Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20689, Nathaniel Bartlett, Mass Vt.
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Bartlett, Nathanial
Lucy

Number
W 20689
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[illegible] Vermont
Lucy Bartlett
Nathanial Barlett dec

[illegible]
who died on the 20 December 1802 of [illegible] in the State of Vermont who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain [illegible] of the Regt commanded by Cole in the [illegible]

Inscribed on the Roll of Montpelier Vt at the rate of 31 dollars 22 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1836

Certificate of Pension filed the 26th day of Jan 1842 [illegible]

Arrears to the 4th day of March 1842$156.10
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No 7681

Lucy Bartlett
Act 7 July 38

Married 1785 d 1822

[illegible]
9 mo. 11ds
31.22

no deduction
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State of Vermont
Windham County on this 28th day of January A.D. 1841 personally appeared before the Probate Court of the District of Marlboro in said county Lucy Bartlett a resident of Battleboro in said District aged seventy six 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.  The she is the widow of Nathaniel Bartlett who was a private in the army of the Revolution and enlisted at Brookfield Massachusetts and was in the service as she verily believes one year or more previous to the year seventeen hundred and eighty she think in Captain [illegible] company - and that he also volunteered in the service of the State of Vermont from Marlboro in Capt Joseph Tylers company one month and eight days from Oct 23d to Dec 1st 1780 that same time in the Spring of the year 1782 he enlisted into Capt Waters Company of State troops in Capt Bronsons regiment from said Marlboro for eight  months and in the month
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of December following Capt Warrens Comp of Militia those days also in Capt Whitneys Company three months and 25 days from November 8th 1783 to March 1st 1784 and also in Capt Knights Company from the 1st to the 24 of March 1784 24 days. She further declares that she was married to the said Nathanial Bartlett in the month of September Seventeen hundred and eighty five in Winchester on the corner of [illegible] that her husband the aforesaid Nathanial Bartlett dies on the 29th day of December in the year AD 1822 that she was not married to him prior to his being in the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four at the time above stated.
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I also certify that satisfactory evidence has been executed to aid court that the aforesaid Nathanial Bartlett died on the 29th day of December AD 1822 and that the aforesaid Lucy Bartlett is his widow and has not [illegible] since his death.

In testimony of all which I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this 28th day of January in the year AD 1841

Lemuel Whitney Register of Probate
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State of Vermont  }
Windham County  }ss

Be it known that before me Phineas Mather a justice of the peace in & for the County aforesaid personally appeared Phebe Pranty of Marlboro in said county [deleted]  and made oath [/deleted]  aged 73 years and made oath that she well recollects  that in May 1785 she went from said Marlboro to Brookfield Mass and stayed untill the next Winter that she well remembers [illegible] that her brother Nathaniel Bartlett was married to Lucy Wilder of & at Winchester while she was absent [illegible] that she has lived in the neighborhood with them nearly all the time until his death which took place in December 1822 that they lived together as man and wife all of said time and had ten children eight of them of which are now living - that she well recollects her brother the said Nathaniel Bartlett service time during the Revolutionary War went to Brookfield Mass there enlisted in the army and was there as she thinks nearly one year - she well remembers his sending home money to his father while there and of hearing from him in the army. She also  well remembers of his being in the [illegible] several times afterwards
            her
Phebe x   Pranty
             mark
Witness Chipman Swain
Sworn to & Subscribed this 9th day of February 1841 Before me Phineas Mather  Justice peace
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State of Vermont     }
Windham County     } ss

Be it known that before the subscriber   a Justice of the Peace in and for said county personally appeared Chipman Swain and made oath that [illegible] he remembered collecting the testimony in order to get a pension for Lucy Bartlett widow of Nathaniel Bartlett the said widow told him that where she was married that she was with said Bartlett and others (none of whom are living) rode from her house in the Winchester NH about four miles to a place called Studdle Hill and was married by Esq [illegible] who lived at that place and deponent further says that since then he has been at said Winchester & [illegible] that Studdle Hill (See [illegible] was about four miles from said Winchester and Richmond N.H. that old people told him that there was formerly a Justice of the peace of the name Capner lived there just over the line in Richmond but he was dead and the family gone he further says that he has diligently with the assistance of the clerks searched the records of the towns of said Winchester and Richmond and Marlboro Vermont where their children were  born and that he cannot find any record of the marriage births or deaths of said family and that he is informed by said widow that ^neither^ she or her husband were members of the church & that their children were not baptised and of course there would be no church records.

Chipman Swain
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Sworn to and subscribed this 12th day of February 1841 before me Layfayette Clark Justice Peace

I hereby certify that Chipman Swain the signee of the foregoing Affidavit is a person of truth and veracity and to whose testimony full faith and credence ought to be given.
Lafayette Clark Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont
Windham County Court Clerk's Office
I Marshall Miller, Clerk of said Court certify that Phinehas Mather and Lafayette Clark are Justices of the Peace within and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and that their signatures hereunto heretofore written and genuine
In witness whereof, I hereunto set my hand affix the Seal of said Court this 18th day of February A.D. 1841
Attest Marshall Miller Clerk
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I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with
Phebe Precenty whose affidavit is sworn to before me on the other page that she is a person of truth and veracity and to whose testimony full faith and evidence mighty to be given.
Phins Mather Justice of the Peace
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Rev WIDOW, & c.

File No. 20.689
Lucy Bartlett
Widow of Nathaniel Barkett
Priv. Rev. War
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Act July 7th 1838
Index: Vol. A Page 38 
[Arrangement of 1870.]


Before 80- about a year in the Mass. Service probably Capt Harwood.  80 Capt. Tyler Vt. militia Bronson
82. Waters
82 dec'd Warner
Before 80- about a year in the Mass. Service probably at Harwood
Rolls Col. Marshall
Dec. 76 . 3 yrs omitted Sept. 78
Say. Pri.- 1.8
Witness- 8.0
Secy        3.0
_____________
allow-      9.11
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7687
Lucy Bartlett
Wid. of Nathaniel
No. 20689
See letter to Chipman Swain, Brattleboro Vermont,  May 21,  1841
to same 9. Sept. 1841
Same     9 Oct 1841

Act 7 July 38
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State of Vermont 
Windham County 
Thaddeus Miller of
Brattleboro in the County of Windham and State of
Vermont of the age of Seventy-six years do
testify and say that
pay and say that sometime in the spring of
the year 1782 or 1783 I enlisted into the Vermont
service in a company commanded by Capt. Waters
in Col. Brunson and Maj. Boyden's Regt for 
Eight months, and went to Castleton St. and served in
said Company during said term at Castleton 
elsewhere - I went from Mallow in said
Windham County-- And that Nathaniel Barkett
of said Marlboro together with Benjamin and
Asa Winchester and others enlisted in the same
Company at the same time for eight months
that we were examined and passed muster
together and that the said Bartlett served with
me in said company during said term of
Eight months - And I further say that I was
for many years after acquainted with the said
Bartlett and his family that we all resided
in said Marlboro for many years after our return and
that the said Bartlett according to my best recollecttion
 lived with Lucy Hartlett as man & wife and
raised up a large family of children and I
suppose and always have supposed they were legally
married. I never heard anything to the contrary
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and that the said Lucy Bartlett has not to my
knowledge been married since the said Nathaniel
Bartlett decease
Thaddeus Miller
Sworn and subscribed this fifth day of February
AD 1841
Before me-
Lafayette Clark, Justice peace
I hereby certify that Thadden Miller the signed
of the above & foregoing affidavit is a person of
truth and veracity & to whose testimony full
faith & credence ought to be given
Lafayette Clark, Justice of the peace
State of Vermont
Windham County Court Clerk's Office
New Fane February 15th AD. 1841-
Marshall Miller, Clerk of said Court
certify that Lafayette Clark is a Justice
of the Peace, within and for said County
duly commissioned and qualified and that
his signatures heretofore written are genuine
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my
hand and affix the seal of said Court
the day and year above written
Attest Marshall Miller Clerk
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State of Vermont
Secretary of State's Office
Montpelier June 5. 1840
I hereby certify that there is on file in this office 
paper purporting to be a "Pay Roll of Capt. 
Joseph Tyler's Company of Volunteers in the service of this
state 180, on which Roll, in the list of privates,
is the name of "Nath Bartlet," with an allowance
for one month and 8 days service commencing 
October 23d and ending December 1st
Also "A Pay Roll for Capt. Jonathan Warren's
Company of Militia in Col. Peter Sits Regt in
State of Vermont for service done in Dec 1782 
pursuant to orders from Col. Sergeant for ye suppression of
insurgents in Windham County; on which roll, 
the list of privates, is the name of "Nath Bartlet
with an allowance for three days service
Also, a Pay Roll of Capt. Benjamin Whitney's
company in the service of the State of Vermont 
Guilford and other adjacent parts in the County 
to the first day of March 1784 inclusive
or which
Pay Roll, in the list of privates, in the name of
Nathl Bartlett, with an allowance for three
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months and 25 days service, commencing November 8th
and ending March 1, 1784.
Also "A Pay Roll of Lieut Elijah Knight's
Company of State Troops in the service of the State of
Vermont stationed at Guilford "
on which Roll
in the list of privates, is the name of "Nath Bartlet
with an allowance for 24 days service, commencing
March 1st and ending March 24th 1784.
Also a Pay Roll of Capt Lemuel Bradley's
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Company August 6th 1781 as established by law
on which Roll is the name of "Bartlet Corp
with an allowance as corporal for three days service.
All said Pay Rolls appear to have been
duly approved and paid
Given under my hand and the
seal of this office this fifth day of
June AD. 1840
Ferrand F. Merrill
Deputy Secretary of State
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Sir
Brattleboro to March 27, 1841
Enclosed I send year the applicant of
Lucy Bartlett -the 8 months served and examined in 82
in you are referred to the certificate of
the Secretary of State in the case of
Sarah & Ruth Winchester, the Servient set
fourth previous to the year 80 we do meet
claim to be sufficiently proved
Mary
Respectfully
your obv ser
Chipman Swain
J L Edwards Esq
com of pensions
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Dear Sir
Bratton to July 24th 1841
cents of the 21st of May last in answer
to the lien of Lucy Bartlett for a pension under the
act of July 7th 1838 was need after the most
diligent search I am not able to find any record
of marriage one children ages closed I send you
the affidant of Nath E Bartlett
I was aware that the claims for service in the Mass
he was imperfect but I find an examining
same all papers of Nathaniel Bartlett deceased
that in 1818 he claimed to have enlisted at Newling
New York took the place of one Leonard Hines in
Capt Fowls Company in the third Regiment of the Mass
chusetts line commanded by lot Billings the fore part of
March 1783 and served in said Company untill
same time the next time York
please to examin
the seals
Mary Respectfully
Samit Steat
Chipman Swain
Hon J.L. Edwards
amt of Pensions
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Brattleboro VT Jan. 15th 15th 1842

Sir
Enclosed I send you the additional testimony required in the case of Lucy Bartlett Widow of Nathaniel Bartlett
Your Obt Servt
Chipman Swain

Hon. J L Edwards
Comr of Pensions
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Joshua Lyman of Winchester in the County of Cheshire
Temple Eighty one years of age
whose oath says that in May in 1785, I be
of Manchester and has
well acquainted with Nathaniel Bartlett and 
Lucy his wife, whom I him before and after their marriage
they lived within about mile of I knew and still death
at distintly, that the said Nathaniel Bartell
his wife had the children born previous to
the birth of my son Asabel Lyman, who was 
born the Seventh day of March A.D. 1790. Soon after the birth of their third child they remained to Marlborough Vermont and resided their a year or a they relieved they had and the
in Winches several years
and had several more children, one of which a three sister
my Son Asabel Lyman married
 and the is reported to
and believe fifty years old in July last
part of the 4th & 5th line above
erased before signatum
A.H. Brunett 5 portion of the Peace
John Lyson
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State of New Hampshire
Cheshire SS. December 27th, 1841, Then personally
appeared the within named Joshua Lyman and
made solemn oath that the that
him subscribed is true
Before me
A.H. Bennett Just of the Peace
I certify that I am well acquainted with the
within named Joshua Lyman, and his reputation
for truth & veracity is undoubted-
Winchester Decr 7th 1844 & 16 Bennett Just of the Peace
State of New Hampshire
Cheshire County
I Henry Cooling Clerk
of the Superior Court of Judicatine of the
State and County aforesaid, do hereby
certify, that Asahel H. Bunnell is a Justice of the Peace
in the County of Chithin aforesaid duly qualified and
commissioned that his commission is dated Sept. 4. 1837
and will expire in five years from the date thereof
and that his signature above written is genuine
The witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand there
A.D. 1841. H. Coolidge Clerk
of said Court at Kenn in said County this 29th day of December
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Nathaniel Bartlett of Monthover
& County of Windham & State of Vermont
of the age of fifty years the testify and
say that I am the Son of Nathaniel
Bartlett late of Said Mother deed
and of Henry Bartlett his wife that
Lived in the family with my said
Father & Mother as long as my father
here and live in the same house now
that I will select that there was a
Register of my father's family contains the
births of the children ten in all eight
of whom are now living in the family
Bible but that a number of years since
should ten or more the best that
it was on got detached from the bible
and last & have not seen it since
Nathaniel Bartlet
Joseph Steen-
State of Vermont
Windham County Be it know that she
the 16th
day of June 1841 before me
Justice of the peace in & for said County
Personally Nathaniel Bartlett whose named
person to whose testimony full faith &
down aught to be given and made
oath to the truth of the foregoing state
ment by him signal
Just peace
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State of Vermont
Windham County Court Clerk's Office
New Fane June 18th A.D. 1841[?]
I Marshall Miller, Clerk of said County, certify that Joseph Steen is a Justice of peace within and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and that his signature within written as such is genuine
In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of said Court the day and year above written.
Attest Marshall Miller, Clerk
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Joshua Lyman of Winchester State of
New Hampshire County of Cheshire being of law
full age doth depose and say that I came to
Winchester in May AD 1785 that I then became 
acquainted with Nathaniel Bartlett and Lucy
Wilder and remember, they were married the 
next fall, that I have no doubt, for they lived together
as Husband & wife and raised a large family of
children did not see them married I have no 
doubt they were lawfully married
Joshua Lyman
March 2, 1841, Then the above-named John Lyman
personally appear and made oath that the above
Deposition by him subscribed in his belief true
before me
Elisha Rich Just Peace
hereby certify that Joshua Lyman the above
witness is a person to whose testimony full
faith and credence ought to be given
Elisha Rich
Peace
State of New Hampshire
Cheshire County
Henry Colier Clerk
of the Superior Court of Judicative of the
County and State aforesaid, do hereby
certify, that Elisha Rich is a Justice of the
in and for the County of Cheshire aforesaid duly
commissioned and qualified, that his commission was
dated on the tenth day of June A.D. 1840 and will
expire in five years from the date thereof and that
his signature above written is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and seal of said Court at home in said
County the eleventh day of March A.D. 1841