Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 7878, for Asa Jackson, New Hampshire
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SERVICE
N. H.

Jackson, Asa
Mary

NUMBER
W 7878
B.L. Wt. 13889-160-55

CONTENTS
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Notifn sent Nov. 20th 1820 to I. Wallace Fort Covington N. York

17,185
New York
Asa Jackson of Fort Covington in the state of New York, who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Dearborn of the New Hampshire line, for the term of three years, War
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 26th of September, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27th of May 1820 and sent to Albon Man Esqr Malone, Franklin County, New Jersey [New York]
Arrears to 4th of Mar: 1820  $158.36
Semi-aln. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1820  48.
[total] $206.36
17 mo 5/30 & 4/31
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
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3,975
New York, Albany
Mary Jackson widow of Asa Jackson N H who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued 4th day of April 1851 and sent to Flanders Wheeler & Taylor
Malone N. Y.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 76 Vol. A
Afd.
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Vol. J. 3. 

Act March 3/55
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113,182
Mary Jackson widow of Asa Jackson
Capt -
Col -
Claimant is a pensioner to Act Feby 3/53 & refers to evidence on file
Revolutionary War
N. Y. Feby 53 3975
Private Col Dearborn N. H. Line
Ad. 160 ac's Jany 9/56 Dodge
Samuel H Marks
Albany N. Y.

No 13,889 Iss Jany 12/56
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State of New York
County of St Lawrence ss.
On this twenty third day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty three personally appeared before the undersigned a Special County Judge of the said County of St Lawrence Mary Jackson a resident of the town of Parishville in the County of St Lawrence and State aforesaid, aged eighty-six years and upwards, who first being duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3d of February, 1853 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war: that she is the widow of Asa Jackson, who was a private in the revolutionary Army, and who was, on
the 27th day of May 1820 pensioned under the act of 18th March, 1818, at the rate of eight dollars per month to commence on the 26th day of September 1818, as appears by the original certificate hereto attached. Deponent is unable to specify in detail the services of her husband or under what officers he served. She further declares that she was married to the said Asa Jackson
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on the second day of April 1815. at Hinesburgh, County of Chittenden State of Vermont. That her said husband died on the 11th day of September one thousand eight hundred and forty four at Bombay, Franklin County, New York. That she was not married to him prior to the second of January, eighteen hundred, but at the time above stated. She further declares, that she is now a widow. 
[signature] X her mark Mary Jackson
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year written before me
[signature] William H Wallace Special County Judge
of St Lawrence County.
In presence of [signature] Asa Jackson

State of New York, County of St Lawrence ss:
I William H Wallace, Special County Judge of said County do hereby certify that on this 22d day of August in the year 1853 before me at Chambers came the above named Mary Jackson and was by me duly sworn and signed her name by making her mark as above to the foregoing affidavit, and I further certify that the said Mary Jackson signed her name as aforesaid instead of writing the same as usual by reason of her advanced age and physical infirmity which presents her signing her name thereto otherwise, and further that the said Mary Jackson by reason of her said advanced age, physical infirmity, and bodily weakness is unable to appear in open Court, and by reason thereof this declaration above is
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made and taken and subscribed before me a Special County Judge of said County Court, of said Counrt being a Court of Record, at Chambers and I further certify that I believe the said Mary Jackson to be the identical person who is the widow of the said Asa Jackson and that she is of the age above stated in said declaration.
[signature] William H Wallace
Special County Judge at Lawrence County

[one paper over the other]
also Clerk of the Courts of record directed to be held therein do hereby certify that William H. Wallace Esq before whom the annexed affidavit of Mary Jackson was made, was at the time of taking the same a Special County Judge of said County and duly authorized to take the same, and I further certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Special County Judge, and I verily believe his signature to the Jurat of the said affidavit, and the annexed Certificate genuine.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County & Court this 30 day of August A. D. 1853.
[signature] George S. Winslow Clerk
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St Lawrence County ss
Clerks office
I George S. Winslow Clerk of said County of St. Lawrence and also Clerk of the Courts of record directed to be held therein do hereby certify that William H. Wallace Esq before whom the annexed affidavit of Mary Jackson was made, was at the time of taking the same a Special County Judge of said County and duly authorized to take the same, and I further certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Special County Judge, and I verily believe his signature to the Jurat of the said affidavit, and the annexed Certificate is genuine.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County & Court this 30 day of August A. D. 1853.
[signature] George S. Winslow Clerk
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Asa  Jackson Pr:
Fort Covington
Franklin County, New York.
Colo. Henry Dearborn's regiment, N. Hamp.e line, 3 years.

26th Septem.r 1818.

Albon Man, Judge
Chateaugay, Franklin County, N. York.

1 Case
2449
Albon Man, Judge, Chateaugay, N. Y.

Claimant did not serve 9 months
Rejected.
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State of New York
Franklin County
On this twenty sixth day of September in year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & eighteen before me Albon Man first Judge of the court of common Pleas of the County and State aforesaid personally appears Asa Jackson aged fifty seven years resident in Fort Covington in the said County & State who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for the persons engaged in the land and navel service of the United States in the revolutionary war" That the said Asa Jackson enlisted in the town of Washington in the State of New Hampshire by Lemuel Taber who was employed to enlist soldiers & went with to Keene N Hampshire where I was mustered & sent to West point where I entered into a company commanded by Capt Moody Dustin and Company belonged to the first New Hampshire Regiment commanded by Colonel Henry Dearborn & enlisted in the month of Jany 1780 & continued in the service three years or until the expiration of the term of enlistment. Was in the battle at Kings Bridge, was a year & a half at Saratoga & was discharged at West point New York and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support & that I have no other evidence now in my power of my said services from the circumstance of my sending discharge to Exeter by Capt Capelin to obtain pay for my service which he lost & never returned. Sworn to and declared before me the day & year aforesaid 
[signature] Asa Jackson
Subscribed &c.
[signature] Albon Man first Judge
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I Albon Man first Judge of the court of common Pleas of the County of Franklin and State  aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Asa Jackson did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and that he is poor and is indigent circumstances  & needs the assistance of his country for support and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the secretaryfor the department of war persuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress .
Sept 25th 1818  [signature] Albon Man first Judge

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Asa Jackson
Col Dearborn's N. Hampshire Regt.
1 spring 178o for 3 years
26 Sept 1810

Fort Covington
Franklin Co.y N. Y.
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Asa Jackson
Col Dearborn's
N Hampshire Regt.
1 Spring 1781 for 3 years
26 Sept 1810

Fort Covington
Franklin Co.y N. Y.
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State of Vermont
Chittenden County ss.
Be it remembered that at Hinesburgh in the County aforesaid on this second day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen Asa Jackson of Richmond in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont and Polly Adams of Hinesburgh Chittenden County and State of Vermont were duly joined in marriage by me.
Edmund Baldwin Justice Peace

Received for record June twelfth one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
E Bostwick Town Clerk

State of Vermont
Chittenden County ss.
I, G D Weller being duly sworn depose and say, that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the town of Hinesburgh in the County and State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures, as follows: "Received for record June 12th, 1832.
[signature] G. D. Weller Town Clerk
Sworn to before me this 3d day of Oct. 1853
[signature] Wm J. Douglass Justice Peace
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STATE OF VERMONT
COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE
CHITTENDEN, ss.
I, Dan B. Buckley, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Chittenden, being a court of record and having a seal, as hereto attached, do certify that Wm. J. Douglass Esq. was, at the date of the paper writings to which this is attached, and now is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; that his signature to forgoing jurat and certificate is genuine; and that the said pager writings are executed according to the laws of this State, and are in due form; and that as such Officer, he is duly authorized by the laws of this State to take acknowledgements of Deeds and Depositions, and to administer oaths, &c.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of Court, at Burlington, this Fourth day of October Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and fifty three.
[signature] Daniel B. Bumiley CLERK.
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Copy of the Schedule & oath of Asa Jackson
17185
Fort Covington
Con
Sept 20
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State of New York - At a Court of Common Pleas held at the Court house in the town of Malone in and for the County of Franklin before the Judges of the same Court on the 10th day of  October 1820.
Present Hiram Horton, Gates Hart & Com Andrus Esqr. Judges Franklin County ss: 
On this 11th day of October 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record for the said County proceeding according to the course of the Common law having the power of fine and imprisonment, Asa Jackson aged fifty eight on the 17th Novr next, resident in the town of Fort Covington in the said County of Franklin who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows: That I enlisted & served in a Company Commanded by Capt Moody Dustin commencing in February 1781 in the town of Washington State of New Hampshire in a Regiment commanded by Col Henry Dearborn in the New Hampshire line & continued with him three years, That I was in the battle at Kings bridge State of New York, that the date of my Original declaration is September 26th 1818. That I have never received a pension & that my pension certificate bears day May 27th 1820 is remembered 17185. 
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any other manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on the 18th day of March 1818 & that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed. 
[signature] Asa Jackson
Sworn to & declared on the 11th day of October 1820 before the Court 
[signature] Asa Wheeler Clerk
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Schedule of declarants estate property family & profession
Real estate. I have none
Personal Estate,
one axe $1.75
Breaching to a set of French cutter harness not worth more than two dollars  2.00
The matter of the notes - Two notes of hand against Ezekiel Kimball for thirty dollars each payable in grain boards & plants
on the first Jany next & dated May 9th 1820  $3.75
Insolvent
I owe James Campbell three dollars for making a truss to keep up a burst.
I owe one one Isaac Gleason twelve dollars for goods I had of him
I also owe Perlimer Blackman twenty five dollars
I also owe Lyman Place three dollars.
I owe to Doctor Hutchins four dollars for medical services
I am a farmer by profession & have no other trade or means of getting a living and that I have a breach which is extremely painful & troublesome & at times am entirely disabled from working.
I have no family my wife died eight years since & I sometimes live with my son in law Moses Mcferson who is extremely poor and at other times when I am able to work a little I go out for the purpose of earning some of the necessaries of life.
(Signed ) Asa Jackson
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State of New York
Franklin County ss.
I, Asa Wheeler Clerk of the said County of Franklin and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within the said County do hereby Certify that the aforegoing oath and schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court and I Do further Certify that is the opinions of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is three dollars and Seventy five cents over and above the notes mentioned by applicant against Kimball whom the Court consider insolvent from satisfactory evidence of the same.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of the said Court this 19. Day of October 1820.
Asa Wheeler Clerk by
Thos A Tomlinson Dep. Clk
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[Revolutionary Widows.]
DECLARATION.
State of New York
County of St. Lawrence ss.
On this Sixteenth day of April A. D. 1855, before me, Wm F Gurley a Justice of the Peace in and for the county and state aforesaid, personally appeared Mary Jackson aged Eighty Six years, a resident of Parish Ville
in the State of New York who, being duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the Bounty Land to which she is entitled under the Act of Congress approved March 3d, 1855.
That she is the widow of Asa Jackson who was a private
in the Revolutionary War; that, on account of the services of her husband, the aforesaid Asa Jackson in said war, she now receives a pension at the rate of $96. 
per annum, under the 2d section of the act of 3d February 1853 as will more fully appear by reference to the evidence now on file in the Pension Office at Washington.
She further declares that she is now a widow; that she has never before applied for nor received any Bounty Land under this or any other Act of Congress.
Claimant's Signature. X her mark Mary Jackson

We, John Perkins and Lorenzo N. Rogers residents of Parishville in the State of New York upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Mary Jackson in our presence, and that we know her to be the identical person she represents herself to be, and that she is now a widow.
Signature of Witnesses.
John Perkins
Lorenzo N. Rogers

STATE OF NEW YORK.
St. Lawrence County, ss.
Clerk's Office,
I, GEORGE S. WINSLOW, Clerk of said County of St. Lawrence, and also Clerk of the Court of Record directed by law to be held therein, do hereby certify, that Wm. F. Gurley before whom the annexed affidavit was trade, was, at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and duly authorised to take the same; and I further certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice, and verily believe his signature to the jurat of the annexed affidavit is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County Court, this 20th of April 1853.
[signature] George S. Winslow Clerk
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[Revolutionary Widows.]
DECLARATION.
State of New York
County of St. Lawrence ss.
On this Sixteenth day of April A. D. 1855, before me, Wm F Gurley a Justice of the Peace in and for the county and state aforesaid, personally appeared Mary Jackson aged Eighty Six years, a resident of Parish Ville
in the State of New York who, being duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the Bounty Land to which she is entitled under the Act of Congress approved March 3d, 1855.
That she is the widow of Asa Jackson who was a private
in the Revolutionary War; that, on account of the services of her husband, the aforesaid Asa Jackson in said war, she now receives a pension at the rate of $96. 
per annum, under the 2d section of the act of 3d February 1853 as will more fully appear by reference to the evidence now on file in the Pension Office at Washington.
She further declares that she is now a widow; that she has never before applied for nor received any Bounty Land under this or any other Act of Congress.
Claimant's Signature. X her mark Mary Jackson

We, John Perkins and Lorenzo N. Rogers residents of Parishville in the State of New York upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Mary Jackson in our presence, and that we know her to be the identical person she represents herself to be, and that she is now a widow.
Signature of Witnesses.
John Perkins
Lorenzo N. Rogers

The foregoing declaration and affidavits were sworn to and subscribed before me, on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the identical person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
Magistrate, [signature] Wm. F. Gurley Justice of the Peace
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Rev. War & 1812 Wars
Section.
Oct. 19, 1923.

Mrs. S. R. Child,
914 Kenwood Parkway,
Minneapolis, Minn.

Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the pension claim, W.7878, it appears that Asa Jackson was born November 17, 1762, place not stated, and while living at Washington, Cheshire County, N.H. served six months in the army of the Revolution, no details of service given. He enlisted in the spring of 1781, and served as a private until December 1783, in Captain Moody Dustin's Company, Colonel Henry Dearborn's First N. H. Regiment and was in an engagement at Kingsbridge.
His first wife, name not on record, died in Richmond, Chittenden County, Vermont about 1812. They had children, the only name stated being that of Eliphalet who was fifty-five years old and a resident of Bombay, Franklin County, N. Y. in 1853.
He married April 2, 1815, at Hinesburgh, Chittenden County, Vermont, Mrs Polly, or Mary Adams.
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He was allowed pension on his application executed September 26, 1818, while living at Fort Covington, Franklin County, N. Y. In 1820 he was living there with a son-in-law Moses Mcferson. He died at Bombay, N. Y. September 11, 1844.
The widow Mary, or Polly, was allowed pension on her application executed August 23, 1853, at which time she was eighty-six years old and a resident of Parishville, Saint Lawrence County, N. Y.
Respectfully,
[signature] Washington Gardner
Commissioner.
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1923 Oct. 19 Hist to Mrs. S. R. Child AW.

Revy
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 7878
Mary Jackson Wid. Asa Jackson Pvt. Rev. War
Act: Feby. 3rd "53
Index: - Vol. A, Page 371
[Arrangement of 1870]
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13,889
Rev Army
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Nov 1" 1853
Mary Jackson
wid: of Asa.
St. Lawrence Co. N. Y.

Act /53
$96.00 /per ann
Com: Feby. 3d 1853
Revy: 

[F]landers, Wheeler & Taylor
Malone,

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Pension Office, Official Business.
Commissio[cut off]
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No. 3,515
New York
Mary Jackson
wid of Asa
1853 Nov 3
Let to Flanders, Wheeler & Taylor
Postmaster Dec 8/53
Dec: 22. To Flanders Wheeler & Taylor
Act 3 Feb 1853

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Pen. Off.
March 28 /54
Sir
Please certify last payment to Asa Jackson Rev. Pensioner at $96. Act 1818.
Respy
P. Cole
for Commr.
F. Burt Esq.
3d audr.

Paid to 4 Sept 1844, No death.
F Burt
Auditor
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[side] 113,182

L. P. Waldo Esqr.
Commissioner of Pen[cut off]
Washington D. [cut off]

[stamp] ALBANY N. Y. APR 30
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[side] 113,182

L. P. Waldo Esqr.
Commissioner of Pen[cut off]
Washington D. [cut off]

[stamp] ALBANY N. Y. APR 30
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3-595.
O. W. AND N. DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
June 8, 1907
Searched by Gill
Original No. [blank]
Certificate No. [blank]
Claimant, [blank]
Soldier, James Herndon
Service, Va. Service Rev. War
Remarks:
No claim as above except Inv. 1669
[blank] Chief of Division.
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Asa Jackson
(amended declaration)
Col. Dearborn's . Hampshire Regt.
1781 for 3 years.
Origt. declr. dated 26th Sept 1818.
See Rolls detached
2 See final settlemen cert. Vol 1 Fol. 208
No: 20,676.
Admitted
Fort Covington
Franklin Co.y N. Y.
"Albon Man Esqr.
Malone, N. Y.
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State of New York
Franklin County ss.
On the thirteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty before me Albon Man first Judge of the court of common pleas of the County of Franklin & State aforesaid personally appeared Asa Jackson aged fifty eight years resident in Fort Covington in the County & State aforesaid who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" that I the said Asa Jackson enlisted in the town of Washington in the State of New Hampshire by Samuel Tabor who was employed to enlist soldiers & went with him to Keene N Hampshire when I was mustered & sent to West point when I entered into a company commanded by Captain Moody Dustin said company belonged to the first New Hampshire Regiment command Colonel Henry Dearborn That I enlisted in the spring of 1781 & that I continued in the service three years until the expiration of the term of enlistment. That I was in the battle of Kings Bridge & that I was discharged at Constitution Island opposite west point and that I the said Asa Jackson further state that I was in the United States service six months previous to this time of enlistment and that I am in reduced circumstances and stand in need of the assistance of my country for support. That I have no other vouchers or evidence none in my power of my said services except the enclosed [illegible] from the circumstances of my
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sending my discharge to Exeter N. H. by Capt Capelin to a time pay for my service which he stated were lost & that he never returned the same to me. Sworn to declared before me the day & year aforesaid.
[signature] Asa Jackson
Subscrbed & sworn to before me
signature] Albon Man first Judge

State of New York
Franklin County ss.
I Albon Man first Judge of the court of common pleas of the County of Franklin & State aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Asa Jackson did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and that he is poor and in indigent circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his country for assist for support. And I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken and had before me together with the other vouchers to the secretary of the department of war pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress dated Fort Covington January 13th 1820.
[signature] Albon Man first Judge 

A former declaration of Asa Jackson is herewith transmitted together with the proper affidavits of Tabor & Maxwell to prove the term of service he states that the reason for a variance in these two as to the time of enlistment was that he was some months in the service before he joined the regt of Col Henry Dearborn. You will of course decide from which of the two dates he is entitled to receive the Benefit of the act.
[signature] Albon Man first Judge
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State of New York
Frankin County ss.
I Asa Wheeler Clerk of the County aforesaid do hereby Certify that Albon Man Esquire whose signature appears to the foregoing deposition and certifficate was at the time the same were made to wit on the 13 day of January AD 1820. first Judge of the County of Franklin aforesaid duly commissioned qualified & sworn to act as such Judge and that the signatures of Albon Man Subscribed to the same are in his own proper hand writing in.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the Public Seal of the said County of Franklin this 29th day of January AD 1820.
Asa Wheeler Clerk by
Thos A Tomlinson Dep Clerk
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St Lawrence County ss.
Ambrose Adams of the Town of Parishville, in said County being duly sworn says that Mrs Mary Jackson of Parishville is the Widow of Asa Jackson a revolutionary pensioner
and this deponent further says that he was present at the wedding of the said Asa & Mary Jackson.
[signature] Ambrose Adams
Sworn before me, this 16th day of Dec. 1853.
[signature] David Daggett Justice of the Peace

Dear Sir, In answer to yours recd yesterday I have taken pains to enquire in to the affair that you requested me to and to the Best Information that I can git that this Miss Mary Jackson is actualy the widow of said Asa Jackson the Pensioner for you will see in the above that Mr Adams and there is some three more here that was at the wedding of said Asa and Mary Jackson and it is & not to be wondered that there should be some disagreement in theyer affidavits for Mrs Jackson is some Eighty four years old and very forgetfull.
If you want any more information that I can get please right.
yours truly
Parishville Dec 16th 1853
[signature] Alexander Peasey P. M.
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State of New York
County of Franklin
Eliphalet Jackson of the town of Bombay in said County being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is the son of Asa Jackson who died on the 11th day of September 1844, at the said town of Bombay and who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States. That deponent is of the age of fifty five years, and that the deceased Pensioner united with him at the time of his death, and that deponent took care of his said father during his last illness, and attended his funeral, and paid his funeral expenses. 
And deponent says, that he knows Mary Jackson the person who is now applying for a pension as the widow of his said father, to be the identical person she represents herself to be, in her declaration, now on file in the Pension Office at Washington
Sworn and subscribed before me this 3d day of November 1853.
[signature] Eliphalet Jackson
I certify that I am well personally acquainted with deponent & that he is a credible person.
[signature] Wm Whelpley Justice of the Peace.
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State of New York.
Franklin County, ss.
I, Francis D. Flanders, Clerk of the County Court of said County do hereby certify that William Whelpley, before whom the within affidavit was sworn, and whose name is subscribed to the certificate thereof, was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly qualified, and authorized to take the same, and that I verily believe his signature above written to be genuine; and I have no interest in the result of any claim to which the within paper may relate, and not concerned in its prosecution.
Witness my hand and official seal at Malone, in said County, this 26th day of November, 1853
[signature] F. D. Flanders, Clerk
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Payable on the 4th March and 4th September of each year, by the Prest of the Br Bk U. S. in the City of New York.
No pension is payable until the arrival of one or the other of the above dates, after the issue of a Certificate. "Payable to the 4th of March 1820, but there after no Payment can be made before exhibiting a schedule of Property."

Registered, by J. M. [illegible]
Clerk, in book B, volume 5
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War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818.
Asa Jackson late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New York Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the 26th day of September one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this 27th day of May one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
[signature] J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.
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Tabor's Depo.
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I Pardon Tabor of Hopkinton in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire Joiner testify and say that I am well acquainted with Asa Jackson, formerly of Washington in the County of Cheshire in said State, husbandman [farmer] and that the said Asa Jackson, (who is now here present,) and I enlisted in the Service of the United States for three years. We so enlisted in the Spring of 1781. I in the second N. H. Regiment which was command and by Col George Read, and he the said Asa Jackson in the first N. H. Regiment which was commanded by Col. Henry Dearborn, and that I and the said Asa Jackson went to Keene about the first of May 1781 and there passed muster under Genl Bellows the muster master. We both joined the Army soon after at the highland Hutts, so called, on the east side of North River, and I do know that said Asa Jackson did serve in the Army under that enlistment (and I served likewise) until December 1783 and we both were  discharged then at constitution island over against west point. We were honourably discharged. We both then did return
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return to said Washington and there lived several years. He then, as I am informed, moved into Vermont. And further saith not.
[signature] Pardon Tabor

Hillsborough ss, State of New Hampshire
December 9th 1819. Then Pardon Tabor made Solemn Oath that the foregoing Deposition by him Subscribed contains the truth and the whole truth relative to the cause for which it is taken.
[signature] Baruch Chase Jus. Peace

State of New Hampshire
Hillsborough ss. Dec 9th 1819
We hereby certify that we have for many years lived very near the above mentioned Pardon Taber in Hopkinton and that his character & reputation for truth & veracity are very good and we should place full confidence in the his testimony.
Justices of the Peace & of the Quorum
[signatures] Baruch Chase
Benja Wiggin
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State of New Hampshire
Secretary's Office
I hereby certify that Baruch Chase Esqr whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate is a Justice of the peace for the County of Rockingham in said State duly appointed and commissioned, and that full faith and credit are due to his acts and attestation as a Magistrate.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the public seal of said State at Concord this 9th day of December AD. 1819.
[signature] Saml Sparhawk Secy.
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James Maxwell
Deposition
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I James Maxwell of Claremont in the County of
Cheshire & State of New Hampshire Yeoman testify & say that I am well acquainted with Asa Jackson formerly of Washington in said County of Cheshire. Yeoman, and that he the said Asa Jackson (who is now here present) enlisted in the service of the United States for three years in the year 1781 in the first N. H. Regiment which was commanded by Col. Henry Dearborn, and I well recollect of his the said Jackson being in said service from Decr 1782 until the month of July 1783 for I served in the second N.H. Regiment at that time. And I further say that said Jackson was absent from Washington nearly three years & I suppose that he was in the service of the United State during his absence.
[signature] X his mark James Maxwell
Attest [signature] Asa Holton

Cheshire ss. State of New Hampshire December 13. 1819. 
Then James Maxwell made solemn oath that the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed contains the truth & nothing but the truth relative to the cause for which it is taken.
[signature] Saml. Fiske Jus Peace

State of New Hampshire Cheshire, Decr .13. 1819  We hereby certify that we are acquainted with the above named James Maxwell and that his reputation for truth & veracity is good for aught we know to the contrary.
Cheshire ss. Dec. 14. 1819
Justices of the Peace & of the Quorum
[signatures] Saml. Fiske
Josiah Stevens

I Salma Hale clerk of the Manual Courts in said County, certify that Samuel Fiske Josiah Stevens are Justices of the Peace in sd County & that the foregoing are the signatures - In testimony whereof I hereunto affix the seal of our Sup. Court. 
[signature] S. Hale
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In the matter of the application of Mrs Mary Jackson, claiming a pension as the widow of Asa Jackson under the act of 2d February 1853.
St Lawrence County ss:
Samuel G. May of the town of Stockholm in said County being duly sworn says he is sixty six years of age and resides in the town of Stockholm in said County. That he was acquainted with Asa Jackson, husband of the said Mary Jackson, from the year 1811 up to the time of the death of the said Asa Jackson, and also that he has been well acquainted with the said Mary Jackson widow of the said Asa Jackson ever since the year 1800; and this deponent further says that he was present at the marriage of the said Asa Jackson with the said Mary and witnessed the same. That the said marriage took place at the Town of Hinesburgh, Chittenden County in the State of Vermont on the 2d day of April in the year 1815, and that the marriage ceremony was performed by one Edmund Baldwin at that time acting as a Justice of the Peace in the said town of Hinesburgh. And deponent further says that he knows that immediately thereafter for some two or three years the said Asa Jackson and the said Mary lived and cohabited together as man and wife; and this deponent further says that the first wife of the said Asa Jackson died in the town of Richmond in said State of Vermont in the year 1812 or thereabouts. Deponent further says that in the year 1820 and for some years before and after that year the said Asa Jackson lived separate from his said wife Mary and resided with his children in the County of St Lawrence in the said State of New York, and at the same time the said Mary Jackson his wife continued to reside in Chittenden County in the said State of Vermont and continued to reside there until she moved into the said County of St Lawrence in the State of New York. And this deponent further says that in the year 1820 at the
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time mentioned in the declaration of the said Asa Jackson he knows that the said Asa had children with whom he lived and resided in the said State of New York although he did not keep home and was not a householder and had no family with him; and he also knows that at the same time he had this second wife Mrs Mary Jackson to whom he was married in the year 1815 living with her children in the State of Vermont, and that the said Mary Jackson was the second wife of the said Asa Jackson mentioned in said declaration.
Subscribed and sworn to this to the day of March in the year 1854 
[signature] Samuel G May
Before me
[signature] William H Wallace
Special County Judge of St Lawrence County
I certify that I am and have been for several years well acquainted with the [rest of paragraph covered by another paper]

STATE OF NEW YORK.
St. Lawrence County, ss.
Clerk's Office.
I GEORGE S. WINSLOW, Clerk of said County of St. Lawrence and also clerk of the Courts of Record, directed by law to be held therein, do hereby certify, that William H. Wallace before whom the annexed affidavit was made, was, at the time of taking the same, a Special County Judge in and for said County, and duly authorised to take the same: and I further certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Judge, and verily believe his signature to the jurat of the annexed affidavit is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County and Courts, this 20th day of March 1854.
[signature] George S. Winslow CLERK

Franklin County SS. Eliphalet Jackson of the town of Bombay in said County, being duly sworn says, that he is fifty five years of age, and is a son of Asa Jackson, deceased, who was a
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time mentioned in the declaration of the said Asa Jackson he knows that the said Asa had children with whom he lived and resided in the said State of New York although he did not keep home and was not a householder and had no family with him, and he also knows that at the same time he had this second wife Mrs Mary Jackson, to whom he was married in the year 1815 living with her children in the State of Vermont, and that the said Mary Jackson was the second wife of the said Asa Jackson mentioned in said declaration.
Subscribed and sworn to this 20th day of March in the year 1854.
Before me
[signature] William H Wallace
Special County Judge of St Lawrence County

I certify that I am and have been for several years well acquainted with the Samuel G. May the person making the foregoing affidavit, and believe him to be a pure whose affidavit, and believe him to be a person whose affidavit is entitled to full credit and faith, and I further certify that have no interest whatever in the said claim above mentioned.
Potsdam N. Y. March 20th 1854. 
[signature] William H Wallace
Special County Judge of St Lawrence County

Franklin County SS: Eliphalet Jackson of the town of Bombay in said County, being duly sworn says, that he is fifty five years of age, and is a son of Asa Jackson, deceased, who was a
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pensioner and the husband of Mary Jackson the above applicant, and deponent further says that he has read the foregoing affidavit of Samuel G. May and knows the contents thereof and that the same is true of his own knowledge and particularly in this, that the said Mary Jackson was the wife of the said Asa Jackson, that the said Mary Jackson was married to the said Asa Jackson on the 2d day of April in the year 1815, and that for about two years immediately here after said marriage, the said Mary and the said Asa Jackson lived and cohabited together as man and wife. Deponent further says the said Mary Jackson was the second wife of the said Asa Jackson and that the first wife of the said Asa Jackson was the mother of this deponent and died in the year 1812. Deponent further says that in the year 1820 and for about two years immediately prior thereto the said Asa Jackson did not keep house but lived with his children seperate and apart from his wife the said Mary and that the said Mary Jackson during the time last aforesaid lived with her children by a former husband and that during the time the said Asa lived in the manner last above mentioned he did not provide for any family and therefore did not consider be had any family. And deponent further says that when the said Asa Jackson stated that his "wife died eight gives since," he must have had reference to the death of his first wife as the died just eight years prior to 1820. 
And deponent further says that the said Asa Jackson was never divorced from the said Mary
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Jackson or she from him but that the said Mary Jackson was, and continued to be the lawful wife of the said Asa Jackson from the year 1815 up to the time of the death of the said Asa Jackson and that she is now his lawful widow.
[signature] Eliphalet Jackson 
Subscribed and sworn to this 22d day of March in the year 1854, before me (the word "was" being first interlined and the word "prior" and figures "1812" being first erased)
[signature] John Hutton County Judge of Franklin Co.

State of New York
Franklin County ss.
I, Francis D. Flanders, Clerk of said County, and of the Courts of Record thereof, do hereby certify that John Hutton, whose name is subscribed to the foregoing deposition, was at the date thereof, County Judge of said County of Franklin, duly authorized to administer oaths and take acknowledgements, &c. And further, that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said County Judge, and verily believe that the signature to the foregoing deposition purporting to be his is genuine.
Witness my hand and the seal of office of the Clerk of said Courts and County, this 22d day of March, 1854.
[signature] F. D. Flanders Clerk
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AWC
914 KENWOOD PARKWAY
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 
Sep 5th 1923

Dear Sir,
Have you any Record of a Pension for Asa Jackson b 1761 in Newton Mass served in Revny War first in Mass Then Vt then N. H. The Census of 1790 gives him as living in Washington Cheshire Co. (now Sullivan) & he lived his later years
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in Bombay N. Y. His chn were Eliphalet, Elijah, Johial, Asa, Lydia, Susan, Sybil & Abigail.
I would like a Copy of any Family data you may have showing his wife's name children etc.
Hoping for a quick reply
I am - Thanking you in advance
Mrs. S. R. Child
914 Kenwood Parkway
Minneapolis, Minn.
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Malone March 28, 1854
Dear Sir
Inclosed we send affidavits which we think will fully explain the inconsistencies in the declaration of Asa Jackson in relation to his wife and family made by him in the year 1820, and will fully satisfy as to the validity of Mrs. Mary Jackson's claim to a pension.
Hoping to hear from you soon
We are
Truly Yours
Flanders, Wheeler & Taylor

Commissioner of Pensions
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Brief in the case of Mary Jackson, widow of Asa, St. Lawrence County and State of N. Y.
act 3d Feby 1854.
Claim, "original"
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
A Jackson was a pensioner under the Act of 18" March 1818, & Cont.d.
Record evidence of Marriage.
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? if so, what?

Messrs: Flanders, Wheeler & Taylor.
Malone. N. Y.
Name and residence of Agent

[signature] S. C. Boynton Examining Clerk.
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Malone Oct 24, 1853
Dear Sir
Herewith we send papers making application for pension for Mrs Mary Jackson widow of Asa Jackson pensioner deceased.
Yours Truly
Flanders, Wheeler & Taylor

To Commissioner of Pensions
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Albany April 30th 1855
L. P. Waldo Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
I herewith enclose the Declaration of Mary Jackson, a pensioner under the 2d Section of the Act of 3d February 1853. for Bounty land under the act of 3d March 1855.
I am Sir
With [illegible] respect
Your Obediant Servt.
Saml. H. Marks.
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Mary Jackson, widow of Jesse [Asa]
Lawrence Co. N. Y. 
Decr. Married April 2. 1815
Died Sept 11. 1844
X Town Records
This case is suspended wrote to the Post Master respecting it. The Pensioner swears he had no wife in 1820. That she died 8 years before. The evidence in this case is that the marriage took place in 1815 and that the widow is still alive