WAR OF 1812

DECLARATION FOR PENSION.



State of Indiana,

County of Blackford, SS:



On this 22nd day of April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy one, personally appeared
before me, Richard G. Steele, Clerk of a Court of Record within and for the County and State
aforesaid, Bennett Ward aged 74 years, a resident of Hartford City P. O., in the County of
Blackford, and State of Indiana, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is
married, that his wife's name was Nancy Boggs, to whom he was married near Winchester, Clark Co.
KY, on the - - - day of September, 1815, that he served the full period of sixty days in the
military service of the United States in the war of 1812, that he is the identical Bennett Ward
who was enrolled in Captain Samuel Gooden's Company, of the 16th Regiment, of the - - - Brigade,
of the - - - Division, at Montgomery County, in the State of Kentucky, on the - - - day of
September, 1814, and was honorably discharged at Walden (?), in Canada, on the - - - day of
February or March 1815; that he served as a substitute for Lewis Chatham, a drafted man from
Montgomery County, Kentucky, don't remember the precise date of muster, or discharge from the
service - His officers in command were Capt Samuel Gooden and Col. Porter - That his discharge has
become mislaid and lost, so that he cannot find it.  And that he has received two land warrants
for 80 acres each on account of said service, that he at no time during the late rebellion against
the authority of the United States, adhered to the cause of the enemies of the Government, giving
them aid or comfort, or exercised any office whatever under any authority or pretended authority,
in hostility to the United States and that he will support the Constitution of the United States;
that he is not in receipt of a pension under any previous act; that he makes this declaration for
the purpose of being placed on the Pension Roll of the United States; under the provisions of the
act approved February 14, 1871, he hereby appoints with full power of substitution and revocation,
John Cantwell of Hartford City, Indiana, his true and lawful attorney, to prosecute his claim and
obtain the Pension Certificate which may be issued.  That his postoffice address is Hartford City,
County of Blackford and State of Indiana, and his domicile or place of abode is Hartford City,
Ind.


(Applicant)     Bennett Ward (His Mark)

(Attest)        Frederick Ford
                Amst. (?) Ward 



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