Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2808, for Richard Lyman, Connecticut
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SERVICE   Conn.
Lyman, Richard
Mehitable
NUMBER   W. 2808
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Repd see letter 1871 Jany 9  Hon W H Hooper giving synopsis of service & family
5.907   5907 
Montpelier, Vermont, 
Mehitable Lyman, dec’d 
Widow of Richard Lyman who was a Private Conn in the Revolution 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence On the 4th day of March, 1843. and end April 8 1843, when she died. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 2. day of August 1844 and sent to W. W. Cadwell Montpelier Vt. Payable to Jesse Lyman, Anna Greenleaf, Richard Lyman, Lavinia Morse, & Betsy Culver, only surviving children 
[Act of March 3, 1843.] 
Recorded in Book A. Vol 4 Page 270.
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11, 593 R From New Hampshire to Vermont 
Richard Lyman of Salisbury in the State of N Hampshire who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Huntingdon of the Connecticut line, for the term of Three years 1776.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 28 of April 1818 
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 of June 18 and sent to Joshua Darling Henniker New Hampshire 
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 10 3/30  81.83 
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1819      48     
189.83 
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.} 
Continued
9 ½
19 ½ 
 2 the book of 18
Notification sent 4 Octo 1821 to George Rich Montpelier Vt.
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Declaration 
In order to obtain the benefits arising under the resolution of Congress approved the sixteenth day of August, eighteen hundred and forty two, entitled "a resolution declaration of the pension act of July 7th 1838.”  And also in Order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of the 3d March 1843 granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the act of July 7. 1838.   
State of Vermont District 
and County of Washington ss}  At a Probate Court holden at Montpelier within and for the district and County of Washington on this twelfth day of October eighteen hundred and forty three personally appeared Richard Lyman of Duxbury in the County of Washington and State of Vermont who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the resolution of Congress approved the sixteenth day of August, Eighteen hundred and forty two, entitled "a resolution declaration of the Pension Act of July Seventh eighteen hundred and thirty Eight," received, or is entitled to an annuity or pension for the term of five years from the fourth day of March one thousand Eight hundred and thirty six granting pensions to widows of persons who served in the Revolutionary War.   And Also to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3d March 1843 granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the act of July 7 1838.   
And he further declares that he is administrator of the Estate of Mahitable Lyman late of Duxbury in the County of Washington in said district deceased and that the said Mahitable Lyman died in Duxbury in said district on the Eighth day of April eighteen hundred and forty three and that she was the widow of Richard Lyman deceased who was late a pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress of the Eighteenth day of March 1818 of Ninety six dollars per annum and that she the said Mahitable Lyman did make her declaration and application for a pension under said act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 and that therewith forwarded the proof of her being the widow of the said Richard Lyman deceased who died on the fourth
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day of May Eighteen hundred and thirty Eight with the proof of her marriage to the said Richard Lyman, and that a pension was granted unto her the said Mahitable Lyman from the 4th day of May A.D. 1838 being the day of the death of her said husband Richard Lyman to the Expiration of said act of Congress of the 7th July 1838, in the fourth day of March AD. 1841 of Eighty dollars per annum and I would Respectfully refer to the declaration of the said Mahitable Lyman for all the proof on which a pension was granted to her the said Mahitable Lyman as above stated.   
And I the said Richard Lyman an Administrator as aforesaid do further declare that the said Mahitable Lyman is Entitled to the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3d March 1843 granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the Act of July 7th 1838 from the fourth day of March A.D. 1843 to and including the Eighth day of April Eighteen hundred & forty then being the day of the death of the said Mahitable Lyman.   And I the said Richard Lyman as administrator on the of Mahitable Lyman deceased make this Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Resolution of Congress approved on the sixteenth day of August A.D. 1842 entitled a resolution declare ation of the pension act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 and the Act of Congress of the 3d March 1843 granting pensions to Widows of persons who served in the Revolutionary War and to those widows who had received pensions under said Act of July 7. 1838.  She the said Mahitable Lyman having failed to apply for the benefit of said Resolution approved the 16th day of August A.D. 1842 and the Act of Congress of the 3d March AD 1843 in her life time.   
And I the said Richard Lyman being one of the Children of the said Mahitable Lyman and also in my said capacity as administrator for the benefit of the following persons Jesse Lyman, Betsy Culver, Anna Greenleaf and Lavinia Morse who are
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the only surviving children of the said Mahitable Lyman deceased for the balance of the time which the said Mahitable Lyman was entitled to a pension under said declaration resolution of Angus Sixteenth A.D. 1842 from the 4th of March A.D. 1836 to the day of the death of her said husband Richard Lyman which was on the 4th day of May A.D. 1838 being the balance of the said five years which the said Mahitable Lyman never received under said act of Congress of July 7th 1838. And also for the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 3 March 1843 from the 4th March A.D. 1843 to the Eighth day of April A.D. 1843 being the day of the death of the said Mahitable Lyman, she having failed to make her application in her life time for the benefits of said declaration, Resolution and said Act of March 1843. 
Richard Lyman 
Sworn to and subscribed by the above named Richard Lyman the declarant on the twelfth day of October A.D. 1843 And I hereby certify that the said Declarant is a man of Credibility, Respectability and a credible witness and that I am personally acquainted with said Declarant and believe his statement to be true, and do certify that the word "failed "was interlined before being signed by the declarant and being Executed by me. 
Attest Lyman Briggs Clerk & Regr P. Court 
State of Vermont
Washington Probate District ss } Montpelier October 28th A.D. 1843 
I Azel Spalding Judge of the Court of Probate within and for said District do hereby certify that Lyman Briggs before whom the foregoing declaration was made & taken and the signer of the following certificate is Clerk and Register of said Court and was at the time of taking said Declaration and making said Certificates was duly appointed and qualified, and that his signature affixed to said Declaration and certificates are in his own proper hand writing. And that to his official acts and Attestations as such full faith and Credit ought to be given. 
Azel Spalding Judge of Probate
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Rejected under Act of 7 July ‘38
State of Vermont District 
and County of Washington ss}   Be it known that at a Court holden at Montpelier in said County and district on the twelfth day of October A.D. 1843 satisfactory Evidence was exhibited to said Court that Mahitable Lyman of late of Duxbury in said District and County aforesaid died on the Eighth day of April A.D. 1843 at Duxbury aforesaid and that she was the widow of Richard Lyman deceased who was a pensioner of the United States at the time of his death and that the said Richard Lynn an died in Duxbury in said district on the fourth day of May A.D. 1838 and that the following named persons were at the decease of the said Mahitable Lyman the only surviving children of the said Richard Lyman and Mahitable Lyman viz Jesse Lyman of Moretown, Anna Greenleaf of Bradford, Richard Lyman of Duxbury, Lavinia Morse of Montpelier in the State of Vermont and Betsey Culver of the State of Illinois.   
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this twelfth day of October Eighteen hundred and forty three.   
Attest Lyman Briggs Clk & Regr  
State of Vermont District 
and County of Washington ss}  I certify that the foregoing contains the proceedings of the Probate Court for the district and County aforesaid in the matter of the declaration and Application of Richard Lyman who has been duly appointed by this Court Administrator of the Estate of Mahitable Lyman late of Duxbury in said district deceased for the balance of a pension due the said Mahitable Lyman at her decease and that the said Richard Lyman has given bonds in due form of law to faithfully discharge that reposed in him by said Appointment. 
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 12th day of October A.D. 1843. 
Attest Lyman Briggs Clk & Regr
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Nov 7, 1906
T. 
AW
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Lyman, Richard 
His name appears on a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the District Court for the District of  New Hampshire, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War, on Feby 28, 1795 and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, page 159. 
Rank; Sergeant. 
Regt; Col Prentiss's [Prentice], Captain Troop's company 
Disability; Obstructions in his live and spleen, and a general debility, in consequence of wading a river. 
When and where disabled: 1777, Schuylkill 
Residence, Lebanon 
To what pension entitled; Full. 
The claimants disability not being the effect of known wounds he is not entitled to a pension.
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[unreadable] rebellion &c    Malachi    Elijah’s coming & office   
Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the day of old and as in former years.   
5 And I will come near to you to judgement and I will be a swift witness against the forcerers and against the adulterers, and against false bearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye ions of Jacob are not consumed.
7 Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them: return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of boils; but ye said, Wherein shall we return?
8 Will a man rob God yet have robbed me; but ye say, Wherein have be robbed thee?  In tithes and offerings.
9 Ye are cursed with a curse; for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sake and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground, neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.
12 And all nations shall call you blessed; not he shall be a delightsome land, said the LORD  of hosts.
13 Your words have been stout against me, said the LORD; yet ye say, What have we spoken to much against thee?
14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it, that we have kept his ordinance and that we have walked [unreadable] before the LORD of hosts.
The End of the Old Testament
Jesse Lyman Born January 22 1785
Betsey Lyman Born July 22 1787
Josep Lyman Born June 6 1790
Mehitable Lyman Born June 7 1792
Ann Lyman Born September [unreadable] 
15  And now we call the proud happy:  yea, they that work wickedness are fetus the days of old, and as in former years, yea, they that tempt God are even delivered, 
16  Then they that feared the LORD, spake often one to another, and the LORD hearkened and heard it and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD  and that though upon his name
17 And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels, and I will spare them as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
18 Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked; between him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not. 
CHAP IV. 
1 Gods judgment on the wicked…
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The priests repreved       Chap ii, iii    Of Christs [unreadable]
where is my fear saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name: and ye say, Wherein have we defied thy name?
7 Ye offer polluted bread up on mine altar and and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee In that ye say, the table of the LORD is contemptible. 
8 And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil; and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto the governor, will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person?  Saith the LORD of hosts.  
9 And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us; this hath been by your means; will he regard your persons saith the LORD of hosts.
10  Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought?  I neither do ye kindle fire in mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at  your hand.  
11. For from the rising…
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State of Vermont 
Washington County ss} Be it remembered that at a Probate Court holden at Montpeleier within and for the District of Washington on the thirty first day of December A.D. 1839, personally appeared Mahittable Lyman a resident of Duxburg in the County of Washington aforesaid, aged Seventy one years, who being first duly sworn by said Court 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 7th 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows.”   That she is the widow of Richard Lyman a Revolutionary pensioner late of said Duxbury deceased, who was a private in the army of the Revolution, and who service she always understood and believes, three years in the war of the Revolution; that she has no knowledge of the time of his service or of the offices under whom he served only what she received from his declaration and that for a [unreadable] & particular description of his service she refers to his declaration & proof made under the act of the 18th March 1818, by virtue of which he was placed on the list of pensioners  and as she supposed on the Roll of the Vermont agency.  She further declares that she was married to the said Richard Lyman at Lebanon in the State of New Hampshire, by Rev. Isiah Potter Minister of the Gospel, on the Second day of April (1784) in the year seventeen hundred and Eighty four; and that her husband the said Richard Lyman, died at said Duxbury on the fourth day of May A.D. 1838, That
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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.
Mehitable Lyman 
Sworn to and subscribed the year and day above written 
Daniel P Thompson Judge of Probate 
I hereby certify that the above named Mehitable Lyman is a credible witness, 
D. P. Thompson Judge of Probate 
State of Vermont 
District of Washington ss } 1 Jeremiah T. Marston, Register of the Probate Court for the District of Washington aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the proceedings had in the case of Mehitable Lyman for a pension.  
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of the Probate Court, at Montpelier, this 31st day of December, A.D. 1837. 
Jeremiah Marston Register of Probate 
I Paul Dillingham Jr of Notebery in Washington County & State of Vermont of lawful age to wit aged forty years do testify & say that I have long been acquainted with Richard Lyman a pensioner late of Duxbury in Washington County, deceased; that he died on the fourth day of May A.D. 1838. that Mehitable Lyman is his widow, and has not been married since his death.  
Paul Dillingham Jr 
Sworn to and subscribed this 31st day of December 1839 before
D. P. Thompson Judge of Probate
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Richard Lyman 
Schedule 
Conn & Transfer
J. L. E.
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State of Vermont, 
Washington SS}  On this 6th day of February 1821personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record to wit, the Hon Supreme Court of the State of Vermont holding a session at Montpelier within & for the County of Washington aforesaid - Richard Lyman aged fifty nine years  resident in Duxbury in Said county who being first duly sworn as the Law directs doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows:-  Enlisted June 6th 1776 in Capt. Benjamin Troop's [Throop] Company & Col Huntington's Regt of the Connecticut line for the term of three years therein till I was honorably discharged by Col Josiah Star [Starr], on the 4th day of April 1779. That my original declaration is dated on the 28th day of April 1818. & made before the my pension certificate issued thereon is numbered 11.593 & dated June 7. 1819.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of march 1818 & that I have not  disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent 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 & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War” passed on the 18th day of March 1818 & 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 to wit:
4.16- personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record, to wit, the Hon. Supreme Court of the State of Vermont holding a session fifty nine years in sd County. who being first duly sworn as the Law directs, doth on his oath declare Hon. Judge Darling Judge of Hillsborough County Court in the State of Newhampshill & And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 & that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring An act to provide for certain 1 persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18th day of March 1818 & that I have not nor has any person in trust for me I any income other than not have annexed & by me subscribed, to wit. 
One note against my daughters of $34.16
Slice & tongs                                     2.00
4 old chairs                                        0.34
1 small high kettle                             1.00
1 axe                                                  0.83
Part of a pair of stutyards                  0.25
1 broken hand saw                            0.25
1 shovel                                             0.50
1 kettle                                              0.75
Amount brot up [carry over from below] $41.58
One axe head                                    0.17
4 cups & saucers                              0.14
4 old cracked plates                         0.16
1 tin basin                                        0.10
1 quart bowl                                     0.60
4 old knives & forks                        0.25
1 old table                                        0.67
1 old chest                                        0.20
1 warming pan                                 0.50
Books                                               1.00
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1 broken hand saw      0.25
1 shovel                       0.50
1 kettle                        0.75
1 dining fork               0.83
1 old auger                  0.22
1 coopers shave           0.20
1 shave                         0.25
$41.53
1 old table                    0.67
1 old chest                    0.20
1 warming pan             0.50
Books                           1.00
1 foot wheat                 1.87
1 pair of spectacles      0.50
1 crane                         1.25
$45.45
 And I further state that I am indebted to Sundry persons to the amount of about 75.00.
That I am by occupation a Farmer, but am frequently unable to labor on account of ill health. My wife Mehitable aged fifty six years is also subject to frequent illness.   
Richard Lyman 
Sworn to & declared on this 6th day of February AD 1821 Before the Court.
Attest George Rich Clerk
State of Vermont. 
Washington Ss}   I George Rich Clerk of the Supreme Court for the County of Washington in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath & 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 forty eight dollars & forty five cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & fixed the seal of the Court on this 6th day of February A.D. 1821. 
George Rich Clerk
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Richard Lyman 
affidavit on Application for a pension 
on Roll
No 104
Richard Lyman private Colonel Huntington's Regt Connecticut line afterwards commd by Col Prentiss [Prentice] 
1776- 3 years 
Admitted
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State of New Hampshire 
Hillsborough ss – 
On this twenty eighth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me the subscriber one of the associate Justices of the Court of Common Pleas of the said State personally appears Richard Lyman aged fifty seven years resident in Salisbury in said County who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War.   That he the said Richard Lyman enlisted Lebanon in the State of Connecticut in June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six for the term of three years in the Company commanded by Capt Benjamin Troop  [Throop] in the Regiment raised and for a time commanded by Colonel Jedediah Huntington afterwards commanded by Col. Prentiss [Prentice]. That he continued to serve in said Corps in the service of the United States  until April 8th until one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine when he was regularly discharged in Springfield in the State of New Jersey to the best of his recollection.   And that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of assistance from his Country for support and that he has now no other evidence in his power of his said services.   
Richard Lyman 
Sworn to and declared before me on the day and year aforesaid
Joshua Darling one of the associate Judges for the District in Hillsborough  County New Hampshire
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I Joshua Darling Judge &c. as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the aforesaid Richard Lyman did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceeding declaration against the Common Enemy for the full 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 to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress April 28th AD. 1818. 
It also appears to my satisfaction that the said Richard Lyman stands in need of aid from his Country for Support .
Joshua Darling 
State of New Hampshire in Hillsborough SS 
I Moses Eastman Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the first District, County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, do certify that the Honorable Joshua Darling is a Judge of said Court, that the foregoing is his signature and the seal hereunto annexed is the seal of said Court. 
Moses Eastman Clerk
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I.S.C.
W. 2808: Rev War    March 25, 1905. 
Sir:
In reply to your recent communication concerning Richard Lyman, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you are advised that the date and place of his birth are not mentioned in the papers on file in this Bureau, and the only additional data herein is as follows:  
“Children of Richard and Mehitable Lyman.  
Jesse Lyman,  born January 22, 1785  
Betsey Lyman  born  July 22, 1787. 
Josep Lyman born 27 June 6, 1790. 
Mehitable Lyman born June 9, 17 -- (obliterated ) 
Anna Lyman born  September – (obliterated )”    
At death of widow the arrears of pension were paid to Jesse Lyman, of Moretown, Anna Greenleaf, of Bradford, Richard Lyman, of Duxbury, and Lovinia Morse, of Montpelier, in the State of Vermont, and Betsy Culver, of Illinois, only surviving children of Mehitable Lyman, deceased. 
Very respectfully, 
Commissioner
Mr. Walter H. Lyman, 
248 6th Avenue, 
New York City.
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Feby 24, 1905 Hist to Walter H. Lyman, New York City 
1905 oct 3  - N. H. Lyman advised no Copies of papers, 
1905 Oct 3, military and family history to Chas. F Turton, M.B.H. 
1905. Nov. 25 Hon. C. M. Depew infd [informed] thru Secty Sect that full copies are not furnished and that statement was sent W.H. Lyman as above, AW  
1905 Dec. 20, W.H. Lyman advised Only data Betsy Culver never lived in Ills. in 1843: advised to apply to Auditor Int Dept. MBK 
Revy WIDOW, &c. 
File No. 2808 
Mehitable Lyman, Widow, 
Richard Lyman 
Priv. Rev War 
Act: R May 3. 1843. 
Index: -- Vol. Page 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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6617 
Vt. Suspd [suspended]
Let to Hon J. Fletcher Feb 10th 1840
Act 7 July ‘38
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Department of the Interior
PENSION OFFICE   
Washington, DC. Jany 9 1871 
Sir   
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of yours of 7th inst enclosing a letter from George D Smith, herewith returned, enquiring after a Richard Lyman who served in the Revolutionary war, and his widow.   
The only person of this name that served, or his widow, found on the rolls in New Hampshire or Vermont is given below.   There are discrepancies between the statement of your correspondent & that herein but he will be able to determine if his ancestor 
Richard Lyman enlisted as a private for 3 years June 6, 1776 into the Company of Capt Benjamin Troop [Throop], in the regiment commanded by Colo Jedediah Huntington & afterwards by Col Prentiss [Prentice], at Lebanon, Connecticut, and discharged by Col Josiah Starr April 1779 at Springfield, New Jersey. He applied April 28, 1818 while residing in Salisbury N H & received a pension of $18 per month till his death May 4 1838, at Duxbury Vt.  His widow Mehitable was allowed a pension of 80 per annum from May 4. 1838 to March 4, 1841, and from March 4, 1843 to April 8, 1843 which last was paid to Richard Lyman a son and Administrator.  His age at decease was 77 years & the widow 78 years.   He was married April 2, 1784 to Mehitable Aspinwall at the House of Zalmon Aspinwall in Lebanon, N. H. by the
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Richard Lyman Vermont Act 1818 when paid H H L 
Third aud [auditors] Off [office] 
28 March ‘ 40 
Died 4th May 1838. Paid that period  JH
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All the law of Vermont, which requires births & deaths of children to be recorded, is contained in "an act regulating town meetings, & the choice & duty of town officers.” passed July 28, 1797 - consequently it is useless to look for records of births earlies then that.
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CHAS. S. WARE, PRESIDENT. 
PHIL H. HEMBDT, PRINCIPAL
WM. I. HALSTEAD. 
H. H. F. LOUNSBERY. 
WALTER H. LYMAN. 
FRANK G. FOWLER. 
F. J. CARPENTER, SECRETARY. 
[stamp] OLD WAR & NAVY DEC 5 1905
MOUNT KISCO HIGH SCHOOL. 
Mount Kisco, N. Y., Nov. 29th 1905 
Department of the Interior 
Bureau of Pensions 
Washington D.C 
Gentlemen: In a communication from your department under date of Mch 25th last relative to military history of one Rich’d Lyman,  a Revolutionary soldier  you stated “at death of widow the arrears of pension were paid to " several children - among them “Betsy Culver of Illinois ".  
Would you be so kind as to send me the then address of Betsy Culver. This is in connection with a genealogical search.  With I am making Obliging Very truly yours 
Walter H. Lyman
[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE A DEC 2 1905
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Aug. 16th 248 1905      248 6th Ave . N. Y. City 
Dept of the Interior 
Bureau of Pensions Washington D.C 
Gentlemen:- 
My great grand father Richard Lyman received a pension for services during the Revolutionary War. Little data concerning such service has been obtained outside of that furnished me by your department on the 24th of Feb. last.  I am lead to inquire how and in what manner was the Pension Office satisfied that his was a just claim, in fact I would like an exact and complete copy of application made by Richard Lyman on April 28,1818 who then resided, according to your information to me, in Salisbury N. H.  Also complete copy of application paper that caused your Department to continue the pension to his widow Mehitable Palmer Lyman at the time of his death in May 4th 1838.  
I remain Very truly yours 
Walter H. Lyman
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OWN EW
The Greenwich Savings Bank 
(INCORPORATED 1833) 
246 & 248. Sixth Avenue, 
Borough of Manhattan 
John Harson Rhoades President 
James Quinton Treasurer 
Chas M. Dutcher Asst Treas. New York Sept 21 ‘05
Dept of the Interior 
Bureau of Pension 
Washington D C 
Gentlemen:- On or about Aug. 15th last I wrote to your department requesting certain facts concerning the payment of a pension to Rich Lyman of the Revolutionary War and yet have received no reply. Will you kindly advise me in the matter obliging 
Yours Truly 
W. H. Lyman
[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE  A SEP 25 1905
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OWN EW
The Greenwich Savings Bank 
(INCORPORATED 1833) 
246 & 248. Sixth Avenue, 
Borough of Manhattan 
John Hinson Rhoades President 
James Quinton Treasurer 
Chas M. Dutcher Asst Treas. New York Feb 7 ‘05
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington D C 
Dear Sir:- In the Revolutionary Rolls and lists is found this note "Rich’d Lyman was a private in Col. O. Hasford's regiment that marched to East Chester County Sept 1776 to join Col Washington”   also "Richd Lyman was a Connecticut Pensioner act of 1818 residing in N. Hampshire” from Conn men in the revolution. Have you any record to disprove that these two notes refers to the Rich’d Lyman cited in a communication from you under date of Nov 4 1904. 
My great grand father received a pension
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for service in a war of 1776 but he was not the R. L.  of your favor of Nov. 4 ’05.  Was there any other manner of pensioning War Men by the U.S. Government.   
Thanking you for any courtesy you may extend to me 
Very truly yours
 Walter H. Lyman 
[stamp] U.S.P.B. OLD WAR & NAVY FILES FEB 9 1905
[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE A FEB 8 1905
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AW  CMB
Old War and Navy Division  3-1883.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, 
BUREAU OF PENSIONS, 
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 24, 1905.
Wid. File #2808, 
Richard Lyman, Rev War.  
Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, 
U. S. Senate. 
My dear Senator: In response to your letter to the Secretary of the Interior, dated November 15, 1905, which was forwarded to this Bureau November 20, 1905; requesting a complete copy of the papers on file in the above-noted pension claim, for W. H. Lyman of # 248 Sixth Ave, New York City; I have the honor to advise you that Mr. Lyman was furnished with a full statement of all facts relative to the service and family of said soldier on February 24, 1905, and on October 3, 1905, was informed that it was not the practice of this bureau to furnish full copies of papers in its files. 
Such statements are furnished by the courtesy of this Bureau which is unable to supply copies of papers in pension claims. Any responsible person designated by Mr. Lyman may see and copy the papers in said claim by calling at this bureau. 
Very respectfully, 
Copy 
Commissioner 
In response to letter of Hon C.M. Depew which was returned thro. Secty Interior by request  AW
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M.B.H. Exr.
Wid. File #2808, Richard Lyman, Rev. War. 
Oct. 5, 1905. 
Sir:
In response to your letter dated August 16, 1905, and received August 17, 1905, you are advised that it is not the practice of this Bureau to furnish copies of papers in its files. 
Very respectfully, 
Acting Commissioner
Mr. Walter H. Lyman, 
248-6th Ave., 
New York City.
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Widow File No. 2308, Richard Lyman, Revolutionary War. 
Dec. 20, 1905. 
Sir:
In response to your letter dated November 29, 1905, and received in this Bureau December 2, 1905, you are advised that from data in the above noted claim it is shown that Betsey Culver, the soldier's daughter, resided in Illinois in 1843, and no further information on this point is given. 
It is suggested that Betsey Culver's place of residence in the State of Illinois may be obtained by application to the Auditor for the Interior Department, Treasury Department, citing the following data: 
Richard Lyman: Widow Certificate No. 5907, issued August 2, 1844, Act March 3, 1844; Montpelier, Vermont Agency. 
Very respectfully, 
Commissioner
Mr. Walter H. Lyman, 
High School, Mount Kisco, N. Y.
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W. 2808
Richard Lyman
Apl. 28 1818 res [residence] Salisbury
Hillsborough Co NH 57
Washington Vt in 1821
Enl [enlisted] Lebanon Ct.
June 1776 Capt Benj Troop [Throop]
Col Jedediah Huntington
Prentiss [Prentice] 
Dis [discharged] Apl 4 ’79   3 yrs
Springfield NJ
Mar [married] Lebanon N.H. Apl 2, 1784
Mehitable Palmer she d [died] Duxbury Vt Apl 8, 1843
Sol d. May 4 1838 at Duxbury Washington Co. Vt.
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Richard Lyman Vt  Act 1818 when last paid?  GMC
1840
51
1785
18
1803
8 July 40 m. ‘84
Moved to Dux [Duxbury] in 1803
Died 4 May 1838 paid to that time
JH
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248 6  Ave N. Y. City 
J.L. Davenport Actg Comm Bureau of Pensions Washington D.C. 
Dear sir:   In a communication from your Dept under date of Feb 24 ‘05  relative to the military service of Ric’d Lyman under caption O.W. and N. Div. I, S.C. Wid 2808, R. war the birth day and birth place of the soldier were not given. Can they be had from your Bureau?  And any other detail in addition to that already sent me, would be appreciated.#  The soldier in question married Mahitable Palmer and died in Duxbury Vt. as also did his wife.   Thanking you for your customary courtesy. I remain yours Truly 
Walter H. Lyman 
# or where could this data be obtained 
Mch 2 ‘05
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[stamp] NAVY SEP 11 1905 FILES P.B.  
Division Ave & Spruce St. 
Richmond Hill New York Sept 8 1905.  
Dept of Interior 
Bureau of Pensions 
The undersigned desires full Copies of the papers filed with the application of one Richard Lyman for pension, as veteran of the War of the Revolution, filed 1818 who died 1838 and also the papers filed by his widow Mehitable Palmer Lyman who obtained a continuance of the pension until her death in 1843.  
By fulfilling the above request at an early date, you will greatly oblige, 
Yours truly, Carles F. Turton
[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE  A SEP 9 1905
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P38
40. 3. 4
38 .5 .4
1.10 
80 
66.66 
6617 
Mehitable Lyman Widow of Richard  
Act July 7 1838
Married 1784
Died May 4 1838
Allow $80 per annum
From May 4 1838 
Hon Isaac Fletcher
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[stamp] Forty first Congress U.S.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Washington D.C.  January 7th 1871  
Hon H. Van Erman
Comr Pensions
Dear Sir: 
The enclosed  Letter is from a prominent constituent of mine who duly informed  through your Pension Roll [unreadable] the woman when asked for to be made and give me the reason.
Very Truly Yours
W H Hooper
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6209 Act ‘43
Mehitable Lyman 
Vt.
Mar 3d 43
Rich’d
9 m 5 d
Priv
$80 per annum
To commence march 3d ’43 & end April 8th 1843, payable to Jesse Lyman, Anna Greenleaf, Richard Lyman, Lovinia Morse and Betsy Culver only surviving children
W. W. Cadwell Esqr
Montpelier Vt
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Mar 23, 1840
Mr. Syl
Hon J. L. Edwards
Pension Office D.C.
Hon Isaac Fletcher HR
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House of Representatives March 20th 1840 
Hon. J. L. Edwards 
Sir 
enclosed I transmit for your consideration further evidence in the case of Mahitabel Lyman of Vermont asking for a pension. Please at your convenience inform me of the State of the case if further evidence is wanting. 
I have the honour to be your Obt Sert 
I. Fletcher
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House of Representatives Feby 6th 1840
Hon J L Edwards 
Sir,  
I enclose for your consideration the papers of Mahitabell Lyman of Danbury County of Washington, State of Vermont praying for a pension.  Your early attention if perfectly convenient, will much Oblige 
your humble Servt I. Fletcher
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Montpelier December 11th 1843 
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Sir 
I forward you enclosed the Declaration of Richard Lyman Son of Mahitable Lyman who has been duly appointed Administrator on the Estate of his Mother. The said Mahitable Lyman was a pensioner under the act of July 7th 1838 from the decease of her husband Richard Lyman which took place on the 4th May 1838, to the Expiration of said Act. This Declaration is made to obtain the balance of the time under the Explanatory Resolution of August 16th 1842 and for such portion as she was entitled to under the act of Congress to passed on the 3d March 1843. If this Application is not made in proper form or Agreeable to the requirements of the Department you will have the goodness to give me such information as will enable me to comply with the requirements of your office. 
I am Sir Yours Very Respectfully 
William W. Cadwell
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6617 
Mehitable Lyman
Vt
Act 7 July ‘38
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I Richard Lyman of Duxbury County of Washington aged thirty eight years do testify & say that I have long been acquainted with Richard Lyman a pensioner late of said Duxbury deceased, who was my father, that he died on the fourth day of May A.D. 1838, and that Mehitable Lyman is his widow and has not been married since his death.  
Richard Lyman 
Sworn to and subscribed this 31st day of December 1839 before 
D P Thompson Judge of Probate 
And I hereby certify that the above named deponents Paul Dillingham Jr and Richard Lyman are credible witnesse. S
D.P. Thompson Judge of Probate 
State of Vermont 
Washington district 
County of Washington } ss Probate office Montpelier Dec 1839  
I Jeremiah T. Marston Register of the Probate Court for the District of Washington aforesaid do hereby certify that the two foregoing depositions made in open court were also part of the proceedings had in the case of Mehitable Lyman for a pension.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal said event the year and day aforesaid 
Jeremiah  T Marston Register
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE. 
I  JOSIAH STEVENS, JR.   Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that George, H Lathrop in and for the County of Grafton is an acting Justice of the Peace duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the twenty-sixth day of September 1835 and will expire on the twenty sixth day of September 1840 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine. 
Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this twenty third of January 1840 
Josiah Stevens Secretary of State
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Hon I. Fletcher
HR
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I Timothy Kenrick of lawful age do depose and say that I am Town Clerk of the Town of Lebanon in the County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire. that I have held said office for more than ten years last past, that I was duly elected to said Office on the second Tuesday of March AD 1839 for the year ending on the second Tuesday of March 1840.  That I have examined the records of Births and Marriages of said Town in my office from the year 1772 to the year 1816 during which time the Rev Isaiah Potter was the settled Minister of the Gospel in said town, but do not find any record of the Marriage of Richard Lyman to Mehitable Palmer, nor do I find any records of the births of their children, the records are not so regular and full as to raise any presumption against an alledged marriage within the said town of Lebanon during the time above mentioned, but on the contrary many marriages are known to have taken place and where the ceremony was performed by the Revd Isaiah Potter which do not appear on the records.  
Timothy Kenrick
State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss  Lebanon January 11th 1840 
Then the above named Timothy Kenrick whom I certify to be a witness entitled to full credit, personally appeared and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is just and true. 
Before me Geo H Lathrop Justice of the peace
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I Lois Lathrop of Lebanon in the County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire aged Seventy four years do depose and say. That in the month of April in the year of our Lord Seventeen Hundred and Eighty four I was present at the House of Zalmon Aspinwall in said Lebanon, and saw Richard Lyman  married to Mehitable Palmer. The ceremony was performed by the Rev’d Isaiah Potter.  Mr & Mrs Lyman some after this removed to the town of Enfield, and she does not know anything further about them. 
Lois Lathrop 
State of New Hampshire Grafton ss - Lebanon January 11th 1840. 
Then the above named Lois Lathrop whom I certify to be Witness entitled to full credit, personally appeared and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by her subscribed is just and true.   
Before me Geo H Lathrop, Justice Peace
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Richard Lyman’s application for transfer from N. Hampshire to Vermont
Transfer 4 Oct 1821
Apr 19
[unreadable] day of July A.D. 1821
Geo Rich Clerk of Supr Ct Washington County Vermont
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APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER.
State of Vermont 
County of Washington ss. 
On this 27th day of June 1821, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Washington personally appeared Richard Lyman who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Benj. Troop [Throop] in the regiment commanded by Colonel Huntington in the service of the United States ; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of New Hampshire from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the state (district, or territory) of Vermont where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future. 
Richard Lyman 
Sworn and subscribed to, before me, the day and year aforesaid 
Cephus  Carpenter Justice of Peace 
WAR DEPARTMENT, Pension Office, August 15, 1818. The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated.
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State of Vermont 
Washington County ss} I do hereby certify that Cephus Carpenter Washington before whom the within affidavit was taken was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace, duly qualified, acting under the authority of this State & that his name subscribed thereto is his proper hand writing.  
Given under my hand & the seal of the Court, this 6th day of July A.D. 1821
Geo Rich Clerk of Sup Ct. 
Washington Co. Vt.
Richard Lyman’s  application for transfer from N. Hampshire to Vermont  
Transferred 4 Oct 1821.  
Sepr 19
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Hon I Fletcher
H.R.
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Moretown 
I Jesse Lyman of Moretown in Washington County and State of Vermont, aged fifty five years, depose & say that I am the son of Richard Lyman Deceased, who died at Duxbury May 4, 1838 & of Mehitable Lyman  his widow who is now living. My first recollections of any distinct fact is the birth of my brother Joseph Lyman who was born in the Town of Granville now called Kingston, in the State of Vermont, when my parents have as I always understand then lately moved from  Lebanon New Hampshire.   My parents continued to live in said Granville till I was eighteen years of age when I left home & came into Duxbury took up some land, erected a log house, & the next year my parents moved to Duxbury into said House.  The leaf of the bible hereto annexed which is the last leaf of the old testament, & on which is recorded the names & date of the births of Jesse, Betsey, Joseph,  Mehitable  & Anna Lyman all children of said Richard & Mehitable my parents, is a leaf taken this day from the old by bible of my father, which was the only one he ever had since my remembrance.   I know that every won written on this leaf is in the hand writing of my late father.  I think I have a recollection of seeing him write one or two of the last lives, but my recollection on this point  is indistinct. It might have be on the next leaf where the births of the younger children are recorded.  The whole of this record has be in existence as long as I can distinctly remember, which I believe is as much as 45 years.  The last date him is probably Sept. 1794 and further I say not. 
Jesse Lyman
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The foregoing deposition subscribed and sworn to this twentieth day of February A.D. 1840 Before me 
Paul Dillingham Jr. Justice of the Peace 
I certify that Jesse Lyman the signer of the in deposition is personally known to me to be a credible witness.   
Paul Dillingham Jr. Justice of Peace 
State of Vermont 
Washington County ss}  I Stillman Churchill Clerk of the County Court for the County of Washington aforesaid, do hereby certify that Paul Dillingham or is a Justice of the Peace in and for said Washington County, duly appointed & qualified to act as such, and that his signatures to the foregoing are genuine.  In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand office the seal of said Court, at Montpelier this 20th day of February in the year of our Lord thousand Eight hundred and forty.   
Stillman Churchill Clerk
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WAR DEPARTMENT. 
Revolutionary Claim. 
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States, of the September 1843 Mehitable Lyman, late of Vermont,  deceased widow of Richard Lyman, who was a Private in the Revolution, was entitled to a pension at the rate of $80 per annum, commencing on the 4th March 1843, and having died 8th April 1843.   The amount due to the time of her death is payable to Jesse Lyman, Anna Greenleaf, Richard Lyman, Lavinia Morse and Betsy Calvin, only suriving children of Mehitable Lyman, dec’d 
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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5794 
Vermont 
Mehitable Lyman widow of Richard Lyman decd who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818- who died on the 4 May 1838 – of Washington State of Vermont who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Troop [Throop] of the regt commanded Col Huntingdon in the Connect line for 2 years  
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum, commence on the 4th day of May 1838.  
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of March ‘40, & sent to the Hon Isaac Fletcher  H. Reps
Arrears to the 4th of March 1840 $146.67 
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sep ‘40 40.00 
186.67  
{Act July 7, 1838.} 
Recorded by D. McCurdy Clerk, 
Book A Vol. 2. Page 45 
Letter to W. W. Cadwell 27 July 1844