Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23,312, for Samuel Mallery, Connecticut
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SERVICE  Conn.
Mallery, Samuel
Malory or
NUMBER S. 23,312
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17.010  
Connecticut 
Samuel Malory 
of Reading in the State of Connt who was a Sargeant in the Compy commanded by Captain -  of the Regt commanded by Col Silliman in the Connt line for 9 months - $45 
Inscribed on the Roll of Connt at the rate of 45 Dollars per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 6th day of July 1833 and sent to Pensioner Reading Connt
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833   $90.00 
Semi-anl. allowance ending Sept 4 1833   22.50   
$112.50 
{Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by Vinal Luce  Clerk  
Book E  Vol. 3 Page 27
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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield } ss
On this 27th day of  July 1832 personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury in the said County and State now sitting at Danbury in said District and County the same being a Court of record, 
now sitting, Samuel Mallory a resident of Reading in the County of Fairfield, and State of Connecticut, aged Eighty years, who being first 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 7, 1832. 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. I That about the 1st day of March 1776 he entered the Service of the United States for the term of three months in the Regiment of Connecticut State troops commanded by Col. Gold S Silliman in the Company commanded by Captain Eliphalet Thorp 
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Whether he enlisted or was drafted he cannot recollect. He entered and served the said term as orderly Sergeant of the said Company.   During the said Tour, he served the whole time at the City of New York, where said Regiment was stationed.  At the expiration of his said term to wit, about the 13 day June 1776, the said Company was dismissed or disbanded and he returned to his house in said Reading.  He served during his said term at Garrison duty.   He received no written discharge when so dismissed.  As above stated, he does not recollect whether he was drafted or whether he enlisted but on further reflection, it is his impression he enlisted.   
That soon after his return from said City of York at the expiration of his said last mentioned term of service  to wit on the 24th day of June 1776 he enlisted for the term of six months as Orderly Sergeant in the company commanded by Captain Zalmon Read,  then of said Reading now deceased, in the Regiment of Connecticut State Troops  commanded by said Gold S. Silliman, John Chandler was Lieutenant Colonel.  The other officers of said Company
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were Lieutenants Hendricks and Banks.  He left home, to join the said Regiment on the 3d July, and arrived in the City of New York where said Regiment was mustered on the 6th day July.  The said Captain Read and he greater part his men  Marched from said Reading to Fairfield on Long Island Sound and there embarked on board a Sloop for New York, where they arrived in the City of New York aforesaid on the 6th.  He is confident as to the dates having at that time kept his diary and upon in old entry thereof he now shewed to the court a memorandum made by himself at the time and which hereunto annexed.  Immediately on joining the said Regiment, he received from said Colonel Silliman a Warrant appointing to be said Sergeant of the said Company, which is subscribed by the said Gold S. Silliman in his proper hand writing, dated on said 25th day of June, and is hereunto annexed.  He served the whole of said term for which he so enlisted and was discharged at North Castle in the State of New York on the 24th or 25th day of December 1776.  He received no written discharge but was verbally dismissed and he so served during said term an orderly sergeant.  Said Regiment was employed in and about New York. He was with his said Regiment at Garrison duty until a few days before the battle of Flat Bush on Long Island was engaged in that Battle.  Then in the retreat to Harlaem, thence White Plains, thence to Peekskill and there to North Castle where he was discharged as aforesaid. The whole of Said two terms of Service amount to nine months, all which time he acted as Orderly or first Sergeant
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That he was born in said Reading on the 23 day of July 1752 and has ever since resided there excepting when absent in the service of his County as herein Stated.  That he has no other record of his age than an entry of his birth made by him in his family Bible from a similar entry made by his Father in his family Bible.  The word “was” on the first page interlined before signing.
The said Samuel Mallory hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. 
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid, in open Court 
Saml Mallory 
I Jonathan Bartlett, a clergyman, residing in the town of Reading and Zalmon Read residing in the same, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Samuel Mallory who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood 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 in open Court 
Jonathan Bartlett 
Zalmon Read 
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 abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Jonathan Bartlett who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of  Reading and at Zalmon Read who also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Reading who and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
Attest Edward Taylor Clerk 
I Edward Taylor Clerk of the said Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Zalmon Read for a Pension. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Office, this 27th day of July 1832. – 
Attest Edward Taylor Clerk
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State of Connecticut 
Fairfield County } SS 
1 Reuben Poste of Danbury in the County of Fairfield in the said State, Judge the Court of Probate within and for the District of Danbury in the said County and State, do hereby certify and make known all whom it may concern that Edward Taylor Esquire who the hath signed and certified the foregoing to proceedings of said Court of Probate is certified and was Clerk of  Clerk aforesaid at the  time of signing and certifying the same;  that all the signatures above written and hereunto annexed attesting the proceedings of said Court purporting to the Signature of said Edward Taylor are in his proper hand writing and that full faith and credit are due to his attestations as Such Clerk. 
In witness whereof I have hereto set his hand at Danbury aforesaid this 27th day of July 1832 
Rueben Poste Judge of the court of Probate for the District of Danbury Connecticut
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June the 24th Day in the ye/ 1776 then I inlisted to go to New York 
July the 3d I marched to New York
June the 24th Day in the Ye’ 1776 then I inlisted to go to New York
July the 3d I Set out for New York
The 6th I got a Shore at New York
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Revolution
23312 
INVALID. 
No. 23,312
Samuel Malory
Serg’t Rev War
Act: June 7” 32”
Index:- Vol 2 Page 253
[Arrangement 1870.]
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No. 3037
Please direct to Edward Taylor Clerk of Probate Danbury
I Alex’r Smith of Brookfield in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut aged seventy five years being duly sworn do depose and say that I was acquainted with the hand writing of Gold S. Silliman Esq. formerly a Colonel of Connecticut State Troops having frequently seen him write and from [unreadable] knowledge of his hand writing there acquired, I fully believe the signature within written and subscribed to the warrant appointing Samuel Mallery a Sergeant to be the proper hand writing of the Said Silliman.
Ale’r Smith
[stamp] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES
Samuel Mallery
S. F. 23.312
Conn
July 27th 1832 – Sworn and subscribed by Alexr Smith [unreadable] Court of Probate for the District of Danbury doth certify that the Deponent maintains a good character for truth and is a credible witness.
Attest Edward Taylor Clerk
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Gold S Silliman Esqr: Colonel of a Regiment of Foot ordered to be raised in the Colony of Connecticut to join the Continental Army 
Samuel Mallery Greeting
1 Reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Fidelity Courage and good conduct I do by virtue of Authority in me vested constitute and appoint you the said Samuel Mallery to be The First Sergeant in the Second Company in said Regiment and I hereby authorize and impower you to exercise your said Office in the due Discharge of the duties of which you are faithfully and diligently to attend and this shall be [unreadable] Warrant 
Given under my hand and Seal at Litchfield in the said Colony of Connecticut
June 4th Anique Domini 1776
G. Selleck Silliman 
Sam’l Mallery
Discharge
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Gold S Silliman Esqr: Colonel of a Regiment of Foot ordered to be raised in the Colony of Connecticut to join the Continental Army 
Samuel Mallery Greeting 
1 Reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Fidelity Courage and good conduct I do by virtue of Authority in me vested constitute and appoint you the said Samuel Mallery to be The First Sergeant in the Second Company in said Regiment and I hereby authorize and impower you to exercise your said Office in the due Discharge of the duties of which you are faithfully and diligently to attend and this shall be [unreadable] Warrant 
Given under my hand and Seal at Litchfield in the said Colony of Connecticut June 4th Anique Domini 1776 G. Selleck Silliman Sam’l Mallery Discharge
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The First Sergeant in the Second Company in said Regiment and I hereby authorize and impower you to exercise your said Office in the due Discharge of the duties of which you are faithfully and diligently to attend and this shall be [unreadable] Warrant
Given under my hand and Seal at Litchfield in the said Colony of Connecticut June 4th Anique Domini 1776 G. Selleck Silliman Sam’l Mallery Discharge
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No. 3037
Please direct to Edward Taylor Clerk of Probate Danbury
I Alex’r Smith of Brookfield in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut aged seventy five years being duly sworn do depose and say that I was acquainted with the hand writing of Gold S. Silliman Esq. formerly a Colonel of Connecticut State Troops having frequently seen him write and from [unreadable] knowledge of his hand writing there acquired, I fully believe the signature within written and subscribed to the warrant appointing Samuel Mallery a Sergeant to be the proper hand writing of the Said Silliman.
Ale’r Smith
[stamp] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES
Samuel Mallery
S. F. 23.312
Conn
July 27th 1832 – Sworn and subscribed by Alexr Smith [unreadable] Court of Probate for the District of Danbury doth certify that the Deponent maintains a good character for truth and is a credible witness.
Attest Edward Taylor Clerk
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I Ezra Bates of the Town of Redding Fairfield County and State of Connecticut of the age of Seventy four years depose and say that Samuel Mallery of said Town of Redding in June 1776 served under Col. Gold S Sillaman in Capt. Zalmon Reads Company, joined the Continental line at N. York, served in said line six months then was discharged in December following the 24th day at North Castle said Mallery served as our Orderly Sargent. 
Ezra Bates 
State of Connecticut in Fairfield County Ss. on the 24th day of July 1832 the above named Ezra Bates made oath to the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed before me. 
Ebenr Hill Just of Peace
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County } ss   I the undersigned a Notary Public for the County of Fairfield in the State aforesaid, by the authority of said State duly appointed, Commissioned and sworn in the said County do hereby certify that Ebenezer Hill whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of caption of the foregoing Deposition Ezra Bates, is a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Fairfield duly appointed and duly authorized administer oaths and take depositions by the laws of said State that said signature is in the proper hand writing of the said Ebenezer Hill and that full faith and credit are due to his attestations as a Justice of the Peace. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my Notarial seal this 27th day of July AD 1832, in Danbury aforesaid 
Reuben Booth Notary Public 
Ezra Bates for Saml Mallery
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I Ezra Hull of Redding in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut aged seventy six years being duly sworn do depose and say that in the spring of the year 1776 Samuel Mallery entered the service of the of the united States in the Company commanded by Captain Eliphalet Thorp in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Gold S. Silliman.  I believe and that he served in the said Company as orderly Sergent thereof the term of three months at the City of New York where the said Regiment was stationed at Garrison duty.  I served the said term at New York in the same Company with him and we were dismissed and returned home together.   I do not know whether said Regiment was State Troops or Militia.  
Ezra Hull 
State of Connecticut 
Fairfield County Ss. At Redding in County,  Sworn & Subscribed before me this 28th day of July 1832 and Certify the Deponant is a credible witness and sustains a good character for truth. Ebenr Hill Just of Peace
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I Zalmon Hull of Redding in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut aged seventy three years being duly sworn do depose and say that in the Spring of the year 1776 Samuel Mallery entered the service of the United States in the company commanded by Capt. Eliphalet Thorp in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Goold S. Silliman - and that he served on the said Company as orderly Sergent thereof the term of three months at the City of New York where the said Regiment was stationed at Garrison duty.  I served the said term at New York in the same Company with him and we were dismissed and returned home together. I do not know whether said Regiment was State Troops or Militia and I would not be certain wheather said Gold S Silliman was Colonel at that time but think he was. 
Zalmon Hull 
State of Connecticut Fairfield County SS At Redding in said County, Sworn & Subscribed before me this 28th day of July 1832, and I certify that the Deponant is a credible witness and sustains a good character for truth. 
Ebenr Hill Just of Peace
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State of Connecticut 
Fairfield County } SS 
I the undersigned a Notary Public for the County of Fairfield in the State aforesaid by the authority of said State duly appointed commissioned and Sworn, residing at Danbury in the said County do hereby certify that Ebenezer Hill Esquire whose name is subscribed to the Certificates of caption of the foregoing Depositions of Ezra Hull and Zalmon Hull, is a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Fairfield duly appointed and sworn and duly authorized and empowered to administer oaths and take depositions by the laws of said State that said signatures are in the proper hand writing of said Ebenezer Hill and that full faith and credit are due to his attestations as a Justice of the Peace. 
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my notarial Seal at Danbury aforesaid this 27th day of July 1832 – 
Reuben Booth Notary Public
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3037
Samuel Mallory
Please direct to
Edward Taylor Esq
Danbury CT
13 14 11
Admitted
Sargeant 9 months
E Taylor
P 135
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3037
BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those
answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Samuel Mallory which
require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?
V. Has he mentioned 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?
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of 
June 7, 1832?
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and other respectable citizen as to
their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
His warrant as sergt the first term is not accounted for
XIV. If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility?
And is the official character and signature of the magistrate certified by the proper officer under his seal of office?
No
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age,
as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And,
if not, which of them is not so answered?
4 & subsequent
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an 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."
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the 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 his service. The use of the phrase about the for months is too
indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
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 of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which be 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.
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not
written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the
certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must
pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate
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I Reuben Booth of Danbury in the County of
Fairfield and state of Connecticut Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury in said County and State do hereby certify that Edward Taylor Esq. who hath signed and certified the foregoing proceedings of said Court is Clerk thereof and was such Clerk at the time the same purport to have been signed and certified
by him that the preceding signatures
purporting to be the signatures of the said Edward Taylor are in his proper hand writing and that full faith and credit are due to his
official acts as such Clerk
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand this 12th day of April
1833
-
Reuben Booth
Judge the Court of
Probate of the District
of Danbury Connecticut
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County  SS
I Thomas B Osborne Clerk of the
County Court within and for the
County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut do hereby certify that Ebenezer Hill Esquire is now & for more than one year last past has been a Justice of the Peace for said Fairfield
County duly commissioned and duly authorized to administer oaths & take depositions & I further certify that
I am acquainted with the hand writing
of the said Ebenezer Hill Esquire & I verily that all the signatures to the foregoing Certificates on the foregoing Depositions purporting to 
be his are genuine & in his proper hand writing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County Court in Fairfield this 16th day of April AD 1833
Thomas B Osborne Clerk
of the County Court for sd County
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I Aaron Morehouse of Newtown
in the County of Fairfield and State of
Connecticut aged Seventy three years being
duly sworn do depose and say that I know
and am acquainted with Samuel Mallory
of Reading in the said County, who hath
applied for a Pension. That in the month of
June 1776 the said Samuel Mallory enlisted
for the term of six months in the Regiment
Connecticut State Troops, commanded by
Colonel Gold S Silliman, in a Company
commanded by Captain Zalmon Read now 
deceased as a Sergeant in the said company
He served as such Sergeant in the said
Company during the period for which he
enlisted and was dismissed at the expiration
of his term of service about the 25th day
December 1776 at North Castle in the
State of New York. He served a part of the
time and until some time in the month of
August at Garrison duty in New York
He was in the battle of Flatbush on Long
land was in the service with sd Regiment
in the retreat from New York to Harlam
and White Plains at all which places the
said Regiment formed a part of the
American Army
I enlisted in the said Company about
one month before the said Mallory
enlisted and served therein with him, during
the whole Campaign was discharged at
the same time he was, and returned
home at the same time he did
and on being therein a memorandum
which is hereunto annexed in these words
June the 24th day in the yr 1776 then I
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enlisted to go to New york

July the 3d I set out for New York
the 6th I got a shore at New York
I depose & say that I am acquainted
and have been for many years with the
hand writing of said Mallory and
have frequently seen him write  and
that the said memorandum is in the 
handwriting of the said Samuel Mallory
Aaron Morehouse

Sworn and subscribed in open Court this
27th day of July 1832 and said Cout
Certifies that the Deponent sustains a
Good character for truth and is a
credible witness
Attest Edward Taylor Clerk
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County   S.S.
on this 12th day of April 1833 before the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury in the said County and State the said being a Court of Record and now sitting at Danbury in the said District, personally appeared
Samuel Mallory a resident of Reading in the
said County and District aged eighty 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 Congress passed June 7 1832 supplementary to his original
declarations made before said Court for the
same object on the 7th day of July 1832
that having read and examined the Brief objections to the admission of his claim to a pension, he says that during the term of service stated in his original declaration he served as an Orderly Sergeant. He knows also that he was duly appointed to that office and had a warrant
but so many years have elapsed and as he
did not until recently believe that its preservation would be of any importance has lost it and cannot now find it. As he cannot now produce it he [illegible] that the commissioner of Pensions will accept the testimony of the respectable gentlemen whose testimony he has [illegible] in proof of the fact that he so served 
and as to the interrogations presented by the
war department, he saith that on each occasion when he entered the service of the United States as set forth in his said original declaration,
he entered said service by enlistment
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That from his advanced age and loss of
memory he is unable to state in detail the
names of the officers or the Regiment who were with the troops where he served
He however recollects being under the command of General Washington in the summer of 1776 and of seeing him after. He also recollects General Putnam, General Stirling, Colonel Chandler, Colonel Wyllys Colonel Webb and the
Regiment commanded by said Wylles & Webb
Col. Chandler was an officer in the Regiment
in which he served
He never received any written discharge
from the service but at the expiration of
each term was verbally dismissed
and having now [illegible] all the said
interrogatories, he prays that this his supplement
declaration may be taken and deemed a part
of his said original declaration

Sworn and subscribed
in open Court
Samuel Mallery
Edward Taylor Clerk

I Edward Taylor Clerk of the said Court of Probate for the District of Danbury in the County of Fairfield and
State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Mallory for a Pension

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of my said office this 12th day of April 1833-
Attest Edward Taylor Clerk