Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 8286, for Gad Peck, Connecticut
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(3-1776)
SERVICE 
Conn.
                                          NUMBER
Peck, Gad
Mary

NUMBER                  
W. 8286                    
B.L.Wt. 26885-160-55

CONTENTS
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                 4,582
                                 Indianapolis
Indiana
        Mary Peck
widow of Gad Peck,
   Conn
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a private,

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of  80 dollars 00
cents per annum, to commence
on the 3d February, 1853.

Certificate of Pension issued
12th day of Oct. 1854
and sent to
Chas. B Lines,
       New Haven,
                 Connt.

Recorded on Roll of Pensions under act February 3, 1853, Page 190  Vol A.

               ________________________
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1858. June 8.  Cer, to Pen. Agt.
    "        "   22  To Indianapolis
 fr 11 Sept. '57  & notice sent
to Pension agent.
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[Illegible]  Claimant. Dec 27/55

Vol P. page 55

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108103   Act Mar 3
                                }55
                      Apr 30

Mary Peck widow
Gad Peck
                  Priv.

Ent
Dis.

                      Revy War.

Revy Pensioner
Inda.  [Illegible]  53-4582

AW:160 Act Ma 21/56
[Illegible signature]

Claimant
New Harmony, I
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Duplicate Certificates issued
1 March 1845 - and sent 
to Pensioner New Haven
Connecticut
          _____________________
[3 illegible initials] P Agt Apl 17 1845.

When Peck returns his
certificate, issue one for &80, per ann
Lee Peters 7 Dec 44 to Peck 8 April 22,
1845 to P Agt. at Hartford, Con.


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                         32,222
Connecticut
Gad Peck
of Wallingford in the State of Connt
who was a private in the Company commanded
by Captain Peck of the ..................    commanded
by ......................... in the Conn
line for 1 year

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of 40 Dollars --- Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of Oct 1844
          and Sent to Pensioner
New Haven, Connt

Arrears to the 4th of
Semi-anl. allowance ending
                                               ==========
                           Revolutionary Claim, }
                                  Act June , 1832.  }

Recorded by W. M. Stewart  Clerk

Book E 2    Vol. 3   Page 35
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Hon. E. D. White
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                      APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER.
County of Crawford SS.
On this 24th day of May 1834 before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Crawford personally appeared Gad Peck who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Edwards in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Shipman in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Louisiana from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the State (District, or Territory) [last three words crossed out]  of Pennsylvania  where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future.  The following are his reasons for removing from Louisiana to Pennsylvania is that his only brother is living there, and the climate is more congenial to his health

   [Signed]  Gad Peck

Sworn and subscribed to, before me,
  the day and year aforesaid.}
    {signed] Jos Patten Justice 

    The oath to be taken before a duly qualified Magistrate, whose official character and signature must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.  The county Clerk, Secretary of State, or some other officer, must certify, under his seal of office, that the officer who administered the oath is a Justice of the Peace, Judge, Mayor, Alderman, or Notary Public, as the case may be, and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
    The oath must be supported by the testimony of some respectable person, as to the Pensioner's identity. He must swear that the person who has taken the above oath is the person described in the affidavit.  The Magistrate must certify, that the witness is a person of veracity: and the affidavit must also be authenticated in the manner above directed.


Harmony Rep  29 June 1834
I am well acquainted with Joseph Patten Esq.
who attests the above written  I know him to be an acting Justice of the Peace, know his hand writing, and believe this to be his hand writing.
         [Signed]  John Galbraith
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House of Rep. 2d June 1834. -
   Mr. Gad Peck, I am acquainted with - He is a respectable man. - I have no doubt that the signature to the affidavit on the other side is his, -  He has been in correspondence with me  about his pension, and about the transfer of his residence to Pennsylvania, and the signature appear to be his.
                [Signed] E. D. White

[NOTE:  The capital letter 'A' is written vertically below the above  statement]

Hon E. D White [written inverted, below same.]
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                     No 1 x

get Probate certificate 
from New Haven Court to 
accompany these   [next two words illegible] & enclose them to Comm 
Pensions Washington
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the 2 Section  of the Act of February 3d, 1853

State of Indiana
Posey County} ss New Harmony -
  On this 14th day of June 1854 personally appeared before the Judge of the Court of Common Pleas the County aforesaid Mary Peck a resident of New Harmony in the County of Posey in the State of Indiana aged Fifty years, 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 3 February 1853 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.  That she is the Widow of Gad Peck who was a private in the Army of the Revolution, and a Pensioner on the roll of the Connecticut Agency at Hartford under the Act of June 7, 1832 at eighty dollars per annum - ( his pension certificate beard [sic] date at the War Office of the United States 21 May 1845) -
   She further declares that she was married to the said Gad Peck on the first day of October eighteen hundred and twenty six; that her said husband died in the City of New Haven in the State of Connecticut in the year eighteen hundred and fifty three on the third day of June   That she was not married to him prior to the second of January eighteen hundred, but at the time above stated
                   [Signed] Mary Peck

Subscribed and
sworn to before me
the day above written
John Pitcher Judge of
the Court Common Please 
for Posey County afsd
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State of Indiana
Posey County } ss.
Know all men by these presents that I Mary Peck of New Harmony in the County of Posey State of Indiana do hereby make constitute and appoint C. R. Lines Esq of New Haven, Connecticut, my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name and for my benefit to ask for and receive from the United States through the Secretary of the Department of the Interior the Pension to [covered by other paper]

[edits transcribed]
STATE OF INDIANA, Posey COUNTY, Sct.
I, Turner Nelson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County, do hereby certify that John Pitcher before whom the foregoing acknowledgment and  [illegible] appears to have been taken and made was at the time of taking and subscribing the same, to wit: on the 14th day of June, 1854, was Judge of said Court duly elected, commissioned and qualified, and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts as such. I further certify that his signature to said certificate is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the seal of said Court at Mt Vernon in said county, this 14th day of June, A. D. 1854.
T. Nelson, Clerk
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State of Indiana, Posey County } ss.
Know all men by there presents that I Mary Peck of New Harmony in the County of Posey State of Indiana do hereby make constitute and appoint C. R. Lines Esq of New Haven, Connecticut, my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name and for my benefit to ask for and receive from the United States through the Secretary of the Department of the Interior the Pension to which I may be entitled as the Widow of Gad Peck deceased, as set forth in the  foregoing Declaration - and I wish said Pension Certificate made payable to me at the Pension Agency in Hartford State of Connecticut.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 14th day of June 1854
Mary Peck
two witnesses } R B Mc[illegible]
W. A. Twiggs
On this 14th day of June 1854 personally appeared before me Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Posey County State of Indiana Mary Peck and acknowledged the above power of attorney to be her free act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned.
John Pitcher
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108103
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State of Indiana
Posey County} SS
     On this 19th day of April A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid Mary Peck aged 51 years, a resident of New Harmony, county of Posey, State of Indiana who being duly sworn according to law, declares she is the widow of Gad Peck deceased who was a private in the revolutionary war that necessary proof of which has been given already to the Department of Interior as witness the certificate which she holds, of which the following is a true copy -
                Department of the Interior
                              Widows Pension
  I certify that in conformity with the 2d Section
of the Act of Feby 3d 1853, Mary Peck widow of Gad Peck deceased, who was a private in the revolutionary war is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of eighty dollars no cents per annum commencing on the 3rd of Feby 1853 and continuing for life, unless she should again marry in which case the Pension 
is not payable after the time of such marriage.
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Sept                     Given at the Department of
Department       the Interior, this twelfth day of
of                October one thousand eight 
Interior        hundred and fifty four
                             R. McClelland
                          Secretary of the Interior

Examined and
count. signed
          L P Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions -

     She further states that she is now a widow. She makes this declaration for the  purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3d 1855
           [Signed]  Mary Peck

We James Burnett and Francis Bollon, residents of New Harmony Posey County State of Indiana upon our oath declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged for Mary Peck in our presence and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
     [Signed]   James Bennett  [sic]
                     Francis Bolton   [sic]

The foregoing declaration and affidavit
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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 person she 
represents herself to be, and that I have no
interest 

             STATE OF INDIANA} SCT.
                      Posey COUNTY,

I, T Nelson Clerk of the Posey 
Circuit Court within and for said County, do 
hereby certify that Peter L Duclois before whom 
the  Affidavit appears to have been taken was 
at the time of taking and subscribing the same, 
to:wit:  on the 19th day of April, 1855, As acting 
Justice of the Peace within and for said County 
of Posey duly elected, commissioned and qualified, 
and that the full faith and credit are due to all his 
official acts as (word obscured by ribbon of seal]
such.  I further certify that his signature to said 
certificate is genuine.

Seal       IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto
affixed     subscribed my name, and affixed the seal
here         of said Court at Mt Vernon in said county,
                 this 21st day of April, A.D. 1855.
                                   [Signed] T Nelson  Clerk.
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were sworn to and subscribed before me
on the day, and year, above written: and I 
certify that I now the affiant to be credible
persons:  That the claimant is the person she 
represents herself to be and that I have np
interest in the claim

Sworn & subscribed before
me this 19th day of April, 1855} P.J Duclois  Esq
                                          Justice of the Peace
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                       30.219.
                     Gad Peck
                    Louisianna

                    Return fo [crossed out]

                Adm 1 year & 2 Months
                        V.
                              40
                                6.66

Hon E D. White 
      [Illegible word]
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           WAR DEPARTMENT,
    Pension Office,
    8 April 1834

Sir: 
         The evidence in support of your claim, under 
the act  of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and 
the papers are herewith returned.  The following is a 
statement of your case in tabular form. On comparing 
these papers with the following rule and the subjoined 
notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, 
which may be removed, before a pension can be allowed.  
The notes and regulations will show what is necessary to 
be done.  These points to which your attention is more 
particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin 
with a brace (thus: }).  You will, when you return your 
Papers to this Department, send this printed letter with
 them; and you will, by compling  [sic] with this request, 
greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

[NOTE:  A six topic table follows]

  A STATEMENT, showing the Service of Gad Peck -

Period when the service was rendered
Duration of claimant's service. 
                     Yr.     1,     Months    2,         Days.
Names and rank of the Field Officers under whom he 
                    served
Age at present, and place of abode when he entered 
                   the service

                                  I am, respectfully,
                                        Your obedient servant,
                                                 JAMES L. EDWARDS,
                                      Commissioner of Pensions.

The only objection to the admission of this CLaim is that the Justice before whom the Depositions were taken is not Certified to be Such by the Foregoing Authority - probably some of the Connecticut member may supply the [illegible word].
Proof by which the declaration is supported
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{NOTE:  This page consists of the printed regulations regarding one of the earliest the pension act passed by Congress. It does not contain any details concerning Gad Peck specifically.]

                                2.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
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NOTE; This page consists of the continuation of the regulations for applicants of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. It does not contain any specific information regarding Gad Peck specifically.]

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   Application of
    Gad Peck for 
revolutionary pension

           30.219 -


                         Capt
Sepr
   7 Bayan Mane



      Submitted by
       E.D. White
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[Inverted]             Submitted by
                               E.D. White

       
                       Capt Gad Peck  25
Sept
  7 Bayan Manchac  Post Office
                Louisiana
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Declaration of Gad Peck in order to obtain benefit of theact of Congress passed June 7th, 1832.

                                    State of Louisiana
                         Parish owned City of New Orleans} SS
On this twentieth day of February (1864) One thousand Eight Hundred & Thirty Four, personally appeared in open Court
before me J. Bermudez apointed [sic] Judge of the City Court of New Orleans now sitting Gad Peck a resident of the City of New Orleans State of Louisiana, aged Sixty Nine 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 June Seventh 1832.
                                             That in the month 
of August in the Seventeen Hundred Seventy Nine he was hired by Hun Munson (who had been drafted out of the Militia Company of the town of Wallingford in the State of Connecticut) to go as his Substitute for the term of Sixty days; that he went as the substitute of the said Hun Munson to the City of New Haven & there joined the Company commanded by Cap. Thomas
Shepherd in the Regiment of Col. Sabin, that about a week after the joined the Company to which he belonged was detached to East Haven. -  Their business was to guard the coast & they were a part of the time employed in building the Fort & defense of Beacon Hill in said East Haven, that he remained there the full term of Sixty days for which the term of draft expired and when he was regularly discharged
    That early in the year Seventeen hundred & Eighty One he entered into the Service of the United States under Capt. Edwards of Watertown, Lieutenant Ball of Milford & Ensign [illegible]. The Regt. was Commanded by Col. Thompson, the term of his enlistment was for one year.  He joined the Company at Palmer's Hill from which place they were marched to Throg's Point, where they engaged the enemy consisting of about one hundred & fifty men -
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principally refugees. They were afterwards joined by Col. Sheldon LightHorse & destroyed some stores at the Point after this they were encamped about Two Months at the White Plains where they were marched back within a short distance of Palmers Hill where they were employed in building fortifications and
barracks. In the following month of February he received his discharge, And further says this affidavit that he was born in the State of Connecticut in the Town of Wallingford
County of New Haven on the 12th of October 1764 & that his birth was recorded in the Office of the Town Clerk of the Town
of Wallingford, in which he resided when he was called into the service, that he has since resided many years with a large family in the City of New Haven engaged largely &
successfully in maritime commune  -(disastrous reverses have now left him destitute, at an advanced age in the Banks of the Mississippi. - That he has resided about ten years in the Parish of East Baton-Rouge, & at present he resides in the City of New Orleans - That as before stated he entered the service first as a substitute  subsequently as a volunteer - At this distant date his recollection of names is indistinct, but he thinks that Col. Shipman's Regt. in which he served formed part of a Brigade commanded by Genl. Washington - Adjutants Henry Bull & Henry
Whiting were of the Regt, that he has no recollection [illegible] his discharge; if he received one it was at that time of little interest as the war was then drawing successfully to a close - That in the 
Parish of Baton-Rouge he is known to Capt Josiah Barker & Genl. Davenport & of this City to Dr. J. A. Kennicott & J.H. Kennicott Esquire of whom no doubt would do him the Justice 
to believe what he should,  says & further says this affiant that the annexed affidavit contains all of the evidence he has been able to produce. -  [Illegible word] the said Gad Peck hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present &
declares that his name is not in the pension roll of any State.
                                                 [Signed] Gad Peck
Sworn to Subscribed the day and year aforesaid
         [Signed J Bermudez Clerk
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We Josiah Barker residing in the Parish of East Baton-Rouge State of Louisiana &  J. H. Kennicott residing in New Orleans hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Capt. Gad Peck who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be Sixty Nine years of age that he is respected & believed by those who know him both here & at Baton-Rouge to have been a Soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion.
          [Signed]  Josiah Barker
                         J.H. Kennicott
Sworn to Subscribed before me the 
day and year aforesaid
           [Signed] J.Bermudez
                                 Clerk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department, that the above applicant was a revolutionary Soldier & served as he states & the Court further certifies that it appears that J. Barker & J.H. Kennicott - are credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit      
                              [Signed]  J. Bermudez
                                                 Clerk
                                                                  834
I Abner Phelps Clerk of the associate City Court of New Orleans whereof J. Bermudez is the Judge do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Gad Peck for a pension -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day February 1854. The Court  having no seal}
     [Signed] A. Phelps  Clerk
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                   State of Louisiana

Be it known that Joachim Bermudez, whose name is subscribed to the instrument annexed, is and was at the time of signing the same Judge of the City Court in and for the City of New Orleans, and that by the laws of the State, the said city court is a court off record.  Given under my hand and the seal of  the State at New Orleans this 20th Feb. 1834.
                                [Signed]  George Eustis
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I Daniel Barnes of Wallingford in the County of New Haven and State of Connecticut Aged Sixty eight years the 13th day of May A.D. 1832 depose & say that sometime in the month of August in the year seventeen hundred & seventy nine I was hired by Titus Brocket (who has been drafted out of the Militia company of this town [the next several words crossed out] to go as his substitute for the term of Sixty days - that I went as said Brockets substitute to the City of New Haven & joined the Company commanded by Captain Thomas Shipman & in the Regiment commanded by Col. Sabin that about a week that about a week after I joined, the company to which I belonged was detached to East Haven, our business was to guard the Coast & we were a part of the time employed in building the fort and defenses at Beacon Hill in sd town of East  Haven, that I remained there the full term of sixty days for which the term of the draft extended, when I was regularly discharged. I further depose and say that I am well acquainted with Capt Gad Peck formerly of Wallingford but now as I understand -residing in the State of Louisiana  & have been 
from my youth - that I am well knowing that said Gad Peck served in the same company with me during the full term of sd draft which was two months

I further depose & say that sometime in the Spring of the year 1831 I entered into the Service of the United States - under Capt Edward of Watertown- Lieut Ball of Milford & Ensign Cutler - the Regiment was commanded by Col Shipman - the term of my enlistment one year - I joined the
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Company in April at Palmer's Hill between Stamford & Horse Neck after our function at Palmer's Hill we were marched to Throg's Point where we engaged the enemy company of about [last word inserted] one hundred fifty men principally refugees who retreated under cover of the guns of a British Frigate lying in the East River. They opened such a fire upon us that we were obliged to retreat - the next day Col Sheldon's Light Horse joined us & we went on to the Point again  & destroyed some stores & set fire to some wheat stacks - After this we were encamped about two months at White Plains - (the Duke's Legion was there) from White Plains we were marched back to within three mikes of Palmers Hill where we built four redoubts and four [illegible word]  of Barracks were built after the fashion of log Houses & of logs - We were serving in the Barracks when news of Cornwallis' Surrender came-  Our Regiment was quartered in these Barracks all winter & General Waterburys quarters was like ours  Thus we were discharged on the last day of February 1782 - from this State that said Gad Peck who was with me in my tour to East Haven was also with me through the whole of this last tour  [several words crossed out] which was one year from the term of enlistment
                       [Signed] David Barnes
New Haven County Js   Wallingford  August 27th 1832
Personally appeared David Barnes who hath signed the foregoing deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same Before me
   {Signed] Jno. D. Reynolds Justice of Peace
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I Ichabod Ives of Wallingford in the County of New Haven and State of Connecticut aged Seventy three years the 14th day of August 1832 depose and Say that I am well acquainted with Capt Gad Peck formerly of Wallingford aforesaid but now living as I understand somewhere in the State of Louisiana   I have been for sixty years past - that   [next  nine words crossed out] I was a member of the Company of Militia under the command of Capt Edwards of LI in the service of the United States in the year 1781 that I am well knowing that the said Gad Peck was a member of the same Company and served through the whole term of his enlistment which was [three words superimposed here] year, and was verbally discharged with the rest of the Company on the last day of February 1782 at Palmers Hill
                  [Signed] J. Ichabod Ives

New Haven County Js Wallingford August 27, 1832
Personally appeared Ichabod Ives who has subscribed the foregoing deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same -
   Before me   Jno D. Reynolds Jus Peace

I the said Justice further certify that I am well acquainted with David Barnes & Ichabod Ives who have signed & sworn to the foregoing depositions & that they sustain fair characters for truth & veracity
      Attest   Jno D. Reynolds Justice of Peace
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[NOTE: Information is presented vertically, facing left or right. The following transcription is from right to left]

Application of
Gad Peck for 
revolutionary pension

30.219

Capt Gad Peck  25
Sepr
7 Bayou Manchac Post Office
            Louisiana

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

Seal                    I Robert Osborn
affixed    Clerk of the County Court, within and 
here        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,                      R, J. Hinman Esquire
was on the 13th day of September
1843 and now is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly appointed, commissioned and sworn, with power by the laws of this State, to administer OATHS, and take the acknowledgements of DEEDS and other instruments; that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and that the signatures to this instrument hereto annexed, purporting to be his, are his genuine official signatures.
  IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and seal of the said Court this 14th day of September 1843

      {Signed]  R. K. Osborn  Clerk
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APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER
State of Connecticut
County of New Haven [illegible]
On this thirteenth day of September 1843, before me, the subscriber, a Justic of the Peace for the said County of New Haven personally appeared Gad Peck, who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Captain Edwards, and under the Captains in the ;Regiment commanded by Colonel Humphrey in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Pennsylvania whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the State of Connecticut where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future. The following are his reasons for removing from Pennsylvania to Connecticut that his relatives mostly reside in Connecticut and being now too old to labor his friends wished him to move amongst them.
Gad Peck
Sworn and subscribed to before me,
the day and year aforesaid.
R.J. Hinman Justice of Peace
- The oath to be taken before a duly qualified Magistrate, whose official character and signature must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. The County Clerk, Secretary of State, or some other officer, must certify under his seal of office, that the office who administered the oath is a Justice of the Peace, Judge, Mayor, Alderman or Notary Public, as the case may be, and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
- The oath must be supported by the testimony of some respectable person, as to the pensioner's identity. He must swear that the person who has taken the above oath if the person described in the affidavit. The Magistrate musts certify that the witness is a person of veracity; and the affidavit must also be authenticated in the manner above directed.
- In every case where the Clerk of the Court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should be sent with the papers.
- Mode of authenticating papers - In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or small ribbon, the ends of which mut 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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State of Connecticut
County of New Haven} SS.
 On this thirteenth day of September 1843 before me the subscriber a Justice of Peace within & for said New Haven Court, personally appeared [last word inserted] John Scarrit [sic]Esq of said New Haven, who being duly sworn on his oath deposes & says that he is well acquainted with the said Gad Peck, and has been for more than fifty years, that he is the identical person named in the  oath annexed and who is a pensioner, and who signed the annexed affidavit, and that he is the same person who has resided in the State if Pennsylvania for some years past, - That said Gad Peck was born in Wallingford Connecticut and was brought up in the neighborhood of this deponent
                                     [Signed] John Scarritt

Sworn to and subscribed
the day & year above written
       [Signed] R. J. Hinman Justice of Peace
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I hereby certify that John Scarrit Esqr, who signed & made oath to the Affidavit hereto annexed is a credible witness & a person if veracity.

   R. J. Hinman Justice of Peace
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Payment to be made 
at Hartford
by H. Goodwin 2d Esq
Agent for paying Pensioners 
in the Agency of
   Connecticut

Recorded in the Pension
Office, in Book E2 Vol. 3
Page 35 by
F. S. Evans, Clerk
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  WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I certify that in conformity with the law of the united States, of the 7th June, 1832, Gad Peck of the State of Connecticut
who was a private in the War of the Revolution 
is entitles to receive Forty dollars and  ... cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of March and 4th of September, in every year, Issued in
lieu of one which has been cancelled


Seal      Given at the War Office of the United
affixed               States, this first day of
here                   March one thousand eight 
                          hundred and forty -five

Examined and
Countersigned.}
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        35,554

       Gad Peck
          Pt
   Act 7 June '32
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Declaration of Gad Peck of Crawford County
Penna. (formerly of the State of Louisiana)

In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832 - Supplementary to the act of the 15th May 1828 -
State of Pennsylvania
County of Crawford} SS.

On this first day of July 1843, Personally appeared in open Court before the Honorable Gaylord Church, President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the county aforesaid, Gad Peck of Rome Township in said County & State, aged Seventy Eight years last October, who being first duly sworn according to law doth in his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832, supplementary to the act of Congress passed 15th May 1828, That he entered the Army of the United States in the year Seventeen Hundred & Seventy Eight (in the fall or autumn) or in the Spring of the year Seventeen Hundred & seventy nine (this applicant does not remember which) with Captain James Peck (who was the applicants father) and served in the Company under the command of the said Captain James Peck for the period of twelve months, the said Company in which this applicant then was, was first stationed on Shelter Island on Long Island Sound (the said company composing part of the Connecticut Line)  From this Island they were driven by the British, after occupying it for about two months, to a place called Black Point a few miles above New London where the company had a skirmish with a band of Refugees in which two if the company were wounded.  The company remained at Black Point about two months & then was marched to Sea Brook, where it remained about
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one month from Sea Brook the company was marched to East Haven, opposite New Haven, Captain Peck was then removed to some other service, & this applicant was then left with the company under the command of Captain Shepherd & the company was then employed in building a fort on Beacon Hill.  After the fort was built the company was discharged & this applicant returned home to the residence of his father in Wallingford, Connecticut at which place he resided both before & after the war.  The service on which the company was engaged, being minute men employed against Refugees & Tories & for the defense of the coast, & the applicants youth, render it impossible for him now to tell whose command the Captain &  the company were attached -  After remaining at home about one month this applicant enlisted in the Company of Captain Stoddard who was under the command of Col Humphrey, & General Waterbury & in that Regiment this applicant served one year - On applicant's way to join the regiment, he was engaged in an action with the Refugees at Croton Bridge, in which he was wounded in the leg - That he was discharged at White Plains - That he has no documentary evidence to prove his services, & that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure to prove his service
  He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & he declares that his name is not on any pension roll of the agency any State or, if any only on that of the agency of the State of Louisiana -
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Sworn to & subscribed in Open Court the
day & year aforesaid -                          Gad Peck

We Ralp Clapp, a clergyman residing in Athens Township Crawford County & William P. Shattuck, Residing on Meadville in sd county hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Gad Peck, who has sworn & subscribed to the above declaration, that we believe him to be Seventy Eight years of age, that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn& subscribed                             Ralph Clapp
the day and year aforesaid}                William P. Shattuck

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier & served as he states.  And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Ralph Clapp who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the Township of Athens, in the County & State aforesaid, & that William P. Shattuck is a credible person & that their statement is entitled to credit -

    I William McArthur [Illegible] of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the county of Crawford & State of Pennsylvania, do hereby certify that the
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foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Gad Peck for a pension -
   In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this first day of July A.D. Eighteen hundred & forty three -
                                Wm McArthur Prothy
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                                                     May 1. 1845.

Gad Peck
Ct roll

Issue a new certificate
at Eighty Dollars per
annum & send it to

the Pensioner at
               New Haven
                      Conn


[The following is written vertically over the above]


J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
        Washington
               Dis. of Columbia
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New Haven Connecticut  April 28. 1845

Sir,
   As the friend and agent of Capt Gad Peck of this place, I received a letter from H Goodwin 2nd Esq Pension Agent at Hartford in this State under date of April 24th, stating that he had received a letter from you directing that Capt. Peck return to you the pension {word inserted] certificate he last received for 40 dollars per annum, and that you will then send him a new one at the rate of 80 dollars per annum. I enclose herewith the certificate according to the above direction, and would request that the new certificate may be forwarded either to him or me at New Haven Conn.  If it could be done soon it would be a favor to Capt Peck

                                         I am very respectfully
                                                  Your obt Serv
                                                         Henry White

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions.
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                                                    10
   WM. B. Townsand Esqr
                 New York
                       N Y
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I John Scarrit of New Haven Connecticut
being duly cautioned and sworn depose and say,

That I am in the 76th year of my age, that when I was a boy I lived in Wallingford Connecticut, and was well acquainted with Capt James Peck of said Wallingford father of Gad Peck. He lived within forty rods distance of my fathers house where I lived - 
That I know that said James Peck served in the War of the Revolution as a Captain but where he was stationed or in which regiment I do not recollect.  That he served more than a year according to the best of my recollection in this way I never saw his circumstance, but it was well understood among the neighbors and in the town, that he was in the service as a captain in the same place.  He and my father were very intimate.  I remember that Gad Peck went with his father and was in the service as a soldier or Captains waiter and I believe this service of Gad Peck was for more than a year.  I think this service of Gad Peck was in 1779 or 1780 but cannot tell which or remember certainly the time
Date at New Haven this 13th day of April AD 1844.
                          John Scarritt

State of Connecticut County of New Haven Js New Haven April 12th 1844.  Personally appeared on said 12th day of April 1844 John Scarrit signer of the above affidavit and made solemn oath to the truth of the same, Before me.                   
                               Henry White
                              Justice of the Peace for
                              said County of New Haven
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   Newhaven 15th April 1844

Dr. Townsand
   I returned from Wallingford this morning & now send you such Depositions as I have been able to obtain which you will please make such thereof as your own good judgement but directs, I do not believe their [sic] is another man living that served in the company my father commanded - but their is several that well knowns he Did Command of Company & that I served with him please acknowledge the receipt of those Depositions & wheather [sic] you  shall make use of them  or not & oblige your Friend
                                             [Signed]   Gad Peck
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State of Indiana} Js
County of Posey


On this 11th day of May 1858, before me, the subscriber, a justice of the Peace for the said County of Posey, personally appeared Mary Peck, who on her oath declared that she is the same person named in the original Certificate of Pension, now in her possession of which I certify the following is a true copy.
           Department of Interior
                  Widow's Claim
I certify, that in conformity with the 2nd Sec of the Act of Febry 37853, Mary Peck widow of Gad Peck deceased who was a private in the Revolutionary War is inscribed on the Pension List at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum, commencing on the 3rd of February 1853 and continuing for life, unles [sic]  she should again marry in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage
          [Illegible word] at the Department of the Interior the 12th day of October one thousand eight hundred and fifty four
                   R. McClelland Sec of the Interior   
Examined and Countersigned
                   L P Waldo Com. of Pensions
    That her name was placed on the Pension Roll of the Indianapolis Agency for the State of Indiana, and that the same has been
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transferred to the Agency at New Albany in the same State, without her knowledge or consent and that she wishes her name to be transferred back to the Agency at Indianapolis to  [illegible word] there payable in future as the facilities and convenience for her to receive her payments at the Indianapolis Agency are better than at the Agency at New Albany.  [Signed]  Mary Peck

Sworn and subscribed to before
me the day and year aforesaid
                              P.L. Duclos, Esq
                                  Justice of the Peace

State of Indiana} Js
County of Posey
     Be it known that before me, Peter L. Duclos a justice [sic] of the Peace in and for said county duly authorized by law to administer oaths personally appeared James Bennett who is known to me as a credible witness, and made oath that he personally knows Mary Peck the Pensioner whose name appeard [sic]  in the foregoing certificate of Pension whose oath of identity has been shown to him and that he knows the said Mary Peck who signed and swore to said certificate to be the identical person named therein
      [Signed]  James Bennett
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of identity has been shown to him and that he knows the said Mary Peck who signed and swore to said certificate to be the identical person named therein
                        [Signed] James Bennett,
Sworn and subscribed
   before me this 11th day of May 1858.
             [Signed]  P.L. Duclos, JP {illegible word]

STATE OF INDIANA,   Posey   COUNTY, } SS:
I, Turner Nelson, Clerk of the Posey Circuit Court, of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Peter L. Duclos is a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the 16th day of April 1857 and will expire on the 27th day of September, 1861, and that his  signature above written is genuine.
   Given under my hand and the seal of said County this 12th day of May 1858.
              Nelson Turner Esq Wm Wilson Dept
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of identity has been shown to him and that he knows the said Mary Peck who signed and swore to said certificate to be the identical person named therein
    [Signed]  James Bennett
Sworn and subscribed
   before me this 11th day of May 1858.
                 P.L. Duclos, J.P.  [illegible word]

Clerk of Court to [illegible word, underlined] the enclosed Certificate here
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State of Indiana}
Posey County.      Feb.

Before me Peter L. Duclois a Justice of the Peace, duly commissioned and sworn and by law authorized to administer oaths, personally appeared the undersigned and made oath they both personally know Mary Peck, Widow of Gad Peck ( deceased) who was drawing a pension from the United States for services in the Revolutionary War, as will appear on the Records of the Pension list.

 The undersigned also state they have personally known the above Mary Peck, since the Year one thousand eight hundred and twenty six (1826)   that the said Mary Peck, is now living and residing in the town of New Harmony County and State aforesaid, and that she has not intermarried since the decease of her said husband
                                     
Sworn and subscribed to before me       J. B. Johnson

STATE OF IDIANA,} SCT.
Posey COUNTY,
I, Turner Nelson, Clerk of the Posey Circuit Court within and for said County do hereby certify that P. L. Duclois  before whom the [illegible word] NY certificate appears to have been returned was  t the time of taking and subscribing the same, to wit: on the 13 day of June, 1854, a Justice of the Peace within and for said county of Posey duly elected, commissioned and Qualified, and that full faith and credit are due all his official acts as such.  I further certify that his signature to said certificate is genuine.

   IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed
my name, and affixed the seal of said Court at Mt Vernon in said county this 14 day of June, A.D. 1854.
                                                   T. Nelson Clerk.
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State of Indiana}
Posey County.    Let.

Before me Peter L Duclois a Justice of the Peace, duly commissioned and sworn, and by law authorized to administer oaths, personally appeared the undersigned and made oath they both personally know Mary Peck, Widow of Gad Peck (deceased) who was drawing a pension from the United States for services in the Revolutionary War, as will appear in the Records of the Pension list.

  The undersigned also state they have personally known the above Mary Peck, since the Year One thousand eight hundred and twenty six (1826)  that the said Mary Peck, is now living and residing in the town of New Harmony County and State aforesaid, and that she has not intermarried since the decease of her said husband.
                                                         J. B. Johnson
                                                         Mary Brenner
Sworn & subscribed to before me
this 13th day of June, 1854.
P.L. Duclois J.P.

State of Indiana, Posey County:
   I the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, do certify that the above named John B. Johnson & Mary Brenner
are personally known to me and that they are persons of responsibility, and that full faith and credit may be placed as regards their statements.
Given under my hand and seal, this 13th day of June , A.D. 1854.
                           P.L. Duclois, JP.  {illegible]
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State of Connecticut
New Haven County ss Probate District New Haven.
   I Cyprian Willcox Judge of the Probate Court for the District of New Haven do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that Gad Peck was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of Eighty Dollars per annum was a resident of New Haven in the County and State aforesaid, and died in New Haven in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty Three on the third day of June   that he left a Widow whose name is Mary Peck, a resident of New Harmony in the State of Indiana.

Seal        In testimony whereof I have hereunto
affixed    set my hand and the seal of said
here        Probate Court of New Haven this
                sixth day of October, Eighteen 
                Hundred and Fifty Four.

                        [Signed] Cyprian Willcox
                                   Judge of Probate

The evidence referred to in the above Certificate  is derived  from the testimony of 
C. B. Lines & Edward J. Sanford two credible witnesses residing in this city.

                         [Signed]  Cyprian Willcox
                                          Judge of Probate
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I Ledia Humiston of Wallingford, New Haven County, State of Connecticut, being duly cautioned & sworn depose and say,

That I am in the 77th year of my age, that when I was young I was well acquainted with Capt. Gad Peck who resided in Wallingford and lived in his family for a time, and know that the said James Peck served in the war of the Revolution as a Captain but where he was stationed or in what regiment I do not recollect but think he was stationed on Long Island Sound.  That he served one year or more according to the best of my recollection, I remember that Gad Peck went with his Father once was in the service as a soldier as Captains waiter and I believe that he the said Gad Peck served one year or more  I think the service of Gad Peck was in 1779 or 1780 but cannot remember the precise time or year 
 Dated at Wallingford this 16th day of April A.D. 1844, signed in presence of
Augustus Nole 2nd
Lyman Humiston}                her
                                  Ledia    X  Humiston
                                            mark

State of Connecticut, County of New Haven Js
Wallingford April 16th 1844 Personally appeared on said 26th day of April 1844 Lidia Humiston signer of the above affidavit and made solemn oath to the truth of the same   Before me
                        [Signed] Augustus Nole 2d
                                    Justice of the Peace
                        for said County of New Haven}
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         New York  Morning [?] Express
           Office  24 April  1844

Dear Sir/  
   When in Washington about three weeks ago, I had the pleasure to call personally on you on behalf of my aged & excellent friend Gad Peck of New Haven, but formerly of Centerville Penn -  You stated to me that if Capt. Peck had served in the Militia, [illegible word], during the Revolutionary War, he would be entitled to a small Pension
On my return I wrote him immediately & have just received the following [next two words illegible] Testimony that he served in the Militia   
As he is very aged, and very needy, will you send me the forms to examine the inclosed [sic] & if they are satisfactory inform me.  If they are not be kind enough to say what more is wanting - If any voucher as to character is wanted Jona. Baldwin & Ex Jona. Edwards & indeed many more of character in New Haven will give it
                                         Relying on an early reply
                                           I am Your O.- S. -
                                              Wm. B Townsend
Hon James L. Edwards
    Commissioner
         Pension Office
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I, David Barnes, of Wallingford, New Haven County & State of Connecticut, being a Revolutionary pensioner & aged Eighty years on the 13th of May, 1844, having been duly sworn, depose & say, that I am well acquainted with Gad Peck, a native of said Wallingford, and now a resident of New Haven City, in sd Connecticut, and that Said Peck did duty as a soldier in company with me, in the Towns of New Haven & East Haven, in the year Seventeen hundred & Seventy-nine, in the Company commanded by Capt. Thomas Sheppard, (Said) company belonging to the Regiment commanded by Colonel Sabin, during the term of two months, - and that my impression and belief is a that the Said Peck continued in the Service after the expiration of Said two months, - but do not know or recollect for what length of time
                                     [Signed] David Barnes

State of Connecticut
New Haven County}  Js    Wallingford, November .14, 1843
  Personally appeared David Barnes, & made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition, by him Subscribed
               Before me
                            Jno. D. Reynolds Justice of the Peace
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I John Scarritt of the town and county of New Haven in the State of Connecticut having been duly cautioned and sworn do depose and say  That I am seventy five years of age, that I was born in the town of Wallingford in said county of New Haven and lived there during my boyhood and while a young man.  That I now live in said town of New Haven and have been town clerk of said town of New Haven for eleven years until this time.  That I am well acquainted with Gad Peck a native of said Wallingford now residing in said town of New Haven.  I know said  Gad Peck did dutya s a soldier or waiter in the revolutionary army [last four words inserted] with his Father Captain James Peck of said town of Wallingford.  I was well acquainted with said James Peck being a near neighbor to him during all my boyhood - and Captain James Peck was engaged in different services such as enlisting men and other duties.  He left Wallingford with a detachment of men and his son the said Gad Peck went with his Father on duty and was stationed on Long Island Sound from Saybrook along the coast westward at different places. I have no written documents to rely upon unto the time but I think and believe it was in the year 1779 and during a part of the year 1780 - said Gad Peck served part of this time with his father and part of the time with Captain Thomas Shepard of said Wallingford.  The time he served was one year and I think and believe more than one year - I was an intimate  acquaintance of said Gad Peck and though not in the service myself yet these  occurrences are all familiar to me.  I heard and understood that said Gad Peck was wounded at Croton River or Croton [illegible word] while in the service by a party of refugees or tories as we called them in those days. I recollect his returning home to Wallingford during the aforesaid time either sick or wounded.  I do not now remember which.  He shortly after returned into the service again, and remained in it I should think and believe until some time in 1781 and further the deponent saith not.
Dated at New Haven this 18th day of November AD 1843.
   [Signed]  Jonathan Scarritt -

State of Connecticut} Js Town of New Haven November 15 
                                                                    AD 1843
County of New Haven
Personally appeared John Scarritt signer of the foregoing deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same before me, and I further certify that the said John Scarritt is personally
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known to me and is a person of credibility - and I do declare that in my opinion his statements are entitled to credit
                          [Signed]  Henry White
                                           Justice of the Peace for
                                           said County of New Haven

State of Connecticut
New Haven County}
    I Robert H. Osborn Clerk of the County Court, in and for New Haven in the State of Connecticut and keeper of the seal thereof and of the Commission of the Justice of Peace for said County, hereby certify that Henry White Esq. [illegible word] on the 18th day of Novr. 1843, and now is a Justice of the Peace for said County  and that John D. Reynolds Esq. - [illegible word] on the 14th day of Novr. 1843, and now is a Justice of the Peace for said County each duly appointed commissioned and sworn with power by the laws of this State to administer Oath  That I am acquainted with their hand writing and that the several signatures to this Instrument above & herein subscribed purporting to be theirs are their genuine official signatures.

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this eighteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three
                                        [Signed] R. H. Osborn  Clerk

Seal
Affixed 
here
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To the Hon. J.L. Edwards, Comm
                           Pensions Washington
                                           City, D.C.

 The within deposition of Isaac Gibson is directed, at the request of Gad Peck, to be used upon his pension application, now pending at Washington - before said Commissioner - taken, .[illegible word] of and directed by me this 14th day of August, 1844
                     Silas Mix, Justice of the Peace
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I, Isaac Gibson, formerly of the town of Wallingford, County of New Haven, in the State of Connecticut, now of the town of New Haven in said Cunty and State, being duly cautiones and swornn depose and say,- that I am 85 years of age, that when I was younger and lived in said town of Wallingford, I was well acquainted with Captain James Peck who resided in said Wallingford.  I lived near his family for several years and know he was in the Revolutionary war as a captain and commanded a company of soldiers at different places on the coast from New London to Horse Neck.  I do not know what regiment he belonged to, I know he served at two different times more than a year in the whole.  I remember Gad Peck went with his father as a soldier as he carried arms and when he was brought back to his mother wounded in one of his legs with a musket  ball.  I remember going to see him while he lay wounded several times - he was confined several weeks - then went back and joined his company
I remember hearing his mother say that Gad had rather fight tories than work on the farm.  I saw the company on the parade at New Haven & was there when they marched off, for what place I do not remember, - bit believe New London.  I think the services of said Gad Peck were in the latter part of the war, but before the surrender of Cornwallis.  
further saith not.                                        his
Witness to the mark                         Isaac    X    Gibson
of James Gibson                                        mark.
             Silas Mix

State of Connecticut  
     New Haven County}               L. City & [illegible] of New Haven
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   On this 14th day of August A.D. 1844, personally appeared before the subscribing authority, Isaac Gibson, subscriber to the foregoing deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same before me.
                                 [Signed] Silas Mix, a Justice of
                                       the Peace in & for New Haven
                                              County, Conn.

State of Connecticut
New Haven County} Js New Haven City this 14th day of August A.D. 1844, I, John S. Rice Clerk of the County Court for New Haven County State of Connecticut, being a Court of record, with a clerk and official seal, do certify that Silas Mix, whose genuine signature to me well know is subscribed to the foregoing certificate and affidavit was then, is now and for more than one year past has been a justice of the Peace in and for New Haven County, Conn. and that full faith & credit are due to his attestations as such.  Attest - In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my name & the official seal of said Court.

 Seal                                 [Signed]  John S. Rice
affixed                                           Clerk of the
here                                          New Haven 
                                                   County Court.

                 State of Connecticut} Js  New Haven
         New Haven County}    City Aug. 14: 1844.
Joseph Wood Judge of the County Court
for New Haven County do hereby certify that John L. Rice whose genuine signature is affixed to the same
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going certificate, was at the time of signing this [illegible] is now & ever since has been lawful clerk of the New Haven County Court - and that the seal of said Court is above affixed, and that the foregoing attestation by said Rice as such clerk is in due form,  & entitled to credit; and I also concur in the facts by said Rice above certified under his official signature & the seal of said County Court.                                                               
                                       Joseph Wood
                               [illegible] Judge of                                                                  
                                    County Court for                                                                                                                      
                                          N Haven County
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 New York 25 ay 1844
   Dear Sir/
   Your esteemed [illegible word]  of the 9th May is duly served      I thank you for your kind Expressions in behalf of my friend Gad Peck -
   I am confident  Capt James Peck served a term and more in the Militia during the Revolution & think his son had served within  him [last word inserted]  Being this concerned & knowing the claims my friend has - I shall make it my business to go to Connecticut this Summer to obtain the facts, & if the parties are not all dead or moved off will get such testimony as can be procured -  It appears I have satisfied you that James Peck served in the Revolution, & I hope to be equally successful that he served a year.  I know it will afford you great pleasure to place a  mustering man on the Dept of Pensions

             I am with great [illegible]
                Your Ob Sr
                      Wm B. Townsend
J.L. Edwards
   Com of Pensions
       Pension Office
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                                 Washington Nov 22 1843
J.L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions
                           Sir
                                   Enclosed please find
the affidavits of David Barnes and John Scarritt of Wallingford New Haven Co Conn, in support of the declaration of Gad Peck to services rendered in the War of the Revolution made in July last and submitted for your action on the 12th of that month.
      Since the filing of Mr Pecks declaration he has removed from Centerville Pa to Wallingford Con; and if his claim should be allowed on this evidence we have to request that the certificate may be made payable at the Conn Agency

                              Very respectfully
                                      Your Ob Svt
                                 A S I G Kendall
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                    Washington December 16th 1843

J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
                                    Sir,
                                               Enclosed please
find a letter from the Deputy Secretary of State of Vermont in relation to the Service of Capt Samuel Payne in the war of the revolution, which we have obtained to satisfy you on the right of Mrs Mary Closson to a pension for the six months service of her husband, under him.
     Will you please take up Mrs Clossons claim and allow her a certificate for as much as in your judgement she may be entitled to from the evidence you now have.
     We some time since sent additional evidence to you in relation to the claim of Gad Peck to a pension, upon which we have not yet been favoured [sic] with the result of you action upon it.
    Will you please favor us with as speedy action on these cases as the business of the office will permit and much oblige
                         Very respectfully
                                     Your Obt Svt
                                Atty [?]  J E Kendall
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     J. L. Edwards Esq
         Commissioner of Pensions
              Washington City

[Written vertically]
    Apl 29 '44

[Round stamp affixed between vertical data]
      NEW YORK
           APL
           27

     Comm
            Gad Peck
                NY or Ct.
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                                  New York Express Office
                                                     27 April 1844
Sir
Your letter in relation to Gad Peck is received, By which it appears, that the testimony is sufficient to show that such an officer as Capt James Peck was in the service - But they do not contain satisfactory evidence as to the length of said Pecks service in his Fathers company.  If no more evidence of the Service can be obtained  he [illegible word]  them by the testimony of those who served with him, for what length of time, he was in the army.
In your Esteemed [illegible] of the 25 last, you say "If however the claimant can obtain satisfactory evidence that James Peck was a captain of a company & that he Peck [last word inserted] served six months, in his company the case will be taken up again" -  Now it appears my friend Gad Peck has satisfied you, that James Peck did serve & that Gad was his son, these are two points established  Now if you will be kind enough to turn to Ledia Humistons testimony. She  swears she  Remembered Capt  James Peck dc & " that Gad Peck went with his father & was in the [all words underlined from quotation mark] service as a Soldier or Captains waiter"
                             over
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John [illegible surname] remembers "that [illegible] Pich went with
his Father as a solder on captain [illegible] & I believe
that this sense was from more than a fear.
Now considering this great length of time, it is
remarkable that so great press as this, 
could be get;  But it is attained & from undoubted [illegible],
It is now more than probable that my [illegible]
when send in the Request & in that company, we send if
if they are. Is it possible, that for the most of that
testimony in that Shape altho otherways perfectly
satisfactory, Cap Said [Peck?] claims should be [illegible] [illegible], Capt Peck 
thirty years ago was one of the wealthiest men in New Haven--his business was one of the largest
& there is hardly a man to be named in the State who
paid more duties into the Treasury of the
[illegible] than this [illegible] - Thirty years ago no man lived
more like a
[illegible] or entertained more than
he did but adversity has overtaken him & he has
lost his family & fortune & indeed all but his
reputation, he now seeks from a pittance that until recently he would would never have thought of. He is no ordinary man, his word & his [illegible] are
beyond all scruples, - 
[illegible name]
Judge Daggett, [illegible name], [illegible name]
such men are his [illegible]
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& [illegible]. They will all write if it is required, to give Capt Peck the strongest recommendation. Now if every man in the company were [illegible] & he can get grand counterparts, that then when our [illegible] {} not in the company --have the fact & their [] together with Cpt Peck each is to be believed, will not this avail--If a life of high [] * integrity of [illegibel] respectibility, service in the Revolution & now in great need, entitles my friend to a pension, I am persuaded that Town Justice & reputation to assist the needy will so induce you so all in town [illegible] to assist a [iellegible] man--
I am with great respect,
[illegible name]
[illegible name]
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                                    New York  Daily Express
                                          15 April 1844
Dear Sir/
     I had the pleasure to call at your office ten days ago in behalf of my aged & destitute Friend Gad Peck now residing at New Haven.
     I understand from you that if any evidence could be procured that Capt. James Peck commanded a Company of Militia in the Revolution & and that Gad his son Served in it he would be entitled to the smallest grade of Pensions -
   As this concerns a meritorious & unhealthy citizen now on the Borders of the Grave  may I beg of you a few moments of time from your pressing duties to say whether I understand you correctly what are the necessary proofs requested - You attention in this matter will be a most humane act -
                          I am Your Most Ob
                                       St
                                      Wm B. Townsend
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                              Pension Agency
                             Hartford December 25, 1844

Sir,
         Mr. Gad Peck of New Haven a pensioner under the Act of June 1832 recently inscribed on the roll of this Agency at the rate of Forty dollars per annum has returned to this Office the sum of Ninety Dollars on account of an overpayment to him of that amount, requesting me to inform you of the receipt of the same by me -
                            I am very Respectfully
                               Your Obed. Servt.
                                 H. Goodwin 2d Agent

J.L. Edwards Esq
     Commissioner of Pensions
                Washington
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                                 Pension Agency
                                    Hartford April 19, 1845

Sir
     Agreeable to your request I transmit herewith your letter of October 21s, 1844 directing the enrollment of Gad Peck
                                 I am Very Respectfully
                                   Your Obedt Servt
                                H. Goodwin 2d Agent

J.L. Edwards
   Commissioner of Pensions
                      Washington
Page 73

                              New Haven  5 August 1844

Dear Sir
   I am sorry to give you so much trouble, I am not unmindful of the certain Duty you have to perform and hope you will not for a moment believe I entertain the least hard feelings at your being thus [illegible] in regard to small patience I am asking for me Sir
I am glad we have such faithful [illegible] on the world, as your good self - at some period of my life I would learn to receive it - but knowing my Claim just & righteous am indeed to beg the favour of giving you further trouble - I found am old man 85 years of age who served with my father & myself such and remembers when I was sent home wounded - I  [next two words illegible] his Deposition on [next three words illegible] of A - and Include it to you - I have flattered my self it will be satisfactory 
If so, be pleased to place me on the pension roll of full pensions from 1831 - let me be advised - by return of mail - & give me such directions I will need to draw the insuring 4th Septem and oblige your humble Sevt                           
                          [Signed]  Gad Peck

Hon J L Edwards
  Commissioner of Pensions
       Washington D.C.

I Isaac Gibson formerly of the town of Wallingford in New haven County in the State of Connecticut at present of the City of New Haven in Said County and State, being Duly Cautioned and Sworn, Depose  & say that I am 85 years of age that when I was younger and lived in the town of Wallingford
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I was well acquainted with Capt James Peck who resided in Wallingford, I lived near his family for several years and know that he was in the revolutionary war as a Captain and Commanded a Company of Soldiers, at different places on the Coast from New London to Horse Neck  I do not now what regiment he belonged to   I know he lived at two different times more than a year in the whole. I remember that Gad Peck went with his Father as a Soldier, as he carried arms - and when he was brot [sic] home to his Mothers wounded in one of his legs with a musket ball. I remember going to see him several times while he lay wounded he was confined several weeks then went back & rejoined his Company  I remember hearing his Mother say Gad had rather fight tories [sic] than to work on the farm   I saw the company on the parade at New haven and was there when they marched off for what place I do not remember but believe for New London  I think the Service of Gad Peck was in the latter parr of the war but before the surrender of Cornwallis and further saith not                                           his
                                   Isaac Gibson    X
                                                       Mark     

   State of Connecticut Js Citty [sic] of new haven on this 11 Day of July County of New Haven  In the year 1844 personally appeared Isaac Gibson and being first duly cautioned and Sworn made a Subscribed with his Mark in my presence, the foregoing Deposition and made solemn Oath to the same before me in testimony whereof I have hear[sic] unto Subscribed my name and affixed my Seal of office the day and year above named
                    [Signed] Noyce Darling
                         Notre Publick [sic]
Page 75

                            Washington, May 31, 1843.
My dear Sir
  The enclosed letter was place in hands a few days since in Pittsburg.  The writer I am assured is a man of much worth and in great need.  The object is to obtain an increase in the rate of his present pension for a greater length of service than he was able to establish by the testimony of other persons.  Will you do me the favor to examine his statement or so much as relates to his revolutionary services and let me know whether his own affidavit will be taken in default of other means of proof and what form he is make it in. Please also return the letter.
                           Very Resply & truly Yours
                                        P.G. Washington

Dr. Crump
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State of Kentucky
Jefferson County set}   towit -
   I, Curran Pope clerk of the County Court of the county aforesaid do certify that Gad Peck obtained a license from the clerk of the County Court of the County aforesaid to marry Mary Pooley who were duly and regularly married on the first day of October 1826 -as appears by a certificate returned to said Court by Daniel C. Banks a licensed minister of the Gospel - In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 8th day of June 1854 -
                      [Signed]  Curran Pope Clk
                                By T. Jackson Conn D.C
Page 77

BRIEF IN  THE CASE OF Mrs. Mary Peck widow of Gad
    Posey      County and State of Indiana
    act of February 3 1853

Claim ("original," or "for increase.")  Allowed $80 per annum to Commence Feb 3, 1853

PROOF EXHIBITED, (if original.) 

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls?  If either, state the substance.
Husband a pensioner under act of June 7, 1832 at $80 per annum, and paid to March 4 1853 & died June 3, 1853

(If for increase.)
   Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim?  If so, what?
Marriage proved by public record
Death of pensioner shown by Certificate of Court
Identity & Widowhood proved by the Certificate of 
      Court & two credible witnesses

Name and residence of Agent
   Charles B. Lines
            New Haven                     Examining Clerk
                         C                         J L Gray
Page 78

[NOTE:  The ink on this documetn is extremey faded. I have made an sttempt to transcribe all that is legible.]

Hon James L Edwards
                   Dear Sir
        I had the pleasure of receiving your favor of the 19th Ult - I was laboring under ... as there is some error [?]  In the amount of my portion, I had always supposed I was enlisted  per month pay $80 per annum  My first Sertificate [sic] dated at the main office 12 of April 1834 was from forty Six 66/100  Dollars   Say.................         $46.66
the ..... last is $40 per annum when it should be $49.24 to give me aa full portion pay   $49.34
                                                                46.66
                                                              _______
                                                               96.00
will you have the ..... to correct it if wrong by return of Mail   I have now two Sertificates & if the third should be absent as I .... by it may I have this,

Should like to return them and take one only [last two words underlined]   please advise me on this Subject and Oblige your .....  Send to New Haven 15 March 1844              
                              [Signed] Gad Peck
Page 79

Mr. Edwards will please
have the application of Gad
Peck for a pension examined
& decided on, and inform me 
of the result, by mail to the house.
            Very respectfully,
                  E D White

10th April 1834
    The signature of the Attending
Justice of the Peace being authenticated
by Mr. Foote, the papers are
returned with a respectful request
for their Consideration
              E D White
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                                            Pension Agency
                          Indianapolis  May 20th 1858
Hon George C. Whiting
       Com of Pensions
                    Sir:  I herewith send you the
application of Mary Peck to have her name
transferred from the Agency at New Albany to 
this Agency for the reasons therein set forth.
               I received t day, forwarded to me
from the Agent at Madison your duplicate request 
to him dated Dec 31/57, to be informed to what
time John Gelson a Pensioner was last paid.
I received a request direct from you on the 
15th inst of same import, to which I replied that
said John Gilson was last paid to the 4th of 
March 1858. This I presume will obviate any 
further notice of the request forwarded from 
Madison
                                           Yours respectfully
                                          M Anderson
Page 81

       New Haven  Oct 6, 1854
Hon L. P. Waldo
       Dear Sir
                 Enclosed I send the papers
supposed to be necessary to obtain from
the Pension Office a certificate that
will enable me as the attorney of Mrs
Mary Peck Widow of the late Gad Peck of
this City to obtain for Her the continuum of 
the Pension drawn by Him. I procure 
the papers under the Direction of the Pension 
Agent in Hartford, and they have been examined
by him and pronounced sufficient, and it is 
by his Direction, that I now forward 
them to you. If they are all signed you 
will oblige me by forwarding the Certificate to me
[last two words inserted] at your earliest convenience, and if there are any deficiencies , please inform Me and I will endeavor to supply whatever may be lacking
                                         Yours etc
                                            Chas B. Lines
Page 82

New York Express Office
            6 May 1844
Dear Sir/
   I had the pleasure to address you on the 
27th ult in relation to Gad Peck, to which  letter I beg most respectfully to refer. -  If actual service in the Revolution - High Honors [?] & character - & now great want as claims for  a Pension I trust he will secure it.  I know you are pressed with business but may I ask your kind attention nearly as may be [last four words inserted] in this matter.
                                  Very Respectfully
                                           Your Obd St                  
                                            Wm. B Townsend
Hon Mr Edwards
               Washington City
Page 83

 J L Edwards Esqr
     Commissioner of Pensions

[Written vertically on left side, last line superimposed on postal mark "Washington City]
July 13, 1843
Gad Peck
7th June 1832
Page 84

                       Washington July 12th 1843

Dear Sir
                          Enclosed you have the
Declaration of Capt Gad Peck in order
to obtain the benefits of the provision of 
the Act of Congress of the 7th June 1832.

                  Allow us to ask your action on
the claim as soon as practicable and Oblige
                          Very respectfully
                             Your Obt Sevt
                                    Aty J. E. Kendall

J. l. Edwards Esqr
  Comr of Pensions
Page 85

                             Pension Agency
                             Hartford April 26, 1845
Sir
               In conformity with your directions
of the 22 inst. I have cancelled the notifi-
cation received in October last relating to
the pension of Gad Peck and herewith 
return the same.
                I am Very Respectfully
                     Your Obedient Serv.
       In the absence of H Goodwin 2d
                                        Agent
                      Henry Fowler
                                   Pen Clerk

J. S. Edwards Esq.
  Commissioner of Pensions
         Washington
Page 86

House of Rep 12 June 1834
I certify that after the issuing of the pension certificate in favor of Gad Peck, I enclosed it to him by mail, at Centerville Pennsylvania, from whence he remitted it back to me, to get it made payable at an agency in Pennsylvania- I then handed it in to the pension office for the purpose, from whence after some time it was returned to me with the form of the oath required for the change.
I do not recollect the precise number of days that intervened, but I am very sure that the certificate has at no one time been out of my possession and the possession of the pension office half the length of time that would have been necessary to send it to New Albany for presentation and return it to this place
ED White
Page 87

Dec 7 44
Gad Peck
(illegible) 32
Hon J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D C
Page 88

                       Newhaven  4 Decmb   1844

Hon J. L. Edwards
               Dr Sir
              I received your letter of the 10 ult this morning and now return the two Sertificates [sic] agreeable to your directions, please do the needful   let me be advised as Early as  is Convenient, and oblige, your humble servant
                                            Gad Peck
Page 89

Pension Agency
(illegible) Bank
March 24 1843
Sir
Gad Peck a pensioner on the roll of the agency under act 4 June 1832 was last paid to 4 March 1843
Respectfully
Samuel F Smith
Pension Agent
Chas W Bacon
J.L. Edwards Esq
Commission of Pensions
Washington
Page 90

Pension Agency
Hartford April 14, 1845
Sir
I have received this day from the Hon. A.K. Pavis Second Comptroller voucher No. 31 of my account per A.NY June 1832 for the 4th quarter 1844. being a payment made by me under paid act to Gad Peck of New Haven of 540 dollar on a certificate issued to him date of the War Office 19 October 1844 as 40 dollars per annum.
This payment is dissallowed (disallowed) and the following endorsement appears upon due voucher-"Disallowed Gad Peck having been already paid as a pensioner under this act for the whole period."

The payment was made by me in conformity with instructions received from your department in letter dated October 21st1844 directing me to mail his name and pay his pension from the 4 March 1831 up to the last semi annual payment at the rate of forty dollars per annum.
Some weeks after the payment I
Page 91

received a letter from Henry White Esq of New Haven enclosing ninety dollars which sum he returned by request of Mr Peck, he having as stated by him been directed by you to return it to me-the amount was credited in my account as refunded by Mr. Peck. I have received no communication from your office in relation to this pensioner since the order to inscribe his name under the circumstances of the case please direct me how to proceed
I am Very Respectfully Your Obedient Serv
H. Goodwin 2nd Agent
J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pension Washington
Page 92

Dr Sir
I am yet without any pension certificate and cannot draw my pension without it, be pleased to forward it by return of mail, and oblige your humble servt
Gad Peck
from J. L. Edwards
New Haven 26 February 1845
Page 93

Gad Peck
Private one year
act 7 June 1832
$40 per ann
Connecticut Role
Send cut to 
The Pensioner at 
New Haven,
Con.
Page 94

Pension Office
New Albany June 8/58
Geo. Whiting Esq.
D Sir -
Yours of the 8th Mch, is at hand as respect Mrs. Mary Peck Widow of Gad she was last paid at this office Sept. 4th 1837
Very Respectfully Your Obdt Servt
B C Kent Agt
Page 95

New Haven 
Oct 16th 1854
Hon L.P. Waldo,
Dear Sir,
I wish to make the inquiry whether the law is so that the Pension granted to Mrs Peck (a certificate of (illegible) I received a few days since) can only be collected in the state where she resides, Indiana, there are (illegible) in consideration of which it may be desirable that it allowed be paid at the office in Hartford if the law will permit it.
Yours truly 
C.B. Lines
Page 96

Pension office Oct 10/54
Sir,
Please report time of last payment to, (illegible) death of within named pensioner
Your (illegible)
R.J. Atkenson Esq.
Cole 
3 and for Connt.
Present
Gad Peck paid to 4 Mar 1853
Rob Jammison auditor
W Randall
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Page 98

32.222
Connecticut
Gad Peck
of Wallingford in the State of Cont: who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Peck of the - command 
(illegible) - in the Connecticut 
(illegible) for 1 year
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut - the rate of 40 Dollars - cents per annum,
commence on the 4th day of March,1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of October 1844 - and sent to Pensioner at New Haven, Cont:-
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1844 $540.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 March $20.00
$560.00

(Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832)
Recorded by Nell Stewart - Clerk
Book E-2. Vol 3-Page 35

let to Pensioner Nov 18-1844
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Pennsylvania [crossed out]  20,236
Connecticut
Gad Peck
of [illegible] in the State of [illegible]
who was a P in the Company commanded
Captain ..... of the Regt commanded 
by Colonel Sabin in the Connecticut
atteliers

 Ar 2 No Pr p. 40.  [illegible ]

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of 40 Dollars 55 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of April
                                   and Sent to
Most Hon C.D. White, HR

Arrears to the 4th of Mch '36        140.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending            23.33
                               4 Sept          ________
                                                   $ 163,33
                               {Revolutionary Claim,
                                Act June 7,1832.}

Recorded by J. T. Sprague Clerk
Book C. - Vol. 8 - Page 49 -


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June 9, '34 see let to agt 
to know when last paid 
also let to Hon E. D  White 
same date
June 13, 1834 transferred to 
Pennsylvania from 4 March 1832 - ]
Certif, sent to the Hon. E.D.
White in the 14 same month-
--------------------------
let to P.G. Washington June 7, 1843
let to Pension Agt 22 Nov 1843
___________________
To Connecticut from 4th March
1843. Novr 25 1843  Notification
Sent to Pensioned, New Haven
Conn
____________________
let to Pensioner Nov 18 1844
do. to Pensioner  Dec. 7. 1844
do. to Pension Agent at Hartford
Com. April 22.1844 -
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Connecticut 26, 236
Gad Peck
of Parish Co. in the State of Connecticut who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain - of the ugt. commanded by Col. Sabin in the Conn. militia for 2 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 80 dollars - cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March,1831. Former payments to be deducted
Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of May 1845 and sent to Pensioner New Haven Connt.
Arrears to the 4th of 
Semi-annual allowance ending
(Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832)
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk,
Book 8.2 Vol 3 Page 35
Pension certified date
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26.885
(illegible)
Page 102

Gad Peck
Penn.
Act 7 June 1832
See letters to A.& J.E. Kendall 
Sept. 2. 1843-same Feb. 16. 1844-
to W.B. Townsend, 23. April 25. April and 9th May 1844
Any 10/44 let to Gad Peck
Page 103

108103
(stamp) New Harmony And. Apr 24
Hon L.P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions Washington City
D.C.
Page 104

Revy Widow, &c.
File No. 8286
Mary Peck
Wid 
Gad Peck
Privt Rev War
Act: Febry 3 185
Index: -Vol. M, Page 12
(Arrangement of 1870)