Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 10,923, for Nathan Prescutt, New Hampshire
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(8-1776)
SERVICE
N.H.
Prescutt, Nathan
or
Prescott,
Dolly
NUMBER
N. 10,923
B.L. Wt. 38525-160-55
CONTENTS
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Portsmouth N. H. 025
Name
Nathan Prescott of Kennebec the State of Maine who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Brown of the Regt. commanded by Col. Long in the N. H. [illegible] line for 11 mos.
Inscribed on the Roll of Main at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per annum commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of July 1833 and [illegible] R C Vose [illegible]
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $73.32
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. 18.33
$91.65
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Record by _______ Clerk,
Book E Vol. 1 Page 42
Lett. Josiah Butler, Aug 24 '36
cir June Sept 26 '36
Lett. Josiah Butler Oct. 3 '36
Transfd. to Portsmouth, N. H. fr. 4th Sept '36 - Febr. 1 '37
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Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
STATE OF MAIN
KENNEBEC COUNTY,
On this 5th day of June A. D. 1833 personally appeared in open Court before the Hon. Nathan Weston, a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, of said State, Nathan Prescott a resident of - in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, aged seventy three, 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 7, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1776 with Captain Brown and served in Col. Long's regiment of the New Hampshire line or troops under the following named officers: Viz. Brown Capt. Long Col. That he enlisted in that company & regiment as a private the the spring of 1775 for the period of one year, that under this enlistment he served at Great Island, Portsmouth harbor for eleven months & was then verbally discharged in consequence of sickness.
That he is unable from loss of memory to state the particular months in which he enlisted & was discharged.
That he was born at Epping, New Hampshire in 1759 where he presumes his age was recorded  & where he lived when he entered the service. That he afterwards lived in Deerfield, N. H. many years, then in Monmouth, Maine, twelve or fourteen years. That he removed again to New Hampshire lived in Epson, & Northwood until he again removed to said Monmouth where he now lives. That he enlisted & was discharged as he has stated. Has named such of his officers as he now recollects. That any of his neighbors [illegible] testify to his character for veracity & their belief of his services, and he does not know of any body living who served with him whose evidence he can procure to support his declaration.
[crossed out section]
He hereby relinquishes every claim 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.
Nathan Prescutt
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Before Nathan Weston
[illegible] S. J. C
And the said ^Court before whom these proceedings were had does hereby declare opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Solider, and served as he states.
Nathan Weston
Justice S. J. C
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^
State of Maine.
KENNEBEC, ss. - I, JOHN A. CHANDLER, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, before whom the within proceedings was had, is a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State; I also certify that the within contains the original proceedings of the said ^Court, in the matter of the application of Nathan Prescott for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this fifth day of June A.D. 1833
J. A. Chandler
I Caleb Fogg of Monmouth in the County of Kennebec, a clergyman aged seventy two years & also a pensioner on the Maine roll do upon oath testify & say, that I am well acquainted with the written named Nathan Prescott I have known him from a boy. Not having served with him I cannot testify positively to his services, but have always understood & believed that he was a Revolutionary solider. I was born & brought up in the same town with him, know him to be a man of veracity & have no doubt he served as he has within stated. Caleb Fogg
State of Maine
Kennebec ss:
Sup. Jud. Court June term 1833. Subscribed & sworn to in open court this 5th day of June 1833. The deponent being a clergyman residing in Monmouth & a credible witness whose statement is entitled to be believed
Before Nathan Weston
Justice S. J. C.
I  Sewall Prescott of Monmouth Kennebec County, aged sixty five years & upwards upon oath testify & declare that my brother Nathan Prescott & myself lived at Epping, at the time he entered the service, I well recollect that in the spring of 1776, he enlisted into Capt. Brown’s company & went to Great Island in Portsmouth harbor & after being absent at least eleven months returned home, & I have no doubt he served as he has within stated.
Sewall Prescott
State of Maine
Kennebec p:
Sup. Jud. Court June term 1833. Subscribed & sworn to in open court June 5th 1833 the deponent being a clergyman residing in Monmouth & a credible witness.
Before Nathan Weston
Justice S. J. C.
[illegible]
11. mo. pri
$36.66
[next section upside down]
Nathan Prescott 
25952
Private – New Hampshire troops
Brown’s Co.
Long’s regt. 11 months.
Proof Caleb Fogg & Sewall Prescott credible witnesses.
R. C. [illegible]
Augusta, Me
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5854
New Hampshire Concord
Dolly Prescott, widow of Nathan Prescott who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 36 dollars 66 cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued 26th day of July 1856 and sent to J. Riddle Manchester, N. H.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 162 Vol. 26
220405
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Widow’s Pensions
State of Newhampshire
County of Hillsborough ss.
On this fourth day of October AD 1855 personally appeared Dolly Prescott a resident of Hooksett in the County of Merrimack and state aforesaid aged seventy years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by any acts of Congress and more particularly the act [illegible] July 4th 1836 or any subsequent act that she is the widow of Nathan Prescott who as a solider in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war [illegible] her late Husband was Inscribed on the Pension Roll of the United State and that his discharge and declarations and [illegible] filed in the pension office at Washington to which [illegible] may be had to his particular term of service. She makes these declar for the purpose of obtaining the Pension due to her [illegible] the death of her husband she further declares that she was married to said Nathan Prescott on the nineteenth day of November 1826 and that her said husband died on the [illegible] day 1837 that she has remained a widow  - since that period as will more fully appear by the proff annexed Dolly [her mark x] Prescott
Joseph S. Goss
Moses Quimby witnesses
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above written
Before me Isaac Riddle Justice of the New
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[illegible]
20405 Oct. 2-/55
Dolly Prescott wid of Nathan Prescott
Dolly Prescott [illegible]
wid of Nathan
Capt Brown
Col. David Gilman
Revolutionary War
Leby 53-5854
[illegible]
[illegible]
Claimant
Manchester N. H.
Val P - 144
[across text]
No. 38525 [illegible] 15/56
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE – County of Hillsborough, ss.
I Isaac W. Smith Clerk of Police Court of the City of Manchester in the County and State above mentioned, do hereby certify that Issac Riddle whose genuine signature appears above, is, and was at the time of signing the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified: that his Commission is dated on the third day of December A. D. 1852, and will expire in five years from date; that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit; and that the aforesaid Police Court is a Court of Record.
Given under my hand and seal of office of Manchester this 20th day of October A. D. 1855.
Isaac W. Smith, CLERK
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Northwood Oct 8 1855
Mr. Riddle – sir I recd. Your letter this morning have examined the records and found the following, which is a correct copy of Record – viz – 
Marriages by the Revd. E. Merrill – 
1826. Nov 19. Nathan Prescott to Dolly Carswell both of Northwood – 
A true copy of record
Attest; V. P. Tasker
Town Clerk of Northwood
P. S. I shall charge you $1 [illegible] please it by mail – 
V. P. T.
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I Rosana Quimby of Hooksett certify and say that I am acquainted with Dolly Prescott who is now making apply lation for Bounty Lands (she is my mother) I am personally knowing to her being the widow of Nathaniel Prescott as she represents in said declaration sworn & subscribed Rosana [my mark x] Quimby
Oct 4, 1855 Before me Joseph T Goss Justice of the Peace
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I David Stevens of Deerfield in the State of New Hampshire of the age of Fifty one years, certify and say that I was acquainted with Nathan Prescott who was a Revolutionary Pensioner, he is dead, he died in the year A.d. 1837 and left a widow Dolly Prescott I was Guardian of the said Nathan Prescott for some 3 years prior to his death and drew his Pension during the said time
And I obtained the arrears of Pension for his widow Dolly Prescott after his decease
Deerfield N. H. Oct 18,1855
David Stevens
Sworn and Subscribed
Before me
Isreal M. Gale Justice of the Peace
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I Saml Dame of Auburn in the County of Rockingham & Sate of New Hampshire of the age of 66 years testify and say that I was well acquainted with Nathan Prescott of Deerfield when I knew him he was a ^Revolutionary Soldier and Pensioner he is dead he died about the year 1834
I was also acquainted with his wife Dolly Prescott she is a widow and is still living as I have heard and believe with her daughter Rosana Quimby in the town of Hooksett in this State.
I was acquainted with her while she lived with her Husband Nathan Prescott and since.
October 16th 1855 Samuel Dame
Sworn Subscribed
Before me Isaac Riddle Justice Peace
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State of New Hampshire.
SECRETARY OF STATE’S OFFICE.
I DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the war of the Revolution, which remain in this office, it appears that the name of Nathan Prescut (Vol. 7. Page 165) is borne upon “A Return of soldiers in Capt. Nathan Brown’s Company, in Col. David Gilman’s Regiment mustered & paid by Nich Gilman, at the several periods hereafter mentioned 1776 April 11th” Nathan Prescott 2” 0” – also is borne upon (Vol 9 Page 119.) “We the subscribers being inlisted soldiers in Capt. Nathan Brown’s Company in Coll. David Gilman’s Regiment do acknowledge to have Received of Nicholas Gilman the several sums set down against reach of [illegible] Colony service agreeable to a vote of the Councill & assembly Exeter April 10th 1776” – Nathan Prescut” forty shillings”____ 2”
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the State, this Eighth day of October 1855.
Lamuel N. Pattee Secretary of State.
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Application for Bounty Lands
State of Newhampshire County of Hillsborough – ss.
On this fourth day of October A D one thousand Eight hundred and fifty ^five personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace within and for the County and State aforesaid Dolly Prescott aged seventy years a resident of Hooksett in the County of Merrimack and State of Newhampshire who being duly sworn according to ^law declairs that she is widow of Nathan Prescott Deceased who was a Soldier in the Company commanded by Captain Nathan Brown in the Regt of Infintry Comanded by Col David Gilman in the Revolutionary war that her said Husband Nathan Prescott was inscribed on the pension Roll of the United States for a partickuler account of his service reponce is to be had to his papers now on file in the pension office at Washington 
She further states that she was married to said Nathan Prescott in Northwood in the State of Newhampshire on the Ninteenth day Nov. 1826 that her name before her marriage was Dolly Caswell that her said husband died at Deerfield NH on the _________ day of AD 1837 and that she is now a widow she makes this declaration
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for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act of March 3d 1855
Dolly [her mark x] Prescott
We Joseph Goss and Moses Quimby of Hooksett in the state of Newhampshire up our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Dolly Prescott in our present and that we believe from the affidavit and statement of the affiant that she is the identical person she represents her self to be. Joseph T. Goss
Moses Quimby
The foregoing affidavits and declarations were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written and I certify that I know the affiants to be creditable persons that claimant is the person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in this claim.
Isaac Riddle Justice of the Peace
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Northwood Oct. 17th 1855
J Riddle Esqr Sir I need your letter asking for another copy of the record of Nathan Prescott & Dolly Carswells marriage- Below you will find it as follows - 
Marriages by the Revd. E. Merrill - 
1826 Nov 19th Nathan Prescott to Dolly Carswell both of Northwood - 
A true copy of Record
Attest - V. P. Tasker Town Clerk of Northwood
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE – County of Hillsborough, ss. I Isaac W. Smith Clerk of Police Court of the City of Manchester in the County and State above mentioned, do hereby certify that Issac Riddle whose genuine signature appears above, is, and was at the time of signing the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified: that his Commission is dated on the third day of December A. D. 1852, and will expire in five years from date; that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit; and that the aforesaid Police Court is a Court of Record. Given under my hand and seal of office of Manchester this 20th day of October A. D. 1855. Isaac W. Smith, CLERK
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[illegible] Manchester N. Y.
July 9, 1836
Sir
I herewith to your [illegible] letter directed to Isaac Riddle
I think is is misdirected.
Resp Yours
W. K. Hawk
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Name of Colonel not mentioned application returned for amendment in that respect.
Oct 3 '36
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Pension Office, Dec. 10/55
The third auditor will please certify date of death of within named pensioner.
Very respectfully
S. Cole
Chief Clerk
3d. Auditor's Office
Dec. 11. 1833
Died 17 October 1837
Robt J Atkinson
auditor
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Department of the Interior,
Pension Office, Official Business
[illegible]
Isaac Riddle, Esq.
Manchester, New York
[stamp]
WASHINGTON DC
1836 28 MAY FREE
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Hon Josiah Minot
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D C
Dolly Prescott wid Nathan
R Triplett
[stamp]
MANCHESTER N.H. 4
FREE [upside down]
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Hon. Josiah Minot
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C
From Isaac Riddle Manchester N. H
Dolly Prescott wid Nathan
Triplett
[stamp]
FREE
MANCHESTER OCT 23
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J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
[stamp]
FREE
PORTLAND Mc. OCT 1
Oct 5
[illegible] Baldwin
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Hon Josiah Minot
Commissioner of Pension
Washington City
[stamp]
FREE
MANCHESTER N.H. JUN 9
Dolly Prescott
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Hon Josiah Minot
Commissioner of Pension
Washington City DC
[stamp]
FREE
MANCHESTER N.H. JUL 7
Dolly Prescott
[across] [illegible]
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Nathan Prescott,
for a transfer
He appears to be unable to give the name of his colonel
His application was returned to him on [illegible] 3d. [illegible] last. And it is now forwarded again with a statement of his Agent [illegible] he has no [illegible] of the name of the officer.
Respectfully offered to the Court
[illegible] 31 ‘37
R. B.
Let the transfer be made, as I am satisfied from an examination of the signatures that there is no imposition in the case.
J L E.
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Hon George C Whiting
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D C
[stamp]
FREE
MANCHESTER N.H. Paid
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38525
[illegible]
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Hon. Josiah Minon
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.
From Isaac Riddle
Manchester N. H.
220405
[stamp]
FREE
MANCHESTER N. H. OCT 23
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No. 6091
Dolly Prescott, widow of Nathan, N. H.
Les. I Riddle Oct 27/55
Same Jan 7/56
Same June 13 1856
Act Feby 3 1853
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Revolution
New Hampshire
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 10923
Dolly Prescott Wid of Nathan Prescott Privt Rev War
Act: Febry 3d 1853
Index: - Vol. [illegible], Page 140
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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I Rosana Quimby of the age of thirty years testify and say that Dolly Prescott who is now making application for a pension is my Mother and lives with me and that she is the widow of Nathan Prescott Decd who was a pensioner of the United States as she has represented her self to be. Roxana [my mark x] Quimby
Sworn and subscribed
Oct 4 1855 Before me Jos. T. Goss Justice of the Peace
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I David Stevens of Deerfield in the State of New Hampshire of the age of Fifty one years certify and say that I was acquainted with Nathan Prescott who was a Revolutionary Pensioner, he is dead, he died in the year A.D. 1837 and left a widow Dolly Prescott. I was Guardian of the said Nathan Prescott for some 3 years prior to his death and drew his Pension during the said time and I obtained the arrears of Pension for his widow Dolly Prescott after his decease.
Deerfield N. H. Oct. 15, 1835 David Stevens
Sworn & subscribe
Before me
Israel M. Gale Justice of the Peace
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I Saml Dame of Auburn in the County of Rockingham & State of New Hampshire of the age of 66 years testify and say that I was well acquainted with Nathan Prescott of Deerfield. When I knew him he was a Revolutionary Soldier and Pensioner. He is dead and died about the year 1837.
I was also acquainted with his wife Dolly Prescott She is a widow and is still living as I have heard and believe with her daughter Rosana Quimby in the Town of Hooksett in this State.
I was acquainted with her while she lived with her husband Nathan Prescott and since.
October 16th 1853 Samuel Dame
Sworn & Subscribed
Before me Isaac Riddle Justice Peace
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham ss. I David Stevens of Deerfield in said County being duly sworn depose and say that I was well acquainted with Nathan Prescott a revolutionary pensioner: that I was his guardian for some years previous to his death and at the time of his death: that I was knowing to the fact of his death: That so many years have elapsed since his death I am not able to state the day precisely but that it was between the 16th day of October A.D. 1837 and the 25th day of the same month and year: that my books of account show a charge to him on the 10th day of said October, and on the 28th day of December the same year I settled my account as his guardian with the Judge of Probate after a month’s notice as is the custom in this state: that I knew the balance due him from the pension agent at Portsmouth N.H. and paid the same to Dolly Prescott his wife: that the sum paid her was $4.37 which accrued to him for the 4th of September 1837 to the day of his death:
This deponent further says that he knows Dolly Prescott to be the widow of said Nathan Prescott: that she now lives at Hooksett in this state and that she is still a widow and that she is the identical person now making application for a pension
David Stevens
Subscribed and sworn to this Fourth day of
[side margin]
Pension $36.66 per annum
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July A.D. 1836, and I certify that the above affiant
is a credible person and is the same person that he represents himself to be and that I have no interest in this claim.
Before me
Israel M. Gale Justice of the Peace
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The State of New Hampshire. 
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY SS.
Office of the Clerk of the Police Court of the City of Manchester, in said County, July 7th 1856. 
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That at the date of the attestation hereto annexed, Israel M. Gale was a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Rockingham in the said State, duly commissioned and constituted, and to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, both in and out of Court, and that I believe the signature of said Justice to be genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the said Court at the date above written. 
Isaac W. Smith CLERK.
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Nathan Prescott
So Deerfield N. H. Aug 18th Free
Hon Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
or
The Chief Clerk in the Pension Department
Washington City D.C.
Aug 23d.
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N. H. South Deerfield Aug 17 1836
Hon. Lewis Cass – or the Chief Clerk in the Pension Department
I am desired to transmit the enclosed petition & request you to place the petitioner on the list of pensioners paid at the New Hampshire agency.
The subscribed wishes to the transferred before the next payment in Sept. & desires notice to be sent to me as his attorney as soon as may be if this application is in property form or such is required. Respectfully Josiah Butler
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Nathan Prescott
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Maine Bank
Portland Sept. 30th 1836
Sir
your letter of the 26th [illegible] is received Nathan Prescott Private during the Revolutionary war, on the Roll of this Agency at $36.66 per annum has been paid up to the 4th [illegible]
Very Respectfully
your Obt. Servt.
[illegible]
J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Brief in the case of Dolly Prescott widow of Nathan
County and State of NH
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 pensioner under the Act of [illegible] 7 1831 at $36.66 died in 1837.
Record of marriage
Cohabitation, general reputation of marriage her identity as the pension’s widow, his death and his [illegible]
Thornton Triplett
Examining Clerk.
Name and residence of Agent.
J. Riddle Esq
Manchester NH
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Hon. J Minot
Commisioner of Pensions
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Manchester ^NH Dec 4th 1855
Hon J Minot Commissioners of Pension
Sir I send you additional testomoney in the case of Dolly Prescott ([illegible]) her testomoney in a Court of Record as per requisition also the certificate of the Town Clerk as to the marriage the qualification ^[illegible] as a Justice of the Peace per papers filed befor V. P. Tasker Town Clerk Joseph T Goss & J N Gale Just of the the [illegible] Samuel Dame was filed before I hop I have got the matter so fixed now that you well [illegible] ^before on file with the paper.
Nathan Prescott was a revolutionary pensioner and born upon the pension Roll of the United State of Portsmouth NH before he died
From your Restfully
Isaac Riddle
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Manchester NH June 8 1856
To Hon Josiah Minot Commissioner of Pension
Dear sir when I called at your office a few day since in relation to the condition of Dolly Prescott widow of Nathan Prescott ^for Pension you ordered a copy of a letter (to be sent to me on the subject which was sent to me in January lost and was not received the copy I have not got & think it must have been [illegible] please send and I would inquire also in relation to her land ^claim if you have examined her claim &c &c
Respfully you
Isaac Riddle
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Hon Josiah Monat
Commissioner of Pension
Washington City
DC
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Manchester July 7th 1856
Hon Josiah Minot Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City DC
Dear sir enclosed is additional testimony in relation to the application of Dolly Prescott widow of Nathan Prescott for a pension and for Land who was a revolutionary pensioner
I hop it will prove satisfactory
Respfully you
Isaac Riddle
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Dolly Prescott
Widow of Nathan
NH
[illegible] 3 July 1853
$36.66 a year
[illegible]
of the act
Maryland
Monterey
[illegible] to 
J Riddle Esq
Manchester
NH
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[illegible] Letter
from Isaac P. Riddle
Manchester NY
Polly Prescott
and 
Nathan
5854
Refered to
Wm. Boynton
McCook
July 17/56
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Copy.
Pension Office,
Jany 7 1836
Sir,
In the case of Polly Prescott, alleged widow of Nathan Prescott, who was a Revolutionary soldier the exact date of her husband’s death must be proved.
She states he died about the 1st of August 1837. The date which was proved when she drew the arrears does not correspond with her present statement.
If David Stevens, a witness in this case who stated he drew the arrears for the widow, will make another affidavit giving the true date of the pensioner’s death and affirming that the present claimant is the person to whom the arrears were paid, the claim will be allowed. Our forms require that his credibility should be certified.
Very respectfully,
(Signed) J. Minot, 
Commr.
Isaac Riddle, Esq,
Manchester
N. Y.
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Manchester NH Dec 18 1856
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir I sent to your office the application of Dolly Prescott widow of Nathan Prescott a revolutionary pensioner & soldier for the Bounty land and also for his Pension I have received the certificate from the Department for the Pension but have not received the Land warrant to which she is entitled to receive The Papers was forwarded to the Department Oct 22d 1855 and perhaps they may not have been received ^at the main office as they were forwarded at the same time with the application for a Pension which was granted and they may have got into the wrong place I have written the department one before on this subject & received no answer will you please to inform me on the subject if you find the application
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for [illegible] and want more [illegible] in the case I would refer you to the Pension Roll of which she is now a Pensioner.
Very Respfully
your obt serv
Isaac Riddle
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Isaac Ridley
Manchester NH
38525
[illegible] 160 acres
220405
Dolly Prescott
Boynton May 3 56
LJ
38525
100
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Manchester NH August 12 1856
Hon Josiah Minot
Commissioner of Pensions
Dear sir I would call your attention to the application of widow Dolly Prescott of Hooksett. This state for Bounty land forwarded to your office Oct 22 1855 and other testimoney forwarded since for a Pension she is the widow of Nathan Prescott a revolutionary Pensioner and is now a pensioner under the act of Feby 3 1853 as will be seen by the files in the Pension office to which reform maybe had her Pension Certificate [illegible] date of July 16 1856
Respfully Isaac Riddle 
you will see the necessity of making this application account of the uncertainty of life and in case of Death it will be lost by the [illegible]
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Nathan Prescott
Maine
to Portsmouth
N Hamp.
Hon. S Cushman
[illegible]
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APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER
County of Rockingham ss,
On this 12th day of September 1836, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Rockingham personally appeared Nathan Prescott of Deerfield NH who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Nathan Brown in the Regiment commanded by Colonel ____ in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Main from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the State (District, or Territory,) of New Hampshire where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future. The following are his reasason for removing from the State of Maine to New Hampshire viz He was born in Epping New Hampshire & his relations in said State, he could not support himself in Maine.
Nathan Prescott 
Sworn and subscribed to before me, the day and year aforesaid.
Benjamin Jenness Justice of the Peace
-	The oath to be taken before a duly qualified Magistrate, whose official character and signature must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. The County Clerk, Secretary of State, or some other officer, must certify, under his seal of office, that the officer who administered the oath is a Justice of the Peace, Judge, Mayor, Alderman, or Notary Public, as the case may be, and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
-	The oath must be supported by the testimony of some respectable person, as to the pensioner’s identity. He must swear that the person who has taken the above oath is the person described in the affidavit. The Magistrate must certify that the witness is a person of veracity; and the affidavit must also be authenticated in the manner above directed.
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State of New Hampshire Rockingham County SS
I J. B. Hoitt Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County do hereby certify that Benjamin Jenness Esq is a magistrate as within mentioned, and that his signatures to the within ^application and is the annexed affidavit of certificate purporting to be his is genuine.
In Testimony, whereof I have hereunto affixed my Seal of Office, and subscribed my name this fourteenth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty six.
J. B. Hoitt Clerk-
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I David Stevens testify & declare that Nathan Prescott who took the foregoing oath beofre Benjamin Jenness is the same person described in said affidavit
David Stevens
Rockingham SS
Sept 11 1836 Sworn to before me Benjamin Jenness Justice of the peace 
I hereby certify that Nathan Prescott who made an oath the foregoing application for a transfer of pension is entitled to full credit as a witness & also that Davide Stevens who subscribed & made oath to the identity of the said Prescott is entitled to full credit & is a man of that veracity
Benajamin Jenness Justice of the Peace
I Josiah Butler the subscribed depose say that I fill up the claim of the foregoing application of Nathan Prescott & saw him sign the same & that I inquired of him the name of the Col whose regiment he served & he said that he would ^not now recollect, & though he knew the name of the Col when he made his application, he had forgotten it. I therefore believe that by reason of his age & debility, his memory was much impaired did not insert ^in the application the name of the Col originally inserted in his application for a pension.
Josiah Butler
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State of New Hampshire
County of Rockingham January 25 1837
Personally appeared the within named Josiah Butler & made oath to the within affidavit by him subscribed before me Benjamin Jenness Justice of the Peace
Nathan Prescott
Maine to Portsmouth N Hamp.
Hon. S. Cushman HR
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To the Secretary of the War Department
Your petitioner respectfully represents that he was a private in the Revolutionary War & that he has been placed on the pension roll & that he has been paid his pension by the agent for paying pensions in the State of Maine where he lately resided & that he has now changed his residence & lives in Deerfield in the State Of New Hampshire & prays that he may be transferred to the roll of pensioners in New Hampshire & hereafter paid in this State Nathan Prescott
May 9 1836
State of New Hampshire
Rockingham ss May 9 1836
Sworn to before me
Josiah Butler Justice of the Peace
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Declaration
State of New Hampshire
Hillsborough ss
On this twelfth day of November personally appeared before the Police Court of the City of Manchester Dolly Prescott a widow of Hooksett in the County of Merrimack and State aforesaid aged 70 years who first being duly Sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3d. February 1853 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war that she is the widow of Nathan Prescott who was a Soldier in Capt Nathan Brown’s Company Col Saml Gilman Regiment
She further declares that
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she was married to the said Nathan Prescott on the nineteenth day of November eighteen hundred and Twenty Six that her said husband did on the first or about the first day of August 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
Witness Isaac W. Smith Dolly [her mark x] Prescott
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year above written before me
Isaac W. Smith, Justice and Clerk of said Police Court being a Court of Record -
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE – County of Hillsborough, ss.
I, Isaac W. Smith Clerk of Police Court of the City of Manchester in the County and State above mentioned, do hereby certify that Joseph T. Goss whose genuine signature appears above is, and was at the time of signing the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County ^of Merrimack and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified: that his Commission is dated on the 13th day of July A. D. 1855, and will expire in five years from date; that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit; and that the aforesaid Police Court is a Court of Record.
Given under my hand and seal of office at Manchester this fourth day of Dec A. D. 1855
Isaac W. Smith, Clerk
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State of New Hampshire
SECRETARY OT STATE’S OFFICE
I DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the war of the Revolution, which remain in this office, it appears that the name of Nathan Prescott is borne upon Vol. 7. Page 165 
“A Return of Browns Company in Col. David Gilmans Regiment mustered & paid by Nich Gilman at the several periods hereafter mentioned 1776 April 11 Nathan Prescott 2’0’”
“Also is borne upon Vol 9. Page 119 “We the subscribers being inlisted soldiers in Capt Nathan Brown’s Company in Coll. David Gilman’s Regiment do acknowledge to have Received of Nicholas Gilman the several sums set down against each of our names which is in full for one Month’s advance Wages in the colony service agreeable to a vote of the Councill assembly”
“Exeter April 10th 1776”
“Nathan Prescott – “forty shillings – 2’-‘-
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said State, this sixth day of November 1855.
Samuel N. Pattee Secretary of State.
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State of New Hampshire
Secretary’s Office, Concord,
November 15, 1855.
I hereby certify, That Miles Durgin and Israel N. Gale are Justices of the Peace for the County of Rockingham in the said State, duly commissioned and qualified; and that to their acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the State, the date above written 
Samuel N. Pattee
Secretary of State.
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Here make the extract but instead of copying the figures write them out in words
Marriages by the Revd. E. Merrill
November nineteenth Eighteen hundred & twenty six. Nathan Prescott to Dolly Caswell both of Northwood.
I certify that the above is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date and figures which are expressed in the record in fair legible date and figures as follows
(repeating them here as in record)
Marriages by the Revd. E. Merrill
Nov. 19. 1826 Nathan Prescott to Dolly Caswell both of Northwood.
V. P. Tasker Town of Northwood in the County of Rockingham Sate of New Hampshire V. P. Tasker above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the County Town, and State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records
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of said town with the exception above named is certified by me.
V. P Tasker – Clerk of the town of Northwood –
Sworn before me
Rockingham ss November 6th 1855
Personally appeared the above named V. P. Tasker and made oath that the above certificate by him subscribed is true
Before me
Miles Dungin Justice of the Peace
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I Rosanah Quimby of Hooksett in the County of Merrimack and State of Newhampshire certify and say that Dolly Prescott is my mother and I know that she was married to Nathan Prescott a revolutionary solider that said Nathan Prescott is now deceased and my mother Dolly Prescott is his identical widow and he was born on the Pension Roll at Portsmouth NH that my said mother now lives with me in Hooksett and has never been married since her said Husband Nathan Prescott now deceased and she is now making application for a pension
Rosanah [my mark x] Quimby
Sworn & Subscribed before me Joseph T. Goss Justice of the Peace
We Moses B Dow & James Hunt of Hooksett in the County of Merrimack & Sate of Newhampshire upon our oath Declair that the foregoing declarations was signed by Rosanah Quimby in our [illegible] and that we believe from the appearance and statements and from our knowledge of her
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That she is a credible person whose statement should have weight.
Moses B Dow
Sworn & subscribed James Hunt.
Before me Joseph T. Goss Justice of the Peace
I certify that I am personally acquainted with the witness above written and they are person of credible character in whose [illegible] you may have confidence.
Joseph T. Goss Justice of the Peace
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To Deerfield N.H. Free
[illegible]
J. L. Edwards Esquire
Clerk Pension Office
War Department Washington City DC.
Sept 21
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South Deerfield NH September 16 1836
J S Edwards Esq
Will you be pleased to examine the enclosed application of Nathan Prescott for a transfer of his pension, & if proper, communicate or send me the necessary document
Yours &c Josiah Butler