Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18,618, for Ashbel Sykes, Connecticut
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SERVICE   Conn.
Mass. 
Vt.
Sykes, Ashbel
NUMBER  S. 18.618
carded
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No. 18480
Vermont
Ashbel Sykes
of Bennington Co in the State of Vermont who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Herman of the Regt commanded by Col. Mott in the Cont Troops for 19 months & 21 days
Conn. & Mass. & Vt.
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 65 Dollars 64 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 day of Septr. 1833 and sent to Philo Curtis
Arrears to the 4th of Sep 1833   163.10
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 1834  32.82
$195.92
{Revolutionary claim, Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk
Book E Vol 3 Page 91
See let to S. Swift Novr 22 1841
Dead
Pait at the Treasury under the Act of Apl 6th 1838 from 4th Sept 1840 to 12th Decr 1840 Agt Notified May 7th 1842.
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12.126
Ashbel Sykes
Admit.
19 mos 2100
30 May 1833
Obj 5.16
P 410
Philo Curtis
East Rupert Vt.
E
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BRIEF in the case of   Ashbel Sykes
of Rupert in the State of  Vermont
(Act 7th June, 1832.) 
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?   open court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? 
3. How old is he?  76 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
Period.   In 1775  Duration of Service.  ten to fourteen days   Rank. private  Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. –
Period.  May 1775   Duration of Service. 7 Months  Rank. Private  Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Capt Hanchet, Col Willis [Wyllys]
Period.   Winter 1776   Duration of Service.  2 months  Rank.  private  Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Capt Harmon, Col. Wolcot [Wolcott]
Period.  1776   Duration of Service.  6 months   Rank.  Private   Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Capt Harmon, Col. Mott
Period.  Winter 1777  Duration of Service.  21 days   Rank.  teamster  Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   
Period.  August 1777  Duration of Service.  2 Months  Rank.  Private  Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.  Capt Harkel, Col. Woodbridge
Period.  1778   Duration of Service.  20 Days   Rank.    Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   – 
The Claimant states that after he removed to Vermont he was called out at [unreadable] times as near as he can recollect four months
5. In what battles was he engaged?   none 
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Suffield Connecticut
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?    By living witnesses
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
The papers are not attached as required.
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above 
Richard Cutts 
Examining Clerk
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State of Vermont 
Bennington County 
Manchester District } ss  Be it remembered that at a Probate Court held at Manchester in & for the said District on the Sixteenth day of August 1832 Present Hon. Myron Clark Judge 
On this sixteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two personally appeared in open Court before me M. Clark Judge of the Probate Court of the district of Manchester in & for the County of Bennington in the State aforesaid Ashbel Sykes a Resident of the town of Rupert in the said County of Bennington & State aforesaid aged Seventy six years & five months who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress Dated June 7 1832.   I, Ashbel Sykes  was born in the town of Suffield in the County of Hartford & State of Connecticut on the twenty first day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred fifty six at which place I resided until my [unreadable] year when on the call of the Militia in that neighbourhood for the defence of the country on hearing of the (then) threatened attack of the British at Lexington I marched about sixty miles for that place but by hearing of the battle being ended returned home with my company gone from home ten to fourteen days 
2 weeks
that about the first day of May 1775, I enlisted at Suffield in the County of Hartford & State aforesaid into the service of the United States in the war of the Revolution for seven months.   I was mustered in Capt Oliver Hanchets [Hanchett’s] Company Col Willis [Wyllys] Regiment & Genl Spencer Brigade of the Connecticut Line.   I marched from Suffield with my Company & joined my Regiment in Roxbury some time in the month of June & on the 17th day of June was with my Regiment in the detachment in Roxbury & saw the Conflagration of Charles town & the Battle of Bunker hill where I was stationed until my time of seven months enlistment had expired which was some time in the following December when I returned to Suffield & remained a few days.  
7 months
 I again enlisted for two months
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into Capt John Harmon, Company Col. Erastus Wolcots [Wolcott’s] Regiment the Brigade I do not recollect & marched directly for Boston & was stationed at Roxbury, & proceeded on to Dorchester Heights & built two forts in the night which was as near as I can collect in the month of February 1777 & about the first of April then next one. Regiment was dismissed our time for two months service being expired.
2 months
That soon after. I again Enlisted with the said Capt John Harmon into his Company for the term of six months & marched with his company to Whitehall in the State of New York & from thence I march to Mount Independence where I was stationed under & in the Regiment of Col Mott.  That during this service I assisted in building the forts & performing garrison duty & continued at that place until my time of service of six months was expired & was honorable discharged.
6 months
which was in the fall or winter of 1776.  That in the unter of 1777, the Commissary, J. S. Graham employed me to transport provision from Suffield to Tyconderoga to the Army at the latter place in which service I was engaged about three weeks as near as I can recollect.
3 weeks
That in the latter part of August 1777 I again enlisted unto the company of Capt Hacket Col Woodbridge Regiment at Westfield in the State of Massachusetts for two months as substitute for one Dewey & immediately was marched on to Bennington in the State of Vermont & was employed there a short time to guard the British prisoners of Burgoynes Army & soon after was marched on to Stillwater in the State of New York & was stationed on the alarm post on Bemis Heights. near the quarters of Genl Gates & was present at the surrender of Genl Burgoyne.  That after the said surrender we were marched down the Hudson river to White Plains above the City of New York where we were stationed for a short time until we marched down to Kingsbridge in sight of the British fort from which we received several shots & there in return to Volentines hill & shortly after we returned White Plains & shortly after were discharged,  my two months service being there expired.   This was as near as can recollect on the first day of November 1777. 
2 months.  
That after in the year 1778 - I was called out into the Militia of the State of Vermont & served in that capacity twenty days & was marched to Rutland in said State, during that time performed a three  days march to the town of Addison & brought of Genl Strong & his family who were exposed to British shipping cruising on Lake Champlain.  
20 days
This service was performed pursuant to and commandant of the Fort at Rutland aforesaid, his name I do not recollect,  That in the
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year 1779 I moved with my family from the State of Connecticut in to the said town of Rupert that from that time until the close of the Revolutionary war I was called out into the service of the United States in the Militia of the State of Vermont & performed duty at Castleton & Rutland in the said State at different times. I should think as much as four months as near as I can recollect.  That some portion of the time I was under Capt Harmon & other part of the time under Capt. Smith, Genl Ethan Allen had the command during this time.   I further state that I have no documentary evidence or written discharge of my said service, that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his said service except the testimony of John Rigdon who was present at my enlistment with Capt Oliver Hanchett for the time of seven months & Jacob Sykes who was present at my enlistment with Capt John Harmon for two month & with Capt Oliver Hanchett for seven months, whose evidence is annexed hereto, the said Jacob living at too great a distance from me to personally attend.  I hereby relinquish every claim what ever to a pension or annuity except the present & declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.   
Ashbel Sykes
Sworn to & subscribed the 16th day of August 1833 in open Court before me 
Attest Henry Robinson Register 
I John Risdon of the town of Rupert in the County of Bennington & State of Vermont aged eighty two years do depose & say that I am well acquainted with Ashbel Sykes & was so in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy five, that I was present & know that he enlisted into Capt Oliver Hanchetts Company, Willis [Wyllys]  Regiment & Gent Spencers Brigade of the Connecticut Line in which company I was enlisted & that he served as a soldier of the Revolution until some time in the fall of 1775, at what time Capt Hanchett & Myself Marched to Canada & left Ashbel Sykes at Roxbury in the service & further I have often heard him say that he was in the service of the revolution & served there for about two years at different times. I further saith not.  
John Risdon
Sworn to & Subscribed this 16th day of August 1832 
Attest Henry Robinson Register
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Bennington County } ss William Jackson a Clergyman residing in the town of Dorset in the parish of Dorset & Rupert & Stephen Martindale of the same Dorset, County & State aforesaid hereby certify that they are well acquainted with Ashbel Sykes who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy six years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion.   
Wm. Jackson
Stephen Martindale
Sworn to & Subscribed this 16th day of August 1832 in open Court before me 
Henry Robinson Register
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Ashbel Sykes
Pensioner
12.126
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Jacob Sikes of Pawlet in the County of Rutland & State of Vermont of lawful age being duly sworn do depose & say, that I am seventy four years of age; that in the year 1775 I and Ashbel Sykes resided in the town of Suffield in the State of Connecticut, that in the month of May 1775. the said Ashbel enlisted as a soldier in a company of troops commanded by Capt Oliver Hanchett, marched to Roxbury near Boston, where he continued seven months & then returned home.   
And further, that about the first of February 1776, the said Ashbel & myself, enlisted as soldiers, in a company commanded by Capt. John Harmon, & regiment of Col. Erastus Wolcott and marched with said company to Roxbury where we joined the said regiment and continued at that place & at Dorchester Heights for the space of two months, were then dismissed.   
And further that in the year 1777 the said Ashbel enlisted & served a term of two months, & was present as I was at the time informed of the taking of Gen. Burgoyne.   
And also the said Ashbel now resides in the town of Newport in the County of Bennington & State of Vermont.  And further saith not.   
Rupert 14 August 1832 Jacob Sikes 
State of Vermont 
Bennington County } ss  Be it remembered that on this 14th day of August AD. 1832 personally appeared Jacob Sikes the signer of the above within affidavit & made solemn oath to the truth of the matters & things therein contained 
Before me Grove Moore Justice of Peace
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State of Vermont 
To all to whom these presents shall come Greeting 
I hereby certify that Grove Moore Esqr whose signature appears to the foregoing was at the date thereof & still is a Justice of the Peace within & for the County of Bennington, duly empowered qualified as such, to administer oaths & that his signature as such is genuine. 
In testimony whereof, I Henry Robinson Clerk of the County Court in & for the County of Bennington, have hereunto subscribed my name & have affixed the seal of our said Court, at Manchester this 16th day of August AD. 1832 of the Independence of the United States the Fifty Seventh 
Henry Robinson Clerk
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And such proceedings were thereupon had in open Court before me the said Judge of the Probate Court aforesaid in & for the district of Manchester aforesaid which will more fully appear by the annexed declaration of the declarant & the interrogatories propounded to him together with the evidence of the witnesses thereto adduced in pursuance of the instructions of the War Department to be pursued in making application for pensions under the act aforesaid.  Am of opinion that the said applicant was a soldier of the Revolution as in his declaration is set forth as aforesaid & that the same is true & that to the witnesses sworn in this matter full faith & credence is to be given & that William Jackson is a clergyman of the town of Dorset aforesaid which said applicant & the said Witnesses are well known to me to be persons of truth & veracity all which proceedings I have caused to be certified & set forth as aforesaid & heunto have subscribed my hand & name this 16th day of August 1832.   
Myron Clark Judge of Probate Ct. 
In testimony whereof I Henry Robinson Register of the said Probate Court have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court this Sixteenth day of August 1832, & of the Independence of the United States the Fifty Seventh 
Henry Robinson Register
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT. 
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, April 27th 1842 
Sir
Under the date of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States, The administrator of Ashbel Sykes deceased, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Burlington, Vermont Agency, at the rate of Sixty five  Dollars and 66 Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832 has been paid at this Department, from the of Sept. 1840 to the 12th Dec.1840. 
Respectfully, yours, 
Albion K. Parris 
COMPTROLLER. 
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.
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18618
INVALID
File NO. 18,618
Ashbel Sykes
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7” 32
Index:- Vol 1 Page 367
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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19 Nov 1841 
Syl
[stamp] MANCHESTER VT NOV 16 
FREE	
Hon. James L. Edwards, 
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington D.C.
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Manchester Novr 15. 1841. 
Hon. J. L. Edwards 
Hon’d  Sir        Enclosed I forward to you, agreeably to directions, authenticated Certificates, showing the times of the death of Mrs Rhoda Pettibone, & Mrs Deborah Pettibone, & the names of their respective surviving children. As this children live scattered, & some of them very remote, I would respectfully enquire, whether agreeably to the law passed by Congress June 29. 1840, the Certificates in these cases might not be made to Admr [administrator]. In the estate of Deborah Pettibone Admr Levi Pettibone was appointed, but he has lately removed to Michigan & it will therefore become necessary that a new one should be appointed.   
I have not rec’d the Pension Certificate of Lucy Barnard, which you State was enclosed to me on the 7th Augt that was the day if I am not mistaken, on which I left Washington.   It is therefore probable that the letter enclosing it was addressed & directed to me as present & not placed in the mail, but if so, has been by some means miscarried.   
As to the claim of Abigail Lucas, I perceive, & have heretofore been satisfied that your prejudices, rather conceptions against the justice of that claim, were very strong & divided.   Nevertheless, I hope you will pardon a few further suggestions from me in relation thereto as my own convictions an equally strong in favor of the claim -  tho I must acknowledge that I feel very apprehension that it will be of little avail - your allowance of his Saml Lucas’s  act of desertion, as it is called, being so firmly settled - & altho I cannot in any wise plead in justification of the act, yet, if you know the man you would probably feel more inclined to excuse him, & think him less to blame, under the circumstances of the case he was doubtless influenced by the complaints or persuasions of others, many, as I have been told of better talents & information than he, & who afterwards held a respectable standing in society, in like situation & circumstances, were induced to leave the army, considering that they were oppressed & their right of election had been wrongfully taken from them which, from the improper advice given to Saml Lucas  I perceive was the case with him
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as to his having afterwards rejoined the army, & served until he was discharged with the rest, at the close of the war.   I have no doubt as his neighbours all so declare & they must have known it, if it had been otherwise issued in your letter that if that had been the case, he would have been entitled to his Bounty land, & it is further said that he has not then been returned, & that fact is considered as conclusion against the claim - if so, the contrary would be the result, if the record be true.   If I were rightly informed, & rightly understood the information, the warrant or scrip for the Bounty land which was returned as due to this Samuel Lucas, who served in Swifts Regt was issued upon the Deed of assignment of the heir (or the heirs) of this same Saml  Lucas, the former husband of Abigail, & that no claim therefore had been presented in behalf of any other one of that name, or his heirs & I conclude, that if there had been any such he would have appeared, or been found &  his claim [unreadable] which affords me the strongest conviction that this is the same man, & was very much in hopes when I left Washington to have found some one belonging to that Regt who would so have recognized him but hitherto I have not been able to find any one who served therein during the later period of the war and I would beg leave respectfully to enquire, whether such testimony if produced, would tend in any way to remove the objections which now prevail in your mind?   
I have one further enquiry with which I wish to trouble you - Ashbel Sikes a Pensioner of the U.S. who resided in Rupert, died some time the forepart (I believe) of last winter leaving a small arrear of pension due him - his son who was expected to have the rec’d the avails, resided at a considerable distance in the State of New York, & neglected to apply for it, until about the 2d or 3d day of this present month, I was requested to make out the necessary papers & send for it, but it occured to me, that a law was passed some two or three years since, requiring that in all cases application should be made to the Pension Agent within & after the Pension becomes due, & in case of neglect, application after that time to be made at Washington.   I have not the act in my possession, or if so, have mislaid it, & having neve myself occasion to apply and that law I have forgotten the time requisitions of it, the Board to be applied to & the mode of proceedings under it & I would thank you Hon Sir, you have another copy
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of that law to send me one or give me some directions as to the manner of the application, if such be now required, & am Act of the transfer refund to be as informed.
I am Hon’d Sir very respectfully Your most Obed Svt &c
S. Swift
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Hon J L. Edwards Esqr  
Commissioner of Pensions  
Washington
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East Rupert June 29 1833 
Herewith I forward the Original Declarations, with the amended Affidavit of Ashbel Sykes & John Risdon.   The papers taken together remove every doubt to which the attention was directed in your Brief, the grades time of service and unequivocably stated accompanied with Revolutionary facts which render these evidence genuine beyond the most skeptical belief of the truth of their valuable services. I would with peculiar anxiety call your attention to the case of John Risdon whose venerable age & sufferings excite the simpathy of  all his numerous acquaintances having outlived the family & the depopulation of two generations since he bore arms under the Gallant & patriotic Montgomery, his penury & indigence call loudly on the government for assistance, he would therefore take it as a peculiar favor to give it your immediate attention as soon as properly & duty will allow, having full confidence in the present administration he not obtrude my inquirers to your department officiously, believing that all the Petitioners would be heard in due Season.   
With sentiments of much respect your obedient Servt Philo Curtis. 
Hon J.L. Edwards Esq.
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I Daniel Warner of Rupert in the County of Bennington and State of Vermont of lawful age do testify and say that I am well acquainted with Ashbel Sikes of Rupert in the said County of Bennington and that I was acquainted with him in the year 1775. that the said Ashbel Sikes was a soldier in the year 1775 in the Regiment commanded by Col. Willis [Wyllys] he belonged to the Company commanded by Capt Hanchetts, and that the said Ashbel Sikes served in said Compy Seven months as a private, I  was in the Service at the same time in the same Regiment in Capt Abel Pettibone Compy. I further testify and say that the said Ashbel Sikes served as a private soldier three months in the year 1777 in Capt Sackett Company Col. Woodbridges Regt Massachusetts has I served with him in the same Regt & Compy during the same time the said Ashbel was with this deponent at the taking of Burgoyne, and further say not.  
Daniel Warner
State of Vermont 
Bennington County ss Repent June 13th 1833 then personally appeared before me the undersigned one of the Associate Judges of the County Court within and in the County of Bennington, the above Daniel Warner who has subscribed the foregoing officiant and made solemn oath that the said affidavit contains the truth and nothing but the hath.   
Nathan Burton 
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Daniel Warner who has sworn and subscribed the foregoing affidavit, that is a man of truth and out and full faith and credit may be given to his testimony.   
Nathan Burton Assoc. Judge of Bennington County Court 
I Jacob Sykes of Lawless in the County of Rutland & State of Vermont do testify & say that I am well acquainted with Ashbel Sykes of the Kent in the County of Bennington & that I was acquainted with him in the year 1775, that he resided in the town of Suffield in the State of Connecticut at that time & that the said Ashbel Sykes in the month of May 1775 enlisted as a private Soldier in the Regiment command by Col Willis [Wyllys], he belonged to the company commanded by
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Capt Oliver Hanchett in the Connecticut State Troops & that the said Ashbel Sykes served in said Company seven months as a private Soldier. 
7 mos.
And I further testify & say that on the first day of February 1776 If I remember correctly the said Ashbel enlisted in a Company commanded by Capt John Harmon & in the Regiment commanded by Col. Erastus Wolcott – the Connecticut State Troops & marched with said Company to Roxbury where he joined the said Regiment & continued at that place & at Dorchester nights in the said Company for two months.  
2 mos.
I also served therein for the same time at a Soldier.   
I further Certify say that the said Ashbel Sykes in the year 1777 inlisted as a private soldier into Capt Sackets Company, Col Woodbridge Regiment in the Massachusetts State Troops for the term of three months & marched to the State of New York against the forces of  Genl Burgoyne & further saith not.
3 mos
Jacob Sikes
 State of Vermont
Bennington County ss}  Rupert June 15th 1833. 
Then personally appeared before me the undersigned one of the Justices of the peace of the town of Rupert in the County of Bennington & State aforesaid the above named Jacob Sykes who has subscribed the foregoing Affidavit & made solemn oath that the said affidavit contains the truth and nothing but the truth.   
John Moore Justice Peace 
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Jacob Sykes who has sworn to & subscribed the foregoing affidavit that he is a man of truth & veracity & that full faith & credit may be given to his testimony.   
John Moore Justice Peace  
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace of the town of Rupert in the County of Bennington & State of Vermont Ashbel Sykes of the same Rupert County & State aforesaid who being duly sworn deposeth & saith that by reason of old age & the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively  as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below & in the following grades:  that in the year 1775, in the month of April, I served as a private Soldier in the Connecticut State Troops under the authority of the said State for the defence of my country & marched from Suffield in said State on the direct route to Lexington in the State of Massachusetts, a Company of Militia of Suffield [unreadable] orders against the British forces the names of my officers I do not at present recollect, was in this service not less than ten days.
10 days
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I also served as a private Soldier in the Connecticut State Troops in 1775 for the time of seven months commencing the first day of May and ending in December of that year under the officers as is mentioned in declaration of August 16th 
7 months
in the Company of Capt Oliver Hanchett in the manner as is therein stated.   I also served as a private soldier in the Connecticut State Troops in 1776 in the Connecticut State Troops for two months commencing the first day of February & ending in April of that year under Capt John Harmon in Col Wolcotts Regiment as is stated in my said declaration.  
2 mo. 
I also send as a private soldier in the Connecticut State Troops in 1776 for the term of six months commencing in May & ending in November of that year under the said Capt John Harmon 
6 mos. 
& marched from Suffield to [unreadable] in the State of New York & joined Col Motts regiment there & performed garrison duty at that place until my six months expired which was in November of that year, & was honorably discharged but not in writing as he believes as is stated in my said declaration.  I  further depose & say that I and as teamster at least twenty one days in 1777 the winter of that year by the authority & under the command of J. L. Graham Commissary General in the State Troops of Connecticut
21 days
in transporting provisions to the Army from said Conn to Ticonderoga  to record to the State of New York.   I also served three months as a private Soldier in the State Troops of Massachusetts, 
3 mos.
in the year 1777 commencing if I  rightly remember on the 20th of August in that year – my enlistment took place at Westfield in Massachusetts in Capt Sackets Company,  Col. Woodbridges Regiment, as substitute for one Dewey; I was marched to Bennington Vermont & against the forces of General Burgoyne & the service performed as is mentioned in my declaration of the 18th of August last that I was dismissed from the said service  in Abingdon  at the expiration of of three Months from said Enlistment under Capt Sackett- the term of Service of this Campaign is erroneously stated as two months in my former declaration as appears by the declaration of Daniel Warner hereto annexed. 
3 mos.
I further depose & say that in the year 1778 I was at work on my land in the said town of Rupert a call of twenty men was made  on said town to defend the State against the Brittish by the authority of Vermont. I served in the Militia thereof under that Call, Nehemiah Harmon was my Ensign & marched with me pursuant to the order of the Commandant of the fort at Rutland in said State where I served as a private Soldier twenty days in the month of June of that year in the manner as stated in my former declaration 
20 days.
That in all & each of the above services this deponent served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority & for the time during which I was not employed in any civil pursuit & I further state that I served as a private Soldier in the war of the Revolution at least nineteen months  & twenty one days & for which service I claim a pension & further say not.
19 Mos & 20 days  
Ashbel Sykes
State of Vermont
Bennington County } ss Rupert  June 21st 1833.    Then personally appeared before me the  undersigned one of the Justices of the peace of the town of Rupert in the County & State aforesaid the above named Ashbel Sykes who has subscribed the foregoing affidavit & made solemn oath that the said affidavit contains the truth & nothing but the truth.  
John Moore Justice Peace 
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Ashbel Sykes who has sworn to & subscribed the foregoing affidavit that he is a man of truth & veracity & that full faith & credit may be given to his testimony 
John Moore Justice
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State of Vermont
Bennington County Ss- To all to whom these presents shall come Greeting -
I Henry Robinson Clerk of the County Court, within & for the County of Bennington do hereby certify that Hon. Nathan Burton whose signature appearing on the first page, was at the date thereof & Still is an Asst Judge of the County Court for said County of Bennington - duly consigned & qualified by Law to act as Such & that I believe his signature to be genuine -- I also Certify that John Moore Esq whose signature appears to the foregoing was at the date thereof & Still is a Justice of the peace for said County duly qualified by Law to act as such & that his Signature I believe to be genuine--

In testimony whereof I have hereunto Subscribed by name & have affixed the Seal of our Said County Court at Manchester this 21st day of June AD 1833-
Henry Robinson

Ashbel Sykes Con