Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16719, for Samuel Shaw, New York
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(3-1776) 

Service
New York

Shaw, Samuel 
Zerviah
or 
Ziviah 

Number 
W 16719

Contents
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Albany, NY 33.697
Samuel Shaw dec'd 

Rensselaer Co in the State of N. York 
who was a Captain in the   commanded
by Captain    of the Regt commanded 
by Col. Van Rensselaer in the N.Y. militia 
line for 6 mo and 4 days 122.66
died 9 July 1834 widow
Suriah

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany N.Yk. 
at the rate of 122 Dollars 66 Cents per annum 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 15 day of June 
1836 & forwarded to A.G. Hammond
Brooklyn, N. Yk. 

Arrears tot eh 9th of July 1834- 410.50
Semi-anl. allowance ending 
= 410.50 

Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by R. Burden Clerk, 
Book E2 Vol. 4 Page 67

Let to T. Fitzgerald Mar 1837
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1067
Zeriah 
riah Shaw
widow of Samuel Shaw

who died on the 9 of July 1834
of Rensselaer Co. in the State of N. York
who was a Captain in the - commanded 
by Captain N.Y. of the Regt. commanded
by Col. Ban Rensselaer in the N. York militia
line for 6 months and 4 days 

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 122 Dollars 66 Cents per annum
to commence on the 10 July 1834

Certificate of Pension issued the 16th day of June 
1837 and sent to N. Howard
Stephentown, N.Y. 

Arrears to the 4th of March 37    452.00
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Sept    61.33
$513.33

Revolutionary Claim, 
Act July 4, 1836
Section the 3 

V L. Brown  Clerk, 
Vol. 1 Page 138 

Ice letter to J.W. Thomas &
P. Agt. July 10, 1837 do 
P Agt. July 17, 1837
Let to 76 in Henry Pail 
forms Feb 6, 1838

Died May 1837
Letter to N. Howard 17 April 1838
same April 1 1838

Letter to N. Howard & 3 auditors
1. Nov. 1838

Letter to 3 Auditors 16 Nov 1838

Paid at the Treasury under
the act of the 6 April 1838
from 10 July 1834 to 10 Feby
1837 the day of her death
Agt identified 18 Dec 1838
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Oct 22 1906
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Shaw, Samuel 
his name appears on a list of applicants for invalid pensions returned by the District Court for the District of New York, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on December 31, 1794 and printed in the American State Papers, class 9 pages 145 and 172. 
Rank: Lieutenant
Regt: Col. Stephen J. Schuyler's Militia
Disability: Received a violent bruise in his leg while visiting his men in erecting bridge, reaccessioned by the sliding of a larger log
Then and where disabled Oct 9, 1776 near Fort Ann
Residence: Stephentown
Remarks: militia
Evidence incomplete. viz: let, no evidence of examining physicians to prove the nature and degree of disability 2d to evidence why application was not made prior to December 11, 1788
On page 172 it is stated that there was no deposition of examining physicians produced to prove the nature and degree of his disability
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20
8/1960
2.45
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Treasury Department, 
Second Comptroller's Office, 
December 14th 1838

Sir:
Under the act of 6th of April 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," the children of Zerviah Shaw, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany, N. York Agency, at the rate of one hundred and 22 dollars and sixty six cents per annum, under the law of the 4th July, 1836, has been paid at this Department, from the 10th of July 1834 to the 10th May 1837, the day of her death. 
Respectfully yours, 
Albion H. Parrish 
Comptroller. 

To the Commissioner of Pensions, 
present.
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Evidence of the Marriage
of Mrs. Zuriah Shaw
to obtain the Pension due
her by the services of Samuel Shaw
late of Berlin, N.Y.
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I Jeremiah Fellows of North Stonington County of New London and State of Connecticut aged sixty five years do hereby certify that I have been clerk of the ecclesiastical society in said No. Stonington for about fifteen years, and that I find on the records of marriage of the Rev. Joseph Fish who was formerly pastor of the congregational society in said North Stonington in his own hand writing that Samuel Shaw and Zerviah Herrick were lawfully married by him on the 16 day of April A.D. 1775. 
Jeremiah Fellows

New London County ss
No. Stonington Feb 17 1837
Personally appeared Jeremiah Fellows of said North Stonington and made oath to the truth of the above certificate by him subscribed and said Jeremiah Fellows is a man of the first respectability and his certificate is to be implicitly relied on. 
Latham Hull Justice of the Peace
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No. Stonington Feb 18 1831

Dear Sir
In compliance with your request I herewith transmit you the required proof of Mrs. Shaw. James Thomson is still living. I called on him twice immediately after your former letter, left your letter with him for some time, but he could not recollect any thing to the purpose about the service of Adams. I make no stay for my service in this case. 
Very respectfully Yrs. 
Thomas P. Waules 

Nathan Howard Esq. 
Stephentown
N.Y.
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State of Connecticut 
County of New London} ss. I John D. Witt Clerk of the County Court in and for said New London County do hereby certify that Latham Hull Esq. is a Justice of the Peace in and for said New London County, that his commission was dated June 4 1836 and will expire June 20, 1837 and that full faith and credit are due to his official acts as such. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county this 28th day of March A.D. 1837. 
John D. Witt Clerk
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V1058 3 sec. 
In the matter of 
Zurviah Shaw W. of Saml
Shaw to obtain Pension 

Admitted 
Captain 6 mo & 4 days

Pension to commence
10th July 1834

N. Howard Esq. 
Stephentown 
New York
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State of New York
Rensselaer County ss} Zurviah Shaw of Berlin county aforesaid being duly sworn says she is the widow off Samuel Shaw of Berlin aforesaid deceased who was a revolutionary pensioner under the act of June 1832 that she was married to said Samuel Shaw at Stonington CT as near as she can recollect in the year 1774 that they moved to Berlin aforesaid where she now resides in Feb. 1776 that her husband Samuel Shaw died at Berlin aforesaid on the 9th day of July 1834. That she is now his widow that there is any record of her marriage that she now is 87 years old. 
her
Zurviah x Shaw
mark 

sworn & subscribed before me in Berlin 
aforesaid on the 12 day of January 1837
Nathan Howard Com. & c

Clark Bligh being duly sworn says he is well acquainted with the above named Zurviah Shaw widow of Samuel Shaw deceased has resided a near dweller and adjoining land with said Shaw at Berlin first above stated that the above acquaintance commenced in 1780 from that time to the present has been acquainted with the said Zurviah and knows her to be the widow of Samuel Shaw knows that Samuel Shaw was a revolutionary soldier was out with him on two alarms was present saw her make her signature to the above affidavit that she is the same person there described
Clark Bly 
Sworn and subscribed before me at Berlin
aforesaid on the 12 day of January 1837
Nathan Howard Com & c. 

Rensselaer County ss. I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Zurviah Shaw & Clark Bligh and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to this deposition 
Jany 12 1837 
Nathan Howard Com & c
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Rensselaer County ss. I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Zurviah Shaw and Clark Bligh and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to this deposition. 
Jany 12, 1837 Nathan Howard Comm & c. 

State of New York
Rensselaer Count ss. I Henry R. Bristol Clerk of said county do hereby certify that Nathaniel Howard Esq. before whom the above affidavit purports to have been sworn and by whom the above certificate purports to have been signed was on the day of the dates of said affidavits a Commissioner of Deeds in and for said County duly authorized to take the same and further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Commissioner and verily believe his signature subscribed to the above affidavits and certificate to be genuine. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 13th day of January 1837.
Henry R. Bristol Clerk
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Saml Shaw

admd
6 mo 4 ds Capt. 
$122.66 p. anm. 
died 9 July 1834 widows 
name Surviah Shaw

A.G. Howard
Brooklyn, 
N. York
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Declaration in order to obtain the act of Congress June 7, 1832. 
Form for State Troops  & c. 
Printed & Sold by Kemble & Hooper, S. State st. Troy, N.Y. 

State of New York
County of Rensselaer ss. 
On this third day of October 1832 personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, now sitting, Samuel Shaw a resident of Berlin County of Rensselaer and State of New York, aged eighty four years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. 

That in the year 1776 he resided in what was then called Little Hoosick now the Town of Berlin County of Rensselaer and state of New York. That on the twentieth of February of that year he entered the service as a first Lieutenant of the fifth company of militia of foot with sixth Regiment in the (then) county of Albany when of Caleb Bentley Esq. was then Captain that he continued actually employed as such officers until he was promoted to a Captain in the same company and as such Captain continued actively employed in the service of his county till the end of the war of the Revolution, that the time of his receiving his captain's commission is unknown to him having the same but that he was a Captain in 1781 he knows and thinks he was some time previous to that year. That he was placed upon the pension list roll as an invalid pensioner under the Act of Congress passed the 25th day of April 1808 as this deponent thinks and which he thinks has since been increased to something over nine dollars for months, not now being in passing of his papers the particulars of which he is unable to state. That he expects there is now some evidence in the war department relative to his services to which reference may be had. That the annexed affidavits marked A.B.C.D.E.F. are true and were taken at the time they bear date to accompany a petition of this deponent to Congress for relief and that the reason that they are not taken is that the deponents are some of them dead and then of them that are yet alive are incapable of being procured as evidence. That the papers marked G. & H hereunto annexed were papers made at the time they purport to have been made and contain as far as they go facts as
were found among his refuse papers and
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to which reference may be had. That the annexed affidavits marked A.B.C.D. E.F are true and were taken at the time they bear date to accompany a petition of this deponent to Congress for relief and that the reason that they are not taken is that the deponents are some of them dead and those of them that are yet alive are incapable of being procured as evidence. That the papers marked G & H hereunto annexed were papers made at the time they purport to have been made and contained as far as they go facts as they occurred and were found among his refuse papers and are not to bear evidence as far as they go. That during service he was mostly engaged in Schohary, Schenectady, Saratoga, Fort Ann, Fort George, Stillwater and at various posts on the North River & Mohawk River and constantly wherein his own neighborhood in defending against 'hunting' forges which were then numerous and very troublesome. 
To the prescribed interrogatories put by the court he answers. 
1. He was born in North Caroline at a place called Lockwoods Polly or Folly in the year 1748.
2. He had a record of his age which is burnt up with the house that contains it. 
3. He lived when called into service as above stated when he was
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since lived and now lives. 
4th For answer to this interrogatory he refers to his above statement. 
5. He served with General Schuyler and General Morgan of the Rgular officers and with various others and with Colonel Henry K. Van Rensselaer, Majors Banker & Funday and various other officers of the militia. 
6. He did receive a 1st Lieutenants Commission which is hereunto annexed and he also received a Captains Commission as which he knows he had for several years but it cannot now be found & what has become of it he does now know. 
7. He is known in his present neighborhood to John Reeve Esq. P.M. of said town of Berlin and to Judge Jeffrey W. (illegible) of Berlin some who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution. 

The answer to the fifth interrogatory returned annexed in the negative the applicant makes the following affidavit.
Rensselaer County ss. Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace of the County of Rensselaer aforesaid Samuel Shaw the above applicant who being duly sworn deposeth that by reason of old age and consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of service he performed nor the precise time he served in each grade but that he served the whole time as a Captain or Lieutenant and according to his best recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades. For three years I served as a Lieutenant and for more than two years I served as a Captain and for such service I claim a pension. 
Samuel Shaw

Sworn & subscribed before me
this 25th day of May 1833
Joseph Crandal Justice of the Peace 

State of New York 
Rensselaer County ss. I hereby certify that Joseph Crandal Esq. before whom the above affidavit purports to have been sworn was on the day of the date of the same one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County. And that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his signature above subscribed is genuine. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county this 28th day of May 1833.
Henry R. Bristol Clerk 
for N. Howard Judge Depy
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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State, or (if any, ) only on that of the agency of the State of New York. 
Samuel Shaw
Sworn to, and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. 
Archibald Bull Clerk

We, William Satterlee a Clergyman, residing in the town of Berlin, and Edward Whitford residing in Berlin aforesaid hereby certify that we are acquainted with Samuel Shaw who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty four 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. 
Wm Satterlee
Edward Whitford
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Archibald Bull Clerk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation 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 William Satterlee who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman, resident in the Town of Berlin and that Edward Whitford who has also signed the same, is a resident in the same town and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. 

I, Archibald Bull Clerk of the Court of Common Please of the county of Rensselaer do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Shaw for a pension. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this second day of October 1832.
Archibald Bull Clerk

and in all the imperative (illegible)
and in the opinion of this deponent contributed as to its glorious to maintain any other in the county in which he resided. 
and further this deponent saith not. 
Joshua Sabiens 
Subscribed and sworn before me 
the 1st day of December 1823
A.G. Hammond Comm for 
taking affidavits & c
December 1 1823
Being acquainted with the above deponent I hereby certify that he is a man of good measure and veracity 
A.G. Hammond Comm. for taking affidavits & c
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State of New York 
Rensselaer County ss:
Joshua Sabin of the town of Berlin in the County and State aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was acquainted with Captain Samuel Shaw of the town of Berlin in the County aforesaid during the Revolutionary War- a part of which time he served as Lieutenant in the said Captain Shaw's Company then in the Revolutionary Service of the United States and that he was alive and vigilant in watching and checking the movements of the Tories throughout the whole Revolutionary Struggle. And further this deponent saith that Captin Shaw was the active resident and army man in his against in said the important war of the Revolution and in the opinion of this deponent contributed to its glorious termination than any other man in the county in which he resident. 
And further this deponent saith not. 
Joshua Sabins 
December 1st 1823
Being acquainted with the above deponent I hereby certify that he is a man of good moral character
A.G. Hammond Comm taking affidavits & c

Subscribed and sworn before me
the 1st day of December 1823
A.G. Hammond Com. for 
taking affidavits & c
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State of New York
Rensselaer County ss. I certify that Alonzo G. Hammond whose signature is affixed to the within affidavit was at the time of taking the same one of the commissioners of said County and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of said commissioner and verily believe the within signature is genuine. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court of common pleas of said county this fourth day of October 1832. 
Archibald Bull Clerk 

Joshua Sabins Aft. 

Hope boom 7 APR claims
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State of New York 
Rensselaer County 
Nathaniel (illegible) himself the (illegible) in the county aforesaid first duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was acquainted with Colonel Samuel Shaw (late Captain in the revolutionary war service of the United States) of the town of Berlin in the county aforesaid upon the Revolutionary War in that he said Colonel Shaw was active in the revolutionary service of the United States the greater part of the time from the commencement to the conclusion of said war and that he was vigilant and active in watching and checking the Tories during that period. 
And further this deponent saith not. 
Nathaniel Niles Jy
(B)

Subscribed & Sworn 
before me the first day
of December 1823
A.G. Hammond Commissioner for taking affidavits & c

I hereby certify that I am acquainted with the above deponent and that he is a man in point of veracity of good moral character
A.G. Hammond
Com. for taking acknowledgment & c

Taken December 1st 1823
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State of New York 
Rensselaer County ss} 
I certify that Alonzo G. Hammond whose signature is affixed to the within affidavit was at the time of taking the same one of the Commissioners of said County duly authorized to take affidavits and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of said Commissioner and verily believe the within signature is genuine. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County this fourth day of October 1832. 
Archibald Bull Clerk 

N. Niles 
Aft
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State of New York
Rensselaer County ss} 
Reverend Nicholas Northrup of the town of Stephentown in the county and state aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was personally acquainted with Colonel Samuel Shaw (late Captain in the Revolutionary service of the United States) of the Town of Berlin in the County aforesaid during the Revolutionary Struggle for the Liberty and Independence and was knowing and being being an officer in that Struggle also that the said Shaw was an active and patriotic officer who spent not only his time but his property in the cause for General Good to our country. And further this deponent saith not. 
Northrup Northrup 
Subscribed and sworn
before me this 6 day
of December 1823
Caleb Carr Justice Peace 
I hereby certify that I am acquainted with the Reverend Nicolas Northrup the above deponent and he is a man of good moral character. 
Caleb Carr Justice Peace
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State of New York 
Rensselaer County ss}
I certify that Caleb Carr Esq. before whom the within affidavit purports to have been made was on the day of the date of the same one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the county of Rensselaer and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe the signature "Caleb Carr" thereto subscribed to be his proper hand writing & signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said county this fourth day of October 1832. 
Archibald Bull Clerk 

N. Northrup 
Aft.
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State of New York 
County of Rensselaer ss: Abel Tanner of the town of Stephentown County of Rensselaer and State of N. York being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that he is acquainted with Col. Samuel Shaw of Berlin County and State aforesaid a late Capt. in the Revolutionary War, from the commencement to the close thereof. And this deponent saith from the acquaintance which he had with the said Capt. Shaw and from this information that he gained from both parties he was one of the most vigilant and active for the cause of liberty in his knowledge and further more the deponent saith not. 
Abel Tanner 
(2)
Sworn before me
this the 11th December 1823
Caleb Carr Justice Peace 

This may certify that I am acquainted with the said deponent and know him to bear a good moral character
Caleb Carr Justice Peace
Stephentown 21st Nov 1823
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State of New York
Rensselaer County ss. I certify Caleb Carr Esq. before upon the within affidavit purports to have been made was on the day of the date of the same one of the Justices of the peace in and for the county of Rensselaer and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe the signature "Caleb Car" thereto subscribed by his proper hand writing and signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County this fourth day of October 1832. 
Archibald Bull Clerk 

A. Tanner
Aft
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(e)
State of New York
Rensselaer County ss} 
Rev. Justus Hull of the town of Berlin in the county aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he was personally acquainted with Colonel Samuel Shaw late Captain with the Revolutionary Service of the United States of the Town of Berlin in the county aforesaid during the Revolutionary war, and that he served as an orderly sergeant under him during a part of the Revolution and was knowing to his being an officer during the struggle for Independence, and that the said Samuel Shaw was one of those patriotic and active officers whose zeal and activity for his country's cause seemed swallowed up minus consideration in his vows so much so that he greatly injured his personal interest in prompting his country's cause and further this deponent saith not. 
Justus Hull

Subscribed and sworn 
before me this fifth day 
of December 1823
A.G. Hammond Com. 
for taking affidavits & c

I hereby certify that I am acquainted with the Reverend Justus Hull the above deponent and that he is a man of good moral character. 
A.G. Hammond Com for taking affidavits & c
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State of New York
Rensselaer County ss} 
I certify that Alonzo G. Hammond whose signature is affixed to the within affidavit was at the time of taking the same one of the Commissioners of said county duly authorized to take affidavits and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of said commissioner and verily believe the within signatures genuine. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of common pleas in said county this fourth day of October 1832. 
Archibald Bull Clerk 

Rev. Justus Hull 
Aft.
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State of New York
Rensselaer County ss
Benjamin Bently the of the town of Berlin in the county and state aforesaid being sworn deposeth and saith that he was acquainted with Samuel Shaw (late a Captain in the Revolutionary Service of the United States) of the town of Berlin in the County aforesaid during the Revolutionary war and that he was actively engaged in the greater part of the time from the commencement to the termination of said war and that the said Captain Shaw was vigilant and active in watching and checking the movements of the Tories during the period and further this deponent saith not. 
Benjamin Bently

Subscribed & sworn 
before me the 1st day of
December 1823
A.G. Hammond
Com. for taking 
acknowledgements of 
deed & c

This may certify that I am acquainted with the above deponent & know him to be a man of good moral character. 
A.G. Hammond Com. for 
taking affidavits & c
Berlin December 1st 1823
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State of New York
Rensselaer County ss} 
I certify that Alonzo G. Hammond whose signature is affixed to the within affidavit was at the time of taking the same one of the commissioners of said county duly authorized to take affidavits and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of said commissioner and verily believe the within signature is genuine. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of common pleas of said county this fourth day of October 1832. 
Archibald Bull Clerk

B Bentley's 
Aft 

Saml Shaw


admd 
6 mo 4 ds Capt
died 9 july 1834 widow
name Serviah Shaw

A.G. Hammond 
Brooklyn, 
N York.
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A.G. Hammond, Esq. 
PNO
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I hereby certify that Alonzo G. Hammond who has taken the within affidavit is well known to me that he acts as a commissioner authorized to take affidavits to the county of Rensselaer and I have no doubt is duly authorized by law as to act and I believe full faith and credit may respond to his certificates. I further certify that the within signatures by said Hammons are his hand writing I being well acquainted with the same. 
May 2d 1836

Hiram P. Hunt 
Renn Congress
New York
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State of New York 
Rensselaer County ss} 
Samuel Shaw of the town of Berlin in said County  aged fifty six being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is the son of Samuel Shaw late of the town of Berlin aforesaid and who was an applicant for a pension under the law of the 7th of June 1832. That the said Samuel Shaw father of this deponent aforesaid died on the 9th day of Feby 1834 aged about 87 years leaving his only wife a widow by the name Surviah Shaw who is still a widow in said town of Berlin aged about 87 years and further this deponent says not. 
Samuel Shaw
Sworn & Subscribed before me this 28th day of March 1836
A.G. Hammond Com of Deeds

State of New York 
Rensselaer County} ss
Perry Stillman of the town of Berlin in said town aged thirty five being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is the son of Walt Stillman late of the town of Berlin aforesaid deceased who was an applicant for a pension under the law of the 7th of June 1832. That the said Walt Steinman father of this deponent aforesaid died on the 13th day of February 1833 aged about 75 years leaving his only wife a widow by the name Wilthey Stillman who is still alive and resides in said town of Berlin aged about 75 years. And further this deponent says not.
Perry Stillman

Sworn & subscribed before me 
this 28th day of March 1838
A.G. Hammons 
Com of Deeds
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I hereby certify that Alonzo G. Hammond who has taken the within affidavits is well known to me that he acts as a commissioner authorized to take affidavits to the county of Rensselaer and I have no doubt is duly authorized by law as to act and I believe full faith and credit may be respond by his certificates. I further testify that the within signatures by said Hammond are his hand writing, I being well acquainted with the same. 
May 2d 1836
Hiram P. Hunt 
Renn Congress 
New York
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Zerviah Shaw
N.Y. Roll
act of 1836

A.W. Young
att.
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State of New York         }
County of Renssellaer   } ss:
    Be it known, that on the 3rd day of September A.D. 1851, before  the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said
county, personally appeared Samuel Shaw and made oath according to law, that he is the child
of Zerviah Shaw, deceased widow of Samuel Shaw (who was
an officer of the War of the Revolution,) and a pensioner of the United States at the rate of $  per annum; that he has reason to
believe that the said pension ought to be increased; and that he is directly interested in the same, and makes this affidavit to be filled by
his attorney, with any additional evidence or arguments he may deem necessary in the prosecution of said claim.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year last above mentioned, before me,
Rufus R Allen Justice of the Peace.
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State of New York         }
County of Renssellaer   } ss:
    Be it known, that before me Rufus B. Allen Allen a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county, 
personally appeared Samuel Shaw who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say, that
he is the child of Zerviah Shaw,deceased, widow of Samuel Shaw
(who was an officer in the War of the Revolution,) and a pensioner of the United States at the rate of $  per annum, that he
now makes this declaration to recover any increase and arrears of pension, that may be due, on account of the services of Samuel
Shaw as aforesaid, for the benefit of himself
under any acts or resolutions of Congress applicable to the case.
    Sworn and subscribed this 8th day of September 1851, before me,
Rufus R Allen Justice of the Peace
    KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I Samuel Shaw
(who was in officer in the War of the Revolution,) do hereby constitute and appoint Robert W. Young, Washington City, D. C., my true
and lawful attorney for me, and in my name to prosecute my claim to any increase and arrears of pension that may be found due on
account of the services of said Samuel Shaw ; as aforesaid; and I hereby authorize my said attorney
to examine all papers and documents touching my claim, on file in the departments at Washington or elsewhere, and file any additional
evidence or arguments he may think proper, to ensure the recovery of the same.
    Witness my hand and seal this 3rd day of September A.D. 1851
Signed and sealed in the presence of
WITNESS, Rowland Thomas
WITNESS, Robert Green
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State of New York       }
County of Renssellaer }ss:
    Be it known, that on the 3rd day of September A.D. 1851, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for 
said county, personally appeared, Samuel Hull and [Illegible]
two disinterested and respectable witnesses, and made oath according to law, that they were well acquainted with Zerviah
Shaw deceased, widow of Samuel Shaw (who was an officer in the Revolutionary
War,) and that Samuel Shaw is her only surviving child within our
knowledge ["are her only surviving children." Crossed out]  And that she the said Zerviah Shaw departed this life on the 10 day of
May A.D. 1837
Sworn and subscribed the day and year first above mentioned, before me,
       Rufus R Allen, Justice of the Peace,
                                                                        Samuel Hull
                                                                        [Illegible] 

I [Illegible] clerk of the Rensselaer County Courts in the County of Renssellaer
and State of New York do hereby certify that Rufus R Allen before whom
the foregoing papers were executed, was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly authorized by law to
administer oaths; and his name thereunto subscribed is his genuine signature.
    In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal this 5th day of September A.D. 1851
                                  HA Clume Clerk
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Aprl 4
I W Evans

Hon. J.L. Edwards Com of Pensions
Washington
    D.C.

[Script written down the right margin is illegible.
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February 8, 1938
xxxxxxxxxx
Samuel Shaw 
W. 16719
BA-J/MCS

Miss Helen Stark
108 Stark Avenue
Penn Yan
New York

Dear Madam:
The Revolutionary War records of this office show the following data relative to Samuel Shaw.

He was born in 1748 in Lockwood's Folly, North Carolina.  The names of his parents were not given.

While living in Little Hoosick, Albany County, New York, which was later Berlin, Rensselaer County, New York, he entered the service, February 20, 1776, having on the day been commissioned first lieutenant in Captain Caleb Bently's New York company  He served until the close of the Revolution, three years as lieutenant and more than two years as Captain and was in Colonel Stephen J. Schuyler's New York Regiment. On October 6 or 9, 1776, near Fort Ann, he received a fracture of the let which was occasioned by the slipping of a log during the construction of a bridge.

On account of the disability resulting from the above mentioned injury, he was pensioned from February 13, 1808.

Samuel Shaw died July 9. 1834, in Berlin, New York.

He married at North Stonington, Connecticut, April 16, 1775, Zuviah or Zerviah Herrick.  The marriage was found among the records kept by the pastor the Congregational Society in North Stonington, Rev. Joseph Fish, who performed the marriage.

As the widow of Samuel Shaw, Zuviah or Zerviah Shaw applied for pension January 12, 1837, at which time she was eighty-seven years of age and was living in Berlin, Rensselaer County, New York.  The claim was allowed.
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Zuviah or Zerviah Shaw died May 10, 1837, and was survived by children.  The only name given was that of a son, Samuel Shaw, who  in 1836
was living in Berlin, New York, aged fifty-six years.

Very truly yours
A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant 
to the Administrator
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[left side of page]

16,719
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 16719
Zeriah Shaw
widow of 
Samuel Shaw
Captain [illegible]

Act July 4th 06
Index:  Vol. M, Page 207

[Arrangement of 1870]

Apr 29 '99
Miss Lois B Meyers
[illegible]
______
Feb 13 [or 18] 1902
Miss Jennie C. Wak
Saratoga Spgs  NY

1928 Nov. 10 Hist to
Phebe Shaw Armsly
mcs
_____
1938 Feb 8 hist to Miss Helen Stark  mcs
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Dis & 1832
See Printed L- Rensselaer
Co, N. Y.
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New York 
Luriah Shaw
Suspended - [illegible] Let to
N Howard Esq Jan 31.
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New York
Samuel Shaw

Suspended

Letter to 
A. G. Hammond
21 May 1834

to [illegible] 4th May 1836

Act of June 7 1832
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Samuel Shaw, &c., Captain  Albany [illegible]
Certificate issued in favor of Surviah, his widow 
at the rate of $122.66 per annum.
Be pleased to say who was the attorney , and the mounty received 
Per Office
Mar 23, 1837 c/o  [very faint] To Abr T Wood [illegible] $410.??   ?? [/very faint]
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Zerviah Shaw widow of Saml Albany when last paid 
1067    GWC
Feby 7 38

[unreadable faint writing]
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House of Representatives
February 1. 1838

Mr. Fails, of New York present his compliments to the Commissioner of Pensions, and begs that he will have the goodness to favor him with an answer to the inquiries in the enclosed letter from Mr Samuel Shaw of Berlin Rensselaer Co. N. Y.

Mr Edwards will further oblige Mr Fail if he will return him Mr. Shaw's Letter.