Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16264, Daniel Gale, N.H.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
N. H. 

Gale, Daniel
............Rhoda

NUMBER
W. 16264

CONTENTS
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Letter to D. Gale  6 March 1839.

Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the
Act of the 6th April 1838 drawn
4.Sep 1838 to 25 Jany 1839  Agt.
Notified 25--Feb 1842.

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New Hampshire
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Rhoda Gale  widow
of Daniel Gale
Strafford Co in the State of N. Hampshire
was a private in the company commanded
Captain Clough of the regt. commanded
by Col. Poor in the N. Hampshire
line for 9 mos. 28 days
N.H.
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Inscribed on the roll of New Hampshire
at the rate of 33 Dollars 10 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension ifsued the 23d day of Nov'r 1836---and sent to Daniel Gale Esq.
Gilmanton, N.H.
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1836............$ 182.05
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mch '37   16.55
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..........................................................................$ 198.60
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(Revolutionary Claim,   )
(Act June 7, 1832.         )

Recorded by Wm. T Allison   Clerk,
Book      Vol. 1   Page 27
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No. 389

Rhoda Gale
N. Hampshire

admitted 9 mo  26 ds

in Capt Taylors
Co  9 mo  28 days.
see rolls

Allow 8 months for 1st service

[written upside down]

Sch
Thos Gale
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the Act of Congrefs of the 4th of July, 1836--

State of New Hampshire    )
Strafford County   fs           )

On this twelfth day of September 1836, personally appeared before the Court of Probate holden at Gilmanton in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire Rhoda Gale of Gilmanton in the County of Strafford in said State, aged eighty five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the ["of its" stricken out] provision made by the act of Congrefs pafsed July 4, 1836--That she is the Widow of Daniel Gale, who was a private in the War of the Revolution--that the said Daniel Gale enlisted in of about the 20th day of June 1775, for nine months in Captain Jeremiah clough's Company of Infantry and marched immediately to Winter Hill near Boston Mafs.  and there stationed untill [illegible stricken out] returned home the last of March 1776, we then had three children--He enlisted again in said service on or about the first of July 1777, in Captain Chase Taylor's Company for three or four months and he marched from our dwelling house in Sandbornton in said County where we lived before the War of the Revolution began, To Bennington and there stationed and in that vincinity untill late in the fall when he returned home to his family.--He was in the Battle of General Stark at Bennington, and was wounded in his leg and he received a pension of eight dollars per month, and he died on the sixteenth

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fourteen months for second service
appear roll Boynton Swaford papers
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family.--He was in the Battle of General Stark at Bennington, and was wounded in his leg and he received a pension of eight dollars per month, and he died on the sixteenth day of October 1825, of the wound received in the Battle at said Bennington--She further declared that she was married to the said Daniel Gale, on the twelfth day of September in the year Seventeen hundred and sixty nine.  That her husband the aforesaid Daniel Gale died on the sixteenth day of October 1825, and that she has remarried a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed--
Rebecca Gale

Subscribed & Sworn to before me--
Daniel C. Atkinson, Judge of Probate

State of New Hampshire--
Strafford  SS.

I hereby certify that Daniel C. Atkinson is Judge of Probate in and for said county of Strafford:  and that the above is his true and genuine Signature.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Court of Probate for said county of Strafford this this tenth day of September Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty six--
Ira A. Eastman
Register

[illegible seal affixed to the left of the above paragraph]
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State of New Hampshire
Strafford County  fs.

I Francis Cogswell Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for said County hereby certify that Daniel Gale Esquire is a Justice of the Peace for said County and that the signatures purporting to be his on the annexed affidavits are genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this fifteenth day of October AD 1836.
F Cogswell  Clerk

[illegible seal affixed to the left of the above paragraph]

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Joint Declaration
Rhoda Gale wid'w
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I Daniel Gale of Gilmanton in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire depose and say that I enlisted into the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War in the month of April 1775 and continued in said service untill the last of January 1776, then enlisted into said service in the month of July 1777, for the term of two months in the Company of Capt. Chase Taylor and the Regiment commanded by Col. Stark and went in the Battle at Bennington in August 1777, and was wounded in the Battle in my left leg by a cleft of wood driven against me by a cannon shot from the enemy pafsing through a hedge from near me in the time of Battle.  I continued home for some time not so but that I could walk about but was not put on duty, but have ever since by times been afflicted with swelling and great sorenefs to a great degree which has caused me to have considerable medical aid--And further Testify that about two weeks after the aforesaid Battle (I being a blacksmith by Trade) was put into a shop to Shoe horses for the troops and while in the act of Shoeing a fractious horse was broken in the lower region of the intestines which caused great pain and distrefs and so continues by times causing me to wear a trufs--And further say that I served the time I enlisted for.  And that my employment for a livelihood has been that of a blacksmith as to my health other then the wounds aforesaid has been tolerably good, my places of residence since leaving said service has been in Sanbornton untill about fifteen years since I moved to Gilmanton and lived there about seven years, then moved to Northfield
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and resided untill about two years, since I moved to Gilmanton in which town I now reside--And further say that not being informed that any but Officers were intitled to pension as invalids did not make application before as an Invalid and further say so long as I was able to work at my trade I could support myself and wife, but am not able to work at my trade now nor have I any real estate and but for articles of personal property and now am of the age of seventy six years and about past any labour--And further say that I am not on any pension list in any state of the Union--
Daniel Gale

State of New Hampshire, Strafford fs )  July 9th 1823

Subscribed and sworn to the day and year above written---
Before me--Daniel Gale  3d Justice of the Court of Sefsions of said County--

The above named Daniel Gale is a person whose testimony would be taken in any Court of Record--
Daniel Gale  3d Justice of said Court of Sefsions--

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Daniel Gale's
Declaration
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We Steven Burleigh and Bartholomew Gale of Gilmanton in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire of lawful age depose and say that we are well acquainted with Daniel Gale of Gilmanton who has of late made application for a pension as an invalid in the Army of the Revolutionary War, and have been acquainted with the said Daniel Gale for more than fifty years last past, and were knowing when he returned from the Army in the year 1777 to his family in the Town of Sanbornton in said county of Strafford where he lived with his family untill the year 1805, when he removed with his family to Gilmanton aforesaid and lived there untill 1817, then he with his family moved to the Town of Northfield in the County of Rockingham (now Merrimack) in the State aforesaid and then lived untill the year 1819, when he moved with his family to the Town of Gilmanton aforesaid when he has ever since and now resides, and that the said Daniel Gale at the time of his making application for a pension as above stated he resided and now resides in said Town of Gilmanton--And further say that the mode of life and employment of the said Daniel Gale ever since he left the service of the Revolutionary War, has been that of a Blacksmith, but for about the last ten years has not been able to perform but little labour--And further say that the said Daniel Gale has ever since leaving the Army aforesaid has been a good industrious citizen and a man not intemperate
Stephen Burley
Bart Gale
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State of New Hampshire  )
Strafford  fs.                     )  November 24th 1824

Then personally appeared the within named Steven Burleigh and Bartholomew Gale and made Solemn oath the within affidavits by them subscribed is Just and true--
Before me
Daniel Gale 3d Justice of the Court of Sefsions Strafford County

I hereby certify that the within named Steven Burleigh and Bartholomew Gale are credible witnefses
Daniel Gale  3d Justice of the Court of Sefsions as aforesaid--
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State of New Hampshire
Strafford county
Gilmanton  Oct. 17. 1836

Sir

I herewith transmit to you the declaration of Rhoda Gale with the evidence in the case attached thereto--It is requested that you return me an answer to Gilford Post Office N.H. as soon as may be--
Very Respectfully Yr
Nv Ovt Servt--
Daniel Gale

J.L. Edwards Esqr.
Com of Pensions
Washington City
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Deposition
Nathaniel Ewer
Concord
N.H.
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I Nathaniel Ewer of Concord in the County of Merrimack and State of New Hampshire of lawful Age depose and say, that I resided in the Town of New Market in the County of Rockingham and State aforesaid more than sixty years: that my father Nathaniel Ewer was the settled Minister of the Gospel in said New Market more than fifty years and kept a record of all Marriages by him made in a book kept by him for that purpose; at the decease of my said father the book of Records above named came into my hands and I frequently examined it.  I well recollect seeing a record of the marriage of Daniel Gale and Rhoda Burleigh--The book of records above named was loaned by me to be used at a Court in the County of Strafford and State aforesaid to prove a Marriage with a promise that it should be immediately returned, but before the person to whom I loanded it could return the book, he had the misfortune to have his house burned with all its contents and this book of records also was consumed.--said book was in my pofsefsion about thirty years and was destroyed about four years ago--further the deponent saith not.--
Concord  September 8th 1836.--
Nath'l Ewer

State of New Hampshire  )
Merrimack  fs.                  )  Concord September 8th, 1836.--

Personally appearing the above named Nathaniel Ewer made solemn oath that the above deposition by him subscribed contains the truth, the whole truth relative to the purpose for which it was taken.
before me
Stephen Ambrose  Justice of the Peace

I the subscriber do hereby certify that the above named Nathaniel Ewer is a man of veracity and unimpeachable moral Character--
Stephen Ambrose   Justice of the Peace
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham  SS  )

I Ira Bartlett Hoitt Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that Stephen Ambrose Esquire who has subscribed the within certificate is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Merrimack in said State, and I believe the same to be his genuine signature--

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court this 11th day of November A.D. 1836--
J.B. Hoitt  Clerk C.C. Pleas  Rockingham County

[illegible seal affixed to the left of the above paragraph]
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Rhoda Gale
N. Hampshire
__________________________
Suspended
__________________________
let 26 Oct'r 1836
D. Gale
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Own

Rev WIDOW, &c.

File No.  16264

Rhoda Gale
Widow of
Daniel Gale
Priv.  Rev.  War

Act  July 7th 1838

Index:   Vol. A,  Page 264

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Daniel Gale
Inv'd  10 Apr. 1806 &c.
______________________________
Daniel Gale, 3rd
Gilmanton, N.H.
______________________________
Rec'd  3 Dec. 1836--

Adm'd under act
4 Feb. 1822

Pen:  com:  24 Nov. 1824
$8 per month.
N.H roll--

send cert. to
D. Gale 3d.

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Mr Edwards

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Free
Hon. John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington City

Gilford N.H.
Nov. 26th
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State of New Hampshire
Strafford  fs.---

I Andrew Peirce, Clerk of the Court of Sessions for said County of Strafford, do certify that the Honb'l Daniel Gale 3d is a Justice of the Peace, within and for said County--And an Associate Justice of the Court of Sessions for said County, acting under the authority of said State

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court this 6th day of August 1824--
A. Peirce, Clerk

[illegible seal affixed to the left to the above paragraph]
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State of New Hampshire
Strafford County  Gilmanton
November 14th 1836---

Sir,

Inclosed are the affadavits relative to the claim of Rhoda Gale for a pension--You are requested to return me an [last line unreadable--hidden in fold of paper]

I am Respectfully
Yr. Obt. Serv't
Daniel Gale

J.L. Edwards Esqr.
Washington City
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Gilmanton  Strafford Co
Nov. 26th  1824--

Sir,

I herewith transmit to you the former papers relative to the claim of Daniel Gale as an invalid pensioner, with the affidavits of Steven Burleigh and Bartholomew Gale, proving the mode of life and employment of the said Daniel Gale &c.--I do not send you a new certificate of the Clerk of the Court of said County of my official office as a Judge of the Court of Sefsions, as I live nearly fifty miles from said Clerk--If you any hesitancy, relative to that I will procure one and send the same to the War department--It is requested that you return me an answer as soon as may be---I further inform you that I have not had a return from the War department of the claim of Joseph Mann which I forwarded to you in August last past--
I am respectfully
Yr. Obt. Serv't
Daniel Gale 3d

Hon John C. Calhoun
Secy of War
Washington City--
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
Jan'y 4th, 1842.

Sir:

Under the date of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States,"  The adm'or of Rhoda Gale, dec'd a Pensioner on the Roll of the Portsmouth N.H. Agency, at the rate of Thirty Three Dollars and ten Cents per annum, under the law of the 4th July 1836, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1838, to the 25th Jan'y 1839.

Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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Gilmanton  Strafford County N.H.
Feby 18  1839

Sir,

Information is wanted relative to obtaining the back arrearages of the pension due a widow pensioner under the act of July 1836, who has deceased (towit) Rhoda Gale the widow of Daniel Gale who died 25th January 1839--An answer is requested at Gilford P.O as soon as may be---
Yours Very Respectfully
Daniel Gale
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I James Coleman of New Market County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire Town Clerk for keeping the records of the said Town of New Market depose and say that I thoroughly examined the records ["of said" stricken out] of said Town for a record of the marriage of Daniel Gale and Rhoda Burleigh and there was no such marriage on record in said Town records and it appears there was no record of marriages untill after the year 1774--
James Coleman

State of New Hampshire    )
Rockingham County  fs.     )  Nov. 11th  1836

Personally appeared the above named James Coleman (who is well known to me to be the Town Clerk for keeping the records of the above named Town of New Market and a person of truth and veracity) and made oath in due form of law the above declaration by him signed is true---
Before me,
Benj'a Loverin   Justice of the Peace
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham SS.  )

I Ira Bartlett Hoitt Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that Benjamin Loverin Esquire who has subscribed the within certificate is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County--and I believe the same to be his genuine signature--

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court this Eleventh day of November A.D. 1836--
I.B. Hoitt  Clerk C.C. Pleas
Rocking. County

[illegible seal affixed to the left of the above paragraph]
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Ichabod Swain---
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I Ichabod Swain of lawful age depose and say that in the month of july 1777 I enlisted as a soldier in the Company commanded by Capt. Chase Taylor, and in the Brigade commanded by General John Stark in the the revolutionary war and was in the memorable Battle at Bennington in the month of August 1777--And further say that I am well acquainted with Danie Gale formerly of Sanbornton now of Gilmanton who enlisted into the Company commanded by the said Taylor in the month of July, and at the same time that I enlisted and that the said Daniel Gale was severely wounded in in the battle in his left leg between the ancle and knee by a cannon ball from the enemy and pafsing through a hedge throwing clefts and splinters of wood which struck the said Daniel Gale in his left leg leaving in his left leg at the same time a splinter of wood which caused a considerable lofs of blood and his leg was very much swollen, and further say that I was within two rods of the said Gale at the time he was wounded--And further say that the said Gale enlisted for the term of two months which term he did well and faithfully serve his Country and that the said Gale was discharged being at the same time very lame
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by reason of the wound aforesaid--And further say, that the time that I and the said Gale enlisted as aforesaid we were both inhabitants of said Sanbornton and that we barracked and mefsed together for the term of two months aforesaid--and that I have allways ever since been acquainted with said Gale and have many times seen and known the said Gale complaining of said wound being very sore and painful by times---

And further say I did not leave the Army at the time the said Gale left it--
Ichabod Swain

State of New Hampshire
Strafford County  fs)   

On this sixth day of August A.D. 1824, personally appeared the above named Ichabod Swain and made solemn oath the foregoing affidavit by him signed is just and true--
Before me,  Daniel Gale 3d  Judge of the Court of Sefsions  Strafford County--

I hereby certify that the above named Ichabod Swain is a credible witnefs---
Daniel Gale 3d  Judge as aforesaid
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Gilmanton   January 2d  1824---

It is hereby certified that Daniel Gale a Private in the Company of Chase Taylor in the Regiment commanded by Col.----Stickney and in the Brigade commanded by General John Stark of the United States in the Revolutionary War, is rendered incapable of performing the duty of a soldier by reason of wounds or other injuries inflicted which he was actually in the service aforesaid and in the line of his duty "to wit"

By watisfactory evidence and accurate examination of the said Daniel Gale under oath, it appears that on the seventeenth day of August in the year 1777, being engaged in Battle with the common enemy, at a place called Bennington (now in the State of Vermont) he received a wound in his left leg between the Ancle and Knee by a cannon ball pafsing through a hedge and throwing a cleft or splinter of wood which struck the said Daniel Gale's leg as aforesaid--there is a contusion upon the anterior and internal side of the leg, and a punctured wound upon the external part caused by a splinter, as aforesaid, and he is thereby not only incapacitated for Military duty, but in the opinion of the undersigned is totally disabled from obtaining his subsistance by manual labor.
Wm. Prescott M.D.  Surgeon.
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State of New Hampshire, Strafford  fs.---

On this second day of January A.D. 1824--the within named William Prescott subscribed and was sworn to the within--
Before me   Daniel Gale 3d  Justice of Court Sefsions  Strafford County---

This certifies the above named William Prescott is a very respectable Physician, who is now Surgeon of the tenth Regiment New Hampshire Militia---
Daniel Gale 3d  Justice of said Court--
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Robert Bryant
affidavit
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I Robert Bryant of lawful age depose and say that I was---Ensign of the Company commanded by Capt. Chase Taylor in the Militia in the month of August 1777, and Brigade commanded by General John Stark against the common enemy--And further that I was in that memorable Battle at Bennington in the month of August 1777, and was well acquainted with Daniel Gale now of Gilmanton who was a private in said Company that I was then the Ensign of, and that the said Daniel Gale was severely wounded in the Battle aforesaid, in his left leg between the Ankle and the Knee by a cannon ball--thrown by the enemy and pafsing through a hedge throwing clefts and splinters of wood which struck the said Daniel Gale in his leg--as aforesaid leaving at the same time one large splinter in his leg and tearing the flesh on his leg which caused great lofs of blood and pain and was very much swollen.   And further say at the time of the said Gale being wounded I was not more than twenty feet from him--And further say that sometime in the month of September we were dismifsed from the service and then returned home to New Hampshire the said Gale was with us, and that we had to wade acrofs a river in which the said Gale caught cold in his leg (the wound not being well) which caused it to swell very much and he had to hire a horse to convey him home--further say we went into the services sometime in the month of July 1777 for the term of two months--
Robert Bryant
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Strafford fs  )  State of New Hampshire
Nov. 29th 1823--

Then personally appeared the within named Robert Bryant and made solemn oath the within affidavit by him subscribed is just and true--
Before me
Daniel Gale 3d  Justice of Court of Sefsions

This certifies that the within deponent is a credible witnefs--
Daniel Gale 3d  Justice of said Court--

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Robert Bryants
affidavit
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Durgain
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I John Durgan of Sanbornton in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire aged eighty years, depose and say, that I was well acquainted with Daniel Gale formerly of Sanbornton aforesaid, and late of Gilmanton in said County a Revolutionary Soldier and Rhoda Gale the wife of the said Daniel Gale who is now his Widow--And further say that I lived in the neighborhood of the said ["David said" stricken out] Daniel Gale and Rhoda his said Wife before the Revolutionary War commenced and worked for him and they had two of more children before the War aforesaid and they lived together as man and wife untill the said Daniel Gale who died eleven years since--
John Durgin

State of New Hampshire )    September 21st
Strafford County fs.         )         1836
["October" stricken out]

Subscribed and Sworn to on the day and year above written---I hereby certify that the above named deponent is a credible witnefs witnefs--
Before me   Daniel Gale   Jus. Peace
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N. Taylor
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I Nathan Taylor of Sanbornton in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire, aged eighty one years, depose and say that I enlisted as a private in the war of the Revolution in the month of April 1775, in Captain Jeremiah Clough's Company and Col. Poors Regiments and Marched to Winter Hill the 19th day of June 1775 near Boston and thence stationed untill the first of January 1776, when my enlistment expired--And further say that I recollects of seeing Daniel Gale formerly of Sanbornton aforesaid but late of Gilmanton in said County as a private I think in the Company aforesaid and it is my belief the said Daniel Gale served several months in the service aforesaid but do not know how many---The above is according to the best of my recollection--
Nathan Taylor

State of New Hampshire  )
Strafford County   fs.        ) September 22d 1836

Subscribed and sworn to on the day and year above written---I hereby certify that the above named deponent is a credible witnefs---
Before me,   Daniel Gale  Jus. Peace
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I John Chase of Gilmanton in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire depose and say that I have lived the last twenty years in lefs a half of a mile of Rhoda Gale, the widow of Daniel Gale late of Gilmanton aforesaid a Revolutionary Soldier and Pensioner deceased,---And further say that the said Rhoda Gale is now the Widow of the said Daniel Gale and has never since his death been married again--
John Chase

State of New Hampshire  )
Strafford County  fs.         )  Oct. 15th 1836--

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written--I also certify that the above named deponent is a credible witnefs--
Before me,   Daniel Gale  Jus. Peace