Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33166, for Tahan Nobel, Massachusetts
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(8-1776)
SERVICE
Continental Green Mt. Boys

Nobel, Tahan   NUMBER   S.33166
or Noble,
Mass residence and agency

CONTENTS
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Tahan 18,750
Massachusetts
Tahan Nobel, Noble
Aged 79
of Hampden in the state of Masstts [Massachusetts]
who was Captain in the regiment commanded by Colonel Seth Warner of the Continental line for the term of one year (1776) Green Mt. Boys and Continental.

Inscribed on the role of Massachusetts, at the rate of 20 dollars per month, to commence on the 17 of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 30 of Sept 1822 and Sent to John Ingersoll Esqr

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1822   1052
Semi anl all'ce ending 4 March 1823  120
 [total] $1172

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818
May 1, 1820 

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1833 Augt 12 Paul Van Der Vrost with history of battle of Bennington
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Hampden SS
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventeenth day of April A. D. 1818, came before me, JOHN HOOKER, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit in said State, and including the said county of Hampden the above named Tahan Noble applied to me to take the benefit of the late the intitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & navalservice of the United States in the revolutionary war & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed, and hereto annexed ed. 

I do thereupon hereby declare, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Tahan Noble the applicant did serve in the revolutionary war, against the common enemy, for more than nine months, on the continental establishment, as set forth in his affidavit aforesaid, and that he is yet a resident citizen of the United States, is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of assistance from his country for support. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the said Circuit Court for the said county of Hampden to be affixed hereto, this 17 day of April 1818 

I do therefore hereby certify the above & annexed as the testimony and proceedings had before me on the application aforesaid & transmit the same to the Secretary of the department of war of the United States 
John Hooker
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Tahan Noble
Pension Application
Copy- May 1822
April 17, 1818
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Hampden Ss
  On the Ninth day of May 1822 personally appeared in open court before the Supreme Judicial Court the same being a Court of Record and so established by a statute of said Commonwealth said Court being now in Session at Springfield within & for said County of Hampden Tahan Noble aged Seventy Nine years resident in Southwick in said County, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows: That he enlisted into Captain wait Hopkins Company of foot in Col. Seth Warners Regiment, in what was then called the Hampshire Grants as Lieutenant, that he entered the service in the Summer of 1775, that he was commissioned as Captain in the Spring of 1776 in the same Regiment that he enlisted, that he continued in said service untill the Surrender of Burgoyne in October 1777 at Saratoga in New York when & where the Regiment was discharged - He herewith transmits to Government the order of Congress directed to him for enlisting a company - and also the deposition of  Shubail Stiles, that he has seen the commissions of this deponant as Lieutenant & Captain, the Depositions of Levi Dones and Luke Noble that he served as Lieutenant aforesaid - Captain in said Regiment and during the time aforesaid - He further states that his Commissions & other papers which came into his possession while he continued in the army have long since been lost or destroyed by accident - that he has no doubt the Commission he received as Captain and under which he served in said Regiment was granted by the Continental Congress - that he has a wife Elizabeth aged Seventy two who is infirm and unable to support herself - he has no children, his occupation is that of laborer, but he has no ability to pursue it in consequence of a wound he received in the knee when he was thirty nine years old, and also from the infirmity of age -
 That he makes this Application to obtain the benefit of the Act of March 18th 1818 and May 5 1820 - And I do Solemnly Swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of any property or any
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part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property, or securities contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than that contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed 

Schedule
1 Hatchet 60c & tongs 83d --- $1.44
Clock & Case 2.50 Chest & drawers 50 --- 3
6. Bags 1.5- On case & drawers $1 --- 2.50
1. large wheel 1.50 One case & drawers 1.25 --- 2.75
1 Low chest 50c one round table 50c --- 1.00
1 Iron pot 1.00 on Iron dish 50c Spider 12 --- 1.62
1. Looking Glass 33c - 1 Clock red 33 - candle stand 25c --- .91
1 Chain 25c two pitchforks 13c --- .30
1 inch 7 quarter pot Augur 25 - 2 plough irons 75c --- 1.
3 half bushels 25c 3 horse harnesses 50 --- .75
Old Iron to a pair of carriage wheels --- 1.25
Iron of old waggon 1.50 1 dung fork --- 83c --- 2.33
I hay knife 50 Iron to an old sleigh 2.00 --- 2.50
1 plough - 2.00 1 axe 25c --- 2.25
13 barrow teeth 1.50 1 feather bed 8.00 --- 9.50
1 Rug 1.50 - 1 bed rope & bed stand 12 --- 1.62
1 Rug 20c - 1 Trammel 25 --- .45
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$35.24

Tahan Nobel

Sworn to and declared on the ninth day of May 1822 before the Supreme Judicial Court 
Attest John Ingersoll Clerk 

I John Ingersoll Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is Thirty five Dollars & twenty four Cents 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this twenty first day of May 1822 
John Ingersoll Clerk of the Court for the County of Hampden
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State of New York County of Washington SS 

Luke Noble of the Town of Salem in the County Washington in the State of New York, being duly Sworn Saith That he is well acquainted with Tahan Noble of Southwick in the State of Massachusetts, that he knows the said Tahan was a Lieutenant in the militia of Vermont in the Revolutionary War in the year one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy five, that the said Tahan Noble Served in as such at the taking of Crownpoint and Ticonderoga. That in the year one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy Six he joined the Regiment commanded by Colonel Seth Warner on the Continental establishment and served therein as a Lieutenant and in the next following year was promoted to the Rank of Captain in the same Regiment, and served therein as such, the said Tahan served in as a Lieutenant in said Regiment for more than nine months continually during the said year of 1776 and subsequently thereto as captain continually until the Capture of Burgoyne and the said Luke Noble further Saith that he Served as a Soldier with the said Tahan Noble During the several periods above mentioned - 
Luke Noble 

State of New York County of Washington ss. 
On this 5th day of September the year 1822 appeared before me Anthony I Blanchard First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County and State aforesaid the above named Luke Noble to me well known and who I certify to be a disinterested and credible witness in the above case and duly made oath that the facts contained in the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed are true 
Anthony J Blanchard
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State of New York Washington County Ss 

I Mathew Danvers Clerk of the said County of Washington Do certify that Anthony Blanchard Esquire before whom the within  affidavit was made was at the time of taking the same and still is first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County duly authorised qualified and acting under the authority of the said State of New York. That I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and do verily believe the signature "Anthony Blanchard" Subscribed to the Jurat of the said affidavit and certificate thereunder written to be the proper hand and signature of the said first judge. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto Subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said Court of Common Pleas at the Clerks office in the said County the Sixth day of September 1822 
M.D. Danvers
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.
MMHF

April 9, 1929.

Dr. John F. Streeter,
55 Walnut Street,
Springfield, Massachusetts.

Sir: 

I advise you that this bureau is unable to furnish
the history of a soldier of the Revolution unless a
claim for pension or bounty land has been made on account of his services.

A careful search of the records fails to show such claims on file on account of the services of Andrew Marchant, Gideon Morley, John Worthington, Araunah Charles, Noah Hitchcock, Jabez Nichols, Aaron Sanborn, Zerah Chapin, James Barlow, Ezra Marvin, Jasper Marvin, Jonah or Johah Beebe, Nathaniel Burt, Richard Woolworth, Japhet Loomis, Noah Loomis, Shem Loomis and Asher Moore, or of Samuel Nichols,
Gideon Brockway, James Byers and Ebenezer Witter of Hampden County, Massachusetts.

The Revolutionary War records of this bureau show that Tahan Noble, or Nobel, (S.33166) of Southwick, Hampden County, Massachusetts, served as lieutenant and captain.

Titus Hubbard (S.5572) of Tolland, Hampden County, Massachusetts, served as a private.
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Jabez Gooddell, or Goodell, (W.14800) of Ludlow,
Hampden County, Massachusetts, served as a private.

Jonathan Chapin ( W. 22755) of Monson, Hampden County, Massachusetts, served as private, ensign and lieutenant.

Abel Chapin (W. 15642) of Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, served as a private.

Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN,
Acting Commissioner.
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Tahan Noble
S33166

Printed instructions relative to enlistments with order to enlist men, and promise of appointment as 2" Lieut of said troops, from Provincial Congress at New York July 20" 1775 signed P.V.B. Livingston Pres. (one paper) has been removed from this claim and is locked up in the Record Div.

AW
Oct 31. 1910
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Commissioner

Full name of soldier Shuble Nobles, born 1762, at Tinmouth Vermont
Where did he enter service? From Rutland Co. Vt.
Under what officers did he serve?  unknown
Place of residence after service Emigrated from Vermont to Marietta Ohio 1801
Approximate date of death  Shuble Nobles Died in Rutland Ohio Sept 27 1853
Given name of widow, Elizabeth Post Elizabeth Post Nobles, born in Conn 1767. died in Ohio Oct 4 1854
Did either the soldier or his widow receive a pension?  unknown
Additional information, Shuble Nobles died in Rutland, Meigs Co. Ohio, Sept 27 1853

Signature,  Charles Matthews
# 811 - P. St N.E.
Washington D.C.

[stamp] MAY 9 1913
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The following soldiers by name of Nobles, served from Vermont, at some time during the War and no doubt one of them was the father of Shuble Nobles. But so far, I have failed to ascertain his given name
1 Clark Nobles
2 David Nobles
3 Eli Nobles
4 Enoch Nobles
5 Ephraim Nobles
6 John Nobles
7 Josiah Nobles
8 Luke Nobles
9 Obadiah Nobles
10 Reuben Nobles
11 Solomon Nobles
12 Tehan Nobles  History please
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13 Abner Nobles
14 Ephraim Nobles
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33 166
Revy
INVALID
File No. 33,166
Tehan Noble
Capt Rev War

Act: 18th
Index: Vol. 2, Page 300
 Arrangement of 1870

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1913 May 12 History to Charles Matthews
1929 - Apr 9 - Dr. John F. Streeter
add. rel. to soldier's rank
  MN?F
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MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY SONS of the AMERICAN REVOLUTION 

Lieut.-Col. Freeman Estes, Lowell Vice-Presidents Richard Henry Stacy, Springfield Willis Doane Rich, Hingham Samuel R. Cutler, Revere Treasurer Founded 1889 Lieut. Col. Charles Montraville Green, M.D. 78 Marlborough Street, Boston Secretary Walter Kendall Watkins 

9 Ashburton Place, Mar. 7, 1929

Registrar Arthur R. Taylor South Weymouth 
Historian T. Julien Silsby 9 Ashburton Place, Boston 
Chaplain Rev. Lewis Wilder Hicks Wellesley 
Curator George Hale Nutting Boston 
Editor of Bulletin Charles H. Bangs, M. D. Lock Box 124, Swampscott 
Marshal Capt. Ariston Kimball Barrows Lowell

BOARD OF MANAGERS Former Presidents
Maj.-Gen. Francis Henry Appleton Boston 
Luther Atwood Lynn 
Vernon Ashley Field 
Wollaston 
Charles French Read Brookline 
Henry Fuller Punderson Springfield 
George Hale Nutting West Roxbury 
Charles Howard Bangs, M. D. Swampscott
Burton Howe Wiggin Lowell 
Samuel Fuller Punderson Springfield Col. Frederic Gilbert Bauer Morley, Gideon Weymouth 
Benjamin Newhall Johnson Lynn

1929
Hon. Charles Thornton Davis Marblehead 
Fletcher Sprague Hyde Malden 
Charles Meriam Pear Cambridge 
Charles Belcher Rugg Worcester
Kenelm Winslow Middleboro

1930 
Charles Elijah Blaisdell Lowell 
Capt. Henry Newton Comey Danvers 
Capt. Howard Fall Malden 
Morgan Hewitt Stafford Newtonville 
Dr. John Frank Streeter Springfield 

1931
Dr. George E. Norton Cambridge 
Herbert A. Wilson Boston 
Edward Drake New Bedford 
David W. Battles Brockton 
Gustavus Attwill Lynn 

Please give information as to the highest rank held in the Revolutionary War by the following soldiers, this information to be used in preparing a permanent record of those buried in Hampden County:

Marchant, Andrew    Agawam (West Springfield)
Morley, Gideon   " " "
Worthington, John   " " " 
Charles, Araunah    Brimfield
Hitchcock, Noah   " 
Nichols, Jabez   " 
Nichols, Samuel  " 
Sanborn, Aaron  " 
Chapin, Abel.  Chicopee (Springfield)
Chapin, Zerah  "
Barlow, James.  Granville
Brockway, Gideon "
Hubbard, Titus " 
Marvin, Ezra "
Marvin, Jasper "
Beebe, Jonah or Johah Hampden (Wilbraham)
Burt, Nathaniel   Longmeadow
Woolworth, Richard " 
Woolworth, 2nd, Richard  "
Goodell, Jabez     Ludlow (Springfield)
Chapin, Jonathan    Palmer
Loomis, Japhet   Southwick 
Loomis, Noah "
Loomis, Shem "
Noble, Tahan or Teehan "
Byers, James   Springfield
Moore, Asher.  Tolland (Granville0
Witter, Ebenezer   Westfield

55 Walnut Street, Springfield, Mass.

Very truly yours, 
John F. Streeter 
John F. Streeter, M. D., Member of Committee on Markers and Memorials,
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May 18, 1913.
Mr. Charles Matthews,
811 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D. C.
Sir:
In response to your [illegible] request of the 9" instant, relative to Shubael and Tahan Noble, you are furnished the military history of the latter and advised that the Revolutionary war records of this Bureau fail to afford any information in regard to Shubael Noble or Nobles.
From the papers in the claim of Tahan Noble or Nobel, Sur. File No. 33,166, Rev. War. it appears that he entered the service in the summer of 1775, as a Lieutenant in Captain Wait Hopkins' company, Colonel Seth Warner's regiment, and
was at the taking of Crown Point and Ticonderoga in the spring of 1776, he was appointed Captain in the same regiment
and served until the surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga at which time and place said regiment was discharged.
He was allowed $20. per month from April 17, 1818, the date of his first application for pension.
In 1822, he resided at Southwick, Hampden County, Massachusetts, was 79 years of age and referred to his wife Elizabeth--- aged 72 years. There are no children's names stated.
Very respectfully,
J. L. Davenport.
Commissioner.
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I Shubael Stiles of lawful age testify & say
that I have seen and read, two commissions
of Lieutenant and Captain given to Tahan Noble
and I am very certain that one or both
of said Commissions were issued by authority
of the Continental Congress - that I have known the said Noble for more than fifty years, and that the common reputation ever has been since I have known him that he was an officer in the Continental service - and further saith not
Shubael Stiles
Hampden ss. 7 May AD 1822 - Then personal, Shubael Stiles above named, & made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed before me
John Mills, Justice of the Peace

I John Hooker of Springfield Mass do hereby
certify that Tahan Noble above named made application to me on the seventeenth day of April
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & eighteen in writing & on oath, setting forth his service as in the army of the United States in the revolutionary war, in order to his obtaining a pension under the act of Congress passed in March 1818 entitled "an act to
provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" - and application was made to me as that portion of the Court of Common Pleas for the exertion it in Massachusetts - and that the same was committed by me to the Secretary the Department of the United States -
May 6th 1822
John Hooker
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampden ss.
I John Ingersoll Clerk of the Court within &
for the County of Hampden do Certify that
John Mills within named is a Justice of the
Peace within & for said County of Hampden acting under the Authority of this Commonwealth and that full faith & credit is and ought to be given all acts done by him in said Capacity and that within signature is his proper hand writing
 In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand
& affixed the Seal of the County of Hampden this twenty first day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred & twenty two
John Ingersoll Clerk
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State of New York
County of Washington ss.  Levi Jones of the town of Rupert in the State of Vermont being duly sworn saith, that he is well acquainted with Tahan Noble of Southwick in the State of Massachusetts, that he knows the said Tahan was a Lieutenant in the militia of Vermont in the revolutionary war in the year 1775 - that the said Tahan served as such at the taking of Crown point & Ticonderoga - That in the year 1776 he joined the Regiment commanded by Colonel Seth Warner on the Continental establishment and served therein as a Lieutenant & in the next following year was promoted to the Rank of
Captain in the same Regiment, and served therein as such the said Tahan served as a Lieutenant in said Regiment for more than nine months continually during the said year 1776 and subsequently thereto as captain continually
untill the capture of Burgoyne - And this deponent further saith that he served as a soldier with the said Tahan during the several periods above mentioned -
Levi Jones

State of New York --
County of Washington ss.  On this 6th day of September in the year 1822. Appeared Before me Anthony J Blanchard
First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County and
State aforesaid, the above named Levi Jones, who I certify to be a disinterested and credible Witness in the above Case,
and duly made oath that the facts contained in the foregoing
Deposition by him Subscribed are true -
Anthony Blanchard
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State of New York Washington County ss. I Matthew D. Danvers clerk of the said County of Washington Do Certify that Anthony J. Blanchard Esquire before whom the within affidavit was made was at the time of taking, the same and still is first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the Said County duly authorized
qualified and acting under the authority of the said State of New York. That I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said First Judge and do verily believe the Signature "Anthony J. Blanchard" subscribed to the Jurat of the said affidavit and certificate thereunder written to be the proper hand and Signature of the said
First Judge
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas of the Said County at the Clerks office thereof,
the Sixth day of September 1822.
M.D. Danvers clk
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Tahan Nobel [or Noble - crossed out]
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THE
NATIONAL ARCHIVES
OF THE
UNITED STATES
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INSTRUCTIONS for the inlisting of Men.
FIRST. You are not to inlist any man who is not able-bodied, healthy, and a good marcher; but as men of a good appearance may have ruptures, and venerial complaints, which render them incapable of Soldier's duty; you must give attention, that you are not imposed upon, and take the Opionion of a Surgeon, where there is room for suspicion.
II.  You will have great regard to moral character, sobriety in particular, - let our manners distinguish us from our enemies, as much as the cause we are engaged in.
III.  Those who engage in defence of their Conntry's Liberty, shall be inlisted till the last day of December, of the prefe[blocked text] sooner discharged by the Continental Congress.
IV. You shall appoint such men Sergeants and Corporals, as recommend themselves by their ability, activity, and diligence.
V.  You will use all diligence in completing your company, and report to the President of the Provincial Congress, to the end that you may receive orders to join your regiment.
VI.  During the time you are filling up your company, you will engage at the cheapest
rate, for the provisions of such men as are already inlisted, if there be no public magazine of provisions, from when you may be supplied.
VII.  You will lose no time in disciplining your men, so far as your situation will admit.
VIII.  You will take notice, that proper persons will be appointed to inspect your men, and reject such as do not answer to your instructions.
IX.  You will furnish the Subaltern appointed to your company, with a copy of those instructions, who are hereby ordered to put themselves under your command.
X.  You will observe, that the troops raised by this Colony will be placed [illegible] up [illegible] to pay clothing [illegible] with other the Continental Troops now [illegible] or hereafter to be raised for the general defence.
XI.  No Servant of apprentice to be enlisted without the Consent of the Master

IN PROVINCIAL CON  ress at Ne York, Jul 20, 1775.
To Mr Tahan Noble  Gentleman, GREETING,

KNOW You That the grand Continental Congress, of the associated Colonies, have Resolved and Ordered, that a certain Number of Troops should be embodied in this Colony, to give protection to the inhabitants, and to be employed as part of the American Continental Army.  WE THEREFORE, reposing special Confidence in your Prudence, Courage, and Affection to the Liberties of this Country, DO request and authorize you, to inlist and raise a Company of seventy-two able bodied sober Men of good [illegible]tions, Iincluding three Serjeants, three Corporals, one Drummer, and one Fifer,) to serve as Part of the said Troops; and that from Time to Time, you report your Progress in the Ppremises, to this Congress, for which this shall be your Warrant. And we hereby give you Assurance, that you will be appointed
a [illegible] in the said Troops, when raised and embodied, if the number of Men inlisted by you, (and West Hopkins & John Tract] intended to be the other Officers of one Company,) and received into the said Troops, by such proper Officer or Muster-Master, as shall be appointed for that Purpose, shall amount to the Number above-mentioned.
P. V. Livingston President