Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19599, Simeon Wells, Mass
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(3-1776) 
SERVICE                                                                        NUMBER
Mass               Wells, Simeon                                        W. 19599
                                  Sarah
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CONTENTS
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8289                  Albany
New York
________________________
Sarah Wells, decd [deceased]
widow of Simeon Wells
Mass
who was a Private 
in the Revolution
Husband died 10 August 1806
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 42 Dollars 88 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. And terminating 24 Dec. 1845
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Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of Decr. 1849 and sent to T. S. Slingerland
[at] Barnesville[,] New York
_________________________________
(Acts of March 3, 1843, and June 17, 1844,)
Recorded in Book A [or W]
Vol. 2. Page 91
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Reported [or Reputed]
Payable to William Wells[,] Dexter Wells, Content [stricken-through illegible partial surname with this below:] Bac_   and Constant Wells only surviving children

[Appearing perpendicularly, on the upper right side of record:]  Reported [or Reputed]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
FRANKLIN SS.
I, Henry Chapman, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Franklin, do certify, that Chester Bardwell [? E] Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said Chester Bardwell [? 2 or ? Q] and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the [?] Supieure [possibly meaning Superior] Judicial Court for said Commonwealth, this tenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty seven.
H Chapman, Clerk.

[There is a vertical, rectangular piece of paper on the lower left side of the record, possibly covering a wax seal of office.]
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No 13.366  June 5) 49 [or 47] [June 5, 1849, or June 5, 1847]
Sarah Wells decd, [deceased] widow of Simeon 
NY [New York]
act of July 1838
Married 1787
husband died 1806
Widw [Widow] died 24 Decmr [December] 1845.
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Declaration
In order to obtain the pension, due Sara Wells at the time of her death under the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 &c.

State of New York)
[?] St Lawrence County) SS. On this twenty first day of April Anno Domini eighteen hundred and forty [?] seven personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Common Pleas in and for Said County of St Lawrence now Sitting, Dexter Wells a resident of the town of Pitcairn in Said County aged 51 years who being first duly sworn according to Law deposeth and doth on his oath make the following declaration  In order to obtain the benefits and pensien [pension] due his mother Sarah Wells at the time of her death, under the act of Congress passed July 7th [or 9th] 1838 entitled, "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows," and acts explanatory of and amending the same.

That declarant is a son of Simeon and Sarah Wells deceased, that his father said Simeon Wells died August 10th 1806, that his Mother said Sarah Wells died on the 24th day of December 1845, that, during the War of the Revolution his said father lived in Whately in the present County of Franklin in the State pf Massachusetts and as declarant verily believes, for a short time at, or, near Northampten [Northampton]  in said State of Massachusetts, that, as declarant has always been informed by his Said [?] parents [? or family] and others, his father said Simeon Wells was a Soldier of the United States during the War of the Revolution aforesaid, and entered the Service from Whately and Northampten [or Northampton) aforesaid and Served in numerous occasiens [occasions] during Said War, that, he Served for Some time under Captain Kirkland, that, in the years 1779 and 1780 he Served for a period of nine
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months under Captain Riley [or ? Rieley, or Ruby, or Purley], that he has heard his said parents, relate on numerous occasions that his said father served in an Expedition against the Indians, that he was [?] out in service [here the word "of" appears to have been stricken through] against Burgoyne under Captain Kirkland and also that in the year 1780 he was in Service at West Point and other places:  that he served in the aggregate during said War for two years or more -

And declarant further saith that his parents said Simeon and Sarah, As declarant has always been informed by them and verily believes [?] true[,] were duly Married at Whately aforesaid in the State of Massachusetts, in the Year Seventeen hundred and Eighty Seven by the Revd. Rufus Wells[,] Pastor of the Congregational church of Said place, that, previous to her said marriage, his Said Mother resided in Whately aforesaid, and bore the maiden name of Snow.

That his father said Simeon Wells died as aforesaid on the tenth day of August Eighteen hundred and six in the town of Brookfield in the State of Vermont, aged fifty two years and upwards, that his mother said Sarah Wells died as aforesaid on the twenty fourth day of December Eighteen hundred and firty [fourty] five [1845], at the residence of declarant in said town of Pitcairn in the County of St Lawrence aforesaid, She was at the Said day of her death the widow of declarants [declarant's] father Said Simeon and had so remained Single and unmarried from the time of her husband's death until the time of her own death as aforesaid, during which time She resided with declarant

That his Mother said Sarah Wells left only four children her surviving, and who are the only Children her Surviving, and all of whom are still living to wit[:]  William Wells who now resides in the town of Brookfield in the State of Vermont aforesaid[;]  Content [or Centent] Bacon [or Bacen or Bacin,] wife of Silvester Bacen [or Bacon];  Constant Wells and this declarant[;] all of who now reside in said town of Pitcairn
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in the County of St Lawrence & State aforesaid

That the accompanying record is a true Copy of the births of the Children &c [and etcetera] of declarants said parents, declarant copied this Record from the family bible of his Said parents at the request of his said Mother immediately or very soon after the death of his Said father as aforesaid & the accompanying record is the same Copy which declarant then wrote, & which he now [illegible word, possibly "sends"] with this declaration.

Subscribed & Sworn the day and year)
first aforesaid in open Court)
before
Martin Thatcher, Clerk)
St Lawr County [St Lawrence County, NY]

[Signature]
Dexter Wells

State of New York)
St Lawrence County) SS:

I, Martin Thatcher[,] Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County now sitting[,] the same being a Court of record[,] do hereby certify that at a Court of Common Pleas, held in and for said County before the Judges thereof at Canton on the 21st day of April 1847[,] it was proved by the [?] addention [? possibly meaning addition] of testimony Satisfactory to the Said Court, that, Simeon Wells died in the town of Brookfield in the State of Vermont on the tenth day of August Eighteen hundred and six[;] that he left a widow him surviving named Sarah who died at the residence of her son Dexter, in the town of Pitcairn in said County on the twenty fourth day of December Eighteen hundred and forty five, that, She left the following Children her surviving & which are the Only Children her Surviving, to wit[,] William Wells of Brookfield in the State of Vermont
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Dexter ^2 Wells of the town of Pitcairn, Centent [or Content] ^3 Bacen [or Bacon] wife of Silvester Bacon [or Bacen] of the Town of Pitcairn & Constant ^4 Wells of the town of Pitcairn and all in said County of St Lawrence & State of New York

[The superscript numbers appearing within the above names, appear to have been notations added in later. ]
 
I further Certify that the foregoing contain the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Dexter Wells for pension, in open Court[,] being the said Court of Common Pleas now Sitting

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the Said Court this 21st day of April A.D., 1847
Martin Thatcher [,] Clerk
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Simeon Wells was born June 10th 1754
  Died August 10th 1806 at Brookfield [Vermont]
Sarah Wells ^his wife was born Febreary [February] 11th 1763
[smudged illegible erasure]

Charles Wells was born March 31st 1788
  Died June 9th 1827 at Edwards[,] New york
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William Wells was born Januury [January] 14th 1790
[Here the following line is partially blocked by an apparent fold line in the record, but it appears to be:]The first Child that [?] died was born November [?] 4th 1791
Died the same day
______

Sarah Wells was born September 5th [here the last digit of the year is faint and hard to read, but appears to be] 1792

Huldah Wells was born March 3rd 1795
  Died the 20th [possibly meaning Huldah Wells died March 20th] 1795
      born in Brookfield [Vermont]

Dexter Wells was born March 3rd 1798 [or 1796] on thursday

Content Wells was born February 14th 179_ [Last number in the year is blotted, but it may have been 8.]

the two sons that were twins were born Februery [February] [?] 2nd 1800 [and] died the same day

Constant Wells was born Januury [January] 14th 1801

Electa Wills [Wells] was born July 13th 1803
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State of Massachusetts)
Franklin County) SS.

Samuel [? Lesure, of the Town of Whateley in said County of Franklin & State of Massachusetts[,] of lawful age[,] being duly sworn according to law, deposeth & saith that he is Town Clerk of said Town of Whateley & by virtue of that Office has charge of the Records thereof [or whereof]. That he has examined said Records in order to find evidence of the marriage of Simeon Wells to Sarah Snow which does not occur upon said Records.  That he finds no marriages recorded upon said Records previous to the year Seventeen hundred and Ninety five as all marriages previous to that year in said Town appear to have been recorded upon the Church Records, That upon examing [examining] said Church Records[,] he finds the following entry which is a true and exact Copy thereof, to wit,

"Married Nov. 29th 1787 Simeon Wells and Sarah Snow of Whately. 
Revd. [Reverend] Rufus Wells[,] Pastor of the Church"

From whence it appears that Simeon Wells and Sarah Snow were duly married to each other by the Revd. [Reverend] Rufus Wells[,] then Pastor of the Congregational Church of Whately aforesaid on the twenty ninth day of November Seventeen hundred & Eighty seven, according to the rites of said Church.  The date of said marriage is expressed upon said Records in fair legible figures.
Saml. [?] Lesure [or ? Lesune or ? Lesesne] - Town Clerk of Whately[,] Mass [Massachusetts])

Subscribed and Sworn this 5th day of)
May A.D. 1847 before me. And I)
certify that said Samuel Lesure is Town)
Clerk of Whately as aforesaid) 
Chester Bardwell 2nd[,] Justice of the Peace
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[Partially-printed record with handwritten text. Illustration at upper left includes partial inscription which appears to be: [?] _ENSE PETIT PLACIDAM SUR LIBERTATE QUIETEM]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston:
January 13 1847.

I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Simeon Wells, is borne upon a Muster Roll of Capt [Captain] Henry [?] Stiler's Company, as a private of Whately from April 21 to [?] 23 1775. 3 days 

[In the left column, there is a stricken -through 3, then another 3]

Upon a Pay Roll of Capt [Captain] John Kirkland's Company in Col [Colonel] Ruggles Woodbridge's regt [regiment] 
In service at the North, as a private from August 16 to November 29 1777, including allowance of 9 days for travel. 3 Months & 23 days.

[In the left column, there is] 3 - 23

Upon a Return of Nine Months men from the County of Hampshire, raised by a Resolve of General Court of June 9 1779, as a private of Whately, in Capt. [Captain] White's Company, Col [Colonel] Chapin's regt [regiment], his age 24

Upon a List of 9 Months Men in Capt [Captain] [?] Farleys [or possibly Fenley's] Company as private from July 9[,] 1779 to April 9[,] 1780, 9 Months

[In the lower left column, there is]
9 -
_____12.26
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[It appears that a ribbon tying two sheaves of paper together at the top of this record, partially blocks several words, but the page appears to read:]
The preced-ng __ [? are] the evidence of service of any one of the Names shown by the Military records in this Office[.]

And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears;  that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case. 

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G [?] Palfrey; 
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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No. 13.366 June 5) 49 [June 5, 1849]

Sarah Wells[,] decd [deceased],
widow of Simeon [Wells,]
NY [New York]
act of July 1838

Married 1787
husband died 1806
Widw [Widow] died 24 Decem [December] 1845.
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[There is a check mark, or the letter V, appearing near the top left corner of this record.]

No 13366
Sarah Wells ded [deceased]
NY
Let [Letter] to T S. Slingerland
June 15 '47 [1847]

act 7 July 1838
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10375
New York
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Sarah Wells, decd. [deceased.] 
Widow of Simeon Wells
who was a pensioner under the Act of ____
and who died on the 10th August 1806
of St Lawrence [County] in the State of New York 
who was a Private in the Company 
commanded by Captain _____ of the _____ commanded by _____ in the Revolution [here "line" is stricken through] for 12 mos. [months] 26 dys [days]
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Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 42 Dollars 88 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of Decr. [December] 1847 and sent to T. S. Slingerland of [?] Barnerville [or ? Barnesville], N. York [New York]
_________________________________________
Total amount $214.90
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Tho. [Thomas] Lampkin [or ? Lumpkin]
Book D Vol 1. Page 533
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Pay^ble [Payable]  to William Wells[,] Dexter Wells, Content Bacon, and Constant Wells only surviving Children.

[Two illegible words appear perpendicularly on the right side of this record.]
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State of New York)
St [Saint] Lawrence County) SS

The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby respectfully requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his Office of the Revolutionary services of my father Simeon Wells, He lived during a portion of the War in Whately, Franklin County, [Massachusetts] and as I believe during some part of said ^War in the Vicinity of Northhampton Mass. [Massachusetts.]  I believe he entered the service two or three different times and served about two years.  He seved [served] at Stoney Point and [was] on an expedition against the Indians and Tories.  He was out in the year 1780 in service, He died in the year 1806. My Mother died in 1845. They were married in Whately, Mass. [Massachusetts.]

I have employed Teunis S. Slingerland of Cobleskill[,] Schoharie County[,] N.Y., [New York]to act in the premises as my Attorney.

Witness my hand this 27th day of October A.D. 1846. 

[Signature] Dexter Wells

Signed by Dexter Wells)
the above applicant at) 
Pitcairn[,] N.Y. [New York} before me,)

[?] Selvester [or ? Silvester] Bacon[,] Justice of the Peace
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Payment to be made at Albany by T. W. Olcott, Esq. [Esquire,] Agent for paying pensioners, in the Agency of Albany, New York. 

Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book D Volume 1 Page 533 [here "by" is stricken through] and book A. vol 2. page 91. by Tho [or ? Ths] [?] Lumpkin, Clerk.
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Claim for Military Service.

I certify that, in conformity with the laws of the United States, of the 7th July 1838, and its supplements, Sarah Wells, deceased, late of New York, widow of Simeon Wells, who was a Private in the Revolution, and who died August 10th, 1806, is inscribed on the Pension list at the rate of Forty two dollars and eighty eight Cents, per Annum, Commencing 4th March 1836, and terminating on the 4th March, 1841, under the first named law, and under its supplements, commencing 4th March, 1843, and terminating 24th December, 1845, when She departed this life, which is payable to his only surviving Children, viz William wells, Content Bacon, Dexter [Wells] and Constant Wells. 

Given at the War Office of the United States, this 18th day of December, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.

Examined and)
Countersigned)                                                                        Secretary of War.

                                       Commissioner of Pensions.
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Nov 19/47 [November 19, 1847]

Simeon Wells, decd [deceased]
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Elanson Ray being duly sworn says he has been [the] family Physician for Dexter Wells som [some] six Years [and] that he attended Sarah Wells in her last Sickness[.]

all Medical attendance She had which was no [not] great for She was an old lady and infirm for many Years, before her death[.]  She died without any particular disease upon her[.]  Says he saw her a few days previous to her death but was not present at the time but Common report says She died on the 24th day of Dec. [December] 1845 and this deponent Verily believes that the above named Sarah Wells did die on the 24th. day of Dec - [December] 1845[.]

[Signature]  Elanson Ray[,] Physician

Sworn before me this the 9th day of July 1847
Albert White JP [Justice of the Peace]

State of New York)
County of St Lawrence) SS

I[,] Martin Thatcher[,] Clerk of the Common Pleas Court in and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby Certify that Albert White before whom the affidavit of Elanson Ray was taken, was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County aforesaid[,] duly elected and qualified; and authorized to take the Same.  And further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Justice and Verily believe that his Signature above written is genuine[.]

Given under my hand and Seal of the said Court and County this 10th day of July AD 1847[.]
Martin Thatcher[,] Clerk
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Act '43 [1843]   9390 [or 9590]

No 13366
Sarah Wells dec [deceased]
Widow of Simeon 
NY [New York] 
Act [of] 7 July 1838

[?] Allwd or Admd, possibly meaning Allowed, or Admitted] 12 mo [months] 26 days
$42.88 per anm [annum]
from 4 March 1836 to 4 March 1841 
[two illegible stricken-through words] payable to William Wells, Dexter Wells, Content Bacon, and Constant Wells[,] only Surviving Children of Sarah Wells decd [deceased]

[? Allwd or Admd, possibly meaning Allowed, or Admitted] Act 3 March 1843 and 17 June 1844. $42.82 from 4th March 1843 to 24 Decem [December] 1845[,] the day of her death, payable to her children above named-

T. S. Slingerland
[?] Barnersville, NY [New York]
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Letter
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Barnerville[,] N.Y.
November 13, 1847.

Dr [Dear] Sir:

I have received and herewith enclose [to] you two additional affidavits in the case of Sarah Wells[,] widow of Simeon Wells, both deceased, 

These are from the Physician who attended Widow Wells in her last illness, and from a fellow soldier of Mr. Wells, one who was intimately acquainted with him in the War and served in company with him.  He is also a Pensioner and a person of good standing and respectability.

The application is under the act of 1838 and the supplementary acts &c, [etcetera,]

Very truly Yours, &c, [and etcetera,]
T. S. Slingerland, 
Barnerville
Schoharie Co [County] N.Y. [New York]

Hon. J. S. [or J. L.]  Edwards
Commr. [Commissioner of] Pensions
Washington[,] D.C.
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Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 19,599
Sarah Wells
Widow of Simeon Wells
Priv. [Private] Rev. [Revolutionary] War
Act: Mar [March] 3d 1843
Index:-Vol. M, Page 322
(Arrangement of 1870.)
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[Appearing along the left side of this record, in faint ink, there is the following notation:]
This Witness was Allowed for 3 mo [months] 22 days Service under Col [Colonel] Woodbridge

State of New York)
County of Warren) SS

Agustus Angel[,] a resident of the County of Warren aforesaid and Town of Chester[,] aged 89 years[,] being duly sworn according to law[,]  deposeth and saith that he was a soldier of the United States during the War of the Revolution and is now a pensioner.  

That in the summer of the year in which Burgoyne was taken, it being in 1777, he enlisted into the company of Captain John Kirkland in the Regiment of Colonel Woodbridge and served therein for a period of six months.  That during said War he was well acquainted with Simeon Wells who lived in said War in Whately in the State of Massachusetts[,] and served during the above mentioned period of six months in company with Deponent in said Company of Captain Kirkland and Regiment of Colonel Woodbridge.

Deponent knew said Simeon Wells[,]  well[,] and was intimately acquainted with him.  He was a good and faithful soldier in said War, and Served also under Captain Farley and other officers in said War, but Deponent does not now remember of serving in the same company with said Simeon except in that of Captain Kirkland as above stated.  Said Simeon served on different tours and expeditions in said War.  

During said War said Simeon lived in Whately in the State of Massachusetts and was the only person of that name in that town subject to Military duty in said War.  Shortly after said War he married Sarah Snow in Whately aforesaid.

Subscribed and Sworn before me)
this 5th day of November A.D. 1847)
And I certify that said Augustus Angel is a credible witness)
and his testimony can be relied upon

[Signature] Augustus Angel

Theodore Bailey, Justice of the Peace
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[At the top left corner of this record portions of three partially-visible words appear to read: any manner ___]

And I further Certify That I have questioned and examined the within and Said Deponant [Deponent.]  I have known him for Many years and is being and man of integrity and of good credit and Reputation and full reliance can be placed on the facts Set forth by the Said Augustus Angel on the Within Deposition

Theodore Bailey J.P [Justice of the Peace]
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State of New York)
County of Warren)
Clerk's Office) SS-

I Thomas Archibald[,] Clerk of said County of Warren[,] do hereby Certify that [?] Theadore Bailey Esq. [Esquire] before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn and executed[,] was at the time said Affidavit bears date[,] an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County[,] duly elected and qualified and authorised [authorized] by law to take the same.  And further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Justice and verily believe his signature to the [?] Jurat of said affidavit to be genuine:

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my Official Seal[,] this 6th day of November A.D. 1847. [?] Thomas Archibald[,] Clerk