Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2515, Jacob Barrows, Conn.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE  NUMBER
Conn.  Barrows, Jacob W.2515
Emela  BLWt. 32224-160-55

CONTENTS
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Aug 13/59
Issue duplicate
to be sent to
Horatio Woodman
Boston, Mass
Original cancelled

Aug 22/59 Duplicate returned for the signature of the Court to the certificate usually endorsed on duplicate - sent to Horatio Woodman, Boston Mass

Vol B, - 25


186042 Act 3 March
July 9/SS

Emela Barrows widow
Jacob Barrows Corporal

Pensioner. = N.H. Agency
Vt. agency

Revolutionary War

Feby Feby 53- 1515

Ad: 160 ds from 27/56
[illegible]

Geo. C. Cahoon
Lyndon
Vermont

32224 iss July 1st/56
Duplicate iss Aug 15.1859
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Montpelier, Vermont
[New Hampshire is marked out]
4.654

Jacob Barrows
Private  4
Connecticut Line 
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1st of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 28th Nov 1818 and sent to Samuel A. Dean Judge
Lancaster, Coose [Coös] Cy. N. Hampshire

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818- $41.00
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar. 1819  48." 
$89.00

3 years

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818}

L Dalton, N.H.

Continued

[illegible] to Pension Agt 20 Aug 1841.
[illegible] to Montpelier Vermont, fr. 4 March 1841 notification to him care William Heyword Jr. Vt. Guildhall, Essex County

[written between the preceding lines is the following:]  notification sent to John Willson Esq 19 Sep: 1820. Lancaster

NH
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1575
Vermont Montpelier
Emela Barrows 
widow of Jacob Barrows
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
Conn Line

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96
Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on
the ["4th day of March, 1845" is marked out]
3rd February 1853
Certificate of Pension issued the
24th day of Aug/53
and sent to
Wm Haywood Jr
Guildhall
Essex Co
Vt.

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 3/52 Page 25 Vol. A

Mch 15" 1885
J. P. Jackson
(Town Committee ) with personal history

Reg 3 M 55 186042
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State of Vermont
Windsor County Ss } Be it remembered that at Norwich in the County of Windsor on the twenty seventh day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fourteen Jacob Barrows of Dalton New Hampshire and Emelia Waterman of Norwich in the county of Windsor and State of Vermont were duly joined in marriage by me James W. Woodword Minister of the Gospel

Received for record and recorded April 1st 1815
By Jeremiah Bissell Town clerk

Town Clerks office Norwich
March 28th A.D. 1853-
I William E. Lewis Town Clerk of said town of Norwich do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the record in this office with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows "the 27th day of March 1814"-
Wm. E. Lewis Town Clerk
I William E. Lewis above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk of the town of Norwich in the County of Windsor aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town of Norwich with the exception above named as certified by me Wm. E. Lewis

Sworn before me

John Wright 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
John Wright is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the 30th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty two and will expire the thirtieth day of November next, and that his signature foregoing is genuine.

Given under my hand and the seal of said County Court, at Woodstock, in said County of Windsor, this 24 day of March A.D. 1853.
Norman Williams,
Clerk

Fee $1.00
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Jacob Barrows
Application

Webb's Cont. Regt.

12 for Saml Pearson
Lancaster
N. H.
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State of New Hampshire.
Coos, ss. ON this first day of April A. D. 1818 before me the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas for the second District, in said State, personally appears
Jacob Barrows resident in Dalton in said county of Coos, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war: -- viz:

I Jacob Barrows now resident in the town of Dalton in the County of Coos and State of New Hampshire, on oath testify and declare that I have served as a Soldier in the revolutionary war on the Continental establishment in the manner following (to wit) in April in the year 1775  I enlisted, and served the term of seven months in Experience Stores Company and Col. Putnam's Regiment in the Connecticut line stationed at Cambridge near Boston -  in April in the year 1777. I enlisted in Capt Wm
Manning's Company and Col. Charles Webb's Regiment in the Connecticut line for the term of three years which term of three years I served faithfully a part of the time as a
Corporal and part of the time as a Sergeant - about three months before my time was out I received a regular pass to to leave the army by another man's taking my place, who served out my time -

I further testify and declare that I am now an old man, between sixty and seventy years of age, and that my circumstances in life as to property are reduced to indigence, and am in need of assistance for support from my Country, and consider myself entitled to a
pention [pension] from the United States, agreeably to the provisions of an act of Congress, to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary War -
Dalton April 1st 1818
Jacob Barrows
Witness Wm Lovejoy
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that he is absolutely reduced in his circumstances and absolutely needs the assistance of his country for support, and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year above said.
Wm Lovejoy

I, WILLIAM LOVEJOY, one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas for the second District into the State aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said
Jacob Barrows did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy the full term of nine months and more at one period of enlistment, as he has stated in his declaration aforesaid and that he is absolutely reduced in his circumstances, and needs the assistance of his country for his support. --And I do now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the before mentioned acts of Congress.

I also certify that the Court of which I am a Justice is a Court of Record - Witness my hand at Lancaster in said County the day and year above
Wm Lovejoy

State of New Hampshire
Coos ss
I John Willson Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas for the County of Coos aforesaid do
hereby certify that William Lovejoy before
whom the annexed declaration of Jacob Barrows was made was at the date thereof a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid that the above Signature is in his own proper hand writing, and that to his acts and attestations as Justice as aforesaid full faith and credit is and ought to be given.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County at Lancaster this 4th day of September AD. 1818.
John Willson
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Copy
Jacob Barrows

Declaration & Schedule
July 1820

4.634

Con-
March 1819
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State of New Hampshire
Coos, ss,
At the Court of Common Pleas holden at Lancaster within and for said County of Coos being a Court of record by law established on the second Tuesday of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty

Present the Honorable
William Lovejoy
John Pendexter Jr } Esquires Associate Justices

Personally appeared in open Court Jacob Barrows aged sixty two years resident in Dalton in said County who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows
[illegible] in Capt William Mannings Company & Colos Webb & Shermans Regiment in the Connecticut line that his original declaration is dated April 1st 1818 and that he has received a pension his pension certificate is numbered 4.634 - And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift or sale or in any manner disposed of my property or of any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provision of an act of Congress entitled an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained
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in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed as follows Viz
Real Estate
17 Acres of Land & building. $120.00
1 Cow 12.00
Earthen ware on hand. 10.00
1 Pig.  2.00
and one old Collar & old Horse chains. 1.00
1 old Loom & 4 old Spinning Wheels. 5 00
1/2 dozen dining Chairs   5.00
1/2.  Do   Kitchen    Do.   1.50
2 old Iron Kettles.  3.00
1 pr Steelyards small .50
1 pr Andirons & Shovel & Tongs. 1.50
One Chest & 2 Tables. 4.00
1 Iron Shovel   .75
1 Sett [set] cups & Saucers   2.50
1 Dozen Plates. .75
1 Tin Tea Pots.  .10
2 old Bibles & several other small books 2.00
 $169.35

Jacob Barrows 

And I further declare that I am by occupation a Potter am much out of health & cannot perform more than one half the labor of a common man subject to epileptic fits
My wife Emila aged 37 years is a very weakly
person and unable to attend but very little to domestic concerns- My children are Jacob aged 26 years and is so unfortunate as to be incapable of takeing [taking] care of himself Sarah Anne 4 years old Ethan 3 years old and dependant [dependent] on me fo [for] support and I have no other means than the above Schedule and what I hope to continue to receive from my County
Jacob Barrows
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Sworn to and declared at Lancaster on this 11th day of July A.D. 1820 before the Justices aforesaid
Attest
John Willson Clerk

I John Willson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the said County of Coos, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is one hundred sixty nine dollars thirty five cents - In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court, on this 11th day of July A.D. 1820.-
John Willson Clerk
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of 3d Feby 1853

State of Vermont
County of Essex SS } On this tenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty three personally appeared before me William H. Hartshorn a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Essex duly authorised by law to administer oaths; Emela Barrows a resident of Granby in the County of Essex aforesaid aged Seventy years who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed February 3d 1853; that she is the widow of Jacob Barrows who was a private in the army of the Revolution and drew a pension under the act of March 18. 1818 of eight dollars per month. That he resided at said Granby and his pension was paid at the pension agency at Montpelier Vermont. She further declares that she was married to the said Jacob Burrows on the twenty seventh day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fourteen at Norwich in the State of Vermont by James Wheelock Woodward the minister of said Norwich; that her husband the aforesaid Jacob Barrows died at said Granby on the eighteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three; that she was married to him at the time above stated. she further swears that she was a widow at the passage of the act and is still a widow and that she has never before made application for a pension. She further deposes that she is so aged and infirm that she is not able to appear before a Court of record
Emelia Barrows 

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year
above written -
Wm H. Hartshorn  Justice of the peace

I hereby declare that I have no interest whatever in the pension of the above named Emelia Barrows & am not concerned in its
prosecution 
Wm H Hartshorn  Justice of the peace
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State of Vermont  
Essex County Ss } I, William H. Hartshorn Clerk of the County Court of the County of Essex in the State of Vermont, Do hereby certify that William H. Hartshorn is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the 30th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & fifty two and will expire on the 30th day of November next, and that his signatures foregoing are Genuine-

Given under my hand and the seal of said County Court, at Guildhall in said County of Essex this 11th day of April A.D. 1853
Wm H. Hartshorn Clerk
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Jacob Barrows
application for transfer from N.H. to Vt Agency
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State of Vermont
Essex County SS } On this 13th day of July 1841 before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace for the said County of Essex personally appeared Jacob Barrows who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Manning in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Webb in the service of the United States in the War of the Revolution that his name was placed on the pension Roll of the State of New Hampshire from whence he has lately removed that he now resides in the State of Vermont where he intends to remain & wishes his pension to be there payable in future. The following are his reasons for removing from New Hampshire Vermont. He sold this interest in a house & small
lot in Dalton New Hampshire where he resided & which was mortgaged to nearly its full-value & came to live with his son in law Charles Cheney at Granby in the County of Essex & State of Vermont as he is old & infirm & had no other home -  Jacob Barrows 

Sworn and subscribed the day and year
aforesaid
Ashley Appleton  Just. peace

State of Vermont  
Essex County ss } I Lucius R Webb Clerk of the County Court in & for the County of Essex aforesaid do hereby certify that Ashley Appleton is a Justice of the peace in & for said County of Essex duly commissioned & qualified that his commission is dated October 29th 1840 & will expire on the last day of November 1841 & that his signature above written is genuine.

Witness my hand & seal of said Court this 26th day of July A.D. 1841 -
L R Webb Clerk
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Mrs Lucy Lewis
declaration Augt 1848

aa
1195 -

admitted
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Jacob Barrow a Potter in April 1818 of Dalton NH aged between 60 & 70 yrs. In April 1775
he enlisted for 7 mos under Capt Ephraim Storrs in Col Putnam's Con regt & stationed
at Cambridge during Siege of Boston. From April 1777 he served 3 years in Capt Wm Manning Co in Col Chas Webb Con Regt  part of the time as Corpl & part of the time
as Sargt - In July 1820 age 62 yrs of Dalton subject to Epileptic fits - His wife Emila aged 37 yrs - children Jacob aged 26 yrs, Sarah 4 yrs Ethan 3 yrs 
In 1841 removed to Granby Vt to be with his son in law Charles Cheney [crossed out "or Cheny"]
In Mch 1853 his widow Emelia living in Granby aged 70 yrs  mard Mch 27 1814 at Norwich Vt
to Emelia Waterman  He died May 18. 1843
Emelia had 4 children
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WIDOW, &c.

File No. 2515
Emela Barrows
Widow 
Jacob Barrows
Pri Rev. War

Act: Feb. 3, 1853
Index:--Vol. A. Page 29
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Dec. 7/97 John W. Barrow
Denver Colo
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32.224
Duplicate Act/53

Mer Amy
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No. 1017
Emela Barrow or Barrow wid. of Jacob
Vermont -

Let to Wm Haywood, Jr
13' June 1853

Act Feby 3 /53
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186042

Hon. L. P. Waldo
Comr. of Pensions

Emela Barrows
for Bounty Land
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Lyndon Vt. June 25. 1855
Honl. L. P. Waldo
Comr. of Pensions

Sir. 
Herewith you will receive the Declaration & proofs in the application of Mrs. Emela Barrows widow of Jacob Barrows a Revolutionary Soldier for Bounty Land, under the act of 3d March 1855
Please forward to me the warrant

Yours, very respectfully
George C. Cahoon
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Boston Aug 9. 1859
For Com. of Pensions
Sir,
Enclosed is Land Warrant No 32.224 in name of Emela Barrows, (revolution) which has been twice improperly transfered - And the transfer not approved and as the warrant is worn, & paper pasted on &c- It is respectfully asked that the Enclosed warrant be cancelled, and a duplicate issued - & notice in the same, that the original is Cancelled so as to make it good you will please return the duplicate or the original at early convenience in case a duplicate is not granted -
Very Respectfully yours
Horatio Nordman

For Com. of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
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Pension Agency
Concord N.H. August 25. 1841

Sir
In reply to yours of the 20th instant, I have to state, that Jacob Barrows a Pensioner now on the roll of this agency, under the Act of 18th March 1818, at eight dollars per month, was last paid to 4th March 1841.

Very Respectfully your Obedt Sevt
John George Pen. Agt.

J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Guildhall Vt July 9. 1853

Sir:

I send you the affidavits of John Wooster, R. W. Freeman and of myself to supply the proof required by you in the case of this Emelia Barrow's application for a pension as suggested in your letter to me dated 13th June 1853-
Very Respectfully
your obt servant
Wm Heywood

S. Waldo Esq.
Comr of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Barrow
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Brief in the case of Emelia Barrow, widow of Jacob,
Essex County and State of Vermont,
act 3d. February, 1853.

Claim ("original" ["or for needs" marked out]

Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was a pensioner, under the act of 18" March 1818 & Contd.

Record Evidence & parole proof of Marriage,

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?

Wm Haywood Jr.
Guildhall
Essex Co.
Vt.
Name and residence of Agent

S.C. Boynton,
Examining Clerk.
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Guildhall July 26 1840

Sir;
Please make & forward Mrs Borrows transfer from the N.H. to the Vermont Agency to me

Respectfully your
obt servant
Wm Heywood Jr

J.L. Edwards Esq
Comr of Pensions
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Guildhall Vermont
April 11. 1853

Sir
I send the papers of Wid. Emela Barrows of Granby Vermont for a pension under the
act of February 3d 1853 -

When you determine any thing in relation
to the matter please communicate to me -

Respectfully your
obt servant 
Wm Heywood Jr

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Charles Cheney's Deposition
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I Charles Cheney of Granby in the County of Essex and State of Vermont depose & say that I married a daughter of Jacob Barrows who till September last has resided in Dalton in the County of Coos & State of New Hampshire. I further depose that in September last said Jacob Barrows came to reside with me in said Granby, I further depose that said
Jacob Barrows who now resides with me as aforesaid is the same Jacob Barrows who is a pensioner under the act of 18th March 1818 on the pension list of the New Hampshire Agency & his pension certificate is now before me dated 28th Novr 1818 numbered 4.634 signed J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War

Charles Cheney

State of Vermont 
Essex County SS } Guildhall July 13th 1841 Then Charles Cheney personally appeared & subscribed & made oath to the foregoing deposition before me - And I further certify that I am well acquainted with the said deponent & that he is a credible witness-
W Heywood Jr Just peace

State of Vermont 
Essex County ss }  I Lucius R. Webb Clerk of the County Court in & for the County of Essex aforesaid do hereby certify that William Heywood Jr is a Justice of the peace in & for said County of Essex duly commissioned & qualified that his commission is dated Oct. 29. 1840 & will expire on the last day of November 1841 & that his signature above written is genuine - Witness my hand & the seal of said Court this 26th day of July AD. 1841.
L R Webb Clerk
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I Charles Cheney of Granby in the County of
Essex and State of Vermont depose and say that Jacob Barrows late of said Granby now deceased was father of my wife and he lived in my family for the term of about three years before his death. He was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States and drew a pension of ninety six Dollars a year and he died at my house in said Granby on the eighteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three. I further depose that Emelia Barrows who has made a declaration for a pension before Wm  H. Hartshorn Just. peace is the mother of my wife and the widow of said Jacob Barrows and has never been married since the decease of said Jacob Barrows -
Charles Cheney 

State of Vermont
Essex County Ss } Guildhall March 10th 1853 
Then Charles Cheney personally appeared and subscribed and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit before me - and I further certify that the above named Charles Cheney is well known to me and he is a credible witness

Wm H Hartshorn  Justice of the peace

State of Vermont  
Essex County Ss } I William H. Hartshorn,  Clerk of the Court of the Coventry Court of the County of Essex in the State of Vermont Do hereby certify that William H. Hartshorn is an acting Justice of the Peace in & for said County, duly commissioned & qualified; that his commission was dated on the 30th day of November 1852 and will expire on the 30th day of November 1853, and that his signature foregoing is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said County Court, at Guildhall in said County of Essex this 11th day of April in in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty three.
Wm H. Hartshorn Clerk
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State of Vermont
Caledonia County Ss } At Burke in said County On this nineteenth day of March A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me a Master in Chancery authorized to administer oaths for general purposes within and for the County and State aforesaid Emela Barrows aged seventy two years a resident of Victory in the County of Essex and State of Vermont who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Jacob Barrows who was a private soldier in the Revolutionary War, that I have heard him say that he enlisted at first for the period of six months when he was about sixteen years of age, and that subsequently he served as a volunteer several times for short periods of time and then enlisted for the period of three years in the Connecticut Continental line as I suppose and that he served the period of said enlistment with the exception of about two months which he procured a substitute to serve for him, That during his lifetime while he was residing in Dalton in the County of Coos and State of New Hampshire either in or about the year one thousand eight hundred & eighteen he was pensioned at the rate of ninety six dollars per annum and was placed on pension Roll all of the New Hampshire Agency. And that he removed from said Dalton to Granby in the County of Essex & State of Vermont in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty and that in the year following he was transferred from the New Hampshire to the Vermont Agency -
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She further states that she was married to the said Jacob Barrows in Norwich in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont on the twenty seventh day of March in the year AD one thousand eight hundred and fourteen by the Reverend James Wheelock Woodward Minister of the Gospel, and that her name before her said marriage was Emela Waterman. That her said husband died at Granby in said County of Essex on the sixteenth or eighteenth day of May AD. one thousand eight hundred and forty three and that she is still a widow. That after the passage of the act of Congress of February 3. 1853 granting pensions to certain widows she applied for a pension as widow of the said Jacob Barrows and received a Certificate dated the twenty fourth day of August one thousand eight hundred and fifty three granting her a pension as such widow of the said Jacob Barrows at the rate of ninety six dollars per annum commencing on the third of February one thousand eight hundred and fifty three and signed
R. McClelland
Secretary of the Interior

{S. S.}
Examined and Countersigned
L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions  No. 15150

Recorded in pension office on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 3d. 1853 Page 25. Vol. A
by H. R. Weightman Clerk and she respectfully refers to the Proofs & records in the application of the said
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of the said Jacob Barrows for a pension and to the proofs and records in the application of the said Emela Barrows as widow as aforesaid and to the proofs herewith forwarded ["forwarded" crossed out] - She makes this Declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled as widow of the said Jacob Barrows under the act of Congress approved March 3. 1855.
C Emela Barrows

Witness
Moses Dunklee 
Sarah Ann Dunklee

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written and I certify that the affiant is personally known to me and is a credible witness
George C. Cahoon
Master in Chancery
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I John Wooster of Granby in the County of Essex and State of Vermont depose and say that in the fore part of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three I moved to said Granby and became the minister of the Congregational Church in said town - When I first went to said Granby I moved into and lived in a tenament [tenement] adjoining to and connected with one occupied by Mr. Charles Cheney and Jacob Barrows and his wife Emela then resided in the family of said Cheney. Said Jacob Barrows was an old gentleman and as I understood he was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States - In said month of May and while I so resided in said tenement said Jacob Barrows died and I attended his funeral and officiated as minister. The said Emela Barrows now resides in the family of said Charles Cheney in said Granby. I am well acquainted with her and I know that she lived with said Jacob Barrows as his wife while I lived in Granby as above stated till the time of his death and she attended his funeral as his widow. She had four Children by said Jacob Barrows as I have been informed and believe and I have no doubt that she was his lawful wife.
John Wooster

State of Vermont
Essex County Ss } At Guildhall in said County on this 27th day of June A.D. 1853 Then John Wooster above named appeared and subscribed and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit before me. And I further certify that I am well acquainted with the said John Wooster and he is a man of truth and veracity.
Wm. H. Hartshorn Justice of the peace
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State of Vermont
Essex County Ss } I William H. Hartshorn Clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid, do hereby certify that Wm. H. Hartshorn is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said Essex County duly commissioned and qualified to act in that capacity, that his commission was dated on the 30th day of November A.D. 1852 & will expire on the the 30th day of November 1853 and that the within signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said County at Guildhall this 27th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & fifty three.
Wm. H. Hartshorn Clerk
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I Reuben W Freeman of Guildhall in the County of Essex and state of Vermont aged 68 years depose and say that in the year 1819 I moved to Guildhall aforesaid from Lancaster in the County of Coos and state of New Hampshire where I had lived about 11 years, previous to that time I lived in the town of Norwich in the County of Windsor and state of Vermont where I was born. I further depose that I was born and lived till I was 21 years of age within about three miles of Dan Waterman I was acquainted with Emela Waterman his daughter who afterwards as I have understood and believe was married to Jacob Barrows who then lived at Dalton New Hampshire - Some 10 or 12 years ago said Jacob Barrows and his wife whose maiden name was Emela Waterman as aforesaid moved from said Dalton to the town of Granby in the county of Essex in the state of Vermont about 10 miles from where I live in Guildhall as aforesaid said Jacob Barrows lived several years and died at said Granby I was at the office of William Heywood Jr in Guildhall Vt on the 10th day of March A.D. 1853 And the said Emela Barrows was there making her declaration before Wm H Hartshorn Esq for the purpose of obtaining a pension and I recognized her to be and she is the same person whose maiden name was Emela Waterman of said Norwich
on that occasion I conversed with her about our old acquaintances in Norwich and that vicinity and I can not be mistaken
Reuben W. Freeman
State of Vermont
Essex County Ss } At Guildhall in said County on this 28th day of June A.D. 1853 then Reuben W. Freeman above named appeared and
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and subscribed and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit before me. And I further certify that I am well acquainted with the said Reuben W. Freeman and he is a man of truth and veracity.
Wm H. Hartshorn Justice of the Peace
State of Vermont
Essex County Ss } I William H. Hartshorn Clerk of the County Court within and for the County aforesaid. Do hereby Certify that Wm. H. Hartshorn is an acting Justice of the Peace in & for said County of Essex duly commissioned & qualified to act in that capacity. his commission was dated on the 30th day of Novr. 1852 & will expire on the 30th day of Novr. 1853. And that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County at Guildhall This 28th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & fifty three -
Wm. H. Hartshorn Clerk
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I William Heywood Jr of Guildhall in the County of Essex and State of Vermont depose and say that I was well acquainted with Jacob Barrows who formerly resided in Granby in this County and who died there in the Spring of the year eighteen hundred and forty three. Said Jacob Barrows was a pensioner of the United States under the act of March 18th 1818. While he lived in said Granby he used to come to me and I made out his power of attorney and drew his pension money for him several times. After his death Emela Barrows his widow came to me and I made out papers for her and assisted her to draw the arrears of pension due to said Jacob Barrows at the time of his death. I have a paper which enables me to testify that I made papers for her to draw said arrears of pension in September 1843. I further depose that Emela Barrows for whom I made the papers to draw said arrears of pension is the identical person who appeared before William H. Hartshorn Justice of the peace on the 10th day of March A.D. 1853 and made her declaration to obtain a pension under the act of Feby. 3d. 1853 - Wm Heywood Jr
State of Vermont
Essex County Ss } At Guildhall in said County on this 9th day of July A.D. 1853 Then Wm Heywood Jr above named appeared and subscribed and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit before me. And I further certify that I am well acquainted with the said Wm Heywood Jr and he is a man of truth and veracity - 
Wm. H. Hartshorn Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont
Essex County Ss } I William H. Hartshorn Clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Wm. H. Hartshorn is an acting Justice of the peace in and for said Essex County duly commissioned and qualified to act in that Capacity, that his Commission was dated on the 30th day of November A.D. 1852 and will expire on the 30th day of November A.D. 1853 and that the within signature purporting to be his is genuine -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and ["seal" crossed out] affixed the seal of said Court at Guildhall in said County this 9th day of July A.D. 1853
Wm. H. Hartshorn Clerk
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186047
Widow Emela Barrow's
Declaration for Bounty Land

George C. Cahoon Lyndon Vt.
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I Sarah Ann Dunklee of Victory in the County of Essex and state of Vermont aged thirty nine years  on oath depose testify and say that I knew Jacob Barrows, who was the husband of Emela Barrows now of Victory aforesaid at the time of his death, from my earliest recollection to the time of his death - That when I first knew him he resided in Dalton in the State of New Hampshire and was in the receipt of a pension of ninety six dollars per annum - said Jacob Barrows with his family removed from said Dalton to Granby in the County of Essex and State of Vermont in the fall of the year 1840 and had his pension transferred after that before he died to the Vermont agency - that said Jacob Barrows resided at said Granby the rest of his lifetime - That said Jacob Barrows continued to draw his said pension as long as he lived and, that he died at said Granby on the 16th day of May (1843) one thousand eight hundred and forty three - leaving a widow the said Emela Barrows who is now living and is present at the making of this Deposition. - I was present at the death and funeral of the said Jacob Barrows - The said Emela Barrows his widow has ever remained a widow since the death of her said husband and has drawn a Pension as his widow since the third day of February 1843 - this Deposition is given to be used in the application of the said Emela Barrows for Bounty Land The Pension drawn by the said Emela Barrows
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is ninety six dollars per annum.
Sarah ann Dunklee

State of Vermont
Caledonia County } Ss Burke March 19. 1855
Subscribed and sworn to and I certify that the affiant is a credible witness
before me George C. Cahoon
Master in Chancery

State of Vermont
Caledonia Co. Ss. } I, G. A. Benlank, Clerk of the County Court for said County, do hereby certify that George C. Cahoon Esqr. where genuine signatures appear to the three foregoing certificates, was at the dates thereof a Master in Chancery in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified - and as such officer authorized by the Laws of this State to administer oaths
Witness my hand and the Seal of said Court this 25th day of April, AD 1855
G. A. Benlank
Clerk as aforesaid
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State of Vermont
Essex District, SS } At the Probate Office of said District at Lunenburgh [Lunenburg] June 1. 1855
I certify that it appears from the files and records in said Office that administration on the Estate of Jacob Barrows then late of Granby in said District deceased was granted by the Probate Court for the same District on the twentieth day of July AD. 1843 to Charles Chaney of the same Granby on the request of Emela Barrows widow of said Jacob Barrows deceased in writing and that bonds were duly given by said Administrator for the faithful performance of the duties of said appointment and appraisers were also appointed at the same time by said Court who subsequently returned to said [illegible] an Inventory of said Estate. - I further certify that at a Probate Court this day holden before me Judge of Probate within and for said County and District of Essex it has been made to appear to me that the said Jacob Barrows died on the sixteenth day of May 1843. and that at the time of his death he was in the receipt of a Pension of ninety six dollars per annum as a soldier of the Revolution and that he left a widow whose name is Emela Barrows, who is now living and is still a widow and is now as widow of the said Jacob Barrows deceased in the receipt of a pension of ninety six dollars per annum under the act of Congress of the 3d. February 1853 and that her said Certificate is dated 24th day of August 1853 and corresponds with the one set forth in her declaration made before George C. Cahoon Master in Chancery on the nineteenth day of March A.D. 1855 to obtain Bounty Land
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I further certify that the said Mrs Barrows and also Moses Dunklee Jr. also of the subscribing witnesses to her Declaration are Personally Known to me
In testimony whereof I hereunto affix the seal of said court and subscribe my name this first day of June A.D. 1855
Wm Chandler Judge of Probate

State of Vermont
Essex County Ss } I Wm. H. Hartshorn Clerk of the County and Supreme Court and Court of Chancery within and for said Essex County, Do hereby certify that Wm. Chandler is a judge of the Probate Court within and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified to act in that capacity, that his commission was dated on the 30th day of November 1854 & will expire on the 30th day of Novr. 1855. and that the signature to the foregoing certificate purporting to be his is Genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County Court this 11th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & fifty five.
Wm. H. Hartshorn Clerk
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I Moses Dunklee Jr of Victory in the County of Essex and State of Vermont aged 38 years depose and say that in the year 1840 or 1841 soon after Jacob Barrows removed into Granby I became acquainted with him and knew that he was a pensioner at the rate of ninety six dollars per annum. I was also present at the time of his death which occurred the sixteenth day of May AD. one thousand eight hundred & forty three. He left a widow the present Mrs Emela Barrows who is now and has been ever since her husbands death a widow and is now as widow of the said Jacob Barrows in the receipt of a pension of ninety six dollars per annum under the Act of Congress of 3d. of February 1853 - and that the said Emela Barrows is now a resident in my family. This deposition is given on her application for Bounty Land - Moses Dunklee Jr.

State of Vermont
Caledonia County Ss } At Burke March 19th. 1855
Subscribed and sworn to before me and I certify that the affiant is a credible witness
George. C. Cahoon Master in Chancery
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Bounty Land

160 ACRES

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Department of the Interior
OFFICE of the COMMISSIONER of PENSIONS

It is hereby Certified that under the Act of March 3d. 1855 entitled, "An Act in addition to certain Acts granting Bounty Land to certain Officers and Soldiers who have been engaged in the Military Service of the United States."
Emela Barrows, widow of Jacob Barrows
Corporal
Revolutionary War
is entitled to locate ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY ACRES, at any Land Office of the United States in one body and in conformity to the legal subdivisions of the public lands, upon any of the public lands, subject to sale at either the minimum or lower graduated prices."
Given under my hand and the Seal of the Department this 1st day of July 1856.
No. 32224
D. F. Jenks  J Minot Commissioner
[illegible]

Note You can locate this Certificate at any of the United States land offices, or it will be located for you by the General Land Office on the return of it with your request to that effect [illegible] thereon, specifying the State and Land District in which you wish the location made. If you locate it, fill up and sign the following application.
To the Register of the Land Office Locate this Certificate in the quarter of section at in Township of Range
18  Attest  Register.
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In value received I, John W. Barrows Administrator of the Estate of Emela Barrows widow of Jacob Barrows, late of Dalton in the County of Coös and State of New Hampshire, deceased, to whom the within warrant No. 32224 was issued do hereby sell and assign unto
of
and to his heirs and assigns forever the said Warrant and authorize him to [illegible] the [illegible] and receive a patent thereon.
Witness my hand and seal this twenty first day of July AD 1858.
John W Barrows
Administrator of Estate of Emela Barrows.

Attest
Geo. C Williams
B. F. Hunking

State of New Hampshire
County of Coös Ss. } On this twenty first day of July in the year eighteen hundred & fifty eight before me, personally came John W. Barrows to me well known to be the Administrator of the Estate of Emela Barrows (widow of Jacob Barrows) deceased and acknowledged the foregoing assignment to be his act and deed as Administrator as aforesaid - and I certify that the said Emela Barrows deceased is the identical person to whom the within warrant issued and that the said John W. Barrows Administrator of the Estate of Emela Barrows Widow deceased executed the foregoing assignment.
Geo. C Williams Justice of the Peace

[stamp]
PENSION OFFICE
AUG
11
1858
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OWM

The Hartford Loan & Trust Co.,
Rooms 310, 311, 312 Ernest-Cranmer Building
B

OFFICERS:
JAS. O BATTERSON, President.
J. W. BARROWS, V. Pres't. Treas. & Manager.
S. C. DUNHAM, Secretary.
F. E. HARRINGTON, Ass't. Sec'y.
MAIL ADDRESS, P.O. BOX 1544.

Denver, Colo. Nov. 20th 1897

Hon. H. Clay Evans, Commissioner
U. S. Pension Bureau,
Washington, D. C.

[stamp] OLD WAR & NAVY
NOV 26 1897
FILES.

Dear Sir: Please send me a certificate of the service in the Revolutionary War, of Jacob Barrows, a Conn. pensioner under the act of 1818, but then residing in New Hampshire, ("Rec. of Conn Men etc" [illegible] 638)
I shall greatly appreciate the favor.
Yours truly
John W. Barrows.

[stamp] PENSION
A
NOV
U. 23 S.
1897
OFFICE.
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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 in the archives of many of the original States.
O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY

M. E. C. [illegible]
Wid. 2,515.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
WASHINGTON, D. C.,

December 7, 1897.

Sir:
Replying to your request for information concerning Jacob Barrows, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you are advised that he made an application for pension on April 1, 1818, at which time he was sixty years of age and residing at Dalton, N. H., and his pension was allowed for three years actual service as a private in the Connecticut troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Manning and Col. Webb. Place of enlistment not stated.
His widow, Emela, made application and received a pension for the service of her husband as above set forth.
Very respectfully,

Commissioner.

John W. Barrows, Esq.,
Room 310, Ernest Cranmer Bldg.,
Denver, Colo.