Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12767, Martin Dewey, N.H.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
N(ew).  H(ampshire).

Dewey, Martin
NUMBER
S 12767.
Carded

CONTENTS
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5503
New Hampshire
Martin Dewey
of Grafton in the State of N(ew) H(ampshire) 
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain--------- of the Reg(imen)t commanded by Col(onel) Chase in the
N(ew) H(ampshire) line for 9 mo(nth)s 
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Inscribed on the Roll of N(ew) H(ampshire) 
at the rate of 30 Dollars - Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of Feb(rua)y 1833 and Sent (to) Hon(orable)  H. Hubbard H(ouse) of Rep(resentative)s
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Arrears to 4th of Sept(ember) 1832 $45
Semi-an(nua)l. allowance ending 4 Mar 33
15--
(total) $60-

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by J H P Blair Clerk 
Book D   Vol. 1st   Page 150

(upside down on record) 

Payment & expended
at agent 9 Feb(ruar)y 1835
to Hon(orable) H. Hubbard 9 March? (18)35
let(ter) T. Kendrick  5 March 1935
let(ter) same June 14, 1837
d(itt)o  d(itt)o  July 3, 1837
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Martin Dewey 


H  Hubbard

H(ouse) of R(epresentatives)
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DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832

State of New-Hampshire,
County of Grafton ss       ⎬

On this 21st day of December 1832, personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the Court of Probate for s(ai)d County, now sitting, Martin Dewey a resident of Lebanon in the County of Grafton and State of N(ew). H(ampshire). aged 76 years, who (after) 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 7, 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated   That in the month of April in the year 17(missing) into Capt(ain) Hendres Company Col(onel) Chase Regiment
we marched from Lebanon to Cornish, thence by the (missing) Cavendish to Ticonderoga and were stationed at Mount Independence
untill within a few days before Ticonderoga was evacuated we then came by water to Skeensboro (now called Whitehall) where we 
were discharged. Served three months

Also in the year 1778 or 1779 he enlisted or was drafted into Capt(ain) Samuel Paine's  Company N(ew) H(ampshire) Militia was stationed in the town of Lebanon was sometimes called out on alarms and 
then went out of town, served in said company six months guarding the passes across the river & other duty     was ordered on this duty by Gen(era)l Bailey, went once to Royalton on an alarm that the Indians were there. 

He was born in Lebanon (illegible) in the year 1752? has no record of his age (illegible) was living at Lebanon when called into service, and have lived there to this day.  When called 
into service he enlisted, does not recollect the names of any other officers &c those above stated except Gen(era)l Poor    Never had a written discharge has no documentary evidence whatever

Is well acquainted with the Rev(eren)ds Phineas  Cooke & Timothy Kenrick who will testify as to  his character & their belief as to his services as a solder in the Revolution

He 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.
(signed) Martin Dewey

Sworn to and subscribed, the day
and year aforesaid                         ⎬

We, Phineas Cooke residing in Lebanon and Timothy Kenrick also residing in Lebanon 
hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with
Martin Dewey who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 76 years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
(signed) Phineas Cooke 
(signed) Timothy Kenrick

Sworn to and subscribed, the day
and year aforesaid                         ⎬

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court certifies, that it appears to them that Phineas Cooke who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman resident in the town of Lebanon and that Timothy Kenrick, who has also signed the same is a resident in the town of Lebanon & a Just(ice of the). Peace
and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
(signed) Edward Webber Judge of Probate

I, Moses Dow Clerk of the Court of Probate
aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Martin Dewey for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this 21st day of December AD 1832
(not visible by paper fold) Dow
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Martin Dewey
Private

7mo(nth)s & 10 days

not on Cap(tain) 
H
Hendres 
roll1777
$30
not on Paines Roll
 1780

H(onorable) H. Hubbard
H(ouse of). R(epresentatives)

On Roll Col(onel) Chase Reg(iment)
entered 16 June 1777 & served
1 mo(nth) & 10 days 
(signed) B L Peale
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BRIEF in the case of Martin Dewey of Lebanon
County of Grafton in the State of N(ew). Hampshire
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? In Open Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  (left blank) 

3. How old is he? 76

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

(table begins) 
Period.
Enlisted in April
In 1777
Enlisted or was drafted
1778 or 1779-

Duration of Service.
Years, Months,  Days 
---       3   --1--10
----      1.  ----
No rolls of Paines Company in 1778 or 1779
in the Pension Office  (signed) B L Beale

Rank.
As a
private

Names of General and Field Officers
under whom he served. 
Gen(eral) 
Col(onel) Chase         N(ew) H(ampshire)
Capt(ain) Hendee ⎬   Militia 
Capt(ain) Sam(ue)l Payne 

served.
Col. Chase Clk.
Capt Hender Militia
Capt Saml Payne
-
(table ends) 

5. In what battles was he engaged?
not any

 6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Lebanon  N(ew). Hampshire

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By a living witness as to 3 months service & by traditionary evidence

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
not properly attached

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

(signed ) Cha(rle)s G Wilcox Examining Clerk
31. Jan(uar)y 1833
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12.767
Martin Dewey
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Dec(ember) 21. 1832
Lebanon N(ew) H(ampshire)   --76
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Ap(ri)l 1777. Lebanon N(ew) H(ampshire)
Capt(ain) Hendge
Col(onel). Chase -  3mo(nths)
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(17)78 or (17)79
Capt(ain) Sam(ue)l Paine
Col(onel) -----
6 mo(nths)
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No Bal(ance)
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(diagonally across upper left margin) 
J W N 
E C L 

S 12767

Florence, Colo(rado) Sept(ember) 19, 1900

Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir:--

I have been told that you could give me the desired information concerning the correctness of my Great Grandfather having
been a revolutionary soldier. My mother
remembers quite well that he drew a pension
He lived in New Hampshire. I think at Lebanon
His name was Martin Dewey. If you will kindly
let me know the charges and all else you can
about it I shall be very much obliged, I am
desirous of joining the daughters of the Revolution

Sincerely
(signed) Mrs H. W. Gray
3538-21st Street
San Francisco
California

(stamp) 
O.W.&N. DIVISION
SEP(tember) 26 1900
RECEIVED

(stamp) 
PENSION 
U
SEP(tember) 24 1900
S
OFFICE
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(left side of record)

Oct. 4. 1900, Hist(or)y to
Mrs. H. W. Gray
San Francisco Cal(ifornia)
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(right side of record) 
(vertically on record)  Rev(olutionary) War

INVALID.

File No.  12,767

Martin Dewey
Pri(vate) Rev(olutionary) War
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Act: June 7th 1832

Index: -- Vol.  (left blank), Page (left blank)
[Arrangement of 1870.}
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(left side of record)
Relates to
Martin Dewey or
Downer

taken from No 15,412
Joseph Downer


(right side of record)

(copy)
Martin Dewey, certified
12767

"Payments to be made
at Portsmouth N(ew) H(ampshire) by the
Pres(ident). U(nited). S(tates). Br(anch) Bank Agent for paying Pensioner in the 
Agency of N(ew). H(ampshire)--.


N B Original sent to the Hon(orable)  J H Johnson Feb(ruary) 8. 1848
and now on file in the Pen(sion) Off(ice)
HHL

Recorded by J H M. Blair
Clerk, in Book D. Vol 1st
page 150"
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Copy
" War Department
Revolutionary Claim

I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States of the 7th June 1832, Martin Dewey of the State of New Hampshire who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is
entitled to receive Thirty Dollars and----cents per annum during his natural life commencing on the 4th of March 1831 and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September in every year.


L. S. (circled)

Given at the War Office of the United States this tenth day of February one thousand
eight hundred and thirty three.-
Lew Cass
Secretary of War"

Examined and
Countersigned⎬
J.L. Edwards

No 5503
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Lebanon N(ew) H(ampshire)
free
(illegilble)
James L Edwards (Esq(uire)
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington
D C

(sideways on record)
July 3
Nv Syl
JM.at. 
Nv Syl
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Lebanon June 26 1837
J L Edwards Esq(quire) Commissioner of Pensions

Sir

yours of the 14th Instant was duly received
you say that the rolls of Captain Paines Company for 1780 were before you and the names of Joseph Downer and Martin Dewey are not on them, the rolls to which you refer  were for services performed by Captain Paine
at Stratford in the year 1780, his company was composed of soldiers from this and other towns in this vicinity but this is not the service under which they claim    I have convened with Doctor Parkhurst and shewn him your letter, he says the services performed by Dewey and Downer were done the year before Captain Paine went to Stratford and of course must
have been in the year 1779, he also says that when he made the affidavit for Mr Downer in July 1832 to which you allude he had hardly thought of the subject for the last fifty years and did not at that time recollect much about it,  but since then his attention has been frequently called to it by persons making enquiries about Revolutionary Services and having thought more about it, he is positive that the affidavit made by him for Dewey and Downer in May last, (a copy of which he read) is correct, and that they performed the
services therein mentioned.  He says also that
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there were others stationed at the same place at the same time, and he believes that they were furnished with arms by the town of Lebanon.  

Doctor Packhart says that he cannot see any reason why these two old men should not be again restored to the pension roll as he believes they are justly entitled 

They are each of them about Eighty years of age and cannot draw long, and I hope they will 
be again entered

I am very Respectfully your most ob(edien)t ser(vant)
(signed) Timothy Kenrick
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I Joseph Wood Aged 72 years do depose and say that I enlisted into Capt(ain) Hendres Company Col(onel) Chases. Regiment in April 1777.   Marched to Cornish N(ew) H(ampshire) thence by the way of Cavendish Vermont to Ticonderoga was stationed on Mount  Independence. A few days before Ticonderoga was evacuated we came in Batt(?) under the orders of Col(onel) Chase to Skeensboro (now called Whitehall) w(h)ere we were discharged after serving three months. Martin Dewey of Lebanon was a soldier in the same company with me during the whole of said service I am well acquainted with him and know him to be the same person his age is about 76 years -
(signed) Joseph Wood

State of Newhampshire
Grafton ss Dec(ember) 25 1832⎬  

Sworn and subscribed. Before me
(signed) Timothy Kenwick Justice of (the) Peace
I certify that the above deponent is a credible person
(signed)Timothy Kenrick Justice of (the) Peace

I certify that T Kenrick is a Justice of the Peace and that the above is his signature 
(signed) H. Hubbard  M C
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of
Martin Dewey which require further proof or explanation.
 
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?  Yes

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?  (left blank)

IV. Has the declarant mentitioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes 

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?   Yes

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?  Yes
,
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832   Yes 

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?  Yes

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?   Yes

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?  Yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?   Yes

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtain    (left blank)

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?
(left blank)

XIV. +If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath,
certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?  Yes
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?  Yes

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?  Yes 

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?  (left blank)

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered  satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered   Yes
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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 each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the
officers, and other particulars respecting their service.   This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the
applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed
in any civil pursuit.

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 he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths
must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.

QUERE XVI   Mode of authenticating papers. 
  In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends 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.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of
office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.