Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 2446-100, John Tupper, Mass.
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Tupper, John 
Service Mass.
Number B. L. Wt. 2446-100

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State of Vermont
District of Chittenden Ss.

I, Bradford Rixford, Register of the Probate Court within and for said district of Chittenden do certify that satisfactory evidence was this day addressed to said Court ^to prove^ that John Tupper who was a private in Colonel Knapps Regiment in the Continental line of the Revolutionary army, died on the twenty fourth day of March in the year eighteen hundred and eighteen and that Anna Freshette of Jericho in the county of Chittenden, Nathaniel J. Tupper, or Underhill in said County and State, and John Tupper of Dudswell in the Province of Canada, are the children and only heirs at law in fee to the said John Tupper, deceased, who was a private is said Regiment commanded by Col. Knapp.
Given under my hand and seal of office this 29th day of April A. D. 1850 and I certify that the words "to prove" were interlined above before signing.
Bradford Rixford Register
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John Tupper, decd.
No 2446

Hon. Jas. Meacham
Ho. of Repts.
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State of Vermont
Chittenden County Ss.

I, Anna Freshette, of Jericho in said County of Chittenden and State of Vermont, wife of Stephen Freshette, of said Jericho, testify and say that I am the daughter of John Tupper who was a private in the war of the revolution and belonged to the Massachusetts line. He frequently related to me and to his other children his services inn said War, and stated that he was in the battle of Bunkerhill, was afterwards a prisoner of war for six months, and that at one time was commanded by Col. Tupper and that he enlisted for during the war and served out his time and was as she believes in Col. Knapp's regiment at the close of the war. I further testify that I always understood from my father that he was a native of Springfield, Massachusetts, and that he removed from there early to Vermont where he resided for some years and thence to Dudswell in Canada before he died on the 24th day of March 1818 and that myself and Nathaniel J. Tupper of Underhill and John Tupper of Dudswell are the only surrviving children of the said John Tupper deceased.
Anna Freshette

Sworn to Augt. 23d 1849
before me Wm. Weston
I certify that the above affiant is a woman of credibility.
Wm. Weston, Justice Peace

I certify that Wm Weston above named was at the above date a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Chittenden and that the above signatures of his are genuine.
J. Meacham, M.C.
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May 9, 1850

Sir,
I enclose the affidavit of Anna Freshette, one of the heirs of John Tupper a Revo. soldier completing the evidence of their claim for bounty land.
The heirs are among my constituents.
Please enclose to me the certificate for land.
I am very respectfully
Yours, J. Meacham

Jas. L. Edwards Esq.
Commr. of Pensions
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John Tupper, Decd
Bounty Land

B. M. Burbank Esq.
Underhill
Chitt" Cy
New York

Wm. Weston, Burlington Vt.
care of J. Meacham, H. R.
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I Naphtali Bishop of Dudswell in the Province of Canada East of the age of seventy eight years depose testify & say that before the decease of John Tupper late of said Dudswell, I was well and intimately acquainted with him for a period of some thirty years previous to his death.  I formerly resided for many years in the town of Monkton County of Addison & State of Vermont where also the said John Tupper resided. I have frequently heard the said Tupper speak of his having served in the Revolutionary war & that he belonged to the Massachusetts line. He used frequently to relate events of that war as if he had been a witness to & an actor in them and his age & appearance all indicated that his accounts were truthful & besides he was always regarded as a mao of veracity. The said Tupper has also shown me his discharge with many other papers & property were destroyed by fire with his house. The said Tupper came to Vermont from the State of Massachusetts and I think from the town of Pittsfield. At the decease of the said John Tupper he left the following heirs (his children) John Tupper now of Dudswell afsd., Nathaniel J. Tupper now of Underhill county of Chittenden & State of Vermont & Anna Tupper wife of Stephen Freshette of Underhill afsd.  and further this deponent saith not.
Nephtala Bishop

Province of Canada East
District of St. Francis to wit
At Dudswell in the Province Cananda East, this eighteenth day of July A. D. 1848 Personally appeared Naphtaly Bishop the signer of the foregoing deposition & made oath that the facts set forth therein are true.
Amos Bishop, Justice of Peace
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Province of Canada
District of Saint Francis

I the undersigned Prothenotary of Her Majesty's Court of Queens Bench for the District of Saint Francis [Canada East] do hereby certify that Amos Bishop the within signed is a Justice of the Peace for the said District of Saint Francis.
(seal)
Sherbrooke 24th July 1848
N.Bell
Prn.