Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6420, for Samuel Glode Long, Massachusetts
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(8 - 1776)
SERVICE
[handwritten]Mass

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[handwritten] Long, Samuel Golde 
[handwritten or  Golde. Samuel 
[handwritten] or Longun, Samuel

Number
[handwritten] R.6420

Contents 
[handwritten] Abigail
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b286
See let. to B. Swift Jany. 16 1840

6420
Act 7 July '38
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6420
Abigail Long
REJECTED

Service:
Enlisted:
Discharged:
application filed:
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O. -----Recognized, ......Contract
....Cert. of Dis. Searched for ..........
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Samuel Long-gun married to Abigail Chandler July eighteenth seventeen hundred and seventy six. I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the record of the church book in the town of Tewksbury in the county of Middlesex and state of Massachusetts, with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows-"July 18th 1776."
Attest  Jacob Coggin Pastor of the church in Tewksbury, County of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts.

I Jacob Coggin above named depose and say that I hold the officer of Pastor of the church in Tewksbury County of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Church with the exception above named as certified by me Jacob Coggin Pastor of the Church of Tewksbury.

State of Massachusetts
Middlesex County SS September 11 A. D. 1839
then personally appeared Jacob Coggin above named and made oath that the above certificate by him subscribed is true in due form of law.
Before me William Rogers Justice of Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex Ss. I Elias Phinney clerk of the court of common pleas for the county of Middlesex do certify that William Rogers Esquire is a Justice of the Peace within & for said county of Middlesex, and that his name subscribed to the within certificate is his genuine signature-In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said court this twelfth day of September 1839. 
(seal) E. Phinney Clerk
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6286
Vt.
July 7 1838  (illegible stamp) Oct. 29th
addl. proof
Lucy Hollister
wid. of Samuel Glode

Hon James L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D. C.
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P.S. I also enclose the affidavit of the Town Clerk of the Town of Lenox Mass in the case of Mrs. Lucy Hollister, which has been delayed for some time expecting to have rec'd before now a certificate from the Comptroller of the State of New York to prove the services of her late husband in Col. Willet's Regt. in that State, but it has not as yet come to hand & the uncertainty of obtaining one has induced Mrs. Hollister to submit her case as if one such Certificate could be obtained, upon the other proof presented. The delay also has been further occasioned by the expectation of gaining some information in relation to that service from a Brother of Elijah S. Hollister who resided in Lenox. He was sent to for that purpose but when the messages reach his hands, he was dying & survived but a short time so that no information could be obtained from him. Mrs. H. therefore reluctantly yields the expectation of further testimony in her case.
Very respectfully &c.
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V  6286

Abigail Long
Samuel Glode Long
Act 7 July 38
m. 76 d. 19

16.57 Walker
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State of Vermont, Bennington County SS
On this 20th day of October 1839 personally appeared before the hon. the Probate Court within & for the Probate District of Manchester in the County of Bennington & State of Vermont, Abigail Long a resident of the Town of Peru in said County of Bennington aged eighty one years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows." That she is the widow of Samuel Glode Long, sometimes called Samuel Glode, sometimes called Samuel Longun late of Tewksbury in the County of Middlesex & State of Massachusetts deceased who was a soldier in the service of the United State during the revolutionary war. That at the commencement of hostilities between the then United Colonies & Great Britain he the said Samuel turned out & was engaged in the Battle of Concord & Lexington. That soon after the Battle of Lexington so called^ as she's informed & verily beliefs, he enlisted at said Lexington or at said Tewksbury where he then resided as a Private soldier for the term of eight months in a company of Infantry commanded as she now believes by ^ Capt. Amos (illegible) or Capt. Benjm. Walker ^ who was killed (illegible), but she has heard the names Capt. John Trull & Capt. James Baley mentioned and she may be mistaken as to the company to which he belonged  (illegible) also forgotten is she ever knew the names of the Col. who commanded the Regt. in which he served but believed it was Col. Bridge or Col Parker. That he afterwards served  for some time under said enlistment & was in the Battle of Bunker Hill so called in Capt. Walker but for how long a time she is unable to state but she understood and fully believes that he served until he was taken sick with the mumps so called. That he then hired one Jonathan Dutton to serve out the remaining part of his said term of enlistment. That the said Dutton did do serve out said term & was regularly dis-
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charged-but whether the name was changed upon the Roll the name of the said Samuel or name of the said Dutton in substitute she is wholly unable to state. She further declares that she was married at said Tewksbury by The Revd. (illegible) Spaulding to the said Samuel on the 18th day of July seventeen hundred and seventy six. that her said husband was then called Samuel Long-gun or Longun, that he had previously some times been called Samuel Glode that his father was a Frenchman and originated from France & that his name was John Glode Long and that after he arrived in this country he was called sometimes by one of those (illegible) by the others & some of his family have since appeared & was called by one name & some by the other & by what name the said Samuel was enlisted she is wholly unable to state. That after his marriage to her he dropped the first part of said last name & called himself Samuel Glode Long which name he retained until his death. That her name before her said marriage was Abigail Chandler. that she understands and believes that their said marriage was recorded in the Parish Register but not in the Town Records of said Town of Tewksbury. that her husband the aforesaid Samuel G. Long died at said Tewksbury on the 22d day of August agreeably to her but (illegible) That she has remained his widow (illegible) marri ever since his said death. t
That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred ninety four. That she knows of no documentary evidence to prove his daid service or support her daid claim.
Abigail   X  Long
 her mark
Witness Loring Dean
Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year above written.
 before me Loring Dean Judge of Probate Court

I, Isaac Long a resident of the Town of Peru in the County of Bennington & State of Vermont aged sixty years do testify depose & say that I am the reputed son of the above named Abigail Long & the said Samuel G. Long deceased. That I understood & fully believe & agreeably to my both (illegible) & belief my said Hon. father Saml. G. Long died at Tewksbury aforesaid on or about the 2d day of August 1819 & that my sad Hon. mother the sd. Abigail hath ever since  his said death remained & still is his widow, single, unmarried. That she now resides
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with me at Peru aforesaid. That I have ever understood from my said father & then (smudged) believe that he was of French (illegible) that his father's original name was John Glode Long. That he was sometimes called in this country by one of those name sometimes by the other. This family (illegible) that one of my uncles, Brother to my father took the name of Glodesing b which he retained util his death. That my father in early life was sometimes call by the name of Glode & sometimes by the name of
Longuns or Long & that he afterward (illegible) the name of Saml. Glod Long by which he was called until his death. I also was understood from him & believe that he was in the Battle at Concord & Lexington,, & also in the Battle of Bunkerhill & I have heard him state many particulars in (illegible) which transpired at that time (illegible)
Isaac G. Long
Sworn to & subscribed in open Court on the day & year above written before me. And I hereby further certify that it hath been satisfactorily made to appear to me that the above affiants are credible persons, & their statements entitled to full credit. 
Attest Loring Deran Judge of Probate Court

State of Vermont Bennington County SS
Manchester Probate District Probate office Ss
I Loring Dean Judge of the Probate Court within & for the Probate District of Manchester in the County of Bennington & State of Vermont do hereby, in the (illegible) of the Register of said Court) certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Abigail Long for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature & seal of said Court at Manchester this 26th day of October one thousand eight hundred thirty nine & of the Independence of the United States the sixty fourth.
Loring Dean Judge