Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24211, Onesiphous Flanders, N.H.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
N.H.

Flanders, Onesiphous  (or Seth)
....................Sally

NUMBER
W. 24211

CONTENTS
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4783
New-Hampshire
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Sally Flanders
widow of Onesiphous Flanders
NH
who died on the 10th Dec'r 1847
of Grafton in the Stte of N.H.
who was a Private in the Comp'y commanded
by Captain Shepherd of the Regt commanded
by Col Stark in the Revolution
["line" stricken out] for 10 Months
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Inscribed on the Roll of Concord
at the rate of 80 Dollars 10 Cents
per annum, to commence on the 10th day of
["March" stricken out] Dec'r, 1839
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Certificate of Pension ifsued the 25 day of 
May, 1849, and sent to
John Bedel, Bath  N.H.
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Arrears to the 4th of
Semi-annual allowance ending

(Revolutionary Claim,
Act  July 4, 1836,
Section the 3

Recorded by Th. Lumpkin  Clerk
Book C  Vol. 1.   Page 126
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27279
New Hampshire
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Onesiphous Flanders
of Haverhill in the State of N.H.
who was a private in the Com'y commanded
by Captain Shepperd of the Regt commanded
by Colo Stark in the NH
line for 10 months
private
nd on roll.  ought rd to
tran ans allowed--
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Inscribed on the Roll of N.H.
at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension ifsued the 21st day of March 1834 and Sent to
Moody Bedel Esqr.  Bath N.H.
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1834.............$99.99
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4" Sep "       16.66
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...........................................................................$116.65
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(Revolutionary Claim,  )
(Act  June 7, 1832.       )

Recorded by George Taylor  Clerk,
Book E   Vol. 1"   Page 85

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let Nath'l Rix  Oct 29. 1840   dec'd 1839
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Sally Flanders, Widow
of Onesiphrious Flanders
No 5200
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Act 4 July 1836 &
Joint resolution of July 48

Married  1778

husband died  10 Decem  1839

adm'd,  $33.33 per ann

from 10 Decem  1839

John Bedel
Bath
NH
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State of Newhampshire   )
County of Grafton            ) SS

In order to obtain the benefits of the third Section of the Act of Congrefs of July 4th 1836.  And the Joint Resolution of July 7th 1838

On this Sixth Day of May 1840 Personally appeared befor the Judge of Probate for the County of Grafton aforsaid (in open Court) Sally Flanders of Haverhill in the State and County aforsaid, aged 81 Years.  Who being first duly Sworn according to Law doth on her Oath, make the following declaration, in Order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congrefs pafsed July 4th 1836.  And the Joint Resolution of July 7th 1838.  That she is the widow of Onesipherous Flanders late of of Haverhill in Said State and County Deceased, who was a Soldier in the Army of the Revolutionary War as will appear by his Declaration and other evidence in the war department which placed him on the pension list of the Newhampshire agency.  She further declares that She was married to the Said Onosipherous Flanders on the 20th Day of Aprill 1778.  And that her Husband the aforsaid Onosiphorous Flancers Died on the 10th Day of December Eighteen Hundred and Thirty nine and that She has remained a Widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereunto annexed--
Sally  x her mark  Flanders
Nathaniel Rix
Jon'a Flanders

Sworn and Subscribed the Day and Year above written before me.
Edward Webber Judge of Probate

State of New Hampshire--
Grafton, fs.
I David H. Collins, Clerk and
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Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Grafton aforsaid, do hereby certify that the forgoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Sally Flanders for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Probate for the County of Grafton aforsaid, this sixth day of May A.D. 1840.
David H. Collins ,Clerk
and Register.

[illegible seal affixed to the left of the above paragraph]
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congrefs pafsed the 7th of June 1832--

State of New Hampshire  )  Haverhill the
Grafton County  fs.           )  21st Jan'y 1834

On this 21st day of January 1834 then Personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the Court of Probate for said County of Grafton now Siting Onesiphous Flanders (Commonly Called Seth Flanders) of Haverhill in the County of Grafton & State of New Hampshire aforsaid Aged Seventy four Years the 20th day of December last--who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his Oath make the followin Declaration in order to Obtain the benefit of the Act of Congrefs Pafsed the 7th of June 1832 that he Entered the Service of the United Sttes under the following Named Officers & Served as herein stated to wit:--That he Enlisted in the Town of Boscowen under Captain Samuel Shepard in a Company whereof Enoch Gerrish was Lieut. & he thinks Joseph Fifield or Buhonan Ensign in the Month of May 1776 he thinks in the forepart of the Month for the Term of Five Months in Colo'l he thinks Starks Regiment in said New Hampshire & in the New Hampshire line & Immediately Marched Through No. 4 now Charlestown in said New Hampshire & then Crofsed Connecticut River into the State of Vermont & Marched through said Vermont State to Ticonderoga in the State of New York & was there Stationed untill General Burgoines Army Approached & the American Troops Retreated this being in the Month of October & having Served his Term of Five Months for which he engaged he was Honorably Discharged, but he thinks Verbally and
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and returned home to [illegible] Bonowin New Hampshire
the place of his birth, presidence & where he enlisted
he thinks that General Senile Comanded the Americans
at this place, & the applicant served a part of his
Term as a waiter to Lieut Enoch Gerrish aforesaid
& served his full term out besides his time in
Returning home - That he enlisted as a Soldier
at said Boscower in a Company under the
Command of Capt Ebenezer Webster the Reputed
Father of the Hou Daniel Webster now a Senator
in the Congress of the United States, in which Company
Winthrop Carter was Lieutenant in Col Nicoles
Regiment in the New Hampshire line he thinks
of Melitia, on the forepart of June 1780 for the
Term of Four Months & Marched Imediately
to Amherst New Hampshire & Past Master
then marched to Springfield Massachusetts then
to Claverich New York & Remained there about two
Weeks & then Marched to Fishkill or Pigill and
Remained there about Two Weeks & then Marched
to West Point & Robinson Farm, was then stationed
& was there when General Benedict Arnold went
to the Enemy & remained there till the forepart
of October his time being out for which he
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Engaged & was honorably Discharged & returned
home as aforesaid. Genl George Washington
derived about the time that not went to the
Enemy Gen Green was in command & after
him Gen Daught & the applicant was there on the
Second of October when Andre was hung in
the Jerseys, he does not recollect of ever receiving
Written Discharge he think the time which
it took him to travel Home ought to be added
to his services in
Sudie Engagements as he served his
time Secticly out before he was discharged & had
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to use his own expenses home having not been furnished
with any rations for his journey, neither time-- he has
not any Documentary Evidence & that he knows of
no contemporary survivor whose testimony he can
procure who can testify to his Services having spent
same time in search for such they having Either
Deed or Removed to Parts unto to him, that he
was Born in the Town of Boscowen aforesaid on the 20th
of December 1758, when he understand there is
Record of his age, but has never seen it. that
he lived in said Bowen Twenty two years, then
moved to County in said
New Hampshire and
lived there four years & then moved to Haverhill
aforesaid, where he has resided ever since & now resides
there he would refer to Daniel J Robinson a Respectable
Minister of the Gospel residing in said Town of Haverhill
to John Page Esq a Respectable Gentleman who
has always resided in said Haverhill from his Birth
& both of whom have been acquainted with
him for several
years past, & who can vouch for his
Reputation as a Revolutionary character & as Person
of Respectability,
Truth & veracity
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He hereby relinquishes every claim white to a
Pension or annuity
except the present & declares that ┃
his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency of
any State
one thous pleas

Sworn & Subscribed to in open
Court the day & year aforesaid
before me Edward Webber Judge of Probate
by
We Daniel Robinson a Clergyman residing in the Town of haverhill & John Presiding in the Place
hereby certify that [illegible]
well acquainted with
Onesiphous Flanders of [illegible]
aforesaid who has
Subscribed & Sworn to the above 
& [illegible]
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that we believe him to be Seventy four years old or
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
Sworn & Subscribed to in open Court
the day & year aforesaid before me
D. J. Robinson
Edward Webber Judge of Probate
John Page
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion
after the investigation of the matter & after putting the
Interrogatories
&
prescribed by the War Department that the
above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier
served as he states. And the Court further certifies
that it appears to them that Daniel I Robinson who has
Signed the preceding certificate is a respectable Clegg
President in the Town of Haverhill aforesaid in said
County and that John Page Esquire who has also
signed the same is a resident in said Haverhill is
 credible person & that their statement is Entitled
to Credit
Edward Webber Judge of Probate
Moses Dow Clerk of the Court of
●
Probate aforesaid do hereby certify
that the foregoing contains the originst
proceedings of the said Court in the matter
of the application of Onesiphous
Flanders for a Pension - In Testimony
Whereof I have hereunto set my hand
& Seal of Office this 21st day of January
AD One Thousand Eight Hundred &
Thirty four -
Moses Dow
Bedel Esq
upon
the
N C
Haverhill Grafton Co
Onesiphous Flanders
30089
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0080
Revy WIDOW, &c.
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File. No. 24211
he
Sally Flanders
wid of
Onesiphous
[illegible] Rev
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Act July 4th 1832
Index: Vol. A Page ┃
{Arrangement of 1870.}
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[illegibe] Oct 1836 - 5200
Sally Flanders - Onesiphous
Let to [illegible] Rev 30 Oct 1840
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Onesiphous Flanders, N.H. Act 7 June 32  $33.33 pr Ann

To What time was he last paid?
G.C.A.

Pension Office    )
May 23d 1819    )

Died 10th  Dec'r 1839
Pd to his death
BLB
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New Hamp
[illegible]
J L Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington D. C. 

Bath ME
[illegible]
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Bath 28th Jan 1 1834
Sir
Inclosed is an application for a Pension
Onesiphous Flanders who has been generally called Seth
Fender & he says he was called by the Name of Seth in
the army of his name should be found on the Rolls
by Either Christian think it will be in
the Second Declaration & I hope in the first as he has been
at Considerable trouble to procure proof of his services, but
has not been able to raise any as he says they are
all dead or Removed to Parts unknown & has been
obliged to make his application in the form presented
which I hope will be acceptable with ┃
of Esteem I am your [illegible]
of return I am you obedient servant
Moody Bedel
J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pension
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Bath New Hamp
October 23d 1848-
Sir
In behalf of Sally Flanders Widow of Onesiphous
Flanders late of Haverhill N H. deceased, a Revolutionary
Pensioner,
I forward her application
under the Joint Resolution 
of Congress of July 1st 1848 - As I suppose the requisition
of this Resolution have been already complied with, and
as
she unquestionably made her declaration under law July
7th 1838 before April 30, 1844, and filed it in your Office
before Jan. 23. 1845 he will be entitled to the benefit of
Resolution
Jan. 23. 1845
should not my supposition be correct in this case as to the
evidence already introduced, you of course will
inform me what further remains to be done
said Onesiphous Flanders drew a pension of
$33.33 per annum up to Sept 4th 1839 and died Dec. 10 1839
I Am,
Very respectfully,
Your Obt Sert.
John Bedel
Hon
J. L. Edwards
Cont of Pension
Washington
D. C
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Nov 7
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
I JOSIAH STEVENS, JR. Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify
that Israel W. Kelley is
an acting Justice of the Peace in
and for the County of Merrimack duly Commissioned and qualified; that
his Commission was dated on the twenty first day of June
1839
and will expire on the twenty first day of June
1844 and that
his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this fifteenth day of
April
1841
A
Josiah Stevens Secretary of State
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A. K. Merrill's Affidavit
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State of Newhampshire Grafton County SS
I Abel R. Merrill of Haverhill in the State and County aforesaid aged
31 years do testify and say that my acquaintance with Onesiphous Flanders was such in his life time, and his Death is set forth in the declaration
of his widow is correct agreeable to the information by me received, altho
I was not present at his Decease yet I have no doubt of the fact, and
that his wife Sally Flanders now his widow, has remained a widow
ever since the death of husband the said Onesiphous Flanders
Abel K. Merrill
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Sworn to and subscribed on this 21 day of October Eighteen
hundred and forty, and that the above named Abel K. Merrill
is a man of truth and [illegible] Savasity whose oath is good in any
Court 
the
above was done and executed before as the day and
year above written -
Russed Kimball
Justice Peace
State of New Hampshire - Grafton County Set
I Nathan B Felton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County & State aforesaid do hereby certify that Russell Kimball ia an acting
Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly commissioned & qualified; that his
┃ Commission was dated on the thirteenth day of June
AD 1840, and will expire on the
thirteenth day of June AD 1845, and that his signature above written is genuine
Given under my hand & the seal of said County this 11th day of October AD 1840
N B Felton Clerk
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Hon Major Rix

Sally (widow of)
Onesiphorus Flanders.

Marriage Certificate
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I John Calef Town Clerk of the Town of
Salisbury in the County of Merrimack and State of
New Hampshire hereby certify that I have
examined the Books of Record now in my possession
and find no record of the marriage of Mr
Onesiphous Flanders to Sally Foster It appears
that there has been but very few of the marriages
solemnize by the Revd Mr Jona Pearl returned
And it is a fact well known that a large portion
of the Marriages solemnized by him are not found
on either the Town of Parish records
John Calef and Town Clerk
State of New Hampshire
Merrimack April 13th 1840. Personally
appeared the above named John Calef 2 (who is
Clerk of the Town of Salisbury, and made oath to the
truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed
Before me Isreal W. Kelly
Justice Peace
A list of Marriages levied by the Rev. Jonathan Searle of Salisbury, who were published at Boscowen of the
following dates-- Mr Anipheros Flanders & Miss
Sarah Foster April twentieth seventeen hundred
and seventy eight
Alford
I Hezekiah Clerk of the town of
Boscowen, County of Merrimack & State of New Hampshire, depose & say that the above is a true extract
from a book of the record of marriages belonging to said
town of Boomen, with the exception of the date which
stands on the record in fair legible figures as follows
to wit April 20th 1770. The word allot was
interlined before signed & sworn to
Hezt Fellows Town Clerk of Bodwin
Merrimack April 10th 1840. Personally appeared Hezekiah Fellows
and made oath that the above affidavit extent by him
Weston before me Israel W. Kelly Jus. Peace
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I Sally Flanders of Haverhill in the County of Grafton
and State of New Hampshire aged 91 years depose and say
that I am the same Sally Flanders who made a declaration
as I think in the spring of 1840 at the Widow of Onesiphous Flanders late of said Haverhill deceased a Revolutionary Pension
who died on the 10th day of December 1839- I made said declaration in the month of May as I think in 1848 in order
to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of July 7
1838 and its subsequent amendments and revival but never
succeeded in receiving the said and now make this
application in order to obtain the benefit of the joint
Resolution of Congress entitled "Joint Resolution relative
evidence in application for Pensions passed July 1st
1848. That I still remain the widow of said
Onesiphous Flanders not having intermarried with
any other person since his decease as above &
her
Attest Suckey Quimby
Sally Flanders
mark
State of New Hampshire
County of Custon
Haverhill
October 18th 1848 Then
personally appeared Sally Flanders above named and
made solemn oath to the truth of the above affidavit by
her subscribed
Before me
Lewis R. Morris
Jus. Peace
State of New Hampshire
County of Grafton D. Sleeper Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County hereby
certify that Lewis Morris was on the 18th day of October A.D. 1848 and still is a Justice of the Peace
duly commissioned and qualified in and for said County, and that his signature
above written is genuine - Given under my hand and the
Seal of said Court this 20th day of October A.D. 1848
J. D. Sleeper Clerk.
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30089
Onesiphous Flanders
Haverhill N.H.

Adm'd 10 mon  private

Cap Sheperd.  Colo Stark


Moody Bedel Esqr.
Bath  N.H.