Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10,430, Thomas Card, Vt.
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CONTENTS
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20643
New York
Thomas Card of Otsego Co in the State of New York who was a private in the Comp commanded by Captain Briggs of the Regt. commanded by Col. Allen in the Vermont line for 11 months
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Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of Sep 1833 and sent to H. Wolworth Burlington
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Arrrears to the 4th of Sep. '33  $91.66
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 M. '34 18.33
$109.99
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Go. C. Stiles Clerk,
Book E. Vol. 4, Page 52.
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the provisions of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
State of New York
Otsego County S.S. } on this 16th day of [blank] personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Otsego County now sitting Thomas Card a resident of the town of New Lisbon in the County of Otsego and State of New York aged seventy years who being first duly sworn according to Law on his oath maketh the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 - 
Says that he was born in the town of East Greenwich in the state of Rhodeisland in the year 1762 is now 70 years old and that he has a record of his age now in his possession That he entered the service of the United States under the following officers that in the year 1778 at the town of Pownal in the County of Bennington State of Vermont in the month of August or September that volunteered in the company of Captain Joseph Briggs and Col Herricks Regiment of Vermont militia and marched through Bennington and Manchester to Castleton in Vermont and there joined the Regiment and Kept Gard and did Garrison duty at a small Fort in that town under Col. Herrick and General Ethan Allen for the term of two months and then was discharged verbally by Col. Herrick at Castleton and then returned home to Pownal
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and Clark Parker was Lieutenant to Capt Briggs Company and Richard Brown Ensign
And then again in the year 1780 in town of Pownal and State of Vermont he about the first of July volunteered in the Vermont militia under the same Captain Joseph Briggs and the same subaltern officers and Col. Herrick's Regiment and marched to the Fort in the town of Castleton aforesaid and there did duty at that Fort and Kept Gard at Blanchards Mills [margin note: 5] in the town of Castleton untill the first of November and was then discharged by Col Herrick at the fort verbally and then returned home to Pownal aforesaid
And then again in the year 1781 at the town of Pownal aforesaid about the first ['last' crossed out] of August he volunteered in Captain Clark Parker's Company of Vermont State Troops and Col. Herrick's Regiment and was marched to Castleton aforesaid and there did Garrison duty under General Ethan Allen and Col. Herrick at the Fort and at Blanchards Mills about five months was discharged by Col Herrick at Castleton ['at' crossed out] on the 1st of January 1782 [margin note: 5] verbally and and while stationed at
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Blanchards Mills aforesaid he heard General E Allen make his celebrated Pine Stump Speech in which there was almost a constant volley of the most Imperious Oaths that he ever heard that the town of Castleton was a frontier Post and Blanchards Mills situated in that town and within about 10 miles of the Shore of Lake Champlain and that they were dependant on these Mills for all their bread in the frontier forts in Vermont and that he has done a little more than 11 months duty in that he can recollect and that he never received a written discharge from any officer and that he has no Documentary Evidence by which he can proove his services
and that since the War he has lived in the town of Pownal aforesaid and in the counties of Rensselaer, Delaware, and Otsego in ['Long' crossed out] N.Y. and that he now lives in Otsego County and has for 3 years past in the town of New Lisbon
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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Rolls of the agency of any State
Subscribed and sworn the day and year aforesaid
/s/Thomas Card
/s/Thomas Lathrop Clerk

We Abiel Cook a resident of the town of New Lisbon in the county of Otsego and State of New York and James C Wolworth a resident of the town Burlington in the said County of Otsego 
Residents in the town of New Lisbon in the County of Otsego and State of New York hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the Thomas Card who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 70 years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion 
Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid
/s/Abiel Cook
/s/James C Wolworth
/s/Horace Lathrop Clerk.
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant, was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certify that it appears to them that Abial Cook and James C. Wolworth ['who have' crossed out] Jonathan Card, & Benjamin Card who have subscribed & sworn to the Annexed Affidavits are credible persons and entitled to full credit, in their statements, 
/s/J. O. Morse }
/s/James C. Wolworth } Judges
/s/S. Page
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The Department will please to observe the Certificate of the Court they then certify that all the testimony here annexed was before them I hope that will authenticate all the papers 
/s/J. C. Wolworth -
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No. 18191
Thomas Card, Otsego County New York
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Admitted Private 11 months
James C. Wolworth Burlington 
Otsego County New York
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WAR DEPARTMENT, Pension Office, 
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Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim. 
A Statement, shewing the Service of Thomas Card Otsego County, New York
[column headings: Period when the service was rendered.|Duration of the claimant's service.(Years.|Months.|Days.)|Rank of the claimant.|Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served.|Names and Rank of the General and Field officers.|Battles in which the applicant was engaged.|Country through which he marched.|Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period.|Evidence by which the declaration is supported.|]
Vol {aug't or Sept} 1778|( - |2| - )|private|Cap Briggs|General Ethan Allen Col Herrick|[blank]|Marched to Castleton|70 years Pownal|traditionary, witnesses certified credible - |
Vol 1.July 1780|(about|4| - )|private|Cap Briggs|Col. Herrick|[blank]|marched to Castleton|Bennington County Vermont|no clergyman,  & no reason given - |
Vol. 1.Aug't. 1781|( - |5| - )|private|Cap Parker|Col Herrick|[blank]|[blank]|[blank]|papers not properly attached|
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I am, respectfully, Your obedient servant, 
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832. 
The following regulations have been adopted: This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line,' State troops," " militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits et the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service. 
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law: 
1. The Regular Troops. 
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers. 
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service. 
4. Indian Spies. 
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record. 
DECLARATION, 
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832. 
State, Territory, or District of} County of} ss. 
On this [blank] day of [blank] personally appeared (a) before [blank] A. B. a resident (b) of [blank] in the county of [blank] and State, Territory or District of [blank] aged (c) [blank] years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) [blank], with [blank] and served in the [blank] (e) regiment of the [blank] line, under the following named officers : 
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service ; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers ;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. ⇒This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.] 
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of [blank] 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. [blank] A. B. 
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.] 
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. 
I [blank] of the Court of [blank] do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of [blank] for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this [blank] day of [blank] &c. 
If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out. 
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz: 
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the [blank] and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with [blank], who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be [blank] years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. 
Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid. 
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.] 
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a RevoIutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the [blank] and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the [blank] and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
I, [blank] Clerk of the Court of [blank] do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of [blank] for a pension. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal [blank] of office, this [blank] day of [blank]&c. 
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction. 
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration,(l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted ; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute: And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6.{To a Soldier. {Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
{To an Officer.{Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are  requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons-one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the, declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform; and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature. 
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.

[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he most assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making au affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith. that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below. and in the following grades:- For ____ year ____months, and ____days, I served as a ____ . For ____ months and ____days, I served as a ____; and for such service I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held; as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers, the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or place where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[f]The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion or the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if he has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
⇒The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule [j] applies to continental troops only.
[k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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[partial document]
sion on file in this Bureau. Thomas Card S.F. 10430
[column headings: DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.|LENGTH OF SERVICE.|RANK.|OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVIVCE WAS RENDERED.(CAPTAIN.|COLONEL.)|STATE.|]
Aug or Sept.1778|2 mos.|Pvt.|(Joseph Briggs|Herrick)|Vt.|
July 1, 1780|Nov. 1, 1780|[blank]|( " " | " )|[blank]|
Aug. 1, 1781|Jany 1, 1782|[blank]|(Clark Parker| " )|[blank]|
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Battles engaged in, ✓
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Pownal, Bennington Co. Vt.
Date of application for pension, Oct. 19, 1832. His cl. was al.
Residence at date of application, New Lisbon, Otsego Co. N.Y. 
Age at date of application, Born in E. Greenwich R.I. in 2762
Remarks: Died Dec. 16, 1850. *
*(from A.B.)
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[verso]
Card V.L.M. 
10430
Rev War ✓INVALID.
File No. 10,430
Thomas Card Priv Rev War
Act: June 7" 1832
Index: - Vol. A, Page 60
[Arrangement of 1870.]

[recto]
1908 Jany 11 Hist. to Lester
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REJECTED
1678
consolidated with S. File 10,430
P. O. Thomas Card
Service: [blank]
Enlisted: [blank], 18[blank].
Discharged: [blank], 18[blank].
Application filed: [blank], 18[blank].
Alleges: [blank]
Re-enlisted: [blank]
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3-595
O.W. AND N. DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Jany. 8, 1908.
Searched by S. d. Lamparter 
Original No. [blank]
Certificate No. [blank]
Claimant, [blank]
Soldier, Thomas Card
Service, Vt. Rev. War
Remarks: No other claim as above, except Inv'd #10430
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Thomas Card Revo. N. York
Rejected . See letter to S. R. Hobbie, Esqr. April 22. 1831. 
1678
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R 1,704
In the matter of Thomas Card 
Revolutionary Claim
rejected 22 Apl. 1831
see letter to S.R. Hobbie Esqr.
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I, Thomas Card of New Lisbon in the county of Otsego and state of New York do hereby declare that I served as a volunteer in the state of Vermont in the company commanded by Captains Clark Parker & Joseph Briggs in the Regiment commanded  by Colonel Herrick in the line in the state of Vermont under the command of General Ethan Allen from the twentieth day of July 1778. until the close of the war, as a private soldier. And I further declare that I never have been placed on the Pension list of the United States 
/s/Thomas Card
Subscribed and Sworn this 10th day of March 1831 before me}
/s/Wm B. Whiting Justice of the Peace
State of New York,
Otsego County ss: Personally appeared before me this tenth day of March one thousand Eight hundred & thirty one Jonathan Card, and Paul Gammet of said County who did severally make oath that Thomas Card by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed was in the service of the United States during the war of the Revolution as by him in the foregoing declaration as set forth. 
Witness my hand this 10th day of March 1831 - 
/s/Wm. B. Whiting Justice of the Peace
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Otsego County ss: 
I Abner Cook Junior Clerk of the County of Otsego in the state of New York do certify that William B. Whiting before whom the foregoing affidavits, were sworn was at the time a Justice of the Peace of said County duly empowered to administer oaths
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of the said County this 11th day of March one thousand eight hundred & thirty one
/s/A. Cook Jun
Know All men by these presents that I Thomas Card of New Lisbon in the county of Otsego and State of New York do hereby constitute and Appoint Samuel S. Bowne my true and lawful Attorney with a power of substitution for me and in my name to receive from the United States the amount of pay now due to me and hereafter to be due to me under the act for the relief of the surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution as a volunteer in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Herrick of the Vermont line of the Army of the Revolution
Witness my hand this date and seal this 10th day of March 1831. 
/s/Thomas Card
In presence of /s/Wm. B. Whiting
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Before me William B. Whiting a Justice of the peace in the county of Otsego and state of New York personally appeared this tenth day of March 1831 Thomas Card whose name is subscribed to the foregoing power of attorney and acknowledged the same to be his act and deed.
Witness my hand this 10th day of March 1831 - 
/s/Wm. B. Whiting Justice of the Peace
Before me William B. Whiting a Justice of the peace of the county of Otsego in the state of New York personally appeared this day the Attorney named in the foregoing power of Attorney and made oath that the same was not given to him by reason of any transfer, or of any attachment levy or seizure or any legal process whatever of the pay therein authorized to be received, but that the said pay is intended to since wholly to the personal benefit of the person by whom the said power was executed.
Witness my hand this 10th day of March 1831 - 
/s/Wm B. Whiting Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Otsego County ss Paul Gammet of the town of Oneonta in the said County being first duly sworn deposeth and saith that ['his' crossed out] he is 75 years of age that he is acquainted with Thomas Card of the town of New Lisbon in said County ['of' crossed out] that in some of the last years of the Revolutionary War he well recollects that he served with him in the town of Castleton in State of ['New' crossed out] Vermont and that he was a good soldier and that he now lives near him and that he is a verry Respectable inhabitant and is entitled to full credit and belief and that this deponent is so old and infirm and believe that he cannot attend the County Courts
/s/X his Mark Paul Gammett
Subscribed and Sworn this 2d day of August 1832 
Before me /s/James C. Warworth a judge of Otsego County Court
Otsego County SS I the undersigned Judge that I am personally acquainted with Paul Gammett that has sworn to the above Affidavit that before me that he is a credible person and entitled to Credit
/s/James C. Warworth a Judge of Otsego County
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I the undersigned Judge do certify that I am personly acquainted with Paul Gammet that has made the within affidavit and that he is a person of truth and veracity and is too infirm to attend the Courts
/s/J. C. Warworth a Judge of Otsego County Court
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Thomas Card - Pri J.C.W.
18191
Returns to be sent James C. Warworth Burlington Otsego  County N. York
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State of New York
Otsego County ss
Benjamin Card of of the town of Burlington in the said County being duly Sworn deposeth and and says that he is 79 years of age that he served with him Thomas Card in the town of Castleton in the ['town' crossed out] State of Vermont under Col Herrick's command ['Regiment' crossed out] and previous to that time he has often heard it reported that in the town of Pownal in the said state of  Vermont where they then both lived that there Thomas Card had enlisted or volunteered and went to Castleton in the service this was near the close of the revolutionary War that he so served with ['them' crossed out] him at ['Charlestown' crossed out] Castleton aforesaid and that this deponent is so Old that he cannot attend the County Courts and that he has been acquainted with Thomas Card ever since War of the revolution - 
/s/Benjamin Card
Subscribed and Sworn this 2d dy of August 1832 
Before me /s/James C Wolworth a Judge of Otsego County Courts
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I James C Wolworth that I am personly acquainted with Benjamin Card that has made the within affidavit and that he is entitled to full credit in his statements and is to infirm to attend the Courts
/s/James C Wolworth a Judge of Otsego County
State of New York
Otsego County }ss. I, Horace Lathrop Clerk of the ['said' crossed out] Court of Common Pleas in & for the said County do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Thomas Card for a Pension & I further certify that James C. Wolworth before whom the preceding affidavits of Paul Gammet Benjamin Card & Jonathan Card purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same a Judge of Otsego County Courts & that I am acquainted with his hand writing & verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing signature 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office this 19th day of October 1832 - 
/s/Horace Lathrop By Thos. N Cory Deputy
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State of New York
Otsego County ss Jonathan Card of the town of New Lisbon in Said County being first duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was acquainted with Thomas Card of the town of New Lisbon and that he is his brother and that he served with him in the town of Castleton in the State of Vermont for two seasons in the ['last' crossed out] two last years of the revolutionary War and previous to this time remembers that he was called out and went out and served as much as two months before this deponent was old enough to be drafted and that this deponent is now 67 years of age and so infirm that he cannot attend the Court and that Thomas Card is a man of truth and veracity and entitled to full credit and belief and that he was a good and faithful soldier and that he believes he is now 70 years of age that he now lives near him in the same town 
/s/X his Mark Jonathan Card
Subscribed and Sworn this 2d day of August 1832 
Before me /s/James C Wolworth a Judge of Otsego County Courts
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I the within named Judge do Certify that I am personly acquainted with Jonathan Card that has sworn to the within Affidavit that he is a man of truth and veracity and I think he is unable to attend the Courts
/s/James C Wolworth a Judge of Otsego County
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State of New York
Otsego County ss. [court seal affixed]
On this first day of June 1853 personly appeared before me the undersigned Judge of the said county of Otsego Thomas Card who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that by reason of Old Age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively to the precise length of his services but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades for Eleven  months I served as a private and for such served I claim pension
And that I never served as a Substitution for any person And the reason that he could not procure the Certificate of a Clergyman is that there is no one living near him or in many miles of him that was acquainted with him that he had not lived in the County of Otsego more than about three years - and the Eleven Months he was in the N.S. Services he was not engaged in any civil pursuit 
Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid 
/s/Thomas Card
Before me /s/James C Wolworth a Judge of Otsego County Courts }
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['Burlington' crossed out]
The Commissioner of Pensions will notice that this amendment was made before the same Judge Wolworth that the Certificate of the court in the original Declaration
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[handwritten letter]
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C. 
Dear sir
I am referred to you by War department as perhaps being able to help me out - Can you find of John Card of New London County Conn. a veteran of Rev. war & living in 1832 drew a pension - if so who was his next of kin - 
also a Wm Card who served in Capt Durkee's Comp. (Conn. Militia) known as Company of Matrosses from 7/10/1782 to 6/10/1783 drew a pension & who his next of kin was - also a
Thomas Card - serving in Vermont Militia in 1780. I am trying to secure admittance to S.A.R. & tradition says my ancestor served. 
Yours /s/Lester Card Ansonia Conn