Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 18,444, Timothy Williams, Privateer R.I.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Privateer
R.I.

Williams, Timothy
Dimas

NUMBER
W. 18.444

CONTENTS
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Vermont - 3021

Dimas Williams widow of Timothy Williams, who died on the 10th August 1806 of Windsor in the State of Vermont who was a Corpl in the Compy commanded by Captain Fenner of the Regt commanded by Lippett in the [crossed out: illegible] line for 12 mos R.I.

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

Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of Augt '39, and sent to claimant, Springfield, Windsor Co. Vt

Arrears to the 4th of Mar. - $352.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 22.00
$374.00

{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the [blank]}

Recorded by R. Burdichi Clerk,
Book A Vol. 2 Page 43.
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Vermont
April 18th 1839
4460
4 July 1836

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V 4460
Dimas Williams –
widow of Timothy
Vt
Act 74 July 36
On Roll Lippett –
12 mo Corpl
Admd
12 mo Corpl
44$
No deduction
Claimant 
Springfield
Windsor Co
Vt
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I Esther Bacon of Coventry in the County of Kent and State of Rhode Island Do testify and say that I am now Eighty four years of age. That my maiden name was Esther Williams that I [crossed out: then] Belonged to North Providence in the County of Providence and whilst living there I married Nemiah Olney my first Husband I was married to him in June 1773 and after our marriage we Resided in my father - laws family (Mr Gideon Olney) for about two years and I further Testify that I had a Brother by the name of Timothy Williams who resided in Providence and was a Caulker of Vessels both Before and after the war of the Revolution. That in the early part of the year 1775 my said Brother married Dimas Weaver who belonged to Providence he married her before the war begun. I Remember from this circumstance. That he was a married man when he went down to the troops near Boston & was in the Battle at Bunker Hill. I do not Remember the Company to which he belonged but he went down there as a Soldier. I was not present at my said Brother’s marriage but have a perfect Recollection of the time it took place which was as before stated, and from that time they Lived together as man and wife untill his death Some time after the war my brother moved to Vermont with his family to the town of Springfield where he died and where his widow now lives as I believe my Brother was in all the war but I am unable to state to what company or Regiment he belonged to 
Esther Bacon
State of Rhode Island 
Kent Sc County October 4th 1838 
Personally appeared before me the above named Esther Bacon and under oath to the truth of the above affidavit by her signed in my presence and which was Reduced to writing by me in her presence
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and I further certify that said Esther is well known
to me and she is a credible Witness and her statement entitled to full credit
Aja Stone Justice Peace
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I Benjamin Cowell of the City of Providence in the State of Rhode Island on oath do depose & say that I have now in my possession a Roll or Pay Abstract of Col Christopher Lippetts regiment of Rhode Island State Troops which regiment was raised for one year from January 18, 1776 This Roll bears date “September 1776” and was put into my hands by William Lippitt a son of said Christopher soon after the act of Congress of June 7, 1832 granting pensions to officers & soldiers of the Revolution was passed and I further testify that on this Roll in Captain Arthur Fenners Company is borne the name of “Timothy Williams” as a Corporal - Benja Cowell 
State of Rhode Island &c
Providence Sc Providence Oct 20. 1838 
There the aforenamed Benja Cowell Subscribed and made oath to the aforegoing before me. And I further certify that the aforenamed Roll or Pay Abstract was then to me and upon examination of the same in the part thereof containing the list of Officers and Soldiers in Capt Arthur Fenners Company and find the name of Timothy Williams as Corporal in said Company, and I further certify that said Benj Cowell a credible witness
William Aplin Jus. Peace
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BY HIS EXCELLENCY,
William Sprague 
Governor, Captain-General and Commander in Chief of the State of Rhode- Island and Providence Plantations. 
BE IT KNOWN, That the name, "HENRY BOWEN." to the aforewritten attestation subscribed, is in the proper hand writing of Henry Bowen, Esquire, who at the time of subscribing the same, was Secretary of the State aforesaid, duly elected and qualified according to law: Wherefore unto his said attestation full faith and credit are to be rendered. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of said State to be affixed, at Providence , this twenty ninth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty Eight and of Independence the sixty third 
Wm Sprague
By His Excellency's Command. 
Henry Bowen Secry
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State of Rhode Island &c
Secretary's office Oct 29. 1838
I certify, that at the session of the General assembly of said State holden on the first Wednesday of May last, William Aplin was elected a Justice of the Peace for the town of Providence for one year That at the session on the third Monday of June last, Asa Stone was elected a Justice of the Peace for the term of Coventry until the first Wednesday of May next and severally commissioned accordingly as appears of record 
Witness - Henry Bowen Secry
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State of Rhode Island &c 
City Clerk Office Providence Oct. 1838 
I Richard M Field do certify that I am City Clerk of said City of Providence and hereby [illegible] of my office the custody of the records of the marriages that have taken place in said City, and after examination of the same I certify I cannot find the marriage of Timothy William to Dimas Weaver.
I also certify that many marriages take place in said City and have taken place for many years past as well before, as since the war of the revolution as I believe, which have never been brought to be recorded in said office. 
Attest – Richard M Field 
City Clerk City
Providence Sc In the City of Providence Oct 9. 1838
Sworn to and subscribed to before me by said Richard M Field, who is well known to me to be Clerk of the City of Providence
William Aplin Jus. Peace
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I Hannah Williams of Springfield in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, aged forty eight years on the third day of May now last past, do depose and say, that I am the widow of Oliver Williams, late of Springfield deceased, who was, as I always understood, an adopted son of the within named Timothy and Dimas Williams; That I always understood that they, the sd Timothy and Dimas had but one child who died when four or five months old; that I was acquainted with said Timothy and Dimas before his death, which as I always understood ^took place at the time and in the manner within stated by the said Dimas; that I was married to the said Oliver Williams in February, eighteen hundred and seven, and began housekeeping in March following, since which time the said Dimas, has constantly resided and is now residing in my family; that from my first acquaintance with the said Timothy and Dimas, up to the time of his death, they lived together in the relation of husband and wife, and I never heard their marriage questioned by any one, nor did I ever doubt but that they were legally married; and that since the death of the said Timothy, the said Dimas has ever remained the widow of the said Timothy, and now is sole and unmarried; that I always understood from her, that they removed from Providence in the State of Rhode Island, to Springfield aforesaid, near sixty years ago, where she has ever since resided.
Hannah Williams 
Sworn and subscribed by the said Hannah Williams, on this sixth day of March, 1839, before me, the words "took place" being first interlined. Thomas F. Hammond, Judge of said Probate Court.
I, Roswell Lockwood of Weathersfield in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, aged thirty eight years on the second day of September now last past, being duly sworn, depose and say, that I am a son of Abraham Lockwood who died at Springfield in said County in the year eighteen hundred and thirty one; that my Father the said Abraham never made application for a pension, but after the act of the 18th of March, 1818, he used sometimes complain of the injustice of that act, and said that he served in the Revolutionary War two years or more, and then could not receive a pension on account of his property; that I have frequently heard my said father say, that he served one year in Capt. Fenner's Company Col Lippitt's Regt of the Rhode Island Line, and that Timothy Williams, late of said Springfield belonged to the said company, and also Nathan Harvey, A Bartlett, and a Mory or Morey; that I understood my father to say that, he the said Timothy Williams was with him in other services, and that they had both served two years or more, but whether
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occurrence during the time they resided at Providence aforesaid, and my sd husband always turned out on all such occasions; She further declares that she was married to the said Timothy Williams, on the tenth day of March, in the year, seventeen hundred and seventy five, by the Rev. Mr. Graves, as she think, the Episcopal Minister, then settled in Providence aforesaid; that she distinctly recollects that she was married at said Providence on the tenth of March before the Lexington Battle; and that her said husband, the aforesaid Timothy Williams, died on the tenth day of August, in the year eighteen hundred and six, as she has been informed and verily believes; but that she was not present at his death, nor does she know of any one living who witnessed his death, but she was informed soon afterwards, that he was drowned in crossing Black River in the State of New York, in a Skiff; and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
And she further declares that she knows of no person now living who was present at their said marriage; that she had a Brother by the name of William Weaver, who was in the same company with her said husband, in the year's service above mentioned, and that she had another brother by the name of Caleb Weaver, who was in the War of the Revolution, but she thinks, not in the same Company, both of whom are now dead 
Witness. Roswell Lockwood       Dimas Williams her mark. +
Thomas F. Hammond.
Sworn and subscribed by the said Dimas Williams, on this fifth day of March, 1839, before me 
Thomas F. Hammond, Judge of said Probate Court
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State of Vermont Windson County, ss.} On this fifth day of March, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty nine, personally appeared before the Hon. the Probate Court for the District of Windsor, in said County of Windsor, Dimas Williams, a resident of Springfield in said county of Windsor and State of Vermont, aged eighty two years on the ninth day of September now last past, 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 4th 1836.
That she is the widow of Timothy Williams, who was a Corporal and Private in the war of the Revolution; that she has no documentary evidence of the services of her said husband, and that from her great age and consequent loss of memory, she cannot now state those services with any confidence of certainty, she will therefore relate the services of her said husband, or such part thereof as she can now recollect, and rely for further proof of those services, on the records and files of the War Department, and on such other evidence as she may be able to obtain; that from her best recollection, her husband, the said Timoth Williams, voluntarily entered the service of the United States as a Fifer, at Providence in the State of Rhode Island, where we then resided, soon after the Battle at Lexington, Mastts in the spring of the year seventeen hundred and seventy five, and marched immediately to Cambridge in the State of Massachusetts and was stationed in the vicinity of Boston untill the ensuing winter, a period, as she now thinks, of six or eight months; that she cannot now tell to what company or Regt he belonged; that she believes he was in the battle of Bunker Hill; and that he returned home to said Providence after the term of the above service had expired. That in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six, at what particular time in the year she cannot now with certainty say, but she thinks it was in the early part of the year, her said husband enlisted as a Corporal, at Providence aforesaid, and as she believes, in Capt. Finner's company, for the term of one year, and served to the end of his term; that she recollects that he came home twice on furlow during the year, but at what particular place he was stationed she cannot now tell; that she thinks he was stationed a part of the time on "the Island" which was, by water, about thirty miles from said Providence, and by way of “the Ferry”. about forty miles; that she does not recollect of any other enlistments for a term of months, of her said husband, except that he served as a Privateer , or in the naval service of the United States, and which she cannot now tell, as she now thinks five or six months, but she cannot tell the names of the vessels or their commanders; that her said husband was frequently called out on alarms, for short periods, but at what particular times. or for what duration, she cannot tell; that these alarms were of frequent
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they were together two years, I do not recollect; that I have no distinct recollection of ever having seen the said Timothy Williams, but I have known the within Dimas Williams ever since I was a small boy, and she has ever been reputed to be the Widow of the said Timothy 
Roswell Lockwood 
Sworn to and subscribed by the said Roswell Lockwood on this sixth day of March, 1839. before me, Thomas F. Hammond, Judge of said Probate Court.
State of Vermont, District of Windsor, ss.} I Thomas F. Hammond, Judge of the Probate Court for the District of Windsor aforesaid hereby certify, That Dimas Williams who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing Declaration, and Hannah Williams and Roswell Lockwood who have severally Sworn to and subscribed the foregoing affidavits are each of them persons of truth and veracity, and that their respective statements are entitled to full credit and belief. Thomas F. Hammond, Judge of Probate Court.
State of Vermont District of Windsor ss.} Probate Registry for said District 
I, Salmon F. Dutton, Register of the Probate Court for the District of Windsor aforesaid, hereby certify, that Thomas F. Hammond, before whom the foregoing Declaration of Dimas Williams, and the foregoing affidavits of Hannah Williams and Roswell Lockwood were respectively sworn to and subscribed, is Judge of the Probate Court for the District of Windsor aforesaid which Probate Court is a Court of Record, and that the signature annexed to the respective certificates of the Oaths, and to the certificate of the Credibility of the said Declarant and affiant, purporting to be the signature of him the said Thomas F. Hammond, is his own proper & genuine Signature.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the said Probate Court, and subscribed my name at Cavendish, in said District, this twentieth day of March A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty nine. Salmon F. Dutton Register
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I, Stephen Dyer of Springfield in the County of Windson and State of Vermont, aged Eighty four years on the tenth day of January now last past, being duly sworn, do depose and say that I belonged to Cranston in the County of Providence and state of Rhode Island, before me at the commencement of the War of the Revolution; that while residing at Rhodeisland, I was well acquainted with Timothy Williams who was a calker of Vessels; that I was also well acquainted with Dimas Waver, who resided in that Vicinity; that before the commencement of the Revolution I understood from said Williams and from others, that the said Timothy Williams and the said Dimas Waver were married, tho I was not present at their wedding, yet the report of their marriage was current, and I never heard the truth of the report questioned by any one, and I never doubted, nor do I now doubt but that they were legally married; that I entered the service of the United States in the year seventeen hundred and seventy five, and heard of their marriage before I entered the service; and that the said Dimas, the widow of the said Timothy Williams, now resides in said Springfield, Stephen Dyer
Springfield, August 13 1839. 
Sworn to and subscribed by the said Stephen Dyer, this 1st day of August, 1839, before me
Thomas F. Hammond, Judge of Probate for the District of Windsor, Vt.
State of Vermont, District of Windsor, ss.} I certify that Dimas Williams and Stephen Dyer, who have severally sworn to and subscribed the foregoing affidavits, are, each of them, persons of truth and veracity, and that their statements are entitled to full credit and belief.
Thomas F. Hammond, Judge of Probate for sd District.
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State of Vermont, District of Windsor, ss.} I Salmon F. Dutton, Register of the Probate Court for the District of Windsor aforesaid, hereby certify that Thomas F. Hammond, before whom the foregoing Affidavits of Dimas Williams and Stephen Dyer were severally sworn to and subscribed, is Judge of the Probate Court for the District of Windsor aforesaid, which Probate Court is a Court of Record, and that the signature annexed to the respective certificates of the Oaths, and to the certificate of the credibility of the said appointing to be the signature of him the said Thomas F. Hammond, is his own proper and genuine signature. 
In Testimony whereof, I hereunto affix the seal of the said Probate Court and subscribe my name at Cavendish, in said District, this second day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine. 
Salmon F. Dutton, Register
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I, Dimas Williams of Springfield, in the County of Windsor, and State of Vermont, aged Eighty two years on the ninth day of September in the year eighteen hundred and thirty eight, being duly sworn, do depose and say, that I am the Widow of Timothy Williams, late of the same Springfield, deceased, and the identical person who made application for a Pension under the Act of July 4th 1836; that I was married to the said Timothy Williams at Providence in the State of Rhode Island on the tenth day of March, in the year seventeen hundred and seventy five, by the Reverend Mr. Graves, then the Episcopal Minister of that place; that I was married at my Father’s house in presence of my Father's family, Nicholas Williams my husband's brother, and Miss Anna Smith, a cousin of my sd husband; that my former name was Dimas Waver; that the said Nicholas Williams and my Father and Mother are dead; that the said Anna Smith afterwards married, and if now living, I can neither tell her residence nor the name of her husband; that of four brothers which were present at my wedding, three of them have since deceased, and the fourth I have not heard of for twenty years; that of three sisters who were present at my wedding, one of them is dead and the other two I have not heard of for many years, and if living, I know not their residence; that I have no family record of my marriage, and know of no person living who was present at my wedding. 
Springfield, August 1st 1839 
Dimas Williams her mark +
Witness Roswell Lockwood 
Jasper Williams 
Sworn to and subscribed this 1st day of August, 1839, 
Before me Thomas F. Hammond Judge of Probate for the District of Windsor, Vt
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December 5, 1938.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
BA-J/ady
Timothy Williams
W. 18444

Miss Ruth M. Field
550 South Serrano Avenue
Los Angeles, California

Dear Madam: 
Reference is made to your letters relative to Timothy Williams, a soldier of the Revolutionary War and Seth Hubbell, a soldier of the Revolutionary War of Connecticut or New York, who married Prudence Philips, and had sons Benjamin, David and Nehemiah Hubbell. 
Revolutionary War and War of 1812 data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension based upon military service of soldiers in those wars. 
A careful search of the records fails to show a claim for pension on file on account of the services of any Seth Hubbell as described by you in the Revolutionary War, or of Seth, Benjamin, David or Nehemiah Hubbell in the War of 1812, all spellings of the names searched. 
It is suggested that as a possible means of securing information in regard to the military service of the above named soldiers you apply to The Adjutant General, War Department, this city. 
The record of the only Timothy Williams that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this office is furnished you herein as found in the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, W18444, based upon his military service in that war. 
The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of Timothy Williams are not shown. 
While a resident of Providence, Rhode Island, Timothy Williams enlisted in the spring of 1775, served six or eight months as private corporal and fifer in the Rhode Island troops, names of offices not
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given, and was in the battle of Bunker Hill. He enlisted January 18, 1776, and served one year as corporal in Captain Arthur Fenner's Company, Colonel Christopher Lippitt's Rhode Island Regiment. He also served at various times on alarms in the Rhode Island troops, amounting to five or six months in all, names of officers not given. He also rendered service as privateer in the naval service, no details of this service stated. 
Soon after the Revolutionary War he moved from Providence, Rhode Island, to Springfield, Vermont. 
He was drowned August 10, 1806, in crossing Black River in New York in a skiff, his age is not shown. 
Soldier married March 10, 1775, in Providence, Rhode Island, Dimas Weaver, the name is also shown as Waver, of said Providence. She was born September 9, 1756, place, and the names of her parents are not stated. 
Soldier's widow, Dimas Williams, was allowed pension on her application executed March 5, 1839, at which time she was a resident of Springfield, Windsor County, Vermont. 
Timothy and Dimas Williams had only one child who died when four or five months old, name and date of death not stated. 
Oliver Williams, an adopted son of Timothy and Dimas Williams, married in February 1807, place not shown, Hannah, who was born May 3, 1790, place, and the names of her parents are not stated. Said Oliver died in Springfield, Vermont, date, and his age not stated. His widow, Hannah Williams, was living in Springfield, Vermont, in 1839. 
In 1838 the sister of Timothy Williams, Esther Bacon, was aged eighty-four years and a resident of Coventry, Kent County, Rhode Island. While a resident of North Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, she married her first husband, Nemiah Olney, in June 1773,
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and they lived in the family of Gideon Olney, said Nemiah's father, for about two years. 
Timothy and Dimas were married at the home of her father, in the presence of her father's family, Nicholas Williams, soldier's brother, and Miss Anna Smith, a cousin of the soldier, Timothy Williams. Three of the four brothers of said Dimas who were present at her marriage were dead in 1839. Her brothers, William and Caleb Weaver, were then dead and the names of the other two brothers are not shown. Three sisters of said Dimas were present at her wedding, one of them was dead in 1839, their names are not stated. Said Nicholas Williams was dead in 1839, his age not stated. Said Miss Anna Smith afterwards married, but there are no further information in regard to her. 
In 1839 one Jasper Williams witnessed the signature, by mark, of soldier's widow, Dimas Williams, in Windsor, Vermont, his age or relationship to the family not stated. There are no further family data. 
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name of person paid and possibly the date of death of Dimas Williams, you should address The Comptroller General, General Account Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C., and furnish the following data: "Dimas Williams, widow of Timothy Williams, Certificate No. 3021, issued August 29, 1839, rate $44.00 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of July 4, 1836, Vermont Agency". 
Very truly yours 
A. D. HILLER 
Executive Assistant 
to the Administrator
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Rev
WIDOW, &c.

File No. 18,444
Dimas Williams
Widow of
Timothy Williams
Corp Rev War

Act: July 4th 36
Index:--Vol. M, Page 344

[Arrangement of 1870.]

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1938 Dec. 5. Hist to Ruth M. Field. A.W.Y.
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V 4460
Let. Claimant, July 22' '39 -

Act 4 July 36
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Rev & 1812 Wars [handwritten on top right corner]
[large round stamp] RECEIVED OCT 21 1939 MAIL SUB-DIV. VETS. ADM. READER No. 19 [/stamp]

Ruth Marie Field 
550 South Serrano Avenue 
Los Angeles, California 
October 20, 1938 
A. D. Hiller, Executive Assist. 
to the Administrator 
Veterans Administration 
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir: 
What Revolutionary War record can you give me in the name of TIMOTHY WILLIAMS whose wife was Hannah Smith. He was son of Peleg Williams, gradnson of Daniel and great-grandson of Roger Williams. 
Born in Providence, R.I. and moved to Vermont. From Vermont records he died there in 1796. 
Very truly yours, 
Ruth Field 
(Miss) Ruth Marie Field 
Sent in same envelope with request regarding SETH HUBBELL
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Ruth Marie Field 
550 South Serrano Avenue 
Los Angeles, California 
October 20th, 1938 
[large round stamp] RECEIVED OCT 21 1938 MAIL SUB-DIV. VETS ADM. READER No. 19 [/stamp]
A. D. Hiller, Executive Assist. 
to the Administrator 
Veterans Administration 
Washington, D. C. 
Dear Sir: 
What Revolutionary [checkmark] War records can you give me in the name of SETH HUBBELL. 
[checkmark] The Seth Hubbell of our family came originally from Conn. From a small piece of paper found in my great grandfathers bible is the following record:
SETH HUBBELL of Charlton, N. Y. married Prudence Philips. Not certain of the wife's name as the paper is torn and old. They had the following children – 
[checkmark] BENJAMIN born 10-25-1773, who married Catharine Cody who was born July 27, 1774
Their children Polly who married a Perry
Cynthia who married a Johnson 
[underlined] Arunah who married Ruth Maria Smith -- MY GREAT GRAND- PARENTS [/underlined]
Seth b 1809 

[checkmark] DAVID HUBBELL 2nd son of Seth and Prudence married Polly Hubbell or Hubbard -- had a Rebecca Josiah ? Polly -- David – Samantha? John and William. 
[checkmark] NEHEMIAH HUBBELL married a Rhoda Whitney - paper says he went to Canada.
REBECCA HUBBELL married Amassia Palmer. 
I believe that our Seth Hubbell was the one that was born 5-30-1736 Fairfield Co. Conn, son of David Hubbell.
I find where a Seth Hubbell served from the State of N. Y. Ulster Co. Have wondered if that were our Seth. 
My uncle HENRY SALEM HUBBELL of Miama Beach, Florida has painted the portrait of Pres. Roosevelt, Sec'y. Ickes and 16 portraits of the past secretaries of the Interior, all hanging there in Washington. He is helping me with my research but we are stumped at present.
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Ruth Marie Field 
550 South Serrano Avenue 
Los Angeles, California 
SETH HUBBELL Revolutionary War record. 
if there is another department in Washington that can give me further information, will you please let me have the name and department. 
Enclosed is a stamped addressed envelope for your reply. 
Very truly yours, 
Ruth Field 
(Miss) Ruth Marie Field
[handwritten note in left margin] 3 Cent Stamped Env BR
[handwritten note by signature line] Ret – Oct 21
[large round stamp] RECEIVED OCT 21 1938 MAIL SUB-DIV. VETS. ADM. READER No. 19