Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 25067, for Michael Spicer, New York
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SERVICE: New York
Spicer, Michael (Sarah)
NUMBER: W. 25067
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New York 24,364 
Michael Spicer 
of Essex Co in the State of New York 
who was a private in the company commanded 
by Captain [blank] of the regt commanded 
by Col Willett in the N.Y. ma 
line for 9 mo. 

Inscribed on the Roll of New York 
at the rate of 30 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of Nov. 
1833 and Sent to E. Pearson Ticonderoga 

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 $75.00 
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 March '34 15 00 
[=] $ 90.00 

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk, 
Book E  Vol. 4 Page 121
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3733.
New York Albany
Sarah Spicer
widow of Michael Spicer
NY
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
30 Dollars --
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 
7 day of Feby 1849
and sent to M.T. Clough
Ticonderoga N.Y.

Recorded on Rolls of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 187 Vol. 4

Left side:
Reported
Feby 7/49
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28226
Michael Spicer 
application for a Pension

Admitted 
Private 9 months 

E.Pearson [?]
Ticonderoga
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Declaration 
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress Passed June 7th 1832.
State of New York} 
County of Essex} ss: On this fourteenth day of June 1835 personally appeared before me Joseph S. Weed one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Essex aforesaid Michael Spicer a resident of the town of Ticonderoga County & State aforesaid aged sixty seven 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 Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. 
That he entered the service under the following named officers & served as herein stated. His officers were as follows: Col. Marinus Willet - his Major a part is the time was _____ Wait & a part of the time was ____ Scott - his first capt was Guy Young 2d Pence - his Liuetenant was ____ Bingham - his Commissary was Smith & his adjutant was _____ Fonda - No other officers recollected excepting a person who was said to be Lord Sterling - come to inspect them at Fort Plain N.Y.  he entered the service in the war of the United States in the fore part of April 1782 - After the [illegible] the forepart of January 1783 (following) he resided at that time (April 1782) in the town of Philipstown as it was then called now called Nassau Rensselaer County NY - the manner he entered the service was this - every 20 men in that part of the country engaged voluntarily or were bound (as he was informed) to furnish that season a man - his father engaged for his 20 men to furnish the requisite one & he sent this applicant, his son- this applicant
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[appli]cant understood also that the time for when the man was furnished was 9 months ["9 mo" in margin] - this Applicant indeed served the full term of 9 months as a private [?] & was on duty the whole time - he went from his residence to Albany N.Y. thro [illegible] & was then immediately sent to Schenectady N.Y. about 16 miles & there joined the Company under the command of Capt. Guy Young his first Capt. above named - after about 3 weeks stay he was shifted into Capt Pierce's company who was 2d Capt. above named he was shifted in the march for Schenectady at the Mohawk River at Schoharie Creek - he exchanged companies with an old man - that he this applicant might be in the same company with [illegible] brother, he his brother was desirous of being in the same company they made known their desires to their respective Captains who had a conversation on the subject & permitted this Applicant to make the exchange as above stated - from Schoharie Creek they marched on to Johnstown NY stayed there some considerable time how long does not recollect - here Capt. Pierce joined the regular troops & this applicant with others was sent to Herkimers house which was built of brick & was fortified at which place he joined Capt Simeon Newells Company who was his 3d & last Capt as above stated who belonged to the regular troops as this applicant was informed but he did not know the fact - he marched or went from Herkimers place at the Mohawk river to Fort Herkimer on the German Flats where he remained the rest of his term except about 3 weeks in which he went down the said river to what was called Fort Plain about 20 miles from Fort Herkimer - after his return he was kept on duty at Fort Herkimer & at Fort Dayton on the opposite side of the river about 2 miles from Fort Herkimer where he was a Picket guard - he was discharged at this place but received no written discharge - he was on duty the whole 9 months either in field or garison or on guard, he
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was in no battles. A part of the time he was at German Flats Colonel Reeds regiment was there which he understood belonged to the regular troops - he recollects no other regular officers, regiments, or companies than those he has mentioned - he has no documentary evidence & knows of no person who can testify to his services - he was born in the year 1766 at the place called the Great Nine Partners in Dutchess County N.Y. - Since the Revolutionary War he has resided for some years in a number of different place a short time in a place - he resided ten years in Greenville [?] N.Y. he moved from that place to Ticonderoga N.Y. where he has resided for the last 31 years - he has a record of his age at home - he is well known to Joseph Weed, McLuneton W. Blin [?] & Richard D. Arthur who reside in his present neighborhood & can testify to his character for truth & veracity & to their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution - He cannot from bodily infirmity attend Court to make this declaration.
Interrogatory. 1. He was born in the year 1766 at Great Nine Partners Dutchess County N.Y. 
2. He has a record of his age at home.
3. He was living when called into service in Philipstown now Nassau N.Y. Rensselaer County - since the war he has lived in various places a short time a place, for 10 years in Greenville N.Y. & for the last 31 years in Ticonderoga aforesaid. 
4. See the above declaration at the bottom of first page 
5. Colonel Reed & his regiment -in Autumn time.
6. He never received a written discharge 
7. He never received a commission
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8. He is known to Joseph Weed Richard D. Arthur Esqrs & Mr. McLuneton W. Blin.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or Annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State.
[Signed] Michael Spicer
Subscribed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid before me} 
Joseph S. Weed a Judge of Essex County Common Pleas 

We Joseph B Baldwin a clergyman residing in the town of Ticonderoga & William Douglass residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Michael Spicer who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be sixty seven years of age, that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion. 
[Signed] Joseph B. Baldwin
[Signed] William Douglass
Subscribed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid before me} 
[Signed] Joseph S. Weed a Judge of Essex County Com. Pleas 

And the said Judge declares his opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above
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named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier & served as he states. And the said Judge further certifies that Joseph B. Baldwin who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in Ticonderoga aforesaid & that William Douglass who has signed the same is a resident in the same town & is a credible person & that their statement is entitled to credit. And the said Judge further certifies that the said applicant cannot from bodily infirmity attend Court to make this his declaration.
[Signed]  Joseph S. Weed a Judge of Essex County Common Pleas

I Leonard Stow Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Essex aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Michael Spicer before the said Judge for a Pension & do further certify that the said Judge is a Judge of said Court & that the above signatures purporting to be his are his genuine signatures. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 19th day of June 1833-
[SEAL] 
[Signed] Percivale Morse [?], Dep Clerk
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State of Vermont Addison County ss 
On this thirtieth day of January A.D. 1844 personally appeared before the undersigned, a Justice of the peace within and for said County, Sarah Spicer a resident of Cornwall in said County, aged seventy six years and ten months 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 & 23rd of August 1842, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war :- That she is the widow of Michael Spicer who was a private in the Revolutionary war, whose service she is unable particularly to specify but who obtained on account of said service a pension under the act of June 7 1832, of Thirty dollars per annum as appears by his pension certificate dated November 25th 1833, now in her possession, to the evidence establishing which pension, now in the war office she refers for evidence in support of her claim 
She also declares that she was married to the said Michael Spicer on the twenty fifth day of November, one thousand seven hundred and ninety two, at Amenia in the State of New York, which marriage was solemnized by Elder Elijah Wood then Pastor of the Baptist Church in that place; that her husband, the aforesaid Michael
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Spicer died on the 12th of April 1842; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz- at the time above stated. She further declares that after the death of the husband aforesaid she has not been married, and that she is still a widow
Sarah (X her mark) Spicer
Witness [Signed] Wm. Slade 
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before 
[Signed] William Slade Justice of the peace 

The above declarant is not personally known to me in the sense contemplated in the printed instructions from the War Department. She has called on me twice in company with her son in law, Samuel Richards Jr. whose affidavit is hereto annexed, and with whom I am well acquainted. I have no doubt that she is the widow of Michael Spicer, the pensioner, as stated by Mr. Richards 
[Signed] William Slade
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State of Vermont Addison County ss. 
On this 30th day of January 1844, personally appeared before the Undersigned, a Justice of the peace within and for said County, Samuel Richards Junr. of Cornwall in said County, aged fifty four years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath say :- That he was well acquainted with Michael Spicer, late a pensioner under the act of June 7, 1832 on the Roll of the New York agency, at the rate of thirty dollars per annum - having married a daughter of the said Michael, and that the said Michael died on the 12th day of April 1842 at Ticonderoga in the State of New York, at which place he the said Deponent attended the funeral of the said Michael.
And he further says that Sarah Spicer, now here present, and who has just made her declaration in order to obtain a pension in virtue of her marriage with the said Michael Spicer was left as his widow at his said decease, and that she has not been since married, and is still a widow.
[Signed] Samuel Richards Junr 

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written & I certify that the above Deponent is a credible witness 
[Signed] William Slade 
Justice of the peace
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State of Vermont} 
Addison County ss} 
I Samuel Swift Clerk of the County Court for the said County of Addison, do hereby certify that William Slade, before whom the within affidavits of said Sarah Spicer and Samuel Richards Junr. purport to have been made was at the time a Justice of the peace for said County, and his name severally subscribed thereto is his own signature 
In testimony whereof I have hereto Set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court, this 30th day of January 1844. 
[SEAL]
[Signed] Saml Swift Clerk 

Crosswise:
10483 [?]
act 1838
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Newcomb Wood of the Town of Westford County of Otsego State of New York aged Fifty two years being duly sworn deposes & says that he is a son of Elder Elijah Wood late Pastor of the Baptist Church in Amenia in Said State. That the said Elder Wood died in the Month of February One Thousand eight hundred and Ten. And that his record of Marriages while he was pastor of said Church are now in the possession of him the said Newcomb Wood and that he finds therein in the hand writing of the said Elder Wood a record of which the following except the date which is here given in letters and figures, is a true copy. 
Record of Marriages --
Michael Spicer & Sarah Atwood November Twenty Fifth One thousand seven hundred and ninety two. 
And the said Newcomb Wood further says that the date in the Said Record is expressed thereon in fair legible figures as follows "Novr. 25th 1792." 
And the said Newcomb Wood further says that he the said Wood obtained said Record of Marriages from his mother at the request of one Joshua Finch some years since for the purpose of aiding a certain widow Finch in an effort to obtain a pension & that said Record still remains in the possession of him the said Newcomb Wood and further deponent saith not.
[Signed] Newcomb Wood 
Sworn to in due form before me this Fourteenth day of December A.D. 1843 & I certify that the said Newcomb Wood is a credible Witness 
[Signed] Jno. R Griggs Justice of the Peace
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State of New York} 
Otsego County Clerks Office ss} 
I, Samuel Russell Clerk of said County do hereby certify that John R. Griggs Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit purports to have been Sworn was on the date of the same a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly authorised to take the same and that his Signature within written is genuine.
Witness my hand & seal of office this 17th day of December A D 1843 
[Signed] Samuel Russell Clerk
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L. W. B. 
W. 25067. 
March 10, 1838. 

Madam:- 
Replying to your recent communication you are advised that Michael Spicer made an application for pension on June 14, 1833, at which time he was 67 years of age and residing in Essex County, N. Y., and his pension was allowed for nine months' actual service as a private in the New York troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Col. Willett. He enlisted at Philipstown, N. Y. 
His widow, Sarah, made application and received a pension for the service of her husband as above set forth. 
Very respectfully, 
Commissioner.

Mrs. A. G. Cox, 
Hotel Granada, Chicago, Ills.
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 25067
Sarah Spicer
wid of
Michael Spicer
Priv. Rev war
Act Feb 2d 1848
Index: Vol L, Page 236
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Mch. 10 -98 Mrs. A.G. Cox.
Chicago Ill.
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S
[Receipt mark] OLD WAR & 1812 MAR 8? 1898

Hotel Granada 
Chicago Ill 
Feb. 26. 1898 

Mr. H Clay Evans, Commissioner 
Washington D.C. 
Dear Sir 
Will you please send me the military record of Michal [sic] Spicer? He was a drum major in the war of the Revolution. He enlisted at or near Cherry Valey, New York. 
Yours truly 
Mrs. A. J. Cox

[Receipt mark] U.S. Pension Office FEB 28 1898
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5087 
Vermont, Burlington 
Sarah Spicer 
widow of Michael Spicer 
who was a Private 
in the Revolution 

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

Certificate of Pension issued the 
16. day of March 1844 and sent to 
Hon. G. P. Marsh House of Representatives 

[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A. Vol. 1. Page 33.

Left side:
Rep'd.
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Left side:
Rep'd 

Right side:
Vermont 8197 
Sarah Spicer 
widow of Michael Spicer 
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 
and who died on the 12. April 1842 
of Addison Co. in the State of Vermont 
who was a Private in the company 
commanded by Captain [blank] of the 
regt. commanded by Col. Willett in 
the N York mil. line for 9 months 

Inscribed on the Roll of Burlington 
at the rate of 30 Dollars per annum, 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 16th day of March 1844 
and sent to Hon G. P. Marsh, House of Representatives 

Total amount, $150.
 
[Act July 7, 1838.] 
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, 
Book D. Vol. 1 Page 139
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State of Vermont Addison County ss. 
On this 30th day of January AD 1844, personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the peace within and for said County, Sarah Spicer, a resident of Cornwall in said County, aged seventy six years and ten months, 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 on the 3d of March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war:- that she is the widow of Michael Spicer who was a private in the Revolutionary war, whose service she is unable particularly to specify, but who obtained, on account of said service, a pension of Thirty dollars per annum, under the act of June 7, 1832, as appears by his pension certificate, dated November 25th 1833, now in her possession, to the evidence establishing which pension, now in the war office, she refers, for evidence in support of her claim. 
She also declares that she was married to the said Michael Spicer on the twenty fifth day of November, one thousand seven hundred and ninety two, at Amenia in the State of New York, which marriage was solemnized by Elder Elijah Wood, then Pastor of the Baptist
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Church at that place; that her husband the aforesaid Michael Spicer died on the 12th day of April, 1842, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz at the time above stated. She further declares that since the death of the husband aforesaid she has not been married, and that she is still a widow
Sarah (X her mark) Spicer
Witness [Signed] Wm. Slade

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before 
[Signed] William Slade Justice of the peace 

The above declarant is not personally known to me in the sense contemplated in the printed instructions from the War Department. She has called on me twice in company with her son in law Samuel Richards Jr whose affidavit is hereunto annexed, and with whom I am well acquainted. I have no doubt that she is the widow of Michael Spicer, the pensioner, as stated by her.
[Signed] William Slade
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State of Vermont Addison ss. 
On this 30th day of January 1844, personally appeared before the undersigned, a Justice of the peace within and for said County, Samuel Richards Junr. of Cornwall in said County, aged fifty four years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath say :- That he was well acquainted with Michael Spicer, late a pensioner under the act of June 7, 1832 on the Roll of the New York agency, at the rate of thirty dollars per annum - having married a daughter of the said Michael, and that the said Michael died on the 12th day of April 1842 at Ticonderoga in the State of New York, at which place he the said Deponent attended the funeral of the said Michael. 
And he further says that Sarah Spicer, now here present, and who has just made her declaration in order to obtain a pension in virtue of her marriage with the said Michael Spicer was left as his widow at his said decease, and that she has not been since married, and is still a widow. 
[Signed] Samuel Richards Junr S
worn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written & I certify that the above Deponent is a credible witness [Signed] William Slade Justice of the peace
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State of Vermont} 
Addison County ss} 
I Samuel Swift Clerk of the County Court for the said County of Addison, do hereby certify that William Slade, before whom the within affidavits of said Sarah Spicer and Samuel Richards Junr. purport to have been made was at the time a Justice of the peace for said County, and his name severally subscribed thereto is his own signature
In testimony whereof I have hereto Set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court, this 30th day of January 1844. 
[SEAL] 
[Signed] Saml Swift Clerk
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place on [illegible]
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State of New York}
 County of Essex} ss. 
On this Twenty Seventh day of September 1848 personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Sarah Spicer a resident of Ticonderoga in the County of Essex 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 Provision made by the Act of Congress passed on the 2d February 1848 granting Pensions to Widows of Persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the Widow of Michael Spicer - who was a Soldier in the Revolutionary War and at the time of his death a pensioner and served in the manner & as stated in his application for a Pension on file in the Office of the Commissioner of Pensions, that she cannot relate the particulars of his services but has often heard him say that he did serve & that she received under the Act of 17th June 1844 thirty dollars per Annum 
She further declares that she is still a widow 
Sarah (X her mark) Spicer
Sworn to and subscribed on the}
day and year above written before}
[Signed] Benj. H. Baldwin
Justice Peace
In Presence of
[Signed] Nelson Porter

State of New York} 
Essex County}  I certify that the above named Sarah Spicer is personally known to me & a credible person a [?] witness & that from age & infirmity she is unable to write her name. Witness my hand at Ticonderoga this 27 day of September 1848
[Signed] Benj. H. Baldwin 
Justice Peace
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State of New York
Essex County ss. 
I George S Nicholson Dept Clerk of the County Court of the County and State aforesaid hereby certify that Benjamin H. Baldwin is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly elected and qualified, that his official term commenced on the first day of January AD 1846 and will expire on the 31st day of December AD 1849, and that his signature's above written are genuine. 
Given under my hand and the seal of said County this 21st Day of November AD 1848. [Signed] Geo. S. Nicholson 
Dept Clerk
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Washington Feb 8 1844

Sir
I enclose you certain papers relating to an application for a pension, which I have just received from the Hon [?] William Slade of Vermont with a request that they may, if possible, be acted on in season to enable the petitioner to receive the payment of the  4" of March next.  The certificate may be sent to me.
I am, Sir, respectfully yours 
[Signed] Geo. P. Marsh

Honble Commissioner of Pensions
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J.L. Edwards
Com. of Pensions
Washington D.C.

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NY [stricken]
5087 Vt
Place
NY roll
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Ticonderoga Nov 23 '48

Dr Sir -
Enclosed you will find Sarah Spicers Application for new certificate
Yours truly
[Signed] M.T Clough

J L Edwards Esq