Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22,454, Edward True, N.H.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
N.H.

True, Edward
...........Molly

NUMBER
W. 22,454

CONTENTS
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Maine    11.401
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Edward True
of Kennebec Co. in the State of Maine
who was a Priv in the Company commanded
by Captain Lovetts of the Regt commanded
by Col. Drake in the Mafstts.
Troops-- ["line for" stricken out]

3 Mo Cop'l.......................................11.00
7  "  12 Ds  Pr..................................24.63
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.............................................................35.63
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Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 35 Dollars 63 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension ifsued the 29" day of Apl
1833 and Sent to
R.C. Vose  August, Me
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Arrears to the 4th of March `1833.........71.56
Semi=anl. allowance ending
4 Sept ""...........................................................17.81
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..........................................................................$89.37
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(Revolutionary Claim, )
(Act June 7, 1832.       )

Recorded by J.T. Sprague Clerk,
Book E   Vol. 1    Page 58

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see letter 2 August 1837 to G.W.
Morton & R Ag't.
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Edward True
No. 6407

Private--New Hampshire troops.

Lovett's Co:  Drake's Reg't.
3 months

Lovett's Co:  Peabody's Reg't.
6 weeks

Corporal--
Pearson's Co:  Lt. Col. Runnell's Reg't.
3 months

6 months & six weeks as a private
3   "  as a Corporal
Proved by Dep'o. of Dan'l. True

Declaration in open Court
March 29. 1833.--

3 mo's Corporal   11.00
7  "  12 ds Priv........24.63
................................_________
..................................$35.63
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R.C. Vose.
Augusta.
Me.
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Declaration.
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In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.

STATE OF MAINE,        )
KENNEBEC COUNTY,  )  ss.

On this fourteenth day of August A.D. 1832 personally appeared before the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, of said State, Edward True a resident of Fayette in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, aged seventy eight years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.  That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1779 with Captain Moses Lovett and served in Col. Drake's regiment of the New Hampshire line or troops under the following named officers:  viz.  Lovett Capt & Drake Col.  That he enlisted in that company & regiment as a private in September 1777 for three months:  that he was at the taking of Burgoyne, afterwards went to Albany & then to New Windsor, was employed in building forts & discharged there in December of the same year.

That in August 1778 he again enlisted as a private for six weeks in Capt. Moses Lovett's Company, Col. peabody's regiment & Gen'l Whipple's Brigade of the same troops:  that he served at Rhode Island & was discharged there in September of the same year.

That in July 1780 he enlisted as a private for three months in Capt. Moses Lovett's company in Col. Bartlett's regiment of the same troops.  that this period he fully served out, was at West point when Gen'l Arnold deserted & was discharged there in November 1780.--

That in September 1781 he enlisted as a private for three months in Capt. Pearson's Company in Lt. Col. Runnell's regiment of the same troops.  that he served in Vermont & was discharged at Charleston New Hampshire in December of the same year, having served all the time as a corporal [underlined] during said latter service.

And to the interrogatories propounded under the instructions of the war department, he answers:

That he was born in Salisbury, Mafs: in the year 1754 where he presumes his age is recorded. That during his revolutionary services his home was at Seabrook, N.H.--That he afterwards lived in South Hampton in the same State & thence removed to said Fayette where he has lived about thirty one years. That he enlisted was not drafted or received as a substitute & never received a written discharge. That he has named such of his officers as he now recollects. That any of his neighbors will testify to his character for veracity & their belief of his revolutionary services.
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And to the interrogatories propounded under the instructions of the war department, he answers:

That he was born in Salisbury, Mafs:  in the year 1754 where he presumes his age is recorded.  That during his revolutionary services his home was at Seabrook, N.H.--That he afterwards lived in South Hampton in the same State & thence removed to said Fayette where he has lived about thirty one years.  That he enlisted was not drafted or received as a substitute & never received a written discharge.  That he has named such of his officers as he now recollects.  That any of his neighbors will testify to his character for veracity & their belief of his revolutionary services.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State.
Edward True

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid, Before
Nathan Weston Jun   Just S.J.C.

And the said Judge does hereby declare his opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.
Nathan Weston Jun

[written in left margin of page]
14th Aug't.

[stamp]
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES
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I Daniel True of Litchfield M'e. a Revolutionary soldier aged seventy one years, do upon oath testify & eclare that I well recollect that my Father Edward True now of Fayette Me. then of Seabrook New Hampshire enlisted in the service of the United States in the year 1777 & that I always understood & believed in Capt. Lovett's company as he has within stated & that he enlisted in the same service in 1778 as he has within stated, I well recollect his being absent from home & as was then said & believed in the Army.  I was myself a soldier with him in 1780 & also in 1781 in the same companies & regiments & well know that he served the two several periods of three months in those years as he has stated.--
Daniel True

State of Maine.  )
Kennebec  fs:     )

Subscribed & sworn to this 14th day of August A.D. 1832 the deponent being a credible witnefs
Before
Nathan Weston Jun
Just S.J.C.

State of Maine.
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KENNEBEC, ss.--I, JOHN A. CHANDLER, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Kennebec hereby certify that the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, before whom the within proceedings was had, is a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State; I also certify that the within contains the original proceedings of the said Judge, in the matter of the application of Edward True for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this 14th day of Aug't A.D. 1832.
J.A. Chandler--
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STATE OF MAINE.
_______________________
Kennebec County, ss.

AT the Supreme Judicial Court, begun and holden at Augusta, within and for the County of Kennebec, on the first Tuesday of October, A.D. 1832, and thence by adjournment on the 29th day of March A.D. 1833.

PERSONALLY appears in open Court Edward True by whom the annexed declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of June 7th, 1832, was made before the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jr. on the fourteenth day of August A.D. 1832, and makes oath, in due form of law, that the annexed declaration, by him made and signed, is true.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states.
Nathan Weston   Just  S.J.C.

I, JOHN ALPHONSO CHANDLER, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Kennebec, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Edward True for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto affix the seal of said Supreme Judicial Court, and subscribe my name this 29th day of March A.D. 1833.
J.A. Chandler

[illegible seal affixed to the left of the above paragraph]
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Maine 6216.
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Molly True
widow of Edward True
Mafs
who was a Private & Corp'l.
in the Revolution
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
31 Dollars 74
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
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Certificate of Pension issued the
1. day of Oct'r 1844
and sent to G.W. Morton
Augusta, Maine
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[Act of March 3, 1843.]

Recorded in Book A.
Vol. 2   Page 10.

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Rep'd
No. 116  J't. Res'o.

sent to
G.W. Morton
Augusta
Me.
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10,028
Molly True


Geo W Morton
Augusta
Maine.
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DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th July, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." and an Act to amend the same approved August 23, 1843
____________________________________________
STATE OF MAINE.
_____________________________________
Kennebec County, ss.

ON this thirteenth day of March A.D., 1843 personally appeared before the Court of Probate for said County of Kennebec in open Court, it being a court of record Molly True a resident of Fayette in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, aged seventy six 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 provision made by the Act of Congress, passed July 7th, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;" ["That she is the widow of" stricken out]  an and Act to amend the same approved August 23 1842, That she is the widow of Edward True who was a pensioner of the United States under the Act of June 7, 1832 that he was pensioned at thirty five dollars and sixty three cents per annum and was paid to him up to September 4, 1839 at the Agency in Portland in the State of Maine.  That she received as his widow the pension from said 4th day of September 1839 to the first day of April 1840 the day on which he died, and that she refers to a declaration made by him of his services in the Revolution on which his pension was allowed in support of her claim, presumed to be in pofsefsion of the War Department.

She further declares, that she was married to the said Edward True on the fourteenth day of June in the year seventeen hundred and eighty seven; that her husband, the aforesaid Edward True died on the first day of April 1840 at Fayette in Kennebec County Maine; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, viz. at the time above stated, that her name was Molly French and that she was married to the said Edward True in Kinsington New Hampshire by Rev Mr Fogg.
Molly   x her mark   True

Witness
J Burton.

Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written, before me
Williams Emmons  Judge of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Kennebec.
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STATE OF MAINE.
___________________________
Kennebec ss.

I the subscriber register of Probate Court for s'd County hereby CERTIFY, That the Hon. William Emmons before whom the proceedings were had, is the Judge of said Court

I also CERTIFY, That the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Judge in the matter of the application of Molly True for a pension.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this thirteenth day of March A.D., 1843
Francis Davis
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A record of the births of the children of Edward True and his wife Molly

Molly was born March 15, A.D. 1788
John was born May 29======1789
Sally was born October 25,===1791
Betsey was born July 8======1793
Nathaniel F was born March 19, 1795
Daniel was born March 25====1797
Edward was born July 15=====1799
Lucy was born May 10======1802
Moses was born August 29===1805
Liza was born July 4========1808
James Sullivan was born February 22, 1812

I Andrew Sturtevant, Jr do depose and say that I hold the office of town Clerk in the town of Fayette County of Kennebec and State of Maine and that I have the custody of the records of said town by virtue of my said office.  and that the above is a true extract from said records
Andrew Sturtevant Jr  ) Clerk of the town of Fayette Maine

State of Maine
County of Kennebec S.S.
on this twenty eighth day of November 1843 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Kennebec Andrew Sturtevant Jr known to me to be the Clerk of the town of Fayette and made oath to the truth of this above statement by him subscribed
James H Hutchinson  Justice of the Peace
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State of Maine              )
County of Kennebec fs )

I the undersigned Clerk of all the Judicial Courts for the County of Kennebec do hereby certify that James H. Hutchinson is a Justice of the Peace as within stated--and that the within signatures purporting to be his is genuine--

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of Superior Judicial Court for the State of Maine to be hereunto affixed this ninth day of Dec. A.D. 1843--
A.R. Nichols.
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I Daniel True of Fayette in the County of Kennebec and State aforesaid aged forty five years do depose and say that my late father was a pensioner of the United States and that he died in said town of Fayette on the first day of April 1840 that his widow Molly True is now living in said town, that they had a family of eleven children six of whom survive.  that I am their sixth child  they lived together from my earliest recollection as husband and wife untill his death, since which time my mother the said Molly True has remained unmarried.  my late fathers name was Edward True.
Daniel True

State of Maine
County of Kennebec, S.S.  March 13, 1843
Personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Kennebec, David True above named (well known to me as a reputable person) and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed
Before me
Geo. W Morton.  Justice of the Peace
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State of Maine.
County of Kennebec  fs.

I the Subscriber Clerk of all the Judicial Courts for the County of Kennebec, do certify that George W. Morton is a Justice of the Peace for said county duly qualified & that the within Signature purporting to be his is genuine--

I testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name & affixed the Seal of the Supreme judicial Court for the State of Maine this 22d day of May A.D. 1843.
A.R. Nichols.
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Kensington N.H.   )
Apr 19.                 )

13  1/2

Geo. W. Morton Esq
Augusta
Me
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I Elizabeth Osgood of Kensington in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire, being sixty one years of age depose and say That I am the granddaughter of the late Rev. Jeremiah Fogg, formerly a settled Minister of the Gospel in said town of Kensington,  That I now reside in the same house where the said Fogg lived in said Kensington, and always have resided there with the exception of four or five years & That I now have in my custody what I believe to be a true Manuscript copy of the original records of said Jeremiah Fogg, it being a record of Babtisms, Deaths, & Marriages.  Said Manuscript being mostly copied by my uncle William Fogg, and I have no doubt but that he did it by the direction of my said Grandfather, a part of the same being in my said grandfathers own hand writing; the original being now lost.  Upon said Manuscript copy there is recorded the Marriage of Edward True & Molly French on the fourteenth day of June seventeen hundred and eighty seven which is in the hand writing of the said William Fogg in the following manner in fair legible figures Viz.   Marriages 1787  June 14   Edward True and Molly French.
Elizabeth Osgood

State of New Hampshire
Rockingham fs--Kensington--April 18th 1843--

Then personally appeared the above named Elizabeth Osgood and made oath that the above deposition by her subscribed is true.
Before me--Ira Blake   Just. Peace.

I certify that the above named Elizabeth Osgood is a Credible person.
Ira Blake   Justice of the Peace
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6407 [circle drawn around it]

BRIEF in the case of Edward True
of Fayette in the State of Maine
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1.  Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?   a Judge of the S.J.C.

2.  If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3.  How old is he?  78 years--

4.  State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

[Column 1]
Period.
[1]  # Sep'r--In 1777---
[2]  /  Aug't--1778---
[3]  July 1780--
[4]  Sep'r 1781--

[Column 2]
Duration of Service.
Years,     Months,      Days.
[1]
[2]
[3]-----------3-----------------
[4]-----------3-----------------

[Column 3]
Rank.
[1]  As a Private
[2]  do
[3]  do
[4]  Corp'l

[Column 4]
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.  ["Gen" stricken out]
[1]  Coll Drakes' Reg't  )
Capt. M Lovett's Co'y  )   enlisted
[2]   do..........................do..........do
[3]   do..........................do..........do
[4]  Lt Col'o Runnels Reg't---do

# enlisted for three months
/    do..........".......six weeks

5.  In what battles was he engaged?---none stated

6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service?  not stated---

7.  Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?

8.  Are the papers defective as to form or authentication?  and if so, in what respect?
Correct

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
E Stephens
Examining Clerk.
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V  No 18,131

Molly True
Maine.

Suspended

Cert to G.W. Morton  Aug't. 10. 1843

Act 7th July  '38
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Revy
WIDOW, &c.

File No.  22454

Molly True
widow of
Edward True
Corpl  Rev  War

Act  March 3d 43 & June 13th 44

Index:  Vol M,   Page 282

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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8597
Maine
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Molly True,
widow of Edward True,
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832
and who died on the 1 April 1840
of Kennebec in the State of Maine,
who was a Private & Cor in the Company
commanded by Captain Lovetts of the
reg commanded by Col Drake in
the Mass'a line for 3 mo. 8 ds Priv:
.......................................4 "  18  "  Cor:
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Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 31 Dollars 74
Cents per annum, to commence on the
1st. April 1840
["4th day of March, 1836" stricken out
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Certificate of Pension issued the 9th day of
Aug't 1844 and Sent to G.W. Morton,
Augusta, Maine
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Total amount,   $

[Act July 7, 1838. ]

Recorded by F.L. Swann  Clerk,
Book D   Vol. 1.  Page 19.

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No. 116
rep'd

Cer't. iss'd under The J't
Reso:  23d Jan.--1845.
on the 16. April, 1845.
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State of New Hampshire.
Office of Secretary of State.
_____________________________________________
I, Josiah Stevens Jr Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Ira Blake is an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for the County of Rockingham duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the twenty first day of May 1839 and will expire on the twenty first day of May 1844 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.

Given under my hand and the seal of said State this fifteenth day of May 1848.
Josiah Stevens Jr   Secretary of State.

[illegible seal affixed in lower left corner of page]
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Augusta Me.  July 27. 1837

Sir

I herewith send the papers of Mr Edward True a United States pensioner under Act of Congrefs of June 7. 1832 for the purpose of obtaining eighteen months pension due him to 4th day of March past.  I have been acquainted with him for several years last past and know him to be the same person named in the pension certificate copied in the fact of identity verified before me on the 26th inst.  You are requested if the papers are satisfactory to return them to me and order the pension agent in Portland to make payments.

Very Respectfully
Your Obt Svt
Geo. W. Morton

J L Edwards Esq
Commifsioner of Pensions
Washington
City
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Augusta.  May 22. 1843--

Sir

I herewith enclose the declarations &c of Typhus Hall, Molly True and Thankful Tebey, for the purpose of having their respective claims to a pension by virtue of the Act of July 7 1838 be allowed.  You will notice a discrepancy as to the dates of the marriage of Mrs Hall & Mrs Tebey in their declarations and the certificates of the town clerks when their marriages took place which is in consequence of the declaration being made before application is made to obtain a law record from the age of the applicant their memory is generally impaired and being in pofsefsion of no family record are likely to be in an error a short time as relates to date of marriage, the cases have been taken in good faith, and should they be satisfactory to you I respectfully request you to allow their claims

Very respectfully
Your Obt Serv't
Geo W Morton

James L. Edwards Esq
Comm'r of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Augusta Maine
December 9. 1843

Sir

Your letter of 10th August last relating to the claim of Mrs Molly True for pension was duly rec'd.  And I herewith transmit copies from the rolls of New Hampshire showing part of the service of her late husband in the War of the Revolution.  The service afserted by him in 1781 is not borne on any rolls that can be found with the Secr'y of N. Hampshire, as the service was allowed him in computing his pension you were satisfied at the time was performed.  Should you think proper to allow it in computing his pension it would be extending to her nothing but which she is fully entitled to.  I have also sent a certificate of the date of the births of her children, for the purpose of exhibiting the relation of husband & wife between her and her late husband Edmond True.  On the examination of the papers if deemed sufficient to establish her claim satisfactorily I would respectfully request you to allow it and send me for her a certificate

Very respectfully
Your Obt Serv't
Geo W. Morton

James L. Edwards Esq
Comm'r of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Molly True

acts '43 &  )
.........'44      )  163

$31:74 per ann

cert: to
G.W. Morton
Augusta, 
Maine

Mar. 43
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Augusta, Maine
Sept 24. 1844---

Sir

I herewith send a declaration of Mrs Molly True widow of Edward True for the purpose of having her claim to a pension under Act of March 3, 1843 allowed, and if satisfactory would respectfully request you to transmit to me, for her, a pension certificate

Very respectfully
Your Obt Serv't
Geo W. Morton

James L. Edwards Esq
Comm'r of Pensions
City of Washington
D.C.
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6407 [circle drawn around it]

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Edward True which require further proof or explanation.

I.  Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?

II.  Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?

III.  If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV.  Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?

V.  ^Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout of pension he is entitled?---no---

VI.  Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?

VII.  Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?

VIII.  Has the Court given their opinion?  no--The Judge has--

IX.  Has the Clerk given his certificate?

X.  Is the Clerk's seal affixed?  And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?
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XI.  Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?---no

XII.  If the lergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?---none--

XIII.  If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?---no--

XIV.  *If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility?   none produced

Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office?

XV.  Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?

XVI.  **Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?

XVII.  Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily?  And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
____________________________________________
EXPLANATORY NOTES.

^QUERE V.  In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:

"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A.B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:  For------- year-------months and ------days, I served as a ----------.  For --------months and-----------days, I served as a------------; and for such service I claim a pension."
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service.  The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.

*QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service.

In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged.  The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.

**QUERE XVI.  Mode of authenticating papers.

In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
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10--11278

Molly True
M'e
R
Act 7 July '38
______________________
Ad'd
3 m 8 ds  priv
4 m. 18 .  Corp'l
______________________
$31.74 per an
______________________
To commence April
1st 1840.

G W Morton Esq
Augusta
M'e.
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Molly True
6506

Geo W Morton
Augusta Maine.

[written upside down on page]

North Hill Me
Sept 23

Paid 6 cts
L

Geo. W Morton
Augusta
Maine
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DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3d March, 1843, granting Pensions for one year to certain Widows who have received Pensions under the Act of July 7, 1838.
_____________________________________________
STATE OF MAINE,            )
County of Kennebec ss.  )

On this eighteenth day of September A.D. 1844, personally appeared, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, Molly True a resident of Fayette in the County of Kennebec aged Seventy eight 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 provisions made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 3d March, 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.  That she is the widow of Edward True who was a Private & Corporal during the Revolutionary War; that she was pensioned as the widow of the said Edward True at the rate of thirty one dollars and seventy four cents per annum, under the Act of July 7, 1838, which is payable ["was paid" stricken out] to her at the agency in Portland in the State of Maine   She further declares that she is still the widow of the said Edward True having remained unmarried ever since his death.
Molly  x her mark  True

Witnefs  Nathaniel F. True
Albion M.P. Berry
Howard B Lovejoy

Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written,
Before me,  Howard B Lovejoy  Justice of the Peace.

I certify that the declarant is personally known to me to have been pensioned under the Act of July 7, 1838, and is the reputed widow of Edward True deceased, and has remained unmarried ever since his death.
Howard B Lovejoy  Justice of the Peace.
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State of Maine.
Kennebec County. S.S.

I the subscriber Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held for and within the said County, do hereby certify that Howard B. Lovejoy is a Justice of the Peace as within stated and that the within signatures purporting to be his are genuine.

Witnefs my hand and the Seal of the Sup. Jud. Court of Maine the 23d September 1844--
A.R. Nichols.
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Molly True
under joint resolution of 23d
Jany. 1845 & act
7 July, 1838--

Adm'd  $31.74 per ann.
from 4 March, 1836 to
1 April 1840--

Feo. W Morton
Augusta
Maine.

[written vertically on page]

North Hill NH
Nov. 14

Paid 6.

George W. Morton Esqr
Augusta
Me.
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Declaration.  In order to obtain the benefits of the resolution of Congress of the 23d January 1845.

Whereas the Act of the 30th of April 1844 prohibited me from drawing a pension for the same period during which my husband was a pensioner I now make the following statement under Oath, to obtain the benefits of the resolution above named, 

I am the widow of Edward True who was a private and corporal in the War of the Revolution, I have drawn a pension at the rate of thirty one dollars and seventy four cents per annum under the Act of July 7. 1838 commencing on the first day of April 1840 and terminating on the fourth day of March 1841 also under Act of March 3, 1843 from 4th day of March 1843 to the 4th day of March 1844 and now ask the amount due me from the 4th day of March 1836 to the 1st day of April 1840.
Molly   x her mark   True

Witnefs
Betsey True
Howard B Lovejoy

State of Maine.
Kennebec County. S.S.

Sworn to and subscribed before me this twelfth day of March A.D. 1845 at Fayette in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine
Howard B Lovejoy  Justice of the Peace.

I certify that the declarant is personally known to me and that she is the same individual she represents herself to be in the foregoing affidavit
Howard B Lovejoy   Justice of the Peace.
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State of Maine          )
County of Kennebec )

I William M. Stratton, Clerk of the Judicial Court within and for said County of Kennebec, do hereby certify that Howard B. Lovejoy is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Kennebec in said State of Maine and that the within signatures purporting to be his are genuine.

Witness my hand, and the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, this fifteenth day of March A.D. 1845.
Wm. M. Stratton