Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5584, for Josiah Prickett, Pennsylvania
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SERVICE
Penn
Prickett, Josiah
Picketor
Sarah

NUMBER
W. 5584
CONTENTS
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Ohio 13480

Josiah Prickett
of Clermont in the State of Ohio
who was a Private in the Co
command
by Captain Johnston of the Regt command
by [line] in the Penna line for 11 months.
$36.66
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of July
1833 and sent to [illegible] olliffe Batavia, Ohio,
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Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833
Semi-annl. allowance ending 4. Sept 23, 1833.
73.32
18.33
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$91.65
= =

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
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299
Sarah
Prickett
widow of Josiah
Act June 17, 1844
Married before 1794
husband died 3 Decr [December] 45
[illegible] 11 mo [illegible]
$36.66
3 Decr [December]  1845 to [crossed out] 4 March 1848
Hon J. D. Morris
House of Reps
to
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State of Ohio Clermont County ss
On this 10th day of August in the year 1832 personally appeared in open court Josiah Prickett before the Hon George P Torrence Presdt [President] Judge and Isaac Whitaker, John Ewing and Robert Hainer Esqr [Esquire] Associate Judges of the court of Common Pleas for said County of Clermont Now sitting Josiah Prickett a resident of the township of Stonelick,, County of Clermont State of Ohio who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits an 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 stated.
He was born at a place called the forks of Gun powder creek in the State of Maryland about 20 miles from Baltimore [illegible crossed out] was born in the year 1764 but dont know what month & has no record of his age. His fathers family had fled from the Indians in Pennsylvania on the Monongahalia [Monogahela] river and
staid out four or five days, on their return their family Bible and [illegible] other property hall been taken from his father house and their he lost the record of his age. Moved from Maryland to Berkley County Virginia and his father family himself
with [illegible] Staid there three or four years left there the year before the American Revolution broke out and moved with her fathers family to what was then Washington County Pennsylvania on a creek called big Whiteley about 15 miles up above the place where Brownville now stands, on the Monongalalia river  while residing there at a place called Garreth Fort on big Whiteley deponent entered the service as a volunteer under the command of Captain John Huston and staid under his command for Sandusky, went to a place called Fort McIntosh on the Ohio at the mouth of a called big beaver Staid there ten or twelve day when the commanding officer from the [illegible, bleed through] by Captain Brady for them to go home for they could not [illegible, bleed through] enough to go on to Sandusky. They were then dismissed and sent home There was no other officer but the captain the company was not full Enough when they started from Garretts Fort
on big Whitely and the arrangement was to go McIntosh and the elect the ballance [balance] of their officers Captain Huston had command until they got home - they all went and returned on horseback after an abscence [absence] of about 20 days.
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here was station of regular troops commanded by a Captain at Fort McIntire  while deponent was their but does not remember her name. This expedition took place in warm weather in 17[illegible]  thinks it was in the latter part of the summer Some time in the following spring in the month of March or of the first of April does not remember exactly which while deponent was hired with seven others to act as Indian Scouts one of them was named Richard Hall, another James Denny, and William Hannahs who was killed the same summer by the Indians. Another was John Gutterey, another named John North also Stephen Gapen and Jeremiah Williams. The company to which deponent belonged were to spy big whitely Creek and ten Mile creek and watch the  Wheeling road down which the Indians frequently came The other company watched [illegible] Dunkard Creek and the warrior path which went up one of the Forks of that creek called the warrior fork. They were hired by one William Minor who was authorized do to Col Williamson who lived on Crop Creek in Washington County * when their service were [illegible] at my over paid them 7 Shillings per day  for six months and continued in the service until the end of that time. one of the men as before mentioned was killed, and Richard Hall who was with William Hannahs when he was killed killed an Indian at the same
time, another man named Amos Morris war along on horseback at the same time and had he a flesh wound though his arm he dropped his guide he & Hall Male their Escape. Deponent and a number of others under the command of Major James Carmichael who commanded the militia only and not the spies 
went back next they to [illegible] Hannahs and did so, and found Amos Morris [illegible] the Indians had taken the body of Indian killed and hid him in the rocks on bog Whiteley Creek. They then follow [illegible] the trail of the Indians [illegible, bleed through] about [illegible, bleed through] they had taken [illegible, bleed through] creek and had taken who the [illegible, bleed through] did not over take them, John Cowbraye family (ex wife & one of his little boys who made his escape) were either killed [illegible, bleed through] scalped alive by the Indians [illegible] wife and their children one of them a  young woman were killed together with a neighbor woman who escaped alive. The named John [illegible] his escape by the assistance of two large [illegible] who kept off the [illegible] who procured had him [illegible] into the fort This event took place about three quarters
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of a mile from the fort while deponent was an Indian Spy Discharged from this last service at the expiration of the six months. Part of this six months tour Theophilus Phillips commanded the malitia [militia] part of the time in the Fort, (Garretts Fort) and our Henry Licks thinks he was but a seargeant [sergeant] commanded part of the time winter came on and there was no more mischief done their at that place the next spring the poeple [people] left that fort altogether and nearer to the settlements and built at another little fort and called it Hutsons Fort after after William Hutson who was [illegible]  the land on which it
was built. Deponent then turned out and volunteered for one month on a spy [part of crossed out] third from Hudson Fort to a Station called Garrison Fort at the end of the month was discharged and peace was proclaimed, while at Fort Hudson the Indians came within about thirty rods of the fort and took deponents  brother Richard Prickett there in his fifteenth year a prisoner and carried him off; he had gone out of the Fort to get an arm full of wood at the time he was captured. never heard of his brother for 40 years, his since received several letters from him - Lath January was a year ago had a letter from him dated Washington City. He informed deponent that he were there with fifteen [illegible] Indians and was acting as Interpreter. Has no ducumentary [documentary] evidence 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 his
Josiah X Prickett
mark 
Sworn to [illegible] August 10th 1832
J D Morris Clerk [illegible] 
We Josiah [illegible] residing in Stonelick township Clermont County Ohio and James Perrine residing in Williamsburgh township Clermont County State of Ohio hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Josiah Prickett who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we belive [believe] him to be sixty Eight years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood [neighborhood] where he resides to have been an Indian Spy of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Josiah Osborn
James Perrine
Sworn to in open Court August 10th 1832
J. D. Morris Clerk P T
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The State of Ohio}
[name obscured by folded paper with stamp] County}  ss 
I. J. D. Morris Clerk of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that John Lamkin and M.S. Pickelhimer Esquires are two
acting Justices of the peace in and for said County of Clermont legally authorized to act as such and that their signatures above written are genuine. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court of Common Pleas at Batavia in said County this 19th day of June A.D. 1844
J. D. Morris Clk [clerk]
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3564
Ohio Cincinnatti
Sarah Prickett widow of Josiah Pena [Pennsylvania] Prickett who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 31 day of Jany [January] 1849 and sent to Hon. J D. Morris H of R

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 357 Vol. 4

Repd Jan 31/49
Date of death not on CB
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of our Lord 1789
David Fletcher was born in the year of [illegible]
see Le My Book and Second and [illegible] Second and third [illegible] David F
A. John Simkins
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Ann Pricket December [illegible] first 1787
Joseph Pricket was born October the 22 1788
George Prickett son of Josiah was born January the 15 day 1791
Isaac Prick Son of josiah and [illegible] his wife was born June the 5 day 1795
Elizabeth Pricket an Daughter of Josiah Pricket and Sarah his wife was born 15 day January 1796
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Georg
William Slone Pricket the son of Josiah and Sarah his wife was Born in the 21 February 1819
Hiram Priket the son of Josaih and Sarah his wife was born in year of 6 September the 16 1811
N. B. John Simkins J. P.
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Josiah Pricket the son of Josiah and [illegible] was Born the Eight D of Februarey [February] 1798
Sarah Prickett wife of Josiah Prickit was born September the Ninth 1761
Sarah Pricket the Daughter of Josiah and Sarah his wi[cut off] was born in the 22 
day of January 1816
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[stamp THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES]
State of Ohio Clermont County} ss
on this 8th day of June in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and forty six personally appeared before me the Subscribed Justice of the peace in and for said County Sarah Pricket a resident of Stonelick Township in the County of Clermont aged Eighty two years last December who being first duly sworn  according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress of June 1844 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war that she is the widow of Josiah Pricket who was a private in the army of the
revolution and [illegible] a pension of thirty six Dollars and sixty six cents per annum from the 27th day of July 1833 under a pension certifficate [certificate] of that date No 13430 to the day of his death which was on the 3d Day of December |1845| Eighteen hundred and forty five She refers to the proof on file in the pension office of the United States as to the services of her decesed [deceased] 
husband upon which the above dated and numbered certifficate [certificate] issued which certifficate [certificate] she also encloses She further declares that she was married to the said Josiah Pricket on the fourth day of July 1783 seventeen hundred and eighty three in the State of Pennsylvania (and as she believes in Washington County) by a Baptist Preacher by the name of David Sutton that at the time of said Marriage said minster gave her what was called a marriage paper but she within a few years has lost that her husband the aforesaid Josiah Pricket Died on the third Day of December 1845 that she lived with him from the day of said marriage to the day of his death that she had born to the said Josiah Pricket the following named children John Nancy Joseph George Isaac Elizabeth Hiram Tolbert Josiah Sarah and William the further states that the
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ages of some of her eldest children were cut out of said Book and took off by them when they left home that she was not married to the said Josiah Prickett prior to his
leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January 1794 She further declares that she is still a widow  
her
Sarah X Pricket
mark
sworn to and subscribed this 8th day of June 1846 before me John Simkins J. P. 

I certify that I am well acquainted with the above named affiant that full faith and credit is to be placed in her statements I further certify that for the space of forty years I have lived within two miles of the above named Josiah Pricket and this affiant that it never has been reputed but that they were married I further certify that the two papers with inclosed [enclosed] marked A. & B & I found loose in and old Book B I cut out of said Book and marked them A & B
John Simkins J.P.
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13.480
No 1634
Josiah Prickett
Clermont County Ohio
Adm 11. months
$36.66.
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
17th July 1833.
Sir: 
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of
your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and
the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by compling [complying] with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A Statement, shewing the Service of Josiah Prickett
Period when service was rendered.
1778
1781.
1782
Spring 1783
Duration of the claimant's service.
3 months
1 month
6 months
1 month
Rank of the claimant.
Indian Spy
Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served.
Phillips
Cap Swiegler
Cap. Johnston.
Cap Philepss
Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service. 
69 years Washington Co. Penn
Proof by which the declaration is supported. Living Witness & traditionary

I am, respectfully
Your obedient servant
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged
in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Terror, or District of
County of } ss.
On this day of personally appeared (a) before
A.B. a resident (b) of in the county of and State, Territory or District of aged (c) 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 provion made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d), with and served in the (e) regiment of the line, under the following named officers:
(Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged,
and the country through which he marched. [picture of finger pointing right] This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.)
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. A. B.
(And then will follow the certificate of the Court.)
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I of the Court of do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this
day of &c.
If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
(And then will follow the certificate of the Court.)
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, 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 A.B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the
and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, Clerk of the Court of do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the applicacation of for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this day of &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
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alleged service, as they are known at the Department.  A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6.
To a Soldier.{
Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
To an Officer.{
Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons -- one of whom should be
the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion.
If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct
proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the inquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform,
and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a his genuine signature.
Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
(a) The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
(b) The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
(c) The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
(d) The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
(e) Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and in the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age; and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the premier length of the service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served as a For months and days, I served as a; and for such services I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, or the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what offers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
(f) The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
(g) The opinion of the Court is always required.
(h) The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
(i) The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
(j) In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify the credibility of the wit- cases and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
The notes from (a) to (i) are equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note (j) applies to continental troops only.
(k) This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
(l) If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
(m) The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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May 15, 1933
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Josiah Prickett-W.5584
BA-J/AWF [initialed]
Mrs. C. D. Rothenburg
728 Aurora Avenue
Lexington, Kentucky
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which
you request the Revolutionary War record of Josiah Prickett of Washington County, Pennsylvania; and records of Civil War soldiers, Abraham and John Fullmer.
You are furnished herein the Revolutionary War
record of Josiah Prickett; and your letter has
been forwarded to the proper division, for reply in regard to the records of the Civil War soldiers, Abraham and John Fullmer.
The data which follow were obtained from the
papers on file in pension claim, W.5584, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Josiah Prickett, the name also appears as Pricket, Prickitt and Prickit.
Josiah Prickett was born in 1764 at the "forks
of Gunpowder Creek" in the state of Maryland, about twenty miles from Baltimore; the names of his parents are not stated. He moved with "his father's family" from Maryland to Berkeley County, Virginia and from there to Washington County, Pennsylvania.
Josiah Prickett, while residing at Garrett's Fort on Big Whiteley Creek, Washington County, Pennsylvania, served with the Pennsylvania troops, as follows-
From in May, 1778, three months as private and scout in Captain Samuel Swingler's company; from in April, 1781, one month in Captain John Holton's company; in August, 1781, twenty days in Captain John Huston's
company; from March or April, 1782, six months as Indian
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Spy under Captain Theophilus Phillips and Colonel Williamson; in the spring of 1783, one months as spy, officers not stated. He was in many skirmishes with the Indians.
The soldier, Josiah Prickett, was allowed pension on his application executed August 10, 1832, then a resident of Stonelick Township, Clermont County, Ohio.
The soldier married July 4, 1783 on "Ruffscreek" in Washington County, Pennsylvania, Sarah Van Camp, the daughter of Lorance Van Camp. She was born September 9,
1761, as appears on family record, the name of her mother is not shown.
Josiah Prickett died December 3, 1845. His widow, Sarah Prickett, was allowed pension on her application executed June 8, 1846, at which time she was living in Stonelick Township, Ohio. She stated on that date that she was eighty-two years of age last December.
The following is a list of their children as
appears in the claim-
John, sixty-three years of age in 1847
Nancy, age not given
Joseph born October 22,1788
George [born] January 15, 1791
Isaac [born] June --, 1793
Elizabeth [born] January 15, 1796
Josiah [born] February 8, 1798
Tolbert, age not given
Hiram born September 16, 1811
Sarah [born] --------- 22, 1816
William Slone [born] February 21, 1819
Richard Prickett, brother of the soldier, Josiah
Prickett, was carried from Garrett's Fort by the Indians, during the Revolution, then aged about fifteen years, and was not heard from for many years. Aaron Van Camp, brother of the widow, Sarah Prickett, stated that he was present at the marriage of the soldier and his sister, Sarah; in
1847 he was living in Clermont County, Ohio.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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Georgetown Ohio
April 11 - 1933
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:-
Some time since I wrote the Commission to see
if you have any Pension records of one Josiah Prickett who enlisted in the Revolution at Garrett's Fort, Washington Co. Pa.
To date I have received no reply.  Will you kindly advise me?
(Mrs. J.M.) Meryl B. Markley
426 N. Main St.
Georgetown Ohio.
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INSURANCE SERVICE 
REITREMENT SUB-DIVISION 
MAR 23 1933
S
VERTERANS ADMINISTRATION
[end stamp]
Georgetown Ohio
March 16 - 1933
Commissioner of Pensions -
Wash. DC.
Dear Sir:-
Will you please send me the service record of the Josiah Prickett who served from Washington Co. Pa. enlisting at Garrett's Station in 1778. Died in Clermont Co. Ohio in 1845. I think he was pensioned
Respectfully
Meryl B. Barkley
426 N. Main St.
Georgetown
Ohio
This is Revolutionary War Service
[stamped]
RECEIVED
MAR 22 1933
MAIL SUB-DIV
VETS. ADM.
PENSION #3
[end stamp]
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All sips returned to Ceweteual Br.
AWS Act 2-29
[stamp] STAMP PENSION OFFICE U.S SEP 30 1929
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WAR DEPARTMENT
OFFICE OF THE QUARTERMASTER GENERAL
WASHINGTON
SEP 2 1919
MEMORANDUM TO:
[unchecked box] Bureau of Navigation,
Navy Department,
Washington, D. C.
* * * * * *
[unchecked box] Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard, Treasury Building,
Washington, D.C.
* * * * * * *
[unchecked box] The Surgeon General, Washington, D.C.
* * * * * *
In order that headstones properly inscribed
may be furnished, it is requested that the "Service" of the decedents named on the enclosed applications be verified and returned as soon as practicable to this office.
The regulations provide that the name of
the State from which the decedents came
be inscribed on the headstones. It is requested that this information be given and that any corrections be made in red ink on the form.
* * * * * *
[checked box] The Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
* * * *
[unchecked box] The General Accounting Office,
Washington, D.C.
* * * *
In order that headstones properly inscribed
may be furnished for the graves of the decedents named on the enclosed applications, it is requested that you furnish this office the correct spelling of the names and complete designation of the organizations.
29/86/
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Blanchester, Ohio,
March 10 1925
Dept of Interior
Bureau of Pensions:
Washington, D.C.
To the Commissioner:
Dear Sir, June 30" 1922
I received a communication from your office
relating to the Record of my ancestor Josiah Prickett a soldier in the Revolutionary War. In this communication was given the service record of Josiah Prickett - that he enlisted at Garrett's
Fork, Washington, Pa.
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that he received a pension that was allowed Aug 10th 1832 & his residence at the time was in Stonelick Twp. Clermont Co. Ohio, C. 1764 near Baltimore, Md. 
Married Sarah Van Camp - at Washington Co. Pa, July 4 1783
Died Dec. 3, 1845 & his widow was allowed a pension, June 8" 1846 while residing in Clermont Co. aged 82 years. & gave the names of their eleven children.
Will you please send me the names of the volumes that contains this information with the (The communication bears in the upper left hand corner) pages
E. W. 5584.
(over)
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Thanking you for the information already received
I am yours truly
Mrs. John. B. Doughman,
Blanchester,
Ohio.
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W.G. CASE
...Grain Broker...
[stamped]
U.S.P.B.
OLD WAR AND NAVY
M 4 1904
FILES.
[end stamp]
April, 29, 1904.
DES MOINES, IOWA.
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:-
Will you kindly give me information in regard to
James Carter and Josiah Prickett two revolutionary soldiers said to have enlisted from Virginia and to have drawn pensions.
The above are my grand fathers and I wish this information for the purpose of joining the Sons of the American Revolution.
Yours truly,
James S Carter
301 Clapp Block
[stamped]
U.S. PENSION OFFICE.
G
MAY 2 1904
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May 11, 1904 His to Jas. S. Carter Des Moines Iowa
1922, June 30, 1922 Hist to Mrs. John B. Doughman, En
Mrs. John B. Doughman inf -record not taken from any volume 1925 178
1929 - Oct 2 - [illegible] data to cemeterial br.
1933 - Apr. 21 - hist to Mrs J. M. Mzackley EwF
1933 - May 15 hist. to Mrs. C Rothenburg CWF

Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 5584
Sarah Prickett
Wid. 
Josiah Prickett
Prt. [private] Rev. War
Act: Feby, 26/48
Index: -- Vol. M, Page 140
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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V No 299
Sarah Prickett
O
D Smith Aug 15/46 to same March 19.1847 to Ditto Sept 27. 47 to same Nov. 8'48
Act 17 June 1844
[round stamp THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES]
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Josiah Prickett Clermont Co. O act 7 June 32 $36.66
To what time was he last paid?
Pension Office
Decem [December] 22 48}
G C A
Paid to 4th Sept. 1845
B.L.B.
[round stamp THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES]
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1333
10
23.33
12
320
240

4669
12
[illegible]
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554 Cin
Ohio
Sarah Prickett widow of Josiah Prickett who was a Private in the the Revolution
Husband died 3d Dec. '45

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on
the 3rd day of Decr [December] , 1845.

Certificate of Pension issued, the 29 day of Decr '48 and sent to Hon. J. D. Morris Ho of Rep

[Act of JUNE 17, 1844.]

Recorded in Book a Vol. 2 Page 208

Reported
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Payments to be made at Cincinnati by 1st N. Br. Bank
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of Ohio
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book E Vol. 8. Page 20 by Wm Palmer.
Clerk
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
[stamped: THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES]
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Josiah Prickett of the State of Ohio who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive Thirty six dollars and Sixty six cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this 27 day of July one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three,
John Robb
Acting Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. }
J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
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April 21, 1933
XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Josiah Prickett-W.5584
BA-J/AF
Mrs. J. M. Markley
426 N. Main Street
Georgetown, Ohio
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which
you request the Revolutionary War record of Josiah Prickett of Washington County, Pennsylvania.
The data furnished herein were obtained
from the papers on file in pension claim, W. 5584, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Josiah Prickett or Pricket.
He was born in 1764 at the "forks of Gunpowder Creek" in the state of Maryland, about twenty miles from Baltimore; the names of his parents are not stated. He moved with "his father's family" from Maryland to Berkeley County, Virginia and from there to Washington County, Pennsylvania.
Josiah Prickett (Pricket), while residing at
Garrett's Fort on Big Whiteley Creek, Washington County, Pennsylvania, served with the Pennsylvania troops, as follows-
From in May 1778, three months as private and scout in Captain Samuel Swingler's company; from in April, 1781, one month in Captain John Holton's company; in August, 1781, twenty days in Captain John Huston's company; from March or April, 1782, six months as Indian Spy under Captain Theophilus Phillips and Colonel Williamson; in the spring of 1783, one month as spy, no officers stated. He was in many
skirmishes with the Indians.
Josiah Prickett was allowed pension on his appli-
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cation executed August 10, 1832, then a resident of Stonelick Township, Clermont County, Ohio. 
The soldier, Josiah Prickett, married July 4, 1783, on "Ruffscreek" in Washington County, Pennsylvania, Sarah Van Camp, the daughter of Lorance Van Camp.  She was born September 9, 1761, as appears on family record, the name of her mother is not given.
Josiah Prickett died December 3, 1845.  His widow, Sarah Prickett, was allowed pension on her application executed June 8, 1846, a resident of Stonelick Township, Ohio.  She stated on that date that she was eighty-two years of age last December.
The following is a list of their children as
appears in the claim-
John, sixty-three years of age in 1847
Nancy, age not given
Joseph born October 22,1788
George [born] January 15, 1791
Isaac [born] June --, 1793
Elizabeth [born] January 15, 1796
Josiah [born] February 8, 1798
Tolbert, age not given
Hiram born September 16, 1811
Sarah [born] --------- 22, 1816
William Slone [born] February 21, 1819
Richard Prickett, brother of the soldier, Josiah
Prickett, was carried from Garrett's Fort by the Indians, during the Revolution, then aged about fifteen years, and was not heard from for many years. Aaron Van Camp, brother of the widow, Sarah Prickett, stated that he was present at the marriage of the soldier and his sister, Sarah, in 1847 he was living in Clermont County, Ohio.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
WF/eel
October 2, 1929
Office of the Quartermaster General
War Department Auditor Br.
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sirs:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War
pension claim, W.5584, it appears that Josiah Prickett
was born in 1764, at the forks of Gunpowder Creek" twenty
miles from Baltimore, Maryland.
While residing at Garrett's Fort on Big Whiteley
Creek, Washington County, Pennsylvania, he served with the
Pennsylvania Troops as follows:
From in May, 1778, three months as a private and scout
in Captain Samuel Swingler's Company; from April 1, 1781,
one month as private in Captain John Holton's Company;
in August, 1781, twenty days in Captain John Huston's Company; from March or April, 1782, six months as Indian Spy
under Captain Theophilus Phillips; in the spring of 1783,
one month as spy, no officers stated. He was in many
skirmishes with the Indians.
He was allowed pension on his application executed
[illegible] data
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August 10, 1832, at which time he was living in Stonelick Township, Clermont County, Ohio.
He died December 3, 1845.
Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH
Commissioner.
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[initialed]
Rev and 1812 War Section.
May 7, 1925
Mrs. John B. Doughman
Blanchester
Ohio.
Madam:
I have to advise you that the data furnished you
June 30, 1922, was taken from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 5584 of Josiah Prickett and of his widow Sarah, and not from any volume.
Respectfully,
WILDER S. METCALF
Commissioner.
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RECORD DIVISION
REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION
3 -- 525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., 6-30, 1922
In reply to your request of       ,
received
a statement of the military history of Josiah Prickett
soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
information as contained in his and his widow's) application for pension
on file in this Bureau.
W. 5584
DATES OF
ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.
May 1778
Apl 1 1781
Aug 1781
May 1782
Spy 1783
LENGTH OF
SERVICE.
3 Mos
1 mo
20 days
6 mos
1 mo

RANK.
Pvt + se,b
Pvt-guard duty
-
Indian Spy
Spy
Sarah
Indian
Spy
Spy
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
Samil Swington
Jno. Holton
Jno. Huston
Theophile Phillips
COLONEL.
at Durrett Fort
STATE.
Pa.
Battles engaged in, Skirmishes with Indians
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Garret Fort Washington Co. Pa. on Bigwhiteley Creek
Date of application for pension, Aug 10 1832. al
Residence at date of application, Stonelick Tup. Clermont Co. Ohio
Age at date of application, b. 1764 at Forks of Gunpowder Creek, 20 miles from Baltimore
Remarks: He mar July 4 1783 in Washington Co. Pa. Sarah Vancamps dau. of , Lorance Van C.
b. Sept 9, 1761 
he d Dec, June 3 1845 + she was al. pension on her ap ex. June 8, 1846 while res. 
Clermont Co. Ohio aged 82 yrs. Their ch. were, John, Nancy
Joseph, George, Isaac, Elizabeth, Hiram, Tolbert,  Josiah, Sarah
+ William
Bro. Richard Respectfully,
Commissioner
note-
Did not give ages of any ch. 
as nearly all we omitted. En.
5 -- 2856

Commissioner.
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Request sent - 
by Mr. Chas James
Finance Dir to Mrs. Wilson
Record sent June 30, 1922 -
En.
Blanchester, Ohio,
June 28" 1922,
Mr. Chas James,
Wash. D.C.
Dear Charley:  Effie Allen wrote me that you are connected with the Pension Dept. in Wash. and I am seeking information concerning the War record of my great grandfather, Josiah Prickett,
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can give me any information concerning this pension.  He lived in Clermont Co at the time of his death & probably got his mail at Goshen or Owensville.  The Pension atty. lived at Owensville.  We want to know, of what organization of Army he was a member & whether it was Rev. War or 1812, and my father always said Rev. War.
If there is a fee attached for hunting up such information,
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my father always told us he was a scout in army in Rev. War and I have always understood he enlisted in Ohio, or at least he served in Ohio.  He died either in latter part of 1846 or early in 1847.  We know he drew a pension up to that time, for my father remembered incident connected with the pension, & we have a letter written to his widow concerning service proof necessary to her getting the pension, but she died very soon after my g-grandfather & never had the pension.  Now, if you
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Please let me know & I will forward same,
Thanking you in advance for taking your time,
I am yours sincerely
Matella Doughman,
(Mrs John B. Doughman)
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House of Reps
Decr 8. 1848
Sir
Enclosed is a statement of Judge Beatty & others in relation to the
application of Sarah Pricket for a pension and also a letter from Dennis Smith Esq. asking for information in other cases. Place answer me as soon as you can
Yours Respectfully
J. D. Morris
Hon J. L. Edwards
[round stamp THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES]
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House of Reps
Jan 29. 1849
Sir
Enclosed I forward to you a letter from Dennis Smith Esq of Owensville Ohio and also the papers of Sarah Pricket I hope you will find it convenient to report on the case very soon -
Yours Respectfully
J. D. Morris
Hon J. L. Edwards
[round stamp THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES]
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Woods affidavit for Prickett
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State of Ohio Clermont County ss
Personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Court of Common Pleas now sitting Moses Wood of Stoneton township Clermont County Ohio. who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following statement. In the same year that Corbery family was
killed and that Richard Hall killed the Indian deponent saw the dead body of the Indian) deponent lived in Clines fort situated on Muddy Creek between five and six miles Garritt fort on big x Whitely. Before that (about one year) deponent had lived in Garrets and became acquainted Josiah Prickett the present applicant for a pension and has been acquainted with him ever since. In that same year that Corbery family was killed and Hall killed the Indian deponent saw the said Josiah
Prickett acting as an Indian spy. He wore the leggins [leggings] no trousers a hunting shirt and a [illegible]. Prickett and Denry ranged together and Hall and Hannahs. Saw them frequently together reckon more than twenty times, has been at Garrett fort and saw them starting out. The poeple [people] generally and all over the county said that they were the spies, does not know how long they acted as Luck but knows they started out early in the spring and continued to act as spies though the whole summer. After Hannah was killed Prickett Denny & Hall, all ranged together as deponent was informed and believes Their buisness [business] was to range & took out for Indians and Indian signs & let the people in the fort know of it at the time Hall that the Indian he lost his blat and his tomahawk. Hall told it in Cline's Fort when deponent heard it Has been acquainted with the said Josiah Prickett for about fifty years. He has always [illegible] the character of a man of truth and veracity and deponent believes him to be such a man and further deponent saith not.
Moses Wood
Sworn to in open Court August 10th 1832.
J. D. Morris Clerk P. T.
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State of Ohio}
Clermont County}ss
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Clermont, aforesaid. Moses Wood of lawful who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following deposition
I forted in Garretts fort on big Whitely in the State of Pennsylvania not far from
the Virginia line for three years during the revolutionary war, but from old age and the consequent loss of memory cannot state the years when I forted there. There was above  thirty families then at that time and among others was the father of Josiah Prickett the present applicant for a pension, with his family one of whom was the said Josiah. After this I moved to Clines fort about six miles from Garretts fort and while living then I saw said Josiah Prickett the present applicant engaged in the service of the United States in the war of the revolution.
I said Prickett with other was engaged in the service they were called "the spies". The poeple [people] generally called them the spies of Garrette fort and they were as deponent verily believes from information he then received known throughout the garrison in that region as the spies of Garretts fort. Saw him frequently engaged as a spy during the summer. Deponent went down often to Garrette fort and saw said Prickett coming in and going out on service as a spy. Do not remember the year when this the service was rendered & knows it was the same year that Cockeys family was killed and that it was during the war of the
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Revolution. I have known Josiah Pickett ever since. He has been generally reputed to have been a man of veracity. I verily believe him to be a man of veracity, and further deponent saith not.
Moses Wood
Sworn to and subscribed before me the 5th day of April 1833
J. W. Robinson J P
I certify that I am well acquainted with Moses Wood the above deponent and that I believe him to be a man of veracity. April 5th 1833.
J. W. Robinson J. P.
The State of Ohio}
Clermont County} ss
I Jonathan D Morris Clerk of the Court of Common pleas within and for said County do hereby certify that John W Robinson Esqr [esquire] whose name is attached to the within amended declaration of Josiah Prickett and affidavit of Moses Wood and 
to the certificate certifying to the credibility of said Wood was at the time of taking and subscribing the same and still is one of the acting Justices of the peace within and for said County duly commissioned and sworn and full faith and credit is due to all his official acts as such, and that the several signatures purporting to be his are genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Batavia this 5th day of April AD 1833
J. D. Morris Clerk
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the State of Ohio Clermont County ss
personally appeared before me Arthur
McNell one of the Justices of the peace in
and for said County Eleanor Redelius of said
County who being duly sworn by me according to
the laws of the State of Ohio on her oath stated
as she is informed and believes she  now is
Sixty one years of age that she has been
acquainted with Josiah Picket and Sarah
his wife the meet aplicant for a pension
from her first recollection that when the
was a small girl she lived in Janets
Station near the month of the little [illegible] 
River in Hamilton County Ohio  with said Picket + his wife  that she
has often heard her father Bidian Hall
speak of said Josiah Pricket and his
wife in [illegible] before they removed 
to the North western Territory that she never
heard the least doubt from any person
but what Josiah Pricket and this
wife Sarah was Legally married  I am well
acquainted with their son John Prickett
that now as  I am informed was in the State of
Indiana and am well satisfied that he
is as old as I am if not older and
further this deponent saith not
Elmer Raubaush
her X mark
[illegible] and Subscribed this 27 day of
October AD 1848 before me
Arthur Md  Naell JP
[stamp] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES
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the State of Ohio Clermont County}ss
I Arthur McNaell a Justice of the peace in and for Said County do hereby Certify that I am well acquainted with Elenor Roudebush the present affiant and have no hesitation in Saying that full faith and credit is to be upon to all of her statements
Arthur McNaell
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the State of Ohio Clermont County} ss
I Peter Anderson a Justice of the peace in and for said County do herby certify that 
the words, Martha, the one month slept were Scratched and that the words in Monongahela County for, and Said were all made  before the same was subscribed by the said Martha
Joffrey
[overlay]
The State of Ohio, Clermont County -- SS.
I, R. W. CLARKE, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said county, hereby certify that Peter Anderson & Arthur McNeall Esqs before whom the foregoing Affidavits were [was crossed out] taken, were at the time of the taking and acknowledging
thereof, [an crossed out] acting Justices of the peace within and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified as such; hat the same [illegible] in due form of law, and that their signatures thereto are genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my name, and affixed the seal of said
Court, at the Court-House in said county, the 28th day of October 1848
R. W. Clarke CLERK.
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Batavia [N.Y. crossed out] O.
15 Feb. '47
Dennis Smith with testy in case of Sarah Pricket
Recd [received] 22 Feb '47 Ansd [answered] 22d
-
Respn [response] referred to the Comr [Commissioner] of Pensions by the writer so informed 3d Auditors offc [office]
Feby 22nd 1847
Feb 23d 1847.
20e
W. Randall
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Batavia Feb 15th 1847
In his inclosed [enclosed] I send you again the declaration of Sarah Pricket Sworn to this time before Judge John Beatty one of the Justice of our Court I do not know that we can get any other testimony as to the Marriage of him & her it appears to me that the deposition of Elizabeth Howe sent with the first declaration at to be sufficient to prove the marriage she swears that her Brother Josiah Prickett went off on Saturday and fetched the present applicant to her fathers the next day as his wife and that he lived with her as such to the day of his death [illegible] leave sent all the evidence that I know of in cause [illegible] with much respect
Dennis Smith to 
Peter Hagner Esqr 

please send the papers to owensville Clermont Co Ohio
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20
Batavia O
Feb 16
Peter Hagner Esqr
Third Auditors office
D C
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No 4/[illegible]
Owensville O.
28 Oct '48
Dennis Smith
with addl. testimony in pens Claim of the Widow of Josiah Pricket
Recd [received] 3 Nov.'48
ansd. [answered] same day
Ann
Respectfully referred to the Pension Office & Mr Smith so informed
3rd aud's [auditor's] off.
3 Nov. '48
Peter Hagner Audt [auditor]
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Owensville o
Oct. 30th

Pension papers
Peter Hagner Esq third auditor
Controllers office
D. C

[squiggles with 10 in upper right corner crossed out]
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owensville Clermont Co Ohio Oct 28th 1848
Dr Sir enclosed I Send you the depositions of Martha Jaffey and Eleanor Roudebush in
relation to the pension of Sarah Pricket wife of Josiah Pricke [Pricket] deceased which in addition to what you have on file I think ot [aught] to entitle her to a pension
the Deposition of Elizabeth Slone states that when she was a small girl her Brother went off and the next day he fetched home this present aplicant [applicant] Sarah
Pricket and always recognised [recognized] her as his wife Aaron Vancamp her Brother swears that he said this and Josiah Pricket married 4th day of July 1783 Martha Jaffrey Swears that as for Back as 1786 or 87 She Saw the Said Josiah Pricket and this present applicant [illegible] to gether [together] as man & wife after she had been told that they were married Eleanor Roudebush Swears that she has known both Pricket & his wife from her first recollection that she now is 61 years of age
all of which is most respectfully submitted [illegible] your obedient Servant
Peter Hagner Esq third Dennis Smith to 
Auditor Comptrollers office
D. C
N B please send me a form or direct me how to put the names of Sarah Stoner widow of Philip Stoner and allick Chalmers wife of Andrew Chalmers on the pension list they are bothe [both] [illegible] I have both their persons for year your &c
Dennis Smith
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Owensville O.
6 Sept. '47
Dennis Smith
addl [additional] testimony in [illegible] claim of Sarah Pricket
Recd [received] 13 Sept. '47
Ansd [answered] same day
[illegible] informed to the Com[illegible] to the [illegible] so informed.
3d Auditor's office 
[illegible] 13th 1847
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Owensville Sept 6th 1847
Dr Sir
inclosed I send you the Deposition of Aaron Vancamp, in relation to the marriage of Josiah Pricket and Sarah his wife the present aplicant [applicant] for a pension I some time ago sent you the Declaration of her the said Sarah he testifies that he was present
at the wedding and saw them married in the year of 1783 by a minister of the gospel that they lived to gether [together] to the Day of his death that [illegible] you have
in the office also in the declaration of Sarah Pricket yours with respect
Denis Smith to
Peter Hagner Esqr [Esquire]
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Sept 13 47
[illegible] as Sarah Pritchett
Fee
Peter Hagner Esqr [Esquire]
third Auditors office
D. C
Owensville C
Sept 8
Owensville O.
6 Sept. '47
Dennis Smith
addtl [additional] testimony in pension case of Sarah Pricket
Recd. 13 Sept: '47
Ansd [answered] same day
[illegible] to the Commr. [Commissioner] of Pensions to the [illegible] so informed 3d Auditor's Office 
Sept 13th 1847
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Batavia O. 19 June '46
299
Dennis Smith pension claim of Josiah Prickett
Recd 25 June '46
Ansd 27th-
Claim of a widow for a pension. [illegible] referred to the Comr [commissioner] of Pensions, [illegible] so informed 3d Auditor's office June 27th 1846.
June 29. 1846
Sarah Pickett
June 17,1846.
W. Randall
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[stamp] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES UNITED STATES
Owensville Clermont County State of Ohio
Dr Sir  enclosed I send you the declaration
and papers of Sarah Pricket widow of Josiah
Pricket
If there is any thing lacking please
inform me
yours with respect
Dennis Smith to
Peter Hagner Esqr
Third Auditor Compt
office D C

June 19th 1846
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Batavia O
June 20
1 1/2 oz [25 crossed out] 40
Peter Hagner Esqr [Esquire]
third Auditor Controlers [Controllers] office
D C
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Clermont Common Pleas August Term 1832
Friday August 10th 1832.
On this day personally appeared in open court in the Court aforesaid Josiah Prickett an applicant for the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 who made oath to the above declaration and a[t] the same time produced in open court Josiah Osborne and James Perrine  who made oath to the above certificate and the said court after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department declared their opinion that the above
named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he state. and that the said Josiah Osborne [illegible crossed out] [several marks] who has signed the preceding certificate is a credible person, and a resident
of Stonelick township Clermont County Ohio and that James Perrine who has also signed the same is a resident of the township of Williamsburgh, County of Clermont State of Ohio and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit and the court further declared their opinion after the examination of a witness on the subject that Moses Wood who who has sworn and subscribed to the annexed affidavit is a credible person
I Jonathan Morris Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Josiah Prickett for a pension In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of the said Court this 16th day
of August 1832.
J. D. Morris Clerk
Resealed April 5th 1833
J. D. Morris Clerk
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Batavia
April 8th 
Paid 12
Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas of Brown County Ohio
Georgetown Ohio
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Deposition in support of the claim of Josiah Prickett for a pension.
under the Law of June 7th 1832.
Batavia 
June 15
Free
J L Edwards
Comissioner [Commissioner] of Pensions
Washington City
D. C. 
Addl. Proof of Josiah Prickett Ohio
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State of Ohio
Brown County} ss
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for the above named County James Waites who being duly sworn according to law doth on his said oath stated that he is now Seventy one
years of age that he became acquainted with Josiah Pricket in Washington County State of Pennsylvania in the year 1782 that he said Josiah Pricket in the month of July in the year 1782 engaged in the service of the United States in the war of the revolution at Garretts fort as an Indian spy. Deponent was in the Service at said fort at the same time. Phillips was Capt. John Peters was sargant [sergeant] 
Deponent knows of his own personal knowledge that Josiah Pricket served as aforesaid six months and further deponent saith not.
Sworn the subscribed before me this 3d day of Aprile [April] in the year 1833 Charles Waites J P
I certify that I am well acquainted with the above named James Waites and that he is a man of vercity [veracity]
Charles Waiter J P
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State of Ohio}
Brown County} ss
I G W King Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Brown County Ohio,  certify that Charles Waites before whom the foregoing affidavit of James Waites appears to have been taken was at the time taking of the same and still is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified to administer oaths [illegible] and that the signature to said affidavit and to the certificate annexed hereto which purport to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this tenth day of Apprile [April] 1833.
G W King Clerk
of Brown County, Ohio

The Clerk of the Court of Common Place will please to affix he seal & his signiture [signature] to the above and send back her mail to me. Let the impression of the seal be distinct & seal it by putting wax or water under a piece of paper [illegible]
J Jolliffe
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Batavia Clermont Co Ohio
Nov 23d 1848
Dear Sir
been shown a communication of yours dated Pension Office Novr [November] 8th 1848 and directed to Dennis Smith Esqr [Esquire] Owensville Clermont County Ohio in relation to the credibility of the several witnesses whose depositions were forwarded to your office for the purpose of obtaining a pension for Sarah Pricket widow of Josiah Prickett late of said County Deceased
I hereby certify that I have lived a neighbour [neighbor] to Eleanor Roudebush and Elizabeth Stone for the last thirty five years (the last of whom was a sister to Josiah Pricket Decd) They are both persons of undoubted veracity and unblemished character
I have known Aron Vancamp for the last twenty five years and have never heard his
veracity disputed
I further certify that I am not intimately acquainted with Martha Jeffrey but from Information on which I can rely I believe her to be a woman in whom the utmost
confidence might be placed in her Oath
I further certify that Judging from the ages of the children of the said Josiah and Sarah Prickett with whom I have been intimately acquainted since the year Eighteen
hundred and Thirteen I have no doubt of their being married previous to the
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year 1794
Yours with due respect
John Beatty
Associate Judge
Clermont Co Ohio
To J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
D C
I fully concur in the above statement of Judge Beatty and I know his signature is genuine
J. D. Morris
Batavia O. Nov. 24. 1848
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[round stamp: THE ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES]
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The State of Ohio, Clermont County SS.
Personally appeared before me Peter Anderson one of the justices of the peace in and for said County Martha Jeffrey who being duly sworn according to the laws of the state of Ohio, on her oath states that as she is informed and believes she was born on the thirtieth day of May one thousand Seven hundred and seventy seven (as appear by the record of her age) that when she was a small girl not to exceed the age of ten years she remembers that Josiah Pricket came to her 
father's house in the State of Virginia in Monogahela County and told her father that he was married, and he further asked him who to, and he said to Sarah Vancamp daughter of Lorance Vancamp, said Sarah Vancamp was a distant relation to her mother and my father's name was Lett Ridgeway, That as she now believes in about six months from that time, said Josiah Pricket came to her father's house and fetched his wife with him and they slepted [slept] together as man and wife From that time to the present. She has been acquainted with her and with him till he died, that is with Josiah Pricket and his wife Sarah Pricket, and has lived neighbour [neighbor] to them since the year eighteen hundred and nine or ten and knows this present applicant to be the same woman that the said Josiah Pricket lived with and recognized as his wife as far back as the year of Sevention hundred eighty six or eighty seven I now live within about two & half miles of the residence of said
Surich Pricket, and an informed that she is yet alive and the widow of Josiah Picket
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 24th day of Oct. 1848.
her
Martha X Jeffrey
mark
Peter Anderson J.P.
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State of Ohio Clermont County SS
I Peter Anderson a Justice of the peace in and for said County do hereby certify that I am acquainted with Martha Jeffry and that she is a woman of truth and that full faith and credit is due to her statement
Peter Anderson [illegible]
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the State of Ohio Clermont County} ss
Be it remembered that on this 15th day of February 1847 personally appeared before me John Beatty one of the associate Judges of the Court
of Common please [pleas] in Clermont County Sarah Pricket a resident of
of said County aged Eighty three years who being first by me duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made of the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled an act granting half pay to certain widows and an act approved June 17th 1844 to continue and extend Said act that She is the widow of Josiah Prickett who was a private in the army of the revolution (that for his services she refers to the cordence on file in the pension office of the United States under which he had a pension till the day of his death)
She further declares that she was married to the said Josiah Pricket in the State of Pennsylvania on the fourth day of July Seventeen hundred and Eighty three (by a Baptist Preacher by the name of David Sutton) that she lived with him to the Day of his death that her husband the aforesaid Josiah Pricket died on the third Day of December eighteen hundred and forty five that she has no record of the manage that at the time of their marriage the
aforesaid Minister for them what was called a marriage paper that the kept for may years but that it is now entirely lost that she has made dilligen [diligent[ search for it in ery [every] place when she expected it to be found that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place prevoues [previous] to the first of January Seventeen  hundred and ninety four, viz at the time above stated that she sent the certifficate [certificate] of her husband to the pension office in a former declaration
her
Sarah X Pricket
mark
Sworn to and subscribed this 15th day of February A D 1847 before me
John Beatty
Associate Judge
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I certify that I am personally acquainted with this affiant and has been from the year of Eighteen hundred and fifteen up to this time and know that her & his decesed [deceased] husband lived to gether as man and wife from my first acquaintance to the day of his death and I never heard at [illegible] doubted that they were man & wife I also was well acquainted their I son John and leave no doubt but that he is Sixty Three years of age I further certify that said affiant is a woman that full faith & credit is to be placed in her oath and that she is not able to attend the Court of Common please to make said declaration
Witness my hand this 13th day of February 1847
John Beatty
Associate Judge
I hereby certify that the alteration in the dates within were made before signing, viz inserting February instead of January
John Beatty
Associate Judge

The State of Ohio}
Clermont County ss}

 I R. W. Clarke Clerk pro tem of the Court of Common Pleas of said County certify that John Beatty whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate, was at the
time of signing the same an acting Associate Judge of the Court f Common pleas for said County, duly commissioned and qualified as such and that his said signatures above written are genuine
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court of Common pleas at the Court House this 15th day of February 1847
R. W. Clarke Clk [clerk]
pro tem
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The State of Ohio Clermont County ss
on this 20th day of January 1849 personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County Sarah Prickett a resident of Stonelick Township in the County of Clermont aged eighty four 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 2nd February 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war that she is the widow of Josiah Pricket who was a private in the army of the revolution (the regiment or corpse [Corps] in which he served she is
unable to state) he received a pension at the rate of thirty six Dollars and sixty six cents per annum till the day of his death which was on the 3d Day of December 1845 that his certificate was sent to your office for the purpose of [illegible] pension by this affiant that on the account of the Military services of her late husband 
(Deceased) Josiah Pricket on the 29th day of December 1849 a certifficate [certificate] of pension was issued to her in which she is authorised [authorized] to draw a pension at the rate of thirty six Dollars and sixty six Cents per annum Commencing on the 3d Day of December 1845 and terminating on the 4th day of March 1848 She is unable to state from recollection under what act her husband [illegible] She further declares
that she is still a widow sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me
her
Sarah X Picket
mark
before me Moses Long a Justice of the peace
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Signed in presence of us
Moses Long
[illegible] S. Pricket
State of Ohio}
Clermont County}ss
I Moses Long a Justice of the peace in and for said County do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the [illegible] named Sarah Pricket and Know her to be the same person that D[illegible] a [illegible] as stated by her in the within affidavit that she is the wife of Said Josiah as Stated by her that she is a widow and has been Since the death of her husband Josiah Pricket
Moses Long J P 
Jan 20th 1849
[round stamp: THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES]
The State of Ohio}
Clermont County} ss
I R.M. Clarke Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas hereby certify that Moses Long Esqr. [Esquire] before whom the foregoing Affidavit was taken was at the time of the taking and acknowledging thereof an acting Justice of the Peace duly commissioned  Nov. 18. 1848 & qualified on the 28th Nov. 1848. as such that the same is in due form of Law and that the signature thereto is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my name, and affixed the seal of said Court, at the Court House in said County, the 22d day of January A.D. 1849
R. M. Clarke Clerk
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Amended application of Josiah Prickett.
State of Ohio}
Clermont County.} ss
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid Josiah Prickett of lawful age, who being duly Sworn deposeth [deposes] and saith, he served not less than the periods mentioned below in the following grades and at the following periods of the war. 
For three months I served as a private in the malitia [militia] in the year 1778, I commenced this service about the 1st of May in said year and served not less than three months [illegible] no written discharge served at Garritts Fort under the command of Captain Samuel Swingler, Lieutenant Swearingen was at the fort and commanded as a Sergt, [sergeant] under Captain Swingler. There was a Sergent [sergeant] there a good deal of the time in the name Henry Licks. There generally 30 or 40 drafted station men at the Fort at that time resides the poeple [people] that were forted. While I was here my buisness [business] with them was to guard the inhabitants during the day while they planted and tended their crops & keep guard at night. I was out frequently as a scout for a day or two. I well engaged Exclusively as a soldier, and got the usual wages that the malitia [militia] men [illegible] then got part of the time I was a substitute for a man who came from Fayette County, & whose family got sick so that he had to go home, I do not recollect his name. The reason for not stating this tour of duty in my original application is, that I said the law of June 7th 1832 and by that, saw that Revolutionary soldiers were to receive the same wages that they did when they were out and having
applied or a spy. I would then have been [illegible] if I had obtained [illegible] Deed.
I served as a private in the malitia [militia] in 1781 for not less than one month commencing the about the 1st of April 1781. under John Holton, [illegible] the leader of three families had been killed and I with others went to help bury them and after that part of us went as volunteers to Garretts fort where we staid in service
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keeping garrisson [garrison] & guarding the poeple [people] for one month & then I went home.
I think the expedition to Fort McIntosh mentioned in my declaration was commenced about the last of August in 1781.
The second tour of duty mentioned in said Declaration I served as stated not less than six months I commenced the service something about the 15th of March 1782.
The next tour of duty I served at Hudson & for not less than one month, Commencing about the 15th of May 1783. and for such service I claim a pension.
& I did not obtain the evidence of a Clergyman because no one lives near me and I could not get the evidence of a Clergyman without going ten or fifteen miles in search of one who knows me. 
his
Josiah P Prickett
mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 4th day of April 1833
J. W. Robinson J P
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The State of Ohio Clermont County
personaly appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Elizabeth Stone a sister of Coriah Precheit UNKNOWN who UNKNOWN by UNKNOWN UNKNOWN duly sworn according to law on her oath state that she remembers well the time that her deceased brother Zorah Prichet and Sarah Vancamp was married that said marriage took place in the State of Pennylvania in the year of seventeen hundred and Eighty three that she did not let said parties UNKNOWN as the Bride lived about 20 miles from her fathers.  That her Brother left home on Saturday and returned with his wife on the next Monday.  She well know that there is no mistake but that they were married and at that time that they lived together till the day of his death which was on the 31day of December 1845 there childrens names thru the eldest John Nancy Joseph George Iasaac Elizbeth Hiram Tolburt Isiah Sarah William  She also state that her brother drew a pension for many years before his death she also state that she well remembers the time that her brother was in the Army and further this UNKNOWN saith not.

Eliabeeth Prichet    Her Mark

Sworn and subscribed before me this 29th day of May 1846
M.S Prehselhimser  J>P>
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State of Ohio Clermont County
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Hiram Prichet who UNKNOWN by me duly sworn according to hand on his oath states that the afer of him self and brothers and sister herein enclosed he has said in the UNKNOWN of his father and mother between twenty five and thirty years and furthured sarth not

Hiram Prickett

Sworn and subscribed this 8th day of June 1846 before me   John Simkins J.P.
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The State of Ohio  Clermont County
personally appeared before me the undersigned one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said Court Aaron Vancamp who being duly sworn according to hand deposes and says that he was present at the wedding of his sister Sarah Vancamp and Zoriah Prichard that they were married in the State of Pennsylvania by a Baptist Preacher by the name of David Sutton on the 4th Day of July 1789 on a week that he hears was called Ruffs Week that they lived to gather from that time to the day of his death which was on the that they had a number of children whose names is John Nancy Joseph George Isaac Tolbert Jonah Elizabeth Isaac Thom Wm and Sarah that for many years before his death the said Josiah drew a pension and further saith not
Aaron Vancamp  his mark

Sworn and subscribed this 19th day of July A D 1847 before me
John Simkins

I certify that I am well acquainted with said applicant that he a man of truth.
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The State of Ohio
Clermont County
I R W Clarke clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and for the County of Clermont and State of Ohio do hereby certify that John Simpkins Esq before whom the written affidavit was taken was at the time of the taking thereof an Acting Justice of the Peace duly commissioned and qualified as such - that the signature thereto attached is genuine and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts.
Witness R.W. Clarke, Clerk
of said Court at Batavia
this 6th day of September 1847
R.W. Clark Clerk