Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26,956, for William Sackett, Connecticut
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SERVICE   Conn.
Sackett, William
or Sacket.
Parthena
W. 26.956
B.L. Wt. 11282-160-55
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[unreadable] Sack
[unreadable]
Same 24 May
4536 
New York Albany
Parthena Sackett 
widow of William Sackett Con who served in the Revolutionary war as a pri & Sergt  
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 63 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of Mch 1849 and sent to L. Jenkins Albany N.Y.  
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 187 Vol. 4
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96164 
Act March 3 / 53
April 24 / 55
Parthena Sackett, widow of William Sackett Sergt.
Ct: Mil
Rev War
Act Feb 2 / 48
No 11,282 iss’d [issued] Dec 3 / 53
Duplicate iss’d Feb 8 / 59
Ad: 160 Acres Dec 1” 1855,
NY Feby 48 – Boynton
[unreadable]
S. W. Edwards
Seneca Falls NY.
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Oct 22/57 Let to P. Dickinson, Syracuse N.Y.   J. P
Jany 18/58 Let to Hon A. P. Granger H. R. enclosing letter of P Dickinson instructions for duplicate J. P.
Mar 20/58 let to Hon A. P. Granger H. R. enclosing letter of Harry Dickinson let to Comr Gen Land Office – has caveat been filed – J P
Apr 29/58 Let to Hon A. P. Granger H. R. regarding caveat [unreadable]
May 13/59 Let to H. Ord Syracuse NY
Feby 4/59
Issue duplicate to be sent to A. P. Granger H. R. 
Warrt [warrant] lost
Vol 81 page 4
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24471  
New York  
William Sackett of [unreadable] Co in the State of New York [unreadable] Pr & Sgt in the Company  command by Captain Curtiss of the Regt commanded by Hinman in – line for 8 mos Sgt, 7 mos pri. [private] } Conn   
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of  63 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 31 day of Dec 1833 and sent to Hon S. Clark H. Repa.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833   $157.33 
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 34. 31.66
$189.99 
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.} 
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk 
Book E Vol. 4 Page 121
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No 9586 
Parthena Sackett 
N. Y. Act July 7th 38 
Admd [admitted] 
8 mo  Sergt 
7 mo pri [private] 
63.33 
Hon Asher Tyler
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Declaration   
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th of July 1838 entitled an act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows: 
State of New York 
Seneca County ss: On this 4th day of September 1843 personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Judge of the Court  in & for said County at the Town of Seneca Falls in the County of Seneca Parthena Sacket of Seneca Falls aforesaid aged seventy five years on the 17th day of December last past who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled an act granting half pay & pension to certain widows: and also a further Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 3 of March 1843 granting pensions one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the act of July 7. 1838 and also to obtain the benefit of all intermediate acts acts and resolutions of Congress between those Acts above named. 
That she is the widow of William Sacket who was a soldier of the war of the Revolution and a pensioner  of the United States at the rate of sixty two dollars per year, she further declares that she was married to the said William Sacket on the 27th day of May 1786 seventeen Hundred & Eighty six, agreeable to the family record a true copy of which is hereto annexed which record truly sets forth his marriage & the birth & death of her Children.   That her Husband William Sacket died on the 20th day of December 1841 Eighteen Hundred & forty one, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen Hundred & ninety four, to wit at the time above stated 
his Father William Sacket by this deponent on the
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Declaration   
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th of July 1838 entitled an act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows: 
State of New York 
Seneca County ss: On this 4th day of September 1843 personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Judge of the Court  in & for said County at the Town of Seneca Falls in the County of Seneca Parthena Sacket of Seneca Falls aforesaid aged seventy five years on the 17th day of December last past who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled an act granting half pay & pension to certain widows: and also a further Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 3 of March 1843 granting pensions one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the act of July 7. 1838 and also to obtain the benefit of all intermediate acts acts and resolutions of Congress between those Acts above named. 
That she is the widow of William Sacket who was a soldier of the war of the Revolution and a pensioner  of the United States at the rate of sixty two dollars per year, she further declares that she was married to the said William Sacket on the 27th day of May 1786 seventeen Hundred & Eighty six, agreeable to the family record a true copy of which is hereto annexed which record truly sets forth his marriage & the birth & death of her Children.   That her Husband William Sacket died on the 20th day of December 1841 Eighteen Hundred & forty one, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen Hundred & ninety four, to wit at the time above stated
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Parthena Sacket
Sworn & Subscribed before me this 4th day of September 1843
Gary V. Sacket Judge
Seneca Com. Pleas of Seneca County}  
I certify that the above named Parthena Sacket is a respectable person whose testimony is entitled to full credit & belief I consider her of the age she has mentioned above and from her great age and bodily infirmities it would be unreasonable & that she ought not to be asked to appear in open Court to make her declaration & application.  She is my mother & I therefore feel the greater cheerfulness in making this certificate knowing every word of it to be true. 
Gary V. Sacket 
Judge Sen. Com: Pleas 
of Seneca County
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17 April 1825. G. V. Sachet made the following memorandum from the old family Record:
1753: 16 Nov. William Sacket was born 
1774: 9 March he was married to Eunice Berman} 
Birth of Children 
Russel Sacket born 1. December 1775. Died in 1778
Renby Sacket born 5 February 1777.  Died in 1829 
Prudy Sacket born 22 May 1779 Died in 1818 
Lavina Sacket born 13 Nov. 1779 Died in 1818 
Wills
9 March 1784 Eunice wife of William Sacket died
29 May 1786  William Sacket married his 2d Wife (Parthena Patterson) 
Birth of Children by 2d Marriage 
Russel Sacket born 12 March 1787- Died 18 June 1823 
Eunice Sacket born  25 August 1788 
Gary V. Sacket born 9 August 1790
Jonathan Sacket born 8 May 1792 
Matilda Sacket born 29 April 1794 – Died 9 April 1795
Matilda Sacket born 3 April 1796
Ann Sacket born 29 August 1798 
Carelin Sacket 10 June 1800 
Amanda Sacket 18 November 1803 
Fanny Sacket  15 February 1808  
William A. Sacket  18 November 1811 
1841 20th December William Sacket died aged 88 years 1 mo & 4 Dy.  
State of New York 
Seneca County ss: Gary V. Sacket son of William & Parthena Sacket above named aged fifty three years of the Town of Seneca Falls in said County being duly sworn says that the above memorandum and account was copied from an old family record kept by his Father William Sacket by this deponent on the
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deponent 17th day of April 1825 and this deponent has no doubt that the above Copy is a true Copy from the original entries kept by his Father William Sacket which entries so kept by his Father are now lost & cannot be found after diligent search being made by this deponent, and this deponent further saith that he fully believes that the age of William Sacket & Parthena Sacket, the time of their marriage the birth of their several children and the death of William Sacket and also the death of the several children above mentioned are all stated precisely correct, this deponent distinctly recollects the birth of each child since 1795 and the dates are correctly stated above, this deponent was present at the death of William Sacket, Russel Sacket, Prudy Sacket & Matilda Sacket and the date of their several deaths this deponent knows to be correct.  
This deponent further saith that he has always from his earliest recollection been informed which information this deponent fully believes to be true that his Father William Sacket was married to his Mother Parthena in the Town of Warren in Litchfield County in the State of Connecticut in May 1786, that they lived in said Town of Warren until the Spring of 1787, that this Eldest son was born in said Town of Warren, that they removed in the spring of 1788 to Thetford in Orange County in the State of Vermont, that they then had their first daughter (Eunice) the 2 & 3 son Gary V. this deponent & Jonathan & then 2 daughters Matilda.  These facts this deponent states from information & belief, the births & deaths in the Family sum, which would run back to the year 1795.  This recollects & of his own knowledge says they are correctly stated above in the Copy of the Family Record aforesaid.
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And this deponent further saith that in addition to the four last mentioned children born in Thetford (Vermont) William & Parthena Sacket  had other children born to the family to wit, Matilda Ann, Caroline, Amanda while living in said Town of Thetford, in the month of February 1805, they removed with the family to Aurelius in Cayuga County in the State of New York where they had two other children born to their Family Fanny & William A. in the Spring of 1830 William Sachet with his wife Parthena and one son & daughters yet remaining unmarried returned to the Town of Seneca Falls in Seneca County near this deponent where the Family now living yet reside and where William Sacket  died on the 20th December 1841. as aforesaid.  This deponent further saith that William Sacket served in the war of the Revolution as he has always been informed & believes, that he drew a pension for such services of sixty two dollars a year. That at his death he left this deponents Mother Parthena Sacket his widow, and this deponent further saith that said Parthena Sacket has not since married but now remains his widow; and this deponent further saith that his Father & mother were both members of the Presbyterian Church & his mother has been in communion with said Church for near fifty years, and this deponent further saith that his Mother Parthena Sacket will be seventy six years old on the 17th day of December 1843 and from her age & infirmities in the opinion of this deponent it would be unreasonable to compel her to go to open Court to make her declaration and application
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Gary V. Sacket  
Sworn & Subscribed before me this 4th day of September 1843 
Jesse Clark First Judge of Said County of the Court of Common Pleas
I hereby certify with pleasure that Gary V. Sacket who made the foregoing affidavit is as aforesaid a Judge with me on the Bench of Seneca County & is entitled in every respect to full belief.   
Jesse Clark first Judge of said County & of the Court of Common Pleas thereof  
State of New York
Seneca County } ss I Cyrus D. Hanks Clerk of the County of Seneca do hereby certify that the Honorable Gary V. Sackett & Jesse Clark were on the several days of the dates of the within proceedings Jurats & Certificates had before and certified by them, Judges of the County Courts in and for said County duly commissioned & sworn, and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of each of the said Judges & verily believe that their several signatures to said proceeding purporting to be their are severally genuine. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office & subscribed my name this fourth day of September 1843. 
C. D. Hanks Clerk of Seneca Co.
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State of New York 
Seneca County ss: Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Judge of the Court in for the County of Seneca Jonathan Sacket of the Town of Seneca Falls in said County aged fifty one years who on being duly sworn according to Law deposeth & saith that he is personally acquainted with and has been so acquainted with Widow Parthena Sacket (she being his own mother) from his earliest recollections, she is now applying for a pension as the widow of William Sacket late a soldier of the Revolution and a pensioner of the United States, and this deponent deposeth and said that the aforesaid widow Parthena Sacket is the identical person & widow of the aforesaid identical pensioner William Sacket, this deponent further deposeth and saith that he has examined the attached copy of the Family record & from what he has always understood from what he knows of his own knowledge he has no doubt, that it is a true family record of his Fathers Family in every respect, and this deponent further saith that the aforesaid soldier & Pensioner William Sacket died on the 20th day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred & forty one at the Town of Seneca Falls in Seneca County 
J. Sackett
Sworn & Subscribed before me this 4th day of  September 1843 
Gary V. Sacket Judge Com. Pleas of Seneca County 
I certify that the above named Jonathan Sacket is a respectable person & entitled to full credit & belief.  
G. V Sacket, Judge of Sen Com Pleas of Seneca County
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96164 
BOUNTY LAND. 
ACT OF 1855  
Claim (No…  ) 
OF – 
Parthena Sackett 
S. W. EDWARDS, ATTORNEY, 
Seneca Falls, N. Y. 
Courier Job Print, Seneca Falls.
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State of New York
County of Seneca } ss 
On this fourteenth day of April A. D. 1855, before me the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace duly authorized by law to administer oaths within and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Parthena Sackett aged 87 years, a resident of Seneca Falls in the County of Seneca  State of New York who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of William Sackett deceased who was a  Private and Sergeant commanded by Captain - in the regiment commanded by - in the War of the Revolution.  
That her husband entered the service at - about the -  of A. D. 18- ; for the term of - and continued in actual service in said War, for the term of - and was honorably discharged at - " on the day - of A.D.  
That her said husband drew a pension under the Act passed June 7, 1832 Commencing  March 4, 1831 untill his death in Decr 1841.   Claim Residing in the pension office in Book & Vol 4 page 121 , by N.S. Williams Clerk - that she has claimed a pension under the act of Feb 2, 1848, and that [unreadable] is Recorded in the pension office act of Feb 2, 1845 page 187 Vol 4 to which she refer.  S
She further states that she was married to the said William Sackett in [unreadable] State of Connecticut on the day of - A.D. 18 - ; by one - and that her name before her said marriage was Parthena Patterson that her husband died at Seneca Falls, on the - day of December A. D. 1841, and that she is still a widow. 
And she further states that there is no public record of her marriage  and there is a private record of her marriage [unreadable]  
That she cannot file herewith his Certificate of discharge for the reason that – 
In addition to the above described actual service she claims for - at which he was enlisted, to - where he was mustered into service, and for miles from at which he was discharged, to the said place of his enrolment. 
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the  Bounty Land to which she may be entitled on account of said service under the act approved March 3, 1855 
She also declares that she has not received a warrant for Bounty Land under this or any other Act of Congress, nor made any other application therefore. 
She hereby appoints S.W. EDWARDS, of Seneca Falls, N. Y., her true and lawful Attorney, with power of substitution, to prosecute this her claim for land, to receive the Certificate or Warrant when issued, and to do all other acts necessary and proper in the premises. 
Witness, J. D. Long    Parthena Sackett her mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me, on the day and year first above mentioned, and I hereby certify that I know the said deponent Parthena Sackett and believe her to be as is above stated, and that she is of the age above stated; and further, that I am not interested in this her claim as Attorney or otherwise. 
Steven W. Edwards
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State of New York
County of Seneca  } ss. On this 14th  day of April County of S. A. D. 1855, personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, Alkin Hall and Whitney Hall who are to me well known, and who are credible witnesses, and who being by me duly sworn, depose and say, that they are each well acquainted with Mrs. Parthena Sackett  the above applicant for a Bounty Land - that they have known her for years last past. That they were acquainted with the and known him for years previous to his death; that they, the said her late husband, having and . ponents never heard the fact of their marriage disputed or questioned. That the said William Sackett died on – day of December 1841; and the said Parthena Sackett and William Sackett the lived together as husband and wife, and were reputed so to be; that deponent never heard the fact of their marriage disputed or questioned.  That the said Parthena Sackett has been since that day, and still is reputed to be his widow, which deponents believe to be the fact. That she has never married since her said husband's death, and is still his widow, and that her said husband was the identical man mentioned as a soldier. in her declaration above, and further, that they were present and saw Parthena Sackett execute the foregoing affidavit by making her mark to the foregoing declaration, and making oath thereto in due form of law, and further, that they deponents, to reside in the County aforesaid. 
Witness, Alkin Hall  Whitney Hall 
Francis McHenry
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 14th day of April A. D. 1855 
State of New York 
County of Seneca 
I hereby certify, that Francis McHenry before whom the foregoing Affidavit and Power of Attorney were made and acknowledged, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signatures thereto are genuine. 
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of Court, for the County aforesaid, this 14th day of April 1855 
Isaac Foster Clerk of said Court and said County
Claim 96164 
BOUNTY LAND. 
Act of 1855
Claim (No…)
OF
Parthena Sackett
Seneca Falls, N. Y. 
S. W. EDWARDS,
ATTORNEY,
Seneca Falls, N.Y
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State of New York 
Seneca County } ss I Seba Murphy Clerk of the said County Certify that Jonathan Metcalf Esquire before whom the affidavit of William Sackett hereto annexed appears to have been taken was at the time the same purports to have been made a Justice of the peace in & for the County of Seneca and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature In Witness whereof I have hereunto Subscribed my name and caused them of my office to be hereto affixed this Eighth day of June in the year of or Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three 
Seba Murphy Clk per Eld Danforth Dep clk.
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State of New York 
Seneca County } ss Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in for the said County William Sacket who being duly sworn saith that by reason of old age and 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 seven months he served at and in the neighborhood of Ticonderoga for one month of which time I served as a private and for the remaining six months of the said term he served as an orderly sergeant, which said service as an orderly Sergeant was performed under and in virtue of the Sergeants warrant which is attached to the original declaration hereto annexed and to which this intended to be an amendment.   
And for one other term of two months he served as a Sergeant under Captain Justus Sackett as stated in his original declaration in the said original declaration did not mention that he was a sergeant for he did not then remember that he was a Sergeant he now well remembers that during that the duty Esopus was burned, and he also well remembers that the same night on which Esopus was burned he held the command of the picket guard, and the recollection of that fact has brought with it the recollection that he served during the tour as a Sergeant.  For six months I served as a private and for such service I claim a pension.  
Sworn before me this 7th day of June 1833 
Wm Sackett 
Jonathan Metcalf Justice of the Peace
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State of New York 
Cayuga County } ss   I Stephen Lombard Justice of the peace in & for the said County of Cayuga do certify that I am well acquainted with Truman Pitcher the man named in & who executed the affidavit annexed to the declaration of William Sackett hereto annexed.  That I have known the said Freeman Pitcher for many years and that he is of good moral character and entitled to full faith and credit in all courts and places as a witness. 
Dated June 6th 1833 
Stephen Lombard Justice Peace 
John Groves Justice of the peace 
State of New York 
Cayuga County of J. Michael S Myers Clerk of said County certify that Stephen Lombard Just and John Groves Esqr before whom the foregoing certificate purports to have been made were at the date of the same Justices of the that Peace in and for the County of Cayuga And that I am acquainted with their hand writing believe their names subscribed to said certificate be their proper hand writing and signatures. 
Witness my hand and seal of  Office this Sixth day of June in the year of our Lord on thousand Eight hundred and thirty  three 
M. S. Myers Clerk
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Declaration 
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832  
State of New York 
Seneca County}ss 
On this second day of October 1832 personally appeared before the Court of Common pleas of the County of Seneca William Sackett a resident of Seneca Falls in the County of Seneca aforesaid in the State aforesaid aged Seventy eight 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 entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein after stated,  that is to say on or about the first day of May in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five he enlisted into the Connecticut State Troops at the town of Kent in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut in to the Company commanded by Captain Eleazer Curtiss, Lieutenant Morgan Noble, Lieutenant Jerry Swift and Ensign - Rockwell, he was attached to the Regiment commanded by Colonel Benjamin Hinman.  The Company marched from the said town of Kent about the first of June of the same year & arrived at Ticonderoga on or about the sixteenth day of June.  Within a few days the Company to which he was attached was ordered to the North end of Lake George about three miles from Ticonderoga where the same company remained during the summer and untill he was discharged which was on or about the first of December of the same year.  About the first of August of the same year two more companies were stationed at the same place, and the said Captain Curtiss had the command the whole.  He does not remember the names of the Captains of the other companies. 
Declarant held the station of Orderly Sergeant of the said company and did the duty of Quartermaster and Agent for the said Corps, from the time when the said two additional companies came there untill he was discharged.  
Afterwards in the year 1776 about the first of August he again
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entered the service of the United States in the Connecticut Militia.  He went as a substitute for one Alexander Sackett who was drafted and in the Army a few days was taken sick and declarant went as his substitute for the said two months. He served in Captain Carters Company, in Colonel Canfields Regiment and General Cilimans [Silliman] Brigade. He was stationed at New York and remained there in till the City was evacuated by the American Troops and the Corps to which he was attached left the City the same morning in which the British Troops entered the city.  He was honorably discharged at the expiration of the said two months Service.   
Afterwards in the summer of the year 1777 he was drafted into the militia of the Connecticut line  and was ordered to Fishkill Barracks in the State of New York when he remained in service for two months. He cannot recollect the name of his captain but the Lieutenant was Reuben Park. He was honorably discharged at the expiration of his said two months service. Afterwards in the month of September of the same year he was drafted again into the same Militia and served another tower of two months.  He was stationed this time Peekskill Barracks in the State of New York on this tower.  The Captain who commanded the Company was Justice Sackett. The company to which declarant was attached was annexed to the Regiment commanded by Colonel Hezekiah Hooker who commanded a regiment of nine months men.  At the expiration of his said two months service he was again honorably discharged.  
Afterwards in the month of August in the year 1779 he was again drafted into the Connecticut Militia on other tower of two months.   He served in the Company commanded by Elijah Hazen in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Increase Moseley.  His station was at Horseneck in the State of Connecticut.  At the expiration of the said two months he was again honorably discharged. No written discharge was given in either of the above mentioned cases except at the time
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where he lay at New York before mentioned and that has been lost by time and accident.   
He has no documentary evidence of his service except the Sergeants warrant the original of which is herein to annexed, and which is in the proper hand writing of the aforesaid Colonel Benjamin Hinman.  He also preserved a copy of his returns of the corps to which he was attached, which return this declarant has always carefully preserved, and knows the same to be the original return, and in his own proper hand writing and made at the time it purports to have been made, which is also hereunto annexed. He knows of no person now living who can testify to his service.  
That he was born in the year 1754 in the town of Kent in the County of Litchfield and in the State of Connecticut and lived at the time of each of the aforesaid enlistments and drafts in the said town of Kent and County of Litchfield, that since the Revolution he has resided in the town of Thedford in the County of Orange & State of Vermont and the town of Aurelius County of Cayuga State of New York, and that he now resides in the said town of Seneca Falls in the County of Seneca.   
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. 
Wm. Sackett
Subscribed and sworn to before me in open Court 5th October in the year 1832 
Seba Murphy Clerk
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Azariah G. Orton Clergyman and Hezekiah Goodwin of Seneca Falls in Seneca County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Sacket who has subscribed and sworn the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy eight years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution in that opinion we concur.  
A. G. Orton pastor of the Prebyt. Ch. Seneca Falls
H. Goodwin
Sworn in open Court the day & year aforesaid 
Seba Murphy Clerk 
Seneca County SS.  Truman Pitcher of Aurelius in the County of Cayuga aged seventy one years being duly sworn saith that during the revolutionary war he lived in the town of Washington in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut that whilst he sold there he knew William Sacket who signed  the above declaration that he this deponent in the year 1779 as he believes was drafted into the militia of the State of Connecticut and served two months and stationed at Horse Neck near the boundary line of said State, he was in Captain Elijah Hazens Company in that Company the above William Sacket served at the same time.  Deponent knew him well and no distinctly remembers that he was in his company that he is the more confident of it because the said Sacket was the orderly sergeant of said Company.   
Truman Pitcher 
Subscribed and sworn in open Court the day & year above stated
Seba Murphy Clerk
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In the matter of the Petition of Parthena Sackett widow for a Pension – 
The petitioner is the Widow of William Sackett late a Revolutionary Pensioner, now deceased
Certificate of Marriage from Town Records in the State of Connecticut 
Hon. Asher Tyler 
H. Reps
Warrant Cty
Oct 23}  18/4
Wm. A. Sackett Esqr
Seneca Falls
New York
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William Sackett & Pearthena Paterson joined in marriage May thirtieth A D Seventeen hunded & eighty six 
I Geo P Tallmadge town clerk of the town of Warren in the County of Litchfield & State of Connecticut do certify that the above is a true copy of the record of said town of Warren  in relation to the marriage of William Sackett & Parthena Patterson with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows May 30th AD 1786 May thirtieth seventeen hundred eighty six. 
I Geo P Tallmadge above named depose & say that I hold the office of Town Clerk of the town of Warren in the County of Litchfield & State of Connecticut & that the above is
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a true extract from the records of said town with the exception above named as certified by me.  Geo P Tallmadge 
Town Clerk k
Subscribed & Sworn before me this 10th day of October 1843. 
George Starr Justice of Peace 
STATE OF CONNECTICUT. 
LITCHFIELD COUNTY } ss Litchfield 
I Origen S. Seymour Clerk of the County Court of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that George Starr Esquire is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and by law authorized to administer Oaths and to take the acknowledgment of Deeds. And that his commission was dated on the 8th day of June A. D. 1843 and will expire on the 20th day of June, A.D. 1844. And that the signature which purports to be that of said Justice to the annexed document is in the genuine hand writing of said Justice.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said Court this 10th day of October A.D. 1843 
Origen S. Seymore Clerk
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Sackett, William 
W. 26.956 
Conn a mutilated regimental weekly Return dated Nov. 14, 1775. has been removed from this case to be sent to the War Dept.
No names of officers on said return sent to War Dept. Jan. 16, 1913 
L. H. June 1, 1911
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Sackett, William 
Conn.
W. 26.956 
[unreadable]
Sackett, William 
Conn.
W. 26.956
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Saratoga Benjamin Hinman Esqr 
Colonel of the Fourth Regiment raised for the point Defence of his Majesties English Colony of Connecticut in New England in America to William Sacket Greeting I by these Presents Reposing special Trust & confidence in your loyalty, Courage & good Conduct Constitute & appoint you said William Sacket to be Sergeant in the seventh Company & Fourth Regiment of Inhabitants to Inlisted & assembled for the Special Defence & safety of his Majesties said Colony & Hereby Authorize & Empower you to Exercise & Discharge the Duties of which you are diligently to Attend to by your duty as such aforesaid According to the Trust reposed in you for which this is your sufficient Warrant  
Given under my hand & Seal at Ticonderoga the 4 of Oct AD 1775 & in the Sixteenth year of his Majestys Reign 
Benjamin Hinman Colo 4th Regt
[stamp] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES
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6472 
Albany N. York 
Parthena Sackett widow of William Sackett who was a Private & Sergeant in the Revolution 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 63 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 day of Decr 1844 and sent to Hon. Asher Tyler House of Representatives 
[Act of March 3, 1843.] 
Recorded in Book A. & June 17 1844 Vol. 2, Page 86.
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7973
New York Albany 
Parthena Sacket 
widow of Wm Sacket who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 4th Dec. 1841 of Seneca in the State of New York who was a Pvt & Sergt in the Company  commanded by Captain Curtiss Regt commanded by Col. Hinman in the Conn line for 8 mo Sergt   7 mo Pri.  
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 63 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836 
Certificate of Pension issued the 16th Dec. 1843  and sent to day of Hon. Asher Tyler Ho Reps
Total amount, $314.65 
[Act July 7, 1838.] 
Recorded by Tho. Lumpkin  
Book D. Vol. 1. Page 181
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6757
Pension Papers 
Under act 1843 
Parthena Sackett 
Widow 
Seneca Falls - New York 
acts 43 & 44 - 302 
$63.33 per annum 
Mar 3 ‘43 
Parthenia Sackett 
Hon Asher Tyler H. R. 
to Dec 2d ‘44
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Declaration 
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of the 3d of March 1843 granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the act of July 7th 1838. 
State of New York 
County of Seneca ss 
On this 23d day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred & forty four personally appeared before me Charles Pixley one of the Justices of the peace in and for Sumner County aforesaid Parthena Sackett who is to me personally acquainted who is also a resident of the town of Seneca Falls in said County of Seneca and State aforesaid to who is aged Seventy seven years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3 of March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war.
That she is the widow of William Sackett who was a Sergeant and private in the Army of the Revolutionary War and served in Captain Elijah Hazens Company and in Colonel John Mead's Regiment as she always has been informed & believes & as also appears from the pension papers under which he drew in his life time an annual pension of Sixty three dollars & thirty three cents. 
That she received under the act of July 7th 1838 an annual pension of Sixty three dollars and thirty three cents. She further declares that she is still a widow. 
Parthena Sackett
Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year above written before me 
Charles Pixley Jus. Peace in & for Seneca County 
The words (who is to me person known) between the fifth sixth line at the top, was interlined before certified by me
Charles Pixley Jus. Peace
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State of New York
Seneca County } ss I, Cyrus D. Hanks Clerk of said County of Seneca do hereby certify that Charles Pixley Esq, whose signature appears to the first of the within Deposition, was on the day of the date of said Jurat and still is an acting Justice of the peace in for said County, duly Commissioned and sworn and authorized to take & certify the within Deposition in manner within contained, And further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such Justice and verily believe that his signature to said jurat of the within Deposition is Genuine & in his own proper handwriting In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 26 day of November 1844 . 
C. D. Hanks Clerk
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LOST. 
A BOUNTY LAND WARRANT No. 11282, issued under the Act of March 3d, 1855, to Parthena Sacket, widow of William Sacket, in Seneca Falls, about the 15th day of August last. The subscriber has filed her Caveat in the Pension office, (so that the said Warrant cannot be located.) The finder will be liberally rewarded by leaving the same at the Seneca County Courier Office. The subscriber will apply to the Commissioner of Pensions, for a duplicate of such Warrant, in six weeks from the first publication of this notice. 
FANNY DICKINSON 
Seneca Falls, Feb. 4, 1858.   24-6W
State of New York, 
Seneca County, ISAAC FULLER of Seneca Falls, in said County, being duly sworn says, that he is the publisher of the Seneca County Courier, a newspaper printed and published at Seneca Falls, aforesaid. And deponent further says that a notice, of which a printed copy is hereunto annexed, was regularly published in said newspaper, weekly for six successive weeks, commencing on the 4th day of February 1858. 
Isaac Fuller  
SWORN to and subscribed before me, this 13th day of March 1858, by Isaac Fuller who is person ally known to me to be the deponent named in and who signed the above affidavit. 
M.L. Bellows Justice
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11,282 issd [issued] 3 Dec / 58
Duplicated 8 Feb [unreadable]
S. W. Edwards
Seneca Falls
N York
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40
9586
9587  Sept 7 1838
Pa. Sackett
July 7, 1838
NY
Hon J. L. Edwards Esqr
Comr of Pensions
Washington City Dis Columbia
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Hon. J. L. Edwards 
Com of Pensions 
D. Sir 
Enclosed are papers for a pension to my Mother, I have no experience in making them out & did not know until a day or two since that there was a law for relief of widows in like circumstances, I have taken the affidavits as judge & being a son of the applicant it may be objectionable, will you be so kind as to advise me if all is right, if not will you be so kind as to say what should be supplied.  My mother tells me she has a sister living who was at her wedding. Should be affidavit be forwarded -  she lives at a distance & is an old woman. If a certificate of Character may be wanting I refer you to the Hon’ble the Secretary of the Treasury Mr Spencer with whom I have the honor to be personally acquainted. 
I am Sir Yours Respectfully 
Gary V. Sacket Sept. 4 1843
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William Sackett
Pension papers
1602
8 mo Sergt
7 mo pri
e.e.j.
$63.66 per annum
126.66
31.44
157.83
Hon [unreadable]
H. R.
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William Sacket
Hon Saml Clark
HR
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And the said Court do hereby declare the opinion, after investigating 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 them that Truman Pitcher who has subscribed & sworn to the above certificate is a resident of the County of Cayuga and is a credible person, that his statement is entitled to full credit. 
Seba Murphy Clerk of the Court of Com Pleas, 
I Seba Murphy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Seneca and State of New York , do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of William Sackett for a pension. In testimony whereof I I have hereunto set my hand and official seal this Second day of October 1832  
Seba Murphy Clerk
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Albany Feby 27th 1849 
James L. Edwards Esquire, 
Commissioner of Pensions 
Sir
I enclose the declaration of Mrs Parthena Sackett, for the purpose of obtaining her pension certificate under the Act of 2d July 1848 – 
Very respectfully Your obt svt
 Lemuel Jenkins
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Comptrollers Office 
Hartford Ct. July 28th 1852 
Sir
My time has been so much occupied same the adjournment of our Legislation, that I have not been able to complete the investigation in the case of William Sackett until now, I have made a careful examination of the evidence in this office, but do not find any thing to show the service of your father in the Capacity of Quarter Master or Adjutant. 
Capt. Curtis was one of the captains in Col. Hinmans Rgt. and his pay Roll amounted to £1665.2.1 We have an account of this on our Books, but the Pay Roll itself is not found here.
I presume this Roll is in the Pension office at Washington, and it may possibly, furnish the evidence which you seeking of your father service in the capacities mentioned.   
The fee for making a search of our records is one dollar, which please send me and oblige, yours very respectfully 
Geo. Robinson
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George Robinson
May 1852
Fathers pension
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Comptrollers Office 
New Haven Conn. May 21st 1852 
Hon. William A Sackett, 
Sir 
Your favor of the 19th ult. with the copy of your fathers declaration &c. I have received. Our Legislature is now in session in this city, and I shall be unable to make the examination for which you ask, until the close of the session, as our documents relating to the war of the Revolution are nearly all of them in the office at Hartford.  As soon as I can have time to do it after our return to Hartford, I will make the examination, and will communicate to you the result of it.  
I am sir very respectfully your obedt sevt 
Geo. Robinson
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Syracuse Oct 15 1837 
L. P. Waldo Esqr
Dear Sir
Some time in 1835 there was a Land Warrant Issued to Mrs “Parthena Sackett” of Seneca Falls N. Y for service of “William Sackett” her Husband (deceased) in the Revolutionary Army.   Mrs Sacketts Decease was prior to the location of said Warrant and in the arrangement of her papers after her Decease the Warrant was somehow lost.   
I am now requested by her legatees to ask the the Department for a Duplicate of said Warrant.   If this request is not sufficient please inform me what process is necessary.   
Yours Respectfully 
P Dickinson Syracuse 
No 11282
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General Land Office Jany 31st 1857. 
Sir
At the request of Hon. A.P. Granger House of Reps. I have to inform you that there is on file in this office a caveat to arrest the issue of a patent on Bounty Land Warrant No 11282 for 100 acres and under Act of March 3d 1855 in the name of Parthena Sackett widow of William. 
Very Respectfully Your Obt Servt 
Thora Hendrick  Commissioner 
Geo C. Whitney Esqr
Court of Pensions
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ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855. General Land Office, 
Jany 31st 1837 
Your letter of no date inclosing the affidavit of Fanny Dickinson of Onondaga County New York, relative to the loss of Military Bounty Land Warrant No. 11282, for 160 acres, has been received. 
The affidavit has been filed as a caveat to arrest the issue of a patent, until a proper investigation can be had in the case.  Should the Warrant be located, and returned to this office for patenting, you will be advised of the name and residence of the person by whom such location is made in order that the necessary legal steps may be taken by the party in interest for its recovery.   
Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, 
Thora Hendrick 
COMMISSIONER. 
To Hon A.P. Granger House of Reps
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BL Act 2 Feb 48 NY
Boynton
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G. C. Whitney Commr
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Syracuse March 6" 1858 
Dear Sir
I have had some previous correspondence with you respecting Duplicate of a Land Warrant which was last Issued to Mrs Parthena Sackett for 160 acres under the Act of 1855, No. 11.282 – 
I now enclose Mrs Fanny Dickinsons affidavit also Isaac Fuller Esq.  
If it is consistent to issue the Duplicate in the name of Fanny Dickinson, whom may seen by her affidavit is the lawful owner she would be pleased.  
I think we have so far followed the directions of a circular which I received last Jany through my Friend Sen Granger. If we have done that is required to secure Duplicate please forward it to my address at Syracuse N. Y. & much oblige.  
Your Obt Servant – P. Dickinson 
G. C. Whiting
Department of NY Interior Pension Office Washington DC
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Genl Land Office April 22 1858 
Sir
In reply to an enquiry contained your letter of March 20th in reference to Bounty Land Warrant No 11.282, for 160 acres held under act of March 3 1855, in the name of Parthena Sackett, I have the honor to inform you that after a careful search of the Records of this Office it does not appear that any caveat has ever been filed in this case, 
I am, Sir Very Respectfully Your Obt Servt 
Thos Hendrik Commissioner 
George C Whiting Esqr Com of Pensions
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Washington 18 March 1858
The Hon Com Pensions  
Sir 
Enclosed I send for your observation from my friend Mr Pleny Dickinson 
Respectfully your 
Amos P Granger
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Syracuse May 8 1839
Geo C. Whiting
Comr of Pensions } Sir
I would like to be inform in relation to the issue of Land warrant No 11282 issued to Parthena Sackett widow of William Sackett Sergeant Revolutionary War.  The warrant is a Duplicate Certified by substantial copy of the original warrant which is alleged to have been lost. [unreadable] what it to know is whether the proper affidavits were filed in relation to the loss of the Original and that duplicate is Good. 
Respectfully Yours
H [unreadable]
Syracuse
Please answer by return date-
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[stamp] PENSION OFFICE MAY 12 1859
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Washington Jan 15. 1858 
The Hon the Com of Pensions 
Dear Sir 
I send the enclosed letter of Plinney Dickinson Esq who desire information will you please consider the matter and oblige yours 
Respectfully Amos Granger
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11282 160
Wm Sackett
FREE
[stamp] PENSION OFFICE MAY 12 1859
[stamp] SYRACUSE N.Y. MAY 10 1859
Geo C. Whiting
Commissioner of Pensions Washington DC
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11282 160
Wm Sackett
FREE
[stamp] PENSION OFFICE MAY 12 1859
[stamp] SYRACUSE N.Y. MAY 10 1859
Geo C. Whiting
Commissioner of Pensions Washington DC
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118282
160 acres
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11282 160
P Sackett
A. P. Granger MC
Hon Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington
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No 9586 
Parthena Sacket 
N. Y.  
Suspended 
Let to G V Sackett Act 18. 1844 
Act July 7 38
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No. 96164 
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
 Received Apr. 24th 1855. 
Parthena Sackett, widow 
Wm Sackett Dec. Sgt. 
act 2 Feb /48 
Rev
11282-160-55- 
S. W. Edwards Seneca Falls
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42208-160
Wm Sackett
NY
Amos Granger
MC
Com or Pensions
Washington City
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Conn Sackett, William W. 26956
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State of New-York, 
County of Seneca 
On this Nineteenth day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the in and for the county of the Seneca in the State of New York, Parthena Sackett a resident of the town of Seneca Falls in the said county of Seneca aged eighty one years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 2d February, 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War: 
That she is the widow of William Sackett who was a private in the Army the Revolution, and on account of whose services she was pensioned under acts of Congress of 3d March 1843 & 17 June 1844 - and the out of the pension which she received under the act of 17 June 1844, sixty three Dollars and thirty three cents.  She further declares that she is still a widow.   
Parthena Sackett
Sworn & Subscribed to on the day & year above written before me 
Francis W. Henry Justice of the Peace 
I certify that the above Declarant is personally known to me 
Francis W. Henry  Justice of the Peace 
State of New-York, 
County of Seneca I Ebenzer Ingalls Clerk of the said county, do hereby certify that Francis W. Henry was on the day of the date of the above Declaration, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county, duly elected and sworn, and that the signatures to the Jurat of the above Declaration and to the above Certificate, purporting to be his, are genuine.  In Testimony whereof, I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said county, this Twenty first day of February 1849.  
E. Ingalls Clerk
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State of New York 
Seneca County ss 
I Fanny Dickerson, being by by me duly sworn deposes and says that Land Bounty No 11,282 for 160 acres issued under the act of March 1855 to Parthena Sacket and by said Parthena Sacket with her other effects her three Daughters to wit Matilda Sacket, Amanda Sacket, and Fanny Dickinson.  That in said [unreadable] the said  [unreadable] that in August last at Seneca Falls the said Warrant was lost supposed to have been bound with the other papers, that the Said Warrant was never assigned but [unreadable] further that this deponent was the lawful owner of said Warrant.  She makes this affidavit for the purpose of obtaining a Duplicate of the said Warrant.
Fanny Dickinson
Subscribed and Sworn before me this 30 day of January 1858.  And I certify that I know the deponent to be the individual that she represents herself to be and believe that her statements are correct and entitled to credence
Francis W. Henry
Justice of the Peace in said County.
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State of New York, 
Seneca County Clerk's Office.} ss 
I, Charles W. Ingersoll this Clerk of said County of Seneca, and also Clerk of the County Court thereof, the same being a Court of Record, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that Francis W. Henry Esq affidavit before whom the annexed affidavit purports to have been sworn, was, at the date thereof, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly qualified, and authorized by the laws of said State, to administer Oaths and Affirmations generally. And that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Justice, and verily believe his signatures to the annexed Certificate and Jurat to be genuine. In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court and County, this 30th day of January 1858. C. W. Ingersoll Clerk
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J. R. SACKETT 
MANUFACTURERS' AGENT.
[unreadable]  
[stamp] O W & N DIVISION RECEIVED 1901
Saginaw, W. S. Mich., June 22 1901
Department of the Interior 
Washington DC 
Can you furnish me the Military record of William Sackett of the Revolutionary War.
Book E Vol 4 Page 121 Pension office & Oblige
Yours Resp 
J. R. Sackett 
[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE I JUN 25 1901
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To the Honorable Commissioner of Pensions 
[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE H FEB 21 1899
Dear Sir  
Would it be possible for me to obtain through you information as to what company and regiment one William Sackett served  during the Revolutionary War?
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Enclosed please find Copy of Pension claim.  The war record I desire is to enable me to join the order Daughters of American Revolution.
Sincerely 
Gertrude A. Friedman 
97 Brainard St. 
Detroit Mich
Feb 17 1899
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26.956 
Revy WIDOW, &c. 
OWN
File No. 
Parthena Sackett Wid of  
William Sackett 
Sergt Rev War 
Act: Feb 2nd 1848 
Index: -- Vol. S, Page 190 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Mar 8 ‘99
Miss G A Friedman 
Detroit Mich 
June 27 1901 
J. R. Sackett Regina Mich
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Payments to be made at New York 
By Pres of the NY Bank Agent for paying pensions with Agency of New York
Recorded in the Pension Office in Book E Vol 4 page 121 by 
H. L. Williams Clerk
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War Department 
Revolutionary Claim 
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United State the 7th June 1832 William Sackett of the State of New York who was a private and Sergeant in the Revolutionary War is entitled to receive Sixty Three dollars and thirty-three cents per annum during his natural life commencing on the 4th of May 1831, and payable semi annually on the 4th of March, and 4th  September in every year   
Given at the War office of the United States this
[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE H FEB 21 1899
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[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE H FEB 21 1899
Given at the War office of the United States this thirty first day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three 
Lew Cass 
Secretary of War 
Seal
Examined and  Countersigned J. L.  Edwards 
Commissioner of Pensions
[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE H FEB 21 1899