Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14955, for Jerome Hutchinson, Vermont
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(8-1776)
SERVICE                  NUMBER

Vt.    Hutchinson, Jerome    W. 14955
                            Content B.L. Wt. 24605-160-55   
CONTENTS
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118.986 Act [ ] 3d/55
May 5th 155
Content Hutchinson
Wid
Jerome Hutchinson pri;
Vt Mil:
Revolutionary Pension
Act Feby 2 1848
Rev War
[ ] 160 [ ] May 3756
[ ]
H G Fant
J Wright Norwich Vermont
Cir J Wright Jany 21/56
Vt [ ] 2 page 132
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[Left side]
5327
Vermont
Content Hutchinson
widow of Jerome Hutchinson
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a 
Mass. Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 26 Dollars 67
Cents per annum, to commence on the 
23rd day of Dec. 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 4th day of Feb. 1850 and sent to 
Ira Davis, Esq
Norwieh Vt.

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act 
February 2, 1848, Page 56 Vol. 3

[Right side-handwritten up the side of the page]
Res 8m 55-118986
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Jerome Hutchinson
Vt
1st 4 mo
2d [ ] 2 -
3d 2
8
aom
8 m a [ ]
26.66
W Palmer Esq
Woodstock
Vt
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STATE OF VERMONT
WINDSOR COUNTY, SS.}

On this 10th day of November A.D. 1836 personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the Probate Court of Hartford District no sitting, Jerome Hutchinson a resident of the county of Windsor and State of Vermont, aged seventy four year, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.

[handwritten statement]

In the year 1780 he lived in the town  of Norweich in the state of Vermont he volunteered the first of June in the said year & enlisted into the battalion Jesse Safford Company as a private & on the first of July in said year he joined the said Company at Royalton in said state then commanded by the said Safford by & under the authority of the State of Vermont, that he staid at said Royalton about three weeks.  Then months to Bethel in said state & these assisted in building a small fort, the company consisted of about sixty  that he won then when the Indians came to Royalton that he with the company  followed the Indians & overtook them about fifteen miles from Royalton had a scurmish with them then returned to the Fort & staid there & did duty untill some time in December following was then dismissed & he returned to Norwich 
About the first of June 1781 there came  news that the Indians were crossing Lake Champlain that he volunteered under the Command of Lieutenant Elisha Patridge & marched to said Royalton with about twenty men & was stationed at a Black House about a week & then became a substitute for one Jonathan Willcocks for the time of two month & staid & did duty as a private the time out & then returned to said Norwich - About the 20th of August in said year he volunteered under the Command of Lieutenant James Smalley & marched to Newbury Vermont staid about three weeks then went to Corinth
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Vermont & joined Capt Seley company in Colo Benja[min] Waits Regiment & staid & did duty as a private untill the last of October following was then dismissed & returned to said Norwich; at the time he was stationed at the Block [?] House in Royalton he belonged to Capt Benjamin [illegible] in Colo Waits Regiment, that he did duty as a private in the whole not less than nine months for which he [illegible] a pension. That he was born in Ashford Connecticut the 2nd day of March 1763 that he has no record of his age; in the year 1766 his father removed [?] to Norwich Vermont that he lived there untill 1784 he then went to Brookfield Vermont, staid ten [two?] years then returned to Norwich & has lived there ever since. that he has no Documentary evidence having [illegible] in hand or written discharge and that he knows of no person living who can testify to his service except the testimony accompanying this having lived in said Norwich a number of years he is known to the principle inhabitants & in particular to the Rev. Samuel Goddard & Mr. Wm. Loveland who can testify to his character for [illegible] & their belief of his service as a soldier of the Revolution.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State.
Jerome Hutchinson
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
N. Williams, Register of said Court of Probate
We, Samuel Goddard a Clergyman residing in Norwich and William Loveland residing in the same place, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Jerome Hutchinson who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 74 years of age; that he reputed and believed, in the neighourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Samuel Goddard
William Loveland
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid,
N. Williams Register
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.  And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Samuel Goddard who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman, resident in Norwich and that William Loveland who has also signed the same, is a resident in Said Norwich and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
N. Williams, Register
I, Norman Williams, Register of the Court of Probates of the [illegible] (at [illegible]) do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jerome Hutchinson for a Pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this tenth day of November A. D. 1836
N. Williams
Register
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State of Vermont   ss
County of Windsor

On this twenty second day of March A.D.one thousand eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid.  Content Hutchinson aged 90 years a resident of Norwich in the State of Vermont who being duly sworn according to Law declares that she is the widow of Jerome Hutchinson desceased who was a private in the Revolutionary War and she further says that she is inscribed on the Pension list in conformity with the Act of February 2nd 1848.
She further states that she was married to the said Jerome Hutchinson in Northfield in the State of Massachusetts the fifteenth day of October A.D. 1786 by done John Hubbard a Minister of the Gospel and that her name before her marriage was Content Smith[.]  That her said husband died at Norwich Vermont on the twenty second day of December A.D. 1848 and that she is now a widow.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the "Act approved March 3rd 1855."
Content Hutchinson
We J. T. Loveland and Charles Loveland residents of Norwich in the State of Vermont upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged
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by Content Hutchinson in our presence and that we believe from the appearance of statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
J.T. Loveland
Charles Loveland
the foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written, and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in the claim
Cyrus Trucy Just Peace
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State of Vermont
Windsor County Ss Norwich March 29, 1955.
I William E. Lewis Town Clerk [of] the town of Norwich in said County do hereby certify that it appears by the records of deaths of said town that Jerome Hutchinson died December 22 in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty eight.  The record is in the words and figures [?] following, viz.
"Jerome Hutchinson Died at Norwich December 22 A. D. 1848 aged 86 years"
The [illegible] for Record and Recorded March - 1849
By W. E. Lewis Town Clerk
Certified by William E. Lewis Town Clerk
State of Vermont
Windsor County Ss AV [?] Norwich March 29. A.D.  1855
Personally appeared before me the undersigned Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Windsor William E. Lewis above named known by me to be town clerk of said town and keeper of the records of deaths of said town and who is a witness entitled to full credit and made oath to the truth of the matters contained in the foregoing certificate by him signed
Cyrus Truey Justice of the Peace
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STATE OF VERMONT,
WINDSOR COUNTY, SS.
I, Norman Williams, Clerk of the County Court, of the County of Windsor, in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify that Cyrus Tracy was, at the date of the paper writing to which this is attached, and still is, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly qualified to administer oaths and take the acknowledgement of deeds, and that his signatures on the papers attached are genuine.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court, at Woodstock, in said County of Windsor, this first day of May A. D. 1857.
Norman Williams, Clerk.
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Content Hutchinson
widow of Jerome
Vt.
Act 2 Feb 1848
Married
1787
Hus died  22 Dec 1848
[ ] 8 months pri
$24.67 per annum
22 Dec 1848
Ira Davis
Norwich
Vermont
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October fifteenth Anno Domini seventeen hundred and eighty seven then joined in marriage Jerome Hutchinson of Brookfield state of Vermont & Content Smith of Northfield
[illegible] John Hubbard Min.
I Samuel W. Dutton of Northfield, County of Franklin and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, depose & say that I hold the office of Clerk of the said town of Northfield, & that the foregoing is a true copy of the Record with the exception of the date, which is expressed upon the record in fair legible letters & figures as follows,
Octo' 15th A. Dom. 1787
Samuel W. Dutton Town Clerk
Subscribed and sworn to this 26th Day of November 1849
Before me James White Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Franklin, ss.
I, HENRY CHAPMAN, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Franklin, do certify, that James White Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the Certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of the said James White Esq and believe his signature to said Certificate is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said Commonwealth this 27th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty nine.
H. Chapman, Clerk.
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State of Massachusetts
County of Franklin SS
Northfield April 25th 1855 [?]
I Charles Osgood Town Clerk of the Town of Northfield in said County do hereby certify that it appears by the records of Marriages of said Town  that Jerome Hutchinson and Content Smith were united in marriage on the fifteenth day of October A.D. one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven.
The record is in the words and figures following, viz [?]
"A record of the Marriages selebrated by the Revd John Hubbard Pastor of & Minister of the Town of Northfield from June 28th A. Dom. 1787 to March 14 A. Dom. 1790 agreeable to his return [?] which is as follows [illegible] Married by the Revd John Hubbard Minister in the Town of Northfield"
"Octo 18th A.Dom. 1787 then joined in Marriage Jerome Hutchinson of Brookfield State of Vermont & Content Smith of Northfield"
{illegible] John Hubbard Min
True copy of the record of Northfield Mass.
Attest
Charles Osgood Town Clerk of Northfield
(turn over)
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State of Massachusetts
County of Franklin } ss
At
Northfield April 25th 1885
Personally appeared before me the undersigned
Justice of the Peace in & for the County and State
aforesaid Charles Osgood above named known
by me to be Town Clerk of said Town and keeper of the records of Marriages of said Town, and who is
a witness entitled to full credit, and made oath
to the truth of the matter contained in the foregoing Certificate by him signed

Charles Pomeroy Justice of the Peace
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under Vermont 31.59
Jerome Hutchinson
Windsor Co in the State of Vermont
was a Private in the Company commander
Captain Taley of
the
commanded
in the Mass
for 8 Months
Inscribed on the Roll of Windsor Vt
the rate of 26 Dollars 67 Cents per annum
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 day of April
1837 and sent Walter
Palmer Woodstock Vt

Arrears to the 4th of March 1837 $160.02
Semi-ant. allowance ending Sept 1837
13.33
$173.35
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by DD Addison
Clerk
Book C2
Vol. 3d
Page 704
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Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 14955
Content Hutchinson
Widow of
Jerome Hutchinson
Pri Rev War
Act: Feb 2d 48
index:-- Vol. a page 357

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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24.605
[ ]
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Content Huchinson [ ] Vermont
Com of Pensions
Present
Boynton
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[ ] 48, Vt
[ ]
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Montpelier, Vt Roll. Act 7 June 1832
Jerome Hutchinson, Pri. $26.66 per annum,
To what time last paid? Ans. to his death Dec. 22. 1848
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the letter of Ira Davis of Norwich at transmitting the
claim of Content Hutchinson for pension, was
returned to the Secy of the Interior Feb 4, 1850
Cole
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Jerome Hutchinson
Leely Capt " [ ] 80 or 81
Benjamin " " " "
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Norwich Apr 21 1856
Dear Sir.
I send you some papers in the
case of Cotent Hutchinson. The claim was
sent to the office by John Wright Esq. who was
informed by the Commissioner, that there was
no record evidence of her husband's service in the files of that office, whereupon he abandon the case, I enclose a letter from this I regarding
you to prosecute the claim, also the certificate
of the Secty of Vermont showing some service
of her husband, Jerome Hutchinson. This certifi
cate shows but 5 days service & 53 miles travel.
The certificate of the Secretary shows that Mr Hutchinson served in Capt Jesse Safford's Company
but does not shew the length of that service, but
I think you will find among the papers sent
when he obtained his Pension, an affidavit
showing that term to be some 3 or 4 months, and
I think that the affidavit should be taken us
complicity the record, which shows the fact
of the services Please attend to this case at
once.
yours truly
Ira Davis
H. G. Foute Esq (over,
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P.S. Mr. Hutchinson obtained his pension
before any of the Rolls of this State were known
to exist, and but a part only of them are
ye pound,
Enclosed is $4, which please pass to my
credit,
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State of Vermont
Hartford District
Probate Office Woodstock,
January 23. A.D. 1850
I Lyndon A. Marsh, Register of the
Probate Court of said District, do hereby
certify, that satisfactory evidence
has been, this day presented to said County
shewing that Jerome Hutchinson died at Norwich in said
District on the 22 day of December, A.D. 1848, aged 84 years
In testimony whereof, I do hereto affix
the seal of said Court, at Woodstock aforesaid, the
day and year above written
L. A Marsh,
Register
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I Reuben Spaulding of Shown in the County of
Windsor and State of Vermont a Revolutionary
pensioner of the United States and aged seventy
seven years depose testify and say that I find
become acquainted with Jerome Hutchinson the
first of July 1780 at which time
Captain Jone
Safford came to Royalton
State of Vermont
with his company to which company I belonged
as a Sergeant and the said Hutchison as a
private in a short time after we moved
from Royalton to Bethel Vermont and there
we built a fort said Hutchinson was in the
company
when the Indians came to said
Royalton
which was in October 16. 1780 and
continued in the company till some time in
in December after when the
Company was
disbanded-
Reuben Spaulding
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State of Vermont
Winn County
[ ] November 3 1866
then personally appeared
Reuben Spaulding the signer of the within
affidavit and made solemn oath that the
facts therein stated are true I certify that
said Spaulding is a creditable witness of strcit
veracity -
Samuel Shuttleworth Justice of Peace
State of Vermont
Windsor County ss
I Benjamin Swan Clerk
of Windsor County Court
do certify that Samuel
do hereby
Shuttleworth who has affixed his
name to the above is a Magistrate
duly commissioned & qualified &
that the same is his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto affixed the seal of said Court and
subscribed my name at Woodstock this
16th day of November AD 1836. Benj Swan Clerk
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State of Vermont,
Secretary of State's Office,
April 19 A.D. 1826
I certify that there is in this Office a Pay
Roll for service done by men under the command of
Ensign Elisha Partridge, in pursuance of Brig. Gen. Olcott
order on the 11th day of August 1781, which Roll has
the name of Jerome Hutchinson as receiving pay for
service as a private in said Company for the period of
3 days, & for 20 miles travel.
Also a Pay Roll of Capt Elisha Burtons' Company
who marched by order of Col Peter Olcott to Head
Quarters at Royalton in August 1780, which Roll has
the house if Jerome Hutchinson as receiving pay for
service as a private in said Company for a period of
two days, & for 18 miles travel.
Also an account of money due to the Spafford's
Company for travel from their respective homes to camp, one
part to Pittsford, the other to Royalton, which bears the
name of Jerome Hutchinson as receiving pay as a
private in said Company for 15 miles travel.
Given under my hand
& the seal of this Office the
day & year above written
Charles W. Willard
Secretary of State
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I Eleaser Hutchinson of Worcester Washington County & State of
Vermont aged 66 years depose & say that I lived in the Town of [ ]
from the time of my birth untill about 12 years since, and that in
1781 I lived in the neighborhood with Jerome Hutchinson of said
Norwich and will recollect that in the summer of that year and [ ]
I should think about the first of June he was called out at
Royalton, and went with Leech Elisha Partridge who had the command of the company said Hutchinson returned home as near
I can recollect in the month of August having been absent two
months or more, and I also recollect that the said Hutchinson
soon after his return from Royalton, was called out to go to
Newberry & Corinth in Capt Sealey's company as I think and
was only about two months more, and returned some time in
the month of October, I well recollect his going away, & his returning
on each of the above excursions, but did not go with him
and further say not
Eleaser Hutchinson
State of Vermont
Washington County ⎬ 
Worcester November 2, 1836
Then personally appeared Please Mitchener
and subscribed & made oath to the above affidavit, & I certify he
is a witness of strict veracity.
Amos Rier
Justice of Peace
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State of Vermont
Washington County ⎬
Joshua Y. Vail Clerk
of the County Court within &
for the County of Washington aforesaid
do certify that Amos Rice is a
magistrate duly appointed & acting
under the Authority of this State
and that his name to the within
as such is his own proper hand
writing as I believe being well acquainted therewith -
In testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal
of said County Court Nov 2d 1836
Att Joshua Y. Vail Clerk
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Judge Mintz
I have to request that the
within claim to Bounty
land of Mrs Content Hutchinson, widow of Jerome maybe

reexamined, treated, 
reported to me
Your off such
H. G. Fant
April 26/56
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Norwich April 18 1856
Dear Sir
I have a claim for Bounty Land pending at the
Pension Office and my agent John Wright Esq in consequence of
his ill health has given up the further prosecution of it, and I wish you to take charge of it, and obtain the Warrant as soon
as may be,
Yours very Respectfully
Content Hutchinson

To
Hamilton G. Faulk Esq
Washington City
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Honorable James L Edwards 
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington DC
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Honorable James L Edwards 
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington DC

acd 1832 Dec 3d
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Woodstock Vt Nov 24th 1836
Sir
enclosed with this are the
papers in support of the Claim
of
James Hutchinson for a
Pension, which when examined
I wish the returns directed to me
Respectfully yours
Walter Palmer
Hon
J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
P. S.
Mr Hutchison requested me to say that
his Declaration for a pension has been
once made before this, & by some means
has not been read at the Department,
as he is informed,
W. Palmer
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I William Strong of Hartford in the
County of Windsor & State of Vermont aged
Seventy three years do depose & say that in the
year 1780 in the month of October the day
after the Indians had burned the town of
Royalton in the State of Vermont I went
from the town of Hartford where I was then
living to said Royalton & from there I went
to Bethel in said State and joined Captain
Jesse Saffords Company then stationed in a
Small port which the said Safford Commanded
by & under the authority of
the State of Vermont when I arrived at said
Fort I found Jerome Hutchinson who then
& now lives in Norwich in said State doing
duty as a private in the said Saffords Company
I staid at the said Fort about two months
& did duty in the said Saffords Company with
the said Jerome Hutchinson when the said
Company was discharged which was about the
middle of December in the said year-
& further say not -
William Strong

State of Vermont 
Windsor County }
Woodstock 
November 4th AD 1832 William Strong
personally appeared & made Solemn Oath that the
above Affidavit by him subscribed contains
the truth & nothing but the truth & I hereby
Certify that the said William Strong is a
Credible Witness
Walter Palmer Just Peace
---
State of Vermont  
Windsor County }
I Benjamin Swan Clerk of Windsor County Court do
hereby certify that Walter Palmer who
his affixed his name to the above is a
Magistrate duly commissioned & qualified
& that the same is his genuine signature
in testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal
of said Court & Subscribed my name at Woodstock
this 18th day of November AD 1836 -
Benj Swan Clerk
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State of Vermont
Windsor County ss ⎬ On this 31st day of October A.D. 1849
personally appeared before the subscriber a Judge of the County
Court, for the said County of Windsor, (she being unable by reason
of bodily infirmity to appear in open court) Content Hutchinson a
resident of Norwich in the County of Windsor aforesaid aged
Eighty six 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 on the 2d
February 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served
during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Jerome
Hutchinson who was a private in the Revolution and was pensioned
under the act of Congress of June 7th 1832, at the rate of twenty six dollars
and 66 cents per annum. that she was married to the said
Jerome Hutchinson on the 15th day of October Seventeen hundred
Eighty seven, and that her said husband died on the 22d day of
December 1848.
she further declares that she is still a widow
Constant Hutchinson
Sworn & & subscribed on the day & year above written
Before
Walter Palmer Asst Judge
of Windsor County Court
State of Vermont
Windsor County
I  Norman Williams Clerk of the County Court
of the County of Windsor in the State of Vermont, do
hereby certify that Walter Palmer is an Assistant Judge of said County Court, duly commissioned
and qualified and that his signature foregoing is
genuine
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe
my name and affix the seal of said County Court at Woodstock
in said County this 31st day of October A.D. 1849
Norman Williams, Clerk