Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26,079, Peter Wilder, N.H.
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Service Number
NH        Wilder, Peter.       W26079
                             Tamar

Contents: blank
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7669
New Hampshire
Tamar Wilder dec widow of Peter Wilder who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 25th April 1841 of Cheshire in the State of New Hampshire who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain
Regt commanded by Col Dearbon ⌨ the N. Hampsheline for monthy Inscribed on the Roll of Concord at the rate of 20 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of Sept. 1843 and Leah M. Edwards
Total amount, $100.
[Act July 7, 1838]
Recorded by Tho Lumpkin  clerk
Book A Vol. 1 Page 60
Payable to Betsy Wetherbee Cynthia Kingsbury Nancy Smith Thomas Wilder Josiah P. Wilder John B. Wilder and Calvin R. ┃ Wilder children of said deceased
R Sept 17
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4235
New Hampshire 
Peter Wilder of Wellsboro in the State of N.H. who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain - of the commanded by Col Dearborn in the line for 6 mos 
Inscribed on the Roll of NH at the rate of 20 Dollars - Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 15th day of Jany 1833 and sent to Hubbard 
& Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $30.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 31 March 33 10.00
$40.00
⎨ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by I H  Blan Clerk 
Book D Vol. 2 Page 194.
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Tama Wilder
Hiny
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State of New Hampshire
Cheshire
Be it remembered that at a
Court of Probate holden at Keene & for the County
aforesaid, upon the application of the children of
Tama Wilder, it was proved in open Court to the
satisfaction of the Judge of said Court that said
Tama Wilder was the widow of Peter Wilder late
of New Ipswich in the County of Hillsborough in said
State, that he died on the 25 day of April 1841
that he left the said Tama his widow, that
she died on the 9th day of January 1843
and left the following named children who
were then only surviving children at her decease,
viz. Betsey Weatherbee, Cynthia Kingsbury
Nancy Smith, Thomas Wilder Josiah P. Wilde,
John B. Wilder and Calvin R Wilder
In testimony whereof I hereunto affix
the seal of said Court this fifth
day of July 1843
Elijah Sawyer Reg
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Extract from the Records of the Town of Keene
the County of Chestire and State of New Hampshire

"Peter Wilder and Tamar Rice were joined
in marriage on the fiftieth of November Seventeen
hundred and Eighty one by Revd Aaron Hall
Recorded by Jeremiah Stites Town Clerk"

I certify that the above is a true extract from the
records of the Town of Kent in the County of Cheshire
and State of New Hampshire, with the exception of the
date which is expressed in fair legible letters & figures
as follows
"15th of November 1781"
[signature] Albert Godfrey
Town Clerk
of Keene

I Albert Godfrey depose and say that I
hold the office of Town Clerk in the County, Town
and state aforesaid, and that the above is a true
Extract from the records of said Town with the
exception as above certified by me -
Town Clerk of Keene
[signature] Albert Godfrey  

State of New Hampshire
Chishire County
April
1843.
Subscribed and
Sworn to before me [signature] Joshua Wyman Jus Peace
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State of New Hampshire
Cheshire ss
I Leonard Bisco Clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas for said County of Cheshire
it being a Court of Record, Certify that
Joshua Wyman is one of the Justices of
the Peace for said County of Chester duly commissioned
and qualified according to Law, and that his signature
as within written is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and seal of said Court of Common Pleas the sixth day
of May AD 1843
[signature] Samuel Bisco. Clerk
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9269
Peter Wilder
Private

W.C.E

on roll of enlistments for 5 months & 28 days only
Rejected Nov 23 1832
Private
6 months adm $20
Hon: H Hubbard
Th M Edwards
Keene Cheshire Cy
[illegible] N.H.
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9269
BRIEF in the case of
Peter Welden of New Ipswich
Hillsborough in the State of
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? a Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 71
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
[Chart]
Period.
1780 July last Dec
was absent who
Duration of Service.
Years 
Months 
6
Days.

Rank.
As a
Private

Names of General and Field Officers
under whom he served.
Lieut Ellis compy L Cass
Col Dearborn

[illegible]

5. In what battles was he engaged? 
none mentioned
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Keene, N. H.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by
incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
no living Witness
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
No [illegible]
no tradition
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above
[signature] Wm G Easton
Examining Clerk.
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9269
Declaration of Peter Wilder
New Ipswich
Chesh Co
NH.
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Declaration,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE
COUNTY OF CHESHIRE, SS.
On this twenty first day of August 1832 personally appeared in open
Court, before the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas
holden at Keene within for the County of Cheshire
now sitting, Peter Wilder a resident of New Ipswich in the county of
Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire aged seventy one yrs last past
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 in the year 1780. There was a call for men
to go on and fill up the Continental Regiments
that he went from Keene, enlisted, went to Winchester
passed muster - went to West Point - drew provisions
at Springfield Mass. and Litchfield Cont on the way
at West point, was enrolled in the Company commanded
by Lieut Benja Ellis - Col Henry Dearborn
Regt marched from West Point into New Jersey
to Orange town. to English neighbourhood. Hackensack - back to Orange town was there when
Andre was executed. then proceeded to West point
& Robinsons farms. help build huts at Soldiers
fortune for winter quarters for the army & was
discharged there the last of December
enlisted for 6 months & begun 1st of July-

Resided in Keene N.Y. when he went into
the service - and was in the Continental
troops. N. Hampshire line
was also out on alarm, from the Indians
in he thinks Capt John Houghtons  Compy from
Keene and absent a few days.
that the reasons of his application in the County
of chathem are that he lives nearer to the there town
in said County than to the the town of Hillsboro County.
that he formerly lived in and there town of Cheshire and
that the evidence of his service there-- that the Court
of Common Pleas is a State Court
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present,
and he 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 
[signature] Peter Wilder
[signature] S. Hale clerk
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, that the above named applicant was a
Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.
I Salma Hale of the Court of Common Pleas, a State Court,
do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Court in the
matter of the application of Peter Wilder
for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this twenty eighth
day of August A.D. 1832
[signature] S. Hale, Clerk
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9040
James Wilder Decd
N.H.
Act 7 July 38
m 81.d41.
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9040
Declaration of Josiah P. Wilder
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act
of Congress of the 7th of July 1838 and August
23. 1842.
State of New Hampshire
Cheshire County  On this thirteenth
day of April A.D. Eighteen hundred and forty
there personally appeared before me the
Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Judicature
for said State. Josiah P. Wilder of New Ipswich
in the County of Hillsborough and State of New
Hampshire Aged Forty one years who being first
duly sworn according & laws doth on his oath make
the following declaration in order to obtain the
benefit of the provisions made by the act of
Congress passed July 7th 1838, and the 23 of August
1842, granting pensions to widows of persons
who served during the Revolutionary War. In
behalf of himself and the other children of
Tamar Wilder late of said New Ipswich decd
who were living at the [illegible] of the said Tamar children, and are now living as he believes,
Viz. Betsey Weatherby of Brattleborough in the
State of Vermont Cynthia Kingsbury of
Welchfield in the State of Ohio, Thomas Wilder
of Kirtland, Massachusetts, Nancy Smith of
Walpole New Hampshire, Calvin R. Wilder
of New York City and John B. Wilder of New
Ipswich New Hampshire.-
That the said Tamar Wilder was the
Widow of Peter Wilder late of New Ipswich aforesaid
deceased, who died on the twenty fifth day of
April A.D. Eighteen hundred and forty one -
That the aforesaid Peter Wilder was a Private
in the Revolution and a Pensioner under the act of
June 7th 1842. On the New Hampshire List at the
rate of Twenty dollars per annum, and send
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as he believes as stated in his declaration
under said act, to which he refers.-
He further declares that the said
Tamar Wilder. Then Tamar Rice was
married to the aforesaid Peter Wilder on the
fifteenth day of November Seventeen hundred
and Eighty One. That her husband the aforesaid
Peter Wilder died on the twenty fifth day of
April Eighteen hundred and forty one
That she was not married to him prior
to his leaving the service but that the marriage
took place previous to the first day of January
Seventeen hundred and ninety four at the
time above stated-
He further declares that the afore
said Tamar Wilder died at New Ipswich on the
Ninth day of January Eighteen hundred and
forty three, and that she was at the time of
his decease the widow of Peter Wilder aforesaid
[signature] Josiah P. Wilder

State of New Hampshire
Cheshire County 
Subscribed and sworn to on
the day and year above written
Before me [signature] Joel Parker
Chief
Justice of the Superior Court of Judicature
for said State
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State of New Hampshire
Cheshire ss
Superior Court of Judicature
I Leonard Bisco Clerk of the Superior Court
of Judicature for the State and County aforesaid
certify that Joel Parker is the Chief Justice of
the Superior Court of Judicature for the State
and County aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified according to Law and that his signature as above
written is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and the seal of said Superior Court of Judicature
this sixth day of May A.D. 1843.
[signature] L Bisco Clerk
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Rev. & 1812 War Section
January 4, 1927
Mrs. N. M. P. Akeley
224 Canal St.
Brattleboro, Vt.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War
pension claim, W. 26079, it appears that PETER WILDER was born
in April, 1761, place not stated.
While a resident of Keene, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, he
enlisted July 1, 1780, and served six months as a private under
Lieutenant Benjamin Ellis and Cass in Colonel Henry Dearborn's
New Hampshire Regiment. He also served a few days on an Indian alarm
and was under Captain John Houghton of Keene, New Hampshire.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 21,
1832, at which time he was a resident of New Ipswich, Hillsborough
County, New Hampshire. He died there April 25, 1941.
He married in Keene, New Hampshire, November 15, 1781, Tamar
Rice. She died in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, January 9, 1843,
leaving the following children: Josiah P. Wilder, aged forty-one
years in 1843, and a resident of New Ipswich, New Hampshire; Betsey
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Weatherbe of Brattleboro, Vermont; Cynthia Kingsbury of Welchfield,
Ohio; Thomas Wilder of Rutland, Massachusetts; Nancy Smith of Walpole,
New Hampshire; Calvin R. Wilder of New York City and John B. Wilder
of New Ipswich, New Hampshire.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section.
August 18, 1927
Mrs. W. P. Lockhart
207 N. 5th St
Mount Vernon, Wash.
Madam:

I have to advise you that there are two soldiers
named Peter Wilder, found on the Revolutionary War
records of this Bureau.
Peter Wilder S. 23491, enlisted at Templeton,
Worcester County, Massachusetts, and served with the
Massachusetts Troops, and was allowed pension in 1833,
while residing at White Church, York County, Upper
Canada, aged seventy years. It is not stated that he
was married.
Peter Wilder W. 26079, was born in April 1761,
place not stated. He enlisted, while residing at Keene,
New Hampshire, and served in the New Hampshire Troops,
and was allowed pension in 1832, while residing at New
Ipswich, New Hampshire. He died there April 25, 1841.
He married at said Keene, November 15, 1781, Tamar
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Rice. She died January 9, 1843, leaving the
following children Josiah P.; Betsey Wetherbee;
Cynthia Kingsbury; Thomas; Nancy Smith; Calvin R.;
and John B.
If you will state which of the above mentioned
records you desire, the same will be furnished you
Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.
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9269
Peter Wilder
Th.M. Edwards
Keene Cheshire Cy
NH.
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Peter Wilder which require further proof or explanation. 
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? No . 
lll. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? Yes
 IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes
V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? Yes
 VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? Yes
 VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes
 X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? Yes
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2 
XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? No 
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? No 
 XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? No 
XIV. If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office? N/A
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? N/A
 XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? Yes 
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? No as to 1.2.3.5.6.7 
EXPLANATORY NOTES. QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recolelection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For----year ------ months and ---- days, I served as a ----. For ---- months and --- days, I served as a ----; and for such service I claim a pension."
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3.
It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the 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 phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. 
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 affidavits the time of 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 be 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 certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. 
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers. 
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
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We Abijah Wilder and Abijah Kingsburuy of Keene in the County of Cheshire and State of New Hamsphire of lawful age depose and say that we were acquainted with Peter Wilder late of New Ipswich in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire deceased. That he died on the twenty fifth day of April A.D. 1841. That he was a Revolutionary Pensioner. That he left a Widow Tamar Wilder who died on the Ninth day of January A.D. 1843. and left the following named children, viz Betsy Weatherbee, Cynthia Kingsbury, Thomas Wilder, Isiah Wilder, Nancy Smith, John B. Wilder and Calvin R. Wilder, all of whom are now living as we believe.
Abijah Wilder
Abijah Kingsbury

State of New Hamsphire
Cheshire County ss
April 13th 1843
Subscribed and sworn to before me
Chas. Sturtevant Jus Peace

I Certify that the above deponents 
are credibly persons-
Chas. Sturtevant, Jus Peace
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State of New Hampshire
Cheshire Css
I Leonard Bisco Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the said County of Cheshire it being a Corut of Record, Certify that Charles Sturtevant is one of the Justices of the Peace for said county of Cheshire duly [illeg] and qualified accordng to Law, and that his [illeg] is dated May 31, 1838, and that his signatures as within written are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court of Common Pleas for said count the [illeg] day of May AD 1843.
Leonoard Bisco
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Payment to be made
at Concord
by Isaac Hill Esq
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of
New Hampshire

Recorded in the Pension
Office, in Book A. Vol. 1
Page 6 by
Tho. Lumpkin,
Clerk
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WAR DEPARTMENT. 
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM. 

I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 7th July 1838 Tamar Wilder deceased, late widow of Peter Wilder, who was a private  in the Revolution, was entitled to receive  Twenty Dollars per annum, commencing on the 4th March 1836 and terminating on the 4th March 1841, but she having since died, the amount due is payable to Betsey Wetherbee, Cynthia Kingsbury, Nancy Smith, Thomas Wilder, Josiah P. Wilder and Calvin R. Wilder children of said deceased.

 Given at the War Office of the United States, this 18th day of September one thousand eight hundred and forty three 

 Secretary of War.
Commissioner of Pensions.
 Examined and Countersigned.
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No 9040
Tamar Wilder Dec
NHamps.
Act July 7th 38
Admitted
Certificate to be issued
in favor of
Betsy Wetherbee
Cynthia Kingsbury
Nancy SMith
Thomas Wilder
Josiah P Wilder
John B Wilder
Calvin R Wilder
6 mo
priv
$20 per an
Thomas M. Edwards
Keene
N.Hampshire
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V 9040
Tamar Wilder decd
N.H.
let to H H Sylvester June 7 1843
Act 7 July 1838
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207 N. 5th St
Mount Vernon, Wn
April 22 - 1927.
The Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir-
In reply to my letter to our State Librarian, Olympia Washington, with regard to a record of Revolutionary War Service for Peter Wilder of New Hampshire, he sent me the following:
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and the commencement of the pension was March 3, 1831- and he was 73 years old."
Does that mean he was 73 years old when placed on the pension roll Jan. 15, 1833 or that he was 73 at the commencement of the pension March 4, 1831?
Does this Peter Wilder have a wife named Freelove Russell and a daughter
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"State Papers of New Hampshire, Vol. 30, page 316. Statement showing the names rank etc. of persons residing in Cheshire County New Hampshire who have been insontud[?] on the Pension List under act of Congress passed June 7, 1832: Peter Wilder, Private served in the Mass militia, was placed on the Pension Roll January 15- 1833
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Elizabeth Wilder who married first a Mr. Cook second Thomas Soules of Groillambury, Ontario? This Elizabeth Wilder was born in Bennington, N.H. May 20, 1790, died in April 1860.
Do you have a Pension record for any Peter Wilder serving from Massachusetts with the above wife and daughter?
Sincerely,
Ruth Shea Lockhart
(Mrs. W.P.).
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address.
MRS. N. M. P. AKELEY
BRATTLESORO CHAPTER HISTORIAN
224 CANAL STREET
BRATTLEBORO VERMONT
Nov. 4. 1926.
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington D. C.
Will you give me information in
regard to war service or any other available
data in regard to the following men who are
supposed to have served in the Rev. War.
Very truly
[signature] N. M.P. Akeley

PETER WILDER, b. 10 Apr. 1761 ( Hist. Lancaster 12 )
d. 25 Apr. 1841 Book of the Wilders
( p. 180.
m. Tamar Rice b. 1763, d. 9 Jan. 1842
They resided Lancaster -- Boston, Mass, and
New Ipswich N. H. (prob d. New Ipswich ).
Mass.

[stamp] U.S.PENSION OFFICE F NOV 5 1926

SAMUEL WHITCOMB, b. 19 Nov. 1753.
d. 27 Feb. 1841 (Leon, N. Y.
M. (1) Elizabeth Roberts (d. 1786 )
M. ( 2 ) Eleanor Rice ( d. 1855 Leon ).
Both wifes were of Guilford, Vt.
He lived at Halifax, Guilford Vt.
Monroe -- Shrewsbury, perhaps Flarida
and at Leon, N. Y.
Did he or 2nd wife have a pension?
Ref. Whincomb Gen. and vs. Guilford, Vt.
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Revy
Widow, &c 
File No. 26,079
Tamar Wilder
Wid of
Peter Wilder
Priv. Rev. War
Act July 7 1838
Index: Vol. W, Page 347
[Arrangement of 1870]

[second page]
27 Jan. list to
[illeg] N. M. P. Akeley
[illeg] Aug. 18 Mrs W. P. Lockhart
[illeg] Peter Wilders ask if any
decide which she desires