Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16655, Clement Gosselin, Continental (Canada)
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( 3-1776 ) 

SERVICE 
Continental ( Canada )  

Gosselin, Clement  
Catherine  

NUMBER 
W. 16655.
B.L. Wt. 885-300 Capt. Issued  Jan 22. 1790 no papers
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Payable to Jane Monty , only child 
of Catharine Gosselin dec'd & Lewis Monty 
New York 9380 
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Catharine Gosselin, deceased  
widow of Clement Gosselin 
who was a pensioner under the  Act of [blank]
and who died in the year 1816 
of Clinton Co. in the State of N. York 
who was a Captain in the [blank] 
commanded  by [blank] ["Captain Hazen's Regt." lined thru] of the 
reg't commanded by Col. Hazen in  
the [blank] line for 2 years. 
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Inscribed on the  Roll of Albany 
at the rate of 480 Dollars ---  
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day 
of March 1836,  & end 9th April 1860  
when Catharine died . 
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Certificate of Pension Issued the 4th day of 
June 1845, and sent to  W.G. Snethen Esq. 
Washington  City  
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Total amount, $ [blank]

 [ Act July 7, 1838. ] 
Recorded  by D. Brown Clerk ,
Book D. Vol. 1 Page 159.
 
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Rep'd See letter 
Let to Geo. A. Standish 
July 10. 1847 to 
Geo. A. Standish July 23. '47  
to Geo. A. Standash August 19. '47  
1889 
March 8  - A Gosselin, Montreal Canada
 that no act of indemnity found in favor of 
Capt. Clement Gosselin, nor no general act 
known for benefit Canadian refugees Prior 
( Copy of letter inside )
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rec'd feb 26 1845.  
A 
11755
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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   
State of New York Clinton County } ss 
Jane Monty of the town of Chazy in said County personally appeared before me David B McNeil Superior Court Commissioner in said County and being by me duly sworn deposes & says that she is the daughter of Clement Goslin & Catharine Goslin mentioned in the numbered affidavits and that she is their only heir, that the said Clement Goslin & Catharine Goslin had other children but that they died in infancy - that the paper annexed within in French is the certificate of her christening - that she resides in the town of Chazy in said County and is of the age of forty years. 
         her
Jane  X Monty
         mark

Taken subscribed and acknowledged before me this 14th day of Feby 1845.  
[signed] D B McNeil Sup Court Comm.

[illegible court seal]

State of New York  }
Clinton County        } ss Mary Richards of the town of Chazy in said County being duly sworn says that she was acquainted with Catharine Goslin then wife of Clement Goslin ^mentioned in the annexed affidavits^ for seven or eight years previous to her death and that she died on the ninth day of April A.D. 1843 and that she assisted in laying her out after her death and further that this deponent lived near her & further this Deponent saith not.
          her
Mary   X  Richards
          mark

Taken subscribed & acknowledged before me this 14th day of Feby 1845.
D B McNeil
Sup. Court Comr.
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State of New York Clinton County } ss 
Alexander Forreall of Cleary in said County being duly  sworn deposes & says that he was  acquainted with Clement Goslin mentioned in the annexed affidavits and that he died in the month of March in the year 1816 according to the best of Deponent's recollection at Bukenan town in said County - that said Goslin was in the service of the United States during the revolution in the campaign of 1778 as a Captain in Col. Hazer's Regiment and continued in the service of the United States until June 1783 when the said Goslin was brevited, as a Major & discharged - that this deponent is now a revolutionary pensioner of the United States - that said Gosselin entered the said service in the fall of 1775 under the command of General Montgomery of Quebec and that he was discharged in June 1783 - that said Goslin was in the engagement at the taking of Cornwallis at York Town Virginia - that said Goslin lived before he entered the said service about ninety miles below Quebec and that he joined Montgomery as a volunteer at a Point opposite Quebec - that said  Goslin was taken prisoner at Quebec and imprisoned until the spring of 1778 when he was set at liberty - that said Goslin with his brother and his wife's father  made their way soon after to the Connecticut River through the woods with a pilot Indian as he said and joined the Revolutionary Army at White Plains near New York - that this deponent has seen his commission and supposes that the same was burned when the house which he  used to live in was burned about five years ago.  
[right] his
[right] Alexander X Forreall [X being his mark in lieu of signature]
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Taken and subscribed before me this 14th day of Feby 1845.  Mr. Forreall is unable at this time to write his name owing to  an injury received in his right hand. 
[signed] D B McNeil Sup Court Comm.
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State of New York Clinton County } ss
Lewis Monty of the town of Cleary in said County being duly sworn deposes and says that he was acquainted with Captain Clement  Goslin  mentioned in the annexed affidavit and watched[sp] him the night after his death and that he died according to the best of deponent's recollection on the ninth day of March  A.D. 1816 and further deponent sayeth not.  
[right] his
[right] Lewis X Monty [X being his mark in lieu of signature]
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Taken subscribed and acknowledged before me this 14th day of Feby 1845. 
[signed] D B McNeil 
Sup. Court Comm.  

Know all men by these presents  that we Jane Monty & Lewis Monty ( Lewis Monty being the husband of Jane Monty ) do hereby constitute and appoint Worthington F. Truthers of the City of Washington our true and Lawful attorney for us to receive any & all monies that may be due us or either of us from the  Government of the United States on account of the revolutionary services of Capt. Clement Goslin & to execute for us or either of us proper receipts  therefore 
Dated Plattsburgh February  4th 1845.
(The words of the City of Washington interlined before signed)
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[right] Jane X Monty [X being her mark in lieu of signature]
[right] his
[right] Lewis X Monty [X being his mark in lieu of signature]
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Taken and subscribed before me this 14th day of Feby 1845.
[signed] D B McNeil 
Sup Court Com.
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[original French]
Le 19 Septembre 1804 est nie Marie Genivieve fille Dudegitime mariage  De Clement Gosselin et De Marie Catharine Monty fut parcin Baptiste Morin et Mareinne Genevieve Morin son Epous a ete Baptiste le 20 Fbre 1804 par Monsieur Belair  prestre of Curt de  St. Luc[?]  

Compte et Touche  D eCole pour Monseur Brootham  [left margin, on edge]

[English translation]
On September 19, 1804, Marie Geneviève, daughter of the legitimate marriage of Clément Gosselin and Marie Catharine Monty, was baptized by Baptiste Morin and godmother Geneviève Morin. She was baptized on February 20, 1804, by Mr. Belair, priest of the parish of St. Luc[?].

Account and touch[sp] of school for Mr. Brootham. [left margin, on edge]
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State of New York Clinton County ss
Phineas Doan of Chary [Chazy] in said County being duly sworn deposes & says that he was the officiating Clergyman at the funeral of Catharine Goslin  mentioned in the annexed affidavit of Mary Richards and that she died in the Spring of 1840 on the 9th day of April he thinks according to the best of his recollection and belief having no entry or circumstance to refer to refresh his mind at this time, that the said Catharine died of a Cancer - that this Deponent visited her several times while she was sick - that the day on which she was buried was rainy so much so that this Deponent did not go to the grave. This Deponent further says that he is acquainted with Mary Richards whose affidavit is hereto annexed & that he believes considering her age & infirmities it is a mistake of hers in regard to the year of the death of said Catharine without design. That Mr Monty & his wife Jane Monty are persons who cannot read or write & so it is with the said Mary Richards. This deponent further says that he has been acquainted with the said Lewis Monty & Jane Monty about eighteen years past & has always considered them hard working people & well disposed. This Deponent further says that he is now what is termed a local Methodist Preacher residing in the said town of Chary [Chazy] and further Deponent saith not.   
[signed] Phineas Doan
Sworn to & Subscribed before me this 12th day of April A.D. 1845
[signed] David R. Parsons,
Justice Peace
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In the Matter of the pension claim of Jane Monty
Clinton County ss.
Mary Richards of the Town of Chazy in said being duly sworn depose & says that she has made an affidavit before in this case, in reference to the death Catherine Goslin the wife of Captain Clement Goslin.
This Deponent further says that she was hired at one dollars per week to take care of the said Catherine Goslin & did attend as a nurse at the time she was sick and that the said Catharine Goslin died by a Cancer in her beast that she was sick or troubled with a Cancer four or five years previous to her death that she assisted in laying her out after her death & that it was a rainy day the day she was burned & he did not go to the grave that thinks Doan preached the funeral sermon that we said Doan and not go to the grave in consequence of the rain at the time. This deponent further says that she took one of the children of Lewis Monty & Jane Monty at the time they attended the funeral. That the said Catherine Goslin at the time of her sickness & death lived with Lewis Monty & Jane Monty at Chazy aforesaid. That said Doan is Minister of the Gospel & preacher at this time that said Catherine Goslin died on the 9th day of April 1840 according to the best of deponents recollection. that she has no doubt in her own mind as to the time above stated as to the said Catharines death that since she made her other affidavit from circumstances related by her friends she is satisfied due was in error.
[right] her
[right] Mary X Richards [X being her mark in lieu of signature]
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Sworn to & subscribed this 12th day of April A.D. 1845 before me
[signed] David R Parsons
Justice Peace
[signed] D R Parson Witness also as to her mark
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State of New York Clinton County ss 
Jane Monty of Cleary in said County the applicant for the Pension Claim in this case being duly sworn deposes & says that she has never known of any family record book or writing stating the marriage of her mother with Capt Goslin her father nor does she now know that the marriage can be be found any where in writing - that there is no bible that she knows of which belonged to her said parents that she nor her husband have a bible. That her said parents where of the Roman Catholic Religion & she and her husband are of the same persuasion.
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[right] Jane X Monty [X being her mark in lieu of signature]
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Sworn to & subscribed this 12th day of April  A.D. 1845 before me
[signed] David R Parsons Justice Peace
[signed] D R Parsons also witness to her mark.
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State of New York Clinton County ss. 
Aretus Slosson of the Town of Cleary in said County being duly sworn deposes & says that he has a family & has been collector[sp] of said town for nine years last past - that he was acquainted with Catharine Gosselin deceased the widow of Capt Clement Gosselin deceased being the matter of Jane Monty wife of Lewis Monty -  that he has lived  as neighbor to the said Catharine Gosselin for many years- that she kept house by her self after her husbands death & lived upon a piece of land that was given her by Gen Benjamin Moore, deceased as Deponent has been informed - that the said Catharine Gosselin died at the house of Lewis Monty her son in-law & had resided there some months previous & John Wilson hereinafter mentioned resided at an other place. Deponent further says that he was acquainted with her cohabiting with John Wilson above named but never believed they were married that they cohabited together about four years according to the best of Deponent recollection & belief - that the general belief as this Deponent believes among those who were acquainted with them was & is now that they were never married & that they lived in an unlawful way without ever having been married - that the character & deportment of the said Catherine Gosselin was not good as this Deponent been informed and believes. That the said Catharine Gosselin in candor informed this Deponent that she was wife married to the said John Wilson
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and further deponent saith not -
[signed] Aretus Slosson

Sworn and subscribed before me this 27th day of July 1847
[signed] Ira P Chamberlain
Justice Peace, of Chazy in said County

I do hereby certify that the above deponent is known by me to be a man of respectability and standing, is a man of a family & a man of truth
[signed] Ira P. Chamberlain Justice of Peace

State of New York Clinton County ss 
I Charles H. Jones Clerk of the County of Clinton do hereby certify that Ira P. Chamberlain Esqr whose name is subscribed to the above Jurat and Certificate, and before whom the affidavit was taken was on the day of the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County duly commissioned and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and verily believe that the signatures above written are genuine

Given under my hand and official Seal this 29th day of July 1847
[signed] Charles H. Jones Clerk 

State of New York Clinton County Ss. Parley Heaton of the town of 
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State of New York
Clinton County Ss. Parley Heaton of the Town of Chary in said County being duly sworn deposes and says that he has been commissioner of  Highways in said Town  for four years last past  & has a family -that he was acquainted with Catharine Gosselin  mentioned in the annexed officiant of Aretus Slosson- that he was --- a neighbor to the said Catharine Gosline deceased for many years -that she kept  house by her self after her husband's death & lived upon a piece of Land that was given her by General Moore, deceased as deponent has been informed- that the said Catharine Gosselin died at the house of her son in law Lewis Monty and resided there some months ---   & John Wilson hereinafter named resided singled in another place - deponent further says that he was acquainted with
her cohabitating with John Wilson above named but never believed they were married.
That ---  Deponent  first became acquainted with her she was residing alone with the Daughter Jane Monty now the wife of Lewis Monty subsequently said Wilson resided with her as deponent be being in an unlawful way & without having him been married for some years- that her character & deportment of the
said Catharine Gosselin as this Deponent has been informed & believes to  feature  was -- good that the General belief as this deponent believes among those who were acquainted with them was & is now that they
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were never married & that they lived together unlawfully & against the character of the woman & further deponent saith not.
[signed] Parley Heaton

Sworn and Subscribed before me, July 27, 1847
[signed] Ira P Chamberlain Justice of Cazy [Chazy] in said County

I do further certify that the above deponent is known by me to be a man of respectability a man of a family and a man of truth-
[signed] Ira P Chamberlain Justice Peace

State of New Yor Clinton County ss 
I Charles H. Jones Clerk of the County of Clinton do hereby certify that Ira P. Chamberlain Esq whose name is subscribed to the above Jurat & certificate & before whom the affidavit was taken, was on the day of the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned, and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and verily believe that the Signatures above written are Genuine.

Given under my hand and official seal this 29th day of July 1847
[signed] Charles H. Jones Clerk

[illegible Court Seal affixed at left]
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State of New York Clinton County ss. 
Peter H. Moore of the town of Beekmantown in said County former being duly sworn deposes & says that he was well acquainted with Catharine Gosselin the widow of Capt Clement Gosselin deceased and also John Wilson named in annexed affidavits - that about ten or twelve years ago according to the best of deponents recollection the wid. Catharine Gosselin & said John Wilson lived together apparently as man and wife on my land that at first I supposed they were married but having heard that they were not married was led to inquire into the matter & became satisfied they were not married- that the statements that I understand came from one or both of them going to show that they were married was utterly false from the very best authority - Deponent further said that he has been informed and believes that the said Catharine Gosselin died at the house of her son in law Lewis Monty in Chazy & did not cohabit or live with the said John Wilson, or receive any support from him at this time & had resided there some time previously to her death - that the general belief as this deponent believes among those who were acquainted them was & is now that they were never married and lived together unlawfully without marriage & against the character of the woman. Deponent further says that the character of the said Catharine Gosselin was not good as this deponent has been informed & believes, that deponent lives near the line of the town of Chazy & was where the Gosselin family lived. Deponent further says that he was satisfied that they tried to conceal this illicit intercourse by endeavoring to make others think they were married & the marriage being disputed at the end times led him to the enquiry of the matter and which enquiry verified this Deponent that they were not married. Deponent further says that there could be no doubt of their
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and repute of the said Catharine Gosselin & further deponent saith not. [signed] Peter H. Moor

Sworn Subscribed before me this 27 day of July 1847
[signed] Oramel Brewster Justice Peace

I do hereby certify that the deponent is known by me to be a man of respectability and standing and a man of truth
[signed] O. Brewster Justice Peace

State of New York Clinton County ss.  
I, Charles H. Jones Clerk of the County of Clinton do hereby certify that O. Brewster Esq whose name is subscribed to the above Juvetes and Certificate, and before whom the affidavit was taken was in the day of the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County duly commissioned and that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Justice and verily believe that the Signatures above written are genuine

Given under my hand and Official Seal this 29th day of July 1847
[signed] Charles H. Jones Clerk

[illegible Court Seal affixed]
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State of New York Clinton County ss 
Mary Lezott of the town of Chazy in said County being duly sworn says that she now receiving a pension as the widow of Lewis Lezott a revolutionary soldier that she is of the age of eighty years - that she has lived in mid town of Chazy more than fifty years- that she was well acquainted with Captain Goslin & Catharine Goslin - mentioned in the annexed affidavits, that she is the sister of the said Catharine Goslin that she was present at the marriage of the said Catharine Goslin & said Clement Goslin mentioned in the annexed affidavits - that the they the said Clement & Catharine were married. This deponent further says that she was married about a year after the revolutionary war closed, that the said Clement & Catharine were married by one Esqr McPherson who was a magistrate at Chazy aforesaid- that said McPherson & his wife are dead & their children have removed into the State of Ohio many years ago- that said McPherson had three children & are all dead as the Deponent has been informed except Robert & where he is this Deponent does not know- that at the time the marriage took place in those days (when the marriage of the said Clement & Catharine took place), certificate of marriage were given but this deponent does not know whether her sister Catharine received a certificate or not- that the marriage of her said sister with Capt. Goslin took place in the 3rd house north of where this Deponent now resides- that the marriage took place in November 1791 according to the best of her recollection.  that it was in the fall of the year as navigation had not closed for they went for this magistrate in a boat who lived about four miles from here- that she had one child when her said sister was married as aforesaid & she nursed her while sick on account of that child being then a single woman that her said sister was married before tshe had another child - and there were 6 years difference between the age of her first & second child, that her said second child is now about fifty years of age. That the said Catharine & Clement
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Goslin after they were married about two weeks after moved into Canada & about that time settled some important business with General Benjamin Moore of Plattsbrugh in said County & they returned to this place soon after the last war with England broke out. That this Deponent has been informed that said Goslin was advised to leave Canada as it was known there that he had been a spy for the United States during the Revolutionary war. That this Deponent has been informed that the house in which her said sister resided was burned not many years ago & this deponent has no doubt of it that if her said sister had books or a certificate of marriage that they must have been burned at that time as this deponent supposes - That Placed[sp] Monty & Joseph Monty are this deponents brothers who are now living & attended the wedding of the said Catharine & Capt. Goslin with this Deponent and her husband. that Joseph is unfriendly to the family of said Lewis Monty & probably will not testify about the marriage.  That this Deponent has been so unwell this winter that she is unable to leave the house & further this Deponent saith not.
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[right] Mary X Lezott [X being her mark in lieu of signature]
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Sworn to & subscribed this 12th day April AD 1845 before me
[signed] David R Parsons Just. Peace
[signed] D R Parsons allso witness to her mark

I do hereby certify that I have visited the foregoing witnesses in this case at their respective places of residence and believe them to be from their appearance and reputation candid and honest people & people of sound mind
[signed] David R. Parsons Justice Peace
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Mattsburgh July 16, 1847

Dear Sir
Yours of the 10th inst. is received in relation to the pension case of Jane Monty which I had an agency in obtaining. 
You have been misinformed in relation to the facts of the case. The motive and object of your informer although quite obvious are of course unimportant as it regards the subject of inquiry-.
The Government has not been defrauded in this instance unless I have been deceived. The facts as they were presented to me and as I have already believed and still believe are as follows.
Clement Gosselin died leaving Catherine Gosselin his widow and Jane his daughter and their only living child. Catherine remained his widow and was never remarried and died a widow. She for a time (how long I do not now recollect lived with a man by the name of Wilson I think as housekeeper or otherwise and probably in a state of concubinage. This same Wilson affidavid according to the best of my recollection is among the papers in the case showing that she was never married. I am confident I had such an affidavit & forwarded it to Mr Luther.[sp] Of the fact of her not having been married I had no doubt at the time and I have had no occasion to disbelieve it since.
The only question as it appears to me which can arise in relation to myself and my inquiry is whether as a matter of duty or professional propriety the fact of this illict connection of this matter ought to have been stated. Upon this question I bestowed all the consideration I was capable and consulted able Counsel of unquestionable standing for honor and integrity. The result was the conclusion that as that fact was not material to the rights of this applicant or the Government-  that as the applicant was legally entitled and ought not to be deprived of her rights on account of this misconduct of the mother neither duty to the Government was honorable propriaty required that it should be stated. You will readily appreciate how painful it would be to the applicant to proclaim and to place upon record her mothers shame and disgrace and I think you will concur with me that she ought not to have been required to do it unless that fact was material -
I acted conscienciously in not stating that fact and
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under advice that I considered entitled to my full confidence and reliance. Whether I erred in judgment or not is another question. I can not claim infallibility but I can and do claim uprightness of intention and motive and I am not yet convinced that I erred in judgement or propriety.
As I am unknown to you I beg leave to say what this came and the attempted aspersion of my conduct sum to justify if not call for that the result of any severity you may please to make into my character or standing will satisfy you that I would not knowingly do an act unbecoming an honest and honorable man.
The family concerned in this matter (Monty & wife) reside some fifteen miles from this and I have not seen them since the receipt of your letter and so far as I state facts it is done from recollection.
If you desire any further investigation as to facts Judge Haile the Collector of the District and who resides here is every way competent either as to ability or integrity to conduct any enquiry you may desire. I mention his name because Judge Woodward & myself are not friendly terms as Mr Snethen  will inform you -
You make a reference to the testimony of the Rev. Mr Doan which not having the papers before me I cannot fully understand. That he testified conscientiously & truly I cannot doubt. To the best of my recollection about the insertion of the words "mentioned in the affidavit of Mary Richards", in his affidavit, to which you allude they were intended merely to count the affidavits and if a false name has been given to the claimant it is purely a mistake.  I certainly could have no motive in doing so.
As to Jane Monty being the daughter of Wilson the papers before you I cannot doubt will show such allegation to be absurd and unfounded for according to my recollection & from memoranda which I have it will appear from the papers that she must have been eleven or twelve years old at her Fathers (Gosselin's) death to wit, that she was forty years old in 1845 & that Gosselin died in 1816.

I am very respectfully Your obt sevt
[signed] Geo. A. Standish

Hon J. L. Edwards
Pension Commissioner
City Washington -
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Judge Woodward informs me that he was called upon to prepare the claim of Catharine Wilson for the service of her first husband Capt. Gosselin, but informed her & her friends, as her second husband was then alive, she was not entitled - that sooner after, she died, her husband surviving her, and that her daughter Jane asserted her claim successfully
[signed] G Wm Camp
28 June '47 -
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Mattsburgh July 29. 1847

Dear Sir
     Yours of the 23rd inst. respecting the
case of Catharine Gosselin has been received by me.  I am happy to have that your news comes & found with mine as to her being entitled if she was not married to Wilson though she lived with him as stated by me and also that you justify the an' pension in the papers of her is improper conduct if she was not married.
     I understand from your title that proof will be required "by the leading and most respectable neighbors of what was the informed understanding upon that point". In accordance with that review I proceeded to the neighborhood where they resided on the day of the receipt of your letter and to my satisfaction or conveying with the rest
respectable portion of the neighbors that I had not been deceived in the view I had taken of the case and processed the unclosed affidavit. I might have proceeded many more to the same import I think had I deemed it necessary. The place is not a village & is not on what is we term the State Record but off from that road & heading west and where the inhabitants are not thickly settled-
I also know Mr Monty & wife who said to me
that he never did live with her for any considerable length of time at one time but that he would be gone for months & then return-  that Wilson first came to her house. that they did not live together more than three years if  they did that - that Catharine Gosselin informed Mr. Monty (Lewis, James Husband) at his house while she was on her death bed & but a short time before she died (I think on the day of her death), that she had never been married to Wilson.
     I hope the enclosed affidavit will be satisfactory proof of her not having been married to Wilson. I covered remark her- that Parley Heaton whose affidavit I enclose is a man of property and respectability and brother to the present searcher of the Legislation of this State. previous ?? court.  That Petre Mr.  Moore is a man of property and respectability & a professor of religion. that Aertus Slosson is also a respectable man & is now a constable in said town-
                                                     M. A. Standish
Hon J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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Province of Canada}
District of Montreal} Extract of the Register of the acts of Baptism, marriages + burials made in the Parish of St Hyacinth on the river Yamaska
During the year 1791 -
The 12th of May 1791 after having been authorized by the Hn: Deneant, Grand Curate, to reestablish the marriage contracted in the presence of Mandrick McPherson Justice of the peace, the dispensation of bans having been granted as directed by the letter of the Vicar General, bearing the date of the 5th of April last, between Clement Gosselin widower of Charlotte Wonilmete, son of the late Gabriel Gosselin + of Geneviene Crepeaud deceased, his father + mother of the Parish of St. Familles, Government of Quebec, on the one side, and of Maria Catherine [illegible] daughter of Francis [illegible] + of Maria Josephine Berguin, her father + mother of Lake Champlain on the other side, I the undersigned Priest + curate of St. Hyacinth, have [illegible] publicly with the prescribed ceremonies a new afsent [assent] of marriage without any opposition whatever, and this in the presence of Joseph De Lafarge her son-in-law and of Joseph Barbeau a friend of the husband, and on
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the part of the wife, Joseph Barbbeau and Jean Baptiste Benoit, both friends of the wife who has not known how to sign her name, but the others have signed it
                 Joseph Laforge
                           signed J B Durvarney
We the undersigned Prothonotaries of the Court of the Queen's Bench for the District of Montreal certify that the extract above is exactly like the original which is found in the register of the Acts of Baptisms Marriages and
Burials, made in the said Parish of St Hyacinth
during the year 1791- the said register being
deposited in the archives of the said Court -

Montreal- the 23 of May 1845

Monk Coffin & Papineau P.B. R.
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Province of Canada
District of Montreal ⎬
           The honorable Joseph Henry Pallicry de St Real, Chief Judge of the Court of the Queen's Bench of the District of Montreal in the province of Canada,

To all those who shall see these presents;
We certify that Samuel Wentworth , Wm Craigie Holmes, Monk Coffin & Louis Joseph Amedee Papinean esq are Prothonotaries of the Court of the Queen's Bench of the District of Montreal in the Province of Canada

That the signature Monk Coffer & Papinean PBR subscribed to the certificate of other parts, as the signature of the said Prothonotaries: And that faith should be given to all copies of Papers, extracts and other acts whatsoever, signed by them and certified in this manner-
     In faith of which, we have signed these
presents, and to them affixed the seal of the said Court at Montreal 23d of May 1845
      Pallicry de la Real-
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May 8 '45
Cath Gosselin Free
Hon. I. S. Edwards
Comm of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Baltimore 7 May 1845
Sir
Yours of the 6th was 7- in reply to mine of the day previous is just at hand informing me that the claim of C. Gosselin decd. was examined 
and the report of said examination transmitted to me at Washington, on the 5th of April.  I received that report on the same day it was made, and immediately communicated with the Counsel of the claimant at Plattsburg, New York, requiring additional evidence to substantiate the time of the marriage & the death of said Catherine Gosselin which the department demanded in the case.  On the 21st of April I received by mail the additional evidence thus required and on that same day transmitted it to you from this city with an accompanying note calling your attention to the subject.  I placed the letter in the Baltimore Post Office with my own hands.  Not
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hearing from you as soon as I expected, I addressed you my note of the 5th inst, stating how anxious the claimant was to get her claim allowed.  I cannot see how it is possible for my letter of the 21st of April with enclosure of additional evidence &c. to have miscarried from this to Washington.  At all events I shall wait to hear from you whether it has been received at your office or not.  If it has, allow me to call your earliest possible attention to the subject.  As I shall not be able to leave here before the 18th inst. letters addressed to me as above title then will find me in this city.
Very respectfully
Your Obt. St.
W. G. Snethen

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Comr. of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
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P.S. I have written today to Mr Gardner
the P.M. of Washington on the subject, asking
him to make search, if said letter has
not come to your desk
S
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Baltimore April 21st 1845

Sir

       I transmit to you additional evidence, in the case of Jane Monty, going to establish conclusively the time of the marriage and the death of Catherine Gosselin.
      In regard to the authentication of the affidavits of the several deponents in this case, the Secretary of State of the State of New York, on being applied to, for the necessary proof, ???, that the certificate the County Clerk would be sufficient , which certificate- under the seal of the County Court of Clinton, accompanies the enclosed papers.

I shall be pleased to hear from you at this place
Respectfully yours
         W.G. Snethen

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C
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Washington City 31 May 1845

Sir
       I submit further testimony in Catherine
Gosselin's case going to show conclusively that
Jane Gosselin  is the sole living heir of her Parents,  that Major Gosselin was not married on the 30th of May 1759 as will appear by the copy of the deed herewith sent which does not contain the relinquishment of Dower on the part of any wife & that he was married in the State of New York by Justice McPherson & remarried by Prest [Priest?] Duvournay according to the form of the Catholic Church "after the  expiration of the last period of his service (June 1783) and before the 1st day of January 1794 "as the law of 1838 requires.

                       Respectfully your obt St
                                     W.G. Snethen
                                    Attorney for Claimant
  Hon
J.L. Edwards                                     
Com of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
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Washington 27 Feb 1845

Sir

Jane Gosselin, wife of Lewis Monty and sole heir of Clement Gosselin and Catherine Monty his wife, claims to be paid by the United States, a pension which she avers to be due to her mother under the Law of 1838 for the services of the said Catherine's husband as an officer and a soldier in the Revolutionary War.

The said Jane proposes to establish by the evidence herewith submitted, -- that her father Clement enter the service of the United States in year of 1775, -- that in the year 1778 he was made Captain in Colonel Hazen's Regiment, --that he continued in command till June 1783, when he was brevetted as a Major and discharged, -- that he was married to the said Catherine on the 8th day of November 1791, -- that she the said Jane (Genevieve) was born on the 19th day of September 1804, and is the sole surviving heir of her parents, -- that her father died on the 9th day of March 1816, -- and that her mother, the said widow Gosselin died on the 9th day of April 1843.
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As Counsel for the claimant in this case I beg leave to submit the testimony, thus far produced to your consideration and to crave your earliest possible attention to it. I would remark that the evidence of the official character of the persons before whom the affidavits were acknowledged will be forthcoming when required. In relation to Captain Gosselin's then records of your department will doubtless furnish abundant proof.

Respectfully yours,
W. G. Snethen

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Com. of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
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Mary Monty
Aff
B
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I Mary Monty of the Town of Chazy County of Clinton and State of New York do certify and say that I was A witness of the marriage of Clement Goslin and Catherine Monty on the 8th day of November Seventeen Hundred and Ninety (1790) that the marriage ceremony was performed by -- McPherson Esq a Justice of Peace. That they were married in my presence at Chazy Clinton County N.Y.

Mary Monty
X her mark

In presence of 
Anthony Tromley [?]

Sworn and subscribed Before me this 13th day of May 1845 at Chazy Clinton Co NY

Wm. H. Sax Justice of the Peace
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The 19th Set 1804 Mary Genevieve was born, daughter of the legitimate marriage of Cement Goslein and Catherine Monty. ____X___ (Baptiste Morin and Marienne Genevieve his wife) was baptized the 20th of __X__ by Mons Belair priest and curate of St. Luke.

I think the said Mary Genevieve must be the Jane Monty. Some of the French X I could not decipher.
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March 2 1889

Sir

Your communication of the 25th [illegible] is received relative to an unclaimed indemnity supposed to have been granted in favor of Capt Clement Gosseline, a Canadian refugee, who served in Col. Morer [?] Hazen's regiment in the 
war of the Revolution.

So far as the index of names 4 "heading" of private acts have been examined, no legislation by Congress has been found in her favor.

The first act of granting pensions for service in said war was in 1818 but he having died in 1816 prevented his receiving the benefit of said law. His widow, however, survived to 1840 and was allowed a pension under the act 0f 1838 up to the day of her decease.

Beside the above pension laws and there for Bounty land, both of which have been received, no other general law is recollected which would grant further benefit to any one for his military service as a Canadian refugee.

Lieut Secors [?]  Gasseline, a Canadian refugee in Col Hazen's regiment petitioned the 23rd Congress for indemnity of property confiscated in Canada, upon which no action was taken, but no such petition from Clement Gosling appears in this index of private claims presented to Congress up to 1853.

Without more definite information as to the character of the alleged claim or about the date of the suffered act under which it was made, it is impossible to return any more conclusive answer to your enquiry.
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MEMORANDUM TO:
The Army Pension Depart.
Washington, D.C.

FROM: 
The City Clerks Office
Montreal 

22 July 1889

Gentlemen

My great grand father Major Clement Gosselin served in the army during the continental war and as a reward of his faithful service towards the Country, he was granted land and money and later on an indemnity from the government.

The last indemnity, as we heard, was never touched and would still be in the government treasury. Would you be kind enough to inform me if there is any thing due to the estate of Major Clement, and if so, what means would be best taken to touch said indemnity.

By doing so you would confer a great favor on the poor families composing his estate.

Yours truly.
A Gosselin
Asst City Clerk
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Rev Widow, &c.

File No. 16655

Catherine Gosselin
Widow
Clement Gosselin
Capt Rev War

Act: July 7th 1838

Index: -- Vol. M Page 63

[Arrangement of 1870]
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State of New York
Clinton County

Peter Roborg and Alexander Forrill of the Town of Chazy in said County being severally duly sworn do depose and say that they are pensioners of the United States for services during the Revolutionary War that they were acquainted with Catherine Gosselin then wife of Captain Clement Gosselin of Col Hazen's Regt in the Revolutionary service that they have been acquainted with her ever since she was a child that they knew of her marriage with said Gosselin that they knew the family to which she belonged in Canada before they came to the United States that her father and mother with the other members of the family [illrgible] with these Deponents in Canada in company that Gosselin had a large family of children by Catherine but that they all died in infancy except Jane Monty the applicant in this case that they have been told so by both of them and know nothing to the contrary and have no doubt that this statement was correct that they have been intimately acquainted with said Catherine and Mr. Gosselin during their residence in the United States and up to the time of their death, -- that they have always understood that Jane is the only child they [illegible]. We know that Mr. Gosselin has done a great deal for the United States that said Gosselin has been a spy a number of times for the United States. We have seen him start and [illegible] return as a spy.

These deponents further say that they do not know this exact number of children they had while married and that they would not be surprised if the said Jane Monty did not know. [Illegible]

Peter Roborg
his X mark

Alexander Forrill
his X mark

Sworn to and subscribed this 20th May A.D. 1845 Before me.

W.H. Sax
Justice of Peace
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State of New York
Clinton County ss.  Jane Monty the applicant in this case of Cleary in said County being duly sworn deposed & says that she has been informed by her mother Catharine
Gosselin deceased that she had by Captain or Major Gosselin six children only & which this Deponent believes to be true that this Deponent had one sister younger than herself who died in infancy soon after bound that this
Deponent is the youngest child with the exception of our last mentioned who died as aforesaid
This Deponent further says that she was informed by her mother that the children she
had before her died in infancy & which this 
Deponent believes to be true this having been
of the number a pair of twins- This Deponent
further says that her father was called Major Gosselin & further this Deponent  saith not
Sworn to & Subscribed
this 22 May A D. 1840
                                  X Jane Monty her mark
Before me
George Moore
Justice Peace
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State of New York
Clinton County  ss 
     I Charles H Jones Clerk of the County of Clinton do hereby certify that George Moore Esqr and William H Sax Esqr whose name are subscribed to the foregoing affidavit and before when the same were taken
and Justices of the Peace in and for said County at the date of said affidavits
     In testimony of whereof I have hereunto Subscribed my name and affixed the Seal
of said County the 26th day of May
1845
Charles H Jones Clerk
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Catharine Gosselin who was widow of
Clement Gosselin, did as Captain in Col Hazen
Regt for 1776 1783 
act July 7 1838
married 1791
husband died in 1816
Cath. Gosselin, widow
died 9 Apl 1840
$480 per ann to annex
4 March 1836 & terminate 
9 April 1840, she Catharine
died  - payable at Albany to Jane Monty only child of Catharine Gosselin and wife of Lewis Monty


Cat : to W. G. Snethen, Esq
Washington City
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Catharine Gosselin, decd who was widow of
Clement Gosselin, decd a Captain in Col.  Hazen's Regt or 1776 to 1783
-
act July 7. 1838
-
Married in 1791
husband died in 1816
Cath Gosselin, widow died of  9 April 1840

$480 per ann. to commence 4 March 1836 & terminate 9 April 1840, when Catharine
died- Payable at Albany to Jane Monty only child of Catharine Gosselin dcd & wife
of Lewis Monty


Curt: to W.G. Snethen, Esq
Washington City
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United
States, of the 7th July 1838, Catharine Goselin, deceased,
late of New York, and widow of Clement Goselin, deeased,
who was a Captain in the Revolution, waws entitled to
a pension at the rate of Four Hundred and Eighty Dollars
per annum, to commence the 4th of March 1836;  and having
died on the ninth of April 1840, the amount due [unintelligible]
the time of her death, is payable to Jane Monty, only child of Catharine Goselin deceased, and Lewis Monty.
Given at the War Office of the United States,
this fourth day of June
one thousand eight hundred and forty=five.
Examined and Countersigned. Secretary of War
Commissioner of Pensions.
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This Indenture made this thirtieth day of May one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine Between Clement Gofselin [Gosselin] late of the army of the United States of America and a Refugee from Canada on the first part and Jaques Rouse of Champlain town and State of New York on the second part Witnefseth [Withnesseth] that the said party on the first part for and in consideration of the sum of fifty pounds lawful money of New York to him in hand paid by the said party of the second part the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged have granted bargained sold aliened remised released and confirmed unto the said part of the second part and to his heirs and afsigns [assigns] forever all that  certain Tract of piece parcel or Lots of Land situate lying and being in the town of Champlain County of Clinton and State of New York aforesaid Nova scotia Refugees Known and distinguished by Lot No fifty of eighty acres and No twenty seven of eighty acres No sixteen of four hundred and twenty acres and No twenty nine of four hundred and twenty acres and accounting in the whole to one thousand acres of land Together with all singular the hereditaments  and appurtenances thereunto belonging or any ways appertaining and the reversion and revisions remanding and remainderments ifsues [issues] and profits thereof and all the lauded estate right with interest claim and demand whatever of the said party of the first part either in law or equity of in and to the above granted and bargained premises with the said hereditaments and appurtenances to Have and to Hold the said pieces tracts parcels or lots of land with the appurtenances to the only proper use and behoof of the said party of the second part his heirs and afsigns [assigns] forever and the said party of the first part for himself his heirs ancestors and administrators doth [illegible] and bargain promise and agree to and with the said party of the first part his heirs and assigns to warrant and forever defend the above bargained premises and every part and parcel thereof now being in the quiet and peaceable pofsession [possession] of the said party of the second part against the said party of the first part his heirs ancestors administrators and afsigns and against all and every other person or persons claiming or to claim the said premises or any part or parcel thereof by from or under lien thence or any of thence In witnefs whereof the said party of the first part has hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year first above written De third day of January [illegible] my hand
Sealed and in presence of C L Clem.nt Gofselin [Gosselin] Major LS
delivered Edward Benoit Terrain
Joseph Richard

State of New York County of Clinton fs on the third day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred came before me Pliny Moore one of the Judges of the Court of the Court of Common Pleas for said County Clement Gofselin [Gosselin] the grantor named in the within and him personally known to me and acknowledged that he signed sealed and delivered the within as his voluntary act and deed for the uses and purposes therein mentioned and that the words "Clement Gofselin" in the second line "No sixteen of four hundred" in the tenth line and "first" in the seventeenth line were wrote on erasures before the signing sealing or delivery thereof I having inspected the same and finding therein no watered erasers [illegible] or obliterations except those above noted do allow the same to be records
Pliny Moore
Clinton County fs. A true Copy recorded August 11th 1801
Mels T Woolsey D.y Clerk

State of Newyork
Clinton County fs I Certify that the foregoing is a true Copy of the Record and the whole Record of a Deed recorded in this Office In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 26th day of May 1845. Charles H Jones Clerk
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State of New York
Clinton County fs. Placid Monty of Plattsburgh in said County being duly sworn deposes + says that Captain Goslin named in the annexed affidavits was his brother-in-law and that Catherine Goslin mentioned in the annexed affidavits was his sister - that this Deponent is now a revolutionary pensioner - That this said Goslin was styled a major by those who knew him after the Revolution - that this Deponent was present when said Goslin was married to Catherine Goslin - that the marriage took place in Chazy in said County - that Esqr. McPherson married them who lived at Chazy aforesaid - That said Goslin was married soon after the close of the Revolutionary war + moved pretty soon after into Canada + lived there some time + came out again into the States either before or soon after the next war with England broke out - This Deponent further says that they did not always give a certificate on a marriage in those days (where Goslin was married) for this Deponent did not receive any certificate of his marriage where he was married - That this Deponent has heard said the statement of his sister Mary Lezatt in her affidavit as to the time when Capt Goslin was married to Catherine his sister and believes her to be correct in her statement of the time in November A.D. 1791 This Deponent says he cannot recollect whether it was in the fall or spring - This Deponent says he was single at the time of Goslins marriage + considered himself a young man - [illegible] said Goslin wrote much for General Moore of Plattsburgh before he moved into Canada + about the time he was married to his sister Catherine - This Deponent does not certainly know old he is but supposes he is now where about eighty years old - and further Deponent saith not 
Charles [illegible]
Placid Monty (his x mark)
Sworn to + Subscribed before me this 12th day of April A.D. 1845
C Barnard
Witness to his Mark
Sworn and Subscribed Before Me Charles Barnard Justice Peace
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2

State of New York
Clinton County fs. George A. Standish of Plattsburgh in said County being duly sworn says that he is an attorney at law + practicing as such in the Village of Plattsburg - that he called upon Amasa C. Moore Esquire also an attorney at law in said Village and one of the executors of General Benjamin Moore deceased on the 12th day of April 1845 and obtained permifsion [permission] to examine with said Moore the books of account of said Benjamin Moore + did so examine such books of account - that on one book of such accounts marked No 1 this Deponed found an account against Major Clement Gofselin [Gosselin] for articles received by said Gofselin as appears by said book on the 5th + 29th Mar. 1788 and also on the 2d of June 1788 This Deponent also found entries to Capt Gofselin Oct. 1785 on said book - that the account in 1788 appears to be continued on or carried to book No 3 by an entry on said books - that this Deponent + said Moore looked for book No 2 but could not find it - That this deponent has since been informed by said Moore that he does not know where to look for said book + that he supposes it has got mislaid - This Deponent further says that he is acquainted with Placid Monty whose affidavit is annexed and has been acquainted with him for a number of years past - that the said Monty [illegible] to a remarkable degree his actively + health and appears to be a man of sound mind for a man of his age - that his Deponent has never heard any thing of him that would in the least impeach his testimony - This Deponent further says that he has been informed + believes that said Monty is now drawing a pension for services during the revolution - This Deponent further says that General Benjamin Moore mentioned in the affidavit of Mary Lezott died some years ago + that in his previous statements in respect to General Moore he [illegible] the same man - This Deponent further says that the affidavits in this case purporting to have been taken by David B McNeil Supreme Court Commifsioner + George Moore Justice of the Peace which have been forwarded to Worthington G. [illegible] Esqr City Washington by him were taken by the same David B. McNeil + George Moore  mentioned in the certificate of the Clinton County Clerk hereto annexed
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3

This Deponent further says that he has obtained the opinion of William F Haill an attorney at Law + now practicing as such in Plattsburgh + who has been first Judge of Clinton County Court + is now Collector of the District of Champlain in respect to the requesting of marriages in this State - that [illegible] Hail informed this Deponent that he was not aware of any law that ever required marriages in this State to be registered but that Certificates of marriage were [illegible[] given - and further this Deponent saith not -
Geo A Standish
Sworn to + Subscribed this 14th day of April A.D. 1845 Before me
George Moore Justice Peace

State of New York
Clinton County fs. Shubel Burdick now [illegible] Sheriff of the said County being duly sworn deposes + says that he has resided in Chazy in said County forty years last past according to the best of his recollection + belief and that when he came first to Chazy Esqr McPherson referred to in the annexed affidavits was dead or reputed to be so + that during the time of his residence in Chazy as aforesaid he has never seen nor has he ever been informed of  their using any records of the said McPherson [illegible] then - this Deponent believing that said McPherson left no record then of his acts as a justice of the Peace which can now be found if he was one [Most of the rest of the paragraph has been crossed off.]  Deponent saith not -
S. Burdick
Sworn to + Subscribed Before me this 14t day of April 1848
George Moore
Justice Peace
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4

State of New York
Clinton County fs. George W. Palmer Surrogate of said county being duly sworn says that he has examined the records in his office and has ascertained thereby that Letters of Aministration were granted on the estate of Murdock McPherson Esquire now deceased on the 10th day of October A.D. 1801 That he is styled "Esquire" in the record thereof - That he was then at the time said letters were granted as appears by said record named as having lately died
Geo. W. Palmer
Surrogate
Sworn to + Subscribed this 14th day of April 1845. Before me
George Moore
Justice Peace

State of New York
Clinton County fs. G A Standish who made an affidavit in this was on the 12th instant + which is hereto annexed being duly sworn says that he with A. C. Moore Esqr named in said affidavit [illegible] the [illegible] for book no. 3 mentioned in said affidavit and that they found the same + found Capt Gofselins [Gosselins] account continued on said Book and found entries of March 1791 + one entry purporting to be made Janary 3d 1792 + no further entries whatever - It appears that the account Debt + Credit had been footed up + carried from Page pages 28 + 39 to page 44 of the money book in grofs [gross] amounts + this account stands on said page 44 Debit L11-4-3 Credit L3-4-0 no date when brought to page 44 - the charge on said book No 3 of Jany 3 1792 or purporting to be that date is "To paid Louis Mamey per order 34" On the 6th + 9th Mar 1791 then appears on said book to have been delivered Gofselin many articles - the last charge of the 9th March 1791 is "To Paid Louis Mamey pr L11-4-3 This Deponent further says that said book NO 3 shows that considerable businefs [business] was done between 4 April + said Moore in 1890 (1790) and further deponent saith not
Grant Standish
Sworn to + Subscribed this 14th April A.D. 1845 Before me
D B McNeil Sup Court Comr.
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State of Newyork
Clinton County fs I Charles H Jones Clerk of the County of Clinton do hereby Certify that George Moore Esqr is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Clinton, and that David B McNeil Esqr is a Supreme Court Commissioner in and for Said County, and that they have been Such officers for one year proceeding the date of this Certificate - And that David McPhersons Esqr and Charles Barnard Esqr are such a Justice of the Peace in and for Said County, and were Such officers on the 13th day of April Instant - And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of Each of the Said officers and verily believe that the Signatures to the foregoing Affidavits are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto Subscribed my name And Affixed the Seal of Said County this 14th day of April 1845
Charles H Jones
Clerk