Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26840, for Robert Packard, New Hampshire
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(3 - 1776 )
SERVICE
N.H.
Packard, Robert
Elizabeth
NUMBER
W. 26840
CONTENTS
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2 Certs
1838
1843 & 1844
resso
Montpelier 6385
Vermont
Elizabeth Packard
widow of Robert Packard
who was a Pri. & Cor.
in the N H Line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
33 Dollars 38
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the
22nd day of Novem 1844
and sent to
A & J. E. Kendall
Present
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
& June 17, 1844
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2 Page 66
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Widow Elizabeth Packards Declaration
11,042
M82 213
Please communicate with
Hon Amos Kendall, agt.
Washington D.C.
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Declaration
State of Vermont Windsor County
Probate District of Hartford Ss on this 23d day July AD. 1844
personally appeared before the Probate Court at a session thereof
[illegible] at Stockbridge within & for said District Elizabeth Packard
a resident of Stockbridge in the County of Windsor & State of Vermont
aged 86 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 June 7, 1838 entitled
an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows and of any
pensions or subsequent act of joint Resolution of congress applicable to her 
[illegible] That she is the widow of Robert Packard who was as she believes
a sergeant in the army of the Revolutionary war and she declares that according
to the best knowledged and belief her late husband the [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] served more than
twelve months as a Sergeant or in some other office, and he enlisted
[illegible] the service at Westmoreland in the State of New Hampshire in the 
year 1777 and at the [illegible] served three months that he again enlisted
in the year 1778, or was drafted and served she thinks two months [illegible]
[illegible] [illegible] State under what officers he served that he again 
enlisted into the service in 1779 and [illegible] he has informed her went to
Rhode Island and that she has heard him say that he served at this
time under Captain Stone the other officers she cannot state who they
were, that he served at this time under Capt Stone Nine Months
that she cannot state whether the above service was in the New Hampshire
Militia or Continental line - she further declares that she was
married to the said Robert Packard on the eleventh day of February in
the year Seventeen hundred & eighty two by Parson Bailey in
the town of Westmoreland in the State of New Hampshire that she was not married
to him prior to his leaving the service but the Marriage
continued [illegible]
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took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four (viz) at the time above stated and that her Maiden name was Elizabeth Hudson
Elizabeth   her x mark   Packard

Sworn to and Subscribed by the above declarant on the day and year first above mentioned in open Court before me and I further Certify that the declarant Elizabeth Packard is personally known to me and that She is a person of truth and credibility.  The words "the said Robert Packard" were interlined before signing
George E. Wales, Judge---

I Robert Packard of Stockbridge in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont aged 46 years depose and Say That Robert Packard late of said Stockbridge deceased was my Father  That he died at Said Stockbridge on the 5th day of May AD 1813, that I was present when he died.  That Elizabeth Packard the above declarant (My Mother) is his widow and resides at Stockbridge aforesaid
Robert Packard

Sworn to and Subscribed on this 23d day of July, AD 1844 by the above affiant in open Court before me, and I further certify that the above affiant is personally known to me and that he is a person of truth and Credibility.  The words "5th" & "May" written upon an erasure
George E. Wales, Judge---

State of Vermont  )
Hartford District   )

I Oel Billings Register of the Court of Probate of the District of Hartford aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Elizabeth Packard for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of office at Woodstock in Said District this 23d day of July AD 1844
Oel Billings Register.
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Proof of Marriage of
Wid Elizabeth Pacard
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State of New Hampshire.
Office of Secretary of State.

I, Thomas P. Treadwell, Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Larkin Baker is an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for the County of Cheshire duly commissioned and qualified:  that his Commission was dated on the 24th day of June 1843 and will expire on the 24th day of June 1848 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.

Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this 26th day of August 1844
Thomas P Treadwell   Secretary of State
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February seventh one thousand seven hundred & eighty two then was married Robert Packard to Elizabeth Hudson--P'r Ebenezer Bailey

I certify that the above is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the Record in fair legible letters & figures as follows:   "Feb 11th 1782"
Nathan G. Babbitt  Clerk of the town of Westmoreland

I Nathan Godfrey Babbitt above named depose & say that I hold the office Clerk of the town of Westmoreland in the County of Cheshire & State of Newhampshire and that the above is a true extract from the Record of said town of Westmoreland, with the exception above named as certified by me.
N.G. Babbitt
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State of New Hampshire
Cheshire fs.   August 23d 1844

Then the within named Nathan G. Babbitt Subscribed and made oath to the truth of the within affidavit by him Subscribed--
Before me
Larkin Baker   Justice of the Peace
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Revy  WIDOW, &c.

File No.  26840

Elizabeth Packard
Wid of
Robert Packard
Corpl. N. H. Line

Act  Mar 3rd 1843
        June 17th 1844

Index:---Vol D, Page 115

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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No 11042

Elizabeth Packard
Widow of Robert
VT

Act 7 July 1838

Adm'd

4 mo 5 days  Corporal   22.61
3---- 7    "      Private      10.77
............................................__________
..............................................$ 33.38

Oct '44--248
   "   '43.  6675

Adm'd 3 March 1843 & 17 June 1844

$33.38

A. & J.E. Kendall
Present.
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8864
Vermont
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Elizabeth Packard
widow of Robert Packard
who was a pensioner under the Act of
and who died on the 5 May 1813.
of Windsor in the State of Vermont
who was a Pri & Cor in the Co:
commanded by Captain Stones of the
regt commanded by Mooney in
the N.H. line for 6 mo 5 Ds  Cor.
.................................3   "   7   "  Pri.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Montpelier
at the rate of 33 Dollars 38
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day
of March, 1836.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of
Nov 1844 and Sent to A. & J.E.
Kendall,  Present,
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Total amount,  $166.90
[Act July 7, 1838.]

Recorded by F.L. Swann  Clerk,
Book D   Vol. 1   Page 135