Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 8299, for Stephen Spaulding, New Hampshire
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SERVICE
N. H.

Spaulding, Stephen W. 8299
or 
Spaulding, Lucy

NUMBER
W. 8299
B.L.Wt. 18216-160-55_

CONTENTS
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[verso]
vol S2 page 26

[recto]
135,691/act Mar. 3/55
May 16/55
['Lucy Spaulding void Stephen Spaulding Priv' crossed out]
Lucy Spaulding: Stephen Priv: 
N. Hamp: Contl. line, 
Rev. War
AO: 160 acs. Mch: 8/56.
Vt Feby 53 - 4589 
Boynton
[overwritten: No 18216 iss Mar 14/56]
Benj. H. Baldwin Present
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No. 4589
New York
Lucy Spaulding
widow of
N.H. Stephen Spaulding
who served in the Revolutionary

war, as a Private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate

 of 96 dollars - - - - -

cents per annum, to commence on
the 3d February, 1853.

Certificate of Pension issued
14th day of Oct. 1854
and sent to [Illegible]
Crown Point
Essex Co,
N. Y.

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act 
February 3, 1853, Page 33, Vol. 4,

W. R. Wilson
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1854 Oct 27 To Pruett
  "  "  "  To Clinton
1856 May 5. Cer to Payt
  "  "  23. From Burlington Vt.
to Albany N.Y. fr 4 March 1856. 
Rep'd
Date of death not on AB
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3579.
New York from the Vermont Roll
Stephen Spaulding private Dearborn's Reg't Newhampshire Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
______
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 7th of April 1818
______
Certificate of Pension issued the 13th of October 1818 and Sent to Pliny Smith Esqr Orwell Vermont
______
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818 39.46
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar. 1819 48.00
Arrears 4 mo 28/30 $87.46
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
18 months. 1782
continued and transfered 
Benson Rutland Vt
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susp'd see letter March 23, 1835 to J. Gove & P. Agt.
Transf'd on the 17 March 1821. from the 4 March 1820, to New York and Continued
Notifications sent to Hon. E. G. Gross. Elizabeth ['town' crossed out], C House Essex Co. NY
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Stephen Spalding 
3579
Crownpoint Essex Co. NY. 
Con
Not on New York Roll - See copy of application for transfer with the Schedule of Joseph Edwards
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State of New York
Essex County On this 26 day of September in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty, peronsonally
appeared in open court called a Court of Common pleas
& being a Court of record before the judges of the same Court Stephen Spalding of Crown Point in the County
of Essex & State of New York aged 55 years who first
being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare
and say that he served in the Revolutionary war and follows
Colonel Henry Dearborn Regiment Captain Daniel Levenmores Company in the New Hampshire line that the
original declaration was made on the seventh day of April
1818 in the Town Orwell State of Vermont & that he
received a pension from the United States agent at
Burlington in the State of Vermont by the virtue of the pension
certificate granted by the Honorable the secretary at war
& that the number of this certificate is 35.79 and that
I was a resident citizen of the United Stated or the 18
day of March 1818 & that I have not since that time
by gift grant or dale or in any manner disposed of my property
or any part thereof with intent thereby 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 ________ on the 18th day of March 1818
& that I have not nor have any person in hurt for me and property or securtities contracts or debts due to me nor
have any _______ other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed.
Stephen Spalding
Sworn on the 26th day of September
1820 Thod, Stower Clerk

Schedule
1 Real Estate none within in law or equity
2 Person Estate as follows, one old Chest one ox one scythe
one hoe one kit of shoe makers hole whole value $5..00
Stephen Spalding

3 Debts bonafide moving by [illegible] for medical
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4 Debts and credits giving me nothing from which I expect
any benefit
5 The declarant is by occupation a Farmer health as good
as general the case for a person at my age
My first wife has been dead something like six years
Since which time I have married a second wife and
have no family except two small children which I have
[illegible] supported the name of the oldest is Lorenzo his age
4 years old last June one other boy, by the name of Isaac
aged 2 years   I have one other Girl by the name Clarissa
which I had by my first wife aged 6 years which I have
at present to support in clothing
Stephen Spalding

State of New York
County of Essex SS. I Ashley Pond Deputy Clerk of the County
of Essex & of the Court of Common [illegible] in & 
for the same Certify that the forgoing oath of Stephen
Spaulding and the [illegible] there to annexed are
[illegible] copied from the records of the [illegible] Court and I further Certify that the opinion of the [illegible] Court that
the total amount in value of the property [illegible]
in the [illegible] schedule is five dollars
And I do also further Certify that the [illegible] and Court is
a Court of record having had hours of fine & imprisonment
& keeping a record of their proceedings
In testimony where of I have [illegible] to set my heirs
and affairs the Seal of the said at Elizabethtown this
4th day October 1820 (in the absence of Thomas Stours Clerk)
Ashley Pond Dep. Clerk
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State of Vermont
Addison County [illegible] On this tenth day of February
1853 personally before the Nw Court of Probate, holder
at Middleburg in and for the Nw District of Addison
in said County and State Lucy Spaulding a resident
of Crown Parish in the County of Essex and State
of New York who being first duly sworn according
to Sara, [illegible] make the following 
declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the
Act of Congress passed on February 4th, 1853 ~ That
she is the widow of Stephen Spaulding who was a
private in the Army of the Revolution, & who was a
pensioner of the United States under the act of 18th
March 1818 at the note of eight dollars per month
that he first received his pension in the year 1818
and until the 4th of March 1820. his pension was
payable by D Robinson esqr agent for paying
United States pensioners at Burlington Vermont
That on the 17th of March 1821 he was transferred from 
the Roll of Vermont to that of New York to [illegible]
offices on & after this said 4th of March 1820 & that he
ever afterwards drew his pension at the New York
agency. She respectfully refers for proof of her
husbands service to hi application and
proof on file in the Pension office - - - - - 
She further declares that she was married
to the said Stephen Spaulding at Plainfield in the 
State of Vermont on the twenty seventh (27) day of
January one thousand eight hundred and twenty
eight (1828) That her name before her marriage
was Lucy Parker and that her husband the
aforesaid Stephen Spaulding died at Crown
Parish in the County of Essex and State of New
York on the Nineteenth (19) day of October one
thousand eight hundred and fifty three
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(1853 and that she has remained a widow since
that period is now a window

Lucy Spaulding

Sworn to and subscribed before me the
day and year [illegible] above written in 
testimony whereof I [illegible] to [illegible]
my [illegible] of office & subscribed my name 
Horatio Seymour Judge of Probate within
and for the District of Addison

State of Vermont
District of Addison [illegible]
I Jedidiah S. Bushwell Register
of the Probate Court for the District
of Addison do hereby certify that
the foregoing is the original dictation
of Lucy Spaulding before
said courts to obtain a pension,
and the proceeding of said Court
thereon, and that Horatio Seymour
who signed the foregoing
certificate is sole judge of the
said court.
[illegible] where of I here to 
[illegible] my hand and affix the 
seal of said Court this 10th
day of February A.D. 1854.
Jed S. Bushwell Register
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135,691
Lucy Spaulding claim for Bounty Land 
widow of Stephen Spaulding
Revolutionary War
Benj H. Baldwin Atty
Washington DC
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State of New York
County of Essex On this seventh day of May
A. D. one thousand Eight hundred
& fifty-five [illegible] approved before me, a Justice
of the Peace in and for said County and State. Lucy
Spaulding aged sixty-eight years a resident of [illegible]
Parish in said County & State. Who bring duly sworn
according to law [illegible] that she is the widow
of Stephen Spaulding late of said [illegible] Parish deceased
who was a soldier in the Revolutionary
war; that said Stephen in his life [illegible] & for his
said services drew a pension from the United States
of ninety-six dollars per Annum: : [illegible]
his decease. She, the said Lucy, has [illegible] [illegible] as his
widow, and does now, receive a pension from the
Department of the Interior of ninety six dollars per
Annum; that the Certificate of pension in her [illegible]
is recorded in the Pension Office on the roll
of pensions under [illegible] February third 1833. Page
33, Vol, A:  She further declares that she was
married to the said Stephen Spaulding in Plainfield
Vermont on the 24th day of January A.D. 1838.
and [illegible] with him until his decease which took
place on the 19th of October A.D. 1833: that she is
now a widow and makes this application to
obtain the [illegible] to which she may be
entitled to under act 3rd March 1833. And that
she has made no application transfer other that 
the [illegible] such : [illegible] bring [illegible] to her application
for a pension, these facts [illegible] fully [illegible] - 
Lucy Spaulding
[illegible] & [illegible] to [illegible] me on the [illegible], and
I certify that the applicant is the identical person she informs to herself
to be -  Henry H Havens Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
County of Essex On this seventh day of May
A.D. 1835 formally applied
before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said County
Chauncey Fenton aged 53 years and 
Charles F Dike aged 46 years, resident of Crown Point 
in the County of Essex & State of 
New York, who being duly sworn according to law,
depose that they well know Lucy Spaulding of
said Crown Point: that they well know Stephen
Spaulding of said Crown Point, that said Lucy is
the widow of said Stephen [illegible] that the aid in his
life time receive from the Department of the Interior
a pension for services rendered in the war of the
Revolution; that service his decease her the said Lucy
has [illegible], & now is in the receipt of a pension
as his widow; that they [illegible] [illegible] when the 
foregoing declaration was executed by [illegible], and that
she is the identical person who executes the same.
Chauncey Fenton
Charles F Dike

Subscribed and sworn to before me on the day x
Year [illegible] above written and I Certify that 
these Officiants are credible and respectable 
citizens and that I have no interest in this claim.
Harry H Havens
Justice of the Peace
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Know all men by these presents that I, Lucy Spaulding of Crown Point in the County of Essex and State of New York, and the widow of Stephen Spaulding of said Crown Point, a soldier in the war of the Revolution, do hereby appoint Benjamin H. Baldwin of Washington D.C. my lawful attorney and do empower him to do all acts proper and necessary to procure the Bounty Land to which I may be entitled under the late act of Congress, as much as if I myself were present. 
[court seal affixed] In witness whereof I have set my hand and seal this seventh day of May A.D. 1853. 
/s/Lucy Spaulding
Acknowledged before me on the day above written 
/s/Henry H. Havens Justice of the Peace
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State of New York,
ESSEX COUNTY, SS.} I, E. A. ADAMS, Clerk of said County, Do Certify that Henry H. Havens Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the certificate of proof or acknowledgment of the annexed Declarations Affidavits & Certificates was, on the day of the date of the said certificate of proof or acknowledgment a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, dwelling therein, duly qualified and authorized by law to take the Proof and Acknowledgment of Deeds, &c, and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe the signature to the said Certificate of proof or acknowledgment to be genuine, and that the said instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the Laws of the State of New York.
[county seal affixed] IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County, this Eighth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty five. 
/s/E. A. Adams Clerk.
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State of Vermont
Washington County} ss Be it remembered that Stephen Spaulding of Crown Point State of New York and Essex County and Lucy Parker of Montpelier State of Vermont, and Washington County were on the twenty seventh day of January one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight in Plainfield duly joined in marriage by me Rufus L. Harvey Minister of the Gospel 
A true copy of Record Attest /s/Rufus L. Harvey
Received for Record February twenty fifth one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight 
attest /s/Silas Williams Town Clerk - 
I certify that the above is a true copy of the record with the exception of the dates which are expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows 
/s/Mark M. Page Town Clerk
State of Vermont
Washington County} ss. Be it remembered that Stephen Spaulding of Crown Point State of New York and Essex County and Lucy Parker of Montpelier State of Vermont and Washington County were on the 27th day of January 1828 in Plainfield duly joined in marriage by me - 
/s/Rufus L. Harvey Minister of the Gospel
A true copy of Record Attest /s/Rufus L. Nancy
Received for record Feby 25th 1828 attest /s/Silas Williams Town Clerk  
I Mark M. Page above named depose & say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the town of Plainfield County of Washington & State of Vermont aforesaid & that the above is a true extract from the records of said town of Plainfield with the exception above mentioned as certified by me 
/s/Mark M. Page Town Clerk of the town of Plainfield aforesaid
Sworn before me this fourteenth day of January A.D. 1854 And I certify that I am not interested in the foregoing case & am not concerned in its prosecution - 
/s/Ezra Kidder Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont
Washington County ss} I Shubael Wheeler Clerk of the County Court for the County of Washington and State of Vermont, which is a Court of Record, having a Clerk & Seal, hereby certify that Ezra Kidder Esqr is on this 14th day of January A.D. 1834 an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the said County of Washington, duly commissioned and qualified by the Laws of the State to administer Oaths for general purposes; and that his Signature to the within & foregoing Certificate is genuine. 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of said County Court, at Montpelier in said County, this 14th day of January A.D. 1834 - 
/s/Shubael Wheeler
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State of New York
Essex County} ss On the fifth day of September AD one thousand eight hundred and fifty four personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the County & State aforesaid, duly authorised by Law to administer oaths, Israel Gillett aged sixty two years, a resident of Crown Point in said County and State who being duly sworn according to Law deposeth and saith that he has been well acquainted with Lucy Spaulding for the last twenty years, & that he was well acquainted with Stephen Spaulding for & during the time, up to the time of his decease, that the said Stephen Spaulding and Lucy Spaulding both resided together & cohabited together at said town of Crown Point for the space of twenty years: or thereabouts, more or less, - & this deponent thinks more than twenty years, previous to the said Stephen's decease as man & wife - [margin note: 17 C.F.] that this deponent knows the said Lucy to be reputed and believed by all to be the lawful wife of the said Stephen Spaulding, & that she is the identical person who has signed the foregoing declaration for a pension as the widow of said Stephen 
/s/Israel Gillett 
Subscribed and sworn to before me the day and year first above written and I certify that I am well acquainted with the said Israel Gillett who made & signed the foregoing deposition and know him to be respectable & a credible witness - 
/s/Chauncey Fenton Justice of the Peace
I certify that the words "as man & wife" were interlined in the Seventeenth line from the top before the same was sworn to by the said Israel Gillett
/s/Chauncey Fenton Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Essex County} ss. On this fifth day of September A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty three, before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid duly authorised by law to administer oaths, personally appeared James F. More Esqr aged forty five years a resident of [margin note: 7 C.F.] Crown Point in the County and State aforesaid who being duly sworn according to Law deposeth and saith that he has been well acquainted with Lucy Spaulding of said Crown Point, & also with Stephen Spaulding late of said Crown Point deceased to the time of his death which took place in October 1853. it being a period of twenty years as thereabouts, that during the said term of time the said Stephen & Lucy lived and cohabited together as man & wife - This deponent has been informed & believes true, that the said Stephen & Lucy were married at Plainfield in the state of Vermont & soon after moved to said Crown Point where they resided until the decease of the said Stephen - which took place on the nineteenth day of October 1853. This deponent further saith he knows the said Lucy to be the identical person who has made & signed the annexed declaration for Pension of the widow of the said Stephen Spaulding - 
This deponent further saith that Stephen Spaulding aforesaid, the husband of the said Lucy Spaulding, died at Crown Point in the County of Essex and State of New York on the nineteenth day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty three (Oct 19, 1853) - & further saith not - 
/s/James F. More
Subscribed and sworn to before me this day & year first above written - And I certify that I am well acquainted with the said James F. More, and know him to be a highly
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respectable magistrate of said County of Essex and credible witness
/s/Chauncey Fenton Justice of the Peace
I certify that the words, "in the County" are written on erasure in the 7th line from the tope of the foregoing affidavit before the same was sworn to by the said James F. More Esq
/s/Chauncey Fenton Justice of the Peace
STATE OF NEW YORK,
ESSEX COUNTY, SS.} I, E. A. ADAMS, Clerk of said County, Do Certify that Chauncey Fenton Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of proof or acknowledgment of the annexed affadavits & Jurat was, on the day of the said Certificate, of proof or acknowledgment, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, dwelling therein, duly qualified and authorized by law to take the Proof and Acknowledgment of Deeds, &c., and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe the signature to said Certificate of proof or acknowledgment to be genuine, and that the said instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the Laws of the State of New York. 
[county seal affixed] IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County, this Ninth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four
/s/E. A. Adams Clerk.
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Stephen Spaulding 
7 day April [margin note: Spaulding]
Admitted 
['Not on Roll' crossed out] 
Mr Boyd
The seal of the court to be attached and the Judge to certify that it appears to his satisfaction, that the claim out comes within the provisions of the Law 
War Dept. Pen. Office
April 23d, 1828. 
[addressed envelope]
Benson Vt. 
April 7. Free
Hon'e William H. Crawford Esqr
Secretary of the War Department
City Washington
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[duplicate of p 22]
Stephen Spaulding
7 day April [margin note: Spaulding]
Admitted
['Not on Roll' crossed out]
Mr Boyd
The seal of the court to be attached and the Judge to certify that it appears to his satisfaction, that the claim out comes within the provisions of the Law
War Dept. Pen. Office
April 23d, 1828.
[addressed envelope]
Benson Vt.
April 7. Free
Hon'e William H. Crawford Esqr
Secretary of the War Department
City Washington
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State of Vermont Rutland County ss} I Stephen Spalding of Benson in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont Depose and say that I was born in Nottingham in the state of Newhampshire in the year 1764 that I was fifty three years old on 28th Day of October 1817 that in the month of July as I believe in the year 1782 I enlisted into the United States Service for the term of three years under Capt. Daniel Livermore and as near as I can Recollect the Last of August or first of September 1789 - I join'd the first Newham(p)shire Regiment Commanded by Col'o Henry Dearborn at Saratoga in the state of New York and Late in the fall following our Regiment March'd to Newburgh ten miles above west point and encamped for winter quarters and in the spring following I was ordered Down toward New York on the Lines and remain'd there a few months and then return'd to Newburgh and from there to Westpoint and from West point we Cross'd the reiver in the fall following to Constitution Island and remain'd there as near as I can Recollect until some of the Last Days of December 1783 or the first of Jan'y 1784 and was then Dismiss'd from the Army and Return'd home to Newham(p)shire am now Reduced to Poor and indigent circumstances have ['no' crossed out] a wife and fourteen children and no Property either Real or Personal Except a very small share of house hold furniture and stand in Real need of assistance from my Country and further I say not 
/s/Stephen Spaulding 
Sworn Before me at Orwell in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont this 7th Day of April AD 1818
/s/Pliny Smith Chief Judge of Rutland County Vermont
I hereby certify that the above named Stephen Spalding Lives in the town of Benson about fourteen miles from my Residence in Orwell and from a strict inquiry I find the said Stephen supports a fair character of Course I consider the facts stated in said Stephen's Deposition are sufficiently Proved by the oath of the said Stephen and find from inquire that the said Stephen is as Destitute of any kind of Property as he has represented and fully Believe he stands in real need of assistance of his Country 
/s/Pliny Smith Chief Judge of Rutland County Court
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I Pliny Smith Judge of Rutland County Court as aforesaid Do Certify that it appears to my full satisfaction that the said Stephen Spalding did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the Preceding Declaration and testimony against the Common Enemy and that the said Stephen comes within the Provisions of the Late Law of Congress Pass'd for the relief of the old revolutionary officers and soldiers and that I ['solidly' crossed out] fully Believe he stands in real need of assistance from his Country for support - and I now ['transmit the af' crossed out] again to transmit the Proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of war Pursuant to the Directions of the aforementioned act of Congress and have cause the seal of Rutland County Court to be hereunto affixed this 8th Day of May 1818 
[county seal affixed] /s/Pliny Smith Chief Judge of Rutland County Court
By order of Judge Smith 
/s/R. Temple Clk
Sir - if any inaccuracy should be found in any of the Depositions or evidence which I have transmitted ['In favor' crossed out] to the war office in favor of ay old soldier I should esteem it a favor to have the mistakes to me at Orwell in the County of Rutland 
I have transmitted a number before I receiv'd the information that it was necessary they should be authenticated with the County Seal or that the Seal should be attached. I hope it will not be considered necessary in every instance to return them for the want of the Seal as they have been sent without the knowledge of the Seal's being necessary - in future none will be sent without attending to the instructions and Regulations Prescribed
/s/Pliny Smith 
Hon'l J. C. Calhoun Esqr.
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[typewritten letter]
May 12, 1937
xxxxxxxxxx
STEPHEN SPAULDING
W. 8299
BA-J/MLB

Mrs. Mabel S. Rhoades
Crown Point
New York

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the record of Stephen Spaulding, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, who received pension.
You are furnished herein the record of Stephen Spaulding (name also shown in the claim as Spalding), the only soldier of that name under any spelling found in the Revolutionary War records of this office. The data therein were obtained from claim for pension, W. 8299, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War. 
Stephen Spaulding was born October 28, 1764, in Nottingham West, New Hampshire; the names of his parents are not given.
Stephen Spaulding enlisted in New Hampshire in July, 1782, served as a private in Captain Daniel Livermore's company, Colonel Henry Dearborn's 1" New Hampshire Regiment, and was discharged about the last of December, 1783.
The soldier was allowed pension on his application executed April 7, 1818, while living in Benson, Rutland County, Vermont. He died October 19, 1853, in Crown Point, Essex County, New York.
Stephen Spaulding's first wife, name not stated, died about 1814. In 1818, he had a wife and fourteen children, no names given except the name of a daughter, Clarissa who was born in 1814, and those of two sons named Lorenzo, born in June, 1816, and Isaac, born about 1818. The dates of those two marriages, or date of death of his second wife not shown. He again married January 27, 1828, in Plainfield, Vermont, Lucy Parker; he was a resident of Crown Point, New York, and she of
Montpelier, Washington County, Vermont. It is not stated whether he
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[typewritten letter]
had any children by his wife, Lucy.
Stephen Spaulding's widow, Lucy, was allowed pension on her application executed February 10, 1854, while a resident of Crown Point, New York, where she was still residing in 1855 aged
sixty-eight years.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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[verso]
Stephen Spaulding
app: for transfer from Vermont to New York from 4 March 1820. 
Trans. made 16 March 1821 & notif. sent Hon E. c. Gross Eliz'town, Essex Co. N.Y.
Recorded

[recto]
Stephen Spalding
Papers - No 3519
Mar 19
Hon E. C. Gross
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Application for Transfer
State of New York
County of Essex ss} on this 8th day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace for the said County of Essex personally appeared Stephen Spalding who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Daniel Livermore in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Henry Dearborn in the Service of the United States that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Vermont from whence he has lately removed & that he now resides in the town of Crownpoint County of Essex and State of ['Vermont' crossed out] New York where he intends to remain and wishes his pension to be payable in future. 
/s/Stephen Spaulding
Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year aforesaid. 
N. Nicholson Justice peace
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Essex County
Clerk's Office}ss. I Ashley Pond Deputy Clerk of the County of Essex Certify that Norman Nicholson Esquire whose name is subscribed to the within affidavit as justice of the Peace was on the day the within affidavit bears date a Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly commissioned & sworn & authorized by law to administer oaths. 
[county seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said County at Elizabethtown this 10 day of January 1821. ['at' crossed out] (In the absence of Thos. Stours Clk.)
/s/Ashley Pond Dep. Clerk
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8299
Revy WIDOW, &c. 
File No 8299
Lucy Spalding Wid Stephen Spalding
Privt Rev. War.
Act: Febry 3d 1853
Index: - Vol. M, Page 234
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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May 15. 1897 - History to Mrs. H. F. DeLamater, Lexington, Ohio. 
July 13-1903 His to above 
1921 May 9. Hist. to Mrs. Clark A. Derby & check for #1 returned to her. AW.
1933, June 10 - Hist. to Mrs. E. H. Argetsinger 
1937, May 12 - Hist. to Mrs. Mabel S. Rhoades
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[handwritten letter]
Crown Point, N.Y. 
April 20, 1937.

Pension Bureau,
Washington, D.C. 
[receipt stamp: RECEIVED APR 22 1937 MAIL SUB-DIV. VETS. AMD. READER No. 3]
Sirs:
I wish to trace my ancestry for D.A.R. records.
I have been told that Stephen Spaulding was on the pension rolls in 1840. [margin note: only(?)]
Can you tell me dates of his birth, death, marriage, names of children or any other information that would help me?
Yours very truly, 
/s/Mrs. Mabel (Spaulding) Rhoades
[initials: M.L.B.]
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[handwritten letter]
Lexington Ohio
April 13th 1897

To the Commissioner of pensions
Washington D.C. 

Dear Sir
My grandfather Stephen Spaulding was a revolutionary Soldier. he was born in Nottingham N.H. and I think enlisted in a N.H. regiment at fourteen years of age. He drew a pension for a good many years and died in Crown Point Essex Co. N.Y. Oct 19, 1853. His widow died some place May 4, 1860.
Now with this information can you tell me the number of the regiment and Company also officers names to which he belonged. I supposed the records are all kept in the pension department as the records of the late war are. 
Will you please five me this information and oblige.
Yours truly
/s/Mrs. H. F. DeLamater
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[receipt stamp: U.S. PENSION OFFICE. APR 16 1897]
[receipt stamp: U.S.P.B. OLD WAR & NAVY FILES. APR 19 1897]
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[handwritten letter]
Lexington Richland Co Ohio
July 9th 1903

The Hon Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Sir
I am a grand daughter of Stephen Spaulding who was a revolutionary Soldier, He lived for many years in Crown Point Essex Co N.Y. and died there in Oct 1853 
If not to much trouble will you give me the record of the Pension department in his case and greatly oblige
/s/Mrs. H F DeLamater
[receipt stamp: O.W. & N. DIVISION JUL 11 1903 RECEIVED.]
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[receipt stamp: U.S. PENSION OFFICE. O JUL 8 1903
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3
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Finance Division
MAY 7 1921 19[blank]
Chief of Rev. War Section
Sir:
I have this day received from Mrs. Clark H. Crosby ['draft' crossed out] check No. 668 for $1.00/100 requesting ['post-office addresses' crossed out] copy as per letter herewith. 
May 9, 1921 check returned & Finance Div. notf. AW
Very respectfully, 
/s/W. N. Campbell [illegible]
Chief of Division.
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[typewritten letter]
May 9, 1921.

Mrs. Clark A. Derby,
117 Linden Av.
Monessen, Pa.

Madam:
In response to your letter of the 6" instant, you are furnished the history of the Revolutionary War pensioner,
Stephen Spaulding, W. File 8299, for which no fee is charged.
Herewith is returned your check for one dollar which was enclosed in your above noted letter.

Very respectfully,
/s/Washington Gardner
Commissioner.
[margin note: check was on "The Pension Office"]
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[handwritten letter]
117 Linden Ave.
Monessen, Pa.
May 6, 1821. 

The Pension Office
Washington D.C. 

I wish to secure proof of the service in the Revolutionary War of Stephen (Greeley) Spalding. I understand he served in the New Hampshire Line and was a pensioner for thirty three years.
He resided at Crown Point New York where he died in 1852. 
I trust with the information I have given you you will be able to favor me with the proof of his service, and I en-
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[handwritten letter-continued]
close check for One Dollar for possible fee. 
Yours truly, 
/s/Mrs. Clark A. Derby.
[receipt stamp: U.S. PENSION OFFICE M MAY 7 1921]
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[typewritten letter]
Minneapolis, Minn.
June 10, 1933

Veterans Administration
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sirs:
Concerning Stephen Spaulding [margin note: only one] or Spalding, a soldier of the Am. Rev.
I have found a reference to one " Stephen Spaulding, New Hampshire Line, pensioned, Act of March, 1818. "
Please may I have this record for proof of a D. A. R. supplemental.
Thank you,
Very Truly Yours,
Mrs. E. H. Argetsinger
[margin note: signature?]

Mrs. E. H. Argetsinger
2505 West 21st St.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.
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[typewritten letter]
June 20, 1933
xxxxxx
Stephen Spaulding
W. 8299
BA-J/MLB

Mrs. E. H. Argetsinger
2505 West 21st Street
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter of June 10, in which you request the record of Stephen Spaulding or Spalding, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The data contained herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, W. 8299, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Stephen Spaulding or Spalding (he signed both ways).
He was born October 28, 1764, in Nottingham West, New Hampshire; the names of his parents are not stated.
He enlisted in New Hampshire in July, 1782, served as a private in Captain Daniel Livermore's company, Colonel Henry Dearborn's 1" New Hampshire Regiment, and was discharged about the last of December, 1783.
The soldier was allowed pension on his application executed April 7, 1818, while a resident of Benson, Rutland County, Vermont.
He died October 19, 1853, in Crown Point, Essex County, New York.
Stephen Spaulding or Spalding's first wife died about 1814.
In 1818 he had a wife and fourteen children; the names of his wives and children not stated except those of a daughter, Clarissa, born in 1814, and two sons named Lorenzo, born in June, 1816, and Isaac, born about 1818. [margin note: b. 62-6 [shorthand?]]
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[typewritten letter-continued]
The soldier married January 27, 1828, in Plainfield, Vermont, Lucy Parker; he was of Crown Point, New York, and she of Montpelier, Washington County, Vermont. The marriage was recorded in the Town Clerk's Office at Plainfield, Vermont. It is not stated whether he had any children by his wife, Lucy.
Stephen Spaulding or Spalding's widow, Lucy, was allowed pension on her application executed February 10, 1854, while residing in Crown Point, New York. She was still living there in 1855 aged sixty-eight years.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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3-525
REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION. 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D.C., [blank], 19[blank]
W8399 

In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank] for a statement of the military history of Stephen Spaulding or Spalding a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (['or' crossed out'] and his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
[column headings: DATES OF ENLISTMENT OF APPOINTMENT.|LENGTH OF SERVICE.|RANK.|OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.(CAPTAIN.|COLONEL.)|STATE.|]
July 1782 to|Dec. 31, 1783|Pvt|(Daniel Livermore|Henry Dearborn)|NH|
[end of columns]
Battles engaged in, ✓
Residence of soldier at enlistment, N.H. 
Date of application for pension, Apr. 7, 1818. His cl was al
Residence at date of application, Benson, Rutland Co., Vt.
Age at date of application, b. in Nottingham West, N.H. Oct. 28, 1764
X Remarks: Soldier's 1" wife died in 1814. in 1818 he had a wife and 14 children, names of wives and children not stated except dau Clarissa b. 1814 & sons Lorenzo b. 1816 & Isaac b. 1818. 
He mar at Plainfield Vt. Jan 27. 1828, Lucy Parker. He d. at Crown Point N.Y. Oct. 19, 1853. she was living there aged 67 yrs in 1834 when she was al pens. it is not stated whether she had any children
Respectfully, 
[blank]
Commissioner. 
3-2856
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In the matter of the Application of Lucy Spaulding for Pension
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A
War Department, PENSION OFFICE,
March 17, 1821

SIR:
AGREEABLY to your request, you have this day been transferred from the Roll of Vermont to that of New York to take effect from and after the 4th March 1820. 
I am, Sir, respectfully, Your obedient Srt
/s/J. L. Edwards
Mr. Stephen Spaulding, 
U.S. Pensioner.
Crownpoint, N.Y.
Care Hon E. C. Gross
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State of New York
Essex County} s
On this fifth day of October, AD one thousand eight hundred and fifty four before me a Justice of the Peace within and for said County personally appeared Chauncey Fenton aged fifty three years a resident of Crown Point in said County who being sworn in due form of Law deposes and says, that for the last eighteen years, previous to the death of Stephen Spaulding late of said Crown Point deceased this deponent was intimately acquainted with the said Spaulding and with his wife Lucy Spaulding his present widow - that during said term of time this deponent was an acting majistrate, a Justice of the Peace Elected in said town of Crown Point, in & for the said County of Essex, with the exception of two intervals of about three months each duly commissioned & sworn. This deponent further saith that said Stephen Spaulding was a Pensioner of the United States under the Act of 18th March 1818 at the rate of eight dollars per month & that he applied to this deponent at each time his instalment of pension became due to make the necessary papers to obtain the same, that this deponent did in obedience to said request with a very few exceptions during said term of time & at each time his payments became due & payable take the affidavit of the said Spaulding administer the regular oath to him and take his acknowledgment of his Power of Attorney to enable him to obtain his instalments of Pension up to the time of  his death - that this deponent at such times invariably saw in his possession his Pension Certificate & knows, that the same was by an indorsment on the back of the same made payable at the Vermont Agency by the Agent for paying pensions in that State - that the said Stephen Spaulding had also in his possession the annexed paper marked "A: being a notice of transfer of the said Stephen Spaulding from the Roll of Vermont to that of New York, to ake effect from and after the 4th March 1820. dated
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March 17, 1821, directed to the care of Hon E. C. Gross and signed J. L. Edwards which paper is herewith returned - that after the death of the said Stephen Spaulding which took place on the nineteenth day of October one thousand eight hundred and fifty three, this deponent made out the necessary proof and papers and obtained the arrears of Pension due him at the time of his decease, for his widow that said Lucy Spaulding, with which papers the said Stephen Spaulding's Certificate was surrendered - that during the time this deponent was acquainted as aforesaid with the said Stephen Spaulding this deponent was frequently at his house and saw the said Lucy Spaulding there, dwelling there with the said Stephen Spaulding and cohabiting with him as his wife, that she is the identical Lucy parker who was married to the said Stephen Spaulding in Plainfield in the State of Vermont on the 27th January 1828 & who is now the widow of the said Stephen Spaulding deceased - that she is the identical person who drew the arrears of pension due the said Stephen at the time of his decease, & the identical person who has made ['and' crossed out] her declaration for a Pension, as such widow, recently filed in the Office of the Commissioner of Pensions in the City of Washington D.C. - 
/s/Chauncey Fenton
Subscribed and sworn to before me the day and year first above written, and I certify that I am well acquainted with the said Chauncey Fenton the above deponent & know him to be a credible witness - I also certify that I have examined the foregoing affidavit & heard it read & from my own knowledge know the facts sworn to therein to be true 
/s/James F. More Justice of Peace
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STATE OF NEW YORK,
ESSEX COUNTY, SS.} I, E. A. ADAMS, Clerk of said County, Do Certify that James F. More Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the certificate of proof or acknowledgment of the annexed affidavit was, on the day of the date of the said certificate of proof or acknowledgment, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, dwelling therein, duly qualified and authorized by law to take the Proof and Acknowledgment of Deeds, &c., and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe the signature to said Certificate of proof or acknowledgment to be genuine, and that the said instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the Laws of the State of New York.
[county seal affixed] IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County, this fifth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four
/s/E. A. Adams Clerk.
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BRIEF IN THE CASE OF Mrs. Lucy Spaulding widow of Stephen Addison County and State of Vermont
act of February 3, 1853
CLAIM, ("original," or "for increase.") Allowed $96 per annum to Commence on the 19th day of Oct. 1853
PROOF EXHIBITED, ['(if original.)' crossed out]
Documentary & Parol. 
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance. 
Husband a pensioner under act of March 18, 1818 & paid to 4th of Sept. 1853 & died Oct 19, 1853
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Marriage proved by public record
Death of husband shown by three credible witnesses
Identity proved by the credible witnesses 
Examining Clerk.
/s/J. L. Gray
Names and residence of Agent
Mrs. Lucy Spaulding
Crown Point 
Essex Co. N. York
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✓
18,216
160 Acres
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No 5031
Lucy Spaulding, Wid: of Stephen.
Let. to claimant, Sept: 19"/54
allow'd $96 per annum to Com. Act 19/53
Act/53
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Paymt [illegible]/53, Vt. 
Boynton
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[handwritten letter]
Pension Agency
Burlington Vt. May 14th/56

Hon. J. Minot
Comm'r of Pensions
Sir,
Your letter of the 5th inst, addressed to Wm H. H. Bingham, probably by mistake, instead of to me, in regard to the time up to which Lucy Spaulding widow of Stephen, under Act of 3 Feb 1853, at $96 per annum was past paid, has been forwarded to me by Mr. Bingham - In reply I have to state that said Pensioner was last paid up to the 4th of March 1856 - In accordance with your instructions to Mr. Bingham, I shall cease to pay her, hereafter - 
Yours Respectfully, 
/s/Chas. H. Stamford
Pension Agent
W.G.S.
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[handwritten letter]
Crown Point, N.Y.
Oct 24th 1854

Sir
Mrs Lucy Spaulding has rec'd a Pension Certificate for $96 per ann payable at Burlington Vt by Chas. F. Stamford Agt. 
I am informed by Mr. Stamford that her name is not on the Roll at his agency - there are two agencies in Vermont at Burlington & Montpelier. 
Mrs. Spaulding's is payable at Burlington. Will you have the goodness to order her name to be entered on the List at said Burlington. 
Respectfully Yr obt Serv't
/s/C. Fenton.
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463
Pension Office
Oct 1 '54
Sir: 
Please report time of last payment to or death of within named pensioner
Yours &c. 
/s/S. Cole
R. J. Atkinson
3 Aud Present. 
Stephen Spaulding
paid to 4 Sept 1853
/s/Robt J. Atkinson 
Auditor
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[handwritten letter]
Pension Office,
Sept 19th 1854

Madam, 
Your claim for a pension as the widow of Stephen Spaulding, has been examined and suspended. 
Upon proof being filed that you are the widow of the Stephen Spaulding who was pensioned under the act of 1818, from the State of Vermont, and afterwards was tranferred to the N. York roll as such pensioner, Your claim will be favorably considered. 
I am very respectfully Your Obt Serv't
/s/L. P. Waldo
Commissioner,
⇨returned for reference
Mrs: Lucy Spaulding,
Crown Point,
Essex Co, N. York.
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State of New York
Essex County} ss On this 3d day of April 1856 before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County duly authorised by Law to administer oaths, personally appeared Lucy Spaulding who on her oath declares, that she is the widow of Stephen Spaulding late of Crown Point deceased, who was a private in the Revolutionary War and drew a pension of Eight dollars per month under the act of 18th March 1818 - that this deponent receives a pension under the 2d section of the act of February 3, 1853 at the rate of Ninety six dollars per annum as the widow of said Stephen Spaulding that her Pension Certificate is dated the 14th day of October 1854 and is made payable at Burlington in the Agency of the State of Vermont. 
This deponent further saith that she resided in Crown Point in the County of Essex and State of New York when she made application for her pension & also when she  received her certificate, and had resided there for about twenty five years preceding the receipt of such pension and now resides in said Crown Point and expects to reside there for the remainder of her life - and wishes her pension payable at the Albany N.Y. Agency, in future and further that she has not intermarried but continues the widow of the above named Stephen Spaulding deceased - 
/s/Lucy Spaulding
Subscribed and sworn to the day & year aforesaid}
Before Me /s/Henry H. Havens Justice of the Peace
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Lucy Spaulding
transfer to Albany when cir. rec'd. from 4 March 1856.
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We Reuben Barton and Daniel Benjamin residents of Crown Point in the State of New York upon our oaths declare that the within affidavit was signed and sworn to by Lucy Spaulding in our presence that we have long well known her and know her to be the identical person she represents herself to be
/s/Reuben Barton
/s/Daniel. Benjamin 
Sworn & subscribed before me this 3d day of April 1856, and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons and that the within named Lucy Spaulding is the person she represents herself to be - 
/s/Henry H. Havens
Justice of the Peace
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STATE OF NEW YORK,
ESSEX COUNTY, SS.} I, E. A. ADAMS, Clerk of said County, and also Clerk fo the County Courts in and for said County, (the same being Courts of Record.) Do Certify that Henry H. Havens Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the certificate of proof or acknowledgment of the annexed affidavit & Certificate was, on the day of the date of the said certificate of proof or acknowledgment, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, dwelling therein, duly qualified and authorized by law to take the proof and acknowledgment of deeds, &c., and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe the signature to said Certificate of proof or acknowledgment to be genuine, and that the said instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of the State of New York.
[county seal affixed] IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County, this twenty second day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty six
/s/E. A. Adams Clerk.