Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25593, Caleb Foster, N.Y.
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Service
N.Y
Foster, Caleb
Rachel
Number
W.25593
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Let to Erastus Hamilton   July 15.42

24391 New York
Caleb Foster
of Coeymans in the State of New York who was a Private in the Compy commanded by Captain Humphreys of the [illegible] commanded by Col. Humphreys in the New York [illegible] for 8 months and 15 days.

Inscribed on the roll of New York at the rate of 28 dollars 33 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of November 1833 and sent to J B Moore, [illegible], NY

Arrears to the 4th of Sep. '33               $70.83
Semi-an. allowance ending 4 Mar '34    14.16
                                                             $84.99
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Jno Cromwell, clerk
Book E [?]  Vol. 4  Page 100
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5127
New York Alby
Rachel Foster ~ widow of Caleb Foster NY who served in the Revolutionary War, as a Private Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 28- dollars 33- cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of October 1847. and sent to Hon. P.H. Sylvester, M.C. Coxsackie, N.Y.
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28176
Caleb Foster
Admitted Private 8 mo 15 days
Be verry particular to direct certificate and all communications relating to this claim to J.B. Moore [illegible] New York.  I have been put to a vast deal of trouble by your not complying with my directions in this particular case.
J.B. Moore
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State of New York
County of Albany
ss
On this 14th day of October 1833 personally appeared before the subscriber a Judge of the county courts of the county of Albany Caleb Foster a resident of the Town of Coeymans in the County of Albany and State of New York aged 71 years and upwards who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain this benefit of the act of Congress [illegible] June 7, 1832
That he entered the service of the United Stated under the following named officers and served as herein stated.  He first entered the said service at the now town of Stamford in the County of Dutchess in the State of New York in the spring of the year 1778, the militia having been called out on an alarm and joined Capt. Henry Nimphrey's company and Col. Cornelius Humphrey's regiment of militia and was immediately marched to Fishkill and near the Hudson Rover and was there stationed and kept guard and served as a private solider one month and was then 1 month dismissed and returned home.  He again entered the said services at the place aforesaid having been again called out on alarm and joined Capt. Humphrey's company of militia in the fall of the same year/1778/ and was again marched to Fishkill immediately on the Hudson River and was there stationed and kept guard and served as a private soldier one month or 31 days and was then 1 month dismissed and he returned home.
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1 month
month 15 day
He again entered the said service at
Stamford aforesaid in the spring of the year
1779 a volunteer and joined Capt Humphry's
company of Militia in Col Hopkins Regiment and was immediately
marched to the Highlands on the Hudson's
river just below West Point and was there
stationed and did sentinal duty and kept guard and served as a private soldier one month and was then dismissed and returned home -
In the summer or towards the fall
of the same year 1779 he again entered the
said service at Stamford aforesaid, the
militia having been called for, and he joined
Capt Humphry's company of Militia and
was marched to Fishkill Barracks and
was there stationed and kept guard and
served as a private soldier one month and
fifteen days as near as he can reccollect
and was then dismissed and he returned
home -
He again entered the said service at Stanford aforesaid the militia having been
called out on alarm at the time Esopus
was burnt in the fall of the year 1777. He
refused to go however on account of his
not being quite 16 years old, but was compelld to go on account of his officers insisting that he was old enough, and must go
He was marched under the command of
Lieut Punderson in a company of militia to
Esopus and arrived there just after it was
it was burnt, and was there stationed and
kept guard and served as a private soldier
one month and was then dismissed and he
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month 
2 months 15
returned home. He forgot this circumstance
untill the above named tours of service
written down, which is the reason of its being
stated in this place-
In the fall of the year 1780
he volunteered to serve for the term of Eighteen months in Colo Henry Humphrys Company as a minute man, Lieut Hopkins belonged to the same company and also ensign Punderson He joined the said Company in the month of October 1784 as near as he can recollect
and was immediately marched to Albany
and from there to Schenectady where they stain a short time, and then marched to Saratoga where he was stationed and did Sentinel duty for some time, from Saratoga he was marched to Lake Champlain to carry some women and children, that on their way they stopped at Fort Edward and Fort Ann, and after arriving at Lake Champlain and continuing there a short time he was marched back to Saratoga, where the company remained a number of days and kept guard and did sentinal duty and from there was
marched down on the east side of Hudson
river to Dutchess County and was then dismissed untill further called for about the
first of January 1781. having served at
this time as a private soldier two months and
fifteen the spring of the year 1781 he
and the said company were again called
out and he was marched under the command of Lieut Hoskins (the said Capt
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15 days
a private Soldier
8 months 15 days
Humphry having died the preceeding winter)
to the Highlands in the town of Fishkill
and near the Hudsons river and was there
stationed and kept guard and served as a
private soldier Fifteen days, and then
returned home
He was not again called
into the said service
service of the United States in the
He was in the actual
Revolutionary War and served as a private
soldier in an embodied corps in the
whole Eight months and fifteen days
---
and for such service he claims a pension
He was born in the town of
Stonington in the State of Connecticut
on the 28th day of April A.D. 1762
There is a record
of his age in a family Bible now in the
hands of Robert Rider in the County of Dutchess
but he has no record of his age in his
own house He resided at the time he was called into the said service at a place then called Great Nine Partners, now the town of Stamford in the County of Dutchess in the State of New York and continued to reside there untill he was 23 years and then removed to the Town of Coeymans Albany County where he resided a number of years and then removed to the town of Coxsackie where he lived a short time and then removed back to the said town of Coeymans his present place of residence where he has resided for the last 30
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years-
He was called into the said service in
the manner above stated He saw and knew a
number of the continental officers who were
with the troops where he served but he cannot
now possibly remember their names, and he does not reccollect what continental and militia regiments he served with.  He received one written discharge which was signed by Lieut Punderson but he cannot tell what has become of it it having long since been lost or destroyed. 
Thomas Powell, Joseph Powell, Rev John Teats, Peter Lott, Harry Terhust Archibald Stevens Esqr. Daniel Dorman Esqr
Post Master, Samuel Norris, Daniel E. Green
& John Green, reside in his present neighborhood to whom he is known, and who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution
He was in no battles. He has no
documentary evidence to prove his services
nor any other testimony than the affidavit
of Robert Rider hereto annexed
He has taken great pains to find witnesses to prove his services in the Revolutionary War, and his son has travelled to Dutchess County and other parts of the country where he supposed witnesses could be obtained, but found they were dead, and any other witness except the said Robert Rider cannot be had
or found
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He resides 20 miles from the City of Albany
where the courts of record for the said
County of Albany are held and is wholly
unable to travel that distance to attend
the Court, He has a complaint called the
diabetes which wholly disables him from
travelling, and he could not travel that 
distance without endangering his life -

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any state-

He is unable to write his name having never been taught to write

Sworn to and subscribed Caleb Foster the day and year aforesaid
his mark X
Before me J. B. Moore Judge
of Albany County Court

We John P. Teats a clergyman residing in the
town of Westerlo in the County of Albany Joseph T. Powell, residing in the same place, Thomas J. Powell residing in the town of Coeymans in the County of Albany and Richard Foster residing in the town of Greenville in the County of Greene
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Caleb Foster who has subscribed
and sworn to the above declaration; that
we believe him to be 71 years of age and upwards that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion John P Teats
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Alham
Sworn and Subscribed
the day and year
Joseph C Powell
aforesaid Before me
Thomas of Rewall
Richard Conston
J. B. Moore Judge
of Albany County Court
County SS. And I the said Judge do hereby certify & declare my 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 do also certify that the said applicant cannot attend the Court by reason of bodily infirmity-
And I do further certify that I am well acquainted with John P. Teats, Joseph T. Powell Thomas T. Powell and Richard Forster who have signed the preceeding certificate, that the said John P. Teats is a Clergyman
residing in the said town of Westerlo, that the said Joseph T. Powell resides in the same place, the said Thomas T. Powell resides in the Town of Coeymans
the said Richard Foster in the said town of
Greenville, that they are all verry credible
persons and that their statement is entitled
to credit and that they all reside in the immediate vicinity of the said applicant
B. Moore Judge
of
County of Albany County
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State of New York
AlbanyCounty SS
I Conrad A. Ten Eyck Clerk of the City
and County of Albany do hereby certify that Joseph B. Moore before whom the within declaration of Caleb Foster & the within Certificate of John P. Teats, Joseph T. Powell
Thomas S. Powell & Richard Forster was sworn and who has made the within certificate is a Judge of the County Courts of the County of Albany in the State of New York, and that the signature "J. B. Moore" to the said declaration and certificate is his genuine signature - In Testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of the said County
this 16. day of October A.D. 1832
C.A. Ten Eyck Clerk
for Jonas Wickes) Depy
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State of New York
County of Green:
On this 4th day of April Eighteen hundred & forty have personally appeared before me Perkins King 

a judge of the Court of Common Please of Green Country (the said Court bring a Court of Record) Rachel Foster a resident of Greenville in said County aged about 76 years, who being first duly from, according to law: doth or has oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 entitled "An Act granting half pay & pension to certain arduous" 

That she is the widow of Caleb Foster, who was a soldier in the revolutionary Army, and was a Pensioner under the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. She further declares that she was married to the said Caleb Foster on the 7th day of July, Seventeen hundred & Eighty five.

That her husband the aforementioned Caleb Foster died on the Seventeenth day of February Eighteen hundred & forty one, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen hundred & ninety four, viz at the time above states. She further states that her Maiden name previous to her marriage was Huestern and that she was married in the town of Stamford in the County of & state of New York by a Baptist Clergyman by the name of Bullock.

Sworn to & subscribed on this 4th Day of April 1843 before me, Perkins King

I certify that the above named applicant is informed and in my opinion unable to attend Court which is here in Fishkill a distance of 20 miles.

Her Mark X Rachel Foster
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Service
N.Y.
Foster, Caleb
Foster, Rachel
Number
W.25593
Contents
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Service
N.Y.
Foster, Caleb
Foster, Rachel
Number
W.25593
Contents
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(3-1776)
N.Y.
Foster, Caleb
Foster, Rachel
Number
W.25593
CONTENTS
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State of New York
Duchess County ___ Asa A Thompson of the town of Stanford County of Duchess and State of New York being duly sworn deposes and says, that he is the clerk of the First Baptist Church in the town of Stanford aforesaid and as such clerk he has the ________ of the records and documents belonging to said church and among those records and documents he has found a book which appears to be and this deponent has no doubt is a record of marriages - and this deponent verily believes the same to be a record of marriages - and this deponent further says that the said book is in appearance old and considerably mutilated - the fore part and the last part also __________ to be gone which the deponent believes to be the fact - once this deponent further says that in said book he  _____ he finds an entry made in these words, "Caleb Foster to Rachel Husted, ____
State of New York
County of Duchess
I, [handwritten] Robt Mitchell[typed] Clerk of the County of Duchess, do hereby certify that [handwritten] _____________ [typed] whose name is subscribed to the [handwritten] certificate of the _________ deposition was at the time of ________ ___ _____ a justice of the peace [typed] in and for the County aforesaid, dwelling in the said County, [handwritten] duly elected (and) sworn [typed[ and further, That I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said [handwritten] justice [typed] and verily believe that the signature to the said [handwritten] deposition is [typed] genuine. 
In testimony ____ereof, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of the said County, the [handwritten] 5th, [typed] day of [handwritten] May [typed] A.D. 184 [handwritten]3
Robt Mitchell, Clerk
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State of New York
Dutchess County ⎬  Asa A Thompson of the town of Stanford in County of Dutchess and State of New York being duly sworn deposes and says, that he is the Clerk of the first Baptist Church in the town of Stanford aforesaid and as such clerk he has the possession of the records and documents belonging to said Church and among these records and documents he has found a book which appears to be and this deponent has no doubt is a record of Marriages - and this deponent verily believes the same to be a record of Marriages - and this deponent further says that the said book is in appearance old and considerably mutilated - the fore- part - and the last part also appearing to be gone & lost, which this deponent believes to be the fact- and this deponent further says that in said book he finds an entry made in these words, "Caleb Foster to Rachel Husted. July 7th 1785," which this deponent believes to be a record of the marriage of said Caleb Foster and said Rachel Husted. And this deponent further says that the entries in the portion of said book now remaining commence in the year 1776, and continue down through the several intervening years until the year 1808. And this deponent further says that among the entries in the said book. he finds an entry of his own marriage in the year 1795. in a similar form to that of said Foster, and he also finds other Entries of the marriage of persons, of where marriage he has personal knowledge, in said book made in the same manner-
Asa A. Thompson
Subscribed and sworn before me this 4th day of May 1843 
J.D. Jordan
Justice of the Peace Pine Plains, Dutchess County
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Revy
WIDOW, &c.

File No. 25593
Rachel Foster
Wid of Caleb Foster
Priv Rev War

Act Feb 2nd 1848
Index: Vol. A, Page 250
Arrangement of 1870.
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V  10.07/1
Rachel Foster
N. Y.
let to C. E. Jenkins July 19 4[illegible]
"     " [let to] H Butler Jan 28. 1845.
"     " [let to] Same March 21, 1845
" Hon R.H. Selvester Augt 13, 1849

Act 7 July 1838
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also N.Y. Albany Roll Act 7 June 1832
Caleb Foster, priv. $28.33 per annum

To what time last paid? Died 17th Feb. 1841
pd. at his death [illegible]

To Third Auditor's Office
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8/158
New York Ally
Rachel Foster 
widow of Caleb Foster 
who was a Private 
in the Revolutionary War 

Inscribed in the Roll at the rate of 28 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. 

Certificate of Pension issued on the 11th day of October 1849. and sent to Now P.N Sylvester. N. G, Goplackie N.Y

[Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 17, 1844.] 
Recorded in Book A, Vol. 2. Page 75.
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10741,
New York
Rachel Foster -
Widow of Caleb Foster who was a pensioner under the Act of June 1832 and who died on the 17th Feby 1841.
Coeymans in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Humphrey of the Regt commanded by Col. Humphrey in the New York line for 8 mo. 15 days

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany, N.Y. at the rate of 28 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of
October 1844 and sent to Hon P.H. Sylvester, N.Y.
Total amount, $

{Act July 7, 1838.}
Recorded by Henry Robinson Clerk
Book D  Vol. 1 Page 157.
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Stamped seal  An eagle and two figures, Excelsior
State of New-York County of Dutchess [bracket] ss.
I, Henry I Traver, Clerk of the County of Duchess, Do Hereby Certify, that Morgan Hunting Esquire before whom the annexed examination was made and ----- whose name is subscribed to the annexed certificate was at the  time of stating the same in Acting Justice of the Peace------in and for the County aforesaid, dwelling in the said County, commisioned and sworn, and duly authorized to take the same----
And further, That I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Justice-----and verily believe that the signature to the said Examination-- is genuine.  In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said county, the sixteenth day of July A.D. 1833--- Henry I Traver Clerk
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State of New York
Duchess County
appeared before me on the 5th day of March 1833 Robert Rider a resident of the town of Stanford aged 79 years old said that he was in the service with Caleb Foster in the year of 1780, under Capt Henry Humphrey at Lake Champlain. And also at the highlands Mountains under Col Rossel Hopkins and belonging to the company commanded by 1st Leut. Joel Haskins
Robert Rider
Sworn and subscribed before me this 5th day of March 1833. Morgan Hunting Justice of the Peace
I the undernamed Justice of the Peace of the town of Stanford and County of Duchess do certify Robert Rider to be a man of truth and veracity  Morgan Hunting Justice of the Peace

I certify that I reside in the same town & neighbourhood with the above named Robert Rider & believe him to be a man veracity & integrity Asa Thompson
March 5th 1833
Cornelious Dumond
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Theodore Foster
Greenville
NY
Oct 5, 1843
Rachel Foster

Greensville N.Y.
Oct. 3

J.L Edwards Esq
Comm of Pensions
War Dep.t Washington City
D.C.
free
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Theodore Foster 
Greenville NY
Oct 5.1843
Rachel Foster

Greenville N.Y.
Oct 3

J.L. Edwards Esq
Comm of Pensions
War Dep't Washington City
D.C.

free
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Greenville Green Co. N.Y.
Oct 3d 1843
J.L Edwards Esq
Comm of Pensions
Dear Sir Your circular and answer of the 27th is thankfully received In my communication to you I neglected to give the Christian name of Mrs Rachel Foster and the law under which she claimed, the act is that of  July 7th 1838 which entitles her to a pension if her husband was entitled to the annuity which he received, please examine her claim when it comes under your rules,
Your Obt Servant
Theodore Foster
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[crossed out 1834]
Edwards Esqr
Comm. of Pensions
Washington City 
[comments on left margin] Enquiry Greenville N.Y. July 12 July 14 NY
[upside down Enquiry]
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[crossed out 1834]
Edwards Esqr
Comm. of Pensions
Washington City
[on left margin Enquiry Greenville N.Y. July 12 July 14 NY
[upside down on bottom Enquiry]
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Greenville NY  July 11th 1842

Sir, Yours of the 6th inst with the Regulations Enclos was duly [illegible].  It would appear from the opinion of Mr Legan that the widows whose husbands have deceased since 1822 cannot be continued on the Pension List, the case to which my communication has reference was 1st Mrs Susannah Reynolds widow of Benjamin Reynolds of this town, who was an Invalid of Revolutionary Pensions, and who died the 18th day of May now last past, and whose marriage was consummated 15th May 1782, 2nd Mrs Huldah, I think, Lamb, widow of Ichiel Lamb of the town of Westerlo Albany Co. N.Y., who died 4th August 1841 and whose marriage was consummated July 1, 1779 3rd Mrs. Rachael, I think, Foster widow of Caleb
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Greenville NY.         Free
March 12

Ma 15 US

NY

Hon James L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington City DC
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Greenville NY                 Free
March 12
Hon James L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions Washington City DC

Mar 15 115 NY

R Foster
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Hon James L Edwards

Sir in relation to this application for a pension to be granted to Mrs. Rachel Foster which I wrote to you about a few days.  Since you stated i answer to my inquiry that it would be necessary to establish the service of her husband by evidence discovered in the comptrollers office at Albany I have written to the comptroller and obtained an answer in which he states that the Name of Mr Caleb Foster her husband is not to be found in the books in his possession.  This may possibly be accounted for on the account of his not being long in the regular service and was one of those soldiers that was called upon when his country was in great danger which has sometimes been denominated as a minute man Mr Caleb Foster I am informed procured his pension by proof obtained from those who served with him at various times during the Revolution and Mrs Foster is obliged at present to rest her claim upon that Evidence She hopes that you will reconsider her case and as the claim is small which she asks for but which she thinks to be just if it is not [illegible] with your duty she hopes you will add her name to the pension list upon the afforesaid [sic] evidence but if after deliberation upon this subject you should not think propper [sic] to do so pleas [sic] have the goodness to inform me of the result of your deliberations and if there is any other testimony that will entitle her to a pension

Greenville March 12 1845

Respectfully yours etc

Hiram Butler
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Greenville NY Jan 22

Rachel Foster NY

Hon James L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City DC
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[illegible] Jan 22

Rachel Foster NY

Hon James L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City DC
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Hon James L Edwards

Sir I have been induced to write to you in relation to an application that was made to the pension department in February or March 1843 for a pension to be granted to Rachel Foster the widow of a Revolutionary Soldier Caleb Foster her husband drew a pension for several years previous and up to the time of his demise  and has left an aged and infirm widow who now is entirely dependant [sic] upon the charity of the town with what scanty assistance she receives from her son who is poor and has a large family to support and consequently canot render his mother such assistance believing that this is a case which appeals strongly to your early attention, as I before said I have been induced to write to you wishing you to inform me or her son Richard Foster at your earliest opportunity upon what grounds this application was denied so that we may be able to procure additional testimony if necessary, please state what additional testimony or evidence the department will require to grant said pension

Greenville Jan 21, 1843

Very respectfully yours
Hiram Butler

PS Direct your answer to me at Greenville Greens Co NY
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P H Silvester [illegible]

J L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington DC

[image: postmark] Coxhachie NY Aug 8
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P H Silvester [illegible]

J L Edwards, Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington DC

[image: postmark] Coxhachie NY Aug 8
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Coxhachie 7th August '49

J L Edwards Esq

Dear Sir

I am requested to inquire, whether Rachel Foster of Greenville, [illegible] NY, widow of Caleb Foster (who was a pensioner) has ever drawn a pension [illegible] not whether she is entitled to any, her declaration, proof of marriage to [illegible] been sent to the office in '43.

Very truly yours
PHilvester
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J L Edwards Esq

Dear Sir
I [illegible] you the application of Mrs. Sarah Foster for a Pension.  I think that you stated, that it would be necessary for her to make a new declaration in it to prove the services of her husband again.  You will find in the acts paper either at the first or last session of the last congress, that the evidence now on file is her husband and care shall be sufficient in the widow's case.

Respectfully yours,
PHaliberter

Coxhachie Oct '49
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Application of Rachel Foster for a Pension
No 10.076
Rachel Foster
widow of Caleb
NY
Act of July 1838
Married 1785
Husband died 17 Feb 1841
[illegible] 8 maj 15 days [illegible]
fr 28:33 per annum
fr 11 March 1836
[illegible] 43844
x 2 Feb 1848

Hon P.H. Leborski
Coxsackie, NY
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State of New York Greene County
On this 28tyh day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty nine personally appeared before me the undersigned Rachel Foster of the town of Greenville County and State aforesaid, who being duly sworn acccording to have deposith and (saith ?) that she is the widow of Galet Foster deceased a Revollutinary soldier who died the 14th day of February but according to the best of her recollection.  That her said husband Caleb Foster drew from the war department where being the sum of twenty eight dollars and thirty one cents annually This department further saith that she applied to the war department for a pension on account of the Revolutionary Services of her husband in the year 1843 or about that time, and that her affidavit was taken to prove her marriage by Perkins King Esq. first Judge of the Court of Common Pliaf of the County of Greene.  The department further saith that she applied for the Pension under the act of congress passed July 7, (18??) and that she believes she is eighty-five years of age.  And further swears that she has not married since the death of her deceased husband and that she