Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7871, for Jonathan Page, Vermont
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Vt
Page, Jonathan
Paige,
Patience
NUMBER
R.7871
CONTENTS
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State of New York on the 21st day of July AD 1838
Warren County before me Stephen Pratt one of the Judges of
the Court of Common pleas within and for the County
Warren and State of New York Patience Page a
resident of Hague in the County of Warren aforesaid aged
eighty two years on the 22d day of November AD 1887
he being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her
oath make the following declaration in order to obtain
benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress
July 4th 1836. Section third, that she is the widow
Jonathan Page who was a Soldier in the Service of
the United States during the Revolutionary war that
previous to her marriage with the said Jonathan Page
her name was Patrina Chase, that she resided in her
fathers family in New fairfield in the State of Connecticut
that she was married
to the said Jonathan Page on the 6th
day of November 1772 at New fairfield in the state of Connecticut by the Rev Mc Sill the Presbyterian minister of that place
and that she and the said Jonathan Page continued to
reside at Newfairfield aforesaid after the said marriage
until the spring
of the year 1778. when they moved to
Pownal in the State of Vermont and that in the year
1775 her husband the said Jonathan Page volunteered
as a Soldier about the first of May 1775 and marched
from Pownal to Ticonderoga in the State of New york
under the command of Col Ethan Allen was there at the
taking
of Ticonderoga when that Garrison Surrendered to
Col Ethan Allen that he continued to serve from the time
he marched from Pownal aforesaid three months he was
members that during the three months service her husband
was absent from home during wheat harvest about the
first of August. She further declares that [illegible] of the
husband the said Jonathan Page returned home, she thinks
in the fore part of the month of September 1775 the
Jonathan Page enlisted into the service of the United States
under one Captain Denuy of Bennington and she thinks
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in Colo Warners Regiment, the vast turn of time that
he enlisted for she does not now remember but that it was
either two or three years, that soon after his said enlistment he
marched from Bennington to the north, and served as a Soldier
in the northen department and served as an orderly in
he was at the taking of St Johns Chambly, and was with
General Montgomery at the time he entered Montreal that the
said Jonathan Page did not go to Quebec her with General
Montgomery, but went she thinks no farther than the three
rivers below Montreal and that he did not return from
Conder until the American army left Canada in the Summer
of 1776, he was at Ticonderoga when that Garrison was  [illegible] to by the American troops , and was with the part of the American troops that went by water to Skeensborough from Ticonderoga and that they were fired on from the British [illegible] during the whole of the retreat to Skeensborough. that a serg Lyon was wounded and left at Skeensborough- that on the the American keeps left the
landing at Skeensborough they were attacked and
engaged in a skirmish with the enemy consisting
of British and Indians, and that her husband the said
Jonathan Page was in the same the American Troops
marched as far as Fort Edward, and the said Jonathan
Page remained in the army and did not return home
until a few days before the battle of Bennington when he
come to his home in Pownal in consequence of being unwell
and she further says that the sd Jonathan Page had not be
at his home over a week before the battle of Bennington took
place, he then took his gun went to Bennington and was
in the battle, and he was at the battle of [illegible]
and at the Surrender of General Burgoyne, and continued to
serve in the American army with the full time of his
inlistment, and received an honorable discharge and then
return to his home in Pownal. She thinks he was dismissed
at Albany in the winter of to the Surender of
Burgoyne that he had had his discharge and Sergeant and at the
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time he left the army, and left them until his log
house was burned on the 9th day of March 1780. She farther
declare that he the said Jonathan Page was several times out
in the service of the United States in the Miltia of Vermont
an alarm in Capt Nathan Smith company and also in Capt
Abraham [illegible] Company the length of the several time of service
she has not now recalled living in Vermont when were then
many tories and enemies to the course of liberty the alarms 
were very frequent, and that after the said Jonathan Page left
the regular army as guard he was out as she thinks in
every case of a alarm in the neighborhood where she
resided and also in the adjoining towns and that in Consequence of her advanced age and loss of memory she cannot
State the exact length of all his services as a Soldier but
that residing to her best recollection and belief she think
the said Jonathan Page must have served in the whole at
last thereon and six months that her husband the
Jonathan Page died at Pittstown in the State of Mary
on the 8th day of September 1798 that other the death of
the said Jonathan Page she contined to him at Pownal
a number of years from there I moved to Greenwich
when the line regions from thence she moved to the
where she now resides and has resided for want
Ten years last part and that she has remain in
there since the decease of her said husband the said Johnathan
Page that the her marriage with the said Jonathan Page
in there were born unto the seven children, there eldest
was a Daughter whose name was Rachel Page was born
July 2d 1773. the second was a son who now is Jonathan Page
then he was born September 18th 1775. The third
a daughter Mavilla [?]Page born Sept 23d 1777 then forth a
son Lemuel Page was born 23d Octo 1779, the fifth was
Son Ephraim Page was born August 4th 1782 then such
was a son James Page was born February 14th 1788 and
their sixth was a son Stephen Page was an August 25th 1790
she herby relinquishes has every claim to a pension at
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the present and declares that her name is not on
the pension list Roll of the agency of any State
Sworn and subscribed to the
day and year first above written
[signature] Patience Page

Stephen Pratt
Judge of Warren Common Plea

State of N York
Warren County ss
I Stephen Pratt one of the justices of the court of common pleas and per the County of Warren afsaid do [illegible] certify to the above named Patience Pay who has made oath to
the above declaration is a [illegible] witness in that
her statement is entitled to credit and I further
certify that the sd Patience Page for her advanced
age and bodily infirmity is incapable of attending court
[signature] Stephen Pratt
Judge of Warren Com pleas
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New Fairfield Ct
March 24

Free

To the Post Master
Shoreham 
Vermont
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New Fairfield Ct. March 24, 1838-
To the R.M. Shoreham Vermont
Dear Sir
in reply to yours which I received a
few days since. I would say that I
have examined the records of the Congregational
Church, and Society also in this place and
the Town records likewise and I can find
no record on any of them of the marriage
of
Jonathan Page and Patience Chase
Yours respectfully
Seelye Barnum
Clerk of the Church
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Jonathan Paige & Patience Paige NY
Act 1832 V1838
& 1838
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Know all men by these presents that I Jedediah Page
of the town of Warrensburgh Warren County, State of New York, have
made constitutes and appointed and by then presents do make
constitute and appoint. I Douglas Woodward of Plattsburgh, N. York
now at Washington City my true and lawful attorney for me and
in my name place and stead (as one of the Heirs of Jonathan
Page who was an officer in the army of the Revolution, for
the purpose of Examining any papers in the office of Comm of Pensions giving and granting unto my said attorney full power
and authority to do and perform all and every act and
there whatsoever, to establish any right or claim I may have
against the United States as one of said Heirs of Jonathan 
Page to which he was entitled as such officer requisite
and necessary to be done as fully to all intents and purposes
as I might or could do if personally present
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and seal this 24th day of May 1852
In presence of
William Hotchkiss

[signature] Jedediah Paige

State of New York
Warren Co
on the 24th day of May in the year 1832 before
me came Jedidiah Page Known to me to be the man
described in and who executed the above Power attorney and
acknowledged that he executed the same
William Hotchkiss Justice of the Peace
for said County of Warren
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State of New-York,
Warren County Clerk's Office,
 
I Thomas Archibald
Clerk of the County of Warren,
do hereby certify that William Hotchkiss Esq
whose
name is subscribed to the certificate of proof or acknowledgment of the annexed Instry
ment, was at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, one of the Justice
of the place
of the County of Warren,
dwelling in said County, duly authorized to take such proof or acknowledgment and that
am well acquainted with the hand-writing of the said William Hook
and verily believe his signature to the said certificate of proof of
acknowledgment to be genuine. And that said Instrument is executed and acknowledged
according to the laws of the State of New-York.
In Canton, Robert, I have hereunto set my name and affixed the Son of the said County, this 25th
day of May
1852
Thomas Archibald Clerk
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State of New York
Warren County 
On this 24th day of May 1852
personally appeared before me a Justice of the
Peace in and for said County. Jedediah Page
of the Town of Warrensburgh in said County who be
duly sworn according to Law say that he is
one of the Heirs of Jonathan Page who was an
officer in the army of the Revolution
and certify that he is directly interested
as one of the claimants to any amount that
may be due to the Heirs of said Jonathan
Page for services being the Revolutionary war
[signature] Jedediah Paige

Subscribed and sworn before
me this 24th day of May 1852 
William Hotchkiss Justice
of the Peace for said County
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Act of July 4 1836
Suspended Claim
Patience Page
widow of Jonathan
(New York.)

Power of Attorney
to examine claim

Chas C Tucker
Atty 
Present
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State of New York
County of St Lawrence
Be it Known that on this Nineteenth day of May A.D. 1853, before me, the under
signed Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Polly Page
resident of Potsdam in said County, and made oath according to law that she is the daughter of Patricia Page the widow of Jonathan Page
who was a Soldier in the War of the Revolution, and who has heretofore made application for the benefit of
the Pension Act the widow of said Jonathan Page for his service in the Revolutionary War
That she is directly interested as a claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.

Countermanding and revoking all Powers of Attorney and authority heretofore given, I hereby constitute and appoint C. Muller of Washington City, my true and lawful attorney to prosecute the claim of Patricia Page widow of Jonathan Page
for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or increase of Pension that may be due; and I hereby authorise my said Attorney to examine all papers or documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Department at Washington City or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or agruments, and to receive for my exclusive benefit, the certificate which may be issued for said claim, which certificate I wish made payable at the Washington City, D.C. Agency; to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
[signature] Polly Page

 State of New York
County of St Lawrence
It is hereby certified, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me, Clerk of the County circuit superior court that Polly Page the party who has sworn to, and acknowledged the foregoing Declaration and Power of Attorney, is the daughter of Patricia Page the widow of Jonathan Page reputed soldier aforesaid. I further certify, that I Lucius Palmer Esq. before whom the preceding affidavit and Power of Attorney were made and acknowledged, was, at the time so doing, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, and that the signature purporting to be his, I believe to be genuine.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this first day of June 1853
U S Winslow
Clerk

1. Claimant's name or names in full - 2. Post office address. 3 "That he is the identical man" or, "that she is the widow of the identical man," or " That he or she is the legal heir of the identical man,"&c.,&c. 4. Leave this line blank - 5"He is" "she is," or "they are." 6. Revolutionary soldier's full name.-7. Claimant's signature.-8. Claimant's name.-9. Magistrate's signature. 10. "Identical," "widow of," or, "child of."-11. Magistrate's name."-12. Clerk's signature.

N.B.-Should two or more heirs join in the foregoing, the plural should be substituted for the singular number.
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State of Vermont
Be it known that before me Ebenezer
Addison County ss
Bush Justice of the Peace within and for
the County of Addison aforesaid personally appeared John L. Page
a resident of Shoreham in the County of Addison aforesaid aged thirty
one years who being first duly sworn according to law deposes testifies
and says that he has been acquainted with the widow Patience Page
of Hague in the County of Warren and State of New York from [illegible]
recollection, and that for fifteen years last past he has
family with the said Patience Page
in the State of New York aforesaid on the 24th day of Decr
and saw the leaf containing the family Record of Jonathan
and Patience Page taken from the Bible of the said Patience Page and
attached to the affidavit of the said Patience Page for the purpose of
being sent to the Pension office at Washington to prove Marriage of the
said Patience Page to Jonathan Page to substantiate her claim to a
pension for the Revolutionary services of the said Jonathan Page
and the said John L. Page further Testifies that the aforesaid family
Record taken from the Bible of the said Patience Page as aforesaid he
has been acquainted with and frequently seen it in the possession
of the said Patience Page for fifteen years last past which same
Record is hereunto annexed together with the affidavit of the said
Patience Page taken before John McClanathan Justice of the Peace
on the 24th December 1838 and that the same family Record is the
only family Record that I have ever known kept by the said Jonathan
and Patience Page
John L Page
Sworn and subscribed to this 8th day of April 1839
Before me Eben Bush Justice of the Peace
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I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the
within named John L. Page and that he is a credible witness
Eben Bush Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont
Addison County, I Samuel Swift, Clerk of the County Court
for the said County of Addison do hereby certify
that Ebenezer Bush, before whom the
within affidavit made was at the
time a Justice of the peace for said County
and his name subscribed to the above &
within certificate is his own signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
the
affixed the seal of said Court this 11th day of December
1839.
Saml Swift Clerk
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Jonathan Page
was born in August the 17
1752
Patience Page was born
the 2d 17[illegible]
Rachel Page was born July the
1773 Jonathan Page was born
born September the 15
[illegible]
born September the [illegible] 1777
Samuel Page was born [illegible]
the 23 1773
Ephraim Page was born August the 4 1798
James Page was born in August 25 1790
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I Jonathan Page married to Patience Chace in November the 6 1772
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State of New York
Warren County I Patience Page of Hague in the county of Warren and State of New York
aged Eighty three years do depose and say that
I am the widow of Jonathan Page late of Poutown
New York and that I have not intermarried and
remain the widow of the said Jonathan Page and
that the said Jonathan Page was a soldier of the
Revolution and I further testify and say that I
was married to the said Jonathan Page of the 6th
day of November in the year of our Lord 1772 at
New Fairfield Connecticut by the Rev. Mr. Sell
and that the annext to Sheets is the original
family Record of my marriage to the said
Jonathan Page and also of our Childrens births
that was born unto us which original family
Record was in my bible and has always
since the death of my husband be in my
possession and by me this day turn out from
my Bible which record is the only one
in my possession
[signature] Patricia Page
Sworn and Subscribed
before me this 24th day
of December 1838
John McClanathan, Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that the said Patience Page is a
Credible Witness
John McClanahan Justice of the Peace

[stamp] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES
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State of New York
Warren County
 I Thomas Archiband Clerk of the said County
do certify that John McClanathan before whom the within
affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of
the same one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said
County and that I am well acquainted with the hand
writing of said Justice and verily believe his name subscribed
to the with office to be his proper hand writing
Signature
Witness my hand and seal of officer
day of December AD 1835
Thomas Archibald Clerk
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[stamp] REJECTED
Act of July 14, 1862
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1073
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Patience Page
wid. of Jonathan
Enlisted:
Discharged:
Application filed:
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
of
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Recognized.
Cert. of Dis. Searched for
to
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Contrac
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N. York
Patience Page
let to U.H. Everest 5.Oct.'38
to Ho W.Slade 29 March '39.
to same 31 March 1840
Let. to Hon. S. Lawrence
April 5 48
7811
Act. July 4.1836
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State of Vermont Treasurer's Office Windsor March 26. 1838
at the rate of said State do hereby certify that there is a
paper on file in in the other purporting to be "An account of a detachment under the
command of Capt Nathan Smith finding themselves provisions when called to
assist Capt [illegible] the month of April 1778, thirty six men finding [illegible] 
nselors five days  Nineteen men finding themselves three days." I further
certify that the men of "jonth" Page"  is inserted upon said account without
any thing being amended unto tour, or amount of service, & amount of pay  I
further certify that the certificate of allowance & order of payment appears upon said
account without date of the the following is a copy, Viz.
"The above account examined and allowed each man for each day six shillings which amounts to seventy one pounds two shillings each the he assures is ordered to pay the same" signed "Thos Chittenden" I further
certify that on the 12 Jan 1779 that the
[illegible] paid said amount to Capt Nathan Smith as appears by said Smith's
receipt thereon
I further certify that this is another paper on file in this office
purporting to be "A pay roll for detachment under the command of Capt Nathan
for service done to assist Capt Ethan Allen April 1778 made up at L2.10.00 per man [illegible] I
further certify that the name of "Jonth Page"
appeared upon said Roll with an allowance for twelve days service [illegible]
23 April 1778 & ending the 4th may following I
further certify that the said pay roll appears [illegible] approved and ordered to be paid over the signature of Thos Chittendon without dates  
I further certify that on
the 19th January 1779 it appears the Treasurer paid said Roll to John Fasset who received the money for & on behalf of Capt Smith
I further certify that there is another paper on file in this office
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purporting to be "A pay roll of CApt Abraham Underhill's company and Capt Ira Allen's Regiment of Militia for service done in defence of the
Frontiers of the State of Vermont in the alarms which commenced the 12th
1781, the name of the moth omitted. I further certify that the name of
"Jonathan Page"appears upon said Roll with an allowance for fourteen days
service and sixty miles travel
annexed, for both of which said Page appears
to have been allowed & paid one pound eighteen shillings & eight pence.
I further
certify that said Pay Roll appears to have been sworn to on the 11 June1781
by Capt Underhill before to Thos Chittenden
and on the same day examined
approved & ordered
to be paid by Thos. Chittenden & Tim Brownson Committee
and also on said [illegible] it appears that the reason paid
said Roll to
Capt. Underwood
I further certify that I have
carefully examined all
Rolls in this Office
& that I do not find the name of said
Page upon
any of them except as above stated
Allen Wardian Treasurer of Vermont
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State of Newyork on the 21 day of July AD 1838
Warren County. before me Stephen Pratt
one of the
Judges of the Court of Common pleas within and for the
County of Warren aforesaid personally appearing Jonathan Page a resident of Hagen in the County of Warren aforesaid who being first duly sworn according
to law deposes and says that he is now in the city the sixty third year of his
his age having hears born on the 15th day of September
1775. that he is the son of Jonathan Page late of Petiton
in the State of Newyork and Patricia Page now of Hagen
aforesaid that when very young he remember of his father
Jonathan Page going into the service of the United States as
sold in on the war of the Revolution. that he remembers well
of Col Ethan Allen coming to his fathers house in Pownall
Vermont and that he stated to his father Jonathan Page
the benefit and advantage that would result to the
said Jonathan Page and family in case he would enlist
into the time of the United States, that he shall
recollects of his father Jonathan Page enlisting and he thinks
at the time he must here been about three years of age
he recollects of his fathers going into the service
and
of his returning he thinks his father was gone from home in the service at the time about Eighteen months
and he [illegible] at the time that his father went to
Liondereges and Hulbarton think he was in a summit at Fort Ann during the time-- And the said Jonathan Page
further testifies that he has not heard his father
say that he was with col Ethan Allen the late
and that he was a the taking of Ticonderoga
and was with General Montgomery when he entered Montreal
and of his being in Canada until the American Army left
Canada and came to Ticonderoga of his living at Ticonderoga until that man was [illegible]
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[illegible] -  that he recollects of his father after stating
that when they [illegible] from Ticonderoga by water that
they were fired on during the what at Skeensborough
from the British row Gallis and that a suit on
was wounded and that ship capt at Skeensborough there he has also heard his father state that he was in the skirmish as Skeensborough landing [illegible]- that he was in the Battle of Bennington Saratoga Stillwater and the taking of Burgoyne- Says that he well recollects of seeing his fathers discharge and sergeant warrant being in his services after he was out of the service, and that he recollects of his father house being burned and destroyed all his papers was burned up at the time- that he [illegible] from his father that he had served as a soldier at times during the Revolutionary war rising of three years - and the said Jonathan page further testified that his father Jonathan Page did according to the best of his recollection a [illegible] in the State of New York on the 8th day of September 1798. that his mother Patience Page widow of the sd Jonathan Page now moved from Pitour to Greenwich from Grenwich to Hagen when she now residing having resided at the latter from about seven years past and that she has remained a widow ever since the decease of her sd husband Jonathan Page
 and further say not

and related to Jonathan
Sworn and subscribed to before me the day and year first above written
[signature] Jonathan Page
 
[signature]By Mr Stephen Pratt
Judge of Warren Common Pleas

I hereby certify that the above
named Jonathan Page
is a credible witness and and that his statement is entitled to credit
[signature] Stephen Pratt
Judge of Warren Common Pleas
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State of Vermont
Chittendon County  Be it known that before me Udny H Everest a Justice of the Peace [illegible] and for the County of Addison aforesaid personally appeared Elizabetn Lanaher of Sherborn in the county of Addison afrsaid who being first duly sworn according to Law deposes and says that she is seventy four years of age and upwards that she was acquainted with Jonathan Page formerly of Pownel in the State of Vermont and his wife Patricia Page that the said Jonathan & his wife Patricial lived in Pawnel aforesaid when she first became acquainted with them they lived about half of a mile from her fathers home and that according to the best of her recollection they lived in Pawnel in 1773 and from that time for several years after that they cohabited and lived together as man and wife and raised a family of children she things that during the time she was acquainted with the said Jonathan & his wife Patricial there faily consists of a family of four or five children that they moved from Pownel to Pitstown N York when the Jonathan Page did [illegible] tot he best of her recollection
That she is not moving to the Jonathan Page, being a solider of the Revolutionary war but she hs the impression that he was and she firmly believes that he was a soldier of the Revolution and further saith not
[signature] Elizabeth her x mark Lanaher
Sworn and subscribed to this 5th day of June 11739
Before me

I hereby certify that the above named Elizabeth Lanaher is a credible witness
Undy H Everest Justice Peace
[signature] Udny H Everest Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont
[illegible] County  Be it known that before me Udny S Everest justice of the[illegible] was his [illegible] on the county
of healison personally and John Lumber
Shenheim in the County of [illegible] afsaid who being
first duly sworn according to Law doth [illegible] and say, 
at he resided with his father John S lander in Pownal in the
county of Bennington and State of Vermont, for the
1778 until the year 1785 during which time his father left an him on to Pawnal  and that according
the best of his recollection in the year 1783 he cam to the hear of the sd  that Jonathan Lander and that and Pront
[illegible]of the sd John Lander and that he
John C. Lander be understood that he hath
Page had hast came one of the service of the said States
where he had turned as a soldier, and that he the said
Land to be and the sd Jonathan Page
late of his having been in the him as used
live to what ticks he was attached her day out now
well the said Jonathan Page during the time he
[illegible] was acquaint with him
[illegible]  as the searched when he
resided to have been a soldier of the revolution
that he has no doubt in that the Jonathan
Page was a soldier of the Revolution that he the sd John S Lander [illegible] that the sd
Jonathan Page died a few years of the [illegibe] that while he resided in Pownel the sd
Jonathan Page had a family consisting of a
wfie and three or four children the said Jonathan
of was in very indigent circumstances during the
time he lived in Pawnal and that he has [illegible] that the widow the Jonathan Page who lived with him in Pownel afsaid is now
living in Hague in the State of New York and further
saith not
[signature] John S Lander

Sworn and subscribed this 7th day of May 1838 Before me Udny H Everest Justice Peace

I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with John S Lander that he is a credible witness
Udny H Everest Jus Peace
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State of Vermont
Addison County ss
I, Samuel Swift, Clerk of the County Court for the
said County of Addison do hereby certify that tUdney H Everest, before whom the within affidavit of John S Sawaba and Elizabeth
Sawaba were made was at the respective
times a Justice of the peace for said County
and his name severally subscribed thereto
is his own signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
Seal of said Court this eighteenth day of July 1838
Saml Swift Clerk
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State of New York
Warren County ss.
I Stephen Pratt one of the
Judges of the Court of Common
pleas within and for the County of Warren aforesaid
do hereby certify that after investigating the matter in the
application of Patricia Page for a pension do hereby
declare my opinion that the said Patricia Page
is the widow of the said Jonathan
Page who was a
Solder of the Revolution and served as he states
and that it is made to appear to me that the
said Patricia Page who has made her Declaration and
that Jonathan Page Elizabeth Lander and
John L Lander who have made these affidavits are
credible witnesses and that this statements
entitled to credit

July 21st 1838
[signature] Stephen Pratt
Judge of Warren
Common Pleas

I Stephen Pratt one of the judges of Warren
County Court of
Common pleas do hereby certify
that the [illegible]
contains the original preceding
in the matter of
the application of Patricia Page
for a pension In testimony whereof I have hereto set
my hand this 21st day of July
1858
Stephen Pratt
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State of New York
Warren County 
3839
 
I Thomas Archibald Clerk
of the said County Do hereby
Certify that Stephen Pratt before whom the within declaration
and affidavits purports to have been sworn was was on the
day of the date of the same one of the Judges of the
County Courts of the said County Commissioned and Sworn
and residing in the said County and that I am well
acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his
name subscribed to said Declaration or offices to be his
proper hand writing and Signature
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the Seal of the said County this 16th day
of August 1838
Thomas Archibald Clerk
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State of Vermont
Secretary of States Office,
Montpelier, Dec. 17. 1838
I, Chauncey L. Knapp, Secretary of said State, do
hereby certify that there is on file in this office a paper
purporting to be a Pay Roll of Capt. M. Lyon's Company
of Alarm List for service done in the year 1780
I further certify that the name of Sargt Jonathan Page
appears upon said pay roll, with an allowance of six
days service annexed.- I further certify that there
is on file in this office another paper, purporting to
be a pay roll of a detachment under the command
of Capt. Nathan Smith for service done to assist Capt.
Ebenr Allen, April, 1778 made up at 2.100 per
man per month. I further certify that the name of Jonathan Page" appears upon said pay roll as a
private, with an allowance of twelve days service
annexed. And I further certify that said rolls
appear to have been approved and ordered to be paid,
by a board appointed for the purpose, and also that they
were duly paid by the Treasurer
Given under my hand and seal of
office, at Montpelier, this seventeenth day
of December in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and thirty
eight
Chauncey L. Knapp
Secretary of State
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Shenham January
7th 1839

Dear Sir
I herwith forward some additional
papers in the case of Patience Page for
of
a pension
yours Respectfully
UH Everest

JL Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
At Event
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War Department
Pension Office
March 29, 1839
Sir
The supplemental statement of Mr
Patience Page, and the leaf purporting to certain
the family record, are herewith returned. The
record should be identified by a credible witness
as having been in the family of the claimant
for some time past. The names of the Captain's
under whom the claimants husband served previous to 1777 should likewise be given.
I have the honor to
Very respectfully
your obdt sevt
J.L.Edwards


Hon W. Slade
Middlebury
Vermont
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H. of R. March 18 /48
Sir
J. L. Edwards
Court of Pens
If consistent with the
rules of your
office I will thank
you to furnish me with the
information sought by the
applicant
Yours truly
S Lawrence
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H.R. March 26, 1840

Sir
I send herewith additional papers in the case of Patience Page, to which in conexiove with than now in your office, I ask your attention as soon as practicable.
Respectfully
Your obdient servant
William Slade


JL Edwards Esq
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State of New York
Warren Countss
Laban Causins of the Town of Chester
County & State aforesaid being duly
Sworn Saith that he the said was born
July the 7th 1761 in new fairfield Connetticut
and his father Moved to Bennington when he was
about seven years old at the year 1776 he enlisted
in the fare part of the year to serve nine months
and served that are the next year 1777 he enlisted
during the year he enlisted under Capt George Saxton
of Manchester in Col Warners Regiment and
Served in different place Bennington Manchester
at Pettet at Rutland at Castleton Stillwater
Fort Ann Saratoga a part yearge the Lought
of of the Lakes Lake George Lake Champlain
he and other scouting parties and as A Picket Soldier
and in different Exposites above mentioned and
he the said Laban Cousins was acquainted with
Jonathan Page of Pawnal the late deceased husband
of Patience Page that the said Laban was acquainted with the said Jonathan Page from the day of
his youth until his death that the said Jonathan
Page was a resident of New Fairfield Connecticut
that he married Patience Chase of the said [illegible] 
that he the said Laban was at the wedding of there
said Page and he the said Page was Married by the Rev
Mr. Sell the Minister of the Presbyterian Church
of that place and he the said land to Pownal
about that time the said Page Enlisted to the best
of his recollection in March 20th 1776, Pensions to
his enlistment he served as a volunteer in Col Allen
Expedition in long Ticondaeroga the said Enlistment
 for nine months he served during that turn of
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time then after that he the said Page Enlisted during the
war according to the best of his Recollection and went
to Canada in Col Warners Regiment and when
he returned he the said Lalean saw him the said
Page at Crown Point he told him that he had
been in Canada During the winter he thinks
during the winter of 1777 of he afterwards saw him
fort Ann then at Saratoga at the taking of
Burquine and During the campaign which lasted
3 or 4 months he afterwards saw him at Stillwater
and had some conversation with him about Pratt and
The other men being taken by the Indians as same
being detained for a few days after which shall and one of
his Neighbors got away from the Indians after which
he dare not nor anything about his survives after the
year he left s[illegible] and moved to Pittstown and there
the said Page had his house burnt and all his records and
Papers Enlistment Servents warrant and Discharge and his
Surtificant for a right of Land and on a [illegible] 
afterwards he the said Page Died and his widowage Maried
after wards to the last part of the State of New York
each after which she allow to grinage in the State of
New York to be [illegible]  she then after that
Moved to Hague to her Sun and is now living
with her grand son in the same place
Dated at Chester this the 27th Day of Sept
1839
Laban his x mark Cowens

Galph Vander Daly Witness
Subscribed and sworn this
the 27th day of Sept 1839 before
me Ralph Vanderwarker Justice
This may certify that I think Laban Cowens is a man 
of Truth and varasity
Ohio Sept 27 1839
Ralph Vandemark Justice
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State of New York
Warren County
I Thomas Archibald Clerk of the County of
Warren do hereby certify that Ralph Ven
Derworker Esq before whom the within affidavit
purports to have been sworn was on the day of
the date of the same one of the Justices of the
Peace in and for the County of Warren duly Elected and residency
in said County and further that I am well acquainted with the
hand writing of the said Ralph Van Derworker and verily believe
his name subscribed to the within affidavit is his proper hand Writing
and signature In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed
my name and affixed the seal of the said County this 10th
day of October AD 1839
Thomas Archibald Clerk