Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 15820, Priesque Asline, Continental (Canadian)
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(3-1776)
SERVICE  NUMBER
Continental (Canadian)  Asline Priesque  W.15820
or Asslin Mary
or Asselin
CONTENTS
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Letter to J.C. Hubble 16 April 1839

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Albany 1334
Mary asline
Widow of Priesque Asline who died on the [blank] Feb, 1813 of Clinton Co. in the State of N. York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Lorence of the Regt. commanded by Col. Livingston in the N. York line for 2 years.
N. Y.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 80 Dollars [blank] Cents, per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of August 1837 and sent to J.C. Hubble, Chazy, N.Y.
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Arrears ti the 4th of March '37  480.00
Semi-annual allowance ending Sep. '37  40.
[total] $520.00
{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3}
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk,
Book A. Vol. 2, Page 103
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1612

Col James Livingston rgt
New York Line
Enlt 19 Dec 976
disch 8 Feb 1779

Admitted
Private 2 years

J. C. Hubble Esq.
Chazy
New York
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Col James Livingston rgt
New York Line
Enlt 19 Dec '76
disch 8 Feb 1779

Admitted
Private 2 years

J.C. Hubble Esq.
Chazy
New York
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State of New York
Clinton County ss:
On this Seventh day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven personally appeared before the undersigned, one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas of the County aforesaid Mary Asline a resident of the town of Champlain in the County of Clinton and State of New York, age Eighty two years old last October,  who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath makes the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of congress passed July 4, 1836.
That she is the widow of Priesque Asline who was a private in the Army of the Revolution, that he enlisted in company commanded by Captain Augustine Lorence, Colonel Livingston's Regiment at Albany in the State of New York, about four years after she was married, and as she thinks in the year 1776. She further declares that she was married to the said Priesque Asline on the day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & seventy two, at the Parish of St. Denis near Quebeck [sic] in the Province of Lower Canada. That the paper hereunto annexed the [illegible] at the time of her marriage aforesaid, and has kept it ever since.
That her Husband the aforesaid Priesque Asline died at Champlain aforesaid in the month of February eighteen hundred and thirteen and that she has remained a Widow ever since that period as, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereunto annexed. That she can not recollect the length of time her said husband served in the American Army, that which her said husband was a soldier she
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wintered one winter with him at  [illegible] and one winter at Johnstown in the state of New York, the other part of the time she stayed in Albany. Thinks he was a soldier to the close of the war, that he was at the Battle at Lexington at the time Beoyour was taken. That he said husband was sick at Albany some point of the time while a soldier.
She further states, that she is unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, the Court, held at Plattsburgh, about twenty miles from where she resides, that she is able to make her mark , never having learned to write her name. [Signed with "Her mark" and "X"] Mary Asline
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before me, and I further certify that the above applicant appeared unable from old age & bodily infirmity, to appear before the court.
[Signed] William Hedding, a Judge of Clinton Co. Courts

State of New York
Clinton County ss: Peter Robarge of Chazy in the County of Clinton & State of New York being first duly sworn maketh oath and saith that he is Seventy eight years old and is a Brother of Mary Asline above named and that he was always acquainted with her husband Priesque Asline, who died at Champlain about twenty four years since - that he was present at st. Denis and saw his fair Sister married to said Priesque Asline - that he this deponent retreated with them from Canada, near Quebeck [sic] where they lived, to Albany in the State of New York.
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He further says that said Priesque Asline his said Brother in Law & Husband , to the above named Mary Asline, enlisted at Albany, a private Soldier in the Army of the Revolution in Captain Augustine ??? company of infantry, Colonel Livingstone's Regiment for and during the War & about the year 1776, that this deponent enlisted at the same time & place and in the same company and Regiment and since with said Priesque Asline, for which this deponent has resided the county of his government almost twenty years, by the name of Peter Robarge.
That said Priesque Asline served to the end of the war, was discharged with the other refugees & settled on Lake Champlain in the town of Champlain aforesaid when he died as pensioner, that the said Mary Asline his widow and Sister of this deponent has remained a widow ever since, that this deponent is obliged to make his mark, never having learned to write his name, this deponent was with said Priesque Asline at the Battled of Saratoga, at Fort Stanwich [sic] & at White Plains.
[Signed with the note "His mark" and an "X"] Peter Robarge
Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year above written & I further certify that I am acquainted with Peter Robarge the above witness, and that he is a credible person & his statement entitled to belief.
[Signed] William Hedding a Judge of Clinton County Courts
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STATE OF NEW YORK,}
County of Clinton, } ss:  I, Thomas Crook, Clerk of the County of Clinton, do hereby certify that William Hedding is a Judge in and for the said County, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission is dated on the Second day of March 1833 & that his term of service will expire on the 2nd March 1838 and that his signature to the annexed Instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and official seal of said County, the 10th day of March 1837.
[signed] Thomas Crook Clerk.
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State of New York
Clinton County ss:  On the twentieth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven, before me, the undersigned Commissioner of Deeds in and for the county aforesaid, personally appeared Peter Robarge, who being sworn according to Law, says, that in addition to his testimony in relation to the claim of his sister Mary Asline widow of Priesque Asline, taken before William Hedding Esquire, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, for the county aforesaid, on the seventh day of March last, that there was not in the company of Augustine Louiso, nor in Livingstons [sic] Regiment any other soldier private or man of the name of Priesque Asline, except the husband of Mary Asline, this deponents sister before mentioned and that the person, at whose wedding, this deponent was, and since married at St. Denis in Canada in the year 1772, to his sister Mary Robarge, is the same identical Priesque Asline, Prisk Ashlaen, who served with this deponent in Livingstons [sic] Regiment, in the Revolutionary war, and that his widow now resides in Champlain as aforesaid.
This deponent further saith, that he knows that most, if not all the Reffugees, as well in Livingstons Regiment as aforesaid, but that he never knew, or heard of any other soldier or person who served in the American Army of the name of Priesque Asline or Prisk Ashlean, except his said Brother-in-law, and husband of the claimant Mary Asline.
This deponent further saith that the name of his said sister, before marriage with
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said Priesque Asline, was called Mary Loiusa  Lanaix de Robarge, but after she was married to said Priesque Asline and removed into the United States she was called, simply, Mary. That Marie, is the French of Mary, as this deponent understands and that the addition to her name of Louisa Lanaix, was some family name, which is common among the French, and which was just mentioned by her, as this deponent recollects, but this deponent is positive, knows and declares, that his sister whose married name, called in the marriage contract Marie Louisa Lanaix de Robarge, herewith annexed, and who was married to Priesque Asline, at St. Denis in Canada in the year 1772, is the same identical individual who now asks for the bounty of the government under the act of July 4, 1836, and who is now the Widow of the said Priesque Asline, who served in Capt. Augustine Lousio's company, Colo. Livingstons Regiment, as before stated, by this deponent.
[Signed with the note "His mark" and "X"] Peter Robarge
Sworn and subscribed this 20th day of July 1837 Before me [signed] J. C. Hubbell Commissioner of Deeds
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State of New York}
County of Clinton }  I Thomas Crook Clerk of the County of Clinton do hereby certify Julius C. Hubbell Esq. is a Commissioner of Deeds in and for the said County duly commissioned and qualified that his commission is dated on the 6th day of October 183 [illegible] and that his term of office will expire on the 6th day of October 1839 and that his signature to the two instruments hereto annexed is genuine. Given under my hand and official seal of said County the 28th day of July 1837.
[signed] Thomas Crook Clerk
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Chazy Clinton Co. N. York
July 29, 1837

Sir
The widow Asline the claimant within named, has provided the Marriage Contract to be translated into english. I showed  the spelling of the Christian name to the said Priesque and of the Surname Asslin, but it must be obvious, that when written and spelled by the officers of the Army, they would do it as near the sound, as possible and would [illegible] get the french names.
The pages wherein, that Peter Robarge the Brother, was present at the marriage as he has stated, and it is helpful the identify is satisfactorily made out.
I am very respectfully your obd. servt.
[signed] J.C. Hubbell

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
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Translation, look for errors.

In presence of the undersigned Notary Public of the Province of Quebec residing at St. Denis & the witnesses hereafter [illegible] were present Asselin son of Francis Asselin & of the deceased Mary Joseph Leblane his Father & Mother residing in the said Province the said Priesque Asselin stipulating for himself & in his name on the one part and wife Mary Louise Lacroix call Robarge Daughter of Peter Lacroix called Robarge & of Mary Livadier her Father & Mother residing in the Borough of St. Denis to this present and of her free will also for herself & in her name on the other Part.
The said Parties with the advice & consent of said Parents & Friends assembled for the purpose of this agreement therein named Id est  ["Id est" are underlined as it is a Latin term] on the Part of the affianced (his)? Francis Asselin his Father, of Peter Lapointe & Joseph Plouf Brothers in Law on account of Mary & Marguerite Asselin their wives, of Louis Asseline, son of Louis & Louis Asselin son of Jacques & Jacques Asselinne and of Magdeline Asselin & Anthony Clopin as having married & Anjelica Asselin all cousins of Miss Marguerite Coste, of Mary Louisa Thibaut & of Mary Regina  Levitre Friends.
And of the part of the Lady affianced, of (Sir? Peter Robarge & Mary Civadier the Father & Mother of Francis & Peter Robarge her Brothers, of Louis Civadier her uncle & god father, of Charles Civadier & Maryanne Trudel on account of her uncle Michel Robarge her husband uncles & antes [sic] of Mr Gabriel Boyer, Francis Couyan with Loveque, Joseph Smith, Friends.
have acknowledged & confessed to have made & agreed upon within themselves the agreement of marriage & conditions herein of marriage that is to say that the said Priesque Asselin & Mary Louise Lacroix named Robarge have promised to themselves to bound in name & by Law of Matrimony & to that affect to celebrate & Solemnize in open Church Cathedral [illegible] as soon as time will permit for which it shall  be agreed upon between them, their parents & Friends.
To be the said affianced one & all interested in the movable & immovable acquired from the day of their marriage intending that their joint community should be
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governed & administered according to the custom observed & in use in this Colony putting  and expressly all Laws & Customs to this contrary.
Notwithstanding the said affianced shall not be made to pay any debt contracted as then by the one of the other prior to the present dead of marriage. Should any [illegible] they shall be paid out of the property of the one from whom they have originated so that they property so that the property of the other contracting party should in any way be affected. The said affianced contracting for each its rights & property to whom it belongs those of the one of the affianced consisting of one farm of these aspects in front on forty [illegible] in depth situated in the Parish & Segniory of St. Denis belonging to Mr. DeContecour who had bought it from Louis Montigny named Minet by dead passed before the subscribing Notary situated in the third [illegible] of Land fronting in said Parish & in Segniory, [illegible] and in what it has become to him by the decease of the said Mary & in what it shall become to him by the decease of his said Father.
In condition of said marriage the said affianced has made a donation time and irrevocable in the manner & form it can be made to exist and has promised to guarantee of all troubles to the said espousal who now accepts for herself & her [illegible] one [illegible] & one half percent in [illegible]front by forty [illegible] in depth of the above farm mentioned & being of the three [illegible] in Front by forty [illegible] in depth, to use, to and dispose by the said affianced her Hiers & assigns in the property as such as belonging to her her Hiers & assigns by a just title of said property he divests himself to give the same to the said affianced and those of further [illegible] consisting in what it shall become to her by the Decease of her said Father & Mother to what sum it may amount & in what county it should exist.
The said further Espoused has endowed & do endeavor the said further Expense of the Dowary [sic, Dowry] and many of the times of three hundred francs or livres old currency of this Province  at the Dowary [sic] prefix, to have to [illegible] by the Law. Future Espouse on the most apparent property of said further Espouses as soon as Dawary shall take place on which property she will hold a mortgage.
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from this day. The precipent shall be equal & reciprocal of the sum of one hundred and fifty livres old currency to be taken by the survivor in current money or in movables appraized [sic] at the time of the Inventory independent of the share & without addition or subtraction that is to say, hors [illegible, maybe a latin phrase]
Besides the survivor of the two contracting Parties his bed furnished and such it shall be at the time of the deceased of the one or the other with the linen & clothes for the own use & said future Espouse her heirs & jewelry.
At the dissolution of said community it shall be optionable [sic] to the future Espouse to her heirs or assigns to accept or renounce to the said community in such cases she will receive & recover fairly & without deduction as that she will justify to have brought to the said community and all that has become to her by succession, Donation, Legacy or otherwise, also the Dowary [sic], Preciput and other matrimonial gifts above mentioned within & being made to pay any debts of said community & in such case, it shall be guaranteed to her on the property of the future Espouse & on which property she has to have a mortgage from this day.
And owing to the good friendship which exists between the affianced & exists [illegible] they have made to one and other by these Presents donation [illegible, maybe a Latin phrase] & irrevocable in the best form a donation might and be done to the Survivor the lives, the same accepting by the Survivor of all or each of the said property which shall [illegible] to the first who shall deceased at the day & time of decease to be used by the survivor during life solely on condition that they should be no children borne or to be borne from said marriage at the time of the decease in such case the said donation shall be null & void.
And to have these presents registered in the registry office at Montreal according to the delay prescribed by the ordinance & elsewhere if necessity shall require, the said Parties have appointed the Lawful attorney the Bearer to whom they give the necessary Power - Obliging & Promissoring [illegible] - done & proper at St. Denis in the habitation of Mr. Peter Lacroix called Roberge in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy two the twentieth Day of September after noon in Presence of Messieurs Peter Marasse & Francis Gatien residing in said Place Witness
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?? for who have signed with Dame Maryanne Trundel, Mary Louise Levitre, Jacques Aveline & us Notery, subscribing. The parties here above mentioned have declared unable to write & signed have been asked for & I have made their usual mark after the perusal of said presents according to ordinance done & signed in presence of witnesses subscribed and in the possession of the subscribing Notary [illegible]. Marriane Trudel, Marie Louise Levitre, Jacques Asselinne, Pierre Marasse, Francis Gatien & Mr. Jenanne Notary above mentioned, with Parapher.

[Signed] J. H. Jehanne
Not. Pub.
Trenotater signed
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[The document is in French with the right side unreadable]

Contract de [illegible]

Du 20 Septemb[illegible]
De Priesque Aseline [illegible]

&
Marie Louise da [illegible]

[illegible]
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[The translation of this document is believed to be in images 13 -16.]
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[The translation of this French document is believed to be in images 13 -16.]
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[No transcription available as the original document is in French. A translation is believed to be in images 13 - 16.]
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Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No 15820
Mary Aslin
Wid of
Priesque Aslin
Priv Rev War
Act July 4th '36
Index: Vol. a, Page 28
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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State of New York
Clinton County fs: On the eighteenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven, before me, the undersigned Commifsioner of Deeds in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Nicholas Constantine a resident of Chazy in the County aforesaid, + being by me duly sworn according to law testified as follows - that he this deponent was a soldier of the American Army in the Revolutionary War + now receives a pension, - that he belonged to Capt. Augustine Louiso's Company and Colo. Livingston's Regiment - that he was well acquainted with Prisque Asline or Perick Ashlawn, (how this name was spelled this deponent does not know) and his  Wife in Canada, was first acquainted with them, about a year after they were married - that he retreated with them + their family from Canada to the United States - this deponent says he knows that said Prisque Asline enlisted a soldier in this American Army + belonged to said Augustine Louiso's company Livingston's Regiment and that he served to the close of the war - that their was no other soldier or individual in said Regiment or Army. that this deponent was of the name heard by - that after the War this deponent knows, that the same Prisque Asline settled in Champlain, where he died, leaving a Widow who now resides there, and is the same identical person, that this deponent was acquainted with in Canada before they retreated, and whom he was acquainted with in Albany and during the war, and has  been acquainted with since her residence in
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Champlain and knows her to be the same identical Mary Asline, who is now making application for a pension, as the Widow of the said Prisque Asline ~
And this deponent further saith that he is + was well acquainted with Peter Robaye who is now a pensioner, and that he belonged to the same company and Regiment of this deponent and the said Prisque Astine or Prisk Ashlawn - and knows that he is a Brother of the said Mary Asline - and further that this deponent cannot write his name never having learned to write - 
Nichalas Constantine (his x mark)

Taken + sworn this 18th day of July AD 1837.
Before me
Julius C Hubbell
Commifsioner of Deeds
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[illegible]

[The following is written vertically downward.]
Hon J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Chazy N.Y. April 8th 1839

Sir
I take the liberty of inclosing for your inspection and advise a power of attorney made out for a Widow named therein - it was sent to the agent at Albany, who appears to me is unnecefsarially [unnecessarily] suspicious, - The form is precisely as has been made out several times before and paid, and yet this is rejected as just being in form - It is impofsible [impossible] to know what forms will meet the views of the agent, as they are not promulgated by him, until a great deal of trouble + expense to the poor pensioner have been increased and a delay sometimes of months ~
The Blank furnished by the attorney as indicating the present whim of the agent has a heading as follows -
"Act of July 4. 1836" ~ and at the end of the affidavit the following ~ "To the truth of which statement I am fully satisfied"
The inclosed is deficient in that respect, not having been before required -
If then changes are all right + proper, ought they not to be published in sufficient time before hand, that the pensioner may be aware of it - and also permit her to act, does the agent [illegible] the "forms" or is it under the discretion of the Department - The agent at Albany charges the pensioner 25" - on each drawing, which the Burlington Va. agent makes no such charges - the former is a matter of greatt complaint and unlefs [unless] it is proper, ought not to be permitted -
Very respectfully your
Obt Sevrt 
J. C Hubbell

Hon. J. L. Edwards
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
Form VAM-51  BOUNTY LAND WARRANT CARD*
12-5-41
Name Aspenwall, John Grade Private  Line Virginia

Warrant number 11868 Acreage 100 Issued December 13, 1791 to Frances Graves, assginee

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*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 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.