Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 15258, for Hezekiah Ripley, Massachusetts
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SERVICE  Mass.  
Ripley, Hezekiah  
Hannah
NUMBER  W.15258
B.L. Wt. 1782-200-Lieut
Issued June 18, 1791.
No papers
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Notification sent May 4th 1821. Joseph B. Thomas Esqr. Plymouth Mass.
Off under act May 15 1821
13 Augt 1828

10,316
Massachusetts
Hezekiah Ripley
of Kingston in the state of Massachu 
who was a Captain in the regiment commanded by Colonel Baily of the Massachusets line for the term of Six Years
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 20. Dollars per month, to commence on the first of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 7th of May 1819 and sent to Nahum Mitchell Esq East Bridgewater Masstts
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819.   222.58
Semi-anl. ass'ce ending 4th Sept 1819 120.00
$342.58
Revolutionary claim.
Act 18th March, 1818
Continued
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267,000 
[unreadable]
267,000   Act 1855 
Hannah Ripley 
wid of Hezekiah Ripley 
Capt. or Lieut. 
Rejected Claim for Bounty Land 
267000 
[unreadable]
Act 55 
Mass book 48 - 335
Revolutionary War Warrant for 200 acres rec'd under a former law 
Wt. No 1782 iss: June. 8th 1791. for 200 ac to soldier. 
E.D.& C.A. Dyer 
South Abington Mass
Lett to agt Feb 13 45
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325 
Massachusetts 
Hannah Ripley 
widow of Hezekiah Ripley who served in the Revolutionary war, Mass, as a Lieutenant, & Brigade Qrt M’r [Quarter Master]  
Incd [increased] from $480 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 560 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of Decr, 1853 and sent to F. F. C. Triplett Present 
F. F.C. Triplett Jany 23. 1854
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Hezekiah Ripley
10,316
Sept 1819
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SCHEDULE 
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
County of Plymouth ss. 
On this Fourteenth day of August 1820, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount having a power also of fine and imprisonment, and keeping a record of their proceedings personally appeared in open Court, being a court of record for the said County Hezekiah Ripley aged Sixty eight years, resident in Kingston 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. viz. for the term of about seven years in the 2d Massachusetts Reg: first commanded by Col Bailey & and afterwards by Col Sprout and was a Lieutenant in the company commanded by Capt Seth Drew & Judah Alden until the close of the war when I received a brevet commission as Captain 
And that he has received a pension certificate dated 7th May 1819, and numbered 10.316 in pursuance of his original Declaration made 1st April 1819 and also takes and subscribes the following oath, viz. 
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an 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," 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 in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. 
I was formerly a mariner but have been of late years a husbandman In consequence of old age & infirmities I am now unable to obtain a support by my labour.  I have in my family a wife named Hannah aged 60 years who is much afflicted with the Rheumatism, one daughter named Lucia aged 19 years & a son named Harvey aged 13 years. 
Schedule 1 desk - 1 small looking glass - 2 tables - 6 chairs - iron pot - 1 pr andirons - shovel & tongs - 2 iron kettles - crockery ware & 1 coffee pot 
Hezekiah Ripley 
Sworn to, and declared on the 14th day of August 
Nahum Mitchell Justice of said Court 
I, John B Thomas clerk of said Court do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, declaration 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 Twenty two dollars and seventy five cents 22.75. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this twenty ninth day of December 1820. 
Jno B Thomas Clerk of the Court for the County of Plymouth
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Hezekiah Ripley
Kingston
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I Hezekiah Ripley of Kingston in the County of Plymouth & Commonwealth of Massachusetts in my sxty seventy year depose & set forth and declare that I was an officer in the war of the Revolution in the Continental establishment from Jan. 1. 1777 to the close of the war in the Massachusetts line.  My first commission of Lieutenant bore the above date of Jan 1 1777 in which capacity I served in 2d Massachusetts Regiment commanded by John Bailey till 29 Sept 1779 when I rec'd another Commission of Lieut't. in the same Regiment & in Capt Seth Drew's Company, and served in that rank till the close of the war when I rec'd a Brevet Commission of Captain dated 10th Oct. 1783.  All which commissions I now exhibit.
Hezekiah Ripley1818
Sworn to and declared on oath April 1818
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I Hezekiah Ripley do further set forth and declare that from my reduced circumstances I stand in need of assistance from my Country for support and am therefore desirous of Winning a pension [agreebly?] to the late law of Congress and do now exhibit my Commissions mentioned in my declaration.
Hezh Ripley

Sworn to before me
N. Mitchell  Judge &c
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Hezekiah Ripley
Kingston Ms
/officer/
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. ss 
On this first day of April AD 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Southern Circuit, personally appeared Hezekiah Ripley of Kingston Mass. aged  - years, resident in the said Circuit, who being by me first duly cautioned according to law, on oath made the enclosed declaration, by him signed, 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 – 
That he served in said war as an officer from 1 Jan. 1777 to the close of the war in the Massachusetts line. /See his said Declaration of his services enclosed/ and also his Commissions. 
And I do certify that I am satisfied the said Ripley needs the assistance of his country for support.
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And I, the said Judge, do also certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Hezekiah Ripley did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment: and I 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 aforementioned act of Congress.
Nahum Mitchell

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
ss  1818
I HEREBYB CERTIFY, That        is one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, consisting  of the Counties of Plymouth, Norfolk, Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket in said Commonwealth - that the same Circuit Court of Common Pleas is a Court of record - that the signature to the above certificate is the true signature of the said Jude, and that the seal thereunto affixed is the seal of the said Court.

Clerk of the Judicial
Court for the County
of
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9232
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State of Massachusetts 
Plymouth County ss. 
On this tenth day of July in the Year One thousand eight hundred & forty three personally appeared before me Wilkes Wood Judge of the Court of Probate for said County of Plymouth Hannah Ripley a resident in Kingston in said County aged Seventy seven years, a widow who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7. 1838 entitled "an Act granting half pay & Pensions to certain Widows".  
That she is the Widow of Hezekiah Ripley who was a Lieutenant &c in the War of the Revolution & served as stated by him in his declaration which he made when he obtained a Pension under the Act of 15th May 1828 in the sum of three hundred & twenty dollars per annum. 
She further declares that she was married to the said Hezekiah Ripley on the twentieth day of January in the Year One thousand seven hundred & eighty five by the Reverend D. Barnes of Scituate; that her husband the aforesaid Hezekiah Ripley died on the eighteenth day of October in the Year One thousand eight hundred & forty one that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four to wit at the time above stated. 
Hannah Ripley 
Sworn to and subscribed this tenth day of July one thousand eight hundred & forty three. Before me Wilkes Wood J. Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Plymouth ss. I Jacob H Loud Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Hon. Wilkes Wood is Judge of Probate for said County of Plymouth & that the within is his true & genuine signature. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & the seal of said Court this tenth day of July 1843 
Jacob H. Loud
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State of Massachusetts, 
COUNTY OF PLYMOUTH ss. 
On this fifth day of December A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty six, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid Hannah Ripley aged ninety years, a resident of Kingston in the state of Massachusetts, who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Hezekiah Ripley deceased, who was a Captain or Lieut in the Revolutionary war, for which service she now receives a pension under the Act of 1848. 
and that no Warrant for Bounty Land has ever been obtained or applied for for said service, except a Warrant for 100 she thinks acres, issued to her husband soon after said war.  For the proof of service, marriage and death, reference is given to her application for her pension. 
She further states that she was married to the said Hezekiah Ripley in Scituate on the - day of -   A.D. 1785, by one - a - and that her name before said marriage was Hannah Filden that her said husband died at Kingston on the - day of - A.D.1841, and that she is still a widow. 
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the Act massed March 3d, 1855, and prays that the certificate thereof may be sent for her to E D & C A Dyer South Abington Mass 
Hannah Ripley 
Sworn to and subscribed before me, the day and year above written, and I certify that I have no interest in the above claim, and the name of Moses Bates Jr. was erased and E D & C A Dyer substituted therefore, before the above signature was made. 
Cyrus A Dyer Justice of the Peace
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State of Massachusetts, Plymouth County. 
We, Philander Cobb and Kenelin Robbins residents of Kingston, Mass upon our oaths declare that the within declaration was signed and acknowledged by Hannah Ripley in our presence and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be and that she is now unmarried, and that we are disinterested. 
Philander Cobb 
Kenelin Robbins 
Subscribed and duly sworn to before me, this fifth day of December A.D. 1856. 
Cyrus A Dyer Justice of the Peace 
It is hereby certified that satisfactory proof has been exhibited before me, the undersigned, Justice of the Peace, by the affidavits of Philander Cobb and Kenelin Robbins of the said County and State, who are personally known to me, who are entitled to credit, and who swear that they have no pecuniary interest in the foregoing application; that Hannah Ripley the applicant for Bounty Land in the foregoing declaration is now unmarried, and that she is the widow of the late Hezekiah Ripley who was a Revolutionary soldier and is the identical person she represents herself to be. 
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, this fifth day of December 1856 Cyrus A Dyer Justice of the Peace
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No. 267.000
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Secretary's Office, Boston. Decr 1856 
I Hereby Certify, That at the date of the attestation hereunto annexed Cyrus A Dyer in Justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth 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 of which, I have hereunto affixed the SEAL OF THE COMMONWEALTH, the date above written. 
F. DeWitt 
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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I Seth Drew of Kingston, in the County of Plymouth, aged sixty six years, on oath do testify & say that I was well acquainted with Hezekiah Ripley late of said Kingston deceased who was an Officer in the Revolutionary Army & a Pensioner of the United States, and died on the nineteenth day of October in the year Eighteen hundred & forty one and also with his wife Hannah Ripley whose maiden name was Hannah Filden who is now the Widow of said Ripley & has never been married since his decease, and is now living at said Kingston.  
Seth Drew 
December 20th 1843 - Then the above named Seth Drew appeared & made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed before me and I certify that he is a credible person. 
Eli Cook Jus Peace 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
County of Plymouth Clerks Office Dec 21 1843
I Jno B. Thomas Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the said County of Smith do hereby certify that Eli Cook June before whom the foregoing deposition was sworn is a justice of the peace for the said County of Plymouth duly commissioned & qualified under the authority of said Commonwealth - And that his signature to the jurat thereof is genuine. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court on the day year aforesaid. 
Jno B. Thomas Clerk
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325 
Massachusetts 
Hannah Ripley 
widow of Hezekiah Ripley who served in the Revolutionary war , as a Lieut & Qr Master [Quarter Master]. 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 480 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of June 1848 sent to 
Hon Artemas Hale H of R [House of Representatives] 
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 128 Vol. 2
Reported
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7668
Massachusetts   
Hannah Ripley widow of Hezekiah Ripley who was a pensioner under the Act of 1828 and who died on the 18th Oct 1841, of Plymouth in the State of Mass who was a Lieut in the Company commanded by Captain  - commanded by -  in the Mass. line for  - 
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 320 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of September 1843 and sent to J.H. Loud Plymouth Mass  
Whole amount due $1600  
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by  Thomas Lumpkin Clerk,
Book A  Vol. 1 Page 127
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32,121 
Massachusetts 
Hezekiah Ripley decd 
of – in the State of Massa  who was a Lieut and Brigade Q’r M’r. [Quarter Master] in the – commanded by Captain - of the - commanded by – in the Revolution for two years – Lieutenant and Brigade Q’r M’r [Quarter Master].  
Inscribed on the Roll of Boston at the rate of 560 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831 & End’g  Aug 19" 1841. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of Decr 1853 and sent F.F.C. Triplett Present
Arrears to the 4th of -  
Semi-anl allowance ending 
Incr’d from $480  
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.} 
Recorded by A. P. Weightman Clerk 
Book E. Vol. 2 Page 74
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7668  
Massachusetts  
Hannah Ripley widow of Hezekiah Ripley who was a pensioner under the Act of 1828 and who died on the 18. October 1841 of Plymouth in the State of Mass who was a Lieut & Q’r Master in the - commanded by Captain – of the  - commanded by – in the Mass. line for -  
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 480 Dollars  per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. Increased from $320 former payments to be deducted 
Certificate of Pension issued the 23d day of March 1844 and sent to J. H Loud Plymouth, Mass - Total Amount, $ -
[Act July 7, 1838.] 
Recorded by D. Brown 
Book D. Vol. 1, Page 67
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2,017 
Massachusetts 
Hannah Ripley widow of Hezekiah  who was a Lieutenant Brigade Q’r M’r [Quarter Master] in the Revolution 
Increase from $480 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 560 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of Decr / 53 and sent to F.F.C. Triplett Present 
[Acts of March 3, 1843 & June 17, 1844.] 
Recorded in Book A Vol. 2  Page 37 
A 1. 52 
Letter to F.F.C. Triplett Jany 23.185
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Massachusetts 32121 
Hezekiah Ripley, dec’d of Plymouth in the State of Mass who was a Q’r Master & Lieutenant in the – commanded by Captain – of the – commanded by Col. Sproat in the Mass. line for 2 years.
Payable to Hannah Ripley his widow 
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 480 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. & to end 19. October 1841 when he died. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 23. day of March 1844 and sent to J.H. Loud Plymouth, Mass.
Arrears to the 4th of – 
Semi-anl. allowance ending – 
The amount paid at $320 per annum under act of May 15, 1828 from March 4 1831 to 19th October 1841 to be deducted.  
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by  D. Brown Clerk, 
Book E Vol. 2. Page 74 
Report to agt [agent] see letter
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2017
Massachusetts  
Hannah Ripley widow of Hezekiah Ripley who was a Lieutenant in the Mass line for -  
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 320  Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of Sept 1843 and sent to J. H. Loud Plymouth Mass.
[Act of March 3, 1843.] 
Recorded in Book A. Vol 1. Page 52 
Reported to Agt see letter 
Rept Sept 43 
Let to Hon R Choate Jany 12 ‘44
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2017 
Massachusetts 
Hannah Ripley widow of Hezekiah Ripley who was a Lieut & Quartermaster in the Revolution Increased from $320 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 480 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of March 1844 and sent to J.H. Loud Plymouth, Mass.
[Act of March 3, 1843.] 
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1. Page 52 
Reported to Agt. see letter
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Mass 
Rev WIDOW, &c. AW 
File No. 15258 
Hannah Ripley 
widow of Hezekiah Ripley Lieut & Brig Q’r M’r [Quarter Master] 
Act: Feb 2d 48 
Index: -- Vol. M, Page 163 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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33561 
Revy INVALID. 
File No. 33,561 
Hezekiah Ripley 
Capt &c  Rev War 
Act: 18th March 18” 
Index: -- Vol. 2 Page 341 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Let. to Alise Ray
Apl 9 1847
to same May 15 ‘47
F.F.C. Triplett 20th Decr 1853
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B. Q M May 1778. $15 in addt’n to his line pay to be appt’d out of Capts or Subalterns of Brigade 
J. Pickering Appt’d. 7 Aug 1780. 
15th July 1780.   B. Q. M. $20. Addt’n to line pay
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My Dear Sir:
[unreadable] attention of the Department, as early as practical to the case of Mrs. Ripley which I send herewith.  
This is quite small, when the rolls critically examined to learn [unreadable] her deceased husband Hezekiah Served as Brigade quarter master in General Patterson’s Brigade near the close the war.
I am very resp your obt svt
Rufus [unreadable]
2 Dec 1843
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Brief in the case of Hannah Ripley widow of Hezekiah Plymouth County and State of Massachusetts 
acts 7th June 1832 & 7th July 1838 and subsequent acts. 
Claim, (for increase) 
Proof exhibited, (if original.) 
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance. 
This claim was admitted under the above act for Hezekiah, services for two years as Lieutenant and Quarter Master, Hannah now adduces, record evidence to say that he afterwards served as Lieutenant and for two years Brigade Quarter Master and claims an increased for these services.
(If for increase.) Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what? 
Name and residence of Agent F.F.C. Triplett, Esqr Washington D.C. 
Charles H. Rhett. Examining Clerk
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Pension Office December 20th 1853. 
Sir
The additional evidence in the case of Hannah Ripley widow of Hezekiah, of Massachusetts, has been received.
Hannah's claim was admitted for $480 per annum. An increase is now asked, so as to make her pension $600 per annum, in consideration of Hezekiah's services as Brigade Quarter Master.   I do not find upon the Journals of Congress any law that would justify a larger monthly pay than $20, in addition to his pay as Lieutenant.   If there is any authority for a larger pay per month. I would beg to be referred to it, before the final adjudication of the claim/
I am, respectfully Your Obt. Svt. L. P. Waldo Commissioner
F.F.C. Triplett, Esqr. Present.
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I Zephaniah Willis of Kingston in the County of Plymouth, aged Eighty six years, on oath do testify & say that I was settled as Pastor of the Congregational Church & Society in that town in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty; I was well acquainted with Capt Hezekiah Ripley. He was married a few years after to Hannah Filden of Scituate & they ever after lived together in said Kingston until the death of said Hezekiah Ripley in the year one thousand eight hundred & forty one. The said Hannah is now living in said Kingston & has not been married since the decease of her said husband & she is well known to me to be the same person to whom he was married in early life. 
Zeph’h Willis 
Plymouth ss July 3d 1843   Then the above named Zephaniah Willis appeared & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit before me & I certify that he is a credible person. 
Eli Cook Justice of the Peace
Plymouth SS. I Jacob H. Loud Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Eli Cook Esq. is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly commissioned & qualified & that the above is his true & genuine signature. 
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & the seal of the Court of Probate for said County this twelfth day of July 1843.  
Jacob H. Loud
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Hannah Ripley Mass. 
Act 3rd  March 43 
Increase $480. 
deduct what has been paid. 
J. H. Loud Plymouth Mass
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Plymouth ss. On this twentieth day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred & forty three before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in & for the said County personally appeared Hannah Ripley of Kingston in said County, Widow, aged Seventy seven years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain a revision & increase of the pension which she is now receiving under the act of March 3. 1843 the same having been computed upon the services of her late husband Hezekiah Ripley deceased as a Lieutenant in the War of the Revolution at three hundred & twenty dollars a year. 
She now declares that she has often heard her said husband state when relating his Revolutionary services that he discharged the duties of the Office of Quarter Master of the second Massachusetts Regiment for a considerable length of time, how long she does not remember & that during the latter part of the War he was one of the Staff of Brigadier General Patterson & acted as Brigade Quarter Master but for what length of time she does not know. 
Now the object of this declaration is to obtain an increased rate of Pension under the Act of March 3. 1843 on account of the services & rank of her said husband the said Hezekiah Ripley now dec’d as Regimental Quarter Master as Brigade Quarter Master while in the War of the Revolution, which amount she believes to be justly due her by virtue of the provisions of the act aforesaid.
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She further declares that she was married to the said Hezekiah Ripley on the twentieth day of January in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty five as set forth & proved in her declaration under this act now on file in the Pension Office at Washington, that her husband the said Hezekiah Ripley died on the nineteenth day of October in the year Eighteen hundred & forty one as also set forth & proved in said declaration: that she has never been married since his decease but still continues the Widow of said Ripley. 
Hannah Ripley 
Subscribed & sworn to on the day & year herein first before mentioned before me & I certify that said Hannah Ripley is well known to me as the Widow of said Hezekiah Ripley deceased & that she has never been married since his decease & that she is a credible person. 
Eli Cook Jus. Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Plymouth Ss Clerks Office Dec 21 1843 
I Jno M Thomas Clerk of the Judicial Court for the County of Plymouth do hereby certify that Eli Cook Esquire before whom the annexed deposition was sworn is a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Plymouth duly commissioned & qualified under the authority of said Commonwealth, and that his signature to the jurat thereof is genuine.  
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court on the day year aforesaid 
J M Thomas Clerk
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Hannah Ripley 
Mass. 
Act 7. July 38 
increase 
2 yr. L’t [lieutenant] & Q’r [quarter] Master 
$480. 
deducting what she rec’d under this act 
J. H. Loud Plymouth Mass
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Plymouth ss. On this twentieth day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred & forty three before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in & for said County personally appeared Hannah Ripley of Kingston in said County, Widow, of the age of Seventy seven years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain a revision & increase of the Pension which she received by virtue of the Act of Congress passed in the seventh day of July 1838 for the services of her husband Hezekiah Ripley deceased who was an Officer of the Revolutionary War, the pension which she received under the act aforesaid for the services of her said husband was at the rate of three hundred & twenty dollars a year as a Lieutenant in the Army of the Revolution.   
She now states that she has often heard her said husband say when relating his Revolutionary services that he discharged the duties of the Office of Quarter Master in the second Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col Ebenezer Sprout & by Col Bailey hat she does not remember the years or length of time.  She has also heard him state that for a portion of time during the latter part of the War of the Revolution she does not know how long that he served as Brigade Quarter Master in Gen. Pattersons Brigade & was one of his staff.   
Now the object of this declaration is to obtain an increased rate of pension on account of the services & rule of said Hezekiah Ripley as Regiment a Quarter Master & as Brigade Quarter Master while in the War of the Revolution which amount she believes to be justly due her by virtue of the provisions of the act aforesaid.
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She further declares that she was married to the said Hezekiah Ripley on the twentieth day of January in the year Seventeen hundred & eighty five as set forth & proved in her declaration under this act now on file in the Pension Office at Washington; that her husband the said Hezekiah Ripley died on the nineteenth day of October in the year Eighteen hundred & forty one as also set forth & proved in said declaration; that she has never been married since his decease but still continues the Widow of said Ripley.   
Hannah Ripley 
Subscribed & sworn to on the day & year herein first before mentioned before me & I certify that said Hannah Ripley is well known to me as the Widow of said Hezekiah Ripley deceased & that she has never been married since his decease & that she is a credible person. 
Eli Cook Just Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
County of Plymouth Clerks Office, Dec 21 1843 
I Jno Thomas Clerk of the Judicial Court for the said County of Plymouth, do hereby certify that Eli Cook Esquire before whom the foregoing declaration was made is a Justice of the peace for the said County of Plymouth, duly commissioned & qualified under the authority of said Commonwealth, and that his signature to the jurat thereof is genuine. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court on the day year aforesaid 
Jno Thomas Clerk
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Boston 7th Dec. 1853 
To Com’r of Pensions 
Sir 
I desire that Capt Triplett act in my place & stead as attorney in the case of Hannah Ripley of Mass 
J. M. Thayer
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Revolutionary Claims. 
Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution,” approved 15th May, 1828. 
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, 9 August 1828 
Sir:
I have the honor to inform you, that Hezekiah Ripley formerly a Lieutenant in second Regiment of the Massachusetts line of the Continental Army, and who has heretofore received pension at the Massachusetts agency, has been admitted to the benefits of the above mentioned act. 
I have the honor to be, 
Very respectfully, Your obedient servant. 
Richard Ruth
The Hon. the SECRETARY OF WAR. No 69.
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Admitted
Hon Artemis Hale
H of R
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DECLARATION 
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of 2d February, 1848, entitled "An act making further provision for surviving Widows and Soldiers of the Revolution." 
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, 
Plymouth COUNTY } ss  
On this eighth day of May, 1848, personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the county aforesaid, Hannah Ripley [unreadable] 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Secretary's Office. May 8. 1840 
I hereby Certify, That Joseph S. Beal is a justice of the Peace within and for the County of Plymouth
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. 
W. B. Calhoun Secretary of the Commonwealth
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DECLARATION 
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of 2d February, 1848, entitled "An act making further provision for surviving Widows and Soldiers of the Revolution."  
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, 
Plymouth COUNTY } ss  
On this Eighth day of May, 1848, personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the county aforesaid, Hannah Ripley a resident of Kingston in the county of Plymouth aged Eighty two years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 2d February, 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war.   That she is the widow of Hezekiah Ripley who was a Lieutenant & Quartermaster  in the Army of the Revolution, his commanding officer she is unable to state, but the services is on file in her former Declaration at Washington  and is the identical person who drew a pension under the Act of 17th June, 1844, on account of the Revolutionary service of her late husband aforesaid, at the rate of Four Hundred & Eighty dollars and - cents per annum.
She further declares that she is still a widow. 
The words "Commanded by” were erased before signature. 
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, Before me, 
Hannah Ripley [seal L.S.] 
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, } before me, 
In presence of Joseph T. Ripley 
Joseph S. Beal Justice of the Peace  
I certify that the declarant is personally known to me, a widow and a Pensioner as she declares and of the truth her statements above I have no doubt.   
Joseph S. Beal Justice of the Peace
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, 
COUNTY, } ss. 
I Clerk of the Court, of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that  - is a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; and that his signature, above written, is genuine. 
Given under my hand, and the Seal of said Court, this – day of – 18- 
House of Rep’s Washington May 26 1848 I am acquainted with the hand
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Secretary's Office, Nov 28 1843 
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Hezekiah Ripley is borne upon the Rolls of the 2d Regiment of  Col Bailey as private from Jan 1. 1777 to June 1 1780 at £40 per month as Lieutenant and Quarter Master from Jan 1. 1777 to June 1, 1780, at £8.0 per month & from June 1. 1780 to Dec 31. 1780 at £11.18 per month.
There are no other services of said Ripley that appears upon the rolls in this Office and there are  no rolls of Col Baileys Regiment after 1780.
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And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone: and that said application and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances which tend to satisfy me of the identity of the party described in the application with the individual who rendered the service. 
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written. 
Jno A Bolles 
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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To the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts   
Hannah Ripley Widow of Hezekiah Ripley late of Kingston, in the County of Plymouth in said Commonwealth deceased, who was a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary Army & died at said Kingston in the 18th day of October 1841 requests the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his Office of the service of her late husband.
The said Hezekiah Ripley was a pensioner under the act of May 15, 1828 for his services as a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary Army at $320 per annum. 
She now states that she has often heard said husband, when relating his revolutionary services, state that he acted as Quarter Master in the second Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Colonel Ebenezer Sprout and also that at one time he was one of the staff of Brigadier General Patterson of the second Brigade and then discharged
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the duties of the Office of Brigade Quarter Master, in said Brigade. 
She is not able from her imperfect recollection to state for what length of time he acted in either of said capacities. But she has an impression that she has heard him say that it was for the greater part of the three last years of the Revolutionary War.  
She particularly request evidence of the length of time in which he served in each of said last named capacities & the amount of pay he received therefor.   
I am now seventy seven years old & my memory does not enable me to state any thing further material to the search required.  
I have empowered - of - to act as my attorney in the premises.  
Witness my hand this twenty third day of  November 1843 
Hannah Ripley
Signed in my presence by said Hannah Ripley 
Eli Cook Jus Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Secretary's Office Jan 29 1844 
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department it appears that the name of Hezekiah Ripley is born upon the book of the 2d Reg’t  Col. Bailey from January 1, 1777 to Dec 31 1780 as Lieutenant and Quarter Master.   
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written John G. Palfrey; Secretary of the Commonwealth
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WAR DEPARTMENT 
Revolutionary Claim. 
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States , of the 7th June 1832, Hezekiah Ripley, deceased, late of Massachusetts, who was a Lieutenant and Quarter Master in the Revolution, was entitled to a pension at the rate of four hundred and Eighty Dollars per annum; and having died on the 19th of October 1841, the amount due is payable to Hannah Ripley, widow of said deceased from the 4th of March 1831 to the time of his death, the amount which he received at the rate of $320 per annum under the act of May 15, 1828 from March 4. 1831 to October 19 1841 to be deducted.  
Given at the War Office of the United States , this - day of one thousand eight hundred and forty.
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned.}
Commissioner of Pensions.
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Hon L. P. Waldo 
Comm Pension 
Hannah Ripley
May 3 48
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Washington, Dec 15. 1853 
Sir
Mrs Hannah Ripley, Massachusetts, has long been pensioned at the rate of $480- per annum under the Act of ‘38, for the service of her husband as Lieutenant and Regiment Quarter Master. But he actually served as Brigade Q.M. for more than 2 years and further I will that her pension be increased to the [unreadable].   
In the enclosed pages is a certificate of the Secy of State of the U.S. showing that her husband, Hezekiah Ripley was returned as Brigade Q.M. in the 16 Apl 1783. But there was nothing to show the duration of that service.  In her present extracts from the papers of Timothy Pickering Q. M.  shewing that he commenced his service in B. Q. M. on the 1 Augt 1780 that under the year 1781, 1782 and 1783 his name appears as Lt. and Q.M. to 2 Mass Brigade, that accounts of his pay rate for Sept. 1780 and  from 2d Sept 1780 to Apl 1782 as [unreadable].  That in a monthly register commencing in 1780 and ending in 1784, and that he was
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have [unreadable]  with 31 March, 1782 and 31 July 1782.  This is the last settlement maintained in these books, though an original receipt of his, signed Q.M.B. is exhibited dated 22 Jany 1783.
If said proof, then, can avail any thing, it is evident that he served from 6 August, 1780 to 16 Apl 1783 as Lieutenant (for which he was pensioned and the Act of 1828) and as B. Q. M. 
Very Respfly
F. F. C. Triplett
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Hezekiah Ripley dec’d 
Massachusetts  
Admitted  
Act 7th June 1832 
2 years Lieutenant              $320. 
2 years Brigade Q. Master $240. 
$560. 
at the rate of $60 per annum from 4th March 1831 to 19th Oct. 1841 when he died, deducting former payments from 4th March 1831. at $480 per annum.
Pay, 
Hannah Ripley (widow) 
Hannah Ripley widow of Hezekiah, 
Massachusetts 
Admitted Act 7th July 1838 and subsequent acts. – 
2 yrs: Lieutenant.             $320. 
2 yrs Brigade Q. Master    240. 
$560. per annum.  from 4th March 1843 deducting former payments at the rate of $480. per annum 
Pay Hannah Ripley, (widow) 
Certificates to F.F.C. Triplett Esq Washington. D.C.
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The pension of Hannah Ripley, widow of Hezekiah of Mass. was increased to $560 per annum for services as Lieut & Qr  Mr [quartermaster]. 
Application is made for further increase to $600 per annum for two years service as both Regimental and Brigade Qr Mr.  
In my letter of Jany 23d last, to Capt Triplett, I stated that "the rolls and documentary proofs do not show that Hezekiah Ripley served as Brigade Quarter Master before Jany 1. 1780, nor as Regimental Quarter Master after that date.” 
Now the Boston "Pocket Almanack" for 1782 and 1783, is exhibited to prove that during two years, in which, as shown by the deposition of the son of Col Pickering, he served as Brigade Qr Mr he also served as Regimental Qr Mr
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In the Almanac for 1782, Ripley is noted as Regimental Qr Mr [quartermaster]  - and in that for 1783 as Brigade Qr Mr. These entries (if taken as proof) when taken in connexion with Pickerings documents would show over two years service in both capacities.
S. G. D.
Mem’n
Dodge
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Hannah Ripley
Mass A 2d Feby 48
Hon L. P. Waldo
Comr Pensions
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Washington June 20. 1854 
Sir:
When I presented last the claim of an Hannah Ripley, Mass Act 38 &c. I did not fully understand the ground on which they claimed an increase to $60 per annum -  I am instructed to call it up again and to say that he held in the same time, as appears by the record, the office of Lieutenant of Regiment Qr Mr [quartermaster] and of Brigade Qr Mr.  The United pay of which amounted the more than [unreadable] per month. It is conceded that all the files as held may be [unreadable] in the granting of pension be the same equal $ 600 per annum.  Should there be any difficulty in this point, I am to be heard upon it before a decision.
Very resp’y Yr Obt Svt
F. F. C. Triplett
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IN PURSANCE of an ACT of CONGRESS of the Thirtieth Day of SEPTEMBER, A.D. 1783 Hezekiah Ripley Esquire is to Rank as Captain by Brevet in the ARMY of the UNITED STATES of [unreadable]  
GIVEN under my Hand, at Princeton the Tenth Day of October 1783 
B. Lincoln
Elias Boudinot Pres’t
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Hez. Ripley Capt.
Kingston
Col. Bailey’s Mass’ts Reg’t 
1777 – 6 years
Admitted
Hezekiah Ripley
Mass.  W. 15258
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THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA  - IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED
To Hezekiah Ripley Gent Greeting.  WE reposing especial trust and confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, Do by these presents or state and appoint you to be a Lieutenant in the 2nd Massachusetts Regiment in the Army of the United States, to take rank as Lieut from the 1st day of January 1779: You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of a Lieutenant by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging. And do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your command to be obedient to your orders, as Lieutenant And you are to observed and follow such orders and directions from time to time, as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United States or Committee of Congress for that purpose appointed, a Committee of the States or Commander in chief for the time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your superior Officer, owing to the rules and discipline of War, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in force until revoked by this or a future Congress, the Committee of Congress before mentioned, or a Committee of the States. 
Entered in the War Office and examined by the Board
Attest Ben Stoddert
Secretary of the Board of War 
Witness his Excellency Saml Huntington Esq. President of Congress of the United States of America, at Philadelphia the 29th of September, and the fourth year of our Independence. 
Saml Huntington President
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The DELEGATES of the UNITED STATES of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Counties of Newcastle, Kent and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, TO 
Mr. Hezekiah Ripley Gentleman 
WE reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, DO, by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be Lieutenant of a Company In the Regiment of Post Whereof John Bailey Esq is Colonel.
in the Army of the United States, raised for the Defence of American Liberty, and for repelling every invasion thereof. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of Lieutenant by doing and performing all manner of Things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as Lieutenant - And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from Time to Time, as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United States or Committee of Congress, for that purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the Time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in Force until revoked by this or a future Congress. Dated at Boston this first day of January Anno Domini 1777 
By Order of the Congress 
Chas Thomson Secy 
John Hancock PRESIDENT.
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368
No of orig Pay 368 
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS. 
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. July 30 1828 
Hezekiah Ripley of Kingston in the County of Plymouth in the State of Massachusetts, has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he was as an officer on the Continental line, and served as such to the end of the war  
at which period he was a Lieutenant in the second regiment of the Massachusetts line ; and that he received commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the resolve of 22 March, 1783; and, further, that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, four hundred and eighty dollars, paid to him by the agent in the State of Massachusetts. 
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated by the records in his office. 
By order of the Secutary, A. Dickins 
18334
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. 
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE, Aug. 2d 1828 
It appears by the records in this office, that final settlement certificates have been issued for the commutation of five years full pay to Hezekiah Ripley in the Mass line, amounting to sixteen hundred dollars. 
It further appears that Hezekiah Ripley is now on the pension list of the Massachusetts Agency, and has been since the 3 March 1826 at the rate of Twenty Dollars per month. 
Peter Hagner Aud
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Act 1828
Settled at Treasury
Cons’d with Invalid file # 33561
Hezekiah Ripley
Capt by Brevet at the close of the War
Declaration – Power to A. Ogden
Subr. To Jno R. Nourie
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Revolutionary Claims. 
[A.] 
Form of a Declaration to be made by the Officers. 
For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828, I, Hezekiah Ripley of Kingston in the county of Plymouth in the State of Massachusetts do hereby declare that I was an officer in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution , and served as such to the close of the War 
at which period I was a Lieutenant and Captain by Brevet in the second regiment of the Massachusetts line. 
And I also declare, that I afterwards received certificates (commonly called commutation certificates) for a sum equal to the amount of five years' full pay; which sum was offered by the resolve of Congress, of the 22d of March, 1783, instead of the half pay for life, to which I was entitled under the resolve of the 21st of October, 1780. 
And I do further declare, that I have received of the United States as a pensioner since the 3d day of March, 1826, Four Hundred and eighty Dollars paid to me by the agent for paying pensions in the State of Massachusetts 
Witness my hand, this thirtieth day of June in the year eighteen Hundred & twenty eight
Hez’h Ripley 
Before me, a Justice of Peace duly authorized to administer oaths in the county of Massachusetts Plymouth in the State of Massachusetts personally appeared, this day,  Barnabas Otis  and  Joseph Thomas of the said county, who did severally make oath that Hezekiah Ripley by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been an officer in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated. 
Witness my hand, this thirtieth day of June in the year 1828 
William Thomas 
I John B. Thomas Clerk of the Court of the county of Plymouth in the State of Massachusetts do hereby certify, that William Thomas before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was, at the time, a Justice of the Peace and duly empowered to administer oaths. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, this thirtieth day of June 1828 
Jno B Thomas 
Here insert. To the end of the war, or (as the case may be,) to the time when the arrangement of the Army provided by the resolves of Congress of the 3d and 21st of October, 1780, was carried into effect, and that I was reduced under that arrangement. 
Here insert, The sum of dollars, paid to me by the agent for paying pensions in the State of - If the claimant has not been a pensioner, this part of the declaration may be omitted. 
A Justice of the Peace, or other magistrate duly empowered to administer oaths, as the case may be.
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Hezekiah Ripley dec’d 
Mass 
Act 7 June 32 
Adm’d [admitted] 
2 yrs Lt. & Qr Master [Quartermaster]  
$480. 
to Hannah Ripley his widow from 4 March 31 to 19 Oct. 41- the day of his death - deducting what was paid him within those dates under the act of 15 May 1828. 
J. H. Loud Esqr
Plymouth Mass
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Plymouth ss. 
On this fifth day of December in the year Eighteen hundred and forty three before the Honorable Aaron Hobart Judge of Probate for the County of Plymouth, Hannah Ripley of Kingston in said County, Widow of the age of Seventy seven years personally came who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain a revision of the pension to which her late husband Hezekiah Ripley deceased was entitled by virtue of the provision of the Act of Congress passed the Seventh day of June 1832.   
She is the widow of Hezekiah Ripley late of Kingston in said County of Plymouth who died on the nineteenth day of October in the year Eighteen hundred & forty one & was a pensioner of the United States under the act of May 15. 1828 for his services as a Lieutenant in the Army of the Revolution at $320 per annum. 
She now states that she has often heard her husband the said Hezekiah Ripley state when relating his revolutionary services say that he discharged the duties of the Office of Quarter Master in the second Massachusetts Regiment & commanded by Col. Ebenezer Sprout or by Col. Bailey but that she does not remember the years or length of time. She has also heard him state that for a portion of time in the latter part of the War of the Revolution the does not know how long that he served as Brigade Quarter Master in Gen Patterson's Brigade. 
Now the object of this declaration is to obtain an increased rate of pension on account of the services & rank of said Hezekiah Ripley
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as Regimental Quarter Master & also as Brigade Quarter Master while in the War of the Revolution which and she believes to be justly due her by virtue of the provisions of the act aforesaid. 
She further declares that she was married to the said Hezekiah Ripley in the twentieth day of January in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty five that her said husband the said Hezekiah Ripley died on the nineteenth day of October in the year Eighteen hundred & forty one that she has never been married since his decease but still continues the widow of said Ripley. 
Hannah Ripley 
Subscribed & sworn to before me & I certify that the said Hannah Ripley is by reason of bodily infirmity unable to travel to attend Court to make this declaration. I also certify that she is a credible person 
Aaron Hobart J. Probate 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Plymouth ss. I Jacob H. Loud Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Hon. Aaron Hobart is Judge of Probate for said County & that the above is his true & genuine signature & that the foregoing is the original declaration. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the Court of Probate for said County, this twenty second day of December in the year One thousand eight hundred & forty three 
Jacob H. Loud
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State of Massachusetts 
Plymouth County ss 
On this tenth day of July in the year one thousand eight hundred & forty three personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in & for said County, Hannah Ripley a resident of Kingston in said County Widow, aged Seventy seven years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her Oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed in the 3d March 1843 granting Pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. 
That she is the Widow of Hezekiah Ripley who was a Lieutenant &c in the Revolutionary Army & served as set forth in his Declaration now on file in the Pension Office made in order to obtain a pension under the Act of 15th of May 1828 for which service he was a pensioner at the rate of three hundred and twenty dollars per annum.   
She further declares that she is still a widow. 
Hannah Ripley 
Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year first above written before me and I do certify that the above named declarant is personally Well known to me 
Eli Cook Just of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Plymouth Ss I Jacob H. Loud Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Eli Cook Esq is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly commissioned & qualified & that the within is this true & genuine signature. 
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & the seal of the Court of Probate this tenth day of July 1843 
Jacob H. Loud
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Hannah Ripley
Widow of Hezekiah
Admitted act ’38 or ‘36
Mass.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office, Boston, December 7 1853 
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestations Joseph Stetson was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth 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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Know all men by these Presents that I Hannah Ripley a pensioner of the United States at the rate of four hundred eighty dollars per annum, hereby authorize, constitute and appoint J M Thayer to be my sole true & lawful Attorney for me and in my name to prosecute any claim which I legally have on the government of the United States for an increase of pension, and arrearage of pension due my husband Hezekiah Ripley deceased and myself on account of his services as a Lieutenant, Quarter Master, and Brigade Quarter Master in the war of the Revolution and the said J M Thayer is hereby authorized to take all of necessary legal and proper steps in the prosecution of said claim in the same manner and to the same extent that I might do for myself, and to appoint substitute if necessary.  
Witness my hand and seal this 20 day of December 1853 
Hannah Ripley 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth County 
Kingston December 2d 1853 Personally came before me Hannah Ripley, well known to me as a pensioner of the United States on account of services of her husband Hezekiah Ripley decd and acknowledged the foregoing power of Attorney by her subscribed to be her free act and deed Joseph Stetson Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Plymouth County 
I Hannah Ripley being duly sworn depose and say that I on the widow of Hezekiah Ripley and am the identical person named in a pension Certificate at the rate of $480 per annum now in my possession issued to me on account of the service of my said Husband Hezekiah Ripley, dec’d as a Lieutenant and Quarter Master during the Revolutionary war: and I further depose and say that my said husband (as he for informed me) served in addition to the service above mentioned Brigade Quarter Master for several years, and that I am in consequence of said service entitled to a higher rate of pension than I now receive & hereby make application for an increase of the same.   And I hereby appoint J M Thayer to be my attorney to prosecute my claim for the said increase due to myself and my said husband dec'd, and authorize him to receive the certificate which may be issued to me. 
Hannah Ripley 
Kingston December 20 1853. Subscribed and duly sworn to before me and I certify that the said Hannah Ripley is the person she describes herself to be in the foregoing affidavit, and that I have no interest in the claim therein made, either as agent or otherwise 
Joseph Stetson Justice of the Peace
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Octavius Pickering of Cambridge in Massachusetts, being duly sworn, depose and say, that I am the son of Col. Timothy Pickering who was Quarter Master General in the Revolution army, and that I have in my possession books and documents which belonged to my father, containing records and accounts of the Qr. Master General's department during the time he held that office.   That among said records I find lists, headed "return of Officers in the Quarter Master General Department with the main Army” and that under “Brigade quarter Master in 1780" is the name of Lt. Hezekiah Ripley Q. M. 4th Mass Brigade, commencement of service Augt 5 1780 - Ending of Service 31st Decr 1780 - that under the year 1781, 1782 and 1783 his name appears as Lt. Hezekiah Ripley Q.M. 2d Mass Brigade, commencement of Seven January 1st 1781, (the heading of the list in 1783 however being "A. Q Mr to Brigades").   I further depose & say, that in the books of accounts are entries as
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follow: - 
New Windsor Decemr 18th 1781 
United States dr to Hezekiah Ripley (Q.M.B. for  pay due him as Q.M.B. for one month ending the 20th day of Septem 1780 20.- 
Hezekiah Ripley Dr to cash pd him in full for 1 month ending 20 day of Septem 1780 p rest No 51 - 20. 
New Windson April 26th 1782 
United States dr. to Contingent accounts for sundry sums due to the following persons viz:
Hezekiah Ripley for extra pay as Q.M.B. from 20th Septem 1780 to 1 April 1782 is 18 month &  10 days @ 20 dollars p day (month) 366.60 
I further say that the annexed receipt dated Newburgh January 22d 1783 and signed Hez Ripley (the body of which appears to be in the handwriting of Peter Anspach) I found in a full of similar receipts among the same documents. 
I further say, that in one of said books entitled “A monthly Register commencing in the year 1780, and ending in the year 1784, occurs the name of "Ripley Hez Q.M.B." and in a line with it in the columns of "last day settled for” are the dates March 31, 1782 - July 31,
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No. 49
Hezekiah Ripley
Jany 22nd 1783
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Newburgh January 22nd 1783 Received of Timothy Pickering Q.M.G. Peter Anspach eighty dollars in full for four months to pay as QM to 2nd Massachusetts Brigade, ending first day of August last, having signed two receipts of like tenor & date 
Hez Ripley QMB
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Secretary's Office, Boston, December 7th 1853 
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation Benj H. Currier was a Justice of the Peace and Quorum for the County of Suffolk 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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1782, and September 20, 1780. 
Octavins Pickering 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts York County Boston December 6 1853 
Subscribed and duly Sworn to before me that the said Octavius Pickering is well known to me as the person he described himself to be in the foregoing affidavit and I further certify that I have no interest as agent or otherwise, in any claim to which the foregoing relates 
Benj H. Currier 
Justice of the Peace & of the Quorum
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
County of Plymouth ss 
Clerks Office June 20, 1843 
I, John B. Thomas Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the County of Plymouth aforesaid hereby certify that it appears of record in this Office that on the twentieth day of January in the year of Son seven hundred and eighty five Hezekiah Ripley of Kingston in the County of Plymouth and Hannah Filden of Scituate in said County were married in Scituate in the County of Plymouth by the Revd David Barnes.
In testimony wherof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the of the Supreme Judicial Court for the said County of Plymouth in the day and year aforesaid 
Jno B. Thomas Clerk
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Department of State Washington April 16th 1844 
James L Edwards Esqr. 
Comm of Pensions 
Sir 
In reply to your letter of the 15th instant, I have to state that there is on file among the Washington Papers in this Department, a “Return of the officers in the 2d Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Lt Col Commandant E. Sprout,” dated 16th April 1783, in which Lieutenant Hezekiah Ripley and William Taylor are stated to have been commissioned the 1st Jany 1777.  In the same paper, under the head of "Officers serving on the Staff, Lieut Ripley is returned as Brigade Quarter Master, and Lieut Taylor as Quarter Master Regimental Staff .
I am Sir, very respectfully Your Obedt Svt.
James Buchanan
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Department of State 
Washington April 6th 
James L Edwards Esq. Comm of Pensions 
Sir,  
In compliance with your request, I have caused the Washington Papers to be examined for evidence of the service of Hezekiah Ripley as a Brigade Quarter Master and have to report that In a paper, without date, preserved in Vol No 100 page 204, and purporting to be a return of the officers of the 2nd Massachusetts Regiment,  Hezekiah Ripley is returned as a lieutenant - date of Commission, to Jany 1777; in a similar paper without date, and presented in the same volume page 115, Hezekiah Ripley is also returned as a lieutenant; and in a third paper also without date, purporting to be a return of the same regiment & preserved in the same volume. page 188, Hezekiah Ripley is returned as a lieutenant and Q.M. No other evidence
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in relation to the said Ripley has been discovered.
I am Sir very respectfully Your Obedt Servt 
N.P. Tritt 
Act Secy
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Caveat 
Respectfully referred to the Com of Pensions - original referred to the Secy of the Treasury
Most Resply 
Dep. Int. 
Dec. 22 / 56
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Copy 
Kingston, Massachusetts
December 17, 1856  
To the Secretary of the Department of the Interior 
Sir
This is to notify your Department that I have revoked and annuled all powers of Attorney heretofore given by me under my hand and seal to Thomas Campbell of Boston and to Douglass Woodward to enable them to prosecute and procure from the United States any half pay, bounty or other sums by whatever name they may be called due or to become due to me by any act of Congress now or hereafter to be passed, on account of the Revolutionary services of my late husband Lieut Hezekiah Ripley, deceased, who was also a Brigade Quarter Master. 
Witness my hand and seal 
(signed) Hannah Ripley [seal]
In presence of H. S. Collamore 
Justice of the Peace
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Plymouth February 2, 1844 
Dear Sir
The Records in the Secretary's Office at Boston have been examined again & the result is as follows   
Hezekiah Ripley served as Lieutenant & Quarter Master from Jan 1. 1777 to Dec 31. 1780 in the 2d Massachusetts Regiment, being 3 full years acting as Quarter Master.   
There are no Rolls in the Secretarys office of that Regiment after 1780. We presume the Rolls from Jan 1. 1781 to the close of the War are at Washington. 
In a recent examination among the things not likely to be called for in the upper chamber of the "Athencun" at Boston after a diligent search a friend at my request found a package containing "Fleets Register for the State of Massachusetts Bay” for the years 1779 to 1786 inclusive. This Register contains a list of all the Officers in the organisation of Washington's Army. In this List Hezekiah Ripley appears as Lieutenant & Quarter Master of the 2d Regiment in the Register for
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the year 1782. In the Register for the year 1783 probably published about New Years as it contains also an Almanac for the year 1783 which would be of no use after the year had considerably gone by, I find that Hezekiah Ripley is there stated to be Brigade Quarter Master in General Patterson's Brigade, and his name disappears from the place it had formerly occupied as Quarter Master of the 2d Regiment. William Taylor whose name stood before that time at the head of the Column of Lieutenants in the Second Regiment then appears as Quarter Master in place of Ripley in the Regiment. From all this I infer that Lieut Hezekiah Ripley served as Quarter Master of the 2d Regiment commanded by Colonels Bailey & Sprout from January 1 1777 to Jan 1 1782 being two years. That he was then promoted to Brigade Quarter Master of Gen. Patterson's Brigade & continued to act in that capacity to the close of the War. 
There are no rolls at Boston as the Clerks in the Secretary's Office inform me of so late a period but they say that there are Rolls as they suppose at Washington which ought to prove all this service.
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I am sorry to give you much trouble in this matter but there can be no question I think but what Mr. Ripley's name is borne on the Rolls for these services. I wish it could be ascertained how long he served as Brigade Quarter Master. The old lady says her husband always told her served in that capacity and Fleets Register confirms it.
I am with great respect Your friend & servant  
J. H. Loud
Hon Mr. Choate
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40.33
39.66
11.18
20
238/6
39-4
12
7.66
12
13
47.68
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
County of Plymouth Clerks Office Dec 21 1843 
I John Thomas clerk of the Judicial Courts for the said County of Plymouth do hereby certify that it appears of record in this Office, that on the twentieth day of January in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty five, Hezekiah Ripley of Kingston in the said County of Plymouth and Hannah Filden of Scituate in the County of Plymouth aforesaid were married in said Town of Scituate by the Rev David Barnes 
In testimony whereof there hereunto set my hand suffered the seal of the Supreme Court County on the day year aforesaid 
Jno Thomas Clerk
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Probate Office 
Plymouth July 12. 1843 
Sir
I enclose the application of Mrs Hannah Ripley for a Pension under the act of July 7. 1838 & also under the act of 3 March 1843. Please forward her Certificates to 
Your Obt Svt 
J. H. Loud Register 
J. L. Edwards 
Com of Pensions 
Washington D.C.
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No 9232
Hannah Ripley
Mass
Act July 7th 1838
Admitted
2 years Lieut.
$320 per annum
Issue 2 certificates
J. H. Loud Esqr
Plymouth Mass
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Kingston Mass
March 2, 1844
James L. Edwards Esq 
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington City 
Sir 
I have appointed Mr Alexander Ray of Washington my agent or attorney to make application for an advance of my late husbands pension made act 1832 and under the act I now enjoy, at the rate of $600 per annum, on account of my husbands Revolutionary Services as a Lieut and Brigade quarter Master 
Hannah Ripley 
I am very respectfully 
Witness Marion R. Otis 
Joseph T Ripley
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Ho Reps
Washington D. C. May 26, 1848 
Sir
Herewith I hand you the Declaration of Hannah Ripley for the benefits of the Act of Feb 2 1848, and will thank you to give it your attention & to transmit the Certificate to me. 
Respy Yours 
Artemas Hale 
J. L. Edwards Esq
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No. 3092
Hannah Ripley
Mass’ts
Act March 3d ‘43
Admitted
2 years Lieut’t
$320 per annum
320
240
560
J. H. Loud Esqr
Plymouth Mass
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Dear Sir
I enclose you the papers with your letter Mr. Louds & by here & bring the case again to your consideration.  
Your Obt Svt.
[unredable] 
8 Feb ‘44
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March 8 1841
Rec’d
Hannah Ripley
Consider from Secy of State
2
James L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Washington March 6 1847 
Sir
I herewith enclose a letter to you, from Mrs Hannah Ripley Widow of Hez’h under act 1838 Massachusetts roll, at the rate of $480 per annum.  You will perceive by her letter, an allowance of pension at a higher rate is claimed on account of her husbands service as a Brigade Major. 
In a former letter Mrs Ripley informed me, she was pensioned on account of her husbands service, as a Lieut Regimental and Brigade Quarter Master.  It is on account of the latter service an increase is now claimed; her husband served to April 1783 & probable longer as Brigade quarter Master & if the evidence of this fact be not on file, began examination of the Washington papers may be requested. “The return of the 2d Regiment shows Heze Ripley to have been in service in April 1783 as a Brigade Qr Master” 
I remain your Most respectfully 
Alex. Ray 
J. L Edwards Esq Com of Pensions
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Payment to be made at Boston 
Franklin Haven Esq 
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of Massachusetts  
Payable on the 4th September and 4th March 
Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 2d, 1848, Page 128 Vol. 2, 
[unreadable]
Clerk.
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WAR DEPARTMENT. 
WIDOW'S PENSION. 
I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2, 1848, Hannah Ripley widow of Hezekiah Ripley who was a Lieut & Quarter Master in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of four hundred & eighty dollars per annum, commencing on the 4th of March, 1848, 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 War Office of the United States this twentieth day of June one thousand eight hundred and forty eight. 
W. L. Marcy 
Secretary of War.
J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions.
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[stamp] BOSTON DEC
[stamp] U.S. POSTAGE ONE CENT
J. M. Thayer Esq.
Boston
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Mr. Thayer will perceive in the last line of the last extract from the account books that H. Ripley’s pay is stated at 20 dollars per day instead of per month. The error is in the book itself Cambridge Decr 6 1853 
Octavius Pickering