Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35303, Willis Fellows, Continental Mass.
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Service Continental Mass Fellows, Willis 
Number S.35303
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For letters to the Pensioner & Pension Agent 29 

Transferred to Illinois 10th of Jan 1829 to take effect from & after 4th Sep. 1828. Notification sent for Pensioner, care of Edward H. Piper, Esq., Palestine, Illinois. 
Let to Hon. G. Casey 12 Feb 1838. Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6. April 1838 from 4 Sept 1839 to 18 Jan 1840. Agt notified 4 June 1841
 Dead. 

 Illinois  19,565
Willis Fellows of Green Co. in the State of Indiana who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Bryant of the regiment commanded by Colonel Crane in the Massachusetts line, for the term of three years from March 1778 to March 1781. 
Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 8th day of November 1825. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 of Jany 1826 and sent to Hon. Wm Hendricks. 
Senate, U.S.
Arrears to 4th of March, 1821, $31.16
Semi-anl. all'ce ending

Revolutionary claim,
Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820.
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State of Indiana 
Green County Ss }

Green County Circuit Court of The Term of November in year of our lord AD 1824.
On this the twentieth day of November in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty Four personally appeared in open court being a court of record made so by the Constitution and laws of the State of Indiana and having general and unlimited jurisdictions in all matters of law and chancery within the said State and keeping a record and seal to their proceedings. Willis Fellows Senior aged sixty seven years on the fifth day of October last past and resident in the said County of Green in the State aforesaid who being first duly sworn in open Court according to law doth on his solemn oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the Provisions made by the acts of Congress of the eighteenth of March 1818 and the first of May 1820. That he the said Willis Fellows Senior was born in the State of Massachusetts about thirty miles from Boston. That in the year 1775 he entered in the company of  Captain Taylor (the names of the major and Colonel not recollected) was marched to Roxbury remained in the service three months in March 1776 he enlisted under Captain Lawrence Kemp  of Hempsere [Hampshire] County and State of Massachusetts for six weeks and served his full time out. On the 27th March, 1778 he enlisted for the term of three years in the Company of Captain John Bryant
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in the continental establishment in the Massachusetts line in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Crane and served the three years was discharge on the 27th or 28th of March 1781 at Springfield Massachusetts and received a certificate of his discharge signed by Capt. John Bryant which certificate he has since lost. That at the same time of his said last enlistment Benjamin Patter, Timothy Woodward, John Hunter, William Fellows, and Moses Bates were also enlisted with him. That during the said term of service of three years he served. He was stationed at Springfield Massachusetts and his duty and employment was in preparing cartridges for small arms and cannon bomb fuses and port fires that he was not actually in any battle during the war that the said persons whose names are above mentioned who were enlisted with him were discharged at the same time and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said service than the within disinterested affadavit (And in pursuance of the act of Congress of the first of May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner whatever disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so as to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress "entitled an act" to provide for persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on the 18th day of March 1818
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and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto anexed and subscribed by me.
Willis Fellows Senior
Schedule
Real property none, one bed beding and bedstead two pots 2 kettles one bake oven table furniture sufficient to set a table for six persons and table two small chests
Money or debts due none that can be realised. No children living with me except a son who is embarrassed and in low circumstances a wife being with me aged about 48 years.
That I am by occupation a farmer and from age and infirmity unable to pursue it so as to provide a support for myself and wife and have no other means of livelihood.
Willis Fellows Senior
Where as it is ordered that I be certified that in the opinion of the court that the total amount in valuation of the property is twenty five dollars
Further that it doth appear to the satisfaction of the court that the said Willis Fellows did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of time stated in the declaration aforesaid to wit for more than three years under our engagement on the Continental establishment
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State of Indiana
Green County Ss }
I Thomas Warnick, Clerk of the aforesaid Circuit Court in and for the County of Green & State of Indiana aforesaid do hereby certify that the within declaration and schedule ^ and all things [touching?] the same is hereby copied from the record of said Court.
In witness whereof I Thomas Warnick clerk have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the aforesaid Court at the Clerks Office at Bloomfield this 23rd day of May AD 1825
Thomas Warnick Clerk

I Thomas Bradford one of the judges of the aforesaid Court do hereby certify the above named Thomas Warnick is a commissioned and legal qualified and acting clerk and was at the time of signing the same wherefore due faith and credit ought to be paid to all his official acts as such May 23rd AD 1825
Thomas Bradford  Judge

I have forwarded one before this for the same Willis Fellows for the purpose of drawing a pension which I conceive him justly entitled to from his present embaressed circumstances. But have not received an answer. It is his desire that you should inform about it as soon as convenient by writing to me as Clerk
Your Obt. Sert. [Obedient Servant]
Thomas Warnick Clerk
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin Ss.
I David Anderson of Shelburne County and Commonwealth aforesaid, being of lawful age, and of sound and perfect memory, depose and say, that in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy eight, Willis Fellows, then an inhabitant of Shelburne aforesaid, entered the Continental service, and in the years seventeen hundred and seventy nine, and eighty I saw him at work in the Laboratory at Springfield in said Commonwealth and in the year seventy nine I was at Springfield and saw the troops at that place march on an expedition with [?] for [?] in Connecticut and the aforesaid Willis Fellows was one of the aforesaid troops that marched at that time. And according to the best of my recollection, the aforesaid Willis Fellows returned to Shelburne in the spring of Seventeen Hundred and eighty one. And further more your deponent saith not. Date at Shelburne aforesaid in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five this sixteenth day of April.
David Anderson
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin Ss.
I John Fellows of Shelburne County and Commonwealth aforesaid, of lawful age and of sound and perfect memory, depose and say that about the year seventeen hundred and seventy eight, Willis Fellows a brother of mine enlisted into the Continental service for three years and during that time I visited him at Springfield and saw him at work at that place, and at the expiration of term of three years he came home to Shelburne aforesaid. Furthermore your Deponant saith not. Date at Shelburne in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty five this sixteenth day of April.
John Fellows
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts Franklin ss

On this sixteenth day of April in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty five personally appeared the within named Deponents before me the subscribed one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County and being by me carefully examined and cautioned and sworn in due form of Law, to testify the whole truth and nothing but the truth. They make oath to the written deposition and subscribed the same in my presence, the said deposition being first [..sed] to [writing?] by me. Taken at the request of the within named Willis Fellows of Bloomfield State of Indiana, and to be [?sed] to substantiate his claim as a petitioner at the War department of the United States. Shelbourne 16th April 1825. 
David Long Jr Justice of the Peace
I further certify that the within named David Anderson and John Fellows are well known to me and are credible witnesses. 
David Long Jr. Commonwealth of Massachusetts Franklin ss. 

I Elijah Alvord Clerk of the Judicial Courts holden within and for our County of Franklin do certify that the above named David Long Jun. Esq. is a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned and qualified under the authority of this Commonwealth to act as such within and the County aforesaid. I further certify that foregoing caption of the within deposition is attested under his own proper hand. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of our Court of Common Pleas this twenty fifth day of April A.D. 1825
E. Alvord Clerk
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State of New York
Jefferson County Ss }
On the 15th day of March 1825 personally came before me the subscriber one of the judges of the court of common pleas of the County aforesaid WIlliam Fellows who being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he is acquainted with Willis Fellows now of Bloomfield, County of Green & State of Indiana that he knew him during the Revolutionary War that he enlisted in the Army of the United States for three years in Capt. John Bryant's Company in Colonel Crane's regiment of Artillery and served his time out and was regularly discharged that this deponent knew him during the whole of that period having enlisted at the same time for the above mentioned periods into the same company & regiment and was present & received his discharge at the same time. William Fellows
Sworn & subscribed to the 15th day of March 1825 before me
Egbert Ten Eyck first judge of the court of common pleas of Jefferson County.
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Treasury Department
Second Comptroller's Office
May 25th, 1841

Sir: Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The widow of Willis Fellows, decd, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Illinois Agency, at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, under the law of the 18th March 1818, has been paid at this Department from the 4th of Sept. 1839 to the 18th January 1840. 
Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present
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Mrs. Alfred G. Walker
2060 Fremont Avenue
South Pasadena, California
Dear Madam:
November 7, 1938

BA-J/AWF
Willis Fellows S. 35303

Dear Madam:
The data which follow concerning Willis
Fellows were obtained from papers on file in
claim for pension, S. 35303, based upon his
military service in the Revolutionary War.
Willis Fellows was born October 5, 1757 in
Massachusetts, about thirty miles from Boston. The names of his parents are not given.

Willis Fellows served 1775, three months
as private in Captain Taylor's Massachusetts company. He enlisted sometime in March, 1776, served six weeks in Captain Lawrence Kemp's company. He enlisted, while residing in Shelburne, Franklin County, Massachusetts, March 27, 1778, and served in Capt. Bryant's
Company, Colonel John Crane's
Regiment of Artillery, and was discharged at Springfield, Massachusetts, March 27 or 28, 1781.
He was allowed pension on his application
executed November 20, 1824, at which time he was a resident of Greene County, Indiana.
He was living in 1825 in Bloomfield, Greene
County, Indiana, with one of his sons, Levi Fellows, who was then aged thirty-two years. Other children were referred to, but the only name given, was Willis Fellows, Junior.
The wife of the soldier, Willis Fellows, was
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aged in 1825 forty-nine years, her name was not stated.
The soldier, Willis Fellows, had moved in 1828 to Crawford County, Illinois, and then stated that his friends and relations were living in Illinois. 
He died January 18, 1840, survived by a widow, whose name is not shown. 
John Fellows, brother of the soldier, Willis Fellows, was living in 1825 in Shelburne, Massachusetts. 
One William Fellows in 1825 was a resident of Jefferson County, New York, was well acquainted with the soldier during the Revolution, and served with him.
The papers on file in this claim contain no further discernible data in regard to family. 
Very truly yours
A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administer
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S.35303
Revy  INVALID
File No. 35303
Willis Fellows
Private Revolutionary War

Act: 18th March 18
Index: Vol 2, Page 133
Arrangement of 1870

1924 Nov 26 Tombstone data to Mayme Walters [awf?]
1933 Mch 3 hist to Mrs. George Palmer [f?]
1938 [?] 7 Hist to Mrs. Alfred G. Walker [awf?]
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James L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

Hon. Z. Casey H.R.

[Jn at Feb 20?]
 N Evans
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House of Representatives
Feb 9th 1838

Sir
Permit me to lay before you the enclosed letter and application, please examine the subject and inform me of the results. with your answer please return this letter of M. Richardson.
Very respectfully,
Your obt servt
Z Casey

J.L. Edwards Esquire
Commr of Pensions
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19.560
Bloomfield, IN
Willis Fellows
Green County Indiana

Recd June 25 1825 (on Roll)
N. Huntington
Bloomfield IN

See letter to agent
June 25 1825

The Hon
The Secretary of the War
[?] Pension Office
Washington City
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Palestine, Illinois
20 December

General Porter
Secretary of War
War Department
Washington City
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Palestine December 10th 1828
Sir
Enclosed is the application of Willis Fellows (and proof to be transferred from the pension agency of Indiana to this state (Illinois). M. Fellows is a superannuated old Revolutionary Soldier and must almost suffer if he does not receive his regular payments he wishes his certificate transmitted to me at this place and for reference to know that it will be safe to endorse to me, I [illegible] you to Col. T.H. Blake one of the representatives in Congress from the state of Indiana. Col. Blake will apply during the present session of Congress, for back pay for Mr. Fellows. The grounds for this application I have furnished Col. Blake with. I never saw or heard of this old man till a few years since, say 5 or 6. And have no interest in what he draws more than what humanity prompts me to. 
Respectfully yours &c
Edward H. Piper
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Senate Chamber 26 Jan 1825
Dear Sir
I have just received the enclosed application of Willis Fellows for a pension. Be good enough to inform me of your determination in the case.
Very respectfully,
William Fredericks
 M. Edwards
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The Honorable
The Secretary of War
Washington City
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The Honorable
The Secretary of War
Sir herewith is enclosed an additional affidavit in support of the application for Willis Fellows for a pension. 
Respectfully,
Willis Fellows
N Huntington
Bloomfield
May 18th 1825
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State of Indiana
Green County
Circuit Court being a court of record

Be it remembered that on the eigth day of November 1825 personally appeared in open court John McGiffin who being duly sworn according to law deponth and saith that he is well acquainted with Willis Fellows who is now applying for a pension and that he has been acquainted with him for the space of five or six years that he knows him to be a poor man who is unable to support himself without public or private charity. This deponent also knows that Willis Fellows Junior a son of the said Willis Fellows first mentioned was in 1818, 1819 & 1820 in affluence and contributed graciously to the support of the old gentleman his father. And has by unavoidable excesses of fortune the said Willis Fellows Junior is no longer able to support his said father. This deponent also states that said Willis Fellows is a man of good reputation for truth and veracity and that he is a man of good general character and generally esteemed by his neighbors and a member in good standing in the Presbyterian Church. 
J. McGiffin

Also personally appeared in the same court Norman W. Pierce & Richard Montgomery who  being in open court duly sworn depose and say that they have been well acquainted with Willis Fellows son for eight or ten years that they have [illegible] his declarations which he has this day attested to in the Green Circuit Court and that they know all facts relative to his pecuniary embarrassment to be true and these deponents know that on the 18th day of March 1818 he had no property to value of fifteen dollars which he does not now possess except what he has worn out in clothing.
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and necessary ware of the property mentioned in his schedule. They ? that he is not able to support himself without the aid of publick or private charity and that he was not able on the 18th March 1818. And they also state that in the year 1820 he lived with this deponent Richard Montgomery and had all his effects with him and they were the same which are mentioned in this said schedule except some trifling articles which are worn out that these deponents state that they were not worth at that time nor at any time within three years before worth more than thirty dollars. These deponents also state that they have always understood and believe that the facts stated in relation to his service in the revolution war are true but this last statement is the result of a general understanding in the  neighborhood that he was a revolutionary soldier. And further these deponents say not
Norman W. Pearce
Richard Montgomery
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State of Indiana Circuit Court
Green County Ss
Be it remembered that on this 8th day of November 1825 personally appeared in open Court Augustin Pasmore, who being duly sworn according to Law deposeth and saith that he is acquainted with Willis Fellows Senior and that he verily believes that he is unable to support himself without the aid of publick or private charity and the[sic] he is is[sic] a man of good reputation for truth and veracity and of good general character and esteemed by his neighbors and further this deponent saith not
Augustin Pasmore

State of Indiana
Green County Ss
We the undersigned judge of the Green Circuit court certify that we are personally acquainted with Richard Montgomery Norman W. Pierce, John McGiffin, and Augustin Pasmore and that they are disinterested and credible witnesses given under our hands this 8th day of November 1825
John R. Porter
Martin King
William B Marrs 

State of Indiana
Green County Ss
I Thomas Warnick, clerk of the Green circuit court do certify that the within names, John McGiffin, Richard Montgomery, Norman W. Pierce and Augustin Pasmore appeared before the judges of the said court and were duly sworn according to law to the within depositions by those subscribed in testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said court at Bloomfield this 8th day of November 1825
Thomas Warnick Clerk
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State of Indiana
I John R. Porter presiding judge of the first judicial circuit Indiana in which the county of green is included certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of Thomas Warnick that the within is his signature that he is the clerk of said court and that the within certificate is in due form of law. Witness my hand & seal at Bloomfield this 8th day of November 1825
John R. Porter
Dist. Judge
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Be it remembered that at circuit court continued and held at Bloomfield in and for the County of Green in the State of Indiana before the honorable John R. Porter president judge and Martin Wines? and William B Marrs associates being a court of record by the constitution and statutes of said state personally appeared Willies Fellows who in said court subscribed and made oath to the following declaration and schedule of property included after having carefully examined the same declaration in order to be placed on the pension list under the act of the 18th of March 1818.
State of Indiana, Green Circuit Court
Green Count SS. on this 8th day of November 1825, personally appeared in open court for the county and that aforesaid being a court of record by the express words of the constitution and statutes of said state and proceeding according to the course of the common law Willies Fellows resident of said count aged sixty eight years on the fifth day of October last who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of congress of the 18th March 1818 and the 1st May 1820 that he the said Willies Fellows on the 27th of March 1778 as nearly as he can recollect enlisted for the term of three years in the state of.
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Massachusetts in the company commanded by Captain John Bryant in the regiment commanded by Colonel Crane in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the continental establishment. That he continued to serve in said corps untill the last of March 1781 when he was discharged from the service in the town of Springfield in the state of Massachusetts that he received a regular discharge signed by the said John Bryant which by some casualty he has now lost. That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present that his name is not on the roll of any state except Massachusetts and that the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension. That in 1818 & 1819 & 1820, he had two sons who were to appearance in prosperous circumstances who manifested a desperation to assist him but from reverses of fortune they are no longer able to assist him and that they have not been able for the last three years. And in pursuance of the act of [?] May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United states on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent there to diminish it so as to bring myself within the provisions of any act of congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the [word crossed out]
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land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on the 18th March 1818 and that I have not [smudged] has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. that since the 18th of March 1818 there have no changes been made in his property except the wearing of his ordinary apparel and the use of the articles of property enumerated in the said schedule. And this declarant positively swears that on the 18th of March 1818 he had no property either real or personal that he can now recollect. This declarant further states that he has a wife of the age of about forty nine years of but tolerable health and not able to contribute to his support that his children are all of age and that none of them live with him but that he is living with one one[sic] of his sons Levi Fellows of the age of thirty two years on whom he in part depends for support and who is ill able to afford it this declareant is by occupation a farmer but that he is not able to labor for his support this declareant also states and swear that the following is a full just and true inventory of all property which he owns or is any manner entitled to and that no persons hold any property
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in trust form [for] him 1 high post bed stead 1 feather bed and under bed nine sheets six pair of pillows 1 coverlid 3 bed quilts 2 blankets 1 set of bed curtains 6 table plates 1 pitcher 1 cream cup 1 bowl 1 decanter 1 wine glass 1 glass mug two candle sticks 1 tea board 1 tin pan 2 tin basins four table spoons 3 silver tea spoons 6 washed tea spoons 6 knives and forks 1 copper teakettle 1 frying pan 2 smoothing iron 1 bake oven 2 pots 2 dish kettles 1 skillet 1 fire shovel and tongs one tin tumbler one little tin pale one plain table three chests six winsor [windsor] chairs four kitchen chairs one rocking chair one looking glass one candle stand one lantern, the above contains all the property I have, not excepting any thing within my recollection, but wearing appearel beds and beding all included, he also states that in his former declaration he made out his schedule of property at court, from his recollection and thinks it probable that he may have forgotten some articles which are included in this but in makeing this schedule he has taken time in the vacation of court to take a particular account which he has carefully examined
Willies Fellows  
Personally appeared in open court, Willies Fellows who made oath to the foregoing declaration and
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schedule of property and subscribed his name there to in open court and on the examination of disinterested witnesses. It is considered by the court that the schedule of property this day subscribed by Willies Fellows which is included in the forgoing declaration is worth the sum of thirty dollars.

State of Indiana
Green County  Ss.
I Thomas Warnick Clerk of the circuit court in and for the county and state aforesaid do hereby certify that the above declaration and schedule of Willies Fellows is a full just and true copy of the oridgeinal [sic] record now on file in my office this eighth day of November in the year of our lord on thousand eight hundred and twenty five.
Thomas Warnick Clerk and the seal of our aforesaid court
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State of Indiana
I John R. Porter president* judge of the first Judicial circuit in said state in which the county of Green is included do certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of Thomas Warnick whose name appears within which is his signature. That he is the clerk of said court and his said certificate is in due form of law. Witness my hand and seal at Bloomfield this ninth day of November eighteen hundred and twenty five
John R. Porter
Dist Judge

* [should be presiding judge]
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Crawford County
State of Illinois

On this eight day of December in the year of our lord eighteen hundred twenty eight. Before me a justice of the peace, for the said county of Crawford personally appeared, Willis Fellows, who on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Capt. John Briant* in the regiment commanded by Col Crane in the service of the U. States. That his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of Indiana from where he has lately removed. That he now resides in the county of Crawford and State of Illinois. And that he intends to reside in the state of Illinois and wishes his pension to be payable there in future.
The following are 

* [Capt. John Bryant]
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his reasons for removing from the state of Indiana to the state of Illinois. Namely, that he is old and infirm, that his friends and relations live in the state of Illinois and in his old age he wishes to enjoy the comfort of their assistance society &c  An a that these are the reasons that induced him to remove to the said state of Illinois
Willis Fellowes
Sworn and subscribed to before me a Justice of the peace this eighth day of December 1828
D. Boatright

State of Illinois Crawford County
Edward H. Piper Clerk of the circuit court of Crawford County aforesaid do hereby certify that Daniel Boatright Esq before whom the foregoing and following oaths were taken and whose name appears to the foregoing and following certificates is an acting justice of the peace in and for said count commissioned and qualified as such and that full faith and credit is due and should be given to all his official acts
In testimony where of I have hereto set my hand and office of the seal of said court at Palestine. This 8th day of December AD 1828 Edward H Piper  clk
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Crawford County
State of Illinois Ss
On this eight day of December 1828 before me the undersigned, a justice of the peace for the county aforesaid, personally appeared Calvin Parker who on his oath declares that Willis Fellows, the person who has taken the forgoing oath, is the same Willis Fellows, therein described.
And I do hereby certify that the said Calvin Parker is a person of truth and veracity.
Given under my hand and seal this eight day of December 1828
D. Boatright  JP
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Daughters of the American Revolution
James Halstead Sr. Chapter
Robinson Illinois

[Marginal Note] Miss Wilson said only send [conlsto?e] data of 2 cases

Nov. 13 1924
Pension Department
Washington
Could you please give me some information about the following Revolutionary soldiers. Date of birth and death, whom did they marry and where buried if you possibly can.
1. Peter Barrack served in the Maryland troops. he came to Crawford Co. Ill. and there applied for pension. "Pension Reports"
2. Willis Fellows served in the war from Mass. in Capt Samuel Taylor's Co. and Col. Nicholas Dike's [Dyke] regiment in 1776, served until 1780. He removed to Indiana, and then to Crawford Co. Ill. where he died very aged. He was pensioned.
3. Daniel Kenney served in the Virginia line of troops. He came to Crawford Co. Ill. and died there Aug 9, 1824. He was pensioned.
4. Adam Klepinger is buried in Landes township
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in the Klepinger cemetery. "Traditional Records"
5. Thomas Patton was from North Carolina was born in Marlboro Penn. April 25, 1735. Enlisted in the North Carolina troops in 1779. He came to Crawford Co. and died there in Palestine township. Was pensioned.
6. Asa Piper was from Mass. where he served in the war when only seventeen. Served in Capt. Phineas Parker's Co. from Concord six mos. from June 5 1780 also from June 1781. Came to Crawford Co. Ill to reside and probably died there. He was pensioned.
7. David Shipman served in the war from Virginia. he came to Crawford Co. Ill and died there "Virginia Records"
8. John Taylor. There are thirteen which served from Virginia. Which one came to Crawford? "Traditional Records"
9. John or Henry Mullins. On the sandstone was J. Mullins died 1868 age 99 years in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery NW of Porterville. He lived near Porterville Ill. Some say his name was Henry.
I would be so glad to get some information about these soldiers so we can go on with our marking.
Respectfully
Mayme Walters Historic Plots Chairman
204 So. Howard St.
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November 4, 1938
Please furnish records of Willis Fellows - Rev. W. S. 35303 - also Levi Fellows - War of 1812 W. C. 11735

Mrs Alfred G Walkers
2060 Fremont Ave
So. Pasadena Calif.
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9/27/33
Copy of Pension claim of Willis Fellows S. 35303
Mrs Geo L. Palmer
818 Upshur St. N.W. 
Wash. D.C.
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October 3, 1933
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Willis Fellows - S.35303
BA-J/AWF

Mrs. George L. Palmer
818 Upshaw Street
Washington D.C.

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your request for the Revolutionary War record of Willis Fellows.
The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim S.35303, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Willis Fellows.
He was born October 5, 1757 in Massachusetts, about thirty miles from Boston, names of parents not shown.
Willis Fellows enlisted in 1775 and served three months as private in Captain Taylor's Massachusetts company. He enlisted in March, 1776 and served six weeks in Captain Lawrence Kemp's company. While residing at Shelburne, Franklin County, Massachusetts, he enlisted March 27, 1778 and served three years in Captain John Bryant's company, Colonel Crane's Regiment of Artillery.
Willis Fellows was allowed pension on his application executed, November 20, 1824, then a resident of Greene County, Indiana.
In 1825 Willis Fellows was living in Bloomfield Greene County, Indiana, with one of his sons, Levi Fellows, then aged thirty-two years; Willis Fellows' wife (her name not given) was then aged forty-nine years. Other children were referred to, the only name stated was Willis Fellows, Jr.
The soldier, Willis Fellows in 1828 had moved to
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Crawford County, Illinois, and then stated that his friends and relations were living in Illinois.
The soldier, Willis Fellows, died January 18, 1840, survived by his widow, whose name is not shown.
In 1825 John Fellows, brother of the soldier, was living in Shelburne, Massachusetts. William Fellows in 1825 was a resident of Jefferson County, New York; he served in the Revolution; no relationship to the soldier Willis Fellows shown.

Very truly Yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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November 26, 1934
Mayme Walters
204 S. Howard St.,
Robinson, Ill.

Madam;
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.35303, it appears that Willis Fellows was born October 5, [1756 - crossed out] or 1757 about thirty [eight - crossed out] miles from Boston, Massachusetts.
He enlisted in 1775 and served three months as a private in Captain Taylor's Massachusetts Company.
He enlisted in March 1776 and served six weeks in Captain Lawrence Kemp's Massachusetts Company.
He enlisted March 27, 1778 and served three years in Captain John Bryant's Company, Colonel Crane's Regiment of Artillery.
He was allowed pension on his application executed November 20, 1824, while living in Green County, Indiana.
In 1828, he was a resident of Crawford County, Illinois. He died January 18, 1840.
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From the papers in the Revolutionary War pension [smudged] claim, S. 31302, it appears that Asa Piper was born in 1768 in Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
He enlisted in June 1780 and served six months in Captain Haskell's Company, Colonel Bradford's Massachusetts Regiment.
He enlisted in August 1781 and served three months in Captain Hayward's Company, Colonel Webb's Massachusetts Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 22, 1832, while a resident of Palestine Township, Crawford County, Illinois.
He died August 10, 1834
Owing to the great pressure of current work, the large number of similar inquiries and the lack of a clerical force available for the purpose, not more than two records are sent to any person or organziation.
You or anyone designated by you, may examine and collect data from a reasonable number of Revolutionary War pension claims, by callin[sic] at the Bureau, which is the usual practice in such matters
Respectfully,
Commissioners,
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November 7, 1933

Mrs. Alfred G. Walker
2060 Fremont Avenue
South Pasadena, California.

BA-J/ILL
Willis Fellows
S. 35303
Levi Fellows
W.C. 11735

Dear Madam:
In compliance with your personal request, you are furnished herewith the Revolutionary War record of Willis Fellows, S. 35303, and War of 1812 record of Levi Fellows, W.C 11735

Very truly yours,
A.D.Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.