Ben. Ethell
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Document which reads in part:
..............The declaration of Benjamin Ethel was sworn to in open
Court by him on this day and the statement in writing of George Redman
and James Simpson annexed thereto was also sworn to in open court by
said Redman and Simpson, and both were ordered to be recorded and are in
the following words and figures to wit- "State of Ky, Clarke Circuit Set
on the 26th day of September 1825, personally appeared in open court
being a court of record expressly made so by the laws of Ky which
created it Benjamin Ethel sometimes called Athel, who made oath that he
is the same man who is inscribed on the pension list roll of the
Kentucky agency and to whom a certificate of his claim ___? a copy of
which is as follows War Department Revolutionary claim I certify that
in conformity with the law of the United States of the 18th March 1818
and 1st May 1820 Benjamin Ethell or Athell of Clarke County Kentucky
late a corporal in the army of the revolution is inscribed on the
pension list roll of the Kentucky agency at the rate of eight dollars
per month to commense on the 31st day of August 1818. Given at the war
office of the United States this 7th day of September 1820. J. C.
Calhoun Secretary of War
Which certificate is endorsed on the back as registered in Book B,
Volume 10, Page 40. He also made oath that he has drawn no part of his
pension which fell due since the 4th Sept 1822 and that there is at this
time three years of his said pension due to him. The reasons why he did
not draw his pension since that date are these - shortly after he was
placed on the pension list and had obtained said certificate he removed
from the State of Kentucky to the State of Missouri, Boone County, where
he has ever since resided. He got an opportunity in the fall of the year
1822 and sent to Kentucky by a friend who he authorised to get the money
for him, and drew what fell due on the 4th of September 1922. Since
that time only one opportunity has occurred being about nineteen or
twenty months after said 4th of Sept 1822, when he again sent by a
friend to whom he gave a power of attorney to draw the money for him but
his said agent having by some casualty lost his pocket book in which
said power of attorney was had to return without the money and he
although from old age and debility badly qualified to travel the
distance he lived from Lexington Kentucky made the attempt this fall and
having reached Lexington on the 5th day of September 1825 applied at the
branch Bank U.S. for the money due him when he was informed by the
officers of said Bank that he had been reported to the war department as
dead and could not get his pension without making application to that
department, and the reason assigned for his being returned as dead was
his failure to apply for his pension for two years in succession. He
also stated that he has become so weak and has been so for the last
three years, that he cannot ride from Missouri to Kentucky without great
bodily pain and even some hazard to his life, and furthermore that he
was ignorant that a failure to apply for his money for the period of two
years would produce the result it has. He stated that it was on the
15th day of July 1820 that he in this Court made his last declaration on
the subject of his pension.
(signed) Benjamin Ethell
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