Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1,737, Jesse Doud, Continental Green Mt. Boys.
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SERVICE

Continental, Green Mt. Boys  | 

Doud, Jesse
Rebecca

NUMBER
W. 1737
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CONTENTS
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Vermont 
17,604
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Jesse Doud of Rutland County in the state of Vermont, who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel S. Warner of the N. Hampshire line, for the term of 16 months. 1776

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Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 9th of April, 1818.

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Certificate of Pension issued the 14 of July, 182 and sent to Amos Thompson agent, Rutland, Vermont.

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Arrears to the 4th of March, 1820.     $ 182.90
Semi-anl allow ending 4 Sept 1820         48.00
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                                                            $ 230.90

22md 22/30 }
V 4/31          }

{Revolutionary Claim, }
{Act 18th March, 1818  }

[notation on the right side of the image]
Notation sent May 24th 1821, R. Pierpoint [illegible]  Rutland, Vermont
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Reputed

Phil. 2
594

Pennsylvania
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Rebecca Doud, widow of Jesse Doud, who served in the Revolutionary war as a Private, N.H. Line
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1848.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 20th day of June 1850 and sent to Hon. E. Risley
[illegible] of Ripe
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Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act July 29, 1848, Page 103, Vol. 1

Brok A.
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State of Vermont }
Rutland County  } s.s.

On this 9th day of April 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the County Court within said for the County of Rutland and State of Vermont personally comes and appears Jesse Doud aged sixty four years resident in Poultney in said Rutland County who being by me first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the pension made by the act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war". That the said Jesse Doud was a volunteer under Col. Allen and Arnold at the capture Ticonderoga in 1775 that he was a volunteer in Col. Warner Regiment the same year at the taking of St. Johns and Montreal. That he was a volunteer in Capt. Satterly Company in a new York regiment during the campaign of 1776, and in the Battle at the Cedars in the retreat from Canada he was wounded in the head and so violently sprained his leg that he has not yet got rid of the Lameness it occasioned -- that in the month of March 1777 he enlisted as a regular soldier in the continental army to serve for three years during the war in Captain Gideon Brownson's company Col Warners Regiment called "the rangers' - which regiment was raised principally in the New Hampshire grants partly in the State of New Hampshire, in which regiment he faithfully served till regularly discharged, that he was in the retreat of St. Clair from Ticonderoga, was in the Battles of Hubbardton & Bennington, after which in the month of January 1778 he obtained a furlough in consequence of his Lameness, and was eventually honorably discharged from the Army in the month of August 1778, having been declared unfit for military duty by the surgeon on occasion of his injuries - that he is poor and such reduced circumstances as to be in need of support from his Country, that he has no other means in his power of his  said services.

Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid 
Amos Thompson, [illegible] Rutland County Court

I, Amos Thompson, Judge in the aforesaid  do certify that it appears to my [illegible] that the said Jesse Doud did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the proceedings [illegible] against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the [illegible] for the [illegible] of pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.

Amos Thompson 

By order of Judge Thompson
R. Temple Clk
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State of Vermont

I, Amos Thompson associate Judge of Rutland County do certify that is has been [illegible] to  appear to my satisfaction that aforesaid Jesse Doud is in name circumstances and [illegible] in need of the assistance of his country for support.

Amos Thompson
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Jesse Doud
Rutland Co. Vermont.  Private
Warner's Regiment
New Hampshire Line
March 1777 to August 1778
9th April [illegible]

further evidence required, and the certificate of Col. Clark, duly authenticated.

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Service proved by the testimony, on oath, of two persons, certified to be credible witnesses.

Admitted.

Amos Thompson, agt.
Rutland, Vermont.
Recd  13. July, 1820
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Jesse Doud

bal  $ 14.60

17604
Sep '90

J.L.E.
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STATE OF VERMONT  }
Rutland County, s.s.    }

On this 8th day of December 1880 personally appeared before the County court for said county Rutland in open court, (said court being a court of record, agreeably to the laws of this state, having the power of fine and imprisonment, &c.) Jesse Doud aged 67 years, resident in Poultney who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the revolutionary war, as follows: 
enlisted during the war in Capt. [illegible] Co. Col Warner's Regiment and served 1 year 7 months in 1777 & 1778 & were discharged in consequence of [illegible]
that he made his original declaration on the 9th day of April 1818 has received a Pension Certificate No. 17604. And I do solemnly sewar, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; -- and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the scheduled hereto annexed, and by my subscribed.

[illegible paragraph]

Jesse Doud

Sworn to and declared on the 8th day of December 1880 before said court.

R. Pierpoint Clerk

State of Vermont  }
Rutland County, s.s. }

I, Robert Pierpoint, clerk of the County court for the County of Rutland do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court: - And I do certify, that it is the opinion of the said court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is fourteen 60/100 dollars

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said court, at Rutland this 11th day of January 1881

R. Pierpoint
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State of Pennsylvania  }
Warren County  } s.s.

On this eleventh day of March 1850, personally appeared before me E.C. Stacy --- a Justice of the Peace of the said County, Rebecca Doud of Wayne Township, said County, State of Pennsylvania, aged eighty three years, and who being by me duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed on the 29th day of July 1848. Entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving widows of officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary Army."  That she is the widow of Jesse Doud, who was a private in the war of the Revolution as she believes with fully appears by reference to the papers now on file in the Pension Office at Washington on which he drew his pensions.  That the said Jesse Doud, her husband, drew his pension in the town of Poultney in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont, up to a few months before his death; that the said Jesse Doud died in the said town of Poultney o the 25th day of August 1831.  And she further declared that she was married to said Jesse Doud in the Town of Wells, in the County of Rutland and State of Vermon on the 2nd day of January in the year 1797, by Samuel Lathrop Esq. a justice of the peace of the said town of Wills. 
She further declares that after the death of said Jesse Doud, she executed the necessary papers to draw the balance of her husband's pension to the time of his death; and with said papers she returned the original certificate of pension of the said Jesse Doud to the Office of the Commissioner of Pensions at Washington. She further declares that she is unable to procure the record of her marriage. And she further sweared in positive terms, that she is still the widow of the said Jesse Doud, and has not intermarried since his death.

Rebecca Doud 
her mark  X

Sworn and subscribed this 11th day of March 1850 before me

E.C. Stacy J. Peace

Nassu County s.s.

In hereby certify that the above named Rebecca Doud from age and infirmity was unable to sign her name to the above deposition, but she directed it to be done and made her mark.   Witness my hand and seal at Columbus this 11th day of March AD 1830

E.C. Stacy J. Peace
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State of New York  }
Chautauqua County } s.s.

I do hereby certify that I am acquainted with the within named Rebecca Doud, and that she is a person who sustains a good moral character and I verily believe, that full faith and credit ought to be given to her declaration, and I do further certify that the within named E.C. Stacy is an acting justice of the peace of Warren County, Pennsylvania, and that the said Rebecca Doud is so feeble as to be unable to attend the Court for the purpose of making her declarations.

Dated March 21, 1850.

Abner Lewis, Judge 
County Courts
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Washington, D.C.,    , 19

W. 1737

In reply to your request of      , received    for a statement of the military history of Jesse Doud, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.

[table]

Dates of Enlistment | Length of Service | Rank | Officers Under Whom Service Was Rendered | Captain | Colonel | State

[First line]
1775 | x | Pvt. | x | x | Arnold & Allen | Gr. Mt. Boys
[Second Line]
1775 | x | Blank | x | x | Warner | Blank 
{Third Line]
1776 | x | Blank | Blank | x | " | Blank
[Fourth Line]
Mch 1777 | Aug 1778 } Blank | x | Gideon Brownson | Seth Warner | Blank 

Battles engaged in : Ticonderoga; St. Johns; Montreal: the Cedars and in the retreat from Canada was wounded in head & injured leg; Hubbardton; Bennington
Residence of solider at enlistment, not stated
Date of Application for pension, Apr. 9, 1818. His claim was allowed
Age at date of application, 64 years
Remarks: he married in Wells, Rutland Co., Vt. Jan. 2, 1797 Rebecca ----; he died in Poultney, Vt., Aug. 25, 1831, and she was allowed pension on an application executed Mch 11, 1850 while a resident of Wayne Township, Ere Gd., Bun., aged 83 years. Children in 1820: Daughters Doria or Daria aged 14 years and Maria 11 years.

Respectfully,
Commissioner

6-2356
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Burlington Vt., Roll.  Act 18 March 1818.
Jesse Doud. pri
To what time last paid
[illegible]  Aug. 25, 1831 - when he died
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Rev Sec

April 27, 1915

Comm of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Will you please inform me if you can find any records of Jesse Doud Rev. soldier from Vermont, who is known to have been in service in 1776, or of pension having been paid to Rebecca Grannis Shepherd Doud - his widow, and greatly oblige.

Mrs. B.A. Nest
Columbus
Pennsylvannia

[illegible]
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1915 May 5 : history to Mrs. B.A. West
M.13.H.

[illegible]

WIDOW, &c.

File No. 1737
Rebecca Doud
Widow
Jesse Doud
Proc Rev. War

Act July 29, 1848
Index : --- Vol. A, Page 187

[Arrangement of 1870]
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[illegible] of Benj
[illegible] Timothy
Morse
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On this 28th day of June 1820 personally came before me Amos Thompson one of Judges of Rutland County Court Benjamin Parmater now of Fairhaven in Rutland County & State of Vermont who is well know to me to be a credible witness & after being duly sworn according to law, testifies & says, that he well knew Jesse Doud while a soldier in Capt. Brownson Company in Col. Warners Regt in the year 1777 & part of the year 1778 & always understood he was discharged he was discharged in consequence of his disabilities incurred while in the service of his country.

Benjamin Parmater
his mark X

Attest
A. Thompson 

Sworn & declared the day and year as above.
Amos Thompson

On this 28th day of June 1820 personally came before me Amos Thompson one of the Judges of Rutland County Court Timothy Morse of Wills in said County as credible witness who having duly sworn depose and say that in AD 1778 he saw and read a paper purporting to be an honorable discharge, discharging Jesse Doud from the service of his country on account of disabilities signed by Col. Seth Warner - and had [illegible] at that time, nor since, but that it was genuine.

Sworn & declared on the day and year aforesaid.
Amos Thompson
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Samuel Doud's 
Affidavit
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State of Vermont
Rutland County

On this twenty-eighth day of Jan. 1819 before me Judge of Rutland County Court personally appeared Samuel Doud of Poultney the aforesaid County & after being duly sworn deposeth & sayeth -- That he is brother to Jesse Doud & has a [illegible], that he the said Jesse belonged to the army in the revolutionary war, and well remembers that the said Jesse [illegible] an honorable discharge in the summer of 1778, signed by Col. Warner, that he has no [illegible] whatever in any pension [words blotted out] Jesse Doud.

Rutland County

Amos Thompson
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I hereby certify that I was well acquainted Jesse Doud in the Revolutionary War & know that he was in the Continental service & went into Canada with General Mongomery & remained at Quebec until the sixth of the May 1776 & retreated with the army from Canada & that after that I cannot recollect but I recollect seeing him frequently in the service that after during the war.

Castleton June 25 1818

Isaack Clark
Col in the United States Army
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State of Vermont }
Rutland County } s.s. 

On this fifteenth day of Nov. 1819 before me personally appeared Col. Isaac Clark well known to me to be a credible witness and was duly sworn to the tenth of the forgoing affidavit by him submitted.

Amos Thompson, Judge
Rutland County Court.

Isaac Clark
Affidavit
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Application of Rebecca Doud for a pension

No. 683 Phil
Rebecca Doud
widow of Jesse
Pa.
Act 29 July 1848

Married 1797
Hus died 1831

Adm $96 per ann for 4 March 1848

Phila Rose

To be suspended to learn the legt heirs

Hon. E. Risley
N.R.
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State of New York }
Chautaugue County } s.s.

John Lewis being duly sworn says that he resides in the town of Harmony in said county, that he was seventy nine years of age in October last. That he is acquainted with Rebecca Doud of Wayne Township in the County of Erie in the State of Pennsylvania, widow of Jesse Doud, who died in the town of Poultney, in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont. He further says that he was acquainted with the said Rebecca and the said Jesse Doud some years before they were married in the town of Wells in said county of Rutland, and in the spring of the year Seventeen hundred and ninety eight, he knew the said Jesse and Rebecca to live together as husband and wife, and had previously to that spring understood that they the said Jesse and Rebecca were married but was not present at their wedding. He further says that he has never doubt the character of said Rebeca for the truth and veracity questioned and verily believes it to be good.

John Lewis

Sworn and subscribed before me this 5th day of March 1850.

Abner Lewis, Judge Chau Co. Courts

State of New York  }
Chautauque County } s.s.

Joseph Button of Harmony in said County being duly sworn says that he is sxity seven years of age. That in the year Eighteen hundred and sevel he knew Jesse Doud and Rebecca his wife to live together as husband and wife they then had three children, the oldest was then four or five years old, he had previously heard they were married.  The said Jesse died in the town of Poultney, Rutland County & State of Vermont.  The said Rebecca now the widow of the said Jesse Doud, resides in the Township of Wayne, Erie County, Pennsylvanie. The said Jesse & Rebecca are the same persons mentioned in the foregoing affidavit of John Lewis. He further says, that the said Rebecca's character for truth and veracity has never been questioned to his knowledge and believes it good.

Joseph Button

Sworn and subscribed before me this 5th day of March 1850.

Abner Lewis, Judge Chau Co. Courts
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State of New York  }
Chautaugue County } s.s.

Benjamin Cook of Busti in said County being duly sworn says that he is seventy two years of age.  That he is acquainted with Rebecca Doud of Wayne Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania widow of Jesse Doud who died in Poultney, Vermont.  That he was acquainted with the said Jesse & Rebecca sixty years ago, and continued to be acquainted with them until 1812 when deponent moved away. He heard of their marriage at the time it took place in the town of Wells in Rutland Co. Vt. deponent feels confident that it was about the year 1797 when he heard of the marriage of the said Jesse & Rebecca, as it was fourteen or fifteen years before deponent moved away from Rutland Co which was in 1812.  The character of the said Rebecca for truth is good and deponent knew her to live with the said Jesse as husband and wife several years before 1800.

Benjamin Cook

Sworn and subscribed before me this 5th day of March 1850.

Abner Lewis
Chau. Co. Courts