Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25873, Peter Dudley, Mass.
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Mass. Dudley, Peter W.25873
Walker, Elizabeth
(Former widow)
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389
Massachusetts
Elizabeth Walker
widow of Peter Dudley
Mass.
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
27 Dollars 77
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the
22 day of June 1848
and sent to
Elijah Clark
Brighton
Mass.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 172 Vol. 2

Reported
(signed name)
Dec 9
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Redacts from the records of the first Church Society in Hopkinton, County of Middlesex, Commonwealth of Massachusetts. "May eighth Seventeen hundred and eighty three, Peter Dudley and Elisabeth Hiscock were Married by Revd E Fitch."
I hereby certify that the above is a true extract from the original records of the first Church and Society in the town of Hopkinton with the exception of the date which is expressed in the margin of the record in true legible figures as follows. "May 8th 1783 Peter Dudley and Elisabeth Hiscock were married"

Attest, Elijah Fitch, Clerk of the Church aforesaid
I, Elijah Fitch, above named depose and say that I hold the office of Clerk of the first Church and Society in Hopkinton aforesaid in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have in my care and keeping the records of said first Church and that the above is a true extract as above certified by me. And I further certify that I also find in said Church records the following
"Feb 20, 1810, Den" Joseph Walker and Mrs Elizabeth Dudley both of Hopkinton were joined together in marriage."
Deaths in Hopkinton in the year 1813. Dec. 15 [illegible] Joseph Walker aged 74 years consumption.                                     23
A true extract attest, Elijah Fitch, Clerk as aforesaid Middlesex Ss. Hopkinton March Seventh 1846. Then personally appeared [Dean or Deacon] Elijah Fitch, Clerk of the first Church in Hopkinton, and made oath to the truth of the above certificate by him subscribed. The words "Parish & Society" in three different places were erased and the word "Church" interlined before signing and makeing oath. Before Me, Elijah Clark, Justice of the Peace
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T. John Stone of Hopkinton in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Sixty seven years of age
do testify & say that in the early part of my life, my parents removed from Framingham to Batavia in the County of Ulster at that time in the State of New York and more recently the same place is called Windham in the County of Greene, N.Y. and I well recollect that while I
was there with my parents one Peter Dudley with his wife came and settled in that vicinity. He came from the aforesaid town of Framingham, and I recollect that he died there in that place near six or eight years
after he came to that place. I recollect that his
widow returned back to this town, and was married to [illegible] Joseph Walker as was then & has ever since been stated. I returned to this town in the year 1816
and have resided here ever since. Since the death of the said Joseph Walker her last husband, the widow Walker former widow of Peter Dudley aforesaid has visited in my family, and she now resides in Hopkinton aforesaid & remains  a widow.
John Stone
Middlesex ss: Hopkinton March 7th 1846
Then personally appeared John Stone and made oath
to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed
and I certify that he is a credible witness, the word "his in the
8th in line by me, before the Elijah Clark, Justice of the Peace
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T. Elizabeth Pratt of Framingham in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Seventy nine years of age, a Revolutionary Pensioner of the
United States agreeable to the Law of 1838 & the subsequent
Law for widows, Do testify & first took my residence in
this town in June 1783, and have resided in this town or
in the immediate vicinity ever since that time, that
when I first came to this town. I recollect of a number
of Soldiers of the Revolution returning to those homes
from the Continental army. I also well recollect
an aged man by the name of Peter Dudley who  was the oldest son of the said Peter Dudleys. I well recollect, that the said Peter Dudley jr. 15 yrs married Elizabeth Hiscock of Hopkinton an adjoining
town to Framingham aforesaid. I recollect that the said Peter
Dudly & his wife removed from Framingham to a place called
Patana in the State of New York and there died
there was also a leave Coffin his family. John
Clanton & his family. & a Brand family who
want from Framingham to the same place with the
aforesaid Peter Dudley. I have seen the widow of the
said Peter Dodly since he return from Satava in the State of
Newyork, where her husband died and it has been generally
reputed & believe it to be a fact that she has since
married in Napkinton, and those resides at this time
as a widow.
Witness Eliza Knowlton
Elizabeth
Pratt.
mark
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex ss Framingham March 18th  AD1846
Then personally appeared Elizabeth Pratt and made oath to the 
truth of the foregoin affidavit by her subscribed by her making her mark, and I certify that I am personally acquainted to the said Elizabeth Pratt, that she is a person of sound mind & a credible witness.
Before me, Elijah Clark, Justice of the Peace &
hereby certify that the words " and say that" & the word "the" on the first page were underlined before signing & makeing Oath &
the word "Cloflin" who served & the word "Pratt" inserted also before signing & making oath. by me. Elijah Clark Justice of the Peace
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Extract of the Records of the Town of Hopkinton in the
County of Middlesex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
"1782 Nov. 2d A Marriage proposed between Peter Dudly
& Elisabeth Hiscock Boath of Hopkinton
1810. Feby 20th Dean Joseph Walker and Miss Elizabeth Dudley both of Hopkinton were joined in Marriage
Dean Joseph Walker departed this life Decr 15th 1813 in the 75th year of his age.
I, Augustus Phipps, depose and say, that I hold the office of Clerk in the Town of Hopkinton, in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts have been duly elected
and qualified according to law have in my care and keeping the records and documents of said Town, and that the above are
true extracts from the original records of said Town of Hopkinton

Attest
---
Augustus Phipps. Town Clerk of
Hopkinton aforesaid
Middlesex, ss.
Sworn to on this eighteenth day of March A.D.
1846
Before Me. Elijah Clark Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
County of Middlesex, ss
On this twenty first day of March eighteen hundred and forty-six, personally appeared before the Honourable, Samuel P. P. Fay. Judge of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Middlesex and State aforesaid Elisabeth Walker, a resident of Hopkinton
in said County eighty eight years of age, 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 July seventh 1838
and the 23d of August 1842 granting pensions
to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. also agreeable to the act of March 3d 1843
and June 17th 1844, continuing the pensions of certain widows.
That she is the widow of Peter Dudley who was a native of Framingham in said County of Middlesex that according the the best of her recollections, and the
best evidence within her knowledge, the said Peter Dudley was in the [claims] service as a minute man from Framingham aforesaid in the year 1775. & the first part of 1776,
and in July 1776. He engaged & rendered five months service at Ticonderoga in a company made up of man
from the town of Framingham, Marlborough; and the adjoining towns and commanded by Capt Silas Gates of
Marlborough the Regiment by late Jonathan Reed
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that there was a [lease] Cloflin & Simon Prath also of Framingham who were in the same company & service that her said husband, waited on the way from Ticonderoga for
the said Cloflin who was unable to proceed on his journey by reason of his sickness

That in July 1780 he again engaged in the service for the town of Hopkinton, as she varily believes, where he happened to reside at that time, and rendered three and a half months service on Butts Hill in
the State of Rhode Island in Captain Walter MacFarland's Company in Col Howes Regiment. It is her impression he rendered other short services at the alone in the State of
Rhode Island which she is not able to describe at this time. She also declares that she was married to the said Peter Dudley
on the eighth day of May Seventeen hundred and eighty three by the Reverand Elijah Fitch Paster of the first Church Society
in Hopkinton aforesaid, that they resided in Framingham aforesaid a short time, & then with other families removed to Patava in the State of New York, Where the said Peter Dudley her husband died on the thirtieth day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four"" at the time above stated, that soon after his death she returned back to the town of Hopkinton aforesaid, and was afterwards married to Joseph Walker of Hopkinton aforesaid on the twentieth day of February eighteen hundred and ten, that the said Joseph Walker died in said town of Hopkinton on the
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fifteenth day of December eighteen hundred and thirteen and that she is still a widow and that her maiden name is Elisabeth Hiscock.

Elizabeth Walker
Subscribed & Sworn to on the day & year first above written, by the said Elizabeth Walter, at her own [ repling] in Hopkinton, She being unable from age & infirmity to attend
Court, or to leave home - before me
S. P. P. Fay
Prob
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex County Ss
I Isaac Fiske Register of the Court of Probate in & for the County of Middlesex aforesaid
hereby certify that the Hon. Sam P P Fay is the
Judge of said Court of Probate & that his signature above written is his genuine signature
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my
hand & affixed the seal of said Court of Probate

this twenty third day of March in the year
one thousand eight hundred & forty [six]

Isaac Fiske [ ]
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Rev. and 1812
War Section.
October 23, 1926
Miss Theodora Bothwell
140 King St
Troy, Pa

Madam: 
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 25873, it appears that Peter Dudley (oldest son of Peter Dudley) of Framingham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts) was a native of Framingham, Massachusetts.
While residing in said Framingham, he was a minute-man in 1775 and the early part of 1776, and enlisted in July 1776 and served five months in Captain Silas Gates' Company, Colonel Jonathan Reed's Massachusetts Regiment, and went to Ticonderoga.
He enlisted in July 1780 and served from July 24, 1780 to October 30, 1780 in Captain Walter MoFarland's Company, Colonel Howe's Massachusetts Regiment. 
He had other services of short tours, no
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details given.
Soldier married May 8, 1783 in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, Elizabeth Hiscock. He died January 30, 1794 at Patava, New York, and she married February 20, 1810, Joseph Walker, who died December 15, 1813 at Hopkinton, Massachusetts. She was allowed pension, on account of the services of Peter Dudley, on her application executed March 21, 1846, while a resident of Hopkinton, Massachusetts, aged eighty-eight years. 
The above noted Peter Dudley is the only soldier of that name found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau. 
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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Revy

WIDOW, &c.
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File No. 25893
Elizabeth Walker
formerly Wid of
Peter Dudley
Pri Rev War

Act: Feb 2d 48
Index: -- Vol. W. Page 313

[Arrangement of 1870.]

1926-Oct 28  
Hist. to Theodora Bothwell [illegible]
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V     No. 12606
Elizabeth Walker
Map
Leon J. Davis Apl. 11'46
Act 7 July 1838
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1830
Massachusetts
Elizabeth Walker, [illegible]
widow of Peter Dudley
who was a Private
in the Revolution
husband died 13 Jany 1794
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
27 Dollars 77
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the
6th day of July 1846
and sent to
H. C. Hudson, 
hour of Reps

[Act of March 3, 1843]
Recorded in Book W 14th June '44
Vol. 2 Page 46
Reported
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10099
Massachusetts
Elizabeth Walker,[illegible]
Widow of Peter Dudley
who was a pensioner under the Act of ____
and who died on the 13th Jany 1794
of Middlesex in the State of Mass
who was a Private in the Company 
commanded by Captain _____
of the Regt commanded by ____
in the Revolution line for 8th 10 of
R
---
Inscribed on the Roll of Boston
at the rate of 27 Dollars 77 Cents
per annum to commence on the 4th day
of March, 1836

Certificate of Pension issued the 6 day of
July, 1846,
and H. H. Hudson
---
of Rept
Total amount,
$138.83
---
-
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Theo Lumpkin
Clerk,
Book D Vol. 1,
Page [illegible]
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*illegible Ref. M. J. illegible 6:34
Hon. L.P. Maldo
Cert of Pension

Sir,
I wish to enquire as to the state of the application for Pension of 

1. Isabel Hammond of Mass in 1838 or 1839.
2. Application of Ebenezer Whittemore of Mass for Pension - on file in Pension Office.
3. Do the rolls of Mass'tts furnish any evidence of the service of Isaac Lincoln of Taunton, Mass. who died in 1821 or 1822, leaving children now alive who wish to draw if the *illegible authorize them so to do.
4. Are the heirs of Betsy Walker a RW Pensioner, entitled to any increase of pension. She was of Mass.
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Will you please cause the proper examination to be made and reply at your convenience.
Respectfully Yours,
Edw Dickinson
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[written vertically at top of page:]
26.66
1.11
27.77

Friday, March 7th 1777
Capt. Silas Gates abstract of Mileage from Ticonderoga for One hundred and twenty three pounds, seventeen shillings and three pence. Read and Allowed and Ordered that a warrant be drawn on the Treasury for said sum in full of said abstract. A warrant was drawn and signed by fifteen of the Council.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's office June 17th, 1846.
I hereby certify the foregoing to be true copies extracted from the records of the Council.
Witness the Seal of the Commonwealth.
John G Palfrey
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston June 9 1848
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation Elijah Clark was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex, 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.

[written vertically:] 7830

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
[signed] W B Calhoun
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

[written vertically:]
admitted
Elijah Clark Brighton
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Middlesex, 18
On this twenty second, day of April eighteen hundred and forty eight, personally appeared before Elijah Clark, a Justice of the Peace, & [and] for the County aforesaid, Elizabeth Walker, a resident of Hopkinton in said County, aged ninety - 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 on the 2d [2nd] day of December 1848. granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow Elizabeth Walker, who has annually received a pension of Twenty Seven dollars and Seventy Seven cents her annum on account of the Services of her former husband Peter Dudley a native of Framingham, & served in the Massachusetts Militia, and she further declares that she is still a widow. 
[signature] Elizabeth Walker
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year above written and I certify that the above named declarant is personally known to me a widow and a Revolutionary Pensioner as she declares. Before the Elijiah Clark, Justice of the Peace
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Elisabeth Walker's case - Widow of Peter Dudley -
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston;
June 3, 1846.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that there is No Return showing the amount of service performed by Col Reed's reg't in the tour to New York in 1776.
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And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the Commissioner's letter of April 11, 1846 was filed in this Office; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said letter, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
[signed] John G Palfrey
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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I Lambert Bigelow of Marlboro in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts depose and say, that I hold the office of Town Clerk in said Marlborough and have the Records and documents of said town in my care and custody, and among the same I find the following to wit
"An account of the Receipts [crossed out word] by the Selectman and sent to the Secretary's office in the year 1784.
"Joel Rice paid Abel Senter £8.0 to serve 5 months at Canada July 23 1776."
"Ephraim Stow paid Wm. Douglas August 1st 1776 £8 to serve 5 months Canada"
"July 191776 Moses Woods paid Joshua Lamb £6-10 to serve 5 months Northant [?]"
"July 22. 1776 Samuel Howe paid Jonah Newton £8- to serve 5 months."
"July 22 1776 Tho. Rice paid Oliver Russell £8 to serve 5 months"
"July 26 1776 Capt. Wm Brigham paid Silas Gates £8 to serve 5 months"
"True Coppy of the before mentioned Receipts 
Attest. Moses Woods Town Clerk,

A true Copy
Attest. Lambert Bigelow Town Clerk

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex Ss. Marlborough June 18th 1836. Then personally appeared Lambert Bigelow Town Clerk Marlborough & made oath to the truth of the above certificate by him made & subscribed. The alteration of the word "processed" in the first line of the [illegible] was done before signing & making oath
Before Me Elijah Clark, Justice of the Peace
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I, William Gates of Marlborough in the County of Middlesex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States in the eighty-fifth year of my age do testify and Say that I rendered service in the War of the Revolution and that my father Captain Silas Gates Commanded a company made up of men from this town & Framingham & possible some part of the company may have belonged to the Southborough or Sudbury adjoining towns. The regiment was commanded by Colonel Jonathan Reed and was always understood to have been a five months service. Silas Gates Jr, my Brother & Oliver Russel, Jonah Newton, Abram Stowe & Quartus Stowe, David Wyman, Simon Howe were in this same service under my said father Captain Silas Gates from this town. I have in my possession an original commission which was my said father, dated at Watertown, the Twenty-fifth daughter of July 1776 in which my said father was commissioned Captain of a Company Raised by this Colony to Reinforce the Army of United States. Destined for [illegible] in the Regiment of foot Commanded by Colonel Jonathan Reed, & signed under the seal by twelve[?] of the Council.
[signed] William Gates
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex, SS, Marlborough, June 18th 1836
Then personally appeared William Gates and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him Subscribed and I certify that he is a gentleman of Sound mind & a person of veracity[?]. The word "Amos" was erased and Abrahman interlined before signing & making oath.
Before me, Elijah Clark, Justice of the Peace,
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston June 19th 1846.
I hereby certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation Elijah Clark was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex, 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.
[signed] John G Palfrey
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
[The seal is barely legible.]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston;
March 24, 1846.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Peter Dudley is borne upon the List of men in Capt Silas Gates' Company in Col. Reed's regt. who received pay for their travel from Albany to Framingham. Said List is dated "Marlborough March 14, 1777." The name of Increase Claflin mentioned in the annexed application is borne upon said list with that of said Dudley. Upon a Pay Roll of Capt Walter McFarland's Company in Col Cyprian Howe's regt, from the County of Middlesex, for service at Rhode Island, as a private, from July 24 to October 30 1780 including allowance of 3 days travel, 3 Months and 10 days.
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And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and the said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G Palfrey
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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I, Elizabeth Walker of Hopkinton in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, eighty-eight years of age, Deposepose [Depose] and say that I have good reason to believe that I am entitled to a pension for the service in the Revolution by my first husband Peter Dudley who resided in Framingham in said County. I have no recollection of there being any other Peter Dudley in Framing[ham] or the neighboring towns except Peter Dudley father of my said husband who was an aged man at that time and according to the best of my recollections my said husband was in the Service at Ticonderoga or Crown Point & that a man by the name of Increase Claflin of Framingham was in the same service, that he was also in the Continental Service for six or eight months at one time, and that he may have been in other service at Rhode Island or Dorchester which I do not at this time recollect, and I request the Secretary of this Commonwealth to examine the Rolls & documents in his office for proof of all the Service rendered by my said first husband Peter Dudley of Framingham or as may be from the neighboring towns adjoining.
[signed] Elizabeth Walker
Middlesex, SS, Hopkinton Oct 17th 1844
Subscribed to by the said Elizabeth Walker and acknowledge the truth of the same. Before me, Elijah Clark, Just of the Peace
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No. 12606
Act " 43 8715
Act 44.608
Elizabeth Walker formerly 
widow of Peter Dudley
Mass
Act 7 July 1838
Married 1783
husband died 13 Janry 1794
[illegible]
8m mo. 10 days
_____
27.77

Also act 43 & 44
$27.77

Hon C. Hudson 
[illegible]
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[A seal is affixed in the upper left corner of the page,]
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston March 23 1846.
I hereby certify that at the date of the annexed attestation Elijah Clark was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex, 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.
[signed] John G Palfrey
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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Washington June 22, 1846
Sir
I enclose your additional Evidence in the cases Lovina Bennett, Nathl. Taylor, and Elisabeth Walker, of Mass. each for a Pension.
Yours Respectfully
C Hudson [possibly]

[at bottom of page:] James L Edwards Esq
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[Taylor University letterhead is crossed out]
140 King St.
Troy, Pa.
Aug 27, 1926.
The Pension Dept.
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
I am writing to ask if you will be so kind as to send me the Pension Record of Peter [illegible] Dudley, a Revolutionary soldier who served in Capt. MicFarland's [McFarland's] Co., Col. Cyprian Howe's Reg't. (Middlesex Co. Mass.). Company raised to reinforce the Continental Army for 3 months. It is said that he moved to New York state about 1790.
Thanking you for your kindness I am Very truly yours
(Miss) Theodora Bothwell.