Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9421, Clark Eastman, [BLANK]
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(8-1776) 
Service     Eastman, Clark Betrey 
Number W. 9421
B.L Wt. 36.638. -160- 55- 
Content
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5186
New York

Clark Eastman
---
of Washington in the state of New York
who was a Musicn [musician] in the Company commanded by Captain Allen
of the Reg commanded by Col. Willis
in the Connecticut line for 8 months
______________________________

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the
rate of 29 Dollars 33 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
___________________________
Certificate of Pension issued the 6th day of Feby 1833. and sent H M Pitcher 
H. of R.
_______________________
Arrears with of Sep. 1832        $43.90
Semi=anl. allowance ending
 4 Mar 33                                   14.65 
                                              ____________
                                                 $58.60

Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832.       ⎬

Recorded by Geo. C. Stiles, Clerk
Book D  Vol. 5. Page 85
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Increase
New York
widow of
Clark Eastman of Conn.
who served in the Revolutionary War
1811
_____________________
Albany Agency
Rate 96 dollars no cents per annum.
Commencing July/27/[?]
deduct payments made since
______________________
Certificate dated 1 Jun 1869
and sent to HDWC Hill

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act Feb- 3, 1853, 
Page   
Vol.
July 27: 68
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Increase
New York
widow of Clark Eastman

who served in the Revolutionary War
as a private

Albany Agency
Rate  96 Dollars 00 cents per annum.
Commencing
July 27, [?]
---
Deduct payments made since

Certificate  dated  17 July 1869 
and sent to HDWC Hill
NY

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, 
Page
Vol.
July 27:68

__________Clerk
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Increase
New York
widow of

Clark Eastman

who served in the Revolutionary War
as a

Albany agency
Dollars
┃ cents per annum.
Commencing
1 27.10
Deduct payments made since
Certificate dated 17 July '69
and sent to HDWC Hill
[illegible]  N.Y.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page Vol.
July 27 68
  Clerk
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236.942
[Feb? Mar? 3]
(55,
March 1, 1856
Betsey Eastman, widow of 
Clark Eastman
[illegible - crossed out]
Musician

Hauling supplies to Sacketts Harbor
Ent. 15th Sept 1819
Dis. 5th Oct 1814
Revolutionary War
[War 1812 - crossed out]

Rev. Pension $29.60 Agency at Albany

Feb 53
5697
Ad:160 acres, Aug 4/ '56
Boynton

Claimant
Argyle
N.Y
Vol. E. 4.
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State of New York
Washington County SS
on this 4th day of December 1832
personally appeared in open Court before us the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Washington now sitting Clark Eastman a resident of the town of Whitehall in the County of Washington and State of New York aged sixty nine on the 30th day of September last who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit
of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein stated .
That while he lived in the town of Ashford in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut and in the month of April A.D. 1777 he enlisted in the State Troops Connecticut line for eight months as a Musician and entered the service under the command of Capt Daniel Allen with whom he enlisted was mustered but cannot now
say who the muster master was does not remember the name of the other Officer of the Company he was marched to Danberry where he was Stationed as a guard over the continental Stores and under the Command of Major Starr after some time he was marched to the White Plains and Joined Col Willis's Regiment Major Grovenor was an Officer in the Reg he was stationed at White Plains a short time and was marched to the Scotch Plains in the Jersey and remained a few days or weeks as a guard was sent out in scouting Tories was thence marched to the Kingsferry and crossed the north river and went up the river to Fishkill or Peekskill while there the British came up the river as far as Redhook and burnt Esopus took Fort
Montgomery. The British cast their anchors at Redhook and lay there a short time and about the time the news arrived of the
capture of Burgoyne they went back down the river that he was marched down the river [with?] them and there were some being
from the shipping to us and we upon them after this he was stationed at Fishkill. And this declarant further states that he [here?] while cooking his rations his Camp kettle accidentaly turned over on his legs and he was very badly scalded he was then taken to the
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hospital and there remained untill in the last of December when his term of service expired and he was discharged by parole he
further saith he was lame and unable to labour all the next year. That he was in the service as a musician at this time eight months.
And this declarant further States that while he lived in the town of Ashford aforesaid and in the year of 1778 he went out in the Militia when Royalton was burnt for 16 days but cannot remember his Officers so as to give a satisfactory History.
That he moved to Walpool [Walpole] State of New hampshire and lived ten or fourteen years from there he moved to Winson [Windsor] in Vermont State thence he moved to White hall where he now lives and has lived about thirty years.
That he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service , 
1 That he was born in the town of Ashford he thinks County of Hartford and State of Connecticut in the year of 1763
2 That there is a record of his age on the Town Books in the town of Ashford where he was born.
3 That he lived when he entered the service in the town of Ashford aforesaid and since the revolutionary war he has lived in the town of Walpool [Walpole] State of New Hampshire, and in Winson [Windsor], State of Vermont and in the town of Whitehall where he now lives and has lived for thirty years. 
4 That he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service
5 That he recollects of seeing Gen George Washington - Gen Putnam and Douglass with his Reg and several other officers and Regiments but does not remember their names and that the General circumstances of his Services are in the body of his declaration, 
6 That he did not receive at any time a written discharge, 
7 That there is no Clergyman residing in the neighborhood where he lives and that he is known in his present neighborhood by Harry Thorn, John Hillbert, William H Parker, John Boyd  Gideon Taft,  Georg Douglass
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and many others who can testify to his character for truth and veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity
except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State or Territory.
                      Clark Eastman
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
J. S. Leigh Clk

We,  Gideon Taft residing in the town of White hall and George Douglass residing in the same town hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Clark Eastman who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be Sixty nine years of age that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that Opinion.

Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid.  J.S. Leigh  Clk
                           Gideon Taft
                          George Douglass
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories
prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a soldier of the revolution and served as he states and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Gideon Taft who has signed the preceding certificate is resident in the town of Whitehall and that George Douglas
who has also signed the same is a resident
in the town of White hall are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit
  I Jess S Leigh   Clerk of the Court of Washington
 County Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the  matter of the
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Application of Clark Eastman for a Pension  In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of my office his 4th day of December 1832 
J. S. Leigh Clk
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Triplett 

Julius Pierce Atty
Whitehall 
N.Y
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State of New York
County of Washington ⎬ SS.
On this Eighteenth day of February A.D. 1856. Personally appeared before me a Judge of the County Courts of the County aforesaid, Betsey Eastman, a resident of Preston in the County and State aforesaid, aged sixty eight years who first being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath declare and make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the of Congress and on the 5 day of February 1853 granting pensions to widows of persons who served in the Revolutionary War, That she is the widow  of Clark Eastman, who was a private and was a
Pensioner that for proof of service she refers to the Evidence in file in the pension office in support of said Eastman's claim to pension under the Act of 1832 at the rate of twenty nine dollars and sixty cents or thereabouts which was paid to him at the Agency in Albany N.Y.
Referring to the Record And it further states that she was married to the said Clark Eastman in Whitehall in the County and State aforesaid on  or about the thirtieth day of September 2, 1806 by one John White Esq a Justice of the peace and that her name before her said marriage was Betsey Whiting  That her said husband died at Whitehall aforesaid on the thirteenth day of February A.D. 1838. That she was not married to him prior to the second day of January Eighteen hundred but at or near the time above stated
She further declared that there is no public record of her marriage, and there is no private record of her marriage in her possession, nor in existence to her knowledge; and she further declares that she is now a widow And she hereby appoints Julius Pierce her agent in the Army with power of substitution, to present this her claim for pension, and to receive her certificate for Pension when issued and to do all other acts necessary and proper in the premises.
                        Betsey Eastman
Subscribed & sworn before me Feby 18th 1856
A. Dollar Wait    Wash. Co. Judge
State of New York
County of Washington ⎬ 
On this 18th day of February A.D.
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1836, personally appeared before me the Subscriber the aforementioned Eastman who in my presence made oath and subscribed to the foregoing declaration; and I certify that I knew the said Betsey Eastman and believe her to be as before stated in her declaration aforesaid, and that of the age therein stated and further that I am not interested in this her claim, as Attorney or otherwise
Witness my hand and the seal
of the said Court affixed by order of said
Court now in session
                                        A Doller Wait
                                  Washington County Judge

State of New York
County of Washington }SS.
On this sixteenth day of February
A.D. 1856 personally appeared before me the
Subscriber a Justice of the peace within and for the said County Orson Day and Sophia  Lockwood, who are to me well known, and who being duly sworn depose and say that they and
well acquainted with Mrs. Betsey Eastman the above named applicant for a pension; that they have known her for twenty years past. They were
acquainted with Clark Eastman her late husband, that they knew him for fifteen years before his death; that they the said Betsey and Clark, lived together as husband and wife, and were reputed so to be in the community where they resided. That the said Clark Eastman died in or about the 15th day of February 1838, and the said Betsey Eastman has been since that day and still is reputed to be his widow, which deponents believe to be the fact. That she has never married since her said husband's death but still continues to be his widow, and that her said
husband was the identical man mentioned as a pensioner, in her said declaration; and further, that they were present and saw the said Betsey
Eastman execute the foregoing affidavit by subscribing and making oath there to and that they, deponents reside in the County aforesaid.
                             Orson Day
                             Sophia Lockwood
Sworn to and subscribed before me this sixteenth day of February A.D. 1856
                                  R Doig Justice Peace
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State of New York
County of Washington ⎬ Ss.
 George Barney being duly sworn says that he is a resident of Whitehall in said County. that he knows Betsey Easton the applicant named in the foregoing Declaration and that he knew Clark Eastman in his lifetime that said Clark and Betsey lived together as husband and wife and were reported to be such; that said Eastman died on or about the 13th day of February A.D. 1838, and that the said Betsey is reputed to be his widow which deponent believes to be the fact.
                                       G. Barney
Sworn to and subscribed before  me [words crossed out] 18th Feby 1856
                             A Doller Wait
     Washington Co Judge

STATE OF NEW YORK
Washington County Clerk's Office }ss.
I NATHANIEL B. MILLMAN, CLERK of
 said County, hereby certify that A Dollar Wait whose name is subscribed to the Depositions hereto annexed was, on the 18th day of February 1856 County Judge in and for said County, duly qualified by law to act as said Judge & to take such Depositions and that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of said Justice, and believe his signature subscribed thereto is genuine. Witness my hand and Official Seal this 25th day of February 1856
 N B Hillman


STATE OF NEW-YORK
Washington County Clerk's Office} ss. 
I NATHANIEL B MILLMAN CLERK of said County, hereby certify R Doig
whose name is subscribed to the declarations in writing hereto annexed, was, on the 18th day of February 1856 Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly qualified by law to act as
such Justice and that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of said Justice, and believe
his signature subscribed thereto is genuine. Witness my hand and Official
Seal this 25th
day of February 1856
NB Milliman CLERK.
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236.942
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Application for Bounty Land under Act of 1855.
Printed and sold by Thomas Wood, his Nassau Street, N. Y.
Declaration by the Widow of deceased Person who has not had a Land Warrant.
STATE OF New York
COUNTY OF Washington SS
On this16th day of February 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, Betsey Eastman 
aged 68 years a resident of Dresden in the State of  New York  who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Clark Eastman deceased, who was a private in the Revolutionary war and a Pensioner at the rate of twenty nine dollars and sixty cents in Albany
which was paid of the Agency in the State of New York she further declares that her said husband was a Teamster in the war with Britain declared by the United States on the 18th day of June 1812.
That her said husband was engaged as such
at Whitehall to convey to stores and supplies, to Sackett Harbor on or about the fifteenth day of September A. D. 1814 for the term and continued in actual service in said war for the term of fourteen days, And for proof of same she respectfully refers to the file in the office in support of the claim of said Eastman to the pension aforesaid as shown in certificate of Discharge or
Commentary evidence pertaining thereto and for proof the for service she refers to the Roll Records, and pay Rolls of the Army & Navy of the United States and was honorably discharged from said service on the the fifth day of October
A. D. 1814. also declares that she has no record evidence of her marriage to said man nor is there any public and thereof; but relies on reputation. She further states that she was married to the said Clark in Whitehall in said County on or about the 30th day of September
A.D. 1806 by one  John White a Justice of the peace and that her name before her said marriage was Betsey    ling
 __________ that her said husband died at Whitehall on the thirteenth day of February AD. 1835, and that she is now a widow. She also declares that Julius Pierce of Whitehall as is her Attorney and Agent with one of station to procure this her claim and to receive her Warrant for Bounty Land,
to all the the makes this Declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the Act approved March 3, 1855.

                                        Betsey Eastman
.
Orson Day and Sophia Lockwood residents of
Whitehall in the State of New York upon our oaths declare that the foregoing Declaration was signed and acknowledged 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
                             Orson Day
                                    Sophia Lockwood
The foregoing Declaration and Affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
                                    R Doller Wait
                                           Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
County of Washington ⎬
for so and being
"
the
hereto have her for
that they were instruct his hand
that farm of years before that they had but one
him either as husband and request and deponent
theythe


the
A.D. 1838 and that the same time has ever since book and
he is reputed to be her in her said husband for the
mentioned in a pensioner in her said election; and further that they promit
when the said in the Edman Executed the within to be serving the same
hath hereto that they
Sworn to and subscribed before me on the twenty
third day of February A.D. 1856 and I certify the
Orson Day

Sophia Lockwood.
R. Doig
Justice of the  peace
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Clark Eastman
New York

Hon Wm. Pitcher
House of  Representatives
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BREIEF in the case of Clark Eastman of Washington in the State of  New York (Act 7th June, 1832) 
1. Was the declaration made before a court or a Judge? open court 
2. If before a Judge. does it appear that the application is disabled by bodily infirmity?   
3. How old is he? 69 
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
|Period |Duration of service| Rank| Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served |
in 1777 | 8 months | Musician | Cap Allen Col Miller
1778 -
5. In what battle was he engaged? none mentioned
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?Windsor Connecticut
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses by documentary proof by traditionary evidence by incidental evidence or by the rolls?  traditionary
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned. 
Examining Clark
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236.942
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STATE OF NEW YORK WASHINGTON COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, ss I, NATHANIEL B. MILLIMAN, Clerk of said County, hereby certify that R Doig whose name is subscribed to the Depositions  in writing hereto annexed, was on the 16th & 23d days of February, 1856 a Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly, qualified by law to act as such Justice, & to take such Depositions and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and believe his signature subscribed thereto is genuine. Witness my hand and Official Seal this 25th day of 1856
N B Millman CLERK
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36,638 - 160 - 55

Claim 5697
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Whitehall  April 25th 1856
Sir
With the evidence filed in your office in
support of the claim of Betsey Eastman No. 3697
to a Revolutionary Pension, I forward
an application in her name for Bounty
Land which has not been acknowledged
Another for Elizabeth Gilman was sent
you at as very near the same time (20th of
February last) which also has not been
acknowledged I am inclined to
think that both of these applications may have been put away in the Envelope containing the Evidence in support of Betsey Eastman's claim for a Pension above mentioned. I beg you will inform me in relation to these matters at your earliest convenience.
Respectfully  &c
Julius Pierce

Hon J. Minot
Comr of Pensions
Washington D.C.
 236.124  Chgs to Mr Boynton  May 4/56
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No. 6278
Betsy Eastman
Widow of Clark 
NY

3 February 1853

36.638
[illegible]
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Pen off [Pension office]  March 12 1856
Sir
Please inform me when Clark Eastman of NY Act 1832 was last paid at $29.30
a year & to whom.
Very Respectfully
S. C. Cole
Chf Clerk

R J. Atkinson Esq
3 auditor

N platt
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3 Auditor's office
March 13. 1836

Sir
Clark Eastman, Albany NY   Act 1832, at [Sep. 3?]
died 13 Feby. 1836 & his pension has been paid in full to that date, to to his widow Betsey Eastman.
Very respectfully
[?] J. [Timson?]
auditor

J. Minot [Esq?]
Commr of Pensions
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5697
New York
Clark Eastman
Betsey Eastman
widow of Clark
who served in the Revolutionary war,
 as a Musician
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of 29 dollars 30 cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.

Certificate of Pension issued the 14th day of March 1856, and sent to Julius Pierce, Whitehall, NY

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 3, 1853, Page 15 Vol.[?]6
236942
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 94521
Betsey Eastman
Wid
Clark Eastman,
Musn [Musician]
Rev. War
---
Act: Feby 3d 1853

Index:--Vol. A, Page 206

Arrangement of 1870.]
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Increase
Brief in the case of Betsey Eastman, Widow of Clark Eastman, Musician                                 Putnam
Washington County and State of New York
 Act 2d Sec Feb 3 1853

CLAIM FOR NEW PENSION CERTIFICATE,
Act 2 of Feb 3, 1853
Jne [June] 1 to July 27, 1868

PROOF EXHIBITED,
Pensioner inscribed on the roll of New York at $29.30 per Anum.
Identity and Continued Widowhood shown

Admitted July 13 1869 to pension at $96 per annum to commence July 27, 1868 deduction pay since.
Name and residence of Agent.
H D W C Hill
Whitehall
New York

W E Trask
Examining Clerk.
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STATE OF NEW YORK
WASHINGTON COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, SS.
I, PHILANDER C. HITCHCOCK, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that Arnold Hulett whose name is subscribed to the Jurat hereto annexed, was, at the time of signing the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly elected and qualified by law to act as such Justice and that his signature subscribed thereto is genuine..
WITNESS my hand and official Seal, this 30th
day of January 1869.
P. C. Hitchcock, Clerk
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Betsy Eastman, widow
of Clark, Washington Co N York
Admd Feby 1853
$29.30 a year from the passage of
the act

Cert to
Julius Pierce Esq
Whitehall NY
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Brief in the case of Betsy Eastman widow of Clark
Washington County and State of N York

Act 3 Feb 1853
-
Claim, "original
Proof exhibited, (if original)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance
Her husband was a pensioner under the Act of June 7 1832 at $29.30 a year
marriage proved by witnesses

[Has addition evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what - crossed out]
Cohabitation, general reputation of Marriage
her identity as the pensioner's widow
his death and her present widowhood 
by credible witnesses
Name and residence of Agent
Julius Pierce
Whites'hall [Whitehall] NY

Examining Clerk
Thomson Triplett
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Clark Eastman
Payments to be made
at New York
by Presd. U. S. Br. Bank
Agent for paying Pensioners,
in the Agency of
New York
Recorded by Geo. C. Stiles, Clerk 
Book  B Vol 3  Page 80
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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, Clark Eastman
of the State of New York
who was a Musician in the Revolutionary Army
is entitled to receive Twenty dollars and Thirty- cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this
of 4th day of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.
                                   Lew Cass
                                Secretary of War


Examined and
Countersigned. )
J.L. Edwards
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Increase of Pension
No 5697
---
-
Betsey Eastman
widow of
Clark Eastman
deceased
Proof of widowhood
accounting for Pension Certificate

Trask

H. D. W. C. Hill
Whitehall NY
applicants atty
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Department of the Interior
 PENSION OFFICE
Washington D. C.   Feb 18, 1869
Sir
Please return Mrs. Betsey Eastman's
certificate to this Office-
Continued widowhood should be shown.
See [illegible]
Respectfully
Chas. H. Cox, Comr


H D W C Hill
Whitehall
New York

[N? T. R 46?] or [N Y. ? 46?]
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State of New York
County of Washington SS:
Calvin Pease being duly sworn deposes and says that he is well and intimately acquainted with Mrs. Betsey Eastman and has been intimately acquainted with her for 26 years last past and
for 20 years past he has resided or made it her home with him, that  she is very aged and infirm and unable to travel and that she resides some
 distance from any officer authorized to administer oaths and that the facts called for are within the knowledge of deponent and for the reasons aforesaid & deponents personal knowledge of the matters called for by the Department ^ his affidavit is
furnished as to the facts called for by the 
Department. Deponent states that said Betsey
Eastman now is and still continues as the widow of Clark Eastman and that she has never remarried since his death but continues his widow.
That the Original Pension Certificate of
which the following to wit "Is No 5697
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Department of the Intenor
Widows Pension
I certify that in conformity with the 2d Section of the act of Feby 3d 1853 Betsey Eastman widow of Clark Eastman who was a Musician in the Revolutionary War
is inscribed on the pension at the rate of twenty nine dollars and thirty cents per annum, commencing in the 3d of February 1853 & continuing for life unless she shall again marry in
of which case the pension is not payable
after the time of such marriage.
Given at the Department of the Interior
in this fourteenth day of March in the year one thousand Eight hundred & fifty six
R. McClelland
Sec of the Interior

Examined Countersigned
J. Minot
Commissioner of Pensions
is a copy
 That her said certificate was
left with mr Julius Pierce at Whitehall, NY
Washington County N.Y. who ^ has died since said Certificate was left with him. That in an examination of the papers and documents which
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were left by said Julius Pierce deceased nothing is to be found of said Pension Certificate but a memoranda was found made by him from
which it appears that said Certificate had been forwarded by him said Pierce deceased to the Pension Department prior to his decease.
That if said Original Pension Certificate was not so forwarded to the Department prior to his decease the same must be lost
Deponent further states that he has no interest in the prosecution of this claim
                           Calvin Pease
Sworn & subscribed before me this 13th day of May 1869 & I further hereby certify that said deponent is a credible witness &
that I have no intent [interest] in the prosecution of this claim
G W Carver
Justice of the Peace
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Sworn & subscribed before
me this 18th day of May
1869 & I further hereby
certify that said depont [deponent]
is a credible witness &
that I have no intent [interest] in
the prosecution of this claim  } Calvin Pease

STATE OF NEW YORK,
Washington County Clerk's Office SS
I Philander C. Hitchcock, Clerk of  said County, do hereby certify That G. W. Carver whose name is subscribed to the Jurat hereto annexed , was, at the time of signing the same, a Justice of the
Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly elected and qualified by law to act as such Justice and that his signature subscribed thereto is genuine.
WITNESS my hand and Official Seal, this 14'
day of May 1869
P C Hitchcock, Clerk
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STATE OF NEW YORK.
Washington County Clerk's Office} ss. I, PHILANDER C. HITCHCOCK, Clerk of said County, do hereby  certify that Arnold Hulett whose name is subscribed to the Jurat hereto annexed was at the time of signing the same, a Justice of the Peace  in and for the County aforesaid, duly elected and qualified by law to act as such Justice and that his signature subscribed thereto is genuine.
Witness my hand and official seal, this 30th day of January 1869.
P. Hitchcock
CLERK.
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Betsey Eastman widow
of
Clark Eastman
Application for  increase
of pension under 13 Sec Act of Congress
passed July 7 1865
Application

HDWC Hill
Claimants Atty
Whitehall, NY
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Orig Claim No [1?]697
---
Betsey Eastman
widow of
Clark Eastman

Application for increase of pension under 13 Sec Act of Congress
 passed July 7 1865
Application
-
HDWC Hill.
Claimants Atty.
Whitehall, NY
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declaration for an increase of pension
State of New York
County of Washington SS
On this 27 day of January 1864 personally appeared before me the Justice of the Peace within & for the County & State aforesaid. Betsey Eastman aged eighty two years  resident of Dresden in the County aforesaid
who being duly sworn according to law declare & says that she is the identical Betsey Eastman who was granted a pension certificate No 5697 bearing date March 14 1856 payable at the N.Y. Agency at the rate of twenty nine dollars thirty cents per annum issued under the Act of February [illegible]  she makes this declaration in
order  to secure the increase  to which she is entitled under the thirteenth Section of the act of July 27. 1868-- My Post office address is Putnam N.Y . And I constitute & appoint H. D. W. C. Hill of Whitehall in said County of Washington  
my attorney and agent to present this claim.

                                                 Betsey Eastman
                                                    her X mark                                     
Witness
Rufus C. [Sandon? or Sanders?].

Also personally appeared Rev. Henry Belden
and James Backus residents of the said County
and  persons whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit who being by me duly sworn say that they were
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[faded writing]
present [?] Betsey Eastman
name to the foregoing declaration before
further and that they have [illegible]
from the appearance of the applicant and their acquaintance with her that she is the identical person she represents herself to be, that it s
interest in the prosecution of [illegible]
Henry Belden
James Backus
Sworn to & subscribed before me this
27th day of January A.D. 1869 & I hereby certify that I have no interest direct or indirect in the prosecution of this claim
Arnold Hulett,  Justice Peace
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Orig. Claim 5697

Betsey Eastman widow of
Clark Eastman
Official showing
exhibit of applicant to appear [illegible]

Officer of Records


Hon D.W.C. Hill
Claimants Atty
Whitehall
NY
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State of New York
County of Washington SS
Hon. Henry Belden and James Backus
each being by me duly sworn did say they are well and intimately acquainted with Betsey Eastman who has made application for increase of pension under Sec 13 of act of 1868. That they know her to be a very old lady , and from their acquaintance with her to believe that her age is 81 years as she represents: That she is in feeble health it would be imprudent and jeopardize her life to attempt to go far from her home that her home is in the northern part of this town of Dresden and the nearest officers to the home of said Betsy Eastman of a court of Record, and Mr. Eakins County Clerk of Essex Co. resides at 
Ticonderoga Essex Co. N.Y. and the Hon Justice Potter County Judge of Washington Co. aforesaid
residing at Whitehall Washington County that each of said officers reside some sixteen miles distant & that said Betsey Eastman will be obliged to go that distance to execute her  application before an officer of a Court of Record or incur the expense of hiring one of said officers to go to her home for her to [servr?] to her declaration or application. That her health is very feeble and impossible without enter-
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[endan]gering her life for her to go before [illegible, faded words] and her residence being in a region of county [faded words]
of access it would be dificult [sic] [faded words] 
said officer Caulkins or Potter to go to her home for her to make her application [faded] [..]ration under oath.
 And they further testify that they have
no interest in the application of said 
Betsy Eastman for increase of Pension.
Henry Belden
James Backus

Washington County: SS
On this the 27th day of January 1869 before me came Rev Henry Belden and James Backus
each to me known to be credible witnesses and being by me duly sworn did depose [and say] the forgoing affidavits made by them are true and correct, and I further hereby certify that I have no interest in the prosecution of this claim.

Arnold Hulett, Justice Peace
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State of New York
Washington County SS

I, Jesse S Leigh,  Clerk of the Court of
Washington County Common Pleas do hereby certify that the annexed contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the Matters of the application of Clerk Eastman for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal at my office this 4th day of December 1832
J. S. Leigh Clk
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In the Matter of
Clark Eastman
Revolutionary Soldier
Declaration for a pension
on Rolls
admd
366
8 months musician
$29.28