Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 492, for Daniel Lamprey, New Hampshire
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
N H
Lamprey Daniel or Lampry Abigail
NUMBER
W. 492
B.L. Wt. 33743-160-55
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194105 Act March 3/[18]55
Abigail Lamprey Widow of David Lamprey Lamprey priv [PRIVATE]
Cap [CAPTAIN]
Col [COLONEL]

Rev [REVOLUTIONARY] War
Enl [ENLISTED]
Dis [DISCHARGED]
war
Pension. - no 2083 - date Sepr [SEPTEMBER] 19 - 1853
Feby [FEBRUARY [18]53 - 2033 
Ad: [ADMITTED] 160 [illegible] July 9/[18]56
Boynton

Nathanl [NATHANIEL] Batchelder
North Hampton
N.H.
[over written] W033743 iss [ISSUED] July 16 [illegible]
Vol = L =13
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2480.
New Hampshire
Daniel Lamprey of Rockingham in the State of NH who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Elkins of the Regt [REGIMENT] commanded by Col Poor in the NH line for 7 mos [MONTHS]
Inscribed on the Roll of NH at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28th day of Nov 1832 and sent Peter Chadwick Exeter, NH
Arrears to 4th Sept 1832 $34.99
Semi=anl. [ANNUAL] allowance ending 4 [illegible] [18]33 11.66
_______
$46.65
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by J H Mc Blair Clerk. Book D. Vol. one Page 167.

[right side] Payt [PAYMENT] suspended let [LETTER] to Agent & to P Chadwick 11 July 1835
Let [LETTER] to P S Chadwick 20th Jany [JANUARY] 1886
Let Haskin Cashman 14 March 18[36]
Let to Sec. of war May 10 1836
Let to Peter Chadwick May 6 1836
Let to Pen Agt. May 6 1836
[Sideways] Ebenezer Lovering N.H. admd.  [ADMITTED] 7/18]43
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2033
New Hampshire Roll
Abigail Lamprey widow of Daniel Lamprey
who served in the N.H. Line in the Revolutionary war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 23 Dollars 33
Cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February 1833
Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of Sept [18]53 and sent to Nathl [NATHANIEL] Batchelder North Campton N. H.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under Page 78 Vol. A Feby [FEBRUARY] 3d [18]/53
1832

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4419
Daniel Lamprey Private 7 months
Return for proof of service - 19 Oct 1832
Admitted

$23.33.
Peter Chadwick Exeter N.H.
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BRIEF in the case of Daniel Lamprey of the County of Rockingham in the State of New Hampshire (Act 7 June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 73 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period| Duration of Service. | Rank. | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. |
In 1775 May | 7 Months | As a Private | Col. [COLONEL] Enoch Poor's Regt. [REGIMENT] Capt. [CAPTAIN] Henry Elkin's Company Maj [MAJOR] Joseph Cilley Lieut. [LIEUTENANT] Moses Leavitt
5. In what battles was he engaged? none
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Hampton in the County & State above mentioned.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? only by his affidavit
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? No certificate of a clergyman.
I Certify that foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Levin Bell Examining Clerk.
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham Co}
Hampton June 10 1858
I, S. P. Fay Pastor of the Congregational
Church in Hampton, County aforesaid depose & say that I have examined the records of said Church in Hampton & find the record of Marriage of [illegible] Daniel Lamprey & Mrs Abigal Towle of Hampton. The record is as follows viz. Sep. 21, 1818 [illegible] Daniel Lamprey & Mrs Abigail Towle of Hampton married by Rev. Josiah Webster Pastor of the Congregational Church in Hampton in the aforesaid year
Also I have examined the records of the aforesaid Church & find that the aforesaid [illegible] Daniel Lamprey died 12 day of December 1840 as recorded by Rev. E. D. Eldrige Pastor of the aforesaid church in that year.
S P. Fay Pastor
Sworn and Subscribed to this tenth day of June A.D. 1853
Before me Nathl [NATHANIEL] Batchelder Justice of the Peace
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State of New Hampshire Rockingham Ss
I Albert H. Heyt clerk of the Superior Court aforesaid County of Rockingham hereby certify that Nathaniel Batchelder Esq is an acting Justice of the Peace for and within said Court; that his commission was dated on the 19th day of June A.D. 1848, and will expire in five years from that date and that his signature annexed to the foregoing certificate is in his own proper hand writing and genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said court this thirteenth day of June A.D. 1853, at Exeter in said County.
A H Heyt Clerk
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State of New Hampshire County of Rockingham} ss.
Be it known that on this twenty sixth day of May, A.D. eighteen hundred and fifty three before me James Pickering Justice for the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Abigail Lamprey, a resident of Hampton in said County, and made oath according to law, that she is the widow of Daniel Lamprey who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution and a pensioner of the United States at the time of his death at the rate of $23.33 per annum- that she was married to the said Daniel Lamprey on the 25th day of September eighteen hundred and eighteen in the town of Hampton and State of New Hampshire that her said husband died on the 12th day of December eighteen hundred and forty that she makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining a rate of pension as may be due under any of the Laws, Regulations, or decisions that have been or may hereafter be adopted. and that she still continues his widow.
The said Declarant further states, that she hereby constitutes and appoints Nathl  [NATHANIEL] Batchelder her true and lawful Attorney and Agent to prosecute said claim, with power of substitution, to examine all papers and documents in relation to it, and to do all things necessary and lawful in the premises; except drawing the money, which will be hereafter provided for.
Abigail her X mark Lamprey
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me, in open court,} James Pickering Justice of the Court of C. [COMMON] Pleas in said County
I, James Pickering aforesaid in and for the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Abigail Lamprey above named, is a Responsible resident of this County, and is the same person she represents herself to be in the foregoing declaration; and I believe she has this day appeared before me and acknowledge the above Power of Attorney to be her act and deed.
James Pickering

State of New Hampshire Rockingham County ss.} I, A.C. Heyt Clerk of the Superior Court of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that James Pickering before whom the foregoing proceedings were had, was at the time of execution, a justice of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his, are genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office and subscribed my name, this 13th day of June in the year 1853
A.C. Heyt County Clerk.
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Daniel
Deceased Lamprey
[illegible]
4.419
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State of New-Hampshire
County of Rockingham, ss.
On this seventh day of August AD 1832 personally appeared, in open Court, before the Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature now sitting at Exeter in said County Daniel Lamprey a resident of Hampton in the County of Rockingham and State of New-Hampshire, aged seventy three years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832:
That he entered into the Army of the United States the last of May 1775 in Captain Henry Elkins Company in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Enoch Poor in the New Hampshire line for the term of seven months - that he was stationed at Hampton Beach for about two months- and then marched through
Newbury Port [sic] and Salem to Winter Hill -that he continued in said Company & regiment until the last day of December 1775 when he was Honorably discharged at Winter Hill - that said Regiment was commanded by said Enoch Poor Joseph Cilley was Major of said
Regiment Moses Leavitt was Lieutenant of said
Company and commanded it after Captain
Elkins left That he has no documentary 
evidence that he can produce - that he resided
in Hampton prior to entering said service and has lived there ever since his discharge-
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and
he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Daniel Lamprey
Attest P Chadwick Clerk
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the before named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states

I Peter Chadwick Clerk of the Superior Court of
Judicature for the County of Rockingham aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Daniel Lamprey for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this Seventh day of August Anno Domini 1832
P Chadwick Clerk of the Court Rockingham County
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APPLICATION FOR BOUNTY LAND.
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
County of Rockingham} SS.
On this Eleventh day of July A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, Abigail Lamprey aged Eighty one years, a resident of Hampton in the State of New Hampshire who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the identical Abigail Lamprey To whom under the provisions of the Act February 3d 1853, a pension of twenty three 66/100 dollars per annum has been allowed for services of her late husband, Daniel Lamprey a private in the Revolutionary war, late of Hampton aforesaid: That her Pension Certificate is numbered 2033, bears date the nineteenth day of September, A.D. and is made payable at the Portsmouth Agency, N. [NEW] Hampshire- In evidence of her marriage and proof of service of her said husband she refers to evidence on file at the Pension Office, on her former Application for a Pension; that she is still a widow.
she has never applied for nor received, under this or any other act of Congress any bounty land warrant
(Signature of claimant.) Abigail Lamprey
We Newell Towle and Samuel C Lamprey residents of Hampton in the State of New Hampshire upon our oaths declare that the
foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Abigail Lamprey in our presence, and that we believe proves from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be, and to whom was issued Pension Certificate No 2033, and we are disinterested. 
Two witnesses (Signatures of witnesses.) Newell Towle Samuel Lamprey

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim, and that claimant is the said  person to whom certificate No 2033 was found and is a widow
Nath [NATHANIEL] Batchelder Justice of the Peace.
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
County of Rockingham ss.} I, William B Morrill Register of the Court of Probate within and for said County certify that Nathaniel Batchelder
whose genuine signature appears above, is, and was at the time of signing the same, a Justice of the Peace for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified; that his Commission is dated on the 18th day of June A. D. 1853 and will expire in five years from that date; that all his official acts as such are entitled to full [faith and] credit: and said Court is a Court of Record.
Given under my hand & the seal of said Court
this 17th day of July A. D. 1855
William B Morrill Register
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APPLICATION FOR BOUNTY LAND.
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE,
County of Rockingham} SS.
On this Eleventh day of July A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, Abigail Lamprey aged Eighty one years, a resident of Hampton in the State of New Hampshire who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the identical Abigail Lamprey [illegible] of the Act of [several lines crossed out]
she is still a widow; in proof of which she refers to evidence filed at the Pension Office, on her
former application. That she knows of no private record of her said marriage.
And she requests you to deliver the warrant to which she may be entitled to Nathl [NATHANIEL] Batchelder of North Hampton, N. H., who is hereby authorized to apply for and received the same.

She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved the 3d day of March, 1855. She also declares that she has never applied for nor received, under this or any other act of Congress any bounty land warrant 

(Signature of claimant.) Abigail Lamprey
We Newell Towle and Samuel C. Lamprey residents of Hampton in the State of New Hampshire upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Abigail Lamprey in our presence, and that we proven from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be, and to whom was issued Pension Certificate No 2033, and we are disinterested.
Two witnesses: (Signatures of witnesses.) Newell Towle Samuel C. Lamprey 
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim, and the claimant is the identical person to whom  Pension Certificate No 2033 was issued and is a widow
Nath [NATHANIEL] Batcheler - Justice of the Peace.

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
County of Rockingham ss.}
I, William B. Morrill Register of the Court of Probate within and for said County certify that Nathaniel Batchelder whose genuine signature appears above, is, and was at the time of signing the same, a Justice of the Peace for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified; that his Commission is dated on the 18th day of June
A. D. 1853 [and] will expire in five years from that date; that all his official acts as such are entitled to full [faith and] credit: and said Court is a Court of Record.
Given under my hand & the seal of said Court
this 17th day of July A. D. 1855
William B Morrill Register
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 3, 1924.
 O.W.& N. Div.  T.S. M.D.C. 

Sir: --Referring to your request for the Revolutionary history of Daniel Lamprey, you are advised that he was granted a pension for
seven months actual service in that war as a private in Capt. James Aiken's company, Col. Enoch Poor's New Hampshire regiment.
He first entered the service in May 1775, and was stationed for about two months as a guard at Hampton Beach; he then marched through Newburyport and Salem, Massachusetts, to Winter Hill, where he continued to serve until discharged on the last day of December, 1775. No further particulars of his service are given.
On August 7, 1832, the date of his original application for pension he was a resident of Hampton, New Hampshire, and seventy-three years of age. He married Mrs. Abigail Towle, at Hampton, New Hampshire, on September 21, 1818 and died December 12, 1840.
His name does not appear upon the available pension records of this Bureau for the 
reason that as of his death His widow made application for pension and all of his pension papers were consolidated with those filed by her. The record of the papers since that
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date has been kept under the name of the widow.
Very respectfully
Commissioner,
Henry Cadle, Esq.,
Bethany, Mo.
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North Hampton Feby [FEBRUARY] 21 1855
Dear Sir
I enclose you the declaration of Abigail Lamprey in order to obtain the Bounty Land on account of her husbands [sic] service in the Revolutionary war - as she is a Pensioner I would refer to papers as evidence & Proof of marriage & service on file. Respectfully your Obt [OBEDIENT] Servt [SERVANT] Nathl [NATHANIEL] Batchelder

P.S. Please [illegible] her warrant to me Robert Mc Clelland Esqr [ESQUIRE] Secretary of the Interior
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[stamp] NORTH HAMPTON JULY 21 N.H.
Free [postage]

Robert Mc Clelland Esqr [ESQUIRE]
Secretary of the Interior
Washington Dist. Col. [DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA]

[sideways] Referred to the Pension office
194105 -
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33,743- 160
Daniel Lamprey

P. Chadwick Esq [ESQUIRE]
May 11. 1836

Recorded page 418 
Ref Vol. 1. page 210
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War Dept
May 11. [18]36
Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 4th ult [last month] I will transmit a report of the Court of Pleas on the application of Daniel Lamprey
Very &c [ETC]
Peter Chadwick Esq [ESQUIRE]
Exeter
N. H.
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Revy [REVOLUTIONARY] WIDOW &c. [ETC]
File No. 492 
Abigail Lamprey Widow. Daniel Lamprey Priv. [PRIVATE] Rev. [REVOLUTIONARY] War
Act. Feb 3. 1855.
Index:--Vol. A, Page 416
[Arrangement of 1870]
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1894 Apr 2 Sent to Henry Cadle Bethany 
Mo.
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HENRY CADLE, Pres. and Treas.,
BETHANY, MO.
W. L. CADLE, Vice-Pres. and Sec.
CHICAGO, ILL.
CADLE LUMBER CO.,
LUMBER DEALERS.

Bethany, Mo. Mch [MARCH] 12 1894.
Hon [HONORABLE] Wm [WILLIAM] Lochren Commissioner of Pensions 
Dear Sir,

I wish you would give me a military history of my great Grand Father [sic] Daniel Lamprey a soldier of the Revolutionary War served from N.H. and as he lived until 1840 I conclude must have been a pensioner which the records of your Office will show.
Very Respectfully
Henry Cadle
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No 2077
Abigail Lamprey wid: [WIDOW] of Daniel
N.H.
Let [LETTER] to Nathl. [NATHANIEL] Batchelder
August 26th 1853

Act Feb. 3d 1853
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Pension Office
15 Sept 1853.
Sir, 
Trasr. [TREASURER] Certify the time to which the within named pensioner was paid, and the date of his death.
Very Respectfully
L P Waldo
Commissioner.

Daniel Lamprey,
Act 7th June 1832 $23.33 p an. [PER ANNUM]
Died 11th Decr 1840, Paid to his death.

F. Burt
Auditor
Francis Burt Esqr [ESQUIRE]
Third Auditor, Treasury
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Bureau of Pensions.
O.W. & N. DIV APR 2 1894
CHIEF'S DESK

Mr Reinberg - This case - letter of Henry Cadle 
March 27 - assents our error and that
[illegible] reports show Danl [DANIEL] Lamprey
has been a pensioner in 1840-
Please have [illegible] & [illegible] Congressman
Dockery
[illegible]
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Free [postage]
To the Commissioner of Pensions
Washington Dist. Col [DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA]

[stamp] NORTH HAMPTON JUNE 14 N.H.
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[stamp] NORTH HAMPTON [illegible] 3 N.H.

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Washington Dist. Col [DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA]

Abigail Lamprey wid [WIDOW] Daniel
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Appl. [APPLICATION] of Abigail
Lamprey widow of Daniel

N. H # 2323
2480
Act 3d Feby [FEBRUARY]1853
$23.33/100 Per An [ANNUM]
Com [COMMENCING] - Feb. 3d 1853.

Nathl. [NATHANIEL] Batchelder
Northampton NH
[sideways] DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Pension Office, Official Business
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Office of Secretary
[seal] SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 1776 1883

Missouri Society. Bethany, Mo., Mch [MARCH] 27 1894
Hon [HONORABLE] A. M. Dockery
My dear Sir,
Acting on your suggestion of Mch 13 "to write the Commissioner of Pensions who would give me the military record of any soldier of the Revolution and it would be promptly complied with, " I did so, first asking for my own Great Grand Father Daniel Lamprey's service and they sent me the inclosed [ENCLOSED] reply, which  I want to say to you has very much of the ear marks that they never looked to find the record.  For I have since secured a copy of the 6th Census containing a list of the Pensioners of 1840
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Office of Secretary
[seal] SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 1776 1883
Missouri Society. Bethany, Mo., ---  189

and his name appears "Officially" on the list, consequently his pension record is on file with the Dept.
I would be obliged if you would refer the correspondence to them with your request that they examine the file again as the mans  [sic] name is certainly on file.
In my position as Secy [SECRETARY] of this Society I was requested by two Gentlemen of our State to look up the Pension records of their ancestors one of them is Col [COLONEL] Willis How one of the proprietors of the Lindell Hotel St Louis, So I wrote the Dept and they sent me the attached reply, from which it seems that it is an offense for any person to
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Office of Secretary
[seal] SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 1776 1883
Missouri Society. Bethany, Mo., ---  189

ask for the military service of more than two pensioners, And I felt that it was manifestly a case that needed the attention of your Joint Committee to "improve the business methods of the Executive Depts etc.," I trust the day may never come when any American Citizen cannot make any respectful and proper enquiry of the Pension Department concerning the Revolutionary soldiers whether it be about two such soldiers or one hundred & two. If the development of the Revolutionary War Societies has created an increase demand on their office force let that fact be recognized by employing more force if necessary
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Office of Secretary
[seal] SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 1776 1883
Missouri Society. Bethany, Mo., --- 189

to attest to this particular nonsense for the people are entitled to have information, And the rule limiting the enquiry to not more than two soldiers for any one person is perfectly senseless as you will readily see. I made these two requests in my capacity as Secy  [SECRETARY] of the Society just as an act of kindness to assist these two gentlemen and there was no reason why they could not have been assisted by me, But I have to notify these two gentlemen, they must write the Dept in person, so the Dept will get the same enquiry from these same persons in the end. It is a senseless proceeding.
I will also ask you to forward to the Dept my correspondence
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Office of Secretary
[seal] SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 1776 1883
Missouri Society. Bethany, Mo., --- 189

inclosed [ENCLOSED] with this on this subject
I am sorry to have troubled you with this matter and tried to avoid it by acting on your information that the Dept. would give me any information I wanted, But when they  write me that my Great Grand Father was a not a pensioner when not only from family tradition for I have seen relatives who knew him well and knew he drew a pension, but the further fact that his name appears on the "Official " list of pensioners of 1840 I naturally think their investigation must have been very superficial,  However I have to ask you to help me out.
While the other reply
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Office of Secretary
[seal] SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 1776 1883
Missouri Society. Bethany, Mo., --- 189

I got for the other two gentlemen seems to be so senseless and not in accord with our idea of our public officials that they should not get above the people for the people are the Sovereigns and not the Clerks employed by them that I feel your attention should be called to the subject.
Respectfully Yours
Henry Cadle
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Office of Secretary
[seal] SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 1776 1883
Missouri Society. Bethany, Mo., Mch [MARCH] 27 1894

Hon Wm [WILLIAM] Lochren
Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir, 
Referring to yours of the 21st would say that as Secretary of the Missouri State Society "Sons of the Revolution" the descendants of the within named Revolutionary soldiers asked me to look up their Ancestors [sic] military record so they could perfect their papers for joining our society, and I kindly undertook to perform the duty for them without any reward, not knowing that it was any 
any offense on my part to ask this in-
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Office of Secretary
[seal] SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 1776 1883
Missouri Society. Bethany, Mo.,--- 27 189

formation from your Department, as the news wanted was for purely historical purposes.
In compliance with your notice I have therefore informed the two gentlemen that they must correspond with you direct.
But I desire to observe that I fail to see any reason why any American Citizen can not ask of your Department any historical information he may want to know, whether it be for two pensions or one hundred and two. I can imagine there are but few people who would want such information for any frivolous reason or
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Office of Secretary
[seal] SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 1776 1883
Missouri Society. Bethany, Mo.,--- 27 189

in these busy times that have the time to be writing for information just to be doing something.
If the great interest of our people in wanting to obtain information of the military service of their Revolutionary ancestors has entailed considerable labor on your Office I am sure they would be willing that an additional force be put on to attend to their needs, As its [sic] the people who pay the expense, and are therefore entitled to any information they want.
Respectfully
Henry Cadle
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O. W. & N. Div. F.S.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS, 
WASHINGTON, D.C. April 2, 1894.

Sir:-
In response to your request that Mr. Henry Cadle, of Bethany, Mo., be furnished the military history of his Revolutionary ancestor, Daniel Lamprey, I have the honor to enclose herewith an official statement containing the desired information.
Very respectfully,

Commissioner.

Hon. A. M. Dockery
House of Representatives.
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Office of Secretary
[seal] SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 1776 1883
Missouri Society. Bethany, Mo. ,Mch [MARCH] 13 1894

Hon [HONORABLE] Wm [WILLIAM] Lochren
Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir,
Will you please give me the military record
of William Harvey a soldier of the
Revolutionary War, served from Connecticut, but drew his pension while living in Vermont.
Very Respectfully
Henry Cadle
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Office of Secretary
[seal] SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 1776 1883
Missouri Society. Bethany, Mo. ,Mch [MARCH] 15 1894

Hon [HONORABLE] Wm [WILLIAM] Lochren
Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir,
Will you please send me the military history of
Micah Howe a soldier of the Revolutionary
War from Mass and who drew a pension.

Very truly Yours
Henry Cadle

[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE MAR 19 1894
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HENRY CADLE, Pres. and Treas.,
BETHANY, MO.
W. L. CADLE, Vice-Pres. and Sec.
CHICAGO, ILL.
CADLE LUMBER CO.
LUMBER DEALERS.
Bethany, Mo. Mch 27 1894.

Hon Wm Lochren
Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir

The inclosed [ENCLOSED] is respectfully returned with the suggestion that there is an error in your statement that the soldier in question was not a pensioner,
Since writing my letter of the 12th inst [this month] I have secured a copy of the "Census of
Pensioners under the act for taking the 6th
Census" and am thus prepared to be more
definite, and will say that on page 15 you will find the name of the soldier Daniel Lamprey of Hampton Rockingham Co N H who was on the pension list June 1st 1840. As the census is "Official" it is manifest there is an error in the statement You said that he was not a pensioner and I therefore ask that you examine the files again,
Respectfully
Henry Cadle
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( 3 -- 464. )
O. W. and N. DISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS. F. S.
Washington, D.C. Mar. 21, 1894.
Respectfully returned to
Henry Cadle,
Bethany, Mo. with the information that the
soldier in question was not a pensioner and this Bureau is therefore, unable to supply you
with his military history.
It is possible that the Revolutionary Archives of the State in which he enlisted may contain some information relative to his services.

[illegible] Widows case
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O. W. & N. Div.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
F. S. Washington, D. C. Mar. 21 1894.

Respectfully returned to
Henry Cadle,
Bethany, Mo.,
with the information that the courtesy of furnishing the military history of Revolutionary
soldiers is extended by this Bureau when the same is desired by descendants for historical
and genealogical purposes only, and then only
when the soldier or his widow applied for pension, their papers being the principal source from which data is collected for a report. The history of not more than two soldiers can be furnished to each applicant because of the large number of such requests and the time and labor it is necessary to expend upon each report. For purposes of identification the soldier's full name should be furnished, his place of residence before and after service (town, county, and State,
if possible), and the christian name of his widow, if one survived him. Please return all papers with your reply.
If the reports of service are not desired for your personal use you should in all cases furnish the name and address of the persons
for whom they are intended or advise them to communicate with the Bureau direct.
Wm [WILLIAM] Lochren
Commissioner
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North Hampton June 14th 1853
Dear Sir
I enclose the declaration of Mrs. Abigail Lamprey widow of the late Daniel Lamprey, who was a pensioner untill [sic] his death, also the certificate of the Rev [REVERAND]  T.O. Fay in regard to her marriage & the Death of her husband, as the evidence is certain, I hope you will grant her a pension as soon as convenient as She is not in possession of property to make her as comfortable as she ought to be, although her pension will at most be small, but it will be of great service to her now in her old age
Respectfully Yours Obt [OBEDIENT] Servt [SERVANT] Nathl [NATHANIEL] Batchelder

To the Commissioner of Pensions}
 P.S. not having the pleasure of knowing your 
name I identify you as above}
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33.743
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I Ebenezer Lovering of North Hampton in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire aged seventy six years depose and say that on the fifth day of May A.D. 1775 I enlisted into a company commanded by Captain Henry Elkins in Colonel Enoch Poor's Regiment of New Hampshire Militia for the term of eight months that I served in said Corps at Hampton Beach & Winter Hill near Boston until the last day of December 1775 - that I was well acquainted with Daniel Lamprey of Hampton in said County, who is now present. that to the best of my recollection said Lamprey enlisted into said Company and Regiment some time the latter part of the same May; and that he continued to serve therein until the last day of December of the same year- and performed his duty as a good soldier
Ebenezer Lovering
State of New Hampshire County of Rockingham} November 19th 1852
Subscribed ad sworn Before me P Chadwick Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that the above named Ebenezer Lovering is entitled to full credit for truth and veracity
P Chadwick Justice of the Peace
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I Simon Leavitt of North Hampton in the County of Rockingham and State of Hampshire aged seventy nine years depose and say that two or there [THREE] days after the battle of Bunker Hill in June 1775 I enlisted into a company commanded by Captain Henry Elkins in Colonel Enoch Poor's Regiment of New Hampshire Militia and served in said Corps until the last day of December 1775 - that
when I entered into said Company Daniel Lamprey of Hampton in said County belonged to said Company and served therein until the said last day of December 1775. that I was then and now well acquainted with him and that he
is now [illegible] - and that he performed his
duty as a good soldier
Simon Leavitt

State of New Hampshire
County of Rockingham Ss⎬ November 19th 1832 Subscribed and sworn Before me P Chadwick Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that the above named
Simon Leavitt is entitled to full credit for truth and veracity

P. Chadwick Justice of the Peace
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I Peter Chadwick Clerk of the Superior Court of
Judicature for the County of Rockingham in the State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that Peter Chadwick before whom the foregoing affidavits were subscribed and sworn is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County of Rockingham and that his signatures to the certificates thereof are in his own hand writing [sic] 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 19th day of November AD 1832
P Chadwick Clerk of the Court Rockingham County
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Brief in the case of Abigail Lamprey, widow of Daniel Rockingham County and State of New Hampshire, act 3d Feby: 1853,
Claim, (original,")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is It documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance
Husband was a pensioner under the act of
7th June 1832.
Record evidence of Marriage
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?

Nathl [NATHANIEL] Batchelder, Esqr
Northampton, N.H.
Name and residence of Agent

J.C. Boynton,
Examining Clerk
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State of New Hampshire Rockingham Ss}
Hampton September the 5th 1853
Be it known, that on this fifth Day of
September A.D. Eighteen hundred and fifty- three, Before me Nathl [NATHANIEL] 
Batchelder Justice of the Peace & Quorum in and for the County aforesaid, Personally appeared Thomas Lane and William Brown residents of Hampton aforesaid in said County, and made Oath according to law that they were well acquainted with Abigail Lamprey Widow of the late Daniel Lamprey deceased, who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the time of his death, which was sometime in December Eighteen hundred & forty and further depose & say that the said Abigail Lamprey aforesaid is the identical Abigail Lamprey aforesaid and she still remains his Widow, also depose & say that the said Abigail Lampreys [sic] name before her marriage to the said Daniel Lamprey was Abigail Towle
Thomas Lane 66 yrs William Brown 67 yrs

Witness Nathl [NATHANIEL] Batchelder Nancy Brown
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Before me Nathl [NATHANIEL] Batchelder } Justice of the Peace & Quorum
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State of New Hampshire -
Rockingham Ss
I William B Morrill Register of the Court of
Probate for said County do hereby certify that
Nathaniel Batchelder is an acting Justice of
the Peace and of the Quorum within and for said County of Rockingham, duly commissioned and qualified, that his said commission is dated on the 18th day of June A.D. 1853 and will expire in five years from that date, and that his signature to the foregoing certificate is genuine, and I further certify that said Court of Probate is a Court of Record.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court at Exeter in said County, this 7th day of
September A.D. 1853.
William B Morrill
Register
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North Hampton Sept. 8th 1853
Dear Sir,
I enclose you the certificate of Wm [WILLIAM] Brown & Thomas Lane, who have always lived in Hampton & are as stated 67 & 66 years of age & who have known sd [SAID] Abigail Lamprey since they were School Boys, which I hope will satisfy the department of the truth of her Statement. I 
have had something every year to do in regard to the Pension department & I think all the persons are entitled to all they request thereunto by which I have had anything to do with -
Respectfully yours &c [ETC] Nathl [NATHANIEL] Batchelder