Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5445, for Jasper Oles, Vermont
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Vt. 

Oles, Jasper or Olds 
Lydia

NUMBER
W. 5445
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CONTENTS
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[left fold notations]
Reported
Feby 3/49

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3637
Lydia Oles
widow of Jasper Oles
who served in the Revolutionary 
war, as a private
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inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
41 Dollars -
Cents per annum, to commence on 
the 4th day of March, 1848.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 
3 day of Feby 1849
and sent to 
A. Corey
Ulysses
Potter Co Pa

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 258 Vol. 2
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8698
New York
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Jasper Olds
of Andover in the State of New York
who was a private in the Company commanded 
by Captain Ransom of the Regt. commanded by Col Warner in the Vt ma 
for 12 m 9 d
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Inscribed on the Roll of New York
[at] the rate of 41 Dollars 2 Cents per annum,
[to] commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of Apl
1833 and Sent to 
Willet Larrabee Almond.
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1833    $82.04
Semi-amt. allowance ending 4 Sept "20.51
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                                                       $102.55
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{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by W. L. William Clerk,
Book E Vol. 4 Page 27

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Dead
Paid at the Treasury under
the Act of the 6th April 1838
from 4th Sept 1837 to 16 Dec 1837
the day of his death. Agt
Notified 26 March 1839.
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Let. to Wm Larrabee,
Feby 4, 1840.
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5621
Jasper Olds.

admitted.
12 mo 9 days Private
16:17.

27- Aug 32
5 M 32

p-18

Willett Lerabee
Almond
Allegany Co.
NY
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BRIEF in the case of Jasper Olds 
of Andover in the State of New York
(Act 7 June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge : before a Judge
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disable by bodily infirmity: it does so appear
3. How old is he? Seventy five years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period.               |             Duration of Service.
                                     Years. | Months, | Days.
      In 1776                                    5           15
 Spring of 1777                             2
     Aug .....   "                                              44
 Spring of 1778                                          20
      Fall ....   "                                  1
 Spring of 1779                             1                      
    June of 1779                                           20
Further States that he served two months or} more, under Various Calls for Short periods}
__________________________________________________
Rank. | As a | Private
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. | Gen.
Col. Seth Warner. State Troops
   "     "         "           "        "  
   "   Moses Robinson. Militia
   "     "         "           "        "  
   "     "         "           "        "  
Capt. Thos Ransom.    "
Capt. Elisha Parker.      "

5. In what battles was he engaged? none stated
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?  [illegible]. Vermont.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  Traditionary evidence alone
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?  The papers are correct in form and authentication

X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned. 

 Wm. Gordon, Examining Clerk.
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5621
In the Matter of Jasper
Olds for a pension
under Act of Congress
June 7- 1832
Seven Terms of Service
W. Larrabee Atty
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State of New. York.
Allegany County ss: - On this twentieth day of August 1832, personally appeared Jasper Olds at his Residence in the Town of Andover, County of Allegany and State of New York, before Asa S. Allen a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegany aforesaid. Aged Seventy five years and four months and six days, 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 7 - 1832 - 

That he entered the services of the United States at the town of Pownal, county of Bennington and as it was then called New Hampshire Grants, but now the State of Vermont, at which place he then lived, at the age of 18 years, 8 months and some days, by enlisting for the Term of Three Months, about the first of January 1776, in a company commanded by captain Samuel Wright and in a Regiment commanded by Colonel Seth Warner - that from his best recollection now, he thinks they were called State Troops, but of this he cannot be certain.  That he immediately marched with the said company and Regiment from Pownal to Ticonderoga, from there on the Ice of Lake Champlain by the way of Crown Point to St. Johns, from there on the Ice to Montreal, from there on the Ice of the River St. Lawrence by the way of Three Rivers to a place then called Point Chambers and from there on Land to the city of Quebec he together with the troops of his company and Regiment joined the troops that were then under the command of General Benedict Arnold, who about the time of his arrival had received a Brigadier Generals commission, which was about the last of January or first of February of the same year.  That the American troops encamped on the plains of Abram before the city of Quebec-that he there almost daily saw General Benedict Arnold who then had command of all the American Troops at that place, and who was then lame from a wound he had received in his leg in an attack upon the city of Quebec on the last day of the preceding December as this applicant was informed- That one day while in camp on Abrams Plains, the British Troops sallied out from the city of Quebec, and appeared to invite an engagement with the American Troops- that the Americans formed and marched to give them battle, but the British immediately retreated back
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into the city without making an engagement, when the Americans pursued them up to the very gate of the city, and then the British fired a cannon at the Americans, the Ball of which passed over the hand of this applicant without any harm to him or any of the American Troops with the exception of some dodging of heads
That the Small Pox broke out with vibrance in the American camp, supposed to have been communicated by a woman sent from the city of Quebec intentionally- That a part of the American Troops were ordered on to the Island of Orleans in the River St. Lawernce, among which part this applicant was one, and which on this Island, one night an alarm spread through camp that the French Inhabitants of the Island were about to rise against the American Troops, which proved to be a false Alarm, as the inhabitants did not rise- That he served on the Island a part of the time in getting wood for the troops and a part of the time in preparing a fire ship which was sent up the River St. Lawrence to annoy the enemy, but unfortunately the ship could not be brought in close contact enough with the enemy's [enemies] to answer the intended purpose, and burnt down without any other effect upon them, then that of firing heavy artillery- That on the 5th. day of May of the same year the American Troops received orders from General Thomas to leave the Island and march to Abram's Plains immediately and that the order was no sooner known than obeyed and the troops and this applicant immediately made the main shore in boats and commenced their own march under the command of Colonel Seth Warner and on their own march was informed by a Frenchman who stood by the side of the way that General Thomas had commenced a retreat from Abrams Plains and was several miles in advance and in all probability we should fall into the hands of the British before night as prisoners, and that this information was not credited by any one, until confirmed by an American officer who came at full run and informed Colonel Seth Warner that he must make the best shift for himself and men that his precarious situation would permit and immediately
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That Colonel Warner on the receipt of this information immediately ordered us to halt and after a moments reflection exclaimed " Boys you must every one take care of yourselves and get up with the advanced retreat the best way you can - this is all I have to order and God be with you flee for life" - Upon which we all immediately broke our ranks and in singles and pairs took that coarse we thought best to when the British  and reach at the same time the advanced retreat- That this Applicant and his father Jonathan Olds who was also an Enlisted Soldier in the same company kept to the woods for three days and three nights until they arrived in sight of a Bridge  upon which was posted a Centinel so far off that we could not determine whether it was an American or Briton, we therefore endeavored to evade a nearer approach and made the River some distance above the Bridge, but found it was not fordable and finally concluded to proceed down to the Bridge as it might be an American Centinel, and on our arrival at the Bridge we were welcomed across by one of our own continentals, and there found to our great joy the troops under General Thomas' command at Point Carribou.  That from this plan we continued our retreat up the River St. Lawrence to Montreal, when General Arnold took from the merchants a large amount of goods under such circumstances that many of the soldiers talked privately among themselves that it implicated his honor as a General and his character as an honest man.  That from Montreal we continued our retreat under the command of General Arnold to Crown Point, at which place that part of Captain Samuel Wright's company who had not requested a discharge at Montreal resolved to continue in the service until they should reach Ticonderoga as they might be commanded to proceed, of whom this applicant was one - that here this applicant saw General [stricken "Arnold"] for the last time in his first turn of service that from this place we proceeded on to Ticonderoga and there this applicant remained in the service of the United states until about the 18th of June being
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the day as near as he now can recollect on which he received an honorable discharge signed by Captain Samuel Wright
[three following lines are stricken] 
That soon after receiving his discharge it was it either lost or destroyed - that he well recollects of receiving five months and one half months pay for his services as aforesaid and from this fact has no hesitation in Declaring that he served as aforesaid in the Revolutionary was five months and a half month-
And he further Declares that he entered the service of the United States a second time, at the town of Pownal, county of Bennington and as it was then called New Hampshire Grants, but now the State of Vermont some time in the latter part of the spring or fore part of the summer of 1777 as a volunteer in the company commanded by Captain Nathaniel Seeley and marched immediately from Pownal to Bennington where this applicant and the said company joined Colonel Seth Warners Regiment, marched from there by the way of Manchester and up to Mount Independence and from there across the lake on a floating bridge and on to Ticonderoga where he continued in the duties of the fort until the night in which General St. Clair 
evacuated the fort which was on about the 2nd day of July 1777 when he retreated with the American forces across the Lake on the floating Bridge to Mount Independence from there to Rupert where new came that Colonial Seth Warner was attacked in the rear and men were wanted to go to his assistance upon which this applicant and others immediately volunteered, but before we arrived at the scene of action, news came that the battle was over we then returned immediately to Rupert where we remained for several days when this applicant together with most of the troops continued the retreat by the way of Manchester to Bennington and from there this applicant and Captain Nathaniel Seeley's company marched home to Pownel where this applicant received a discharge signed by Captain Nathaniel Seely on or about the 5th day of [illegible final few words at the bottom of this page. Can be found at top of next file.]
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Nathaniel Seeley's company marches home to Pownel where this applicant received a discharge signed by Captain Seely on or about the 5th day of August making a Term of service according to the best recollection of the applicant a few days over two months and that he has no documentary evidence nor knows of no person living who can testify to his service aforesaid and that the discharge which he received has been lost or destroyed -
And he further Declares that he entered the service of the United States a third time, at the town of Pownal, county of Bennington and as it was then called New Hampshire Grants, but now the State of Vermont, on or about the 22d day of August 1777 as a volunteer in the company commanded by Captain Nathaniel Seeley and in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Moses Robinson of the Militia of the Hampshire Grants according to his best recollection and marched immediately to the East Bank of the Hudson River at a ford near the mouth of fish creek crossed the River at the ford, but soon after recrossed the River at the ford and took a position on the east Bank of Hudson River when we lay several days, and where this applicant saw the conflagration of General Philip Schuyler's buildings fired by the British - that from there we marched up the River on the East side to a ford below fort Edward where it was said our forces amounted to 1500 men and that we were ordered there by General Gates for the purpose of preventing the British from a retreat - that here this applicant was employed in erecting a Battery upon which we mounted four brass field pieces said to have been taken from the British at Bennington Battle - continued service by strengthening our Battery until the afternoon of the 16th October when news came to us that General Burgoine had capitulated when we made ready and marched down to the American camp - that on the 17th day of October this applicant saw the surrender of General Burgoine's Army by their laying down their arms at Saratoga, at which place and on which day this applicant received a discharge signed by Colonel Moses Robinson and Captain Nathaniel Seeley - that according to his best recollection he served in the Revolutionary War as aforesaid
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the Term of seven weeks and two or three days over that his discharge is lost or destroyed and that he has no documentary evidence nor knows of no person living who can testify to his services aforesaid.
 And that he further declares that he entered the service of the United States a fourth time, at the town of Pownal, county of Bennington and as it was then called New Hampshire Grants, but now the state of Vermont, by being drafted in the Militia for 20 days in the company commanded either by Captain Joseph Briggs or Thomas Ransom and he does not recollect which, and in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Moses Robinson some time in the spring of 1778, and marched immediately from Pownal to Bennington from thence by Manchester to Rupert, where he served in strengthening the garrison and at the expiration of his twenty days service for which he was drafted, he received a discharge signed by Colonel Moses Robinson and Captain Joseph Briggs, or Thomas Ransom, he does not recollect which, and that said discharge is lost or destroyed, and that he has no documentary evidence nor knows of no person living who can testify to his service aforesaid.
And he further declares that he entered the service of the United States a fifth time, at the town of Pownal & county of Bennington aforesaid in the fall of 1778 by being drafted in the Militia in the company commanded by Captain Joseph Briggs and in the Regiment commanded Colonel Moses Robinson for the term of one month and marched immediately from Pownal to Bennington and from thence to Rutland and there remained upon duty in repairing the garrison and looking out for the British until the expiration of the month for which he was drafted when he received a discharge signed by Captain Joseph Briggs and which is lost or destroyed and has no documentary evidence nor knows of no person living who can testify to his service aforesaid.
And he further declares that he entered
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the service of the United States a sixth time at the town of Pownal & county of Bennington aforesaid in the spring of 1779 by being drafted in the Militia in the company commanded by Captain Thomas Ransom and in the Regiment commanded by Colonel ---- he cannot now recollect and immediately marched from Pownal to Bennington and from thence to a place called Pitchford in the NewHampshire Grants and there served out the month for which he was drafted in scouting and looking out for the British and received a discharge signed by Captain Thomas Ransom and that his discharge is lost or destroyed and that he has no documentary evidence nr knows of no person living who can testify to his service aforesaid.
And he further declares that he entered the service of the United States a seventh time at the town of Pownal & county of Bennington aforesaid in the month of June 1779 by enlisting for the term of 20 days in the company commanded by Captain Elisha Parker does not recollect the colonel's name and marched from Pownal to Bennington and from thence to Rutland and served out the twenty days for which he enlisted in scouting for British and Indians and received a discharge signed by Captain Elisha Parker and some other officers does not recollect who which discharge is lost or destroyed and that he has no documentary evidence nor knows of no person living who can testify to his services aforesaid.
That the foregoing is as complete and correct a declaration of the several services therein enumerated as he is able from the length of time elapsed since they were by him rendered to the United States in the war of the Revolution to give and that he has no documentary evidence of any of his services aforesaid nor knows of no person who can testify to the same or any part thereof.
That he was born at the town of Sheffield in the county of Berkshire and state of Massachusetts on the 14th day of April 1757 and that he has
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no record of his age. That he lived in the town of Pownal 3 years after the Revolutionary War from thence moved to the town of Clarendon in the county of Rutland and now state of Vermont where he lived one year from thence moved into Mount Holly in the same county and lived there several years from thence he moved into East Bloomfield County of Ontario and state of New York where he lived some time from thence he moved to Canandaigua in the same county and lived there a few years and from thence he moved to the town of Andover county of Allegany and State of New York where he now resides. The Regular officers who were with the troops at Quebec and with whom he was acquainted in his service there were General Benedict Arnold and Colonel Seth Warner - at Ticonderoga General St. Clair and Colonel Seth Warner - at Saratoga General Arnold, General Gates and General Fellows and at the other places and times of services he does not recollect any of the Regular officers names nor whether there were any Regular continental troops there - And that the Reverend Jabez Spicer a Presbyterian clergyman and John Williams Esquire and Sheldon Brewster Esquire to whom I am known of the town of Andover where I now reside can testify as to my character for veracity and their belief of my services as a soldier of the Revolution. 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the Agency of any state.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Jasper Oles

And the said Jasper Oles further declares, that he entered the service of the United States at several other times not stated in the forg-
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=ing Declaration, in alarms some times a week, and two weeks, and a day or two, and so on; but that he cannot from the elapse of time, recollect particulars enough to make any where near a correct statement of them, but will venture to declare that all the times put together, would amount to two months or more - that the nature of these services were in scouting for Tories, British & Indians - that he has stated in the foregoing declaration, that Pownal was in the Hampshire Grants & it was generally called so, but that in the year 1777 that part now called Vermont pretended to establish an independent government.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Jasper Oles

State of New York Allegany County ss: We Jabez Spicer a clergyman residing in the town of Andover aforesaid and John Williams and Sheldon Brewster Esquires of the same place do hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Jasper Oles of Andover aforesaid who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration; that we believe him to be seventy five years and four months and six days of age as stated in the foregoing declaration, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood and town where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution - that we fully concur in that opinion - And that we further certify that he is a man of truth and veracity.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Jabez Spicer Past. 1st Cl Andover
John Williams Justice of the Peace
S. Brewster Coroner of Allegany County
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State of New York Allegany County ss:
And the said Judge hereby declares that it is his opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the foregoing named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states, and that from bodily infirmity and old age, he is not able to attend court at Angelica the seat of Justice for Allegany county aforesaid, and that in all probability from present appearances will not be able to attend at any term hereafter. And the said Judge further certifies that from his own personal acquaintance Jabez Spicer who has signed the preceding certificate is a Presbyterian clergyman resident in the town of Andover and John Williams Esquire a Justice of the Peace of Allegany County and Sheldon Brewster Esquire a coroner of Allegany County who have also signed the same are residents of the town of Andover and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to full confidence and credit.
Asa S Allen Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegany County

State of New York Allegany County ss:
Willett Larrabee being duly sworn deposeth and says that he has been acquainted with Jasper Olds the above applicant for a pension for eleven years past and that the said Jasper Olds has been during that time reputed a soldier of the a revolution and has related the same service to this deponent at several times since his acquaintance with him and his statement always agreed with what he has declared in the foregoing declaration and that this deponent was born and lived several years in the town of Pownal county of Bennington & state of Vermont and during his residence there frequently heard named Samuel Wright, Thomas
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Ransom, Nathaniel Seeley and Moses Robinson as officers in the Revolution and that he heard frequently several things related by the inhabitants of that town which correspond with the alleged services in the said Olds declaration and further this deponent saith not.
Willett Larrabee

Sworn to and subscribed before me
Asa S Allen Judge of Common Pleas of said Court

State of New York Allegany County ss:
Judson W. Shearman clerk of Allegany County and of the court of Common Pleas of Allegany County, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Judge in the matter of the application of Jasper Olds for a pension And that Asa S Allen the said Judge was at the time a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegany County duly sworn authorised and commissioned to act as such and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Asa S Allen and that his signature to the same as such Judge is his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county this 25th day of August 1832.
Judson W. Shearman
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State of Vermont Rutland County ss
Joseph A Hays of the town of Clarendon in the county and state aforesaid being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and say that he holds the office of town clerk duly elected commissioned and sworn in and for the said town of Clarendon and that the town records of said town are in his custody and keeping and that upon the record of marriages in said town is the following marriage recorded which is in the words following "with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures" to wit
"Clarendon November one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine"
"These may certify that Jasper Olds and Lydia Moore were lawfully joined in marriage by me"
"Ezra Crary Justice peace"

"Recorded November one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine"
"(illegible) Stephen Arnold Town Clerk"

That the above is a true extract from the records of the said town of Clarendon with the exception above named as certified by me
(illegible) Joseph A Hays Town clerk of Clarendon in Rutland County and State of Vermont

State of Vermont Rutland County ss
Be it remembered that on the 16th day of September AD. 1839 personally appeared before me Joseph A Hays town clerk of Clarendon in the county and state aforesaid and on being duly sworn by me according to law subscribed and deposed to the above deposition and also that I am personally acquainted with the said Joseph A Hays and know him to be a man of veracity before me
Amos F Campbell Justice Peace
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State of Vermont Rutland County Clerks office ss
I Frederick W Hopkins clerk of the county court for the said county of Rutland do certify that Amos F Campbell before whom the foregoing deposition purports to have been subscribed and sworn to was on the day of the date thereof a Justice of the peace in and for said county duly commissioned and sworn and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe his name subscribed to the certificate of the foregoing deposition to be the said Amos F. Campbells own genuine hand writing and signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Rutland in said county this 16th day of September 1839
F. W. Hopkins
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In the matter of Jasper Oles for a pension under Act of Congress June 7, 1832.
W. Larrabee Atty
No. 5621.
Admitted
12 mos. 9 days
$40.
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State of New York Allegany County ss:
Personally appeared Jasper Oles of the town of Andover in the county and state aforesaid on the 19th day of December 1802 before Asa S. Allen Esquire a judge of the court of Common Pleas of Allegany county and on being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following amendments to his declaration hereunto attached.
That to Quere seventeen contained in the brief accompanying the return of his declaration from the War Department to which is prefixed a negative answer he amends and says that to the first interrogatory prescribed by the War Department, his answer is that he was born at the town of Sheffield in the county of Berkshire and state of Massachusetts on the 14th day of April 1757. - to the second he answers and says he has no record of his age - to the third he says that he was living in the town of Pownal in the county of Bennington in what was then called NewHampshire Grants but now the state of Vermont during the Revolutionary War and consequently lived there when called into service every term Sheffield in his declaration. that since the Revolutionary War he lived some three or four years in the town of Pownal aforesaid - thence moved to the town of Clarendon in the county of Rutland and state of Vermont where he lived one year - thence moved to Mount Holly in the last county and state mentioned aforesaid where he lived several years - thence he moved into East Bloomfield in the county of Ontario and state of New York where he lived several years - thence he moved to Canandaigua in the county & state last aforesaid where he lived a few years and thence he moved into the town of Andover county of Allegany and state of New York where he now lives - to the fourth he answers that he was called into service the first time by enlisting - second and third times as a volunteer - fourth, fifth, and sixth times by being drafted and seventh time by enlisting - to the fifth he answers that the names of some of the Regular officers with the troops when he
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served at Quebec were General Arnold and General Thomas - when he served at Ticonderoga General St. Clair and Colonel Seth Warner - when he served at the taking of Burgoin General Gates, Genral Arnold and General Fellows recollects Colonel Moses Robinsons regiment of Militia at the taking of Burgoin also - that when he served at Reuport he has no recollection of any regular officers or continental regiments being present and all the Militia Regiments present of which he now has any recollection was Colonel Moses Robinson - that when he served at Rutland he recollects of no regular officers present and of no Militia Regiment present excepting Colonel Moses Robinsons- that when he served at Pitchford he recollects of no regular officers present nor of any full Regiment of Militia - that when he served at Rutland the second time he has no recollection of any regular officers being present nor of any full Militia Regiment present - that the General circumstances of all his services are detailed in his declaration - to the sixth he answers that he received several discharges from the service but that they were long since lost or destroyed - one signed by Captain Samuel Wright, one signed by Captain Nathaniel Seeley, one signed by Colonel Moses Robinson and Captain Nathaniel Seeley, one signed by Colonel Moses Robinson and Captain Joseph Briggs or Captain Thomas Ransom cannot recollect which - one signed by Captain Joseph Briggs one signed by Captain Thomas Ransom and one signed by Captain Elisha Parker and some other officers cannot now recollect whom - to the seventh he answers that the names of persons to whom he is known in his present neighborhood and who can and have testified to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution are Jabez Spicer a clergyman, John Williams Esquire a justice of the peace of Allegany County, and Sheldon Brewster Esquire a coroner of Allegany County - that he is the very same Jasper Oles who made the foregoing declaration on the 20th day of August 1832 before the aforesaid Asa S. Allen.
Jasper Oles

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me - I also certify that Jasper Oles who has
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Sworn and subscribed his name to this amendment is the same person who made the foregoing Declaration before me on the 20th. day of August 1832 and that Declaration is his own declaration then made without any addition.

Asa S. Allen Judge of Allegany Common Pleas
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State of New York Allegany County Clerks office ss -
I Judson W Sherman clerk of Allegany county do certify that the foregoing declaration and amendment thereto are the original declaration and amendment in the matter of Jasper Oles for a pension under the act of Congress of the 7th June 1832 - And that Asa S. Allen whose name is subscribed to said declaration and amendment as a Judge of Allegany Common Pleas was on the day of the dates of each duly authorised to act as such judge and that his name subscribed to each as such judge is in his proper hand writing - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county this 17th day of January 1833.
J. W. Sherman
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State of New York Allegany County ss
On this fourth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty personally appeared before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegany County (it being a court of Record) in open court Lydia Olds a resident of the town of Almond in the county of Allegany and state of New York aged seventy one years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7 1838 entitled an Act granting half pay and pension to certain widows.
That she is the widow of Jasper Olds late of the town of Almond in the county of Allegany and state of New York deceased who was a private in the Militia in the War of the Revolution and served the United States as such private at Quebec in Lower Canada and at several other places as will more fully appear reference being had to the declaration of the said Jasper Oldson file in the War Department upon which and for the services mentioned therein the said Jasper Olds received a pension certificate from the Secretary of War upon which certificate he drew a pension as reference to said pension certificate which has been returned since the death of the said Jasper Olds to the War Department will more fully show.
She further declares that she was married to the said Jasper Olds some time in the month of November one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine at the town of Clarendon i the county of Rutland and
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State of Vermont by Ezra Crary Justice of the peace and that her marriage was recorded in the said town of Clarendon the evidence of which accompanies this declaration - that her maiden name before her said marriage was Lydia Moore and that her said husband Jasper Olds died at the town of Almond in the county of Allegany and state of New York on the 16th day of December 1837 that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz at the time above stated - that she is now the widow of the said Jasper Olds and has remained his widow ever since his death.
Lydia Olds X her mark

Signed in presence of W. Larrabee

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written in open court before us
E. Horton
Wm Hicks
Josiah Utting Judges of Allegany Common Pleas
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State of New York Allegany County ss
Willett Larrabee of Almond in the county of Allegany and state of New York on this fourth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegany county and on having duly sworn according to law doth depose and saith that he was personally acquainted with Jasper Olds of said town a pensioner of the United States and that the said Jasper Olds died at Almond aforesaid on the 16th day of December 1837 and also that deponent is acquainted with Lydia Olds the wife and widow of the said Jasper Olds and knows that she is now the widow of the said Jasper Olds and has remained such widow ever since the death of the said Jasper Olds and that she is the person who subscribed her name to and who was sworn to the foregoing declaration.
Wilett Larrabee

Sworn to and subscribed in open court before us the day and year first above written. Also that the said Willett Larrabee is a man of veracity
E. Horton
Wm. Hicks
Josiah Utting Judges of Allegany Common Pleas
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State of New York Allegany County ss
I do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration and deposition were sworn to and subscribed at the present term of the court of Common Pleas of Allegany County in open court before the Judges thereof whose names are thereunto subscribed and that the same are the proceedings therein on the application of Lydia Olds for a pension And that the same is satisfactory to the said court.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county in open court this 4th day of February 1840.
Saml Van Wickle Clerk
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Revy.
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 5445
Lydia Oles
Widow
Jasper Oles
Pvt., Rev. War
Act: Feby, 2d, 1848
Index: - Vol. H, Page 99
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Albany
New York - 6036
Lydia Olds
widow of Jasper Olds, decd. who was a pensioner  under the Act of 7 June, 1832 and who died on the 16th Dec'r 1837 o Allegany Co in the State of N. York who was a private in the compy. commanded Captain Ransom of the reg't commanded by Col. Warner in the Vermont Ma line for 12 months 9 dys pri.

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 41 Dollars -- Cents per annum, to commence on the 17 day of Dec'r 1837.

Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of February 1841 and sent to Hon. L. C. Peck House of Representatives

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1840 = $111:36
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Ma'r '41 = 20.50
(total) $131:86

Act July 7, 1838.

Recorded by S. A. Elliot Clerk, 
Book A, Vol. 2 Page 96
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4200
New York, Albany
Lydia Oles
widow of Jasper Oles
who was a Private
in the Revolution 

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 41 Dollars -- 
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 4 day of Jany. 1843
and sent to A. Corey
Almond, N.Y.

[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A.
Vol. 1. Page 110

(right side)
Rep'd.
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Lydia Olds
NY
Act 7 July 38
M 89. d 37-

Adm'd
12 mo. 9 ds pri
41.$
Died 16 Decr '37
pen: com: 17 Decr 37.

Hon. L. C. Peck
H.R.
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Jasper Olds N. Y. Albany - $41.02 - act 7 June - last p'd?
27 Jany '41 | G.M.
Died 16 Dec'r 1837/?F.  [illegible] paid
JH
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Almond Allegany Co N.Y.
January 19 1841

Sir, 
I herewith send you an application of Lydia Olds for a pension.
The papers were left with my clerk to fold and enclose which he neglected to do which accounts for the delay since they were ready.
Please communicate to me the result of your examination
I am respectfully 
Your obedient servant
Willett Larrabee

James L. Edwards
Com. of Pensions
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H of Reps Jany 25, 1841

Sir
I send herewith a communication from Ambrose Corey Esq making within inquiries in relation to the pension papers of Lydia Olds. - Will you please communicate to me the desired information at your earliest convenience

Very Respectfully 
Your obt servt
L C Peck

J L Edwards Esq
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office,
March 16th,1839.

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838 entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The widow of Jasper Olds, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany, N. Y.  Agency, at the rate of Forty one Dollars and two - Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June, 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1837, to the 16th December, 1837.

Respectfully, yours 
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions, 
Present.
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[envelope front]

Ulysses | Paid 10
Nov 17

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Com. of Pensions
Washington City 
DC

[notations on right 90 degrees]
Cole Pa
4700 m
Place on Pa roll
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Ulysses Potter Co Pa. Nov 13 8/48
Hon. J. L. Edwards -- Dear Sir
if the enclosed aplication [application] is not sufficient please direct me how to procede [proceed]. the widow is too feable [feeble] to go to Almond N.Y. before the Justice that she made her affidavits before by which she drew he [her] former pensions.  she has resided with me for more than ten years for the last year we have resided in this place she is my Mother in Law. it will be more convenient for her to draw her pension in Albany N.Y. where She formally [formerly] drew than in this State.
Respectfully Yours &c
A. Corey
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of the 3d March 1843 granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the act of July of 1838
State of New York}
County of Allegany} ss 
 On this fourteenth day of   October 1843 personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace --- in & for said county Lydia Oles a resident of the town of Almond in said county & state aged, seventy two years who being first duly sworn according to law, 
doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3d March 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war.
  That she is the widow of Jasper Oles who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution.
  That she is the identical person & widow to whom was granted a five years pension under the act of July 7, 1838 at the rate of forty one dollars and two cents per annum she further declares, that she is still a widow - 
Lydia 'X' Oles | Mark
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day}
and year above written before} 
Samual Major Justice of the Peace

I certify that the above named Lydia Oles 
is a respectable person -
Samual Major Justice of the Peace
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State of New York}
county of Allegany} ss
Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and foresaid County Ambrose Corey and on being duly sworn according to law, deposed & saith that the within named Lydia Oles is the identical person & widow, to whom was granted a five year pension under the law of July 7 1838 at the rate of forty one dollars and two cents per annum and that she is still a widow Ambrose Corey
Subscribed & Sworn before me}
this fourteenth day of October 1843} 
Samuel Major Justice of the Peace 

I Certify that the named Ambrose Corey is a respectable person 
Samuel Major Justice of the Peace
State of New York}
County of Allegany} ss
Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Susan C Corey and after being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith that the within named Lydia Oles is the identical person & widow to whom was granted a five year pension under the act of July 7th, 1838 at the rate of forty one dollars & two cents per annum and that she is still a widow
 Susan C Corey
Subscribed & Sworn before me }
this fourteenth day of October 1843}
Samuel Major Justice of the Peace

I certify that the above named Susan C Coy is a respectable person 
Samuel Major Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Allegany county Clerks Office ss

I William Windsor Clerk of said County do hereby Certify that Samuel Major Esq before whom the within Affidavits were taken was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in & for said county & further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting   of such Justice & verily believe his name subscribed thereto is his genuine signature
Witness my hand & the seal of said county at Angelica this 16th day of October AD 1843
William Windsor
Clerk
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[envelope address and many notations 
at various degrees]

Almond | Frer
Dec  28
_______________________________

James L. Edwards
Com. of Pensions
War Department 
Washington City D C
[faded]
No Such name has ever registered here
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Almond Dec. 28th. 1839

Sir
I send enclosed an affidavit in the matter
of Lydia Olds for a pension.
yours respectfully
W. Larrabee

J. L. Edwards
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[addressed envelope]
[margin notes: 4003 Oct 25. 1843 N.Y. Mar 3d 1843 Lyd. Oles, $41 per an A. Corey Almond, N. York]
Free A. Corey P.M.
Almond N.Y. 
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Com. of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
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Almond Oct. 18 1843
Dear Sir
I enclose to you the application
for 1 year pension for Lydia Oles please forward
certificate to me for the same if found correct
Very Respectfully your 
Obt. Servant

A. Corey
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of 2nd February 1848 entitled an act making further provisions for Surviving Widows and Soldiers of the Revolution. 
State of Pennsylvania
County of Potter} ss. 
On this 29 day of October 1848 personally appeared before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for Said County Lydia Olds a resident of Ulysses in the County of Potter aged Seventy Eight years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on her oath make the folowing declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, past on the 2d of February 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. that she is the widow of Jasper Olds Diseast, a Revolutionary pensioner that she drew a pension under the Act of 3d of March 1843 on acount of the Revolutionary Servises of her husband the late Jasper Olds at the Rate of forty one Dollars per annum that she also drew a pension under the Act of Congress past the 17th of June 1844. She further declares that she has not married or intermarried but continues to be a widow = 
/s/X her mark Lydia Olds
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year above written before. 
/s/Charles Monroe JP By A. Corey
also on the same day apeard Ambrose Corey personally known to me and after being duly sworn according to law made the folowing affidavit, that the above named Lydia Olds is personally known to him that she has resided with him for ten years that she is the same individual who drew a pension as stated by her in the foregoing affidavit, that she resided with him in Almond Allegany County & State of New York where she received her pension that she is unable to go to Almond before the Justice that knew her to be the person that drew a pension as above stated. Sworn to & Subscribed before} 
/s/Ambrose Corey
/s/Charles Monroe JP
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I certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Ambrose Corey, and believe him to be a person of truth and verasity and from evidences of papers shown me by him believe his affidavit to be true. 
/s/Charles Monroe JP
also on the same day apeard Susan Corey the wife of the above named Ambrose Corey and made oath in due form of Law that she is the Daughter of the above named Aplicant Lydia Olds and that she is the identical person who drew a pension as above stated in her affidavit, and that the facts stated in the affidavit of Ambrose Corey is true - 
/s/Susan Corey
Sworn & Subscribed before me} /s/Charles Monroe JP
I Orange A. Lewis one of the Judges of the Courts of the county of Potter & State of Pennsylvania being acquainted personally with all the above named affiances, and believe then all to be true. That I am acquainted with the above named Justice of the peace and was present at the making of the above affidavits and know his signiture to be genuine - 
/s/Orange A. Lewis Associate Judge of Potter Com. Pl
I certify that the above named Lydia Olds not being able to write her name requested the above named witness to do so in my presents and in my presence did make the marks therein. also that she requests that her certificate be made payable in the city of Albany State of New York.
/s/Charles Monroe J.P. 

State of Pennsylvania 
Potter County ss
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State of Pennsylvania's
Potter County, ss, 

I, Samuel Haven Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the aforesaid County of Potter hereby Certify that Charles Monroe before whom the foregoing [illegible] was executed and whose signature is affixed therein to was at the 


in the within writing purporting to be th
genuine, In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Coudersport Nineteenth day of A.D. 1848
Samuel Haven 
Prothonotary of 
the Court of Com, Pleas of Potter
County Penn