Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 15444, Benjamin Tucker, R.I.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
RI

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Tucker, Benjamin
Lydia

NUMBER
W.15444

CONTENTS
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6418
Massachusetts
Lydia Tucker dec'd
widow of Benjamin Tucker
who served in the Revolutionary 
war, as a private 
R.I.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
80 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848 and
end 17th March 1853

Certificate of Pension issued the 
7th day of March 1857
and sent to C. C. Tucker
Present

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 281, Vol. H
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10208
Massachusetts
Benj Tucker of Uxbridge in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Whipple of the Regt commanded by Col. Toppin in the RI line for 2 years.
State Troops

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 80 Dollars o Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 23d day of March 1833 and sent Thayer & Deane Uxbridge Mass

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $160.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 1822 40.00
[total] $200.00

Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by D D Addison Clerk,
Book E Vol. 2d Page 82

let to Hon C Hudson June 9 1846
20 July 1845 3 and 11

73
March
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Benjamin Tucker
4 Papers for a Pention [sic]

8489
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I William Arnold of Providence in the state of Rhode Island certify & say that I well remember Benjamin Tucker of Uxbridge, and well remember during the year 1777 said Benjamin enlisted in the army his father & my father lived near together in the town of Smithfield in Rhode Island and I well remember when he left home to join the army as I understood. I also remember that he left home three times that year to go into the service but do not know how long he served at either time.

William
Arnold

Providence sc State of Rhode Island Providence City August 24th A.D. 1832. This day came the above named William Arnold and made solemn affirmation to the truth of the above certificate by him subscribed, before me, Stephen Martin
Justice of the Peace
3 See discharge on other side
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I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with William Arnold who signed the aforegoing affidavit for Twenty years last past, and I should consider him to be a credible witness; he having testified before different Courts in this State as a witness and his evidence has ever been received as the truth by said Courts, as no person ever objected to him, on account of his character for truth and veracity; and I should consider any statement made by him under Oath or affirmation to be the truth. State of Rhode Island Providence SC
Providence City August 29th AD 1832
Stephen Martin, Justice of the Peace
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Discharge from the Army
Ben Tucker
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Providence July 3 1810
This certifies that Benjamin Tucker of Smithfield in the State of Rhode Island belonged to my Company in the year 1777 and served in Company fifteen months and was honorably discharged the sixteenth day of March 1778
Capt Wm Whipple
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State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Secretary's office August 29th 1832
I certify that at the session of the general assembly of said State holden on the first Monday of August instant, Stephen Martin was elected one of the Justices of the Peace for the City of Providence in the County of Providence, until the first Wednesday of May next, and that he has been Commissioned accordingly as appears of Record in this office.

Witness Henry Bowen Secry
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By his Excellency,
Lemuel H Arnold
Governor, Captain-General and Commander in Chief of the State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations.
Be it known that the name "Henry Bowen," to the aforewritten attestation subscribed, is the proper hand writing of Henry Bowen, Esquire, who, at the time of subscribing the same, was Secretary of the State aforesaid, duly elected and qualified according to law: Wherefore unto his said attestation full faith and credit are to be rendered

[In] testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of said State to be affixed, at Providence, this twenty ninth day of August inn the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two and of Independence the fifty-seventh.

Lemuel H Arnold

By His Excellency's Command
Henry Bowen Secry
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Declaration, in order to secure the benefit of the Act of Congress, Passed June 7, 1832.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
County of Worcester, ss.
On this twenty eighth day of August in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Probate of said County of Worcester now sitting Benjamin Tucker a resident of Uxbridge in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy one years, 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, passed June 7th 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
That in the year 1776 he was drafted three times in the Militia of Rhode Island and served on three tours of duty at Providence, Sawtucket, Warwick and on Rhode Island. He believed he served under Capt. Joseph Jenks and Lieut John Whipple of Providence a part of the time; the other officers he does not recollect. He was employed in guarding the shore and in building forts. He was on Rhode Island as he thinks three months and served in the whole three tours at least none months. He does not remember the other particulars of his service in 1776.

That he enlisted into the United States service and served therein fifteen months; that he entered the service on the sixteenth day of December A.D. 1776, and was discharged on the sixteenth day of March A.D. 1778. That he served in the company of Capt William Whipple of Providence in the State of Rhode Island. Lieut. Springer and Ensign Helmes were the subaltern officers. The staff officers were Col. Toppin, Brig Gen. Cornwell and Gabriel Allen was Paymaster. He was stationed at first with the company at Providence. Then he with a part of the company went down to a place called Obdykes Newtown on the west side of the River near his Island of Rhode Island. That he remained there about three months. Then he crossed over the River near to a place called Howland's Ferry (near Fall River) where he joined his company at Regiment. There was a number of Regiments and Brigades there at that time. One Brigade was commanded by Gen. Glover. They build several forts. He passed over with the army to BUtts Hill on the Island of Rhode Island and was there during the skirmish with the enemy.

He lived at Smithfield in the state of Rhode Island at both of the periods of his service, where he was born.

About forty year ago he removed to Uxbridge in this state where he has lived ever since.

He has no documentary evidence of his services, within his knowledge except his deposition and the discharge (for the fifteen months) of Capt. Whipple, herewithin transmitted.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Benjamin Tucker
Before Nathl Paine Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester
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We Frederick Taft residing in the Town of Uxbridge and Benjamin Adams residing in said Uxbridge hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Benjamin Tucker who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy one years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion.
Frederick Taft
Benjamin Adams
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Before Nathl Paine Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Frederick Taft & Benja Adams Esq who signed the preceding certificate, are residents in the town of Uxbridge and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Nathl Paine Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester

Theophilus Wheeler Register, of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Benjamin Tucker for a pension.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto sent my and and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court this 28th day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two.
Theophs Wheeler Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester in Massachusetts
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I hereby certify that Benjamin Tucker son of Samuel Tucker of Smithfield and Lydia Farnum daughter of Jonathan Farnum late of Uxbridge in the State of Massachusetts, Deceased, were lawfully joined together in marriage on the twenty third day of March A.D. one thousand seven hundred and eighty six by me, Stephen Brayton, Justice of the Peace.
Recorded by Danl Mowry Town Clerk

I certify that the above is a true copy of a record on file in my office with the exception of the date and figures which are expressed in the record in fair legible date and figures as follows:
23d day of March A.D. 1786

State of Rhode Island
County of Providence
Town of Smithfield
I Samuel Clark Jr above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the Town County and State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of marriages of said Town with the exception above named as certified by me.
Samuel Clark Jr
Town Clerk
Providence sc
Smithfield
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 17th day of March 1856
Alfred Allen Justice of the Peace
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The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Providence, SC.
Clerk's Office, Court of Common Pleas,
Providence, March 18th A.D. 1856

I, Anson I. Westcott
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said State, within
and for the County of Providence:
Do Hereby Certify, That Siford Allen is & was on the 17th 
day of March A.D. 1856 a Justice of the Peace for said 
County of Providence
duly appointed and qualified, and authorized to administer oaths and take depositions and the acknowledgement of deeds and other instruments, and that the signature to the annexed Certificate,  purporting to be his, 
is genuine.
In attestation whereof, I hererto subscribe my name, and affix the Seal 
of said Court, the day and year above written.
Anson I. Westcott      Clerk.
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8489
Benjamin Tucker
Private
2 Years
[Illegible]


Thayer & Deane
Uxbridge
Mass
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I Lydia Tucker of Uxbridge in the
County of Worcester and Commonwealth
of Massachusetts aged eighty-six years, and
Widow of Benjamin Tucker late of said
Uxbridge, deceased, a Revolutionary Pensioner
of the United States of America, being first
duly cautioned, examined and sworn, do certify
and say that I was married to my late
husband Benjamin Tucker now deceased, on the
twenty-third day of March in the year seventeen
hundred and eighty-six (1786), And that I 
continued to live with him till his decease
And that on the 19th day of July 1816, My
late husband purchased a family Bible, in
which he made a family record, in his own
hand writing, of his own marriage & birth, and
the birth of his wife and those of his children
all of which I have full confidence are correctly
entered, a leaf of said Family Bible containing
the original record made by him, has
this day been cut from said Bible and annexed
hereto and made a part of this affidavit.
I do further testify and say, that said
Bible has always remained in the possession of
said Benjamin Tucker, from the time of its purchase
the same has always remained in my possession
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I further testify and say that I am now and
have remained a widow, since the decease of my
husband, I also state that my original declaration
for a pension, made before the Judge of Probate. hereto
sent, has remained in the hands of my agent
since it was made, and that it was mis laid by
him & not found till within a few days, and
this is the reason pf the delay in forwarding
the same

Lydia X Tucker
her mark

Witness Francis Deane
Isaac Tucker

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester/ November 19--1852, Thin the above
named Lydia Tucker, who has subscribed the above
affidavit by making her mark thereto, personally appeared
and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit
Before me  Francis Deane Justice of the Peace
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I Isaac Tuckir of Uxbridge in the County
of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massa-
chusetts, aged forty eight years, and son of Ben-
jamin Tuckir late of said Uxbridge deceased, who
was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United
States, do testify and say, that there was
a family record kept by my father in his
family Bible, [illegible]  an account of his
own birth & marriage to that of his wife and the
births of his children, and that this record is 
in the hand writing of my father, and
was in his possession from the time of its [?purchase]
to the time of his [?decease], and since his decease
it has remained in the hands of my mother Lydia
Tuckir- I [illegible] remember the time when my
father purchased the Bible. The leaf of the 
bible contains this record, has this day been
cut from said Bible by myself in the presence 
of Francis Deane and others, and annexed to 
the affidavit of my mother Lydia Tuckir, and 
I know it to be the original entry in said Bible
made by my father, by which it appears that my father
and mother were married on the Twenty third
day of July seventeen hundred and eighty sixth
(July 23 1786) To which said original record I
now refer, And which is made a part of my
affidavit - I have this day seen the same annexed to [illegible]  affidavit
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I further testify and say that my father the
late Benjamin Tuckir & late husband of Lydia [?Lezard]
Tuckir, died on the twenty ninth day of July in the 
year eighteen hundred and forty five (July 29, 1845)
I was present at the time of his decease-
                                        Isaac Tuckir



Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester sc November 19 - 1832 [illegible] personally
appeared the above named Isaac Tuckir and made 
oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed
was him
Before me Francis Deane  Justice of the Peace


I certify that Isaac Tuckir above named who has
subscribed and sworn to the above affidavit is a competent
and credible witness & is personally known to me
                        Francis Deane Justice of the Peace
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I Francis Deane of Uxbridge in the 
County of Massachusetts of lawful age do testify
and say that I knew Benjamin Tuckir
late of said Uxbridge, deceased, for about fourteen 
years previous to his decease. He was a revo-
lutionary Pensioner of the United States. I had 
an agency in procuring his pension, and in 
drawing his semiannual payments while
he lived. I have known his widow Lydia
Tuckir for nearly twenty years past, and know
that she is his widow - I have also known
their children. The ages of Benjamin Tuckir 
and his wife Lydia Tuckir, as well as the 
approximate ages of their children as well as the 
general [illegible] [?neighborhood] where they
have lived for so many years, all indicate that they
must have been married as long ago as 1786.
I further say that the original declaration for the 
pension has been delayed in any [illegible] in
part by my mistake in [illegible] it, where I have 
been unable to find it till within a few days
past                           Francis Deane
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester sc Nov 19-1832  [illegible] the above named
Francis Deane made oath to the above affidavit by him subscribed
before me     L  C  Boynton Justice of the Peace
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786            Dec. 4/52
Lydia Tuckir
  Widow of Benjamin
                      Mass.


Act of 17th June, 1844.







Francis Deane
          Uxbridge, 
              Worcester Co.
                         Mass.
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State of Massachusetts
Worcester County

On this twenty seventh day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty six personally appeared before the Judge of Probate for the said County of Worcester Lydia Tucker a resident of Uxbridge in the said County of Worcester aged eighty years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 17, 1844 entitled " an act to continue the provisions of certain widows" and by the acts to which the [illegible] is in addition, that she is the widow of Benjamin Tucker who was a private (in the Massachusetts State Troops) in the Army of the Revolution, and a Pensioner entitled to receive eighty dollars per annum during his natural life commencing on the fourth of March 1831, as will appear by the evidence on file in the Pension Office at Washington.
She further declares that she was married to the said Benjamin Tucker on the twenty third day of March in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty six and that her husband the aforesaid Benjamin Tucker died on the twenty ninth day of July in the year eighteen hundred and forty five; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz, at the time above stated.
Lydia Tucker
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before Benj. P Thomas Judge of Probate
over
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And I further certify that Lydia Tucker was unable from bodily infirmity to attend in open court.
Benj. P Thomas
Judge of Probate
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Hon. Geo. C. Whiting
         Court of Pensions
                   Washington, 
                                 DC
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    786   (No. 179)
             (act Feb 2.'48)
Lydia Tucker
Widow of Benjamin
                    Mass.

Francis Deane May 7/53
c.c. Tucker Jany 26/57
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Massachusetts, 761
Lydia Tucker, dec d.
widow of Benjamin
who was a private
in the Revolution

_______________________________
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of 80 Dollars 00 
Cents per annum, to commence
on the 30th day of July 1845.
________________________________
Certificate of Pension issued
the 7th day of March 1837
and sent to 
C. C. Tucker
     Present
________________________________
[Act$ of June 17, 1844.]Recorded in Book 26
Vol.   1    Page 260
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Rev.
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 15444
Lydia Tucker Widow of 
Benjamin Tucker Pri. Rev. War.
Act: February 3d '48
Index: - Vol. M, Page 286
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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I Calvin E Pratt administrator of the estate of
Lidia Tucker of Uxbridge Co. of Worcester State
of Mass deceased and the same person 
described in the claim pension hereto
annexed - hereby certify that the said
Lidia Tucker died on the 17th day of March
AD 1853 - and not on the 17th day of November
AD 1853 as I have before alleged in my
deposition - and I further certify that the [illegible]-
tion of the word "November" was made 
me by mistake and from being in
haste and looking at home [illegible] [illegible] in
the case - to [illegible] therefore the [illegible]
"March" should be inserted in the place of the
word November in said petition so that the
same may read "on the 17th day of March 1853"
                                  Calvin E. Pratt, Admin.

[illegible]
Feb 11th 1859- Here personally appeared the
above named Calvin E Pratt administrator of 
Estate of Lidia Tucker and subscribed and 
made oath to the above written
            Before me
                            Geo. Swan Justice of the Peace
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Declaration of Mrs.                                 Widow of

For Revolutionary Pension under the Act of

State of Mass
     County of Worcester}
                                       On this 18th day of December 1856, personally
appeared before me George Swan a Justice of the Peace
of the County and State named, Calvin E. Pratt   a resident of
Worcester in the State of Mass, who being
first duly sworn according to law, dothe, on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of
the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7, 1838. granting pensions
                                                                                                admin of Lydia Tucker
to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Benjamin Tucker
who was a private of Massachusetts State Troops in the war
of the Revolution and a pensioner of the United States
by reason of his said services on the Massachusetts roll
at Eighty dollars per year

He further declares that she was married to said Benjamin Tucker on the 23rd
day of March A.D. one thousand seven hundred and eighty six - at
Smithfield R. Island by one Stephen Brayton a J.P.-
that her name before her said marriage was Lydia Farnum and
that her husband, the aforesaid Benjamin Tucker died at Worcester Mass.
on the 29th day of July A.D. 1845 and that she has remained a
widow from the death of her said husband, until he own death which took place
at Uxbridge, County of Worcester, State of Massachusetts on the 17th day of November 1853 leaving
surviving the following children all of whom are now
living and are the only surviving of the said
Benjamin and Lydia Tucker [illegible] Isaac Tucker
Joseph Tucker Royal Tucker Benjamin Tucker and
Hannah Marshall
                             Calvin E Pratt
                                   Admin of Lidia Tucker
         Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester sc Dec 18, 1856 where the above named Calvin E Pratt
personally appeared made oath that the foregoing statements by
him subscribed in my presence are true before me
                                                        Geo. Swan Justice of the Peace
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Lydia Tucker
widow of Benjamin
                 Mass.
[illegible] 17 [illegible] 1844
$80 a year from
30 July 1845 her hus-
band having died 29 Jul '45
________________________________
Pay to Calvin E Pratt
Adm Hannah Mar-
shall 1 - Joseph 2 - Roy-
al 3 - Benjamin 4
& Isaac Tucker 5
[illegible]
widow 17 March 1853
_______________________________
[illegible]
C.C. Tucker Esq
                [illegible]
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                                           Treasury Department
                                            Third Auditors Office
                                                 Feby 21, 1856

Sir,
           Your letter of the 18th [illegible] eclos
-ing a Power of Attorney in the case, has beeen
received & in reply I have to inform you
that Benjamin Ticker, Act- 7 June 1832,
at $80.00 per annum, Massachusetts Agency,
died 29 July 1845 & his pension has
been paid in full to that date.
                                    Very Respectfully
                                    Your Obt. Servt.
                                   Robert J Atkinson
                                                  Auditor

Chas. C Tucker, Esq
            Washington
                        D.C.
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L. Tucker
Benjm [illegible] [illegible] '43
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                                 Washington D.C. Dec. 24, 1856


Hon. Geo. C. Whiting
                     Court of Pensions
                                                   Sir,
                                                        I send enclosed
the Claim of Lydia Tucker, dec. widow of
Benjamin under the Act of July 7, 1838.
              An early examination of the same is 
respectfully requested.

                                    Very respy.
                                            Your Obt. Servt.
                                             Charles C. Tucker
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Brief in the case of Lydia Tucker dec Widow of Benjamin

                       Court of State of Mass
                            act 17 June 1844
___________________________________________________________
Claim, ("original")

Proof exhibited, (if original)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Her husband was pensioner under the Act of 1832
at $80.00 a year and died 29 Jul 1845-

Record [illegible] of the date of marriage.

(If for increase.)
                          Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
 
Cohabitation, general reputation of marriage
her identity as the pensioner's widow,
his death & her death, her continued widowhood
& heirship, [illegible] at [illegible] to [illegible] Rep-
ulations.

Name and evidence of Agent                   Thornton Triplett
C. C Tucker, Esq                                          Examining Clerk
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law  directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrases about three or four months is too indefinate, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merley state they served two years in the militia &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting thier service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served ; the duration of each term of engagement ; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by encompetent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the serive was performed, he was not employed in any civil persuit. 
QUERE XIV Proof of Service
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their adffidavits the time fo the claimants entering the service and the time and manner of his leaving the same as well as the regiment, company and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certifiied by the proper officer, under his seal of office
QUERE XVI Mode of authenticity papers
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is notwritten on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attatched thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attatched to the certificate.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying offiver, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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                   Washington D.C. Feb. 14, 1857

Hon Geo. C. Whiting
            Court of Pensions
                                       Sir,
                                            In accordance with
your request of the 26th [illegible] I have had the Clerk's
certificate affixed to the within paper and now
return it to you.
           Also and affidavit from Mr. Pratt explaining
the discrepancy to which you called my attention.

                                     Very respectfully
                                              Your Obt Servt.
                                                Charles C. Tucker
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester Count 

               I, Charles G. Prentiss, Register of the Court 
of Probate for the County of Worcester, do hereby
certify that the following facts have been  proved 
to the satisfaction of said court by the testimony of
Henry Chapin, Esquire and Zadok A Sult, Esquire
two credible and disinterested witnesses well known
to said court, and duly sworn, to wit.  That 
Lydia Tucker was the  wife of Benjamin Tucker late 
of Uxbridge, in said County, deceased, and never remarried
his widow until the time of her decease. That the said
Benjamin Tucker was a Pensioner of the United States
at the rate of $80 per annum, and died in said
Uxbridge on the twenty ninth day of July A.D. 1845
ad that the said Lydia Tucker died in said Uxbridge
on the seventeenth day of March A.D. 1853 leaving
the following named children now living, and who 
are the only surviving children of the said Lydia Tucker
now living, to wit. Joseph Tucker, Royal Tucker, Ben
jamin Tucker, Isaac Tucker and Hanah Marshall.
   And I further certify that Calvin E. Pratt of 
Worcester is the duly appointed and qualified Admin-
istrator of the Estate of the said Lydia Tucker, and 
has given bond as such Administrator in the sum
of two thousand dollars.
   In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my
hand and the seal of said Court at Worcester
this nineteenth day of November in the year
of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred
and fifty five.
                       Char. G. Prentiss, Register