Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2634, Salmon Willoughby, Conn.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Conn.

Willoughby, Salmon
Ruby

NUMBER
W. 2634
B.L Mt. 28.598-160-55

CONTENTS
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N.18456
Vermont

Salmon Willoughby at Franklin Co, in the State of Vermont who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Fletcher of the Regt. commanded by Col. Canfield in the Conn’t Troops line for 14 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 46 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd day of Sept. 1833 and sent to Claimant Cambridge Vt.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833                93.32
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4. Sep. 1833  23.33
                                                                        $116.65

{Revolutionary Claim. Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by D. Brown Clerk,
Book E. Vol. 3 Page 98
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Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 March 1837 to 26 July 1837 the day of said pensioners death Agt notified 28 June ‘37
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1542
Vermont Burlington

Ruby Willoughby widow of Salmon Willoughby who served I the Revolutionary war as a private Con’n Line

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 46 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the [strikethrough] 4th day of March, 1848. [strikethrough] 3rd February 1853

Certificate of Pension issued the 25th day of Aug/53 and sent to Weston & Noyle Burlington Vt:

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February [strikethrough] 2, 1848 [strikethrough] 3/53, Page 35 Vol. A 

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161.798 Act Mar 3rd /55

May 22nd /55

Ruby Willoughby price

Salmon Willoughby price

Rev Pensioner
Act Feby 3rd 1853
Vol A. page 35

Vt Feby 53 - 1542

W:16oac May 24/51
Boyton

William H. Law
Cambridge Vermont

lis W.H. Saw. Mch. 12/56

Vol W2 page 21

Written across the top

No 28598 is May 20/54
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State of Vermont
District of Chittenden }ss

On this 6th ay of June, A.D. 1853, personally appeared before the Hon. Probate Court within and for the District of Chittenden aforesaid Mrs. Ruby Willoughby a resident of Colchester, in the County of Chittenden State of Vermont, who first being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision [strikethrough] of the [strikethrough] made by the act of Congress passed on the 2nd February 1853, granting pensions to the widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war; that she is the widow of Salmon Willoughby, who was a private in the Conn. Militia in the Revolutionary war and who was inscribed on the Vermont Pension Roll, under the act of June 7, 1832, at the rate of forty six dollars and 66 cents per annum, and was paid as she believes, at the Burlington Vt agency - and she refers to her said husbands
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declaration and the other evidence by him furnished, now on file in the Pension Office, for proof of his said service.

She further declares that she was married to the said Salmon Willoughby at Cambridge Vt. on or about the 14th day of November, eighteen hundred and thirty [strikethrough] five [strikethrough] six’ that her said husband died on the 26th day of July AD 1837; that she was not married to him prior to the second of January eighteen hundred, but at the time above stated & she further declares that she is now a widow, and her name before her said marriage was Ruby Safford.
Ruby Willoughby

Inscribed and sworn to on the day and year above written, before 
[?] of Probate Court in the District of Chittenden and in the [?] of the Honorable W.H. French Judge of said Court [?]
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State of Vermont
District of Chittenden ss }

I J.S. Adams Register of the Probate Court for the District of Chittenden & State of Vermont - hereby certify that the Hon. W. H. French is Judge of said Court, that by the laws of this State, the Register of the Probate Court in the absence of the Judge thereof is empowered to act as ex officio. Judge of Probate -

And I hereby certify further that in the absence of said Judge the foregoing Declaration of the said Ruby Willoughby was made before me in said Court

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Probate Court - and - subscribe my name at Burlington in said District this 6th day of June A.D. 1853 - 

J.S. Adams Register

[strikethrough] Ruby Wright [strikethrough]
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141.798

Declaration and Claim of Ruby Willoughby Widow of Salmon Willoughby for Bounty Land Act 3rd March 1855

Wm. H. Law her Atty
Post office address
Cambridge Vermont
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State of Vermont,
COUNTY CLERK’S OFFICE. } CHITTENDEN. ss

I, J.S. ADAMS, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Chittenden, being a Court of Record and having a seal, as hereto attached, do certify that Jacob Rolfe Esq. was, at the date of the paper writings to which this is attached, and is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified: that his signature to the foregoing jurat and certificate is genuine; that the said paper writings are executed --- according to the Laws of this State, and are in due form: and that as such Officer, he is duly authorized by the Laws of this State to take acknowledgments of Deeds and Depositions, and to administer Oaths. &c.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of Court, at Burlington, this Twelfth day of May, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and fifty five

J.S. Adams CLERK.

There is an attached seal.
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State of Vermont,
County of Chittenden } ss.

On this 12th day of May one thousand Eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid Ruby Willoughby aged 81 years a resident of Colchister in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont, who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the Widow of Salmon Willoughby who was a Private in the Revolutionary War She further states that she has a Pension Certificate as Widow of Said Salmon Willoughby, Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under the Act. February 3rd 1853, Page 35, vol. a and She refers to the Papers & testimony in the Pension office for Proof of her claim to Bounty Land.

She further states that she was married to the said Salmon Willoughby in Cambridge [strikethrough] Vt [strikethrough] in the State of Vermont on 7th day of November A.D. 1836, and that She is now a widow and that her name before her said marriage was Ruby Safford. That she was married by Henry Stowell a Justice of the Peace. that her said Husband died at Cambridge aforesaid on the 26th day of July AD. 1837 and that she is now a Widow and that she has never before this Received Bounty Land She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be Entitled under the Act approved March 3rd 1855
Ruby Willoughby
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We Oel Safford and Milon Wilson now of Colchester in the County of Chittenden Vermont, upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was Signed and acknowledged by Ruby Willoughby in our presence and that we believe from the statements and appearance of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
Milon Wilson
Oel Safford

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
Jacob Rolfe Justice of the Peace
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I Oel Safford of Cambridge in the County of Lamoille and State of Vermont aged 59 years being Sworn do depose testify and say that Salmon Willoughby aforesaid died at Cambridge on or about the 26th day of July A.D. 1837 and that the said Ruby Willoughby wife of the said Salmon is now a Widow - and that she is a person well known to me, and that she is the identical Widow who is on the Pension Rolls and has a Pension Certificate as Refered to by her -
Oel Safford

State of Vermont
Chittenden County ss}. Colchester May 12th 1855

The above affidavit of Oel Safford Subscribed and Sworn to before me
Jacob Rolfe Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont
Franklin County ss }

Be it remembered that at Cambridge in said County on the 7th day of November AD. 1836, Salmon Willoughby of Cambridge, and Ruby Safford of said Cambridge were duly joined in Marriage by me
Henry Stowell Justice of the Peace

A true record - Received and Recorded this 7th day of November AD. 1836
Attest. Thomas Parker, Town Clerk.

State of Vermont
now Lamoille County ss } Town Clerks Office at Cambridge

I hereby certify that the foregoing is a True Copy from the Records oof Marriages now in my office Examined by me this 15th day of May AD. 1855
Attest C.H. Rynolds Clerk
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then understood and believe

This certifies that I am well acquainted with Salmon Willoughby of Cambridge and have been his attending Physician for the last fifteen years when he has wanted [?] assistance and that at this time he is wholly unable to go abroad by reason of ill health and Inflamitory Sore Eyes on which account he cannot attend a Court of record
Cambridge November 27 1832
William Page Physician

There is an attached seal

State of Vermont
Franklin County ss}

Personally William Page a Physician of good standing in Cambridge aforesaid appeared and made oath to the above Certificate

Before me Oel Safford 
Justice Peace
Cambridge Nor. 27th 1832
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I Zorah Willoughby of Fletcher, County of Franklin and State of Vermont aged sixty five years, do testify and say. That I am brother to Salmon Willoughby of Cambridge County and State aforesaid, and that I well recollect that the said Salmon enlisted as a soldier of the Revolutionary War for one year in the State Service for the town of Goshen, County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut as one of the soldiers that town was required to furnish towards a State Regiment as I then understood and believe it to be in the year 1781 or 1782 and that I was fourteen or fifteen years old in the February before. he having enlisted in the Spring April 1st as I believe but am not certain as to the years but I remember that the war was said to be over the next spring I then lived with my stepfather Thomas Dean in Cornwall Connecticut and I went with the said Salmon to Goshen aforesaid where he left home to join the Reg’t He furnished his own gun and equipments and the same were appraised by the authority of said town of Goshen. That in the fore part of June the said Salmon came to my Stepfather’s to bring the news of the death of Ebenezer Dean son of said Thomas Dean a soldier in the same Reg’t, and I believe that he came home in the winter for a few days on a furlough. That some time after and toward spring the said Salmon came to my Stepfather’s having the command of a small party of solders in pursuit of deserters and in a few days he returned with three deserters and said that he took them in the State of New York. He then told at what time his term of service would expire and my Stepfather sent me with a horse to meet and help him home. I went down to the lower part of New Milford in said State where I met some soldiers, by whom I learned that I had missed him he having returned by another route, and I then returned and found the said Salmon at home in Cornwall. I have a clear and distinct recollection of the facts aforesaid but
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I am not positive to the precise time, but am rather inclined to think that it was in the year 1782. I also remember that when said Salmon was at home in the winter he had on some clothes that he did not carry from home with him and he said that they were clothes taken from the cowboys 9as they were called by himself and others and I understood by the said Salmon and others that the Reg’t was stationed at or near Stamford, Connecticut at that there was a small fort there.

Further deponent saith not
Z. Willoughby

State of Vermont
Franklin County ss }

Cambridge Dec 5th 1832

Then personally appeared before the undersigned authority Zerah Willoughby of Fletcher County and State aforesaid a credible witness who made oath that the facts set forth in the foregoing deposition by him subscribed as therein contained are true according to his best knowledge information and belief

Before me
John Wires Justice Peace

I hereby certify that I have for many years been personally acquainted with Zerah Willoughby of Fletcher, County of Franklin and State of Vermont who has subscribed and made oath to the foregoing deposition and that he is a person of undoubted truth and and veracity and that his statement is entitled to the highest credit

Attest
John Wire Justice Peace
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I Mary Green of Cambridge, County of Franklin and State of Vermont aged Sixty Eight years do testify and say, That I am sister to Salmon Willoughby of Cambridge Vermont and lived in Cornwall in the State of Connecticut in the year AD 1782 about two miles from my Stepfather’s Thomas Dean where the said Salmon made it his home when in Cornwall and I well remember that he the said Salmon enlisted as one of the Soldiers that the town of Goshen was obliged to furnish towards a State Reg’t  (as I then understood it) in the Revolutionary War. And I remember his going away to join the Regiment and that about the first of June the said Salmon came home to bring the news of the death of Ebenezer Dean son of Thomas Dean aforesaid I also remember that my mother made some cakes and other provisions and sent to him the said Salmon when he was in the service, as it was thought that the Soldiers fared rather hard. I also remember hearing about his taking some deserters, and I always understood that he served one year in the army. What makes me particular as the year is that I removed to Vermont in February 1783 and that the said Salmon was then away from home in the army and that his time was out the spring following

Further the deponent saith not
Mary Green

State of Vermont
Franklin County ss }

Cambridge Dec 5th AD 1832

Then personally appeared before the undersigned authority Mary Green of Cambridge, County of Franklin and State of Vermont, a credible witness who made oath that the facts set forth in the foregoing deposition by her subscribed as therein contained are true according to her best knowledge, information and belief

Before me
John Wires Justice Peace
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I hereby certify that I have long been personally acquainted with Mary Green of Cambridge Vt who had subscribed and made oath to the foregoing deposition and that she is a person of undoubted truth and veracity and that her statement is entitled to the highest credit

Attest 
John Wires Justice Peace

State of Vermont
Franklin County ss } 

St Albans Dec 21st 1832

I Horace Janes Clerk of the County Court in said County do hereby certify that Oel Safford & John Wires of Cambridge are Justices of the Peace within and for said County duly appointed by the Legislature of this State and that I believe the foregoing to be their genuine Signatures 

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Signed my name and affixed the Public seal of said Court the day and year above
Horace Janes Clerk

There is an attached seal
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State of Vermont
Franklin County ss. }

Be it remembered that at Cambridge in said County on the Seventh day of November A.D. One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty Six Salmon Willoughby of Cambridge and Ruby Safford of said Cambridge were duly joined in Marriage By me Henry Stowell Justice Peace.

A true record rec’d and Recorded this Seventh day of November AD. One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty Six
Attest Thomas Parker
Town Clerk

I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the Record, with the exception of the date which is expressed in the record in fair legible figures as follows: - “7th day of November AD. 1836.
Harrison Griswold} Town Clerk of Cambridge

I Harrison Griswold above named, depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk, in the Town of Cambridge in the County of Lamoille which was formerly in the County of Franklin and State above mentioned and that the above is a true copy from the records of said town with the exception above named, as certified by me
Harrison Griswold Town Clerk

Sworn to and Subscribed before me at said Cambridge this 8th day of June 1853.  The words (of Cambridge in the) interlined before signing
Harrison Warner Justice of the peace
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State of Vermont
Lamoille County ss. }

I hereby certify that Harrison Warner of Cambridge in said county, before whom the within affidavit was subscribed and Sworn to was at the time of so doing, and still is, a Justice of the Peace within and for the county of Lamoille, duly qualified and commissioned & that his signature thereto I believe to be genuine -

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my official hand and affixed the seal of Lamoille County Court, at Hyde Park, this 10th day of June A.D. 1853

Attest. Carlos S. Noyes, Clerk

There is an attached seal.
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21,601
Samuel Willoughby
Franklin Co
Vermt,

Admitted 14 months

Claimant Cambridge Vt
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office
183

Sir:

The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: } ). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

A Statement, shewing the Service of Salmon Willoughby
11 column table
|Period when the service was rendered. | Duration of the claimant’s service Years. | Duration of the claimant’s service Months. | Duration of the claimant’s service Days. | Rank of the claimant. | Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served. | Names and Rank of the General and Field officers. | Battles in which the applicant was engaged. | Country through which he marched. | Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period. | Evidence by which the declaration is supported. |

|779 | --- | 2 | --- | Private | Capt Fletcher | Col not recollected | --- | State. at Horse Neck |70 years, Cornwall Con’t | Traditionary & 2 living witnessess |

|Spring 782 discharged 1 april 783 | 1 | --- | --- | Private | Capt Stoddard | Col Canfield Maj Dana | --- | Station at Stamford | --- | --- |

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832

The following regulations have been adopted:

This law has been construed to extend, as well as to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms “Continental Line”, “State troops”, “militia”, and “volunteers”, all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.

Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
     1. The Regular Troops
     2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
     3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.
     4. Indian Spies

As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, mucicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.

DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of 
County of }ss.

On this … day of … personally appeared (a) before… A.B. a resident of (b) of … in the county of … and State, Territory or District of … aged (c)… years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) …, with … and served in the … (e)regiment of the … line, under the following named officers:…

[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers: the time he left the service: (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or country and State in which he resided when he entered the service: the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c]

He herby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any  Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of …
     Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.     A. B.
          [And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
     I … of the Court of … do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of … for a pension.
     In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this … day of … &c.

If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.

Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
     (k) We, A.B., a Clergyman, residing in the … and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with …, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be … years of age; that he is reputed 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 days and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]

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 Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.  And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A.B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the … and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the … and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
     I, … Clerk of the Court of … do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of … for a pension.
     In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this … day of … &c.

Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least on credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.

If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated. will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Records in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.

The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
     1. Where and in what year were you born?
     2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
     3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
     4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
     5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
     6. {To a Soldier.} Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
         {To a Officer.} Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
     7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of you services as a soldier of the Revolution.

The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.

The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, (to respectable persons - one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.

The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.

Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.

Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peach, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.

No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
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[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
     “Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A.B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and is the following grades: - For … year … months, and …days, I served as a … . For … months and … days, I served as a …; and for such service I claim a pension.”

It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. Th use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of officers, and other particulars respecting their service.  This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served: the duration of each term of engagement, the particular place or place where the service was performed: that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent of authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison: and for the time during which the service was pursued, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.

[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

Proof of Service.
[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths mut certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper office,.
     The noted from [a] to […] are equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State troops. The proof required by the rule a note
[j] applies to continental troops only
[k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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Salmon Willoughby
Declaration
21601
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State of Vermont
Franklin County ss } 

On this 27th day of November A.D. 1832 Personally appeared before the undersigned authority, Salmon Willoughby a resident of Cambridge County of Franklin and State aforesaid aged Seventy years 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 - He was born in the town of Goshen, State of Connecticut in the year AD 1762 has no record of his age. That when he was called into service he resided in Cornwall Con. and now resides in Cambridge aforesaid where he has lived Eighteen years.

At the time Fairfield and Norwalk in Connecticut were burnt the year he does not recollect but thinks it was in 1779 according to his best recollection, he was ordered with the rest of the company to which he belonged to repair immediately to the Parade ground in Cornwall Con. where he then lived, and when he arrived on the parade aforesaid he with several others volunteered to march to meet the enemy and when they arrived at Danbury at the end of the first day’s march they learned that the enemy had gone on board their Shipping which lay in what was called East River or Long Island Sound.
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He was then ordered on to the lines as it was then called and stationed at a place called Horseneck where he served two months under Capt Fletcher, does not recollect the names of the other officers under whom he served at that time.

That again in the spring of the year 1782 he was living in Sheffield in Massachusetts when he heard that the State of Connecticut was raising troops for the Revolutionary army, and that each town was to furnish a certain number of Soldiers according to the number of its inhabitants He immediately returned to Cornwall aforesaid with the intention of enlisting for that town, but found they had enlisted their number which was three He then went to Goshen an adjoining town and enlisted for said town, and within two or three days he with two others from said Goshen after having his arms and equipment inspected and appraised by the Selectmen of said town (as he found his own) marched and joined the Regiment then stationed at Stamford in Connecticut situated upon the Sound in a small fort on Hutton’s Hill, under the command of Capt James Stoddard Lieuts. Oliver Bostwick and --- Howe in the Reg’t commanded by Col. Samuel Canfield and Major Dana & served in said Company & Regiment at the Fort aforesaid and in its vicinity one full year and was honourably discharged April 1st 1783 which discharge he has lost
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Has no documentary evidence whatever and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure; who can testify to his first two months service in the Revolutionary War 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 any agency of any State.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid - }
Salmon Willoughby


We Isaac Griswold residing in Cambridge Vt and Salmon Green residing in the same town hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Salmon Willoughby who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be Seventy years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resided, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and we concur in that opinion
Sworn & Subscribed the day and year aforesaid}
Isaac Griswold
Salmon Green

And the said authority do hereby declare that after investigating the subject matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states

And the undersigned Justice Peace further certifies that it appears that Isaac Griswold who has signed the preceeding certificate is a Justice
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And the undersigned Justice Peace further certifies that it appears that Isaac Griswold who has signed the preceeding certificate is a Justice of the Peace resident in said Cambridge, and that Salmon Green who has also signed the same is a resident in the same place and is a Justice of the Peace, and that both are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Before me, Oel Safford, Justice Peace

State of Vermont
Georgia District ss }

Be it remembered that at a Probate Court holdon at Ste Albans on the 24th day of November AD 1832 Present William Bridges Judge.

The court hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been educed to prove to said court that the above named Salmon Willoughby is not able by reason of bodily infirmity to appear before said court. The court having examined the above and foregoing declaration materially & fully. And the said court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states.
William Bridges Judge

I John Gates for Register of the court of Probate hereby certify that William Bridges
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Typed document completed in handwriting

Revy WIDOW, &c.

File No. 2634
Ruby Willoughby
Widow
Salmon Willoughby
Priv. Rev. War.

Act. Feb. 3. 1853.

Index: - Vol. M. Page 337.
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Cambridge
May 19

Hon L.P. Waldo, Commissioner of Pensions - Pension Office
Washington D.C.
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28,598

Nos amt
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1833
Mayo

There is a stamp
BURLINGTON
JUN
11
Vt.

Loren P. Waldo.
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington. 
D.C.

FREE

W&N
Mayo
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June 14, 1853

No2019
Appl. of Ruby Willoughby wid of Salmon

Chittenden Cy
Vt114666
18456
Act 3rd Feby 1853

Rev: 
Allowed $46 66/100 per an
Conn. Feb 3. 1853
Weston & Noyes
Burlington
Vt.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Pension Office, Official Busin
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Treasury Department,
Second Comptroller’s Office,
June 24 1838

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled “An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States, The widow of Salmon Willoughby deceas’d, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Burlington, VT Agency, at the rate of forty six Dollars and sixty six Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832 has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1837 to the 26th of July 1837 the day of said pensioner’s death
Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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Burlington Vt June 11 1853

L.P. Waldo
Comm’r of Pensions
Washington,

Sir,

Enclosed we send you the Declaration of Mrs. Ruby Willoughby, widow of Salmon Willoughby, for a Pension under the act of Feb. 3, 1853: - record proof of her marriage and affidavit of David B. Safford as to death of Salmon W.

Please transmit to us Certificate when granted.

Very Respectfully
Weston & Noyes
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Ruby Willoughby widow of Salmon Willoughby

Feb 3rd 1853
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I David B. Safford, of Colchester in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont aged 76 years, depose and say that I was well acquainted with Salmon Willoughby formerly of Cambridge this state, deceased. I lived with said Willoughby several years previous to his death, was with him during his last sickness and attended his funeral. He died at said Cambridge July 26 1849. He married my sister Ruby Safford, and she now resides with me in Colchester in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont, and is now a widow and has remained a widow since the death of her said husband, Salmon Willoughby. Said Willoughby was a Revolutionary pensioner, and drew some 46 or 48 dollars per annum.
David B Safford

Subscribed and sworn to before me the 6th day of June AD 1853
William W. P. F.
Justice of Peace
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State of Vermont
County of Chittenden } ss.

I, Daniel B. Buckley, Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Chittenden aforesaid hereby certify that William W Peck Esqr. before whom the within affidavit was subscribed and sworn to was at the time of so doing and still is a Justice of the Peace [?] and for said county of Chittenden, duly qualified and commissioned; and that his signature thereto is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal as clerk of said county Court this 11th day of June A.D. 1853.
Daniel B. Buckley

There is an attached seal.
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Willoughby
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Typed document completed in handwriting

Brief in the case of Ruby Willoughby widow of Salmon Chittenden County and State of Vermont
act of Feb 3 - 1853

Claim, (“original,” [strikethrough] or “for increase.”) [strikethrough]

Proof exhibited, (if orignial.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband a pensioner act of June 7 1837 at $46 66/100 per annum 

Pre

Marriage proved by public record
(If for increase.)

Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Death public record
Identity Circumstantial

Name and residence of Agent
Weston & Noyes
Burlington Vt.

Examining Clerk
JL Gray