Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16, 886, Warren Carpenter, New York
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SERVICE
New York.

Carpenter, Warren Jerusha

NUMBER
W. 16.886
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[unknown] Gates
5 May 1840

let to Ro. Gauks
June 22 47
Let to same Lefel 2-47
Let to Sam B. Tucker
Apr 27 50
Sam Alay 17 St
[unknown]
Oct 24, 1851
[unknown]

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Albany 3,300
Jerusha Carpenter
widow of Warren Carpenter
who died on the 21 April 1830
of Cayuga Co. in the State of New York
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Gray of the [unknown] commanded by
Col. Willett in the N. York N.Y.
time for 8 months

Inscribed in the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of April
1860 and sent to Hon S. M. Gates

Arrears to the 4th of March 1960 239.94
Semi-annual allowance ending 13.33
$253.29

Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836
Section the 3

D. Brown Clerk
A Vol. 2 Page 207
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May 1 25
A
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State of New York
Herkimer County Ss:

On the second day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five personally appearing in open court of the court of common pleas being a court according to the constitution and laws of the state of New York in and for the county of Herkimer being a court of record for the said county, Warren Carpenter aged sixty three years resident of the town of Russia in the county aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war that he's company of infantry in the same regiment  enlisted in the month April 1778 in Capt Jobe Wrights company of Infantry in Col McHensters Regiment New York line and was employed in forwarding provisions A forage to the army + being of the United States, that he served nine months and was discharged that in the spring of 1779 he enlisted in Capt Holl Dunham's company of infantry in the same regiment and marching to Saratoga where he was put under the command of Capt Silas Grey and remaining on that station for nine months and was then discharged that the above mentioned service was [  ] on the Continental establishment. And I do solumnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof to diminish it so as to being myself within the provisions of an act of congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land + Naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on the Eighteenth day of March 1818. And that I have not now any other persons intrusted for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income whatsoever of any kind except what is containing in the Schedule hereunto annexed, wearing apparel and Bedding excepting that my family consists of myself aged sixty three years my wife Jerusha aged fifty nine years and  my son Isaac agree seventeen years, that by occupation I am a farmer of which old age and infirmity prevents me from being able to support my family by hand laborer, That my property consists of thirty seven acres of poor land incumbered with a mortgage to mainly the value of it.
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A Schedule of property

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one cow $15.00
one old one horse wagon 5.00
one old Plough 1.00
one chain 1.00
one yearling calf 3.00
Three Sheep 4.00
Two small young hogs 2.00
one old horse 12.00

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six old kitchen chairs $0.75
One old table 1.00
one old chest .50
two old Barrels 1.00
two old water pails .25
old file shovel + tongs .50
one old trammel  .25
$47.25

Sworn to in open Court this 5th day of May 1825 before me Edmond Lamry  Judge of Herkimer common pleas
Warren Carpenter
State of New York
We the undersigned Judges of the Court of Common pleas in + for the county of Herkimer in open court at its [  ] [  ] do certify that we are of opinion that the above named Warren Carpenter has no property either real or personal except the property above set forth in said schedule and that the value of the personal property containing  in said schedule is forty seven dollars + twenty five cents May 5th 1825.
Hercim bolton
Landers Lansing
John Malcon
Edmond Lamey
Judges of the court of com. pleas

Filed May 6, 1825
Herkimer County Clerks Office Ss:
I hereby certify that the above is a full and correct copy of a record on file in this office. In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand + affixed the seal of said County September 4th AD 1839
E.A Munson Depy for John Dygert Clerk
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4461 B
Jerusha Carpenter
NY
Act 4 July '36

Married Apl 1780
Husband died 21 Apl 1830

Col Willett
Capt Gray

Admitted
Private 8 months

Hon. S M. Gates
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State of New York
County of Cayuga

On this thirteenth day of April, 1839, personally appeared before John P. Hullbert one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Cayuga, Jerusha Carpenter, a resident of Elbridge in the county of Onondaga and State of New York aged seventy three years who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth under oath, make the following dedication in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 11th, 1836; that she is the widow of Warren Carpenter who was a private in the army of the Revolution and who served, according to the best of this declarant knowledge recollection under Captain Holt Dunham and an officer of the name of Grey and general Schuyler and that he served during the war and in the vicinity of Stillwater and Saratoga in the State of New York; that this declarant has the documentary evidence in the support of the Claims in this behalf, that her said husband, Warren Carpenter about fourteen years ago made application of the War Department for a pension; from Rifkin, Herkimer county in the state of New York where he then resided. Be it that one Elisha Hall, of that place sent an objection to the said pension on account of his, the said Warren Carpenter’s alleged property + his said application for such pension was, by reason thereof refused and the further declares that she was married to the said Warren Carpenter, in the month of April in the year Seventeen Hundred and Eighty; that her husband the aforementioned Warren Carpenter died on the twenty first day of April 1830, and that she has remained a widow  ever since that period [ineligible] that her said husband served from the commencement to the close of said war. 

Servants and subscribed before and on the day and years above written and I, further certify that the said declarant, Jerusha Carpenter is unable from bodily infirmity to attend court

John Hullbert
Supreme Court Commisionary 
And Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Cayuga County Attest Henry Millard.
Jerusha her mark Carpenter
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State of New York
Cayuga County

I, William Richardson Clerk of the County of Cayuga and the Court of Common Pleas therein, do herby certify that John P. Hulbert is a judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Cayuga aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified that his signature above is genuine. 
Given under my hand and the seal of the said county this 13th day of April 1839

Geo Warren Foster Dep clerk
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State of New York
Niagara county Ss: Jotham Carpenter of Royalton in the county of Niagara + state of New York, being duly sworn deposeth + saith that he was a brother of Warren Carpenter or Warren Carpenter, junior, Sometimes called + that said Warren Carpenter was a revolutionary soldier, + served in the revolutionary war; which this deponent was knowing to; that he this deponent during his said service, at a certain period, took his place therein, + served for him the said Warren Carpenter, who returned home; that his said brother Warren Carpenter intermarried with Jerusha Carpenter, now of Elbridge, State of New York, in the year 1780; he this deponent having been present at their marriage: that said Warren Carpenter, died at Elbridge aforesaid in the monthe of March, 1830.
Jotham Carpenter (his X mark)
AJ Prentice J.P. witness
Sworn and subscribed before me this 9th day of March 1839.
And I further certify, that I am well acquainted with the said named deponent Jotham Carpenter,+ that he is a credible person + his Statement entitled to belief. 
A.J. Prentice JP.
I. Hirum A. Cook clerk of the county of Niagara in the state of New York, + of the Court of common pleas thereof do certify that Alonzo T. Prentice is a magistrate as above + that the foregoing signature purporting to be his, is genuine. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office + subscribed my name this 9th day of March in the year, 1839.
H.A Cook clerk
By A.G. White deputy
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State of New York
Cayuga County
Ss:
Isaac Carpenter of the
City of Auburn in said
County of Cayuga being
duly sworn deposes and
says that he is one of seven children The lawful
heirs of Warren Carpenter and Jerusha Capentter
late of Elbrige Onondago County now deceased; That the
names and respective ages of the said seven
children are, viz: Dareas Carpenter now the wife of Nathaniel Gage of Red Creek in the Town of Wolcott Wayne County New York That the said Dareas is sixty two years of age; Margaret Carpenter aged fifty
nine years now the wife of Johnathan Shaw of Her
=kimer County N. York- Roba Carpenter now
dead late the wife of Daniel Popple of Russia
Herkimer County N. York; That the said Roba left
a son and heir viz: Charles Popple age Twenty eight years
who resides with his father at Russia aforesaid;
William Carpenter aged Fifty two years
of the
Town of Russia Herkimer aforesaid, John Carpenter
aged forty eight years of the Town of Elbrige Onondaga
County New York;
Betsy Carpenter aged
forty five years now the wife of Silas Dutcher
of Galen Wayne County aforesaid and Isaac
Carpenter aged forty three years
That none of the above named heirs have joined
in this application except this deponent and
Nathaniel Gage and his wife Dorcas of Walcott
Wayne County aforesaid; That the said Nathaniel
and his wife Dorcas have united with this depo
nant and created and appointed Samuel B Tucker
Esqr of the City Auburn our true and lawful
attorney, to prosecute all and every the claim or
claims which may arise in the premises for pens
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pension claims or back pay either on account of the services rendered by the said Warren Carpenter or for account of the half pay of the said Jerusha Carpenter
This deponent would farther represent to the commission now in charge That the said Warren Carpenter was a soldier of the revolution as will more fully appear reference being had to the papers of the said Warren now in the department at Washington;
That the said Warren made an application on the 5th of May 1825 at the county of Herkimer New York in open court under and as required by the act of the 18th March 1818 To the Government of the United States for a pension for service rendered the said Government viz  For nine months during the year 1778 under Captain Job Wright Commanded by Colonel McKinster of the New York line; also for nine months service during the year 1779 under Captain Holtham Dunham and being transfered to Captain Silas Grey at Saratoga: Deponent thinks the Regement was commanded by Col McKinster aforesaid
That the said application was got up in the ordinary course prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior as appears from the signature of the judges who comparsed the bench being attached to the application
And this deponent further says that as he is informed and verily believes, the application of his fathers the said Warren Carpenter made so above said on the 5th May 1825 was rejected by the Commission of  Pensions on account of property qualification and that subsequently to this period the said Warren Carpenter never made any effort or
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application to open the testimony or to prosecute the claim although the property restitution had been removed. But that he became needy afterwards and sickening, died at Elbrigs in the County of Onondaga New York in 1831.
Deponent cannot conceive why the commissioner of pensions should boor rejected the claim on property limitation while the means of the said Warren was so very limited at the time of the application and that it does not appear by the tenor of the application of the said Warren Carpenter that he was in abhorrent circumstances or even a mediocrity but that he had property enough by the constant labour of himself wife and children to keep his family clothed comfortable and provisioned, and beyond the reach of daily want. Which the family of so many children would have soon have experienced had physical application ceased for a short period. Thus this might mountain; deponent is happy to say has dwindled to a mole hill. That is to say a small parent of thirty seven arms of poor laud worth  on an average  5 total $ per acre say making the gross amount $370. On which Mr Commissioner Edwards rejected a claim for eighteen months hard service to which add every species of hardship and monthly pay in continental money. Which was perfectly worthless and it is not doubted that the Government would find the services of soldiers enlisted and employed at that period much cheaper than those composing the army under the present arrangement. This deponent would further show that every mans time is valued at some rate and that had the said Warren Carpenter at the period of aforesaid viz 1779 have wroght at manual labour for eight
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-teen months at $16 per month the amount given labourers at that period it would have amounted to $288. The interest on which at 7 percent for the intermediate time to the present would have amounted to $143.42 making an aggregate of $434.42 which his children would have been entitled to under the common law and deponent has a confidence in General Government that it will meet out the same Justice at least that might be obtained at Common Law. 
And deponent would further state that the said Jerusha Carpenter the widow aforesaid by Henry Millard Esq (now deceased) her attorney did make application in the spring of 1839 to the pension office for a pension due to her as relic of said Warren for services rendered during the war of the Revolution. That the claim was prosecuted for a course of years with some success and that in 1847 the commissioner of pensions viz Jas L. Edwards did allow the said Jerusha a pension on Eight months services rendered by the said Warren. Although the proof in the premises from which the eight months service was exhausted was for two separate parcels of nine months each as will more fully appear referenced being had to the applications of said Warren and the said Jerusha. In which is set forth a certificate from the comptroller of the  State of New York showing that Warren Carpenter did receive in payment Nov 12 1780 2-16 for services rendered the Government as a soldier in the regular line of New York which must have performed prior to the period at which payment was made and undoubtedly as part payment or for an unliquidated balance due
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702

the said Warren from the State of New York aforesaid this is added another certificate of the comptroller aforesaid showing a further payment made to the said Warren Carpenter of 18-13-4 on the 3 Oct 1781. One year and eighteen days subsequent to the former payment; Thereby showing a period of service prior to the last and subsequent to the former payment which deponent would suggest is similar to the Virginia half pay and commutation and therefore he also claimed among other matters in this showing. 
Deponent further shows that the above payments must be considered in the amount as two separate payments for the two distinct periods of service or the former must be considered in the light of a bounty; which to wit the money paid soldiers on enlistment and which is not entered by the Treasurer of the state of New York except to a specific amount; again the two entries would not have been so far removed as one year from each other. 
Deponent would further show that the said Jerusha did receive a pension from the Government of the United States of $26.66 as per Letter from J.L. Edwards. So deponents attorney Samuel B. Lurker learning date 27 November 1850 a copy of which is hereto attached Marked. 
That he said Jerusha Carpenter lingered sickened and died on the nineteenth day of July 1848 at Elbrige aforesaid having resided with this deponents Brother at Elbrige most of the time since the death of the said Warren. Deponent is at a loss to determine whether the commissioners allowed the pension to the said Jerusha on the former of the nine months
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Service or on the latter of the said nine months or on a fractional portion of each.  That by the act 4th July 1836 explanatory of the act 7 June 1832 a private is entitled to ninety six dollars per annum which is in accordance with the spirit of the act of the 24 April 1816 defining the full pay of a private to be $8.00 per month. Deponent further shows that in allowing the said Jerusha the least possible gratuity as a pension on services rendered by Warren Carpenter her husband. The former officers of the Pension office gave character to the claims of Warren Carpenter or his heirs to a full pension for the period corresponding to that for which the acknowledgement was made or the pension stipulated to the said Jerusha was granted his for Eight months thereby exceeding six months by two and securing to the heirs of the said Warren Carpenter and annuity of ninety six dollars from the date of his said application 5 May 1825 until the time of his demise in 1831 equivalent to $576. And allowing the two periods of nine months each it is easy to carry the claim back to 1781 and then the Annuity would cover the ground between that period and that of his death in 1831. If we add to the above the half pay and commutation the agregate will be much increased
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Deponent would farther show to the department that deponent has in possession a letter Dated at Lake Mills Wisconsin 8 Oct 1846 addressed to Hon Leo Rothbun who was at that time a member of Congress from this congressional district Which although it is not covered by the form of an oath nevertheless is in the opinion of this deponent strictly true, as such deponent will cloth it with such credence as the nature of the Case and the unknown resadince of Mr Nattian Sheffield will justify in the premises which is hereto attached with the affidavits sustaining its reputation accompanying By the said letter it seem established without a doubt that Warren Carpenter performed eighteen months service in the New York line This letter testimony though circumstantial in its base is corroborative of the direct vis; the comptrollers certificate although given at a large distance from the Capital of New York vis Albany the location of the Comptrollers office and without the knowledge or intercommunication of the parties
In the premises deponent would infer from the decisions of the officers of the department of Interior That though he does not directly establish his claim to eighteen months service Yet having the fact admitted by the department of an actual service rendered of eight months; the consecutive fraction of ten months should be allowed by implication 
Farther that the testimony is to be taken or construed most largely in favour of the applicant; and again according to rules of evidence a space or point
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between two periods of time if consecutive is incapable of divisibility But that proof which establishes our portion of the time designated the whole shall be allowed,
And that having shown by papers now in the department and by the acknowledgement of J L Edwards Esqr that one pension is allowed on the services of Warren Carpenter deponent has the strongest circumstantial reason to assume the other by implication Ergo If Warren Carpenter's having received a pension is sufficient proof to authorize the department to pay Jerusha his Widow on establishing death of the husband and Identity of the widow It follows that a pension granted to Jerusha Carpenter as widow for services rendered by Warren Carpenter her deceased husband in the war of the Revolution clearly establish the fact that the said Warren clearly did perform service or his widow would not have been entitled and received Thus the department have established one of the most stuborn matters in existence vis a negative pregnant with an affirmative
Again under the act 4 July 1838 the claims of a widow must establish the proof of service from the records of the War department, The muster roll; The testimony of the Commissioned officers; or Affidavits of reputable persons But it would seem the department had the testimony within its archives except the marriage which when furnished was satisfactory and conclusive See also in point decision of Attorney General 23 June 1846
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When Identity and marriage are to be proved which other proof is in the archives of Government Jerusha Carpenter is requested by the letter hereto attached to make proof of marriage showing that reference was had to the above named act of 23 June 1846
Therefore we conclude the proof of eight months service rendered by Warren Carpenter is established by papers now in the Bureau And as the proof of marriage by witnesses who were in attendance at the ceremony is not necessary But General cohabitation is sufficient proof of the fait; This decision goes most largely to favour a feature in the construction of the act for the benefit of the applicant
This application is made to oppen the testimony of Warren Carpenter to substantiate his claim for a pension for eighteen months service as well on the full pay as on the half pay and commutation Which if granted to Virginia and New Hampshire is also due other states and therefor deponent makes his claim This application is also made to substantiate the fact that Jerusha Carpenter was entitled to forty eight dollars per year thereby entitling the heirs of the said Warren to ninety six dollars per year
Isaac Carpenter
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State of New York
Cayuga County
[is]

Be it known that on this Eighteenth day of December 1850 before me the within
named Isaac Carpenter and being duly sworn says the facts contained in the within affidavit
are true to the best of his knowledge information and belief

Lyman Paine
Justice of the Peace
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Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File no. 16886
Jerusha Carpenter
Widow of
Warren Carpenter
[Pri] Rev War
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Act July 4th 36
Index: Vol. A, Page 149

Arrangement of 1870.
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V4461
Jerusha Carpenter
Sec J L Millard Aug
14 '39--
to same 8 Oct. 1839
to same 23 Dec. 1839
to same 24 Jan. 1840
to same 12 March 1840
Act 4 July 36
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Oct 13/51
S. B. Tucker
Auburn, N.Y.
Oct 2/51
Claims of the heirs of Jerusha Carpenter, widow of Warren Carpenter, dead Revolutionary soldier
Read Oct 6/51
Respectfully referred to the 3rd Auditor and Mr F so informed
R Clayton
2d Auditor
Reply requested to the Comr. of Pensions & Mr F so informed 
3rd Auditor's office
October 20th 51
Oct. 7/51
Mr Randall
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No. 4461 1836
Jerusha Carpenter
Widow of Warren
N.Y. No. 4461
Rejected. See decision of Sec.y within & letter to S B Tucker March 26/52
Let same of June 13/53
Let. S. B. Tucker Oct. 20/51
H H Bostwick Apl. 6/54
To same May 17/54
830
Let. Hon. R McClelland May n26, 1854
" H. H. Bostwick, Sept. 21/57
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State of New York
Cayuga County ss:
Isaac Carpenter of the city of Auburn, in said County, Being duly sworn, deposes, and says, that Dorcas, wife of Nathaniel Gage, of Wolcott County of Wayne New York; Margaret, wife of Jonathan Shaw; Roba wife of Daniel Popple deceased, leaving a son Charles Popple; William Carpenter; all of the town of Russia Herkimer County New York; John Carpenter deceased; Mary wife of Shubal Gorham of Elbrige Onondaga County New York; Betsey wife of Silas Dutcher of Galen Wayne County New York; and Isaac Carpenter of the city of Auburn aforesaid are the only children and heirs at law of Jerusha Carpenter deceased, late a pensioner of the United States, at the rate of $26.66 per annum.
That Warren Carpenter, on or about the 5th of May 1825. at the village of Herkimer, Herkimer County New York, Before the Court of Common pleas, there in Session, made, subscribed, and swore to an application, to the then Commissioner of pensions, for a pension under the act of the 18th March 1818. Granting pensions to the soldiers of the Revolutionary War. That the vouchers were such as are ordinarily made on such application; and with which or the application, the Commissioner took, no issue But rejected such application on property qualification.
That the said Warren Carpenter subsequently never made any application to oppen said papers; Notwithstanding said law was afterward repealed; But sickened and died, in April 1831. at the town of Elbrige Onondaga County New York.
That in the spring of 1837. Jerusha Carpenter, the widow of said Warren Carpenter, deceased, By Henry Millard Esqr her attorney did make application for a pension due her as having married the said Warren Carpenter prior to the year 1794. Under the act of 7 July 1838. which act expires
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(Having frequently been extended) in 1853. By which the widow, is entitled to five years pay, without regard to her Husband drawing pension; provided she live until the extension (The last extension occurred 2 February 1848) The said Jerusha lived until, and died in April 1849, one year after the extension. The said Jerusha also claimed under the act of 7th June 1832. By which the widow is entitled to the same amount per annum, which the husband would have received, provided he had lived and made application under said act. See decision 4th August 1846 and under act 4 July 1846. Explanatory of the act 7th June 1832, the husband would have been entitled to full pay as a private on establishing the fact of having performed six months service in the Continental line; or state troops. See decision 4th August 1846.
In 1839 the commissioner of pensions issued a certificate to the said Jerusha Carpenter, for a pension of $26.66 per annum, on proof, which the said commissioner acknowledged by letter, dated October 1830, to S B Tucker, the attorney of your applicant; covered eight months services in the army in the years 1780 & 1781. Thereby entitling the said Warren Carpenter, to a pension of $66.66 per annum, and the said Jerusha Carpenter, as widow and relic, of said Warren Carpenter, would thereby, under the act of 7th June 1832, have been entitled to a like sum annually of $66.66 for the period during which she lived and enjoyed the diminished pension of $26.66 vis until April 1849. Bring a period of ten years, leaving a default of $40. per annum for 10 years and = $400. So as above due your applicants the heirs at law of the said Jerusha Carpenter deceased.
Therefore your applicant in the name of all the heirs of
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of the said Jerusha Carpenter deceased, asks the Hon'le commissioners to oppen the original application of the said Jerusha Carpenter, and to fill up the said certificate with the amount of $66.66 and to give and grant your applicant, and those whom he represents a draft for the Balance of $400. so unpaid, and which was no doubt the original disign of Commissioner Edwards but by oversight was sat down at $26.66
Your applicant would respectfully ask the Hon'le Commissioners to look at the bearing which the five years Rule has on opening claims, on the present application. Your applicant further shows to your Hon's that the said Rule can have no reference to this application, in as much as the payment of a part of the amount claimed was continued down to the year 1849, some three years since: and if there was an Enor Ab Junitio, it did not work an Estoppel in the premises, But the department did pay the arrearages of pension, so due the heirs, of the said Jerusha Carpenter, during the summer past, which showed the matter was not concluded under the five years Rule.
Paul Carpenter
Subscribed & sworn
before me this 25th
day of October 1852
A. C. Munger
Justice of the Peace
Cuyahoga County
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State of New York
Cayuga County
I Ebenezer B Cobb
Clerk of Cayuga County
do hereby certify, that [That]
I am well acquainted with
A Justice of the
peace, Authorized by the laws of this
State to take affidavits & that I
believe the within to be his genuine signature.
In witness whereof I have him to set
my hand and seal of office at the city of
Auburn. This 25th day of October 1859

Ebenezer B. Cobb
Clerk Cayuga Co
New York
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State of
New York ⎬ ss:
Cayuga County

Isaac Carpenter of the City
of Auburn being duly sworn
deposes and says that he is
the youngest of seven children living
on heirs at Law of Jerusha
Carpenter [illegible] of Warren Carpenter a soldier of the
revolution. That the names and ages of the respective
children are as follows viz: Dorcas Carpenter Now
the wife of Nathaniel Gage of Wolcott, Wayne County
New York aged 62 years: Margaret Carpenter
the wife of Johnathan Shaw of Herkimer County
{Mary Gorham of Elbridge aforesaid aged 57 years}
New York aged 59 years Roba Carpenter, deceased
late the wife of Daniel Papple of Russia Herkimer
County aforesaid that the said Roba left one Son
Charles Papple who resides near his father at Russia
aforesaid aged 28 years: William Carpenter
of Russia aforesaid aged 52 years: John
Carpenter of Elbridge Onondaga County N. York aged
48 years; Betsey Carpenter The wife of Silas
Dutcher of Galen Wayne County aforesaid aged
45 years; and Isaac Carpenter of Auburn
aforesaid aged 43 years

This deponent further says
that none of the heirs above named have joined
this deponent in this application except the
said Dorcas Gage and Nathaniel Gage her
husband and that deponent, the said Donas and
John Carpenter and Mary Gorham of Elbridge
Nathanel Gage have joined in a power of attorney
and thereby created, constituted and appointed
S. B Linker Esqr of Auburn aforesaid our lawful
attorney to prosecute all and very the clam or
claims which we or either of us may have
against the Government of United States for pen-
sions, arnorages, definits or back pay ensuing
from services performed by Warren Carpenter
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during the war of the revolution or for any and all [illegible]back pay or claims arising under or from any pension or gratuity granted or to be granted by the government of the United States to Jerusha Carpenter as widow of the said Warren for services performed by the said Warren as an account of marriage previous to 1794.

This deponent would further show to the Hon the Commissioner of Pensions that Warren Carpenter the father of the above named heirs and the husband of the above named Jerusha Carpenter was a soldier of the war with Great Britain Commonly called the War of the Revolution. That on the 5 May 1825 at the county of Herkimer New York the said Warren did in open court there and there make application according to the form given by the Commissioner of Pensions for the United States for a gratuity or pension for his services so as aforesaid rendered the United States for eighteen months during the war of the revolution. And that the said Warren was denied his application as this deponent was informed and [illegible] believes by property (ie) being seized in fee of thirty seven acres of poor land valued at 5$ to 10$ say in the extreme $370 for the support of seven children.

This deponent further shews that the said Warren died during the year 1831 and that in the spring of 1839 the said Jerusha by Henry Mellard Esqr (now deceased) her attorney did as widow and [illegible] of the said Warren Carpenter make application to the Government of United State for half pay as widow of the said Warren
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and for a pension as having been married previous to the year 1794 to a soldier of the revolution or as having set forth both as a basis for a Governmental gratuity That after having complied with all the peculiar requisitions of the commissioner then acting and after suffering a delay of Eight years attended with the accumulated expense of the attornies for arising from an extensive correspondence, a search of records &c &c until the year 1847 The Commissioner, did grant to the said Jerusha a pension of $26.66 per annum on Eight months services by him the said Commissioner acknowledge to have been performed by the husband of the said Jerusha Viz Warren Carpenter during the War of the Revolution Whereas in truth and fact of the papers of the said War on file in the department at Washington did show any thing they clearly set forth and show two periods of service of nine months each; Each of which said men months an indivisible having been performed consecutive in the years 1780 and 1781
Deponent is not particularly
versed in that species of Arithmetical Collation which reduces nine to Eight without a fractional part nor eighteen to Eight without leaving a
minumum longer than authorized 
Deponent further
shows that the said Jerusha Carpenter resided at Elbrige above named with John Carpenter the fifth child and heir of the said Warren and Krisha
Carpenter and that lingering the sickened and
died at Elbrige aforesaid on the 19 July 1848
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Deponent would further set forth his ignorance in the premises whether the commissioner allowed a gratuity to the said Jerusha on Eight of the first nine months service viz that portion performed during the year 1779 or on eight months of the nine months services performed during the year 1781 or on an aliquot part of both portions of time By the act 4 July 1836 explanatory of the act 7 June 1832 The husband if living would have been entitled on proof that he had served in the Continental line or state troops in all for six months.
By the act 4 July 1836 see 1.4.5 The widow of any officer non Commissioned officer munition or private of the militia or volunteers shall be entitled to one half the pay which the officer munition or private would have been entitled to if he had been living for five years from the death of her husband. 
Widows of Soldiers who were married previous to the year 1794 By and under the joint resolution of Congress of 16 August 1842 as Amendatory to the act 7 July 1838 has entitled to five years full pay without regard to the pensions their husband may have received provided they live widow until the above extensions This act appears to be a continuance of the act 3 March 1837. Extended by the act of the 3 March 1843. Amended 2nd February 1845. and extended for five years
This act is 
not restricted by the act 23 January 1845 as the declaration of the said Jurusha was made prior to that period viz in the spring of 1839.
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page 116 
It would seem that the widow is entitled under the acts of 1838, 1843, and 1844 as if the act of 1844 had not passed; The husband having died previous to the 4 March 1836
By the act of 7th May 1846 provides that the widow shall not be required to furnish any further evidence when the evidence of the husbands services are in the archives of the deportment other than such proof as is necessary to Establish the marriage between the applicant and the decease soldier and her identity and the husbands decease according to the act 4 July 1836 the pension is to commence on the $ march 1831 provided the husband was not a pensioner at the date The portion is to commence on the day the husband died Because it is believed it is not the intention of Congress to grant a pension for any part of the time during which the husband drew a pension 
deponent would 
further show that then an arrearages due the from the 4th March 1848 to the 19 day of July 1849 which according to the showing of the commissioner at the rate of $26.66 annually amounts to the Bal of time most 13 days $9.85 
Which your deponent trusts the department will direct to be paid together with such further relief in the premises as the merits of the case may Justify 
Isaac Carpenter
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State of New York
Cayuga County

Be it known that on this
Seventh day of January 1851
before me a Justice of the
peace for Cayuga County
personally appeared Isaac Carpenter and having subscribed the within affidavit sworn the facts therein set forth are true to the best of his knowledge information and belief


Lyman Paine
Justice of the Peace in and for
Cayuga County
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Jer;usha
State of new York, Cayuga County ss
John Carpenter of Elbrige Oanadaga County New York and Mary Gorham of Elbrige aforsaid being duly sworn depose and say that the facts set forth in the within affidavit of Isaac Carpenter hereto attached are true; that we are children and heirs of the said Warren and Jerusha Carpenter and that there was at the time of the said Jerusha Carpenter's death due her the back pay as pension from the fourth of March 1848 up to 19 day of July of 1848. And the said John and Mary do hereby make application for such [illegible] as may be due an amount of monys due their mother.
John Carpenter - X his mark
Mary Gorham - X her mark

In presence of [illegible] Isaac Carpenter
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State of New York
Cayuga County


Be it known that on this fourth day of
January 1851 before me a Justice of the
peace in and for Cayuga County aforesaid
personally appeared the with John Carpenter and being duly sworn say that the facts set forth in the within affidavit are true
Lyman Paine
Justice of the Peace in and for
Cayuga County
Lyman Paine
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State of New York, Cayuga County ss
Know all me by these presents that I John Carpenter and Mary Gorham of the town of Elbrige, Onandaga County New York son and daughter and heir at law of Jerusha Carpenter late of Elbrige aforesaid.
That the said Jerusha was pensioner under the act of Congress granting pensions to the widows of soldiers of the Revolutionary war.
And we do hereby constitute and appointment Samuel B. Tucker of the City of Auburn our true and lawful attorney for us and in our name to prosecute all and every claim or claims for pensions back pay or other gratuity against the government of the United States and to receive from the agent of the government of United States for paying pensions in the state of New York any pension back pay or money due therefor or an amount of any money due our mother. Witness our hands and seal this fourth day of January 1851.
John Carpenter
Mary Gorham
Signed sealed and [illegible] in presence of
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State of New York
Cayuga County

Be it known that on this
fourth day of January 1851
before me a Justice of the peace in and for Cayuga County aforesaid personally appeared the within named John Carpenter and Mary Gorham and acknowledge the within Power of attorney to be their act and deed

Lyman Paine
A Justice of the Peace in and for 
Cayuga County
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State of New York, Cayuga County ss
I Ebenezer B Cobb Clerk of the County of Cayuga do hereby certify that the within named Lyman Paine is a Justice of the Peace in and for Cayuga County authorised to act as such Justice according to the laws of the state of New York. Given under my hand and seal at Auburn 7th Jany 1851
Ebenezer B. Cobb, Clerk of Cayuga County
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State of New York
Cayuga County    ⎬  s

Isaac Carpenter of Auburn
Cayuga County being duly
sworn deposes and says that
That he is the Identical man who made the within affidavit and that he has often heard his father the said Warren Carpenter say that at one time While out, and at a distance from some Fort But What Fort deponent does now recollect. The said Warren Carpenter and the men or soldiers in company with him were obliged to me from the Indians for a long distant until they come to the fort: That in consequence be the said Warren was taken with its and lay confined to his bed for six weeks.
That this deponent is convince
that the discrepancy in the testimony between
the said Warren and and the Comptrollers certificate in the years in which service was performed or payments made is accounted for by the fact that the memory of the said Warren had become rather placed at the period above refund to and that you had not been perfully restored up to the period in which the application of the said Warren was made and In fact. deponent thinks that all persons are subject to imperfection in memory especially in a period of so many years But from the letter of Nathan Sheffield into attached; it appears that, The said Nathan Sheffield was in service with the said Warren Carpenter In 1781 for nine months. The comptrollers certificate shows a payment made November 1781 which was undoubtedly after the Term of nine months had expired on the second period
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of services and that the period of nine months
service performed under Captain Job wright
commencing in the summer of 1779 would have
Peminated in the winter or spring of 1780 and
he received part payment from his officers and
an unpaid balance at the Treasury Department
of
2-16-10 in the November following
The period of payment might have been postponed from careless or from want of funds in the department which was experienced at that time
Isaac Carpenter
State of New York
Cayuga County
Be it known that on this twenty seventh day of December 1847 before me Lyman Paine
a Justice of the peace came the above named Isaac Carpenter to me known to be the Identical man who subscribed the above
affidavit and being duly sworn says the facts
therein set forth are true to the best of his
knowledge information and belief
Lyman Paine

The peace for
Cayuga County
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State of New York, Cayuga County ss
Nathaniel Gage of Wolcott Wayne County New York being duly sworn deposes and says that he is sixty six years of age. That in the year 1806 deponent married Dorcas Carpenter the eldest daughter of Warren and Jerusha Carpenter at the Town of Kussia Herkimer County New York. That deponent has seen the affidavit of Isaac Carpenter hereto attached. That the facts therein set forth relating to the children and hiers of the said Warren and Jerusha are true. That in respect to that portion of the affidavit which refers to Warren Carpenter's having fits. Deponent further states that he has frequently heard the said Warren say that at our time he the said Warren was out and a part of the troops with him at a distance of some miles from a certain fort (and What fort deponent cannot recollect). That the troops were ordered to advance or did advance to the fort to pervent the enemy entering the fort. That the race lasted for several miles. That the said Warren became exhausted on rising a bit of upland just before he reached the fort and fainted as he supposes. And that he lay in the hospital for a long time before he was able to return to duty and the said Warren remarked to deponent that this sickness lasted him through life. And deponent knows of his own knowledge that the said Warren was sick for fifteen years with fits and a general debility or prostration of his physical energies and that supposition was that he had over heat himself by running
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And that the said Warren himself so represented the difficulty he labourd under and that the said Warren was a bill of expens to his family. But that near the close of life he the said Warren did get some relief and was more comfotable. That the said Warren was a Deacon of a Baptist church for many years before his death and was a most worthy man and a good citizen. Nathaniel Gage

State of New York, Cayuga County ss
Be it known that on this nineteenth day of December 1850 before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace came the above Nathaniel Gage and having signed the above affidavit sworr that the facts therein set forth are true to the best of his knowledge information and belief.
Lyman Paine, A Justice of the Peace for Cayuga Co.
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Isaac Carpenter
Chas S Gage
Darcas Gage
Power Attorney

Cayuga County ss On the 2nd day of December 1850 before me came Isaac Carpenter and Charles S Gage to me known to be the same [illegible] [illegible] in, and who executed the within Power of Attorney and personally acknowledged that he executed the same.
Lyman Paine Justice of the Peace
Cayuga County
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State of New York, Cayuga County ss:
Know all men by these presents that I Dorcas Gage of the town of Walcott Wayne County New York and I Isaac Carpenter of the city of Auburn in said state of New York children and hiers at law of Warren Carpenter late of Elbrige Onandago County New York now deceased who was a soldier of the Revolutionary war and a claimant for a pension and also children of Jerusha Carpenter the wife and widow of the said Warren Carpenter also deceased who drew a pension of twenty six 60/100 dollars from the United States do hereby constitute and appoint Samuel B. Tucker of the city of Auburn aforesaid our true and lawful attorney for us and in our name to prosecute any claims against the United States aforesaid for bounty lands or pensions arising from services performed by our father or any back pay - increase of pension or further pension of our mother aforesaid and to do all other matters and things in the premises which we or either of us could do in proper person. Witness our hand and seal this 13th day of November 1850. 
Sealed and delivered in presence of
Isaac Carpenter
Witnessis Charles S. Gage Dorcas Gage
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State of New York, Cayuga County ss
Be it known that on the third day of December eighteen hundred and fifty before me Lyman Paine a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Cayuga aforesaid personally appeared the within named Isaac Carpenter and Charles S. Gage the husband of the said Dorcas Gage and acknowledge the within deed to be their several act and deed. Executed by them severally and also they say that the said Dorcas Gage did execute the same without any force or compulsion and of her own free will.
Lyman Pain Justice of the Peace
Cayuga County
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Cayuga County ss On the 2nd day of December 1850 before me came Isaac Carpenter and Charles S Gage to me known to be the same [illegible] [illegible] in, and who executed the within Power of Attorney and personally acknowledged that he executed the same.
Lyman Paine Justice of the Peace
Cayuga County

Isaac Carpenter
Chas S Gage
Dorcas Gage
Power Attorney
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State of New York, Cayuga County ss
James H Bostwick of the twon of Auburn in said county of Cayuga being duly sworn deposes and says that he is well acquainted with Nathan Sheffield now a resident of Wisconsin, but formerly of the town of Scipio Cayuga aforesaid. That he is a man of good moral habits and character. And that the letter hereto attached and the signature I do fully believe are the hand writing of the original Nathan Sheffield with whom I was acquainted and who was a soldier of the Revolution. And that we would give the matter contained in the letter aforesaid the same credence as though the said Nathan Sheffield had sworn thereto in the usual form. And that the esteem Mr. Sheffield too highly to suppose that he would amplify or prevaricate in the least especially where there is no interest but a common friendship existing and I further certify that I have acted as agent for the said Nathan Sheffield in procuring his pension for several years past.
James H Bostwick, Justice of the Peace

State of New York, Cayuga County ss:
Be it known that on 27th day of December 1850 before me came the above named James H Bostwick to me personally known and subscribed the affidavit and swore thereto as being correct according to his knowledge information and belief.
Lyman Paine, Justice of the Peace
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State of New York, Cayuga County ss
I Ebenezer B Cobb Clerk of the county of Cayuga New York do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the within Lyman Paine and James H Bostwick; that they are both of them severally authorised to act as Justices of the Peace in and for the county of Cayuga according to the laws of the state of New York and that in my opinion the signatures purporting to be theirs on the above acknowledgement are genuine.
Given under my hand and seal of office at Auburn this 27th December 1850.
Ebenezer B. Cobb, Clerk of Cayuga County and Com Pleas
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Jefferson NY
Nov 10
George Rathburn Esq
Washington
D.C. NY
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Wrote to Washington June 12th, 1847 in this case. R Gallt

Dr Sir
You will be enquired of as to this case & this letter will enable the applicants to obtain his affit. you had better send to me [illegible] postage.
G Rathburn

Jefferson NY
Nov 10
George Rathburn Esq
Washington
D.C.  NY
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Lake Mills Oct 8th 1846
Dear Sir
Your (B) note of enqury came at hand this day, agreeable to your request. I will give you all the information that I can. I was well acquainted with Warren Carpenter who served his country in the Revolutionary War. I first became acquainted in March 1779 this acquaintance lasted till some time after the war in the summer of 79. He enlisted in the Batteau Service under John Wright. In 81 he enlisted for nine months in Capt Silas Orey Comp. and served his time. I with him enlisted in 81 Capt Grey Company for nine months and was transferred to Capt Dunhams Company, and remained the time for which we enlisted vis 9 months. I do not recollect the time he was in the Batteau Service, but I think remained during the summer. I know nothing more that will be of any consequence to the widow. Yours truly Nathan Sheffield
George Rathburn Esq

P.S. You will confer a favor on me, as I have been informed that Hereman was to have another trial. If so, give me some information by sending a paper or otherwise, also the official returns of NY Election. Yours truly N Sheffield

Direct your communications if any to Lake Mills, Jefferson County W.S.
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Copy 

Pension office
June 22th 1847
Sir, 
In reply to your letter of the 12th [ineligible] I have to inform you that the claim of Jerusha Carpenter widow of Warren Carpenter has been adjusted and a pension granted her for all the service the proofs presented by her authorize as to allow in order to [open] her case she must file a declaration setting forth the ground upon which she claims an increase and produce evidence from the records of New York [illegible] her application
Signed 
J L Edwards
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(Copy A)
Pension Office
November 27, 1850
Sir
In answer to that part of your letter to the Secretary of the Interior which relates to Jerusha Carpenter widow of Warren Carpenter. I have to inform that her husband served eight months in the revolution. Which period entitled her to a pension of $26.66 per annum and no more.
(Signed)
I am Respectfully Your Obt Servt. JL Edwards
Comm of Pensions

Samuel B Tucker Esqr
Auburn N.Y.
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State of New York, Cayuga County ss
Isaac Carpenter of the town of Auburn in the county of Cayuga being duly sworn, deposeth & saith that he is a son of Warren Carpenter deceased. That Thomas Carpenter to whose name appears upon a power of attorney purporting to have been executed by the said Warren Carpenter being date July 7th 1784, on file in the Comptroller's office of this state, as a witness thereto was a cousin of deponents said father Warren Carpenter deceased, & that they lived neighborn in the same town. That this deponent has never known or heard of any other Warren Carpenter than his said father, except a son of Jotham Carpenter, a brother of said Warren Carpenter deceased which said son was born since the revolutionary war, & that this deponent believes that the Warren Carpenter who appears to have executed said power of attorney to be that same Warren Carpenter who was his father as aforesaid & none other or different. Isaac Carpenter

Sworn before me & subscribed this 23d day of March 1840. And I further certify that I am well acquainted with the said named deponent Isaac Carpenter & that he is a credible person & his statement entitled to belief. 
Robert Cook, [illegible] [illegible]
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I William Richardson Clerk of the county of the county of Cayuga do certify that Robert Cook is a magistrate as above & that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office & subscribed my name this 23d day of March in the year 1840. W. Richardson Clk
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State of New York, Cayuga County ss
Know all men by these presents that I John Carpenter and Mary Gorham of the town of Elbridge Onandaga County son and daughter and heir at law of Isaac Carpenter and Jerusha Carpenter late of Elbrige Onandaga aforesaid. That the said Isaac was a soldier of the Revolutionary war and as such was entitled to pension from the government of the United States.
We do hereby constitute and appoint Samuel B. Tucker of the city of Auburn our true and lawful attorney. For us and in our name to prosecute all and any claim or claims for pensions or other gratuity from or against the government of the United States and to receive from the agent of the United States for Paying pensions in the state of New Yrok any pensions or moneys due therefor on account of our fathers service.
Witness my hand and seal this 4th day of January 1851. John Carpenter, Mary Gorham

Sealed and delivered in presence of Isaac Carpenter
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Cayuga County ss.
On the 4th day of January 1851 before me came John Carpenter and Mary Gorham to me known to be the same persons discribed in and who executed the within Power of Attorney and acknowled generally that they executed the same.
Lyman Paine Justice of the Peace Cayuga County
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State of New York, Cayuga County ss
Be it known that on this fourth day of January 1851 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for Cayuga County personally appeared the within John Carpenter and Mary Gorham and acknowledged the within power of attorney to be their act and deed.
Lyman Paine 
A Justice of the Peace for Cayuga County
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State of New York, Cayuga County ss
John Carpenter and Mary Gorham children and heirs at law of Warren Carpenter late of Elbrige Onandaga County New York being duly sworn do depose and say that the facts set fort in any affidavit made by Isaac Carpenter which is now in the department of the Interior at Washington are true and that they the said John and Mary do pray the department to open the application of the said Warren Carpenter and allow your petitions to prosecute such claims for pensions as may be due the applicants in the premises.
John Carpenter - X his mark
Mary Gorham - x his mark

Subscribed and sworn before me the 4th day of January 1851.
Lyman Paine Justice of the Peace Cayuga County
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State State of New York Cayuga County ss
Be it known that on this fourth day of January 1851 before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Cayuga personally appeared the withinJohn Carpenter and Mary Gorham and being duly sworn do say the facts set forth in the within affidavit are true.
Lyman Paine
A Justice of the Peace in and for Cayuga County
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State of New York, Cayuga County ss
Isaac Carpenter of the town of Auburn Cayuga aforesaid being duly sworn deposes and says that he did during the month of December last past make an application to the Pension Office in the city of Washington to open the application of Warren Carpenter late of Elbrige New York for a pension for Revolutionary services under the government of the United States in the years 1779 and 1781.
That deponent wishes so far to amend the said application as to add then to the name of Mary Carpenter now Mary Gorham of Elbrige aforesaid aged 57 years which from the hurry and anxiety &c at the time of throwing the said application into form was niglected and but now discovered by our attorney SB Tucker.
And deponent wishes so far to amend the said application as to attach then to the application of said John Carpenter and Mary Gorham of Elbrige aforesaid both of whom are children and heirs at law of the said Warren and Jerusha Carpenter. Futher this deponent saith not. 
Isaac Carpenter
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State of New York, Cayuga County ss
Be it an known that on this 7th day of January 1851 before me the the Justice being duly qualified to act as such in and for Cayuga aforesaid personally appeared the within Isaac Carpenter who having subscribed thereto swore that the within affidavit is true to the best of knowledge information and belief.
Lyman Paine
A Justice of the Peace in and for Cayuga County
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State of New York, Cayuga County ss
I Ebenezer B Cobb Clerk of Cayuga County do hereby certify that Lyman Paine the within named Justice is authorised to act as such Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Cayuga acording to the laws of the state of New York. Givin under my hand and seal of office at Auburn this 7th day of January 1851.
Ebenezer B Cobb, Clerk of Cayuga County
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Auburn Oct 2/51
Sir
In reply to yours of the 29th rett I forward you a copy of the appeal spoken of in my last. From which you will discover the whole matter. Your early attention is earnestly solicited. This lain in the locker of Mr. Evans long enough to suit my taste.
S B Tucker

Hon P C Clayton Esqr
2d Auditor &c

Copy A no 1 has been mislaid and to be found.
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Auburn 
May 27/31/
Dr Sir
Some time in the spring of
1825. Warren Carpenter, a soldier
of the Revolution, made application for
a pension, accompanied by the necessary
vouchers, or testimonials of Servin; Which
were rejected by the deportment on property
qualification.
Then the matter rested for several years; and in 1833 Mr Carpenter died
and in 1837 Jerusha Carpenter the widow
made application based on the former
application of the said Warren Carpenter
Then on file, in the department at Washington
for a pension, or half pay as widow, of Warren
Carpenter deceased, a soldier of the revolution, and in thirty nine (1839) She received
the received a certificate for $26.66 per annum in right of her husband-- as
above-- observed based on a previous application, and affidavits, which from the
papers appear to have remained on file
from the time Warren Carpenter made his
application in 1825. Until 1839. The date of
the Certificate to Jerusha Carpenter
Subsequently Jerusha Carpenter died in-
1849. having enjoyed a pension some 10 years.
Some time in the month of October 1850
I wrote the Hon J L Edwards the Com
Pensions. Who in reply stated that Jerusha
Carpenter had received $26.66 per annum, as
widow for 8 months services performed by
Warren Carpenter during the War of the
Revolution
I immediately drew up an application, accompanied by affidavits, furnishing
the proof of Warren Carpenters Services, so
far as was necessary to identify the heirs
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of the said Warren Carpenter and Jerusha Carpenter, together with the circumstantial testimony which the nature of the case enabled to clothe the application with. And trusting to the testimony on file in the department, on which Jerusha Carpenter had obtained $26.66 per annum (which said testimony on file does contain a large amount of affidavits accompanied by the certificates of the controller of the state of New York, showing that Warren Carpenter performed 18 months service within two consecutive years).
I mailed the said application in good faith, that if the testimony establishing the claim of Jerusha Carpenter was in the department (which the letter from the JL Edwards, now in my possession does show a copy of which is appended marked - D.). That the same testimony was sufficient to establish the claim of the said Warren, to a pension, vis 1st that Division 23 June 1846 to entitle the widow to a pension. The proof of the husband in archives of the government is sufficient and the department are obliged to search for it. Having a position I assumed that proof of the husbands services, establishing a pension for the widow for what ever sum, did in fact establish the husbands claim for a pension from 1825 until 1833. To which his heirs are entitled and that according to the same decision, the department must search for it!!!
Again by the act of 4 July 1836, explanatory of the act 7 June 1832. The husband would have been entitled to full pay as a private on establishing the fact of six months service
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in the Continental line or State troops, in all
six months. See Decision page 160. 4 Paragraph
4 August 1846.
By this decision, the widow would
have been entitled to the same amount as
the husband if had lived. I also claimed
that, if the husband died previous to the 4th
March 1836. That the widow was entitled
to the whole pension, under the acts of
1838, 1843. & 1844 As if the latter act had
not passed.
Decision 25 June 1844.
Having raised these points, I asked the department for such further pension as the above Decisions, acts and proof adduced would
entitle the said Jerusha to, Also the
pension as due Warren Carpenter on the
proof, which was in the department, filed for
supporting the claim of Jerusha Carpenter
from 1825 to 1833 on the grounds- That the
disqualification, viz; by property had been
removed by an act subsequent to
that of 1817 and that
and, as if any advantage named to Warren Carpenter or the said Jerusha, in virtue of the services of the said Warren; That it elaborated on the day when the proof complete was acknowledged by tacitly rejecting the application, on the ground of Property qualification. For had
not the proof have been complete, the department never could have recalled an
ulterior in the examination viz the property
qualification
In reply to this Jerusha Mr
F S Evans request for the evidence to
support the further claim of Jerusha Carpenter
to additional pension
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Relying on the decisions above referred
to; That the proof in the department was
within reach of the Commissioner acting
and that it was duty to search for it.
so informed the commissioner acting
accompanied by such arguments, as the
nature of the case suggested -- Without
noticing my friend Mr Evans.
lender date of
17 May 1851 I have received another communication from Mr F S Evans, in which, despite the decisions above referred to be continues to reiterate his call for further Testimony in the case of Jerusha Carpenter, without Allending to the claim for a pension on
behalf of the rights of Warren Carpenter
and more surprising still closes the Correspondence, in a most unceremonious
form. A copy of which communication
accompanies this marked (A)
Again if
the Testimony in the case of Warren
Carpenter, was complete as to him Carpenter
it was so, or became so in 1825. Thereby
entitling his heirs to a pension from 1825
up to the day of his death. In point we
have the certificate issued to Jerusha
Carpenter, showing that the Testimony on the
services of Warren Carpenter was complete
so far as was necessary to sustain the
claim of the said Jerusha to a pension
as relic of the said Warren and was found
so complete and full in the department at the
time the pension certificate was granted to
the said Jerusha, Which is prima facia
evidence that the testimony assumed this
position state in the year 1825. When Warren
Carpenter was rejected for cause he had
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30 acres of stony land - on which if one pays taxes - the less he has the better. See schedule marked (C)
There can be no doubt that agreeably to the act of 7th June 1832 and 4th July 1836. The husband is entitled to $94 a year; on proof of six months services, in the state line or continental troops. Again by the act of the 7th June 1832, the widow is entitled to the same amount per annum, that the husband would have received, had he lived and made application under said act of 1832. See Decision 4th Augst 1846
Again by the act 7th July 1838, the widows of Revolutionary officers & soldiers who were married to their husbands previous to the 1794 were entitled to full five years pay without regard to to their husbands drawing pension provided they live until the extension. Extended 3 March 1843. Amended 2 Feb 1848 and extended for 5 years.
For the matter of Jerusha Carpenter, it is not restricted by the act of 23 January 1845. Cause why, the declaration was filed in the department in 1839. The marriage of Mrs. Carpenter is fully sustained by accompanying copy of document now on file in the department - marked (B).
In the case of Mr. Carpenter the accompanying document No 1 (C) shows that on the 12 Nov 1780 Warren Carpenter was paid L2. S16. d 10 1/2 for services which had been rendered. This is unavoidable for goverment never pay more than $5. in Bounty; therefore the amount received
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for services already performed.
Again on the 30th Nov 1781 one year and twenty days after the payment above recipted, the paymaster again pays Warren Carpenter L18-S13-d4. For services performed for the United States. Making in all some 18 months. The two periods for which he received pay.
We claim for the heirs of Jerusha Carpenter the difference between $26.66 and the largest amount to which she is entitled under the acts aforesaid from the 13th day of April 1840 annually up to the day of her death in 1849. An intermediate of nine years and for which we claim whatever the husband would have been entitled to had he been living and holding a certificate at the time.
S B Tucker
Atty for the heirs of Warren & Jerusha Carpenter
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(D)
Pension Office
Nov 27th 1850
Copy
Sir
In answer to that part of your letter to the secretary of the Interior which relates to Jerusha Carpenter widow of Warren Carpenter I have to inform you that her husband served eight months in the revolution, which period entitled him to a pension of $26.66 per annum and no more.
(signed)
I am respectfully Your Obed Servant
JL Edwards
Comm of Pensions

Samuel B Tucker Esqr
Auburn NY
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Copy (A N.02)
Pension Office
May 17 1851
Sir
The case of Jerusha Carpenter has been frequently reexamined and the grounds on which an increase of pension is refused as often pointed out. The evidence heretofore required must be produced, or no increase will be allowed. And as our time is fully occupied in examining cases in which evidence is produced instead of a reiteration of arguments, no further correspondence will be held on this subject, as long as the latter is the only thing adduced.
If any pension occurs between the time of her last payment and hour of her death application should be made to the 3d auditor.
(Signed)
Verry respectfully Your Obt Ser
F S Evans for the Com of Pensions

S B Tucker Esqr
Auburn N.Y.
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No 1 (C)
The number and amount of certificates issued by the Treasurer of the state of New York for Services & Militia services &c contained from Book No 1. To whom given
Interest Commenced 1780 Nov 12 - 33130 Warren Carpenter privt L2. S16. d10 1/2
To whom given
1781 No 30 - 4882 Warren Carpenter private L18. S13. d4
The number & amount of certificate issued by the Treasurer of the state of New York for services & Militia services continued from book

State of New York, Comptrollers Office, Albany Nov 1839
I hereby certify the above to be a true extract of from Book 267 now remaining in this office and also that it appears from the same Book that the said Warren Carpenter served his first above mentioned under Captain Abraham Fonda. And his second term under Captain Ephm Woodworth & that Albert Pawling was a Col comandant on the 26th December 1781. And that Alexander Webster was colonel on the 4th November 1780.
Signed Bates Cook Comptroller
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(B)
State of New York, Niagara County ss
Jotham Carpenter of the town Royatton in the county of Niagara being duly sworn deposes and says, that Warren Carpenter deceased who was a revolutionary soldier was a brother of this desponent; that he this deponent was well knowing to the marriage between the said Warren Carpenter and his present widow who survives him Jerusha Carpenter. That this desponent was present at such marriage; and that said Warren Carpenter & Jerusha Carpenter were married to each other in the town of Stillwater in the county of Saratoga & state of New York by one Elder Kelly in the month of April 1780 and further this deponent saith not.
Signed Jotham Carpenter

Sworn & subscribed before me this day of 1839 and I further certify that I am well acquainted with said named deponent Jotham Carpenter & that he is a creditable person and his statements entitled to belief.
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Appeal
We therefore do most respectfully beg leve to differ with the head of the pension office now acting and do appeal to the Honorable the Secretary of the Interior for his farther decision and judgment in the premises.
S B Tucker Attorney for the heirs of Warren & Jerusha Carpenter deceased

Jerusha Carpenters Pensioner certificate will be found recorded Pension office - Book A. Vol 2. page 207 By (Daniel Brown) Clerk

The commissioner will do an especial favour by sending this document up to the office of Hon Alex H H Stuarts Esqr Secretary of the Interior
S B Tucker Atty &c

Sir
Your are requested to inform me of receipt hereof and reference to the Secretary of Interior
S B Tucker
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Auburn May 27/51
Dr Sir
Some time in the spring of 1825 Warren Carpenter a soldier of the Revolution, made application for a pension, accompanied by the necessary vouchers or testimonials of service; which were rejected by the department on property qualification. Then the matter rested, for serveral years, and in 1833 Mr. Carpenter died and in 1837, Jerusha Carpenter, the widow made application based on the former application of the said Warren Carpenter. Then on file in the department at Washington for a pension or half pay as widow of Warren Carpenter deceased, a soldier of the Revolution and in 1839 she received a certificate for $26.66 per annum in right of her husband. As above observed, based on her previous application and affidavits, which have the papers appeared to have remained on file from the time Warren Carpenter made his application in 1825 until 1839. The date of the certificate of Jerusha Carpenter subsequently Jerusha Carpenter died 1849 having enjoyed a pension some 10 years.
Some time in the month of October 1850, I wrote the honorable J L Edwards then Com Pensions; who in reply stated that Jerusha Carpenter had received $26.66 per annum as widow for 8 months services, performed by Warren Carpenter during the war of the Revolution; I immediately drew up an application accompanied by affidavits furnishing the proof of Warren Carpenters services so far as was necessary to identify the applicants as heirs of the said Warren and Jerusha Carpenter, together with the circumstancial testimony, which the nature of the case enabled me to clothe the case with, and
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trusting to the testimony on file, in the department, on which Jerusha Carpenter had obtained $26.66 per annum. (which said testimony on file does contain a large amount of affidavits accompanied by the certificate of the comptroller of the state of New York, showing that Warren Carpenter performed 18 months services with two consecutive years)
I mailed the said application in good faith, that if the testimony establishing the claim of Jerusha Carpenter was in the department (which the letter from the Hon J L Edwards now in my possission does show a copy of which is appended marked (D) that the same testimony was sufficient to establish the claim of the said Warren to a pension on the ground - 1st that Decision 23 June 1846 to entitle the widow to a pension. The proof of the husband in the archives of the government is sufficient; and the department are obliged to search for it. Having a position I assumed that proof of the husbands services establishing a pension for the widow for whatever service did in fact establish the husbands claim for a pension from 1825 until 1833 to which his heirs are entitled and that according to the same decision the department must search for it!!! Again by the act of 4 July 1836 explanatory of the act of 7 June 1832 the husband would have been entitled to full pay as a private, on establishing the fact of six months service, in the continental line or state troops, in all six months, see Decision P. 160 4 paragraph 4 August 1846. By this decision, the widow would have been entitled to the same amount as the husband if he had lived until the act passed.
I also claimed that if the husband died
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previous to the 4th March 1836 that the widow was entitled to the whole pension under the acts 1838. 1843. & 1844. as if the latter act had not passed see Decision 25 June 1844. Having raised these points I asked the department for such further pension, as the above decision, acts, and proof adduce would entitle the said Jerusha to also the pension as due Warren Carpenter on the proof which was in the department. Filed for supporting the claim of Jerusha from 1825 to 1833 on the ground that the disqualification vir; by property had been removed by an act subsequent to that of 1817 and that [illegible] that if any advantage inured to Warren Carpenter or the said Jerusha in virtue of the services of the said Warren, that it elaborated on the day when the rpoof complete was acknowledged by tacidly rejecting the application on the ground of property qualification. For had not the proof have been complete, the department never could have reached an ulterior in the examination vis the property qualification.
In reply to this I received Mr. F S Evans request marked (A No 1.) for the evidence to support the further claim of Jerusha Carpenter to additional pension.
Relying on the decision above refered to that the proof within the department, was within the reach of the commissioner and that it was duly to search it, I so informed the commissioner, accompanied by such arguments as the nature of the case suggested without deigning to notice My friend Mr. Evans under the date 17 May 1851 I have received another communicaiton from Mr. F S Evans
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in which despite the decision above reference to be continuous to reitterate his call for farther in the case of Jerusha Carpenter with alluding to the claim for a pension in behalf of the rights of Warren Carpenter; and more surprising still closes the correspondence in a most unceremonious form. A copy of which communication accompanies this marked (A No 2). Again if the testimony in the case of Warren Carpenter was complete as to him, Carpenter, it was so or became so in 1825. [Illegible] entitling his heirs to a pension from 1825 up to the day of his death. In point we have the certificate issued to Jerusha Carpenter showing that the testimony, on the service of Warren Carpenter, was complete, so far as was necessary to sustain the claim of the said Jerusha to a pension as relie of the said Warren, and was found so complete and full in the department at the time, the pension was granted to the said Jerusha. Which is prima farie evidence that the testimony assumed this positive state in the year 1825 when Warren Carpenter was rejected, for cause. He had 30 acres of stony land on which if one pays taxes, the less he has the better.
See schedule marked (C). There can be no doubt that agreeably to the act of 7 June 1832 and 4th July 1836 the husband is entitled to $96 per annum on proof of six months service in the state line or continental troops. Again by the act 7 June 1832 the widow is entitled to the same amt which per annum which the husband would have received, had he have lived and [illegible] made application under the said act of 1832 (see Decision 4 August 1846.
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again by the act 7 July 1838. The widows of Revolutionary officers & soldiers, who were married to their husbands previous to the year 1794 were entitled to full five years pay, without regard to their husbands drawing pension, provided they live until the extension; extended 3 March 1843. Amended 2 Feb 1848 and extended for 5 years. In the matter of Jerusha Carpenter it was not restricted by the act 23 January 1845 Cause Why. The declaration was filed in the department in 1839. The marriage of Mrs. Carpenter is fully sustained by accompanying - copy of document, now on file in the department - marked (B). The case of Warren Carpenter as connected with and as [illegible] to that of Jerusha Carpenter is most fully sustained by the certificate of the Comptroller of the state of New York a copy of which accompanies marked (D). Which shows that on the 12 Nov 1780 Warren Carpenter was paid by the Treasury of the state of New York for Military service in the regular line L2. S16. d10 1/2 for services which had been rendered. Here is a fact established of service and payment for services rendered in 1780. The payment seems to be balance which had become due on an expired term. The payment [illegible] made was not bounty, for the Government never have practiced paying more than $5 to 10$ at the time of enlistment.
Again on the 30th Nov 1781one year and twenty days after the payment above receipted. The secretary of the state of New York did open his manificent heart and pay Warren Carpenter L18 S13. d4. For
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For services performed for the United States making in all (ie). Both periods of service on which he received pay of 18 months. If so why did the late commmissioner allow Mrs. Carpenter but $26.66. Cause Why. It was the result of a visionary whim which induced to be sour and morose and to give vent to sperrn when there is no other subject. We therefore claim for the heirs of the said Jerusha under 4 March 1836 and also of 1838, 1843 & 1844 that the widow if words mean any thing or convey ideas is entitled to the whole amount of pension for 5 years. And that by the act 7 July 1838 the widows of Revolutionary soldiers performing six months service, maried to their husbands previous to 1794 are entitled to full 5 years pay without regard to the pension of husband if living. Provided the widow lives until the extension vis 3 March 1843. Also amended 2 Feb 1848 & extended 5 years.
We also claim on a count for half pay the difference between $26.66 & 48$ per year vis $21.34 from the 13 April 1840 up to the day of her death in the summer of 1849. We also claim under all and every the laws and acts of the United States granting pensions to widows in virtue of husbands services and under no other laws rules or regulations.
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(A)
Pension Office
May 17 1851
Sir
The case of Jerusha Carpenter has been frequently reexamined, and the grounds on which an increase of pension is refused, as often pointed. The evidence heretofore required, must be produced or no increase will be allowed, and as our time is fully occupied in examineing cas in which evidence is produced, instead of a reitteration of argument. No further correspondence will be had on this subject as long as the latter is the only thing adduced.
If any pension accrues between the time of her last payment and time of her death application should be made to the 3d auditor.
Very respectfully Your Obt Sert
(signed) F S Evans, for Com of Pensions
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(B)
State of New York, Niagara County ss
Jotham Carpenter of the town Royatton in the county of Niagara being duly sworn deposes and says, that Warren Carpenter deceased who was a revolutionary soldier was a brother of this desponent; that he this deponent was well knowing to the marriage between the said Warren Carpenter and his present widow who survives him Jerusha Carpenter. That this desponent was present at such marriage; and that said Warren Carpenter & Jerusha Carpenter were married to each other in the town of Stillwater in the county of Saratoga & state of New York by one Elder Kelly in the month of April 1780 and further this deponent saith not.
Signed Jotham Carpenter

Sworn & subscribed before me this day of 1839 and I further certify that I am well acquainted with said named deponent Jotham Carpenter & that he is a creditable person and his statements entitled to belief.
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Appeal
Warren & Jerusha Carpenter

State of New York
Cayuga County ss
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No 1 (C)
The number and amount of certificates issued by the Treasurer of the state of New York for Services & Militia services &c contained from Book No 1. To whom given
Interest Commenced 1780 Nov 12 - 33130 Warren Carpenter privt L2. S16. d10 1/2
To whom given
1781 No 30 - 4882 Warren Carpenter private L18. S13. d4
The number & amount of certificate issued by the Treasurer of the state of New York for services & Militia services continued from book

State of New York, Comptrollers Office, Albany Nov 1839
I hereby certify the above to be a true extract of from Book 267 now remaining in this office and also that it appears from the same Book that the said Warren Carpenter served his first above mentioned under Captain Abraham Fonda. And his second term under Captain Ephm Woodworth & that Albert Pawling was a Col comandant on the 26th December 1781. And that Alexander Webster was colonel on the 4th Nov 1780.
(Signed) Bates Cook Comp
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Copy (D)
Pension Office Nov 27 1850
Sir
Answer to that part of your letter to the Secretary of the Interior which relates to Jerusha Carpenter, widow of Warren Carpenter, I have to inform you that her husband served (8) eight months in the Revolution which period entitled her to a pension of $26.66 per annum and no more.
(Signed)]
I am Respectfully Your Obt Servt
J L Edwards
Com of Pensions

Samuel B Tucker Esqr
Auburn N.Y.
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The number and amount of certificates issued by the Treasurer of the State of New York for Levies & militia services be continued from Book No I.
Interest commences 1781 Nov 30
To whom given
4.882. Warren Carpenter Private 18 13 4
The number and amount of Certificates issued by the Treasurer of the State of New York for Levys and militia services continued from Book VI
Interest commences 1785 Nov. 12
To whom given
33.130 Warren Carpenter Privt 2 16 10 1/2
L21. S10. d2

State of New York Comptrollers Office Albany Nov 1839
I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book 2 & 7 now remaining in this office, and also that it appears from the same books that the said Warren Carpenter served his first term above mentioned under Capt Abraham Fonda and his second term under Capt Ephrm Woodworth, and that Albert Pawling was a Col. comm at on the 26th December 1781. And that Alexander Webster was Colonel on the 4th November 1786.
Bates Cooke, Comp
fee $0.34
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Know all men by these Presents
That I Warren Carpenter in Col Willets Regt of State Levies for divers good causes and considerations me hereunto moving have made, ordained, authorized, and appointed and by these presents do make, ordain, authorize, and appoint, Henry Hart of the City of Albany, Merchant, my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name, and to my use, to ask, demand, sue for, recover, and receive of Coll. Marines Willett or any other appointed for that purpose of said Regs. of State Levies all such sum and sums of money, debts and duties whatsoever, which now are due and owing unto me the said Warren Carpenter by and from the said Coll Marine Willett or any other appointed for that purpose and to have, use and take all lawful ways and means in my name or otherwise for recovery thereof, by attachment, arrest, distress or otherwise, and to agree and compound for the same and acquaintances or other discharges for the same, for me and in my name to make seal and deliver and to do all other lawful acts and things. Whatsoever concerning the premises, as fully in every respect, as I myself might or could do if I were personally present; and attornies, one or more under him for the purposes aforesaid, to make, and at his pleasure to revoke; ratifying and allowing all and whatever my said attorney shall in my name lawfully do, or cause to be done in and about the premises, by virtue of these presents. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this seventh day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand and seven hundred and eighty four. 
Warren Carpenter
Witness Present Job Wright Thomas Carpenter
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Recieved New York 8th Oct 1784 of Col Marines Willett the sum of eighteen pounds thirteen shillings four pence on the within power.
Hon Henry Hart
Isaac Hutton
L18..13..4

Warren Carpenter of State Levies
for 1781
Capt A Fondas

Warren Carpenter, order

Comptroller Office
Albany March 20, 1840
I certify the within and preceding to be a true copy of an original paper with the [illegible] therein now remaining on file in this office.
W W Judway
Dep Compt
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In pursuance of a law passed the 27th of April, 1784, entitled "An act for the settlement of the pay of the Levies and Militia, for their services in the late War, and for other purposes therein mentioned," the following certificates have been issued, bearing interest at five per cent per annum, viz:
12th Nov, 1780 Warren Carpenter Priv. L2 16 101/2 
30th Nov, 1781 Warren Carpenter Priv. L18 13 4

State of New-York,
Comptroller's Office, Albany, 5th July 1847
I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No. 2 & 7 now remaining in this office, and that the service for which the certificates above named were issued, were performed under the following officers, viz:
First - under Capt. Ephm. Woodworth in Corns Van Veghten Reg't.
Second - under Capt. Abraham Fonda in Col. Marenus Willett Reg't.
Philip Phelps
Dep. Compt.
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POWER OF ATTORNEY AND CERTIFICATE.
Know all men by these presents, That I, Isaac Carpenter of the County of Cayuga and State of New York do hereby constitute and appoint H. H. Bostwick, of Auburn, N. Y., my true and lawful attorney, irrevocable, for me and in my behalf, to prosecute my claim for back pension or other benefit, to which I may be entitled as one of the children of Warren Carpenter and Jerusha Carpenter, both deceased on account of the military services of said Warren Carpenter in the Revolutionary War and to receive such certificate as may be issued, and to appoint one or more attorneys under him for the purposes aforesaid, hereby revoking any power of attorney which may have been heretofore given, and confirming all things that my attorney, the said H. H. Bostwick, may lawfully do in the premises.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 30th day of March A. D. 1854
James H Bostwick
Joseph Beach
Isaac Carpenter

Acknowledged before me the day and year last above written. And I certify that I am not interested or concerned in the prosecution or result of this case.
James H. Bostwick, Justice of the Peace.
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State of New York
Cayuga County Clerk's Office.
I hereby certify that James H. Bostwick before whom the annexed acknowledgement was taken, was at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly elected and authorized to take the same, and that the signature thereto purporting to be his is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I hereto set my hand and affix the seal of said county, and of the Court of Record thereof, this 30 day of March 1854 And I further certify that I am not interested or concerned in the prosecution or result of this case.
E B Marvin
County Clerk, of Cayuga County.
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Brief
Heirs of Jerusha Carpenter
claim for increased+ arrears of pension
act July 4th 1836.
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Brief
Claim of the heirs of Jerusha Carpenter decd. for increase of Revolutionary Pension under the act July 4th 1836 -

Jerusha Carpenter was pensioned under the act of July 4th 1836. at the rate of 26 00 per annum for 8 months service of her husband Warren Carpenter (on the 30th April 1840.) - The claimants assert that she should have been pensioned for a longer period of Service.

Evidence
1st  Warren Carpenters declaration in May 1825. claiming the benefit of the act of March 18. 1818. in which he sets forth 18 months service.- A
2d  Jerusha Carpenters declaration in April 1839. claiming the benefit of the act July 4th 1836 - in which she refers to her husbands declaration as above. - see paper   B.
3d.  Comptroller of State of New York - Certificates of amount paid Warren Carpenter  see pp  C.
showing £21. S10. d2. which would prove about 8 months service also - E
4th.  Certificate of Isaac Carpenter, to the Signature of Warren Carpenter in 1784. - D
5th. Affidavit of Isaac Carpenter - F.G.H.
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The affidavits of Isaac Carpenter Mark E. F. G & H are more repetitions of the statements of Warren Carpenter in his declaration, and do not throw any light of the land, the whole question is was Jerusha Carpenter pensioned to the full length of the service proved. Jerusha Carpenter died in July 1848. - The above is all the evidence in the case.
Respectfully Submitted
[Signed] N. Cleary
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The number and amount of Certificates issued by the Treasurer of the State of New York for Levies and Militia Services &c
Continued from Book No 1
[The chart below has 5 columns with only 1 heading over the 2nd]
[Heading over 2nd column] To whom given
1781 Novr 30 | 4806 Silas Gray Capt. | 141 | 4 | 4
1781 Novr 30 | 4882 Warren Carpenter Private | 18 | 13 | 4
State of New York
Comptrollers Office
Albany March 20 1840

I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No 2 now remaining in this office
[Signed] W. W. Judway
Dep Comptroller
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Sept 23d 1851 37
Auburn N.Y.
Sept 16, 1851.
Saml B. Tucker
Rel: to the claim of Jerusha Carpenter &c
Capt Triplett
Ref'd to Com Pensions for Answer
Dept Into Sept 22/51
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42, 
Auburn N. Y.
Oct 14 /57
Saml. B. Tucker
Rel: to the case of Jerusha Carpenter.

Capt Triplett
perhaps

Ref to Comr. Pensions for answer.
Dept Into Oct 17/57
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Auburn
Oct 14 /5
Dr Sir
Some time in the fall of 1850 I sent the application of the heirs of Jerusha Carpenter deceased to the pension of office, for Back [Back is underlined] pay and Increase of pension. There the matter rested until the Spring past. When I wrote- enquiring what progress had been made in the matter. Mr. S.F. Evans Com - acting, in July rejected my claim and barred Correspondence. I immediately appealed and requested the Commissioner or his agent to send the papers in the case to the office of the Secretary of the Interior, and that he would have the courtesy to inform me of the Transit of such papers.
I continued patient in the matter although I remained ignorant whether my papers had been sent from the pension office or whether my letter had miscarried In September I wrote and therewith sent a copy of the appeal and other vouchers to the office of the 2d Auditor of Treasury Setting forth the facts in the case. This gentleman  on Examination sent the matter to the 3d Auditor. Who on Examination sent the matter down to the Com- of pensions and apprised me of the fact that Information which would assure me that my papers were before you for examination, will create a confidence that they may be acted on before the next session of Congress. We are apprised here that claims are pressed through by members of Congress to the prejudice of other claimants-- Therefore we expext less during the session = We thereby express no censure against officers of the department - But regret that members of Congress do so far construe their privileges as to force that by Construction which is
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not granted by the Tenor of the rules & positive enactments
I sincerely wish there might be some [illegible] for this grievance
Excuse this tax on your valuable time and accept the assurances of 
Y O S
[Signed] Saml B Tucker

Hon Alex. H H Stuart Esqr
Secy Interior
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Auburn Nov 5/51
Sir
In Decr 1850 I mailed the application of Isaac Carpenter et al. to appen the papers of Warren Carpenter a soldier of 781 for a Revolutionary pension; rejected in 1825 on the ground of property qualification. I have written several times during the last three months, but the then com. acting did not answer. I trust sir, to merit a continuance of that courtesy which I have already received from the gentleman recently left in charge asst J Wilson Esqr. I am induced to believe sir he was not [illegible] in the Edwards School. Your early attention is solicited to above named case.
Y O S
S B Tucker

Hon Jas E Heathe Esqr
Com Pensions
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Jan 22, 1840
NY
J. Carpenter

FREE
The Secretary of War
Washington City

Pension Office
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Auburn, N.Y. Jany 17th 1840
Sir,
In pursuance of the suggestion contained in the [illegible] of W. Crump of the 23rd Ult. relative to the case of Mrs. Jerusha Carpenter, I have the honor to state, that I heretofore addresses a letter to the Comptroller of this state, making the further enquiry as to the evidence of the services of the applicant's husband, & have received a reply to the effect that the name of the husband is not found as having performed service under Captains Gray & Dunham. suc, with the evidence already transmitted, is the present state of the case.
Nevertheless, the applicant seems to regard the matter as involving a mistake some where, either in the returning officers, or from some change of captains, or otherwise, at the period referred to, feeling entirely positive as to the single fact of the husband's having performed revolutionary services, & which fact is susceptible of oral proof to this extent, viz, that the applicant remembers hearing the husband detail certain service performed with a cousin of his, Barnet Carpenter, who is supposed to be now living in the eastern part of this state; & who can attest to the fact of service & probably the officers of the husband, but that it is quite doubtful, whether, at this day, he can identify the length of time of that service. That Jotham Carpenter whose affidavit has already been transmitted, & who resides in the western part of this state, can also attest to the fact of such service, but probably not the time.
Such is the nature of the proof supposed to be now attainable, & the object of this communication is, to enquire whether it wont be sufficient for the object desired; so that if it be not, that the applicant need not be subjected to the task of searching in opposite & distant parts of the state, for such proof.
At the advanced age & under the needy circumstances of the appicant, it wont indeed be a great misfortune to her to be deprived, through any defect of proof of what she may be justly entitled to under the pension law; & it can
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[illegible] be necessary for me to add, that I only desire to discharge my own trust fully & faithfully in the matter.
As early an answer as consistent wont be very desirable.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your most Obet. Servt.
H. Millerd

Hon. The Secretary of War.
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Albany March 20 1840
H Millerd Esq 
[illegible]
I [illegible] you all of the papers that I could obtain from the Comptrollers office. The copy of the paper signed by Warren Carpenter I supposed would be of use to you. If you think that it will not you can send it [illegible] immediately & the money part for it will be refunded. I found for this paper $1.00
The other .30 $1.30
which can be paid to me at some future time. Should you return the paper the $1.00 will be paid back at the office. These are all that can be obtained in the office.
Yours A. Cady
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Mar.31.1840
Jerusha Carpenter

free
Hon. The Secretary of War
Washington City
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Auburn N.Y. March 24th 1840
upon the receipt of Mr. Edward letter of the
12th instant, I transmitted another application to the Comptroller of this State touching the case of Mr. Jerusha Carpenter, & then & thereby requested the Comptrollers certificate as to the following facts, whether or not he had the role of Capt Witham Dunham & Silas Gray, & if so
whether the name of the applicants husband appeared thereon, to which application returns were received yesterday
which I have the honor herewith to enclose. The defect in his former certificate was also in such application suggested
It will be remarked, that one of the witnesses to the power of
Attorney, Job Wright, is of the same name with one of the
captains of Warren Carpenter as mentioned in his declaration
& the other witness Thomas Carpenter is states in the affidavit of Isaac Carpenter, also herewith enclosed, as being a cousin of said Warren Carpenter - Permit me to
solicit as only a reply as may be consistent
I have the honor to be
Very respectfully
your most obt. Servt
H. Miller
Hon. the Secretary of War
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4461
M182
3 Apl 19
April 19,1889
Pension Office N.Y.
4 July 1836

FREE
[illegible]
Hon. The Secretary of War
Washington City
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Auburn, N. Y. April 13th 1839
Sir,
Enclosed, I have the honor to transmit the papers upon the application of Mrs. Jerusha Carpenter for a pension.
I have also this day been retained by Mrs. Deborah Kilburn to present her application for a pension, whose papers thereupon, as she informs me, were forwarded to the department some six months since, but to which no return has as yet been recd. I have therefore to request the favor, that you would inform, at as early a period as consistent, what may be the state of her case.

I have the honor to be very respectfully your obt. servt. H. Millerd

Hon. The Secretary of War.
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Sept 19
NY
[illegible]
Jerusha Carpenter

FREE
Hon. The Secretary of War
Washington City
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Auburn, Sept. 6th 1839
Sir,
In the case of Mrs. Jerusha Carpenter, a record has been found & obtained from the Clerk's office of the county of Herkimer, being the original declaration of Warren Carpenter decd. & which I have the honor herewith to enclosed; it appearing from Mr. Edward's letter of the 14th ultimo that the papers of the decd. on his original application had been returned. This record in connection with the testimony already transmitted is probably all the proof within the power of the widow of the deceased after this lapse of time.
I have the honor to be very respectfully, your most obt. servt. H. Millerd

Hon. The Secretary of War.
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Auburn
Sept 16/57
Sir
On the 7th July Past I mailed
the application of the heirs of Jerusha
Carpenter to the pension office for
an increase of pension & Back pay,
and was not aware at the time that the
application should be made at the
office of the 2d Auditor of Treasury.
I waited until some time in May past when
I wrote, asking for information in the premises,
Mr. F. S. Evans, in rather a Cavalier way
at once rejected the claim, & closed correspondence: Without referring me to the auditor
I immediately appealed to your Honor, and
requested the commissioner acting, to forward
the papers to your office. This occured on the
15th July past. Since which, I have heard nothing
of the whereabouts, of my papers
How far, will the transaction though informal
Estop my making direct application to the auditor and how far, will that course prejudice action on the appear
I could wish the regulations of the pension & Bounty land offices; Together with the laws, & decisions, relating thereto, were printed in form; with an index I find that agents, who have been investigating
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claims for years, are entirely ignorant of many matters, which are only learned from letters, received from the different departments.
I learned that this matter, should have gone to the 2d auditor, from a gentleman in this city. Who having been engaged in procuring claims for years, learned the fact by letter. Excuse my prolixity, I feell  Congress, should do something for the benefit of agents, who are forced to group their way in the dark; in presenting claims, for which large appropriations are yearly made. The claimants, must be entitled to sympathy; else, why does Congress act? If entitled; why leave the matter befoged so much that claimants are unable to reach an ultimatum? Some of the richest Blood of the union now lingers in the sluggish channels of these wretched mendicants who have toiled; gloriously struggled; and nobly fought for that ultimate, which crowns our hearths with health and happiness.
Y. O. S. Samuel B. Tucker

Hon Alex H. H. Stuart Esqr.
Sect In
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Jerusha Carpenter
[illegible] 36
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Auburn Sept 6/51
Sir
Some time in Dec 1850 I mailed to the pension office the application of Isaac Carpenter and others for back pay and an increas of pension on the certificate of the department to Jerusha Carpenter deceased. On the 17th May past Mr. F S Evans comm. acting rejected the application and barred correspondence. On the 15th July past mailed the papers; appealing to your honor from the decision of Mr. Com Evans and requested him to pass the papers therefor to your office for re-visions, and to inform me of their fact - that I might know their whereabouts. Since which I have heard nothing from Mr. Evans or of the papers. I have since learned accidentally that the application should have been made to the 2d Auditor of the Treasury. If so why does Mr Evans assume jurisdiction and reject that which he can have no cognissance? Why did he not send same up to the Treasury? I wish sir to be informed whether you have received the papers in question and whether you have cognissance; If not who has. I am anxious to have some action in the premises.
Y O S S B Tucker

Hon Alex H. H. Stuart Esqr
Sec of Interior
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47.
Auburn Nov 22/51
S. B. Tucker
Rel: to his appeal from Com Pensions in the case of Jerusha Carpenter.
Page 117

Auburn, Nov 22/51
Supplement to an appeal taken to the decision of the Commissioners of Pensions on the twenty eighth day (28th) October (1851) eighteen hundred & fifty one.
The undersigned having given the law as it refers to Revolutionary gratuities a further consideration has become convinced that he was in an error in claiming for Warren Carpenter & Jerusha Carpenter and the heirs of either and of both in the above named appeal the sum of ninety six dollars per annum and will now correct the said error by setting the claim for the heirs of the said Warren Carpenter and Jerusha Carppenter the sum of sixty dollars per annum the amount which eighteen months of military service performed by the said Warren Carpenter in the years of seventeen hundred and eighty and seventeen hundred and
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eighty one bear to the amount requisite for two years services vis; eighty dollars per annum. Therefore all claim for a farther pension for the said Warren Carpenter and Jerusha Carpenter and their heirs in their behalf to a further sum than sixty dollars per annum inclusive of the amount of ($26.66) twenty six dollars sixty six cents per annum already paid as per certificate to the said Jerusha Carpenter during her life is hereby withdrawn and discarded and the undersigned does now and will hereafter base his claim in behalf of the hiers of the said Warren Carpenter & Jerusha Carpenter on the sum of sixty dollars per annum.
Y O S 
S B Tucker

Hon Alex H H Stuart Esqr
Sec of Interior
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Auburn Feb 4/52
Sir
I wish a copy of the papers filed on the application of Warren Carpenter in the year 1825 for a pension also a copy of the papers on which a pension was granted Jerusha Carpenter on application made 1837. Certicate issued 1839. These papers have become a matter of importance in the prosecution of a claim against the State of New York for land patents. Favour me with certified copies.
Y. O. S.
S. B. Tucker

Hon Jas. E. Heath Esqr
Com. Pens.
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Department of the Interior
Washington March 24th 1852
Sir
Upon an examination of the case of the heirs of Jerusha Carpenter decd. I find that it was decided by your predecessor in 1840 and no appeal taken from that decision for more than ten years. That alone would induce me to regard it as a case which should not be re-opened, but the merits of the case also are sufficient to induce me to affirm your decision; you will please advise Mr. Tucker the attorney for the claimant of the result.
I am very respectfully Your obedient Servant
Alex H. H. Stuart, Secretary

James E. Heath Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
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Auburn, N.Y. March 31st 1854
[illegible] L P Waldo
Com. of Pensions
Sir
Herewith I send Power of Attorney in the case of the heirs of Warren Carpenter, a Revolutionary soldier, and Jerusha Carpenter his widow. She drew $26.66 per year it is claimed that she was entitled pension for 18 months service, on his account. And that the heirs are entitled to the difference between the amount drawn by the widow, and the amount to which she would be entitled if he served 18 months. Will you please be so kind as to state the condition of the case and why the increase is not allowed. If I am corectly informed, the service claimed is passed and admitted.
Yours truly H H Bostwick
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Auburn N.Y. Apl 28th 1854
Hon L P Waldo
Com of Pensions
Sir 
Yours of the 6th April just is recd. relative to the case of Jerusha Carpenter decd. widow of Warren Carpenter of NY. in which you state that a portion of his service designated by him as military, was by his own showing labor performed in transporting [illegible] and provisions; and that this service was probably regarded at the time as military, but as civil.
Is not such service now regarded and allowed as military? And if so, is not the case entitled to consideration, without the production of evidence additional?
Yours truly H H Bostwick
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Jerusha Carpenter
Revolutionary claim
Increase of Pension
H H Bostwick
Attorney
Auburn, N.Y.
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Auburn, NY. Sept 16th 1857

Hon Geo E Whiting
Court of Pensions,


Sir,
I take the liberty of calling your attention to the case of Jerusha Carpenter, widow of Warren Carpenter of New York for increase of Pension, under the act of July 4th 1836, The claim was rejected by the Court of Pensions in the year 1840 and an ap=peal was made to the secy of Interior, and the decision affirmed. In March 1854 application was again made, upon the ground that a portion of the service clamed by Carpenter was not, at the time of the decision and appeal, considered military,
but civil, and that such service had since
been regarded and recognized as Military.

The then Commissioner of Pensions refused
to examine the papers again, for the reason
that an appeal to the secy of the Interior had been taken, in 1851, upon the merits of the case, an appeal from the decision in 1854 was then made to the Court of the Interior, and the Court of pensions sustained in his refusal to re ex amine the case.
I trust that you, in justice to the parties interested will not refuse to re examine this case upon its present merits, and if the service which was disallowed in 1840, as not military, is such as is now regarded as military, that you will allow the claim, It is upon this point alone that I request the favor,
yours truly N H Bostwick
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Auburn N. Y.
Oct     25/52

Sir
accompanying this I have the honr to
forward the application of Isaac Carpenter Et al to the Comr to approve the pension papers of their mother Jerusha Carpenter; a
pensioner of the Revolutionary War
and praying an Extension of that
certificate to full pay ie $66.66
per annum Your Early action in
the permisrs, is earnestly solicited
Y.O.S.
S. B. Tucker
Hon de
Comr Pensions
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Nov 19. 1852
S. B Tucker with-
draws the application of Silas Dutcher and 
wife as heir often 
she co
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Auburn Cay. Co. NY
November 15/52
Sr Sir
I hereby withdraw the application of Silas Dutcher and Betsy his wife, claimants as heirs at Law and children of Jerusha Carpenter deceased a pensioner of the Revolutionary War, to any part, share, or portion of any arrearages of pensions so claimed for the said Silas and wife and wish it so to [illegible] from said application as not to prejudice the legal or equitable rights of any other hier or claimant.
Y O S
S B Tucker

Honbe. Jas E. Heath Esqr
Com Pensions
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Auburn Cayuga County Dec 27/50
Dr Sir
Herewith I transmit the accompanying papers containing the application of Isaac Carpenter, Nathaniel Gage and Dorcas his wife to reopen the papers in the matter of Warren Carpenter a soldier of the Revolution for a pension on the services of the said Warren.
On or about the time in which you sir assumed the office of Commissioner of Pensions I wrote a line to the Hon J L Edwards Esqr for information in the premises which I followed with one or two of the same character to some of which I received a verry tart reply and some of which were neglected. In continuance of which I wrote again in the same acerbe style with the reply of Mr. Edwards.
Permit me dear sir to express my regret that this communication should have fallen into your hands as it was designed for a spirit of different sympathies and temperament.
I more especially regret it as my situation rendered it necessary for me to keep up kindly [illegible] with the department. And I am aware that first impressions are often desirable. Again I am not disposed to treat a gentleman with other than the highest respect.
Your acknowledgement of these documents and as speedy returns thereto as the nature of the matter will warrant will relieve the wants of a merittorious and needy family and gratify the feelings of Your Obt Servt Samuel B. Tucker

Hon James E Heath Esqr
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Auburn Nov 30/50
Dr Sir
The department have misapprehended the enquiry which I wish to make in the case of Warren Carpenter a claimant for a pension under the act of 1818. Which application was filed 6 May 1825 and returned to Mr. Westal at Willoughby on 15 June 1819. Having been thrown out by property qualification.
In 1839 Henry Millard Esqr (now deceased) made application for Jerusha Carpenter [illegible] of Warren Carpenter (who died in 1831) for half pay as widow of Warren Carpenter and obtained 27 June 47 = $26.66 per annum for life on an allowance of 8 months services. Whereas the same certificate of the controller showing 8 months service above referred to contains two certificates of service of 9 months each. The papers containing the original application and proof of Warren Carpenter were again thrown into the department 1939 and having been acted on, were put on file in the archives of the office. Which matter contains the information sought (vis) to know what proof was in the department and what further proof was necessary in opening the application under acts subsequent to 1818 to substantiate the claims of the hiers of Warren & Jerusha Carpenter deceased to back or full pension for services rendered by the said Warren. That Warren Carpenters hiers are entitled to a pension for his services is a matter which the proof in and the action of the department in giving the said Jerusha half pay for 8 months service acknowledged by the
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department in their communication of Nov 27/37. Just recd has forever sat at rest. Again the certificate of Bates Cook controller of the state of New York under date Nov /39 now on file in the department shows that Warren Carpenter rendered services for two terms of 9 months each for which the Treasurer of New York paid the said Carpenter vis. L18-S13-d4 and part pay for L2.S16.d101/2 9 months under Capt Job Wright; Col M Kinsteed regiment New York line from April 1778 to and was discharged in the spring of 1779 and then upon he enlisted in Captain Holtham Dunhams company of infantry and was transfered to Capt Silas Gregs where he remained 9 months. Now if his widow was entitled for which portion of 18 months services? Is it for 8 of the first the first nine? or 8 months of the last 9? or an alliquat part of either? In either case I ask the the back pay for the balance of the term as due to Jerusha Carpenter. For if the claim is sustained in one part it is secured in the other as it is impossible as I define the law so to divide time as to grant a pension for one portion of a given term and not for the whole.
Again if Jerusha Carpenter is entitled on the service of Warren Carpenter why has not Warren Carpenter a claim in his own behalf for services which he rendered. The proof of which is already in the department and the acnowledgement made by granting a a half pay to Jerusha for 8 months or an alliquat fraction of 18 months already substantiated.
I have a copy of all the papers in the application and correspendence of Jerusha Carpenter. But not of the application, proof & correspondence of Warren Carpenter and ask of the department that which from lapse of time. The decease of informants &c &c is beyond my reach.
Yours &c Samuel B Tucker

Hon J L Edwards Esqr
Com Pensions
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Aubust N.Y. Nov 5/50
Dr Sir
I am not informed by the act 28 Sept 1850 whether the claimant will be allowed an election of a land warrant or an equivalent in money as per act February 11/47 amended July 1/59.
There are a large number of claimants entitled to 40 acres impressed with the idea that the expense of prosecuting claim; of locating land and the trouble of taking care of a small bit of land at a great distance will be so great as to result in little or no benefit to themselves or children. Consequently they are determined not to set up a claim.
If they were to receive 20$ or 50 cents per acre it might yield them a relic of governmental favor as a token of recognition.
I am not instructed as yet by the department whether the draft or the substitute is entitled to land or whether the claim must be prosecuted in the name of the substitue of the draft so vice versa I have many among the applications in progress belonging to the above and ask instruction as I shall strive at all times to place each application on the clearest basis of which it admits. 
In the matter of pension of Jerusha Carpenter widow of Warren Carpenter I wish to be informed why she was not allowed half pay (48$) under the act

Ansd Nov. 8, 1850
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April 5/29 entitled an act granting half pay to widows and orphans of husbands who died before 20 April 1818 or the whole pension as allowed under acts 1838, 1843, & 1844 if the husband died previous to March 4 1836 for services in the revolution. Also a certificate for the amount paid and time for which the same was paid to the said Jerusha Carpenter who died April 1849.
Your early attention is requested.
Yours respectfully
Samuel B Tucker

Hon Alex H H Stuart Esqr
Sec of Interior
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Jordan N.Y. Aug 16. 1847
Sir,
By request of the widow & children of Warren Carpenter, decd, I send you the evidence furnished by the Comptroller of N. York of the services of Warren Carpenter. They still think the widow does not receive a stipend in proportion to the amt. of services. They think there must be a mistake.
I am, Sir, Your Obt Servt
Robert Gallt

Jas. L. Edwards Commr. of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
Page 134

Auburn
January 7/51

Dr Sir

Herewith on the papers of the several individuals therein names praying the department to open the application of Jerusha Carpenter late a pensioner of the United States for an increase of the amount of said gratuity and for arrearagres

Your attention to the matter is solicited as early as convenient to the matter in the premises  Accept the apurry of Samuel B. Tucker 

Hon Jas E. Heath Esqr
Com. Pensions
Page 135

Auburn
Jany 7/51

Dr Sir

Enclosed is the application of John Carpenter and Mary Gosham to be United with Isaac Carpenter in opening the papers of Warren Carpenter deceased for a pension based on the facts set forth by the Isaac in an affidavit of the said Isaac and Nathaniel Gagre now  in the department.

Also the amended affidavit of the Said Isaac Setting forth that Mary Gosham was noticed as an heir of the said Warren and Jerusha Carpenter which discrepancy was probably attributable in part to a want of a statement previously drawn up containing the facts as a memorando for drafting the facts contained and in part attributable to a want of forethought in Mr. Carpenter.  The great length of the paper prevented the applicants from noticing the want of one name of the seven living children of Warren.  As early as may be favour me with some information in the premises and accept the assurance of 

Samuel B. Tucker

Hon Jas E. Heath Esqr
Com Pensions
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32.

Sept 9th 1851

Auburn. N.Y.

Sept 2/51

Saml. B. Tucker appeals from the decision of the Com of Pensions in the Case of Jeremiah & Warren Carpenter

Triplett

You have papers

Rep to Comr Pensions for Report
Sept Intro
Sept 8/51
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Auburn
Sept 2/51

Dr Sir

Sometime in June past I received from the pension office that the claims of the heirs of Warren + Jerusha Carpenter for a pension withheld since 1825 on Warren Carpenter and a claim of an increase of pension on Jerusha Carpenter Were rejected

From which decision I took an appeal to the Secretary of the Interior and indeed the same with the accompanying vouchers and copy's +c +C at this city on the 15# day of July 1851 Since which time I heard nothing from the commission nor the commissioner acting.  I trust my dear sir you will not fail to order the paper up and give the matter that consideration which the merits of the case demand.

YOS
Saml B. Tucker

Hon Alex H H Stewart Esqr
Secy Interior
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S. B. Tucker
Auburn, N.Y.
Sept 6/51

Concerning claim of the heirs of Jerusha Carpenter, and Reed Sept 29/51
And " " "
asking particulars
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Auburn
Sept 6/51

Sir

Sometime in Decr 1850 I made application to the Com Pensions for back pay and an increase of pension on the certificate issued by the government to Jerusha Carpenter; now deceased, on the affidavits of Isaac Carpenter + others heirs +
On the 17th May past Mr. F. S. Evans Comr acting rejected the application and Barred correspondence.  On the 15th July 1851 I appealed to the Secretary of the Interior.  Mailed the same to Pension office requesting an allowance + the papers sent to the Secy of Interior Since which I have heard nothing of the matter I recently learned by accident--through a letter from your office that you sir have jurisdiction exclusively--in the premises.  If so Suffer me to request you to order the matter up for a hearing.  I cannot conceive why Mr. Evans should assume a jurisdiction, and act in contravention to every rule of right, equity  or Law.  If Mr. Evans has acted indisentely, I wish to be informed how far that, may prejudin my claim & what will the modus operandi be & I earnestly wish Congress would appropriate something  for arranging, combining & publishing, with a good index all the laws + decisions+c, +c. relating to Pensions + lands.

YOS
SB Tucker

2nd Auditor of the Treasury
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Auburn 
Feb 11/51

Dr Sir
Do me the favor if within your power to acknowledge the receipt of application for opening the testimony in the case of Warren Carpenter for a Pension

Also the application for back pay and increase of pension on claims of Jeshua Carpenter__all of which were mailed on the 7 January 1851, Both documents contain valuable testimony which I have an anxiety to keep sight of .  Under the late incumbent in the Pension office I expected neglect and abuse But my dear sir from the history of the past I have ever entertained are exalted idea of your worth area indomitable perseverance and do trust that the few papers which I may forward to your care will be acknowledged and cared for.

Your obt servt
Samuel B. Tucker

Hon Jas E. Heath Esqr
Page 141

Auburn
Feby 14/51

Dear Sir  I am avised by receipt of Communication dated Pension office Feby 10/31 That their were no papers found in the office showing the claims of Warren Carpenter.  

It probably has not occurred to the commission that the application of Warren Carpenter and other vouchers appendant were used by the agrut in the spring of 1839 to give character and tour the application of Jerusha Carpenter relic of the said Warren Carpenter and "I make no doubt." Indeed I know that these papers are filed under the application of the said Jerusha between the dates of April 1839 and the 30th April 1840  The letter is the date of the warrant allied to the said Jerusha which is now in my hands.  I trust I have the cordial cooperation of the department in furthering the testimony which may support a well founded claim for hard wrought services.

Your Obt Servt
Samuel B Tucker

Hon Jas. E. Heath esqr
Page 142

Nov. 27, 1839

{AUBURN Nov 21 N.Y.}

addl. proof
Jerusha Carpenter

Hon Secretary of War,
Washington City

Pension Office
Page 143

Auburn N.Y. Nov 21st 1839

Sir,

A great to Mr. Edwards's letter of the 9th ults I applied to the comptroller of this state for evidence of Warren Carpenter's revolutionary services + have at length obtained from him the enclosed certificate.

The marriage + date thereof is proved, it will be seen by the affidavit of Jotham Carpenter, already transmitted, which together makes the evidence of the case a sample as the widow at this day can make it.

Please be so good as to inform me of the decision of the department at as early a period as may be consistent.

I have the honor to be
respectfully your most
obt. servt.

H. Millerd

Hon. the Secretary of War
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M. 340.  2 Oct 28

2 Oct 11839
Pension Office

FREE

Hon The Secretary of War
Washington City

{Round Stamp: AUBURN SEP 28 N.Y.}

[Illegible: Mat No Serce]
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Auburn N.Y. Sept. 27th 1839

Sir,

In the case of Mrs. Jeshua Carpenter, I had the honor sometime since to enclose you a document in reply to Mr. Edward's letter of the 14th ulh, but have as yet recd no return.  The applicant being very anxious to learn the issue of her case + it being one so old I have to solicit the attention of the department to hear it as early as may be concistent.

I have the honor to be 
very respectfully your 
most obt. servt.

H Millerd

Hon. The Secretary of War
Page 146

House of Representatives
May 2 1840
Sir,
Your favor of this date correcting
the mistake in the name of the Pensioner
whose papers were referred to the Third
Auditor is duly received & is satisfactory -
I also acknowledge the receipt of a Pension
Certificate dated 30th of April 1840 issued
to Jerusha Carpenter, Widow of Warren
Carpenter a private in the War of the Rev
I beg that in this case you would
refer me to the agent or person who
forwarded me the papers, if in your
power, as it has escaped me & I can
find no letter which refers to the case in
my files. I may have sent the letter
to you concerning the application when I
received it. I recollect sending the papers
of Jerusha Olmsted, but cannot call this
to mind - I have little doubt however, that
my memory is in fault--
With great respect,
I am your Obt Servt
S. M. Gates
Hon J.L. Edwards
Comp of Pensions
Page 147

Dec. 19, 1839
Hon The Secretary of War
Washington City

Carpenter

{Round stamp: AUBURN}
Page 148

Auburn N.Y. Dec. 14th, 1839

Sir,

On the 21st Ultime I had the honor to enclose to you further documentary evidence in the case of the pension application of Mrs. Jerusha Carpenter, but have as yet received no return.  Inasmuch as the applicant is quite solicitous to hear the the result of her application, I beg to request the earliest information in reference thereto.

I have the honor to be
very respectfully
your most obt. servt.

H Millerd
Hon the Secretary of War
Page 149

(unsure)
M92.
March 9, 1840.
Pension office
N.Y.
J. Carpenter

{round stamp: AUBURN 3 N.Y)

(illegible)
Hon. The Secretary of War
Washington City
Page 150

Auburn, N.Y. March 2? 1840

Sir, 

Relative to the case of Mrs. Jerusha Carpenter, I have the honor to state that having addressed a letter to the witness who it was supposed could testify respecting the service of Warren Carpenter, decd, he informs me that he can neither give the name of the said deceased officers or the time of his service from his recollection, at this day + all that he can furnish is the general fact that the deceased served in the war.  Such therefore, upon the proofs already before you, is the state of the case.  At this distance of time the proof submitted is as perfect as the widow can make it.  The applicant hopes her case may receive the favorable consideration of the department in view of the circumstances.  considerable trouble + expense have been incurred in obtaining the proof already transmitted.  I can only add the request to be informed of the decision thereon as early as may be consistent.

And have the honor to be 
Very respectfully, 
your most obt. servt.
H. Millerd
Hon. The Secretary of War
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June 18/47
Relatd to Case
Jerusha Carpenter

James L. Edwards
Commr. of Pensions
Washington City D.C.

{Round Stamp: JORDAN Jun 1 (illegible)}
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Jordan, N. York June 12, 1867

Sir,

Jerusha Carpenter, Widow of Warren Carpenter, and her friends, allege that she is a pensioner, under the list of 6th March 1836 at the rate of $26.66 per  (?) They complain that the sum is too small in proportion to the services undered; they say that Warren Carpenter served nine months in the year 1778 in Capt. Job Wrights Company.  Col. McKinstres Regt and nine months in the year 1779 under Capt Dunham and Capt Silas  Gray in the same Regt:_____They are very anxious to be advised on the subject as they think there must be a  mistake.  Will you please examine and inform them on the subject.
I am, Sir, Your 
Obt Sevt
Robert Gaut (?)

James L. Edwards
Commr of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
Page 153

Hon. The Secretary of War.
Washington City.

Apr. 29, 1840

Mrab.(?) NY.

Pension office
Page 154

Auburn, N.Y. April 25th 1840

Sir,

I had the honor to enclose you some further documents in the case of Mrs. Jerusha Carpenter on the 24th [unsure] , but have, in fact, received no answer.  May I ask, in behalf of the applicant, to be informed thereon at alcorsly(?) a day  as may be consistent?

I have the honor to be,
very respectfully, 
your most obt. Servt.
H. Millerd
Hon. The Secretary of War.
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Bounty Land Warrant Record Card

Name, Carpenter, William 
grade Sergeant 
The Sheldons Dragoons Connecticut 

Warrant 5647 Issued Sept 24 1790 to - not shown-