Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16199, Zephaniah Branch, Continental (Vt.)
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SERVICE           NUMBER
Continental (Vt)  Branch, Zephaniah  W16199
Lucy
CONTENTS
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4,3/83
New York. 4
Zephaniah Branch
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Albany 4463

Lucy Branch widow of Zephaniah Branch who was pensioner under the Act of March 1818 and who died on the 25 July 1822 of Momac Co in the State of N. York who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Burroughs of the regt. by Col Warner in the Continental line for 2 years. 

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 80 Dollars per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 29th day of October 1839 and sent to H. M. Loper Batavia, N. Y.

Arrears to the 4th of Sep. '39 
280

Semi-annual allowance ending 4 March 40
40

$320.00
Act July 7, 1838.

Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book A. Vol 2. Page 68

Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6th April 1838 from 4 March to 3rd July 1840. Age notified 1 Decr 1841.
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State of New York
Ontario County}ss

On this second day of May 1818 before me Stephen Phelps a Judge of the Court of Common pleas for said County personally
appears Zephaniah Branch aged 57 years Resident in the Town of Rush in the County of Ontario and State of New York 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 he the said Zephaniah Rush enlisted in
the Town of Bennington in the State of Vermont
on the first day of January 1777 in the Company
commanded by Captain Burrough in the
first Vermont Regiment Catter Green Mountain
Boys Commanded by Colonel Seth Warner
and that he continued to serve in said Corps until the first day of January 1780 when he received an honorable discharge at Fort
George on Lake George in the State of New York and that he was at the battle of Bennington Hobbleton & at the taking of Burgunine and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support
and that having lost his discharge he has no
other evidence now in his power of his said
Services--                          Zephaniah Branch
Sworn to and declared the day and year aforesaid before me

Stephen Phelps
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Ontario County} ss.
Stephen Phelps a Judge of the Court of
Common pleas in and for said County do
Certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Zephaniah Branch did serve in the
Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding
declaration against the Common Pleas and
I now transmit the proceedings and testimony
taken and had before me to the Secretary for
the department of war pursuant to the
directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
 Canandaigua                        Stephen Phelps
May 2nd 1818}

State of New York
Ontario County ]ss Stephen Phelps a
Judge of Ontario Common pleas do certify
by Satisfactory evidence that Zephaniah
Branch the aforesaid applicant is in
reduced circumstances & in need of the
assistance of his country for support
Canandaigua             Stephen Phelps Judge
Oct. 20th 1818

State of New York
Ontario County}
Clerk's Office}
In testimony that Stephen Phelps whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate was on the day of the date of the same, and still is a Judge of Ontario Common Pleas and that the same is his signature I hereunto subscribed my
name and affix the County seal at Canandaigua this 28th day of October 1818-

H. McNanels
Clerk's Office
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The Honorable Secutary of War if my claims
are allowed will please to forward a certificate
thereof to Stephen Phelps Esq of Canandaigua
who is my agent
May 2 1818                         Zephaniah Branch




Stephen Phelps, Esq.
Judge,
Canandaigua, Ontario
County New York
==============
Zephaniah Branch
Col. Seth Warner's regt
New Hampshire line
Revolutionary Claim
===============
The page must certify to the
circumstances of the claimants admitted
Suspended until N.H  rolls are received.-
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Declaration  Zephaniah Branch May 2, 1818

The Honorable
Revy of War

State of New York ⎬
Ontario County} ss
Clerk's office}

In Testimony that Stephen Phelps whose
name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate was on the day of the date of the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Ontario and that the
same is his signature hereunto subscribed my name and affair the country seal at Canandaigua this 7th day of May AD 1818

H. McNan, Clrk
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Case of
Zephaniah Branch
Warner

4218
Mar 19
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STATE OF NEW YORK,
ONTARIO COUNTY} ss.

On this twenty first day of August 1820 personally appeared in open Court, (being
Court of Commons in and ousted a Court of Record by proceeding according to the course of the Common Law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of its proceedings, and recognized as such Court by the laws and judicial decisions of said state) Zephaniah according to law, the Revolutionary War as follows: for the term of three years in Captain Burroughs Company
in Colonel Seth Warners Regiment in the Vermont line Commencing in January 1777
and that he made application for a pension on the Second day of May 1818 and that he received a Pension Certificate, No. 4, 318 And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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 than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed, viz.
1 Cow $15 - ten Sheep $8                          $23.00
15 yds Calico-$4, 1 pot $1- 1 Kettle, 45 ...   5.75
1 tea kettle, 50 -9 cups & saucers,  50.....   1.00
6 knives & forks, 50, 1 axe, 50-1 knife 25.    1.25
                                                                       $31.00
                                                   Zephaniah Branch

And I do further swear and declare that I am by
occupation a farmer and that by age and bodily
infirmities I am able to perform to labour of any
kind and that my family consists of my wife Lucy aged 58 years, my daughter Amanda
aged 12 years, my daughter Lucida aged 7
years and my son Jefferson aged ten
years -                                 Zephaniah Branch

Sworn to and declared this 21st day of August
1820 in open Court before me.
                                            Wm Rogers
                           a Judge of Ontario Comm Pleas
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Ontario County,

I, [signed] John Van Fossen Clerk of said county, do hereby certify,
that the foregoing Oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the 
Record of the said Court and I farther certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court,
that the total amount in value of property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, is
thirty one dollars and [blank] cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court,
on this twenty second day of August AD 1820

[Signed] J Van Fossen Clerk of the Court aforesaid, in and for said County.
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New London County ss. Griswald February 13th A.D. 1839.

Personally appeared, before me, Mr Ephraim Keigwin and made oath to, and in my presence signed the within & foregoing deposition; and I certify that he is a respectable person & a credible witness Before me James Averill Justice of the Peace 

Elias Davis of Griswold in the County of New London Estate of Connecticut aged fifty nine years, having been sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, testify & say, that he remembers the circumstance of Zephaniah Branch & Lucy Phillips being married, the said Lucy was daughter of W. Jonathan Phillips, the deponent was always well acquainted with the family & always lived a near neighbor to them, that the said Zephaniah and Lucy lived together as man & wife after their marriage as aforesaid
and so continued to live until they moved to the State of New York, which was about fifty three years ago, & that the deponent was about
four years old when they were married as aforesaid, & further the deponent saith not.
Elias Davis

New London County ss. Griswald Feb. 13th 1839
Personally appeared Mr Elias Davis who is well known by me to be a respectable person & a credible witness and made oath to & subscribed the foregoing deposition before me
                              James Meritt Justice of Peace

I, William E. Tracy Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Nowick in the County of New London & State of Connecticut do hereby certify that James Averill Esq. before whom the foregoing Depositions of Muhula Lathrop, Ephraim Keigwin & Elias Davis were sworn to is a Justice of the Peace within & for the said County and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said court this 15th day of February Anno Domini 1839

William E. Tracy
Clerk
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Mahala Lathrop of Griswold in the county of New London and state of Connecticut aged Sixty four years having been duty sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, testify and say that she is a daughter of Mr. Jonathan Phillips, late of said Griswold deceased, and sister of Lucy Branch, now living in the state of New York, who is the widow of Zephaniah Branch deceased, that in the year seventeen eighty four the said Zephaniah Branch + Lucy Phillips were married at her said father's house in said Griswold, it being then Preston, by Col: Samuel Coit  late of said Griswold, deceased, who was a Justice of the Peace and Chief Judge of the county Coit for the county of New London aforesaid, the deponent being present, + saw the marriage ceremony performed, she the deponent being their about nine years old and about nine years old, + her sister Lucy aforesaid being about eighteen years older than the deponent, and further the deponent saith not. 
Mahala Lathrop 
New London County is Griswold February 13th*. AD. 1839. Personally ---- Mrs. Mahala Lathrop, who, testify, is well known to me, + is a --- of credibility, and made oath to, and subscribed the foregoing deposition
Before me ---
Ephraim Keigwin of Griswold in the county of New London + state of Connecticut aged seventy --- years, being under oath, according to law cloth testify + say that he was well acquainted with the family of Mr. Jonathan Phillips late of said Griswold deceased, and also with Zephaniah Branch formerly of Preston and that in the year Seventeen eighty four, the said Zephaniah Branch was married to Lucy Phillips, a daughter of the said Johnathan Phillips, that the deponent was not at the wedding, but lived in the neighborhood and well remembers the circumstance, that the deponent worked for them the year after they were married, and they lived together as man and wife, that they moved away to the state of New York about fifty three years ago, Ephraim Keigwin
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State of New York
County of Genesee ⎬ Ira B. Lee and Thomas Cartwright
of the town of Le Roy in the said County, being duly sworn do
depose and say, the said Ira B. Lee says he is aged Forty
four years and has been acquainted with Widow Lucy
Branch, now of the town of Henrietta in the County of
Moore for more than Twenty seven years the said
Thomas Cartwright says that he is aged seventy two
years and has been acquainted with the said Widow
Lucy Branch for more than thirty years and
both these Deponents say that the said Lucy Branch
is the widow of Zephaniah Branch, deceased, who
was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States
That during the life time of the said Zephaniah Branch
the said Zephaniah Branch and Lucy Branch and
together as man and wife, while these deponents were
acquainted with then and that they had eleven children
who
and as these deponents have always supposed were born in
lawful wedlock. and these Deponents further say that the
said Zephaniah Branch died on the 25th July
1822 and left a widow, the said Lucy Branch, who has
ever since the death of her said husband and remained
a widow and has not intermarried but still remain
a widow.and
these deponents further say that the
said Lucy Branch ever since these deponents were acquaint
with her has maintained a good moral character and
has been esteemed and reported to be a woman of truth
and veracity, and further these deponents say not
Sworn and Subscribed
Fred B. Lee
this 19th day of April 1839 That Cortright
before me by Ira B. Lee
and Thomas Cartwright, known
to me as persons of with and
veracity and entitled to credit-
Eques Thompson J. Justin of the Peace
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State of New York 
Genesee County
In Witness
Affidavit
Widow Lucy Branch
I certify that Cyrus Thompson Jr. was a
Justice of the Peace of the said County at
the time of taking the within affidavit and
that I am well acquainted with his
hand writing and do believe that the
signature to the certificate of taking the
said affidavit is his hand writing.
whereof I have hereunto set my hand
official seal this 19 April 1839
Horace
W. Soper
Clerk of Genesee County
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State of New York
 Monroe County
On the Eighteenth day of April
1839 Personally appeared before me of the Judge of the County Court of county Lucy Branch, a resident of the town of Henriette in the said county, aged seventy-three years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th, 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of Zephaniah Brach, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and received a Pension of $96 per annum under the Act of 1818 for proof of whose service she refers to the file of the Pension Department.
She further declares that she was married to the said Zephaniah Branch on the twenty-second day of August in the year seventeen hundred and eighty four, and that her husband the aforesaid Zephaniah Branch died on the twenty-fifth day of July in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-two. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-four. at the time after
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State of New York
Monroe County
I certify that Alfred Jones Esqr west
the time of taking the within affidavit
Judge of the Court of Common place of
said County, and that I am well acquainted
with his hand writing and
verily believe that the within signature
purporting to be his is genuine-
Witness my hand and official seal
this twenty second day of April 1839
Ephraim Goss Clerk
Agent
Batavia
Declaration
1869
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Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 16199
Lucy Branch
Wid of
Zephaniah Branch
Pri Rev War
Act: July 7th /38
Index:-Vol, a, Page 88
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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New York
Lucy Branch
Col Warner Capt
Burrough
Named Aug. 1784
Hurd and 25 July 1822
Admitted
Private 2 years
H. R. Soper Esq
Batavia
N. Y.
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5957 Aug. 17
N.Y.
July 7. 1838
and
Sir
Washington
FREE
of
Commissioner of Pensions
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Batavia, Genesee County N.Y.
Aug. 10. 1839-
Cousin
and Paper for widow Lucy Branch and hope
they will be found satisfactory as I have had very much trade
in procuring affidavits for the East
I am my
Hon J. L. Edwards Court of Pension
Very truly
Soper
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
Nov. 18th 1841.

Sir:
Under the date of the 8th of April, 1838, entitled "An
act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain
Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury
of the United States," Six of eight child of Lucy Branch 
[ineligible] a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany, [ineligible], Agency at
the rate of Eighty Dollars and [Dashed] Cents
her annum, under the law of the 7th July 1838, has
been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March,
to the 3rd July 1840,

Respectfully, yours,
[signed] Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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I certify that I have recently madening of Several
Respitable Persons Neighbors of Zephaniah Branch
Exclusive of those who have made the affidavits
and by what I have been able to learn Respet
4
in his circumstances amounts to this that
said Branch some three or four years ser
owned & possessed a tolerable good farm and that
at that time he was involved in some dispute or
lawsuit and went to Luce his property from
G
in and for that purpose deeded the
whole to his children without any Res
and after the debate was settled his child
in refused to reconvey the land agreeble
to his Expectation as he was an Interprate
man and much added to her during
for fear he would disipate the Estate
but that he has ever see the conveyance resided
on the place and had a support &
Stephen Philp
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Stephen Phelps Esq
Canandaigua
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State of New York
Ontario County
James Holmes of the said County
being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he will
knows Zephaniah Branch of Rush in the said County
that he is a man far advanced in life with a
large family to support and that the said Lepanichis
feble in health and unable to do manual
above
James Holmes
Subscribed and sworn
this 22 day of February
1820 before me
Agustus A. Bennett
Justice of the peace
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Stephen Benson of
Zephaniah Branch a Revolutionary Pension
and who was a Pension Certificate bearing date
November 10th, 1818, A (318) being duly Sworn
saith that he is well acquainted with the
Circumstance of the said Zephaniah Branch
and that he the said Zephaniah Branch has
not possessed by Deed or otherwise any Real
Estate for over three years last past for
as he the said Sept Branch to the best of
the knowledge and belief of him the Deponent
any lease of Land or and Bond or other
Obligation for his support whatsoever from
any Person, and that he has but very
little personal Property and that he has
been by age and Infirmities for several years
last past unable to perform manual labor
and that Deponent is disinterested in the event
of the Pension of said Zephaniah Branch
Stephen Branch
Alford Palmer also being duly sworn deposeth
and saith that he is a near neighbor of the
aforesaid Zephaniah Branch and acquainted with
his circumstances and purely believes
the facts set forth in the forgoing affidavit sworn
to by Stephen Branch to be substantially Const
and that
he deponent has no interest Duntly
or Inderity in the event of his Pension
Sworn & Subscribed this 17th day of
February 1820 before me
Stephen Phelps be
Palmer
Judge of Out Compleas
Mark
Alford
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Certify
that Stephen Branch and Alford
Palmer have been made known to me by
a number of Respetable Persons of my acquaintan
to be credible witnesses
Stephen Phelps
Judge
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Honorable
C. Calhoun
79
Tacolandia 20 Febry
Zephaniah Branch
statement of property of
deposition relative to his
revolutionary of war
Washington City
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To the Honorable Secretary of War
Sir I have been informed as in
payment of my Pension has been suspended
by a Representation of some Enemical Persons
Relation to my circumstances of which I
have had no official Note
I enclose the within affidavits which
if satisfactory or if manshoud be
Required please to write me to the came
of Stephen Phelps Esqr of Canandaigua
Cannaday and
Oblay your
Coast
Feby 17th 1820
Zephaniah Branch
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(illegible) Feb 24 1820   Paid
Stephen Phelps Esquire
Canandaigua
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Dear Sir
I am informed by Zephaniah
Branch that his pension is suspended; for
what came he knows not
I was knowing
to Mr Branch conveying by deed all his
real estate in 1817 before the passing
of
the law for Revolutionary pension. I believe
that he has little or in property at present
has a pretty large family and is in
for health
Yours
Feby 22 1820
truly
A Bennett
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Zephaniah Branch

Rec. at this office from
Stephen Phelps, Canandaigua
19 May 1821.
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War Department,
Pension Office,
September 28 1820. 4318
SIR,
You are hereby informed that the
schedule of your property has been examined; and the Secretary
of War has directed your name to be continued on the Pension
Roll.

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards

To Mr.
Zephaniah Branch
Ontario County
N York
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES         Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Name Brand, Amos   Grade Private      Line Massachusetts

Warrant Number 3709     Acreage 100    Issued Feb. 7. 1799
To J Duncan, assignee

[Fine Print] * The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are
registers of bounty land warrants issued to noncommissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9,1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.