Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24312, for Samuel Sweet, Rhode Island
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SERVICE
R. I.

Sweet, Samuel
Griswold, Elizabeth
(Former widow)

NUMBER
W 24312
B.L.Wt. 358401055
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6376
Elizabeth Griswold
widow of 
Samuel Sweet
who served in the Revolutionary  
R. I. 
war, as a Matross
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
82 Dollars 35
Cents per annum, to commence on
 the 4th dat of March, 1848.
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Certificate of Pension issued the
14th day of March 18??
and sent to B. Cowell
Providence, R. I. 
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Recorded on Toll of Pensioners under
February 2, 1848, Page 177 Vol. [illegible]
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Claim for bounty Land presented
by Rufus W Crain as agent 
Pages Comus
Herkimer [illegible]
N. Y.

[written vertically left side]
11621.7.957
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State of Rhode Island
County of Kent ss

Town clerks Office East Greenwich 
February 28th 1856.__

I Silus Weaver Town Clerk of the Town of East Greenwich in said County do certify that I have in my custody the records of said town including the Records of birth and Marriages and the Records of deeds of the conveyances of Real Estate in said town.  And I further certify that I have examined the records of Town Meeting held in said East Greenwich during the war of the Revolution between the years of 1775 & 1783, but I cannot find the names if the soldiers who were ordered to be drafted by said Town.  It appears said town often had Town Meetings & when soldiers were drafted & were unable to equip themselves the town ordered the equipments to be furnished at the expense of said town but no name is given of any one so equipped, nor does it appear that any soldier who was an enlisted soldier received any pay or bounty from said Town.
And I further certify that the following is the record of the births of the children of Samuel Sweet & Lydia Sweet, his wife as appears in the registry of births to wit  "George Sweet, the eldest son of Samuel Sweet and born of the body of Lydia his wife in East Greenwich October ye 2nd 1753 and on the forth[sic] day of the week."
"Samuel Sweet the second son of Samuel Sweet and born of the body of Lydia his wife in East Greenwich July ye 20th 1756, on the third day of the week"
William Sweet , the third son of Samuel Sweet and born of the body of Lydia his wife in East Greenwich, May ye 14th 1758 on the first day of the week, about ten of the Clock in the fore noon"
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"Abigail Sweet, the eldest daughter of Samuel Sweet and born of the body of Lydia his wife in East Greenwich November ye 22nd 1761 on the first day of the week between one and two of the clock in the afternoone."
"Silas Sweet the fourth son of Samuel Sweet and bon of the body of Lydia his wife in East Greenwich, September ye 12th 1762 on the first day of Week about ten of the clock in the afternoone."__
"Benjamin Sweet, the fifth son of Samuel Sweet and born of the body of Lydia his wife in East Greenwich July ye 13th A. D. 1765 on the seventh day of the week about ten of the clock in the fore noon."__
"Dorcas Sweet the second Daughter of Samuel Sweet and born of the body of Lydia his wife in East Grennwich April ye 17th AD 1768 on the first day of the week."__

And I further certify that it appears from the Land conveyances in this office the after the death & Letters of Administration had been granted upon the estate of the said D\Samuel Sweet Senior, to wit in March 1784 that said Samuel Sweet Jr. conveyed to Benjamin Sweet a lot of land in said East Greenwich by died bearing date the twentieth day of November 1784 and it appears the said grantor lived in the State of New York at that time all which appears of record duly compared by me__
Attest
Silas Weaver
Town Clerk
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State of Rhode Island
County of Kent ___East Greenwich February 28 AD 1856
Subscribed and sworn to before me by the said Silas Weaver known to me to be the Town Clerk of the Town of East Greenwich in full faith and credit are due to his attestations as such
Jeremiah S. Slocum Justice Peace

State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations
Kent &c
Clerks Office Court of Common Pleas
I hereby certify that Jeremiah S. Slouch is a Justice of the Peace within and for the county of Kent duly elected commissioned and qualified as such to administer oaths take acknowledgements and that his signature to the foregoing affidavit is genuine
Witness my hand the seal of said court at East Greenwich this 28th day of February A. D. 1856
John C. Brown, Clerk
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State of New York
County of [illegible]  ss
On this 7th day of May 1855 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Court of Sessions of the County of Oswego in the State of New York Elizabeth Griswold aged eighty five years a resident of the town of Albion in the County Oswego 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 pension to certain widows" and the several acts amendatory of & continuing the same:  that she is now the widow of Samuel Sweet who was a private as she believes in the war of the Revolution in the Militia and Continental line of the army raised and brought 
into the service of the United States from Rhode Island & that her said husband the said Samuel Sweet belonged to East Greenwich and as she has understood from him and others was engaged in the service of the United States a great portion of the war:  She further states that her memory does not enable to her to give the names of the officers under whom her husband served but thinks the in the fore part of the war he was in Col Crary or Col Elliotts Regiments and in the later part of the war in the Rhode Island Regiment under Col Olney__there are all the names she now recollects & must refer to such proof as she shall be able to obtain as to who were his company officers and the extent of his service___She further states
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her name before marriage was Elizabeth Griggs and that she was married to the said Samuel Sweet in the town of Berlin in the County of Resselaer in the state of New York on or about the 10th day of January 1789 by one [illegible] Hull a Justice of the Peace and that her husband the said Samuel Sweet died in the town of Berlin Resselaer County New York on the 9th day of June 1819 and that on or about the 20th day of September 1820 she was married to Manus Griswold and that the said Manus Griswold died at Berlin aforesaid on the 23d day of December 1823 and that she has not intermarried since his death but is still his widow that she was not married to the said Samuel Sweet prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place at the time above stated.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above written & I certify the the aforesaid Elizabeth Griswold is unable to attend in open Court to make he declaration by reason of bodily infirmity__   Elizabeth Griswold


We Samuel N. Sweet aged 49 years a resident of Albion New York and [illegible] Renpel[illegible] aged50 years a resident of Albion New York where our oaths say that we were present and saw the aforesaid Elizabeth Griswold
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State of New York
County of Jefferson

John J. Green of the town of Adams in the state of NewYork being duly sworn according to law deposes and says that he knew Samuel Sweet in his life time and knowes that he was the husband of Elizabeth Griswold whose application is hereunto annexed and knew them the said Samuel Sweet and the said Elizabeth Griswold to live together as husband and wife and to be so reputed and that the said Samuel Sweet died at Berlin in the state of New York on the 8th day of June 1819, and that his widow the said Elizabeth was married to Manus Griswold on or about the 20th day of September 1820 and that the said Manus Griswold died at Berlin aforesaid on the 23rd day of December 1823, and that the said Elizabeth has not intermarried since his death, but is now the widow of the said Manus Griswold
John J Green
Subscribed and sworn before me the 6 day of July 1855
Horace Wilder, Justice of the Peace

I Horace Wilder Justice of the Peace in the town of Adams do hereby state and certify the I am personally acquainted with John . Green of Adams and know him to be a man of truth and veracity and a very respectable citizen.
Horace Wilder Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
County of Herkimer

Thomas Webb of the town of Warren, Herkimer County in the state of New York, aged ninety two years, being duly sworn according to law  deposes and says that he knew Samuel Sweet in his life time who was a private as he believes in the war of the revolution, this deponent was himself a soldier in that war; this deponent has heard Samuel Sweet and other persons say that he, the said Samuel Sweet then of East Greenwich, Rhode Island was one of the enlisted troops of Col. Elliott's regiment, and that he the said Samuel Sweet also rendered service in the United States under Col. Crary, this deponent further says that he knew personally Mrs. Elizabeth Griswold whose application is hereunto annexed previous to and before her marriage with the said Samuel Sweet and knows her maiden name before her first marriage to have been Elizabeth Griggs.
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this deponent further says that he was present and attended and witnessed the marriage of the said Samuel Sweet and the said Elizabeth Griggs,  that he witnessed the ceremony and saw them married by one Hesekiah Hull a justice of the Peace on the 10th day of January in the year 1789 in the town of Berlin Renssalaer
County in the state of New York, that he knew 
the said Samuel Sweet and the Said Elizabeth to live together as husband and wife and to be so reputed, this deponent further says that he knows that the said Samuel Sweet died at Berlin in the state of New York  on the 8th day of June in the year 1819 and that his widow the said Elizabeth was married to Manus Griswold the 29th day of September 1820 and
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that the said Manus Griswold died at Berlin aforesaid on the 23rd day of December 1823, and that the said Elizabeth has not intermarried since his death but is now the widow of the said Manus Griswold, this deponent further says that the said Elizabeth was not married to the said Samuel Sweet prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place at the time above stated, and that he knows Elizabeth Griswold whose application is hereunto annexed to be the same person that he saw married to the said Samuel Sweet.
Thomas Webb



Subscribed and sworn before me the 8th day of October in the year 1855
G. M. Cleland / Justice
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I G M Cleland a justice of the Peace in the town of Warren, Herkimer County in the state of New York do hereby state and certify that I am personally acquainted with Thomas Webb of Warren who has made the above affidavit and know him to be a man of truth and veracity and although 92 years of age of sound mind and memory and I further certify that I have no interest in this case, and am not concerned in its prosecution.
G M Cleland  Justice P

State of New York,}
HERKIMER COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE,}    ss
I, E.T. CLELAND, Clerk of the County of Herkimer, DO CERTIFY that Geo M Cleland Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the certificate and jury of affidavit of the annexed instrument was at the date thereof, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county, dwelling in said county, duly elected and sworn; and that I am well acquainted with his handwriting, and verily believe the name subscribed to the said Certificate and jury of affidavit, to be his genuine signature.  

In witness thereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county, at Herkimer, this day of [illegible] A. D. 1855

Wm H Barey De? Clerk
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State of New York
Jefferson County

Samuel N.  Sweet, aged fifty years of the town of Albion Oswego County, New York, being duly sworn, according to law, deposes and says, that he a a son of Samuel Sweet and Elizabeth Griswold, that about forty years age, he heard his Father Samuel Sweet say, repeatedly, that he was an enlisted soldier in the revolutionary war, that an officer struck him on the head with a ramrod, that he saw George Washington, and thought he appeared the best of any man he ever saw, especially on a horse.  This deponent recollects that his father Samuel Sweet left home to call on Judge Gray, then of Berlin, Rensselaer County by now decease, to see if he could obtain the pension that he said on his return, that the Judge told them, he could not unless he could swear he was destitute of the necessaries of life. that he had some property and said
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he could not make oath that he was without the necessaries of life, and consequently could no obtain the pension.
This deponent believes from a record in his possession and from other sources, that his Father Samuel Sweet was born at East Greenwich Rhode Island, July 20th 1756, that he has often heard him say that he came from East Greenwich Rhode Island to Berlin Rensselaer County, New York.
This deponent knows that Samuel Sweet and Elizabeth Griswold lived together as husband and wife and were so reputed, until the death of Samuel Sweet which this deponent is certain took place at Berlin, aforesaid, June 8th 1819.
This deponent is certain that his Mother the said Elizabeth married Manu Griswold a year or so after the death of here first husband Samuel Sweet, that Manus Griswold lived only
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about three years after his marriage with the said Elizabeth and that since his death, the said Elizabeth Griswold has not intermarried but is now his widow, and resides at Albion, Oswego County New York.
This deponent further states that the reasons why his mother, Elizabeth Griswold who is now the widow of Manus Griswold and certainly was the widow of Samuel Sweet, the soldier in Col. Elliot's Regiment  in the war of the revolution, has not before applied for the pension are as follows as this deponent is informed by her and believes that when the act of July 7th 1838 was passed Elizabeth Griswold did not hear of the passage of such an act until several years afterwards, that when she did hear that such a law had been passed she was told and correctly informed, that having married a second time she had
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no right to a pension, that when the act of August 1842 was passed, she did not hear of its passage until several years afterwards, or, until recently, that even after she was informed that the impediment of her second marriage was removed by this act, she thought it difficult to obtain the pension as her first husband Samuel Sweet resided in Rhode Island and not in this state at the time he served in the war of the revolution.
This deponent further says, that he has been occupied in lecturing on Elocution and in taking books on that subject for a quarter of a century almost incessantly and has paid but little attention to other matters, that last April he called at the office of Adriel Ely, Esq. of Watertown, Jefferson County, by where he found the name of his Father Samuel Sweet, published
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in a book in the said Ely's possession, containing a list of the names of revolutionary soldiers from Rhode Island, that the said Adril Ely who attends to the business of obtaining pensions, drew up the original declaration of Elizabeth Griswold and advised this deponent to write to the Secretary of State of Rhode Island, that he did immediately write to the secretary of State of Rhode Island who wrote this deponent to apply to Benjamin Cowell, Esq. of Providence, Rhode Island, for information on the subject of the services of his Father Samuel Sweet in the revolutionary war.
This deponent knows that Elizabeth Griswold is the same woman who lived with his father Samuel Sweet until the time of his death, and that she is the same person who afterward married Manus
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Griswold and that she is now the widow of Manu Griswold that she is in indigent circumstances, that although she is eight five years old and is almost helpless she is of sound mind and memory.
Samuel Sweet

Subscribed and sworn before me this 24th day of January 1856.     Horace Wilder Justice of the Peace

 I Horace Wilder, Justice of the Peace of the town of Adams, Jefferson County, N. Y. hereby state and certify the I am personally acquainted with Samuel N. Sweet who has made this affidavit and know him to be a man of respectability, truth, and veracity, and I further certify that I have not interest in this claim and am not concerned in its prosecution
Horace Wilder, Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Herkimer County

Thomas Webb aged ninety two years, of Warren, Herkimer Count, New York, being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose, and say that he knew Samuel Sweet in East Greenwich Rhode Island about the close of  the revolutionary war.  This
deponent then resided in Warwich, Rhode Island and became well acquainted with the said Samuel Sweet and knew of his having been in the war and heard him say he was in Col. Elliott's Regiment.  This deponent also knew Dorcas Sweet a sister of the Said Samuel Sweet.  The said Samuel Sweet afterwards removed to Berlin, Rensselaer County, New York, in company with his sister Dorcas Sweet whom this deponent married in 1785 
This deponent further says that he knows Elizabeth Griswold of Albion, Oswego County, New York, whose application for pension is being made.  He further says that he knew her when she was the widow of Samuel Sweet and before her marriage with the said Samuel Sweet and knows her maiden name to have been Elizabeth Griggs.
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This deponent further  says that he attended that he attended and witnessed the marriage of the said Elizabeth Griggs with Samuel Sweet, the same Samuel Sweet whom this deponent knew as the soldier of the revolution from East Greenwich, Rhode Island  The marriage took place at Berlin, Rensselaer County, New York.  This deponent remembers the time of said marriage from the following circumstances
This deponent was born as appears from a record in his possession April 10th 1763 at Warwick Rhode Island and Dorcas Sweet was born April 17, 1768.  This deponent was married to her in 1785 at the age of about 22 years.
This deponent's first child William Webb was born in 1787 about two years before the marriage of Samuel Sweet with Elizabeth Griggs.
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and this deponent's second child Olive Webb was born April 16, 1789, the same year of the marriage of Samuel Sweet to the said Elizabeth , and only about three months after said marriage as this deponent recollects perfectly well.  This deponent is positive that Samuel Sweet and Elizabeth Griggs were married by one Esquire Hesikiah Hull Jt. at Berlin Rensselaer County N Y
about the 10th of January 1789. and they consummated said marriage by living together about thirty years to the knowledge of this deponent.
Thomas Webb

Subscribed and sworn before me this 29th day of January 1856
G. M. Cleland Justice of Peace
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STATE OF NEW YORK}
HERKIMER COUNTY}   ss.

I, C. T. E. VAN HORNE, Clerk of the County of Herkminer, do certify that G M Cleland Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument in writing and endorsed thereon, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said county, dwelling in the said county, and duly authorized to take the same;  That I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Justice, and verily believe the name subscribed to the said certificate to be his genuine signature, and that the same is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of this State.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said county, at Herkimer, this 1st  day of February A. D. 1856.

C.T.Eland Horne  Clerk.
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I, G. M. Clean Justice of the Peace of the Town of Warren, Herkimer County NY hereby state and certify that I am personally acquainted with Thomas Webb who has made the above affidavit and knows him to be a man of respectability, truth and veracity and I further certify that I have no interest in this claim and am not concerned in its prosecution I have examined the family record and find that he was 92 years old last April and although he is of that age, he is of sound mind and memory.
G M Cleland Justice of Peace
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
AWF/eel

May 13, 1929

Mrs. Samuel E. Bradt
DeKalb
Illinois

Madam,
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W.24312, it appears that Samuel Sweet (son of Samuel and Lydia Sweet) was born, July 20, 1756, in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.

While residing in said East Greenwich he served as private at various times with the Rhode Island Troops under Colonels Crary, Elliott and Olney, amounting in all to nineteen months and twenty-tree days, no date or service stated.

He married, January 10, 1789, in Berlin, Rensselaer County, New York, Elizabeth Griggs.
He died, June 8, 1819, in Berlin, New York.
She married, September 20, 1820, Manus or Marcus Griswold, who died, December 23, 1823.
She was allowed pension on account of the services of Samuel Sweet, on her application executed May 7, 1855,
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at which time she was living in Albion , Oswego County, New York, aged eight-five years.
In 1856, she was living in Florence, Oneida County, New York, with her son, Samuel N. Sweet, who was then about fifty years of age.

Respectfully,
E.W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.
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9647
New York  A
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Elizabeth Griswold formerly
widow of Samuel Sweet,
who was a Matross
in the Revolution
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of 82 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 14th day of March 1836 and sent to 
B. Cowell,
Providence, R. I. 
_______
[Act of March, 3, 1843, and June 17, 1844.]

Recorded in Book   H
Vol. 2  Page 121
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11,812
New York  A.
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Elizabeth Griswold, formerly 
widow of Samuel Sweet
who died on the [blank] in 1819 
of [blank] in the State of [blank]
who was a Matross, in the Comp commanded by Captain Adams of the Regt commanded by Col. Elliott in the R. Island line for 19th months & 23 days.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Albany,
at the rate of 82. Dollars 35. Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 14th day of March 1856 and sent to B. Cowell Providence R. I.
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Arrears to the 4th of [blank]
Semi-annual allowance ending [blank]

Revolutionary Claim}
Act July 7, 1838.}

Recorded by G. ?. Getty  Clerk.
Book H  Vol. 2  Page 59
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Bounty Land Warrant  Adv.

[newspaper article]
Notice.
WHEREAS, a Bounty Land Warrant for 160 acres, issued to the undersigned, by, the Department of the Interior, on the 1st of August, 1856, and sent to the address of Rufus W. Crain, of Page's Corners, Herkimer County, N. Y., the number of which said warrant was 35,840, has been lost;  Notice is hereby given that the undersigned intends to apply to the Commissioner of Pensions for a Duplicate of said Land Warrant.
Dated January 27, 1857.
22w6  ELIZABETH GRISWOLD
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[portions of top left corner of document torn off]

15,364
???beth Griswold
??? merly widow of
Samuel Sweet
NY

?owell Dec 17 1853
[crossed out]  [crossed out]
I am  Feb. 20.1855.

July 7, 1838
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Forence Ny Mar [illegible]
Free Free
George C. Whiting, Esqr. Commissioner of Pensions Department of the Interior City of Washington
Official Business 35840-160
[illegible signature]
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Commissioner of Pensions
Department of the Interior
Washington
D. C.

[written vertically along left edge]
No 27.957



[round stamp very faint & smudged-illegible]
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Act of March 3, 1855
217.957 Oct. 13, 1855
Elizabeth Griswold, formerly widow Samuel Sweet, decd. private
Revolutionary War
Original Brief enclosed
[below is written over above]
No. 35.840. [illegible] Aug 1/56
Duplicate issued May 29/51 and sent to Samuel Sweet Florence Oneida Co N.J.
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August 1/63 original warrant cancelled    Letter to Commr
Of?? office returning warrant Forged
assignment R??
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WM Sweat
Free
Florence Mar 20 NY
[illegible]
[illegible]
City of Washington
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√

General Land Office
May 19th 1851

Sir
In reply to your letter of 2d ulto I have the honor to state that there is on file in this office the affidavit of Elizabeth Griswold of Oneida County New York in which she states that Bounty Land Warrant No 35840 for 160 acres had never been received by her nor by her agent Rufus W. Crane of Pages Corner Herkimer County New York.

The affidavit above alluded to has been noted on the Record of this office  
[illegible] to [illegible] the issue of a Patent in the case.

I am Sir
very Respectfully
Your Obent  Servt

Thos  A Hendriks 

Geo C Whiting Esq
Comr Pensions
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State of New York County of Oswego
On this 10th day of November 1855 personally appeared before me a justice of the Peace within and for said County Elizabeth Griswold now a resident in the town of Albion in said county who makes the following supplemental declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of July 7th 1838 granting pensions to certain widows and subsequent additional acts thereto, the said Elizabeth Griswold declares and says that she was married to her first husband the said Samuel Sweet on or about the 10th day of January 1789 in the town of Berkin by Hezekiah Hull, Esq. a justice of the Peace, as she has before state in her original declaration but she has no record of her marriage nor does she know of any record either public or private but she was lawfully married at the time she has stated as will appear by the evidence and she further declares, that she cannot state with certainty all the officer's names under whom her husband served but she has a distinct recollection of the names of the Colonels, one was Elliott and the other Crary and she believes her
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said husband served in Capt. John Gaiser's company in Elliott's regiment of artillery or the Capt. Thomas Carlile's company in some regiment and she further [illegible] that her said first husband came from the state of Rhode Island as she has before stated and she refers to the records in said state to verify what she has stated she cannot remember the name of the Captain in Col. Crary's regiment.
Elizabeth Griswold
Sworn and subscribed the day and year first above written and I certify that the aforesaid Elizabeth Griswold is unable to attend in open court to make her supplemental declaration by reason of bodily infirmity.
John Shepard
We Samuel N. Sweet aged fifty years a resident of Albion, Oswego County, New York, and Horace Pierce aged 67 years a resident of [illegible] Oswego County New York upon our oaths say that we were present and saw the aforesaid Elizabeth Griswold sign and acknowledge
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the foregoing supplemental declaration and that we are acquainted with her and know her to be the person she represents herself to be. Samuel N. Sweet Horace Pierce
Sworn and subscribed before me this 10th day of November 1855 and I certify said affidavits are creditable persons and that I have no interest in this claim.
John Shepard J.P.
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No. 217.957
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[illwgible]
Oct 8
J Minot Comm of Pensions
Sir Enclosed please find the application of Elizabeth Griswold for bounty [illegible]. Her former husband Samuel Sweet was a regular enlisted soldier & served in Rhode Island. The Secretary of state of Rhode Island has referred me [illegible] Benjamin Cowell of Providence in whose possession I find the original rolls of the regiments of Col Eliott & Crary (Continental line) of the Army of Revolution & the record of service of Samuel Sweet.
Will you be kind enough to inform me whether the Departments have copies of those rolls or whether it will be incumbent on us to furnish the evidence which Mr Cowell possession.
I remain Respectfully
Rufus W Crains
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Notice. Whereas, a bounty land warrant for 160 acres, issued to the undersigned, by the Department of the Interior, on the 1st of August, 1856, and sent to the address of Rufus W. Crain, of Page's Corners, Herkimer County, N.Y., the number of which said warrant was 35,340 has been lost: Notice is hereby given that the undersigned intends to apply to the Commissioner of Pensions for a Duplicate of said Land Warrant. Dated January 27, 1857. 22w5 Elizabeth Griswold
State of New York Herkimer County Js
J.K. Shoemaker being duly sworn deposes and says that he is Foreman in the office of the "Herkimer County Democrat", a public Newspaper, printed and published in the Village of Herkimer County, and state aforesaid and that the annexed notice of land Warrant Lost has been regularly published in said newspaper once in each week, for six successive weeks, commencing on the 28th day of January A.D. 1857 and ending on the 11th day of March, A.D. 1857. J.R. Shomaker
Subscribed and Sworn before me March 16, 1857 [illegible]
State of New York, Herkimer County, ss.
I, C.T.E. Van Horne, Clerk of the County of Herkimer, and of the Circuit and County court therein, do certify that Robert Earl Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or acknowledgement of the annexed instrument in writing and endorsed thereon, was at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgement, a County Judge, in and for said county, dwelling in the said county, and duly authorized to take the same; that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Judge and verily believe the name subscribed to the said certificate to be his genuine signature, and that the same executed and acknowledged according to the laws of this State. In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county, at Herkimer, this 16th day of March A.D. 1857.
CTE Van Horne Clerk.
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[illegible]
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State of New York Oswego County
Elizabeth Griswold aged eighty five years of the town of Albion, Oswego County N.Y. being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath depose and say, that she is now the widow of Marcus Griswold and was the widow of Samuel Sweet a soldier in the War of the Revolution. That the reasons principally why she has been so long silent on the subject of her husband's services in said war, are these that her husband the said Samuel Sweet did in his lifetime apply to judge Gray then of Berlin Renssalier County, N.Y. now deceased to have him assist in obtaining a pension for him. and was told that only those soldiers, who were without the necessaries of life could get a pension, and having some property he gave up the idea. And the influence of such counsel, and my husband's course of action in giving it up has served to deter his deponent from making any effort to obtain the pension, but now being indigent and very needy and having obtained some information relative to her rights, she now applies for the pension. That the fact of her husband the said Samuel Sweet, having enlisted and served from Rhode Island, and this deponent and he having married and ever after lived in New
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State of Rhode Island Providence Hautching

Secretary's office November 30th 1833
I certify that it appears from the record in this office that in December 1778, a Brigade of State Troops was ordered to be raised by the Legislature of Rhode Island of the term of fifteen months ending March 16, 1778.  That at the December session preceding said 
Brigade was ordered to be raided for another period of twelve months ending March 16 1779, and again at the execration of said time it was
raided for another period of twelve months ending March 16, 1780; and I further certify that said Brigade consisted of three regiments, one of which was command by Colonel John Topkaur, another by Colonel Archibald Crary, and the third by Colonel Robert Elliott, a regiment of artillery, and it also appears that John Garzce and Thomas Carlile were appointed Captains in said Regiment of Artillery.
And I further certify that it also appears from list of those officers and soldiers belonging to said regiments who were allowed depreciation of pa by a Committee of the Legislature of Rhode Island appointed at the October session 1785, now deposited in this office by Benjamin Cowell, that on the roll of Colonel Elliott's Regiment is borne the name of Samuel Sweet as a matross, and the sum of £27'0'2 allowed him for depreciation of pay; and also the same name is borne on the roll of
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Colonel Carry's Regiment as a private; and the sum of £1..19..2 allowed him for depreciation of pay.  I also certify that said list of officers and soldiers is certified to be a true list from the Treasury Department of the United States by a certificate dated "Register's office April 5. 1808"

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the State aforesaid, this 30th day of November AD 1833.

John R. Rattell
Secretary of State

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Elizabeth Griswold
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Wt Act/55 Enclosed

General Land Office 
July 29.1863

Hon. J. H. Barrett,
Comr of Pensions__
Sir:__
Enclosed herewith please find for Cancellation. B. L. Wt Act/55 No. 35.840. for 160 Acres_ a Duplicate of which was issued by your office as per letter to this Office of date May 28/57__and has been returned located.

The party location the Original Wt has furnished another for substitution and desires the Original, you will please forward said warrant to this Office immediately after it has been Cancelled__

Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
J M Edmunds
Commissioner
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State of New York
Oneida County ss

On this the 30th day if January 1857 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace duly authorized by Law to administer oaths Elizabeth Griswold aged 88 years who being duly sworn deposes  & makes the following declaration to obtain a duplicate Land Warrant.  That Deponent Employed Rufus W Crain Attorney at Law residing a Pages Corners N. Y. to obtain for her a Land Warrant under the act of March 1855.  & that the application of this Deponent was filed with the Department of the Interior & the number of her said application was 217.957 as she is informed by her said atty.  Deponent further says that a Land Warrant No. 35,840 was issued by the Department of the Interior to the undersigned on such application as she is informed & sent to her agent Rufus W Crain Pages Corners N. Y.  That such warrant was issued an tho  Day of August 1856 for 160 acres.  Deponent further says that said Land Warrant was never received by her or came to her hands & that She has never sold  assigned or voluntarily parted with her right to said Land Warrant   Deponent further says she is the widow of Manus Griswold & formerly widow of Samuel Sweet who served as a soldier in the war of the Revolution,  That this Deponent is the identical person to whom a Pension Certificate No 6376 was issued on the 14th Davy of March 1836 & that she has never married since the death of her husband Manus Griswold 7 is now a Widow & [illegible] to proofs on file with her original application as above.  She makes this Declaration to obtain a duplicate of Said Lan Warrant so lost as afore set forth___ I appoint Samuel N. Sweet of Florence Oneida Co. New York to receive any Warrant when issued___
Her
Elizabeth X Griswold
Mark

Sworn  &c before me the day & year afore written & I certify that Elizabeth Griswold is well known to me & Entitled to full faith & credit & that she Made the above declaration


Hanson N Heist   Justice of the Peace

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State of New York
County of Jefferson

Samuel N. sweet, fifty years, of the town of Albion, Oswego County N. Y. being duly sworn according to Law deposes and says that he is