John Gilbert

GILBERT, JOHN Ancestor #: A053180 Service:

NEW YORK    Rank: CORPORAL  Birth: 

1- -1759    OBLONG DUTCHESS CO NEW YORK 

Death: 

4-12-1852     LANSDOWNE ONTARIO CANADA 

Pension Number: 

R4008V

Service Description: 

1) CAPT ELISHA GILBERT, COL W.B.WHITING 

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A bill (H. R. No. 471) for the relief of the sur‘ viving children of John Gilbert, a revolutionary soldier. 

This bill directs the proper accounting oflicer of the Treasury to pay to the surviving children , of John Gilbert, late a soldier in Colonel ‘V. B.

‘Vhiting’s regiment, the full ay of a private, under the act of Congress of une 7, 1832, from the passage of the act to the time of his death, Aplril 12, 1852.

he proofs furnished from the Commissioner of Pensions establishes the following facts: That on the 1st day of April, 1856, Ira Gilbert, aged sevent -two years, appeared before the court of genera quarter sessions and county court of the county of Elgin, Canada West, and made oath, in or er to obtain the benefits of the provisions of the act ofJune 7, 1832, that he was one of the children of John Gilbert, deceased, who, as he believed, was a private in the company of Captain Allen, and served one year, as stated in the first declaration, the substance of which is before stated in the declaration of John Gilbert. From the traditionary histo of his father's services, he, in the month of Zinc, 1777, enlisted or engaved in the company of Captain Elisha Gilbert, in Colonel Whiting‘s regiment of New York State militia of nine months’ men, and continued in said service in said company until July 4, 1778; and that he continued in said company until the 10th of July, 1779; that when his father made application in 1840, he was upwards of eightyone years of age, and from loss of memory was unable to relate the difl'erent and distinct tours of service in full,and would at times relate accurately portions of his service, and forget others; and. that such was the deran ed state of his mind from the time he made said eclaration until his death, which occurred at Lansdown, on the 12th day of April, 1852.

r. JONES, ofTennessee. This bill provides that the pension shall commence from the passage of the act of 1832. The law of 1832 made the pensions under it commence on the 4th of March, 1831. To give these petitioners the full benefit of this act, therefore, the pension should commence with the 4th of March, 1831. I move that the bill be so amended.

The amendment was agreed to; and the bill as amended was laid aside to be reported to the House, with the recommendation that it do pass.