Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 23264, Paul Hebert, Continental (Canadian)
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(3-1776)
SERVICE  
Continental (Canadian)
Hebert, Paul
Angelique
NUMBER
W.23264
CONTENTS
one Paul Hubert of same reg't was allowed Bounty Land WT 13170, but no proof of identity
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3466
Albany
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Angelique Hebert, widow of Paul Hebert, who was a private in the Revolution
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate 80 Dollars per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of December 1843 and sent to Silas Hubbell, Champlain, Clinton Co, N York
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Act of March 3, 1843

Recorded in Book A, Vol 1,  Page 118
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To S Hubbell -  Dec. 16. 1845.
Let. to S. Hubbell 24 Dec. 1845
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Paid at Treasury, under act 6 April 1838, from 4 March 1844 to 4 Sept 1844. Agent notifed both April 1846.
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."

State of New York
Clinton County SS:

On the Third day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Thirty eight personally appeared before me the undersigned one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Clinton aforesaid Angelique Hebert of Napperville District of Montreal and Province of Lower Canada aged Sixty nine 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 7 1838 entitled an Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."

That she is the widow of Paul Hebert, who was a solder in the war of the American Revolution and served as a private in Captain Olivier Regiment of Infantry in Colonel Moses Hodges Regiment as her said  husband often told her after her marriage to him. That she was married to the said Paul Hebert at the Parish of Blairindie by a curate named Laneto, within two or three years after the American War but she does not recollect the exact years.  She recollects it was the winter after the dark day that her husband the said Paul Hebert died on the first day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nine.  that she
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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 has never been married to any person since the death of her husband the said Paul Hebert but has ever since his death been and that is the widow of him the said Paul Hebert

Angelique Hebert (her mark)

Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above written before me and I do hereby certify that by reason of  bodily infirmities the said Angelique Hebert is not able attend Court to make her Declaration. And that she the said Angelique Hebert has remained a widow ever since the death of her husband the said Paul Hebert as will more fully appear by the proof hereto annexed. the said
Angelique Hebert made her Mark to her name above not being able to write it as I am satisfied

William Hedding a Judge of Clinton County Courts
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Angelique Hebert

Champlain, NY
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(some of following information is translated from French)

1394

The day __ of January 1786
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Record of Marriage of Paul Hebert and Angelique Charatier
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Act July 7, 1838

See certificate No 36599
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[French]
Province du Bas-Canada,}
District de Montreal.}
|Ertrait du Registre des Aetes
|de BAPTEMES, MARRIAGES ET SEPULTURES, fait dans
la Paroisse de Blairfindie.

-- pendant l'annee mil sept cens
--quatve vinget six.
[left margins note 1786 Jun 10]
Le dix Janvier mil sept censquatre vingt sisc, apres la publication de trois bans de mariage foute aux promes nos messes parcissiates par deux dimanches consecutifs -et une fete intermediaine, entre Paul Hebert, residant en cette Parsse, fils de Louis Hebert et de defunte Marie Jeanne Boissedue, sessieve et me're de la Paroisse St. Ours, d'une part; et Ange'lique Charetier, re'sidante en cette paroisse, fille de Jean Charetier et de Marie Angelique Roi, sesse're et me're
de Chambly, D'autne part; ne d'etant de'couvert suicun enfie'chement au dit mariage, nous Soussigne' Pre'tre avons reen leur mutuel consentement, et leur avons donne' la Be'ne'diction nuptiale selon la forme prescite 'par notre me'are la Sainte Eglise Romaine, et cd en pre'sence de Pierre He'bert, cousin, Michel Simard
anu de Ne'ssour: Jean Baptiste Charetier, fre're, Basile Decel ami de l'essouse qui ont de'clare' ne Savoir Signer ainde' que les e'ssoux lecture fait-
(Signe) Lancto.

Nous soussigne's protonotaires de la cour du Banc du Roi, pour le District de Montreal, certifions, que L'extrait ci-dessus est en tout conforme a Poriginal qui se trouve dans le Registre des Actes de Baptemes, Mariages et Sepultures, faits dans La Paroisse de Blainfindis
pendant l'annee mil sept censquative vint sisc, le dit Registre depose dans les Archives de la dite Cour,
Montreal, le trentierne jour d' dout - mil huit cent trente huit.
[signatures illegible]

Province of Lower Canada,
District of Montreal.
|Extract from the Register of Acts
|of BAPTISMS, MARRIAGES AND BURIALS, performed in
the Parish of Blairfindie.
-- during the year seventeen hundred
-- eighty-six.
[left margin note 1786 Jun 10]
On the tenth of January, seventeen hundred and eighty-six, after the publication of three marriage banns read during our parish masses on two consecutive Sundays and one intervening feast day, between Paul Hebert, residing in this parish, son of Louis Hebert and the late Marie Jeanne Boissedue, his father and mother of the Parish of St. Ours, on the one hand; and Angélique Charetier, residing in this parish, daughter of Jean Charetier and Marie Angélique Roi, her father and mother.
-- during the year seventeen hundred
of Chambly, on the other part; no impediment to the said marriage having been discovered, we, the undersigned priest, received their mutual consent and gave them the nuptial blessing according to the form prescribed by our mother, the Holy Roman Church, and this in the presence of Pierre Hébert, cousin, Michel Simard
uncle of the groom; Jean Baptiste Charetier, brother, Basile Decel, friend of the bride, who declared that they did not know how to sign, as did the spouses, after the reading of the document.
(Signed) Lancto.
We, the undersigned prothonotaries of the Court of King's Bench for the District of Montreal, certify that the above extract is in all respects in conformity with the original which is found in the Register of Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials performed in the Parish of Blainville
during the year seventeen hundred and eighty-six, the said Register being deposited in the Archives of the said Court,
Montreal, the thirty-first day of August, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.
[illegible signatures]
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PROVINCE DU BAS-CANADA,}
DISTRICT DE MONTREAL.}
L'HONORABLE James Reid, Juge en Chef, de la Cour du Banc du Roi, du District de Montreal, dans la Province du Bas-Canags.
A tous ceux qui ces presentes verront.
CERTIFIONS que Samuel Wentworth Monk & Robert Lester Morrogh, Ecuyers, sont Proronotaires de la Cour du Banc du Roi, du District de Montreal, dans la Province du Bas-Canada.—Que la Signature "Monk & Morrogh, 
P. B. R" souscrite au bas du Certificat des autres parts, est la Signature des dits Protonotaires:  Et que foi doit etre ajoutee a toutes Copies de Papiers, Extraits et autres Actes quelconques, par eux signes et certifies en cette qualite.
En foi de quoi nous avons signe ces presentes et y avons fait apposer le Sceau de la dite Cour.
A Montreal, ce trentieme jour d' dont mil huit cent trente huit.
G S Reid Juge en Chef
B:R

PROVINCE OF LOWER CANADA,}
DISTRICT OF MONTREAL.}
The Honourable James Reid, Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, for the District of Montreal, in the Province of Lower Canada.
To all to whom these presents shall come.
WE CERTIFY that Samuel Wentworth Monk & Robert Lester Morrogh, Esquires, are Prothonotaries of the Court of King's Bench, for the District of Montreal, in the Province of Lower Canada.—That the Signature "Monk & Morrogh,
P. K. B." subscribed at the bottom of the Certificate on the other side, is the Signature of the said Prothonotaries: And that full faith and credit should be given to all Copies of Papers, Extracts and other Acts whatsoever, signed and certified by them in that capacity.
In witness whereof we have signed these presents and have caused the Seal of the said Court to be affixed thereto.
At Montreal, this thirtieth day of [month] one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.
G S Reid Chief Justice
K.B.
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Rev

WIDOW etc

File No:  23264

Angelique Hebert

widow of Paul Hebert
Priv- Rev War

Act:  March 3, 1843
Index:  Vol A, Page 327

[Arrangement of 1870]
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Albany 828
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Angelique Hebert
widow of Paul Hebert
who was a pensioner under the Act of ___
and who died on the 1st April 1809
of Clinton Co. in the State of N York

who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Olivier of the Regt commanded by Col Hodges in the Revolution for 2 years
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Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 80 Dollars per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 31 day of Oct 1838 and sent to Silas Hubbell, Champlain, N. Y.
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Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 38  $200.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar. 39.  $40.00
$240.00

Act July 7, 1838

Recorded by D. Brown, Clerk
Book A Vol. 2  Page 81
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Hon J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington

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8237 Nov 15, 1845
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STATE OF NEW YORK,
County of Clinton ss:

On this 14th day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-five before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Angelique Hebert, a resident of t he town of St. Valentine in said county, aged eight-six years who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3d of March 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war:

That she is the widow of Paul Hebert deceased, who was a soldier in the Army of the American Revolution.

She further declares that she was a Pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress, passed July 7, 1838, and that the annual amount of the pension which she received under the said act was eighty dollars.

She further declares that she is still a widow.

Angelique (X - her mark) Hebert

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written.

Silas Hubbell Jus: Peace
George Wakes

I Certify that the above declarant is personally known to me.

Silas Hubbell Justice of the Peace

STATE OF NEW YORK,
County of Clinton ss:

I, Charles H. Jones, clerk of said county, do hereby certify that Silas Hubbell, Esq. was on the day of the date of the above jurat and certificate, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county, dully appointed and qualified, and that  the signature above, purporting to be his, is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name, this tenth day of November 1845.

Charles H. Jones
Clerk
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State of New York Clinton County
Champlain November 8th 1845

J.L. Edwards, Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions,

Dear Sir

I herewith enclose to you the Declaration of Angelique Hebert to entitle her to a pension under the Act of Congress of [something] March 1843.

You will have the goodness to enclose her Pension Certificate to me if you approve of her application.

I am very respectfully your obt svt

Silas Hubbell
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State of New York
Clinton County ss: Alexander Feriol of Chazy in
said County being duly sworn
maketh oath and saith that he enlisted into
Captain Rosent Olivers Company in Colonel
Moses Hazen's Regiment of Canadian Refugees
at Albany in the fall of the year 1775 to serve
during the war & did serve through the war
of the revolution that Paul Hebert listed into the same Company of Captain Oliver at
Albany and served in the same
Company to the end of the war as a private
of Infantry, that in the summer of the year
1783 the said Paul Hebert were discharged
the same time deponent was at Newburgh
in the State of New York that the said
Paul Hebert after the war returned to
Canada since which time deponent has
not seen him. And further deponent saith not
Alexander his x mark Feriol
Sworn and subscribed before me this 3d day of 
September 1838
The above named Alexander Ferial made his
mark not being able to write by reason of a
broken arm 
William Hedding a Judge
of Clinton Co Courts 

State of New York
Chilton County ss:
Frances Mays of
Napperville [Naperville] being
duly sworn maketh and saith that
he was well acquainted with Said Hebert
in his life time was a neighbour [neighbor] to him when
he died, that since his death he has had
he lives a neighbour of his widow
Angelique Hebert. That he knows that
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ese has never been married since the
death of her said husband, but that
she has ever since his death been x state
is the widow of the said Paul Hebert
and further deponent saith not
Francios his x mark Mays 

Sworn and subscribed
before me the 3 day
Francis Mage
September 1838
Mark &
The above named Francois Mays made his
Marks not being [able] to write his name never having learned to write as he says.
William Hedding, a Judge of Clinton County Courts

State of New York 
Clinton County Ss:⎬
I hereby certify that Alexander
Feriol who has sworn & [that] the
affidavit hereunto annexed from acquaintance
with him is a credible person, and I am
satisfied from information of respible [respectable ] persons of my acquaintance that Basil Nadau and Francois Mays ^who have
Sworn to the affidavits hereunto annexed
are also credible persons
William Hedding Judge
of Clinton County Courts

State of New York
Clinton County Ss.
I Thomas Crook Clerk of the County of Clinton do hereby Certify that William Hedding Esq. is a Judge of Clinton County Courts in & for the said County duly commissioned & qualified
that his commission is dated on the 23d day of February 1838 & that his term of office will expire on the 23d day of February 1843
and that his signature to the annexed affidavits & certificates are genuine.
Given under my hand & official seal of said County this 5th day of September 1838
Thomas Crook Clerk
[illegible paper seal attached]
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State of New York
Clinton County Ss.
Basil Nadau of Champlain in said County
being duly sworn maketh oath and saith
that he was in the American Service in Canada
in Mar1775 & was at Quebec under Montgomery that in the summer 1776 he retreated from Canada with other refugees & went to Albany that he the fall of 1776 to [illegible] during Rev War in Captain Lorent Oliver [Laurent Olivier] Company Colonel Moses Hazen's Regiment, as a Sergeant of Infantry and served as a Sergeant in the same Company to the
close of the revolutionary war, that Paul Herbert was a soldier in the same Company of Captain Lorent Oliver [Laurent Olivier] and served to the end of the war deponent does not recollect exactly at time the said Paul joined the said Company but he recollects that
he was mustered in said Company in
the spring of the year 1777 at Princeton,
New Jersey, that he served to the close of the war and was discharged together
with deponent near Newburgh in the
State of New York in the summer 1783
and further deponent saith not.
Paul his x mark Nadau

Sworn and subscribed before me the 3d day of September 1838
The above named Paul Nadau made his mark never having learned to write as he says

William Hedding Judge of Clinton
County Courts
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A. Trahan
A. Herbert
J. L Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington
3679 Sept 2. 1843
Cls March 30/43
August 28
37 1/2 [crossed out]
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Angelique Robert
80$
Silas Hubbell
Champlain
Clinton Co
NY
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits to the
Act of Congress of the 3d March 1843
granting pensions for one year to
certain widows, who have received
pensions under the act of July 7 1838.
State of New York
Clinton County ss: On the 23d
day of August 1843 personally appeared before the undersigned one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County Angelique Hebert a resident of St Valentine in the District
of Montréal that in Canada aged Eighty
Six years, who being first duly sworn
according to law, doth on her oath, make
the following declaration, in order the benefit
of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3d March 1843 granting
pensions to widows of persons who served
during the revolutionary War. That she is
the widow of Paul Hebert who was a
private in Captain Loran Oliver [Laurent Olivier]
in Colonel Moses Hazen's Regiment
of Canadian Refugees, and served during the
War as her said husband always
told her and which she believes to be
true, that she does not recollect where her
said husband died but thinks it between
thirty and forty years & that he never drew
a pension, but that she drew a pension of
Eighty dollars a year for five years
under the act of July 7 1838. She further declares that she is
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Angelique her x mark Hebert
Still a widow
note the word six
written on an in [illegible]
16th line from top on the
other page done before
signing. And I do hereby
certify that the above
Declarant is personally
known to me, and that
she made her name because
she never learned to write her
name as she declared to me to
the truth of which am fully
satisfied
Silas Hubbell Jus. Peace
 
State of New York Clinton County  I E.H. McLaughlin Deputy Clerk of Court of Common Pleas for the County of Clinton Do Certify that Silas Hubbell was on the day he subscribed the above Declaration of Angelique Hebert, a Justice of the Peace in & for said County of Clinton and authorised [authorized] to act as such. And further that his signature as above
written is Genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court
County this twenty
fifth day of August 1843 -
E H Mc Laughlin
Dep Clerk
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Champlain Clinton Co.
August 28,1843
J.L. Edwards, Esq.

Dear Sir,

I enclose to you the Declaration of two widows in order to obtain pensions of [stricken] March 1843.  They are very poor & destitute.  I have no doubt but their claims will receive early & favorable attention.  I remain with great respect
Your obt sevt
[signature]
Silas Hubbell
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE.
January 27, 1846

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th 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," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, Angelique Hebert, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany, New York, Agency, at the rate of Eighty  Dollars per annum, under  the law of the 17th June 1844, has been paid at this Department, from  the 4th of March 1844, to the 4th Sept. 1844.

Respectfully, yours,

Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.