Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,081, Levi Gassett, Mass.
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(S-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
Mass. Gassett, Levi W. 23081
or Gaschet,
Vashti
CONTENTS
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Windsor Vermont 545
Vashti Gassett
widow of Levi Gassett decd
Mass.
who died on the 29 December
of Windsor in the State of Vt
who was a Corp Wgt in the Company commanded by Captain Wood of the Rgt commanded by [blank] in the Massa
line for 5 mos Corporal
4 1/3 " Sergeant 

Inscribed on the Roll of Windsor at the rate of 40 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 2.d day of May 1837 and sent Hon H. Everett H of Reps

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1836 of $220 00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar 20 00
$240.00
3 Sec. of the
Act 4. July '36
Ref to [illegible] 6
{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the [blank]}
Recorded by D D Addison Clerk,
Book A. Vol. 1 Page 37-

Order to pay & letter to Darius Gassett. 20 April 1839
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 April 1838 from 4t March 1837 to 4 March 1838
Agt notified 30 April 1839.
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Levi Gaschet and Vashti Brigham both of Northborough were married October 5th 1769-

A true copy of the record

Attest Anson Rice Town Clerk
Northborough
June 13th 1837
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Vol 13. p 165
Apl 19 71-Corpl
Hon H Everett
HR

Vashti Gassett
wid of Levi
Vermont.

Ale [?] &
5 mo. Corpl 18.33
4 1/3 Sergt. 21.67
per ann 40.00
no deduction
War Department.
Mass [illegible] Vol 13 p 165
Pension Office.
Washington City.
D. C.
Cap Wood
Col Ward} 

Hon H Everett
HR
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the third Section of the Act of Congress of the 4th of July, 1836.

State of Vermont.
Windsor County, ss.} On this second day of February in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven, personally appeared before the Probate Court within and for the District of Windsor in the county aforesaid, Vashti Gassett, a resident of Andover in said County of Windsor, and state of Vermont, aged eighty nine years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress, passed July fourth A.D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty six: That she is the widow of Levi Gassett (whose name was formerly spelt Gaschet) who was a sergeant in Capt. Samuel Wood's Company of Northborough, county of Worcester, and commonwealth of Massachusetts __ he left home with said Company about the eighteenth of April in the year of our Lord, onethousand seven hundred and seventy five, in consequence of the invasion of the town of Lexington by the British troops __ he had stood as a minute man some time before this __ She believes that her husband, the said Levi Gassett or Gaschet, did not with his company arrive in season to engage with the British Troops at Lexington __ that they had retreated before his company arrived __ that she understood that her husband together with the rest of Capt. Wood's company went to Cambridge, Mass. and remained there awhile, and then went to Dorchester __ that she learned from her husband after he came out of the army of the Revolution, that he was at the Battle of Bunker's Hill __ her said husband remained in the service, in the same company he first enlisted into, as she understood, until the early part of January, A.D. seventeen hundred and seventy six (1776), when he returned to Northborough, where he resided when he enlisted into the service a[nd] that she understood  at that time, that Timothy Brigham was first Lieutenant, and Thomas Seaver second Lieutenant of Capt. Wood's Company __ she does not at this distance of time recollect, and is unable to state the name of the Field-officers under whom her said Husband served, when in the army __ she does not know that her said husband left any other documentary evidence of his service __ she knows of no other __ than the Roll-Book hereunto attached, on which is written in the hand. writing of her deceased Husband, the said Levi, the words and figures following: to wit: "The Roll Book Sept. of 21.1775" __ she knows the List of Names in said Book to be in the hand writing of her husband. 
She further declares that she was married to the said Levi Gassett or Gaschet, on the fifth day of October A.D. seventeen hundred and sixty nine (1769), at said Northborough, by the Rev Peter Whitney, then the settled minister of said town of Northborough __ her maiden name being Vashti Brigham, the said Lieutenant Timothy Brigham being her Brother __ She and the said Levi both resided at said Norhtborough
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at the said time of their marriage, wher they continued to reside till the next Spring after he came out of the service _ they then removed from said Northborough, Massachusetts, to Townsend in said State __ She further declares that she and her said husband continued to reside in said Townsend for about nine years, when he was suddenly killed by the fall of a tree __ according to her best recollection her husband's death took place at said Townsend on the 29th day of December __ she resided in Townsend for more than thirty years after her husband's death when she removed to Andover in said County of Windsor, where she has resided ever since and still continues to reside; and she further declares that she has remained a widow ever since that period, that is, since the death of her said husband as aforesaid, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed, and that she still remains sole and unmarried.
Vashti Gassett
Sworn to and subscribed on the second day of February A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty seven aforewritten, at said Andover.
Before, Thomas F. Hammond, Judge of Probate
I, Darius Gassett, of Andover in the county of Windsor, and state of Vermont, aged sixty five on this sixth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty six, being duly sworn, do depose, testify and say, that I am the son of Levi and Vashti Gassett, formerly written Gaschet & that I have been informed my said parents resided at Northborough, in [illegible] county of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts at the time of my birth __ that they resided in said Northborough till I was a few weeks over five years of age, when they removed to Townsend, Massachusetts __ I can recollect the removal of our family from Northborough to Townsend perfectly well, and I remember that my Father was absent from home the year before we moved to Townsend, and they said he was in the army __ we lived in Townsend till I was in my fourteenth year when my father died of a hurt he received from the fall of a tree very suddenly on the 29th December A.D. Seventeen hundred and eighty four, as I now recollect __ I have frequently heard my Father speak of being in the army and I have now in my home a Powder horn, which he used to tell me he brought from Dorchester with him whe[n] [illegible] came out of the service __  I further depose, testify and say that Vashti Gassett, who took and subscribed the foregoing Declaration, is my mother __ that she lived with my Father, the said Levi, as his wife, and was always treated and recognized by him and the children, and was reputed in the neighborhood, to be such __ that the said Vashti Gassett continued after the death of her husband, the said, Levi, to reside in sd Townsend until about fifteen years ago when she removed to said Andover, where I reside myself and have resided ever since her removal to this place __ I further depose, testify, and say that the said Vashti Gassett has remained a widow constantly ever since the death of my Father, her said Husband, hitherto, and is now sole and unmarried. I further depose, testify &
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say, that in my said deceased Father's family Bible, which is now before me, is a Record in his hand writing in the words following, to wit, "Levi Gaschet and Vashti Brigham was married the 5 of October 1769." which Family Bible has remained in the possession of the said Vashti Gassett, my mother, who has made and subscribed the forgoing Declaration, ever since the death of my Father as aforesaid. I further depose, testify and say, that the Roll Book hereunto  annexed I myself found among the papers of my said deceased Father, and that the names it contains and the words and figures on the outside leaf "The Roal Book Sept yr 21. 1775" are, to the best of my knowledge, in his my said Father's hand writing. (The word "ago" on the second page of this sheet was interlined before this Deposition was subscribed and sworn to.) 
Darius Gassett
Sworn to and subscribed by the said Darius Gassett (the word "ago" having been previously interlined) on the second day of February in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven.
Before. Thomas F. Hammond, Judge of Probate.

Windsor County. ss- at Andover, in said County, and District of Windsor, this 2d day of February A.D. 1837—
I, hereby certify, that Vashti Gassett, who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing Declaration, and Darius Gassett, who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing affidavit, before me, are persons of truth and entitled to full credit & belief: and that said Declaration of Vashti Gassett and said affidavit of Darius Gassett were both severally [?] taken, sworn to, and subscribed in open court.
Thomas F. Hammond, Judge of Probate.

State of Vermont.
County & District of Windsor — ss.} At Andover, in said County & District, this second day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven.
I hereby certify that Thomas F. Hammond, before whom the foregoing Declaration of Vashti Gassett and the foregoing affidavit of Darius Gassett were severally sworn to and subscribed, and who signed the foregoing certificate of their credibility, is Judge of the Probate Court within & for the District of Windsor, county of Windsor, and state of Vermont, which Probate Court is a Court of Record, and that the foregoing signature annexed to the certificate of the oath and the credibility of the said Vashti Gassett and Darius Gassett respectively, purporting to be the signature of him, the said Thomas F. Hammond, is his own proper and genuine signature.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Probate Court and subscribed my name at said Andover, this second day of February A.D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven aforesaid.
Salmon F. Dutton.
Register of said Probate Court.
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Rev
WIDOW, &c.

File No. 23081
Vashti Gassett
Wid of Levi Gassett
Corpl Rev War

Act: July 4th 1836
Index:—Vol. A, Page 265
[Arrangement of 1870]
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller's Office,
April 24th, 1839.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838 entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Vashti Gassett, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Bellows Falls Agency, at the rate of Forty Dollars and —Cents per annum, under the law of the 4th July, 1836, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March, 1837, to the 4th March, 1838.
Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions.
Present.
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M. Hay [?] Apl. 19
Bellows Falls [illegible]
April 15
Free
J.L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City.
D. C.
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Cavendish March 25th 1839.
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Comm of Pensions.

Sir will you authorize the Pension Agent at Bellows Falls, Vermont, to pay to me the Pension of Vashti Gassett of Andover, Vt. from the 4th of March 1838 to the 4th of March 1839. being forty Dollars. which I am authorized by the written Power of Attorney to receive.
I am very Respectfully, 
yr obt. Servant,
Darius Gassett
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Deposition of Reuben Babcock
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I Reuben Babcock of Northborough in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged eighty two years, depose, testify, and say, that in the year 1775 a company of minute men was formed in said Northborough under the command of Capt. Samuel Wood: that I was a member of the said company, and was well acquainted with Levi Gassett, who was a member of the same company -
The said company received orders to proceed to defend the county against the forces of the British army, and on the nineteenth of April 1775 we marched to Cambridge, where we remained in the service in the Army [?] of the Revolution in the Regiment under the command of Col. Jonathan Ward, until some time in the month of July following:
We then marched to Dorchester near Boston, where we remained in said service until the first of January 1776,
At that time the said Gassett, with the remainder of the said company, with the exception of ten men, in which number I was included, returned home from said service, the time for which they were enlisted having expired = I remained in said service during the said month of January =
The said Gassett was elected a Sergeant during said term of service, about the first of May, and served during the remainder of said term in that capacity.
I was, during said term of service, [crossed out] well acquainted with the said Gassett and know that he served in the Army
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of the Revolution during the term aforesaid- viz from April 19. 1775 to January 1. 1776-

In this deposition I have spelt the name of the said Gassett as the descendants of him and his ancestors now spell their names = At the time of the said service the said name was spelled "Gaschet"
Reuben Babcock

Worcester Ss. January 13. 1837- Then the above named Reuben Babcock made oath that the aforewritten deposition by him subscribed is true =
And I certify that I am well acquainted with the said deponent, and that he is a competent and credible witness
Martin L. Stow
Justice of the peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts _ 
Worcester Ss. I, Jos. G. Kendall, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County, being a Court of Record, certify that Martin L. Stow, before whom the said Babcock has made oath to his aforesaid Deposition is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly authorized to administer said oath, and that the foregoing signature of his name appears to be in his own hand writing __ 
In witness whereof I have hereto set my name & caused the seal of said Court to be affixed at Worcester, this fourteenth day of January A.D. 1837
Jos. G. Kendall, Clerk