Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17,326, Oliver Booge, Conn. Continental
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Conn. 
Continental 

Booge, Oliver 
Lucy 

NUMBER
W. 17,326

CONTENTS
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Vermont - 3011
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Lucy Booge
widow of Oliver Booge
who died on the 2nd Feby 1828
of Rutland in the State of Vermont
who was a Pri.
in the Comp. commanded by 
by Captain Bissell of the Reg. commanded
by Enos ?ht in the VT
line for 2 years
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Inscribed on the Roll of Montpelier
at the rate of 80  Dollars -- Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of Aug
3? and sent to Jesse Good
Rutland VT
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Arrears to the 4th of Mar. $640.00
Semiannual allowance ending $40.00
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$680.00
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{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836 Section the [blank] }

Recorded by  R Burdine clerk,
Book A Vol. 2 Page 42
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I Zerah Hawley of Avon late second society of the Town of Farmington in Hartford County and State of Connecticut aged fifty seven years, being duly sworn do depose and say- That my father the late Rev. Rufus Hawley was the settled pastor of said second society of Farmington (now Avon) from the seventh day of December seventeen hundred and sixty nine (1769) as appears from his books To the time of his death which happened, as I think, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty four (1824) and that I find on his book containing the entry of Births Marriages, Death and admission into the church in the said society, (which book is now in my possession as his heir at law no, other person having a better right thereto) an entry in his my said fathers proper hand writing of which the following is a true copy -- 
"October first seventeen hundred seventy eight married Oliver Booge and Lucy Darin both of Northington", which said name "Northington" was then the appropriate name of the said second society of said town of Farmington - and I Zerah Fawley above named depose and say that I am son and him of the said the Rev. Rufus Hawley. by and have as such the custody of his book, and record and that the above is a true extract from his said book of record with the exception of the date, which is expressed in the record in fair legible figures as follows- "Oct 1st 1778"
[signed] Zerah Hawley

State of Connecticut  Hartford County } ss.

Viz Avon October 10 AD 1838 -
Personally appeared Zerah Hawley the signer of the foregoing deposition and made oath to the truth of the same before me and I also certify that the said Hawley is a credible person.
[signed] Amasa Woodford Justice of Peace
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State of Vermont
Rutland County ss.}
On this 19th day of November, 1838, personally appeared before the Probate Court of the District of
Rutland in said County, Lucy Booge, a resident of Pittsford in said County, aged 76 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 4, 1836:
That she is the widow of Oliver Booge, late of Pittsford aforesaid, deceased, who was a private in the several tours of service in the Army of the revolution herein after stated:
1. He resided in Farmington, Connecticut, during the Revolutionary war; and from May 5, to Dec. 18, 1775. Served 7 months & 13 days in the 6th Company commanded by Cap. Noahdiah Hooker & in the Reg't raised by order of the Gen'l Assembly of Connecticut.
2. That he served 13 months in the years 1775 & 1776, in Col. Huntington's Regiment, and in Capt. Fitch Bissell's, or E. Fitch Bissell's Company; was with the troops in the City of New York during the battle on Long Island in August of that year; and at sundry other places.
3. That in 1777, he served seven months in Capt. Abel Pettibone's Company and in Col. Roger Enos' Regiment of Connecticut troops; and was in service during the time at the several places, of New Haven, Fishkill, Peekskill, Mamaroneck, and Horseneck; at which latter place he was discharged from that tour of service.
4. That in 1780, he served five months and 4 days in Cap. Betts' Company and in Col. Zebulon Butler's Regiment, Connecticut troops.
5. That in 1781, he belonged to a Militia Regiment in Connecticut Commanded by Col. Noahdiah Hooker of Farmington; that he was one of a class in that town raised to supply the "short levies," as they were called, and were sent in the Connecticut Line of the Continental Army: that on the 22d of January of that year, he received from said town of Farmington the sum of  £11. 11. 0, being part of the bounty of £30 from said town; and at that time served nine months in the continental
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nental Army. was mustered at Litchfield, and discharged at West Point, in December.
In the year 1780, he was one of the guard, then denominated, execution guard, at Tuppen, on the occasion of the execution of the British Spy, Major Andre.
She further declares, that she was married to the said Oliver Boodge on the first day of October, in the year seventeen hundred and seventy eight; that her husband, the aforesaid Oliver Booge died on the second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight; and that she has remained his widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereunto annexed.
[right] her
[right] Lucy    X    Booge [X being her mark in lieu of signature]
[right] mark

Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written in open Court, before me: and I do hereby certify, that the affiant is a person of credibility.
[signed] Wm Hall Judge

State of Vermont
Rutland County ss. }

I, Henry B. Towslee, Clerk of the Probate Court of the District of Rutland in said County, do hereby certify, that Hon. William Hall is Judge of said Court; and that the foregoing signature, purporting to be his, is genuine.

[illegible Court Seal affixed at left]

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court and subscribed my name, at Rutland in said District, this 19th day of November, 1838.
[signed] Henry B. Towslee
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I, Harris Booge, of Pittsford in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont, aged 56 years & upwards, do depose testify and say, that Oliver Boodge, late of said Pittsford, deceased, was my father, and that he died at said Pittsford on the 2nd day of February, 1828, and that he was the reputed lawful husband of Mrs Lucy Booge, my mother, now residing at the same Pittsford aforesaid.
My father had been a soldier in the revolutionary army, and had served on various tours, from the commencement of the war in 1775, until the month of December, 1781. During the time, his place of residence was in that portion of the town of Farmington, at that time a parish, called Northington, and since erected into a separate township, by the name of Avon. In 1788 he removed with his family into the town of Chittenden in Vermont, and resided there about 4 years, after which, he moved again, and settled in the town of Pittsford, where he continued to reside, till the time of his decease. I have often heard him relate, to his family and others, the story of his services in the war; and I well remember the names of Capt Noahdiah Hooker, Ebenezer Fitch Bissell, Abel Pettibone, [blank] Betts, and Colonels Zebulon Butler
[blank] Huntington, and Roger Enos; and especially a term of nine months in 1781; his return from that tour having been rendered memorable in our family, from the fact of my senior brother, Oliver C. Booge, having been born on the 18th of December, 1781, which was but a few days after my father's last return from the service.
In the year 1812, my father having at that time a farm of about 200 acres upon which he resided, and wishing on account of his growing age and infirmites, to retire from the more laborious part of his business, put me into the possession of his estate, to carry on and manage his concerns for him, retaining at the same time, and until his death, the title in himself. Under these circumstances, and for
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that reason, alone, he never felt himself at liberty to apply to the United States for a pension, under the provisions of the act of Congress passed the 18th of March 1818; saying, in substance, that he would never put his property out of his hands, and perjure himself, for the sake of getting a pension - that he tho't [thought] himself as good a soldier, as any other man, and that Government ought, in his opinion, to have given all a share; but, that if he could not receive a pension or obtain one honorably, he would not apply.
The passing of the act of Congress of the 1st of May, 1820, in addition to that of 18th of March, 1818, afforded by its provisions, no additional facilities for my father's obtaining pension; his farm, and personal property, still remaining in himself. And afterwards, until the day of his decease he was not apprised of any other action of Congress upon the subject under which he could have successfully prepared his claim. I had repeated conversations with him on the subject, during his lifetime, and well know, that no other reasons, than as above stated, prevented my said father from applying for a pension under the act of the 18th of March, 1818.
[signed] Harris Booge

State of Vermont
Rutland County ss }
On this 26th day of June, 1836, before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared the above named Harris Booge, to me well known, and who has subscribed the preceding affidavit in my presence, and made oath in due form of law, that the same contains the truth and nothing but the truth. And I do hereby certify, that the said affiant is a credible witness.
[signed] L. Daniels Justice Peace
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State of Vermont
Rutland County ss }
I, Frederic W. Hopkins, Clerk of the County Court in and for said County, do hereby certify, that Luther Daniels is a magistrate as above, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court, and subscribed my name, this 26th day of June, in the year, one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine.
[signed] J. W. Hopkins

[illegible Court Seal affixed upper left]
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[printed form, blanks filled by hand]

Rev
Widow, &c.
File No. 1732
Omn

File No 17326
Lucy Booge widow of Oliver Booge
Prv. Rev. War

Act: July 4th 36
Index:- Vol. 1, Page 74
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Sett S. Haught, mar. 21st 1839

7th July '36
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Rutland VT 27 June 1839
Sir
In your letter of 21st March last, to  Stephen Haight Esqr relative to the application for a pension of Mrs Lucy Booge, widow of Oliver Booge, dec'd it is stated (inadvetantly, it is presumed), to have been made under "the act of 7. July, 1838." If, on turning to the declaration itself, such appears to be the fact; Mrs Booge desires it may be returned, for correction; as her purpose was, to declare under the previous act of July 4, 1836.
In compliance with the requisition of that letter, I now hand you the deposition of Zerah Hawley, made  anew containing another copy of the record of the marriage of Oliver Booge & Lucy Darin; the correctness of which and the apparent genuineness of the original thereof, are duly certified to by the Judge of the Probate Court of the District of Farmington in Connecticut.
I hand you, also, the affidavit of Harris Booge Esq, setting forth the reason why his late father did not apply for a pension under the act of 18 March 1818. The ownership of the farm, as stated by W. H. Borge, could be further shown, were it needful, by the town records of Pittsford, & by the Probate Records of this District, where the amount of the ancestor's estate is made matter of record. Having been thus circumstances as to property, not needing by reason of his reduced circumstances the assistance of his country for support; it is not perceived how the presumption raised against his service' in 1776 in the 1st Regt Connecticut Line, can well be sustained against Oliver Booge; and against the positive testimony of Obed Higley, who draws, probably, for the same term to which he has deposed for Oliver Booge.
Awaiting your further decision in the premises.
I am very respectfully sir your obt. servt [signed]  Jesse Gove

James L. Edwards Esq
Comm. of Pensions
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Comptrollers Office
Hartford Court Oct 11 1838
I certify that on application for evidence of the Services of Oliver Booge, I have examined the Books & papers in this Office relating to the War of the Revolution, and find his name on a "Pay Roll of the C6th. Co. in the 2nd Regt. raised by order of Gen Assembly Conn. May 1775" Noadiah Hooker Capt. where he is entered as a private commenced Service May 5 Time of discharge Dec 18 making 7 Mos 13 days. 
Again on a "Pay Roll of the Short Levies in Capt Betts Co. 2nd Conn. Regt. commanded by Zebulon Butler Esq Col." where he is entered as a private July 5 Time of discharge Dec. 9th making 5 mos 4 days, no date of year appears on the face of this Roll but is filed 1780, That on Pay Table Book is the following entry "The U. States DS Oct 1 1777 To Capt E Fitch Bissell sundry bills of loss his Co. Col Huntington's Regt 1776 £26-7-6" no Pay Roll of Capt Fitch Bissell can be found in this Office, That on Pay Table Book March 22 1777 is the following entry" Capt Abel Pettibone Dr. to order on Treas. for your Co. of Militia detached for Rhode Island £90."  June 18 1777 Capt Abel Pettibone Enos Batts 1777 Dc to order on Treas. to raise his Co. & acct Rect £300. and other charges and in all to £ 2018-0-3 1/2." "In Feby 3d 1778 in the following Co. Capt A. Pettibone Co by afc rendered for his Co. Col. Enos Regis £1928-0-3½, no Pay Roll of
(over)
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Capt Abel Pettibone can be found in this Office for the year 1777
[signed] Henry Kilbourn Comm.[sp]
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Rutland Vt. 18 Dec 1838
Sir,
Herewith are transmitted the declaration and Sundry proofs of Mrs Lucy Booge, for a pension, under the provisions of the act of Congress passed July 6, 1836.
1. - The first term of service is proved by the certificate of the Comptroller of Connecticut.
2. - Reference is also made to that certificate for the 2nd term claimed in the declaration; and to the deposition of Obed Higley.
3. - Refer, again, to the certificate, and to the deposition of Danl Tillotson.
4. - Refer, again, to the Certificate, and to the deposition of Hilkiah Grout.
5. - The records of the town of Farmington, with the Letter of Col. Hooker deposed to by his son, are believed to sustain this term. Further confirmation of this service will probably appear from the Muster Roll of the "Short Levies" assembled at Litchfield, and their distribution, there, into the several corps then required to be replenished. An inspection of the Roll of the guard detailed at the execution of the Br. [British] Spy, will further show another portion of this service. Mrs. Booge therefore refers to all those documents, now in the war office, for a more particular account of her late husbands services. More ample rolls, than any now in Connecticut, are as she is informed by the Comptroller, in the war office to which she also refers, for explanation, if desired, of the brief (though perhaps as full as could be made from remaining documents) certificate of the Comptroller of Connecticut.
Recapitulating the services, she claims,
1st In 1775 7 mos 13 dys
2nd In 1775 & 1776 13 mos
3rd In 1777 7 mos
4th In 1780 5 mos 4 ds
5th In 1781 9 mos
Making, in the whole 41 mos. 17 days
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The deposition of Harris Booge, appended to the declaration, assumes now that his father is deceased, a higher character than that of mere  heresay testimony; and considered in connexion with the Farmington Record, & Obed Higley's deposition, it is believed establish the several terms of service to which they refer.
The intermarriage is proved by the deposition of Zerah Hawley .
All which are herewith respectfully submitted, with the request that you will be pleased to communicate your decision through me.
I am very respectfully
Sir
Your obt. Servant
Jesse Gove

James L. Edwards Esq
Com'r of Pensions
City of Washington
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[printed form, blanks filled by hand]

I, ROYAL R. HINMAN, Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and keeper of the Seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern, That Egbert Cowles and Samuel Whitman were and for more than two months last past, have[sp] been Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Hartford in said State, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified, having full power and authority, by the laws of said State, to take the acknowledgment of Deeds and to certify the same; also to administer oaths to witnesses and to take Affidavits and Depositions out of Court, and to give certificates thereof; and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to the official acts and attestations of the said Cowles & Whitman in Court and Country.
In testimony whereof, I have, in my capacity of Secretary as aforesaid, hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of said State, at the City of Hartford, in said State, the 11th day of October in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and Thirty eight.
And I certify that the signatures of said Cowles & Whitman hereto annexed genuine.
[signed] Royal R. Hinman Secretary

[illegible Court Seal affixed upper left]
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I Daniel Tillotson of Farmington in Hartford County and State of Connecticut aged 78 years being duly sworn according to law do testify and say- That I was a soldier in the war of the revolution and am now in the receipt of a pension therefor that before that time and since I was well acquainted with Oliver Booge then of said Farmington, that he (Booge) some years after said war, moved from said Farmington, as I understand, into the State of Vermont. that in the year 1777 I enlisted into a company of State troops under the command of Capt Abel Pettibone of Col Roger Enos regiment, for the term of seven months and served in said company during said time and I also know that the said Oliver Booge was a private in the same company and served as such in the same, during the whole of the said time -  that s aid company was first stationed at New Haven, then marched to Fishkill staid there a short time, then marched to Perkshill, staid there a short time, then from place to place till it reached Maroneck, then staid some time, thence to Horseneck where we were discharged in January (as I believe) 1778.
[signed] Daniel Tillotson

Hartford County State of Connecticut ss Farmington October 3rd 1838 - Personally appeared Daniel Tillotson the signer of the foregoing certificate and made oath to the truth of the same, and I certify that the said Tillotson is a credible person.
[signed] Samuel Whitman Justice of peace
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[printed form, blanks filled by hand]

I, ROYAL R. HINMAN, Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and keeper of the Seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern, THAT Amasa Woodford and Isaac Baldwin Esqs are and for more than two months last past, have been Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Westford in said State, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified, having full power and authority by the laws of said State, to take the acknowledgement of Deeds and to certify the same; also to administer oaths to witnesses and to take Affidavits and Depositions out of Court, and to give certificates thereof; and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to the official acts and attestations of the said Woodford & Baldwin in Court and Country.

In testimony whereof, I have, in my capacity of Secretary as aforesaid, hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of said State, at the City of Hartford, in said State, the 11th day of October in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and 38. 
And I certify that the signatures of said Woodford & Baldwin hereto annexed are genuine.

[signed] Royal R Hinman Secretary

[illegible Court Seal affixed upper left]
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I Obed Higley of Simsbury in Hartford County & State of Connecticut aged 80 years being duly sworn according to law do testify and say that I was a soldier in the war of the Revolution and am now in the recipt of a pension therefore, and while in the war, and since that time, I was & have been well acquainted with Oliver Booge then of Farmington in sd County of Hartford that in the year AD 1775 I enlisted into a company of State troops under Lieut Jonathan Humpfry, the company was commanded by Capt Fitch Bissel, I enlisted in December, and joined the Regiment in January 1776 under Colonel Huntington and served thirteen months. I believe that Oliver Booge was in the same Company with me, and am sure he was in the same Regiment with me. And further the deponent saith not.
[signed] Obed Higley

Hartford County, State of Connecticut ss. Avon October 10th AD 1838.
Personally appeared Obed Higley the signer of the foregoing certificate and made oath to the truth of the same, and I do certify that the said Obed Higley is a creditable person. 

[signed] Isaac Baldwin Justice of Peace
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I, Hilkiah Grout, of Mendon in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont, aged 76 years and upwards, being duly sworn according to law, do depose, testify, and say, that during the revolutionary war, in the year 1780, I was a private in Col. Malcomb's Regiment of New York troops; and that in the month of June or July of that year, or thereabouts, I was tranfered to the Light Infantry corps, into the Company of Capt. Daniel Delavan in Col. Philip Cortland's Regiment, where I continued to serve, until the termination of the period for which I had enlisted, which was for eight months, and was discharged according to my present recollection, in the month of December. When I joined the said Capt. Delavan's company, I found there a man by the name of Oliver Booge, from some part of Connecticut, who was a private, either in Capt. Delavan's company, or in Capt. W. Gregor's which was posted on our right, or in Capt. Cherry's which was posted on our left. I cannot now distinctly recollect to which of said companies he did belong - he was a good soldier, and the singular odity of his name, united with actions sometimes of a similar character, has impressed the recollection of his person firmly on my mind. I found Booge in the Regiment as a soldier when I joined, and left him there when I was discharged, but do not know for how long he had enlisted. And further this deponent saith not. Col. Cortland's Regiment was a New York Regiment.

[signed] Hilkiah Grout
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State of Vermont
Rutland County ss }
Be it known that on this second day of April 1838, before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county, personally appeared Hilkiah Grout, to me well known, who hath subscribed the foregoing affidavit in my presence, and made solemn oath that the same is true: and I do hereby certify that the said affiant is a credible witness.
[signed] L. Daniels Justice Peace

State of Vermont
Rutland County ss }
I Robert Pierpoint clerk of the county court for the county of Rutland certify that Luther Daniel is a Justice of the peace for said county and that his signature also is genuine

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Rutland this 20th day of December AD 1838
[signed] R Pierpoint

[llegible Court Seal affixed at left]
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Zerah Hawley's
2d Deposition for
Mrs. Lucy Booge

[bottom upside down]
[shown complete on next page]
[Jesse Gov]e Esqr
[Ru]tland
[V]ermont
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Jesse Gove Esq
Rutland
Vermont

[bottom, upside down]
Zerah Hawley's 2nd deposition for
Mrs. Lucy Booge.
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I Zerah Hawley of Avon County of Hartford State of Connecticut depose & say that I am the son of the late Rev. Rufus Hawley who was Pastor of a Congregational Society in Farmington parish of Northington & that he kept a record of the Birth, Death, & marriages in said parish of Northington in said Hardford County & that he kept a record of the Births, Deaths, & Marriages in said parish of Northington, & that the Book containing said records is now in my possession, in my late Fathers hand writing. I know it to be the book in which he recorded all marriages consumated in his said parish & said book having been in my possession ever since my Fathers death. I find in said book in my Fathers hand writing an entry of a marriage of which the following is a copy "Oct 5th 1778 married Oliver Booge & Lucy Darrin, both of Northington."

Northintong at that time being a part of Farmington at that time being a part of Farmington is now a town called Avon in which I reside. I further say that the said Oliver Booge & Lucy Darrin were inhabitants of said Northington & lived together as man & wife within my knowledge & further that I am of lawful age being fifty eight years of age - & further the deponent sasy not. June 7th AD 1839
[signed] Zerah Hawley

Probate Office District of Farmington 

Personally appeared before me Judge of Probate for the District of Farmington Zerah Hawley who signed the foregoing deposition in my presence & made oath to the truth of the same & I further certify that the said Zerah Hawley is a credible witness. I have also examined the book of Records refered to in the foregoing deposition & it appears ancient & genuine
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I am also satisfied it is the original document in which the late Rev Rufus Hawley kept his records. I also have examined the entry of the marriage  of Oliver Booge & Lucy Darrin & the deponent has given a true copy.
[signed] Egbert Cowles Judge of Probate

[illegible Court Seal attached at left]

I hereby certify that the above named Egbert Cowles is Judge of Probate for the District of Farmington & state of Connecticut, & that the above is his genuine signature, & that the above seal is the seal of sd Probate Office.
[signed] Attest Ezekial Cowles Clerk of sd Court

Farmington June 7 1839

Sir,

Annexed are the sd documents mentioned in yours of April last. My business has been such that I have not been able to attend to it before say[sp] to Mr Booge if you believe[sp] that if he should think it best to pursue the inquiry reporting the testimony of his Father Benjamin Cotton West Hartford (Conn) who makes it his business to investigate that subject.
I am very respectfully Sir your obt servant
[signed] Franklin Deming

Before Jesse Gove Esq
Rutland
Vermont

Paid Z. Howsley   $1.50
Paid Judge & Clerk of Probate   1.00
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$2.50
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I Sidney Wadsworth of Farmington and State of Connecticut of the age of fifty three years depose & say that I am Select Man of the said town of Farmington &  have the care & possession of the Records of said town to find that on said Records sn the following entry
" An account of the town bounty to the short levy that Continental  line of the Cont'l Army in 1780 & 1781 " with the entry I find at the date of Aug 22 1781following entry "Oliver Bogue £11 11 for service in Continental Army.
[signed] Sidney Wadsworth

Hartford County State of Connecticut ss Farmington October 11th AD 1838
Personally appeared Sidney Wadsworth the Deponent above named & made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition before me - I further certify thatsd deponent is a respectable & creditable witness.
[signed] Egbert Cowley Justice of Peace
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( Copy  )
Farmington Feb. 19, 1781
Gentlemen
In obedience to orders received from his Excellency Gov. Trumbull, to muster the men of this Regiment that are recruied for the Continental Army, you will order that the Class of Farmington deliver their men at Deacon Seth See's, on Monday the 26th of the instant, for that purpose. And there will be a continental officer few there to receive them. They are to receive the thirty pounds from the Town:- is You will see that provision be made for it, so as not to detain the men [illegible] You and to see that there be
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a blanket procured by the town for each recruit. Your complaince will oblige the Publick.
I am &c gentlemen yours to serve.

[signed] Noadiah Hooker- Colonel

To the select men of Farminton.

Farmington (Conn) Oct 11, 1838.

I certify that the above is a true copy of a document found recorded in my Fathers Military Record Book
(signed) Edward Hooker

At Farmington, in Hartford County and state of Conn. Oct 11th AD 1838
Personally appeared, the above named Edw. Hooker (son of the late Noadiah Hooker dec'd) and made solemn oath to the truth of the above certificate subscribed by him. Before me & I further certify that sd deponent is a respectable & credible witness.
[signed] Egbert Cowles Justice of Peace
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V 4232
Lucy Booge
widow of Oliver
Avon[sp] Vt
Act 4 July 36
m78
admd
7 yrs pri
80$

no deduction

Jesse Gove
Rutland
Vt
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I, Harris Booge, of Pittsford in the County of Rutland and state of Vermont, aged 55 years, do depose, testify, and say, that I am one of the sons of Oliver Booge, late of said Pittsford, deceased, and of Mrs. Lucy Booge, his widow, now residing in said town; that the said Oliver died at said Pittsford on the 2d day of February in the year, 1828; and that the said Lucy hath not intermarried since the death of her said husband. And I further depose and say, that in his lifetime, I have often heard him describe the retreat of the American troops in 1776, from Long Island, after the battle in August; and, also, from New York, afterwards. He has a brother by the name of Jeffrey, who was in that battle, and saw him land at New York the next morning after the fight. I have moreover often heard my said Father speak of being one of the guard stationed around the place of execution at Tappan, at the time of the execution of Major Andre, in 1780. I have, also, very often heard him speak of his return from a nine months tour of service, in December, 1781; it formed a sort of family era; as being but a few days anticedent to the nativity of my elder brother, Oliver C Booge.
[signed]Harris Booge

Sworn to and subscribed in open Court, this 19th day of November, 1838: and I do hereby certify that the said affiant is a credible witness.
[signed] Wm Hall Judge

State of Vermont
Rutland County ss .}
I, Henry B Towslee, clerk of the Probate Court in the District of Rutland in said county, do hereby certify that the Hon. William Hall is Judge of said Court that he is authorized by law to take acknowledgements of affidavits in manner as above in all matters before said Court; and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his, is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereinto affixed the seal of said Court & subscribed my name at Rutland in said District this 19th day if November, 1838.
[signed] Henry B Towslee

[illegible Court Seal affixed at left]