Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File [ILLEGIBLE], [ILLEGIBLE] Alger, Mass.
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SERVICE: Mass.
Alger, Daniel (Sarah)
NUMBER: W.13326.
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I Daniel Alger of Abington in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts being in my fifty first ^year testify and say, that for forty years I have well known Daniel Alger of West Bridgewater in said County of Plymouth deceased and Sarah Alger his wife. These persons were my parents. My father the said Daniel Alger above named deceased at said West Bridgewater on the ninth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five in the seventy fourth year of his age. And it is within my certain knowledge that my Mother Sarah Alger above named, and the wife of said Daniel Alger deceased, has remained a Widow to the present time and is yet single and unmarried. 
And I further testify and say that ^I believe my father was in the revolutionary service under several inlistments in different places and at different periods of the War, judging from what I have heard him say, he was in the eight months service at Roxbury and Dorchester in the year 1775 and also six months in New York in the year 1782 - and I have heard him say that he never did any service in the revolution excepting in the capacity of a Sergeant and I have heard him speak too of being in Rhode Island 
[Signed] Daniel Alger
Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Plymouth County S.S. April 26 1837 Personally appeared the above named Daniel Alger and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed. And I certify that I am personally acquainted with said Deponent and that he is reputed and considered to be a person of truth and veracity [Signed] Eliab Whitman Justice of the Peace
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State of Massachusetts 
County of Plymouth ss. 	On the ninth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven personally appeared before the Honorable Wilkes Wood Esquire Judge of the Court of Probate for said County of Plymouth Sarah Alger a resident of Abington in said County aged seventy six years who being first duly sworn doth upon her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the Act of Congress of the fourth of July A.D. 1836. 
That she is the widow of Daniel Alger late of West Bridgewater in said County of Plymouth deceased, That her said husband was a soldier or rather a Sergeant in the Revolutionary War and did duty as a Sergeant according to the best of her knowledge at different places and in different periods of the War two full years. That she and the said Daniel Alger always resided in said West Bridgewater until the decease of the said Daniel. That in early life she resided about two miles from the said Daniel and was not particularly acquainted with him till the year 1781. That she occasionally saw him and was led to understand and believe that the said Daniel was a soldier and Sergeant and that he was considered to be such by the people with whom at that time she was acquainted. That during the year 1781 she became particularly acquainted with said Daniel, received his attentions and expected to become his wife. It was at this time that she learned more satisfactorily by the declarations of said Daniel that he had been in the service as a Soldier and Sergeant in part as she has above stated;
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That in the year 1775 he served eight months as a Sergeant with the Massachusetts troops near Boston, and that he afterward she is not able to say what year served as a Sergeant at Ticonderoga four months and that he also did duty as a Sergeant three months at Bristol in Rhode Island in the year 1776 according to the best of her recollection in a Company Commanded by Capt. Nathan Alden And that afterwards the year she cannot tell he did duty as a Sergeant three months a second time in Rhode Island all of which will appear by the testimony hereto annexed. The said Daniel gave her to understand both before and after their marriage that he never did any service in the Revolutionary War but in the Capacity of a Sergeant. That on the first day of January in the year 1782 she was married to the said Daniel Alger at Easton in the County of Bristol by Archibald Campbell a Clergyman. That during this year the said Daniel was in the Revolutionary Service as she believes more than six months. That he was absent as near as she can recollect seven months and returned home not long before the war closed. That he was doing duty at the South but she cannot say where he was stationed. It now seems to her that he was in the State of New York. The places of White Plains, Schoharie, Claverack and Cherry Valley all seem familiar but she is not certain that the said Daniel was stationed at either of these places, but that she is well satisfied that in the year 1782 the said Daniel was in the service as a Sergeant full six months as will appear by the Affidavit of Shepard Pachard. That the said Daniel resided in said West Bridgewater at the several times he Enlisted into the aforesaid campaigns and that he died at said West
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Bridgewater on the ninth day of January in the year 1825 in the seventy fourth year of his age and that she has remained a widow ever since as will appear by the annexed testimony.
[Signed]  Sarah  Alger

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above written And I certify that the said Sarah Alger is a credible person but by reason of lameness and infirmity of body is unable to travel to a court to make her declaration or to leave her House 
[Signed] Wilkes Wood Judge of the Court of Probate 
for the County of Plymouth - -Masstts

Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Plymouth ss. I Jacob H. Loud Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Hon. Wilkes Wood is Judge of Probate for said County & that the above is his true & genuine signature. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the Probate Court for said County this sixteenth day of May 1837.
[SEAL]
[Signed] Jacob H. Loud
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I Mark Howard of Easton in the County of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, being in the seventy fourth year of my age do testify and say that I was born in West Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth and State aforesaid and resided there till I was thirty three years of age. In early life, I was well acquainted with Daniel Alger late of said West Bridgewater deceased and the family also to which said Daniel Alger belonged. And I well remember, that Israel Alger of said West Bridgewater and a brother of said Daniel Alger was in the Revolutionary army of the United States, and that said Israel enlisted into the eight Months service at Roxbury in the year 1775 into a Company commanded by Daniel Lathrop of said West Bridgewater at that time known as Bridgewater of which company Ephraim Jackson was Lieutenant. Said Israel Alger as I suppose and believe served in this company about four months. And I recollect that he returned home some time in the month of August 1775 sick with the Camp distemper - And that said

Left margin:
Vol 15 p 53 x Sub x
Vol 1 p 6
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Daniel Alger took his place as a Substitute in the Company aforesaid, commanded by Daniel Lathrop and as I suppose and believe served the remainder of the eight months - namely four months 
[Signed] Mark Howard

Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Plymouth County ss. August 22d 1838
Personally the above named Mark Howard and made oath to the truth of the declarations by him subscribed. And I certify that I am acquainted with the Deponent aforesaid, and that he is considered and reputed to be a man of truth and veracity Before me 
[Signed] Eliab Whitman  Justice of the peace
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Crosswise, left:
Nathan Packard
vol 3.40 on [?] 3 mo 9 ds Sergt Jully 80

I Leavitt Thayer of West Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts being in the seventy eighth year of my age, do testify and say, that I was in the Service of the United States during the Revolutionary War and did Service in various places, and am now a Pensioner. In the year 1779 or 1780 I do not now recollect which year it was, I did duty as a private in Newport Rhode Island three months in a Company Commanded by Nathan Packard, in the latter part of one of the years above named. And during this term of service, Daniel Alger of West Bridgewater aforesaid whom I had known for years, was with me and did duty as a Sergeant in the Company commanded as I have stated full three months. We returned home together- 
[Signed] Leavitt Thayer

Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Plymouth County SS. August 23d 1838- 
Personally appeared the above named Leavitt Thayer, and made oath to the truth of the declaration aforesaid by him subscribed. And I certify, that I am personally acquainted with said Deponent and that he is considered and reputed a man of truth and veracity before me, [Signed] Eliab Whitman Justice Peace
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Left side:
Reported by letter July 19. 1839 

Right side:
3335
Massachusetts
Sarah Alger 
widow of Daniel Alger, Deceased
who was a pensioner under the Act of [blank]
and who died on the 9th: January, 1825
of Plymouth Co. in the State of Mass:
who was a priv: & Sergt in the comps: commanded
by Captains Alden &c in the ______ commanded
by ______ in the Mass: mil'a line
for 3 months private}
3 " & 9 days Sergt}

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
at the rate of 26 Dollars 50 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 28th: day of June 1839 
and sent to J.H. Loud, Plymouth, Mass: -

Arrears to the 4th of Mar: 1839 $79.50
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Sept 13.25 
[=] $92.75 

{Act July 7, 1838.}
Recorded by Wm Stuart Clerk,
Book A Vol. 1 Page 68
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4790 
Sarah Alger 
of Daniel 
Mass. 

admitted 
Pri 3 m $10.--
Sergt 3 m 9 ds 18.50
[=] $28.50
vol 3 page 40
on roll Sept 3-9 
fr 23 Jul 1780

Capts Alden & Packard
Mass troops 

died 9 Jany 1825

J.H. Loud
Plymouth, Mass.
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State of Massachusetts. 
County of Plymouth ss.  on the eleventh day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine personally appeared before the Hon. Wilkes Wood Esquire, Judge of the Court of Probate for said County of Plymouth Sarah Alger a resident of Abington in Said County aged seventy seven years who being first duly sworn doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the act of Congress of the seventh day of July one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight entitled An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows. 
That she is the widow of Daniel Alger late of West Bridgewater in said County of Plymouth deceased. That her said husband was a private soldier and Serjeant in the Revolutionary War and did duty as a private and Sergeant according to the best of her knowledge and belief as follows. That the said Daniel Alger in the year 1780 enlisted as a Serjeant into a Company Commanded by Captain Packard in Rhode Island and did service there as a serjeant three months and twenty nine days and also that the said Daniel Alger in the year 1776 enlisted as a private in a Company Commanded by Captain Nathan Alden and did service as such in said Company at Bristol in
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Rhode Island for three months. That the said Daniel Alger resided in said West Bridgewater at the several times he enlisted into the aforesaid campaigns - that she was married to the said Daniel Alger on the first day of January in the year seventeen hundred eighty two at Easton in the County of Bristol by the Rev. Archibald Campbell. That she was not married to the said Daniel Alger previous to his leaving the service aforesaid, but prior to the first day of January one thousand seven hundred and ninety four, to wit, at the time above stated. That the said Daniel Alger died at said West Bridgewater on the ninth day of January in the year eighteen hundred twenty five in the Seventy fourth year of his age and that she has remained a widow ever since that period to the present time, as will appear by the annexed testimony. 
[Signed] Sarah Alger
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year first above named before me and I certify that the Declarant is too infirm by reason of age & sickness to travel and and a Court to make her declaration 
[Signed] Wilkes Wood J. Probate
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Plymouth ss. I Jacob H. Loud Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Hon. Wilkes Wood is Judge of Probate for said County & that the signature in the preceeding page purporting to be his is genuine 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the Seal of the Court of Probate for said County this eighteenth day of February 1839. 
[SEAL]
[Signed] Jacob H. Loud
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
County of Bristol and town of Easton ss.  I hereby certify that the following is a true copy of the record of a Marriage with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows "January 1st 1782." 
"January first, one thousand seven hundred and eighty two Mr. Daniel Alger of Easton and Miss Sarah Howard of Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth were married by me." Archibald Campbell, Pastor. 
Recorded by Matthew Hayward Town Clerk
January 15, 1839. [Signed] Tisdale Harlow Clerk of the town of Easton 

I Tisdale Harlow above named depose and say that I hold the office of Clerk in the town of Easton in the County and State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town with the exception above named as certified by me. Tisdale Harlow Clerk of the town of Easton 
Sworn before me the year and day above written 
[Signed] Joshua Britton Justice of the Peace
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[reverse of certification of marriage]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secy Office Jan. 16,1839
I hereby certify that the within Joshua Britton was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Bristol on the date of his written declaration.
Evidence the Seal of the State [?]
[Embossed Seal]
[Signed] John P. Bigelow
Secy of the Com'th
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Mass
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 15526
Sarah Alger
Widow of
Daniel Alger
Sergt Rev War
Act: July 7th 1838
Index:-Vol. A, Page 9
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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INVALID.
No. 95
Acts of July 14, 862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
Sarah Alger
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V 
95
Sarah Alger
wid of Daniel
Mass.
See let J.H. Loud  July 6 1837
Eliab Whitman, Nov. 8 '38

Act 4 July 1836
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Dan'l Alger
75 - 8 mo Sergt Capt. Lathrop (witness says 4 mo as Substitute for Israel Alger - Vol 15 p.53 - Israel credited with
76- 3 mo - Capt Nathan Alden R.I. - no roll - 1 witness
80 3 mo 9 ds Sergt Capt. Packard - vol 3:40 on Sergt 3 mo 9 ds
82 - 6 mo - no officers - no witness but Packard who is Invalid - names no officer & in his own papers does not allude to such a term
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Mass July 18
Sarah Alger
not rept'd
Reported July 14th, July ^7[?] 39--

Mr. Steuart will please file the enclosed letter with Mrs. Alger's papers. 

Crosswise:
postmark illegible
J.L. Edwards Esqr.
Commr of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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No. Bridgewater Sept 25}
free [postage]
J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

Crosswise:
Mass: Sept 29
add:l aff 
V Sarah Alger
Act 1836.
1977 [?]
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No. Bridgewater
Plymouth County Ma Sept. 24 - 1838.

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Sir,
I would respectfully ask your attention to the claim o Mrs. Sarah Alger which was placed upon the files of the Pension Office more than a year since, and about which you wrote me under date of July 6 1837 - You mention that the Affidavits in her case do not give the names of the commanding Officers under whom the ^husband of the Applicant served &c. I think Mrs. Ager is very unfortunate in her application, for I have no doubt, that her husband Daniel Alger did considerable service in the revolutionary war both before and after his marriage. But she will probably be unable to show this. Two of the principle Deponents in her case, deceased about the time I received the above letter, so that their Depositions could not be retaken - namely, Adin Packard and Shepard Packard. And the only reason why your letter has been unreplied to, is the want of light [?] and evidence in the Case. In the meantime I have taken the Deposition of Leavitt Thayer, which I send herewith, and also the Deposition of Mark Howard thinking that this supplement to the case on file
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will enable the applicant to receive a small pension. You will perceive from the Affidavitt [sic] of Mark Howard, that Daniel Alger was in ^the eight months service at Roxbury ^1775 four months as a Substitute for his Brother Israel Alger. The affidavitt of Oliver Howard on file, shows that Daniel Alger did three months service at Bristol Rhode Island in 1776, in a Company commanded by Nathan Alden and the affidavitt of Leavitt Thayer, shews that Daniel Alger did three months service at Newport in Rhode Island in the year 1779 or 80 - in a Company commanded by Nathan Packard. So that it would seem, that the applicant shews, that her husband Daniel Alger has done ten months service in the whole. Mrs. Alger is unable to shew any service of her husband after her marriage or in the year 1782.
Will not the War Department grant her a pension on the above facts for 10 months or 6 months as the case shall appear on investigation, under the Law of 4-July 1836? If not, I am authorised to say as her Attorney, that this application if practicable may be brought in under the Law of 1838 granting to certain Widows a Pension for five years.
She is a poor woman, in part maintained by the Town, and I wish to avoid if possible the trouble and expense of another application.
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Will you have the goodness, Sir, to look over this imperfect scrall [scrawl?], and write me if it should be necessary, especially if it should be necessary to make out a new case, your early attention is respectfully solicited.  
I am Sir,
your obedient Servant,
[Signed] Eliab Whitman Atty
for Sarah Alger
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I Sally Dunbar of North Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts of lawful age do testify and say that for more than twenty years past, I have been personally acquainted with Daniel Alger late of West Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth deceased and Sarah Alger his wife, now a resident of Abington in said County. The said Daniel Alger deceased at said West Bridgewater on the ninth day of January in the year one thousand eigh- hundred and twenty five in the seventy- fourth year of his age and the said Sarah Alger has remained a widow from that period, to the present time.
[Signed] Sally Dunbar 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Plymouth County ss. February 15,1839 Personally appeared the above named Sally Dunbar and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by her subscribed. And I certify that the Deponent aforesaid is reputed and considered to be a person of truth and veracity. 
Before me,
[Signed] Eliab Whitman Justice of peace
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I Martin Dunbar of North Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts of lawful age do testify and say, that for more than twenty years past, I have been personally acquainted with Daniel Alger late of West-Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth deceased, and Sarah Alger his wife now a resident of Abington in said County. The said Daniel Alger deceased at said West Bridgewater, on the ninth day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty five, in the seventy fourth year of his age, and the said Sarah Alger has remained a widow from that period, to the present time
[Signed] Martin Dunbar 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Plymouth County SS. February 15, 1839 Personally appeared the above named Martin Dunbar and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed. And I certify that the Deponent aforesaid is reputed and considered to be a person of truth and veracity. Before me,
[Signed] Eliab Whitman Justice of peace
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4790
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I Oliver Howard of North Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts being in my eightieth year, do testify and say, that I have been acquainted with Daniel Alger of West Bridgewater in said County of Plymouth deceased from early life. That I was a private soldier in the War of the Revolution and did duty as such full three months at Bristol in Rhode Island in the year 1776. I think it was, in a Company commanded by Nathan Alden. Daniel Alger above named was with me and did duty as a soldier in the same Company for three months. We marched to Bristol at the same time, did service in the same Company, were in the same mess and returned home together 
[Signed] Oliver Howard 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Plymouth County SS. Jany 15, 1839 Personally appeared, the aforesaid Deponent and made oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true. And I certify that the said Deponent is a man of truth and veracity 
Before me, 
[Signed] Eliab Whitman Justice of Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secys Office, Feb. 16, 1839 
I hereby certify that the within Eliab Whitman is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth & was such at the date of his attestation
Witness the Seal of the State [?]
[Embossed SEAL]
[Signed] John P. Bigelow
Secy of the Com'th
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Merchants Bank 
Boston, 13th July 1839 

Sir,
A certificate has been presented at this office for payment in favor of Mrs. Sarah Alger at 26.50 per ann under the Act of 7th July 1838. As this name does not appear on the Roll be pleased to inform of me if such a pension has been granted. 
I am very respy 
yr obt servant 
[Signed] Franklin Haven 
Pension Agent


J. L. Edwards Esqr. }
Comr of Pensions }
Washington D. C. }
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Plymouth Mass. 
Probate Office 
Feb 18. 1839 

Sir
I send herewith the Applications of Relief Packard & Sarah Alger for Pensions. Communications may be addressed to
Your obt. st. 
[Signed] J.H. Loud

J. L. Edward Esq 
Com of Pensions 
Washington D.C.
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V 1977
Sarah Alger
wid of Daniel
Mass.

E. Whitman Esq
North Bridgewater
Mass.
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1977
Sarah Alger's
Declaration & Papers

J.H. Loud
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
By His Excellency EDWARD EVERETT, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over said Commonwealth. 
[SEAL]
To all whom it may concern: 
Know Ye, That Cyrus Lothrop Esqr is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Bristol; and that Eliab Whitman Esqr is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth; (and they both have been so during the whole of the present month), 
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned, and that to their Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court; that the within Attestations ^are in due form and by the proper Officer. 
In Testimony Whereof, I have caused the Public Seal of the Commonwealth to be hereunto affixed, this twenty ninth day of April, A.D. 1837, and in the sixty first year of the Independence of the United States of America. 
By His Excellency the Governor. 
[Signed] John P. Bigelow 
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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I Lydia Alger of Abington in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts being in my fiftieth year do testify and say, that for thirty years, I have known Daniel Alger of West Bridgewater in said County of Plymouth deceased, and Sarah Alger his wife. Said Daniel Alger deceased at said West Bridgewater on the ninth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five, in the seventy fourth year of his age. And I know very well, that Sarah Alger his wife has remained his widow to the presents time, and is yet single and unmarried.
[Signed] Lydia Alger 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Plymouth County S.S. April 26 1837 Personally appeared the above named Lydia Alger and made oath to the truth the foregoing declaration by her subscribed. And I certify, that the said Deponent is reputed and considered a person of truth and veracity, before me 
[Signed] Eliab Whitman Justice of Peace
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I Adin Packard of North Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts being eighty three years old do testify and say, that I have been personally acquainted from my youth with Daniel Alger late of West Bridgewater in said County of Plymouth deceased. That I was a soldier in the revolutionary War, and did duty as such in the year 1775 with the Massachusetts Troops in Roxbury and Dorchester eight Months, and also that I was a soldier at Ticonderoga four Months in the ^year 1776, and I am now a Pensioner. In the eight Months service near Boston, Daniel Alger was according to the best of my recollection a Sergeant doing duty as I suppose for the period of ^eight months. And the said Daniel was also at Ticonderoga, doing duty as I suppose four Months at least, but I cannot say absolutely how long a time he was there. He did not return at the time I did according to my present recollections. I do not recollect the year I was at Ticonderoga. 
Adin (X his mark) Packard 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Plymouth County S.S. April 21, 1837 Personally appeared the above named Adin Packard and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed. And I certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Deponent, and that he is reputed and considered to be a man of truth and veracity 
before me [Signed] Eliab Whitman 
Justice of the peace
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I Shepard Packard of North Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth & State of Massachusetts being in my seventy sixth year do testify and say, that I have been acquainted from my youth with Daniel Alger of West Bridgewater in said County of Plymouth deceased. I was a soldier in the revolutionary war under different inlistments eighteen months, and I am and have been for ^thirty years an Invalid Pensioner. I am now an infirm old man and my mind is embarrassed and confused, when revolutionary details and associations are spread before me. I enlisted first ^for eight, then for four, and lastly for six Months. My impression now is that my last term of service namely for six months was in the year 1782 for I recollect very well of returning home just before the War closed, or the cessation of hostilities with Great Britian. This term of service was at the South, I cannot say where precisely, neither can I name the officers I was under. During this term of service, Daniel Alger above named according to the best of my recollection was a soldier doing duty for I occasionally saw him and I have no doubt he did service for six Months at least but I do not absolutely know that he did 
Shepard (X his mark) Packard
Attest, Eliab Whitman

Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Plymouth County Ss. April 23d 1837 Personally appeared the above named Shepard Packard and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed. And I certify, that I am personally acquainted with said deponent, and that he is reputed and considered to be a man of truth and veracity [Signed] Eliab Whitman
Justice of the Peace
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Certificate of Marriage 
January 1st 1782 Mr. Daniel Alger of Easton and Miss. Sarah Howard of Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth were married by me. 
Archibald Campbell Pastor 
Recorded by Matthew Hayward Town Clerk 

Easton April 20th 1837} 
True Copy of Record}  [Signed] Tisdale Harlow Town Clerk 

Bristol ss. April 20th 1837 Then the above named Tisdale Harlow personlly [sic] appeared before me and made oath that the above certificate by him subscribed, was a true copy from the town records, and I further certify that the said Harlow is to my knowledge, the town Clerk within & for the town of Easton 
[Signed] Cyrus Lathrop Justice of the peace
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I Leavitt Thayer of West Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts being in my seventy sixth year do testify and say, that I was in the service of the United States during the revolutionary war, and am now a pensioner, that I have known Daniel Alger of said West Bridgewater deceased from my youth, and I know very well that he the said Daniel Alger was a soldier or rather a Sergeant in the Revolutionary War for the term of three months at least and did service as such in Rhode Island in the year 1779 or 1780 I do not now recollect which. I was with him during this term of service  I am induced to believe that said Daniel was in the service as a soldier for a longer term than I have named, but I do not absolutely know that he was. We returned home in company. 
[Signed] Leavitt Thayers

Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Plymouth County SS. April 20 1837 Personally appeared the above named Leavitt Thayer and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed. And I certify, that I am personally acquainted with the aforesaid Deponent, and that he is reputed and considered to be a man of truth and veracity before me 
[Signed] Eliab Whitman Justice of the peace
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I Oliver Howard of North Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts being in my seventy eighth year do testify and say, that I have been acquainted from early life with Daniel Alger late of West Bridgewater in said County of Plymouth deceased, that I was a soldier in the War of the revolution and did service as such more than six months. In the year 1776 I think it was, I did duty full three months at Bristol in Rhode Island in a Company commanded by Nathan Alden. During this period Daniel Alger above named was with me and did duty as a soldier in the same Company, for three months. We marched to Bristol at the same time, did service in the same company, were in the same mess, and returned together. 
[Signed] Oliver Howard

Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Plymouth County SS. April 21, 1837 Personally appeared the above named Oliver Howard and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed. And I certify that I am personally acquainted with the Deponent aforesaid and that he is reputed and considered to be a man of truth and veracity 
before me 
[Signed] Eliab Whitman Justice Peace