Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16,314, for Joshua June, Vermont
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(3-1776)
June, Joshua
Sarah
SERVICE Vt.
NUMBER W.16,314
CONTENTS _
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Albany 2097
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Sarah June
widow of Joshua June who died In the month of Feb 1814 of St Lawrence Co in the State of N York, who was a Private & Sergeant in the company commanded by Captain Comstock of the Regiment commanded by Col Fletcher in the Vermont line for:  

4 months, Sergt - 20.00
5 mo 11 days, Priv - 17.87
(total) $37.87
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Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of $37 Dollars and 87 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 9th day of June 1838 and sent to A C Brown, Ogdensburgh, NY
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1838            265.09
Semi-annual allowance ending Sept 38    18.93 
[total]  $284.02

Revolutionary Claim Act, July 4, 1836, Section the

Recorded by D Brown, Clerk
Book A, Vol 2, Page 111
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Her death not on A B
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Elizabeth Miller's
Affidavit
I certify that the within deponent is a creditable witness
Attest Ira Ladd Just. Peace
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I certify that the within deponent is a creditable witness
Attest Ira Ladd Just. Peace
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Elizabeth Miller's 
Affidavit
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I Elizabeth Miller of Monkton, County of Addison & State of Vermont do depose & say that I was at the wedding of Joshua June & Sarah Cox then both of Pittsford in the County of Rutland and State aforesaid. & he then went into the fort the year after he was married, which I think was in the year 1780.  Since that time the said June died in said Pittsford & said Sarah came to live with her son in law & Daughter in this place, & about fourteen years ago the said Sarah moved with her son in law & Daughter to the west part of the State of New York & I think the said Sarah was born in Fitchburgh in the state of Massachusetts, further the deponent saith not.

Elizabeth Miller her X mark

State of Vermont
Addison County Ss}

Monkton October 6th 1837 Then personally appeared Elizabeth Miller the signer of the above affidavit & made solemn oath to the same

Before me, Ira Ladd Just Peace
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State of Vermont
Addison County Ss}

I, Samuel Swift, Clerk of the County Court for the said County of Addison, do hereby certify that Ira Ladd, before whom the within affidavit of Elizabeth Miller was made, was at the time a Justice of the peace for said County, and his name Subscribed thereto is his own signature.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this twenty first day of October 1837.

Saml Swift Clerk
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[Photo of a page from Bible]:

The New Testament
of our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ

Newly translated....

ORIGINAL GREEK

And with the former

TRANSLATIONS

Diligently Compared and Revived

By his Majesty's Special Command
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Sarah Cox - Her Bible

Born in the year Fifty-Nine

17[?]8 [hereby?] [illegible]
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3192
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Col Fletcher
Capt Comstock
Vermont

Admitted
Serg't  4 mos
Private 5 mo 11 days
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9 mo 11 days
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of July 4th 1836, before John Fine-
First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of St. Lawrence

State of New York
St Lawrence County} Ss:

On this second day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight before me John Fine Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, personally appeared Sarah June a resident of the town of Oswegatchie in said County aged Seventy eight years on the twenty fourth day of September last, an applicant for a pension under the act aforesaid being unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the aforesaid act of Congress. That she was born on the twenty fourth day of September one thousand seven hundred and fifty nine, in the town of Fitchburgh, State of Massachusetts and that her fathers name was William Cox. That she was married on the Seventh day of January 1779, at the town of Pittsford, Rutland County, State of Vermont, to Joshua June then a resident of said town of Pittsford where they resided until the death of her husband as after mentioned. That in the month of June 1780 in consequence of some depredations committed by the Tories and indians in their neighborhood, she & her husband considered themselves unsafe where they were and removed into Fort Vengeance in said town of Pittsford and remained there until April or May 1782. That
after they entered the said fort her said husband entered the service of the United States, but at what particular time or in what capacity he entered said service deponent is unable to state, but remembers that he was first called Sergeant some time in February 1781. That she has now in her possession
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her said husbands warrent, as second sergeant, which she has preserved with his other papers bearing date February 10th 1781 purporting to be signedbby Samuel Fletcher as Lt. Colonel. That said warrent is now in the same condition it was in when she first saw it. That her said husband Joshua June continued in the service until he left the fort as before mentioned in April or May 1782, during all which time he was stationed at said Fort Vengeance.

And she further states that her said husband Joshua June was born in Stanford in the State of Connecticut but she does not know at what time, that she knows of no record of his age. That she was born as before stated in the town of Fitchburgh State of Massachusets on the 24th day of September 1759.

That there is a record of her age in her possession on the leaf of a bible; the rest of the bible having been worn out and destroyed.

That her said husband was living at the town of Pittsford of Rutland County, State of Vermont when he was first called into the service. That after he left the service he returned to his farm in that town where he continued to reside until his death, which was in the month of February one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.

That she does not know of her own knowledge how he entered the service - whether he enlisted voluntarily, was drafted or otherwise, but thinks he must have enlisted voluntarily.

The only officer whose name she remembers, under whom her husband served, was Lieutenant Dimmock, that one Cogsdel or Cogswell was commissary in the fort, a part of the time, and one Hutchinson was Commissary another part of the time. That during the latter part of the time, one Hall was lieutenant in the fort. These are the only officers who served in the fort whose names she now remembers
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That she does not know whether her husband ever received a written discharge from the service or not.

That after the death of her husband she continued to reside in Pittsford aforesaid for one or two years after which she lived in the town of Charlott & Monkton both in Addison County State of Vermont until about the year 1820, when she moved to the town of Stockholm, St. Lawrence County State of New York and resided there until February 1835, when she moved to the town of Oswegatchie in said County of St. Lawrence where she now resides.

That she is known in her present neighborhood by John Beaty, James Beaty, James Wright, his wife Anna, William Haladay, and others who can testify to her character for veracity and their belief of her husbands services as an officer of the Revolution.

And this deponent doth hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present,
declares that her name is not on the pension roll or agency of any State- and that according to the best
of her knowledge and belief her husbands name is not on the any such pension roll or agency.

Sarah June [her x mark]

Subscribed & Sworn before me this 2 day of January 1838

John Fine
First Judge of [illegible]

State of New York

[illegible] Ss I certify that on the 2nd Jan 1838 Sarah June subscribed and swore to the above declaration, the same having been first read to her by me and that she cannot by reason of bodily infirmity attend the Court

John Fine
First Judge of [illegible]
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State of New York   [  ] Ss. John Beattie James Beattie Jas Wright Elizabeth Adams & Mary Beattie all of the Town of Oswegatchie Bay of St. Lawrence  being duly sworn say that they reside in the neighborhood of Sarah June the above applicant. That they are well acquainted with her [   ] and that she is a credible person and full reliance is to be placed on her [  ] Sworn Feb 21 1836  John Fine  First Judge of 
[  ]
John Beattie James Beattie   James Wright Elisabeth Adams Mary Beattie

State of New York [   ] ss  I certify that on the 21 Feb 1836 appeared personally before me the above persons who were identified to me by the Oath of Robert Rodgers with whom I am well acquainted who swore subscribed the above depossions The said Rodgers whom I know to be a credible person also swore that the above are credible witnesses John Fine First Judge [  ]
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October 7, 1936
BA-J/MCS
Joshua June, W.16314
Mr. Donald F. Clark
Fort Montgomery
New York
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your request for information relative to Sarah June, the widow of a Revolutionary War soldier.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, W.16314, based upon the military service of Joshua June.
He was born in Stamford, Connecticut. The date of his birth and the names of his parents were not given.
While living in Pittsford, Vermont, he was appointed sergeant in Captain Daniel Comstock's company in Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Fletcher's Vermont regiment on February 10, 1781, and served as sergeant in this company and regiment and as private in Captain William Hutchins' Independent Company of Vermont troops; his service commenced August 15, 1781, and ended April 30, 1782, and he was stationed at Fort Vengeance in Pittsford.
Joshua June married January 7, 1779, Sarah Cox, and both were of Pittsford. Sarah was born September 24, 1759, in Fitchburgh, Massachusetts, and was the daughter of William Cox.
For protection against the depredations of the Tories and Indians they moved to Fort Vengeance in Pittsford in June, 1780, and remained there until April or May, 1782.
Joshua Juen died in February, 1814, in Pittsford, Vermont.
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His widow, Sarah, lived in Pittsford for one or two years after his death and then lived in Charlotte and with her son-in-law and daughter (names not given) at Monkton, Vermont, until about 1820 when she moved to Stockholm, St. Lawrence County, New York, and lived there until February, 1835, when she moved to Oswegatchie, St. Lawrence County, New York.
She was allowed pension on her application executed January 2, 1838, at which time she was living in Oswegatchie, New York.
the papers in this claim contain not further data relative to the family of Joshua June.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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Levi Comstock's Afft.
on application of Sarah June for a pension.
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I Levi Comstock of Shelburn in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont of Lawful age being duly sworn, do Depose testify and say that Joshua June of Pittsford in sd State served as Sergeant in Capt Daniel Comstocks Company of Nine Months state troops at Fort Virigina in the year 1781 he then living at Pitsford within the Fort, had lately Married a Miss Cox and kept their own House - I was there the whole time a waiter for my Father and served as drummer the last of the Nine Months - whether Sergt June was Dismissed before our term of enlistment expired as were the case with some others on account of their affairs at home and the smallness of them then at that time of the year - his home being there I think it probable he served his term of Nine Months - Col. Samuel Fletcher was our Col Comdr - and was most of the time at fort Warren in Castleton Vt - David Dimmock was our first Lieut - and James Lewis 2nd and further say not
Levi Comstock
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State of Vermont Chittenden County Ss
Shelburn Oct 20th 1837
Then Levi Comstock personally appeared and after being carefully examined and duly cautioned made solemn oath that the within deposition by him subscribed contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth
Asahel Nash Justice Peace

I hereby certify that the above deponent is a credible witness
Asahel Nash Justice Peace

State of Vermont. Chittenden County Ss}
I William Noble, Clerk of Chittenden County Court, do hereby certify that Asahel Nash before whom and at the time when the foregoing deposition of Levi Comstock was taken, was a Justice of the Peace in & for said County of Chittenden, duly qualified, acting under the authority of this State, & that his name thereto subscribed is his own proper signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at Burlington in Said County, this 28th day of October AD 1837
William Noble
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Samuel Fletcher Esqr Lt: Colonel

To Joshua June. Greetings

Reposing Especial Trust and Confidence in your Patronism good Conduct and Abilities I do Hereby Constitute and Appoint you Second Sergeant in Captain Daniel Comstocks  Company in my Regiment of Infantry You are therefore Carefully and Diligently to Discharge  the Duty of Second Sergeant in said Company by Doing and Performing all manner of things thereunto belonging and I do Strictly Charge and Require all Non-Commissioned Officers and Soldiers under your Command to be Obedient to your Orders as Second Sergeant And you are to Observe and obey Such Orders and Directions as you shall Receive from me or other your Superior Officers from Time to time According to the Rules and Discipline of War and the Laws of this State in Pursuance of the Trust Reposed in you for Which this shall be your Sufficient Warrant

Given under my hand and Seal (at Fort Warren) this 10th Day of February AD 1781
Samuel Fletcher Lt Colo.
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I Hannah Warner of Pittsford in the County of Rutland & State of Vermont do testify & say that I was present and saw Joshua June and Sarah Cox then both of said Pittsford duly joined in marriage by a Esqr. [Benker?] a Justice of the Peace for said County & who then resided in Rutland aforesaid the time I cannot now recollect but I do distinctly remember that it was before the sd June went into the Service in the Picket Fort called Fort Virginia in said Pittsford in the company under the command of Capt Comstock in the nine months Service, and I further say that the said June died in this Town about twenty years since and I was informed  & have always understood that his Widow removed to some place in the State of New York about six years after his death & further say not. Pittsford October 23rd AD 1837 -
Hannah Warner (her x mark)
Witness G Newell

State of Vermont}
Rutland County} Ss Pittsford October 23d. AD 1837
Then Hannah Warner personally appeared & after being carefully examined & duly cautioned made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by her subscribed contains the truth the whole truth & nothing but the truth before me
Gordon Newell Just of the Peace

I hereby Certify that the above deponent is a person of good reputation & a credible Witness
Gordon Newell Just of the Peace
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State of Vermont}
Rutland County Ss}
I Robert Pierpoint Clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland Certify that Godon Newell is a Justice of the peace for Said County and that his signature to the within certificate is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of Said Court of Rutland this 4th day of December A.D. 1837
R. Pierpoint
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Hannah Warren's
affidavit
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Wm. Bromley's affidavit
on application of Sarah June for a pension.
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I William Bromley of Castleton in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont of lawful age being duly sworn depose testify and say that in the year 1781 or 1782. I was in the military service of the United States and in the company of Capt. Comstock at the Fort in Pittsford in Said County. - that Joshua June then of the same Pittsford was at the fort in said Pittsford serving as a Sargeant in the same company and served in that capacity the whole time that I served there being nine months - that I left the said June when I left that place at the expiration of my term of service aforesaid, - that the said June was married when I went to said Fort, and I understood his wife to have been a Miss Cox. - that she lived with him the whole term of my service aforesaid -
Wm Bromley

State of Vermont
Rutland County ss} Castleton 24. Oct. 1837 Then personally appeared William Bromley who signed the foregoing affidavit in my presence, and under Solemn oath that the facts therein Stated are true.
Before me S. H. Merrill Justice Peace

I also hereby certify that the said William Bromley is a credible person
S. H. Merrill Justice Peace
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State of Vermont}
Rutland County Ss}
I Robert Pierpoint Clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland Certify that Selah H. Merrill is a Justice of the peace for Said County. and that his Signature to the within Certificate is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and affixed the Seal of Said Court at Rutland this 4th day of December A.D. 1837
R. Pierpoint
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Samuel H. Kellogg
Deposition


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I Samuel H Kellogg, Clerk of the town of Pittsford, in the County of Rutland & State of Vermont, do depose testify & say that I have examined the records of this town now in my office and do find recorded Ministers, and Justices certificates of various marriages, from this date back to the year 1791. I do not find any such certificates of an earlier date on record, but I find certain family records have been entered & some of which have included or indicated of the time and place of marriage as early as 1783. I further certify that I do not find any record of the marriage of Joshua June to Sarah Cox now the widow of said June, and further say not,
Samuel H Kellogg

State of Vermont
Rutland County Ss} 
Be it known that on this 30th day of November A.D 1837 before me the subscribed is Justice of the Peace in & for sd County personally appeared the said Samuel H. Kellogg who hath subscribed the preceding deposition in my presence & made solemn oath, that the same contains the truth, the whole truth, & nothing but the truth. And I do hereby certify that the said deponent is a credible witness. 
Abel Penfield, Justice Peace
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State of Vermont
Rutland County Ss}

I Robert Pierpont Clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland affirm that Abel Pickford is a Justice of the Peach for said county, and that his certificate within I believe to be genuine

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of the court of Rutland this 4th day of December AD 1837.
R. Pierpoint
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3. [check mark] 3,172
B1009  Feb 27.'38
Pension Office
Vermont Office

Hon: Joel R. Poinsett
Secretary of War
Washington, D.C
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Ogdensburg  February 21st 1838

Sir
Enclosed I send you affidavits &c on an application of Mrs. Sarah June for a pension as widow of Sergeant Joshua June deceased, formerly an officer of the Revolution. 
The affidavit proves that the applicant (formerly Sarah Cox) was married to Sgt June on the 7th January 1779. That said June served as a Sergeant in the Revolutionary Army at least 9 months. That her husband died in February 1814 & that the widow is still living & is the applicant for a pension. The marriage is proven by attending witnesses-Elizabeth Miller and Hannah Warren. Samuel H. Kellogg swears that no record of the marriage is to be found. That said June was a Sergeant in the Army of the Revolution is proved by the warrant, also enclosed, under the hand & seal of Samuel Fletcher LT. Colonel. You will perceive by examining the warrant that the name of Sgt Jun was not written upon the same paper with the rest of the instrument, but on a separate piece, though of the same apparent age and texture, & pasted on over some other name. The widow swears  it is not in the same condition as when she first saw it. We can only account for the appearance of the warrant by supposing it first intended for some other person who probably declined serving when it was attached to Mr. .June to save the trouble of making another. The terms of service is proved by the afft. of Levi Comstock, a son of the Capt. of the company, and Wm Bromley. The widow does not give as full & precise a statement of the term of service & of the names of the officers & as could be wished. But she states all she can recollect, & as much as could be expected under the circumstances of her age & the great length of time which has elapsed since the service.  It is presumed that the affidavits when taken together afford undeniable proof that the widow is entitled to the pension for which she asks. Please to bestow upon
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 them your earliest convenient attention and advise me of the result.
I also send you enclosed 2 additional affidavits in support of the application of Sarah K.Thurber-widow of Capt Joseph Thurber. We have been unable to find any Record of the marriage of the applicant to Capt Thurber or any witness who was present at the ceremony. But the affidavits do show beyond any probable cause for doubt, that they were lawfully married.  The son of this applicant wrote to a friend in Huntington, the place where they were married, to obtain proof of the marriage and received in answer the afft. enclosed & a statement that the clergyiman mentioned in the afft. of Susan Youngs had long ago moved to some of the Western States & there died, that non of his records could be found, nor any attending witness to the marriage.  The terms of service are as definitely set forth in the declaration, as the memory of the widow would admit. She was not with her husband during any part of the campaign, & her knowledge of the course & proceedings of the troops & names of the officers, except of the first company, is derived only from casual conversations with her husband after his return & reports of this station while on service-there was nothing to impeach it upon her memory- And it can not reasonably be expected that the widow would be able to give so full as statement, as is required when the officer or soldier himself applies & which even they are not always able to give.  As to the times the service commenced the widow can not state it & I have not as yet been able to get a further affidavit from the Witness Mayhew.  If further proof can be obtained at that point it will be forwarded immediately on obtaining it-if it can not be obtained I have only to hope that the widow may not, on that account, loose her claim.
I have the honor be, sir, your humble servant
A.C. Brown

Hon: J.R. Poinsett
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N. York [check mark]
Sarah June
Letter to A.C.Brown 2 March '38
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State of Vermont
Treasurer's Office, Windsor May 14, 1838

I Allen Wardmen, Treasurer of said State do hereby certify that there is a paper on file in this office purporting to be the "Payroll of Capt Daniel Comstock's company in the Battalion of Infantry in the service of the State of Vermont commanded by Samuel Fletcher Esq. Lieut.Col. Commandant"  I further certify that the name of Joshua June appears upon said Roll as Sergeant with an allowance for one hundred & twenty day service annexed. Said service commencing the 18 August 1781 & ending the 15th December following.
I further certify that there is another paper on file in this office purporting to be "A Payroll of Capt. William Hutchins Independent Company of Troops in the service of the State of Vermont from the 20 November 1781 to the 1st day of May 1782 (stationed at Castleton and Pittsford Forts during this service:"  I further certify that the name of Joshua June appears upon said Roll as private with an allowance for One hundred & sixty one days service annexed. Said service commencing on the 20th November 1781 & ending 30 April 1782.
I further certify that both of said Rolls appear to have been approved & ordered paid by a committee appointed for the purpose, and were paid by the Treasurer of this State

Allen Wardmen Treasurer of the State of Vermont
fee $2
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 B1127- May 28,1888
Pension Office

Wm Luce

Sara June
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Ogdensberg May 22nd 1838

Sir, in pursuance of the information contained in the letter from the War Department of 2nd March last I sent to the Treasurer of Vermont for certified copies of any records in his office touching the services of the husband of the applicant, Sarah June, and have the honor to transmit enclosed the answer to the application.  It will be perceived that there is a slight discrepancy between the two rolls which contain the records of his services but it is presumed that the affits [affidavits] of the witnesses, the warrant, & such other evidence as is in the possession of the department will sufficiently explain or do away the apparent inconsistency on the face of the record.

Have the goodness to transmit immediately a certificate for such a pension as the department, from the affidavits, records &c are convinced the applicant is entitled to & oblige.

Very Respectfully, 
Your Obt Servant
A.C. Brown

Hon JR Poinsett
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1936, Oct. 7, hist. to Mr.
Donald F. Clark  M.C.S.

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Rev
WIDOW &c.
File No.  16,314
Sarah June widow of Joshua June 
Sergt Rev War

Act July 4th 36

Index: Vol. A, Page 386

[Arrangement of 1870]
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Fort Montgomery, NY
September 8, 1936

Veterans Administration,
Washington, DC

Gentlemen:
I would appreciate information as to whether there is on file in your office a pension application for Sarah June of Oswegatchie, St. Lawrence Co., NY, born about 1759, based on the Revolutionary War service of her husband and, if so, whether the application contains data concerning the soldier's family and his military service.

Yours very truly, 
Donald F. Clark [signed same]