Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1541, Asa Britton, N.H.
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N.H.  Britton, Asa W. 1541
                      Sally  B.L.Wt. 24,603-160-55
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4592.
New Hampshire
Asa Britton
Cheshire in the State of NH
wo was a Private in the company commanded 
by Captain --- of the Regt commanded
by Col Reed in the [illegible]
for 8 mos 8 days
_____________________________
Inscribed on the Roll of NH
at the rate of 27 Dollars 54 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
_____________________________
Certificate of Pension issued 24th day of Jany 1833 and sent to Hon H Hubbard H of Reps
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Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832               $41.31
[illeg] allowance ending 4 [illeg] 33   $13.77
                                                         _________
                                                           $55.08
Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by J. F. Blair Clerk
Book D. Vol. 1st  Page 144.
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(Left side, left margin)
Reg of M[illegible]  167317 & 250341
(Left side, top)
Reputed
(Right side)
637   Concord
New Hampshire
Sally Britton
widow of Asa Britton
NH
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
27 Dollars 54 
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 30 day of June 1849
Certificate of Pension issued the
8th day of Augt 1850
and sent to
Hon Wm Henry
House of Reps
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February [struck through] 29 1848, Page 13 Vol 7
July [handwritten]
Book A.
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167.317
250.341
Act-[illegible], 3/53
June 13/55
Sally Britton
widow of Asa Britton, Pri.
Cap. 
N.H. line
Revo. War
Ad 160 AC, May 1/56
N.H. Boynton
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Benj. H. Baldwin
Present    Vol Be-67 

NOTE: Overwritten top center as follows:
No. 24 603 Iss May 6/56
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7079
Asa Britton
Private
6 months & 8 days
[illegible ] E
On Roll of New Levis seen
in 1781 - for 6 months & 8 days
since - a
11.17 & 13 ob
Dec 20 1832
$27.54
H H Hubbard
L. G. Mead
Chesterfield
[illegible]  NH
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7079
BRIEF in the case of Asa Britton Chesterfield County of Cheshire in the State of New Hampshire
(Act 7th June, 1832)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? --
3. How old is he? 69
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
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Period      Duration of Service   Rank   Names of                     General and Field Officers under whom he served.
                  Years Months Days
In 1781          6 (mos)     Private     Cap McGregor
                                                       Col Reed
Nov '82          4 (mos)     Substitute  Cap Bell

5. In what battles was he engaged? none mentioned 
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Keene NH
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Tradition
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Right
CERTIFY that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
W.C. Easton
Examining Clerk
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Record of the marriage of Asa Britton & Sally Keep -
March Ninth one thousand seven hundred & eighty eight
This day Mr. Asa Britton & Miss Sally Keep were joined in marriage to each other being both of Westmoreland and were married by John Doolittle Justice of the Peace

I Timothy Hoskins, Town Cleark of the town of Westmoreland in the County of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire do certify that the above is a true copy of the record of the marriage of Asa Britton and Sally Keep remaining in my office, with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows
March 9th 1788 This day Mr. Asa Britton and Miss Sally Keep were joined in marriage to each other by
John Doolittle Justice of the Peace

Dated at Westmoreland this 27th day of March AD 1850 T. Hoskins (signature), Town Clerk

Subscribed and sworn to this 27 day of March anno Domini 1850
Before me
Oscar Coolidge Justice of the Peace
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The State of New Hampshire
Cheshire County Cfs
I Leonard Bisco, Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature of said State, for said County of Cheshire, do hereby certify that Oscar Coolidge is a Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified according to law, that his commission was dated on the sixth day of July A.D. 1846 and will expire on the sixth day of July A.D. 1851. and that his signature within written is in my belief genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court the twenty eighth day of March A.D. 1850
Leonard Bisco. Clerk
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State of New Hampshire -
Cheshire - Personally appeared before me Larkin G. Mead, a Notary Public residing in Chesterfield in said County, Asa Britton, of said Chesterfield. The signer hereof & known to me to be the same Asa Britton who had subscribed and sworn to the written declaration, who, being duly sowrn, further deposeth and saith - That he knows of no person living by whom he can prove the services [illegible] Capt. William Aldrich whose affidavit accompanies this supplementary declaration - That he was born in Raynham, Mass. 30th day of April 1763. Has no record of his age, but expects it is on the town Books of Raynham - there was a record of it in my father's family Bible - was living in Westmoreland when he was called into the service - when in Chesterfield N.H. where he now resides, he has lived mostly since the Revolution - was called into service as stated in Declaration. Officers named in said Declaration - For the 6 months service & recd a written discharge, which I have often seen since the War & supposed I had in now, but on looking cannot find it - I am known to Rev. Elihu Smith and Otis Amidon Esq, my neighbors who can testify to my character for honesty [sic] & their belief of my Revolutionary services - Asa Britton (signature)
In witness I have hereto set my hand & affixed my notorial seal this 9th day of January A.D. 1833.
Larkin G. Mead, Not. Public
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State of New Hampshire
County of Cheshire  
On this 10th day of August 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of Court of Probate for said County of Cheshire-
now sitting Asa Britton a resident of - [record terminated, may be bad scan continued elsewhere]
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State of New Hampshire
County of Cheshire
On this 10th day of August 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of Court of Probate for the County of Cheshire now sitting Asa Britton a resident of the town of Chesterfield county & state aforesaid, aged sixty nine years. Who being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress adopted June 7, 1832.
That in the year 1781 the town of Keene in said county voted to raise a certain quota of troops to join the Continental Army - that this applicant was during the summer of that year, enlisted by a committee of said Keene for six months; that soon after said enlistment in company with Caleb Balch & Cyrus Balch of said Keene he marched directly to Peekskill on the Hudson River, state of New York. He was there joined to the company of Captain David McGregor of the 2nd New Hampshire Regiment commanded by Colonel George Reed. Jason Wate, Major William Bell, adjutant. He was in camp there & at a place called 'Gallows Hill" about 4 miles distant till sometime in October, as he thinks. There he under- [illegible] with the troops aboard sloops & sailed for the north. The wind became adverse, when they landed, embarked to Albany NY, thence to Saratoga & there encamped on Schuyler's Creek & there lay, he thinks till sometime in January 1782 & there he was duly discharged at the expiration of said six months. He received a written discharge.
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which is lost. Again in November of the year 1782, he was enlisted in the same company as before, this time commanded by William Bell, formerly Adjutant, in place of Capt. McGregor aforesaid. He enlisted as a substitute in place of James Hall of [illegible] Chester County of Cheshire aforesaid. Said James Hall was a sergeant in said company but this applicant served as a private except on days of Inspection when he answered to the name of James Hall. 
The army lay at Newburg at this time & this applicant served as aforesaid at that place till he was discharged some time in March of the year 1783 being four months from the time he engaged as said substitute. And this applicant further says that in the two times of service aforesaid, he served the United States ten months, and that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present, & he claims that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any state.
Asa Britton
Subscribed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid - before me Aaron Matson, Judge of Probate and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.
Aaron Matson
I Asa Parker Parker Register of the Court of Probate for the said County of Cheshire, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said Court in the matter of the application of Asa Britton for a pension. -
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Aaron Matson
I Asa Parker Register of the Court of Probate for the said County of Cheshire, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said Court in the matter of the application of Asa Britton for a pension -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this tenth day of August A.d. 1832 -
Asa Parker {Registor of the Court of Probate 

We Elihu Smith a Clergyman residing the Chesterfield in the County of Cheshire aforesaid and Otis Amidon residing in the same Chesterfield hereby certify that we are both acquainted with Asa Britton here subscribed and sworn to under declaration that we believe him to be 69 years of age and that he is [illegible] and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the Revolution and we concur in that opinion. 
Elihu Smith (signature)
Otis Amidon (signature)

[illegible] of Larkin G. Mead [illegible] personally appeared Elihu Smith & Otis Amidon & having made with that the above certificate is true, signed the same - and I further certify that known said Smith to be an officiating clergyman residing in Chesterfield and that Otis Armidon who has also signed the same is a resident of the same Chesterfield & is a credible person and that [illegible] 
[covered seal] In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand & affix magisterial seal this 10th day of January A.D. 1833.
Larkin G. Mead, [illegible]
 
NOTE: Written sideways on the left hand side overlaps the following script: 
7079 
Declaration of 
Asa Britton
Chesterfield
Cheshire Co. N.H.
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Act Mar/55
Additional evidence
__
Case of 
Sally Britton, wid
of Assa Britton, decd
Boytons
See Pensn papers
Rhett
250.341
James E. Stewart
Present
Send this case to me as soon
as [illegible]
Boyton
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State of Vermont
County of Windham   On this 27th day of June A.D. 1856, personally appeared before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace within and for the county and state aforesaid, duly authorised by law to administer oaths) Sally Britton, late of Chesterfield in the County of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire, now resident at Brattleboro in said Windham County, who being duly sworn according to the law declares that she is the widow of Asa Britton, late of said Chesterfield deceased, who was a private in the War of the Revolution in the New Hampshire Militia, that he served as specified in his declaration for a pension on file in the Pension Office but in what company and under what officer he served, altho she has often heard him relate she does not now recollect - That the proof of her marriage to said Asa Britton is on file in the Pension Office accompanying her application for a pension - That her said husband died on the last day of June A.D. 1849 - that she is still a widow - that he died at Chesterfield aforesaid.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the Act approved March 3, 1855 never having received Bounty Land under this or any other act, nor made any other application for Bounty Land except the present altho she did, more than a year ago, sign a petition for Bounty Lands, and supposed the same was filed in the Pension Office but has just learned that the same has never been filed. 
Hereby constitute James E. Stewart of Washington D.D. my attorney in prosecuting this my claim
Witnesses        Her 
L.G. Mead         Sally X Britton
Geo Howe        Mark             [dark & faded seal
                                           in lower right corner]
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which is lost. Again in November of the year 1782, he was enlisted in the same company as before, this time commanded by Wilkinson Bell, formerly Adjtant, in place of Capt. McGregor aforeid. He enlisted as a substitute in place of James Hall of [illegible] Chester County of Cheshire aforesi
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State of Vermont
County of Windham  I certify that Geo. Howe before whom the foregoing Declaration & affidavit were made is and was at the time of taking the same an acting Justice of the Peace [illegible illegible] for the County and State aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and that his signature is genuine -
In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 27th day of JHune A.D. Eighteen hundred & fifty six --

[dark faded image of seal]
Royall Tyler Clerk of Windham County Court
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Sally Brittons
Declaration for a 
Pension
March 11th 1850
Married before 1800
Husband died 30 June 1849
[illegible] $27.54 p an
[illegible] 30 June 1849

Return to 
Asa Keyes. Brattleboro
Vermont
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STATE OF VERMONT,
Windham County......SS.
On this Eleventh day of March A.D. 1850, before Asa Keyes a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by the laws of the State to administer oaths, personally appeared Sally Britton a resident of Brattleboro in said County, aged 79 who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed the second day of February, 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War; that she is the widow of Asa Britton who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution and who was pursuant to the Act of Congress of eighteen hundred thirty two placed upon the Pension List at the rate of about twenty six dollars a year but his Pension Certificate was returned to the Pension Office soon after his decease. She is unable to state the definite amount and for that purpose refers to [illegible] document, and the Records of the department. That she with said Asa Britton resided at Chesterfield in the County of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire until his death which took place June 30, A.D. 1849 since which time she has removed to said Brattleboro -
She further declares, that she is still a widow.
Witnesses Asa Keyes          Her
Sally Keyes                          Sally X Britton
                                            Mark
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year last above written, before me.
Asa Keyes  JUSTICE PEACE.
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I also certify that the declarant is personally know to me, and is the same individual she presents herself to be.
Asa Keyes  JUSTICE PEACE.
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I, Marshall Miller Clerk of the County Court in and for said County, do hereby certify that Asa Keyes is a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signature above written is genuine.
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WIDOW, &c.
Revy
__________
File No. 1541
Sally Britton
Widow.
Asa Britton
Priv. Rev. War
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Act: July 29, 1848
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 81
(Arrangement of 1870.)
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[checkmark]
24.603
[unknown mark]
[illegible]
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[illegible] Agency
Asa Birtton NH Act 7 June 1832 $27.54
^
To what time was he last paid?
To his death GCA
June 30, 1849
To what agency does he belong [struck through]
Pension Office
August 1, 1850
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If Av. Pen : [illegible] 29 Jly 48. NH.
Boyton
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250.341 [illegible] Mar. 3 [illegible]
see
167327 June 30. [illegible]
24603
___________________________________
Sally Britton, wid.
Asa Britton, pri.
___________________________________

Rev'y. War.
___________________________________
See Pens. papers on file.
VT or NH
July 48-63
____________________________________
James E. Stewart (Stuart).
Present.
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No 743
Sally Britton
[widow] of Asa
NH
Oct 29 Inrey 1848
Married before 1800
Husband died 30 June 1849
Adm. 27.54 p an
[illegible] 20 June 1849
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Washington July 25 1850
Sir,                  [illegible]
Will you be pleased to give ^early attention
to the enclosed letter and with your [illegible] return it to me?
Yours 
William Henry
J.L. Edwards 
Clerk of Records
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State of New Hampshire
County of Cheshire 
On this 4th day of June A.D. 1855 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the county and state & aforesaid Sally Britton aged 85 years a resident of Chesterfield in the State of New Hampshire, who, being duly sworn according to Law, declares that she is the widow of Asa Britton, deceased who was a private soldier in the company commanded by Captain [blank] in the regiment commanded by by Colonel [blank] in the war of Revolution and that her said Husband enlisted at [blank] on or about the [blank] day of [blank] at [blankl] on or about the [blank] day of [blank] A.D. [blank] continuing in actual service in said war for the term of [blank]
She further states that she was married to the said Asa Britton on the ninth day of March A.D. [blank] by one Doolittle and that her name before her marriage was Sally Keep that her said husband died at Chesterfield aforesaid on the 30th day of June A.D. 1849. And that she is now a widow. 
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act of the third of March 19 1855.
Witness                her
Otis Armidon       Sally X Britton 
Rolston Tyler        mark
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We Otis Amidon and Rolston G. Tyler residents of Chesterfield in the State of New Hampshire upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Mrs. Sally Britton in our presence, and that we believe from the assurances and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
Otis Amidon
Rolston G. Tyler
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and years above written, and I certify that I know the afficants to be credible persons, that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
Warham R. Platts Justice of the Peace
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This declaration is not accompanied with positive proof of present widowhood - but it is hoped that the age of the claimant and the fact that she is now in the receipt of a pension will be sufficient evidence that her widowhood continues.
Respectfully
Benj M Baldwin
Benj M Baldwin
Atty
Washington DC
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State of New Hampshire, Cheshire County [i]
I Leonard Bisco, Clerk of the Court of Common Please of said state, for said County do hereby certify that Warham R. Platts before whom the within declaration and affidavit were made, was, at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace within and fore said County duly authorised by the laws of this state to take depositions and administer oaths and that his signature thereto were in my belief genuine.
In witness where of I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this seventh day of June A.D. 1855
Leonard Bisco. Clerk.
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Affidavit of
Wm. Aldrich
in case of
Asa Britton for pension
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I William Aldrich of Westmoreland Cheshire Co. New Hampshire aged sixty eight years do testify and say that I have always from my childhood been acquainted with Asa Britton an applicant for a pension, now resident of Chesterfield N.H. -

In the spring of 1781 said Britton and myself resided in the same neighborhood in said Westmoreland. In the summer of said year, said Britton left his Fathers in Westmoreland to join the army of the revolution as was then said and believed in the neighborhood and I have no doubt he served in our army that year about six months from conversation I had with him then and since. -

I further say that in 1782 I was a soldier in the American Army stationed at Newburg NY and I well recollect seeing said Britton at said Newburg. He was then a soldier in the army and belonged to the same Brigade with myself. Said Brigade was commanded by Lt. Col. George Read -
I further say that in the winter 1783 I frequently saw said Britton at Newburg where we were stationed during that winter. William Aldrich

Westmoreland New Hampshire
Cheshire Co. January 9th 1833
Subscribed and sworn to before me Nathan G. Babbitt Justice of the Peace 
I certify that the above named Deponent, well known to me, is a credible witness & full credit may be given to his the said William Aldrich testimony
Nathan G. Babbitt Jus. Peace.

Cheshire Jany 17, 1 of 32
I Salma Hale, Clerk of the Superior Court of [illeg] for said County certify that Nathan G. Babbitt is a Justice of the Peace in the said County, and that the foregoing is his signature. In testimony whereof I hereunto affix the seal of said Court. S. Hale. Clerk