Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25768, Britin Head, New Jersey New York
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Service
New Jersey
New York

Head, Britin W. 25768 Mahatable B.L.Wt. 2498-160-55


(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
CONTENTS
Head, Britin
Mahatable
NUMBER
W. 25768
B.L. Wt. 2498-160-55
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5715
New York. City [City is crossed out] Albany
Mahatable Head, widow of Britin Head who served in the Revolutionary War, as a Private -- Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 66 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 24th day of March 1848 [March 1848 is scratched out] April 1848 --- Certificate of Pension issued the 26th day of Sept. 1849 and sent to S. Crittenden Jr., Ithaca N.Y. ----
Report to Regt. Albany Oct. 15, 1849
Letter to E. Humphrey Oct. 15 1849 ----
Let. to B.F. Hart, P.A. to drop pensioner Oct. 15. 1849 
Let. to S. Crittenden Jr. Oct. 20, 1849

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 86 -- Vol. 4.
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Lett: to N Culleuden July 2nd / 55
Feby '48 - no. 5115
Vol He_131.
18202 Acl Mar 3/55
March 26 / 55
Mahatable Head
Widow of Britin Head Priv
Rev. Pensioner
Capt. Abraham Westfall,
Col. Albert Pawling
N.Y. Court [too faint]
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Enl P
Anch[jo?]
Revolutionary War
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No certificate    5,115
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[illegible - handwriting images over each other]
Boynton
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24455
New York
Britain ['a' is struck out] Head of Tompkins in the State of New York who was a Private in the Comp commanded by Captain Gernow of the Regt. commanded by Col. Dubois in the New York line for 20 months. ------
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 66 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
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Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of Dec 1833 and sent to E G Pelton Ithaca
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Arrears to the 4th of Sep '33 $166.66
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 No. '34 33.33
                                                     __________
                                                     $199.99
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by Geo. C Stily Clerk. Book E Vol. 4 Page 111.
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress dated June 7 1832

State of New York
Tompkins County
On this third day of October 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, of said county now sitting, Britain Head a resident of the Village of Ithaca in the county aforesaid and state of New York aged sixty nine years eleven months & twenty seven 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 dated June 7 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That he entered in fall of the year 1778 in the county of Sussex state of New Jersey in the militia in the company commanded by Lieut. Comdt Solomon Middaugh. He cannot tell who was his field officer that he served two months which time he was a substitute and was honorably discharged. That during this service he was at [Minisink?] guarding against the Indians that was in no battle. that his discharge was a verbal one. That he again entered the service as a volunteer in the spring of 1779 in Captain George Ribbles company of militia volunteers to prevent a draft. He then served six months the term required by law that he cannot say who his colonel was. Lieut Johnson was in the same company that his enlistment was in. Hardyston [missplled "Hardistown"] Sussex County New Jersey marched to Elizabethtown & Hackensack to the Delaware River then was honorably discharged after serving his said term of six months, verbal discharge. That in 1780 he again entered the service at Warwick Orange County New York under Captain Gernow in Col Dulis Regiment to serve three months that he volunteered to prevent a draft and his company he marched to Fishkill, West Point, Stony Point fort,  to [illegible] then to Albany by a repel, then to Johnston Fort, then in pursuit of the Indians to near the Oneida Lake in said state then returned to Schenectady was honorably discharged verbally. That in April 1781 he again entered the service of [illegible] at Warwick aforesaid under Captain Westfall & under Col Wisenfelt & Major DeWitt for the term of nine months
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he marched to [Peenpack, in Orange county?] Priepack in Sullivan County where he stayed during the term as a guard against the Indians and at which place he was honorably discharged by Major Banksoter on the first day of January 1782. That he has no documentary evidence used during the Revolution to show his service.
He hereby relinquishes any claim he may have 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 & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
Saml Love Clerk

Britain Head
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The following questions were propounded by the Court to the applicant
1. Where and in what year were you born? was born in October 1762 I believe in Little Nine Partners Dutches County state of New York

2. Have you any record of your age, and if so where is it? I have no record of my age

3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war; and where do you now live?
When first entered service he resided in Sussex county of New Jersey in which place he resided until thirty one years ago when he moved to Milton Cayuga County New York where he resided until last April when he moved to Ithaca in said County New York thence

4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a substitute; and if a substitute for whom?
These questions are all stated above & answered. He volunteered.

5. State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops when you served; such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service.
He recollects Col Dubois, Col Weiselfelt knew them well and also Major DeWitt of the New York Troops. He service was all against Indians as stated in his Declaration.

6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
Never received any discharge except verbal discharge

7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
David Quigg & John King are old residents & know me
Britin Head
We, David Quigg & John King residing in the town of Ithaca and county of Tompkins and State of New York, and residing in the same place, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Britain Head who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, and that we believe him to be [illegible] 70 years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
David Quigg
John King
Saml. Love Clerk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states, and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that David Quigg & John King who has signed the preceding certificate is[strickthrough] are citizen resident in the town of Ithaca and county of Tompkins and are creditable persons, and that their statements are entitled to credit.

I Samuel Love Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Tompkins do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Britain Head for a pension. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this third day of October 1832.
Samuel Love Clerk
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Smith Head of the town of Dryden in the County of Tompkins aged sixty seven years [illegible]  being duly sworn [illegible]
that he is the Brother of Britain Head the soldier named in and who has subscribed the foregoing declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed
June 7, 1832 and further he is well acquainted with the services of the said Britain Head in the Army of the Revolution that the said Britain Head entered the service in the fall of the year 1778 in the County of Sussex State of New Jersey (where this Deponent resided) and that he served the term of two months  returned home discharged -does not
recollect who his officers were- that this Deponent knows the said Britain Head again entered the service for six months in the spring of the year 1779 he understood
in Capt. Ribbles Company that he was discharged at Minisink at the end of the term of six months & returned home, that he again entered the service for three months as
this Deponent understood in Captain Gernow in Warwick Orange County New York that he returned at the end of the three months stating that he had been discharged his last service was in 1780. That he recollects that he the said Britain Head again entered the service in April 1781 at Warwick aforesaid in Captain Westfall Company under Major [illegible] for the term of nine months that
he marched to Peenpack [Orange County] Sullivan County New York at which time he saw him the said Britain Head three different times remained at his station a week at each time that the said Britain Head was discharged at the end of the term returned home-


Sworn & subscribed in open Court
October 3d 1832                Smith Head [signature]

S. Love Clerk
I further certify that the
said Smith Head is a credible
person and that his testimony is entitled to
belief-                      
S. Love Clerk
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State of New York

Tompkins County [illegible]

Amos Dunbar of the town of Keating
in the County of Mckean & State of Pennsylvania being
duly sworn says that he is well acquainted with Briton
Head of the town of Lansing County of Tompkins and State of
New York, who now makes application for a pension under the
Law of the United States passed June 7, 1832, that
he knew the said Head in the year 1780, that this
deponent enlisted in a regiment commanded by Colonel
Malcolm and at that time the said Head belonged
to a company under the command of Colonel Dubois
and that this deponent knows from the best of his recol
lection and belief that the said Head was engaged in
the service under said Colonel Dubois for the term of
three months, that the said deponent was in Fishkill
and at West-point until the above named regiments
separated, the one to which said Head belonged going to
Albany and the one to which this deponent was
attached going to Stony Point- And this deponent 
further says that in the year 1781 this deponent enlisted
in a company commanded by Captain Westfall in the
regiment commanded by Major Dewitt and (as deponent
believes) Colonel Wisenfelt, that this deponent
enlisted in the town of Cornwall in Orange County
State of New York, and that said Head at the same
time enlisted from the town of Warwick in
said County, into the same company to which this
deponent belonged as above stated, that they then
marched to Pinepeck [Peenpick] in said County of Orange and
continued their station there for the space of nine months
until discharged from the said service on the first
day of January 1782 at which time said company and
Regiment were disbanded. And this deponent further says
that to his actual knowledge the said Head served the
said time of nine months in the said service as above
stated.
Amos Dunbar
Sworn & subscribed before me
this [illegible]day of  September 1832 Edmund G. Pelton J. Peace
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I Edward G. Petton the Justice of the Peace aforesaid certify that I am well acquainted with the above deponent Amos Dunbar & that he is a person of integrity.

Edward G. Petton Jr.
State of New York
Tompkins County
Clerks Office

I Samuel Love Clerk of said County do certify that Edward G. Petton the person before whom the written affidavit purports to have been sworn and also before whom the foregoing certificate purports to have been given, was at the date of the same Justice of the Peace in & for said county and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe that his name submitted to said affidavit of said certificate is genuine. In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal. January 9, 1833. Samuel Love Esq.

Britain Head
Pension Application 
Return to E. G. Petton Esq.
Ithaca
N. York

(?)
20 mo.
$66.66
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13734
Mehitable Head
wid. of Britain
NY
Act 7 July 1838

Mehitable Head
widow of Britain
NY
Act 2 Feb. 1848

Married 1784
Husb. died Apl. 24, 1848


Admr. 20 mo's private,
$66.66 per annum,
Cavalry 24 April 1848,

S. Crittenden Jr.
Ithaca, N.Y.
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Declaration
Mehatable Head
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress
of the 7th July 1838 entitled, "Our Act granting half pay
pensions to certain widows also to obtain the benefit
of all the acts and Resolutions of Congress to the 2nd of February 1848

State of New York
County of Tompkin // On the 11th day of July 1848 personally
appeared before the subscribed a Judge of the Court in
and for said county Mehatable Head of the town of Lansing
in said county and stated age Eighty one years who being
first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath 
make the following declaration order to obtain the 
benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress of the 
7th July 1838 Entitled and act granting half pay and 
pensions to certain widows also to obtain the benefit
of all the acts and Resolutions of Congress to the 2nd of February 
1848. That she is the widow of Britton Head died on the 24th day of April 1848
and that she is still a widow and that the said marriage took place at the time above stated previous to the 
year 1794.

Mehatable Head (X - her mark)
Sworn to and subscribed this 11th day of July 1848
before me Alfred Wells 
County Judge of Tompkins County
I certify that the above married Mehatable Head is a person of
highly respectable character and that her statement is entitled 
to full credit and belief and that in consequence of old age and infirmities 
she ought not to be required to appear in open court to make her new declaration and is unable 
so to do.
Alfred Wells, County Judge of Tompkins County
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State of New York
Tompkins County // Betsey Wilcox widow of Elisha Willcox
deceased of (?) in said of County of Tompkins being duly
sworn doth upon her oath depose and say that she is 
Eighty two years of age on the 22nd day of October last;
that she is the sister of Britin Head late of (?) aforesaid
deceased, who in his life true was a Revolutionary Pensioner 
of the United States and who was the husband of Mehatable 
Head named in & who has subscribed & swore to the preceding
declarations. That she well knows the said Mehatable 
to be the widow of the said Britin Head the deceased
and saw the said Britin Head married to the said 
Mehatable Head whose maiden name was Bowen. That
such marriage she well recollects took place on the 
23rd day of December, it being two days before Christmas
day in the year 1784 (One Thousand Seven Hundred and 
Eighty four at the house of Calvin Shepherd Esq. a Justice 
of the Peace in the County of Orange & State of New York
by whom they were married. She knows she is not mis-
taken in the precise time of such marriage from contrasting
the date with their respective ages and she well recollects
the marriage took place two days before Christmas day
in the year 1784 when this deponent was nineteen years
of age on the 22nd of October three previous. That she has 
ever since been well acquainted with the said Britin Head 
& Mehatable his wife up to the time of his death & that he
died on the 24th day of April last. That at the time of his death
he was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the
rate of $66.66 per annum. And though the said Mehatable 
Head is still a widow.

Subscribed & sworn before me 
this 21st day of August 1848

Betsey Wilcox (X - her mark)

Alfred Wells 
County Judge of Tompkins County
I certify that the above married Betsey Wilcox is a highly reputable old lady & her statements are
written to full credit and belief and that she cannot write her name but makes  her mark
by reason of her extreme old age. Dated Aug. 21, 1848

Alfred Wells
County Judge of Tompkins County
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State of New York Tompkins County [illegible] I Norman Crittenden Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Alfred Wells E[illegible] before whom the preceding declaration and affidavit pur ports to have been made was at the dates of the same County Judge in and for said County commissioned and sworn and duly qualified to act as such, and further that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his signatures to the jurat therto and the certificates thereunder written are genuine In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County at Ithaca this 21st day of August AD1848 N. Crittenden Clerk
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State of New York
County of Tompkins // 

On this 21st day of March 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 Mehatable Head aged Eighty Eight years a resident of Dryden in the State of New York who being duly sworn ac-
cording to law declares that she is the widow of Britin Head deceased who was a Private in the War of the Revolution and a Pensioner of the United States at the time of his death and continued in actual service in said war for the term of (blank) and
was honorably discharged at (blank) on the (blank) day of (blank) A.D. (blank).
She further states that she was married to said Britin Head in N.Y. State 
(?) on the Twenty second day of December A.D. 1784 by one (?) a Justice of the Peace and that her name before 
her said marriage was Mehatable Bowen; that her said husband died at Dryden 
on the 24th day of April A. D. 1848, and that
she is now a widow, and receives a pension of Sixty six dollars and Sixty six cents 
for his services, said pension certificate number 5115.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be 
entitled under the, "act approved March 3, 1855."

s/ Mehatable Head (X - her mark)

We, Dan Faulkner and Thomas Hunt residents of Dryden in the State of New York, upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Mehatable Head 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.

s/ Dan Faulkner
s/ Thomas Hunt
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WIDOW, &c.
File No. 25768
Mahatable Head
Widow of Brittin Head
Penn Rev War
Act Feb 2nd 1848
Index: Vol A, Page 32,7
Arrangement of 1870.
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(blank page)
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2498
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No. 13754
Mahatable Head
NY.
Hon. W. T. Lawrence
July 6491
Act 7 July 1838
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Mahatable Head
N.Y.
Boynton

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
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No. 18202
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
Received March 26th 1855
Mahatable Head widow of Brittin Head pri.
Capt. Abraham Westfall ┃
Col. Albert Pawling
N.Y. Couth line
Rev. War.
Warrant 2498160-53
N. Crittenden
Ithaca
N. Y.
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New York Roll Albany Act 7 June 1832
Brittin Head per. $66.66 per annum.
To what time last paid?
Died 4th May 1848, paid to his death Pension Office
W.B. Magill
Cole
To Third Auditors Office
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W. T. Lawrence
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Ithaca December 19, 48
Dear Sir
I by the last mail wrote to you requesting you to ask Mr. Edwards of the Pension Office if he could not grant a Pension to Ms. Mahatable Head on the old application but to day the
lady was in town and I have her apply under to Revolution of 1st of July 1848. I hope that you can persuade Mr. Edwards to allow the pension for the fact is that the old lady is so very poor and every proof is in his hands, the application was sent on for me by Mr. Crittendon you will please tell Mr. Edwards that he will please send answer to me.
Wm. Quigg
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State of New-York
Tompkins County Clerk's Office,
SS.
I, EZRA WEAVER, Clerk of said county, and also Clerk of the Courts in and for said county, do hereby certify that William Scull 2 Esquire, before whom the preceding declaration was subscribed and sworn, and whose name appears to the Jurat thereto, was at the date of the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly elected, sworn, and authorized to act as such, and to take the same: And further, that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of such Justice, and verily believe that the signature to the preceding Jurat is genuine
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the seal of the said county and Courts, at Ithaca this twenty fourth day of March 1852
E. Weaver
Clerk.
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State of New York
Tompkins County. I Norman Crittenden Clerk
of said County do hereby certify that Caleb B
Drake Esq before whom the within declared
and affidavit purports to have been made
was at the date of the same a Justice of
the peace in & for said county commissioned
and sworn and duly qualified to act as such and further that I am well acquainted with his handwriting and verily believe this signature to the jurat thereto and the certificate thereunder written is genuine. 
In testimony whereof I have hereby set my hand & affixed the seal of the said County at Ithaca this 20th day of December AD 1848
N. Crittenden 
Clerk
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DECLARATION.
State of New York
County of Tompkins
SS. On this 19 day of December 1848 personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county Mahatable Head a resident of said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, deposes and states that she is the widow of Brittin Head
deceased, who during his natural life was a Revolutionary pensioner under the act of Congress of Feb 1832 at the rate of sixty six dollars and sixty six cents per annum, and that she is now an applicant for a Pension under the act of 17 June 1838 and the intermediates act and Resolutions of Congress up to the 17 of June 1844 granting pension to widows of 
of Revolutionary Pensions. Now the object of this declaration being made is in order to open a claim at the same rate of pension her husband received namely sixty six dollars and sixty six cents per annum claiming on the evidence filed in her late husband's case, and under the Resolution of Congress approved the 1st July 1848.

She further declares she is still a widow sworn and subscribed before me on this 19th day of December 1848.
Mahatable Head
Mark
Caleb B. Drake, J.P.

I do hereby certify that Mahatable Head is well known to me, and that she is the widow of Brittin Head who was a Revolutionary Pensioner.
Caleb B. Drake, J.P.
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Ithaca N.Y. Aug. 21, 1848.
J. L. Edwards, Esq
Comp of Pensions
Sir
Enclosed herewith I see the Declaration & proofs in the case of Mahatable Head, Widow
of Brittin Head deceased, an applicant for a Pension under the act 7 July 1838 and the Resolutions of Congress prior to Feb. 2, 1848.

I have personally known the applicant for many
years and also knew her late husband Brittin Head up to the date of his death. He was a pensioner up to his death under the act of 1832. I believe the proofs are all in due form. Please examine the application as early as your convenience will permit and send me the
result and I am very Respectfully
Your Obt ___ Servant
S. Crittenden Jr.
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Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Pensions Office
Washington City
D.C.
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Ithaca Tompkins Co. N. York
June 6. 1849

Hon J.L. Edwards
Comp of Pensions
Sir
Yours of the 5th Feb. last addressed through Hon Wm T. Lawrence late Mr. G. relative to the
application of Mahatable Head widow of Brittin
Head deceased under the act 7 July 1838.

You say the service of Mrs. H's husband is admitted but the proof of the date of Marriage is defection and I infer ___ the defect consists in not having shown in the original papers with sufficiently ___ the ___ of documentary or record within of the marriage so as to let in secondary proof.

By the enclosed affidavits which are respectfully submitted with the papers already on file will, I think, satisfactorily appear that there is record or documentary evidence of the marriage but that beyond all question that such marriage took place before 1794 and at the time as stated by the declarant and the ___. It will or ___ at the time of the marriage & during the Revolution they lived near the line between N.Y. & N. Jersey which was then a secluded & mountainous section that soon after many years in service they came to this county among strangers. Mrs H. and also the ___ Smith Head I have known personally for many years during which time they have both been highly respectable & have been & still are
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in good standing as members of the Methodist Episcopal Church where they  live and I have no doubt their statement  may be relied on with implicit confidence, the old and some what inform yet the same to possess their mental humors.
Please again examine this claim with the additional proofs enclosed and as early as your convenience and business will permit inform me of the results.
Yours very respectfully, 
S. Crittenden Jr.
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Albany Oct 10, 1849
Sir, 
I yesterday presented the certificate of Mahatable Head widow of Brittin Head a pensioner under the Act of February 2, 1848 and was informed that her name was not in the books of that agency - presuming that in transcribing the names hers may have been overlooked may I request you to make the necessary examination and if correct - transmit her name to the agency with ___ to have it inscribed in their back.
Yours respectfully, 
Evans Humphrey
J.L. Edwards Esq
County
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Ithaca Tompkins Co. N. York
Sept. 1, 1849

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Comp of Pensions
Sir, 
About the 6th of June last in the case of the application of Mahatable Head widow of Brittin Head for a Pension under the acts 7 July 1838 V 2 Feb 1848 I wish to your Department additional proofs such as was required by yours of the 3rd Feb 1849.

To that communication I have received no answer or reassurance if they were received they have been mislaid or inadvertently overlooked. Permit me to ask whither those additional proofs were received and whither they have been examined and what is the result? 

The case was originally presented through Hon. Wm. T.  Lawrence late Mr. C and the papers placed on file. 

Yours Very Respectfully, 
S. Critterden Jr.
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ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.

PENSION OFFICE, 
July 2, 1855
Sir:
The claim of Mrs. Mahatable Head for bounty land under the act of the 3rd of March, 1855, No. 18.202 has been examined and suspended. 

The revolutionary service of Britin Head, the husband of the applicant, does not appear of record in this office. 

The 3d section of said act requires a service of "FOURTEEN DAYS" to be established by "RECORD EVIDENCE."

Upon the production of such evidence of service, the claim of Mrs. Head, will be favorably considered. 

Very respectfully, 
L. P. Waldo, Commissioner.

N. Crittenden Esq., 
Ithaca,
New York
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Hon J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Pensions Office
Washington City
D.C.
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Ithaca N. York
October 17, 1849
J. L. Edwards Esq
Comp. of Pensions
About the 12th of Oct inst I received from your office an original certificate of Pension for Mrs. Mahatable widow of Britin Head deceased date 26th Sept last granting her a Pension of $66.66 per annum commencing April 24, 1848. 
Since that time I have caused to be presented to the Agent of Albany, in due form a Power of Attorney and to draw the ____ up to 4 Sept  last but are informed that the name of said Pensioner does not appear on the books of that agency. 
Please explain if the requisite order to the agent has not been forwarded I hope you will do so without delay as I fear the old lady will not get her pay in time to repay her funeral expenses. 
Yours very respectfully
S. Crittenden Jr
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Ithaca July 16 / 88
Commissioner of Pension
Here enclosed please find certificate in fare of Mahatable Head widow of Brittin Head. Her application is Number 18202 as per letter enclosed
J.W. Quigg
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State of New York
Tompkins County for Mahatable Head of said county being duly sworn doth on her oath depose and keep that she is the widow of Brittin Head late of said county deceased who in his life time was a Revolutionary Pension of the United States at the sale of sixty six 66/100 per annum and that she is the same person applying for a pension as such widow on account of the services of her said husband under the act of 7th July 1838 and all other acts and resolutions of Congress to 2nd February 1848. That she was married to the said Brittin Head on the 23rd day of December 1784 as stated by her in her said declaration now on file in the Pension Department at Washington. That she was so married to the said Brittin Head by a magistrate by the name of Calvin Shepard who resided in Orange County New York, at the house of said magistrate. That she this deponent never need or kept any record of her said marriage and she has no knowledge that any such record was kept by any other person. That said Calvin Shepard died many years since and she verily believes there is no family. Town County Church, Parish or other record of such marriage in being after having made full search and inquiry for the same. She knows she is not mistaken as to the date of her said marriage from the fact that her first child, the fruits of her marriage with the said Brittin Head, John Head who is now dead, was born on the 23rd of September 1785 just nine months after their marriage. That her oldest child who now survives and who is the fruits of said marriage is Abigail Dutcher the wife of Thomas Dutcher who is now 62 years old and upwards. 
Mahatable Head her mark
Subscribed and sworn before me this 26th day of February 1849
S. Crittenden Jr., J. Peace
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I certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Mahatable Head who has this day subscribed and sworn to the foregoing affidavit before me that she is a person of good moral character and in my opinion her statement is entitled to full credit and belief. Feb 26, 1849
S. Crittenden Jr J.P.
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State of New York
Tompkins County fo: Smith Head of the Town of Carolina in said county being first duly sworn doth upon his oath depose and say that he is a brother of Brittin Head late of said county of Tompkins deceased; that the said Brittin Head was a private in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War and on account of such service  during his life time drew a pension at the rate of sixty six 66/100 dollars per annum under the Act of Congress of 7 June 1832.

That in this deponant is eighty three years of age on the 3rd day of July next that his said brother was about two and a half years older than this deponent. 

That in the month of December and he verily believes on the 23rd day of December 1784 the said Brittin Head was married to Mahatable Bowen (now Mahatable Head by Calvin Shepard a magistrate in and for the County of Orange at the house of said magistrate who resided in Orange County N.Y. near the New Jersey line; That be this deponant was present and saw the said Brittin Head so married to the said Mahatable and that he knows and well recollects the time of such marriage from contrasting it with the date of the marriage of this deponent which was three years afterwards and he well recollects that the said Brittin Head was married to the said Mahatable a few days before Christmas day. 

That he this deponent was always well acquainted with and lived a near neighbor to the said Brittin and Mahatable up to the time of the death of said Brittin and that during all that time they lived together as man and wife, and beared a large family of children as the fruits of said marriage the oldest of whom was born in 1785. And further this deponant saith that he never saw any family or other record of such marriage and he verily believes no such record was ever made or kept. 

And further this deponant on his oath aforesaid saith that he well knows Mahatable Head now of Boyden in said County of Tompkins who is applying
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for a widow's pension as the widow of the said Brittin on account of his Revolutionary service to be the same person who was so as aforesaid married to the said Brittin Head and that she is now his widow and remains unmarried. 
And further this deponant says not. 
Subscribed and sworn before me this 2nd day of June 1849 S. Crittenden Jr. J Peace 
Smith his Head

I certify this; I am well acquainted with the above named affiant that he is a person of good moral character and I believe his statements entitled to full credit and belief 
Dated Ithaca June 2nd 1849
S Crittenden Jr. J. P. 

State of New York
Tompkins County J. Norman Crittenden Clerk of said county do hereby certify that Samuel Crittenden Jr before whom the preceding affidavit  purport to have been subscribed and sworn and whose name is subscribed to the points thereto and in the certificates thereunder written so as at the date thereof respectively and still is a justice of the peace in and for said county dwelling therein duly elected qualified and sworn and authorized by law as such justice to administer oath. I take affidavit, and further that I am well acquainted with his handwriting and verily believe his signature to the several affida jurat, and certificate as genuine. 

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said county  
5th day of June A.D. 1849
N. Crittenden Clerk
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State of New York, COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE
Albany, July 13, 1855.
I Hereby Certify, That on searching the Records in this office for the Registry of Certificates issued in pursuance of a law, passed April 27, 1784, entitled "An Act for the settlement of the pay of Levies and Militia for their services in the late war, and for other purposes therein mentioned," I find the following, viz: 
NAMES. Briton Head Private
NO. OF BOOK. 2
NO. OF CERTIFICATE. 6.752
DATE. Dec 18, 1781
2 20
S. 5
D. 4
RANK AND NAME OF COMPANY OFFICER. Capt Abraham Westfall
RANK AND NAME OF FIELD OFFICER. Col. Albert Pawling
I have examined the Rolls for the items above set forth, and find them to be correct. 
Haswell Cerk.  
Ja M Cook Comptroller.