Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26,791, for Joshua Isham, Connecticut
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Conn    Isham, Joshua     W. 26,791
Martha
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4645 
Vermont 
Bur’n 
Martha Isham 
widow of Joshua Isham who was a Sergeant in the Conn’t Line 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 120 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. 
Certificate of Pension issued the twenty fourth day of Jany 1844 and sent to W Weston Burlington Vt 
[Act of March 3, 1843.] 
Recorded in Book A  Vol. 1 Page 27. 
Examnd  with Orig. Rolls Aug. 1883 Mls
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For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldier of the army of the revolution, appeared on the fifteenth day of May 1828. 
I Joshua Isham of Shelburn in the County of Chittenden in the State of Vermont hereby declare that I 1 enlisted on the fifth day of May 1777 in the continental line of the army of the revolution for and during the war and continued in its service until it termination, at which period I was a sergeant in Caption Elias Stilwell’s company in the third Connecticut battallion of foot in the service of the United States.
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I served as a private from the time of my enlistment until the 13 day of November 1780 when I received a Sergeants warrant signed by Col Samuel Wyllis [Wyllys], and acted in that capacity until the close of the war. I received a discharge signed by General Washington dated on the 10 day of June 1783 as I am very confident.  I have no recollection on the subject of a certificate for the reward of Eighty dollars according to the state of Congress passed on the 15 May 1778. I may have received it but if I did I know not what has become of it. I know that I received all such certificates & papers as was granted to any of the soldier and I further declare that I was not
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on the 15 day of March 1828, on the pension list of the United States Burlington July 1, 1828  
Joshua Isham 
State of Vermont 
Chittenden County }   Before Charles Adams of the Justices of the peace for the County of Chittenden in the State of Vermont personally appeared Joshua Isham of Shelburn in said County and made solemn oath that the foregoing declaration by him subscribed is true according to his best [unreadable] and belief 
Witness my hand at Burlington this first day of July 1828 
Charles Adams Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont 
Chittenden County, 
I Nathan B. Haswell, Clerk of the court of the County of Chittenden in the State of Vermont do certify that Charles Adams before whom the within affidavit was sworn is a justice of the peace duly empowered to administer oaths. In testimony of which I have hereto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said County Court this first day of July 1828 
Nathan B. Haswell Clerk
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I Jireh Isham of Shelburne in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont testify and say that I enlisted into Col Samuel Wyllys regiment in the Connecticut line in the spring of the year 1777 and continued in the service until the next January.   I know that my brother Joshua Isham enlisted into the same regiment and continued in the service until the close of the war.  After that went he returned home and I well recollect of seeing his discharge signed by Genl Washington. I further testify that he is the same Joshua Isham who this day signed a declaration before Charles Adams 
Burlington July 1, 1828  
Jireh Isham
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I Jehiel Isham of St. George in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont testify and say that my cousin Joshua Isham enlisted in the spring of the year 1777 into the service of the United States and continued in the service until the close of the war.  In April 1782 I enlisted into the army and joined the company to which he belonged and continued until March 1783, when the years men were permitted to return home.  Soon after Joshua Isham with my brother William Isham returned home, and understood they had their regular discharges.  I know that the said Joshua Isham is the identical Joshua Isham who has this day signed his declaration
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before Charles Adams 
Burlington July 1 1828
Jehiel Isham his mark 
State of Vermont 
Chittenden County} 
I Nathan B. Haswell, Clerk of the court of the County of Chittenden in the State of Vermont do certify that Charles Adams before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn is a Justice of the peace 1 and duly empowered to administer oaths, In testimony of which I have hereto set my hand & affixed the seal of said County court, this first day of July 1828. 
Nathan B. Haswell Clerk
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State of Vermont Chittenden County Before me Charles Adams a Justice of the peace duly empowered to administer oaths in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont personally appeared the within named Jireh Isham and Jehiel Isham to me well known this first day of July 1828 and made oath that the said affidavits by then respectively made and signed were true.
Witness my hand this first day of July 1828  
Charles Adams Justice of the peace
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Warrant in favor of Joshua Isham as Sergeant, dated 13th Novem’r 1780, from Col. Sam’l Wyllys
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Burlington Vt. July 1, 1828. 
Hon Richard Rush 
Sir. At the request of Joshua Isham I have enclosed certain papers for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the act of May 15, 1828. The papers disclose all which I can find on the subject as is stated in the affidavit.  Mr. Isham says he can not recollect any thing about a certificate for the $80. I apprehend however that this certificate cannot be necessary, as the act I propose is broad upon the part of the proving rather than upon the existence of this certificate that he heard reportedly will sufficiently appear by the papers accompanying as also I presume by the public records in the proper office. Mr Isham is a very worthy man, having been frequently
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a member of our legislation and is entitled to prefect credit.
If his proof is sufficient he wishes the money forwarded to this place to the care of A. Thompson Esq Cashier of the Burlington Bank, or to my care.
I do not perceive in your circular that any provision is made for giving a receipt and therefore none is forwarded, but will be if required. 
I am sir
your Obt. svt 
Charles Adams
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10189
Martha Isham
W
Act 7 July ‘38
m. 85 d. 40
Adm’d
2 yrs Serg’t
Capt Stillwell
Col. Swift
120$
Wm. Weston Esqr
Burlington Vt.
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State of Vermont 
District of Chittenden Ss}  
On this fifteenth day of April, A.D. 1843, personally appeared before the Hon. Probate Court for the district of Chittenden, at a session thereof held at Bennington within and for said district, Martha Isham, a resident of Shelburne in the County of Chittenden, aged Eighty 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 7, 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows” and an act amendatory thereof, approved August 23d 1842, and a resolution declarative of the pension act of July 7, 1838, approved August 16. 1842;    That she is the widow of Joshua Isham late of said Shelburne, deceased, who was a Sergeant in the Connecticut line of the continental army during the war of the revolution, and served as she believes, from near the commencement to the close of the war; that he was a pensioner under the act of May 15, 1828, and she refers to his declaration made to obtain a pension and the records and rolls in the pension office for proof of his services. She further declares that she was married to the said Joshua Isham at Canaan in the State of Connecticut, on the twenty seventh day of January in the year seventeen hundred Eighty five, (1785) by the Rev. Daniel Farrand, that her husband, the aforesaid Joshua Isham, died on the ninth day of April in the year Eighteen hundred and forty, at said Shelburne that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the
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service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz, at the time above stated; that she has never married since the death of her husband and is now his widow. The word "place" interlined above before signing 
Martha Isham  
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written; and I certify that the declarant is a person of truth and credibility; 
Charles Russell Judge
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State of Vermont 
Chittenden County ss}  
I, Horace Wheeler of Burlington in the County of Chittenden aforesaid, aged fifty one years, do testify and say that I was acquainted with Joshua Isham in his lifetime and have been acquainted with Martha Isham, his widow, who has made the foregoing declaration, for the last twenty seven years. The said Joshua Isham was a pensioner under the act of May 15, 1828, at the rate of ten dollars per month. He died at Shelburne in the County of Chittenden, on the ninth day of April, 1840. I was present when he died. In the year 1817 I was married to Laura Isham, a daughter of the said Joshua and Martha, and from my connexion with the family have ever since 1817, been acquainted with the family record of the said Joshua Isham. The leaf hereto annexed is taken from the family bible of the said Martha Isham, whose maiden name was Horsford, and the record thereon is in the hand writing of the said Joshua Isham, Excepting the following words "Martha Horsford, her book" which I believe to be in the hand writing of the said Martha.  The record has always been regarded by the family, ever since my acquaintance with them, as the record of the marriage of the said Joshua to the said Martha, and of the births of their children, and I have no doubt that the record was made by the said Joshua from time to time as the events occurred which are there recorded. I further testify that the said Martha Isham is still a widow, having never
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intermarried since the death of her husband, the said Joshua Isham 
Horace Wheeler 
Sworn to and subscribed this thirteenth day of June 1843, before me, and certify that the affiant is a person of undoubted truth and veracity 
Wm Weston Justice Peace 
1202
2
600
I, Laura Wheeler, aged forty four years, testify and say that I am a daughter of Joshua Isham and Martha Isham, the latter of whom has made the foregoing declaration in order to obtain a pension & that the said Joshua died on the ninth day of April, 1840. I was present when he died. I further testify that the leaf hereto annexed purporting to be a record of Mantha Horsford's marriage was taken from my mother's family bible. The record of the marriage and of the births, are in my fathers hand writing, and I have known the record from my earliest recollection. It has ever been regarded by the family as the record of my mothers marriage to my father, and of the births of all the children, of whom I am one, and of the death of two of them.  My mother the said Martha Isham is still a widow, never having intermarried since my fathers death.
Laura Wheeler 
Sworn to and subscribed this thirteenth day of June, 1843, before me and I certify that the affiant is a person of strict truth and veracity. 
Wm Weston Justice Peace
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State of Vermont 
District of Chittenden ss.}  
I, William Weston, Register of the Probate Court for said District of Chittenden do hereby certify that Charles Russell, before whom the above declaration of Martha Isham was taken and sworn to, was at the time of taking the same and still is Judge of said Probate Court, and that the signature thereto purporting to be his, is genuine. I further certify that William Weston, before whom the above affidavits of Horace Wheeler and Laura Wheeler were taken and sworn to was at the time of taking the same and still is a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Chittenden, duly commissioned and sworn, and that the signatures thereto, purporting to be his, are genuine. 
In testimony whereof I do hereunto affix the seal of said Court and subscribe my name at Burlington in said district this fifteenth day of June A.D. 1843. 
Wm Weston Register
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Martha Horsford
her Book [unreadable]
January 1 1705
Price 4 / 6
Married Jany 27th 1785
Patty Born Nov 12 1785
Sophia Born Oct 10th 1787 died Feby 9th 1795
Laura Born Nov 19 1789
Oran Born June 13 1792
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Salley Born 24th Feby 1794 died May 2d 1795
Lyman Born July 29 1795
Launey Born June 30th 1798
Lyman Died May 30th 1796
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Act 1828
Settled at Treasury 
Cont. with Ad OW No 8
File # 26,791
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556
423
No of Orig Pay 356
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. July 28 1828. 
Joshua Isham of Shelburne in the County of Chittenden in the State of Vermont has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Sergeant in Captain Stillwell's company, in the regiment of the Connecticut line and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing 
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office. 
By order of the Secretary A. Dickins  
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. 
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE, 
July 30 1828 
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Joshua Isham in the Connecticut Line. It further appears that Joshua Isham is not now on the pension list of any  agency, and has not been so since the 3 March 1826. 
Peter Hayner Aud
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Repo 30 Augt 43
Vermont – 7573 – 
Martha Isham 
widow of Joshua Isham who was a pensioner under the Act of 15 May 28. and who died on the 9 April, 1840- of Chittenden in the State of Vermont who was a Sergeant in the company commanded by Captain Stillwell of the Regt. commanded by Col. Swift in the Connecticut line for 2 years –
Inscribed on the Roll of Burlington at the rate of 120 - Dollars- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 29th day of -  and sent to Wm Weston Burlington Vermont –
Whole amount due $ 600.00
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by W. M. Stewart  Clerk,
Book A Vol. 2 Page 43-
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Revy WIDOW, &c. 
File No.   26,791  
Martha Isham wid of Joshua Isham Sergt Conn Line 
Act: March 3d 43 
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 368 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Burlington Vt June 15. 1843. 
Sir 
I enclose two declarations, and testimony, to obtain pensions for Martha Isham, widow of Joshua Isham, deceased - One under the act of July 7, 1838, for a pension of five years, and the other under the act of March 3, 1843.
If the evidence is satisfactory, please transmit to me the pension certificates. I have heretofore sent the declarations of Dorcas Pierson, Esther Rider, Ruth Brush, Abigail Higbee and Sophia Brull from which I have not yet had returns. 
I am my respectfully 
Your obt Servt 
Wm Weston
James L. Edwards Esq Comr of Pensions
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507A
Martha Isham
M. Isham
3 March 43
$120 per ann.
Wm. Weston
Burlington Vt.
Wm Weston
Burlington Vt
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State of Vermont 
Chittenden County ss} 
On this nineteenth day of September A.D. 1843, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace within and for said County of Chittenden, personally appeared Martha Isham, a resident of Shelburne in said County of Chittenden, aged Eighty years, 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 the third day of March, 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war; that she is the widow of Joshua Isham, who was a Sargeant in the Connecticut line of the continental army during the revolutionary war, but she is unable to state the names of the officers under whom he served, that she has received a pension for five years under the act of July 7. 1838, at the rate of one hundred and twenty dollars per annum.  
She further declares that she is still a widow, 
Martha Isham 
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written and I certify that I am personally acquainted with the declarant and that she is a person of truth and credibility 
Wm Weston Justice Peace.
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State of Vermont 
Chittenden County Ss} 
I, Henry B. Stacy, Clerk of the County Court in and for said County of Chittenden do hereby certify that William Weston, before whom the foregoing declaration was made and sworn to, was at the time of taking the same and still is a justice of the peace in and for said County of Chittenden, duly commissioned and sworn, and that the signature to the certificate thereto purporting to be his is genuine. 
In testimony whereof I do hereunto affix the seal of said Court and subscribe my name of Burlington in said County this 14th day of December A.D. 1843 
Henry B. Stacy Clerk
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State of Vermont 
District of Chittenden Ss} 
I William Weston, Register of the Probate Court for the district of Chittenden aforesaid, do hereby certify that William Weston, before whom the foregoing declaration was made and sworn to, was, at the time of taking the same, a justice of the peace within and for the County of Chittenden, duly commissioned and sworn, and that he still is such justice, and that the signature thereto purporting to be his, is genuine. 
In testimony whereof I do hereunto affix the seal of said court and subscribe my name at Burlington in said district this 30th day of November A.D. 1843 
Wm Weston Register
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STATE OF CONNECTICUT, 
LITCHFIELD COUNTY } SS Litchfield  
I Geo. C Woodruff Assistant Clerk of the County Court of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Leman Church Esq is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and by law authorized to administer Oaths and to take the acknowledgment of Deeds. And that his commission was dated on the 10th day of June A. D. 1842 amd will expire on the 20th day of June, A. D. 1843 
Given under my hand and the Seal of said Court this 3d day of May A. D. 1843
 Geo. C. Woodruff 
Assistant Clerk
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John A Beckley of Canaan in the County of Litchfield & State of Connecticut of lawful age testified says that he is the town Clerk of said town of Caanan that he has carefully examined the records of said town & finds no entry or record of the marriage of Joshua Isham to Marther Isham or to any other person & that but few of the whole number of marriages celebrated in said town as long since as the year 1785 were recorded upon the record of said town. 
He also states that he has lawfully examined what remains of the church and in said town containing entries of marriages celebrated by the Revd Daniel Farrand who is now deceased upon there he finds no entry of the celebration of any marriage between the said Joshua & Martha or between the said Joshua of any other person. But he would state that the records of marriages kept by the said Farrand are in a raw mutilated condition many leaves being to from the book in which such entries were made.
John A Beckley 
State of Connecticut 
Litchfield County town of Canaan Ss 8th May 1843 Personally appeared John Beckley signer of the foregoing deposition made oath to the same according to law.   The said Beckley is personally known to me as clerk of said town of Canaan & as such he is [unreadable] of the records of said town & is a man of strict truth & integrity.  
Leman Church Just of Peace
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 
Form VAM-51 
12-5-41 
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD* 
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives 
NAME   Isham, William    GRADE  Private   LINE    Connecticut
WARRANT NUMBER  6010  ACREAGE   100   ISSUED  Aug 25, 1796 to James A. Neal
The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives. registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.  Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in the National Archives.