Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 3312, for John Spalding, Connecticut
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Conn.
Spalding, John
Wealthy Ann
NUMBER
W3312
CONTENTS
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15,766
Pennsylvania
John Spalding
at Allston Township in the state of Pennsylvania who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Durkee of the Connecticut line, for the term of Seven years
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 4 of May 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued 4 of Novr 18 and sent to John Spalding
Athens Bradford Penny
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819 128.20
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1820 48.00
15 Mo 28/31 4/30  $176.28
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
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see letter 23 March 1826 to Hon. S McKean HR informing him that Spalding must exhibit a schedule of his property.
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Jan. 24. 1820
addl proof
Wealthy Ann Spalding
David Cash,
Towanda, Pa
Agent.
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State of Pennsylvania
Bradford County Ss}
Be it remembered that before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in & for said County on the 17th day of January A.D. 1840 personally appeared Avery Gove, who being duly sworn upon his solemn oath doth depose & say that he is in the seventy six year of his age and that he is the brother of Wealthy Ann Spalding widow of the late Col. John Spalding, and being requested to state his knowledge of the marriage of his said sister Wealthy Ann with the said John Spalding he, the said Avery Gove says that his father the late Obadiah Gove was one of the "Connecticut Settlers" so called, who settled at Wyoming on the Susquehanna River, in Pa and having survived the indian man at that memorable place, it was his fortune afterwards to be driven with his family, from that blood stained valley, by what men then called the "Pennemity", to seek a home in other regions. In the year 1784, the said Obadiah Gove, for himself & as agent for his fellow sufferers in war & misfortune, went to the seat of government of the State of New York to negotiate for a body of land at Auquago above the Great Bend of the Susquehanna River in the last mentioned State. Deponents father, the said Obadiah Gove, left home, for the purpose aforesaid in the winter of 1784, and in the following spring, Deponent, who was the oldest of his fathers
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children & the only son, and having been ordered off by the Pennsylvania claimants & those in power, deponent moved his mother & sisters, from Wyoming up the River to Bowmans Creek near what is now called Tunkhumoc at this time & previously thereto the said John Spalding had been visiting his, deponents, sister Wealthy Ann with a view to a matrimonial union - After moving his mother & family to Bowman's Creek as aforesaid as a temporary residence only, & his father having received encouragement in obtaining the land for which he was negotiating, deponent, anticipating success in his fathers mission, went to Auquago in September of the same year (1784) to make improvements & provision for the reception a contemplated movement hither of his father's family - deponent, on his return to his mother's at Bowman's Creek, in October of the same year, was told by the family, & of the truth of which he has not the least shadow of doubt, that his said sister Wealthy Ann had been married to the said John Spalding in the absence of deponent to Auquago. At the same time deponent was told that the marriage ceremony was performed by the Rev Mr Johnson, a friend of the family then at Deponent's mother's at Bowman's Creek aforesaid. Deponent further says that in the fall of the same year, deponents father
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Set out to move by water, upon the Susquehanna to Onquagao, but the river was so low that they were compeled to stop for that season at   Sheshequin now Bradford County Pa. where he subsequently concluded to remain, & that he did reside there until the day of his death - deponent further says that the said John Spalding also settled in the township of Sheshequin aforesaid, in a few months after his aforesaid marriage with Wealthy Ann Earl where they also resided until the day of the death of the said John Spalding, and then they had a family of fourteen children. That the said John Spalding was a fifer in the Revolution for which & other services he drew a pension. That he the said John Spalding died in the year 1828 leaving Wealthy Ann who still remains his widow & is now an applicant for a pension - Deponent also resides in Sheshequin aforesaid where he has resided all the time aforesaid. And further saith not.

Avery Gove

Sworn & subscribed before me this 7th day of Jany. 1840

Jabez Fish Justice Peace

And I, the said justice, do further certify that the said deponent Avery Gove is to me well known & that he sustains a good reputation for verasity & integrity

Jabez Fish J.P.
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State of Pennsylvania Bradford County ss:

I, David Cash, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Bradford County Pennsylvania do hereby certify that Jabez Fish before whom the foregoing proceeding was had is a Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified; and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his are genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this 18th day of January A.D. 1840

David Cash Prothonotary
By John Mchattly
Depy
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5005
Wealthy Ann Spalding
of John
Pennsylvania

Wealthy Ann Spalding

David Cash Agt.
Towanda Pa

died 19 Feb 1828
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State of Pennsylvania
Bradford County} Ss.
On this seventh day of February 1839 personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Bradford Wealthy Ann Spalding, a resident of Sheshequin in the County of Bradford aforesaid aged seventy one years, who being 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 John Spalding who served in the army of the revolution in the several capacities, at different times, of Fifer, Soldier, Waiter of his father Capt. Simon Spalding, and as a Substitute. In consequence of the lapse of time and loss of memory the applicant cannot detail many of the circumstances connected with her late husband, the said John Spalding's services in the revolution, and if her memory was sufficient to do so she supposes it would be unnecessary, as the necessary proof of his services was furnished by him in his lifetime to the War department upon which he obtained a certificate that he was placed upon the pension list under the Act of 1818 and in pursuance of which he drew his pension one or two years at the rate of ninety six Dollars a year. That her said husband was then stricken from the pension list, as applicant supposes, in consequence of his property disqualification under a subsequent act of Congress. That her said husband, at the time of making his application for a pension resided at Sheshequin in the county & State aforesaid where declarant has resided ever since. She further declares
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that she was married to the said John Spalding on the first day of October in the year seventeen hundred and eighty four at her fathers [illegible} Tunkhannock above Wyoming upon the North Branch of the Susquehanna River in the County of Luzerne by the Reverend Jacob Johnson who was a Presbyterian clergyman then residing in Wyoming. That she had not been able to learn that there was any Parrish, Town, or other record made of the time of her said marriage, except that her said husband entered it in the back part of an account book, which book since the death of her husband has been lost or destroyed, and that her husband, the aforesaid John Spalding died on the nineteenth day of February in the year 1828. 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, viz. at the time above stated.
[signed] Wealthy Ann Spalding
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before 
Intertination of, "under the act of 1818" made before signing
[signed] David Cash Prot.
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State of Pennsylvania Bradford County ss:

I, David Cash, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said county do certify that the preceeding contains the original proceedings in said court of the matter of the application of Wealthy Ann Spalding for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said court this 18th day of March 1839

David Cash Prothy
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(left upper corner) seal (circled)

Bradford County ss:

Before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county personally came Avery Gove who being duly sworn doth depose and say that John Spalding and Wealthy Ann Gove were married on or about the first of October seventeen hundred and eighty four - that he was from home at the time they were married but returned immediately after and was infirmed they were married and that they lived together as man and wife from that time untill the death of the sd. John Spalding which took place on the 19th day of February one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight and the said Wealthy Ann Spalding is now and has remained a widow ever since

Avery Gove

Sworn and subscribed before me at Sheshequin, county aforesaid the 18th day of Feb. 1839

George Kinny J.P.

And I the aforesaid Justice do further certify that the aforesaid Avery Gove who has subscribed the above deposition is a man of good reputation and credit. And that his statement is entitled to credit

George Kinny J.P.