Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20805, Isaac Butterfield, N.H.
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State of New York

Jefferson County.  On this 11th day of October 1838 personally appeared before the Hon. Zeno Allen, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in the County of Jefferson Orpha Butterfield, a resident of the town of Hounsfield in the County of Jefferson aged seventy four years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7, 1838.  Entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of Isaac Butterfield who was in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War and obtained a pension under the Act of 1818 of Eight Dollars per month and was on the pension list roll of the New York Agency.  She further declares that she was married to the said Issac Butterfield on the sixth Day of July seventeen hundred and eighty-four by Rev. Ebenezar Bailey a Baptist Minister, at Westmorland in the State of New Hampshire; that her name before marriage was Orpha Howe.  She further declares that her husband the aforementioned Isaac Butterfield died on the thirtieth day of April one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-four [illegible] or the time above stated.

Sworn to subscribed, on the day and year above written

before Zeno Allen Judge
of Jeff. County Courts

Orpha Butterfield
X her mark

I hereby certify that Mrs. Butterfield the above-named declarant, by reason of bodily infirmity cannot attend court.

Zeno Allen Judge
of Jeff. County Courts