Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25095, for Adams Streeter, New Hampshire
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(3-1776)

SERVICE N. H. R.I.
Streeter, Adams Huldah
NUMBER W. 25095
CONTENTS
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See let [LETTER] 13 Sep 1838
Jacob Wales
71 
Franklin

15551
Massachusetts
Adams Streeter of Franklin in the State of Mas [MASSACHUSETTS] who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Whipple of the Regt [REGIMENT] commanded by Col Almy in the Mass [MASSACHUSETTS] line for 20 months
Me [MAINE]
Inscribed in the Roll of Massachusetts
at the rate of 66- Dollars 67- Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22d day of June 1833 and sent Elijah Alvord Greenfield Mas [MASSACHUSETTS] 
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $133.34
Semi-anl [ANNUAL] allowance ending 4 Sept 33.33
_________
$166.67

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by H H Addison Clerk,
Book E Vol. 20 Page 78
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24468
Adams Streeter Orange

Elijah Alvord Greenfield Ms. [MASSACHUSETTS]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
FRANKLIN COUNTY SS.
ON THIS Sixth day of February, A. D. 1833, personally appeared in open Court, before the Hon [HONORABLE] Richard E. Newcomb judge of the Court of Probate now sitting at Warwick within and for the County of Franklin, Adams Streeter a resident of Orange in the County and Commonwealth aforesaid, aged sixty nine years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as stated. in the paper hereunto annexed which is subscribed by him and made a part of his declaration.
That he entered the service of the United States in the month of May in 1778 and enlisted in Col Almys [sic] Regiment & Capt Stephen Whipples [sic] Company for fifteen days in the town of Glouster & State of Rhode Island & Marched to Newport and did duty there Repairing [illegible] for that term. 
In the aforesaid month of May he enlisted again at the same place for 15 days and under the same officers and marched to the [illegible]
and did duty there for third term
That in autumn of the same year he enlisted the third time for 15 days at Gilmanton in Col. Ivens Regiment & Capt Saber Company and marched to Newport and did duty
as a soldier and served the said term & was discharged.
That in the month of November in the year 1779 he again enlisted in the town of [illegible] and State of Newhampshire [sic] in Capt Whites [sic] Company Lieutenant Shafe and crossed the Continental River and marched to Royalton in the State of Vermont which had been sacked & burnt by the Indians
and pursued after them we got lost in the woods for 4 days without any provisions
except Indian meal & water we arrived at Follet in the State of Newyork [sic] and then returned home having around six weeks again & fifth day of June 1780 he again
enlisted under Col Almy in Capt Whipples [sic] company in the town of Gilmanton aforesaid for the term of 8 months and marched to [illegible] then to [illegible] and from there to Westpoint in Newyork [sic] and served his time out was discharged & returned home.
Afterward in the month of October 1781. he again enlisted in Col Almys [sic] Regiment & Capt Whipples [sic] company in the town of Douglas and State of Massachusetts and marched to West Point in N.Y.  and served six months & was discharged again he enlisted in Col Bensons [sic] Regiment & Capt
Putnams [sic] Company in the month of December 1782 and marched from there to Rhode Island thence to New London and then to westpoint [sic] in N.Y. and kept service there for the term of three months and then was discharged that he was born in the town of Oxford in the county of Leominster & state of Massachusetts on the 26th day of May 1763. He knows of no Record of his birth except one that he has seen in his mother's bible.
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he lived in Oxford until he was about Eighteen years and [several lines crossed out] 
and time he was discharged from the army he has lived in Warwick & Orange up to the present time -
That he has no documentary or other evidence of his service except the annexed certificate of Judge Green to whom he applied in 1818 and produced the testimony of Mercedes Whitlock
and Benjamin Porter to prove the same -Both of said witnesses are now dead - and the evidence made at that time was logged in
the secretary] office and has never been returned - That he now knows of no person living that [illegible] 
All persons living in Orange may be referred to as witnesses to traditionary evidence of my service and to my reputation for integrity
Adams Streeter
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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. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Adams Streeter
R. E. Newcomb Judge of Probate 
WE, Thomas Mallard, Amos Boyden, Amos Goddard Moses Johnson all residing in Orange & Warwick hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Adams Streeter - who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be sixty nine years of age; that he reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion, and that there is no clergyman in said Orange Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Thomas Mallard, Amos Boyden, Amos Goddard Moses Johnson
R. E. Newcomb Judge of Probate 

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 further certifies that it appears to them that
Thomas Mallard who has signed the preceding certificate is a resident in Warwick in said county is a credible person and that Amos Boyden, Amos Goddard and Moses Johnson who have also signed the same are residents in the said town of Orange and are all credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit and that there is no Clergyman residing in said Orange; and that the Clergyman of Warwick was not resident there when the said applicant resided in that town and is not acquainted with him.
R. E. Newcomb Judge of Probate 

I, ELIJAH ALVORD Register of said Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Adams Streeter for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court, this Sixth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three
E. Alvord Clerk.
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1242
Massachusetts
Huldah Streeter widow of Adams Streeter
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 66 Dollars
67 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 day of August 1848 and sent to G.S. Bulfisk
Boston Mass.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 134 Vol. 2
Reported
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379
Huldah Streeter
Massachusetts
admitted
Pri [PRIVATE] 20 months

#6667
Jacob Wale,
Baldwinville
Mas [MASSACHUSETTS]
[illegible]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
His Excellency EDWARD EVERETT.
Governor and Commander in Chief in and over said Commonwealth
To all whom it may concern:
Know ye, that Ira Barton Esqr [ESQUIRE] Judge
of Probate and Jacob Wales Esq [ESQUIRE] is a
a Justice of the Peace for the County of
Worcester and Samuel Wheelock and
Jonathan Blake Esqr [ESQUIRE] are Justices of
the Peace for the County of Franklin in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned, and that to their Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court; that the within Attestations are in due form and by the proper officers.
In Testimony Whereof, I have caused the Public
Seal of the Commonwealth to be hereunto affixed, this ninth day of August A.D. 1838,
and in the sixty third year of the Independence of the United States of America.
By His Excellency the Governor.
John P. Bigelow
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
[under seal] Edward Everett
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Declaration In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th of July 1838, entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows:"
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester County} Ss.
On this ninth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before Ira Barton Judge of the Court of Probate within and for said County of Worcester the widow Huldah
Streeter of Winchendon in said County aged sixty nine 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 Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows:" That she is the widow of Adams Streeter late of Royalston in said county deceased, who was a private Soldier in the Revolutionary war and who was a pensioner under the act of Congress passed June 7 1832
she further declares that her maiden name was Huldah Barber and that she was married to the said Adams Streeter the twenty fifth day of November seventeen hundred and eighty five in the Town of Warwick County of Franklin and State aforesaid by the Revd [REVERAND]
Samuel Reed then minister of said Warwick, she further declares that in the term of about thirty years after she was married to said Streeter she had twelve children by him
whose names and ages are as follows
1st Reuben Streeter born July 24, 1786, 2d Benjamin B. Streeter born July 16, 1788, 3d Huldah Streeter born July 5-1790 4th had two at one Birth April 1, 1794 names were Joseph
Streeter and Lydia Streeter 5th Lovina Streeter born January 8-1799, 6th Urania Streeter born June 27 - 1803
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7th Stephen Streeter born January 5-1806. 8th Harriet Streeter born February 14 - 1808- 9th John Streeter born December 18th 1809-10th Franklin Streeter born December 4-1812 11th and last Melinda Streeter born February 14 1816. She further says that at the time she married she and her husband the said Adams
Streeter were both residents of said Warwick and that after her marriage she resided in said Warwick & Orange about two years then moved into the State of Vermont remained
there about three years then removed to said Warwick remained there three or four years then removed to Vermont remained there about four years, then removed into the Town of Orange in said County of Franklin and remained there untill [UNTIL] a short time before her Husbands [sic] death which was on the twenty second day of April 1834 She further says she has remained a widow ever since his death and for the most part of the
time has resided in said Winchendon, and for
particular proof of her husband [sic] services she respectfully refers to the roals [ROLLS] in the war department and to the evidence filed with his application whereby he received his pension under the said act of 1832, she
further says she has been told that the Reverend Samuel Reed above named left no record of her marriage and that she has no documentary evidence of her marriage
except the certificate of the Town Clerk of said Warwick Samuel Wheelock Esquire and the affidavit of Mr David Gale of said Warwick who was a near neighbour [NEIGHBOR] to her at the time she was married. She further declares 
that she was not married prior to the war, but was married previous to the first of January in
the year seventeen hundred and ninety four
Huldah her x mark Streeter

Sworn to and subscribed this day and year above stated. Before M Ira Barton Judge of the Court of Probate for said county of Worcester
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I David Gale of Warwick in the County of Franklin and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged seventy years, do make this my voluntary affidavit and say that I have always resided in said Warwick and was well acquainted with Adams Streeter late of Orange in said County
deceased, I was also well acquainted with his wife Huldah that her maiden name was Huldah Barber, I was well acquainted with the said Adams and the said Huldah when we were school children and we used to attend
School together, the said Adams and said Huldah were reputed to be married [illegible] in the year 1786 I did not see them married but I think they were married five years before I was and I was married in the year 1790 at the time the said Adams & said Huldah were married they were both residents of said Warwick I well remember a number of there [THEIR] children I think the oldest name was Reuben I think the said Reuben was born in six or eight months after they married but I am not sure but that it might be nearly a year I do not at this time recolect [RECOLLECT] the names of their other Children, I further say the said Adams and his wife resided in said Orange for a number of years before his death
David Gale

Commonwealth Massachusetts Franklin Ss. 
Warwick August 11th 1838
subscribed and sworn to before me the day
and year above
Samuel Wheelock} Justice of the Peace 

I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Franklin Gale and know him to be a man of truth and veracity.
Samuel Wheelock} Justice of the Peace
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I Herman Forbush of Royalton in the County of
Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged forty eight years, depose and say that I married for my first wife Huldah Streeter Daughter of Adams Streeter late of said Royalston Deceased who was a
pensioner under the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832, I further say that my wife the said Huldah had she be living at this time would be forty eight years old the fifth day of last July. I further say that my wife the said Huldah had two Brothers older than herself one by the name of Reuben and one by the
name of Benjamin 16. I further say I know the names of my said wifes [sic] Brothers and sisters there were nine younger then [THAN] my wife whose names are as follows
Joseph and Lyddia both at one birth Lovina, Urania, Stephen, Harriet, John, Franklin & Melinda, the said Adams at the time I married the said Huldah was residing in the Town of Orange in the County of Franklin and Commonwealth aforesaid and remained in said Orange untill [sic] a few months before his
death at which time he resided in said Royalston I was at his funeral but do not remember the exact time but it was in March or April 1834 I further say the said Adams left a widow who now resides in the Town of Winchendon in said County by the name of
Huldah Streeter and that the said Huldah has
remained a widow ever since the death of the said Adams
Herman Forbush

Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Worcester County Ss Royalston August 9 1838
subscribed and sworn to before me the day and year above written Jacob Wales Justice of the Peace

I hereby testify from my personal acquaintance with the above said Herman Forbush I consider him to be a man of truth and veracity
Jacob Wales Justice of the Peace
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I Samuel  Wheelock of Warwick in the County of Franklin and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do hereby certify that I am Town Clerk of said Warwick and that I have in my possession the records of former Publishment and Marriages, and I find entered in said records the intention of marriage between Adams Streeter and Huldah Barber both of Warwick August 13 - 1785 which reads from said records thus, (Marriage is intended between Adams Streeter & Huldah Barber Both of Warwick August 13. 1785) the above after the word this is a true copy of the record
Attest
Samuel Wheelock Town Clerk

I hereby depose and say that I am Clerk
of the Town of Warwick before mention and the above is a true extract certified by me I further say that there is no record to be found of the marriage of the said Adams Streeter & Huldah Barber I further say that the records of marriages solemnized by the Revd [REVERAND] Samuel Reed former minister of this town are very inaccurate and it appears from said records that the said Reed did not make a return to the Town Clerk of any marriages solemnized by him in the year 1785 but made return of marriages the year before and the year after
Samuel Wheelock

Franklin Ss Warwick July 31st 1838- Subscribed & sworn to before me Jonathan Blake Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that the above named Samuel Wheelock is Town Clerk of the town of Warwick aforesaid and is a man of truth and veracity
Jonathan Blake Justice of the Peace
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24468
Adams Streeter
Mass [MASSACHUSETTS]
Private 20 mos [MONTHS]

E Alvord 
Greenfield Mass
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WAR DEPARTMENT
Pension Office, 183
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew [sic] what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }).
You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your
claim.

A Statement, showing the service of Adams Streeter
Period when the service was rendered. |Duration of the claimant's service Years Months Days | Rank of the claimant. | Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served. | Age at present and place of abode when he entered the service.| Proof by which the declaration is supported.

Enlisted 1778| 15 days | Private | Same Officers Col Almy | 69 years | Traditionary Evidence |

Enlisted 1778 | 15 Days | Private | Same Officers| Oxford Mass. | Traditionary Evidence |

Enlisted 1778 | 15 Days | Private | Col. Same Cap Stephen| | Traditionary Evidence |

Enlisted 1779 | 1 month 15 Days | Private | Capt White | | Traditionary Evidence |

Enlisted 1780 | 8 months. | Private | Col Almy Capt Whipple | | Traditionary Evidence |

Enlisted 1781 | 6 months. | Private | Capt Whipple Col Almy | | Traditionary Evidence |

Enlisted 1782 | 3 months. | Private | Col Benson Capt Putnam | | Traditionary Evidence |

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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2:
REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia" and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c., [ETC] Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. [ETC] Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1.The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, mucicians [MUSICIANS] or privates, will, in the first
instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of [BLANK] County of [BLANK] } ss.
On this [BLANK] Day of [BLANK] personally appeared (a) before [BLANK] A. B. a resident (b) of [BLANK] in the county of [BLANK] and State, Territory or District of [BLANK] aged (c) [BLANK] 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 provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) [BLANK], with [BLANK] and served in the [BLANK] (e) regiment of the [BLANK]
line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged,
and the country through which he marched.          [pointing finger] This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c. [ETC]]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of [BLANK]
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.  [BLANK]: A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I [BLANK] of the Court of [BLANK]
do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of [BLANK] for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this [BLANK]
day of [BLANK] &c. [ETC]
If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A.B., a Clergyman, residing in the [BLANK] and C. D. residing in (the same)
hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with
 [BLANK], who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be [BLANK] 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 days [sic] and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
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 further certifies that it appears to them that A.B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the [BLANK] and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the [BLANK] and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, [BLANK] Clerk of the Court of [BLANK]
do hereby certify that the foregoing
contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of [BLANK] for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this [BLANK] day of [BLANK] &c. [ETC] 
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services
of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; 
and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Milita, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
5. 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 services.
6. {To a Soldier {Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
{To an Officer. {Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons--one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from
their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct
proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform,
and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.

[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county here he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, 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. 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. [ETC] 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 his precise length of his service; but according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the period 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." 
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 that they served two years in the militia &c.  [ETC] without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown 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 garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he 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 papers.

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 papers authenticated, the certificate must the 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.

Proof of Service.
[j] 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 claimant's 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.
[pointing finger] The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers, and State Troops. The proof required by note [j] applies to continental troops only.
[k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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Adams Streeter Mass [MASSACHUSETTS] Act 7 June 1832
to what time paid?
Pen [PENSION] office
Sep 12, 1838.
Died 22 April 1834
Pd [PAID] to that period
JH
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No 1818
claim found
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Massachusetts 2036.
Hudah Streeter widow of Adams Streeter
who was a Private in the Mass line
for 20 months
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 66 Dollars & 67 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the
21st day of Sept. 1843 and sent to Jacob Wales
Baldwinsville Mass.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]

Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1 Page 53.

[illegible] Sept 21
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2821 Rev [REVOLUTIONARY]
Massachusetts
Huldah Streeter, widow of Adams Streeter,
Decd: [DECEASED] who was a pensioner under the Act of 7 June, 1832 - and who died on the 22d April, 1834 - of Worcester Co [COUNTY] in the State of Mass - who was a private in the Compy [COMPANY] commanded by
Captain Whipple of the Regt: [REGIMENT] commanded by Col: Almy - in the Mass: line for 20 months -
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at
the rate of 66 Dollars 67 Cents per annum, 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15th day of May 1839 and sent to Jacob Wales, Baldwinsville, Mss: [MASSACHUSETTS]
Arrears to the 4th of March 1839 $200.01
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept; $33.33
_________
$233.34
{Act July 7, 1838.}
Recorded by M Stewart - Clerk, 
Book A Vol.1 Page 130
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Fitzwilliam June 23d - 1843
Hon. [HONORABLE] J. L. Edwards Commr [COMMISSIONER] of Pensions
Sir enclosed is the application
of Huldah Streeter for the extension of her pension for one year I assisted her in getting her
Pension under the act of 1838 for five years
I trust you will attend to her case in time
as well as the five other cases which I have
forwarded to your office and make return to
me.
Yours truly
Jacob Wales
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Wendell 17th Sept 1832
This may certify that Mr Adams Streeter
applied to me in the Spring of 1818, on account
of obtaining a pension, that Alex Wheeler
& Benja [BENJAMIN] Porter made affidavits in his behalf which were forwarded to the Secretary [sic] office but to which part of his service they were applicable, cannot now state, Joshua Green [illegible]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin SS. I Elijah Alvord Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for the County of Franklin do hereby certify that in the year 1818 the within named Joshua Green Esq. was a Judge of the Court of Sessions for the said County and continued in that office until the said Court in the year 1828 was abolished. And that he is now a Justice of the Peace and of the quorum for said County - I further certify that I am well
acquainted with his hand writing [sic] and it appears to me that the within certificate and his signature to the same are done in his
proper hand writing [sic]
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of said court on the
sixth day of February A.D. 1833
-
E. Alvord Clerk
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the acts of
Congress passed July 7th 1838 and third of March 1843
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester County Ss}
On this twenty fifth day of May one thousand
eight hundred and forty three personally 
appeared before me Theodore Jones Esquire one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County of Worcester the Widow Huldah
Streeter a resident of Athol in said County aged seventy four years who being first duly sworn doth on her Oath make [sic] the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the acts of Congress passed July 7th 1838 and March 3rd 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is now the Widow of Adams Streeter late of Royalston in said County Deceased who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution and who was a Pensioner under the act of 1832 and in whose right she obtained a Pension for five years under the act of July 7th 1838 for the sum of sixty six dollars and sixty seven cents per annum commencing
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March 4th 1836 and ending March 4th 1841
she further says that she has never intermarried but now is and has been the widow of the said Adams Streeter ever since his death, in whose right she obtained her said pension, and for the particular proof of her said claim she respectfully refers to her application and the evidence filed with the same now in the war department by which she obtained her said Pension, she further says that at the time she obtained her pension she resided in Winchendon in said County -
Huldah her x mark Streeter
Subscribed and Sworn to the day and year
first above written. Before me Theodore Jones Justice Peace
I further certify that I have been acquainted with the above named Huldah Streeter for about one year and I believe her to be a person of truth and veracity and that she is now a widow

Theodore Jones
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I, Herman Forbush of Royalston in the County
of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged fifty two years depose and say that I am Son in Law to Adam[S] Streeter late of Royalton aforesaid Deceased the said Adam[S] Streeter left a Widow by the name of Huldah Streeter who now resides in the Town of Athol in said County and who signed the foregoing Declaration. I further say that the said Adam[S] Streeter was a pensioner
under the act of Congress of the 7th of June
1832 and his widow the said Huldah Streeter
was a Pensioner under the act of 1838 for five
years the said Huldah resided in Winchendon
in said County at the time she obtained her
Pension. I further say that the said Huldah
has never intermarried since the death of the said Adam[S] but has remained his widow
ever since
Herman Forbush

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester County Ss June 19-1843
Subscribed and sworn to the day and year
last above written Before me
Timothy Lewis Justice of the Peace
I further certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Herman Forbush and he is a person of truth and veracity
Timothy Lewis
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester Ss.
I, Charles G Prentiss, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester do certify that Theodore Jones and Timothy Lewis are
Justices of the Peace in and for said County,
duly commissioned and qualified - and that their signatures to the foregoing certificates are genuine.
In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this Second day of June one thousand eight hundred and forty three.
Chas. [CHARLES] G. Prentiss Register
[right sideways] 2295 Huldah Streeter
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H. [HULDAH] Streeter

Admitted
G. T Bulfinch
Boston Mass [MASSACHUSETTS]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Secretary's Office Boston August 1st 1848
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the
annexed attestation Hiram W. Albert was a
Justice of the Peace for the County
of Worcester in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the
Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
W. [WILLIAM] B Calhoun
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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I certify that the following named Pensioner Huldah Streeter has been paid in this third Quarter 1848 up to 4 March 1848 under
Act 17 June 1844.
G. T Bulfinch Pension Clerk.
DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of 2d February, 1848, entitled "An act
making further provision for surviving Widows and Soldiers of the Revolution."
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS,
Worcester
COUNTY,}ss.
On this twenty second day of July 1848 personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the county aforesaid, Huldah Streeter a resident of Templeton in the county of Worcester
aged Seventy Nine years years, [sic] who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 2d February, 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of
Adam[S] Streeter who was a resident of Orange County of Franklin and who was a private in the War of the Revolution and is the identical person who drew a pension
under the Act of 17th June, 1844, on account of the Revolutionary service of her late husband aforesaid, at the rate of sixty six
dollars and sixty seven cents per annum.
She further declares that she is still a widow.
Huldah her x mark Streeter

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written,} Before me, In presence of Lydia [illegible] Flagg [illegible] Hiram W Albert Justice of the Peace.

I Certify, That the declarant is personally known to me, a widow and a pensioner, as she declares.
Hiram W. Albert Justice of the Peace

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS,
COUNTY,} SS.

[I] [blank] Clerk of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that [blank]
is a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly [COMMISSIONED] and qualified; and that his signature, above written, is genuine.
[I HEREBY SET] my hand, and the Seal of said Court this [blank] [DAY] of 18[blank]

[blank] CLERK.
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Revy [REVOLUTIONARY] WIDOW, &c. [ETC]
File No. 25095
Huldah Streeter Wid [WIDOW] of Adams Streeter
Priv [PRIVATE] Rev [REVOLUTIONARY] War
-
Act Feb 2nd 1848
Index: Vol S, Page 249

[Arrangement of 1870.]