Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5709, for Thomas Richards, New Hampshire
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(3-1776)
SERVICE N.H. 
Richards, Thomas Cynthia
NUMBER W.5709
CONTENTS
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19.608
Ohio
Thomas Richards of Portage Co [COUNTY] in the State of Ohio who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Ladd of the regiment commanded by Colonel Beedle in the N. [NEW] Hampshire line, for the term of one year from 1776 to 1777
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 20th day of April 1826
Certificate of Pension issued the 25- of April 1826. and sent to the Hon. [HONORABLE] C. Whittlesey. House of Representatives
Portion Semi-anl. [ANNUAL] all'ce [ALLOWANCE] ending 4 Sep 1826 $
{Revolutionary claim Acts March 18, 1818 and May 1, 1820.}
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R. Richards June 23. 1854
Tho. [THOMAS] E Richards Apl [APRIL] 27 1855

Hon [HONORABL] J. W. [illegible]
Feb. 8. [18]64
11.750
Ohio Clev. [CLEVELAND]
Cynthia Richards widow of Thomas Richards who died on the - 1825
of N H in the State of [blank] who was a private in the [blank] commanded by Captain [blank] 
of the [blank] commanded by [blank] in the
[blank] line for Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll of Cleveland at the rate of 40 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1836 & ending 7 April. 1839.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of
October 1853 and sent to - A. Joy Ovid NY.
Arrears to the 4th of [blank] 
Semiannual allowance ending
-
{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 7, 1838.}
Recorded by R McRae Clerk.
Book D Vol. 1 Page 395
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Thomas Richards a Soldier &c [ETC.]
Ⓧ Declaration &c
Thos [THOMAS] Richards 3d May 1818
Mar [17]76 to July [17]77 Major Hoisington N. [NEW] York
[17]78 to [17]79- Col [COLONEL] Beadle N [NEW] Hampshire
Wanted the judge's certificate of the reduced circumstances of the party

Rejected
Claimants [sic] service was not on the Continental establishment
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State of New York Chautauqua Ss. On the twenty third day of May 1818, before me the scubscriber, one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Chautauqua, in the State of New York, personally appears Thomas Richards, aged sixty five years, resident in the town of Ripley in the County & state aforesaid, who, being by me first duly sworn  according to Law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled, "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war." That the said Thomas Richards enlisted at Belmont in the state of New Hampshire in the month of March 1776 into the company of Capt. [CAPTAIN] John Strong of a Battalion of Rangers commanded by Major Hoisington of the New York Troops that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States until he was honorably discharged at Newbury in the state of Vermont in July 1777- That he enlisted again in January 1778, for one year at Piermont aforesaid into the company of Capt Ezekiel Ladd in a Regiment of Rangers Commanded by Col. [COLONEL]Timothy Beadle, of the New Hampshire Line - That he continued to serve in the said Corps, or in the service of the United Staes until he was Honorably discharged at Haverhill in the state of New Hampshire in the month of January, 1779; That he was drafted & served in the  Militia several times during the war - That he never was in any general engagement with Enemy, but was in a number of skirmishes with the Indians, & scouting parties of the Enemy: - That he is in reduced circumstances, and by a break is wholly unable to labor & stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support - & that he has no other Evidence now in his possession of his said services - 
Thomas Richards
Sworn to & declared before me the day & year aforesaid William Peacock
I William Peacock one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, in & for the County of Chautauqua in the state of New York, do certify that it appears to my satisfaction
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that the said Thomas Richards did serve in the Revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration against the  Common Enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken & had before me to the Secretary for the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress - Dated this twenty third day of May, 1818
William Peacock

State of New York Chautauqua County Ss - I, James P. Rogers Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in & for the County of Chautauqua in that State of New York- do hereby certify that William Peacock is a Judge of said Court, duly appointed, commissioned & sworn residing in said County; and I do further certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said William
In testimony whereof, I have affixed the seal of said Court to those presents, and signed the same with my own hand at Mayville in said County the twenty third of May 1818- 
James P. Rogers
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Thos. [THOMAS] Richards a Soldier, &c. [ETC.]
Declaration, &c.
[following crossed out] Jacob Houghton of Mayville Chautauqua Co. [illegible] - Agent [end cross out]

23 Ripley 23 May [illegible]
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State of New York,
Chautauqua County Ss. I, William Peacock, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Chautauqua in the State of New York, do hereby certify, in addition to the annexed Certificate by me made in the case of Thomas Richards a Soldier in the Service of the United States in the Revolutionary war, That I am satisfied that said Richards is in reduced circumstances, & quite poor, & stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support. Dated 22d. April, 1819-
William Peacock
State of New York, Chautauqua County Ss.} I, John Dexter Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Said County do hereby certify that William Peacock is a Judge of said Court, duly appointed, commissioned & sworn residing in said County and that he was such Judge at the date of the above additional Certificate, and I further certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the Said William, and verily believe the Signature of William Peacock to the above additional Certificate to be his genuine Signature.
In Testimony whereof I have affixed the Seal of said Court to those presents & Signed the Same with my own hand at Mayville in Said County, the fourth day of May 1819.
John Dexter.
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State of New York, County of Chautauqua, Ss.
I, Thomas Richards, the within named Revolutionary Soldier, do hereby further declare & make Oath that I always understood & now believe that Col. [COLONEL] Timothy Beadle was in the Service of the United States, & not of any particular states, in the Revolutionary war - That I enlisted as a Soldier in his Regiment under such impressions - That I was paid for my Service in Peirce's final Settlement notes, so called & drew my arms (being french prices) & ammunition from the Publick stores of the United States - and I do verily believe that I am entitled to a Pension from Government, under this Law, authorizing the allowance of Pensions for Revolutionary services, &c. -
Thomas Richards
Subscibed & sworn before me the Subscriber, the Judge before named, the Sixth day of August, 1819 -
William Peacock
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190.65
Thomas Richards Pension Declaration
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The State of Ohio Portage County Ss} Be it Remembered that at a term of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Portage holden at the Court house in the town of Ravenna within and for the County of Portage and State of Ohio before the Honorable George Tod Esquire President and Elias Harrison Alva Day and Augustus Baldwin Esquires associate Judges of said County holding said Court being a Court of Record for said County
expressly constituted by law to the court of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount keeping a record of their proceedings and having then power of fine and imprisonment - on this eighteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one personally appeared in open Court Thomas  Richards aged sixty eight years resident in the Town of Hiram in the County of Portage who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declares as well as his memory serves but being old and infirm and fading fast consider he is able to make mistakes answering to the case of memory that he served in the Revolutionary was as follows he the said  Thomas Richards enlisted in the month of March in the State of New Hampshire into the Company Commanded by Major Hoisington of the New York line who was under the order and Command of General Baily of the continental line under the continental establishment and was discharged in Newbury in the state of Vermont in the month of July one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven and that he enlisted again in the month of January one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight at Piermont as aforesaid for one year into the company commanded by Ezekiel Ladd in a Regiment of Rangers commanded by Colonel Beadle of the New Hampshire line who was under the orders and Command of General Baily of the Continental line and the continental establishment and was discharged in the State of New Hampshire in the month of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine that during that time he was in several skirmishes with the Indians and scouting parties
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And I do do [sic] Solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any other way
disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war passed on the eighteenth day of March A.D. 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any sureties or contracts or demands due to me nor have I any income other than is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed. This declarant exhibits in open Court an Inventory of all his property
I have valued at one Dollar
This declarant further states that has a break which renders him unable to labor much and lives by his sons My wife aged sixty years old with a feeble constitution unable to labor who lives with another of my sons Cynthia is nineteen years old of a feeble constitution who lives with my son
Sworn to and declared on this 18th day of October in the year of our Lord 1827. Thomas Richards
Sworn to and subscribed in court this 18th day of October 1821.
S Day Clk [CLERK]
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Suspended claim
From Michigan
Larby Ohio
Cynthia Richards
Law 1838
Husband a pensioner
The proof of marriage was not quite 
admitted, the attached proof will doubtless
remove all doubts, a Grand child born 1798
[illegible] to be directed to
Arad Joy
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State of Connecticut
County of Middlesex} SS Charles B Clark whom I certify
is a respectable person, after being duly sworn according to law deposes and says, that he was born 1798 Seventeen hundred and ninety eight, that he is a son of Susan Clark, a daughter of Thomas & Cynthia Richards; that this deponent well recollects his grand parents the said Thomas & Cynthia Richards, & the said Thomas Richards was a pensioner, & the said Cynthia Richards his widow was an applicant for a pension,
that this deponent said mother was a daughter
of the said Thomas & Cynthia Richards both
deceased, & that this deponent was born in 1798
Sworn & Subscribed before me this 3d day of January 1853,} Charles B. Clark
Elihu Spencer
Justice of the Peace

I certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Elihu Spencer that he has [illegible] been & I have no doubt he is a Justice of the Peace duly qualified & that his signature above is genuine. I further certify that I fully believe the above affidavit to be true, & that the witness Charles B Clark I have no doubt was born prior to 1800 and as stated by him
Chas [CHARLES] J McCurdy

Washington
Jany [JANUARY] 22 [18]/53
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State of Connecticut
County of Middlesex} SS Laban Clark, whom I certify is a highly respectable person, a good & true witness, after being duly sworn according to law, deposes & says that the witness within named Charles B. Clark is a Nephew of this deponent, that his mother was Susan
Richards (before her marriage to this deponents [sic] brother Moody Clark) daughter of Thomas and Cynthia Richards, that this deponent has been acquainted more than fifty years with the said witness Charles B Clark, that he saw him in 1801 and knows from his then age that he was born prior to 1800 & that he is a grand child [sic] of Thomas Richards late a pensioner & Cynthia Richards his widow
Sworn & subscribed before me this 11th day of January 1853
Laban Clark
Elihu Spencer
Justice of the Peace
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✓ 3536.
Cynthia Richards
Michigan
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the Act of Congress of the 4 July 1836
State of Michigan County of Macomb} Ss. 
on this 30 day of March 1838. Personally appeared before me one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Macomb and State of Michigan Cynthia Richards a
resident of the Township of Macomb in the County and State of Michigan Aged 78 years who being 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 4, 1836, that she is the widow of Thomas Richards who was a soldier in the Revolutionary army for particulars she
would refer the Department to the proof he made on which in April 1826, the Department granted him a pension do not know under what Act, she further declaring that she was married to the said Thomas Richards by the Rev John Richards Pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Piermont N.H. Jan 1779. that her husband did some service after their Marriage. does not recollect how much, and that her husband died in the County of Portage and State of Ohio where his pension was
allowed and Died Jan. 14. 1826 of a fit of the Apoplexy and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed and she further declares that there cannot be found any Record of their marriage and that the Pension Certificate is lost, and further that
her husband the said Thomas Richards allwayes [ALWAYS] said he never drew any Land of Government but that he was as much entitled to it as any soldier of the Army and thought he might, if he had attended to it at
the time might have obtained also that he lost all of his wages besides some property to the amount of about Eight hundred Dollars
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In consequence of the failure of Continental Army she asks of the Department a soldiers [sic] right of land or some remuneration for the loss of Eight hundred Dollars sustained. Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year
above written before me Daniel Shattuck
Macomb March 30th 1838 Justice of the Peace} Cynthia Richards
Rodolphus S Richards & Augustus S Richards
after being duly sworn deposeth and sayeth that the declaration of widow Cynthia Richards their Mother is substantialy [SUBSTANTIALLY] Correct according to the best of their
knowledge and belief as they distinctly recollect of hearing their farther [FATHER] Thomas Richards say the same things as stated by their Mother. Sworn to and subscribed
on the day and year above written
Rodolphus S Richards
Augustus S Richards
Daniel Shattuck
Justice of the Peace}
This may certify that the veracity of the affiant is unquestionable also of her two sones [SONS] R S Richards and A S Richards also that the affiant from bodily infirmity is unable to attend the Court, and for the same cause if the Department should allow her claim she
wishes her son Rodolphus S Richards to be her
Lawful Agent to transact the business for her in
her same
Daniel Shattuck
Justice of the Peace
State of Michigan County of Macomb} 
Macomb March 30th 1838
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State of Michigan
Macomb County Clerks [sic] Office Ss}
I Amos Dalby declare Certify and make known that Daniel Shattuck Esq [ESQUIRE] before whom the annexed affidavits purport to have
been taken and whose name is thereto Subscribed was at the time of the date of the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly elected and qualified and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and verily believe his signature to the said affidavits is genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Circuit Court of said County at Macomb Courts this third day of April AD 1838
Amos Dalby
Clerk of said County
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Feb. 6 [18]/52
Cynthia Richards
Revolutionary Power of Atty [ATTORNEY]
applied from the State of Michigan Law of 1836 her papers are on file
I ask for a report
From
Arad Joy
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State of Ohio
COUNTY OF Portage} ss. 
Russell Richards being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is a son of Cynthia Richards deceased, to whom a pension was probably due, and who was an an [sic] applicant for a pension from the State of Michigan, that this deponent is directly interested as one of the claimants in said claim.

Sworn and subscribed before me this 21st day of July 1851 and I do hereby certify that the
said Russell Richards is a respectable person, and that I have full faith in the truth of the above statement sworn to by him as being directly interested in said claim.
Andrew Jackson
Justice of the peace in & for said County

Know all Men by these Presents, That I Russell Richards Revena Portage Co. [COUNTY] Ohio a Son of Cynthia Richards deceased to whom pension was probably due, and who was an applicant for a pension from the State of Michigan, do hereby constitute and appoint
Arad Joy of Ovid, N. Y., my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name as one directly and personally interested, also
for and in behalf of all others interested in the claim or application to pension as above mentioned. Russell Richards
Witness my hand and seal, this 21st day of July 1851 SEALED AND DELIVERED IN THE PRESENCE OF
Andrew Jackson
Elijah S Skelton

STATE OF Ohio County of Portage} Be it 
known that on the 21st of July 1851
before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and State, duly authorized by law to administer oaths and take acknowledgements, personally appeared Russell Richards above named, and duly acknowledged the above Power of Attorney and affidavits to be his act and deed.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand the day and date above mentioned
Andrew Jackson J P [JUSTICE OF THE PEACE]
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The State of Ohio,
PORTAGE COUNTY, SS.} 
I, Horace T. Beebe Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for the county of Portage and State of Ohio, do hereby certify, that Andrew Jackson Esquire, before whom the foregoing and annexed acknowledgt [ACKNOWLEDGEMENT] was taken, was at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace
in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn, and to all whose official acts, as such, full faith and credit are due, and that the forgoing signature purporting to be his, is genuine as I believe.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Ravenna, this 22d day of July
A.D. 1851.
Horace T. Beebe CLERK.
By Saml. [SAMUEL] J. Hopkins Dep [DEPUTY]
[illegible]
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Brief in the case of Cynthia Richards dec'd [DECEASED] wid. [WIDOW] of Thomas Portage County and State of Ohio
act July 7. 1838.

Claim, ("original," or "for increase.")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance. 
One year's service, as private, proven by parol [evidence that is spoken or not in any document] 
Marriage prior to 1794 proven by parol and
Circumstances: Grand Child born prior to 1800.
Identity fully established. Death of widow
& Heirship proven by parol & certified by Court
Allowed at $40 per annum from March 4, 1836
to April 7 1839 date of widow's death. (If for increase.) Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of this claim? If so, what? 
Payable to Cynthia Crocker Wealthy Bruce Thomas E Richards Russell Richards (admt.) [ADMINISTRATOR] Augustus Richards Rodolphus Richards & Wm [WILLIAM] L. Richards Surviving children
A H Evans Examining Clerk.

Name and residence of Agent
Arad Joy
Ovid N.Y
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Rev. [REVOLUTIONARY] and 1812
War Section.
July 22, 1936
Mrs. S. H. Bruce
Garrettsville
Ohio

Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the
Revolutionary War pension claim W. 5709, it appears that Thomas Richards enlisted at Piermont, New Hampshire, and served one year as a Sergeant in Captain Ezekiel Ladd's Company, Colonel Timothy Bedel's [BEADLE] Regiment, and served one year in Captain John Strong's Company, Colonel Horsington's [HOISINGTON] Rangers. He was in the battle of Bennington, and at the capture of Burgoyne.
Pension was allowed on his application executed May 23, 1818, while a resident of Ripley, Chautauqua County, New York, aged sixty-five years.
The date and place of his birth are not stated.
In 1823, he was residing in Hiram, Portage
County, Ohio. He died January 14, 1828, place not
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mentioned.
Soldier married in January 1779 at Piermont,
New Hampshire, Cynthia, her maiden name is not given.
In 1838, she was living in Macomb Township, Macomb County, Michigan, aged seventy-eight years. She died April 7, 1839 in Portage County, Ohio.
The pension due the widow was allowed the
following children Susan or Susannah, born October 17, 1779, married in 1797, Moody Clark; Thomas E.; Welthy [or WEALTHY] Bruce, born January 17, 1783; Cynthia Crocker; Russell; Augustus S.; Rodolphus S.; and William L.
Charles B. Clark, born in 1798, was the son of
Susan and Moody Clark.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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1914 Dec. 14 Hist [HISTORY] to Mrs. C T Adams
1915 May 1 Mrs. C.T. Adams [illegible]
place of birth & death of soldier & date & place of birth of wife are not established.
1915 Nov. 11 Herbert W. Dennis date & place of Solr [SOLDIER'S] birth & place of death & date & place of wife's birth are not stated.
1926 - July 22. Hist to Mrs S.H. Bruce aws.

Revy [REVOLUTIONARY] WIDOW, &c. [ETC.]
File No. 5709
Cynthia Richards Wid. [WIDOW] Thomas Richards
Pri [PRIVATE] Rev [REVOLUTIONARY]: War
Act: July 7th [18]/38
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 162
{Arrangement of 1870.]
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Thomas Richards
a Soldier, &c. [ETC.]}
Jacob Houghton
Mayville Chautauqua County, N.Y. Agent -
[top right] [illegible] the continental [illegible]
The service under Col. Beadle in 1778 -79 was not continental. But Col. Beadle in 1776, (and only serving that year) did command a Regt. [REGIMENT] [illegible] to the continental establishment. 
Rejected [illegible] Pension Office [illegible]

Thomas Richards, the within named Soldier, served [in the company of Capt. [CAPTAIN] Ladd, & Regiment] of Col. [COLONEL] Timothy Beadle, N.H. Line, from Jany [JANUARY] [[17]'78 to Jany [17]'79 - By an additional]
Declaration, which is annexed, it appears, that he [drew his arms &c from the Publick Stores &] was paid in U.S. paper.-- At the request of Richards, I return the papers, for information] whether Col. Timothy Beadle was, or was not, [in the Service of the U.S. in the Revolutionary] war, on Continental Establishment.- [If he was, Richards is entitled to his] Pension - The answer of the Secretary at [war is requested -
J. Houghton Agent Mayville, Chautauqua Co. N. Y.]
Augt [AUGUST] 17. 1819 -
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Thomas Richards
a Soldier, &c. [ETC.]}
Jacob Houghton
Mayville Chautauqua County, N.Y. Agent -

[top right] [illegible] the continental [illegible]
The service under Col. Beadle in 1778 -79 was not continental. But Col. Beadle in 1776, (and only serving that year) did command a Regt. [REGIMENT] [illegible] to the continental establishment. 
Rejected [illegible] Pension Office [illegible]

Thomas Richards, the within named Soldier, served in the company of Capt. [CAPTAIN] Ladd, & Regiment of Col. [COLONEL] Timothy Beadle, N.H. Line, from Jany [JANUARY] [17]'78 to Jany [17]'79 - By an additional
Declaration, which is annexed, it appears, that he drew his arms &c from the Publick Stores & 
was paid in U.S. paper.-- At the request of Richards, I return the papers, for information whether Col. Timothy Beadle was, or was not, in the Service of the U.S. in the Revolutionary war, on Continental Establishment.- If he was, Richards is entitled to his Pension - The answer of the Secretary at war is requested -
J. Houghton Agent Mayville, Chautauqua Co. N. Y.
Augt [AUGUST] 17. 1819 -
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19.065
Thomas Richard
filed May 17. 1823
$123 Paid
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The State of Ohio Portage County Ss} Be it known that a term of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Portage holden at the Court house in the town of Ravenna within
and for the County of Portage and State of Ohio before the Honorable George Tod Esquire President and Elias Harman Alva Day & Augustus Baldwin Esquires associated Judges of said County holding said Court being a Court of Record for said County especially
constituted by Law providing according to the cause of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount & keeping a record of their procedeings [PROCEEDINGS] and having the power of fine & imprisonment on this seventeenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
twenty three Personally appeared in open Court Thomas Richards aged seventy years
resident in the town of Hiram in the County of Portage who being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare (as well as his memory serves him but being old and infirmed and failing fast considers he is liable to make mistakes owing to the loss of memory) that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows he the said Thomas Richards enlisted into the company commanded by Captain Ezekiel Ladd in the Regiment commanded by Col. [COLONEL] Timothy Beadle of the United States Army in the begining [BEGINNING] of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six and served one full year or more in said Army in the year [17]77 or [17]78
he enlisted under Capt [CAPTAIN] Hoisington
in Stark's Brigade for the term of one year and served his time out that during the time he was in several skirmishes with the Indians and at the taking of Burgoyne
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident
citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any other way disposed of my property or any part there of [THEREOF] with intent so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war passed on the eighteenth of March AD 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any sureties  or contracts or demands due to me
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nor have I any income other than is contained in the schedule here unto annexed and by me subscribed
This declarant exhibits in open Court an Inventory of all his property he is now possessed of and has been since the passage of the first act of Congress making provision
for Revolutionary Soldiers

One Cow worth ten dollars an [sic] note for a pair steer one year old valued at ten dollars
A cane valued at one dollar
A note for fifteen dollars
This declarant further states that he has a break which renders him unable to labor much and lives with one of his sons My wife aged aged [sic] sixty two years of a feeble constitution unable to labor who lives with another his sons Sworn to and declared on this seventeeth [SEVENTEENTH] Day of May in the year of our Lord 1823 Thomas Richards
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court this
17th day of May A.D. 1823. S Day
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[upside down left] Thos [THOMAS] Richards

19.065
Declaration in the case of Thomas Richards
Orderly Sergt. [SERGEANT]

Col: Bedle's [BEADLE'S] Regt. [REGIMENT]

Returned, in order that the Line in which the applicant served, may be stated in the declaration
31 Jany [JANUARY] 1824.
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The State of Ohio Portage Count Ss} Be it Remembered that at a Term of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Portage holden at the court house in the town of Rewinna {RAVENNA] within and for the County of Portage and State of Ohio before the Honorable George Tod Esquire President and Elias Harmon Alva Day and Augustus Baldwin Esquires associate Judges of said County holding said court being a court of Record for said County expressly constituted by law providing according to the cause of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of their
procedings [PROCEEDINGS] and having the power of fine & imprisonment on this seventeenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three Personally appeared in open Court, Thomas Richards aged seventy years resident in the town of Hiram in the County of Pottage
who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare (as well as his memory serves him but being old and infirm and failing fast considers he is liable to make mistakes
owing to the loss of memory), that he served in the Revolution War as follows- He the said Thomas Richards enlisted into the Company command by Captain Ezekiel Ladd in the Regiment commanded by Col [COLONEL] Timothy Beadle of the United States Army in the beginning of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six and served one
full year or more in said Army and in the year [17]77 or [17]78 he the said Thomas enlisted under Capt [CAPTAIN] Harrington
in General Starks [sic] Brigade for the term of one year and served his time out, that during that time he was in several skirmishes with the Indians and at the taking of Bennington.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a
[illegible]
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resident Citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any other way disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent so to diminish it as to bring
myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war passed on the eighteenth of March A.D. 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any securities or contracts or demands due to me nor have I any income other than is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed. This declarant exhibits in open court an Inventory of all his property he is now possessed of or ever has been since the passage of the first act of Congress making provisions for Revolutionary Soldiers. -
One Cow worth ten dollars. A cane valued at one dollar. A note for fifteen dollars. A note for a pair of steers one year old valued at ten dollars.
This declarant further states that he has a break which renders him unable to labor much and lives with one of his sons. My wife aged sixty two years of a feeble constitution unable to labor who lives with another of his sons. Sworn to & declared on this seventeenth day of May in the year of our Lord 1823
Thomas Richards
Sworn to and Subscribed in open Court this 17th day of May A.D. 1823.
S Day Clerk}

Court of Com. [COMMON] Pleas May Term A.D. 1823.
Thomas Richards a Revolutionary soldier appears in Court and being duly sworn exhibits a statement of facts and a schedule of his whole estate and income, and the Court having inspected the same, and heard evidence in support thereof are satisfied
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that the Schedule contains all the property of the said declarant, and that the statement as therein set forth is correct. And it is ordered that the said schedule be filed in the clerks [sic] office."
The State of Ohio 
Portage County Ss.}  I Seth Day Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do certify that the foregoing is truly copied from the Records of
said court now remaining in this office
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Ravenna this fifth day of December Anno Domini 
one thousand eight hundred and twenty three.
S Day Clk. [CLERK]
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To the Hon [HONORABLE], James L Edwards
Sir I rec'd [RECEIVED] your letter of
instructions relative to my application for a
pension under act of Congress passed July 4th 1836 and of the first section of the act of 3d March 1838 - I have to say to you Sir that I have complied with the requirements of the acts and instructions recd from you and have forwarded my declaration some five or six months since
I stated in my first communication that I
could not make proof myself but that my
husband Thomas Richards had made sufficient proof to the department to obtain a pension in 1823 or 6 [I] disremember which and I referd [REFERRED] the department to the proof already in the office I should like to know whether I am to have a pension granted or no - have the goodness Sir to inform me
Respectfully Yours
Cynthia Richards
Sept 13th 1838 Wit Clemens
Macomb County
Michigan
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Affidavit in the
case of Thos. [THOMAS] Richards -
The credibility & disinterestedness of the within affiant must be duly certified by the magistrate who administered the oath.-- Return for that
purpose, 31 Jany [JANUARY] 1823
Army and acted as Orderly sergeant for that year & the next year [17]77 [illegible]
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I Samuel Stone of Franklin in the County
of Portage & State of Ohio of Lawful age do testify and and [sic] say that I was well acquainted with Thomas Richards and knowing of his enlisting into the United States army in the year one thousand seven hundred and
seventy six under the command of Capt [CAPTAIN] Ezekiel Ladd in the Regiment commanded by Capt. [CAPTAIN] Timothy Beadle and served one full year in sd [SAID] 
Army and acted as Orderly Sergeant for that year & the next year [17[77 Sd [SAID] Thomas Richards Enlisted under Capt Hossington [HOISINGTON] and served in General Starks [sic] Brigade for the term of one year in the United States service against the common Enemy and further your deponent sayeth not
Saml [SAMUEL] Stone 

State of Ohio Portage County} ss. Franklin the 17th day of March AD 1823
Personally appeared before me Samuel Stone and made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth
Geo. [GEORGE] B. Depeyster Justice of Peace

and for the county of Portage, in the State of Ohio, do by these presents, certify and make known, that George B. Depeyster Esquire, before whom the foregoing Deposition was taken, and who has thereunto, in his own proper hand writing subscribed his name, was, at the time of taking such Deposition and now is a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn, and to all
whose official acts as such, full faith and credit is, and ought to be given, throughout the United States, and elsewhere.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court at Ravenna, in said county, this 25th day of August in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty three.
S Day
Clerk.
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The State of Ohio Portage County Ss.
Personally appeared before me the Subscriber one of the acting Justices of the peace for said County George B Depeyster the Justice of the peace before whom the enclosed deposition of Samuel Stone was taken, who deposeth
and saith, that to the best of his knowledge and belief the said Samuel Stone is a person of good character for truth and veracity, and that he the said Samuel Stone in not directly nor indirectly interested in having the within mentioned Thomas Richards obtain the pension for which he applies -
Given under my hand and seal this 10th day of
April A.D. 1826
Selah Shirtliff justice of the Peace {Seal}
April 20th 1826 I Certify that Selah Shirtliff was an acting Justice of the Peace at the date of the above certificate
E Whittlesey
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Affidavit in the case of Joseph Richards

[upside down] The within Declaration of Joseph Richards was taken and sealed by Amherst Willoughby [end]

Let the magistrate certify, that the within affiant, (John Richards) is a disinterested witness.
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I John Richards of Berkshire in the County of Franklin and State of Vermont of lawful age Certify and say that Thomas Richards
enlisted into the United State army in the year [17]76 under Capt [CAPTAIN] Ezekiel Ladd and in Col [COLONEL] Timothy Beadles [sic] 
Regiment and served one year in sd [SAID] Army and served as orderly sergeant for that year - and the next year say in [17]77 sd Thomas Richards enlisted under Captain Hoisington and in General Starks [sic] 
Brigade for the term of one year in that
service was at the taking of Burgoyne -- and further your deponent sayeth not
John Richards

State of Vermont Franklin County Ss} Berkshire the 1st day of Decbr [DECEMBER] AD. 1821 

Then John Richards personally appeared and made solemn oath that the foregoing Deposition [by] him subscribed contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth before me
Amherst Willoughby Justice Peace

fees for travel writing and taking the above
Deposition $1.00
A Willoughby
my fees for my trouble $1.00
John Richards
the above named John Richards is a Person
of undoubted Credibility
A Willoughby J.P. [JUSTICE PEACE]
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State of Vermont Franklin County Ss}
County Clerks [sic] office St. Albans February
26th 1822 I Horace Jones of St. Albans
aforesaid Clerk of the County Court in said
County do hereby certify that Amherst
Willoughby Esq [ESQUIRE] of Berkshire in said County is and was on the first day of December AD 1821 a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly qualified to act as such and that the foregoing Certificate is signed by him in his own proper hand writing
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto signed
my name and affixed the Public seal of said Court
Horace Jones Clerk
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Covington Kenton County Kentucky
April 20th 1853.
Dr [DEAR] Sir
My father Thomas Richards now deceased served as a Sergeant in the company in the Regt [REGIMENT] under Col. [COLONEL] Beadle in the New Hampshire line in the war of the
Revolution. He was at the taking of Genl. [GENERAL] Burgoyne -
He made application for Pension in 1817 or 1818 and it was granted in 1826 a short time after his death. And nothing was drawn
I wish to know if the Government has made any provision for paying for the maintenance
and support of soldiers of the Revolution
who were poor & feeble during the pendency of their application for Pension when they are entitled as in the case of my father
[illegible] are infirm [illegible] & oblige
Yours &c [ETC.]
Tho. [THOMAS] E. Richards
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[stamp illegible] [stamp illegible]
December 31 [18]17 Enquiry response
Thomas Richards

To the Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington
District of Columbia
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To the Hon [HONORABLE] J L Edwards Commisioner  [COMMISSIONER] of
Pentions [PENSIONS] for the United States of America Dsr [DEAR SIR] We the heirs of Thomas Richards a Revolutionary soldier think that there is something our due from government for our Farthers [FATHER'S] Revolutionary services - my farther applide [APPLIED} for a pention and after a long time it was granted but before the Certificate reached him he died and of course did not draw anything then my Mother Cynthia Richards applide for a pention under the act granting Pentions to certain Widows and died before the necessary proof could be made; and now sir will you pleas [PLEASE] inform us whether under such circumstances there is even a possibility of geting [GETTING] anything or not and if so what proof is necessary
NB [take note] the proof of there [THEIR] marage [MARRIAGE] cannot be made
I am very respectfully yours
Rodolphus S. Richards
The Pension Certificate of our farthers was handed to a lawyer and last and our mothers [sic] name was entered on record for a Pension
Mount Clemens
Macomb County
Michigan
R S Richards
Dec 18 1847
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In the case of Cynthia Richards decd [DECEASED] Wid [WIDOW] of Thomas
The claim of Thomas Richards was passed
upon by this Office on the 20th day of Apr 1826. allowing him 8 $ per month from that date. Richards died Jany [JANUARY] previous, and, therefore was never a pensioner
His widows [sic] case is examined as a new case under the act of July 7. 1838. -
The old papers contain evidence of 1 years Service. The marriage is mainly
established by Laban Clark, who knew them
to have a grandchild prior to 1800.-
Several other witnesses prove the fact.-- The
death of Cynthia and the Heirship of the
claimants are facts fully established by several witnesses.-
A. H. Evans
Examining Clerk
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Cynthia Richards wid: [WIDOW] of Thomas
Michigan
Let: [LETTER] to Client 17 Oct 1838
"                     "     "      19   "      " 
"      " D R. Tilden Sept: 15 [18]/46
"      " R. S. Richards Jany 19 [18]/48
"      " D. Lyman May 16 [18]/50
"      " E. M Whittlesy June 9 [18]/52
"      " A Joy Sept 16 [18]/52
"      "  "   "  March 5 [18]/53
4 July [18]/36 (over)

Lett to J.L. Ramsey April 27/[illegible]
R.S. Richards July 29 1853
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✓
Cynthia Richards of Thomas
Michigan
Suspended
---
Sent let [LETTER] 12 Oct 1838 to claimant,
let to do. 19 Oct. [18]38 
 "  to Hon D. R Tilden
Sept 15. 1846.
Let to R S Richards Jany [JANUARY] 19/[18]48}
  " to Darus Lyman May 16 [18]50
  " E M Whittlesey 9 June 1852
Let A. Joy Sept 16 [18]/52
Act 4 July 1836

J.
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{left sideways] Respectfully referred to the Secretary of War. [end]

3
R922 Oct 11 [18]'38.
and 6th 1938 at Pen [PENSION] office
Bounty Land and Pension Office
Cynthia Richards
Honorable M. Dickerson  25
Navy Department
City of Washington [stamp illegible]

Removed to Bounty Land Office -. 19th. Octr [OCTOBER] 1838 
Ext G. 
N: Oct 13th. 1838
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Mt Clemens
Macomb County
Michigan Sept 13th 1838

To the Hon [HONORABLE], J R. Poinsett 
Secretary of Navy 
Respected Sir I recd [RECEIVED] your proof of 21 Jany [JANUARY] 1834 informing me of the receipt of my first communication to the
Secretary of war relative to granting Pensions
to widows also to granting Bounty lands to
Soldiers of the revolutionary army--
Thomas Richards my lawful husband was a
soldier of that army both before and after
our marriage and made sufficient proof to
the Department in 1825 for them to grant
him a pension in April 1826 but he died
the 18th of Jany before and never drew any thing [sic] Whether he ever applied for land I do not know but I know he never drew any but always said he was as much entitled to it as any soldier of the Army I know he sustained the loss of Eight hundred dollars of continental money and died leaving me entirely destitute If the department see fit to grant me a pension or the land or some remuneration for the eight hundred dollars lost it would very much relieve the destitute Widow of Thomas Richards - Have the goodness Sir to inform me whether I am to receive any thing or not I am with much respect Yours etc
Cynthia Richards
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Darius Lyman
Heirs of Thos [THOMAS] Richards
admd [ADMITTED] May 16/[18]50

FREE [postage]
J. L. Edwards Esq
Comr [COMMISSIONER] of Pensions
Washington City

[stamp] RAVANNA MAY O
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Ravenna May 9. 1850
Dear Sir,
The Heirs at Law of Thomas Richards a Revolutionary Soldier wish to obtain what is due to him from the government on account
of the Pension due to his mother at the time
of her decease. I understand that she established her right some ten or twelve years since but that she has never obtained her money.

Her name was Cynthia Richards, and she died
April 10. 1840. You will confirm from on the
[illegible] if you will advise him of the same
to be permitted to enable him to obtain what they are entitled to [illegible] of the soldier
Yours respectfully
Darius Lyman
Ravenna Portage Cty [COUNTY] Ohio
J L Edwars Esq [ESQUIRE] Commr [COMMISSIONER] of Pensions
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Washington D.C.
5th June 1852
Jas. [JAMES] E. Heath, Esqr [ESQUIRE] 
Comm [COMMISSIONER] of Pensions
Sir
Russell Richards, of Ravenna Portage County Ohio, has requested me to ascertain if any payment has been made to any person, on account of sum supposed to be due his father, who served in the Revolutionary War
Thomas Richards, his father, (he states,)
served and enlisted in New Hampshire,
he believes under Genl [GENERAL] Beedle, and
that he was in connexcion [CONNECTION] with Major Hossington [HOISINGTON]
Mr Richards, sent this claim and the papers to Arad Joy, Atty [ATTORNEY] at Law and Agent; residing at said Seneca Co. [COUNTY] N. Y. and he states Mr Joy has attended to the claim at the Pension Office; & that
he is fearful he has collected the money, as his letter written lately and for same time to Mr Joy, have remain unanswered, If the information requested by Mr Richards, can be given immediately a great favor would be bestowed
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upon a worthy, and industrious man and one in poor circumstances.
If the amount believed to be due, has not been paid, then will the Commissioner state if the case has been presented by Mr Joy and the facts attending it.
An early answer is particularly requested
Very Respectfully
Yours
E. M. Whittlesey
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Town Clerk
Cynthia Richards Suspended claim
Ohio Jan [JANUARY] 1838
from Arad Joy

Mrs Richards is a Constituent of mine & will the commission give the case an early examination
Feb 3, 1853
E. Newton M
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House of Representatives
Washington Jany [JANUARY] 21st 1853-
Dear Sir
I know Laban Clark who is an Elder in the
Methodist Church residing at Meidaletown, and I am well acquainted with Elihu Spencer Esq [ESQUIRE] but I cannot certify to the hand writing of either of them Mr. Spencer was and I believe now is clerk of the Courts in Middlesex County - I return the affidavit without endorsement,
Respectfully
Chas [CHARLES] Chapman

Ara Joy Esq
Washington D.C.
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Piermont Jan 1st 1853
Dear Sir
I have searched the records according to your request, but can not find the births you speak of. There is a record of the births of children of Russel [RUSSELL] L. and Abigail Richards. Among these is the birth of Susannah Lockwood daughter of the above named persons born January fifth AD 1793. I presume this is another family.
The fact of not finding these persons [sic] names on record is no argument that they
were not born in this town, for on looking
over the books much negligence is evidently
manifested in the recording of births, marriages, and deaths.
Yours in haste
A. J. Thorndike, Town Clerk
Arad Joy
Washington D.C.
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Ovid N.Y. Dec 24 1852
Dear Sir
I am engaged in trying to get a pension for
the family of Thomas & Cynthia Richards, they give me the date of the birth of Susan Oct 17 - 1779 and Welthy January 17, 1782. I write to ask you to please inform me, if such births are on your town records, if so please give me a copy of the record of the same
Please put your answer upon this page & please return this sheet inside out, & direct it to me at Washington D.C. as I expect to be there - I inclose [ENCLOSE] postage to pay on yours
Much oblige
Most Respectfully Yours
Arad Joy

Town Clerk
Piermont
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Cynthia Richards deceased Heirs case,
now of Ohio, law [18]38
Heirs case complete

Ovid Sept 6th 1853

Sir
Yours of the 1 Sept in the case of Cynthia
Richards, widow of Thomas Richard late a
pensioner, I have rec'd [RECEIVED]
Full, sufficient & all the proof hinted at in yours, except the grand sons [sic] family record, is now on file 
On the 2d Feby [FEBRUARY] last, I filed (I had before, filed a similar one) an affidavit of Deacon Laban Clark, a highly respectable old Deacon, as to the fact of his knowing that the grand son [sic] was born before 1800 as he visited his parents before 1800 and there saw him; this he knew well from data that it was before 1800, as the year 1800 was a good data, & it was before that
I believe fully, that under the acceptance of this pension under the law of 1838 the proof on file, re-examined through, will satisfy any examining clerk of the Justice of admitting the claim 
I beg leave respectfully to ask a review of
the papers
Most Respectfully
Your Obt Servt [OBEDIENT SERVANT]
Arad Joy
Hon [HONORABLE] L. P. Waldo Comr [COMMISSIONER]
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Ladd Co [COMPANY] Bedel [BEADLE]s Regiment 11th April [17]78 -Thos [THOMAS] Richards 2nd Sergt [SERGEANT] 12 mos [MONTHS] Says he was dischd [DISCHARGED] in Jany [JANUARY]
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Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir
As a person interested I wish to enquire what amount has been paid at your office to Arad Joy Esq [ESQUIRE] on the pension claim of Cynthia Richards of Portage County Ohio. And furthermore Esq Joy informs me that there is found by the the [sic] records something due my father or his heirs for services in the revolution by the proving his death that it may be obtained, his name is Thomas Richards, if it is so I wish to enquire if it cannot be obtained without the aid of a lawyer and made subject to my order, as I am the administrator on the estate of Cynthia Richards his Widow
Please address an answer as soon as convenient to Ravenna Portage County Ohio
Ravenna ---
June 14th 1854.
yours truly
Russel Richards
Administrator of C [CYNTHIA] Richards

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City.
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No. 75.028 Closd [CLOSED]
Cynthia Richards widow of Thomas Ohio
Act July 7. 1838
Priv. [PRIVATE] 1 year-- $40. per annum from
from March 4. 1836 to April 7. 1839- date of widow's death
Payable to Russell Richards, administrator for
the use & benefit of
Cynthia Crocker
Wealthy Bruce
Thos [THOMAS] E. Richards
Russel Richard adm [ADMINISTRATOR]
Augustus Richards
Rodolphus S. Richards
Wm. [WILLIAM] L. Richards
Surviving Children
Arad Joy Ovid N.Y.
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Ravenna Ohio
Oct 27th 1852
J. E. Heath Esq [ESQUIRE]
Comr [COMMISSIONER] of Pensions
Washington City
D. C.
Sir
Herewith I enclose you a power of Attorney in the matter of the application in behalf of the heirs of Cynthia Richards for a pension be in [illegible] filed by Arad Joy Esq whose authority you will discover is now revoked. The proof is said not to be sufficient upon which to allow the pension but in where particular I am not informed. I have therefore to request that you retain the papers already filed as evidence in the case so far as they may go, and advise of what additional proof it is necessary to make, and I will endeavor to have it supplied
Some time since I wrote you in relation to the claim of Mr. Arial Cass of this County for Bounty Land, in which I stated that the old Gentleman had come to the conclusion
to take up with the 40 acres to which he was found entitled by record evidence in your Department Will you please give your attention to this
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subject as soon as convenient -
Respectfully &c. [ETC.]
J L Ramsey
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Cynthia Richards
We accept under law of 1838 - she died April 7. [18]' 39 Husband died Sept 1826 See 3d [3RD] Auditor - we have shown there is no town or church record, we prove by good data of a
grand child [sic] born 1798, as we claim only under law of 17 July 1838 the case as I think you will see it well established - March 12 [18]53
from
Arad Joy
Courts certificate of date of her death, & names of the children & name of administrator is on file,
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Cynthia
Richards
Estate
Order of appraisement
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The State of Ohio,
Portage County, Ss.} To Robert A Green, Isaac Hudson & Joseph Hough
Greeting:
You having been appointed by the Court of Common Pleas of said County to take an inventory and appraisal of the personal goods chattels Moneys rights & credits whereof Cynthia Richards late of the township of Hiram - died seized. These are therefore to authorize and require you, well and truly to appraise all the goods chattels Moneys rights & credits of the said deceased, which shall be presented to you by the administrators, and a true and accurate inventory thereof make and sign, that the same may be returned to this office within three months from the date hereof.
Witness, Horace T Beebe Clerk of our Court, at Ravenna, this 28th day of June A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty one.
Saml. [SAMUEL] J Hopkins Dep. [DEPUTY] Clerk.
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The State of Ohio
Portage County} I Isaac Swift Senior Appointed Probate Judge in and for said County & State do hereby certify, that at a Court holden at Ravenna within and for said County on the 27
day of May AD 1857 for the purpose of transacting business inventory to said
Estate, or as it is commonly called Probate
or Surrogate business, satisfactory evidence
was exhibited to said Court Cynthia Richards.
deceased, was the widow of Thomas Richards deceased, late a pensioner, and that she died a widow in said County on the 7th day of April AD 1839 eighteen hundred & thirty nine, leaving at her death, the following named children her surviving being her only children heirs surviving & that each of them is over the age of twenty one years to wit,
Cynthia Bookmen, Weathly Bruce, Thomas E. Richards, Russell Richards, Augustus S. Richards, Rodolphus S Richards William L. Richards, I further certify that one of the above named children, to wit Russell Richards, has been duly appointed administrator of said Cynthia Richards Estate & that he is duly
qualified to act as such.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand affixed my official seal this 5th day of January  AD 18[57]
Isaac Swift Senior aforesaid Probate Judge
hundred and fifty one.
Horace T. Beebe CLERK.
Saml. [SAMUEL] J. Hopkins Dep. [DEPUTY]
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The State of Ohio,
PORTAGE COUNTY, SS.} 
 I, Horace T. Beebe Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for the county of Portage and State of Ohio, do hereby certify, that Isaac Swift Esquire, by whom the foregoing and annexed is signed was at the time of signing the same, Senior Associate Judge in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn, and to all whose official acts, as such, full faith and credit are due, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his, is genuine as I believe.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Ravenna, this 5th day of Jan.
A. D. 1851
Horace T. Beebe CLERK.
By Saml. [SAMUEL] J Hopkins Dep [DEPUTY]

The State of Ohio,
PORTAGE COUNTY, ss.}
The Honorable George Bliss
President Judge of the Third Judicial
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The State of Ohio,
PORTAGE COUNTY, ss.}
THE HONORABLE George Bliss President Judge of the Third Judicial Circuit of the Court of Common Pleas in the State of Ohio, and Isaac Brayton & Luther Brown Esquires his Associates, Judges of the same Court, within and for the county of Portage; holding said Court at the Court House in said county, the twenty seventh day of May A. D. 1851;
TO Russell Richards GREETING:
Whereas, Cynthia Richards of Hiram
in said county, (as is alleged,) lately died intestate, having whilst living, and at the time of her death, goods, chattels, rights, credits, and estate within said county of Portage, by reason whereof the granting of administration of all and singular the said goods, chattels, rights, credits, and estate, and also the auditing, allowing, and final discharging the account thereof doth appertain to us; we being desirous that said goods, chattels, rights, credits, and estate may be well and faithfully administered, applied and disposed of according to law, do therefore, by THESE PRESENTS, appoint and constitute you, the said Russell Richards Administrator of all and singular the goods, chattels, rights, credits of the said deceased: You having accepted said trust, and executed your bond to our acceptance, well and faithfully, in the manner prescribed by law, to make and return into said Court, on oath, within three months from the date of these letters of Administration, a true inventory of all the moneys, goods, chattels, rights, and credits of the said deceased, which have or shall come to your possession or knowledge, and, if required by the said Court, an inventory of the real estate of the deceased -- also, to administer, according to law, all the moneys, goods, chattels, rights, and credits of the deceased, and the proceeds of all her real estate that may be sold for the payment of her debts, which shall, at any time come to your possession as such Administrator or to the possession of any other person for you; also, to render, upon oath, a true account of your administration, within eighteen months from the date of these letters of administration, and at any other times, when required by the said Court, or the law. Also, to pay any balance remaining
in your hands, upon the settlement of your accounts, to such persons as the Court or the law shall direct; -- and also to deliver these letters of administration into said Court, in case any will of the deceased shall be hereafter duly proved and allowed.
In testimony whereof, We have caused the Seal of our said Court to be hereunto affixed.
WITNESS, Horace T. Beebe Clerk
thereof, at Ravenna, in said county, this twenty eighth day of June Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and fifty one.
Horace T. Beebe CLERK.
By Saml [SAMUEL] J. Hopkins Dep. [DEPUTY]
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The State of Ohio
Portage County SS}
Personally came Russell T. Bruce who I certify is a respectable person and having been duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he was aquainted [ACQUAINTED] with Thomas Richards deceased, late a pensioner, and with his widow Cynthia Richards, and that they are the same persons mentioned in the within letters of Administration. That he knew them for more than twenty five years ago, and from that time till their deaths, that he was present at the death of said Cynthia Richards
on the 7th day of April A.D. 1839, and she left as her legal heirs being her only children the following named persons, and that they are all over the age of twenty one years: to wit: Cynthia Crocker, Wealthy Bruce Thomas E. Richards Russell Richards Augustus S. Richards
Rhodolphus S. Richards and Williams L. Richards, and said deponent further makes oath that the above named Russell Richards, is the same one mentioned in the within letters of Administration. -
Russell T. Bruce
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 4th day
of December A D 1851
Ezra B Taylor J P. [JUSTICE PEACE]

Left sideways] Richards Estate Admt. [ADMITTED]
---
The State of Ohio,
PORTAGE COUNTY, SS.} I Horace T Beebe Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and
for the county of Portage and State of Ohio, do hereby certify, that Ezra B. Taylor Esquire, before whom the foregoing and annexed Deposition was taken, was at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn, and to all whose official acts, as such, full faith and credit are due, and that the forgoing signature
purporting to be his, is genuine as I believe.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Ravenna, this Fourth day of December A.D. 1851.
Horace T. Beebe CLERK.
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State of Ohio
Portage County} SS
Sarah F. Chapin of whom I certify is a
respectable person after being duly sworn
according to law deposeth and saith that for more than thirty years she has been acquainted with Thomas Richards deceased
late a pensioner & with his late widow Cynthia Richards and with their family this deponent deposes and says that Cynthia Richards above named died April 7th 1839 and died a widow leaving at her death the following named
children, her surviving, being her only children her surviving & who still survive her each of whom is over the age of twenty one years, to wit Cynthia Crocker, Wealthy Bruce Thomas E. Richards Russell Richards Augustus S. Richards
Rhodolphus S. Richards and Williams L. Richards
Sarah F Chapin
Subscribed and sworn before me this 11th day of October 1851
Clinton Young J P [JUSTICE PEACE]

The State of Ohio.
PORTAGE COUNTY, SS.} I Horace T Beebe 
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within
and for the county of Portage and State of Ohio, do hereby certify, that Clinton Young Esquire, before whom the foregoing and annexed Affidavits were taken, was at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn, and to all whose official acts, as such, full faith and credit are due, and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his, are genuine as I believe.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Ravenna, this 21st day of October A. D. 1851.
Horace T. Beebe CLERK.
By Saml [SAMUEL] J. Hopkins Dep. [DEPUTY]
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State of Ohio
Portage County} ss Peter Cooper of whom I certify is a respectable person after being duly sworn according to law deposeth & saith that for more than thirty years he has been acquainted with Thomas Richards late a pensioner & with his late widow Cynthia
Richards and with their family the deponent - deposeth and saith that Cynthia Richards above named died April 7 1839 and is a widow leaving at her death the following named children, her surviving being her only children her Surviving who still survive her each of whom is over the age of twenty one years, to wit, Cynthia Crocker, Wealthy Bruce Thomas E. Richards Russell Richards Augustus S. Richards
Rhodolphus S. Richards and Williams L. Richards
Peter Cooper
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 16th day of October 1851
Clinton Young Jus P [JUSTICE PEACE]
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State of Ohio
Portage County SS} Laura Rawson whom I certify
is a respectable person after being duly sworn according to law deposes and says that she was with Cynthia Richards widow of Thomas Richards deceased and late a pensioner) in her last sickness and untill [UNTIL] her death, and the said Laura Rawson further deposes and says that Cynthia Richards widow Thomas Richards died on the 7th day of April 1839 and that Henry Crane was her attending physician
Laura Rawson
Sworn and subscribed before me this 16th day of October 1851
Clinton Young J P [JUSTICE PEACE]
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Town Clerk
1798
1779
_____
18

[upside down] Paid 10 [postage] PAID
[stamp] OVID APR 23 NY

Town Clerk or Minister
Piermont County
Grafton County
New Hampshire
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State of Ohio
Portage County SS} Ebenezer Lee whom I certify to be a respectable person after being
duly sworn according to law deposes and says that he furnished the coffin for the body of Cynthia Richards and that he finds a note of the same on his book made at the time of furnishing it that it was so furnished and so made on the 7th day of April 1839
Ebenezer Lee
Sworn and Subscribed before me this 16th day of October 1861}
Clinton Young J. P. [JUSTICE PEACE]

for four years living with the said Susannah, formerly Susannah Richards as his then 
wife, that this deponent visited the said Thomas & Cynthia Richards the same time, to wit 1801 and learned there also that his said
brother Moody Clark had four years before that time married to their eldest daughter Susannah, and that the said Thomas & Cynthia Richards were living together as husband and wife before the close of the Revolution
Subscribed & Sworn before me
Laban Clark
this 13th day of October 1851
John L. Smith, Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut
County of Middlesex} SS Laban Clark, whom I certify is a respectable person, after being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that as early as 1782 & 1783 he was personally acquainted with Thomas Richards deceased
late a pensioner, & with his then wife Cynthia Richards & their family, that the said parties had at that time two children Susannah & Wealthy, that this deponents [sic] brother Moody Clark, in the year 1797 married Susannah Richards the eldest daughter of Thomas & Cynthia Richards, that this deponent in 1801 visited his said brother Moody Clark, & that he was at that time & had been four years living with the said Susannah, formerly
Susannah Richards as his then wife, that this deponent visited the said Thomas & Cynthia Richards the same time to wit 1801 and learned there also that his said brother Moody Clark had four years before that time married to their eldest daughter Susannah, and that the
said Thomas & Cynthia Richards were living together as husband and wife before the close of the Revolution
Laban Clark
Subscribed & Sworn before me this 13th day of October 1851
John L. Smith, Justice of the Peace
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Middleton Court Oct 14th 1851
I hereby certify that John L Smith who has subscribed the within instrument is a justice of the peace for the County of Middlesex in the State of Connecticut & that the signature is in his hand writing [sic] Sam [SAMUEL] D Hubbard
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Ovid N.Y. April 22d 1851
Sir
Will you upon this page please inform
me, if the marriage record of Thomas Richards
to Cynthia - Jany [JANUARY] 1779 by Rev [REVEREND] John Richards-- If not on your records, please say if not on the Church records-- please answer upon this page, & turn the sheet inside out and direct it to me-- Much oblige the Richards family & Your Yankey friend
Arad Joy
Town Clerk & Minister

I find no record of the marriage of Thomas Richards
E. W. Harriman} Town Clerk of Piermont
I find no record of the Marriage of Thomas
Richards
Geo [GEORGE] P Baldwin} Town Clerk of Bradford
This letter was directed to [illegible] and received him last week
G.PB
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To the Commissioner of Pensions
Sir I am desirous of information from your
honor in regard to presenting the claim of the heirs of Thomas Richards a Revolutionary
Soldier; he applied for a Pension and it was granted him, but he did not live to draw any thing his widow applied and owing to some
technicality was refuted -- some three or
four years since my brother Russell Richards
employed Arad Joy of the State of New York
as agent for the heirs and he was rejected
and some further efforts have been made
without success
I have received some four or five different applications to establish the claim-- some proffer to get the claim allowed for one half-- and one for 1/4th and one for one fifth I am of the opinion that they were the Clerks in the office and [illegible] the Claim should not be allowed untill [UNTIL] they could make something out of it-- I will give you there [THEIR] Names
F E Hassler) S Godwen) Willis G Wade)
(George H Mansarrat) Isaac N Coffen)
all of these confidently affirm that they can get
the Claim allowed
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1 Is it necessary that we employ an agent -
2 if so who would you reccommend [RECOMMEND] as that agent -
3 how would the heirs be sure of getting anything after it gets into the hands of the agent--
I do not know under what Act to apply
nor what is Due; pleas [PLEASE] inform
Rodolphus S Richards
May 3, 1853
Mount Clemens
Macomb Co
Michigan
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-
Cynthia Richards
Filed a large roll of paper, Courts Certy [CERTIFIED] & proof Jany [JANUARY] 27. [18]52
asking for a report
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Cynthia Richards
Revolutioner 
Husband was pensd. [PENSIONED] 
She applied from Michigan
I wish to see the papers, I have a lot of proof in the case Feb 2nd 1852
from
Arad Joy
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Cynthia Richards
Suspendid [SUSPENDED]
Law of 1836 -
Michigan
from
Arad Joy
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Thomas Richards, Ohio Roll, act of March 18, 1818, at $ 8 per month, said to have died about 20 years Ago.
Be pleased to say to what time payment was made
Pension Office
Sept 12 1846}
There have been no payments on the books of this Office
Wm [WILLIAM] Tyson
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Washington April 22nd 1826
Sir
I was not because when I returned the Deposition of Mr Stone that the other papers were in my possession.
They are now returned.
Yours truly
Respectfully
E Whittlesey

J L Edwards Esqr
Pension agent
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Ravenna Aug 3. 1846
Sir
The heirs of Thomas Richards, a solder [SOLDIER] of the Revolution, are about to make application for the back pension due the said Thomas at the time of his death - Thomas Richards died some twenty years ago A certificate for a pension was issued a few days after his death Will you inform me whether under the law upon which this pension was granted there will be any thing [sic] due to the heirs of  Richards
I am very truly
Your obt [OBEDIENT] sevt [SERVANT]
Danl [DANIEL] Tilden
Col [COLONEL] James L Edwards
Comr [COMMISSIONER] of Pensions-
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Hon [HONORABLE] Elisha Whittlesey
Washington City
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Nelson Dun 23rd 1825
Honored Sir, By request of Thomas Richards an
old soldier of the revolutionary army-- I forward his claims upon our Government-- to you, requesting your assistance to procure a pension for him, for the short time he has to remain in his troubles - he is old and decrepit - his mental powers have failed, in a word I may say he is a child - not a cent of property -depending on a child for suport [SUPPORT] -whose circumstances are of the lowest kind
The Dep [DEPOSITION] of John Richards is
among the papers-- he died the August after his Deposition was taken - John Stone who was a witness to prove his claim, is gone to parts unknown - If you can do any thing [sic] to obtain his claim I trust you will-- And any compensation required will be freely given-
Yours Respectfully
Isaac Mills
Hon. [HONORABLE] Elisha Whittlesey
City of Washington
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Thomas Richards Ohio Act March 18, 1818
to what time paid?
Pen: [PENSION] Office he does not appear to have been paid
July 18 '[18]38 
H
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Heirs case- Revolutionary
Originally law of 1836 from Michigan Courts Certificate on file
We accept under law of 1838 Sec 3 and for his death in 1826 the case a clear as noon day
under law of 1838 I consider it same as Admitted. I submit it entirely to papers on file, See statement filed March 12.'[18]53, Let
the paper on file decide it

Ovid June 21 '[18]53
Sir
I inclose [ENCLOSE] power of attorney in the case of Cynthia Richards, Court certificate
of her death & name of children, and
administrator is on file
This is an heirs case
Most Respectfully
Your Obt [OBEDIENT] Servt [SERVANT]
Arad Joy
Hon [HONORABLE] L P Waldo
Comr [COMMISSIONER] of Pens [PENSIONS]
Mr Hanson last examined the case
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State of Ohio
COUNTY of Portage} ss. Russell Richards being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is a child of Cynthia Richards deceased, to whom a pension was probably due, & who was an applicant for a pension from the State of Michigan & Ohio that this deponent is directly interested as one of the claimants in said claim.
Russell Richards

Sworn and subscribed before me this 10th day of June 1853 and I do hereby certify that the
said Russell Richards is a respectable person, and that I have full faith in the truth of the above statement sworn to by him as being directly interested in said claim
Orsamus L. Drake J. [JUSTICE] Peace

[illegible]
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The State of Ohio. PORTAGE COUNTY, SS.}
I, E. SPALDING, County Clerk, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for the county of Portage, and State of Ohio, do hereby certify, that Orsamus L Drake Esquire, before whom the foregoing and annexed affidavit & acknowledgment was taken,
was at the time of taking the same, Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn, and to all whose
official acts, as such, full faith and credit are due, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his, I believe to be genuine, and that said instrument is executed and acknowledged as required by the Statutes of this State.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Ravenna this fourteenth
day of June A.D. 1853.
E. Spalding CLERK.

[sideways]
Orsamus L. Drake J. [JUSTICE] Peace

Know all men by these presents, That I Russell Richards a child of Cynthia Richards
deceased, to whom a pension was probably due & who was an applicant for a pension from the State of Michigan & Ohio do hereby constitute and appoint ARAD Joy, of Ovid, N. Y., my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name as one directly and personally interested as also for and in behalf of all others interested in the claim or application for a pension as above mentioned Russell Richards seal
Witness my hand and seal, this 16th day of June 1853
SEALED AND DELIVERED IN THE PRESENCE OF}
THE PRESENCE OF
O. L. Drake,
C. S. Drake STATE OF Ohio County of Portage} 
Be it known that on the 10 day of June
1853 before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and State, duly authorized by law to administer oaths and take acknowledgements, personally appeared Russell Richards above named and duly acknowledged the above Power of Attorney and affidavits to be his act and deed.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and date above mentioned
Orsamus L. Drake J. Peace
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V.L.M. Rev. [REVOLUTIONARY] War Section.
November 11, 1915.
Mr. Herbert W. Bemis.
1094 North Walnut Street,
North Brookfield, Mass.
Sir:
In response to your letter dated the 30th ultimo, [last month] you are advised that in the papers in the claim of Thomas Richards, W. File No. 5.709, Rev. War, the date and place of soldier's birth, the place of his death and the date and place of his wife's birth, are not stated.
Very respectfully,
G M Saltzgaber
Commissioner.
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V.L.M.
Rev. [REVOLUTIONARY] War Section.
May 1, 1915.
Mrs. Susan Gale Adams,
1119 Sixth Street.
Greeley, Colorado.
Madam:
In response to your letter of the 26th ultimo, [this month] you are advised that in the papers in the claim of Thomas Richards, W. File No. 5.709, Rev. War, the place of soldier's birth and death, and the date and place of birth of his wife Cynthia, are not stated.
The record forwarded by you is enclosed herein.
Very respectfully,
G M Saltzgaber
Commissioner.
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION. 3-525
-
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C. 19
W.F. 5.709
In reply to your request of ---, received ---
for a statement of the military history of Thomas Richard soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired formation as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. |
LENGTH OF SERVICE. | RANK. |
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN. COLONEL. | STATE.
✓ | 1 year | Sgt. | Ezekiel Ladd Timothy Bedel [BEADLE] | N.H.
✓ | 1 year | | John Strong | Hoisington's Rangers |

Battles engaged in, Bennington Capture of Burgoyne
Residence of soldier at enlistment, enlisted at Piermont N.H.
Date of application for pension, May 23 1818 The same not allowed
Residence at date of application, Ripley Chautauqua Co. [COUNTY] N.Y.
Age at date of application, 65 years He died Jany [JANUARY] 14 1826.
Remarks:  He was in Jany 1779 at Piermont N.H.  Cynthia She was a resident of Mt. Clemens, Macomb Co. [COUNTY] Mich. [MICHIGAN] in 1838 aged 78 yrs. and died Apr. 7, 1839 in Portage Co Ohio. Children Susan Clark b. [BORN] Oct. 17.1779 Mar 1797 Moody Clark, Thomas E. Wealthy Bruce b. Jany 17 1782. Cynthia Crocker Russell Augustus S. Roldolpheous S and William L. Charles B. Clark b. 1798 was the son of Susan & Moody Clark.
Respectfully, 
aw 1914 used date of death as given by widow & children, auditor does not give clear statuses.
Audit all dates of service, cannot prove anything in N.H. or Vt. books, except that Ezekiel Ladd does not appear as a Capt [CAPTAIN] in Bedels regt [REGIMENT] in 1776 & soldier never claimed that year for the Bedel service until he [illegible] was then only year that Bedel was Continental & the only way he could get his pension
Commissioner.
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The Commissioner of Pensions
Pension Office, Department of the
Interior
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir,
Have you any Revolutionary War data or War of 1812 data in regard to Doctor Bildad Andross of
Bradford, Vermont (formerly called Moretown) and also any records of service of Thomas
Richards of Piermont N. H.
In May 1777 Dr. Bildad Andross was sent from Bradford Vt, as
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one of a Committee to the Convention which met at Windsor, Vt. to take measures for organizing a new State.
Any information will be gladly received by
C. G. Adams,
1119 Sixth Street,
Greeley, Colorado

Greeley, Colorado
Dec. 3, 1914
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[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE DEC 7 1914
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Stamp retd [RETURNED] Recd [RECEIVED] one two cent stamp JMO
Commissioner of Pensions
Department of the Interior
Washington, D.C

Dear Sir,
Using the enclosed data which was sent to my son, I filled out some application papers for the Daughters of the American Revolution both for my aunt and myself, but because we did not
have the places [sic] where our ancestor Thomas Richards was born and also the place where he died there [THEIR] application papers were rejected.
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Do the Revolutionary War Records
in your office give this desired
data, where Thomas Richards was born 
and      "            "          "      [Thomas Richards] died?
Also when and where his wife Cynthia Andros
was born?
We are direct descendants through their daughter Susan who was my great-grandmother, and whose photograph I am very proud of
possessing.
We will be very grateful to have this desired information. Kindly return the enclosed military history of Thomas Richards as I am
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sending stamp for reply.
Yours very truly
Mrs.) Susan Gale Adams

1119 Sixth Street
Greeley, Colorado,
April twenty-sixth,
Nineteen Fifteen.
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[stamp] U. S. PENSION OFFICE A APR 30 1915
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Rev Sec [REVOLUTIONARY SECTION]
[stamp] U. S. PENSION OFFICE C NOV 6 1915
Envelope 1094 N. Walnut St.
North Brookfield Mass
Oct. 30, 1915.
G. M. Saltzgaber, Commissioner.
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:-
I am a descendant of Thomas Richards who served in the Revolutionary War in New Hampshire troops, and who applied for a pension May 23, 1818 while living at Ripley, N.Y.
Do you have Thomas Richards' original application papers for a pension on file in your office?
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I am very anxious to know the date and place of his birth. also the place of his death on Jan. 14, 1826.
I wish also to know the place and date of his wife's birth. (Cynthia Andross)
His widow's application papers do not give these dates.
Any information will be gladly received.
Very truly yours,
Herbert W. Bemis
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Garrettsville, Ohio
June 9 1926.
Pension Bureau
Department of Revolutionary
Pensions,
Washington, D.C. [stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE L JUN 11 1926

I wish to obtain from the Pension Office, duplicate affidavits containing the following information as to the Service Record and family of the Rev. [REVOLUTIONARY] soldier, Thomas Richards.
I know this information is contained in his Pension Papers on file in your office
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I wish the affidavits to cover his Service Record
giving his residence as Piermont, N.H. during the
War.
I also want his place and date of death and age at death, the date of his marriage to Cynthia Andross and her age and date of death.
I also want the names of their children as given in these papers, one of the names is given as "Welthy [WEALTHY] Bruce."
It is this name I wish to trace the line through.
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I understand you furnish such affidavits, but I do not know the charge made. I will be very glad to pay the required fee if you will write me what it is.
Hoping to hear from you,
I am very sincerely
yours, Mrs S. H. Bruce
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
NAME Richards, Thomas GRADE Private
LINE Virginia
WARRANT NUMBER 12498
October 21, 1791 to Elias Parker, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent
dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.