Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26,879, for Samuel Peck, Rhode Island
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R. I.   Peck, Samuel   W. 26,879
or Peek,
Olive
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Reported  4969
[handwritten] Rhode Island
[handwritten] Olvie Peck
widow of [handwritten] Samuel Peck
RI
who was a [handwritten] Private
in the [handwritten] Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
[handwritten] 70 Dollars [illegible scribble line possibly indicated 0 cents]
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 
19th day of Feb. 1844
and sent to
CB. Cowell
Providence
R.I.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book [handwritten] A
vol. [handwritten] 1.   Page [handwritten] 93.
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Mrs Peck
widow of Samuel

To Benjamin Cowel [Cowell] of Providence in the County of Providence Clerk of the District Court of Rhodeisland [Rhode Island]
The within contains the deposition of Samuel Peck to be used as Evidence for Stephen Bennett of Foster in the County aforesaid.  Taken and Sealed up by Me the subscriber on the 3rd day of June in 1823

Obed Perkins Justice Peace
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I Samuel Peck of Coventry in the County of Kent State of Rhodeisland [Rhode Island] & Providence plantations of Lawful age & being duly engaged according to Law do Testify & Say According To the best of My Recollection I was a Soldier in C Company Commanded by Capt. Josiah Gibbs which were Enlisted in the service of the State and the Regiment were commanded by William Richmond  This was in the year one thousand Seven Hundred & Seventy Six  Cmd Stephen Bennet of Foster in the County of Providence & State aforesaid was then an Enlisted Soldier in the 1st States Service and Served in the Same Company & Regiment that I served in the Said Stephen Bennet was there in the Service at the time I Listed & Enlisted in the Said State Service and further the [Deponant] saith Not

Coventry June 3rd in 1823  [illegible and damaged area surmise signature] Samuel Peck

Kent of at Coventry June 3rd AD 1823 
Personnally came Samuel Peck Subscriber
To the above Deposition and Made Solemn
oath to the truth of the same before me.
Obed Perkins Justice Peace

I Hereby Certify that I have lived in this neighborhood of Samuel Peck and am very well acquainted with and from that can state that he is considered a man of truth & varisty and bears a character a little above the level of mankind in general
Obed Perkins
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State of Rhode Island
County of Kent
On this 22nd day of April 1839 personally appeared before me Stephen Waterman one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas within aforesaid County Olive Peck of Coventry in said county aged 80 years who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress entitled "an act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows [crossed out letters] passed July 7, 1838 in that she is the widow of Samuel Peck formerly of said Coventry who was a soldier in the army of the Revolution that he enlisted & served in Col John Tophams [Topham's] regiment & served therein & in other regiments over the years but she must refer to the evidence for the specification of his services and she further declares that she was married to the said Samuel Peck on the 25th day of December in 1787 but her marriage is not recorded in any public record nor has she any private register of it but many can testify to the fact who have always known him & her said husband
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Her husband the said Samuel Peck departed this life on the 3rd day of July in 1825 and since then she has remained unmarried  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 & ninety four to  wit at the time above mentioned 

her X
Olive Peck
mark

Justice Stephen Waterman
Obadiah Potter

State of Rhode Island sc
Kent sc at Coventry this 22nd day of April 1839
Personally appeared before me Stephen Waterman
one of the justices of the Court of Common Please [Pleas]
for said County   Olive Peck signer of the above
declartion and made solemn oath to the same
and I further certify that her declarations are
entitled to full credit

Stephen Waterman Justice
of the Court of Common Please [Pleas]
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I Benjamin Green of Coventry county of Kent and State of Rhode Island being now about Seventy nine years old, and engaged according to law, testify and say that I was an enlisted soldier in Colonel John Topham's rigment [regiment] under captain Phillip Troffen, and Samuel Peck of Coventry was with me, in the same rigment [regiment] and under the same captain.   on the sixth of June 1778 and our times - were out on the sixteenth of March 1779 - We were stationed at Tivertown, where we served the most of the time -

Benjamin Green

Kent ss At Coventry on the 17-th of April 1839 -
Then the afore named Benjamin Green appeared before me
and was engaged in oath according to law and
I further certify that said Benjamin is a creditable witness - 

Asahel Johnson Justice Peace
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I Leonard Love of Coventry in the County of Rhode Island & being seventy on years old do testify and say that I was acquainted with Olive Love at and before her marriage with Samuel Peck which marriage I did not see - but was at William Love's a few days after it was said they were [crossed out marriage] married where said Peck was brought up and Wm [William] Love said that he was bound before he was free  Olive Love is now the widow Olive Peck, their oldest child is in his fifty eighth year and was born after marriage they always lived together as husband and wife and sustained a fair caractor [character]

State of Rhode Island [illegible symbol]
Kent sc at Coventry this 13th day of September 1839
Then came Leonard Love Signer of the above afficavit which
was commited to writing by and sworn to before me
I further certify that his testimony is entitled to full Credit
Stephen Waterman Justice
of the Court of Common Please [Pleas]
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I Betty Blanchard of Coventry in the County of Kent and State of Rhode Island do testify and say that I am not eighty three years of age that I have been always intimately acquainted with Olive Peck now the widow of Samuel Peck late of said Country  I knew them both before they were married her name was Olive Love  in fact i have known them from childhood  I was not present at their marriage but have a distinct recollection of the time it was in the year 1781, one reason why I recollect so distinctly is that soon after their marriage they came to my hours to reside and they had their first child there and this is as much as fifty seven years ago  Another reason is that I recollect their child was thirteen months younger than on of mine
attest Stephen Waterman
her x mark [written vertically between her first and last name] Betty Blanchard

Obadiah Potter

State of Rhode Island sc
Kent sc at Coventry this 19th day of August 1839
Personally was before me Betty Blanchard singer of the 
foregoing affidavit which was commited to writing by and sworn to before me

I also certify that here testimony is entitled to credit.

Stephen Waterman Justice
of the Court of Common Please [Pleas]
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[check mark] 6466
Olive Peck
R.I.
act 7 July 38
[scroll line]
Capt
on Roll Traffarn: Col Topham
7 June 78 to 16 March 79
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admd
9 mo 10.  ds/ri
[line]
$31.11
[scroll line]

no deduction

Benjn [Benjamin] Cowell
Providence
R.I.
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I Obadiah Potter of Coventry in the County of Kent & State of  Rhode Island do testify & say that I am now sixty years old of age  that I have always been acquainted with the family of Samuel Peck & Olive   Peck married one of their Daughters and do not know of any register of births or baptisms in the family   I believe there is none their Eldest child Sarah Peck is now believe fifty seven or eight years of age, she is the widow of George Parker  They she said Samuel & Olive Peck had ten children  Six of whom are now living  my wife whose madian [maiden] name was Prudence Peck  Daughter of thers and Samuel & Olive is fifty three years of age and [illegible] She was the third child that [illegible] Olive had Said Samuel departed this life in July 1825 & since then the said Olive has remained a widow.

Obadiah Potter

State of Rhode Island sc


Kent sc at Coventry this 19th day of August 1839 came Obadiah Potter signer of this foregoing affidavit and made oath to the same and I testify that his testimony is entitled to full credit.

Stephen Waterman Justice of
the Court of Common Please [Pleas]
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[Sunburst Seal on left top of page]  
State of Rhode Island and
Providence Plantations

Secretary's office Decem [December] 3, 1839
I Henry Bowen, Secretary of
said State and keeper of 
the records and the seal
thereof.

Do certify, that at the date of the annexed 
official certificates signed Stephen Waterman -
Asahel Johnson the said Waterman was 
Associate Justice  of the Court of Common Pleas
within the County of Kent: and the said 
Johnson a Justice of the Peace for the town of
Coventry in said County; duly elected and
commissioned as appear of record in this
office.    In testimony whereof I have herunto set my name and affixed the
seal of said State at Providence, the day and year first above written

Henry Bowen
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Providence Feb 13 1844

Sir
I herewith return the applications 
of Lucy Stone Olive Peck & Anna Ballon
the magistrate having certified to the
their personal knowledge of the
applicants as you requiered

I am Repectfully
[illegible]
Benjamin Cowell

J L Edwards Esq
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[Left side of Document]
No 4966
Rhode Island

Olive Peck
Widow of Samuel Peck
[Strike through] who was a pensioner under the Act of
and who died on the 3rd July, 1825
of Kent county in the State of Rhode Island
who was a private in the company 
commanded by Captain Traffarn of the
Regt: [regiment]  commanded by Col: [Colonel] Topham in
the 1 Rd. [Rhode Island]  line for 21 months
Increased from $31.11 per annum -

Inscribed on the Roll of Rhode Island
at the rate of 70- Dollars - 
cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of 
March 1836

Certificate of Pension issued the 11th:_ day of 
Sept: [September]  1843 and sent to Ben: Cowell
Providence, Rhode Island _

Whole amount due . . . . $300.00 -
[faint writing - deduct what has been paid -]

[Act July 7, 1838]
Recorded by WM [?Mett] Stewart - Clerk,
Book A  Vol. 2 Page 19 -

[Right Side of Document]
Reptd. to [illegible  ast.] by letter
13th Sept., 1843
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[Note: Document has bleed through from back side and the photo copy makes it very difficult to read]

Providence July 13, 1843
 Sir

herenwith under the application of Olive Peck widow of Samuel Peck for an increase of her pension under the act of Congress of July 7 1838. Then Mrs. Peck first made an application for an increase ....  .... allowed only for .....the service in  Col.  Topham  [@ 5 illegible words] that [@5 illegible words] affidavit [@2 illegible words] told [illegible] at this [illegible] that he had often heard his father [illegible  si] Samuel Peck say that he had served in Col Richmond regiment and [illegible] [illegible] item can be [illegible] of the first [@ 3 illegible words] [illegible.......ling] some did paper.
I found the enclosed affidavit of Samuel Pack taken before Obed Perkins in 1823, [illegible] services of Stephen Bennett [illegible] allowed a [illegible] under the  [illegible] 18  [illegible] Col Richmond [illegible]
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I do not remember now why this affidavit was not sent at the time, it was because however that the papers had been sent to you, or because another affidavit had been taken.  I refer you to the papers of Stephen Bennett.  I also refer you to the affidavit which Peck gave for Johnston Jordan of the State of New York as mentioned in [illegible] Pecks affidavit now enclosed if he sent it to the pension office, I believe has [illegible] that Johnston Jordan served in Col. Tophman regiment  as I find there is such a name on the Roll of that regiment

I was present when Mrs Peck made the application now enclosed & wrote down as fact that as she states  these in the presence of Judge Waterman, She is a very intelligent & respectable old lady & I call your attention to her statement of the circumstances of Stephen Bennet calling on her husband for his testimony, It appears to me her claim cannot be doubted and I have to request that [illegible] served in Richmonds regiment may be allowed a certificate granted 

I very respectfully yours
Benja [Benjamin] Cowell

JL Edwards Esq
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5093
Olive Peck
$70 per An [Annum]
B. Cowell
Providence
R.I.
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STATE OF RHODE-ISLAND.
County of Kent sc

On this 28th day of Sepetember A.D. 1843, personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in said County Olive Peck now resident in Coventry in said County, aged Eighty five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress, passed March 3d, 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War, viz: That she is the Widow of Samuel Peck, deceased, who served in said War as a Private - That she received a pension under the Act of July 7, 1838, at the rate of $70 per annum, payable at the Agency for paying pensions at Providence.  

[Left side of document] Freeborn Rider
Attest Asa Stone

[Right side of document] Olive Peck [with] her X mark [between Olive and Peck]

kent Sc.  In Coventry September 28th A.D., 1843.  Persnally came before me named Olive Peck and made oath to the truth of the above declaration by her signed. 

I also certify her statement is intitled to full credit

Asa Stone Just. [Justice] Peace

I also further certify that the said Olive Peck is personally known to me, and was a pensioner under the Act of July 7th - 1838

Asa Stone Jus[tice] Peace
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State of Rhode Island}
County of Kent} sc   

I Jeremiah S. Slocum Clerk of the Court of Common pleas in the county aforesaid, being a Court of Record, do certify that Asa Stone Esqr [Esquire] is a Justice of the Peace in the town of Coventry in the country aforesaid and is fully authorized to act in his said capacity and that his signature within  writen [written] is genuine - 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixes the seal of the said court, this Eleventh day of October, one thousand Eight hundred & forty three -

Jer. [Jeremiah] S. Slocum Clk Clerk]
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Olive Peck
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I Daniel Reynolds of Coventry in the County of Kent and State of Rhode Island being 79 years old do testify and say that in the year 1775 I was in a company with Samuel Peck  (late of Coventry  deceased we listed under Lieutenant Thomas Sweet and Ensign Timothy Look (the Captains name I do not recolect [recollect]) after we listed we went to East Greenwich in this County to draw equipage in order to go to Boston when there orders came for the company to go to Block Island to bring the stock off when there orders came to stay and guard the stock where it was we staid [stayed] until November then went to Boston and joined the regiment and stayed untill [until] the time of our enlistment was out we listed for six months.
David Reynolds
Attest John Vaughn
Stephen Waterman

Kent sc at Coventry this 4 day of November 1839
Came David Reynolds signor of the foregoing affidavit and made oath to the same which was commited to writing by and sworn to before me
And I further certify that he is of reputable caractor [character] and his testimony entitled to full credit
Stephen Waterman Justice of the Court of Common Please [Pleas]
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I Ezekiel Whitford of Coventry in the County of Kent and State of Rhode Island Do testify and say that I am Seventy four years old that I was at the house of William Love the Uncle of Olive Love abouth the time it was said that Samuel Peck was married to her I was not present at the marriage but I well remember of hearing the said William say that Peck had married his niece and I remember also an observation said Love made respecting Peck  Love said that Peck was a very faithful apprentice more so than any of his own boys and he should be very sorry to part with him  this I should think was in the year 1781 I was about 16 years old I will remember I was there at a Justices Court at that time.

Ezekiel Whitford

State of Rhode Island sc
Kent sc at Coventry this 14th day of August 1839 Came before me Ezekiel Whitford signor of the above and made the foregoing statement which was commited to writing by and sworn to before me

Stephen Waterman Justice of the Court of Common Please [Pleas]

I further certify he is a man of credit and his testimony may be believed.
Stepehn Waterman Justice of the Court of Common Please [Pleas]
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Olive Peck
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I Samuel Arnold Town Clerk of the town of Coventry in the County of Kent, and State of Rhode Island, do hereby certify that I have examined the Records of Marriages in said town, but cannot find the marriage of Sameul Peck and Olive Love [strike through record] recorded therein, and I further certify that I have good reason to believe that many marriages have taken place in said town, which are not recorded as well before as since the Revolution

Samuel Arnold Town Clerk
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Increase
21 mo. pri
[Underscore]
70$

Deduct what has been paid

Benjn [Benjamin] Cowell
Providence
R.I.
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State of Rhode Island & County of Kent sc

On this 24 day of May in 1843 personally appeared before me Stephen Waterman one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas within for said County Olive Peck of Coventry in said County aged 85 years who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain an increase of her pension under the act of Congress of July 7, 1839, that where said act was passed she made an application under said act & obtained a pension $31 11 [$31.11] per annum but since this she has discovered for these testimony such as she believes will entitle her to a larger amount, that she is still the widow of Samuel Peck formerly of said Coventry deceased, who was a soldier of the Revolution. That under her former declaration she obtained a pension for what services her said husband performed in Col [Colonel] Tophams regiment upon the evidence of Benjamin Green & others she has now evidence that he enlisted & served as a private in Capt. [Captain] Josiah Gibbs company & Col. William Richmonds regiment for one year, That in the beginning of the year 1776, he enlisted [strike through a private] in said company & regiment as a private
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and served twelve months until his enlistment expired and she further declares that she has often heard him say that he served under Capt Josiah Gibbs, [strike through], in Col Richmonds regiment, & she herself also remembers the fact Capt Gibbs her husband said Samuel Peck lived neighbors to each other in said Coventry and also neighbors to this applicant before her marriage and she further declares that she well remembers that when Stephen Bennett applied to her husband for his evidence, he the said Stephen asked her husband why he did not apply for a pension also, and her husband told him, he would not become a begger for that purpose, he then had a good farm &  was not in debt.  This she well remembers if she said nothing about her husbands service in Capt. Gibbs company in her first declaration it was because his name was not mentioned nor was she asked any thing respecting him.  Capt Gibbs had a son Abel Gibbs who served with him in in same company but he has been dead thirty years or more, she does not remember any other person that served in said company  Capt Gibbs died after his son about twenty years ago

Olive  her X mark  Peck

attest
Benja [Benjamin] Cowell
Stephen Waterman
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State of Rhode Island sc
 Kent sc Coventry Maty 24th in 1843
Personall [personally] appeared before me the within named Olive Peck and made oath to the truth of the above Declaration by her signed  And I further certify that she is a repectable person and her statement is entitled to credit and also that she is too feeble to attend Court and I further certify that I was well acquainted with said Sameul Peck about forty years before his death  he was a [strike through] respectable person and worth at his death about three thousand dollars

Stephen Waterman Justice of the Court of Common Please [Pleas]
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Mount Vernon R.I. July 1st   [ slighlty below and to the right an underscored 6]

Benjamin Cowell Esq.

Providence R.I.
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I Obadiah Potter of Coventry in the County of Kent and State of Rhode Island on oath do testify and say that I am now sixty four years old that I am well acquainted with Olive Peck of said Coventry widow of [strike through Samuel] Samuel Peck  I married their daughter and I further testify that when said Samuel was living I often heard him [strike through say] speak of his services in the war of the Revolution  I have often heard him say that he went into the service when only sixteen years of age and continued until he was twenty without much intermission when the first act granting pensions was passed I think in the year 1818 we urged him to get a pension he would not apply for one because he had property and that he would not dispose of his property for that purpose he devilized the act said it was wrong that it encouraged dissipation  I have often heard him speak of his services in Col Richmonds and Col Tophams Regiment of Rhode Island troops and he had a discharge from one of them which I do not now remember  he used to shew it but I believe it is now lost  I was also well acquainted with Capt Josiah Gibbs formerly of said Coventry in [water damage with as letters- same] Company  I believe said Samuel Peck served [water damage] know of no one living who served in said company
Obadiah Potter

State of Rhode Island sc
Kent sc Coventry June 30th 1843

Taken and sworn to before me and I further certify that his testimony may be relied on
Stephen Waterman Justice of the Court of Common Please [Pleas]
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I Waity Peck of Coventry in the County of Kent in oath do testify & say that I am fifty [strike through year] years of age, that Olive Peck who has signed & sworn to the preceding declaration is my Mother & she said Samuel Peck was my father.  I have a distinct recollection of hearing my father say that he served in Capt Gibbs Company  I also remember that about twenty years ago a man by the name of Johnson Jordan from the state of New York applied to her father for evidence & her father gave his affidavit for him.  But whether said affidavit went to prove service in Capt Gibbs company or serve others she does not remember Capt Gibbs  He was a neighbor to us

Watey Peck [Waity Peck]

State of Rhode Island sc
Kent sc Coventry May 24th 1843
Sworn to and subscribed before me
I certify that [strike through her] she is a respectable person and a credible witness

Stephen Waterman Justice of the Court of Common Please [Plea]
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State of Rhode Island } sc
County of Kent} sc
I Jeremiah S Slocum Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in the County aforesaid being a court of record do hereby certify that Stephen Waterman Esqr. of Coventry in said County of Kent is [strike through] a Justice of [strike through sentence] and is [strike through] fully authorize to act in his said capacity, and that his signature to this & the annexed writen [written] is genuine  -

In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court this [illegible] day of July AD 1843 - 

Jeremiah S. Slocum Clk
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Rhode Island 4966
Olive Peck
widow of Samuel Peck, deceased
[strike through- who was a  pensioner under the Act of]
who died on the 3d of July 1825
of Kent Co in the State of Phode Island
who was a private in the company commanded
by Capt  Faffara [Traffarn] of the Regt commanded 
by Col Topham in {strike through - the] R. island
live for 9 months 1 [illegible]


Inscribed on the Roll of Rhode Island
at the rate of 31 Dollars 11 cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836

Certificate of Pension issued the 31st day of January 1840 and sent to Bengamin Cowell, Providence, R. Island

Arrears to the 4th of March  1840 = $124.44
Sem=annual allowance ending [illegible]: 15.55
[double underscore]
$139.99

{Act July 7, 1838.}

Recorded by S. A. Elliot Clerk,
Book A Vol 2 Page 19
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[faint Reg]
Widow, &c.
26879

File No. [strike through]
Olive Peck
wid. [widdow] of
Samuel Peck
Prov. [Providence] Rev. [Revolutionary] war

Act Mrh. [March] 3rd 1843
Index: Vol P., Page 125

Arrangement of 1870