Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20269, for Jonathan Murdock, Connecticut
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(8-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
Conn. Murdock,Jonathan W20269
Lucretia
CONTENTS
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24.053 
New York 
Jonathan Murdock 
of Columbia in the State of New York he was a private in the Comp commanded by Captain Throop of the Regt. commanded by Col Huntington in the Connt line for 3 years. 
(Claimant died 26th June 1832 Certificate sent to Lucretia Murdock, his widow in her favor) 
Inscribed on the Roll of New York the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum, commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.  
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of Oct 1833 and sent to W. H.  Toby New Lebanon 
Arrears to the 4th of Mar ‘32    $80 
Allowance ending 26 June ‘32 $12.42 
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.} 
Recorded by G. C. Stiles Clerk, 
Book E Vol. 4 Page 69  
See letter 11 June 1839 to M. Van Buren Jr. Esqr
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5191 
Albany, N. York 
Lucretia Murdock widow of Jonathan Murdock who was a Private in the Revolution 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 day of April 1844 and sent to C. Murdock Hudson, N. York 
[Act of March 3, 1843.] 
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1   Page 258 
Repd [reported]
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Ammi Doubleday of the town of New Hartford County of Oneida & State of New York being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is will acquainted with Jonathan Murdock of New Lebanon Columbia County New York and who is now present before me.   That the said Murdock served in the Revolutionary army in a company commanded by Capt Benjamin Throop at the time of enlistment on the first Connecticut Regiment commanded by Col. Huntington.  That he knows that the said Murdock served the term of three years and was honourably discharged by Col Josiah Starr.  The said deportment is perfectly assured of the above facts the said Murdock & himself being resident of the same Town (Lebanon Connecticut) and both enlisting and serving for the same term and in the same company and also having residents of the same place until within fifteen years last past.   
Ammi Doubleday
Sworn to before me  this 11th day of April 1831 
Harry Peirce Com. &c 
State of New York 
Columbia County } On this 11 day of April 1831 personally appeared before the subscriber a Commissioner of Deeds to take affidavits in the County aforesaid Ammi Doubleday the signer of the foregoing deposition to me well known to be a credible person who being duly sworn  according to law made oath to the truth of the facts contained in said deposition and subscribed his name to in my presence.   
Harry Peirce Commissioner of Deeds
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In the matter of the application of Lucretia Murdock for a Pension
Jonathan Murdock Found on the Rolls for 3 years Troops Company
Wm H Tobey - New Lebanon Columbia Co. New York Agent 
Admd [admitted] 3 years pri 
certificate to widow to be computed from 4 Mar ‘31 to 26 June ‘32
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State of New York 
Columbia County }ss  On this thirteenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared before me Medad Butler a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Columbia aforesaid (out of Court)  Lucretia Murdock a resident of the town of New Lebanon in the County aforesaid and State of New York aged seventy two 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 of made by the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.   
That Jonathan Murdock late of New Lebanon aforesaid now deceased enlisted as a private in the army of the United States in the year - with Captain Throop and in the - Connecticut Regiment commanded by Colonel Huntington for three years and that under that enlistment he actually served three years as she has been informed by the said Jonathan Murdock and which she verily believes to be true.   She has also understood from him & believes that he resided at Lebanon in the State of Connecticut when he entered the service, and she further states that she was lawfully by married to the said Jonathan Murdock fifty years since at Mansfield in the State of Connecticut.  That the said Jonathan Murdock died at New Lebanon aforesaid on the twenty sixth day of June 1832 and that
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she the said Lucretia Murdock is now the widow of the said Jonathan Murdock deceased.  And she further says that the accompanying affidavit of Ammi Doubleday testifying to the services of the said Jonathan Murdock was procured by him in the year 1831 and was all among his papers at his decease.  
She hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and she declares that her name is not and that the name of the said Jonathan Murdock is not to her knowledge on the pension roll of any agency in any State. 
Lucretia Murdock
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid Medad Butler 
We Elam Tilden Postmaster & John King late member of Congress residing in the & town of New Lebanon in the County of Columbia  & State of New York do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Lucretia Murdock who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration - that we have known her for thirty five years, that she is the widow of Jonathan Murdock late of New Lebanon aforesaid deceased with whom we are also well acquainted & that the said Jonathan Murdock died on the twenty sixth day of June 1832 at New Lebanon aforesaid 
and that the said Jonathan Murdock was
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Jonathan Murdock died on the twenty sixth day of June 1832 at New Lebanon aforesaid and that the said Jonathan Murdock was always reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resided to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion. 
Elam Tilden
John King
Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid 
Medad Butler 
And I the said Medad Butler Judge as aforesaid do declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter that Lucretia Murdock (the name of the above applicant) is the widow of Jonathan Murdock late of New Lebanon aforesaid,  that the said Jonathan Murdock died on the Twenty Sixth day of June one thousand eight hundred and thirty two and was a Revolutionary soldier and served as stated by the said Lucretia Murdock.  That Elam Tilden who has signed the preceeding certificate is a Postmaster residing in the town of Lebanon aforesaid and John King late member of Congress who also resides in said town of New Lebanon aforesaid are credible persons and their statement is entitled to credit and I further certify that it appears to me that the abovenamed applicant Lucretia Murdock is a credible person and that her statement is entitled to credit, that she is infirm & aged and cannot from bodily infirmity attend the Court. 
Medad Butler
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In the matter of the application of Lucretia Murdock for a Pension 
Jonathan Murdock Found on the Rolls for 3 years Troops Company 
Wm H Tobey - New Lebanon Columbia Co. New York Agent 
Admd [admitted] 
3 years pri 
certificate to widow to be computed from 4 Mar ‘31 to 26 June ‘32
State of New York 
Columbia County }  I, Joseph D Monell Clerk of the said County do Certify that Harry Peirce before whom the affidavit of Ammi Doubleday purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same a Commissioner of Deeds in and for said County also that Medad Butler Esq before whom the other affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the dates of the same a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, and that I am acquainted with their hand writing and verily believe their names subscribed to the said affidavits to be their proper handwriting and Signatures. 
Witness my hand & seal of office this 18th day of June 1833 
Jos Monell Clk
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4981
Married 27 Jan 1783
Husband died 26 June 1832
4981
W. H. Tobey 
Kinderhook
Columbia County
New York
(agent)
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State of New York 
Columbia County } ss On this day eleventh day of February one thousand eight hundred & thirty nine personally appeared before me John Bull Junior one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid, Lucretia Murdock of the town of New Lebanon County and State aforesaid aged seventy Eight years, who being 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 7 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows.” 
That she is the widow of Jonathan Murdock late of the town of New Lebanon aforesaid deceased that the said Jonathan Murdock served as a soldier in the war of the revolution as she was informed by him and others who declared they had served with him in such war and which this deponent duly believes to be true.   She further declares that the said Jonathan Murdock was allowed and received a pension from the United States for his serves as a soldier during the revolution, under the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. She further declares that she was married to the said Jonathan Murdock on the twenty seventh day of January 1783.  That her husband the aforesaid Jonathan Murdock died on the twenty sixth day of June 1832. That she was not married to him prior
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to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz at the time above stated.  That she has no record proof of her marriage nor is any such proof [unreadable] to her knowledge.  And she further declares that the said Jonathan Murdock resided in New Lebanon at the time he applied for his aforesaid pension and also at the time of his decease.  That she applied for and obtained the arrears of the pension aforesaid, from the time when the last payment was made to him thereon up to the time of his decease.   That she had the possession of the certificate of such pension after the death of her said husband but cannot now find the same. That she is under the impression that it was handed over to the attorney who drew the arrears of such pension for her and that it was delivered by him to the agent who paid the money therefor. 
Lucretia Murdock
Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year first above written before me the subscriber and I certify that the said Lucretia Murdock, the above and deponent cannot from bodily infirmity attend the court from which she lives more than twenty eight miles distant.    
John Bull Junr 
Judge of County Courts in and for Columbia County
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Columbia County 
Clerks Office } ss I Killian Miller Clerk of the County of Columbia do herby certify the John Bull Jr before whom the foregoing affidavit purports to have been given  was on the day the same bears date one of  Judges of the County Court of the County aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Bull that the signature purporting to be his the said Bulls genuine hand writing and signation. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 14th day of March A.D. 1839 
K. Miller
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W. H. Tobey
Kinderhook Columbia County New York (agent) 
set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 21st day of November 1838 
Saml Swift Clerk
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State of Vermont 
Addison County ss} Be it Known that before one Udney H. Everest one of the Justices of the peace within and for the County of Addison aforesaid personally appeared Jerusha Barnum of Shoreham in the County of Addison aforesaid aged Seventy years and upwards who being first duly sworn according to Law deposes testifies says that she is the sister of Lucretia Murdock of New London now in the State of New York, and that the said Lucretia Murdock is the widow of Jonathan Murdock late of New Lebanon aforesaid deceased, that her name before her marriage to the said Jonathan Murdock was Lucretia Cary and that she resided at Mansfield in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut at the time of her marriage to the said Jonathan Murdock and that the said Jonathan Murdock then resided at Old Lebanon in the County of Windham aforesaid, and that in the month of January AD 1783, the day of the month she does not now remember she was present at her father [unreadable] Cary’s house in Mansfield aforesaid and same Jonathan Murdock then of old Lebanon aforesaid married to her sister the aforesaid Lucretia Cary  and the said Jerusha Barnum further testifies and says that soon after their marriage they moved to Molbray [Mowbray] in the State of Connecticut where they resided a short time and from thence they moved to New Lebanon aforesaid where they lived together until the decease of the said Jonathan Murdock about five or six years since and that during their intermarriage there were born unto them nine children and that there eldest child was born according to the best recollection of  the said Jerusha Barnum in February 1784 and she further testifies that the said Lucretia Murdock is now living at New Lebanon aforesaid and that she has not been married since the decease of the said Jonathan Murdock her and husband but that she has remained a widow ever since his decease.  
Jerusha Barnum
Sworn and subscribed this 6th day of November AD 1838 by me Udney H. Everest Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above [unreadable] Jerusha Barnum that she is a credible witness and that her statement is entitled to credit.
Udney H. Everest Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont 
Addison County ss} I Samuel Swift, Clerk of the County Court for the said County of Addison do hereby certify that Udney H. Everest, before whom the within affidavit of Jerusha Barnum was made was at the time a Justice of the peace for said County, and his name Subscribed thereto is his own signature. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 21st day of November 1838 
Saml Swift Clerk
W. H. Tobey
Kinderhook Columbia County New York (agent)
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L.W.B.
W. 20269
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, 
BUREAU OF PENSIONS. 
WASHINGTON, D. C.,  
December 14, 1898. 
Sir:-
In response to your recent communication you are advised that Lucretia, widow of Jonathan Murdock, made an application for pension on February 11, 1839, at which time she was 78 years of age and residing at New Lebanon, New York, and her pension was allowed for the actual service of her husband as a private in the Conn. troops, Revolutionary war, for a period of three years. Place of his enlistment not stated. He served under Capt. Throop and Col. Huntington.
Place of soldier's birth not stated. 
Very respectfully,
Commissioner,
Lieut. J. B. Murdock, 
Naval War College, 
Newport, Rhode Island.
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This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services. Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department . Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States. 
O. W. & N. DIV. 
REVOLUTIONARY. 
L. W. B. 
W. 20269. 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, 
BUREAU OF PENSIONS, 
WASHINGTON, D. C., 
February 28, 1899. 
Sir:-
In response to your recent communication wherein you request further information concerning Jonathan Murdock, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you are advised that the papers on file in the claim do not show place or date of his birth. 
There being no appropriation by Congress for carrying on work of this character and owing to a pressure of other and more important work of the Bureau, a compliance with your request for a copy of the soldier's application for pension must be declined. 
Very respectfully, 
Commissioner.
Lieut. J. B. Murdock, 
Naval War College, 
Newport, Rhode Island,
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Jan 11 1841
Jurat
NY
Hon A. Vanderpoel H.R. 
J. L. Edwards Esqr  
Commissioner of Pensions  
Washington D.C.
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Washington H. R. 
9 Jany 1841 
My dear sir
You will perceive what is the enquiry of the enclosed letter. Will you have the goodness to read it & favor me with your answer to it. Your early attention to it will much oblige. 
Yours 
A. Vanderpoel 
J L Edwards Esqr 
P S. Mr Tobey is a lawyer of great respectability 
A V
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OWN 
M
Naval War College 
Newport, Rhode Island 
Nov. 30th, 1898.
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington, D. C. 
Sir – 
Will you kindly oblige me with a copy of abstract of the statement of Jonathan Murdock of New Lebanon, Columbia County, New York, including his place of birth, and services in the Revolutionary War as given in his application for a Revolutionary pension, granted him, I think, about 1830. 
This request is made only for the information of his descendants and for use in a family record. 
Very Respectfully 
J. B. Murdock 
Lieut. U. S. Navy.
5191
[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE H DEC 2 1898
[stamp] OLD WAR & NAVY DEC 5 1898
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L. Murdock 
$80 per ann 
C. Murdock 
Hudson 
N. York
FREE
Office 
J. L. Edwards
NY
Mar 3d 1848
Lucretia Murdock
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3339 Mar 23 44 
Pension Office
NY
Mar 3d 1848
Lucretia Murdock
[stamp] HUDSON N.Y. MAR 21
J L. Edwards Esqr  
Comm of Pensions  
Washington
FREE
C. Murdock
Hudson NYork
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Hudson Columbia Co N.Y. March 21 1844
J L Edwards Esq  
Commissioner of Pensions 
Dear Sir 
I of enclose the Declaration my mother for her pension. Please prepare the certificate and forward the same to me at this place 
Yours Respectfully 
C Murdock
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5559
Declaration of Lucretia Murdock
address C Murdock 
Hudson Columbia Co N. Y.
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Columbia County, Clerk's Office} SS. 
I John J Traver - Clerk of the County of Columbia Do hereby certify, That Ira Hand before whom the affidavit purports to have been sworn, was on the day of the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County. further, that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice, and verily believe the name of the said Justice subscribed to the said affidavit, to be his proper hand writing and signature. 
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my name and affixed the Seal of the said County, this 21st day of March 1844 
J. J. Traver Clerk
sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed March 3d 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. 
That she is the widow of Jonathan Murdock who was a private in the war of the Revolution.  
That she obtained a pension of Eighty dollars per annum for the Revolutionary services of her said husband the said Jonathan Mundock under act of 7 July 1838 - that she has not intermarried, but continues the widow of said Jonathan Murdock. 
Lucretia Murdock
Sworn to and subscribed before me this day of March 1844 by said Lucretia Murdock to me known to be the same person who obtained a pension under act of 7 July 1838 as by her above stated and she remains the widow of said Jonathan Murdock.   
Ira Hand justice of the Peace
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed March 3d 1843 granting pensions for one year to certain Widows who have received pensions under act of the 7th July 1838  
State of New York 
Columbia County ss On this 5th day March 1844 before the Subscriber a justice of the peace in and for said County personally appeared Mrs Lucretia Murdock a resident of the town of New Lebanon in said County aged Eighty three years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed March 3d 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war.    
That she is the widow of Jonathan Murdock who was a private in the war of the Revolution. 
That she obtained a pension of Eighty dollars per annum for the Revolutionary services of her said husband the said Jonathan Murdock under act of 7 July 1838 - that she has not intermarried, but continues the widow of said Jonathan Murdock.  
Lucretia Murdock
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 15th day of March 1844 by said Lucretia Murdock to me Known to be the same person to obtained a pension under act of 7 July 1838 by her above stated and she remains the widow of said Jonathan Murdock.
Ira Hand Justice of the Peace
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT 
Second Comptroller's Office, 
August 26 1841 
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," Lucretia Murdock - a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany, N.Y. Agency, at the rate of Eighty Dollars and - per annum, under the law of the 7th July 1838 has been paid at this Department, from the to the 4th March, to the  4th Sept 1840.  
Respectfully yours 
Albion K. Parris 
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions Present
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NY Mar 22
7 July 1838
4981
Free
Joel R Poinsett 
Secretary of War 
Washington
Pension Department
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Kinderhook 17 March 1839 
Hon J. R. Poinsett
Sir
Lucretia Murdock the widow of Jonathan Murdock of New Lebanon in the County of Columbia & State of New York an applicant for a pension on account of the Revolutionary services performed by her husband.   The evidence of her claim is set forth in the enclosed papers which I trust will be found satisfactory.  If it is allowed the pension certificate may be sent to me at this place.   If the papers should prove deficient I should be pleased to have them returned in like manner, with a statement of the points where they are deficient.  
With respect Your most obt svt.
W H Tobey
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[stamp] KINDERHOOK NY AUG 9
Aug 12
NY
Addl proof
Lucretia Murdock
FREE
James L. Edwards Esqr  
Commissioner of Pensions  
Washington
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Kinderhook Columbia County 
N.Y. August 9 1839
J. L. Edwards Esqr
Sir
Your letter of the 11th June last to Mr. Van Buren Junr Esqr on the subject of the application of Lucretia Murdock for a pension has been enclosed to me. There is no more evidence of the marriage of the applicant to her husband Jonathan Murdock deceased.
She states that he left the town of Mansfield where she was married on the morning after her marriage and removed to New Marlborough (I think) and soon after resided in Mansfield.  From New Marlborough she removed after one years to New Lebanon where she lived with her husband until his decease, being a period of some fifty years. That the resided in New Lebanon & lived with & was acknowledged by the deceased J Murdock as his wife and caused a large family of children which she had by him there is abundant proof.   
The President & his son M Van Buren Junr are each acquainted with the
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family of the applicant & know it to be one of the most respectable in this County.   
If further proof is required than the document inclosed please inform me and I will endeavour to procure. 
I am Respectfully Your obt servt
Wm. H. Tobey
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State of Connecticut 
County of Tolland 
Town of Mansfield} ss August 3rd 1839    
I, Frederick F. Hanks Town Clerk of the Town of Mansfield in the County of Tolland and State of Connecticut do certify that I now hold the office of town Clerk of the town of Mansfield aforesaid. That I have held said office of Town Clerk in said town continuously & without intermission since the 3rd day of October Eighteen hundred & thirty six. That I have made search & examination for a register of record of the marriage of Jonathan Murdock, to Lucretia Carey among the records of marriages in my office and can find no record or registry thereof.  That I have made such examination within the period commencing on the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty one & ending on the first day of January one thousand seven hundred and ninety four. I have also examined said records from the day and year last aforesaid to the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and twenty and find therein no evidence whatever of the marriage in question. And I do further certify that the register of births in my said office does not in any way recognize the relation of husband and wife as existing between said Jonathan Murdock & Lucretia Carey or Lucretia Murdock his wife or between said Jonathan Murdock and any other person at any time prior to January one thousand seven hundred and ninety four. And I do further certify that the records of marriages in said town do not appear to be, and are not so full and regular as to raise a presumption against an alledged marriage within said town of Mansfield
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which is not found thereon. 
Attest Frederick F. Hanks Clerk of the Town of Mansfield 
I. Frederick F. Hanks above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk for the town of Mansfield in the County of Tolland & State of Connecticut. and that I have held said office since the third day of October one thousand Eight hundred and thirty six and I do further depose & say that the facts set forth in the foregoing certificate signed by me are in all respects true.  
Frederick F. Hanks Town Clerk 
State of Connecticut 
Tolland County SS Mansfield Probate District August 3d 1839 
Sworn to and subscribed before me John Fitch Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Mansfield in the County of Tolland and State of Connecticut on the day and year above written.  I further certify that the Deponent is Town Clerk of the Town of Mansfield in the District County and State aforesaid.  That he is a credible person and his statements are entitled to full credit.   
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand officially and affixed the Seal of said Court.
John Fitch Judge of Probate
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Lucretia Murdock 
widow of Jonathan Murdock  
No 4981- 
act 7 July 1838 
N. York 
see letter to M. Van Buren Jr Esq. June 11. 1839-
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4414  New York 
Lucretia Murdock 
Married 27th Jan 1783 
Husband died 26 June 1832  
Col Huntington 
Capt Throop  
Admitted 
Private 2 years 
W. H. Tobey Esq
Kinderhook  N.Y.
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Albany     
Lucretia Murdock widow of Jonathan Murdock who was a pensioner under the Act of June 1832 and who died on the 26. June 1832 of Columbia Co. in the State of N. York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Throop of the regt commanded Col. Huntington in the Conn for 2 years 
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 21, day of Oct 1839 and sent to W. H. Tobey 
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. ‘39    280.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar ‘40.  40.00
$ 320.00
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk,
Book A Vol. 2. Page 89 
Paid at the Treasury under the act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 March to 4 Sept 1841. Agt Notified 24 Sep 1841 
See let to Hon A. Vanderpoel  January 12, 1841
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Naval War College, 
Newport, R. I. 
Dec. 30, 1898. 
Sir
Referring to your letter, 20269, of date of Dec. 14, 1898. I am very much obliged for the information therein contained which was new to me, 
My original letter was a request for a copy of the statement of birth, services, etc., contained in the application made by Jonathan Murdock himself. His name appears on the pension list (Senate Documents, 1st Session, 23rd Congress, Vol. II, p. 294, State of New York).   
If the application on which this pension was granted is on file, I will be greatly obliged for a copy. 
Very respectfully, 
J B Murdock 
Lieut. U.S.N.
The Commissioner of Pensions, 
Washington, D. C. 
[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE H JAN 4 1890
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Dec 14 ‘98
J B Murdock 
Newport R. I. 
Feby 28. 1899. Lt. J.B. Murdock, Newport R. I. history AHD
Revy WIDOW, &c. 
File No. 20269 
Lucretia Murdock 
widow of  Jonathan Murdock 
Pri Rev War  
Act March 3d /43 
Index: Vol. M, Page 73 
[Arrangement of 1870.]