Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 20445, for William H Lee, Connecticut
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Conn.   Lee, William H.   Phebe    W20445
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(left side)
4139
New York Albany
Phebe Lee Widow of Wm. H. Lee who served in the Revolutionary war, as a fifer
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 88 Dollars   Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 day of Mch 1849 and sent to A. H. Moss Lockport N. Y.
Recorded on Rollof Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 120 Vol. 4

(right side) Sent to Hon L. Burrows 12 Feb 1853  Reported Apl 5/49
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(left side)
Connecticut.  William H. Lee Farmington in the State of Connecticut who was a Musician in the company commanded by Captain Wm Judd of the Regiment commanded by Colonel S. Wyllys in the Connecticut line, for the term of three years from the year 1777 to the year 1780
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of Eight Dollars per month to commence on the 30th day of January 1829
Certificate of Pension issued the 9th of February 1829 and sent to Timothy Pitkin Esq Farmington, Con.
Amount due 4th March 1829 $9.54

{Revolutionary Claim, Acts March, 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820}

(right side) let 8 July 1841 to S. Wilkinson (illegible) with Orig. Rolls Aug. 1883 M. G.
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[Blank] Calhoun 26 April (illegible) Sec of (illegible) War Washington

The Lav of the 18th March 1818, requires that the applicant should make declaration in the place where he resides. 
Affidavit attached made before Judge Haley in N. Y. his Residence.  (illegible) to be made to me Saml Lake Batavia N York

New York case William H. Lee Fifer Connct line Col Wyllis Regt May 12 1777 May 6 80 Discharged
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State of New York Genesee County SS
William H. Lee being by me duly sworn says he is the same person mentioned in the annexed application for a pension that at the time he made said declaration he was in the State of Pennsylvania in order to obtain the affidavit of Obadiah Gore Esquire his Lieut. of his services, that he made the annexed declaration and proceeded immediately to Washington in order to save the travel to his residence.  That he has been a citizen of the State of New York for ten years past, and has lived in the county of Albany, that he now calculates to reside in the County of Genesee or Niagara, that his services rendered are as stated in the said affidavit annexed, and in the affidavit of Obadiah Gore Esq. and further says not.  (signed) Wm H Lee
Sworn and subscribed this 9th day of June 1819 
(signed) Elizah Hawley Judge of Genesee Court of Pleas
I hereby certify that I am also satisfied that the said William H. Lee is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of assistance
(signed) Elizah Hawley Judge as inforsaid
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Genesee County & SS 
I Simeon Cumings Clerk of said County do hereby certify the Elijah Hawley before whom the within affidavit was taken was at the date thereof a Judge of the Genesee Comm Pleas and is at this time and the within are his signatures.
In testimony whereof I have set my hand and affixed the seal of said County at Batavia this 11th day of June in the year of our Lord 1819
(signed) Simeon Cumming by Raphel S Mead Dep Clk
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Bradford County SS
On this twenty sixth day of April A. D. one thousand eight hundred and sixteen before me Jonathan Stevens and (illegible) Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Bradford in the state of Pennsylvania aforesaid Personally came William H Lee aged fifty eight years now transcently residing in Mysox Township in the County and State aforesaid who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress Entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War that doth said William H Lee is fifty eight years old. That he enlisted at Farmington in the State of Connecticut into the service of the United States for three years some time about the month of April in the year 1777. That he joined the Army at Peekskill and served as a fifer in the Company commanded by Capt. William Judd in a regiment of the Connecticut line commanded by Col. Saml. Wyllys until the expiration of the said from of three years when he was discharged from the said service at Springfield State of New Jersey. that he was never in any particular battle. That he had a regular discharge but has long since lost it and that he is now in reduced circumstances and stands in
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In need of the assistance of his country for support and thus he has now no other evidence of his said service in his power except that of Obadiah Gore Esq which will be subjoined. (signed) Wm H Lee
Sworn & subscribed and declared this 26th day of April A. D. 1849 before me (signed) Jonathan Stevens
I Jonathan Stevens am of the (illegible) Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Bradford County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said William H Lee did serve in the in the Army of the United States in the Revolutionary War as stated in his foregoing declaration and also that he appears to me to be in reduced circumstances and stand in need of assistance of his country for support and I as now (illegible) the proceeding & testimony that and taken before me to the secretary for the department of war, pursuant to the direction of the aforementioned that of Congress. (signed) Jonathan Stevens
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William H Lee declaration
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STATE OF CONNECTICUT, County of HARTFORD, At a special County Court, holden at Hartford in said County, on the 22nd day of January 1829 called by Thomas Day Esquire chief Judge present said Judge and John M Niles Esq and associated Judge of said Court on this 22nd day of January A. D. 1829 personally appeared in open Court, the same Court being a Court of record for said County, having the power of fine and imprisonment, William H Lee aged sixty eight years, resident in Farmington in the County of Hartford, who being first duly sworn according to law doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows:
To wit that in the year 1777 he enlisted as a musician into the company commanded by Captain William Judd in the third regiment of Connecticut troops in the Continental service commanded by Colonel Samuel Wyllys for the term of three years that he served his country faithfully during that whole period & at the expiration of which he was honorably discharged 
"And I do solemnly swear,     that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other that what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed."
Schedule one cow of the value of $15 cash in bank bills 44  / 55 dollars
(signed) Wm H Lee
And the said applicant does further declare that he will be sixty eight years of age on the 10th day of February next, that his occupation has been that of a farmer, and that from a disability occasioned by a dangerous scrotal rupture, he is unable to pursue his calling or any other business which required bodily exertion that he has a wife who lives with her brother on whom she is chiefly dependent for her aged fifty eight years, that he has also seven children, five sons & two daughters all of whom are adult, & all married except the youngest son & that he contributes nothing for the support of his wife and children but that he is dependent upon his children chiefly for his own support. And I do further declare that about nine years since as near as I can recollect I applied to the Conn Secretary of War to be enrolled on the pension list of the United States, but that his application was rejected on the ground, as he understands and believes that the applicant in his declaration was described as a transient person; that he has no
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copy of the schedule of his property and estate then exhibited, and cannot exactly remember the items of which it consisted but all the property which he then had was one cow necessary clothing & bedding for himself wife & a little granddaughter & a few necessary articles of household furniture, the value of all which could not exceed the sum of fifty or sixty dollars, that the cow he sold for the payment of a debt which was contracted for necessary clothing and food for his family, & that the bedding and household furniture is now in possession of his wife & which she uses in a room by herself in her brothers house. And he further declares that the reason why he has not renewed his said application sooner is his poverty & that the cow mentioned in the preceding schedule was given to his wife by his brother Wright Davis with whom she now lives and that the money which he has now in his possession was loaned to him by the Wright Davis & also that he is dependent upon the charity of his friends for his support & is in such indignant circumstances as to be unable (otherwise) to support himself with the assistance of his country.  (signed) Wm H Lee

Sworn to and declared by said Wm H Lee on the 22nd day of January 1829 before said Court, and it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of the properly exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is fifty five dollars.
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I Thomas Chester clerk of the county court of the county of Hartford aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the court that this William H Lee did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months under one engagement on the continental establishment. I also certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said court & I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is fifty five dollars.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand affixed the seal of the sd. court on this 22nd day of January 1829.  (signed) Thomas Chester Clk
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12980  9223  1378
Phebe Lee widow of William H ns
Act of July 1838 on Rolls 3 years Fifer Aomd 2 yrs Fifer  $88 also acts 43 & 44 $88
(signed) Hon W Hunt Sockport N. Y.
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State of New York Niagara County SS
On this fifteenth day of October 1845 personally appeared before the undersigned Sparrow S. Sage one of the Judges of the County Courts in and for the County of Niagara Phebe Lee a resident of London in the district of London Canada and aged seventy four years and upward who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pension to certain widows" that she is the widow of William H Lee, who was a fifer in the War of the Revolution and served in the manner specified in the act passed the seventh day of June eighteen hundred and thirty two. That as she always understood he enlisted from the town of Canaan in the State of Connecticut and served in Captain Judds Company in Colonel Wylleys or Wileys regiment in the Connecticut line for the space of three years.  She understands he entered the service in the year 1777 the day and month she cannot state for she was not acquainted with him until after he left the service nor can she state in what battles or engagements he was, but she has always understood he was discharged at the close of the war. She further states that all the documented evidence she has of the services of her said husband is on file in the pension office or war department at Washington as her husband made application for and obtained from the United States government a pension of eight dollars per month and had a certificate of pension granted him and from a memorandum in her possession it was numbered 13.751. That she is not certain whether he under any pension under that certification not but he did not to her knowledge, that she recollects having seen that certificate about the time he obtained it from Washington, but has not seen it for a number of years and knows nothing where it is.  She further declares that she
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was married to this William H Lee on the twenty first day of May in they ear seventeen hundred and eighty seven and that her husband the aforesaid William H Lee died on the thirty first day of March in the year eighteen hundred and twenty nine. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz at the time above stated. That she was married at the house of her father in the county of Albany and State of New York in the town which was then called Guilderland by a Presbyterian minister, the name of Snyder, the present name of the place where she was married she does not know, as she has not been there for a great number of years and it may have been changed by the division of towns otherwise. She further states that she has no record or documentary evidence of her marriage nor is there any record of it to her knowledge. the only documentary evidence she has of the relationship of husband and wife existing between her & her husband prior to 1794 is a leaf out of an old bible containing a legend in her husbands own hand writing of the birth of their children and further says not.  (signed) Phebe (her X mark) Lee

Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above written before me, she making her mark being unable to write. (signed) Sparrow S. Sage Judge of Niagara Co Courts

I certify that Phebe Lee who appeared before me & made the foregoing declaration is unable at this time to appear in open court from her age & having taken a violent cold coming to this place & the weather being cold & stormy & she ought not be required to appear in open court.  (signed)  Sparrow S. Sage Judge Niagara Co Court
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A Record of the William H Lee family thats being April (illegible) 1785 
John Lee was born    
William Bool Lee was born At I believe June 1st 1792 
William H Lee was born at Cohkend November (illegible) 1791 
Nancy Lee was born ending week of August 1793 
Hiram D Lee was born abt Lowai Bush January 19th 1795
Riverious Hooker Lee was born abt (illegible) home (illegible)
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James Clark Lee was born abt (illegible) September 5th 1800 
Abigail Lee was born at (illegible) March 12th 1805 
Henry Lee was born at torald August 30 1806 John Lee Deth at Chokenut January 19th 1792 
Whitin Lee Death July 17th 1788
Henry Clark Lee death July 15th 1800
Thadious Lee death January 16th 1892 at 10 o'clock at night
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State of New York Niagra County SS
Riverious H. Lee of Simes Talbot district Canada West being duly sworn says that he is now forty nine years old and is the son of William H. & Phebe Lee. That his father the said William H. Lee died on the thirty first day of March 1829, that he well remembers that his father in his life time kept a family record in which was entered the births and deaths of his children, that such record was entered on the leaf of his bible, that a great number of years since and he thinks about twenty five the leaf of the bible containing said record yet worn and unfit for the purpose of a record and it was necessary in order to retain the record of the births and deaths of the family to make a new record and his father copied the original record so far as the births and deaths of his children are concerned on to another leaf in the same bible, which leaf is hereto attached, that he remembers to have seen his father make since of the entire, in the original record all of which were in his own hand writing and that the entire on the leaf hereto attached are also all in his fathers own hand writing and according to his best recollection and belief the entries on this leaf are correct copies of the entries of the births of said children of the original record that since said leafs were made the service has been his fathers family record. And the only one he kept until his death and that after his death the same has been in his mothers possession as such record until written a month or two past the same was to here from the Bible which contained it to be used by his mother in her application for a pension.  That William B. Lee, Hiram D. Lee and John Lee are three of his dependent brothers, whose names are first entered in said record are where all according to said record
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and as he believes from before the first day of January 1794 that the deponent is the sixth whose name is entered in said record. This name is correctly entered as he has always understood & believes, that the first John Lee whose name is first entered in said record born in 1788, his only to be a year or two old if the fourth child took the same name.  (signed) R. H. Lee

Subscribed & sworn before me this 15th day of October 1845.  (signed) Sparrow S. Sage, Judge of Niagara County Courts

I hereby certify that Riverious H. Lee who has this day made the foregoing deposition before me is a man of reputability and credibility whose statements are entitled to credit & belief the record fifths erased and sixth written on it before this was executed.
(signed) Sparrow S. Sage, Judge of Niagara Co. Courts
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State of New York Niagara County clerks office SS
I John Van Horn clerk of the County of Niagara do hereby certify that Sparrow S. Sage before whom the foregoing depositions were taken was at the time of taking the served & still is a Judge of the County Courts of said county duly commissioned and sworn and (illegible) to be the depositions and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and that his signatures above written are genuine.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed my official seal this 11th day of August 1846 (signed) John Van Horn, Clerk.
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M. E. E.

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section Mer/ee1/
October 12, 1928.

Bertha Lee Baer 511 Iowa Avenue  York, Nebraska
Madam:-
  I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 20445, it appears that William H. (Hooker) Lee was born February 10, 1761 in Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut.
  He enlisted at Farmington, Connecticut, in April or May, 1777, and served three years as a fifer in Captain William Judd's Company, Colonel Samuel Wyllys' Connecticut Regiment.
  He was allowed pension on his application executed April 26, 1819, while temporarily residing in Wysex Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania.  He then stated that he had lived in Albany County, New York, for ten years and intended to reside in Genesee or Niagara County, New York.
  In 1829 he was living in Farmington, Connecticut, and stated that he had seven children, five sons and two
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daughters, all adults and all married except the youngest son.
  He died March 31, 1829 in Canada. It is stated that he was a physician Soldier married May 21, 1787, Phebe Davis. They were married at the home of her father, Thaddeus Davis, in Guilderland, Albany County, New York.  She was allowed pension on her application executed October 15, 1845, while a resident of London, in the District of London, Canada, aged seventy-four years 
  Family record of William H. and Phebe Lee shows the following:

John  born April 15, 1788, at Shaftsbury died January 19, 1792, at Chokenut

William Bool  born June 21, 1790, at Chokenut

Hiram D.  born November 20, 1791, at Chokenut

John  born August 23, 1793 at Dewains Bush

Nancy   born January 12, 1795, at Dewains Bush

Riverious Hooker  born July 1, 1796, at Standing Stone, was living in Simcoe, Talbot District, Canada, in 1845.

James Clark  born September 5, 1803, at Thorold

Abigail  born March 12, 1805, at Thorold

Henry  born August 30, 1806, at Thorold
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Whitin  died July 17, 1799
Henry Clark  died  July 15, 1801
Thadious  died February 16, 1802.
Respectfully, F. W. Morgan Acting Commissioner.

Sol had sister, Elizabeth Clark living in Waterbury, New Haven Co. come in 1846 aged 84 years.
Wife had brother, Wright Davis
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V No 12980 Phebe Lee Ms Sect A. N. Moss
Sept 9 . 46
Set to Hon W Hunt
Feb 18th 1847

Act 7 July 1838
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In reply to your request of __ for a statement of the military history of William H. Lee a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will finde below the desired information as contained in his and his widow's application for pension on file in this Bureau.  W. F. 20445

Dates of enlistment April 1777  Length of service 3 yrs  Rank  Fifer  Officers under whom service was rendered.   Captain William Judd  Colonel Samuel Wyllys  State Conn

Battles engaged in, __
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Enlisted at Farmington, Conn.
Date of application for pension, April 6, 1819 His ch was al
Residence at date of application, Dysox  Twm, Bradford Co, Pa
Age at date of application, B Feb 10, 1781, Farmington, Hartford Co, Conn
Remarks: He mar May 21, 1787, at Guilderland, Albany Co, N. Y. Phebe daughter of Thaddeus Davis; he died Mch 31, 1829, in Canada, and she marsal pension on her ap ex. Oct. 15, 1845 while resident of London, District of London, Canada West.
Very respectfully,    Commissioner.
6-2856
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April 6, 1914
Mrs. Phebe Lee Doss, 1204 Wood Street, Texarkana, Tex.
Madam:  
     In addition to the military history of William H. Lee, Wid. File No. 20,445. Rev. War. you are furnished the following data as to his children.

John  born April 17, 1788, died January 19, 1792
William Bool  born June 21, 1790
Whitin  born November 20, 1791
John born August 23, 1793
Nancy born January 12, 1795
Riverous  born July 1, 1796
James Clark  born September 4, 1803
Abergail  born March 12, 1805
Henry  born August 30, 1806

Whitin died July 17, 1799
Henry Clark  died July 15, 1801
Thalious  died February 16, 1902

Very respectfully, (signed) G. M. Saltzgaber  Commissioner
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Texarkana, Tex.
Mar 23, 1914  To the Pension Bureau Washington, D. C.
Will you kindly furnish me with the pension record in regard to William Lee who served in the Revolutionary war as a fifer in Captain William Judd's company of the 3rd Connecticut Regiment commanded by Colonel Samuel Wyllys.  He enlisted May 12, 1778 and was discharged Mar 6, 1780.  the afterwards lived in Canada and received a pension from the U. S. Government which I believe was
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paid to his widow after his death.
  I should like as complete a record as possible as it is necessary in filling my application for membership in the D. A. R.
Very sincerely yours,  (signed) Phebe Lee Doss, 1204 Wood St.
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Charles Homer Baer  511 Iowa  York, Nebraska  Dec. 9 1927
Dear Sir - Can you give me the names of the parents - wife and children of William H. Lee of Farmington Conn - a revolutionary soldier.  He applied for pension at Farmington I think.
sincerely   (signed) Bertha Lee Baer 511 Iowa Ave  York Nebraska

(stamp): disbursing Clerk  Misc B  U. S. Bureau of Pension  Dec 18, 1927
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(left side)
Rev
WIDOW &C.
File no. 20445
Phebe Lee Widow of Wm H Lee Fifer Rev War
Act:  Feb 29, 48
Index: - Vol. A, Page 429
[Arrangement of 1780]

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Apr 19 ' 99
Leonard Dee Andover M
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(left side)
370612
INVALID.
Revy
 File No.  37,612  William H Lee  Musician Rev War
Act:  18th March 1800
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 403
[Arrangement of 1870]

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1914 Apr History to Mrs. Phebe Lee Doss For
1928 Oct 12, Hist to Bertha Lee Baer, M E. E.
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William H. Lee  Con. Act March 1818 to what time paid?  Rev Office  no payment made July 8, 1841 JH
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Sept 27, 47
Enquiring M H Lee Act 18 March 1818

J S Edward  Commissioner of Pensions Washington
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Sockport  Sept. 22, 1847
Hon. J. L. Edwards Comm of Pensions
Sir  William H Lee was pensioned under the act of March 18, 1818 but never drew as I understand not having complied with the act of 1820.  On the 31 March 1829 he died.  Now is his widow entitled to draw any thing which was withheld from him in consequence of his not complying with the Law of May 1 1829.  The law of 1832 did away i effect with the provision relative to filing a schedule of property.  Can she draw any thing that was due him or under any Law except under which she is now pensioned which were made expressly for the benefit of widows. Please advise me also whether his children are not entitled to bounty lands. Please answer me at your earliest convenience.
Respectfully Yours (signed) A H Moss
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Pension Office
July 6, 1841 Mrs Al  W N Sec
The Honl Secretary of War  Washington City D. C
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Baltimore July 3 1841
Sir
   Please to inform me whether there has been any money paid on the Pension Certificate of Wm H. Lee, late a musician of the army of the revolution, inscribed on the pension list roll of the Connecticut Agency at the rate of eighty Dollars for month to commence the 30th day of Jany 1829.  the certificate dated at the War Office of the United States the ninth day of Feby 1829.
Please deliver your reply to L Wilkinson Baltimore Md  (signed) Lewis Wilkinson
To the Honorable Secretary of War at Washington
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James L Edwards esquire  Pension Office Washington
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Farmington  Jany 23 1829
James L Edwards Esq
Sir,  In behalf of William H Lee a soldier of the Revolution who has lately returned to this town, I write you a few days inquiring for his pension papers, which he says were left at this war office  eight or nine years since, in order to have them completed.
  But lest they might not be found, he has prepared another set, of which I more (illegible) to you & I supplied the only question that can asked is whether he can be entitled to his arranges from the (illegible) of his first declaration. So he is no doubt of his can service within the meaning of the law of 1820 with regard to purposely (illegible) but before, or he is any from, that you can allow him the arrange should the acce papers be found at the more (illegible) in inquisitive with them should be insufficient to entitle him to the arrange without some additional
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will thank you to send them to me for that purpose immediately. And your attention to the papers now sent, is soon as possible is required that he may be placed on the list as early 4 March, & then have his (illegible) if allowed.
  Please to direct your (illegible) to me at "Farmington Connecticut"
I am your respectfully (signed) Timo Pitkin
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This may certify that William H Lee served in the revolutionary army for the term of three years, as a fifer in Capt William Judd's company in Col Samuel Wylyys' Regt. in the Connecticut Line, in the years 1777, 1778 & 1779 and that the subscriber was serving during a term in the same company and was an orderly & served at said year or two before the discharge of said Wm H Lee. Niagara county April 24th 1819  (signed) Joel Smith J Peace
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12980 Aug 17, 1846 C Phebe Lee  July 7 1838
40
Hon James S Edwards Commissioner of pensions Washington
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Sockport August 11, 1846
Hon J. L. Edwards Com of Pensions
Sir
  I now enclose your papers in the war pensioned as I understand under the act of March 18 1818. I now send her declaration to claims under the act of July 1838. I send also the afft. of Wright Davis properly authenticated of the marriage as he was present. I send the affidavit of the town clerk of the town where they were married that there is no record.  I send also an old leaf out of a Bible upon which is written a record of the births & deaths of their children together with the affidavit of the widows son attached to the letters. this I think makes out a strong claim to the benefits of the Law.
  If then should on examination be any defining now the proof please advise me and I will supply it if in my power & let know the result of the examination as soon as convenient.  Respectfully Yours  (signed) A. H. Moss
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Sept 14, 48 Phebe Lee Mr Ames A H Moss
Hon J. S. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington
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May 15 48 Wm H Lee ny sec  
Acud on Circulen May 15 1845

Hon J. S. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington
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Mr Evans

Sockport May 10th 1845
Hon J. S. Edwards Com of Pensions
Sir having occasion to write I take the liberty of sending the enclosed papers to you asking the favor, that you hand them to the third auditor of the Treasure the enclosed letter to him will advise him of the disposition to make of them if all are correct.
     I will now be obliged to you if you will inform me whether William H Lee or William Hooker Lee as I understand was his real name was ever granted a pension and if so when? how much? and when the last amount was drawn? he was a physician but whether if he was pensioned he was pensioned for services as such or otherwise I am not informed.
   I have been written to by his son in Canada inquiring about the matter for his mother but he alludes so much to generalities that I am unable to say from his statement whether his father was pensioned or not & if so whether there arrears now due his widow for pension prior to his death from his letter I infer his father was a pensioner he speaks of him as such & says he had papers from Washington & he had seen them but he thought they were lost. (William H Lee is now dead) his son refers me to papers & records at Washington. 
   I hope it is consistent with your rules to furnish the information I now ask if so you will please do so also as son or is consistent with your business. Respectfully yours (signed) A. H. Moss
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Mar 8 '47

Hon W Hunt
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State of New York Albany County SS
   Deborah Relyea a resident of the County of Albany being duly sworn says that she is now seventy nine years old and that she has resided in the County of Albany sixty four years, that she was well acquainted with William H Lee in his life time now deceased and with Phebe Lee his widow and was acquainted with them before their marriage together. That said William H Lee was formerly from the State of Connecticut where he served in the Continental Line of Connecticut during part of the Revolutionary War.  that afterwards he came to reside in the County of Albany and there courted and married his present widow Phebe Lee whose maiden name was Phebe Davis a daughter of Thadeus Davis a resident of the town of Guilderland, in the County of Albany. that they were married in May in the year seventeen hundred and eighty seven as she now thinks at the then residence of the said Thadeus Davis said Phebe's father. That she this deponent was invited to attend the wedding. She has a distinct recollection of the time & circumstances attending it from the fact that that certain things (illegible) which displeased her. Which fixed it were indelibly upon her memory. Said Lee & Phebe were engaged to be married a long time before the marriage took place & which under engagement said Lee found it necessary to go South & be absent some time he concluded to and did publish his intended marriage with Phebe before going South to take place after his expected return. He went South and did not return when it was expected he would but his absence continued more than a year longer than was expected and his friends despaired of his return.  The time of the intended marriage passed over after which the said Phebe received the attendance of another suitor but said Lee returned after a continued absence of about eighteen months and on his return said Phebe disunified her this suitor and married said Lee which course on her pact displeased this deponent.
  this deponent further says that said William H Lee and Phebe Lee ever after lived and resided together as husband & wife until said Lees death and that she knew of their having several children born while so living together prior to the first of January 1794. John who died young William B, Hiram D & John who took the name of the eldest who died were all children of the said William H & Phebe  Lee & were all born prior to January first seventeen hundred and ninety four. that the said William H & Phebe Lee
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Removed from Albany County, lived a while in the State of Pennsylvania and removed to Canada living together as husband and wife and there continued to reside & live together as husband & wife until said Lee's death and that his widow the said Phebe Lee is still living as she understands and resides with some of her children in Canada where she has continued to reside ever since her husbands death.
  And she further ways that the said Phebe Lee now of Shiercon Canada with the said William H. Lee now deceased & who died in Canada & whose widow the said Phebe Lee is now applying for a pension on account of the Services of her said husband are the same William H. Lee & Phebe Lee who formerly resided in Guilderland in the County of Albany and State of New York and who were married as husband & wife in the month of May in the year seventeen hundred and eighty seven and that the said William H. Lee the husband of the said Phebe Lee who was married resided & died as is herein before stated is the same William H. Lee who came from the State of Connecticut and served in the Connecticut line in the time of the Revolutionary War.  Deborah Relyea.
Subscribed and sworn to this 14th day of November 1846 before me  (signed) Henry A. Ostrander, Justice of the Peace
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I hereby certify that I am acquainted with Deboray Relyea and have been for forty five years past and that she is a person of good character for truth & veracity whose statements are entitled to full credit & belief. (signed) Henry A. Ostrander

City and County of Albany Clerks office SS.
I Lawrence Van Dursen Clerk of the said City and County do hereby certify that Henry A. Ostrander before whom the preceding affidavit purports to have been sworn and whose name is subscribed to the above certificate now on the day of the date of the jurant to the said affidavit as Justice of the Peace in and for the said county and that his signatures to the said jurant & certificate are genuine.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of the said County this 19th day of February 1847. (signed) L. Van Dursen Clerk
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State of New York Montgomery County SS
Wright Davis of Charleston is said county being duly sworn says that he is now seventy six years old and upwards and is well acquainted with Phebe Lee now residing in Canada West. That he was also acquainted with William H. Lee in his life time who was the husband of Phebe Lee. That he was acquainted with both before and at the time of their marriage that he was present and saw them married the precise day he does not now recollect, but it was between the first of January 1786 and the first of January 1788 he well recollects the fact, but not the precise time the said William H & Phebe were married at the house of her father by a Presbyterian minister by the name of Snyder, a Dutchman by decent in the County of Albany in the town then called Guilderland & which as this deponent understands is now called Guilderland. This deponent resided near them for a number of years after their marriage, saw them after for ten years or more, that during that time they lived together as man & wife and the deponent knew of their having four children born while so living together as husband and wife prior to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four.  The first was called John and died when a small child the second was called William B. the third Hiram D. and the fourth John, taking the name of the child that died. They had a number of other children by they were born after 1794. One was named Reverance H. this deponent further states that the said William H. Lee and Phebe Lee removed to Canada a number of years since and lived together as man & wife until the said William H.  died and his widow is still living there with her children & further says not. (signed) Wright Davis
Subscribed & sworn to before me this 21st day of November 1845. (signed) Nathan Crandall Justice of the Peace
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I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with Wright Davis for the last thirty five years and up to the present time and that he is a man of good character and that his statements are entitled to full credit & belief. Charleston Nov. 21st 1845. (signed) Nathan Crandall, Justice of the Peace

State of New York Montgomery County Clerks office SS
I Chester S. Brumley, clerk of the county of Montgomery do hereby certify that Nathan Crandall Esq before whom the foregoing deposition was taken was at the time of taking the served a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid duly elected and sworn and authorized to take the same and that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Justice and verily believe his signatures above written are genuine.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed seal this 22nd day of Nov 1845. (signed) C. F. Brumley, Clerk
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Albany March 30 1845
Col Edwards, Com of Pensions, will oblige me by giving early attention to the written request. (signed) W. Hunt