Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5271, Guilford Evans, R.I.
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R.I. Evans, Guilford Nr. 5271
Elizabeth B.L.Wt. 826-160-55
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Rhode Island
Elisabeth Evans widow of Guilford Evans R.I. who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private & Lt

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 77 Dollars 23 Cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.

Certificate of Pension issued the 22d day of Dec 18[obscured] and sent to N Hathaway
Freetown Mass

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under Act February 3 1853, Page 56 Vol A
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Elizabeth Evans widow of Guilford Evans [illegible]

[whole section illegible]

Pen Rec'd
Boynton
Cert Issued June 9 1855
Boynton

82 C iss June 9/55
Benjamin F Winslow
Fall River Mass

Vol. E 155
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Bristol County ss
On this fourteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and fifty three personally appeared before Oliver Prescott, Judge of the Court of Probate in and for said County, Elizabeth Evans a resident of Freetown in said County, aged seventy seven 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 Guilford Evans late of said Freetown, deceased, who was in the service in the war of the Revolution. That according to her best knowledge information and belief the said Guilford Evans served in a Company of Rhode Island & Artillery commanded by Capt Sayer in Col Eliot's Regiment

She has reason to believe that he entered the service sometime in March 1778 and whether he served as a private all the time he was in said service or whether he served a part of the time as one of the Lieutenants in said Company she is unable positively
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positively to state. And whether he served more than one year she is also unable to state. She however refers to the testimony hereto annexed for the evidence of his said service

She also says that the said Guilford Evans resided in said Freetown when he entered said Service and that he was a volunteer. She further declares that she was married to the said Guilford Evans on the twentieth day of September Eighteen hundred and four at said Freetown. That her husband the aforesaid Guilford Evans died on the thirtieth day of November Eighteen hundred and twenty nine. That she was married to him at the time above sated.

She further declares that she was a widow at the passage of the Act and is still a widow, never having been married since the decease of her said husband the said Guilford Evans, and that she has never before made application for a pension.
Elisabeth Evans
Witness
James H Gardner

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written.
Before Oliver Prescott Judge of Probate in and for said County
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I Oliver Prescott Judge as aforesaid do hereby certify that Elizabeth Evans above mentioned is unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity.
Oliver Prescott
Judge of Probate
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Certificate of Marriage
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Bristol County ss.
I Thos G Nichols do hereby certify that I am Town clerk of the town of Freetown in the county of Bristol and commonwealth aforesaid, ad have by virtue of my office the custody of the books of record of said town containing the registration of marriage solemnized in said town, and that I find the marriage of Gilford Evens and Elizebeth Howland recorded on said books in words and figures following to wit:
Gilford Evens & Elizebeth Howland Freetown Sept 20 1804
the twentieth day of September Eighteen hundred and four. 
Attest Thos G Nichols
Town Clerk of Freetown

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Bristol County ss
Be it known, that on this second day of March A.D. Eighteen hundred and fifty three, the above named Thomas G Nichols, who is well known to me and who is the Town Clerk of the Town of Freetown, made solemn oath to the truth of the above certificate by him subscribed before me
Nicholas Hatheway
Justice of the Peace
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CK 10537
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State of Massachusetts Count of Bristol ss
On this twenty first day of March A.D. 1855, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Bristol and State aforesaid Elizabeth Evans, aged seventy eight years, a resident of Freetown, in said County and State, widow of Guilford Evans, who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the identical person named in an original ce3rtificate in her possession, of which I certify the following to be a true copy.
Department of the Interior, Widow's Pension.
I certify that in conformity with the 2d section of the act of February 3, 1853, Elizabeth Evans, widow of Guilford Evans, who was a private & Lieut. in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Seventy one Dollars and Twenty three cents per annum, commencing on the 3d of February 1853, and continuing for life unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.
Given at the Department of the Interior,
this twenty second day of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifty three.
R McClelland
Secretary of the Interior
Examined and Countersigned
L P Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
That she has not intermarried, but continues the widow
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of the before mentioned Guilford Evans that she now resides on Freetown aforesaid. She further states that reference may be had to the record of the aforesaid Certificate in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 3d, 1853, Page 39 Vol. A. (G.L Getty Clerk)
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the "act approved March 3, 1855", and prays that the certificate thereof may be sent for her to Benjamin F Winslow, Fall River, Mass. 
She also further declares that she has not received a warrant for bounty land under this act of Congress nor made any other application therefore.
Elizabeth Evans
Subscribed and sworn to the day and year first herein before written before me 
Benjamin F Winslow
Justice of the Peace

We, Ebenezer Babbitt and Maribah T Evans, residents of Fall River in the State of Massachusetts, upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Elizabeth Evans in our presence, and that we know that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
Ebenezer Babbitt
Maribah T Evans

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me, on the day and year first herein before written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in the claim
Benjamin F Winslow
Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Bristol County ss
Police Court, Fall River, Mass. March 21, 1855
I hereby certify, that at the date of the foregoing attestations Benjamin F Winslow was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Bristol in said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his acts and attestations as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Courts 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said Court, the date above written
Richmond Davol
Clerk of the Police Court
Fall River Massachusetts
Bristol County
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Head Quarters Providence
General Order
July 9th 77
Though the General has the Pecular [sic] Satisfaction to find that such has been the Laudable Conduct of the troops under his Command that no Case of Complaint on the Contrary Every Citizen applauds there Soldery behavour yet the General to Cut of all Possibility of Complaint thinks proper to Publish the following orders first that the Commander of cash Corps appoints an officer to view the Barracks and Encampments from Day to Day to see that the soldiers keep neat and Clean and in Good order that such Officer
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the perticular [sic] notice whether any injury has been done to the houses of the inhabitants where the Soldiers are barracked and to inquire of them whether any injury has been Done by the Soldiers that satisfaction may be made & the officers Commanding Each Corps mus Expect after joining this order to be responsible for all such Dammages [sic] they are to order the same to be paid by the assessors which they are here by fully empowered to do and to inflict such other Punishment upon them as a Rigemental [sic] Court martial shall order Every Officer Commanding a Guard is to Acquaint himself Immediately upon his coming to the post of the State of Cannon and Ammunition which is to be Put under the Care of his Centinals [sic]
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in any of the forts redouts or other place and is to order Every noncommissioned Officer which oes with the Relief to Enspect the same and to see whether any injury or Damnition has hapened and in Case there has the Centinal who had last the Charge of it is to be Confined and tryd by a Court marshal the Officer who neglects to attend to there Orders shalt be Responsible for all Damiges that may happen and shall stand liable to be answerable for a  Court martal for breach of Orders these Orders to be read in the Army Every monday Evening at Role Call till further orders
A Guard Role
Silas Luther
Silas Luther
Henry Freeborn
John Merriss
Peleg Luther
Oliver Fry
Henry Freeborn
John Merriss
Jeremiah Luther
Theophilus Luther
Richard Thurber
Oliver Fry
Peleg Luther
John Vial
John Thurber

Evans, Guilford
IR.I) W-5271
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April 9th [illegible]
Private Soldier

Philip Hathway Agent within listed

Evans, Guilford
W 5271
R.I.
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(A.)

State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations.
In COUNCIL of WAR, March 8, 1779.
Resolved, That the following Orders be given to the Recruiting Officers in the Service of this State, viz.
RECRUITING INSTRUCTIONS for Guilford Evans 2nd Lt in the Service of the State of Rhode-Island.
You are hereby authorized to inlist [sic] all such able-bodied Freenmen, as are willing and able to enter in to the Service and Pay of the State of Rhode-Island, in the Character of a Soldier, being within the Description and upon the Conditions hereafter mentioned.

You are to inlist none but Freemen, above the Age of Sixteen, and under that of Fifty, of sufficient Stature and Ability of Body to discharge all the Duties of a private Soldier, to be free from Laments, or other bodily infirmity, that may render them incapable to support the Fatigues of a Camp.

You are not to inlist and Deserters from the Army of the King of Great-Britain, nor any Person of a disaffected or suspicious Character with Respect to the American Cause.

You are to inlist them to serve One Year from the Time of their Inlistment, unless sooner discharged by the General Assembly of this State.

You are to have the Persons by you inlisted as soon as may be engaged before some proper Officer, agreeable to the Articles of War. Every Person so engaged to be mustered before Brigadier-General Cornell, or before the Colonels of the Regiments into which they shall inlist; And returns to be made of all Persons you shall so inlist, to the Commanding Officer of the Regiment to which you belong, on every Thursday in each Week.

All the Charge and Expence for every Soldier inlisted, that does not pass Muster, for Defects pointed out in these Instructions, shall be paid by the Officer who shall inlist him.

You are authorized and empowered to promise, in Behalf of this State, to each non-commissioned Officer and Soldier who shall inlist in Manner as aforesaid, a Bounty of Forty-five Pounds, to be paid immediately upon his so inlisting; and that each non-commissioned Officer and Soldier who shall inlist as aforesaid shall have the same Cloathing, Pay and Rations, as are allowed to the non-commissioned Officers and private Soldier serving in the Continental Army, together with an Allowance for Subsistence of Six Pounts Eighteen Shillings per Month to each Sergeant-Major, Quarter-Master-Sergeant, Fife-Major and Drum-Major, to each Sergeant, Six Pounds Twelve Shillings; to each Corporal, Fifer, Drummer, Bombardier and Gunner, Six Pounds Six Shillings, and to each Private, Six Pounds.

That those non-commissioned Officers and Soldiers who are in the Service of this State, in General Cornell's Brigade, who shall inlist upon his Establishment, shall be immediately entitled to the Bounty, and the cloathing and Pay, upon the Expiration of the Time for which they are now engaged.

And it is further Resolved, That Two Hundred Copies of the aforegoing Instructions be immediately printed, and delivered to the Field Officers of the Battalions raising by this State.
Philip Hathway
A True Copy:
Witness, W. Coddington, Clerk.

Providence: Printed by John Carter
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Revy Widow, &c
File No. 5271
Elizabeth Evans
Widow
Guilford Evans
Privt & Lieut Rev War
Act: Feb 3d 1853
Index: Vol. A, Page 221
(Arrangement of 1870.)
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826

160 acres
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No 10.557
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855
Received Mar 23, 1855
Elizabeth Evans 
Wid of Guilford Evans
Rev War

Warrant No 826-160-55

Benjamin F Winslow
Fall River,
Mass
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Wid: Pen, Act /53 R.I.
Boynton
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Freetown Dec 12th 1853
Hon Loren P Waldo
Sir
I find upon the records in my office that on the 7th of Oct 1853 a Letter was mailed for Washington post mark free.
I also remember that Nichols Hathaway mail'd a letter about that time directed to the Hon Loren P Waldo Commissioner of Pensions to Washington D.C.
Respectfully yours
Joshua Shone
D Com
at Freetown
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Freetown Dec 21st 1853
Hon L. P. Waldo
Sir
The receipt of your communication of the 19th inst is hereby acknowledged. on the 16th inst I sent to you by mail a communication enclosing another affadavit [sic] of Judge Cowell, in regards to the matter of Mrs Evans to supply the place of the one last
Is any other evidence in this case required?
Please acknowledge upon the receipt of my note of the 16th that I may know it has reached you
Respectfully
Yours &c N. Hathway
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Providence Oct 6 1853
Dear Sir
At your request I have examined the Rolls of Col Elliotts Regiment of R I Troops respecting the services of Lieut Evans. I have two Rolls of that regiment in my possession. On the one which I have generally made use of in proving service, I find that his name is spelt "Gifforth Evans"; on the other old Roll his name is spelt "Gilford Evans." The amount of depreciation awarded him is the same in both viz [British pound sign] 47.9.8. I have generally made out my affidavits of service from the former Roll, as the capacity in which the officer or soldier served is given, as well as the amount of depreciation. But in the latter the name only, without the capacity, is given together with the depreciation. I have frequently compared the two Rolls but never noticed any difference in the orthography of the names before. I have not the least doubt but "Gifforth Evans" & "Gilford Evans" were one and the same person and that the mistake was made by
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the Clerk who first transcribed them.
I am Respectfully
your obt sevt
Benja Cowell

Nicholas Hathaway Esq
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Hon Loren P. Waldo
Commissioner
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Freetown Oct 7th 1853
Hon Loren P. Waldo
Dear Sir
Your note of the 1st inst has been duly received and its contents noticed. You say that it is necessary that the widow should [illegible] [illegible] her dece3ased husband. Is not the evidence now in your possession sufficient? If not, what more is required by the rules of the Commission? I am not fortunate enough to have an my possession a copy of your rules.
But in regard to the discrepancy between your rolls and the evidence in the case as I have constituted Judge Cowell again in regard to this matter and he has furnished me with the enclosed communications. If this is not sufficient to remove all doubt in this matter please advise me what more you require and I will endeavor to comply with your wishes. Please communicate with me upon receipt of this.
Respectfully your &c Nicholas Hathaway
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Freetown Jul 21st 1853
Hon Loren P Waldo
Sir
Enclosed please find the application of Mrs Elizabeth Evans for a Pension, under the Act of Congress of Feb 3d 1853. If the papers do not inform answers under the rules of the Pension Office or if the evidence is not sufficient  to support the declaration, and entitle her to the benefit of said Act, please inform me by return mail what further is necessary in the premises, and I will endeavor to supply the deficiency.
Expecting a reply upon the reception of this
I am Sir
Very Respectfully 
Your Obt Servant
Nicholas Hathaway

To Hon Loren P Waldo
Com of Pensions
Washington
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Freetown Dec 12th 1853
Hon Loren P Waldo
Sir
Your note of the 9th inst has this moment been received. I am very much surprised to learn that no communication has been received at your office from me since your note of Oct 1st 1853.
Immediately upon receipt of your former communication I obtained from Judge Cowell of Providence a written statement of facts in regard to the [illegible] in your letter, thereby showing that upon one copy of the rolls in his possession, the name is spelled "Gifforth" and upon another copy which he has the name is spelled "Gilford".
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I think there must be some mistake in this matter or my communication to you has been misdirected, for the records of the Post Office at Freetown show that on the 7th of Oct 1853, one Communication was sent to Washington, marked free, and the Post Master remembered that it was directed to the Hon Loren P Waldo and was mailed by same as the accompanying statement will show.
I will herein obtain another statement form Judge Cowell if the former cannot be found. Please reply
Very Respectfully
Yours &c
Very Respectfully
Yours &c
Nicholas Hathaway
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Brief in the case of Elizabeth Evans widow of Guilford Evans
Providence County and State of Rhode Island
act of February 3 1853

Claim, ("original," or "for increase.")

Proof exhibited, (if original.) Documentary ([illegible], rolls)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband a private & Lt. in R. I. Troops One Yr.
Allowed $71 23/100 Commencing Feb 3 1853

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Marriage proved by record evidence
Death of husband by credible witnesses
Identity & Widowhood proved by Cr witnesses

Name and residence of Agent
Nicholis Hathaway
Freetown Mass

Examining Clerk.
J L Gray.
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Freetown Dec 5th 1853
Hon Loren P Waldo
Sir
You wrote me sometime since in regard to the spelling of the name of Guilford (it being spelled "Gifforth") Evans upon the rolls in the Department. In accordance with the suggestions in your letter, I sent you the written statement of the Hon Benjamin Cowell who has the two copies of the rolls in his possession.

The Widow Elizabeth Evans is very anxious in regard to this pension, and as yet I have heard nothing further from the Department. Will you be kind enough to advise one whether anything further is
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necessary in regard to the application of Mrs Evans for this pension. Is the written statement of Judge Cowell sufficient? If so please inform me that I may be able to communicate with her.

I have heard nothing from the Department for a long time, and should like to know what has become of this matter.

If convenient please write me in regard to it and oblige.

Very Respectfully
Yours &c
Nicholas Hathaway
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Freetown Dec 15th 1853
Hon Loren P Waldo
Sir
Accompanying this, please find another affidavit of Judge Cowell (in place of the one lost) in the matter of Mrs Elizabeth Evans applicant for a pension. This I supposed to be sufficient to remove the difficulty now existing in regard to spelling of the name of Guilford Evans. Is anything more required under the rules of your office, in regard to this case? Please answer at your earliest convenience
Very Respectfully
yours &C
Nicholas Hathaway

To Hon L. P. Waldo
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State of Rhode Island
County of Providence
I Benjamin Cowell of the City of Providence in said State do again certify that I have again examined the Rolls of Col Elliotts Regiment of artillery of Rhode Island Troops with respect to the service of Lieut Evans. I have two Rolls of that Regiment in my possession. On the one which I have generally made use of in proving service I find that his name is spelt "Gifforth Evans". on the other old Roll I have his name is spelt "Gilford Evans" The amount of depreciation awarded him is the same on both Rolls to wit [British pound sign]47.9.8. I have generally made out my affidavits from the former of said Rolls as the capacity in which the officer & non Commissioned officer served is generally given altho not in every instance but in the latter the name  only is given & the amount of depreciation. I have frequently compared the two Rolls but never noticed any difference in the spelling of the names before. I have not the lease doubt that "Gifforth Evans" & "Gilford Evans" are one & the same person.
Benja Cowell
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State of Rhode Island
Providence ss
In the city of Providence this fourteenth day of December AD eighteen hundred and fifty three personally appeared Benjamin Cowell and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed.I also certify that the said Cowell is a true & credible witness
Before me
Thomas C Greene
Justice of the Peace

THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS
PROVIDENCE sc.
CLERK'S OFFICE, SUPERIOR COURT
Providence December 14 A.D. 1853
I, Edwin Metcalf Clerk of the Superior Court of said State in and for the County of Providence do hereby certify, that Thomas C Green Esquire is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly appointed and qualified, and authorized to administer oaths and take depositions and the acknowledgement of deeds and other instruments, and that the signature to the annexed Certificate purporting to be his, is genuine.

In attestation whereby I herein subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court, the day and year above written
Edwin Metcalf Clerk
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston July 6th 1853
I hereby certify, that on the seventeenth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty five, Oliver Prescott was appointed Judge of Probate (and is now in the office as Judge aforesaid) for the County of Bristol in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and to his acts and attestation, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
E M Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Samuel Smith a resident of the Town of Middleborough in the County of Plymouth and State aforesaid aged ninety four years, on oath, depose and say that I was well acquainted with Guilford Evans of Freetown in the County of Bristol, and State aforesaid, in the years seventeen hundred and seventy eight and seventeen hundred and seventeen [sic] nine, it being the same time that the said Evans served in Rhode Island.

That on or about the first day of March Seventeen hundred and seventy eight the said Guilford Evans was accepted for or enlisted in the State Troops of Rhode Island as a private soldier. That at the time of his Draft or enlistment he entered a Regiment of Artillery commanded by Col Robert Elliot in company commanded by Capt Joshua Sayer and served in said State in said Regiment and Company until sometime in the Month of March Seventeen hundred and seventy nine making a little more than one year of service. That I served in the
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Continental Army at the same time that the said Guilford Evans served in the State Troops. and I was stationed in Rhode Island during the period of time above named. And I further depose and say that at some time during his service he was commissioned as a Lieutenant and served as such until he left the service, or until his Regiment was discharged; I think however that he served as Lieutenant only until March 1779 as he was at that time discharged and his regiment again recruited for another year. The above statements are correct and as far as my knowledge of the facts extends.
Samuel Smith

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Bristol County ss
Be it known that on this sixteenth day of July A.D. Eighteen hundred and fifty three the above named Samuel Smith who is well known to me and who is a credible witness, made solemn oath to the truth of the above named Deposition by him subscribed before me. And I further certify that I am
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not the agent or attorney of the said Elizabeth Evans. And have no interest whatever in any pension or sum of money that may be obtained by her
Nicholas Hathaway
Justice of the Peace
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Malachi Howland
Deposition
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Malachi Howland a resident of the Town of Freetown in the County of Bristol and State of Massachusetts aged sixty six years on oath depose and say that I am well acquainted with Elizabeth Evans of said Freetown, the widow of Guilford Evans. I was well acquainted with the said Guilford Evans. The said Guilford Evans died at said Freetown on the thirtieth day of November A.D. Eighteen hundred and twenty nine, leaving the said Elizabeth Evans his widow. who is still living and still continues his widow and has remained his widow ever since.
Malachi Howland

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Bristol County ss
Be it known that on this sixteenth day of July, A.D. eighteen hundred and fifty three the above named Malachi Howland who is well known to me and is a credible witness, under solemn oath to the truth of the above Deposition, by him subscribed before me. And I further
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certify that I am not the agent or attorney for the said Elizabeth Evans and have no interest whatever in any pension or sum of money that may be obtained by her
Nicholas Hatheway
Justice of the Peace
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Benjamin Cowell
Deposition
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State of Rhode Island &c
I Benjamin Cowell of the city of Providence in said State do certify that I have in my possession a List of those officers and soldiers belonging to Col Robert Elliotts Regiment of Artillery in the war of the Revolution, who were allowed depreciation of pay by a committee of the Legislature of said State in October AD 1785 which regiment belonged to a Brigade of State Troops first raised for fifteen months from December 1776 & ending March 16 1778 & again raised by said State for Twelve months ending March 16 1779 & again raised for the third term of twelve months ending March 16 1780, and I further certify that on said Roll of Col Elliotts regiment is borne the name of "Gilford Evans" & the sum of [British pound}47.9.8, allowed him ofr depreciation of pay. It doe s not appear in what capacity he served but from the amount of depreciation I am of the opinion it was in a higher grade than that of a private.
Benja Cowell
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State of Rhode Island
Providence ss
In the city of Providence this sixteenth day of March AD eighteen hundred and fifty three personally appeared Benjamin Cowell and made oath to the truth of the foregoing statement by him made. I also certify that the statements of the said Cowell are entitled to full credence.
Before me
Thomas C. Greene
Justice of the Peace

State of Rhode Island &c
Secretary's office - Providence
Mar 22d A.D. 1853
I certify that in appears from the Records in this office that Joshua Sayer was appointed a Captain in Col. Robert Elliott's Regiment of Artillery which was first raised for fifteen months in December 1776 and subsequently twice raised for a period of twelve months each term. the last term ending March 16th A.D. 1780.

I further certify that there are no Rolls of said Regiment on file in this office, but Benjamin Cowell Esq has this day exhibited to me a list of all those officers and
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Soldiers allowed depreciation of pay belonging to said Regiment and on it is borne the name of Guildford Evans and the sum of [British pound]47 9 S. 8d. allowed him for depreciation, as he has stated in his affidavit.

I also further certify that Thomas C. Greene, before whom the said affidavit was sworn, is a Justice of the Peace for the City of Providence, duly elected  commissioned and sworn, and authorized by law to administer oaths, to take depositions, the acknowledgement of Deeds and other instruments under Seal, and that full faith and credit are due to his acts as such.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of said State the day and year above written.
A. Potter
Secy of State
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Secretary's Office, Boston, June 17th 1853
I hereby Certify, that on the eighth day of July eighteen hundred and fifty one, Nicholas Hathaway was appointed for the term of seven years a Justice of the Peace for the County of Bristol in the said Commonwealth duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.

E M Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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I James K Gardner of Freetown in the County of Bristol and State of Massachusetts aged thirty nine years on oath depose and say that I married the Daughter of Guilford Evans, late of Freetown deceased. That after the passage of the act of Congress of February 3d 1853 I examined the papers left by said Guilford Evans and found among said papers the two documents here to annexed and marked A and B and found the same among said Evans papers. That I did not know said Evans because I removed from Swansey to Freetown about eighteen years ago. But from my knowledge of the family I have always understood and have reason to believe that said Guilford Evans was the father of my wife and that he is the same Guilford Evans that served in the State Troops of Rhode Island from about March 1778 to March 1779. And the mother of my wife is the said Elizabeth Evans who is now an applicant for a pension and who is now still living and has never to my knowledge been
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married since the decease of her husband the said Guilford Evans
James K Gardner

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Bristol County ss
Be it known that on this sixteenth day of July A.D. Eighteen hundred and fifty three, the above named James K Gardner, who is well known to me, and who is a credible witness, made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed. Before me
Nicholas Hatheway
Justice of the Peace