Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11726, John Winslow, Continental (Mass.)
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Continental (Mass.) Winslow, John R11726
Ann
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Copy of petition to Congress by Gen. Winslow
I John Winslow of Boston in the County of Suffolk, resident of the United States, Do testify and declare, that on the 4th day of October 1775, I received a Commission from Jon. Trumball Esqr:  Jay Masten Gen:  to the Northern Departments appointing me Deputy Tax Master in said Department at which time I gave a Bond for Forty Thousand dollars with two good and sufficient sureties for the faithful performance of said Trust and was then ordered to Albany to report myself to Major Gen Schuyler, the Commander of said department, who ordered me to proceed on and join the 
Army of the United Colonies under the command of General Montgomery which I joined while lying before the City of Quebec and I then began the duties of my office.  On the 10th day of May 1776 I retreated with said Army then under the Command of General Woosten and had the misfortune to lose all my baggage, by reason of which, I saved all the property belonging to the United States with all my books and papers,and arrived after very severe fatigue at Ticonderoga.
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without even a shift of linen for thirty five days.  In Dec I was ordered to Albany to settle and adjust my accounts, at total of which was eight hundred and sixty five thousand seven hundred dollars, eighty one cents, all which was adjusted and settled with Jon. Trumbull Jr. Esqr. Jay Masten General Northern Departments and from him I received the following Certificate at which time the Commissioners for adjusting public accounts made me some allowance for the loss of my baggage.  
Albany 30th January 1777 the above and foregoing accounts with John Winslow Esqr; Assistant Tay Masten is fully settled and adjusted, the vouchers therefore being delivered up and included in my settlement with Commissioners for Auditing the Public Accounts in the Northern Department.  
Signed J Trumbull Jr F.M.G. 
I was then ordered back to Ticonderoga and continued in the duty of said office on the 8th day of June 1777 I received a written appointment from Maj Gen. Schuyler as a Captain in the Corps of Artillery under the command of Maj. Ebenezer Stevens, under which I held till the pleasure of Congress should be known that Hon. Body forwarded me a Captains Commission.
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papers may perhaps be found in the pension office

Doct I. F. Lindsay Yorkville
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Signed by John Hancock President and countersigned by James Thompson Sec. hearing date as above.  I was then doing duty under both my appointments, not having been relieved as pay master.  When the American Army, under command of Maj. Gen. Sinclair was ordered to retreat from Ticonderoga, I, a second sime saved the property of the United States entrusted to my care, with my books and papers, with the lots of most of my baggage on the retreat.  I was met at Fort Ann by Jon Peirce Esqr Assistant Dep Ray Masters to whom I delivered all the property of the United States with my Books and Papers.  I then remained with my company doing the duty Mereof till after the capture of Gen Burgoyne and his Army 17 Oct. 1777.  I was then ordered to Albany and settled and adjusted my second account with Jon Trumbull Jr Esqr Ray Masters Gen. Northern Department the foot of which was one hundred and four thousand five hundred and eighteen dollars at which time my bond was returned me.  In the spring I was ordered down North River
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with my company to West Point and from there to White Plains.  I remained in the service of the United States as Capt. of Artillery under the command of Major Ebenezer Stevens till the 5th day of Nov. 1778 at which time I was Honorably discharged at my own request by General Washington, the Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States.  
John Winslow married to Ann Gardener 21 May 1782.  
Mr. John Winslow died Nov. 29, 1819.  
Mrs 
Ann Winslow died Nov 12, 1836
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DD Addison Agent
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State of Massachusetts, County of Suffolk
District Court of the United States. Massachusetts District
I, S. C. Sprague, Clerk of said Court, so hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that Ann Winslow was an applicant to be a pensioner of the United States, that she was a resident of Boston in the County of Suffolk in the state of Massachusetts, and died at said Boston on the twelfth day of November in the year 1836 that she left only four children surviving whose names are John Winslow, Mary Ann Winslow, and Eliza Jane Trott residents of said Boston and Edward Winslow of Camden in Maine, who are all of age and still living.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at Boston this twentieth day of September in the year of our Lord 1850.  S. C. Sprague, Clerk
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Boston, October 21st 1836
This may certify I have examined the records of the old South Church and under date of May 18th (eighteenth) 1782 (Seventeen hundred and eighty two) was found the marriage of John Winslow and Anne Gardner, which was "Solemenized by Rev. Joseph Ecley  D. D. Pastor of the Old South Church in Marlborough Street, Boston".  I have also examined the certificate from the Town Clerk which is here annexed.  
Jon A. French Jr. Clerk of the Old South Church, Boston
Boston S. S.
A purpose of marriage between Mr John Winslow and Miss Anny Gardner of Boston has stood entered with me for the space of fifteen days and due publication of such their intention or purpose has been made by asking their Banns at three several Public Meetings within  the said Town as the Law directs.  Certifyed under my Hand this 10th Day of May 1782 A.D.  (Signed) 
William Cooper Town Clerk
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State of Massachusetts
Suffolk County  Ss.
On this 17th day of September 1850 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, personally appeared John Winslow for himself and in behalf of Mary Ann Winslow and Eliza Jane Trott all three residents of Boston, and Edward Winslow of Camden in the State of Maine, and made oath in due form of Law, that he and they are the only surviving children of Ann Winslow deceased, that said Ann Winslow was the widow of the late John Winslow, deceased, that said John Winslow was a Deputy Paymaster General, and a Captain of Artillary as she has understood and believes, that he died the 29th November 1819, that said Ann was married to him on or about the 21st May 1782, that she died the twelfth November eighteen hundred and thirty six, that her application for a pension under Act  of 4 July 1836 is on file in the Pension Office, that they are the only surviving children of the said Ann Winslow, that they ask that the claim of their said mother may be examined, and desire that reference may be made to the papers on file.  
Sworn to and subscribed the day of year first above written before me
G S Bulfinch Justice of Peace
John Winslow
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office, Boston, September 20th 1850
DD Addison Agent

I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation G S Bulfinch was a Justice of the Peace for the county of Suffolk
in the said Commonwealth duly commissioned and qualified; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.  
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
WB Calhoun Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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VLM
Rev. War Section.
October 13, 1980
Mrs. Fred Schroeder, 
Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Madam:
In response to your letter received the 25th of August, you are advised that it appears in the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim R. File No. 11,786 that John Winslow was born September 39, 1753, and married in Boston, Massacusetts May 18, 1783, Miss Ann or Anne Gardner.  He died November 29, 1819 and she died November 13, 1836, at Boston, Mass., and the following children survived her:  John Winslow, Mary Ann Winslow, Eliza Jane Trott (residing in Boston in 1850) and Edward Winslow of Camden Maine, also five grandchildren whose names are not stated.
On September 17, 1850 their son John applied in behalf of his brother and sisters for pension on account of his father's services in the Revolution.  
On October 4, 1775, John Winslow was appointed Deputy Paymaster of the Northern Department and served as such until June 8, 1777 when he was appointed Captain in the Artillery Corps under command of Major Ebenezer Stevens, and was discharged at his own request November 5, 1778.
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The claim was not allowed as there was no law which would entitle the heirs to pension.
Very respectfully, 

F D Byington
Acting Commissioner
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1920 Oct 13 Hist. to hrs.  Fred Schoeder
11,726
p.o.
Anna Winslow
Service:
Enlisted:  , 18.
Discharged:  , 18.
Application filed:  Rejected, 18.
Alleges:  The printed list of 1852 gives cause of suspension.
Re-enlisted: "married after service".  
Attorney:
p.o
Recognized.  Contract.
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477
Anne Winslow
Widow of John
Mass
Rejected
D. W. Channing Nov 3 1836
Cyrus Adger June 29, 1850
John Winslow Aug 17, 1836
Same July 30 1850
same Dec 3 1851
Hon Wm Appleton June 26 1852
John Winslow Feb 16 1853
Married after husband left the service and died in 1836.  
John Winslow 13th June 1850
same July 19, 1853
same July 28 1853
same Sept 17 1853
same Oct 8, 1853
Act July 4, 1836
same Nov 2 1853
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Majs  477
Anne Winslow, widow of John Winslow on 3 section act 4 July 1836
Massachusetts
Rejected.  See letter to D W  Channing 30 Nov 1836
Married after the husband left the Army
Let Cyrus Adger 29th June 1850
John Winslow Aug 17/50
same 30 July 1851
John J. Winslow 3 Dec 1851
Hon. WM Appleton June 24/52
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Let Mp HR Hart
July 24/54
Let A Wolff
Sept 26/56
J. Winslow July 20/58
same July 28/58
same May 21/60
same June 6/60
same May 12, 1862
same May 19, 1862
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Births, Marriages and Deaths

Bostonia Condita AD 1630

City Registrar's Office, 
Boston May 8, 1858

Nicholas A Apolloni herby certify that I hold the Office of City Registrar and have the custody of the Records of this City relating to Births, Marriages and Deaths; and I further certify that it appears by the Registry of Deaths that Edward Winslow died in Quincy, December 12th one thousand eight hundred and fifty seven.  
N A Apolloni City Registrar
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Dear Sir
Boston May 5, 1860
On the first instant I addressed you requesting that you would do me the favour to forward my address for my use before the Committee on Revolutionary Claims a copy of my Fathers Discharge from the Army by General Geo Washington muster date November 5, 1778.  
I shall also need for the same use a copy of the temporary Commission received by my Father from General Schuyler, Commanding the Northern Department of the Army, under date June 8 1777 appointing my Father a Captain in a Corps of Artillery under the command of Major Ebenezer Stevens.
These two documents are enumerated in my Fathers Declaration furnished me by LT Waldo Esq Commissioner of Pensions under date September 7, 1853.  These two documents are not included in the endorsement on the back of said Declaration.  I need them forthwith.
Very Respectfully Yours the John Winslow
To the Commissioner of Pensions
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Boston July 8 1858
Dear Sir
On the 17th June and agian on the 8th instant (under each date) I addressed to you a communication directed to the Commissioner of Pensions, City of Washington D C, making certain inquiries to one  important and in relation to revolutionary pensions, and appreciation of money for their benefit.
Heretofore it has been my custom to address the officer by name in connection with his office under this mode however in due time received notice I should not have directed now had I been able to consceive   who was entrusted with the important station.
In the course of events it has become my duty to place in the Pension Department record testimony of the (undecipherable) of my brother one of the children of our father Captain John Winslow of the Revolutionary Army.  I do ot feel secure in
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furnishing this without an assurance from you that its receipt shall by you be acknowledged as satisfactory, if so, and that said document shall be placed in file with the papers now in the Pension Office belonging to the claim of the said John Winslow and Ann Winslow his widow.  
Respectfully yours the John Winslow

To the Revolutionary Pension Washington
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Washington, March 17th 1852
Dear Sir
I have to request that you will examine the enclosed claim and if you can find due as I trust and believe you will, a Pension under the Act of the 4th July 1836 you will cause a certificate to be issued in accordance.
With much respect
Wm Appleton
Hon. J E Heath
Commissioner of Pensions
NB I have from various circumstances delayed that application until I feel I have neglected a duty if you can help me from my embarassment by putting the claim in course of early decisions I shall be greatly obliged.
WM Appleton.
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Dear Sir
Boston May 25, 1860
Your favour instant received this
day. I have ever believed that my Fathers Declaration and the Documents enumerated therein, deposited by the Honourable Jonathan Mason MC in the Pension Office, would remain there safe and unmolested, under the safe keeping of the Government until called for by those interested in them
We have evidence that said papers where
delivered to the Hon  Mr Mason in October or
November 1819 to deposit in the Pension Office in Washington and claim pension. He must have
deposited them before the interview we had
with the Secretary war, which he narrated to
the family in a letter under date January 18.
1820.
Our Mother we do not know to have
authorized or favoured any application what
ever, she certainly could not have furnished
any papers.
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Is it possible that our Fathers Declaration has become separated from the documents that accompanied it?  
The children have had a memorial before Congress since December 4, 1851 and are and have been waiting for the papers they solicit you to furnish or account for them and seperatly they solicit since you have suggested the possibility between "where they may be found" that you will search forward to us the favour to produce them  or furnish  colines therefrom.  
very respectfully yours John Winslow

To Geo C Whitting Esq Commissioner
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Dear Sir
Boston June 2 1860
My father in 1810 had full confidemce in
the good faith of Government, otherwise he would not have placed under their control upon their requisition his claim against that Government for services rendered in the Revolutionary War under circumstances of great privation and suffering.  

I deny that our Mother ever at any time regards or authorized any person to make as 
her behalf as widow of my Father, application for Pension or furnishing any papers whatever, to any person with that intent or any other intent.  
I assert that the Declaration furnished to me by LP Waldo Commissioner under date sept 27, 1853, to be a copy from my Fathers Declaration deposited in the Pension Office Washington by the Hon Jonathan Mason in 1819 and was never accompanied by the documents numerated in it since it has been    and seperated from its evidences of services and mutilated by placing
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on the face of that instrument, these words over and above its commencement, afterwords in giving it with the unauthorized papers of undecipherable
"Copy"
"Copy of Petition to Congress by Gen Winslow "
I John Winslow of Boston in the County of Suffolk, Resident in the United States do testify and declare that on the 20 day of oct 1775 etc.  
the statement foregoing is literally true.  Then had existed and now exists as mishandled in some one of your predecessors.   you inform me there is traces left, whereby the wronged ___be righted and to me it appears in your power to accomplish this.  I again inquire if you will not immediately place my evidence of service in my power. 
Very Respectfully Yours
John Winslow
To Geo C Whiteing Esq Commissioner
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Dear Sir
Boston May 1, 1860
Have the goodness to oblidge
me by forwarding to my address an authetic
copy of my Fathers discharge as Captain of
artillery in the Army of the Revolution, given
by George Washington Esq Commander in Chief
under date November 5, 1778 for use before the
Committee of Revolutionary Claims, and greatly oblidge.
Very Respectfully Yours 
John Winslow

To the Commissioner of Pensions
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Boston October 11. 1862
Dear Sir

Heretofore I granted permission to David A Hall Esq
then resident in the City of Washington, priviledge to see and examine the papers
of my Father, in the Pension Department in said City, now influenced by present
existing cause, I revoke that priviledge, and solicit your corresponding action.  have the goodness to acknowledge the receipt of communication & oblidge.
To the Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington 
Respectfully Yr Ob Tv
John Winslow
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Boston November  1833

Sir
Your favour of the second instant was received on Saturday, 
I am surprised by the tenor of the communication but feel bound to acknowledge its receipt although at a loss to comprehend what you would have me understand from it

Very respectfully Your 
John Winslow

To Loren P Waldo Esq 
Commissioner of Pensions
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Boston October 11 1852
Sir
I addressed you ___on the 24th and made duplicates of two communications from J L Edwards Esq formerly Pension Commissioner thinking they might indicate somewhat relative to Fathers papers into which I then made some inquiries and remain unanswered.
desire attention hereto
Have the goodness to give the date of the papers said to be made by my father and alluded to by Mr Edwards in the second paragraph of the copy I have referred to as accompanying her application, this will oblige
Yours Sincerely
John Winslow

To James E Heath Esqr Commissioner of Pensions
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Boston February 14, 1853
Dear Sir
Notwithstanding, I have not been honoured by any reply to several of my last communications tat of Sept 24th "52 and Oct 11th "52 imperative duty to others interested as much as myself, prevails with me to venture other inquiries that to us all are materially important in hope of an early answer.  Wether has or has not our Fathers Claim been substanciated?  If it has, at what time and in connection with what law?  If it has not, what means to effect this object are requisites?
Very Respectfully Your  Obt  Svt
John Winslow
To James E Heath Esq Commissioner of Pensions
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James E Heath Esq
Commissioner of Pensions

Boston November 11, 1851

Dear Sir
Being about to draw up a Petition for presentation at the approaching session of Congress in behalf of myself, sisters Mary Ann Winslow, Elizabeth J Trott and brother Edward Winslow, surviving Heirs and children of John Winslow Esq and Ann Winslow his widow both deceases.  In relation to this fact I have heretofore furnished a Certificate from the district court of this district to be used at Washington.  My object now is to ascertain if that paper is with other papers regarding Pension to our Parents in the Pension Office and satisfactory for the end it was intended to serve or if additional evidence will be required.
Very Respectfully Your Obd Serv
John Winslow
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Boston Sept 24 1852
Sir
This day I received a communication from your Office over the signature of S Cole informing me, diligent search had been made for the declaration of Capt John Winslow of the Artillery dated in 1819 the time of his application for a pension, that it could not be found in the office.
In reply I copy the two following letters from one under date June 20, 1850. The paper which you left here a few days since in relation to the services of John Winslow in the War of the Revolution has been examined and filed with the papers of his widow.  
Shortly after the passage of the Act 4 July 1836, Mrs Winslow asserted a claim for a pension under that law on account of service rendered by her husband in the Revolutionary war, accompanying her application was a statement said to be made by her husband in relation to his services similar to the one you now present it appeaars from this statement that Winslow left the Army in 1778 and as it was shown by record evidence that they were not married untill 1782 her claim was rejected.  
Mrs Winslow was not embaced by the 
Act of 4 July 1836 and as that was the only law in force at time of her death granting pensions to widows on account of their husband Revolutionary services.  We know of nothing now due her or to her husband John Winslow

Very respectfully Yours 
Signed J L Edwards

To Cyrus Alger Esq of Boston now present
Remark.  The papers spoken in the first paragraph I furnished Mr Alger.  I observe the statement spoke of in second is said to be somehow similar.
I copy this second letter purely to show how I came 
possesed the former
Pension Office August 17, 1836
Sir
Your communication of the 10 inst in relation to the case of Ann Winslow has been received.  
I enclose herewith a letter addressed to Cyrus Alger of 29 June last then supposed to be in this city but as it was not called for the PostMaster returned it to this office.  By refering to this letter you will learn the reasons why the claim of Mrs Winslow cannot be allowed.  Signed JL Edwards
To John Winslow
I would thank you to inform me if my Father John Winslow Captain of Artillery did not make application at the Pension Office in 1816 for pension in consideration of Revolutionary services.  he had I know a set of papers drawn with that object and to the best of my knowledge they were forwarded
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and by private hands a member of the House I am confident that I have his letter saying that he lodged them.
The family have ever supposed a set of papers lodged there by him in his own behalf and desire to know how the fact is
Yours Sincerely
John Winslow

to James C Heath Esq Commissioner of Pensions
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Report to 
Cyrus Alger
of Boston 
look for papers
July 36
Report
Cyrus Alger 
of Boston
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I John Winslow of Boston in the County of Suffolk, a resident of the United States do testify and declare that on the 11th day of October 1775 I received a commission from Jonathan Trumball Esquire Paymaster General to the Northern Department appointing me Deputy Paymaster in said Department at which time I gave a Bond for Forty Thousand Dollars with two good and sufficient sureties for the faithful  performance of said trust and was then ordered to Albany to report myself to Major George Schuyler the commander of said department who ordered me to proceed on and join the Army of the then United Colonies under command of General Montgomery which I joined while lying before Quebeck I then began the duties of my office.  On the 10 day of May 1776 I retreated with said Army then under command of General Winston and had the misfortune to lose all my baggage by reason of which, I saved all the property belonging to the United States with all my books and papers, and arrived after very severe fatigue at Ticonderoga without any of my possessions for thirty four days. From Ticonderoga I was ordered to Albany to settle and adjust my accounts. I had [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] was eight hundred and sixty five thousand seven hundred dollars that all of which was adjusted and settled with Jonathan Trumbull Esquire Paymaster  General Northern department at which time the [illegible] for auditing the public made me some allowance for the [illegible] [illegible] and from him I received the necessary certificate-I [illegible] [illegible] 1777 and [illegible] and [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] with John Winslow Esquire a [illegible] postmaster is [illegible] settled and adjusted. [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] therefore being delivered up and included the [illegible] settlement [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]  [illegible] immediately. Jonathan Trumbull [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]
Signed J. Trumbull [illegible] paymaster general

I was then ordered back to Ticonderoga [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] forty [illegible] office on the 8 day of June 1777 [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] evidence [illegible] General Schuyler as a captain in the [illegible] [illegible] under [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] and under [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] congress [illegible] [illegible] be
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known that some body forwarded me a Captain's Commission signed by John Hancock President and counter signed by James Thompson secretary bearing a date as above, I was then doing duty under both my commissions not having being relieved as paymaster. When the American Army under command of Major General Sinclair was ordered to retreat from Ticonderoga a second time saved the property of the United States intrusted [sic] to my safe keeping with my books and papers with loss of most my baggage in the retreat. I was met at Fort Ann by John Prince Esquire Assistant Deputy paymaster, to whom I delivered all the property of the United States, with my Books and Paper. I then remained with my company doing the duties thereof till after the capture of General Burgoyne and his Army 17 October 1777. I was then ordered to Albany and settled and adjusted my second account with Jonathan  Trumbull jr - Esquire Paymaster General Northern Department. The fact of wich [sic] was one hundred and four thousand five hundred and eighteen dollars, at wich time  my bond was returned me. In the spring I was ordered down North River with my company to West Point, from there to White Plains, then armed in the service of the United States as Captain of Artillery under command of Major Eben Stevens till the 5th day of Nov 1778 at which time was honorably discharged my own request, by General Washington the Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States.

I( have arrived at the age of 65 years and find myself growing infirm, and having lost all my property by  misfortune, should if entitled, be glad to receive the pension agreeable to the laws of the United States, my service haveing [sic] been over three years. Since my misfortunes the citizens of the county of Suffolk have the six years passed annually chosen me Treasurer of said County for which services they have allowed me $1600/year. This with some other little income provides with $2500 / annum, which be an income on which I could pay something yearly, but my misfortunes obliges me to pay out of this sum annually $1800.  Which leave the balances not sufficient for the support of my family which consists of seven persons. Should sickness or any other cause  bereave me of the County business I could not support my family and self.
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Boston June 16 1850

Friend Alger

After leaving you yesterday I found at my father's in the evening the foregoing manuscript skeleton in his own hand writeing [sic] from which he copied out in form. I mean my Father, his application to the proper department for a pension. Herein is contained circumstances, dates, [commissions, amounts of money, time of service, discharge, and seemingly mush have been accompanied by corroborating documents. You will notice my father states his age at 65 years, he was born September 29 1753 married Ann Gardner May 21 1782 died November 29 1819 consequently the petition probably is dated 1818 or "19 very near or during his last sickness. 

Mother survived till November 12 1836 Walter Channing applied unbeknownst to the Family on her behalf furnished documents and afterwards told my sisters if she had lived 3 months longer should have obtained the whole pension to the amount of a large sum. - 

Messr's Whitman and J Mason were advising my Father in his application letter. They took on his petition and documents and I make must [illegible] that both instances the papers are there and all correct. 

Yours
[Signature] John Winslow
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Boston May 6 1862
Dear Sir
Circumstances exist making it necessary that I avail myself of copy from documents in your department.
You will obkidge by furnishing me copy of the discharge of my father John Winslow upon his own request granted by General Washington to my father, under date the 5 day of November 1778.  My father was Captain of Artillery served in a corps under Command of Major Ebenezer Stevens.  this copy here in solicited I need for immediate use.
Very Respectfully Yours the 
John Winslow
To Hon Pension Commissioner
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Baltimore
22 Sept 1856
Alex Wolff
Enquire when and where General Winslow died
w 237
23 Sept 1856
Respectfully referred to 
Pension Office War Department
Sept 23 1856
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Baltimore, September 22, 1856
To the Department of War
Washington DC

The department of war will oblige the subscriber by informing him when and where General Winslow,  the brother of Gov Winslow of Massachusetts, died and whether, at the time of his death, he was in active service or a receiver of a pension.
Very respectfully
Alex Wolff
letter box 839
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Know all men by these presents that we have constituted, ordained and made and in our stead and place put and by these presents do constitute, ordain and make and in our stead and place J F Lindsey Esq MD of Yorkville North Carolina , now in Boston Massachusetts to be our true sufficient and lawful attorney 
for us and in our names and stead to examine into the state and condition of a claim made at the Pension Office by John Winslow Esq Deputy Paymaster Gen and a Captain of Artillery in the Revolutionary Army whose services extended over the period of time required to entitle to a Pension under the early Acts of the Government of his Country.  Also a claim made by Ann Winslow his widow in consideration of her husband's services rendered and received.  to neither of these applications has there been a response.  Also if there be a certificate lodged there specifying the living heirs provided the various laws passed have not reached the circumstances in these cases during the lifetime of the pentioners the acts of congress since manifestly show intention and do numerate like services under circumstances correspondent.  this is made evident in the Act 1838 and induces the heirs if otherwise where successful in their application at the Pension Office to carry the subject before Congress on their own behalf as justly entitled to the avails of a parents toils and sufferings as any beneficiary names who are in receipt of benefit under its The manner of doing this and the form is entrusted to you.  the claims are just, the Act referred to recognizes exactly similar ones and does remunerate them, in our case, death has intervened, this is all the difference but no good reason why the services on that account should remain unrecompensed.  giving and herby granting unto J F Lindsey Esq our said Attorney full power and authority in and about afore described.  Also for the purposes aforesaid to make and substitute one or more attornies under himself our said attorney, and the same at pleasure to revoke.  It is understood that all compensation for services under this power or originating from it are to be made the subject of contract, payment depending upon the successful termination of the
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claim itself.  I john Winslow, one of the signers this instrument hereby revoke all powers of attorney heretofore granted by me in relation to this subject to any person or persons whatsoever.  
In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this sixth day of August in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty one.  
Signed Sealed and Delivered 
in presence of us
Mary A W Trott
Elizabeth Jo Trott
John Winslow
Mary Ann Winslow
Elizabeth J Trott for myself and for my Brother Edward Winslow
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Jno Winslow
Sept 17/53
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Pension Office
Sept 17 1853
Sir
I enclose you a copy of all the papers in the case of Anne Winslow widow of  Wm of  - except the letters written by yourself.
John Winslow Esq
Boston Mass
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Boston Oct 29 1836
Sir
I have this day heard from Doctor Channing that he will write you on the subject of the claims of the widow of Leut John Winslow for a decision.
May I be permitted to ask your kind attention to the doctor's letter as he is among the most philanthropic and respectable of our citizens.
I am in very respectfully 
Your ob servant
John K Simpson
To JL Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
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D Walter Channing
3 Nove 1836
OC
Rec Vol 39 Page 187
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War Dept
Pension Office
Nov 3 1836
Sir
The papers in the case of Mrs Anne Winslow widow of the late John Winslow, Esq. dec. have been received and placed on our files.  It appears that he resigned on the 5th November 1778 and that their marriage did not take place until May 1782.  The 3rd section of the act of the 4th July 1836 provides for those widows only whose marriage took place before the expiration of the husband's service.  Mrs Winslow has of course no claim under that law; and there is no other act providing for the widow of revolutionary affairs.  No relief therefore can be afforded by this Dept.  Had the law extended to her case, it would have afforded me great pleasure to have placed Mrs's name on the Pension list.
Enclosed is a copy of the law from which you will perceive that it does not embrace any case like Mrs. 
Dr Walter Channing Boston Mass
No 477
Enter this case on Rev. widow's claims 3!  act of 4 July 36
Massachusetts
case
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Jno Winston
Feb 14, 1853
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148
Pension Office 
Feby 14 1853
Sir
In reply to your inquiry, I have to inform you that a thorough search has been made and there are no papers on file made out by John Winslow.  Application was made by his widow for the benefit of the act of July 4 1836 but she had no claim under that act as she was married after her husband went out of service and she could assert a claim under no other act for reasons already explained to you and others.
Jno Winslow Esq Boston Mass
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June 24th 1852
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350
Pension Office 
June 24 1852
Sir
In reply to your note of the 17 March last enclosing papers in the case of Anne Winslow dec. widow of Joh dec. of Mass.  I have the honor to inform you that under existing laws the heirs are entitled to no pension.  the act of 4 July 1836 required that the widow should have been married to her husband before he left the service.  Capt Winslow left the service in '78 and was married in '82.  His wodow was therefore not entitled under that act.  The act of 7 July '38 provides for those widows who were married after the husbands service and before Jan 1794 but it required that the applicant should be a widow at the date of the passage of that act.  Mrs Winslow died in Nov. 1836, before the Act of 38 was passed and consequenty could not have been entitled under it.  Nothing in the way of Pension is due the heirs.  As the enclosed paper appears to be a memorial to Congress I herewith return it
Hon Wm Appleton Hos Rep
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754
pension office
June 29th 1850
sir
The paper which you left here a few days since in relation to the service of John Winslow in the war of the Revolution has been esamined and filed with the papers of his widow Anne Winslow
Shortly after the passage of the act of 4 July 1836, Mrs Winslow asserted a claim for a pension under that law on account of service by her husband in the revolutionary war.  accompanying her application was a statement said to be made y her husband in relation to his service similar to the one you now present.  It appears from this statement that Winslow left the army in 1778 and as it was shown by recent evidence that they were not married until 1782 her claim was rejected.  
mr winslow was not entitled by the act of 4 July 1836 and that was the only law in place at the time of her death which grants pension to widows on account of their husbands
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Revolutionary services.  We know of nothing now due to her or her husband John Winslow to be paid to their children
29 june 1850
cyrus adger esq of boston now present
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washington oct 2/50
WD Addison
Ec. application of the heirs of Mrs Ann Winslow for a pension under the Act of July 4th 1836

Hon A H H Stuart Secretary of the Dept of Interior

Refer to Law of Pensions
Dept  Interior
Oct 8 1850
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Hon A H H Stuart
Secretary of the Interior

[inverted]
2H
Washington October 2 [18]50
W.D. Addison
Enclosed application of the heirs of Mrs. Ann Winslow for a pension under the act of July 4th, 183
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Washington
October 2nd 1850

Sir
The within application (and certificate of Court) of heirs of Mrs Ann Winslow for a pension under the Act of July 4th 1836 was sent to me with instructions to enclose them to your Department and to request that an early examination may be had there on and the result communicated to me
I have the honor to be
very respectfully
your ob serv
D D Addison

Honorable AHH Stuart
Secretary of the Interior
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17 Aug 1850
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Pension Office
August 17th 1850
Sir
Your Communication of the 10th August in relation to the case of Anne Winslow deceased widow of John Winslow has been received
I enclose herewith a letter addressed to Cyrus Adger esquire 29 June last then supposed to be in this city and as it was not called for the postmaster returned it to this office .  by referencing to this letter you will learn the reason why the claim of Mrs Winslow cannot be allowed

John Winslow Esquire
Boston Massachusetts
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john winslow
June 13  53
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160
Pension Office
13th June 1853
Sir
Yours of 14h Feby 1853 has been received.  By a letter from this office of 14th Feby 1853 you were informed that the claim of Anne Winslow was rejected.  I would say in answer to your inquiries concerning John, that his claim has not been substantiated.  It must be rejected for it has been shown that he died in 1809 and there is no act under which his children can take
John Winslow Esq
Boston Mass
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John Winslow 
July 19/53
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241
Pension Office 
July 19 1853
Sir
In reply to your inquiry I have to inform you that I find among the papers of Anne Winslow widow of John of Mass what purports to be a copy of petition to Congress by Gen Winslow" and that said copy does not bear the date of the writing nor is it attested by any magistrate or other officer.  
I do not find the accounts of which you speak.
John Winslow Esq
Boston Mass
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John Winslow
July 28/53
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Pension Office 
July 28, 1853
Sir
In reply to your letter of the 23 rd I have to inform you that amongst the papers on file in this office relating to the service of John Winslow dec. I am without date commencing as following "Copy of petition to Congress by Mr Winslow.
I John Winslow of Boston in the County of Suffolk, resident of the United States, do testify and declare"  c/c.  He then gives a statement of his services but the Declaration is not signed or authenticated.  Ther is also another paper which was filed by Cyrus Adger Esq. of similar impact but more extended.  We have no other Declaration or Petition in this office referring to his services.   
John Winslow Esq. Boston Mass
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Pension Office
Nov 2 1853
Sir
I cannot understand how any acknowledgment from me in relation to your father's service or its character can be of any importance to you as no case can be made out before this office.  If you desire carrying it before any other tribunal the proof which you may be able to 
add  must be such as to certify that tribunal and not me.  Whether your father was Captain of Artillery or not has not been the question before this office.  
John Winslow Esq.
Boston Mass
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John Winslow
Boston
oct 8 / 53
mass
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Pension Office
Oct 8, 1853
Sir
In the case of Ann Winslow, widow of John, of Mass, I have to re iterate that as the widow was married after the termination of service, and act in 1836, the heirs are not entitled to any pension.  
John Winslow
Boston
Mass
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Boston July 20 1958
 your favor under date the 10 instant acknowledging the receipt of mine to you under date the 17 the time
was received on due course of merit, the answer brief, and
confined to the informaton bought this communication was
over the signature of the Commissioner himself, mine of the
instant may have miscarryed.
Your answer to mine of the 8th instant was received
yesterday, I think that I did not make inquiry after any opinion relative to the standing of the claim of
Father & Mother, my request was to learn if I forwarded
record testimony of the decease of my Brother with a request that it be placed in file with the papers of our Parents, such request would be complied with, taking that for granted the enclosed is forwarded.
Very respectfully yours 
John Winslow
To George C Whiting Esa
Commissioner Pensions
John Winslow
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Dear Sir
Boston August 10, 1850
 In June last, a friend of mine leaving this city for  Wasington D.C. (Cyrus 
Alger Esqr) did me the favor to take some memoranda (which he left with you under
a promise of your writing him) with a view of inquiring relative to an application made by
my Father at the Pension Office during his last illness in 1818-19 forwarding a claim on
over three years continuous services rendered in the Northern Department of the Army commencing  before the walls of Quebec under General Montgomery. His first commission bore
date the 4th day of October 1775 was derived from the Paymaster General Jonathan Trumbull Esq
constituting him deputy Paymaster.  After joining the Army was ordered in December to Albany
to settle accounts in large amounts, and did settle the first on the 30 January 1777, and another
not long after. On the 8th June 1777 Major General Schuyler sent him a written appointment
as Captain in a Corps of Artillery commanded by Major Ebenezer Stevens, under which he
acted untill the pleasure of Congress should be known, that Honourable Body forwarded
him a correspondent Commission under the above date signed by John Hancock President
countersigned by James Thompson Secretary, remained in service untill the 5 day of November
1778, then at my own request was honourably discharged by General George Washington commander in chief of the Armies of the United States. These are prominent facts set forth
fully in his application filed in office, the claim has never been responded too, why not
both Commissions are surely, matters of record from whence they emenated, and settled
accounts to the amount of Hundreds of thousands of Dollars likewise. Father
deceased Nov 1810. The best evidence of the truth of declaration is with you
During the illness of my Mother 1835 - 36 application was made for her, and
documents furnished, they are filed in your office, allow me to refer to them in both
instances. Mother deceased in Nov 1836.
The remains of our Family now living consists of four persons, Two Female
and two males,  myself the oldest, not in prosperous condition. In consequence feel
induced to enquire if alright, there be any thing by the Pension Laws due to either or both
one
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our parents by which Law when passed.  if the gratuity take effect with the passage of the law or from the date of application for benefit under   are children entitled to what might be due the parents or either of them upon claims made and no payments up to the time of their decease?  what papers are requisite in such cases to obtain the benefit if any is incurring?
Having failed to write my friend I indulge the hope you will respond to me by the earliest opportunity and in doing oblidge very respectfully.
Your obd serv
John Winslow

To Mr Preasonson Esq
Pension office Washington DC
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James L Edwards Esq
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Boston Oct 28th 1836
Dear Sir
I have taken the liberty to address you in behalf of an aged and indigent widow of an officer in the Revolutionary Army and to enclose some documents regarding her claim of the generosity and justice of our common country, Captain, afterwards General Winslow in our state militia died November 1819 a short time before his death he made out a full statement of his rank and services in the Revolutionary war and gave this with all the memory documents to Hon.  Jona Mason a Representative in Congress from this district.  His death and the fact that pensions were not continued to widows at that time put a stop to the measures then taking from obtaining the pension and the death of Mr Mason since has rendered it impossible for her to obtain these documents.  The new pension law has reviewed her paper and my acquaintenance with her as her professional attendant led her to inform me of the circumstances and I at once knowing her pensionary situation forfeited, offered to do all in my power to obtain for her what is so  necessary for her comfort in these the last days of her long life.  
I have showed the enclosed statement to my friend Mr J Sparks, as being better acquainted with the facts in our revolutionary history than anyone, to whom I could apply.  He remembers that with the small exceptions of a mistake in Christian name even perhaps a date to strong satisfied him permits that 
the individual
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not who told it was telling the truth.  I have conversed with two survivors of the revolutionary army who at once said that they knew that Mr Winslow was in the Army but being the matters attached to the Infantry while belonging to the states in which they were married, they knew and little of the artillery which was with his whole pay department under the sole direction of congress.  Mr Sparks advised me as in order to obtain a pension more exact particulars were required official ones viz, that in writing to the pension department I should ask two questions:  
1.  whether the documents entrusted to Mr Mason as before stated were to be found in the pension office
2.  whether the name and rank of Mr Winslow could be found on the rosters or other papers on books in the office.  
permit me now sire to ask these qustions as they may have no important a bearing on this application.  
I enclose a certificate of the marriage of mrs winslow, beg leave to certify to you that shw has not been married since his death.  My long acquaintenance with Mrs enables me to state this beyond any doubt.  
I have seen a diploma of the Society of Cincinnati, bearing the signatures of General Washington, declaring Mr Winslow to be a member of that Society.  This he could not have obtained had he not been an officer in the Army.  If this document can be of any use I can forward it to Washington hereafter or get a norary's certificate to its existence and genuiness.  
As I am not much acquainted with
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the steps proper to be taken in this matter I may have omitted much that is not relevant and important.  I shall feel greatly obliged to you to let me know what more should be done and I will with the greatest pleasure attempt to do it.  I have conversed with Gen Dearborn and J K Simpson Esq on this entry and most greatly obliged to them for their council and assistance.  I have made this appeal on behalf of an aged widow.  She is between 80 and 90 years of age, and her entire means for her own support and that of two daughters and five grandchildren is about $200.  She has borne her privations with a noble spirit and when I told her I should apply for Cince for her to the Cincinatti Society, she said "no, I cannot beg".   I told her what I might   say was her due, as her husband,  from the earliest day of the Society 1783 had been a member and entrusted to its funds.   In short Sir, nothing but her necessities could have induced her to permit this application in her behalf to be made.  
I had thought to have applied to my friend D Stevens in New York for documents He is a cor of Major, afterwards Gen Stevens named in Mr Winslows declaration but have preferred to wait till I hear from you.  The Declaration is a copy by Mr Winslows grandson from a rough draft of the one sent by W. to the Pension Office in 1819.
Pardon me Sir for the liberty I have taken to address you at this time.  I did not feel that I should have done my whole duty for one for whom I feel both veneration and respect had I not volunteered this effort in her behalf.  I remain very respectfully your obd ser Walter Channing MD
James L Edwards Esq
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Boston May 14 1853
Sir
I had the honour to call your attention on the 20th ...to a communication of mine addressed to your predecessor in Office on the 15th Sept 1852 on recourse thereto it will appear the object I then had in view was the date of a certain paper depositied in the Office of the Secretary of War in the year 1819 purporting to be a Declaration of my Father Captain John Winslow of services rendered during the Revolutionary War, accompanyed by documentory evidence as set forth in that instrument such as appointments, settled accounts, to and asking pension under the laws. On the 20 of the same month and year I received an answer through Mr L Cole for the Commissioner, much to my dissatisfaction and surprise as I heretofore intimated.  
Allow me to offer some reasons for your consideration why I think there is altogether a mistake in the answer alluded to.
First, I have relyable evidence under qualification that a set of pension papers were entrusted by my Father to the  Hon Jonathan Mason for delivery at there destination the City of Washington in 1810 sometime in Oct or Nov.  This fact is supported by a letter from him dated at Washington January 15 1820.  That these papers were deposited appears from a subsequent interview related in this letter between himself and the Secretary of War on the subject of this claim.  
Second, JL Edwards, Esq Commissioner of Pension under date June 20, 1850 says in the first paragraph of this communication "The paper [given by me to Cyrus Alger Esq whereby my Fathers papers might be traced and identified] that you left here a few days since in relation to the service of John Winslow in the War of the Revolution has been examined  [with its counterpart the declaration and application]  and filed with the papers of his Widow.    This extract constitutes the whole of the first paragraph accompanying her application was a statement said to be made by her husband in relation to his service, similar to the one you now present" [the paper
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given by me to Mr Alger] "It appears from this statement that Winslow left the Army in 1778'  both these last extracts are from the second paragraph in Mr Edwards letter of June 20 1850.  Mr Edwards then takes my Fathers declaration as authority using there from the date of his discharge and thereon basing the decision that immediately follows.  Can there remain a doubt that his papers I denominate the declaration and application of my Father was in charge of the department in 1850?  
Third, The heirs empowered JF Lindsey Esa MD to act in their behalf I think in August 1851 who shortly after left Boston for Yorkville in South Carolina his accustomed residence on his way passing through Washington he visited the Pension Office and lodged his power thereby revoking another power untill then exiting and examined the papers in the office.  I received from him a letter dated at Yorkville, 3 Sept 1851 from which I give the following extracts "I did lodge the power you gave me at Washingston in the Pension Office and by so doing revoked the agency of Mr Thayer. He [the commissioner] permitted me to examine the papers I found the petition of  General Winslow [his declaration and application or what Mr Edwards terms a similar paper] the papers of Dr Channing and those got up by Thayer and the letter written by yourself [this is the letter filed by Mr Edwards among my Mothers papers] I have the affidavitt of the Dr to the same effect.   Can it be doubted that my Fathers declaration and application was with the department in 1851?
Fourth. The fact that this declaration and application is in my Fathers hand writing proves indisputably that it did exist, was drawn up prior to his decease, and is evidence in itself of documentary accompanyments.  He asserts that he received a Commission dated Oct 4 1775 from Jonathan Trumball Esq appointing him Deputy Paymaster in the Northern Department of the Army.  That he gave satisfactory Bonds and then was and then ordered to report himself to General Schuyler at Albany who ordered him to join the Army under General Montgomery before Quebec, he joined and commenced his duties to May 1776.    In December was ordered to Albany to adjust and settle his accounts.  The accounts settled amounted to + - 259,1010 Lawful Money [it is impressed on my mind that I render to the currency of the account into Federal Money] Lawful Money will be thus rendered by
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allowing $3.33 1/3 to the L and give the amount in the declaration.  The account was adjusted and settled with the Paymaster General, and he gave [as I suppose from the wording of it, under looking on the accounts]  the following certificate Albany 30 January 1777.  the above and foregoing account with John Winslow Esq assistant Paymaster is fully settled and adjusted the vouchers therefor being delivered up and included in my settlement with the Commissioners for auditing the Public Accounts in the Northern Department.  
signed J Trumbull Jr PhQ
This account with the Certificate upon it I have no doubt accompanyed the Declaration and Application of my Father to Washington and is confirmatory of the whole proceeding that of the said Declaration.  June 8, 1777 my Father claims to have received written appointment from Major General Schuyler as Captain of Artillery in a Corps Commanded by Major Ebenezer Stevens, served under it till the will of Congress was made known by their forwarding to him a Captains Commission signed by John Hancock President countersigned James Thompson Secretary, bearing the date of the appointment.  He remained in service until discharged at his own request Nov 5 1778 by George Washington the Commander in Chief of the Armies of the U.S.  After the capture of General Bogsyne Oct 17, 1777 was ordered to Albany and settled and adjusted my second account with Jonathan Trumball Esq, Paymaster General of the Northern Department in amout $31355.80 Lawful Money.  This was rendered Federal Money in the Declaration by the example heretofore given.  I have no doubt this account went forward at the same time with the first account and probably the appointment the Commission, the Discharge and other papers accompanied. [if otherwise it should  be bourn in mind that the Commission and Discharge are matters of record with the Government and that the dates are given].  I will give my Fathers application in the words he used.  "I have now arrived at the age of 65 years and find myself growing infirm and having lost all my property by misfortune, should if entitled be glad to receive the pension agreeably to the laws of the United States my services having been over three years.
  I hope you will have the consideration to explain why it is that a paper deposited in the pension department by an Hon. Member of the House in 1810, certainly found in
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the department in 1850 and continued therein 1851, could not be found remaining in 1852 Sept 20 after diligent search.  I am anxiously desirous to be satisfied in this particular.  
The two accounts inquired after in my communication of the 20th and certificate in this mentioned as connected with the first settled account.  They are documentary and accompanied the Declaration and Application and should be found with it.  I hope to hear they have. 
Is our Fathers claim so authenticated and in such condition that it can be substantiated in favour of his legal Heirs on whom it has evolved.  We desire a written substantiation for use before the Committee on Claims.
Very Respectfully Your Obd Serv
John Winslow
To Loren P Waldo Esq
Commission of Pensions
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Boston October 27 1853
sir
I notice your certificate on my Fathers 
claim as you are pleased to call it under date of the 7th September last does not recognize him as a Captain of Artillery it is important that this should be admited otherwise he fails to prove three years continuous service during the revolutionary war which fact is a material part of his declaration.  If you think the proof offered by him accompanying his declaration insufficient to verify that fact then it is incumbent on me to exert myself for the removal of all reasonable doubt and in hope of succeeding to submit the following record from the journal of Congress.  
Monday June 16 1777, Vote Pa 237 in the first paragraph of the proceeding of that day  I notice among others the following letter one of the  8 and 9 from General Schuyler  at Albany with secondary papers inclosed:
Third paragraph "That the letter of General Washington and General Schuyler with papers enclosed be referred to board of War":
Tuesday "June 17, 1777, Vote PA 240.241. "The Board of War brought in a report which was taken into consideration:  Wherin upon Resolved That the appointment of Mr Winslow by General Gates as a Captain of Artillery be approved and confirmed by Congress:"  
If this be true is not his declaration verified to your satisfaction?
Very respectfully Your SV
John Winslow
To Loren P Waldo Esq  Commissioner of Pensions
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Boston June 16 1853
Sir
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your communication under date of the 13 instant,  and in reply give you to understand that I have received no prior communication from the department since the 20 Sept last and that was to me a surprisal;  my unanswered correspondance with the Office.   I have noticed in mine to you of the 20 April and again on the 14 May, after investigation of the enquiries these contain in relation to my Fathers Papers,  hope to receive the information sought.
Your note as I apprehend, has refference solely to mine of the 14 February and remark That Father died in accordance with the evidence you have and cite, but made application for pension a length of time before that event which fact in relation to himself establishes his claim for thereby a contract between the Government and Himself ensued that now exists unsettled and has devolved on his children by an act of the providence of God.  I have ever thought Natural Law in universal practice among mankind, entitled children to the property of parents after their decease, or Common Lay the law of precedence tended practically to the same issue.  The department however insist on Special Law and we have submitted by Petitionary Congress for a Special Act in form of a Resolution allowing our claim under existing Laws as claimed and directing payment forthwith.
Very Respectfully Yours Sv
John Winslow
To Loren P Waldo Esq Commissioner of Pensions
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Boston July 23 1853
Sir
The communication you did me the honour to address to me on the 19 instant is before me contents noted.  I am not aware my Father ever drew up a Petition to Congress in any case whatever certainly never in His case.  I am confident that I myself never used the words you have placed between inverted commas in any communication made by me to the department.  This notice the assumption merits.  I used in mine "June 16,  the words Petitionary Congress as an act of the Heirs seeking to obtain their rights under the laws as claimed arrising from an unsettled contract on the part of the Government with our Father.  Your reply I do not consider as in answer to my inquiries, on the contrary,  sensibly feel it to be an version of them.  
Very Respectfully Yours SV John Winslow
To Loren P waldo Esq Commissioner of Pensions
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Boston Sept 15 1853
Sir
Upon reflection I take again in hand your favour of the 28 July last and have the honour to suggest that my Fathers Declaration is in his own hand writing this admitted would not his name thus wrote by himself at the commencement or termination of such and instrument be equally valid in either case as his signature.  
For the authentication of this instrument he relied on the papers enumerated in and that accompanyed it to Washington, and was lodged at the Office of the Secretary of War in 1819.  His commission from Jonathan Trumbull Esq Paymaster Gen of the Northern Department appointing him Deputy Paymaster in said Department under date of the 4 day of October 1775.  His first account commencing while before Quebec on the 10 May 1776 and footing  on settlement Two Hundred Fifty Nine Thousand Seven Hundred and Ten Pounds, Four Shillings and Ten Pence Lawful Money adjusted and settled with the Paymaster General per his Certificate dated 30 January 1777 given under said Footing on said account.  The written appointment he received from Major General Schuyler under date June 8 1777 appointing him a Captain in the Corps of Artillery under Command of Major Ebenezer Stevens subsequently Congress Sanctioned this appointment by forwarding him a Commission bearing the same date signed by their President, countersigned by their Secretary.  His delivery of the Government property and his Books and Papers in his department of Deputy Paymaster unto John Perree Esq assistant Deputy Paymaster at Fort Ann.  The adjustment and settlement of His second Account after the capture of General Bogayne footing Thirty One Thousand Three Hundred Fifty Five Pounds and Eight Schillings with Jonathan Trumbull Jr Esq Paymaster General Northern Department at which time his Bonds were returned him.  His Discharge under date 5 day of November 1778 obtained at his own request from George 
Washington Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States.
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His Declaration comprises the time of entering service and discharge there from.
The Field Officers Name under whom my Father served, various duties performed, The Country passed through and Documentary evidence.  If this fail in your judgement satisfactorily to prove the applicant for pension has rendered to Government and the Government have received from him three years and one month service in an early period of the Revolutionary War as set forth in his Declaration, then I desire to be instructed by you what additional evidence you deem requisite or indispensible to establish that fact.  
Very Respectfully Your Obd Serv
John Winslow
To Loren P Waldo Esq Commissioner of Pensions
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Boston Sept 24 1853

Sir
I received the papers you did me the favour to forward under date of the 17 instant in due course of mail and acknowledge obligation for that favour as act of kindness in you towards myself.  
I cannot however fail to remind you that all my correspondence with the Office from the beginning leans towards and has refference to the claim of my Father and the papers depositied at the Office of the Secretary of War by the Honourable Jonathan Mason in 1819.  
The Declaration of my Father or rather a copy of that instrument now forwarded I cannot admit ever to have been a paper of my Mothers, but as a paper out of place.  I claim the original of the copy now furnished as a revision in his own hand writing consequently for present use of the rough skeleton draft he retained it agreeing therewith in dates and facts differing only in extension it could not have been prepared for a case that might or might not occur in the vista of time it was prepared to meet present exigencies and immediately applied.  I believe it to be the identical Declaration deposited as above with accompanying documents calculated to verify it in every particular.  
Very respectfully Your ob sv
John Winslow

To Loren P Waldo Esq Commissioners of Pensions
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Boston August 6 1853
Sir
Im writing you under date the 30 Ult I had had in contemplation your favour of the 10 Ult and my answer thereto for several days and prepared mine under date of the 30 Ult in that period of consideration.  I now desire the priviledge to insert a correction or omission of one word into that communication.  It is the word "found" and for that filed by J L Edwards.  I would have it inserted between the words that and filed in the three words underscored in this extract so that it may read.  "for that found, filed by JL Edwards.  
I now return to your favour as above.  I answer to said communication I refer to mine 20 April therein I stated the commencement of my Fathers Declaration and Application, each of these are so vitally important to the other that in the copy he made and retained, both are contained on the same paper and thus were by him considered one document in two parts.  also I stated the footing of two accounts settled by him with the Paymaster General of the Northern Department giving the amounts of each in the then currency lawful money.  In your favour,  I am now considering, you say in the briefest possible manner, I find a Copy of a petition to Congress by General Winslow to my remark on this subject under date July 23 I add that this is neither a Declaration or Application.  Further on you say "I do not find the accounts of which you speak,"  this answer partakes of the same evasiveness of the former, is very indirect and entirely unsatisfactory.  The accounts are enumerated in his Declaration and represented there in in Federal Currency, the first settled the larger of the two in the sum of "Eight Hundred and Sixty Five Thousand Seven Hundred Dollars 00/100".  The Certificate in the following words is enumerated in the Declaration.  "Albany 30 January 1777.  The above and foregoing accounts with John Winslow Esq  Assistant Paymaster is fully settled and adjusted, the vouchers there for being delivered up and included in my settlement with the Commissioners for auditing the Public Accounts in the Northern 
Department.  
signed J Trumbull Jr PMG
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and the other in the sum of "One Hundred and Four Thousand Two Hundred and Eighteen Dollars at which time my bond was returned to me."  The accounts in Lawful Money mentioned in mine of the 20 April and the footing both then given together with the Certificate first mentioned in mine of the 14 May and its location and application supposed and the same Certificate herein again copied disconnected from any supposition meaning to be understood that the Certificate as copied and the accounts rendered in Lawful Money was in that currency adjusted by the Paymaster General and settled with him.  These accounts and that Certificate did accompany my Fathers Declaration to Washington as documentary evidence of service rendered.  He elected to use in his Declaration the National Currency to represent in gross the same Disbursements.  I consider these documents material and renew my request that they be looked up.  
Yours of the 28 July reached me in due course of Mail, the contents I have noted.  "Copy of a petition to Congress by Gen Winslow.  I John Winslow of Boston in the County of Suffolk, resident of the United States do testify and declare".  Commencing with " I John Winslow to the end of the extract corresponds not exactly but (especially) with that furnished the 20 April as the commencement of my Fathers Declaration but the words (prefactory) I do not feel further disposed to remark upon than to say they indicate an original paper.  In the last paragraph of your favour, you treat of another paper, "of similar important but more extended".  Have the goodness to furnish me with three or four lines of this extension, commencing with the first line.  
Very Respectfully Your ob+sv+ John Winslow
To Loren P Waldo Esq Commissioner of Pensions
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Boston July 30 1853
Sir
Herewith allow me to request you would consider the following extract from the letter of the Hon Jonathan Mason referred to in the first reason submitted in my communication under date May 14 and in connection therewith.  "Notwithstanding his death, I had an interview with the Secretary at War upon the subject of his claim, but he at once told me by the Act his authority totally ceased upon the death of the claimant, before the claim had been substantiated.  It was wholly out of his power to substantiate the claim of a deceased man in order to give to heirs any monies which would have been due prior to his death".  Here the claim is admitted, death had intervened before substantiation, it could not be substantiated with the claimant this reason itself evident.  Would not the grant under the law having been accepted, devolve on the legal representatives?
My Father made and retained a copy of his Declaration of services rendered Government during the War of the Revolution and his application for or Acceptance of Pension.  Necessarily he parted with his evidence in proof that the Government had received the service declared upon therin described and enumerated.  This evidence thus parted with accompanied the other Declaration and Application for or Acceptance of Pension and was lodged with it in the office of the Secretary of War.  While the copy of what he had done, described and enumerated, alone, remained with him.  The evidence of service rendered, and acceptance of the grant, with the government.
I willingly acknowledge having, for the express purpose of hunting up my Fathers Papers in the Pension Department, furnished to Cyrus Adger Esq, a friend of mine, who delivered it to the Commissioner personally, the papers spoken of in the communication of J L Edwards Esq addressed to Cyrus Adger Esq
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of Boston now present, and dated July 20, 1850, and admitted to be my own hand writing.  that paper the Commissioner says "had been examined and filed with the papers of his widow, Ann Winslow."  and again says with "her application was a statement said to be made by her husband in relation to his service similar to the one you now present."  And finally, "It appears from this statement that Winslow left the Army in 1778".  
Is the paper you find the paper received from Cyrus Adger Esq by JL Edwards Esq and "filed as he says" among the papers of my Mother? if yea to the words, you have placed within inverted commas, the filing on the papers found? if yea then, it would occasion me no surprise that you have  found such a paper where you found this.   I shall call for it at a proper time, and for that filed by JL Edwards.  
Hitherts no occasion of surprises existed in my mind, Commissioner Edwards under date July 20 1850 acknowledged the custody of my Fathers Declaration, and application for pension by admitting the paper received from Cyrus Adger, Esq was a similar paper and said similar paper he had filed in the Department "with the papers of his widow Ann Winslow." 
I have the Certificate of John F Lindsey Esq MD of South Carolina in addition to his letter dated 3 Sept 1851, the Certificate goes to identify the writing of Fathers Declaration and application, I shall use both.  
Very Respectfully Your
Obed Serv
John Winslow
To Loren P Waldo Esq Commissioner of Pensions
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Boston May 14 1862
Dear Sir
This day I received your favour under date the 12 instant, the contents are a surprise for JL Edwards Esq in answer to my inquiry stated June 29 1850 that Winslow left the Army in 1778.  Again desirant of information I addressed myself to James E Heath Esq Commissioner, this application and answered by S Cole for the Commissioner that diligent search had been made for the Declaration of Captain John Winslow and it cannot be found in this Office.  
On the 17 March 1852 the Hon William Appleton Esq placed in the Pension Department the whole of the papers in his charge, they remained untill the 24 day of June of the same year, when F F C Triplett for the Commissioner, returned them to the said Appleton with this remark "that Captain Winslow left the service in "78".  
The last words of my Father Declaration as furinshed me by Loren P Waldo September 17, 1853, where on he certified unto I remained in the service of the United States as Captain of  Artillery under Command of Major Ebenezer Stevens till the 5th day of November 1778 at which time I was honorably discharged at my own request by General Washington the Commander in Chief of the armies of the United States.
Very Respectfully Yours
John Winslow
To the Commissioner of Pensions
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Boston April 20 1853
Sir
I addressed your immediate predecessor in Office 15 Sept 1852 asking information relative to my Fathers declaration and application for pension, who was Deputy Paymaster in the Northern Department of the Army and Captain of Artillery in the Revolutionary War,  the fact is set forth in that document.  He applied previous to his decease in 1819.  This communication was answered under date 20 Sept 1852 by Mr L Cole, who to my very great surprise was unable to find,  after diligent search as he says, that paper in the Office.  
Consequent thereupon I again addressed said Commissioner under date the 24 Sept 1852 and therin copied a communication I had received from his predecessor J L Edwards, Esq under date 29 June 1850 stating, the locality of the papers in question to be with my Mothers papers, and that he had filed a paper with it and them, in August 1851 upon his deposit of a power to act and revoking all other before granted.  
Continuing desirus to obtain the knowledge sought I again wrote to JL Heath Esq under date Oct 11 1852 in furtherance of that object but unavailingly as this and the foregoing letter remain unanswered at the present day.
The former par of the document enquired after I denominate the declaration it commences thus "I John Winslow of Boston in the County of Suffolk a resident of the United Stages, do testify and declare" to.  That part of the document commencing after the declaration is ended and commencing thus "I have now arrived at the age of 65 years and find myself growing inform"  to the end there of I denominate his application the recited commencement of this instrument implies that it was qualified unto before a magistrate,
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if so, this certificate must have had a date which date would stand as the date of the instrument testified unto, necessarily, provided the testator wrote out the instrument he's qualifying too with his own hand, and commencing like the one in this case.  
The Government never intended information should be with held from the claimant seeking to know the condition of a claim made under the law, especially in relation to evidence lodged in the department years gone by and impartial to the validity of a claim, on the contrary, would be disposed to facilitate every such enquirer. Such is my opinion candidly expressed and by it I am influenced to solicit your consideration, let me owe to your good will the information I have hitherto sought in vain but still need and it be practiable to obtain Vir+ the date of the declaration and application of my Father for pension if it has any, or the name and date of the qualifying Magistrates Certificate.  Will you also have the goodness to inform if their is among my Mothers papers two accounts the larger amounting to $259710.40.10 the smaller account to $31355.8.0. lawful money.  my apprehension is Fathers and Mothers papers are merged in each other.  
Very Respectfully Your Ob+Sv+ John Winslow
To Loren P Waldo Esqr Commissioner of Pensions
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The Schroeder Studio
165-167 Park Street
Kenosha, Wis.

Commissioner of pensions:

I am looking for Rev. records of Capt. John Winslow.  
Any information will be greatly appreciated.

Mrs Fred Schroeder
165-167 Park Street 
Kenosha, Wisconsin

US Pension Office
Aug 25 1920