Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22662, Thomas Wild, Mass.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Mass
Wild, Thomas.
Anna.
NUMBER
W. 22662
B.L. Wt. 31779-160-55_
CONTENTS
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[left page]
LeTo [Letter To]  Wm B Hewes 17 June 1850
LeTo H. Sturges 16 Sept 1851
LeTo H. Sturges 15 Oct 1851
LeTo P. Agt 15 Oct 1851
183996

[right page]
5222
New York

Anna Wild
widow of Thomas Wild
NY
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
40 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 1st [lined thru] 4th [/lined thru] day of [lined thru] March [/lined thru] June, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the
28th day of Novr 1847
and sent to
S. E. Church
Hamilton
New York

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 242 Vol. 4
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20.819
New York

Thomas Wild
of Otsego Co. in the State of New York 
who was a Private in the Comp commanded
by Captain Cook of the Regt. commanded
Col. Porter in the Mastts
for 12 months

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 40 Dollars ━ Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 5 day of De.
1833 ━ and sent to H. Lathrop Unadilla ━

Arrears to the 4th of Sep '23 $100
Semi=annl. allowance ending 4 M[arch] '24  20
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$120
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{ Revolutionary Claim, June 7, 1832. }

Recorded by Go. C. Stiles Clerk
Book E. Vol 4, Page 40
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183996 Act 3 March
July 5/55

Anna Wild
Widow
Thomas Wild  ─
Pensioner ─ New York

No. 31779 [?] July 1/56

Revolutionary War
N.Y. Lef[?] 48-5222
[?] 160 AC June 26 /55
[illegible signature]
Boynton
R

Ransom Clark
Rockdale
Chenango Co.

Vol. We ─ 23. 2
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15890
Thomas Wild
Otsego County
N. Y.
on rolls 6mo
Admitted
Private 12 months
12.16 of
May 10th 1833-
P. 391
Horace Lathrop Clk
Unadilla
N.Y
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[printed form, filled in by hand]

BRIEF in the case of Thomas Wild of Otsego County in the State of New York (Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 69
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
[column headings]
| Period | Duration of Service Years, Months, Days. | Rank. | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. |

Enlisted in 1779 for 3 Months as a Private under Capt. Cook, Col. Porter
Enlisted in 1779 for 3 Months as a Private under Capt. Clapp, Capt Walls, Col. Marshall
Enlisted in 1780 for 5 Months, 24 Days as a Private under Capt. Clapp, Capt Walls, Col. Marshall
[illegible] rolls

5. In what battles was he engaged?
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Williamsburgh, Massachusetts
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? discharge for one tour ━ tradition
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
Not connected as required
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
[signed] F. E. Bradford.
Examining Clerk.
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Anna Wild
Widow of Tho's
N Y
2 Feby 1848
admitted
P- $40 per an
Com 11th [?] June 1848
Act Feb 48
S. E. Church
Hamilton
NY
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State of New York County of Madison } ss. 
Anna Wild of Madison in said County being duly sworn doth depose & say that she is the widow of Thomas Wild, who was a private in the Revolutionary Army, & who is named in the pension certificate of the "War Department" hereto annexed; ─ That she was married to the said Thomas Wild at Williamsburgh in the State of Massachusetts prior to the first day of January One Thousand Seven hundred & ninety four, & according to the best  recollection & belief of the Deponent in the year one Thousand Seven hundred & Eighty two: ─ That the said Thomas Wild died on the first day of June One Thousand Eight hundred & forty Eight (having received his last pension instalment under the annexed Certificate on the 4th day of March then last & that she has ever since remained & still is his widow, as aforesaid, ─ & further saith not.
[right] her
[right] Anna  X  Wild [X being her mark in lieu of signature]
[right] mark
Sworn before me this 24th day of August 1849.
[signed] B. F. Cleaveland Justice of peace
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State of New YorkMadison County Clerks office ss: }
I A. Scott Sloan Clerk of said County hereby certify that B.F. Cleaveland Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken, & whose name is Subscribed to the jurat thereof was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in & for said County, duly elected and qualified & authorized by the Laws of said State to take the same And that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such Justice & verily believe his Signature to the said Jurat to be genuine ─

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & official seal this 25th day of August 1849 ─
[signed] A Scott Sloan Clerk
Yr. [?] Wm. A. Holmes Deputy
(Clk absent.)
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Thos. Wild

Payments to be made
at New York
by Pres. U.S. Bank [?]
Agent  for paying Pensioners
in the Agency of New York
Recorded in the Pension Office
in Book E. Vol. 4,
Page 40. by Go. C. Stiles
Clerk
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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, Thomas Wild of the State of New York who was a private in the Revolutionary Army is entitled to receive Forty dollars and  [lined thru] cents [/lined thru] 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 5 day of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty three
[signed] John Robb
Acting Secretary of War.

Examined and Countersigned. }
[signed] J L Edward
Commissioner of Pensions.
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183996
Presented [?] by
Ransom Clark
PM
Rockdale
Chenango Co.
ny
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State of New York County of Chenango } ss
On this 16th day of June 1855 personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace within and
for the County afforesaid and State of New York Anna Wild aged ninety three years a resident of Unadilla County of Otsego and State fforesaid who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Thomas Wild who was a soldier in the revolutionaryarmy and who received a Pension therefore.
She further states that she was married to the said Thomas Wild (as near as she can recollect) on the first day of April 1782 by Elder Strong, and that her name before he marriage was Ann Williams, for proof of her said marriage will be had by reference to her application for Pension, which was granted to her on the 28th day of November 1849. That her said husband die at Unadilla Otsego County and State aforesaid on or about the 1st day of June 1848. and that she is now a widow
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the County Land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3d 1855.
[right] her
[right] Anna  X   Wild [X being her a=mark in lieu of signature]
[right] mark

We, William L Skinner and Rudolph Barce residents of Guilford Chenango County and State aforesaid upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Anna Wild in our presents and this we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
[signed] W. L.  Skinner
[signed] Rudolph Barse
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the within declaration and affidavit were Sworn to and Subscribed before me on the day and year within written and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons. That I have no interest in this claim and that the claimant is the person she represents her to be. And that the name of "Anna Wild" was inserted between the third and forth lines from the top within, before signed. And I further that the reason why the Spplicant make her mark was from the infirmities of age
 [signed] Ranson Clark Justice of the peace

[printed form, blanks hand written]
STATE OF NEW YORK.Chenango County Clerk's Office, } ss.
I, THOMAS MILLER, Clerk of said County, DO CERTIFY, That Ransom Clark Esq, before whom the annexed instrument was proved or acknowledged, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgement, a JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, in and for said County, duly authorized and qualified to take the same. And further: That I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe the signature thereto, purporting to be his, is genuine ; and that the said instrument is executed in accordance with the Laws of the State of New York.
IN TESTIMOY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my official seal, at Norwich, this 23 day of June 1855
[signed] T Miller Clerk.

[Illegible Court Seal attached at left]
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Thomas Wild
x J.SP
15890
✔
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State of New York Otsego County ss }
On this 15th day of October 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Com'n Pleas and General Sessions of the peace in & for the County of Otsego State of New York now sitting Thomas Wild a resident of the Town of Butternuts in the County of Otsego and State of Newyork Aged sixty nine 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 the 7th of June 1832 ─ That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein Stated viz That he Enlisted at Williamsburgh in the State of Massachusetts in the month of July 1779 for the Term of three months in the Company Commanded by Capt Cook in Colo Porters Regiment was ordered to march to New London and work at the Fort there the said 3 months and was discharged there on the hill back of, Fort Trumble ─ Then immediately he Enlisted again at said Williamsburg in the month of October 1779 for Term of three months in Capt Clapps Company and went tp Albany in the State of New York, and after serving out said 3 months in said Camp was discharged at Albany ─
That he Enlisted again at Williamsburgh about the first of July 1780 for six months in Capt Jacob Wells ─ 7th Massachusetts Regiment Commanded by Coll Marshall ─ went with said Regiment to West Point ─ thence into the State of New Jersey ─ then back to West Point and being on a tour of duty in getting wood sown the River to West Point he received an injury  or wound about six days before his time was out which rendered him unfit for duty and he was then discharged at West Point after serving 5 months & 24 days which said discharge is hereto annexed that he has no other Documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose Testamony he can procure to prove his said service ─ That 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
[signed] Thomas Wild

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open Court
[signed] Horace Lathrop Clerk

The following questions being propounded by the Court

to the said applicant under [?] the following answers were given - to wit
1st Wherof in what year was you born
Answer that he was born in the Town of Braintree near Boston in the year 1763
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2d have you any record of your age and if so where is it ─
Answer that he has no record and knows of none except in Massachusetts ─
3d where were you living when called into service vwhere have you lived since the Revolutionary War ─ and where do you live now ─
Answer that he lived at Williamsburgh in Massachsettst when he entered the Service that he lived at North Hampton about 18 years after the war ─ that he has lived in the the Town of Butternuts in Otsego County the last 26 years where he now lives
4th how were you call into the Service were you drafted did you Volunter or were you a Substitute and if a Substitute for whom?
Answer that he Enlisted Voluntarily 3 several times ─
5th State the names of some of the Regular Officers who were with the Troops when you serv'd ─ the Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service
Answer that he recollects when in New Jersey they had no provision for about a week and that Genl Patterson ordered his Milk Cow to be killed and distributed among the Officers & Men ─ that he saw Genl Washington & Baron Steuben at Kings Ferry that he saw some part of the main army at Camp Totaway - that he saw Baron Steuben at Kings Ferry ─ that he went into Winter quarters at West Point The persons in my neighborhood to whom I am known who can Testify
as to my Character for Veracity and their belief of my service are David Walker Esquire ─ Isaac Benedict ─ Elder Dan'l Eastwood Colo D. Shaw

We Daniel Eastwood and Isaac Benedict residing in the Town Butternuts in the County of Otsego hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Wild who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be sixty nine years of Age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier in the Revolution and that we Concur in that Opinion ─
[signed] Isaac Benedict
[signed] W H Beach

Sworn & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open Court
[signed] Horace Lathrop, Clerk
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And the said Court do hereby declare their Oopinion after the Investigation  of the Matter and after putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the Department of War ─ that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and Served as he states ─ And the Court further Certifies that it appears to the Daniel Eastwood who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman resident in the Town of Butternuts ─ and that Isaac Benedict who has also signed the same is a resident of the same place and is a Credible person and that their statement is Entitled to Credit ─
[signed] J. O. More  E. Booth  S Page } Judges

State of New York Otsego County ss }
I Horace Lathrop Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and Gen'l Sessions of the peace in & for the County of Otsego State of Nyork [New York] do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Thomas Wild for a pension ─
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 19th day of October 1832
[signed] Horace Lathrop, Clerk
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Wild, Thomas
W. 22.662.
Mass.
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True Copy Attest  Josiah Dwight [?] Simeon Guilford }

[left corner of page missing]
of Thomas Wild a Solder in the 7th Massachusetts [?]
[havin]g served as a faithful Good Soldier in the Said Regt
[for] [?] Month & twenty four days is hereby discharged [?]
Signed under my Hand at West Point
this 6th Day of January 1780
[signed] Major Jonah May Com'dt [Commandant]
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State of New York Otsego County ss }
We John Morse a Clergyman residing in the Town of Otego in Otsego County and Ashael Packard residing in the same place hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Wild who hasSubscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration hereto annexed that we believe him to be sixty nine years of Age ─ that he is reputed & believed in the Neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier in the revolution and that we concur in that opinion ─
[signed] John Morse
[signed] Ashael Packard
Sworn & Subscribed this 23 day of May 1833 before me
[signed] Thos. Page Judge of the County Courts for Otsego Co

And I the Undersigned a Judge of the County Courts in & for the County of Otsego do hereby declare my Opinion after having heard the investigation of the matter in open Court that the above named applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and served as he states 
And I do further Certify that it appears to me that the Rev'd John Morse who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman residing in the Town of Otego in Otsego County and that Ashael Packard Esqr who has also signed the same is a resident of Otego in said County and is a credible person and that their statement
is entitled to credit ─ 
Unadilla Otsego County 23rd May 1833 }
[signed]Thos. Page Judge of the County Courts, Otsego Co ─

[illegible Court seals at top center and bottom left]
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State of New York Otsego County } ss:
I Horace Lathrop, Clerk of the said County, do certify, that Sherman Page before whom the within Affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same, one of the Judges of Otsego County Courst, duly appointed and sworn as such: And that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the within Affidavit & Certificate to be his proper hand writing & signature. Witness my hand & Seal of Office this 24th day of May 1833.
[signed] Horace Lathrop, Clerk.
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Anna Wild
W [Widow]
Let to L. C. Church Sept 6/49
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Rockdale NY
July 2nd
18399
Due R Clark PM

Hon L. P. Waldo
Comm of Pensions
Washington
D.C
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31.779
[flourish]
New User [?]
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Albany N.Y. Roll, Act 7 June 1832
Thomas Wild, pri. $40 per annum.
To what time last paid? P'd 4th Mar. 1848.
B.L.B.
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Revy
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 22662
Anna Wild
Wid. of
Thomas Wild
Priv. Rev War
Act: Feb - 2d 1848
Index:─ Vol. A, Page 345
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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To
J.L. Edwards Esqr
Sir: Thomas Wild was a soldier of the Revolution, and drew a pension as I am informed, he is now dead, his widow is living & has made the usual application for pension & has who obtained it as I am likewise informed ─ her name is Anna Wild, She now resides in Del. Co. N. 3. She of course would be entitled to bounty land ─ her husband never rec'd a land warrant. She is desirous of obtaining it ─
Question ─ Can she take a certified copy of the papers on which he obtained a pension, and file them in the office in which the land warrant is issued, or must she obtain the warrant on a new & distinct set of papers, ─
If she must make out her papers anew, will you please forward me
the time when Thos. Wild Enlisted, & for what time, and what his rank in the army; I suppose him entitled, if a Soldier to 100 acres
Yours &c
[signed] Wm B. Hawes
Unadilla Otsego County
New York

To
Hon J. L. Edwards
Com. Pension
June 6th 1850
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Butternuts Otsego Co N.Y.
October 2d 1821
Commissioner of Pensions
Dr Sir Hereunto I send you proof of the Identity of nine children as per your directions unto the Clerks Certificate. I got no Certificate of the Clerk to the Power of Atty as the signature of the Justice with the Clerks certificate is layed in the Hands of your Agent in Ablany [Albany] ─ If you order the money paid please inform me & I write to the atty of Ablany [albany] in due Course if the papers is not enough 
You will inform me. I hope they are as it─ is a Meritorious case and the widow
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is destitute & in want of the funds
Yours respectfully
H Sturges
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Anna Wild,
widow of Thomas,
N.Y.
Act 2 Feb 1848,
S. E. Church,
Hamilton,
N.Y.
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Commissioner of Pensions 
War Department              
Washington D.C. ⎬
Sir.
The enclosed papers accompany the application hereby madein behalf of Mrs Anna Wild widow of the late Thomas Wild pensioner of the U.S. to be placed on the Pension Role of the U.S. under the act of Congress of Feb. 2d 1848.
It is supposed the Evidence herewith sent is sufficient under the joint Resolution Congress approved July 1, 1848 authorizing the placing of widows in certain cases upon the pension rolls upon proof by her that she was married to such officer or soldier prior to 1st Jan 1794, & that she is a widow.
Should any [illegible] have been omitted however it can doubtless be supplied upon being Apprized of the fact. If otherwise & the Applicant sum entitled to it will you please forward Certificate in Accordance with the order of the Department & oblige
Very Respectfull
Your Obt Servt
[signed] S. E. Church
Hamilton N.Y.

Hamilton N.Y. Aug 23d 1829.
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Hamilton Nov 5 1829

Honl J. L. Edwards
Sen. Dept.
Washington, D.C.

Dr Sir
In the matter of the claim of Anna Hill widow of Thomas Wild, to a pension under act 2 Feb. 48, heretofore presented to the Pension
Department I rec'd your favor of the 6th Sept. asking additional
proof of the marriage of the claimant towit, Record proof, or in its absence proof of the affidavit of some third person, of such marriage.
We have been wholly unable after much effort to obtain record proof of the marriage. I believe that no such proof is in existence
I enclose herewith proof of the second kind of such marriage. The affidavit is of the Brother of Tho's Wild the deceased pensioner,
besides whom, I cannot find that any other person Competent to testify to such marriage is now living
Should these papers be found sufficient in form I trust they will meet in point of matter the requirements the Department under the Act in question
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
[signed] S.E. Church
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15890
Thomas Wild
12. 16
[signed] Horace Lathrop Clk
Unadella
N. Y.
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[printed form, blanks filled in by hand]

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those
answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of
Thomas Wild of Otsego County, New York which require
further proof or explanation.

1. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason
assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes
V. Has he mentioned 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?
yes
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?
yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of
June 7, 1832? yes
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished
from any other seal? yes
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[printed form, blanks filled in by hand]

2

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? No ─ the Court certify the signature of a clergyman when his name is not to be found
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? No
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? Yes
XIV. If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? all answered

EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. 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 in the following grades; For __________year ______ months ____, and ____ days, I served as a ________ For ______ months and _______days, I served as a ; and f_______or such service I claim a pension.
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[printed form]  

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. The 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 they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting service.This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served ; the duration of each term of engagement ; the particular place or places where the service was performed ; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority ; that he was either in the field or in garrison ; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
‡QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
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 must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
‡QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper 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.
☛In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, 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.
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State of New York
County of Madison ⎬ ss.
Be it Known that before me Peter Van  Valkenburgh, a justice of the peace of Sullivan in & for the County aforesaid duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared Elkannah Wild of the same town & County aforesaid, & made oath in due form of law that Anna Wild, who is named & described in the following affidavit made by her, was duly & lawfully married to Thomas Wild described in said affidavit, & who was late pensioner of the United States, & is now deceased. That said marriage took place in the then Town of Williamsburgh in the State of Massachusetts, in the year Seventeen hundred Eighty two or Seventeen hundred Eighty three this Deponent cannot precisely rember [remember] in which year ─ that the marriage ceremony took place in the presence of this deponent, & was performed by a Clergyman of said State duly authorized to perform the same & this Deponent does not know of Any person now living who was present at said ceremony except the said Anna Wild.
[right] [signed] Elkannah Wild

Subscribed & Sworn before me this 27th day of October 1844
[signed] Peter Van Valkenburgh
Justice of the peace

State of New York
County of Madison ⎬ ss. 
I do hereby certify that I am acquainted with Elkannah Wild the deponent above named & believe the deposition above taken to be entitled to full credit 
Sullivan October 27th 1844.

[signed] Peter Van Valkenburgh
Justice of the peace
in & for said County
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State of New York
County of Madison ⎬ ss
Be it known that on this 30th day of October 1849 personally appeared before me Anna Wild, whose name is hereto subscribed & being by me duly sworn says that she was duly & lawfully married to Thomas Wild late a pensioner of the United State now deceased, in or about the year 1782 her not later than the year 1783. That her husband the said Thomas Wild died on the first day of June 1848, & that she has never been married to any the person, & now remains his widow. This deponent further says that said marriage took place at the town of Williamsburgh in the State of Massachusetts ─  that she has used due diligencetain record proof of such marriage from the Clerk or other keeper of public records of said town & of the parish where such marriage took place, but that she cannot obtain the same, nor does she believe such record exists. That she has no knowledge that any person present at such marriage ceremony is now living Except Elkannah Wild of Sullivan in the County of Madison, nor does she believe she can obtain any other evidence of such marriage ceremony than the Affidavit of the said Elkannah Wild. And the Deponent further says that the is the identical person whose application has heretofore been made to the pension Department, for a pension as the Widow of the said Thomas Wild, & which application with the pension certificate of the said Thomas Wild is now on file in the said Pension Department
[right] Anna   X   Wild [X being her mark in lieu of signature]

Subscribed & Sworn the 30th day & year above written before me 
[signed] Hiram H. Green Sitting the same
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State of New York
County of Madison ss ⎬ 
I do hereby certify that I am
acquainted with Anna Wild the deponent
in the foregoing affidavit by her subscribed &
believe her depostion above taken to be entitled
to full credit
Dated Hamilton Oct 30th 1834. 
[signed]Hiram H. Green Justice of the peace

State of New York
Madison County Clerk Office ss: ⎬ 
I, A. Scott Sloan Clerk of said County hereby certify that Hiram H Green Esq. and Peter Van Valkenburgh Esq. whose names are subscribed to the foregoing affidavit, and Certificates, were each of them a Justice of the Peace at the date thereof duly elected & qualified & authorized by law to take the same ─ And that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of each of said Justices & verily believe their signatures to the Jurat & Certificate of the foregoing affidavits to be genuine ─
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and official Seal this 31st day of November 1849 ─
[signed] A. Scott Sloan Clerk
Yer [?] Wm A. Holmes Dep
(Clk absent)
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Commissioner of Pensions
Pension office
Washington D. C

L Mr Cole

Anna Wild AM 48
5

[mostly illegible postal date stamp]
SEP 9
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In matter of the Pension of Anna Wild Widow of Thomas Wild dec'd a pensioner -
Butternuts Otsego Co N.Y.
Sept. 8th 1851
Commissioner of Pensions
Dr Sir - The certificate granted to Anna Wild - Widow of Thomas Wild dec'd a pensioner -which Shewed her entitled to forty dollars a year - is in the hand of Daniel Pearce of Tompkins Delano Co where she has resided for two years past Who is a grand son ofhers and he refuses deliver the same to her - as She has changed her residence and hopes thereby to compel her to live with him -- He holds the certificate and She refuses to sign any paper whereby he can draw the money - now She wishes her pension - & I write to enquire what proof you will require of its being with held to grant her another Certificate - or afford her some relief in the premises -
An early answer will oblige an afflicted & destitute widow -
Yours respectfully
[signed] H Sturgess

Please [?] to her as above date - [unsure of this line]