Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 615, Bela Wetmore, Mass.
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Mars Welmonz Bela
Mehitahi W 615 BLM 24328_160_6.6
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146215
May 23d
Act Mar '55
Mehitable Wetmore
wid of
Bela Wetmore, priv.
Mass Contl. line
Pensioner
Rev. War
No. 24328 iss. Apr 26/56
Ad. 160 acres Apl. 22d/56
N.Y. Feby 53  Boynton

E. W. Edgcomb
Cortland Village
N York

Vol W1 page 91
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2648
New York
Bela Wetmore
of Phelps in the State of New York
who was a private in the compy. commanded by Captain ..............of the Regt. commanded by Lol. Jackson in the Masstts. line for 3 years

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 80 Dollars ----Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 30th day of Nov. 1832 and sent to Hon. (smudged) Dixon

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1832   $120.
Semi-annual allowance ending 
4th Mar '33      40.
$160.

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7 1832}
Recorded by Geo. C. Stiles Clerk
Book D Vol. 5 page 205
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Paid at the Treasury under the Act of Mar 6 
April 1838 from 4th Sept. 1838 to 4 March 1839 Agt. notified 18 Decr. 1839

Dead
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Increase  No. 193?
New York (illegible)

Mehitable Wetmore
widow of Bela Wetmore who served in the
Revolutionary war as a Private Mass. Line
Revolution
Canandaigua agency
Rate 96 Dollars----Cents per annum
Commencing 27th July 1868
Deduct payments made since

Certificate dated 9 may 1870
and sent to Claimant
Lima, Livingston co.
N. Y.
to Page 337
Recorded on Roll of Pensions under acts (paper torn) and July 27, 1868
(paper torn)
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Transferred to Topeka from Canandaigua
for Mch 4/76 at $96/per annum
(illegible)
1887 Augt. Pension Agent reported paid March 4 1886 & died March 30 1886-lived Topeka, Shawnee Co, Ks. (aged 76)
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No. 9178
Bela Wetmore

admitted 3 years
80$

Thos. Beals
Canandaigua N. Y.
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Brief in the case of Bela Wetmore
of Phelps in the State of New York 
(Act 7 June, 1832)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  in open Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? Sixty Eight years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period: In 1780
Duration of service: Inlisted for six Months-discharged sick, without stating at what time

Period:  Feby. 1781
Duration of Service: Inlisted for 3 years*
Rank: Private
Names of General and Field Officers under 
whom he served: Col. M. Jackson, Mass. line
*This service is proved by his original Discharge signed by Gen. Henry Knox and hereto annexed

5. In what battles was he engaged? None named
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Conway Massachusetts
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence or by the rolls? By documentary and traditionary evidence
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? the papers are correct in for and authentication.
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Wm. Gordon Examining Clerk


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State of New York
County of Ontario ss
On this 12th day of April A. D. 1853 personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of Court of Session &c. within and for the county and state aforesaid Mehitable Wetmore aged forty One years a resident of the town of Lima in the county of Livingston and State of New York, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress approved the 3d day of February, 1853; who says that she is the widow of Bela Wetmore deceased who was a private in the War of the Revolution and was pensioned under the act of 7th June 1832 at the rate of $80. per annum and was paid at the Albany N. Y. agency. She further declares that she was married to the said Bela Wetmore on the eleventh day of February 1831 in the town of Springwater in the county of Livingston in the state of New York.
That she has no public or private record of her said marriage or of her husbands death that she was married by one Martin Hopkins Esq. an acting Justice of the Peace.
She further declares that her husband, the aforesaid Bela Wetmore died in the town of Livonia in the county of Livingston and state of New York on the 15th day of October A. D. 1839. That she was not married to him prior to the 2d of January A. D. 1800 but at the time above stated.
She further declares that she was a widow at the passage of of the act, and is still a widow and that she has never before made application for a pension. that proof of her widowhood and of the death of her Husband was filed in the Pension Office at the time she drew his last pay up to his death.
Mehetable Wetmore
Sworn to and subscribed the daay and year aforesaid, before me,
Lindley W. Smith, a Justice of the Court of Sessions and Oyer & Terminer in and for said county
I hereby certify that the above named deponent is unable to attend the sitting of the Court in consequence of Bodily infirmities; and I further certify that I have no interest in the result of this case and am not concerned in its prosecution.
Lindley W. Smith a Justice of the Court of Sessions and Oyer & Terminer in and for said County.
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State of new York
Ontario County Ss
On this 12th day of April A. D. 1853, personally appeared before the undersigned, a Justice of Court Sessions &c. within and for the county and state aforesaid, Abijah Archer aged Fifty three years, a resident of Livonia in the County of Livingston and state of New York who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say 
That he became acquainted with Bela Wetmore and Mahetable Wetmore his wife of Livingston County State of New York in the year A. D. 1832. And that the said Bela Wetmore and Mahetable Wetmore lived and cohabited together as husband and wife from the time of his first acquaintance with them as aforesaid up to the time of the death of the said Bela Wetmore who died in the town of Livonia in the County of Livingston and State of New York on the 15th day of October A. D. 1839 and that this deponent attended his funeral. That the said Bela Wetmore was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States. And that at the death of the said Bela Wetmore as aforesaid be heft the said Mahetable Wetmore his widow him surviving who still remains his widow and has not intermarried since the death of said Bela Wetmore. And that the said Mehetable Wetmore now resides in Lima Livingston County State of New York.
Abijan Arher
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me
Lindley W. Smith a Justice of the Court of Sessions and Oyer & Terminer in and for said County.
I certify that the above named deponent is a reputable witness; and I further certify that I have no interest in the result of the case where this is to be used and am not concerned in its prosecution.
Lindley W. smith a Justice of the Court of Sessions and Oyer & Terminer in and for said County.
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State of New York
Ontario Count Clerks Office SS
I herby certify that Lindley W. Smith Esqr. whose name is Subscribed to the foregoing affidavits & Certificates was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the Courts of Sessions and Oter & Terminer in & for said County duly qualified and authorized to act as such; that he was one of the members of said Courts and that said Courts are such Courts of record of said County. And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such Justice and verily believe that his Signatures to said Affidavits and Certificates are guine. [genuine]
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Cours of record of said County this 21st June 1833
(seal with ribbon)
John S. Lyon
Clerk of Ontario County
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(144.256 crossed out)

146.15
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State of New York
Cayuga County Clerk's Office
I hereby certify that J. H. Wethey before whom the annexed Deposition was taken was at the time of taking the same, a Notary Public in and for the county and State aforesaid, duly elected, and authorized to take the same, and that the signature thereto purporting to be his is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county and the of the Court of Record thereof, this 14th day of April 185_ And I further certify that I am not interested or concerned in the prosecution or result of this case.
E. B. Marvin
County Clerk, of Cayuga County
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State of New York
County of Cayuga SS
On this 7th day of April A. D. 1855, personally appeared before me J. H. Wethey a Notary Public in and for the County and State aforesaid Mahetable Wetmore aged forty three years, a Resident of Lima in the County of Livingston and State of New York, Who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Bela Wetmore deceased, who was a Private in the War of the Revolution, and was Pensioned under the act of 7th July 1832 at the rate of $80. per annum, and that she has been Pensioned under the act of Feb.3, 1853 at the rate of $80. per annum, as the widow of the said Bela Wetmore deceased. that she has no public or private record of her marriage to said Bela Wetmore or of his death. But that the evidence on file in the Pension Office upon which her said Pension was granted.
She further declares that she was married to the said Bela Wetmore in Springwater in the County of Livingston and State of New York on the 11th day of February A. D. 1831. She further declares that her husband, the aforesaid Bela Wetmore, died in the town of Livonia in the County of Livingston and State of New York on the 15th day of October A. D. 1839 and that she is still a widow.
She also declares that she has not received a warrant for Bounty Land under this or any other Act of Congress nor made any other application therefore.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the act of March 3, 1855.
Megetable Wetmore
"Attest"
Harriet J. Wetmore
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written, before me
J. H. Wethey
Notary Public

We Harriet J. Wetmore and Aaron Murphey residents of Lima & Locke in the State of New York upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Mahetable Wetmore in our presence, and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be & that she still remains the widow of said Bela Wetmore deceased, and is now drawing a pension as his widow under the 2d section of Act Feb.3 1853
Harriet J. Wetmore
Aaron Murphey

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.
J. H. Wethey
Notary Public
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1930  53  NY

Washington D. C.
Monday Aug. 27,1866

Hon. Comm. Pensions,
Sir,
I am the daughter of Bela Wetmore, who was a revolutionary soldier in (I think a Connecticut Regt.). His final discharge was sent to your office, I suppose as evidence of his identity etc.
My mother Mahetable Wetmore is a resident of Lima, Livingston Co. N. Y. and draws a pension as the widow of my father.
If said discharge can be withdrawn from the files of your office, (illegible) will place me under obligation by delivering it to Mr. Sells.
Respectfully
Harriet J. Wetmore
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Bela Wetmore

Thomas Beals
Agent

Canandaiga
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State of New York
Ontario County SS
On this twenty seven day of August 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the County Court now sitting, Bela Wetmore a resident of the town of Phelps for forty one years last past aged sixty eight 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 7th June 1832.
That he enlisted in the army of the United States at Conway in the State of Massachusetts in July 1780 for six months and went to West point and joined Captain Fullers Company in Colonel Bradfords Regiment and was marched to Jersey and was discharged in Morristown in the Hospital when he was sick.
2d. At the town of Conway as aforesaid, he enlisted for three years in the month of February 1781 and went to West Point and joined Captain Nathan Dix's Company in Colonel M. Jacksons Regiment and was afterwards transferred to the third Regiment and done duty at various points on the Hudson River and Continued on that station until he was discharged at West Point on the 31st December 1783. Was in no engagement. His discharge is hereto attached, signed by Major General Knox whom he knew well.
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 State.
He was born in Chatham in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut lived in Conway when he entered the service and resided there until 1791 when he removed to the town of Phelps in the County of Ontario and State of New York and have resided there ever since.
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He knows David W. Neil of the town of Phelps and Jonathan Melvin of the town of Manchester.
Bela Wetmore
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open Court

We David W. Neil of the town of Phelps and Jonathan Melvin of the town of Manchester in the County of Ontario and State of New York hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Bela Wetmore who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and that we believe him to be sixty eight years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood in which he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
David W. Neil
Jonathan Melvin
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open Court

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 David McNeil who has signed the preceding certificate is a resident of the town of Phelps and that Jonathan Melvin who has also signed the same is a resident of the town of Manchester, that they are both credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, Charles Crane, Clerk of the said county do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Bela Wetmore for
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a pension.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this first day of September A. D. 1832
Charles Crane
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Rev. & 1812 War Section

June 13, 1924

William B. Tippetts
52 Wall St.
New York, N. Y. 

Sir:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W.615, it appears that Bela Wetmore was born in Chatham, Hartford County, Connecticut, date not stated. While a resident of Conway, Massachusetts, he enlisted in July 1780 for 6 months as a private in Captain Fuller's Company, Colonel Bradford's Massachusetts Regiment.
He enlisted in February 1781, served as a private in Captain Nathan Dix's Company, Colonel Michael Jackson's Massachusetts Regiment, and was discharged December 31, 1783. he was allowed pension on his application executed August 27, 1832, while a resident of Phelps, Ontario County, New York, aged 68 years. He died in Livonia, Livingston County, New York, October 15, 1839.
Soldier married February 11, 1831 in Springwater, Livingston County, New York, Mehetable or Mehitable Livermore. She was allowed pension on her application executed April 12,
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1853, while a resident of Lima, Livingston County, New York, aged 41 years,
A daughter, Harriet J. was living in 1866.
It is not stated that soldier served in the War of 1812.
Respectfully,
Acting Commissioner
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June 28 1853
No 2457
Appl. of Mehitable Wetmore
widow of Bela Wetmore
NY
$80  2648

Act 3d Feby. 1853
Rev.
Allowed $80 per annum
Com. Feb. 3 1853

J. H. Wethey
Locke N.Y.

Department of the Interior
Pension Office official Bus
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(illegible/faded)
N. Y. 
Boynton
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1930
New York Albany
Mehitable Wetmore
widow of Bela
who served in the Revolutionary  war,
as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on 3d February 1853
Certificate of Pension issued the 14th day of Sept./53
and sent to J. H. Wethey
Locke
N. York
recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act Feby. 3/53 vol. A
1832
Reg. m55 146215
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24328

Ho (illegible)
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WIDOW &c.
File No 615
Mehitable Wetmore
Widow
Bela Wetmore
Pri. Rev. War

Act: Feb 3, 1853 &c.
Index: Vol. M. Page 318

[Arrangement of 1870]

Book T. 337

1924 June 13, Hist. to Wm. B. Tippetts  vlm
1925 July 10 Hist. to Mrs. G. W. O.. Shourds  awf
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WILLIAM B. TIPPETTS
COUNSELLOR AT LAW
52 WALL STREET
NEW YORK
TELEPHONE HANOVER 6490
May 10, 1924.
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir - 
There are three bits of information I am seeking.
1. It is a tradition in my mother's family that her great grandfather and either his father or son served in the Revolution. The name of each I believe was Nathaniel Bell. The family later lived in Somerset County, Maryland, but where in Maryland, but where in Maryland it was living at the time I do not know. I am wondering what records you have about these Nathaniel Bells, or what you have about any soldiers named Bell who served from Somerset County, Maryland.
2. My great great grandfather Bela Wetmore served in the Revolution in a New England contingent and I have a copy of his discharge, which was obtained from the archives in Washington where he had filed it to get a pension. He moved after the Revolution to western New York where he settled and died. It is family tradition that he served in the War of 1812 as a major. I am curious to know what record you have of his service in the War of 1812, and also if you have any items about his Revolutionary service.
3. I understand that my great grandfather Moses Hawkes of Rutland, Vermont, was a captain in the War of 1812 and we at one time had his discharge, but when our house burned down twenty-three years ago we lost everything. I think he was a State Officer rather than a Federal, but am not sure. Have you anything about him?
Thanking you for this information and hoping that I am not trespassing on your courtesy, I am
Respectfully yours,
William B. Tippetts

(stamped U. S. Pension Office H-May 19, 1924)
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10 West Park Street
Albion, N. Y.
May 11, 1925

To the Bureau of Pensions
Washington D. C.

Will you kindly give me any information on your records in regard to Bela Wetmore, a soldier of the Revolution who enlisted in the Third Massachusetts Regiment being enlisted for three years and who was honorably discharged from the service of the United States, December 31 1783. Desire very much to know from what place in Massachusetts he enlisted oct.
Gratefully
Ida Standish Shourds
(Mrs. G. W. O.)
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[Stamped]
DEPARTMENT OF THE INT 
PENSION OFFICE 
APR 21 1876
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Topeka
Q  TRANSFER LETTER Q
(stamped-Pension Agency Canandaigua, N. Y. April 15, 1876)
Pension Agency
--------------- 187---

Sir:
In compliance with yours of the 19th Jany notifying me of an application for a transfer from this agency by Mehitable Wetmore widow of Bela, Private (Act Feby 3d & July 29,1848)
a Pensioner under Certificate No. 1930 the following report is made:
1. Date to which last paid: 4 March 1876
2. Rate at which last paid: 96 dollars per annum
3. Rate at which to be paid: same
4. Are semi-annual or annual examinations required:
5. Is he exempt from biennial examination?
6. How many children entitled to the additional $2. per month?
7. Has any child died or been abandoned?
8. How many children or sisters and brothers; and are all the children entitled to the $2 per month additional?
9. Names of minors who have died before 16 years of age:
10. Date when minor's pension terminates:
11. Name of the acting guardian:
12. If overpaid, suspended, re-enlisted-re-married, or other objection to a transfer, report it:
13. Date when last payment was made: Mar. 13, 1876
Box 790 Winfield Cowley Co. Kan
Respectfully
L. M. Drury, Pension Agent

To Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D. C.
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Mahitable Wetmore

Payment to be made at Albany by J. W. Olcott Esq.
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the agency of
New York
Payable on the 4th September and 4th March

Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 3d, 1853, Page 87 Vol. A

H. R. Weightman Clerk
(illegible/faded)
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
WIDOW'S PENSION

I certify that in conformity with the 2nd section of the act of February 3 1853, Mehitable Wetmore widow of Bela Wetmore who was a private in the revolutionary war is inscribed on the pension list at the rate for Eighty dollars per annum, commencing on the 3d of February 1853and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.
Given at the Department of the Interior this
fourteenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and fifty three
R. McClellan
Secretary of the Interior
Examined and Countersigned
L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
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Agency
Canandaigua N. York

Widow
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Increasee 1930 W
can
Brief in the Case of Mehitable Wetmore Widow of Bella Private Rev. War
 Lima, Livingston County and State of New York
Act 2d Sec Feb, 3 1853
Jne 13th Sec Act July 27 1868

Claim for New Pension Certificate
Proof Exhibited,
A pensioner on the Roll of New York at $80. per ann.
She returns her original Certificate & applies for increase as allowed by 13 Sec Act July 17 1868.

Identity and continued widowhood shown.

Admitted Apr 22, 1870 to pension at $96. per annum to commence July 27, 1868 deducting payts. given.
W. E. Trask
Examining Clerk

Name and residence of Agent
Claimant
Lima, Livingston Co. New York
TCC
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Locke Cayuga Co. N. Y.
June 25th 1853
Sir,
I send you herewith application of Mahitable Wetmore for Pension under 2d Sec. of act Feb. 3d 1853 & when voted upon you will please inform me of the result.
I am respectfully
your obt. servt.
J. H. Wethey

Hon. L. P. Waldo
Comiss. of Pensions
Washington D. C.
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Wetmore
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Brief in th case of Mrs. Mehitable Wetmore widow of Bela
Ontario County and State of New York
act of Feb. 3, 1853

Claim ("original") (or for increase-crossed out)

Proof exhibited, (if original)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband a pensioner under the act June 7 1832 at $80. per annum 
Pri

(If for increase) Marriage proved Cr. Witts.
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so what?
Death official endorsement,
Identity Cr. Witts.

Examining Clerk
J. L. Gray

Name and residence of Agent
J. H. Wethey Esqr.
Locke, N. York
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Treasury Department
Second Comptroller's Office
December 3d 1839

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States", the widow of Bela Wetmore, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany NY Agency, at the rate of Eighty Dollars and ---Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832 has been paid at this Department from the 4th of September 1838 to the 4th March 1839.
Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Present
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(Copy)
By the Honorable
Major General Knox.
Commanding the American forces on Hudson River. Bela Wetmore, soldier in the third Massachusetts Regiment being enlisted for three years is hereby honorably discharged from the service of the United States.
Given in the State of New York the thirty first day of December 1783.
J. Knox M. Genl.

By the Generals Command
Registered in the Books of the Regiment
John L. Stafford, Adjt.

This day handed the discharge of which the above is copy to Mr. Sells, late Sixth Audr. (illegible) agreeably to request of the soldiers daughter.
Pens. off. Aug. 27, 1866
Boynton
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Wid.  Wetmore
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State of New York
Steuben County SS

On this 22 day of April A. D. 1853, personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace within and for the county and state aforesaid, Martin Hopkins aged sixty two years, a resident of Cohocton in the county of Steuben and state of New York, who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say That in the year A. D. 1831 he was an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Livingston and State of New York and that on the eleventh day of February in the said year A. D. 1831 at the town of Springwater in the said County of Livingston and State of New York he married one Bela Wetmore and Mehitable Livermore according to the laws of said State.
(further sentences crossed out)
Martin Hopkins

(attached paper)
State of New York
Steuben County Clerk's Office ss
(Seal)
I, Philo P. Hubbell, Clerk of the ^Courts of^ the said County, do hereby certify that Samuel G. Fowler Esquire, before whom the annexed instrument in writing was proved or acknowledged, was at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized to take the same, and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe that the signature to said Certificate is genuine. (next line crossed out)
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of &the Courts^ of said County at Bath, this 2d day of June A. D. 1853.
P. P. Hubbell Clerk

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me
Samuel G. Fowler Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above named deponent is a reputable witness; and I further certify that I have no interest in the result of the case where this is to be used, and am not concerned in its prosecution.
S. G. Fowler J.P.
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Widow's Application for Increased Pension

(form blank)
(stamped-Department of the Interior Apr 21 1870)

U. S. Pension Agency
Canandaigua N.Y.
Certificate of the official character & signature of J. S. Galantine is on file at this agency.
L. M. Drury
Pension Agent
April19, 1870
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Printed and Sold by Benton & Andrews,
Rochester, N. Y.

Widow's Application for Increase of Pension
State of New York
County of Livingston SS

On this 16th day of April 1870, personally appeared before me a Notary Public in and for the County and State aforesaid, Mehitable Wetmore a resident of the village of Lima in the County of Livingston and State of New York, who, being duly sworn, says she is the widow of Bela Wetmore, who was a Private in the Revolutionary War, that she is in receipt of pension Certificate No. ----and was last Paid to include March 4th 1870, at the Canandaigua N. Y. agency. She makes this declaration to obtain the increase of pension to which she is entitled under the act of Congress approved July 27 
A. D. 1868 (sentence crossed out) for herself. That he said pension ^certificate^ accompanies this application.
She further declares that she has not remarried since the death of her said husband; and she further says that her age and present state of health is such that she cannot undergo the fatigue of a journey to Genesco the County seat  of said County which is fourteen (14) miles distant which is the reason this application is not verified before the Clerk of a Court of record. (sentence crossed out)
She further states that her Post Office address 
is Lima Livingston County New York
Mehitable Wetmore

Also personally appeared before me, Amos Crandall Physician and Edwin A. Nash Lawyer, residents of the village of Lima-Livingston county and State of New York, to me well known as credible persons who being duly sworn declare that they were present and saw said Mehitable Wetmore sign her name to the foregoing declaration and that they have every reason to believe, from the appearance of said applicant, and their acquaintance with her, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be; (sentence crossed out) and they swear they have no interest in this claim, either present or prospective, and that they are not concerned directly or indirectly in its prosecution. that her age and health are such that she is unable to make a journey to Genesco the County seat of Livingston County which is fourteen miles distant for the purpose of verifying the above certificate.
Amos Crandall M. D.
Edwin A. Nash

Sworn and subscribed to before me, this 16th day of April, 1870 and I hereby certify that I have not interest, direct or indirect, in the prosecution of this claim. And that the contents of the above were made known and explained to applicant and witnesses before signing.
Word "certificate" interlined before execution, also the several erasures to make the above application conform to the fact in the case of the applicant Mrs. Mehitable Wetmore a Revolutionary Pensioner
J. L. Galentine
Notary Public