Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24,266, for Phinehas Killam, Vermont
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(3-1776)

SERVICE                              
Green Mtn Boys
Vt                            

Killam, Phinehas
Gallup, Prudence
(Former widow)

NUMBER
W. 24,266
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10249

Vermont
Prudence Gallup, formerly Widow of Phinehas, Killam who was a pensioner under the Act of ---- and who died on the 31st Oct. 1825 of Windsor Co. in the State of Vt who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Grant of the Regt commanded by Col. Warner in the Revolution [line -struck through]  for 8 months.

Inscribed on the Roll of Montpelier at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 22nd day of April, 1847 and sent to Asa Aikens Westport, Essex Co. New York
Total amount   $133.30

[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Thos. [Thomas] Lumpkin Clerk.
Book D  Vol.  1.   Page 129
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State of Vermont
Windsor County ss ⎬ 

On this thirty first day of May in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-three personally appeared before the Probate Court in and for the District of Windsor in said County of Windsor, Prudence Gallup resident of Hartland in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont aged seventy-five years in October now last past 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 acts of Congress, passed July 7. 1838 and the 23 of August 1842 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Phinehas Killam
who in the time of the war of the Revolution was a resident of Windsor and Hartland in said County of Windsor, that she knows nothing of the Revolutionary services & her said husband the said Phinehas Killam except he has heretofore told her in relation thereto, that she has heard her said husband say that in 1775 he entered the service of the United States under Capt. Grant Col. Seth Warner's Regt that he went to the westerly part of Vermont about Lake Champlain and into [illegible], was a part of the time with Ethan Allen, had some fighting, and returned home to Vermont at the end of his term. That in 1776, he again entered the service of the United States under Lieut William Hunter went to Ticonderoga N.Y. where he joined Capt. John Grant's Company of Col. Seth Warner's Regt, that he went from Ticonderoga to Quebec with General
Montgomery, was in the battle at Quebec where Montgomery was slain. She has also heard her said husband speak of Gen. Montgomery's Aids McPherson & Cheeseman; that he suffered much from privation cold
and sickness, having taken the smallpox the "natural way," he came very near losing his life; that she has heard him speak of seeing General Arnold at Quebec; that she cannot say how long he was in the army at either term of the above service; that in 1780, he volunteered
for a few days and went to Royalton in said County to repel the Indians at the time that place was burned.

She also declares that she was married to the said Phinehas Killam at Stonington in the State of Connecticut by Paul Wheeler, a Justice of the Peace on the twenty ninth day of August in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-four, her former name being Prudence Wheeler. That her husband, the aforesaid Phinehas Killam died at Hartland aforesaid on the thirty first day of October in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-five; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage
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place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety-four, viz at the time above stated.

She further declares that after the death of the husband aforesaid, she was married to Elisha Gallup on the eighteenth day of July in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, that he died on the thirteenth day of September in the year eighteen hundred and forty, and that she is still a widow.

Prudence Gallup

Sworn to and subscribed by the said Prudence Gallup, on the 31st day of May D. 1843. before me Thomas F. Hammond, Judge of said Probate Court.

I Elias Wheeler of Windsor in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, aged seventy-one years, being duly sworn do depose and say, that I am a Brother Prudence Gallup who has this day sworn to and subscribed the foregoing Declaration in my presence; that I was present and saw the said Prudence married to Phinehas Killam at my father's house in Stonington in the State of Connecticut, in the month of August in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-four; that as I then understood the said Phinehas Killam belonged to Hartland, Vermont, where the said Phinehas and the said Prudence soon afterwards removed, and where the said Prudence now resides. That the said Prudence and Phinehas continued to live together in said Hartland in the relation of husband and wife, until the death of the said Phinehas which happened in the fall of the year eighteen hundred and twenty-five. I was not present at his death, but I attended his funeral and frequently saw him in his last sickness; that after the death the said Phinehas the said Prudence was married to Elisha Gallup
who died at the same Hartland in the fall of the year eighteen hundred and forty, and that the said Prudence has since remained a widow and is now a widow. And I further say that I have frequently heard the said Phinehas Killam relate the privations and hardships which he underwent  while in the Army of the Revolution.
May 31. 1843.
Elias Wheeler

Sworn to and subscribed on this 31st day of May 1843, before me.
Thomas F. Hammond Judge of Probate for the district of Windsor, Vermont.
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I Dencea Lane of Hartland in the County of Windsor and state of Vermont aged fifty seven years being duly sworn, do depose and say, that from my earliest recollection, I have lived in the family of Prudence Gallup, who has subscribed the foregoing declaration in my presence; that more than fifty years ago, I well recollect that the said Prudence and Phinehas Killam lived together in the relation of husband and wife and so continued to live together until his death which happened on the 31st day of October 1825, that I was with him at the time of his death; that the said Prudence was afterward married to Elisha Gallup of Sd Hartland on the 18th day of July 1827 that I was at their wedding; that said Elisha died at the same Hartland on the 13th day of September 1840 and that the said Prudence is now a widow.
May 31st 1843.                     Dencea Lane

Sworn to and subscribed on this 31st day of May 1843. before me, the word "Gallup" being first interlined.  
Thomas F. Hammond, Judge of Probate for the district of Windsor Vermont.

State of Vermont  
District of Windsor. ss.} 

I, Thomas H. Hammond Judge of the Probate Court for the district of Windsor aforesaid hereby certify that Prudence Gallup who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing Declaration and  Elias Wheeler and Dencea Lane who have severally sworn to and subscribed the foregoing affidavits, are persons of truth and veracity, and that their respective statements are entitled to full credit and belief on Thomas F. Hammond, Judge of Probate Court. 

State of Vermont}
District of Windsor. ss.
I Salmon F. Dutton, Register of the Probate Court for the District of Windsor aforesaid, hereby certify, that Thomas F. Hammond before whom the foregoing Declaration of Prudence Gallup, and the affidavits of Elias Wheeler and Dencea Lane, were severally sworn to and subscribed, is Judge of the Probate Court for the District of Windsor, which probate court is a Court of Record, and that the signature annexed to the foregoing certificate of the oath of the said Declarant, and affiants purporting to be the signature of him the said Thomas F. Hammond, is his own proper and genuine signature.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the said Probate Court and subscribed my name at Plymouth in said District, this fifth day of June A.D. 1843

Salmon F. Dutton. Register
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I, the within named Prudence Gallup being duly sworn to depose and say that I was married to the within named Phinehas Killam at Stonington in the State of Connecticut by Paul Wheeler a Justice of the Peace in the County on the twenty ninth day of August, seventeen hundred and eighty four.  That since making the within Declaration, I have written to a relative and friend in said Stonington, and requested an examination of the Records of Marriages in said town for the purpose of ascertaining whether any record of my marriage with said Phinehas Killam could be found and have received an answer that "no such record can be found."
Windsor August 10th 1843 Prudence Gallup

Sworn to and subscribed this 10th day of August 1843 before  me.
Thomas F. Hammond Judge of Probate for the District of Windsor, Vt.
I certify that the above named Prudence Gallup is a person of trust.
Thomas F. Hammond Judge.

By the request of the within declarant, I addressed a letter to the Tow [Town} Clerk of Stonington, Vt. more than six months ago, requesting a Certificate of her marriage with Phinehas Killam, if it could be found, but I have received no reply.
Windsor August 10th 1843.  Thomas F, Hammond.
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Stonington Oct the 24 AD 1843

Dear Aunt    

I take this opportunity to communicate to you all the information I have been able to gain in order to assist you in procuring your Pension.  I received you letter Dated May 31st I was not able to find the record of your marriag [marriage] one [on] the marriag records in the town Clerks Office I was informed that Paul Wheeler Justis of the Pece [Peace] the one that married you, his record of marriages was somewhere in being and that you marriag was recorded in the Book I have not been able to find it yet therefore  I neglected writing you before now.  by This morning I received you letter and went and procured the certifficat [certificate] from the Town Clerk as you requested you mentioned a number of persons that was to your marriage But there is not any of them living now.  There is a number that remember of your being marriad and of seeing you and your husband Phinehas Killam and visiting with you But I have not been able to find any one that attended you Wedding.  I have taken considerable pains to assist you and If it should be necessary for you to have all the information that could be obtained from those persons above mentioned Write me and I will endever to procure it for you.
Yours with Respect
Charles Burrow

Emily Burrow & Prudence K. Wheeler sends there Love to you & wish you to write to them soon your friends and relatives is enjoying good health at present in this section of the country.
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Prudence Killam
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Stonington October 8 AD 1787

[illegible] seems to be tedious to me for there then looking at it for this six  months.  Nay I could not help looking [illegible]  for to me as son as you can [illegible]  one another & converse with and thereby enter but I alone & wheather we shall does see each other again god only knows and if so never see each again in this world I hope we shall meet in heaven where the wicked can from troubling us where the very heart Betts= but if I knew the prefered state of your heart I could better tell what to write however I shall set down some things for your comfort [illegible] say that you are left if god & there is no hope for you I tell you there were enough in god marils enough in hrift power  enough in the spirit looms enough in heaven and scope enough in the prounites for you [illegible] the for with him to be final.  Call upon him while he is near remember to keep Holy the sabbath fear god and keep his commandments and nigh to go on an he will know maybe more & have you or your letter you sent to me and am glad to hear of you letter as the providence of he first [illegible] to everything but there is a special nonsense over the children of you.  Therefore let us live nicely by godI in a preparation for death for we now not how soon it may come [illegible] is all most all the point of Death by headon of his infirmity and is what he shall never see you again here aunt.  Nites sits up is never as common but is is helpless as a [illegible] the sell of one our friends and relations as well at Treant & I am as well as is common for me so I profess my love & all the  ret to you and the family of yours  I remain your true affectionate mamma Mary Wheeler
if you do not get out immediately to come over here [illegible] wife the [illegible] you have.
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but I [illegible] Did you but now [know] how much I want to see you [illegible] immediately to come down here.  I have a great many [Dirafnts?]] for you in the [?toatning] way & want to see you so much.  I no [know] not how to send them to you for fear you would miss of them by the way I feel in hopes the moment you are upon you journey Down but weather you do or not you [illegible] may have a comfortable journey down and may not meet with any difficulty by the way I want to talk with you a whole month or year and it is like rather now for us to go around as we could wish for if you stay till Cold weather it will  be tedious to come in the [illegible] have had a letter form you which they say Mr. west brought down but I have not seen him I am now in he will come here & [company - accompany?] Letter to you whether he will come or not I cant tell Please to give my compliments to my too [two] son in Laws Mr Killam & all [Niles?] for one is as big Stranger here as the other one [Niles?] father & mother would be as glad to hear from him as I am to hear from you.  I have just while I am writing to you hear that Mr. Sam Willias [Williams] & his wife is been down and gone here the that is all I have heard about them or from them  I should have thought they would have come to see me for I should been exciting to have seen them [illegible] Mary Wheeler.

Stonington [October?] the Sixteenth Mr. Samuel Williams & his wife came to make me a visit & told me you was not a coming down untill next fall & it seems so hard I know not how to content myself for it seems as though I should near [never?] see you again I have been laying up everything.  I could for you & layin and for to take a great deal of comfort in you but I am greatly Disappointed [illegible] [name?] the spell I have had [?] in this letter & this day and [faded] was buried & Esqr Wheeler & said Denison Departed this life [mother?] say this is now the 26 day of October I have now a bad cold [faded] new not but it wish being my turn next therefore it behoves us to prepare for Death [?..rudy?] I hear you live inland of [Lark..?] Where no way of the [passed?] is & it is a grief to me I have sent you one apron & if you had a come I own l would have give you two out you that & more if you will come.
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WIDOW, &C.

File No.   24266

Prudence Gallup 
Wid of 
Phinehas Killam
Priv Rev War

Act Mar 3rd 1843
       June 17th 1844

Index:  Vol. A, Page 265

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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No 8518.

Let to Thos. F. Hammond0
Nov. 28. 42
to same 9. Oct. 1843.

Act 7. July.1838.
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8518

Prudence Gallup, of NY
widow of Phineas Killam

Sent to Tho. F. Hammond
Sept. 24th 1844
Letter to A Lewis 16th Apl 1846

Act 7th July 1838.
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8147
Vermont   Mont pr

Prudence Gallup, of NY
widow of Phinehas Killam
who was a Private
in the Revolution
husband died 31st Oct. 1825.

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 22nd day of April, 1847 and sent to Asa Aikens
Westport Essex Co. New York
[Acts of March 3, 1843, and June 17, 1844.]

Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2.   Page 63
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Mrs. Prudence Killiam

in 
Stonington

in favor of Mr Phineas Killiam
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Hartland October AD 1784
[Worthy Lacy?]
I most sincrly [sincerely] im brace [embrace] the opportunity of in forming you of my good health  at present hoping these few lines will find you and your [dadyes?] family injoing [enjoying] the same Blessing
I [believe?] you will think very Strange to reseve [receive] a letter from me I never had any acquaintance with you, but I am
in hopes i shall have not withstanding the grate distance we are a part now I have been informed that you are very [soft?] to come up into this foreign land but if you was to come and see what a fine farmer mr. Killam  has heare and what a fine pleasant Country we have heare [here] I Cant think you wold [would] ever want to go back to Stonington
agin [again] Killiam's relations wants to see you very much his mamy espcily [especially] and i wish you was to see her I think she is as Cleaver an old Lady as ever was acquainted
with in my life but i will not be low begus [because] for i believe my Poore riting [writing] will give you a great deal of [loobet?] to reade it and i cant? now that my letter will be well
excepted [accepted?] [nother?] Conclude with a grate [great] deal of love to you and [choages?] family and to all friends
Hannah Stanton of Harland to mrs
Prudence Killam in Stonington
I Shold be very glad to reseve [receive] a Line from you if not tew [too] much trobl [trouble]
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Phinehas
Killam

 in Hartland
[illegible]
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Stonington August the 15 1787

Dear Brother & Sister I have yet set myself down to write you a few lines. Time has been so long since I have seen or heard from you that I could not excuse my self without writing a few lines to Enquire after your health Hoping they may find you as well as they
leave me, and the rest of the family at Present

I Dont recolect of any thing new to Inform you of we have had plentiful showers of rain and the season has been very good for Corn and gras [grass] - I purpose [propose] to come and make you a vizet [visit] this fall or winter and then I shall have a better opportunity to relate[?] the [illegible] that has been [trasarted?]] So I must coclud [conclude] my Letter for I must go to moing [mowing] 
I remain your friend & well wishes untill Death
  John Wheeler

Due write to me the first oppertunity you Have
Complyments [Compliments] to all Enquiring friends &c
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To
Mrs. Prudence Killam
at
Hartland

[There are some illegible marks on the document.]
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Stonington July the  1786

Dear sister it is with an [insiright?]] Pleasure I
Have this opportunity to inquire after your health & to inform you of same I have nothing from you since I left you. only what I heard the next day and I think ours has taken the space days and days weeks and weeks months I am [going?] alone waiting for an opportunity to hear from you when you got up well and have you have had your health Pray wright [write] to me for if I could get one
letter from you it would releave [relieve] me grately [greatly]
I hope how I long to see you more then
I can express with my Pen I have a great deal to say and Cant wright [write] but a littlist. our [Cousin] Elisha [wheeler?] and he is in A
very [stnaring?] way so I must leave telling you the young man and family sends their love and Complement to you and Mr Killam and now our family and the Littlest boys sends more love to you then  I can mention many thankful [gounes?] with me in love to you and your husband dont you let nobody [illegible] for I am in hast [haste] to give my
compliments to Mr Williams and all [insring?]]
friends so I remain your
loving sister until Death} Hannah Wheeler
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Mr
Phinehas Killam
 att
Hartland
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Stonington Febry.  the 20th 1788

Dear Brother and sister [illegible]
of a few moments of time think I will write a few lines hoping they will find you in good Health as they leave me at this time I think I've Nothing new to inform you of at present only Gosen [cousin] Jonathan Wheeler
cut his hand very bad, as I hear [sem?] I have bgon [begun] to write my
Letter. [illegible] just before this time
I have got a very lively 4 year old [ma..?] and have kept her in good order
thinking to come and seen you all. But my burden is such that I cannot conveniently leave home, at present however I hope
to see you some time or other and then we'll talk of that that i dar [dare?] not  [faded -ricing] Now So I must conclude
With Love to you & sister and all other friends
[illegible] my [self?] your sincere friend untill Death
Wishing you ever happy
John Wheeler  [3d?] to Phinehas Killam

To Prudence Killam
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To Mrs
[illegible]

Hartland
State of Vermont
in favour Williams

[upside down writing - hard to read]
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Stonington October the5 1789, the 5th1789
Dear Prudence I long to see you the most of any body in the world but I am
so poor of a State of health with other difficulties, I cannot go to see you
I have had two severe fits of sickness since last January so poor that I
did not get live over them and and now attended with many weaknesses
 I have a bad cof  [cough] which attends me & am troubled with the disorder whereof
in the summer before my youngest Child was born but I am thankful that I
am yet sound & have one more opportunity of writing to you I hope
these lines will find you well and in good health for it is a great blessing
I beg of you not to work to hard I am very sorry to hear of your working
to hard you have but one life here to live. I would have you make
yourself as happy as you can you must have your work done & for
self all you can you must take my advice for it was hard work which
brought my sickness on me. I have not been able to do any hard work
since last January. Due write to me every opportunity you have for it is the satisfaction I can have from you is to hear from you
and may the Lord enable each other of us to be a laying up treasures
in heaven where nither [neither] [most?] [mornfl [mournful?] corrupt nor thieves broke
through and steal my Dear child I wish you all blessings here both
Spiritual and temporal & as you have no children. I hope you will come
and see me as soon as you can. how rejoiced I should be to have you
[illegible] me again miss Denison is married and is moved away &
Thankful is a going to be married and of want your company much.
Your uncle Thomas is married again 
my family are all well at present
no more at present I remain your affectionate Mother Mary Wheeler

I am very sorry to hear such news from [Poor?]
[mr bates?] & the rest of your acquaintance which you mentioned in your letter
I send you some ginger and some allspice & a pinch of snuf & you was [?]  I want to send you some greater presants I want send you half of a rost [roast] pig and some good apples & peaches and many other good things of taste 
It has been a plentiful year for provisions here and I have grate deal of yarn spun but I have not got it in to cloth yet by Reason of sickness
only three pieces of lining and too new bedticks and I have three hundred
seams of lining yarn now in the house to weave & one coverlet & Not a thread
of any wool spun this year help is very scarce but I hope to get along some
how or other but I cant spare one day to go abroad you must excuse
my poor writing for it is so long since I wrote any I have almost forget how
and my eye sight fails me with all - we have improved the whole of aunt Niles is Land with the rest this year which has made the work
more then we yous [used] to have. your Daddy joins with me in love to and all the rest of the family I would help you more if I could but you [words cut off in paper fold]
and my reach I cant reach to you as I wasnt
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BrownsVille, Windsor Co Vermont, April 1st 1844. 
Dear Sir, I forward herewith sundry papers tending to show that Phinehas Killam and Prudence Gallop who claims a pension under the Act of July 7, 1838, for the services of said Killam, her first husband, were married before 1794. 
She has not been able to furnish any further evidence of the service of her said husband in 1776, nor is it probable that any more can be produced in relation to that service. The affidavits already on file in this case furnish very strong presumption that Killam was in the service in 1776, and went to Quebec. The applicant feeling in assurance of the justness of her claim, is desirous that her case should be again examined.
Respectfully, Your obedient Servant 
Thomas F Hammond

J.L. Edwards Esq. 
Commer of Pensions.
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Secy's Office
Concord N. H.
Oct 23d 1843

Dear Sir.
I have caused an examination
to be made of the Revolutionary Records
in this Office and the name of Phineas
Killam does not appear upon any of them
  very Respectfully yours
to Thomas F. Hammond Esq.
 Thomas P. Treadwell
Brownsville
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I John D. Noyes of Stonington in the County of New London and State of Connecticut now Town Clerk of said Stonington do hereby Certify that I have carefully examined the records of this town kept for marriages to find the  Marriage of Phinehas Killam to Prudence Wheeler but do not find the same on record
John D Noyes T Clerk

Stonington October 24 1843
State of Connecticut
New London County ss Stonington Octr 24, 1843 personally appeared John D. Noyes [illegible] Clerk of the Town of Stonington and made Solemn Oath to the above certificate whose certificate is entitled to full credit
Before me
Latham Hull Justice of the Peace
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No. 8518 act 43. 9256
act 44  1467
Prudence Gallup wid. of Phineas Killam
Vt
Act 7 July 1838
25 Aug. 1842

3 mo. in 75}  See evidence in cases of Mary
5 --        76}  Hunter & Elias Hall of Vt

adm'd
8 mo pri
26.66

also acts 43. & 44
$26.66


Asa Aikens Esqr
Westport 
Essex Co. NY
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Hartland  Nov [11?] 18[46?]

To the Hon J. L. Edwards

Dr Sir
I, Prudence Gallup hereby notify you that Mr. Arad Joy of Ovid Seneca County, New York is no longer my agent or attorney for prosecuting my claim to a Pension from the United States. I also notify you that Asa Aikens Esq. of Westport, Essex County New York, is authorized by me to furnish to the Pension Department such further evidence as I may be able to procure.
Prudence Gallup
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I Elias Hall of Castleton Rutland County and State of Vermont aged eighty six years being duly sworn on oath do depose testify and say that in the war of the Revolution I was acquainted with a person by the name of Phinehas Killam in his last name I am certain was Killam as he was the man by that name in the Company to which he was mostly [belonged?] Killam was a private  in Captain John Grant's Company Col. Seth Warner's Regiment in Vermont troops.

The first time I saw Killam was in the month of January 1776 at Ticonderoga in the State of New York at which time and place Killam and myself joined sd Capt Grant's Company and continued together in the same company five months until our return from Quebec the said Killam per [pranny? retul?] sd  five months   While I was in the    in 1776 I understand that sd Killam was in the [same?]  in the Fall of 1775 - am belonging to the same company with sd Killam  I recollect that it was well understood in the Company that he was in actual service in Canada in sd Fall of 1775
 I further testify and say the last time I saw sd Killam was..hot days of [Aug?] 1776 when we separated from each other in the north part of this County  the sd Killam going the East part of this State and myself to my present place of residence and further say not -
 Elias Hall
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State of Vermont
Rutland County Ss  [Correction?] [illegible]
A.D. 1841 then personally appeared before me [illegible...] authorized Elias Hall ..by the foregoing..well known to me and..oath..Sd affidavit ..contains the truth and nothing but the truth
 Certified by B F Langdon  Justice Peace

State of Vermont
RUTLAND COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, ss. I, Frederick W. Hopkins, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland,
do certify that Benjamin F. Langdon was at the date of the certificate to which this is annexed a Justice of the Peace
within and for said County, duly commissioned: that his commission is dated on the twenty ninth day of October A.D. 1840, and will expire on the thirtieth day of November A.D. 1841; and I verily believe his signature
to the same is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court
at Rutland in said county this sixth day of April A. D. 1841.
F. W. Hopkins
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[envelope]

Brownsville
VT [illegible]

Paid

Frederick W. Hopkins, Esq.
Rutland, Vt.
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I B.F. Langdon of Castleton in
Rutland County State of Vermont
of lawful age on oath depose testify and say that in or about the fifth day of April AD 1841. I took and certified as a Justice of the Peace [illegible] testimony of Elias Hall of
sd Castleton in the case or claim for
Revolutionary services of Phineas Killam late
of Castleton [illegible] deceased

I further certify that I have been well 
acquainted with Elias Hall for more than
thirty years and that he was at the time
of [illegible] his testimony and always has
been since I have known him a gentleman
of credibility and unimpeachable character
and was at a time fully possessed of his
mental faculties is and of a sound and
discriminating mind and remains so until
this day and I further say that his
statements are entitled to full credit and belief
B J Langdon

State of Vermont
Rutland County
Castleton April 14th 1842 then
personally appeared B J Langdon signer of the
above affidavit and well known to me and made
oath to the truth of the facts therein set forth
Almon Warner Justice Peace
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STATE OF VERMONT,
RUTLAND COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, S.,
I, Ambrose L Brown Deputy Clerk of the
County Court for the County of Rutland, do certify that
Almon Warner Esq was at the date
of the certificate to which this is annexed a Justice of the Peace
within and for said County duly commissioned that his commission
is dated on the 9th day of November A.D. 1842, and will expire on the 30th day of November
November A.D. 1843; and I verily believe his signnature to the same is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court
at Rutland in said county this
A. D. 1842
day of December
A. L. Brown
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[envelope]

Hon. Thomas F. Hammond
Brown[s]ville
VT

[postmark] RUTLAND VT DEC 21 [postmark]
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To J. L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions, War Department
Washington City.

Sir,
At the special request of  the Widow Patience Gallup of Hartland, Vermont, formerly the Widow of Phinehas Killam, a soldier of the Revolution, who died at Hartland in October, 1825, I take the liberty to address you in her behalf, and as her authorised Agent on the subject of her application for a Pension, heretofore made as the Widow of said Killam.

I understand her, that though her claim is satisfactorily proved for a part of the time yet a material part is not recognized by the Department for the reason that you do not find any other evidence than what is contained in the affidavit of Lieut. Elias Hall of Mr Killam's serving in the year 1776. This, I must admit, is a very natural and ( [afterble?] the judicial swearing with which the Department has been flooded in relation to pensions) a very commendable distract of the [currency?] of Mr Hall's statements, so long as ^ no contributing hands was brought to the notice of the Department. I am convinced, however, that such doubt in this instance does injustice to the credibility of Mr. Hall.
  After the death of the late William Hunter of Vermont, who I believe had the honor of your acquaintance, while a member of Congress from that state his widow, the late Mary Hunter, resided in my family. After it was ascertained that some portion of the Revolutionary serving as Judge Hunter could be shown by Muster rolls in the Treasurer's office of Vermont, to have been performed after his intermarriage with Mrs. Hunter; I caused proofs of his military service in the Revolution to be taken, with the view to a pension for Mrs. Hunter. And having no doubt of the main fact to be proved the witness examined on that occasion, was requested to state and did state such correlation facts as remain within their knowledge & recollection.
  It is to the testimony taken on that occasion  and now on file in your office with the declaration for Mrs. Hunter transmitted to me on the 5th of January 1838, that I beg leave respectfully to refer you as fully confirming (in my judgment) the main facts to which Mrs. Gallup has provided.
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as I understand the affidavit of Elias Hall: to [?] that her first husband Phinehas Killian, did re-enlist under Lieut William Hunter for the Winter's Campaign in Canada in 1775 and did march and serve with him in that campaign

By a recurrence to the depositions to which I have now referred you it will be seen that Capt Asahel Smith, after speaking of his own and
William Hunters enlistment & services in the campaign of 1775, he testifies to
the facts of Hunters promotion to a Lieutenancy and their return to Windsor
about the 10th of December 1775, to enlist men for a Winters campaign into
Canada & of frontiers enlisting a number of men and marching with them
from Windsor for Canada, in the fore part of January, 1776,

Rufus Root Esquire then testifies as follows-- "After speaking of Lieut
Hunters coming to Windsor to enlist men, and seeing him exercise a Company, he
proceeds to say: In a few days after this, the said Hunter and the men
whom he enlisted assembled at my father's house, and set out from there
or their way to Canada. They were going by the way of Skeensborough (now
Whitehall) and the Lake. I saw them sling their packs and march away-
This I know was in the fore part of January, 1776. the snow was then
deep and the said Hunter and his men all had snow shoes or racketts, as
they are sometimes called. Among the men who marched away with the said
Hunter I recollect Ebenezer Hoisington Phinehas Killam, John Heath
Joel Butler, and others to the number of a dozen or fifteen, &c &c

Elias Hall was also one whose testimony was then taken in behalf of
Mrs Hunter. After speaking of his own arrival at Montreal about the
20th of January 1776, and there first seeing William Hunter, he proceeds
as follows: The said Hunter had then already arrived at Montreal
with a number of men, whom he had enlisted at Windsor and in that vicinity,
among whom I recollect Ebenezer Hoisington, Asa Smead Phinehas Killam,
an elderly man of the name of Emmons, and another man of the name of
Butler, but whose christian names I cannot now recollect, &c &c

Mrs. Hunter herself, whose declaration" was also made under oath,
after speaking of her husband's first campaign, and of his returning as
officer & enlisting other men, says, "He reenlisted several of the men
who returned with him, and enlisted others at and about Windsor for a
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Winters campaign, among whom this declarant know and remembers 
Ebenezer Hoisington, Joel Butler, Asa Lyman and Jonathan Hodgman
There was a good many others," &c &c 

Now, Sir, these correlative facts in Mr Hunter's case, were elicited from
those witnesses and stated by the declarant with the view and for the
purpose of enabling the Department to Judge more satisfactorily of
truth of the main fact then to be established, to wit, the services of William
Hunter. And then were told & knew this. So far, therefore, as these witnesses
may be supposed to have been influenced by feelings of sympathy or desire for
the success of that application, the higher is the proof of the absolute truth
of all corroborative facts stated by the witnesses; for they were all facts
which might be & probably or possibly were of record in the War office &
were liable to be tested by that ordeal. And so far as they might be found
to be incorrect, would tend to weaken rather then certify the main fact
in support of which the witnesses were testifying. And I cannot doubt
therefore, but that you will regard it as an extremely fortunate circumstance
in Mrs Gallup's case, that her main witness, Lieut. Hall, more than
nine years ago, when he could not have dreamed that it would ever be
of any importance to her voluntarily stated as a corroborative truth
in Mr Hunter's case, the identical fact which is the main fact in
her case.

The Enlistment & service of Phinehas Killam, under Lieut Hunter in the Winter
campaign of 1776, in Canada, is proved by more than historic proofs or 
traditionary evidence. It is a sworn fact by the mouths of at least two credible
witnesses testifying too on a lawful occasion, at a time and under circumstances.
when they would have no possible interest in or bias for the fact other than its truth
and being true & found to be so it might tend to strengthen the proof of another fact
in support of another & different interest

These witnesses, (unless it be Mr Hall of whose decease I have not heard.)
are now to my knowledge all dead; and I am not [illegible], nor do I believe
that there is living at this day a single witness who can, from personal knowledge
testify to the services of that Heroic little band, who, in dead winter
voluntarily left their homes on "snow-shoes" to brave the hardships and
Dan-
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danger of active war, in a Canadian climate, in the then doubtful
issues of the Independence of their Country, with all the fearful consequences
of its failure staring them in the face. And I assure you, sir, it
gives me a pleasing though melancholy satisfaction, to be able to point
to the proof, which in a single instance, will enable the executive officers
of that Country, now great & prosperous, consistently with their duty, to bestow
some reward upon the aged relicts of such men, for services invaluable
in their results and for which that Country in to then condition, could
make them no adequate return.
 After Mrs Hunters papers were completed, by way of prosecution and as a
matter of Interest to her. I made a copy of them, which enables me now to refer
to them with such particularity. Mr Gallup applied to me as early as last October-- but the mislaying & confusion of my miscellaneous & bye gone papers consequent upon my removal from Windsor to this place, has prevented my cautious attention to the business. I must earnestly desire therefore, as she is very aged, that her case may be attended to at the earliest convenience
of the Department
I am Sir with great respect
Your most Obt Servant
Asa Aikens

Westport Essex County NY
March 27, 1847
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Prudence Gallup
wid of
Phinehas Killam
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I, Lucinda Williams of Hartland in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont aged seventy seven years on the 27th day of May last, being duly sworn do depose and say, that I have constantly resided in said Hartland since February in the year seventeen hundred and eighty six, that in the summer following, in June or July 1786.
Phinehas Killam moved his wife from Stonington Ct. her name before
marriage, as I always understood, was Prudence Wheeler, they staid at my house the first night after their arrival; that from that time up to the time of the death of said Phinehas, they the said Phinehas and Prudence constantly lived together in the relation of husband & wife, and I never doubted, nor did I ever hear a doubt expressed by any one but that they were legally married, that the said Phinehas Killam died at said Hartland, as I should think some seventeen or eighteen years ago; That the said Prudence afterwards married to Elisha Gallup, who died at the same Hartland about three years ago, and since the death of the said Elisha Gallup, she the said
Prudence has ever remained sole and unmarried, and is now a widow.
October 16th 1843.
  Lucinda Williams
[Sworn] to and subscribed by the said Lucinda Williams this 16th day of October 1843 before me, the erasure of "Elisha Gal" made before signing. And I by certify that the said deponant is a person of truth and veracity.
that the statements by her made are entitled to full credit & belief.
Thomas F. Hammond, Judge of Probate for the
District of Windsor, Vermont.
In testimony of all which I hereunto affix the seal of said Probate Court and subscribe my name at Windsor in said
district the day and year last aforesaid
Thomas F. Hammond, Judge
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I William S. Ashley of Hartland in the County of
Windsor & State of Vermont of the age of eighty three years testify and say that I have resided in Hartland about seventy years
that I was well acquainted with Phinehas Killam late of sd Hartland deceased that I was knowing to sd Killam enlisting, under Lieut William Hunter in Hartland to go to Quebec
some time in the fall or winter of 1776. when that city was besieged by Genl Montgomery and Arnold. I further say that I understood that sd Killam served as a private solder at Quebeck during that winter & untill that place
was evacuated or untill our troops were driven out the next spring. I saw him immediately after his return I well recollect seeing him from the fact that his face was very red & pock broken, which as he told one was occasioned
by the small pox which he had with may of the
troops while in Canada. At that time said Killam lived in Hartland - but had before that time lived in Windsor in sd County. The greatest part of the time after the war of the revolution he resided a nigh neighbor
to me in Hartland untill about fifteen years since when he died. He married in Connecticut soon after the war & brot [brought] his wife in to Hartland & resided with her untill
he died as aforesd
I did not see sd William sign the enlisting orders but understood he did; & went away with Lt Hunter at that time
March 26, 1841
William  S. Ashby
his X mark
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State of Vermont 
Windsor County Ss.⎬ At Hartland in said County on the 26th day of March 1841, personally appeared the [?thise?]
named William S. Ashley, to me well
known as a person of truth and made
solemn oath that within affidavit by
him subscribed by his mark in my
presence, contained the truth
Sworn to & subscribed March 26th 1841.
Isaac N Cushman, Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont
Windsor County ss}
I. Norman Williams, Clerk of the
County Court of the County of Windsor
do hereby certify that Isaac N. Cushman was on the twenty sixth day of
March AD 1841, a justice of the Peace
in and for the county of Windsor afore
said duly commissioned and [ratified?] and that his signature above written is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said County Court, at Woodstock in said County of Windsor this twelfth day of December AD 1842
N. Williams, Clerk
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I Asahel Smith of Windsor in the County of Windsor & State of Vermont of the age of eighty four years testify and say, that I enlisted into a company of troops commanded by Capt John Grant & Lieut Barnum attached to the regiment of Col. Seth Warner & under Genl. Montgomery to go into Canada. I enlisted in the summer of 1775-
I served at that time about five months in and near Canada for which service I now receive a pension.
At the time I enlisted Phinehas Killam then of S. Windsor enlisted into the same company with me & served the whole time with me & we returned home together. This was the
same Phinehas Killam who afterwards resided in Hartland in S. County, & who as I have understood did in S. Hartland some years since this residence has been
within eight or 9 miles from me untill his death, & I have always been well acquainted with him untill his decease - I will recollect, that S. Killam served with me the full five months above mentioned
March 26th 1841.
Asahel Smith
State of Vermont ⎬ At Hartland in said Windsor County
Windsor County on the 26th day of March 1841.
Personally appeared before me the above named Asahel Smith, a person well known to me as a person of truth and made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by him
subscribed in my herein contained the truth
Isaac N Cushman Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont    }
Windsor County ss } I Norman Williams, Clerk of the County Court of the County of Windsor, do hereby certify that Isaac N. Cushman was, on the twenty-sixth day of March AD 1841 a justice of the peace in and for the county of Windsor aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signature to the certificate on the other page of this paper is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court at Woodstock in said County of Windsor this twelfth day of December A.D. 1842
N. Williams, Clerk