Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17,409, Oliver Farmer, Continental Mass. N.H.
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Service
Continental
Mass.
N.H.
Farmer Oliver
S.17.409
Carded
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Let. Hon. R M Chard
Aug 2 / 54
H.G. Fant 12 Feby. 15.

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33,268
New Hampshire Concord
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Oliver Farmer, decd.
in the State of _____
who was a private in the _____ commanded
by Captain _____ in the _____commanded
by _____ in the Revolution
for 6 months.
Continental &
Mass. & N.H.
Inscribed on the Roll of Concord
at the rate of 20 Dollars 00 Cents per
annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
End April 6th 1844.

Certificate of Pension issued the 22d day of
August 1854 and Sent to
C.C. Tucker
Present
Arrears to the 4th of 
Semi-anl. allowance ending

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by G. T. Getty Clerk.
Book E Vol. 1 Page 85.
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Oliver Farmer
Declaration

[illegible]
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State of New Hampshire
Grafton SS

On this 28 day of February A. D. 1828 personally appeared in open Court being the Court of Common Pleas ? at Waverhill in and for the County of Grafton on the fourth Tuesday of February A.D. 1828 & being a Court of record by the laws of said State established for said County of Grafton - Oliver Farmer resident in Warren in said County aged sixty five years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Acts of Congress of the 18 March 1818 & the first of May 1820 that he the said Oliver Farmer enlisted for the term of one year in the month of December 1776 in Chelmsford in the State of Massachusetts in the Company commanded by Capt. Asa Bullurds Company in Col. Asa Whitcombs regiment being the 4th regiment in Massachusetts line in the Continental Establishment that he continued to serve in said Corps until Dec 1777 when he was honorably discharged at Saratoga N. York from the said Service he being there thro said years service. That in Jany 1778 he again enlisted for three years service in Capt. John Lances Company in Col Nixons regiment & Gen. Nixons Brigade in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment & served out said three years in the Jerseys & elsewhere I was again
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honorably discharged below Fishkill N.Y. at a place called Nantucket in New Jersey & that his fathers house was burnt within one or two years after his return & his said discharges burnt in it - That he was at the taking of Burgoyne & that he hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension whatever except the present - That his name is not on the roll of any State and that he made application for a pension in 1818 to Judge Bartlett who sent on his papers & had a return as he said that he the said Farmer was returned as a deserter & could not be placed on that he knew said return was false as he was discharged honorably from both services but being told his case was hopeless he let it rest until one or two years since when he was told by good counsel that if he did not in fact desert or if he was restored & was honorably discharged he might be placed on & knowing that he did not desert & that he was very poor & destitute he concluded to make this trial again to save being supported by the town & that I have no other evidence now in my power except the affidavit of William Parker & what I sent on in 1819 to the War department which I dont remember & pray the Office of the War department to look up my case ^ they will find that I served faithfully to the end _ And in pursuance of the Act of May 1, 1820 I do solemnly swere that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my propurty or any
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part thereof with intent thereby go to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress intitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary war passed on the 18th day of March 1818 & that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or ? contracts or debts due to me , nor have I any income or property in the world except my clothing which is very poor nor have I had any since March 18, 1818, except when I worked out and got some small article as an axe or hoe or knife or provision. I have not paid a tax for 12 years or been asked to being too poor to be taxed I am by occupation a farmer & am quite feeble & almost blind I work out sometimes for my victuals what I can do & sometimes I get some article of dress besides - I have no family that I live with - I have a wife aged 57 years who lives with a son of hers she is feeble & was thrown off a bank in the summer of 1826 from a carriage by the horse running back & fell under the horse & has never been well since that son is under no obligation to support me nor is any other person & I am now in my old age, alone & nearly helpless & I do stand in need of the assistance of my country for support I know nothing how the story of my desertion could be unless by my leaving a furlough for a few days after the taking of Burgoine made it but I returned & served out my time & was discharged as aforesaid & then enlisted again in the 3 years service in July 1770 as aforesaid
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I did not go home until that service was out in 1781 when Col Nixon gave me a written discharge which was burnt as before stated
Signed: Oliver Farmer

Grafton SS
Court of Common Pleas Feby. term 1828
Sworn to in open court Feby 29, 1828.
Geo Woodward Clerk

I George Woodward Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Grafton do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of this Court that the said Oliver Farmer did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common enemy for the term of nine months under one engagement on the Continental Establishment & I do further certify that it is the opinion of the Court that the said Farmer has no property
George Woodward Clerk
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Declaration of
Oliver Farmer

R. Burns
 of H of Reps.

Enlisted 26 Jany. 1777
Deserted 3 Dec 1777
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State of New Hampshire
Grafton County ss} On this sixteenth day of October anno Domini 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Judge of the Court of Probate of Wills &c. in & for said county of Grafton now sitting Oliver Farmer a resident of Rumney in said county of Grafton aged sixty seven years who after being 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 7, 1832 - that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated - 
the he entered under Capt Asa Ballard in the town of Che(l)msford Massachusetts in ['the year' crossed out] December 1776, for one years. Says he was a resident of said Chelmsford - says he marched to Roxbury and was then mustered [illegible] until the first of the following August - and then was marched my the above named Officers through Charleston No. 4 - from thence to Otter Creek, and from thence directly to Ticonderoga and there was stationed until the time of his enlistment was out, being one year from time of enlistment, that he received a written discharge from his Captain which was subsequently burnt together with his house in the town of Littleton in said Massachusetts, says he went directly home to said Chelmsford on receiving his discharge, 
He says after he had been at home about a fortnight he again inlisted for three years under Capt John Lane of Penobscot (now in Maine) in 1777 and marched from said Chelmsford to Boston and was mustered by Colo. Nickson (Nixon) under Gen'l Nickson (Nixon) Brother to the said Col. Was marched from said Boston to Fishskills (Fishkill) and there staid until Ticonderoga was evacuated by the Enemy - from said Fishskills (Fishkill) he marched to Clavarick (Claverack) a town situated on the west side of North River - there he
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on board the Row Galleys and went up to Albany - from thence to Stillwater and there remained until Burgoyne surrendered - when he returned back to Albany - staid there about one month, which amounted to eighteen months of ['my' crossed out] his second enlistment - then and there he received a furlow for 20 days to go home from Lieutenant Chambers who also was a resident of said Chelmsford, and overun his furlow 3 days, during this extra time not allowed in the [illegible] deserted - he says he arrived at Albany within the three days after his furlow was out, was received and again joined Capt Lane's Company - he says he was not informed that he was returned a deserter until ['his' crossed out] a long time after he left the service, he says after he joined his Company he staid at Albany about one fortnight - then marched directly to West Point where he was stationed and remained on his duty until his 3 years expired when he received a written discharge from said Colo. Nickson (Nixon) and went directly back to Chelmsford - on his way home while crossing a small river the boat overturned and he with two others were thrown into the water and two of them he says himself & another lost their packs with their contents among other [illegible] were lost. - he says after he had been home about 4 or 5 months he started to go back into the Country where [illegible] Lebanon N.H. he had an invitation to enlist and did enlist for 4 months under Capt. Sam'l Paine of said Lebanon from whence he was marched by said Paine up to Stratford near Canada line, there he staid 4 months; when they were marched from the ground back to Lebanon and was dismissed did not receive a written discharge all were dismissed and he returned home again to Chelmsford.
that he was in battles at Stillwater & Saratoga at the Surrender of Burgoyne but in no other battles during his service which in the whole amounted to four years & four months - that the fifth year of
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surrender of Burgoyne but in no other battles during his service which in the whole amounted to four years & four months - that the fifth year of his said service he was waiter to Lieut. Jonas Parker of Chelmsford Lieut Alexander from Springfield in Massachusetts was an officer in the same company with us - that he does not know of any surviving witness of his service having been for many years absent from his native place & from the neighborhood he went from, into the service & is poor & infirm & unable to go there to inquire of any of his comrades of the revolution are living - & that he has no documentary evidence of his service or any of it - that he was born in said Chelmsford October 2d, 1765 - that a record of his age he believes to be in his native town - that he knows of no other record of it that he lived in s'd Chelmsford until he was eleven years of age when he enlisted as stated aforesaid - that after the war he staid about a year in said Lebanon went from there to Lyme in said New Hampshire was there a year went thence to Fairlee in Vermont lived there about a dozen years & thence to Bath in New Hampshire & staid there until five years ago when he came to Rumney where he has since resided with occasional short absences that he is known to have - Samuel Burns & Mr. Nathaniel Clifford among others who can as he thinks testify to his good character for veracity & their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution - 
that 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 - 
/s/X his mark Oliver Farmer 
Subscribed with his mark & sworn to the day & year first above mentioned - Before me 
/s/Edward Webber Judge of Probate
We Samuel Burns of Rumney & Nathaniel Clifford ['both' crossed out] residing in ['Rumney' crossed out] Wentworth in said county of Grafton hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Oliver Farmer who has subscribed said declaration with his  mark & sworn thereto, that we believe him to be sixty seven years of age, that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion & that said Farmer is a man of good character for truth - 
/s/Samuel Burns
/s/Nath'l Clifford
Sworn to, & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Before me /s/Edward Webber Judge of Probate
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that opinion & that said Farmer is a man of good character for truth -
/s/Samuel Burns
/s/Nath'l Clifford
Sworn to, & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Before me /s/Edward Webber Judge of Probate
and the said Judge of Probate hereby declares his opinion after due investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states - and the Judge of said Court further certifies that it appears to him said Judge that Samuel Burns who has signed said certificate is a resident of said Rumney & that Nathaniel Clifford who also has signed the same is a resident in the town of Wentworth in said county & that they are both credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit & that the clergyman of said Rumney is distant from this court in his residence at least eight miles - 
/s/Edward Webber Judge of Probate
I Moses Dow Register & Clerk of said Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Judge of Probate in his said court in the matter of the application of Oliver Farmer for a pension - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court of Probate this sixteenth day of October anno Domini 1832 - 
[court seal] /s/Moses Dow
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Oliver Farmer
Rej N.H. Act 1832
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State of New Hampshire
County of Grafton}
Be it known, that on the sixteenth day of February A.D. 1853 before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared 1Jerediah Farmer resident of 2Bethlehem NH in said County, and made oath according to law that 3['Oliver Farmer' crossed out] he is the legal heir of the Identical Oliver Farmer who was a Soldier in the war of the Revolution, and who has heretofore made application for the benefit of the Pension Act of 4[blank] that 5he is directly interested as a claimant in said pension and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Countermanding and revoking all Powers of Attorney, and authority heretofore given, I hereby constitute and appoint SAMUEL M. KNIGHT, Washington City, my true and lawful Attorney, to prosecute the claim of 6Oliver Farmer for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or increase of Pension that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Attorney to examine all papers or documents in relation to said claim on file in the Department at Washington City, or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive for my exclusive benefit, the certificate which may be issued for said claim, which certificate I wish made payable at the Washington, D.C. Agency; to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all  things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
7/s/Jerediah Farmer
Sworn to, Subscribed and Acknowledged before me the day and year above written, and I hereby certify that I believe the said 8Jerediah Farmer to be directly interested in said claim as set forth, and to be the identical party therein alleged. 
9/s/James J. Barrett Justice Peace
State of New Hampshire
County of Grafton Ss.}
It is hereby Certified, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas Grafton County that 9Jerediah Farmer the party who has sworn to, and acknowledged the foregoing Declaration and Power of Attorney is the 10Identical Son of the reputed soldier aforesaid. I further certify, that 11James J. Barrett Esq. before whom the preceding affidavit and Power of Attorney were made and acknowledged, was, at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, and that the signature purporting to be his, I believe to be genuine.
[court seal] In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office, this third day of March 1853
12/s/J. D. Sleeper Clerk
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[verso]
Anna Clement daughter of Oliver Farmer for increase
N. Hampshire
Adm'd Act 7th June 1832. 
No 33.268
H. G. Fant
Washington City 

[recto]
Anna Clement
P of Atty.
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State of New Hampshire.
Secretary's Office, Concord. 
January 15th, 1835, 
I hereby certify, That at the date of the annexed attestations, Jesse A. Gove was an acting Justice of the Peace for Merrimack County in the said State, duly commissioned and qualified; and that to his acts and attestations as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court. 
[state seal] In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the State, the date above written. 
/s/John L. Hadley, Secretary of State.
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POWER OF ATTORNEY.
REVOLUTIONARY PENSION CLAIM. 
Know all Men by these Presents, that I Anna Clement of Manchester in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire do hereby constitute and appoint [blank] my true and lawful agent and attorney to prosecute the claim of Oliver Farmer for any amount of Revolutionary Pension or Increase of Pension that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said agent to examine all papers and documents of every description in relation to said claim that may be on file in the departments at Washington City or elsewhere; to file any additional evidence or arguments that can be obtained, and to received the certificate which may issue for said claim, which certificate I wish made payable to myself; to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all the things that I might do were I personally present, hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said agent and attorney shall lawfully do in the premises. 
[seal] Witness my hand and seal this 15th day of January A.D. 1855. 
Signed and sealed in presence of 
/s/John L. Hadley
/s/J. A. Gove} /s/Ann Clement
STATE OF New Hampshire
Merrimack COUNTY, ss: On this fifteenth day of January A.D. 1855, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the county and State aforesaid Anna Clement and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be her free act and deed for the purposes therein expressed. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year above mentioned. 
/s/Jesse A. Gove Justice of the Peace.
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CLAIM OF Oliver Farmer
Act of 1832
STATE OF New Hampshire
Merrimack COUNTY, ss. BE IT KNOWN THAT, on this 15th day of January A.D. eighteen hundred and fifty-five before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Anna Clement a resident of Manchester ['in said county' crossed out], and made oath according to Law, that she is the child of Oliver Farmer who was a pensioner under the act of 1832 - 
that she has been informed that said pension ought to be increased, that she is directly interested as a claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence and arguments as my said agent may use in prosecuting said claim. 
/s/Anna Clement
Witness: /s/John L. Hadley
/s/J. A. Gove
Subscribed and duly sworn to the day and year aforesaid, before me Jesse A. Gove a Justice of the Peace; and I do hereby certify that Anna Clement who has executed the foregoing affidavit before me is a respectable resident of this county, and is, I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth. 
/s/Jesse A. Gove Justice of the Peace.
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State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss
At a Court of Probate holden at Wentworth in said County of Grafton, on the third Tuesday of August Anno Domini 1854, Evidence being produced satisfactory to the Court, (consisting of the affidavits of Abram Thomas, and William V. Hutchins hereto annexed) that Oliver Farmer, late of Bath in said County of Grafton, died at Franconia in said County of Grafton in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty four, leaving the following children only: viz. Jerrydiah (Jerediah) Farmer, of Bethlehem in said County, Hannah, now Hannah Hunt, living with her brother said Jerrydiah (Jerediah) Farmer, in said Bethlehem  being a widow, Ann, (Anna) now Ann Clement of Manchester in the County of Hillsborough in said State widow, Polly now Polly Kincaid wife of Samuel Kincaid of Concord in the County of Merrimack in said State, and Levi Farmer. That said Oliver Farmer left no widow, his wife having died ['many' crossed out] some years before his death, and that he never afterwards married, and that the above named Jerrydiah (Jerediah), Hannah, Ann and Polly, are the only children of said Oliver Farmer, now living the said Levi Farmer having died, as is believed, some ['many' crossed out] years since. 
The Court therefore find said facts to be well
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proved, and order said finding to be certified by the Register of Probate for said County, under the seal of said Court. 
In testimony of all which I, Nathan B. Felton, the Register of Probate aforesaid, have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court of Probate, this seventeenth day of August Anno Domini 1854 - and I hereby certify that on the third Tuesday of August, Anno Domini 1854, at a Court of Probate holden at Wentworth as aforesaid, said Ann Clement was duly appointed Administrator of the estate of said Oliver Farmer deceased, and gave hand as required by law, as such administratrix, and that thereupon a letter of Administration in due and concise form issued to said Ann Clement, & that said Ann is still Administratrix, as aforesaid, by virtue of said appointment, such appointment having been, in no way, revoked, or annulled. 
[court seal] In testimony of all which I have set my hand & the seal of said Court as aforesaid - 
/s/N. B. Felton Register
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17.409
INVALID. 
17,409
Oliver Farmer
Pri Rev. War
Act: June 7" 32
Index - Vol. 1, Page 122.
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Nov. 22/93 Sent Hist. to J. P. Farmer, Sioux Rapids, Buena Vista Ca. FA.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston: 
[commonwealth seal] March 10th 1854. 
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that The name of Oliver Farmer is borne on muster roll of Capt. Edward Farmer's Comp; Col. Green's Regt. who marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775 from Billerica 11 days.
Also on the muster roll of Capt. William H. Ballard's Comp. Col. Whitcomb's Regt. from January 1, to Nov. 15, 1776 Ticonderoga service, 10 mos. 15 days. Discharged.
Also on pay roll of Capt. Edward Farmer's Comp. Col. Jonathan Reed's Regt. who marched to reinforce the northern Army from Sept. 29, to Nov. 8, 1777. 41 days. 
Also on the pay roll of Capt. John Moor's (Moore) Comp. Col. Jonathan Reed's Regt. from April 2 to July 3, 1778. for the  Guards at Cambridge, 3 mos. 2 days. 
Also on pay roll of Capt. Joseph B. Varnum Col. McIntosh Regt. on an expedition to R. Island from July 29, to Sept. 11, 1778, 1 month 18 days as Corporal.
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Also on pay roll of Capt. Samuel Fay's Comp. in Lt. Col. Webb's Regt. from Aug 18, to Nov. 29, 1781. 3 mos. 22 days from Billerica. 
And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written. 
/s/E. M. Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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State of New Hampshire
Hillsborough County} 
I Ann Clement having been duly sworn, depose and say that I am a daughter of Oliver Farmer, also called Elijah Brooks who was a  Revolutionary Soldier; that he is believed to have enlisted at or near Chelmsford Mass under Capt. Asa Ballard in December 1776 for one year and mustered at Roxbury by Col. Whitcomb. That in 1777 enlisted under Capt. John Lamb for three yeas and served that period, and in 1780 or 81, volunteered under Capt. Samuel Paine and served six months, was in the Battles of Stillwater and Saratoga, that he is supposed to have served four years and six months; and that I pray to receive from the Secretary of State a certificate from the rolls in his office of the service of the said soldier. 
/s/Ann Clement
Sworn to and subscribed before me a Justice of the Peace this Third day of March 1854. 
/s/R. H. French Jus. Peace
sent. R. H. French Manchester N.H.
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Deposition for Oliver Farmer 
John Durkee and Salmon Dow
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I John Durkee of Hanover in the County of  Grafton & State of New Hampshire of Lawfull age being seventy six years old & Now a Pensioner of the United States and I Salmon Dow of the same Place of Lawfull Age being seventy five years old & now a Pensioner of the United States both Testify & say that having given a Deposition in the case of Oliver Farmer's Application for a Pension & having seen a Letter from the Honorable J. L. Edwards to Col'o Moody Bedel stating that the Identity of the said Oliver Farmer should be more Explicit We therefore state that the said Oliver Farmer who is now in our Presence we perfectly recognize to be the same Person that served in Capt. Samuel Paine's Company in the New Hampshire Line as we stated in our former Deposition & that he the said Oliver Farmer answered to the Name of Elijah Brooks During said service & that he was a good Soldier during said time 
/s/John Durkee
/s/Salmon Dow
State of New Hampshire
County of Grafton}ss Hanover the 2nd day of February 1838 Then John Durkee Esquire & Salmon Dow who are both Personally known by me to be considered in the Vicinity where they reside Persons of Truth & Veracity & I concur in that Opinion & believe them Credible Disinterested Witnesses Both Personally appeared & made Solemn oath that the above Deposition by them subscribed is true before me 
/s/Moody Bedel Justice of the Peace
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State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss. I Nathan B. Felton, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County, hereby certify that Moody Bedel, whose name is subscribed to the certificate within written, was on the second day of February current, and still is, an acting Justice of the Peace for said County, and that his name is subscribed is his genuine signature being in his own proper hand writing. 
[court seal] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court the fifteenth day of February AD 1838 
/s/N. B. Felton Clerk
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Depos. {Salmon Dow
John Durkee
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We the subscribers, both of Hanover, in the county of Grafton and state of New Hampshire, depose and say, that in the year 1781: the time of the revolutionary war: we inlisted as soldiers in Capt. Samuel Paine's company of Militia, in Col. Jonathan Chase's reg. in the line of Militia of New  hampshire, we enlisted for six months; and were stationed at Stratford, upper Coos, so called, in said State of New hampshire, about ninety miles up Connecticut River from said Hanover.
And further say, we were acquainted with a Man, by the name of Oliver Farmer, who was  a soldier in the same company, inlisted at the same time, and discharged at the same time; being six months faithful service. 
N.B. When we knew said Farmer, he went by the name of Elijah Brooks: but since, he calls himself Oliver Farmer
/s/Salmon Dow
/s/John Durkee
State of Newhampshire
Grafton ss Hanover September 3d 1836
Salmon Dow and John Durkee Subscribers to the above declaration made oath that the same is just and true before me 
/s/Elijah Miller, Justice peace
State of Newhampshire Grafton ss Hanover
September 3d 1836 I hereby Certify that I am well Acquainted with the above named deponants and consider them men of truth and veracity 
/s/Elijah Miller Justice Peace
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State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss - I Stephen P. Webster Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature within and for the County of Grafton do hereby certify that Elijah Miller Esq'r before whom the within Deposition were taken is an acting Justice of the peace within and for said County, and has been such for several years, that his attestation is  entitled to faith & credit, and that his signature within written is genuine. - 
[court seal] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Haverhill in said County of Grafton this 5th day of May Anno Domini 1837. 
/s/S. P. Webster Clerk
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34579
Oliver Farmer's Application for a Pension
NH
Act 7. June
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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 Grafton} ss. Bath the 15th day of November 1836.
On this Fifteenth day of November 1836 Personally appeared before the Judge of the Court of Probate for said County of Grafton Oliver Farmer, a resident of Bethlehem in the County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire, aged Seventy two 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the Year 1780 with Captain Samuel Paine as a Substitute for Elijah Brooks & served in his name in the New-Hampshire Militia line, under the following named officers, Samuel Paine Captain, in a Regiment Commanded by Jonathan Chase Esquire as Colonel for the term of Six Months & was Honorably Discharged he thinks that he enlisted in the Spring of the Year & Served over six Months but cannot recollect the Day of his enlistment or Discharge & as he understands the Rolls of the Services of the Militia of the State of New Hampshire are at the War Office he would refer to them for the dates of his service he was Stationed & did duty at Stratford in the upper Coos so Called, now in the County of Coos, for the Purpose of Guarding & Protecting the Frontier Inhabitants from the Depredations of the Enemy, all which time he did duty & answered in the Name of said Elijah Brooks & Drew his Pay in the same Name - He hereby relinquishes ever claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the Present, & he declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of any agency in any State or Terrytory - 
/s/Oliver Farmer
Sworn to & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid in Open Court before me 
/s/Edward Webber Judge of Probate
And the said Court do hereby Declare their opinion, that the above Named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, & served as he states - 
/s/Edward Webber Judge of Probate
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I Moses Dow Clerk of the aforesaid within Mentioned Court of Probate, do hereby certify that the foregoing within contains the Original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Oliver Farmer for a Pension. 
[court seal] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office, this Fifteenth day of November Anno Domini 1836 - 
/s/Moses Dow
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William Parker
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I William Parker of Cornish in the County of Cheshire & State of Newhampshire being sixty six years of Age depose and say that in December in the year seventeen Hundred & seventy six that I enlisted as a Soldier in Capt. Asa Ballard's Company & Colo Asa Whitcomb's Regiment being the fourth Regiment in the Massachusetts line for one year and that Oliver Farmer then of Chelmsford in the State of Massachusetts inlisted as a Soldier in the same Company for one year & that we were messmates and that he Served as a faithful Soldier in said Regiment one year and that we were both discharged together at Tyconderoga at the end of said year and that the said Oliver Farmer & myself both resided in Chelmsford in the State of Massachusetts when we enlisted & that since that time I removed to Cornish in the State of Newhampshire and the said Oliver Farmer to Bath in s'd State of Newhampshire and further saith not
Dated at Peacham this 7th Day of Decr 1819 /s/X his mark William Parker
attest /s/Reuben Blanchard
/s/George W. Blanchard
State of Vermont
Caledonia County ss} Peacham December 7 1819
Then personally appearing William Parker of Cornish in the County of Cheshire & State of New hampshire & after being carefully examined & duly cautioned made Solemn Oath that the foregoing deposition by him Subscribed contains the whole truth & nothing but the truth
Before me /s/Reuben Blanchard Just.
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Grafton ss Feb 28 1828. - I Ira Goodall Depose & say that Reuben Blanchard of Peacham Vt has for several years past acted as a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Caledonia to my knowledge that the within certificate Signature is in his hand writing 
/s/Ira Goodall Jus Peace
State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss. Court of Common Pleas Clerk's Office Feb. 28, 1828
I hereby certify that Ira Goodall Esq whose name appeared above in his own handwriting  with which I am well acquainted is a Justice of the peace for said County of Grafton duly qualified to take affidavits - 
[court seal] Witness my hand & the seal of said Court the day & year above written
/s/Geo Woodward Clerk
[overwritten: Deposition of William Parker]
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[handwritten letter]
Bath 23 February 1838

Respected Sir;
I received yours of the 8th of June last which is as Follows - War Department - Pension Office June 8th 1837 
Sir; I have received the Declaration of Oliver Farmer, and have placed it on the files of this Office, This Claim is supported by the Testimony of Two persons said to be respectable, who Testify, that they were acquainted with a Man by the Name of Oliver Farmer, who was a Soldier in Captain Samuel Paine's Company in which, and at the same time they both served, the witnesses add however to their Affidavit that when we knew ['him' crossed out] said Farmer he went by the Name of Elijah Brooks, but since, he calls himself Oliver Farmer," The name of Elijah Brooks is found upon the Roll, of Captain Samuel Paine's Company, But why a Man known as the Witnesses declare by the name of Farmer should assume that of Brooks is Difficult to account for, No reasons are assigned Either by himself or his Witnesses. It is still a Matter of more surprize, that Mr. Farmer should have so long delayed his Application, surrounded as he is by Persons who were in the Service with him. Before any favourable action can be had on his Claim, a full explanation will be required, and Also Proof of his Identity. I am Respectfully, your Obedient Servant - J. L. Edwards General Moody Bedel - Bath New Hampshire - 
The Deposition of the said John Durkee & Salmon Dow herewith Enclosed, I think Identifies the said Farmer sufficient to satisfy you on that Hand - the name of Elijah Brooks being found on the Roll, I think is sufficient to satisfy you that the Declaration of the said Oliver Farmer is Correct, for he could not have stated it, if it was not actually the case, & this from his own knowledge, for he could not have Obtained it from any other source, and the witnesses confirm the facts. And their Credibility cannot be Disputed by any Person, with Truth. One of them, John Durkee, has been the Representative from the Capital Town of Hanover for a number of years.
Likewise a Senator from District No. 12 & is & has been a 
[margin note: 7 Reg't Jonas Parker 14 Jany 77 - Capt. 5 July 79]
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[handwritten letter continued]
a long time a Respectable Justice of the Peace. and the other Mr. Salmon Dow, is no way Inferior as to Credibility he is a Wealthy Respectable Farmer (as the old saying is) the Salt of the Earth, an Honest Man - You say but why a Man by the name of Farmer should assume the Name of Brooks is Difficult to account for, no reasons are assigned either by himself or his Witnesses. the Witnesses did not, while in the service know him but by the name of Brooks & now of late by that of Farmer - but they have no hesitancy in saying he is the Identical Person that Performed the service, & the Person that Performed the service, is, if I understand the Law, & the Rules & Regulations of Your Department the Person who is Entitled to the Benefits of a Pension. 
But if I am not in an Error Mr. Farmer Stated in his Declaration, that he Enlisted or Entered the Service as a Substitute for Elijah Brooks, & served in & answered to that name During said service, & at the end Signed that name, to the Roll & received his Pay from the State of New-Hampshire - if it is not Tantamount to this in the Declaration, I have made a Mistake unintentionally for it was his Statement as near as I can recollect - & I think you will find it so stated in his Declaration & if so it will clear up a part of the Objection - if it is not so, all I can say it ought to be so - & lastly for a full Explanation why, said Farmer has Delayed his Application so long, Surrounded as he is by Persons who served with him - the two Witnesses are ['one' crossed out] all that is known of, to be Alive but himself, & the reason for the Delay of Mr. Farmer's Application is that he Applied to Ira Goodall Esquire to assist him in  Obtaining a Pension under the Act of 1818 and Stated the whole of his services, not only the aforesaid service, but also one year in Captain Asa Ballard's Company Lieutenant James Parker Lieutenant Alexander & Ensign Jenison, in Colonel Asa Whitcomb's Regiment in
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[handwritten letter continued]
in the Massachusetts line, & under General Gates, he Enlisted in December 1776 & served at Roxbury untill Gen'l Washington arrived, & went with him into Boston, when the British Evacuated that City - & after that he marched to Ticonderoga was at the takeing of General Burgoin's (Burgoyne) Army - & in Both Battles at that Place in 1777 & after being Honorably Discharged for the years service. 
That he Enlisted under Lieutenant Chambers in Capt. John Lane's Company for Three Years in the 4th Company & 4th Regiment in the Massachusetts line in Colonel Nixon's Regiment - & Marched from Boston to Fishkill, Albany, West Point & there Ended his Service - Esquire Goodall Chose the last mentioned service for to Predicate his Declaration upon, it being as he Supposed a Continental Regiment & forwarded the same to the Department & as he says had  an answer that the said Farmer was Reported & Entered on the Roll as a Deserter - But that you Informed Esquire Goodall that if he the said Farmer could make it appear that he returned & served his time out it would show that he was Pardoned, & that he would be allowed a Pension - Mr. Farmer states that he had a furlow to go home, about one Year after he Enlisted, and that on his return to the Army, he was taken sick, & was confined a few days, & when able, he had to work to pay the Expenses of his Nursing, and when he arrived to his Company, found that he had been reported as a Deserter, but after telling his story, he  says that his Lieu't Promised him that the should be placed on good footing, that he the said Farmer said & served his time out & received an Honorable Discharge, and that after the War, while at Work a Clearing Land, makeing use of Fire, his Coat which was at a Distance from him, & Contained his Pockett Book in which his Discharge was, the Coat took fire, & all was Consumed together - Sir: you see the situation of the Old Gentleman, if he tells the truth, or a Considerable part of it, which I Candidly believe knowing as I do, that he was spent a great deal of time, Traveling around
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[handwritten letter continued]
around the Country, in order to find some Person or Persons who served as Contemporarys with him as Soldiers to Prove his return to the Army, but says that he has failed - & that his Money Strength and Health is gone, and that he could not do anything more in the Goodall case as he called it - if Mr. Farmer tells the truth, I think his name must be found on the roll or rolls after his return, it being as he says Two Years, but is his name cannot be found on the roll, after the report of Desertion, he must fail on that head, not being able to Procure Proof & as he has not the Privilege of Searching the records your Department must Decide the case, Esq'r Goodall Informs me that the Declaration or application refered to, which was forwarded by him, is at the Department, that being refered to, will give full Satisfaction for the delay of the Present one, Mr. Farmer informs me, that the said Brooks when he Enlisted Lived in the Back Part of Plainfield, a Town, next but one below Hanover, in which Town of Plainfield, the said Farmer Likewise Lived, at the time, & the said Farmer says that the was requested by the said Brooks, to take his Place, as a Substitute in the said Capt. Paine's Company, untill he the said Brooks could arange some Business that was Necessary to be done before he could leave home, & again to Pay said Farmer five Dollars a Month for what time he should serve as a Substitute for him, in Addition to the Monthly pay and that they Both repaired to Cap't Paine's Head Quarters at Hanover & that Cap't Paine agreed to accept of said Farmer in said Brookses stead as a substitute, & that Cap't Paine told said Farmer that he must answer to the Name of Elijah Brooks untill the said Brooks joined the Company, & relieved him which the said Farmer says he agreed to, and did do it being Expected that that the said Brooks would join said Company in one or Two Months, but as he did not, said Farmer continued the Campai(g)n out, & received the Pay in the Name of Elijah Brooks, & signed that Name to the Roll - & said Farmer says that the first he heard of said Brooks was that he Died within one Month of the time of their Parting, while on a Journey on the Business which he staid at home in order to do, & which was the situation of his having said Farmer to served as his Substitute - Then Sir; I have Endeavoured to give you a full Explanation of Mr. Farmer's Case & hope & believe it will be Satisfactory & shall Expect an answer as soon as you can make it convenient - Yours with Respect & Esteem - 
/s/Moody Bedel
Honorable J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions 

12 Regt Asa Ballard - Ensign 7 feb 77 Lt 5 July 79 -
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This may Certify to Whom it may Concern that We are acquainted with Mr. Oliver Farmer an Inhabitant of this Town and are of Opinion that he is not Possessed an Owner of any Property Except his Wearing Apparel & that he Very Ordinary as Witness our hands
Bath 14th March 1826 
/s/John Clement
/s/Sam'l Minot
/s/John H. Carter} Select Men of Bath
Grafton ss Feb 29 I hereby certify that the signers of the foregoing were to my knowledge Selectmen of Bath March 14 1826 & that the name of each is in his own hand writing & I have no doubt of the truth of their certificate above signed
/s/Ira Goodall
Grafton ss Court. Com. Pleas
Feb. two 1828
Sworn to in open Court /s/Geo Woodward Clerk
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Act of June 7, 1832. 
Rejected Claim of Oliver Farmer dec. 
(N.H.)
Power of Attorney to examine claim
Col. Anderson
Chas. C. Tucker
Atty Present
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Know all men by these Presents that I Anna Clement of Manchester in the County of Hillsborough & State of New Hampshire widow, and a Child of Oliver Farmer who was a Soldier in the Revolutionary, and I hereby nominate and appoint Charles C. Tucker Esqr of Washington D.C. my true and lawfull Agent & Attorney for me and in my name to search the Records and Rolls in the Pension Office in s'd Washington or else where in order to find the name of my s'd Father and to ascertain whether his name is to be found on s'd Records or files and whether I can obtain the Pension as my Father is dead. When he first enlisted he was a minor - And afterward he enlisted and served as a substitute for Elijah Brooks and was his Substitute when discharged when the war ended. And I do authorize my s'd Attorney to search the Records and to do all things necessary for the purpose of ascertaining all the facts & particulars, relating to s'd service. 
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this twenty fifth day of January Eighteen hundred & fifty four - 
/s/Ann Clement [seal]
In presence of R. H. French} 
Hillsborough ss. On this twenty fifth day of January 18th personally appeared the above named Ann Clement & acknowledged the above to be her free act & deed
Before me /s/R. H. French Justice of the Peace.
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Affidavit of Levi Parker.
Oliver Farmer Died 6. Apl. 1844. 
Ch's C. Tucker Atty Present
Aug 23/54
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State of New Hampshire.
Secretary's Office, Concord.
Aug. 14, 1854
I hereby certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation Ithiel Young was a Justice of the Peace for the county of Grafton in the said State duly commissioned and qualified; and that to his acts and attestations as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court. 
In testimony whereof., I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the State, the date above written. 
/s/John L. Hadley Secretary of State
[state seal]
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I Levi Parker of Lisbon in the County of Grafton & State of Newhampshire Esqr do testify and say that I was well acquainted with Oliver Farmer who I have no doubt served in the war of the revolution. the said Oliver Farmer died in Franconia in the County of Coos - in this State on the sixth day of April one thousand Eight hundred and forty four 
I had the charge and superintendance of the said Oliver Farmer's affairs & paid the expense of his funeral. I am well acquainted with his children now living, viz Jeremiah and some of his daughters. the said Oliver Farmer left no widow she having died some years before him. Said Oliver Farmer was very poor at the time of his death & left no property
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this Eight day of July Eighteen hundred and fifty four 
/s/Levi Parker
In presence of 
/s/Artemas Wells
/s/Ithiel Young
State of New hampshire
County of Grafton ss July 8th 1854 Then Levi Parker made solemn oath that the above declaration by him subscribed is true
Before me /s/Ithiel Young, Just. Peace
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William V. Hutchins Affidavit.
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State of New Hampshire.
Secretary's Office, Concord.
June 15, 1854
I hereby certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation Isaac Patterson was a Justice of the Peace for the county of Grafton in the said State duly commissioned and qualified; and that to his acts and attestations as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
[state seal] In testimony whereof., I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the State, the date above written.
/s/John L. Hadley 
Secretary of State.
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I Abram Thomas of Bath in the County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire of the age of 72 years depose and say, that I was acquainted with Oliver Farmer formerly a resident in said Bath, where he resided many years - I was also acquainted with his family, viz. Jerrydiah (Jerediah) Farmer, who now lives in Bethlehem N.H. Hannah Farmer who afterwards married Daniel Hunt - said Hunt is deceased and said Hannah now resides with her brother Jerrydiah (Jerediah) Farmer aforesaid - Polly Farmer, who married Samuel Kincaid and now lives with her husband in Concord in the County of Merrimack & State aforesaid - Ann Farmer, now widow of Christopher Clement who lives in Manchester N.H. - and Levi Farmer supposed to be deceased. all the aforesaid Children of said Oliver Farmer - 
According to my best knowledge and belief said Oliver Farmer died in Franconia N.H. Sometime in the 1844, his wife having died some years before, & he never afterwards married - 
And that the above named Jerrydiah (Jerediah) Farmer, Hannah Hunt - Polly Kincaid & Ann Clement are the only children of said Oliver Farmer, who are now living according to my best knowledge and belief - 
/s/Abram Thomas
State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss: Bath, June 12th 1854
Subscribed and sworn to before me,
/s/Isaac Patterson, Justice of the Peace
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I William V. Hutchins of Bath in the County of Grafton & State of New Hampshire of lawful age depose and say, that I was acquainted with Oliver Farmer, who formerly lived in said Bath - I was also acquainted with his children, Jerrydiah (Jerediah) Farmer & his daughters Hannah - Polly & Ann - also with his son, Levi supposed to be deceased - Said Oliver Farmer is deceased - he died in Franconia according to my best knowledge and belief in 1844 - and that the above named Jerrydiah (Jerediah) Farmer & Hannah, widow of Daniel Hunt, Polly Kincaid & Ann Clement, are the only children of said Oliver, who are now living according to my best knowledge & belief - Said Oliver Farmer's wife died many years since as I believe - I never heard said Oliver Farmer marrying again after his wife died - In regard to Levi Farmer I have heard a report of his death but I do not know as to the truth of said report
/s/William V. Hutchins
State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss: Bath, June 12th. 1854
Subscribed & sworn to before me 
/s/Isaac Patterson, Justice of the Peace
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[handwritten letter]
Dept Int. Aug't 30, '54

Sir.
The Secretary of the Interior directs me to request, that you will transmit to him. all the papers in the case of Oliver Farmer, who enlisted under the name of Elisha Brooks.
I have the honor to be With great Respect Yr Obt Svt
/s/R. Pritchell Clk.
S. Cole Esq
Act'g Com'r Pensions
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[handwritten letter]
Hon. L. P. Waldo,
Commissioner of Pensions. 

Sir:
I have the honor to enclose herewith, a Certificate of Court in the case of Oliver Farmer, dec'd (see your letter to me of 11th May last.)
Allow me to remark that I sent very full and clear instructions, and yet the Register has not made the Certificate as full as he ought; but I trust the Affidavit of Levi Parker, also sent, shewing that he died 6 Apl. 1844, will, with the other papers, be satisfactory. 
Mrs. Clement desires the return of her Letters of Administration. Please enclose them to me with the Pension Certificate.
Very Respectfully, Your Ob't Serv't 
/s/Chas. C. Tucker - Attorney.
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BRIEF IN THE CASE OF Oliver Farmer, dec. Grafton County and State of New Hampshire.
act June 7, 1832. 
CLAIM, ("original," or "for increase.) [blank]
PROOF EXHIBITED, (if original.) Original. 
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance. 
In this case the service in Capt. Paine's company for six months, is sustained by the Certificate of the Secretary of the State of New Hampshire, taken from the Revolutionary Records in his office: and his identity with said service by the ['(If for increase.) Has the additional evidence been filed since the admission of this claim? If so, what?' crossed out] affidavits of Solomon (Salmon) Dow and John Durkee, who are pensioners on the Roll of New Hampshire under the Act of June 7, 1832. Their testimony is clear and direct. They state that Oliver Farmer, under the name of Elijah Brooks, enlisted into Paine's company at the same time they did, and was discharged at the same time. There is also other parole proof. The evidence of death and heirship is in accordance with the regulations. 
Examining Clerk. /s/Ogden Niles
Name and residence of Agent. 
C. C. Tucker, Present.
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[handwritten letter]
Secretary's Office. 
Concord March 17, 1854.

Sir, 
Yours of the 13th inst. has been received. 
In reply I have to inform you that I have exd. the Revolutionary Rolls in this office and find the name of Elijah Brooks borne upon a "Muster Roll of Capt. Samuel Paine's Compy. of State Troops in the service of the United States of America under the command of Major Benja. Whitcomb," as a private - lnlisted June 18 - "What Term," "six months"; "Remarks", "present."
Dated "Haverhill 15th Novr. 17680 - Then mustered Capt. Saml. Paine's Compy. of State Troops as specified in above Roll. George Aldrich, Capt."
And upon a "Pay Roll for Capt. Samuel Paine's Company raised by the State of New Hampshire for the defence of the western frontiers and placed under the command of Major Benja. Whitcomb at Coos 1780 made up agreeable to a vote of the General Court passed Septemr.
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[handwritten letter continued]
1. 1781," is borne the name of Elijah Brooks, and against his name for "Balance in a Pay Roll made up at 67 for one" is £694, "Reduced to good money" 10.7.2; "Interest from Jany 1, 1781 to Sept. 1, 1781. 0.8.3; "Amount in good money", 10.15.5 $35:83 45
The foregoing embraces all the service I find on the Rolls in this office credited to the name of Elijah Brooks.
The name of Abijah Brooks I do not find. 
Very respectfully, yr. obt. servant, 
/s/John L. Hadley, Sec. of State 
Fees $1.00 which you may remit by mail}
R. H. French Esq.
Manchester N.H. 
[margin note: 10.00/3=33]
See the cases of Solomon (Salmon) Dow & John Durkee, New Hampshire 1832 Act. They show that the term of Paine's service was 6 months. 
May 11, 1854 W.O.
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[handwritten letter]
Washington City 6th May 1854. 

Hon. L. P. Waldo,
Commissioner of Pensions. 

Sir: 
In the last clause of your letter to me of 19th ult. relative to the claim of Oliver Farmer dec'd, Act 7. June 1832, you say, "There is not sufficient service since the date of his desertion [8. Dec. '77] identified as having been performed by him, to entitle the present claimants to pension."
In arriving at this conclusion, you have doubtless overlooked the fact that in 1836, Salmon Dow and John Durkee, both Pensioners, testified that they served with the same Oliver Farmer in Capt. Paine's Co. who answered to the name of Elijah Brooks; and also the fact that on March 17, 1854, the Secretary of New Hampshire certified to a 6 months enlistment of Elijah Brooks, 18 June 1780, in Capt. Paine's Company, and a payment of £10.15.5 for said service. Besides this, the Secretary of Massachusetts on 10th March last, certified to service of Oliver Farmer, ten months, up to 15. Nov. 1776, and also to 4 months 20 days in 1778, and 3 months and 22 days in 1781. Under the circumstances, it would seem hard to deny an allowance for the ten months in 1776, (which would make full pension) but even without this, we have proven 14 months 12 days service since Dec. 1777, and trust you will allow for that amount if no more. Please favor me with an early decision. 
I have the honor to be, Very Respectfully, Yr. Ob't St.
/s/Chas. C. Tucker, 
Attorney.
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[handwritten letter]
Bath 8th May 1837

Sir:
Inclosed you will find an application of Oliver Farmer for a Pension, & if you find the Rolls as he thinks they are in the Name of Elijah Brooks as he states that he did the service for him & in his name I think you will consider him Properly Entitled to the same an answer as soon as Convenient is solicited by your Humble Serv't - 
/s/Moody Bedel
Hon'ble J. L. Edwards Esq'r
Commissioner of Pensions
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[addressed envelope]
[margin notes: Rec'd 5 May 1828
20624
Oliver Farmer
Grafton County N.H. 
Act 18 March 1818
Rejected 
See letter 7 May 1828 to Geo Woodward Esq
Haverhill N.H.]
Hanover N.H. 
April 28 free
Pension Office
Department of War 
Washington.
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[duplicate of p 59]
[addressed envelope]
[margin notes: Rec'd 5 May 1828
20624
Oliver Farmer
Grafton County N.H.
Act 18 March 1818
Rejected
See letter 7 May 1828 to Geo Woodward Esq
Haverhill N.H.]
Hanover N.H.
April 28 free
Pension Office
Department of War
Washington.
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[handwritten letter]
Washington, Feby 8th 1855. 

Hon. L. P. Waldo.
Com'r of Pensions. 
We herewith enclose a Power of Attorney, authorising us to prosecute the claim of Oliver Farmer, for increase. Sec. New Hampshire, roll, Act 7th June 1832. No. 33.268. 
He has been  allowed for 6 months service under Capt. Paine, Col. Whitcomb, where he served under the assumed name of Elijah Brooks. 
If he be the person, who served, as set forth in the certificate of the Secy of Mass, there should be an allowance of a full pension. 
We would call your attention to his declaration made in 1819, and also to the deposition of William Parker, made on the 7th Decr 1819. - His declaration made on the 16. Oct 1832, should also claim your attention. 
Very respectfully 
/s/F. S. Evans for H. G. Fant.
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[handwritten letter]
Pension Office
August 30th. 1834.}
Sir:
In reply to your inquiry, I have the honor to submit, herewith, the Certificate of the Secretary of the State of New Hampshire shewing that a soldier named Elijah Brooks served in the Company of Captain Paine, of that State, in 1780, and the joint affidavit of Solomon (Salmon) Dow and John Durkee, who, as stated in the brief submitted, have been pensioned for service in that Company, which identifies Oliver Farmer as the soldier who served under that name. 
I have the honor to be Very Respectfully, Your Obt. Servant, 
/s/S. Cole
Acting Commissioner
Hon. K. McClelland
Secretary of the Interior}
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[handwritten letter]
Washington D.C. April 12, 1854.

Hon. Loren P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions,

Sir, 
I send herewith additional evidence for the Claim under the Act of 1832. of Oliver Farmer (dec) of New Hampshire. 
Record evidence  of 10 months and 15 days service in Capt. Ballard's Co. Col. Whitcomb's Regiment is enclosed. The identity of the claimant with the soldier whose name appears on record is proven by the testimony now on file of William Parker who served with the soldier. I send also record evidence of the service under Capt. Samuel Paine of N.H. The identity of the claimant will be found proven by the testimony of John Durkee and Salmon Dow, both of whom served with him. - 
The Claimant also claimed for three years service under Capt. Lamb. But as he is returned as a deserter from this Company, and we are unable to present any evidence showing that he returned to service after he was reported as deserted, the claim for this service is abandoned. 
Very respectfully Your Obt Servt. 
Chas. C. Tucker. -
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Oliver Farmer
NH
See Let Moody Bedel 
June 8, 1837
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New Hampshire Roll. 
Oliver Farmer, dec who was a private New Hampshire troops.
Ad Act June 7, 1832. 
6 mo private. 
$20 per ann. 
Com March 4, 1831,
End April 6, 1844, when he died 
Payable to Ann Clement, Administratrix - case of Jerrydiah (Jerediah) Farmer, Hannah Hunt, Ann Clement, Polly Kincaid, & Levi Farmer, only surviving children &c. 
C. C. Tucker, Present.}
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Oliver Farmer
N. Hampshire
Act 7 June 1832
Deserted
Rejected 11 Decr 1832
see letter to Hon. H. Hubbard HR
Page 67

let Dec. 6, 1833 Hon. R. Burns H.R.
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['20,624' crossed out] 34579
Oliver Farmer, N.H. 
N.H. 
Let. to Moody Bedel, July 16 '38
Let. C. C. Tucker, April 19.54
  "  same May 11.54
1832
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[typewritten letter]
R. B. SOPER. F. E. ALLEN. E. A. MORLING.
[margin note: F] ['OFFICE OF
Soper, Allen & Morling,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.' crossed out]

COPY. ['EMMETSBURG, IOWA,' crossed out] Sioux Rapids, Iowa, Oct. 14, 1893.

E. B. Soper, Esq. 
Emmetsburg, Iowa.

Dear Sir; - My grandfather, Oliver Farmer, was seven years in the Revolution; a part of the time as an enlisted man and a part of the time in charge of the beef supplies. There he enlisted, I cannot tell. people lived in New Hampshire, came from Mass. My aunts got a pension some back pay, twenty, or something of the kind, as I can well remember my father signing papers, I think to help my aunt to get some money and I heard them talk over and over the number of years he was in the old war, and have heard my father tell many a story repeated from grandfather's war record. But I don't know anything about it and hardly think it worth looking up, as I would not know where to commence
Very respectfully yours,
(I.) J. P. Farmer. 
[receipt stamp: U.S. PENSION OFFICE OCT 23 1893]
[receipt stamp: U.S. PENSION OFFICE OCT 23 1893]
[receipt stamp: U.S.P.B. OLD WAR & NAVY FILES OCT 25 1893]
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[typewritten letter]
R. B. SOPER. F. E. ALLEN. E. A. MORLING.
[initials: own] OFFICE OF 
Soper, Allen & Morling, 
ATTORNEYS AT LAW. 

EMMETSBURG, IOWA, Oct. 20, 1893. 

Hon. Comm. of Pensions,
Washington, D. C. [margin note: S.17409]

Dear Sir;-
The Iowa society of the Sons of the American Revolution has been recently organized, and we are endeavoring to obtain eligible recruits from persons in the state. There has been assigned to me something like twenty counties in Northwestern Iowa in which to look eligible persons and get them to come into the society, I have received a letter from Mr. J. P. Farmer, President of the Bank of Sioux Rapids a copy of which is herewith enclosed. Will you have the kindness to have search made in your office for the record of the military services of his grandfather Oliver Farmer and report to him at Sioux Rapids? We have sent him a blank application to membership in the society and he will
await your report.
(I.) Yours truly, 
/s/E. B. Soper 
Treas Com.