Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12,504, Asa Clark, Conn.
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SERVICE
Conn,
CONTENTS
Clark, Asa
NUMBER
S. 12.504
carded
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8589 M

Asa Clark
Murray in the State of New York
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Wylly
of the Regt commanded
by Col Wylly in the Connecticutt line for 13 month 12 days

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 44 Dollars 66 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of Apl
1833
and sent to B Allen
Murray, NY

Arrears to the 4th of Mar 33     $89.32

Semi-an. allowance
 ending 4 Sep                              33 22.
                                                  $111.65

Recorded by Jno Cromwell Clerk
Book E Vol. 4 Page 16

A Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.



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Date of
notary
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State of New York
County of Orleans
On this twenty second day of August
personally appeared before me William James one of the
Judges of said County Asa Clark a resident of Murray in
the County of Orleans and State of New York aged 77 years who
being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make
the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act
of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he entered the service
of the United States under the following named officers and
served as herein stated that he enlisted under Capt. John Willey of
the town of East Haddam in where this deponent resided during
all the time of his enlistments his Lieut was Daniel one of the
same town, that the company belonged to the Regiment commanded
by Samuel Wyllys & Maj Return. I. Meigs that he enlisted the
tenth of May in the year 1775 for the term of seven months in the
Connecticut line of State troops and were ordered to march to
Roxbury in Massachusetts that he left the service on the tenth day of
December following, that he went as a volunteer that he was on parade
in Roxbury on the day of Bunker Hill Battle and one of his Regiment
was killed during said Battle upon which the troops were ordered to
take their stations a short distance in the year out of reach of the
shot off the enemy that he has no documentary evidence and that he
knows of no person he can procure who can testify to his service
That in the year 1776 he was called out together with all the militia
in general in that vicinity in a company of Light horse under the
command
of Capt. James Green of East Haddam
the regiment being under the command of Maj. Ebenezer Backus
of the British on Throgs thicken and carried despatifies to Gen. Washington of the attack of
and were marched to Westchester in New York State and served
this time as he believes about two and a half months having been cal
led out as soon as possible after the alavin came of the attack of the
British on the American Army at Brooklyn on Long Island
and he was dismissed on the 16th November the day of the
Surrender of Fort Washington - That in the year 1777 he went
as a Substitute for Levi Gates a Trumpeter in the aforesaid
Capt. Green's Company of Light Horse and was in the service
this term one & a half months having left home the last of August
and he was dismissed on the fourteenth day of October following
that his Capt. was James Green aforesaid in the company of Light
fore commanded by him that he was marched to Benning
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or in Vt. and that the services of his detachment was in riding on Express to different parts of the country for the armyfrom Bennington we were ordered to Pawlet in Vt. where the same services were required of us & from thence we were ordered to Stillwater in N.Y. where we arrived the Saturday previous to our discharge which was on Monday following. That in the year 1779 he went in the Light Horse as a substitute for Abner Smith of East Haddam foresaid and joined the army on the line between Con. N. Y. States and signed the Enlistment for three months and was under the command of Capt Bull of Hartford in the Regiment commanded by Col. Sheldon of Litchfield and Maj Benjamin Talmage and our duty was to guard the american army lines that he went about the tenth and was dismissed on the fourteenth and arrived at home the Seventeenth day of December following having been absent about ten weeks and as before specified has no documentary evidence or knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to the above services and that he is unable to attend the court of Orleans County to make this declaration
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.
                                                      Asa Clark
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
before me William James one of the Judges of Orleans Court of  Pleas.
We, Medad Ferry, a clergyman residing in the town of Murray, and Horace Hibbard Justice of the peace in said town hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Asa Clark who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that  we believe him to be 77 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.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me  
              Horace Hibbard Justice
               Medad Ferney   
                          
     William Jameson one of the  Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Orleans
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State of New York 
Orleans County ⎬
 Asa Clark Jr. of the town of Murray in said County being duly sworn deposeth and says that he is the son of Asa Clark An applicant for a pension as a soldier of the revolutionary War that he has been acquainted with said Asa for the term of thirty years past and that during said term of time he has ever understood that his father was a soldier of the revolutionary Army that said deponent has read the declaration of said Asa Clark herewith  accompanying and that he believes said declaration to contain a true account of the services performed by said Asa Clark and further this deponent saith not.
                                Asa Clark Jr.
Subscribed and sworn this 22nd day of August
1832 before me 
 Horace Hibbard Justice of the peace in Murray
Orleans County
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Asa Clark 9739
Declaration and proved
findings had before William
James in the matter of ┃
Asa Clark for a pension
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State of New York
Orleans County ⎬
Asa Clark Jr. of the town of Murray in said County being duly sworn deposeth and says that he is the son of Asa Clark An applicant for a pension as a soldier of the revolutionary War that he has been acquainted with said Asa for the term of thirty years past and that during said term of time he has ever understood that his father was a soldier of the revolutionary army that said deponent has read the declaration of said Asa Clark herewith  accompanying and that he believes aid declaration to contain a true account of the services performed by said Asa Clark and further this deponent saith not.
                            Asa Clark Jr. 

Subscribed and sworn this 22nd day of August
1832 before me
Horace Hibbard Justice of the peace in Murray
Orleans County
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State of New York
Orleans County
Be it Remembered that on this 18th day of February in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight
hundred and thirty three personally came before me
William James a Judge of Orleans County Asa
Clark the foregoing applicant and in addition to
his foregoing Declaration he makes the following
and answers, after I put the following Interrogatories and after being duly sworn by according to Law for the purpose of obtaining his pension.
where was you born and in what year.
to
Answer. He says he was born in the town of East
Haddam in the the County of Hartford now Middlesex) in the State of Connecticut on the 8th day of June in the year of our Lord 1755 - According to the Church Records in the same town when he was baptized.
Have you any records of your age and When are they if any
Answer they are in the Church Book of Records
and baptisms in the Town of East Haddam in
of the State of Connecticut as aforesaid.
where were you living when you was called into the
Service where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live?
Answer He lived in the Town of East Haddam
as aforesaid. He moved from that place to the Town 
of Genesee in the then County of Ontario at that time and now the County of Kingston in the State of
New York One year he lived in this town and then removed to the town of Avon in the then County of Ontario and now the County of Livingston and State of New York when he lived twenty five days- and from that place he moved to the town of Murray in the County of Orleans in the State of New York where he has since and now
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continues to reside-
How were you called with the Service? Were you drafted or did you volunteer or were you a substitute and a substitute for whom
Answer He volunteered his service the first period
for seven months and enlisted and served out the time of Seven months in in Capt John Millers Company of the second period he volunteered in Capt James Green Company of Militia and was out two months and fifteen days against the British Army at New York he was stationed at Westchester
The third period he volunteered and went as a substitute for One Gates who had been drafted in Capt James Green as before in the militia and served
one month and Eighteen days at this time he
Marched to Benington against Burgoynes Army and was at Bennington
The fourth period he next went as a substitute for
Abner Smith who had been drafted in Capt
James Greens Company again to serve as a dragoon
 against the British army at White plains
and New York to guard the lives in Col Elisha
Sheldon's Regiment of Dragoons. This draught
was for three months but he was discharged
after having served two months and nine days
State the names of some of the regular 
officers who were with the troops where
you served, such continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service.
Col. Elisha Sheldon, Major Benjamin Talmadge
Capt. Bull of the Dragoons; was acquainted with
Col. Moylan's Regt of Dragoons in 1779. Also with 
Col. Warner's Regt of Vermont in 1777. Also with ┃
Col Selder's Regt of Militia of Con. State troops in 1776 also with Gen Gates at Van Scheicks Island where
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he was sent as an express and was detained
two days before he obtained his answer in 1777
That his duty in 1775 was keeping guard, fatigue
parties & in Roxbury on Boston neck; In 1776 his
service was in doing duty at Throgs Neck in Westchester County N.Y. as a guard and carrying errands to and from Gen Washingtons headquarters
at York Island and at Haarlem heights and as a _____ - In 1777 keeping Guard at Pawlet in Vermont in small parties and going on errands for the Army or officers thereof and in 1779 his duty was patrolling on the lines between the British and american Armies
Did you ever get a discharge and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it- Ans. He never did receive a written discharge but did always
receive a discharge from the head of the Regiment
from under the commanding officers.
State the names of the persons to whom you are
known in your present neighborhood and who
can testify as to your character as to truth and
veracity and their belief of your services as a
Soldier of the revolution - Answer-
Benjamin Allen, Horace Hibbard, E Wood
Thomas J. Jewett, Asa Clark Jr.
                           Asa Clark
Sworn to and subscribed before me on this 18th day of February AD 1833
        William James a Judge of Orleans County
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Benjamin Allen , Horace  Hibbard
E Wood, Thomas J. Smith and Asa Clark Junior after
being duly Sworn - Do Certify that for a long time
have been familiarly acquainted with Asa Clark and we do Consider him to be a man of the strictest truth and veracity and that he had always been reputed to have been a Revolutionary Soldier
and have served in the Revolutionary army and
We do further certify that we do believe that he has served in the Revolutionary army as he has set forth in his said Declaration and affidavit.
Asa Clark Jr
Horace Hibbard
Eri Wood
Thomas J Jewett
Benjamin Allen

Sworn to and Subscribed before me this 18. Day
 February AD. 1833
William James a Judge of Orleans Condy County

and I the said William James a Judge of the Court
of Common Pleas for the County of Orleans. Do
hereby certify that I am also well acquainted with
Asa Clark the foregoing applicant and that I Do
consider him a man of strict truth and veracity and
within that he lives in the Neighborhood of the foregoing and persons who have certified to his good character and that they are men of truth & veracity, and entitled to credit. And further certify
said Asa Clark is unable through bodily and
other infirmities to attend a court of Record
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 19 day of
February AD 1839
                             William James

Horace Hibbard Justice of the peace
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9739
Asa Clark
Amended - length of service
no proof except tradition

admitted
13 mo 12 da.
$
5
proof reg
27 Aug 1832
Dec11 1832
Benjamin Allen
Murray N.Y.



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Brief in the case of Asa Clark
of Murray in the State of N. York
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? 
before a Judge of the County Court
of Orleans
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
 it does so appear
3. How old is he? 
77 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period.
May 10th In 1775 enlisted 7 months Private Col Saml Wylly. Continental Line
1776 (called out) about 2 1/2months  Private Col Jas Green  Major Backus                                        Cavalry                               
1777  1/2 months Substitute  Col Green  Cavalry
1779.  about 10 weeks Substitute  Capt. Bull   Col Sheldon  Dragoons
5. In what battles was he engaged? none stated
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? East Haddam, Connecticut
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
 Traditionary evidence alone
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
The papers are not attached to each other as the Regulations required
Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Wm Gordon Examining Clerk.
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                                                               Asa Clark S. 12506
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  May 19, 1932                                                             BA-J/REL
Mrs. Theta Hakes Brown
R. R. 1
Albion, New York

Dear Madam:

The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file
in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, S.12504, based upon the military service of Asa Clark in that war.
Asa Clark was born January 8, 1755, in East Haddam, Connecticut.
While residing in East Haddam, Connecticut, he volunteered and
served as a private with the Connecticut Troops as follows: from
May 10, 1775, seven months in Captain John Willey's Company, Colonel Samuel Wyllys' Regiment; from sometime in 1776, exact date not stated, two and one-half months in Captain James Green's Company of Light Horse under Major Ebenezer Backus, and was discharged November 16, 1776; during this tour he was the courier who carried the news to General Washington of the attack on Throg's Neck; from August, 1777. one month and eighteen days in Captain James Green's Company of Light
Horse and was discharged October 14, 1777, from sometime in 1779, two months and nine days in Captain Bull's Company, Colonel Elisha Sheldon's Regiment of Dragoons, and was discharged December 17, 1779.
After the Revolution he moved to Geneseo, Ontario (later Livingston) County, New York and lived one year; then moved to Avon, Ontario (later Livingston County, New York, and lived twenty-five years; then moved to Murray, Orleans County, New York.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 22, 1832, while residing in Murray, New York.
A son, Asa Clark, was residing in Murray, New York, in 1832.
The name of his mother and his age are not given and there are no further data as to his family.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to ADMINISTRATOR. A

date of death not given
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                                                           April 26, 1934
                                                           XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
                                                           ASA CLARK
                                                           S. 12504
                                                           BA-J/MIBO

Mrs. That Hakes Brown
R. F. D. 1
Albion, New York
Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter of April 26, in which you
request further information relative to Asa Clark, S. 12504.
whose record was furnished you May 19, 1932.
No reference was made in the claim to Asa Clark's wife and
the only family data given was the reference to his son, Asa,
who was a resident of Murray, New York, in 1832.
In order to obtain date of last payment of pension, the name
and address of the person paid, and possibly the date of soldier's death, you should write to the Comptroller General, General Account ing Office, Records Division, this city, citing the following:
Asa Clark, Certificate No. 8569, issued April 20, 1833, rate $43.88
per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act June 7, 1832, New York.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's application for pension on file in this Bureau.
Asa Clark Sur File 12507
DATES OF
ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.
May 10, 1775.
1776 ┃
1797
LENGTH OF
SERVICE.
mos
James
me 18 days
Oct 10 1779 Amos 9 days
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RANK.
it
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
John Willey
James Green
James Green
Bull
COLONEL.
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Samuel Wyllys
of light horse
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Elisha Sheldon
Cont)
STATE.
Conn
Battles engaged in,
Residence of soldier at enlistment, East Haddam, Coun
Date of application for pension, Aug 12, 1832 theresa
Residence at date of application, Murray, Orleans Co. N.Y.
Age at date of application, born at East Haddam Con Jany 8. 1745-
Remarks: A Son Asa Clark Jr hard at Murray N.Y. in 1832
to the family on file
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R. 1 Albion, N.Y. Mar. 23. 1932
Dear sir, will you please send me what information you have concerning Artemus Thayer of Orleans NY, wife
Densmore. the 1840 census gives his age as 17 living in town of Barre.  There is to be a marker erected this coming
summer bearing the Revolutionary soldiers of this and nearby Towns. in order to prove a man eligible we would like the military service and family data in order to interest the descendants.
There was also Amos Frink age 80, town of
Murray Orleans Co NY. 1840 census
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and
Aaron Warren age 78 some years and same town
There was an Ebenezer Hart . Sept 27, 1828
in his life ( wife Lydia Nott) on whose grave, a flag
is placed every year. The family claim
he was tin the Revolution, think they claim he came from Vermont.
Also a Timothey Ruggles died June of 1831 age 83 yrs
and has a flag holder. From the grave stone
by his side his wife appears to be Ruth,
died Aug. 22, 1830 at 75 years. There is a daughter 
Polly Ann, son Luther and a Timothy about 1800 on same lot.
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some of the old people who live near
Murray Cemetery town of Murray Orleans
claim that a Revolutionary soldier lies by the side of Asa Clark died June 9 1861 no age or date of birth. That 
that the above was Asa Jr. I can find no more record concerning the above
This marker is part of a plan to mark the Ridge Road from the Genesee to Lewiston and this special marker is to be part of our Bicentennial celebration. I am the genealogical chairman of the Orleans  Chapter D.A.R. which will have
charge of the erection of the marker.
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In the time Revolutionary Soldiers were being buried in this county no record whatever were kept of cemeteries.
We will be very grateful for any help you may give us
Yours sincerely
Mrs Theta Hakes Brown
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4 /2 /10
To the Commissioner of Pensions
Washington DC

Dear Sir,
A search has been made in records of
time, Adjutant Generals Office Hartford, Conn
and name of my great
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Grandfather John Pearam in a company from Fairfield and great grandfather Asa
Clark in a company from Haddam appears. 
No family 
I hope you can give me additional
information in regard to John Pearam and
Asa Clark.
Very Truly,
Mrs. D. P. Wilder


825 ______ Ave.
_____ Falls, NY


APR 6 - 1919 (date stamp)
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L. W. Wileys,
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Oct 16 1906
Commissioner 
of Pensions
BUFFALO, N.Y. Oct 26/6
Washington, D.C.
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Dear Sir
Will you kindly send me a copy of the
of Asa Clark who appears on the
Revolutionary roll from either Orleans Co or Ontario Co. NY
Yours truly
L. W. Wagus

8589
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Dec 23 Hist
C. Larin Chicago Ill

1906 Nov 7. History to Mr
┃ L. W. Wilgus. M.B.H.

1910 Apr 15 Hist to
Mrs. D. P. Wilder & L.M.
1932 May 19 - Hist to
┃ Mrs Theta H. Brown

Rev War

INVALID.
File No. 12504
Asa Clark
Rev. Rev. War
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Act: June 7" 1832 ┃
Index: -- Vol. A Page 70
Arrangement of 1870.]


1893 WEM
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And the said Judge does hereby declare his opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogateries prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the Judge further certifies that The above named Medad Ferry is a Clergyman and that the above named Horace Hibbard is a Justice of the peace in said County and that they are both men of the first respectability and are entitled to credit and are both well acquainted and live in the same town when the above named applicant resides, dated August the 22nd A.D. 1832 ⎬ William James a Judge.

I,Abraham B. Mills, clerk of the Court of Common Pleas do hereby that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Judge in the matter of the application of Asa Clark for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of my office on this twenty second day of August in the year of our Lord onethousand Eight hundred and thirty two and that the aforesaid William James is now one of the Judges
of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said
County of Orleans in the State of New York
H.B. Mills Clerk of the  Court
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Asa Clark's
Declaration
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State of New York)
Orleans County    ⎬
Clerks Office
I, Abraham R Hills ,Clerk of the said County, do hereby certify that William James before whom the additional proceedings in the preceeding declaration was made in the matter of the Application of Asa Clark for a pension and also before whom the preceding affidavits were sworn Excepting his own has at  the date of the same a Judge of the County Court in and for the said County. And that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavits and the Certificate of the further investigation of the said proceedings be his proper hand writing and signature-
Witness my hand and seal of Office this 8th day of March AD 1883.
A.B. Mills, Clerk
State of New York
Orleans County
Clerks Office
Graham Clerk of the said County do certify that Horace Hibbard before whom the affidavit of William James purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same a Justice of the peace in and
to party. And that I am acquainted with his hand
writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature.
Witness my hand and seal of Office this 8th day of
March A.D. 1833-
A.B Mills, Clerk
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State of New York
Orleans County
                               ⎬
Oliver Come of the town of Shelby in the County of Orleans and State of New York aged 76 years being
duly sworn deposes and says that he is well acquainted with Asa Clark now residing in the town of Murry who was a soldier of the revolutionary army at Roxbury in Massachusetts for the term of seven months from the 10th May 1775 until the 10th day  ofDecember following that being the term of his Enlistment, & this deponent also further testify and says that he has always said Ada Clark who resided in the town of East Haddam in the State of Connecticut being the same town where this deponent resided in the year 1775 and from that time during the revolutionary war that the said Asa Clark was in a company of Light Horse in the County of Westchester in the State of  New York and also in an expedition into the  State of Vermont and the Northern part of the State of New York as a Lighthorse man at the time of the capture of Gen. Burgoyne and this deponent further says that from his knowledge of the truth and veracity of said Asa Clark he has no doubt that he served the time he has set forth in his declaration.
                       Oliver Cone

Subscribed and sworn this 17th day of September1832 before me.
Nathaniel Perry, Justice
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State of New York
Orleans County
I,  Ezbon G. Fuller, Depty Clerk of the said County of Orleans do certify that Nathaniel W. Penny before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the justice of the peace in & for said County and that
I am acquainted with his hand writing duly believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing & signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name
and affixed the seal of said County at Albionon 
the 18th day of September 1832.
E.G.Fuller