Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19502, Samuel Gilson, Mass.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Mass.
Gilson, Samuel
or Gibson
Rhoda
NUMBER
W19502
CONTENTS
[blank]
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1367
New York Albany
Rhoda Gibson
widow of Samuel Gibson
Mass
who served in the Revolutionary war
as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
80 Dollars --- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the
22nd day of August 1848
and sent to
Hon. J. E. Brady
Chambersburg
Penna

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 75 Vol. 4

Let. to J.  G. Turck 24 Apl 1851
Reported
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[illegible]
Gilson
[illegible]


Gilson, Samuel
Mass W 19502
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March 10 1792
this is to parify all Persons that
Samuel Gilson and Rode [Rhoda]  Shipe then
parisly only appeared Before me and was
Married hold [illegible] as the Law Required
Ruben Munsun Esq
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 3 March 1843 granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the act of Congress of July 7th 1838

State of New York
Allegany County SS 
On this thirtieth day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty four personally appeared before me Elijah Horton one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid Rhoda Gilson a resident of the town of Burns in the said County of Allegany aged eighty four years and upwards and who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed on the 3 day of March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war. That she is the widow Samuel Gilson who was a private in the army of the revolution, that he entered the army at or near the commencement of the war of the revolution, that he was then a resident of the State of Massachusetts, that the declarant's late husband went with General Arnold to the attack on Quebec, and was at the attack, that the declarant's late husband was at the Capture of Burgoyne's Army and also at that of Lord Cornwallis, That the declarant has often heard her husband speak of his officers, and she thinks that Col. Ethan Allen was one but cannot be positive, and that he served in the Company commanded by one Capt Allen, but of this also she is not positive, that her late husband was wounded during the war by the stroke of a sword by a British soldier on the left arm. And the declarant further states that she has no documentary evidence in support of her claim. that her husband once had a written discharge, and that she has frequently
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and, that her said husband about the year 1794 sold said discharge to a man by the name of
Loomis, that at the time he was entitled to bounty lands and that the sale of his said discharge the declarant thinks was counted in
some way with the transfer of said lands. And
the declarant further states that her said husband died in the town of Burns in the County aforesaid on the 20th day of April A.D. 1824 that the declarant's name was Shipgree [Shippgree] that she was married to her late husband at Catskill in the State aforesaid on the 10th day of March A.D. 1792, and that she received the certificate thereof and which has been in her possession until now, and the said certificate is attached by wax and ribboned to the declarant's  application for a pension by virtue of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838, and to which she refers That she has never been married since the
death of her said husband and that the still continues a widow
Rhoda Gilson
X
her mark

Sworn to and subscribed
on the day and year
above written
Morton Judge Allegany Co Courts

Allegany County ss. I certify that the above declarant Rhoda Gilson on account of old age and bodily infirmity is unable to appear in open court to make the above declaration and I further certify that at the time she made the above declaration that the word thirteenth the day of the date of the above declaration when it was subscribed and sworn to before me was written as it now appears, and that the erasure of the word "maiden" where it occurs between the words, "The" and the word "declarant" was so erased before being subscribed and Sworn to, dated April 13th 1844

State of New York
County of Steuben s.s.
I William Windsor Clerk of the said County of
Alleghany do hereby certify that Elijah Horton was on the day of the date of the above jurat nd certification as Judge in and for the said County duly appointed and qualified and that the [illegible] above purporting to be his is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this twenty second day of April 1844
William Windsor Clerk
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Rev
WIDOW, &c.
No. 19502
Rhoda Gibson
Widow of
Samuel Gibson
Pri Rev War
---
Act:
Feb 2d 48
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 273
[Arrangement of 1870.}
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10878
Rhoda Gibson
NY
Allegham Co.
Alleghany Co. d. Apr 20 - 24
Capt Soul
Col. Fellows
Let to J. K. Hale Sep 19. 44
act 7 July 1838
J
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10231
New York
Rhoda Gilson
Widow of Samuel Gibson
who was a pensioner under the Act of
and who died on the 20th Apl. 1824
of Alleghany Co. in the State of N. York
who was a Priv in the Company
commanded by Captain Soul of the
Reg. commanded by Col Fellows in
the Mass line for 2 years

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

Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of
March 1847 and sent to Arad Joy Esq. Ovid N.Y.
---
Total amount,
$400.00
8130

{Act July 7, 1838.}
Recorded by D. A. Wood Clerk
Book D Vol. 1 Page 159
-
Repd.
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Albany N.Y. 8130.
Rhoda Gilson
widow of Samuel Gibson
who was a Private
in the Mass. Line
Husbd. died 20 April 1824.

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars 
--- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of March 1847 and sent to Arad Joy. Esq.
Ovid U. s.

[Acts of March 3, 1843, and June 17, 1844.
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2 Page 76


2 Certfs.
1838,
1843 &c
Repd.
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Ovid N.Y. Feb 27.47

Sir

I enclose a certificate of Secy of Mass of Service of Samuel Gilson if you are satisfied that the service was performed by the late husband of Rhode Gilson, whose papers are on fill under the law of 138 from New York & as you have (as I am informed) a Certificate of
her marriage on file, will it not entitle her to a pension, if not, what is the objection, & what further do you require you must be the judge, I ask only what is justly due to the poor old widow
Respectfully
Your Obt Sent
Arad Joy

Hon J L Edwards
Commr. of Pensions
Washington
DC
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Ovid N.Y. March 24 '47

Sir

I enclose a letter recd from a Justice of the Peace Catskill N.Y. or at least it is the letter that I recd in answer to one that I addressed to "a Justice of the Peace Catskill"
The old woman I am informed has lost her recollection & after two several visits with her by my Agent, he has not (as he write me), been able to gain any information that will lead to an understanding investigation The case that I
allude to is Rhoda Gilson of New York under law of 1838. I understand a certificate of her marriage is on file with her papers, may I be allowed respectfully to ask you for a copy of it, that I may resort to the place where the marriage took place & assertain [sic] whether there is not a record of it or you may be satisfied to grant the pension upon a review of the certificate of Marriage & her papers & the enclosed
Respectfully
Your Obt Sert
Arad Joy

Hon J L Edwards
Commr of Pensions
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18 March

Catskill March 15th 1847

Arad Joy Esq

Dear Sir,

Immediately after the receipt of your letter I commenced the work of seeking the information, which you requested. I went to the office of the county clerk & ascertained that there are there no records of marriages. I have made inquiries of some of our oldest citizens
but can obtain no information whatever respecting the marriage of Mr Gilson. I cannot learn that any family of that name or the name of Shippy reside in the village or vicinity. In 1792 the village was namely begun. The marriage may have been celebrated in some other part of the township but as the name of
the justice of the peace by whom it was celebrated, is not given, it cannot be known whether any of his family are living in the region. Even if they are & could be found, I doubt whether any information respecting the marriage, could be obtained from them. I regret that my efforts to furnish the information you seek, have been unavailing.
Very respectfully yours 
G. N. Judd
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston.
February 10th 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 Samuel Gilson is borne upon a Muster Roll of Capt Moses Souls Company in Col John
Fellows regt, as a private from April 21 1775, 17 days
Upon another Muster Roll of said company in said regt in the Eight Month service, as a private of Marlborough from May 8 1775. 3 month, and 1 day.
Upon a Return of said Company, in said regt as a private of Marlborough no service named
said return is dated "October 7 1775"
Upon an Account on Army Books as a private in Capt Noah Allen's Company
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in Col. Smith regt. and then a [illegible] by his service, from March 10 1777 to December 31 1777 to December 31 1779. 33 months and
21 days at 40 [illegible] [pounds] per month and charged to a Bounty of L 10 to paid him by the town of New Marlborough May 1777 enlisted for during the war.
Upon another account in said Book as a private of N Marlborough in said Capt Allens Company, and C. Smiths regt and then credited by his service for January 1 to December 31 1780. 12 months at 40 [pounds] per month. No rolls of Genl Arnold.
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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The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office of the service of my husband Samuel Gilson in the war of the Revolution
He entered from the town of New Marlborough Berkshire County Massachusetts, at any rate from Berkshire County in the early part of the war of the Revolution, he was under Genl Gates & Genl Arnold at the Surender of Burgoyne, that he continued in the Service & was at the Surrender of Cornwallis, his officers at that time may or may not have been Capt Allen & Col Allen all she knows of it, she learned from her late husband, as she was a resident of York State & did not become acquainted with her late husband till some five years after the close of the Revolution-- I am now 87 years old & my memory does not serve me to give a more definite history
Rhoda Gilson
By Arad Joy her agent

Witness my hand this 15th day of Jany 1847 and by said agent in my presence
James Foster Justice 

The said Arad Joy appears by documents exhibited before me to be the lawful agent of said Rhoda Gibson
James Foster Justice
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Hon John G Palfrey
Secy of State
Boston Mass
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Admitted
J. E. Brady
Chambersburg
Pa
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DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of 2d February, 1848, entitled "An Act making further provision for surviving widows of the soldiers of the Revolution.
STATE OF New York
Allegany County.       ⎬ ss.
On this ninetieth (19) day of July 1848 personally appeared before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said county, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, Mrs. Rhoda Gilson a resident of Burns, in the county of Allegany, State of New York, aged 89 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 the 2d February, 1848, granting pensions to the widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war; that she is the widow of Samuel Gilson who was a Private in the Massachusetts Line in the war of the Revolution, and that she has drawn a pension at the rate of Eighty dollars cents, per annum, under the Act of 17th June, 1844. She further declares that she is still a widow.
Rhoda L Gilson
X
her mark

In presence of 
Thomas Smith
Melvin Smith

SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED on the day and year above written, before Wm. Carroll Justice of the Peace, I certify that the declarant is personally known to me, and that she is the same individual she represents herself to be in the foregoing affidavit.
Wm Carroll Justice of the Peace

State of New York
Allegany County
Clerks Office Ss
I certify that William Carroll Esquire before whom the above affidavit was taken was at the date of the said
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a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and that I am well
acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his [illegible] subscribed to the aforesaid affidavit to be his proper hand writing
Witness my hand and the seal of said County
this 19th day of July A.D. 1848
Martin Butts
Clerk of said County
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Free

Howellsville
NY April 25

J. L. Edwards Esq
Com. of Pensions
Washington D.C.

NY
Rhoda Gibson
7 July 1838

10878 April [illegible] 1844
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Howellsville Steuben Co. N.Y. April 24th 1844

To J L Edwards Esq
Sir enclosed are the declarations of the widow Rhoda Gilson for a pension She is not aware of any witness living who was with her husband while in the service, but as he served during the war. I suppose that Gilson's name must be on the rolls. If the papers are defective, or more proof is required I suppose I shall be found thereof by
the Department
Yours Tr
J R. Hale
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State of New York
Allegany County S.S. ⎬
On this thirteenth day of April A.D. 1844 personally appeared before me Elijah Morton Pleas of the County aforesaid William Carrol Esq a resident of the town of Burns in the said County of Allegany and who being by me first duly sworn according to law to depose and
say that he is of the age of fifty two years and
upwards, that he was acquainted with Samuel
Gilson in his life time and who died on the 20th
day of April or thereabouts A.D. 1824 for the space of eighteen years or thereabouts that he was always reputed to have been a soldier of the revolution and served in the army of the United States during the whole or the greater
part of the war. that this deponent has had with the said Gilson in his life time numerous conversations respecting his service in the army and the various battles he was in, recollects distinctly of hearing him relate of his being with Gen Arnold in the expedition to Quebec in the early part of the war also at the taking of Burgoyne, that he was always reputed to have seen a great deal of service and to have been wounded, [crossed out text] and this deponent recollects that when the pension laws of the United States were first passed that the said Samuel Gilson had thoughts of making application for a pension under said laws but that the subsequent alteration thereof giving pensions only to those who were in necessitated circumstances prevented the intended application, and this deponent further states that he has been acquainted with Rhoda Gilson the widow of the said Samuel Gilson for the same length of time that this deponent was with the said Samuel and that they up to the time of his death lived together as husband and wife and were
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reputed husband and wife, and this deponent
furth saith that the father of this deponent was a soldier of the revolution and a pensioner of the United States and that this deponent has heard frequent conversations between the said Samuel Gilson in his life time and this deponent's father in his life time respecting the service in the army of the revolution, that the accounts and relation of various circumstances of the war battels [sic]  &c. agreed  in all aforesaid particulars
[signature] Wm Carroll

Sworn to before me the day and year above written & subscribed
E. Horton Judge Allegany Co Courts

Alleghany County ss. I certify that the interlineation in the above deposition of William Carroll of the words "a thereabouts" after the word April and the erasure between the words "have been wounded" "and this deponent" &c. were so interlined and erased before being subscribed and sworn to as aforesaid, dated April 13 1844
E. Morton Judge of the Alleghany Court

State of New York
County of Allegany ⎬ ss
I William Windson [Windsor ?]Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that Elijah Horton [Morton] was on the day of the date of the above jurat and certificate a Judge of the County Courts in and for the said County, duly appointed and qualified, and the signatures of his above are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name, this twenty second day of April 1844
William Windsor
Clk
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10878 9238

1391

Rhoda Gibson
widow of Samuel
NY
Act July 1838
admitted
2 yrs private
$80 per annum
from 4 March, 1836
to 4 March, 1841.

Also
act '43 & 44
from 4 March 1843

Arad Joy,  Esq.
Ovid,
New York
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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
Allegany County  SS
On this thirteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty four personally appeared before me Elijah Horton one the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid the resident of the town of Burns in the said County of Allegany aged eighty four years and
upwards, 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 pennies to certain widows: That she is the
widow of Samuel Gilson who was a private in the army of the revolution, that he entered the army at or near the commencement of the war of the revolution, that he then was a resident of the State of Massachusetts, that her late husband was with General Arnold when he marched through the woods to Quebec and was at the attack on that city that the declarant has often heard her husband relate the hardships they endured in that company, that her said husband was at the taking of Burgoyne and Lord Cornwallis, that the has frequently heard her deceased husband speak of Col Ethan Allen and relate anecdotes respecting him and that she thinks her late husband was in the request commanded
by him. she thinks also that Captain Allen was his Captain during the whole or some part of the war. that he was wounded during the war by the stroke of a sword on the left arm the scar which was large and remained to the day
of his death, that he served to the end of the war & was then discharged without money and that Gen. Washington was present at the time. And the declarant further states that she has no documentary evidence in support of her claim that her husband had a written discharge and that the declarant after her marriage frequently showed and that
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her said husband for some cause sold said discharge about the year 1794 to a man by the name Loomis of Catskill in this State, that her said husband at that time was entitled to bounty lands and that the sale of the said discharge as the declarant thinks was connected with same transfer of said lands. And the said declarant forth states that her said husband never received a pension from
the United States and that he died at Burns in the County aforesaid on the 20th day of April A.D. 1824, that the name of the declarant was Shipgree [Shippgree] that she was married to her late husband at Catskill in the State aforesaid on the 10th day of March A.D. 1792, and that she has had the magistrate certification of said marriage in her possession ever since, and that the certificate of marriage attached to this her declaration by a piece of pink ribbon and wax is the said certification of her marriage as above, that she has never been married since the death of her said husband and that she still continues a widow
Rhoda Gilson
X
her mark

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year
above written before
E Horton Judge Allegany Co Courts

Allegany County S.S. I certify that the above declarant Rhoda Gilson is unable on account of old age and bodily infirmity to appear in open  Court
dated April 13 1844
E Horton Judge Allegany Co Courts


Allegany County SS. And I do further certify that the name of "Gilson" interlined after the word Rhoda in the above declaration was so
interlined before being sworn to and subscribed by the above declarant and that the reason of the word "maiden" in the above declaration where it occurs as follows, "that the
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maiden name" was so erased before being subscribed to and sworn as aforesaid dated April 13th 1844
E Horton Judge Allegany County

State of New York     
County of Allegany  ⎬
I William Windsor Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that Elijah Horton was on the day of the date of the above jurat and certificate a Judge in and for the said County, duly appointed and ratified, and that the request above purporting to be his are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed
my seal of office and received my name this twenty Second day of April 1844,
William Windsor Clerk