Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 25051, for Nathan Sprague, Vermont
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Continental (Vt.)

Sprague, Nathan
or Spraige
Sarah

NUMBER
W 25051

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CONTENTS
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"Burlington" 5966
Vermont.
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Sarah Sprague,
widow of Nathan Sprague,
who was a pensioner under the Act of 18 Mar: 1818.
and who died on the 6th February 1835.
of Addison in the State of Vermont
who was a private in the Compy. commanded
by Captain Sawyer of the Regt. commanded
by Col: Warner in the ___
line for 9 months.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont,
at the rate of 30. Dollars --- Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
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Certificate of Pension ifsued the 28th day of Decr.
1840. and sent to Hon: Wm Slade
House of Reps.
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept: 1840 $135:00
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Mar: '41 15:00
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$150:00
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{Act July 7,
1838.}
Recorded by Wm C Lantzinger Clerk.
Book A. Vol. 2. Page 56.
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20097
Vermont
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Nathan Sprague
of Addison Co in the State of Vermont
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Sawyer of the Regiment commanded
by Colonel Warner in the
line, for the term of nine months
from March 1778 to 1st January 1779
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Inscribed on the roll of Vermont
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to
commence on the 27 day of January 1830
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Certificate of Pension issued the 4 of February
1830 and sent to Hon B. Swift
H. R.
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Arrears to 4th of March 1830 $10.32
Semi-Annu'l all'ce ending
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$10.32
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{Revolutionary Claim,
Acts March 18, 1818,
and May 1, 1820.}

Rec: Book D.
Vol: 4 fol 83.

See letter to Hon: B. Swift
9 Feb 1830.
to W Slade 2d March
1830.
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Sarah Sprague
Declaration
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State of Vermont}
District of New Haven fs}
On this 22d Day of June AD 1837 personally appeared before the Probate Court for the District of New Haven Sarah Sprague a Resident of Bristol in the County of Addison and State of Vermont aged 77 years, who being first Duly Sworn according to Law Doth on her Oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congrefs passed July 4th 1836, that She is the Widow of Nathan Sprague who was a private soldier in the army of the Revolution that he Resided in Danby in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont where he entered the Service She thinks his Colonels Name was Warner, and that She knows his Lieutenants Name was Samual Beach and thinks her husband procured the said Beach's affidavit when he obtained his pension which was about seven years ago his Captains name She Does not remember, nor the Day year or month When he Entered the Service but knows he continued untill the Close of the War which was nearly or quite three years after her marriage took place, and thinks he belonged to the New Hampshire line, whether under more than one Engagement or not she Does not know and the Country through which he passed She Does not remember being Verry feeble bedrid and almost blind having lost her memory in a great measure has know knowledge of any Documentary Evidence in Support of her claim She further says that her husband the said Nathan Sprague was placed upon the pension List Seven years ago or there about, and continued to draw his pension in Vermont untill his Death and She further Declares that She was married to the said Nathan Sprague at Danby in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont on the 6th Day of September in the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty by Esqr Rawley a Justice of the peace whose Christian name she does not remember
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that her husband the aforesaid Nathan Sprague Died on the 6th Day of February AD 1835 and she has remained a Widow Ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed
Sarah Sprague (her x mark)

Sworn to and Subscribed on the Day and year above Written
Before Harvey Munsill Judge

State of Vermont}
New Haven Probate District} I John Pierpoint Register of the Probate Court for the District of New Haven hereby Certify that Harvey Munsill Esqr is the Judge of the Probate Court for the District aforesaid + that his signature above annexed to the declaration of Sarah Sprague is his genuine Signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name + affixed the seal of the sd Probate Court at Vergennes in sd District this 3rd day of July AD 1837
Jn Pierpoint Register
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State of Vermont, Addison County ss.

On this twentieth day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, personally appeared before the Honorable Samuel Swift, Judge of the Court of Probate within + for the District of Addison in said State - said Court being a Court of record by virtue of the laws of said State - in open Court, Nathan Sprague, resident in Bristol in the County of Addison aforesaid, aged sixty nine years + nine months, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818, and the 1st of May 1820, - that he the said Sprague enlisted for the term of nine months, some time in the month of March A.D. 1778, he thinks in the fore part of said month, in the State of Vermont, in the company commanded by Capt. Sawyer, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Seth Warner, in the line of the State of Vermont, on the Continental establishment, that he continued to serve in said corps, until about the 1st of January A.D. 1779, as near as he can remember, when he was honorably discharged at Rutland in said State; which discharge he has since lost; - that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension, except the present; that his name is not on the roll of any State except the State of Vermont, and that the following are the reasons for the lateness of this application for a pension viz: - Soon after the passing of the original pension law of 1818, he made a declaration of his services, before William Slade Just. then Judge of Addison County
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Court, agruably to the requirements of said Law, which declaration was transmitted to the Department of war, and was subsequently returned to said Slade, disallowed for want of proof of the service of the said Nathan, by testimony other than his own declaration; - which declaration has since been lost.  That he did not then know of any person living, by whose testimony he could prove his said service, nor was he able to find any such testimony until the autumn of the year 1828, when he found William Bromley of Danby in the County of Rutland is said State, whose affidavit is hereto annexed, and from the said Bromley learnt that his Lieutenant in said service, Samuel Beach, was living in Whiting in said State, whose testimony, hereto subjoined he afterwards obtained, and that his delay of making application from the obtaining of said affidavits to this time has been occasioned by efforts to find his original Declaration, for the purpose of obtaining his pension from the date thereof; which efforts have proved unavailing.
And in pursuance of the act of the 1st of May 1820, I do solemnly swear 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 in any other manner disposed of my property or any part thereof, with interest thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of the act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for cutain persons
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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 schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed, viz: -
Four chairs - .67
one pine table .34
one pine chest - 50
four knives + forks 25
four plates - 25
three spoons - 12
two Dish kettles 1.00
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$3.13
one Teakettle - .75
one Tin tea pot - 25
three cups + saucers - 12
one axe - . - 1.00
one hoe - .67
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2.79
3.13
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$5.92
That since the 18th March 1818, no change has taken place in my property except the sale of the only cow I then had, for the payment of my debts: -
That my occupation is that of a common labourer; that I am able to perform about half the labour of an able bodied man, + that my family residing with me, consists only of my wife Sarah, aged about 70 years, who is unable, by reason of infirmity to perform much labour.
Nathan Sprague (his x mark)
Sworn + declared to this 20th day of January 1830
Before the Court aforesaid
Saml. Swift, Judge
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21.121 
1.
I, William G Hooker, Register of the Court of Probate for the District of Addison in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Nathan Sprague did serve in the Revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding Declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, under one engagement, on the Continental establishment. I also certify that the foregoing oath, and the schedule therein embraced are truly copied from the Records of the said Court. And I do further 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 Five Dollars + ninety two cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this 20th day of January A.D. 1830
W G Hooker

State of Vermont}
Addison County fs} I William Bramley of Danby in the County of Rutland being Duly sworn Do Depose + Say that I was acquainted with Nathan Sprague of Bristol as a applicant for a pension and was acquainted with him During the Revolutionary war and know that he Served nine months in Capt Sawyer Company in Colo. Seth Warners Regt as a Soldger in the year 1778 and further Say not
Bristol Novr. 17 1828
Sd Brumbley being a Soldger William Bramley
Sworn to before me Robert Holley Just. Peace I Hereby Certify that William Brumbley is Legal witnefs
Robert Holley Just Peace
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State of Vermont}
Addifon [Addison] County fs} I Saml. Beach of Whiting in the County of Addifon and State of Vermont  being duly Sworn do testify and Say that I was a Lieut in Colo. Seth Warners Regiment in the Army of the Revolution and that I was personally acquainted With Nathan Sprague the [illegible] now of Briftol [Bristol] in the County of Addifson and State of Vermont and  was knowing to his being a Soldier in Said Regiment and that he [illegible] as Such in AD 1778 for more than nine months and that he is the identical perfon who [illegible] with me in order to obtain this depofition [deposition] dated at Whiting this 19th of December AD 1828
Saml Beach

Whiting December 19th A 1828
Perfonally appears Samel Beach and made oath that the above Depofition contains the truth as is above Set forth - Sworn before me Ephm Moulton JP

I certify that the above named Samll. Beach is a man with whoom I am well acquainted and confider [consider] him to be a man of truth and veracity and a Legal witnefs in any Court
Ephm Moulton Juftis Peace
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State of Vermont, Addison County ss - January 20. 1830.
I Samuel Swift Clerk of the County Court for said County, do certify that Robert Holley + Ephraim Moulton, before whom the affidavits of William Bromley + Samuel Beach hereto annexed, were taken, were at the dates of the said affidavits made before them respectively, Justices of the peace in + for said County of Addison, duly authorized by the laws of this State to administer oaths, and that their signatures affixed to said affidavits are in their own proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Middlebury aforesaid, the day + year first above written -
Saml Swift Clerk +c [&c}
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From the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 25051, it appears that Nathan Sprague, while a resident of Danby, Rutland County, Vermont, enlisted in March, 1778, as private in Captain Sawyer's Company in Colonel Seth Warner's Regiment and served until January 1, 1779.
He was allowed pension on his application executed January 20, 1830, at which time he was living in Bristol, Addison County, Vermont, aged sixty-nine years and nine months.
He died February 5 or 6, 1835, in Jerico, Chittenden County, Vermont.
He married September 6, 1780, at Danby, Vermont, Sarah Graves. She was allowed pension on her application executed June 22, 1837, at which time she was a resident of Bristol, Vermont, aged seventy-seven years.
The above noted are the only soldiers named Nathan and Hosea Sprague that are found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.
Very truly yours,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner
To Hon. Thos A Jenkins
House of Representatives
Letter of inquiry in case of Hosea Sprague W. 19390
WCS
7/28/26
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No 7513
Sarah Sprague
Vt.
Act 7 July '38

M 80. d 35

admd
9 mo. pri
30 $

No deduction

Hn W Slade
H.R.
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State of Vermont}
Addison County fs} On this 7th day of December AD 1840 personally appeared before the probate Court Within and for the district of New Haven in said County Sarah Spraige a resident of Bristol in the County of Addison aforesaid aged Eighty one years Who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congrefs pafsed July 7 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows - That She is the Widow of Nathan Spraige late of Jerico Chittenden County Vermont deceased Who was a private Soldier in the Revolutionary War - That She is not able to State the names of the officers under whom he Served nor the places where he Served but that he did faithfuly Serve his country as a Soldier as aforesaid - That She has no documentary Evidence of his Service in her pofsesion but that in consequence of his faithful Services as a Soldier as aforesaid there Was granted unto him a pension under the act of Congrefs of July 7 1832 - That the Evidence of his Service as a Soldier aforesaid and of his having had granted to him a pension as aforesaid are now in the pension office at Washington a reference to which will more fully + particularly Show - She further declares that She was Married to the Said Nathan Spraige in September 1780 at Danby in the State of Vermont that previous to his marriage her name was Sarah Graves That her husband the aforesaid Nathan Spraige died on the 6th day of February 1835 at Jerico aforesaid - That She was not married to him prior to his leaving the Service but the marriage took place pervious to the first of January Seventeen hundred + Ninety four to wit at the time above State - She further declares that She was mistaken in a form declaration made in order to obtain the benefit of the act of July 4 1836 in Supposing that the Service of her husband terminated after his marriage - Sworn and Subscribed on the day and year above writen - 
Sarah Spraige (her x mark)
Witnefs Harvey Munsill 
W H Holley
Abigail S Oak Before me Harvey Munsill Judge
State of Vermont}
Addison County fs} I Harvey Munsill Judge of Probate Within and for the district of New Haven do hereby Certify that the above named Sarah Spraige the applicant can not from Bodily infirmity attend the Court and I further Certify that the said Sarah Spraige is a credible Witnefs
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and that full faith and credit may be given to her Statement
Harvey Munsill Judge

State of Vermont}
Addison County fs} I Harvey Munsill Judge of Probate Within and for the district of New Haven in Said County of Addison do hereby declare my opinion after the investigation of the matters in the application of Sarah Spraige for a pension on account of the Revolutionary Services of her late husband Nathan Spraige - That the Within applicant is the Widow of Nathan Spraige deceased Who Was a Soldier of the Revolution and Served as She Stated - That she Was Married to the Said Nathan Spraige at the time She Stated - That he was a pensioner of the United States and died at Jerico at the time Stated by her - and I further Certify that it is made to appear to me that Sarah Spraige Who has made her declaration is a credible Witnefs and that her Statement is entitled to credit -
Harvey Munsill Judge

I Harvey Munsill Judge of Probate Within and for the district of New Haven in Said Addison County do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the original procedings of the Said Judge in the Matter of the application of Sarah Spraige for a pension - In testimony Whereof I have hereunto Set my hand this 7th day of December AD 1840
Harvey Munsill Judge

State of Vermont Probate Court}
District of New Haven fs}
I hereby certify that Harvey Munsill Esqr. is the Judge of the Probate Court for the District afs. That his signature annexed to the foregoing is his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand + affixed the seal of said Court at Vergennes in sd District this 12th day of December AD 1840
Attest J Pierpoint Regester
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State of Vermont}
Addison County fs}
on this Eleventh day of March one thousand Eight hundred and forty four, personally appeared before me Harvey Munsill Justice of the peace Within and for the County of Addison Sarah Sprague a resident of Bristol in the County of Addison and State of Vermont aged Eighty four years, who, being first duly Sworn according to Law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congrefs passed on the 3d of March 1843 granting pensions to Widows of person who served during the revolutionary War. that She is the Widow of Nathan Sprague Who Was a Soldier in the War of the revolution, and that She Was placed on the pension list under the act of July 7th 1838 at the rate of thirty dollars per annum for five years
She further declares that she is still a Widow
Sarah Sprague (her x mark)
Witnefs
Harvey Munsill
Walcott Norton

Sworn to and Subscribed, on the day and year above Written before Harvey Munsill Justice of the peace

I hereby Certify that Sarah Sprage the Signer of the foregoing declaration is a Crible Witnefs + I know her to be the Widow of Nathan Sprague an that She Was placed on the pension roll under the act of Congrefs passed 1838 her declaration being made before me
Harvey Munsill Justice of the peace
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State of Vermont
Addison County fs} I, Samuel Swift Clerk of the County Court for the said County of Addison, do hereby certify that Harvey Munsill, before whom the within affidavit of Sarah Sprague was made was at the time a Justice of the peace for said County, and his name Subscribed to the within certificate is his own signature
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 23d day of March 1844,
Saml Swith Clerk
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V2264
Sarah Sprague
Widow of Nathan
Vermont
act 4 July 1836.
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I Chaney Graves of Underhill in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont Being Seventy five years of age do depofe and Say that I was well acquainted with Nathan Sprague whoo was a Refident of the Town of Danby in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont in the fall of the year AD 1780 and that in the month of September of that year he was Lawfully Marryed to Sarah graves then of Danby afore Said by Jonathan Rowley Efq then a Juftis of the peace of the County of Rutland afore Sd and that I myself was prefant [present] and Saw them Marryed and I further Say that they Lived together as hufband and wife from the time of their Marryage Untill the day of his Death which was on the 5th day of February AD 1835 and that he Dyed in the Town of Jerico in Chittenden County afore Said and I further Say that She has remained his widow up to the prefant time
I further Say that the Said Nathan Sprague Enlifted in the Continental Service in Colonell Warners Regiment as a Soldier in the year 1777 or 1778 and that he Served as a Soldier in Said Regiment from that time to the Clofe of the revolutionary War and I mySelf was a Soldier with him Seven months of the time 
Clancey Graves
William Barney
Luman Case
State of Vermont Chittenden fs June 28 AD 1837 at Underhill then Chancey Graves perfonally Came Chan Graves Signer of the above Depofition and being duly Cautioned Made Solemn Oath that the Same contained the truth and nothing but the Truth
before me William Barney Juftis peace
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I hereby Certify the Deponant Chancey Graves within named is a man of Truth and verafity William Barney Juftic of the peace

State of Vermont,}
Chittenden County, ss.} I William Noble Clerk of Chittenden County Court, do hereby certify that William Barney before whom, and at the time when the foregoing and annexed deposition of Chancey Graves was taken, was a Justice of the Peace of Said County of Chittenden, duly qualified, acting under the authority of the State and that his name thereto Subscribed is I believe his own proper Signature.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Burlington in said County, this 28th day of June A.D. 1837. William Noble
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Edward Vails
affidavit
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I Edward Vail Town Clerk of the Town of Danby in the State of Vermont on Oath Say that I have Examined the Records of Said Town and find but Two records of marraiges in 1780. Namely Thomas Rowly Jr. to Eunice Cooper and Edward Vail to Margaret Allen These two Marriages were not Recorded untill About Eight Years After they were Solemnized and one of them that of my farther Edward Vail was recorded by himself after became Town Clerk in the Year 1788 The Records of marriages for the period of 1780 are evidently imperfect
Edward Vail Town Clerk

Rutland County fs June 19th 1837
Personally appeared Edward Vail above Named and made oath that the Above affidavit by him Subscribed is true and I certify that the Said Edward Vail is a man of truth Rufus Bucklin Justice Peace

State of Vermont}
Rutland County fs}
I Robert Pierpoint clerk of the county Court for the County of Rutland Certify that Rufus Bucklin Jr is a Justice of the peace for said County and that his Signature to the foregoing Certificate is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Rutland this 23d day of June AD 1837
R Pierpoint
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State of Vermont,}
Chittenden County, ss.} I William Noble, Clerk of Chittenden County Court, do hereby certify that James Ambler Jrn. before whom the foregoing and annexed deposition of Manassah Sprague was taken, was at the time of the taking the Same, was a Justice of the Peace for the county of Chittenden, duly qualified, acting under the authority of this State, + that his name thereto Subscribed is, I believe his own proper Signature.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Burlington in said County this 28th day of June A.D. 1837. William Noble
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Middlebury Vt. July 4. 1837

Sir
I send herewith the papers in the case of Sarah Sprague, an applicant for a pension. I [illegible] the Judge who drew her declaration has made her say that her husband was in the New Hampshire line, when I suppose he was in the Vermont Troops. I presume however that this error will be of no importance as she is Sufficiently identified by this evidence with Nathan Sprague the pensioner, to render it certain that She is his widow
Please report to me
Very respectfully
William Slade

J L Edwards Esq
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Sprague
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H of R. June 12 1840

Sir
I am requested to ascertain the reason why a pension is not granted to Sarah Sprague, widow of Nathan Sprague. I am not able to state where she made application, nor under what law, whither of - 1836, or 1838. Her husband was a pension, but whither under the act of 1832 or 1838 I am unable to say.
Will you have the goodness, if practicably, to enable me to answer the inquiry
Respectfully
Your obedient servant
William Slade

J L Edwards Esq
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(Vt) 2264
Sarah Sprague
Wid: of Nathan.
Let to Hon: Wm Slade
June 18. 1840
Rejected
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5628
Apl 1. 1844.

Vt.
mar 3d 1843
Sarah Sprague

$30 per ann

Harvey Munsil
Bristol
Vt

Free

Hon James L Edwards
Commissioner of pensions
Washington City
DC
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Bristol Vermont March 23d 1844

Hon J L Edwards
Enclosed I Send you the declaration of Sarah Sprague
Your obt Servant
Harvey Munsill
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Nathan Sprague d. 1835
78=9=mo. Sawyer. Warner

Wife Sarah agd 70
in 1830 -

Sarah Sprague. in 1840 agd '77
Mar 1780
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House of Reps. Dec 24. 1840

Sir
I send you herewith a declaration of Sarah Sprague for the purpose of obtaining a pension for her under the act of 1838. as the widow of Nathan Sprague, a pensioner under the act of 1832
A former declaration of hers, together with proof of the marriage + the decease of her husband, are in your office. In that declaration she was mistaken in supposing that she was married before the expiration of the service of Mr. Sprague for which he was granted a pension. Probably she was married to him before the expiration of his service, but not before the expiration of his service as proved + allowed. Hence the mistake in the first declaration.
Please reexamine the case, and report to 
Your obedient Servant
William Slade (over)
J L Edwards Esq
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P.S. I perceive the name of the window is spelled Spraige. The man who drew her declaration + signed her name is mistaken. The name is Sprague.
W. S.
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Service examined by Mr
Edwards and admitted.

Colo. J L Edwards
Pension Office
War. Dept.

Jan. 27
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Ho. of Reps Jany 26. 1830

Sir,
I recd. by todays mail the inclosed papers from W Slade Esq, with a request that I would forward them to you, and ask as early attention to them, as is consistent with the businefs you have on hand. I am also requested to inquire (in case the application is granted) whether the Applicant will not be entitled to a pension from the date of a former application? If such application containing his declaration can be found, the same having been lost.
Permit me to inquire whether the applications of these Invalid Pensions forwarded by A Thompson Esq from Burlington Vt for increase of pensions, have been examined by you?
Your Obedt Servt.
B Swift
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Hon. John H Eaton
Secretary of war
Washington
D. C.

[Round stamp mark}
[illegible]
FEB
19

Pension Office
26th Feb. 1830,
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Middlebury Vermont, February 18. 1830.

The Hon'ble Secretary of War

Sir

I have lately obtained a pension for Nathan Sprague a Revolutionary soldier, upon his declaration made a few weeks ago. The evidence which sustained his declaration was taken more than a year ago, but the making of the Declaration was delayed with the hope of finding his Declaration relative to the same service made something more than ten years ago. That Declaration was forwarded by myself to your Department, and the application rejected, as near as I can remember for the want of testimony to establish the fact of the service, his name not being found on the rolls in your Dept. Supposing it possible that it might have been returned by me to the war office and left there, I addressed an inquiry after it, to Mr. Edwards, last summer, and recd. for answer that it had been returned to me at this place on the 29th May 1820, since which time it had not been returned to the War office. I have not been able to find the Declaration among my papers, + have reason to believe that it was lost, irrecoverably, at the time of my removing from this place to Washington in 1824.
My purpose in addressing you is to ascertain whether there were no memoranda made of the substantial parts of that Declaration, in the pension office, previous to its return to me, - and whether, if it had not
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been lost, Mr. Sprague would not have been entitled to a pension back to its date, upon the production of testimony to sustain it.
The object of these enguiries is to prepare for an application to Congress in behalf of Mr. Sprague for the grant of a sum equal to his pension from the date of his first, to the date of his second Declaration.
A seasonable reply will very much oblige the old Soldier, as well as
Your obedient servant
W Slade
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5257
Burlington
Vermont
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Sarah Sprague
widow of Nathan Sprague
who was a Private
in the ___ Line
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
30 Dollars -
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
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Certificate of Pension issued the
6 day of Apl 1844
and sent to Havey Munsil
Bristol
Vermont
=====
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book a
Vol. 1 Page 33

repo 6 apl 44
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
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File No. 28057 [ or 28051, 25057, 25051]
Sarah Sprague
Wid of
Nathan Sprague
Priv
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Act March 3rd 1843
Index: Vol. L, Page 236
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1926 July 28
hist to Hon Thos A Jenkins Sec
letter in case of
Hosea Sprague
W. 19390. WCA
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I Manafsah Sprague of Huntington in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont, being of Lawful age do Testify, depose and say, that I have been well acquainted with Nathan Sprague from his Childhood to the day of his Death and that he formerly resided in Danby Rutland County Vermont and that he Enlisted into the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War in the 1777 or 1778s, in the company Commanded by Captain Jonathan Sprague and Colonel Warners Regiment and I think his Lieutenant Name was Samuel Beach and that he Continued in the Service untill the end of the War - and that he was Married in said Danby in the year, 1780, to a girl by the name of Sarah Graves. I was not Personally at the wedding and never heard no person Dispute but that they were Legally Married agreeable to Laws of the State of Vermont and I think that they were Married by Esquire Rowley of said Danby and they lived together as man + wife untill the day of his Death which was on the 5th Day of February AD. 1835 at Jerico in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont and that the said Sarah has Remained his Widow ever since his decease, and I further State that the said Sarah is now about Seventy seven years of age. - and further saith not
Manafsah Sprague
(his x mark)
James Ambler Jr
Luman Case
State of Vermont}
Chittenden County fs} Huntington June 27th AD. 1837.
Then Manafsah Sprague Personally appeared and after being Carefully Examined and duly Cautioned under solemn Oath that the foregoing affidafit by him Subscribed Contains the whole truth and Nothing but the truth -
Before me James Ambler Jr Judice Peace
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I Luman Case of Bristol, in the State of Vermont on oath say that I am acquainted with the within named Manasseh Sprague who is a brother of the deceased Nathan Sprague, and that he is a man of undoubted truth. Luman Case

Subscribed + sworn, this 20th day of June 1837
Before me
Horatio Seymour Justc. of [illegible]
I further certify that the above named Luman Case is a credible witnefs Horatio Seymour Justc. of [illegible]

Horatio Seymour above named is a Justice of the peace + the above signature of his name is in his own proper hand writing.
William Slade
June 30 1837