Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19985, for Samuel Phippin, Vermont
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(8-1776)
Service                                      Number
Vt.            Phippin, Samuel        W. 19985.
                              Ruth

Contents
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Albany  5,363
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Ruth Phippin
widow of Samuel Phippin
who was a pensioner under the Act of [line crossed out, Vt written above line]
and who died on the 23, July 1820
of Jefferson Co. in the State of N. York
who was a Pr. Lieut in the company commanded
by the Captain Seely of the regt. commanded
by Col. Wait in the Vermont
line for 1 month 3 days Pr. ------ $3.66
             5 " " 21 " Lieut. ---------- 76.00
                                                     79.66
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Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 79 Dollars 66 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 7 day of May
1840 and sent to Adriel Ely
Watertown, N.Y.
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Arrears to the 4th of March '40                318.64
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Sept"    39.83
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                                                                       358.47
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Act July 7,
1838.

Recorded by D. Brown Clerk,
Book A. Vol. 2. Page 98

Dead
Letter to [Illegible] Nov 1840.
Order to pay [Illegible] Nov 1840.
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I John Goold of Windham in the
County of Windham and State of Vermont of lawful age being duly sworn depose and say that I was well acquainted with Samuel Phippin in Westminster Vermont from the first of my recollection in infancy up to AD 1800 living a near neighbor to him about forty years and know that there was then no other person of that name living in the town or immediate vicinity, said Samuel Phippin was a brother in law of Captain John Petty and have understood from said Phippin that he served as a private under his brother in law Capt Petty a short time in AD 1777 I being absent in the service then myself I have been further told by said Samuel Phippin that he went out in Capt Bucks company in 1781 at the [Illegible] in Newbury but the time he was out at each time I know not I further know that in the year 1781 the aforesaid Samuel Phippin was appointed a first Lieutenant in Captain Abner Seely's company and and served in the Army as such but the exact time he was in the service I know not. Though I visited in the town of Westminster at the time went into the service and at the time he returned and further I say not
John Goold
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State of Vermont
Windham County Windham January 16 1840
Personally apeared John Goold of Windham in the County of Windham and State of Vermont and being carefully examined and duly cautioned made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth
Before Joseph Wood Justice of the Pc

Windham County Windham January 16. 1840
I hereby certify that John Goold the deponent signing the foregoing deposition is a creditable witness
Joseph Wood Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont
Windham County Court Clerk's Office
New Fane January 20th AD 1840
I Marshall Miller, Clerk of said County Court, do certify, that Joseph Wood is a Justice of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signature above written and genuine -  In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of said County the day and year above written
Attest - Marshall Miller, Clerk
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State of New York
Jefferson County On this 5th day of March 1839 personally appeared before the Hon Calvin Mcknight first Judge of the Jefferson County Court Ruth Phippin a resident of the town of Watertown in the County of Jefferson aged Seventy five years last August who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 entitled an Act granting half pay and pension to certain widows. That she is the widow of Samuel Phippin who was a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary Army and served as is here in stated: That in September 1775 the said Samuel Phippin then residing in the town of Westminster in the State of Vermont and Lieutenant in the company commanded by Capt. Azariah Wright in a Regiment of which Major Burke was Major, the Colonel not mentioned: That the first of September 1775 the said company marched to Quebec and the said Phippin went as a Lieutenant therein and served at Quebec: that Capt Wright had the small pox at Quebec and Lieut Phippin had the command of the Company That said company remained at Quebec and on the March there & back until the first of June 1776 & that the said Phippin served as Lieutenant from 1 Sept 1775 to 1 June 1776 in this expedition as this declarant always has been informed & believes to be true: That the said Phippin was also in the battle of Stillwater & the Captain of Burgoyne but the time engaged is not known to this declarant, That in May or June 1780 The aforesaid Samuel Phippin belonged to a company of Rangers: Capt Abner Seely was Captain and the said Phippin was Lieutenant and Colonel Benjamin Wait [Illegible] of the battalion
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of Rangers: that Capt Seely's Company and Lieutenant Phippin were called out and was stationed at Corinth one of the frontier towns of Vermont from which [Illegible] guards as scouting parties were sent out: That from a writing on a pay roll in the hand writing of the said Phippin the [illegible] of this town was the 28th May 1781: that as she has ever understood and believes the said Phippin was actively engaged from that time until the war ceased in periods of Eight and nine months - That she defers to a pay Roll of Capt Seely's Company in her pension to establish a part of this same:to the affidavit of Seth Goold to show that the said Phippin was out Eight or nine months in the first town: that she defers to such proof as she can get to establish his service:
She further declares that she was married to the said Samuel Phippin on the 5th day of September 1784 by the Rev Joseph Bullen at Westminster Vermont: that her name before marriage was Ruth Lane: that she has [Illegible] the records of Westminster to be examined and that no records of her marriage can be found: that no records of her marriage exist: that her husband the aforesaid Samuel Phippin died on the 23rd day of July 1820; that she was not married to him prior to his having the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, cir: at the time above stated
Sworn to and [Illegible] 
on the day & year above written
before me 
Calvin McKnight First 
Judge of Jeff. County Courts
her
Ruth X Phippin
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State of New York 
Jefferson County Clerk's Office, } ss.
I, PELEG BURCHARD, Clerk of said County, do hereby Certify, that Calvin McKnight Esq before whom that annexed affidavit purports to have been sworn,- was at the date of the same first Judge of the Courts in and for the said County, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorized to take the same.-and further, that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the same to be his proper hand writing and signature.
[court seal affixed] Witness my hand and seal of said County, this fourteenth day of March in the year 1839
/s/P. Burchard Clerk
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State of New York
Jefferson County
On this 5th day of March
1839 personally appeared before the Hon Calvin
M. Knight first Judge of Jefferson County Courts
Joel Lane a resident of Brownville in said County
aged sixty nine years last June who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that he was acquainted with Lieut Samuel Phippen late of
Watertown deceased and that he knew him during the
latter part of the Revolutionary War and that
he was knowing to his performing one or two
terms of service in the Vermont State troops
and according to the best of his recollection it was
in the years 1782 & 1783 and that each term of
service was for nine months. And this deponent
further says that he was acquainted with Capt Azarich
Wright & Ensign Case Avery and that he has heard them both say that Lieut  Phippen went with them through the woods to Quebeck in 1775 under the command of Capt Wright And he further says that he was present at the marriage of the
said Samuel Phippin to Ruth Law the applicant for
a pension under the act of Congress of July 7th 1838
and that the said Marriage took place at Westminster
County of Windham & State of Vermont and as near
as this deponent recollects the fore part of September
1784 and the said Marriage ceremony was performed
by the Revd Joseph Button Minister of the Congregational
Church in said Westminster
Joel his x mark Law
Sworn & Subscribed this
5th day of March 1839 before me 
Calvin McKnight first judge Jeff County Courts
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In reply to your request of ___, received___ for a statement of the military history of Samuel Phippin a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his  [crossed out] (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. W. F. 19,985:
Dates of Enlistment or appointment.
Length of service.
Rank.
Officers under whom service was rendered. Captain. Colonel.
State.
Sept. 1, 1775 to June 1, '76 Lieut. Azariah Wright [check mark in Colonel box] Vt.
1777 1 mo. 3 da Pri. John Petty William Williams July 1, 1781 5" 21" Lieut. Abner Seely Benjamin Wait
Battles engaged in, [carrot drawn up to point at added entry] Expedition to Quebec, both battles of Stillwater
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Westminster, Vt.
Date of application for pension, March 5, 1839. Her cl. was [illegible]
Residence at date of application, Watertown, Jefferson Co N.Y.
Age at date of application, B in Aug, 1763
Remarks Soldier mar. Sept 5 1784, at Westminster, Vt., Ruth Lane, he died at Watertown, N.Y. July 23, 1820 and she died Sept 10, 1839. Children: only names stated are Ruth, born in 1785 or 1786 and Horatio (sixth child) who was 41 yrs of age in 1839.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
J-285C
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Dec. 21, 1916 History [illegible]
Mrs. Charlotte E. Wood [illegible]


Roy  Widow, &c.
File No. 19985
Ruth Phippin
Widow of Samuel Phippin
Lt. Rev. War


Act. July 7th, 1838
Index: --- Vol. M, Page 129

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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[Stamp]
Pension
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U.7 S.
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OFFICE
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Muskegon Dec 5 1916
to the Pension Office 
Sirs
My daughter would like to joyn the Daughters of the Revolution and my great grandfather was a revolutionary Soldier his name was Phippen I don't remember his given name but I know he drew a pension can you give me his name birth and death he drew his Pension I think at Watertown Jefferson Co Ny My mothers father was in the War of 1812 and was wounded at the
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Battle of Sackets Harbor his name was Ira Orvis don't know as he drew a Pension can you give me his birth and death and if either one was an Officer My other great grandfather was William Orvis don't know as he was in the Army not
Respectfully
Charlotte E Wood 
15 W Muskegon Ave
Muskegon 
Mich
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[stamp]
U. S. Pension Office
Dec 7 1916
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[Illegible]
N. York
Ruth Phippin
let. to A. Ely 15 July 1839
married 5 Sept. 1784.
Husb dead 23 July 1820
to same 19 Oct. 1839
Act July 1838
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Watertown March 14, 1839
Sir
I herewith send the declaration of Mrs Ruth Phippen widow of Samuel Phippen with the proofs annex in order that she may be placed on the pension roll under act of July 1838
There is no direct proof of the service of Saml Phippin in the expedition to Quebec but I think by carefully all the affidavits you will be convinced that he was in that service the length of time he was one I wish you to come at as near as as you can; the proof is that 30 days was end up in the March there. Mr. Phippen makes the time gone 9 months. He was aftermath out several periods at Corinth Vermont, a pay roll establishes a part only of this service. 
I wish you to grant such pension as you think will be right
Yr Obed serv
Adreil Ey
J L Edwards Ey
Court of Pensions
Washington
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Albany Pension Agency
November 5, 1840
James S. Edwards Esquire
Commissions of Pensions
Sir
I enclose the vouchers in the case of Philip D  Forest died, & Ruth Phippen died, referred to in your letter of the 2nd encl and in mine of the 30th also
I am, Sir
very respectfully
Your obedt Serv
Thos A Abott
Pension Agent for
L. Jenkins
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State of Vermont
Secretary of State's Office
Montpelier August 2 1839
I hereby certify that there is on file in this office a paper purportin got be a True List of (the names and sums of) Capt Abner Seelye's Pay Roll of himself & company in the service of the State of Vermont from the beginning of the campaign 1781 to the 30th of June in said year inclusive taken from the original roll in the Pay Mastr Office on which roll is the name of Lt Saml Phippen with an allowance of 57.18.0 annexed thereto.
Also that there is a paper purporting to be a Pay Roll of Captain Abner Seelye's Company in Col Benjamin Wait's Battalion in the service of the State of Vermont from the first day of July 1781 to the 30th day of November 1781 inclusive; on shich Pay roll is the name of Lieut Samuel Fippen with an allowance of 141 days service.
Also that there is on file a paper purporting to be a Pay Roll of the company commanded by Capt John Potter in Colonel Willaim Williams Regiment of militia in the State of Vermont 1777 on which Roll is the name of Samuel Phippen inserted in the list of privates, with an allowance for 30 days
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service. 
And that there is also a paper purporting to be A  Pay Abstract for Capt Jesse Burk's and Capt s Michael Gilson's companies , officers and soldiers included, who marched in the alarm March (at Newburg) 1781; on which roll in the list of privates is the name of Saml Phippen with an allowance for 3 days service.
I further certify that all the aforesaid Pay Rolls appear to have been examined, approved, and ordered to be paid, by a Committee of the General Assembly of this State and to have been paid accordingly.

In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and affix the Seal of this office this third day of August A.D 1839. 
Ferrand F .Merrill
Deputy Secretary of State
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Watertown Jeff Co N.Y. Aug. 15. 1819
Sir
I [illegible] the evidence found in the office of the Secretary of the State of Vermont of the service Samuel Phippin. Of the service [illegible] 75 to Qui bcc then appears to be no evidence in Vermont as state officer. I believe they have no record of any service of an early date Phippin resided in Vermont during the whole revolutionary period & not in Connecticut as your letter of the 15 ult supposes The service to Quebec in 75 was in the company of Capt Aronick Wright in Major Burke's battalion. Phippin was the Lieutenant & hia capt in command of the company at this place & Capt Wright returned and health such is the [illegible] evidence, what [illegible] any other can be found is uncertain. The length of time he was employed in this town is not accurately known. If you are satisfied that this ought to be allowed you may put the time as what you consider it would be - the pay rolls show service after this as a private, but is short periods x as a volunteer - other period of service as a private was in ,81 & two in the same year as a Lieutenant - whatever pension you feel [illegible]
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ised to allow when the papers you have your will be good enough to write & forward the certificate as soon as possible.
Yr Ob Servt
Adrich Ely


LL Edwards En
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Albany [illegible]
Nov 2. 1840
W Evans

James L. Edwards Esquire
Commissn of Pensions
War Department
Washington City
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Albany Pension Agency
October 30. 1840.
James L. Edwards Esquire,
Commisr of Pensions,
Sir,
Philip D Farish was inscribed
on our Books, at $21.10/100 per annum, under Act 7 June 1832,
on the 17th of August last-- It appears from Vouchers this day
presented by his widow, that he died on the 3d of Sept. 1835.
I have also to state that Ruth Phippin was inscribed
on our Books at $79 66/100 per annum, under act 7 July 1838,
on the 17th of August last. It appears from Vouchers this day presented by her children, that she died on the 10th of Sept. 1839.
Her Pension Certificate bears date the 7th of May last &
that of Philip De Forest on the 17th of April last
as the deaths of these Pensioners occured so long
before the date of their certificates, I have to request the favor of your instructing whether they are payable at the
Agency or at the Treasury-
I am, Sir,
very respectfully
Your obedt Sevt.
Tho W. Cloutt
[illegible]
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Watertown NY March 18 1839

Sir
Herewith you will receive the declaration under the act of July 6, 1838 of Mrs Ebrawith, widow of Henry Ansted a pensioner of the (?) under act 9 1818
Y or (?)
Adriel Ely

JL Edwards Esq
Com of Pensions
Washington
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Westminster VT 
12 Aug 18 3/4

Adriel Ely Esq
Watertown
Jefferson County
New York
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Westminster, Windham County 
Vermont, Augt 12, 1839

Sir

Absence on a journey is my apology for not answering your note before this time. - 

The records of the church under the care of Rev. Mr Bullen were not kept so accurately as they ought to have been. They have been in my possession, as Pastor of the church ever since Oct 13, 1790. I have transcribed them from papers as they came into my hands. And I hereby certify that there is no record upon the book of this church of the marriage of Samuel Phippin & Ruth Lane, nor indeed any other person's marriage.

Respectfully yours
Sylvester Sage
Adriel Ely Esq
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4991 Mar 22
N.Y.
7 July 1838.
WATERTOWN
N.Y.

J.L Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Westminster, Windham County, Vermont
October 11th 1839

Personally appeared Sylvester Sage, successor 
Rev. Joseph Bullen, in the ministry in this place, who deposes & says, that he was ordained to the Pastoral care of said Church & People, the 13th ["thirteenth" written above number] Oct. 1790 that within a few years past he has been repeatedly called upon to testify respecting the record of certain marriages said to be solemnized at Westminster, & which no doubt were; still there are no records to be found on our church books. There is no record to be found of the marriage of Samuel Phippin & Ruth Lane.

Altho I am not Town Clerk, this year, still I have repeatedly examined the town records, & I have been town Clerk, every alternate year, for more that twenty years last past & there is no such marriage record-ed on the town Books that I have been able to find.

Attest - Sylvester Sage

State of Vermont
Windham County

Westminster October 11th 1839
Then personally appeared Sylvester Sage whom I certify to be a credible witness and made sollemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is just and true before me

Ellery Allbe Justice of the Peace
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Westminster October 12th 1839

Mr Miller

Sir I wish to make a certificate of my official character as a Justice of the Peace for the county of Windham and forward the whole to Adriel Ely Watertown Jefferson County New York and I will pay you for the certificate when I see you

Respectfully yours

Ellery Allbe

State of Vermont
Windham Wounty Court Clerk's Office
New Fane October 17th AD, 1839 - 

I Marshall Miller, Clerk of said Court do hereby certify that Ellery Allbe is a Justice of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signature, as such, within written, is genuine -
In testimony, whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of the said County Court, the day and year above written

Attest - Marshall Miller, Clerk
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V 4991
Ruth Phippin
widow of Samuel Phippin
[illegible] July 7. 1838
Adriel Ely
Watertown NY
[illegible]
Married 5. Sept. 1784
Husband died 23 July 1820
~
Col Benjamin Wait}Vernon
Capt Abner Lilley}
~In detached roll
Admitted
Lieutenant mo 5 & 21 days
Private 1.3
            mo
           _______
           6. d24 any, 
Adriel Ely Esq
Watertown 
N.Y
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Seth Gauld
Affidavit
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I Arseneth Goodell of Westminster in the county of Windham and State of Vermont being of lawful age do depose and say that I directly recolect of seeing Lieutenant Samuel Phipen at the time that he marched out of said Westmister with the company to which he was attached and think that it was in the spring of the year 1783-The company was commanded by Capt Seeley-my first husband John Lovejoy went out at the same time that Lieutenant Phipen In which makes me more elistinelly recolect the fact-And I have heard my husband speak of Cat Wait as being one of the officers under whom he served my first husband was out about eight or nine months and I am not positive whether Lieutenent Phipen came with him or afterwards
         her
Arseneth X Goodell
         mark
State of Vermont
Windham County} Westminster February 22d 1839
When personally appeared Arseneth Goodell before me and made sollemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by her subscribed contain the truth and nothing but the truth and I hereby certify that the said Arseneth Goodell is a credible witness
Ellery Allbe Justice of the Peace
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I Jonathan Lane of Westminster in the County of Windham and State of Vermont being of lawful age do depose and say that I was well acquainted with Lieutent Samuel Phippen but did not know him untill after the revolutienary war I have frequently heard said Phipen tell of going to Quebeck in Canada and of being stationed at Corinth in Vermont I have frequently heard Capt Azariah Wright speak of said Phipen being sent with him and of giving up the command of his company to said Phipen when he the said wright was sick with the small pox at Quebeck and I was also told by the said Wright and the said Phipe that they were thirty or thirty one days in going through the woods on their march to Quebeck And I have ever understood that Lieutenant Phipen  in the revolutienary was through considerable part of it
      his
Jonathan X Lane
      mark
State of Vermont
Windham county }
Westminster February 22d 1839
When personally appeared Jonathan Lane and made sollemn oath before me that the above affidavit by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth.  And I hereby certify that the said Jonathan Lane is a credible witness
Ellery Allbe Justice of the Peace
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I Sylvester Sage of Westminster in the County of Windham State of Vermont do depose & say that I am Town Clerk of Town; & that I have diligently searched the records of said Town & cannot find thereon any record of the intermarriage of Samuel Phippen & Ruth Lane- Sylvester Sage

Their marriage was solemnized s is thought in the year 1784; but there is no record of marriage at that early date.  to be found upon the records in said Town

State of Vermont
Windham County}
Be it known that on this 4th day of March AD 1839, before another subsciber a justice of the peace in and for said County personally appeared Sylvester Sage to me well known to be the town clerk of said Westminster, who hath subscribed the preceding affidavit in my presence, and made sollemn oath that the same contains the truth ad nothing but the truth; And I do hereby certify that the said affiat is a credible witness
Ellery Allbe Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont
Windham County Court Clerk's Office
New Tam [?] March 6th D. 1839
I Marshall Miller, Clerk of said County Court, do hereby certify, that Ellery Allbe is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly Commissioned and qualified, and that his signature above written is genuine.
In testimony where of , I here in to set my hand and affix the Seal of the said County Court, the day and year have written
Attest-Marshall Miller, Clerk