Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19829, James Humphreys, Conn.
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8-1776
Service                                                   Number

Conn.              Humphreys, James        N.19829
                                         Abiah

Contents
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17.785
Connecticut
James Humphreys
of Derby in the State of Conn
who was a Prv in the conn commanded
by Captain Holbrook of the Regt commanded
by [blank] in the Conn Troops
for 6 mo 7 days
        see explanatory letter

Inscribed on the Roll of Conn
at the rate of 20  Dollars 77 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of Sept 1833 and sent-G-A-
Ingersoll, New Haven 

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 30               $51.92
Semi-anl. allowance ending March 4-24  $$ 10. 38-        -----------------------------------------------------------$62.30                                        {Revolutionary Claim,}                                        {Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by E D Bullock  Clerk,
Book   E Vol. 3 Page 19
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                                                     2559
Connecticut 
Abiah Humphreys

widow of James Humphreys
who was a Private
In the Conn Troops
           for 6 mo & 7 days

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
           20 Dollars & 77 
Cents per annum, to commence on 
the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 
              1st day of Apr. 1843
and sent to              Pensioner
                                Derby,
                                  Conn
                                    [Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1        Page 68
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3645
Abiah Humphreys
     Con:

act 7 July '38


Abiah Humphreys Derby New Haven
County state of Connecticut
William Stover, agent. - New Haven

         V  3645

      act 38

Hr J M Nile
(illegible)
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{top right corner - paper seal and piece of ribbon}

State of Connecticut
County of New Haven

    I J- Beach Clark of the county
court of  (illegible) (illegible) County & keeper of the 
Seal thereof, hereby Certify that Samuel
J. Hitchcock is Judge of New Haven County
Court duly appointed (illegible) (illegible)
with power to administer oaths, that his
signature hereto (illegible) is his genuine
official signature  In Testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of (illegible) Court this 13th day
of October 1838
                            J- Beach Clark
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State of Connecticut
County of New Haven Ss New Haven
On this twelfth day of October eighteen hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before the Honble Samuel J. Hitchcock Judge of the County Court of the County of New Haven, and State of Connecticut, Mrs Abiah Humphreys, a resident of Derby in said County and State, aged seventy eight 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 7th 1838, entitled "an act granting half-pay and pensions to certain widows;" That she is the widow of James Humphreys late of Derby, deceased, who was a private soldier in war of the Revolution, and for his services in that war his name was placed on the pension roll of the Connecticut Agency, at the annual allowance of twenty dollars and seventy seven cents on the nineteenth of September 1833. His pension commenced on the fourth of March 1831. She has no proof of his service. She would therefore respectfully refer to the evidence on which he was pensioned. She further declares that she was married to said James Humphreys, on the fifteenth day of August, seventeen hundred and ninety two. And that her husband the aforesaid James Humphreys, died on the eighth day of January 1837 and that she has not married again since his death but now remains his widow. That she was not married prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz, at the time above stated. Subscribed and sworn to on the day and year above written.
Abiah Humphreys

Before me
Samuel J. Hitchcock Judge of New Haven County Court in the State of Connecticut on this twelfth day of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight personally appeared Abiah Humphreys widow who subscribed the above declaration with her own proper hand and made solemn oath to the truth of the same.
Samuel J. Hitchcock Judge of New Haven County Court
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I Stephen W. Stebbins, Pastor of a Congregational Church in the town of Orange, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, being now 80 years of age, depose and say that sometime in the month of August, seventeen hundred and ninety two, the day of the month I do not recollect, but according to my present belief, about the fifteenth day of that month, James Humphreys of Derby and Abiah Barlow, of Stratford, were joined in marriage by me, Stephen W. Stebbins.  I was at that time, Minister of the gospell and was pastor of the Congregational Church, in the town of Stratford, County of Fairfield, and state of Connecticut.  In testimony of the truth of the foregoing statement I have heretofore subscribed my name and made oath to the same at New Haven on this Eighth Day of October 1838.
Stephen W. Stebbins

Before me Samuel J. Hitchcock, Judge of New Haven [illegible] personally appeared Stephen W. Stebbins to me well known as a person of good reputation for truth and veracity and entitled to belief under oath, and made [illegible] oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed in my presence on the eighth day of October in one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight.

Samuel J. Hitchcock
Judge of the New Haven County Court
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Sam Hawkins Dep.
Jas. Humphreys
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DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.

State of Connecticut) ss. Probate District of New Haven
County of New Haven)

On this 20th day of August 1832 personally appeared, in open Court, before the Probate Court of [ ] district at New Haven now sitting, James Humphreys a resident of Derby in the County of New-Haven, and State of Connecticut, aged 79 years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed July 7, 1832:--That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and serve as herein stated:--that is to say I enlisted into a company of Connecticut State Troops under the command of Capt Daniel Holbrook of said Derby now deceased of which Ranford Whitney since deceased was Lieutenant.  I don't remember the other officers, nor any persons in the company with me except Samuel Hawkins.

Nor can I tell certainly the year I believe it was in the fall of 1776 or 1777 & that I enlisted for 4 mos. or a little more.  I know I served that period part of the time at Milford & then at Stafford & Newfields now Bridgeport.

I also served, having been drafted from the company of militia according to my best recollection, for the term of one month under the command of Lieut. Ranford Whitney in the fall of 1777 at a place called Oyster [] between Milford & New Haven.  This was a small company & I do not remember any other person who served with me except Saml Hawkins & said Lieutenant Whitney who is now decsd.

I was afterward drafted and served one month under the command of Capt. Peck at Milford in
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this County.  I believe it was in the summer of 1779 in July, & August, but I am not certain of the year.  I know I did the service under Capt. Peck for a period.

I also went armed to New Haven & Fairfield when the British landed at those places in July 1779.  Was near Enos Bradley, a neighbor of mine who was killed at the former place & was detailed in all about a week.

The service I have specified above amounts to a little for than 6 months & one half.  I was after called into the service on alarms at a new times for short periods but cannot now specify them particularly.

I am acquainted with & known to Rev. Stephen Jewett, [ ] Stone, John L. Tomlinson of Derby & Joseph N. Clark & Jehiel Forbes of New Haven in [ ] County, Commodore [illegible] of the United States Navy who can testify to my character for veracity & their belief of my revolutionary services.

I was born in Derby on the 16th day of December, 1752 & the day of my birth will be found recorded in the public record of the town of Derby & I have always lived in Derby.

I never had any written discharge nor have I any documentary evidence of my service before [illegible]
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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to any pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State, 
except that of the State of
 sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid 
James Humphrys
Attest Ant P. Sanford Clerk

We, Stephen Jewett, Pete a Clergyman, residing in Derby and John L Tomlinson residing in Derby hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James Humphreys who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration; that we believe him to be 79 years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. 
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.  Stephen Jewett 
John L. Tomlinson
Attest Anthony P. Sanford Clerk 

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Stephen Jewitt who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in Derby and that John L. Tomlinson who has also signed the same, is a resident in said Derby and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.  
Chas. A. Ingersoll, Judge of said Court

I, Anthony P. Sanford Clerk of the Probate Court of said District do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of James Humphreys for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 20th day of August 1832, and I do further certify that John L. Tomlinson, from whom the within deposition was taken is a Justice of the Peace for the County of New Haven, duly commissioned and sworn and that full faith and credit are due to his official acts.
Anthony P. Sanford Clerk
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I Samuel Hawkins of Derby in New Haven County of State of Connecticut of lawful age depose & say that I was a private soldier in a company of Connecticut state troops, as I believe, for the space of six months from the fall of 1776 to the spring of 1777 under the command of Capt. Daniel Holbrook of this town now deceased serving during said term at [illegible], Stamford, New Field now Bridgeport, Stratton, [illegible] being discharged at New Haven.  I well remember that James Humphreys of this town was also a private soldier in [ ] company.  I served in [ ] company four months or more.  I remember well he was with the company at Stratton & also between Milford & New Haven.  He did the principal part of the writing for the company the sergeant not being a ready writer.  I also remember that J Humphreys served a month at Oyster River in the fall of 1777 under Lieutenant Ranford Whiting & also afterwards, but am not certain of the year, that the said Humphreys served a month or more under Capt. Peck at Milford.  I further sayeth not.
Derby August 16, 1832
Samuel Hawkins

Subscribed & sworn before me
John L. Tomlinson, Justice of Peace
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I certify that I am acquainted with Samuel Hawkins the within names deponent & I have no doubt but that he states the truth therein.  I am led to this belief not only from a knowledge of his character, but from very many incidents stated by him in relation to the servies sworn to.

John L. Tomlinson, Justice of Peace
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Saml. Hawkins Deps.
Jas. Humphreys

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3887
James Humphreys
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I Samuel Hawkins of Derby in Hew Haven County & State of Connecticut of lawful age depose & say that I was a private soldier in a Company of Connecticut State troops, as I believe, for the space of six months from the fall of 1776 to the Spring of 1777 under the command of Capt Daniel Holbrook of this Town, now deceased, serving during said term at Horseneck, Stamford New Field, now Bridgeport, ^Stratford, Milford & New Haven & being discharged at New Haven.  I well remember that James Humphreys of this Town was also a private soldier in said Company  He served in said Company four months or more.  I remember well he was with the Company at Shalton [Stratford, see comment] & also between Milford & New Haven.  He did the principal part of the writing for the Company the Sergeant not being a ready writer.  [two words lined out] I also remember that sd [said] Humphreys served a month at Oyster River in the fall of 1777 under Lieutenant Ranford Whiting & also afterwards, but am not certain of the year, that the said Humphreys served a month or more under Capt Peck at Milford  I further saith not  Derby  August 16. 1832
Samuel Hawkins

Subscribed & sworn before me
John L Tomlinson  Just of Peace
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Con

Act 7 July 38
Let to Hon. J.M. Niles,
Jan 15, 1839
Let to Wm. Storer, Sept 6 1840
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James Humphreys Com. Act June 7 1832
when paid last   d 1837 HHS
Died 9th Feb 1837 p 7. that period
HH
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5508. Connecticut --- 

Abiah Humphreys widow of James Humphreys who was a pensioner under the Act of 7 June 1832, and who died on the 8 January 1837. of Derby in the State of Connecticut who was a private in the Compy. commanded by Captain Holbrook, of the _______commanded by____in the Conn Troops, for 6 mos: 7 days-

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut, at the rate of 20- Dollars 77- Cents per annum to commence on the 
4th day of March, 1836.
 8 Jany 1837. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of June 1840. and sent to Hon: Truman Smith, House of Representatives

Arrears to the 4th of March 1840. $74.10 
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept 40. 10.38
[totalling] $84.57 
{Act July 7, 1838.}

Recorded by Wm C. Zantzinger. Clerk, 
Book a- Vol. 1 - Page 185.
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WIDOW, &c.

File No. 19829
Abiah Humphreys
widow of James Humphreys
Priv. Rev. war
Act: March 7, 1843
Index:-Vol. A, Page 359

[Arrangement of 1870]
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Abiah Humphreys
Wid of James 
Conn.
Act July 7 1838
Married 1792
died 8 Jan. 1837
Allow $20.77 per ann. [annum]

Hon Truman Smith
HR
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Washington, Dec. 23, '39

Sir,

I send you the accompanying application for pensions under the acts of 1836 and 1839 received from William Storer of New Haven Ct.

I am yours,

J. L. Edwards
J. M. Niles
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Hon. J.L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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New Haven, Conn, 19 February 1840

Sir,

In your note to the Hon Mr. Niles, of the 15th January 1839, it is objective to the declaration of Mrs. Abiah Humphreys that it was made before a judge and not at a regular term of court.  I have now the honor to enclose a new declaration made by Mr. Humphreys before the Probate Court, which declaration has been made in open court, in term time, and it is not different from the former one made before Judge Hitchcock.  In addition to the testimony of the Rev. Mr. Stebbins in proof of the marriage of Mrs. Humphreys, which was forwarded with the first declaration, now on file in your office, I  now enclose the deposition of Mrs. Plumb, a sister of Mrs. Humphreys, who was present at the marriage.

If this testimony and the present declaration should be satisfactory to the Department, I will thank you to attend to the case of Mrs. Humphreys, as it has been a long time in hand, as soon as convenient, and if a pension is granted her please forward the certificate to me.

Respectfully yours, etc.

William Storer
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Report to Hon. Truman Smith H.R.
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Pension Office
April 6, 1840

Sir,

I return you the additional evidence in the case of Mrs. Abiah Humphreys and have to state that the testimony should be taken before some Judicial functionary and the clergyman should say by what data he is enabled to fix the date of the marriage.

I am, respectfully your obt svt

J.L. Edwards


Report to Hon. Truman Smith H. R.

Wm Storer Esq
New Haven Connt.
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of James Humphreys which require further proof or explanation. 

I.	Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? 
II.	Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? 
III.	If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? 
IV.	Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Not distinctly- 
V.	*Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout of pension he is entitled? No
VI.	Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? No
VII.	Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?  
VIII.	Has the Court given their opinion? 
IX.	Has the Clerk given his certificate?
X.	Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? 

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?  The best eviden must be produced.  He must state directly whether there are survivors of each term

XIV. †If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? 
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? 
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?  Not the signature

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? 

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? Yes 

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? 

EXPLANATORY NOTES. 

QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For___year_____ months, and --- days, I served as a______; and for______months, an ______days , I served as a______; and for such service I claim a pension.
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3.

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. 

QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which be belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. 

QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers. 
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
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Payment to be made at Hartford by A. H. Pomroy, Esq. Agent for paying pensioners, in the Agency of Connecticut.  Payable on the 4th March and 4th September in each year.

Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book A. Vol 1. Page 185 by
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WAR DEPARTMENT
Five years' Pension

I certify that in conformity with the act of July 7, 1838, Abiah Humphreys, widow of Samuel Humphreys, who was a private in the Revolution, and died on the eighth day of January 1837, is entitled to receive five years' pension at the rate of twenty dollars and seventy seven cents per annum, commencing on the 8th January 1837, and in case of the death or marriage of said widow before the expiration of said five years, the pension will cease on the day of such marriage or death.

Given at the War Office of the United States, this twelfth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty.

J. R. Poinsett
Secretary of War

Examined and countersigned
J. L. Edwards 
Commissioner of Pensions
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State of Connecticut
County of New Haven SS. Probate District of New Haven

On this 8th ["th" is a superscript] of June A D 1833 personally appeared James Humphreys of the Town of Derby in the County of New Haven & State of Connecticut — in open Court before the Court of Probate for the District of New Haven now sitting, The said Humphreys having appeared before said Court on the 20th day of August A.D. 1832 for oath made his Declaration before said Court in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832, now here in open Court being first sworn according to law doth on oath make the following supplementary Declaration for the same purpose. That is to say, 
The Declarent says that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot [illegible] as to the precise length of his service, but according to the List of his Line [illegible] belief, he states, (having refreshed his memory since making his original declaration) that in October 1776 [illegible] think the first of [illegible] October he enlisted into a company of Connecticut State [illegible] under the command of Capt Danl Holbrook of [illegible, ] for the term of four months and served out [illegible] term, as stated in my original declaration— I know I served for four months— I [illegible] not remember any officers of [illegible] company, [illegible] in my original declaration.
In the fall of the year 1777, I was [illegible] the Militia to serve at [illegible] Point in [illegible}, for one month— I know I served one month— I think it was the 15th of [illegible] September, that I was drafted—
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I do not remember any who served with me in this draft, except those mentioned in my original declaration.  Neither do I remember any officer except Lieut. Ranford Whiting.  I am now very old and infirm, and I cannot remember as distinctly as I am said.

I know that in July or August of the year 1779, I was again drafted for one month, and served under said draft for one month at Milford in New Haven County under Capt. Peck.  I know I served one month [illegible]. and I do not recollect any other officer in this service except Capt. Peck.  Neither do I remember any soldiers now alive, who can testify to this issue.

I cannot be more particular than I have been in my initial declaration in stating my service at New Haven and Fairfield.  I do not remember any soldiers who served with me in the Revolutionary War, except those that I have mentioned in my initial declaration.  For the four months service, commencing in October 1776, I [illegible] but never had a [illegible].  In other times, I was a 

incomplete
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after [illegible] the interrogations prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant, was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.

Chas. A. Ingersoll
Judge of the Court

I, Anthony P. Sanford, clerk of the Probate Court of the district of New Haven do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the [illegible] proceedings of the said court, in the matter of the supplemental application of Samuel Humphreys for a pension.  And I do further certify that the two signatures of John L. Tomlinson, Justice of Peace, to the certificate, of the deposition attached to the initial declaration, are genuine.

Anthony P. Sanford, Clerk
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[Official County Seal with ribbon attached at top of page]

STATE OF CONNECTICUT. 
NEW HAVEN COUNTY, SS.
COUNTY COURT CLERK' S OFFICE. 

I, Jno Beach Clerk of the County Court, within and for the said County, and Keeper of the Seal thereof, and of the Commissions of Justices of Peace, within and for said County, hereby certify that William Storer Esq. is a 
Justice of Peace
 Notary Public within and for the said 
County
 State, duly appointed, commissioned and sworn, with power to administer oaths and take the acknowledgment of Deeds; that his Commission is dated the 17th day of June A. D. 1838 and will expire on the 19 
twentieth
 day of June, A. D. 1840; that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and that the signature hereto annexed, purporting to be his, is his genuine official signature. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of said Court, this 15" day of Feby A.D. 1840 
Jno Beach Clerk
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State of Connecticut
New Haven County} SS.

I John Beach, Clerk of the Court of Probate within and for the District of New Haven, and keeper of the records and seal thereof, hereby certify that Nathaniel R. Clark, is Judge of the Court of Probate in and for said District, duly commissioned and sworn, and that the annexed is his genuine official signature.  

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this 12th day of February, A.D. 1849.

John Beach, Clerk
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State of Connecticut
County of New Haven  SS.  On this 12th ["th" is a superscript] day of February one thousand eight hundred and forty, personally appeared in open Court before the Honorable Nathaniel R. Clark, Judge of the Probate Court for the District of New Haven, in said County and State, Mrs. Abiah Humphreys, a resident of the town of Derby in said Probate District, aged seventy eight 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 7th, 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows";— that she is the widow of James Humphreys, late of Derby, deceased, who was a private Soldier in the war of the American Revolution, and for his services in that war, his name was placed on the pensions roll of the Connecticut agency, at the annual allowance of twenty dollars and seventy-seven cents, on the nineteenth of September 1833.  His pension commenced on the fourth of March 1831.  She has no proof of his service, she would therefore respectfully refer to the evidence on which he was pensioned.  She further declares that she was married to the said James Humphreys, on the fifteenth day of August, seventeen hundred and ninety-two, and that her husband the aforesaid James Humphreys died on the eighth day of January 1837, and that she has not married again since his death, but now remains his widow.  That she was not married prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January 1794— to wit at the time above stated.
[signed] Abiah Humphreys

Sworn and subscribed before me in open Court, day and date above written—
Nathaniel R. Clark Judge of the said court of Probate, for the District of New Haven.
William Storer, Notary Public
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I, Huldah Plumb, wife of Justus Plumb, of the town of Stratford, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, aged seventy four years, depose and say that I am an elder sister of Mrs. Abiah Humphreys, widow of James Humphreys, late of Derby, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, now deceased.  Our family name before our marriage was Barlow.  I well remember the marriage of my sister Abiah Barlow to James Humphreys of Derby aforesaid.  They were married about two years after my marriage with Mr. Plumb.  I was present at the wedding with my husband and our first born child, then about one year old.  Their marriage took place at the residence of our father Mr. David Barlow in said town of Stratford, on the fifteenth or sixteenth day of August, seventeen hundred and ninety two.  The marriage ceremony was performed by the Rev. Stephen W. Stebbins, then pastor of the Congregational Church in said town of Stratford, in my presence and hearing.

In testimony of the truth of the above statement, I have hereunto subscribed my name and made oath to the same at New Haven in the County of New Haven and State of Connecticut, this twelfth day of November, eighteen hundred and ninety nine.

Hulah Plumb

State of Connecticut
City and County of New Haven: ss

Be it known, that on this twelvth day of November eighteen hundred and thirty nine, before the undersigned notary public, in and for said state, personally appeared Mrs. Huldah Plumb, wife of Justus Plumb, of Stratford in said State, signer of the foregoing deposition, a person of reputation for truth, and veracity and subscribed the above, and made oath to the truth of the same on the days and dates above written.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my official signature and seals.

William Storer, Notary Public
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[on exterior of fold]

Mrs. Abiah Humphreys
Derby, New Haven, Ct.
Application for Pension
Wm Storer Agent 
New Haven

[end]

This may certify that according to a statue passed by the General Assembly of Connecticut before the 12th day of Nov AD 1839 a Notary Public in that state has the same power of administering oath that is possessed by a justice of the peach or other judicial functionary.

Dated at Washington city June 9th
1840

Truman Smith, M.C.
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Clerk's Certificate.  Sold by Croswell & Jewett, No. 2 Street's Building, New Haven.

STATE OF CONNECTICUT,
County of New Haven,
COUNTY COURT, CLERK'S OFFICE. }  SS.

I, Robt. H. Osborn, Esq., ["Esq" has been lined out] Clerk of the County Court, within and for the County of New Haven, and keeper of the seal thereof, and of the Commission of the Justices of Peace for said County, hereby CERTIFY:—
THAT, Joseph P. Canfield Esquire was on the 25th ["th" is a superscript] day of May 1843 and now is a Justice of the Peace within and for the said County, duly appointed, commissioned and sworn, with power by the laws of this State, to administer OATHS, and take the acknowledgment of DEEDS and other instruments; that I am acquainted with his hand writing , and that the signature to this instrument hereto annexed, purporting to be his, is his genuine official signature.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and seal of the said Court this 28th ["th" is a superscript] day of July 1843.
R. H. Osborn [signature] Clerk.
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New Haven County of Derby May 20th ["th" is a superscript] 1843
Personally appeared before me Joseph P. Canfield Esq a Justice of the Peace for the County of New Haven Abiah Humphrey Widow of the late James Humphrey Dec. who was a private soldier in the Revolutionary war and on her Oath declares and says that she is the Widow of said James Humphrey and that her age is now Eighty-two years and that she drew a pension under the Act of 1837, being Twenty Dollars seventy seven cents p. annum according to certificate dated June 12th {"th" is a superscript] 1840, and she further declares that she ever has been and does still remain the Widow of said James Humphrey aforesaid
[signed] Abiah Humphrey

I hereby certify that I am well aquainted [acquainted] with the above named Abiah Humphrey and that she is now the Widow of said James Humphrey as above stated.
Joseph P. Canfield Justice of Peace