Person:Samuel Edgecomb (2)

James R Hancock 2006-05-18 16:48:35 Fort Griswold Home Page

Defenders of Fort Griswold September 6, 1781 Ledyard, Lieut. Col. William, Commanding (Note: Lieut. Col. William Ledyard was killed), at:

http://www.revwar.com/ftgriswold/deflist.html

Wounded and Paroled: includes the name of Samuel Edgecomb, Jr.

From Connecticut Pensioners (Source Information: United States Senate. Report from the Secretary of War, in Obedience to Resolutions of the Senate of the 5th and 30th of June, 1834, and the 3d of March, 1835, In Relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States. [Connecticut Section], WASHINGTON, D.C.: Duff Green, 1835):

Name: Samuel Edgecomb - Rank: Private - Annual Allowance: 48 00 - Sums received: 493 86 - Description of service: Ledyard's regiment - When placed on the pension roll: December 8, 1824 pension date: November 20, 1824 - Age: - Laws under which inscribed, increased or reduced: April 10, 1806. [end]

American Revolutionary War Rejected Pensions [database online]. Provo, UT: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2000. Original data: Rejected or Suspended Applications for Revolutionary War Pensions. Washington, D.C.: n.p., 1852:

Name: Samuel Edgecomb - State: Connecticut - Location: Groton, New London - Reason: He did not serve six months.

On February 1, 1837, H.R. Bill 898 was passed:

Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill...

"A BILL for the relief of Samuel Edgcomb - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to place the name of Samuel Edgcomb, of the county of New London, and State of Connecticut, on the roll of revolutionary pensioners of the United States, and pay him the sum of twenty dollars per annum, from and after the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, during his natural life."