of July 1836.
State of Connecticut
Town of Tolland and County of Tolland
On this 23 d day of July A D 1836
Personally appeared before Novatus Chapman Esq y Judge of Probate within and for the District of Tolland holding a Court of Probate for said District being a Court of Record. Deliverance Caswell of said town County and District a resident of said District now being and boarding with her daughter in the town of Ashford County of Windham in said State of Connecticut aged 80 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836. That she is the widow of Lemuel Caswell late of said town and County of Tolland now deceased who was a private in the Militia of the State of Massachu- setts & who then resided in the town of Rochester in the County of in said State of Massachu- setts to wit in the year 1775 and served in said Militia as a private in said year 1775 eight months in the revolutionary war and that the said Lemuel Caswell also served in the year 1776 in Capt. Bridgham's Com- pany Col. John Baileys Regiment Massachusetts line as a Sergeant one year in the Revolutionary War Continental establishment and that when he commen- ced said last mentioned service he resided in said Rochester proof of which service is now among the

files and records of the War department having been forwarded with the said Samuel's declarations to obtain a pension made on the 30 th day of April 1818 and on the 26 th day of June 1820. The declarant hereby believes that the said Samuel was in the retreat off of Long Island & in the battles of Harlem White Plains and Frog point. That the said Samuel died on the 15 th day of November 1833 of a fever - That your declarant the said Deliverance Caswell and the said Samuel were married at Wareham in the State of Massachusetts on or about the 30 th day of Nov. 1775 - That the said Samuel & Deliverance removed from the State of Massachusetts to said town of Tottenfield in the year 1778. That she the said Deliverance is the Widow of said Samuel and has remained since his death un- married. That soon after the death of said Samuel this Declarant applied to the War Department for the balance of his pension then due which was paid to her by said Department. Your Declarant the said Deliverance was born the 21 st day of May 1755. and the entries on the leaf of the New-Testament herewith forwarded of births is a record made by the S d Samuel & kept by him of the births in his family all being of the children of the S d Samuel & Deliverance except the two first which are the periods of their own births That the S d Samuel & Deliverance were married as above appears before said last mentioned record expired
Deliverance Caswell

At a Court of Probate held at Tottene in and for the District of Tottene on the 23 d day of July A.D. 1836
Present Novatus Chapman Esq. Judge Personally appeared the above named Deliverance Gaswell who has subscribed the foregoing declaration and made solemn Oath that the matters therein stated are true and this Court do find the same to be true By and before me
Novatus Chapman Judge of Probate for the District of Tottene
A true copy of the original declaration and the Judgment of Court thereon. and I also certify that the said Deliverance Gaswell sustains a fair character for integrity and veracity
Certified by me Novatus Chapman Judge

Samuel Gossell Born Sept. 22 nd 1749 Deborah Gossell Born May 21 st - 1755   Samuel Gossell Jr o Born September 4 th Day 1776 Friday 11 PM   Hannah Gossell Born 5 April 1779 Monday 10 PM   Elkanah Gossell Born 20 October 1780 Friday at noon   Deborah Gossell Jr o Born December 8 th 1782 Sunday 5 PM   Mary Gossell Born 6 January 1785 Thursday at 7 in the morning   Elijah Gossell Born 28 July 1787 Saturday 6 PM   John Gossell Born 17 Day November 1789 Tuesday 11 PM   Deborah Gossell Born 6 February 1792 Monday 6 in the morning   Betty Gossell Born Friday July 1794 Friday at 11 AM   Nancy Gossell Born 21 Day May 1796 Saturday 7 in the morning   ... Born July 1798

Wid. File 20826.
L.M.H.
February 7, 1906.
Miss Dorothy B. Caswell, No. 315 North Main Street, West Hartford, Connecticut.
Madam:
In response to your letter dated January 1, 1906, and received in this Bureau January 3, 1906, you are advised that the papers in the above noted claim show that Lemuel Caswell, was born September 22, 1749, enlisted from Rochester. Plymouth Co. Mass. in 1775 and served eight months as a Private in Capt. John Bridgham's Co. Col. Cotton's Regt. Mass troops; he again enlisted January 1, 1776 and served one year as a sergeant in Capt. John Bridgham's Co. Col. John Bailey's Regt. Mass. troops. He was in the battles of Frogs Point, Harlem and White Plains. His pension was granted on an application executed April 30, 1818, at which date he was a resident of Tolland, Tolland Co. Connecticut. He died November 15, 1833. ✓
He married Deliverance Chubbuck, November 30, 1775, at Wareham, Mass. Her claim was allowed on an application executed July 23, 1836. while living at Tolland Conn Ashford ✓ She was born May 21, 1755. and died June 10, 1840. ✓

The following are the names and dates of birth of their children:
Lemuel Jr. born Sep. 6, 1776. Hannah, born Apr. 5, 1779, married Luther Eaton. Ebenezer, born Oct. 20, 1780. Doliverance, born Dec. 8, 1782. Mary, born Jan. 6, 1785. Elijah, born July 28, 1787. John, born Nov. 17, 1889. Jediah, born Feb. 6, 1792. Betsey, born July --, 1794. Nancy, born May 21, 1796.
They had a grandson, Philander Caswell. The widow's brother Ebenezer Chubbuck testified in the claim.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

01 - Hist Co.
New Bedford Conn
Dorothy Gasmell M.B.H.
Ref
WIDOW, &c.
Sept 24-19 C. N. Gasmell.
1906 Feb 7 - History to Miss Pg 2 Sep 18, 7 Oct to R. E. Van Syckle. on circ. x - Aw.
File No. 20826 Deliverance Gasmell Widow of Lemuel Gasmell Sergt New Mass
Act June 7th 56
Index: Vol. 14 , Page 120
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Deliverance Cassell R. 9 d
Subp. 4
let 22 Oct 1836 E. Starnes. al
Act. 4 July 1836

Samuel Caswell connected at March 1818 to what time last paid?
Rem. Offic.
Due 15 Nov. 1833 paid Nov 21.
to that Period
A/H

a Tailor from age & infirmity unable to pursue his trade - wife by infirm - 1 Daugh- ter 36 yrs. weakly & 1 grand child 10 yrs. —
Elisha Stearns Follett Con.
Sep. 1819
Connecticut
Lemuel Caswell, Serf. Served 1 yr. - 1796
1 st Sched: dated June 1820. Real Estate — $250 — Personal — 77 —
Total $327. — Indebted — $366.67
Sched: under act Mar. 1825. (dated 16 Ap r 1823)
Personal property $49. — accounts for the decrease of property &c. —
States that on the 17 th May 1821 he mortgaged his Real Estate to Ebenezer Caswell for $355 which sum he owed the S d Caswell Copy of the Deed given. —
House died. 1 Cow & 3 Sheep consumed in fami- -ly — Tools to the amt. of $2 destroyed —
Claimant aged 73 years

Deliverance Caswell Count

I Mary Grew of Talladega in the County of Talladega State of Alabama aged about 70 years testify as follows was well acquainted with Lemuel Grew his wife and children and with his brother Solomon Grew who had office for the pension and the act of Congress of the 4th of July 1836 - I have known by her late husband. That the said Lemuel Grew and his wife moved into said town of Talladega in the spring of the year 1778 which was the first acquaintance with them that they then had together as man & wife - I said much after Lemuel the death of said Lemuel about three years ago - That when they moved into said Talladega as far as their oldest child was about two years old and I always after lived a neighbor to them and understood from them that they had been married some months or nearly a year before said child was born - I said Lemuel Grew was the father of the said Lemuel Grew and has not many knowledge of his life since the death of the said Lemuel - Mary Grew
Talladega County State of Alabama At Talladega July 25 1836
Personally appeared the above named deponent

Mary Giau and made solemn oath that for giving deposition before subscribed contains the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth relating to the subject matter thereof
Before me Eliza Stearns Justice of Peace
I also certify that she sustains a fair character for truth and integrity and is entitled to full credit
Eliza Stearns Justice of Peace
I Luther Eaton of Tolland County of Tolland and State of Connecticut of lawful age testify & say that I married for my first wife Hannah Casmell the daughter of Lemuel Casmell late of said Tolland deceased & of his wife Deliverance Casmell that the said Hannah is now deceased - That I always understood from her that she was born the day of April 1779 - She had a brother the oldest child of the said Lemuel & Deliverance whose name was Lemuel Casmell & who was reputed to be two years or more older than my said wife. She attended the funeral of the said Lemuel Casmell the elder and it is my impression & belief that he died the 15 th day of November 1833 and was buried the 17 th of said November and I also testify that the said Deliverance remains since the decease of the said Lemuel her late husband a widow and unmarried
Luther Eaton

State of Connecticut
Tolland County ss Tolland Aug 3 1836
Personally appeared Luther Eaton of said Tolland who has subscribed the foregoing deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same
Before me Elisha Stearns Justice of Peace
I also certify that the said Luther Eaton sustains a fair character for truth and integrity and is a credible witness
Elisha Stearns Justice of Peace
State of Connecticut County of Tolland
s. s. County Clerk's office
I Jeremiah Parish Clerk of the Courts in sd County do hereby certify that Elisha Stearns Esq before whom the foregoing affidavits of Mary Groom & Luther Eaton were by sd witnesses duly sworn to on the 25 th day of July & 3 rd day of August 1836 th was a Justice of Peace in and for said Tolland County duly appointed and sworn and duly authorized and empowered to administer oaths; and that the signatures to the foregoing certificates purporting to be his are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the County Court in and for said County, at Tolland in sd County this 4 th day of August 1836
Jeremiah Parish Clerk

In reconsideration
Recd Aug 19. 1820
Connt
Stephens
of the following names
Wm Lloyd
100

To his honor the secretary of war
I set down to write to you with a trembling hand and an aching heart on account of the stoppage of my Pension I am left in a deplorable condition the act of last may call every person inferior to declare in open court his particular circumstances which was known to all and mine in particular are such that it leaves me under distressing circumstances as it is known that I owe more than I am worth that none will trust me let my wants be ever so great and I have no money and no way to get any and what will become of my family I know not and that is not all. my Creditors are determined to live on me and what property I possess which is not enough to pay. and it seems and it seems hard to go to prison in my old age. I would rather face an enemy if my country call'd than do it. but fate is fowl and must submit. my Shareholder was honest my property was appraised by the leading men in the town and debts were notes of hand of number of years standing. I have inserted the truth with I trust that the authority and leading Characters of the town will testify on my call upon. and now if there is any way consistent with law & honor I humbly beg that I may be reinstated in the pension Roll for how can I see the misery that will soon come upon me. I would thankfully acknowledge the benefit received from my country for the money already drawn I have laid it out to good use I have paid rising one hundred dollars of highest debts and bought me a Cow and made my family some what comfortable. but now there is nothing but trouble before my eyes. but I have wrote these to your honor with my own hand and unlearned to any one and now my eyes are on your honor for relief and if you should see cause to grant my request you will ever be self acquitted and receive one who are well nigh what as vile yours most obedient humble
Saml Cassell
Servant to his honor the secretary of war
Fall River August 10th Day 1820 Con.

Lemuel Baswell.
Nov 1819
The return of the mortgage must be entered under the date of the Broker's office.
26 Nov 1823.
Returned a second time for official seal after Register - 3 rd July 1823.

STATE OF CONNECTICUT, County of Tolland, ss, Superior Court ss, County Court or Court of Common Pleas, April term, 1823
ON this 15 day of April 1823, personally appeared in open Court, the same Court being a Court of record for said County, having the power of fine and imprisonment,
Levi Caswell aged 73 years, resident in Tolland in the County of Tolland
who being first duly sworn according to law doth, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows:
make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Act of the 18th of March 1818 the 1st of May 1820 and the 1st March 1823 that he the said Levi Caswell enlisted for the term of one year on the day of in the year 1776 in the State of Massachusetts in the company commanded by Col. John Bailey in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental establishment that he continued to serve in the camp until the expiration of said term of one year when he was discharged from said service in Poughkeepsie in the State of New York. "And I do solemnly 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."
  One Cow 12.00   4 Sheep 8.00   1 hog 6.00   Household furniture excepting bedding 15.00   Farming tools 8.00   49.00 
Levi Caswell
That since the exhibition of my first schedule the following changes have been made in my property — In my first schedule were contained 40 acres of land and a lot house valued at 250.00 mortgaged to Eleanor Caswell the 17 day of May 1821 for the sum of 386.84 being the debt due from me to the said Eleanor & stated in my former schedule and which is now due & confessed (a copy of which mortgage deed is hereto annexed) — which I have no means of paying which horse is since dead — one cow also 1/2 of a horse — which horse is since dead — one cow

since failed and killed for the support of my family - 3 sheep since killed & consumed in my family - farming tools, destroyed & damaged to the amount of 2 dollars
The declarant is a tailor by occupation but through age and infirmity is unable to pursue his business steadily - He has a wife 67 years of age and in his family an infirm & feeble daughter named Mary 36 years of age and a grandson Philander Russell 10 years of age
Sworn to and subscribed & declared by said Lemuel Gasmell this 16 day of April A.D. 1823 and this Court do find that the facts here in stated are true and that the said Lemuel Gasmell in such indigent circumstances as to stand is in need of support from his country
Sworn to and declared by said
on the
day of
100
before said Court, and it is the opinion of said Court that
the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is
49
dollars and
cents
41 3/4
The equity of redemption to said mortgaged estate is of no value
I, Superior Elisha Stearns Clerk of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas in and for the County
of Tolland aforesaid do hereby certify that
the foregoing is a true copy of the record of said Court. In testimony
whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said
Court on this 3 rd day of June 1823
Elisha Stearns Clerk of the Sup r Court
Clerk of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Tolland

To his Honor the Secretary of war 2 nd of some more take my pen in hand to write to your honor concerning my petition the Great Court of the Nation have put it in my power once more to petition for my pension to be restored again if I was not conscious that I was a subject of that act of Legislature of the nation I would suffer all the calamities of want rather than wrong my own conscience, but my schedule will I trust satisfy that I am a subject of want I am now almost 74 years of age weak & slender: were my strength equal to my resolution I could get support my family, but age wears out strength and brings all to the dust which must soon be my lot - after I was left out of the pension roll I was first to do something to satisfy my creditors I therefore gave a such a Deed as you will see I have all the rates to pay and have strength to do but little it makes it difficult to pay my taxes I see no other way than to give up all let come on me what will I have one Cow and four sheep which the law will not take away then I am determined to keep as long as I have strength to provide for them but when that fails I know not what become of me to be sold from house to house which must be the case it makes me shudder but yet I do and must take encouragement from your favor and do think that I shall again be reinstated in the pension roll which will again put new life and animation in an old soldier I served 8 right months at Keabury in part of the war then one year in 1776 and since been in militia towns and often in alarms of short duration: and now dear Sir I could heartily wish that you could know my particular situation it could not be that my petition could be rejected my debts were before it was left paid for me I will set the sum and date of each note against me interest on interest which I never can pay these are the facts    one february 29 th  1811  11  40    one sept. 6  1815  117  4    one April 12  1814  98  46    one January 1  1810  9  80    one may 8  1820  22  00    so I conclude wishing you the best of heavens blessings and on last happy and glorious passing to the arms of bliss
Yours W. Leonard Lapsell
Followed April 18 Day 1823

To all to whom these presents shall come greeting Know ye that I Lemuel Cowell of Tolland in the County of Tolland and State of Connecticut to for the consideration of three hundred and fifty five dollars to my full satisfaction of them Cowell of Tolland do give grant bargain sell and confirm to Ebenezer Cowell and his heirs and assigns one certain piece or piece of land lying in the West part of Tolland about forty acres of land be the same more or less bounded as followeth (viz) Beginning at a Stake and stones which is the West corner there running East one hundred and ten rods to Walnut studdies with stones about it thence South forty three rods to the high way then crossing the high way three rods to a Stake and stones thence westerly on the high way about twenty two rods to a heap of stones thence South westerly two rods to a Stake and stones then East to Daniel Grooms land then South to E. Cowell land then east to E. Cowell land thence North on E. Cowell land to the high way thence westerly about ninety six rods to the high way thence Northerly forty seven rods to the first mentioned bound Leavewife another piece of land bounded as followeth beginning at a Stake and stones which is Lloyds Brendals East corner bound thence North about fifty two rods to Phineas Gleasons land thence East on the Gleason land as far as a parallel line South will reach from a river then west to the first mentioned bound to have and to hold the above granted and bargained premises with all its appurtenances thereunto belonging to him the said Ebenezer Cowell his heirs and assigns forever to him and proper use and behoof and also for the said Lemuel Cowell do for my self my heirs and executors covenant with them the said Ebenezer Cowell his heirs and assigns that I and until the encumbering of these presents from well and of the premises as a good undencumbered estate in free simple and have good title to bargain and sell the same in manner and form as is above written and that the same is free from all incumbrances whatsoever further more I the said Lemuel Cowell do by these presents bind my self and my heirs forever to warrant and defend the same to him the said Ebenezer Cowell his heirs and assigns against all claims and demands whatsoever. Provided always nevertheless and in this true intent and meaning of the parties to these presents as to the said Ebenezer Cowell holds several obligations against the said Lemuel Cowell if he the said Lemuel Cowell shall fully and faithfully pay unto the said Ebenezer Cowell this and what may accrue within the term of ten years the above instrument to be void and of none effect but if other wise to remain in full force and virtue of law in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 17 day of May
Lemuel Cowell
Attest: 1821 signed read and delivered in presence of Calvin Willey Sidney Willey
Tolland County ss Tolland May 21 st 1821 Personally appeared Lemuel Cowell of Tolland signers and sealer of the within instrument and acknowledged the same to be his free act and deed
before me Calvin Willey Justice of Peace
The above Deed was rec d . for record May 21. 1821 recorded by Jas. Howard Reg.

By the original Deed as re- corded in the Town of Records of Lands page 543. and 544 - Sealed Compared & certified by me
Joseph Howard Register Tolland Ct. 18 th April 1823 - of Deeds for said town of Tolland
The words "Sealed" interlined by me at Tolland June 23. 1823 Jos. Howard
I hereby certify that town Registers in the State of Connecticut have no official Seals - and that there is none belonging to this Office - Joseph Howard Tolland July 7. 1823
I Jeremiah Parish Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Tolland County do hereby certify that Joseph Howard is Town Clerk or Register for the Town of Tolland in sd County duly appointed and sworn according to Law and that the signatures to the foregoing certificates are in his own proper hand writing In confirmation whereof I have hereunto set my hand affixed the seal of sd Court at Tolland this 9 th day of July Domini 1823 - Jeremiah Parish Clerk

The subscribers certify that Mr Lemuel Casmell of this town is in their opinion in such indigent circumstances as to stand in need of the assistance of his country for support
Tolland, Conn. Apr. 1 st 1823
Geo. M. Hyde } Selectmen Hezekiah Nye }
Eliphaleth Gann } Justices of Jeremiah Parish } peace
Wm. Howard & Aaron Clark
Luther Eaton P.M.

Anne Pa } Sept 25 }
183 1/2
Elisha Stearns Esq Tolland Tolland County Conn.

Orwell Sept 23 d 1836
Dear Sir
Yours of the 3 d instant is at hand and duly answered in answer to which I would state the officers under which Mr. Lemuel Cannell served in 1775 were Col. Cotten Commandant of a regiment. Capt. Bridgeham Commandant of the company in which he served and Lieutenant Sparre and Ensign Bridgeham - son of the Capt. of said company. Should you have occasion to write to me again please to acquaint me a little of the affairs of Connecticut and especially of your neighborhood and oblige
Yours with high esteem Ebenezer Gullbrook
C. Stearns Esq.

State of Pennsylvania
Bradford County ss
Before me Aaron Chubbuck one of the Justices of the peace in and for the county of Bradford personally came Ebenezer Chubbuck a credible witness with whom I am well acquainted and he being by me duly sworn according to law on his solemn oath doth depose and say that he saw his sister Deliverance Chubbuck married to a Mr Lemuel Gaskell in Wareham State of Massachusetts on the latter part of November or forepart of December A.D. 1775 while said Gaskell was absent from the army and that very soon after he was married he returned to the army and finished his term of service, the precise time of day of the month this deponent cannot recollect other than above stated
Sworn and subscribed at Onondaga this 8th day of August A.D. 1834 before me Aaron Chubbuck J.P.
Ebenezer Chubbuck
I would further state that the above deponent sustains a good moral character and reputation for truth and veracity among his neighbors A. Chubbuck J.P.

State of Pennsylvania Bedford County
I Samuel Street Jr. Proth. of the Court of Common Pleas of Bedford County do certify that Aaron Chubbuck is a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Bedford duly Commissioned and qualified and that the within signature purporting to be his own Genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Official Seal this tenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty six
for Samuel Street Jr. Proth. H. Powell Supt.

Salt Lake City, Aug 18 1836
John L. Richards Esq Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
I enclose you the Deed of Deliverance herewith other documents to obtain the benefit of the 3 d Section of the Act of Congress of the 4 th of July 1836. Proof of the service performed remains in the Pension Office and also proof that Deliverance Carmell is the widow of Lemuel Carmell at the time of his death she having applied for & obtained the arrears of the pension due at his decease — As he served as a Sergeant I would suggest whether she can not receive the amount he would be entitled to for that Service if living. The result may be communicated to me
Very Respectfully Yours obed Servt,

Tolland Conn Nov 1 1836
In your favour of the 29 th ult, is rec d in which you say that Deborah Castull, whose is under examination. I rec d also a letter from you in Sept last stating that the names of the officers under whom her husband Samuel Castull served in the Militia term in 1795 should be stated — With great deference permit me to say that I thought that information to be unnecessary in her case because it was not requisite for her husband as the Militia Service constituted no ground of claim for his pension being barely mentioned in his application in 1820 because he was anxious to show how much he had done for his country & in making Deborah Castull, Dela n the Service stated in his was copied. The necessary was at the express request of sending to Penn yl vania to Eben Chubback who formerly lived near Mr Castull in Mass, & knew him at the time of his service and received from him a letter stating the names

of the Militia officers under whom Mr. Cassells served in 1795 - That letter I forwarded to early in October which must have been overlooked as you now require the same information as before - After all is she not entitled to the pension on the same grounds on which it was granted to him
Grandchild perceived by the evidence in his case that he was Sergeant when he performed the year's service Bansfane and here with the deduction
Very Respectfully Your Obedient Servant Elisha Hemen

Tadoussac June Sept 24 th 1836
Sir
Your favour of the 31 st ult is recd Respecting the papers of Samuel Delivrance Caskell you say "that they establish one yours, delivrance in 1796 in the Massachusetts, time but no allusion is made therein to the delivrance now alleged by the widow to have been rendered in 75 - Unless the names of the officers in this latter term be furnished no examination of the rolls can be made -"
If Sir you will turn to the declaration of Samuel Caskell dated 26 of June 1820 you will find this delivrance in 1795 stated as it is in the declaration of his widow Delivrance Caskell. It was inserted originally not as a ground of claim for it constitutes none but merely to show how much he had done for his country - It was taken from that declaration and inserted in his widow's to make them alike. As it was not required of him it need not be to prove that delivrance. The propriety of requiring him to do it is not seen. The information

10 deferred rec d can not be easily obtained - I know not that it can be at all rec d and I hope with great deference that it will not if not requested, be the means of refusing the allowance to an old poor and decrepit widow -
I also herewith send the declaration of Parmelia Lee for the same object - The proof herewith and that on file in your office accompanying the dec d of her husband Jonathan Lee and also her claim to obtain the arrears of his pension it is hoped will be satisfactory
Very Respectfully Your Obed t Serv t Elizabeth
General Leonard Eng Com d of Pension

Yallahas Mt.
Dec 1
Free
Oct 4
ct. Samuel Cadwell
Samuel J. Edward Esq. Commission of Justiciary
Washington

James L. Edwards Esq Cam of Pensylvania
Sir I am writing you
I have received the enclosed letter from an old acquaintance of Mr. Saml. Gasmill I now forward it to answer your
inquiry - Very Respectfully
From Obed See Shasta Stearns
Redwood Canyon, Oct 1, 1836
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T.B.
FORM 914.
Treasury Department,
1 st floor THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
Oct 23 rd , 1889.
Sir:
In reply to your letter of 10 th inst. , in case of Deliverance Gasmell Certificate unknown  Comm. Agency, Widow Roll, 86.66 the records of this Office show last payment to have been made at 86.66 per month  annum to 10 June 1849, date of death . Letter herewith returned. Defy. surrendered
Respectfully yours,
W. H. Hart
Auditor.
The Hon. George F. Pierce,
W.S.P.

Hartford, Conn., Sept. 9, 1901.
Old War Navy Division, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
Will you please send me the record of Lemuel Caswell , who was a Sergeant in the Revolution.
His name appears on page 1147 Commemorative Biographical Records published in Chicago 1901. Thanking you in advance, I am
Yours respectfully,
295 Asylum St., Hartford, Ct.

Wrote J. A. D. S. Oct 16-1889
West Hartford Conn
Oct 3 rd , 1889
To the Hon. the Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir Lemuel Baswell was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army & received a pension to the time of his death in Tolland Conn Nov. 15 th 1833 I suppose his widow Deliverance Baswell continued to receive the pension till her death in 1889.
I wish to obtain any facts on record in the Department that would be useful to me in preparing the genealogy of the Baswell family. Probably some such facts are to be found in their applications for a pension, or other records documents. Please inform me & oblige Yours respectfully J. A. Howard

Old war Div. J. W. P Ex'r. No. Co. _____ Reg't _____
Department of the Interior BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Washington, D.C. Octo 16, 1889
C Return this letter with your reply.
Sir, Be pleased to inform me of the date of the death of Deliverance Caswell widow of Lemuel, on the roll of Connecticut, under the act of July 4. 1836 - Certificate No 212.
A memorandum on file, presumed from your office states the decease of the husband Nov. 15. 1833, and that of the widow is now reported Nov 15. 1839 while the record of this Bureau is June 14. 1840.
Very respectfully
Hiram Smith Jr Acting Commissioner
W. H. Hart Esq Third Auditor
Vol n.
10 June 1840 - 4 Sept 1840 board

O. M. x Jr
2
Jan. 1, 1906
Commissioner of Pensions.
Dear Sir.
I am trying to make out a paper to join the local chapter of the D. H. R. The ancestor I am look- ing for is Lemuel C as well - sergeant in a Massachusetts regi- ment. Born at Wareham Mass.
He marched on the

-claim of April 19, 1778. reference to Report from the Secretary of War in relation to the Establishment of the United States.
I want to find the dates of his birth and death and place where he died.
He was placed on the pension roll of Tolland county of Conn. 1818 for service of sergeant in the Mass. line. He was receiving a pension in 1884 at the age of 85 years.

If you can send me the dates of birth and death it will greatly oblige.
(Miss) Dorothy B. Casmell
318 North Main St.
West Hartford Conn.

DETROIT CHAPTER SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
PRESIDENT CARL F. CLARKE
VICE-PRESIDENT GEORGE E. BUSHNELL
VICE-PRESIDENT HERBERT B. TRIX
SECRETARY RAYMOND E. VAN SYCKLE
CHAPLAIN REV. JOSEPH A. VANCE, D. D.
HISTORIAN ALBERT H. FINN
TREASURER FRANK G. SMITH
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 1729 FORD BUILDING DETROIT, MICHIGAN
Aug 16 1922
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
Please send statement of revolutionary service and family data contained in application for pension for LEMUEL CASWELL, of Connecticut.
Is this File No. 20826 ?
Yours truly
Raymond E. Van Syckel Secretary