Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 19759, Reuben Hedges, Mass.
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Service            Number   
Mass
Hedges, Reuben          W19759
Hannah
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9834

New York
Reuben Hedges

Of _____ in the state of _____ was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Patterson of the Mass. line, for the term of 2 years 1775

Inscribed on the roll of New York at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 23rd of May 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 27 of April 181.. and sent to Judge Milton East Hampton NY

Arrears to 4th of Mar  …                 75 35
Semi-anl. all’ce ending 4 Sept ..       48
9   9.                                                  ————
     ——-                                             $123.35
   35. 35
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818

Cont
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3434
New York
Hannah Hedges
widow of Reuben Hedges 
Who served in the Revolutionary M83
War, as a private
Inc from $80
Inscribed on the roll at the rate of 90 Dollars  Cents(crossed thru) per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848 (date crossed thru).  1 July 1848

Certificate of Pension issued the 16 day of Jan’y 1851 and sent to D.D. Addison, Present

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 85 Vol. 4
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Hedges, Reuben
Mass W19759
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Reuben Hedges
Easthampton

9.0 84

6on
Sept 1819

Chas. A. Floyd ...
Clerk of Suffolk Co
N.Y.
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State of New York
Suffolk County fs
On this second day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty one personally appeared in open court before the Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Suffolk … at the Court House in the Town of Riverhead in & for said County being a Court of Record  by the Constitution & Laws of the State of New York with power to hear, try & determine according to Law all actions not personal and mixed arising within said County & also all actions, transiting within the same may not have arisen within said County.  Reuben Hedges aged 71 years resident of the Town of Easthampton in the County aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows viz that I the said Reuben Hedges did enlist in the Town of Richmond State of Massachusetts under Lieutenant Miller in the regiment commanded by Colonel Patterson & was attached as one of General Washington’s Life guards commanded by Caleb Gibbs, that I was proceed on the pension List by virtue of the Act of Congress of March 18th 1818, the certificate whereof is numbered 9834.  And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 - that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of the Act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed the 18th day of March 1818 & that I have not  --- .. ... any person in trust for me any property in securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the following Schedule hereunto annexed & by me subscribed - And I do further swear that I am by occupation a carpenter and that I am lame & other
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Wi.. infirm together with a failure of my eyesight so as to be unable to work at my trade — My family consists of myself & my wife aged 60 years also infirm three Daughters viz Mehetabel aged 23 years, Mary aged 20 Hannah aged 18 years And I do further swear that I am unable to support myself & family without the aid of government except by private or public charity 

Reuben Hedges

Sworn to & declared this 2d day of January 1821 in open court before the Judges Thereof 
Charles A Floyd Clerk

A schedule of the whole estate & income of Reuben Hedges named in the above affidavit viz necessary clothing & bedding excepted - viz Real Estate — none
Personal Estate as follows viz 1 Razer 1 Broad axe 2 … , 3 planes 2 chisels I workbench 1 narrow axe & 1 hoe

I owe to John Miller $50
Do to Daniel Dayton  20
Do to Asa Partridge   6
Do sundry small debts  10
Reuben Hedges

State of New York
Suffolk County fs 
I Charles A Floyd clerk of the County of Common pleas of the County of Suffolk do hereby certify that the foregoing oath & the schedule thereto annexed are truly … from the Record of the Court & I … further Certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is Four Dollars and thirty seven cents -  The Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court on this 2d day of January 2 1821
Charles A Floyd Clerk
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V 4290

2525 

Ibid Hannah Hedges
Pension Papers

NY 
7 July 38



Admitted 
Private 2 years

Tho L B Jackson

H. Halsey Esq
Bridgehampton
NY

Hon L. B. Jackson (Marked thru)
HR (Marked thru)
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1835 entitled “An Act granting half pay & pension to certain widows - 

State of New York
Suffolk County  On this thirtieth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine personally appeared before me Hugh Halsey First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said county being a Court of Record.  Hannah Hedges a resident of the town of Easthampton in said County of Suffolk and state aforesaid aged seventy seven years on the seventh day of November last - who being duly sworn according to law doth and here with makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress so proposed July 7th 1838 - entitled “ An Act granting half pay & pension to certain widows”  That she is the widow of Reuben Hedges late of the town of East Hampton in the County of Suffolk and State of New York who deceased - that the said Reuben Hedges was a Pensioner under the act of Congress or the 18th of March 1818.  And his certificate was dated at the War Department on the 27th day of April 1819 and numbered 9 8 0 4.  And the proofs of this service are on file in the proper department at Washington to which she begs leave to refer.
She further declares that she was married to the said Reuben Hedges on the twenty eighth day of January one thousand seven hundred & eighty eight - Than her husband the aforesaid Reuben Hedges died on the seventh day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty two. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service - but the marriage took place previous to the
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First day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz at the time above stated
Sworn to and subscribed.  
Hannah Hedges
On this 30 day of January 1839.  Before me 
Hugh Halsey First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas - Suffolk County New York

State of New York
Suffolk County. ] I Hugh Halsey, First Judge of the said County of Suffolk  do certify that in my opinion Hannah Hedges who has appeared before me  and signed & sworn to the above declaration is unable by reason of old age and bodily infirmity to appear in a Court of Record to make her declaration and I do further certify that all the courts of Record held in and for said County of Suffolk are held at Riverhead a distance of twenty eight miles from the residence of the said Hannah Hedges.
Dated 30th day of January 1838
Hugh Halsey First Judge Suffolk County
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State of New York
Suffolk County - 
I Jerusha Babcock of the town of East Hampton in said county being first duly sworn deposeth and saith that she is seventy four years of age.  That she is the sister of Hannah Hedges of the town of Easthampton who is the widow of Reuben Hedges late of said town deceased  who was a Revolutionary Pensioner.  - That the said Hannah Hedges was married to the said Reuben Hedges at the home of this deponent on the twenty eighth day of January one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight by the Reverend Samuel Buel then the pastor of the church and congregation in the said town of Easthampton and this deponent further saith that she has lived near neighbors to the said Hannah Hedges since the death of her said husband Reuben Hedges which took place some few years ago the precise time she cannot state. And that the said Hannah Hedges has never been married since the death of the said Reuben Hedges.

Jerusha Babcock
Signed & Subscribed before me this 30th day of January 1839
Hugh L Halsey First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas Suffolk County New York
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Reuben Hedges priv
Patterson’s Mass Regt
1775 to 1777 20 May 1818

No troops raised as early as October ‘75 for 9 months in Massachusetts 
Proof of service in ‘76 is waiting from Maj Gibbs who resides near Boston 
Also this Hedges certificate of incl
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State of New York
Suffolk County

On this twenty third day of May 1818 Before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Suffolk personally appeared Reuben Hedges aged sixty seven years resident in Easthampton in said County who being by me duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Act of Congress entitled : An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United Stated in the Revolutionary War” That the said Reuben Hedges in the month of October 1775 in the town of Richmond in the state of Massachusetts enlisted for nine months in the Army of the United States under Lieut. Jeremiah Miller Junr recruiting officer of Colonel Patterson’s Regiment and from thence marched to headquarters at Cambridge, joined the regiment and was detached as one of the Company of General Washington’s life guard, commanded by Caleb Gibbs, and remained on that station until the evacuation of Boston, when he marched to New York and continued there until the taking of the City by the enemy; from thence marched to Harlem Heights, New Jersey and into Pennsylvania and back from Pennsylvania to Morristown, New Jersey, where he remained until about the first of April 1777 when he was honorably discharged; which discharge is lost, and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.  
Reuben Hedges
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year first above written.
Abraham Miller Judge

State of New York Suffolk County
I, Abraham Miller one of the Judges of the Court of Common  Pleas……………………………………
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And about the first of April 1777 when he was honorably discharged; which discharge is lost, and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support;  and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.  
Reuben Hedges
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year first above. Abraham Miller Judge

State of New York
Suffolk County fs
I, Abraham Miller one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Reuben Hedges did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy: and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the secretary for the department of War pursuant to the aforementioned Act of Congress. 
Abraham Miller Judge

State of New York 
Suffolk County Fs

I Charles H Having clerk of the Court of Common Please of the County of Suffolk do hereby certify that the said Court is a Court 
of record of the state of New York.  That Abraham Miller whose name is subscribed to the preceding certificate is a judge of the same court that full faith and credit are due to his official acts in that capacity & that the signature of the said certificate is in the proper handwriting of the said Judge - In testimony whereof I have subscribed my name to thesepresents and affixed the seal of the said court the 26th day of May 1818
Chas H Having
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State of New York 
Suffolk County 

Personally appeared before me Abraham Miller one of the Judges in the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county Reuben Hedges
the petitioner named within who being duly sworn depose that he did enlist into the Continental Service in October 75 at  Richmond Massachusetts as stated in his declaration but that the term of his enlistment was for twelve months tho inadvertantly stated nine month.

Reuben Hedges

Sworn to and subscribed the 17th day of April 1819 before me 
Abraham Miller Judge

State of New York
Suffolk County
Personally appeared before me Abraham Miller, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in the said county, Thomas Baker a respectable inhabitant of the town of East Hampton and county aforesaid who being duly sworn, deposeth & saith that he was a Lieutenant in a Corps of State Troops in the City of New York in July 1776 and that he thus  ... at ... he saw the within named Reuben Hedges on duty and was personally acquainted with the facts of the said Reuben Hedges being in the Continental service and attached to the Life Guard of the late General Washington.

Thomas Baker
Sworn to and subscribed the 17th day of April 1819 before me Abraham Miller Judge

State of New York
Suffolk County
I, Abraham Miller one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county, hereby certify that Reuben Hedges the petitioner within named has been my neighbor many years and that he is in indigent circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.
Abraham Miller Judge
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DD Addison
Present
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State of New York
County of Suffolk

Personally appeared before me John C Hedges a Justice of the peace for the county and State Robert L Hedges and made oath that he is a son of Mrs Hannah Hedges who was a Pensioner on the New York Role under the Acts of July 7th 1838 & at the rate of Eighty dollars her annum, and died on the 14th day of this month, October 1850. That she left at the time of her death the following named children, viz, Robert L Hedges, Mehetebel Hedges, Mary B Hedges and Hannah C Hedges and that they are now all living and the only children who survived her.
That this declaration is made to obtain for the heirs above named under the resolution of July  1st 1848. The difference between the pension she received, $80 [er annum, and that which her husband received. viz. $96 under the act of the 18th of March 1818. from the 4th of March 1836 to the 14th of October 1850 when she died.
Robert L Hedges
Sworn to and subscribed before me at Easthampton the 24th day of October 1850.
John C Hedges Justice of the Peace for said county
I Benjamin T Hutchinson clerk of the county of Suffolk aforesaid do certify that John C Hedges above named Justice of the Peace is duly qualified according to law to administer oaths and that it is satisfactorily proven to me that the above named Mrs. Hannah Hedges died on the 14th of October 1850 leaving the following children, viz Robert L Hedges, Mehetebal Hedges, Mary B Hedges and Hannah C Hedges only children who survived her and that they are now living.  as witness my hand and seal this twenty fifth day of October 1850
B.T Hutchinson Clerk
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Re.. Widow, &c

file No. 19759
Hannah Hedges
widow of 
Reuben Hedges
Pri Rev War

Act:  Feb 2d  48
Index : - Vol  A , page 326
{Arrangement of 1870.}
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New York 1800
Hannah Hedges
Widow of Reuben Hedges
who was a private
in the Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents (crossed thru) per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 5th day of Set. 1843 and sent to Josiah C Dayton East Hampton, N. York

{Act of March 3, 1843.}
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1 Page 118.
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Let to Hon L.B Jackson July 1, 1839

New York 2525
Hannah Hedges
widow of Reuben Hedges
who was a pensioner under the Act of March 1818 and who died on 7 January 1832 of Suffolk Co in the state of N. York who was a private in the company commanded by Captain ____ of the Regt. commanded by Col. Patterson in the Mass. line for 2 years.
Inscribed on the roll of New York at the rate of 80 Dollars cents (crossed thru) per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of April 1839 and sent to H Halsey Bridgehampton, NY

Arrears to the 4th March '39   240.00
Semi annual allowance ending 4 Sept   40.00
                                                           $280.00
{Act July 7, 1838}
Recorded by D. Brown clerk,
Book A vol 2 page 81
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Report Jan Aug

3434
New York City
Hannah Hedges
widow of Reuben
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 dollars cents (marked thru)  per annual, to commence on the 4th day of March 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of Jany 1819 and sent to Hon. Fredk W. Lord 
HofR

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act 
February 2, 1848, page 84 vol. 4
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New York City

Reuben Hedges act 1818 to what time paid?
CpL

John Harry esq
Died 7 Jan. 1832 pd to that period
  JH
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(envelope)
E Hampton NY
April 18      FREE

The Honble J. C Calhoun   
Secretary for the Dept of War
Washington D.C 
(sideways)
Adm.
old case
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East Hampton L.I April 17th, 1819
The Honble J.C. Calhoun
Sir
The declaration of Reuben Hedges with such further testimony in substantiation of his claim to the Bounty of his country as he has been unable to collect is again presented for consideration to the Secretary of the department for war - Application by letter to Maj Gibbs for the requisite testimony of service in 76 was duly made through the Post master at Boston, who returned the letter unopened with information that Major Gibbs was dead.

That the said R Hedges did so enlist and serve as stated in his declaration are facts not questioned by his contemporary townsmen, and in confirmation of his service in 76 the deposition of Thos Baker is conceived to be in point - and from the dependable character of the deponent his testimony is entitled to full credit - 
From a a reference to dates it will appear that your petitioner was in service'during the most perilous period of the Revolution - that he faithfully clung to the body of the commander in chief till his glory was established and fairer prospects dawned on our country.  
Through a life of Industry and sobriety
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he has been hitherto unable to support himself and a large family but the infirmities consequent, on old age have destroyed the hope of supply from the labor of his  hands and want stares him in the face -  Conscious of the Justice of his claim he relies with hope full of assurance on the bounty of his country whose Independance his efforts contributed to establish -
I am very Respectfully 
your most obt Svt
Abraham Miller
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H of Rep Jany 25 1849
I G. Berret Esq
Sir
Will you have the goodness to attend to the mattered refered to, in the enclosed communication as soon as practicable.   Observe that the name of the husband of the applicant is Reuben and not Christopher.
I am very Respectfully 
your obt svt
Fredk H Lord
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(Envelope)

Bridgehampton NY       F
Apl 22

Hon J. L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
DC - 
(sideways on left of envelope)
Private NY age 75
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Bridgehampton Suffolk Co NY
April 20 1839
Hon J L Edwards
Sir - 
The papers of the widow Hannah Hedges of Easthampton in his county an applicant for a pension under the Act of 1838 have been before you for several months past - you may recollect that the papers were presented to your department by the Hon L B Jackson  M C  from this district.  During the last session of Congress they were returned or rather your letter to him was sent to me in which it was stated that if there was no record  proof of the marriage of said widow, such facts must be shown.   
On the receipt of that letter I procured the affidavit of Mrs. Buel the widow of Samuel Buel the clergyman who married the said widow  -setting forth that she held the Record of Marriages kept by her late husband and that for a long number of years he kept no records and that the marriage of the said widow with her late husband Reuben Hedges was not to be found in said record.  I sent the affidavit to the Department some time in March last.  but have  heard nothing from it -  I am induced to write this as  the widow is anxious to know the fate of her application.  Your attention to this matter will much oblige a poor widow
Respectfully 
your obt svt
H Halsey First Judge
Suff Co NY
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(envelope)
East Hampton
NY June 12th

L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

(written sideways on Left  of envelope)
2012
Nov 15 1843
NY
Han Hedges 
& 
Eliz Bennet`
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East Hampton Suffolk Co
June 11th 1843
J L Edwards Esq

Dear Sir.
I have enclosed the Declarations of Hannah Hedges (underlined) and Elisabeth Bennett (underlined) applicants for a pension under the Act of 3rd March 1843.
They have both been upon the pension roll, under the Act of '38 as stated in their Declarations.  They request that all communications concerning their claims be addressed to me.
Very Respectfully yours,
Josiah C Dayton
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N. York
Hannah Hedges
Let. to Hon T. B. Jackson 16 Feb '39
 to same 19 Feb 1839


Act. July 1838
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Payment to be made at New York City by Benja L. Hartley Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of New York

Payable on the 4th September and 4th March

Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 2d, 1848, Page 84 Vol 4.  Geo J Huling Clerk
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Inc to $9 ...
$80 per annum
Comg 1 July 1848 &
Ending 14 Oct 1850
Payable to 
Robert L Hedges
Mehetebel Hedges
Mary B Hedges
Hannah C Hedges, only
surviving children
NY City Roll
D.D. Addison 
Record

(Upside down on other half of page)
Payment to be ;made New York City by
Benjamin L Hartley
agent for paying Pensioners, in the 
Agency of New York

Payable on the 4th September and 4th March

Recorded in the pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 2nd, 1848 page 84 vol 4
Geo. Jhuling Clerk
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WAR DEPARTMENT
WIDOW'S PENSION

I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2d. 1848 Hannah Hedges widow of Reuben Hedges who was a private in the revolutionary war is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of eighty dollars (and ____ cents) (marked thru) per annum,commencing on the 4th of March 1848 and continuing for life, unless she should again marry: in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage. 

Given at the War Office of the United States this 26th day of January one thousand eight hundred and forty nine.
Wm L Marcy
Secretary of War
Examined and Countersigned
J.G Becret for commissioner of Pensions
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(envelope)
Free
J. L Edwards Esq 
Pension Department
Washington City
D.C.

(sideways on left of envelope)
July 1
Hannah Hedges

(Postmark visible)
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.Newtown June 25th 1839

Sir
Some considerable time since I received a letter from Judge Halsey relative to an appreciation presented by myself on the pension department a short time previous to the adjournment of the last session of Congress praying for a pension to the widow Hannah Hedges under the act of 1838 - You stated in your letter that further evidence was required to entitle the applicant to a pension, which I then communicated to her and which I understand has been furnished and forwarded to the Department by Judge Halsey, with a request that if satisfactory to send the certificate either to him or the widow since which up to the date of his letter to me no information had been received from the department on the subject - Will you do me the favor to inform me what further evidence, if any, is wanting, and what disposition has been made of the application.
Very Respectfully your obedt servt
Thos B Jackson
LLEdwards Esq
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(envelope)
Bridgehampton NY
March 11

Hon J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D

(sideways on Left side of envelope)
March 14, 1839
NY
Addl proof
Hannah Hedges
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Bridgehampton Suff Co NY - 9th March 1839

Hon J L Edwards
Sir
Your notes of 19th Feby last to the Hon J.B. Jackson which he has forwarded to me requires proof that there is no record of the marriage of the widow Hannah Hedges in possession of the Rev Samuel Buell or his successor.
In compliance with the directions I have procured and herewith sent the Deposition of Mary Buell the widow of the said Samuel Buel ... - setting forth that there is no record of such marriage - and that she has had the keeping of his records since his death more than 40 years ago - It would be difficult and in fact impossible to procure deposition from all his successors in the pastoral charges as they are numerous and scattered & dead --
I conclude that her deposition that the record has always remained in her keeping, is sufficient to show that his succession could not have it - I myself examined the record and discovered that previous to its year 1793 he in a memorandum states that he had kept no such record for a long time.
Very Respectfully Your obt Svt  H Halsey
PS  Should a certificate be granted which I trust will be, she requests that it may be forwarded to me - 
H Halsey
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Hon J L Edwards
Sir - 
When a widow applies for a Pension under the act of the 7th July 1838 - and she has in her possession a family record of her marriage kept by and in the handwriting of her deceased husband is it necessary to hand the original record to the Pension Office?  Suppose the record is in the Family Bible on blank leaves left for that purpose in the middle of the Bible - as is often the case in old Bibles.  And the records of birth - deaths & marriages are all kept together.  And such record has always been in the keeping of the decd husband & the widows and still 
remains in her keeping - is it sufficient to set forth that fact in her declaration - 
You will perceive that it would be impracticable to send the Bible and unpleasant to cut out the leaf containing the record -
I ask these questions because in the instructions sent me by Hon J. B. Jackson in the private notes the words "The family record must be sent to the Pension office " (quote underlined) are underscored with a pen - 
Very Respectfully your obt Svt
H Halsey
9 Mar 1839

An application by a widows circumstances as ... has been made to me to prepare her papers.
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State of New York
Suffolk County 
I Mary Buell of the town of Easthampton in this county being duly sworn disposeth and saith that she is the widow of the Reverend Samuel Buel deceased who died in the year seventeen hundred and ninety eight  that he was the Pastor of the Church and congregation in said town of Easthampton uninterruptedly fifty two years previous to his death.  That during a part of the time he kept a record of marriages - which is now and always has been  in the care and keeping of this deponent from the time of his decease -  That she has inspected the said record in order to find the record of the marriage of widow Hannah Hedges late the wife of Reuben Hedges late of said town of Easthampton  deceased - and who she understands is an applicant for  a Pension - and can find no records of such marriage.  That there is in the books containing  the said records for marriages - a memorandum in the  hand writing of the said Samuel Buell stating that he had neglected to keep a record of marriages for a long time - which said memorandum is dated the first day of January 1793 - 
Mary Buell
Sworn and subscribed before me this 8th day of March 1839
Hugh Halsey First Justice
Suffolk County New York
I Hugh Halsey First Judge of the County of Suffolk do certify that the above widow Mary Buel who has subscribed and sworn to the above deposition is a credible person and to be believed
H Halsey First Judge 
Dated 8 March 1839
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J.. L. Edwards ESqr
Commissioner of Pensions
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House of Representatives
February 18TH 1839
Sir
Will you have the goodness to inform me what additional testimony is required in the case of Mrs. Hannah Hedges an applicant for a pension under the at of 7th July 1838
Very Respectfully
Tho B Jackson
J. L. Edward Esqr
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Declaration of 
Hannah Hedges

aa
1800
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State of New York 
County of Suffolk

On this 26th day of September 1848 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the said county.  Hannah Hedges, a resident of the town of Easthampton in the county of Suffolk, aged eighty five years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 2nd February 1848, granting Pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.  That she is the widow of Reuben Hedges who was a private in the War of the Revolution and attached to Gen Washington's Guard; and that she receives eighty dollars per annum under the act of the 7th June 1844.
She further declared that she is still a widow . Sworn to ;;;;  Clerk
Suffolk County state of New York
I, J Wickham Case, Clerk of the County of Suffolk, Do hereby Certify, that Josiah C Dayton whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of the proof or acknowledgement of the annexed instrument and thereon written, was at the time of taking such proof  or acknowledgement, a Justice of the Peace for said County, residing in the said County, commissioned and sworn and duly authorized to take the same. And further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such Justice. and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate of proof or acknowledgement is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County the 3d day of October 1848
J Wickham Case Clerk
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State of New York
County of Suffolk
On this 26th day of September 1848 personally appeared before the subscribed a Justice of the Peace of the said county, Hannah Hedges, a resident of the town of Easthampton in the county of Suffolk, aged eighty five years who  on on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 2nd February 1848, granting Pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.  That she is the widow of Reuben Hedges who was a private in the War of the Revolution and attached to Gen Washington's Guard; and that she receives eighty dollars per annum under the act of 7th June 1844.
She further declares that she is still a widow.  Sword and subscribe d the day and year above written.  
Hannah Hedges
Before me
Josiah C Dayton, Justice of the peace
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2012
Declaration of Hannah Hedges
$80 per annum
Josiah C Dayton
East Hampton
N.Y.
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State of New York
Suffolk County
On this 25th day of May 1843 personally appeared before me, the undersigned Justice of the Peace, of the said county, Hannah Hedges a resident of the town of East Hampton in the said county of Suffolk, aged eighty one years who being first duly sworn, according to law doth on on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed on the 3rd March 1843, granting Pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary 
war.
That she is the widow of Reuben Hedges who was a Private in the War of the Revolution and that she received a pension of Eigty Dollars per annum under the Act of July 7th 1835.  She further declared that  she is still a widow.
Hannah X mark Hedges
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written before me Josiah C Dayton, Justice of the Peace In presence of Charles N Dayton
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State of New York
County of Suffolk
I, Josiah C Dayton of the town of East Hampton, a Justice of the Peace of the county of Suffolk, do hereby certify that I personally know and am well acquainted with Hannah Hedges named in the foregoing Declaration Dated at East Hampton this 26h day of May 1843.
Josiah C Dayton, Justice of the Peace

State of New York
County of Suffolk

I Samuel A Smith clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Suffolk and state aforesaid do hereby certify that Josiah C Dayton is a Justice of the peace in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified and that his commission was dated the 1st day of January 1842 and will expire on the 31st day of December 1843 and that his signature above written is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said county this first day of June 1843
Samuel A Smith Clerk
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State of Ne York
Suffolk County
I George S Phillips Clerk of the County aforesaid and also Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said county, which is a Court of record Do hereby certify that Hugh Halsey whose name is subscribed to the annexed certification and affidavits was at the time of taking such affidavits and at the date of such certificates First Judge of the said County, and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such Judge - and verily believe that the signature of the said Hugh Halsey to the said annexed certificate  and affidavits is genuine - 
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court and County this sixth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine - 
GeoS Phillips Clerk