Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3174, Stephen Ballard, Mass.
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(8-1776)

SERVICE                                         NUMBER

Mass.         Ballard, Stephen               W.3174
                            Anna or
                             Ann
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4468.
Pennsylvania
Ann Bullard, decd
widow of Stephen Ballard
who died on the 18 Sept. 1827
of Bedford the State of Penna
who was a Pri in the co commanded
by Captain Ferguson of the Re commanded
by Col. Danielson in the Mass
line for 7 mos 26 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Philade
at the rate of 26 Dollars 21 - Cents
per annum, to commence on the 4th day of
March, 1831, to 16 Jany 1837, as
she died
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 day of June [illegible]

and sent to 
A. Joy

Ovid, N.Y.
Arrears to the 4th of [blank]
Semi-annual allowance ending [blank]
Recorded by
Book C
Vol. 1 P. 150
Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836,
Section the
D. H. Wood Clerk

to Stephen Ballard
Rhoda Kendall, Mary
Ann Munson, Margaret
Packhurst, Martha
Rathbone, Lucretia Bull
Mary Pratt and Eliz.
Gamage, or by child'n
Repd

Gen. Agent, Aug. 9, 67.
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1140
Application of
Anna Ballard
for Pension under the
law of July 4 1836
No. 1140
Married 1772
husband died
1827
Widow died 16th Jany 1837

On roll for Jan 1775.
witness was for 3 mos
no rolls for that
excepting for village
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the 2nd section 
of the act of Congress of the 4th July 1832
State of Pennsylvania
Bradford County
ss
on this 12 day of October 1836
personally appeared before the subscriber an associate Judge
of the Court of Common Pleas of said County Annah Ballard
a resident of Burlington township in the County of
Bradford & State of Pennsylvania aged eighty eight 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 4, 1836. That she is the widow of Stephen Ballard
who was a private in the army of the revolution who served
as follows to wit: that he enlisted in the year 1775 under Capt John Ferguson who lived in the County of Berkshire township of Blandford in Massachusetts & served under him as near
as he can recollect in Colonel Donald's regiment in the
Massachusetts line for eight months which time (or nine months, she cannot recollect which) he served agreeable to his enlistment
and as she believes was regularly discharged that he went to
Roxbury was in that vicinity during the above time &
that he did after the above term had expired again enlist under Capt Stephen Ferguson and served three months, the particulars of
of which service she does not very accurately recollect.
she has no documentary evidence of his service, the deposition
herewith forwarded were taken at the instance of the said Stephen when living for the purpose of obtaining a pension
under the act of Congress of March 1818. meaning those March acts.
She further declares that she was married to the said Stephen
Ballard on the Sixth day of October in the year seventeen hundred
and seventy-three that her husband the aforesaid Stephen Bullard dec'd
the 18th day of Sep eighteen hundred & twenty that she
has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully
appear by the proofs hereto annexed
Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year
above written
J. W. McClean Associate Judge
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State of Pennsylvania
Bradford County:

Before the subscriber one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County personally
appeared said Sm Kean who being duly sworn on his oath says
that he was acquainted with the within named Stephen Ballard
and for more than thirty years previous to his decease which occurred about [blank] 
years ago & that he was in his life time
reputed & believed in the neighborhood of his residence to have been a soldier of the revolution also that he has been acquainted with Annah Ballard within named for more than-- years that she was the acknowledged wife of the said Stephen during his life time from the first acquaintance of this deponent with said Stephen to the time of his death as above that the said Annah his since the death of said Stephen resided within
about one half mile of this deponent & that
she has remained a widow since his death to the present

Saml M Kean

sworn to & subscribed this 12th day
of October 1836
J.W. McKean   Associate Judge Bradford County Mass.

I certify that the within named Annah Ballard is unable
by reason of age & bodily infirmity to attend the court of Common Pleas or any other court of record of Bradford County
also that the above named Saml Kean & Annah Ballard
are persons of acknowledged credibility & veracity, the word "Laws being [illegible]
and & "Ballard" interlined before signing
Act 1836
J.B. McKean 
associate Judge Bradford County, Mass.
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State of Pennsylvania
Bradford County ss
J.C. Powell Prothonotary 
of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do
Certify that John M. Kean is an Associate Judge in
and for the said County of Bradford duly Commissioned
and qualified and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
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In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and official Seal this fourteenth
day of December one thousand eight hundred
and thirty six
J.C. Powell Prothy
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Bradford 

Lucretia Bull of said County
being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and says the is seventy two years of age, that Annah Ballard who made application for a pension from said County, as the widow
of Stephen Ballard was this deponent's mother, and that the said Stephen Ballard was this deponent's father, that this
deponent is the second child of her said parents, & that she
was born on the 3d day of January 1775 Seventeen hundred
and seventy five, that the attached old family record ins the the record of this deponent's age, & marriage & of her family
that it has been in use some twenty to thirty or more years that this deponent's said father died in 1827 and that this
deponent's mother died on the 16th day of January 1837 eighteen hundred and thirty seven, leaving at her death
the following named children her surviving, being her only children her surviving, and that each of them is of the age
of twenty one years and upwards to wit, Stephen Ballard
Rhoda Kendell, Mary Ann Manson, Margaret Parkhurst, Martha Rathbun, Lucrecia Bull, Mary Pratt and Elizabeth Gamage.

Lucrecia Bull

Subscribed & sworn before me 
this 19th day of March
1847
D. Vandercook J.P.

I certify that the above named
Lucrecia Bull is a highly respectable person.
D. Vandercook
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WIDOW, &c.
Rev'y
File No. 3174
Ann Ballard 
Widow
Stephen Ballard ┃
Pri Rev War
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Act: July 4, 1836
Index: - Vol. A, Page 19.
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1840
Ann Ballard
Pennsylvania
Suspended
20 Feby 1837
See letter 20 Feb 1837  [illegible] J. McKean [illegible]
Let to [illegible] Nov 14 '46

4 July 1886
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Bradford County ss The Commonwealth of Pa.
Personally appeared before me the subscriber
Ellinore Purssel of Orwell in said County
who on her solemn oath did depose & say that
in the year 1775 Stephen Ballard of Burlington
Township did enlist under Capt John Fargaron
also lived at that time in the town of Blandford
County of Berkshire State of Massachusetts & did enlist for the term of Eight months in the United States army & went into the service & that the said Stephen Ballard did enlist again
under Captain John Fargaron for the sum of
three months & that he the said [illegible] Ballard went into the service of the united states, for the
three months enlistment & further saith
not.
Her
Ellinore X Purssel
Mark
 the 19th AD. 1824
Ebenezer Rendell one of the Justices
of the Peace in aforesaid County
Ebenezer Rendell Justice of the Peace
[faint, illegible writing at bottom]
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State of Pennsylvania
Bradford County to
I, J.C. Powell Prothonotary of the 
Court of Common Pleas of Bradford County do
Certify that Ebenezar Rendell was an acting
Magistrate in and for said County at the time
of the date of the within affidavit duly commissioned and qualified as such and that full faith and
Credit should be given to his acts, as a magistrate
at the time.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and official seal this
eighth day of November one thousand
eight hundred and thirty six
J.C. Powell Proth.

Deposition of Ebenezar Rendell
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Tioga County
the affidavit of Russel Rose of the Township
of Sullivan in the County of Tioga and State of Pennsylvania who on his solemn oath doth depose and say that in the year
four Lord one thousand Seven Hundred and seventy five about first of June I went into the service under the command
of General Spencer, Colonel Danielson Capt Farguson in the Massachusetts line, there the  same Stephen Ballard was there
informed by him and others that he went to Roxbury on the
first alarm that he did stay, and served to the end of that Campain and was regularly discharged this deponent does [illegible] 
know- that the Campain lasted for Eight or nine Months
This deponent further states that the Doctor
Stephen Ballard of Sugar Creek Bradford County Tenn the very same man above mentioned who served as above
stated, and further saith not
Russel Rose
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Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 9th day of November AD. 1824,  one of the Justices of the peace
in & for sd County

James Gray Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above mentioned Russel Rose resides in the Township above named, that his veracity has not to my knowledge ever been impeached, he is regarded here as a man
of truth.

James Gray  J. P.
[illegible section that follows appears to be explanation of jurat.]
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Pennsylvania
Tioga County SS.

I, John F. Donaldson Prothonotary
Clerk of the Courts of said County do hereby certify that James Gray, J.P. was at the time of the
taking of the within deposition an acting
Justice of the peace duly appointed commissioned
& that his acts as such at that the
are entitled to full credit & that the
have subscribed to said affidavit is in
the proper hand writing of said justice in
testimony whereof I have hereto affixed
the seal of my office this 21st day
of Oct. A.D. 1876.


J. F. Donaldson Proth
per S. Wilson Clk
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Stephen Ballard
His widow pensioned
law 1836 of Pa.
An old case of mine
from
Arad Joy
as the original application was made in
Pa the pension may
be [illegible] in Pa
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MC 53
Feb'y 17, 1837
Pension office
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Washington 17th Feb 1837
Hon B F Butler
Sir
enclosed herewith
you will receive the declaration of
Anna Ballard for a pension
under the
law of
the 4th of July 1836
Respectfully
-
Sam. M. Kean
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State of New York
County of Seneca 
I John Morgan Surrogate of the said County of Seneca do certify that at a Surrogates
Court holden before me at my office
in Seneca Falls in said County, satisfactory evidence was exhibited to said Court that Annah Ballard late widow of Stephen Ballard, who had herself made application for a pension, died on the
16th day of January 1837 leaving at her
death the following named children her surviving, being her only children her surviving and that each of them is of the age of twenty one years and upwards, to wit -- Stephen Ballard, Rhoda
Kendell,  Mary Ann Manson, Margaret Parkhurst, Martha Rathbun, 
Lucrecia Bull, Mary Pratt & Elizabeth Gamage
In testimony whereof I have hereunto at
fixed my official seal and subscribed my
name this 23d day of March 1847
John Morgan, Surrogate
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State of Penna
Bradford County
[illegible]  being duly
sworn

[Remainder virtually illegible due to faint ink.  Machine-read transcript follows.]
Seven year of
lege and
his or the last fifty the
years been more or less lately acquainted with
the law Stephen Bader of his late
Son
land and all of the
Family that the said Widow Annah Ball
as the covenent was informed at the
took made after
Fors open from the County and State aforesaid
that the said Canah Ballard
this deponent men. And his Jany 1857
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Eighteen hundred thirty seven that the
are harpal same as the
Belden in Jany 1831 that this deponent was
well acquanted
the children of the above
to the Eldest Child of the said
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Parties to about six years older that this
deponent and that the second child of the said
Bull is upward on this deponent believes) of
was older than this deponent to
Lucretia Bull whose word is to
pany this be as this deponant
for that the said Laura Bullof

for mormon fifty years has always been
called the sacred third of the above named
---
parties that at the date of the death of the
Land
Annah Ballard She left the
following named child her Saving
Being the only child in her in
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and each of them of the age of 
twenty one years or upward, to wit
Stephen Ballard, Rhoda
Kendell, Mary Ann Manson, Margaret Parkhurst, Martha Rathbun,
Lucrecia Bull, Mary Pratt & Elizabeth Gamage

Sworn & Subscribed
this 4th day of March of
John V. Daniels 


I certify that the above named Rev John
McKean is a highly respectable person and a
Minister of the Gospel and is a resident of said
County & State and to me well known
Bradford County
Es.
John J Danil

Bradford County
I, A McKean Prothonotary of the Court
of Common Pleas of Bradford County
do certify that John M Daniel and D
Vandercook are Justices of the Peace
(before whom the foregoing proceedings
had duly commissioned & qualified)
in & for the County of Bradford
and that the signatures purporting to be theirs are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand & affixed the seal of said
said Court
at Towanda this the 13th day of March A.D.
1847 

A McKeans
Prothy
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Bradford  
William McKean of said County
being duly sworn according to law deposes & says that Annah Ballard, late an applicant for a pension & the late widow of
Stephen Ballard died in January 1837 eighteen hundred
and thirty seven, that as a data by which this deponent is governed in stating the date of her death, is that he made
her Coffin in January 1837
William McKean

subscribed & sworn before me
this 2nd day of March 1847
John Daniels Just of Penn

I certify that the above named Wm McKean is a highly respectable
person
John Daniels
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State of Pennsylvania
Bradford County


Before the subscriber, one of the [llegible] 
Judges of the Court of Common pleas in
for the County of Bradford
Personally appeared Jane Campbell
of the [illegible] aforesaid aged ninety years
who being duly sworn says that
he lived in the town of Blandford (often called Glassgon) in the State of
Massachusetts when the late Stephen Ballard of Bennington in the County of Bradford  State of Pennsylvania and Annah Ballard the present widow of the said Ballard near at the time of he thinks the same [illegible] to meeting the Sabbath next after their marriage and that she has no doubt but that they were legally married.
And that this [illegible] deponent has lived in the same town in which the said Ballard and Annah his wife have lived more than forty years- they were at all times reputed husband and wife and this deponent was [illegible] with the same Annah  the present widow of the late Stephen Ballard above mentioned of the most of his time from his infancy.

Sworn to before me
October 12. 1836
J. McKean
Aforementioned town and county
State of Pa
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I certify that the within named Jane Campbell is
a person of truth and veracity and full credit
may be given to her testimony
October 11, 1836
J. [illegible] McKean
[illegible]Bradford County


State of Pennsylvania
Bradford County

I, J.C. Powell Prothonotary of the Court
of Common Pleas in and for said County Do Certify that John McLean is an associate Judge in and for the
County of Bradford Common Pleas Court duly commissioned and
qualified and that the foregoing signatures purporting
to be his are genuine.
In testimony where I have hereunto set my hand
and official seal this fourteenth day of Dec.
one thousand eight hundred and thirty six
J. Powell Prothy
Deposition of
Jane Campbell
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Bradford

Nathan Bull of said County
being duly sworn according to law, depose and says that
he is seventy four years of age, having been born in 1773, that he has been for more than fifty years personally acquainted with the late Stephen Ballard & his late widow
Annah Ballard and all of their family, that this
deponent married the Second daughter & second child of the said parties, that the attached old family record
is the true record of this deponents age & marriage, and
that of his wife and family, that it has been in [illegible]
twenty, or thirty or more years, that the eldest child
of the said Stephen and Annah Ballard was of the
age of this deponent, or as near as may be of his age
and was the child older than this deponent's wife; the said Annah Ballard made application for a pension from said County & State, and that she died on the 14 day of January 1837 eighteen hundred and thirty seven
leaving at her death the following named children her
Surviving, and that each of them is of the age of
twenty one years and upwards, to wit, Stephen Ballard, 
Rhoda Kendell, Mary Ann Morrison, Margaret Parkhurst, Lucrecia Bull, Mary Pratt and Elizabeth Garage

Nathan Bull

Subscribed & Sworn before me
this 13th
day of March 1847
D. Vandercook  J.P.

I certify
that the above named Nathan Bull is a
highly respectable person
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No 1140
Ann Ballard dec'd
widow of Stephen
Pa.
Act 4 July 1836
Adm 7 mo 26 day [illegible]
$26.20 per annum
from 4 March 1831 to
11 Jany 1837 the day
of her death payable
to Stephen Ballard, Rhoda
Kendall, Mary
Ann Monson, Margaret
Packhurst, Martha Rathbun, Lucretia Bull, Mary
Pratt, and Elizabeth Gamage
only surviving children of
Ann Ballard decd
Arno Joy
Ovid NY
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Hon J L Edwards
Comm of Pensions
Washington
D C
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Annah
Ballar
Ovid N.Y. Oct 26, 1846

Sir-

May I be allowed respectfully to ask
you to please inform me the State of the
case of Annah Ballard, widow of Saml Ballard
who applied for a pension from Pennsylvania
under the law of 1836. I would not have asked
or troubled you in this case, only that the papers her application was made & papers forwarded through Hon Senator McKean of Pa, who is dead, & there is no one that can give any
account of them & the parties interested
are entirely ignorant of what has been
done, or of the situation of the case, under
these circumstances, I beg leave to ask what
the situation of the case is
The papers are
supposed to be complete, containing the original
discharge of her late husband & a certificate of
her marriage
Respectfully
Your Obt Servt

Arad Joy

Hon J.L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions
Washington
DC
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Jan. (?) 29. 1847
[illegible]
Annah Ballard

Hon. J. L. Edward

Comm. of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Ovid March 24.47
Dr Sir

I enclose the papers required in
yours, no not required, but in the case named
in yours of the 14th November 1846 relating to
Anna Ballard -- I know of no objection
to the papers, & I judge they are all you
require, yet I may be deceived & I do not
wish to deceive you, therefore be your own
Judge & if any thing is wrong don't lay it
to any wrong intention on my part, as I
certainly want no pension, under you say
it is honestly due
Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Arad Joy

Hon J L Edwards
Comr of Pensions
Washington
D. C
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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Secretary's Office, Boston:
May 10 1847

I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears
that the name of Stephen Ballard is
borne upon a Muster Roll of Capt John
Ferguson's Company, in Col Timothy Danielson's regiment in the Eight months ser
vice as a private of Blanford, from May
20 to August 1, 1775, 2 months 3 weeks
and 5 days.  Upon a return of
said Company, in said Regt as a private
of Blanford to Service Named
said Return is dated October 6 1775
upon an Order of said Company for [illegible],
dated December 28 1775
upon a Pay Roll of Capt Samuel
Roper's Company, in Col Israel Chapin's
Regt as a private from November 1779-
22 days
It appears from said docu [rest obscured]
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Hampshire County
The preceding is all
the evidence of service of any one of the
name shown by the military
Records in this Department,

And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence
of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this
Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search
was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application
, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and
circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal
of the Commonwealth, the date above written
John G. Perry
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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Appriation for Certificate of Revolutionary Services, made
by the Widow of the party who rendered the Service
the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is
hereby
requested to furnish Evidence from the Rolls
in his office, of the service of her husband,
Stephen Ballard in the war of the Revolution.
He enlisted from the town of probably Blanford in the
County of [blank]
and State of Massachusetts
in the year 1775 as a [blank]
in the
Company commanded by Captain Ferguson
in Col. Donaldson's Regiment
---
and he served as follows, viz:- he probably
served several towns, from 1775 through the war,
but nothing more certain can be stated
A.D
Witness my hand, this
1847-
19th day of April
Signed by said agent
Anna Ballard
in the presence
James Foster Justice
By Arad Joy her agent
the said Arad Joy appears by documents exhibited before
me to be the lawful agent of [blank]
James Foster Justice
Answer to be addressed to Arad Joy Ovid N.Y
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                               Pension Office
                               October 26 1857.

Shown this day given Col. Bull of this Office, the record family filed in this case.  The family record is that of Nathan & Lucretia Bull, the father & mother of the Col.

                       S. C. Boynton

Case of Ann Bull
Stephen (illegible)
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Aug 14 47
Ann Ballard [illegible]

Hon J L Edwards
Comm. of Pensions
Washington DC
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Ovid N.Y. July 30 '47

Sir-
I inclose Pension Certificate to ask your
to please correct the name in it "Mary Ann
Moore", it should be "Mary Ann Munson" as
you will notice from the proof on file
Respectfully
Your Obt Srvt
Arad Joy

Hon J L Edwards
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May 22/47
Certif in case of
Anna Ballard decd
addl
Blanford Co
Capt. Ferguson
Danielson
d. 18 Sept. 1827

Hon J L Edwards
Com Pensions
Washington DC
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Sir
Ovid May 1947
Hon J L Edwards
In complyance with your letter of April 15th in
the case of Anna Ballard of Pa deceased, I have
called for the Sec'y certificate & have obtained it and enclose it herein, but whether it refers to the service of her late husband, I don't pretend to say,.  I ask no more for it, than justice to the Government, will warrant you in giving pension or no pension.

Respectfully
Yr Obt Svt
Arad Joy

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Com of Pensions
Washington
D C
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Lowanda, Pa.
Oct. 21, 1856
Hon. J. Minot
Comr of Pensions
Sir
Several years ago
the heirs of Stephen Ballard [illegible]
a Pension for his serving
in the Revolutionary War
In order to complete the testimony I forwarded by our Agent the family record of
my husband-- you will
please deliver to my son
David M. Bull said he
Cord.
Very Respectfully
Lucrecia Ball
Per Case
Pension 1847 = 8
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
Ballard, Stephen
WARRANT
NUMBER 9042
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Private
ACREAGE
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
Pennsylvania
November 26, 1795

to John Shaw, 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.