23, 1787 an abstract of claims was directed to be lodged with the Treasury within a year or being barred forever ; Colburn called upon Imlay some months after lodging his papers and was told that the papers had been sent to New York with either the War or the State Department[s] In 1792, an act of limitation passed in the Continental Congress banning all Revolutionary claims as questionable due to the length of time passed, but this was challenged as unjust. January 1795 the papers are found with Royal Flints hands in New York after many fruitless searches for them; His Claim presented February 2, 1795 January 15, 1796 Before the Committee of Claims Cloburn applied for settlement for making 200 batteaux [For which he had Benedict Arnold receipt]; for twenty More batteaux and some other services; as note before his papers and vouchers had been in the hands of Royal Flint until after his claim was barred by the statute of limitation act. Colburn suffered great economic hardship for this great expense; he was financially ruined by the Embargo Act of 1807 and the War of 1812 and died in 1818,. In 1819 the Congressional Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary claims reported that Colburn had pressed a claim on the United States for the sum of £523 15s 10d with a credit to the United States of £159 10s 6d leaving a Balance of £364 5s 4d; along with the account was a certificate of Henry Dearborn of December 9, 1818 testing that in 1775 that the expedition was furnished with 200 bateaux with oars, paddles and setting poles; that the prices charged were reasonable; that Colburn proceeded in the expedition to the head of the Kennebeck river with a party of men under his direction; that he had several white men and Indians as guides and spies; and to furnish them with provisions. The Committee ruled that there was sufficient time until 1794 for the claim to have been settled until barred by the statute of limitations; and that to admit a claim after 40 years after being barred was inexpedient and that claim should not be granted. Kenneth Roberts' 1929 novel Arundel mentions Reuben Colburn on several pages. The journals of the members of the original expedition compiled by Roberts in March to Quebec are a critical primary source for the ill-fated Arnold Expedition. A new