Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1676, John C Waller, Vt.
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Vt. Waller, John C. W.1676
Priscilla BL Reg 231941-1855
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No. 6900
Vermont
John C. Waller of Addison Co. in the State of Vermont who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Cleghorn of the Regt commanded by Sufford in the Vermont troops for 13 months Private $43.33
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 43 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of March 1822 and sent to Hon. L. Haight, Present.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833  86.66
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 1833   21.66
$108.32
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk,
Book D Vol. 4 Page 92
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Dead - see letter written
C. C. Wallers, June 5, 49
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233  City
New York
Priscilla Waller widow of John C. Waller who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Vert Line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 43 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848
Certificate of Pension issued the 22nd day of June 1849 and sent to Claimant,
No. 194 1 Avenue
N. York
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act 9 July 1848, Page 533 Vol. Book C
231941
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State of Vermont
County of Addison
On the fifth day of July 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the judges of the County Court for the County of Addison in the State of Vermont now sitting John C. Waller a resident of the town of Middlebury in the County of Addison aforesaid aged sixty nine years on the 5th day of December 1831, who first being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
That he was born, as he believes, in Dover in the State of New York on the fifth day of December 1762.  That he has a record of his age taken from records kept by Israel Waller his father and that said record contains the ages of his progenitors for several generations
That in the year 1777 he was in the service of the United States at Rutland, Vermont in erecting a Block house and guarding the roads about three months as a volunteer. That he does not recollect the names of the officers under whom he served except his Sargeant whose name Haile.  He thinks that the Captain's name was Cleghorn but this he cannot declare positively. He states further that he and his comrades were stationed to take up persons of suspicious appearance travelling to and from the lake
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Champlain. That during this time there was a battle or skermish between a party of the American troops and a party of British from Burgoyne's Army at Hubbardton in Vermont about 15 miles from Rutland.  He recollects that whilst stationed at Rutland the soldiers who retreated from Hubbardton, some of their wounded, came to the station at Rutland, that his father provided them with provisions at his house. After the capture of Burguoyne his father removed his family to Royalton in the County of Windsor he thinks in the spring of 1778. During the summer and fall of 1780, the said Waller declares that he served as a volunteer militia man at Royalton Bethel and Barnard in said Windsor County at each of which places a guard of volunteer militia was kept and a small fort erected. He was principally employed in carrying and collecting provisions and in patrolling the road, which some two of the guard from each fort used to do every night.  He declares that the commander of the men who performed this service was Captain Safford of Woodstock in Vermont, who was afterwards a Colonel.  That during this time they kept a guard night & day and used to stand as sentinels on Sunday on a high ground near the place of holding meeting to give alarm if any should be necessary. He further declares that in the fall of 1784 the town of Royalton was burnt by the indians and tories from Canada and that at this time David Waller a younger of brother of said John C Walter was captured by the indians and carried, as he has since learned, to Montreal in Canada. That when the alarm
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was given the said John C. Waller started with the force raised upon the emergency to follow the indians but was ordered back to guard the women & children that had escaped from the indians. The commander of the forces was then a Col. House. The forces returned to Royalton without having retaken the citizens women & children who had been captured. Within a few days and after this the said Walter States and declares that he was on duty as a guard and engaged in the service for some considerable time he does not recollect how long.  When it became cold on the approach of winter the settlement at Royalton pretty much broke up and the said Waller with Joseph Waller his brother went to Canaan in the State of Connecticut.
He further declares that he returned to Royalton in the spring of 1781, and during that summer and fall performed service as a guard in the place of his father whose health was infirm. His father equipped him again.  His gun was lost at the time Royalton was burnt by the indians. During this summer and the fall following his service was to patrol the roads from the three forts mentioned above, and in the same manner as he had done in 1780. He is not certain who commanded the company this year but thinks it was Capt. Parkhurst.
He further states that he continued to serve as a volunteer after this till the close of the war, not all the time, but kept himself in constant readiness and equipped and took his turn with others in patrolling the roads.
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and guarding the forts. He further states that he has no hesitation in declaring that at different times as herein stated he served more than one year as a volunteer militia man in actual service- and that he has resided in the State of Vermont ever since the Revolutionary War. 
 He states also that he believes he can prove a part of his said service before mentioned by his Brother David Waller who is now living and that he intends to obtain and forward with this the testimony of said David Waller.
He has no documentary evidence in his possession nor has he any discharges from his service.  That the actual service he performed was part of the time as a substitute for his father and he does not know that any one in those times received written discharges. The country was new and the hardships imposed by the dangerous situation and State of the country in which he resided very great. That it was not uncommon for himself and other members of his fathers family to labour in the clearing of their lands burning off the timber and the like in the night time and that when the male members were compelled to perform military service the finally of the family often took their places in performing the labor on the farm.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency  any state.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid-
John C. Waller
E. D. Barber Clk
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 29th July 1848 entitled "an act for the relief of certain surviving widows of Officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army".
 On this thirtieth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty nine, personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of New York-Priscilla Waller, a resident of the City, County and State of New York, aged seventy nine years, who being first 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 passed July twenty ninth one thousand eight hundred and forty eight, entitled, "An Act for the relief of certain surviving widows of officers and soldiers of the revolutionary Army".
That she is the widow of John C. Waller, who was in his lifetime a resident of the Town of Middlebury in the County of Addison in the State of Vermont, and at the time of his death and for several years before, a pensioner of the United States on account of services rendered by him as a private soldier in the revolutionary war with Great Britain The particular service rendered by the said John C. Waller she is not able to state from her own knowledge, but refers for the necessary proof and description thereof to the evidence now on file in the Pension Office at Washington, upon which the pension he received in his lifetime was granted by the proper officer of the United States Government.
She further declares that she was married to the said John C. Waller on the twenty fourth day of August one thousand seven hundred ninety six, at Royalton in the State of Vermont, by Abel Stevens, then a justice of the peace and authorized by the laws of that state to solemnize marriage; that her husband, the aforesaid John
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C. Waller, died on the nineteenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty six; that she has not been married again since the death of her said husband, was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January in the year eighteen hundred, viz; at the time above stated, and that she still remains his widow.
Priscilla Waller
Sworn to and subscribed before me in open Court on the day & year above stated
M Ulshoeffer
1st Judge NY Common Pleas
[below script was crossed out]
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above stated before me, and I certify that the said Priscilla Waller is prevented by bodily infirmity from appearing in open Court to make the foregoing declaration.
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Calvin C Waller of the City County and State of New York, aged fifty one years, being duly sworn according to law, on his oath doth depose and say that Priscilla Waller, the mother of this deponent, whose declaration in the matter of her application for a pension under the provisions of the act of Congress of July 29th 1848, is hereto attached, is the widow of the same John C. Waller to whom a pension was granted about the year 1832 by the United States on account of services by him rendered in the revolutionary war with Great Britain. That said John C Waller at the time of the granting of said pension was a resident of the town of Middlebury in the County of Addison and State of Vermont and continued to reside there till within a few days of his death, which occurred at Providence in the State of Ohio on the nineteenth day of September 1836.-
And this deponent further saith that the said Priscilla Waller is the widow of the said John C. Waller and has so remained from the time of his death. And further that the certificate issued to the said John C Waller as evidence that his said pension was duly granted and authorized has either been lost since his death or so mislaid that it cannot now be found and further this deponent saith not
C.C. Waller
Subscribed & sworn to before me this 30th Apr1849 in open court
M. Ulshoeffer
1 Judge N Y Common Pleas
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I Thomas Hodgkins of Rochester in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, aged seventy six years, being duly sworn according to the laws of the State of Vermont depose and say that I have for the last forty years been acquainted with John C Waller Esq of Middlebury in the County of Addison and State of Vermont and that I was acquainted with the father of said Waller for several years before his death and have always understood that David Waller the brother of said John C. Waller was made a prisoner by the indians and tories who burnt Royalton in this State in the year 1780. I also know that John C. Waller when I first knew him had the reputation of having served as a soldier in the revolutionary war as a volunteer militia man and that his character is such as in the neighborhood of his residence and elsewhere where his character is known to entitle his declarations on oath or otherwise to full credit.  I did not move into Vermont till after the War. 
Soon after I did remove here, I became acquainted with the family of said Waller and have been well acquainted with them we since. I know several persons who I have always understood were officers at and near Royalton during the revolutionary war one of them was Safford. I knew another by the name of Lyon, another by the name of Parkhurst
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of these persons holding commissions and serving I do not know personally but know that during their lives they were reputed to have so served-
Middlebury
July 28, 1832
the lives they
Thomas Hodgkins
State of Vermont
Addison County
Sworn & subscribed before me the subscribing authority this 28 day of July 1832, and I certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Thomas Hodgkins and that he is a credible witness, and that I believe him to be seventy six years of age.
Joel Doolittle Justice Peace
State of Vermont
Addison County
I Samuel Swift Clerk of the County Court for the said County of Addison, do hereby certify that the above named Joel Doolittle, before whom the above affidavit was made was at the time a Justice of the peace for said County, and his name, subscribed thereto is his own signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 15th day of February 1833.
Saml Swift -
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New York 20th Jany 49
Sir, My father John C. Waller late of Middlebury in the County of Addison & State of Vermont was a revolutionary soldier & received a pension until the time of his death in 1836. His last pension was drawn in Sept. 1836 on the 19th of the same month he died.
My mother who is still living wishes to procure the pension given to widows of Revolutionary soldiers under the act of 2d Feby 1848. Will you do me the favor to state whether any proof of my fathers services other than what is already on record in the proper office at Washington will be required-
Respectfully Sir
Your obt svnt
Royal H. Waller
1 N Y [illegible]
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New York March 18, 1857
Dear Sir,
Your letter of 11th inst to S. B. Waller, on the subject of the application of Priscilla Waller for bounty land, has been handed me. I received the papers in the case in Sept last by due course of mail from your office, for the purpose of having the County Clerks certificate of the official character of S.W. Cone, as con'd of deeds, added.
That certificate was immediately obtained; and the papers, thus perfected, were enclosed and mailed by me directed to your office within a day or two of my receipt of them here. I can hardly imagine that they could have failed of reaching your office, and therefore be that an examination may be made for them. If they are not found, you will confer a favor by sending me a form, such as is usual for revolutionary cases, to enable me to renew the application.
The application is for bounty land for service rendered by John C Waller who died in 1836 leaving the present applicant a widow, as she remains now, & in the 88th of her age.
As I did not hear of any action in relation to the claim, immediately after returning the papers, I concluded, the on their second receipt, they passed "to the hall of the docket" as a new application, and therefore, were awaiting the disposition of the cases earlier entered. Perhaps such might have been the case. 
Very Respectfully
C. C. Waller
New York
Com. Pensions
Washington City
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Revy
Widow, &c.
File No. 1676
Priscilla Waller
Widow
John C. Waller
Pri. Rev. War
Act July 29, 1848.
Index:- Vol. M. Page 304
(Arrangement of 1870.)
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John C Waller dec'd
NY [illegible]
Boynton

Hon Geo. C. Whiting
Com. Pensions
Washington City
 [stamp]
New York
Mar 18 Free
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Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.
[stamp]
New York
Feb 23 Free
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Priscilla Waller
[illegible]
Boynton

Official Business
Department of the Interior
Pension Office
Washington City DC
[stamp]
New York
Sep 5 Free
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L. B. Waller
Box3203
New York

Priscilla Waller
286941 John C Waller
Boynton May 28/56
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New York Feb 23, 1857
Sir
Something more than a year ago the papers for bounty land under the act of 3d March 1855 were forwarded to your department in behalf of Priscilla Waller widow of John C Waller. They appear from the acknowledgment of their rct to have been numbered 231.941 
Afterwards, they were returned here that some defect might be supplied which was done and the papers were returned fully authenticated-
Will you please advise me whether any action has been had upon them & if so, what?
Very Respectfully,
S. B. Waller
Box 3203 P. O.
New York
Com. Pensions
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New York Common Pleas
In the matter of the application of Priscilla, Waller for arrears of pension
In Open Court April 30th 1849 Present the Hon Michael Ulshoeffer first Judge of said Court.
I certify that the declaration of Priscilla Waller and the deposition of Calvin C. Waller hereto affixed were taken and subscribed by the said deponents in open Court, that the Hon Michael Ulshoeffer is the first judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of New York and that his signature to his certificate attached to said declaration and deposition is genuine as I verily believe. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my Hand and affixed the seal of said Court this thirtieth day of April one thousand eight hundred and forty nine
James Conner, Clerk
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Pension Office
August 15, 1856
Sir:
The bounty land claim of Priscilla Waller will be favorably considered as soon as the Official Character of S. W. Cone, as a Commissioner of Deeds on the 13th Nov 1855 is only authenticated.
Yours Respectfully
C. H. Rhett
for commissioner
S. R. Waller, Esq.
New York City
Sir,
The County Clerk declines to give a certificate of the official character of Mr. S. W. Cone, without having the papers before him authenticated by Mr. C. as a Com. of Deeds.  I therefore suppose it will be necessary for you to send me the application of my mother that I may have it properly certified & return it to the department.
This letter was misdirected - being for T. B. Waller of S. R. Waller - therefore the delay.
Please send me back the application & I will have it perfected.
Very Respectfully
C. C. Waller
Custom House
New York
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New York May 2d 1849
Sir
Herewith you will receive the declaration of Priscilla Waller, accompanied with my affidavit that she is and has remained the widow of my deceased Father since his death in 1836. There is also annexed a copy from the records of the town of Royalton in State of Vermont of the marriage. If any question arises as to the right of a Justice in that state to solemnize marriage the published statute laws of Vermont show that from the first such officers has be authorized to that effect-
I hope you will find the papers sufficient and duly authenticated.
Any communication in reply may be addressed to me or to my mother, the applicant at 194 1st Avenue New York
with the highest respect.
your obt Svnt
C. C. Waller
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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June 6/69
C. C. Waller
May 31, 1849
Whaht action has been had on the claim of Priscilla Waller widow of John C. Waller a Revolutionary Pensioner.
W. Allison immediate attach
White
Commissioner of Pensions is respectfully requested to reply.
Dept. of the Int. June 27, '69
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New York May 31, 1849
Sir
Something more than a month ago I forwarded to the pension office the declaration of Priscilla Waller the widow of John C. Waller, late a pensioner for revolutionary services, claiming the pension received by her husband in his lifetime under an act of Congress of 1848-granting pensions to widows &c. in certain case.
As nothing has been rec'd in reply we fear the papers may have been miscarried or accidentally mislaid in my office, so as not to have met with my attention.
Will you please inform me whether they were & if so, of their merits to
Respectfully
C. C. Waller
194 Avenue 1. N. York
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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War Department
Pension Office
August 27th 1832
Sir
Your letter accompanying the evidence in support of the claim of John C. Waller to a pension under the act 7 June 1832 has been received.
It is impossible to determine upon the facts stated whether the services of this claimant come within the provisions of the act or not. If he belonged to an embodied corps, called into actual service by proper authority, and performed service in such corps for definite period exceeding six months in the whole, he will be entitled to a pension. These points and all left in uncertainty by the present declaration, which is herewith returned in order that these essential requisites may be supplied, and the best proof attainable be added to support it
I am respectfully
your obedient servt
J.L. Edwards
Calvin C. Waller Esq
Middleburg
Vermont
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Detroit Mich. Sept. 27 1836
Sir-
I write to inform you that John C. Waller Esq, a revolutionary pensioner, lately of Middlebury, Vt. expired at Providence in Ohio on the 19th instant.
Very Respectfully
Yr. Obt. Sevt.
C. C. Waller
James L. Edwards Esq
Com. of Pensions
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Jno Charles
Vt [illegible]
dec'd
Vt. 6900

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Com. of Pensions
Washington City
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[stamp]
Washington City
Mar 22
Free

Genl. C. C. Waller
Post Master
Middlebury
Vermont
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Address
S. B. Waller
Box 3203
Refer to Pension Office and for advice answering.  Note that there are so many in advance of this that it may take some considerable time before it can be examined.
Jany 15/36
Respectfully referred to the Commissioner of Pensions
Dept Int
Jan 16/56
Geo. C. Whiting
Chf Clk
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231.941.
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New York January 14th 1856
Hon Robt. McClelland
Sec. of the Interior
Washington D. C.
Dr Sir
Permit me to introduce to you
my friend Mr. Lucien B. Stone of this City the bearer of this. He visits Washington on business, and through him I take the liberty of asking your advice in relation to an application which my mother has made for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3d 1855.  Any aid or direction in the matter you may be pleased to extend will be thankfully
rec'd by your friend.
S. B. Waller
P. S. My slight acquaintance of you while I was a resident of Michigan, and having been a resident of this city for the last twelve years and upwards with scarcely any personal intercourse with you in the mean time leads me to partially apologize for taking this liberty, nevertheless I remain as ever your firm friend.
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Royalton April 9, 1849
Sir, I received your communication the 3d [illegible] and have hastened your request with all possible despatch.  It was necessary to send to Woodstock to the County Clerk for a certificate and did not get a return till Saturday evening.  The money you set me will amply receive me for my trouble and pay all other fees. I hope the paper is made correctly.  If not send it back and name the mistake and I will endeavor to correct it
Yours in haste
Calvin Skinner
C. C. Waller
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Town Clerk's office Royalton April 4th A. D. 1849
I Calvin Skinner, Town Clerk of the town of Royalton in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, having custody of the records of said Town, do certify that the following is a true copy of the record of the Marriage of John Curtis Waller and Priscilla Smith now remaining in the Office in fair and legible words and figures
viz
State of Vermont
Windsor County SS
Royalton August 24th (Twenty fourth) 1796
(Seventeen hundred and ninety six) I joined John Curtis Waller and Priscilla Smith both of Royalton in the banns of wedlock.
Atttt Abel Stevens- Justice of Peace
Recorded August 25th (twenty fifth) 1796 (seventeen hundred ninety six)
Atttt Abel Stevens - Town Clerk
I have added in the foregoing copy of the record after the figures words expressing the same figures
Atttt Calvin Skinner- Town Clerk
Royalton April 4th 1849.
State of Vermont 
Windsor County SS
Personally appeared before me Elisha Rix a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Windsor Calvin Skinner to me known to be the signer of the foregoing certificate and to be also the Town Clerk of said town of Royalton: who being sworn doth depose and say that the foregoing is a true extract from the records of said Town with the exception that to the duty which appears on the records in figures he has added words expressing the said figures Atttt
Elisha Rix Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont
Windsor County, ss.
I, Norman Williams, Clerk of the County Court, of the County of Windsor in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify that Elisha Rix is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the 3rd day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty eight and will expire the thirtieth day of November next, and that his signature foregoing is genuine. Given under my hand and the seal of said County Court, at Woodstock, in said County of Windsor, this 6th day of April A. D. 1849
Norman Williams, Clerk.
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No. 327
Priscilla Waller
Wid of John C.
NY
Act 29 July 1848
married 1796
Husband died 1836
allow 43.33 p. ann.
on 4 March 1848
 C. C. Waller [crossed out]
Claimant
No. 194 1st Avenue
New York
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New York Common Pleas
In the matter of the application of Priscilla Waller for Arrears of Pension.
In open court April 30th 1849
Satisfactory evidence was exhibited at the court that John C. Waller was a resident of the town of Middlebury in the County of Addison in the state of Vermont, that he died on the nineteenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty six, and that at the time of his death, and for several years previous he was a Pensioner of the United States, and that he left surviving him his widow Priscilla Waller.
In the testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 30th day of April 1849.
James Conner Clerk
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Declaration of John C. Waller
Po July 28 1832
S. Haight
Adm.
13 months
$43.33
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State of Vermont,
Addison County ss.
I, Edward D. Barber, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Addison, do hereby certify that the annexed documents contain the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of John C. Waller for a pension.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court this 10th day of July A. D. 1832.
Edward D. Barber Clk
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State of Vermont
County of Addison ss.
We Joel Doolittle and William B. Sumner residing in the town of Middlebury in the county of Addison and the state of Vermont hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John C. Waller of said town of Middlebury who has subscribed and sworn to the declaration hereto annexed.  That we believe him to be sixty nine years of age.  That he is reputed and believed to have been a revolutionary soldier, in the neighborhood of where he resides and that we concur in that opinion.  And we further state that we are acquainted with the character of said John C. Waller and think his declaration of facts entitled to full credit.
Subscribed and sworn in court
July 5, 1832
E. D. Barber Clerk
Wm. Sumner
Joel Doolittle, late Judge Sup. Court, Vt.
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 soldier of the revolution and served as he states
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; and the court also certify that from personal acquaintances with the said John C. Waller as well as with Mr. B. Sumner and Joel Doolittle, whose certificate is above matter, they consider them persons of veracity and entitle to credit.
Edward D. Barber Clerk
Mr. B. Sumner and Joel Doolittle
Affidavits
John C. Waller's Case
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June 19/49
C. C. Waller
June 14/49
Respecting the claim of Priscilla Waller to Rev
sent on the papers
Mr. Ames will look for the paper and answer immediately
Comm. of Pension
please answer
Dept. of the Interior
June 18 1849
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New York June 14, 1849
Sir
Your letter of the 5th informing me that the papers in relation to my mothers application for the pension under a late act, which was granted to my father John C Waller in his lifetime could not be found in your office was duly rec'd and I have made diligent search here to ascertain whether by any possibility they could have failed to reach you thru any right at this place-
They were put in the Post Office in this City as I think on the 2d May and addressed to the "Commissioner of Pensions" Washington City. They went to the office in the bag of letters sent from the collectors office (custom House) on that day-- I think such was the date because I find in of that day my cash book an entry of that day of the court expenses which I paid on the day they were mailed. 
The papers consisted of my mothers declaration stating the time and place of her marriage with my father which I think was Aug. 24, 1796 at Royalton in the County of Windsor, Vermont, by Abel Stevens a justice of the peace. 
refering to papers in your office on which the pension was granted to my father for proof of his services-- stating the time of his death Sept 19. 1836 and that she has remained his widow ever since & still remains so.-- To this was added a copy of the town Records of said Royalton, certified by the present town Clerk & sworn to before a justice of the peace & the signature of the Justice & his official character authenticated by the County Clerk of Windsor County under the seal of his Court. The record so certified was that of the certificate of the marriage of John C. Waller & Priscilla Smith as above mentioned. To this was added my affidavit touching all the facts sworn to by my mother as far as within my knowledge, and identifying her as the widow of the same John
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C. Waller to whom a pension was granted under the act of June 7th 1832. and stating also the loss of the certificate issued to my father of the granting of his pension.
To this was added in the first place a certificate of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the City & County of New York sitting forth that the declaration of my mother & my affidavit had been taken in open Court before Michael Ulshoeffer first Judge of said Court & that the material facts set forth in the papers were proven to the satisfaction of the Court- This certificate I thought insufficient & had another added, under the seal of the Court, stating that the papers had been taken & made in open Court & that the signature of said judge to the certificate of their being duly sworn to according to law was genuine-- supposing you would choose to be the judge yourself of what they proved.
I had drawn all up with care & thought them in every respect amply sufficient for the purpose intended.
If they cannot be found I will thank you at an early moment to advise me whether I must get them all up afresh. The fact of my fathers death & her continued widowhood I could make affidavit to myself-- I was born in 1797 am the eldest son of John C Walter by the said Priscilla Waller.
If it is necessary her declaration should be again made in open court I will get it done tho her age & infirmities are such I would be glad to avoid it.
Respectfully
Your Sevt
C. C. Waller
I caught myself writing at one time since the papers were sent "commissioner of Patents" instead of Pensions and this I could scarcely have made such a stupid blunder, they may have been addressed to the patent office-- Had they been, however, their purport would have indicated their real destination & they would doubtless have been sent to you.
C.C.W.
J. L. Edwards Esq
Com Pensions
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231,941 Act March 3/55
Jan 17/56
Priscilla Waller
widow of
John C. Waller Priv.
Capt.
Enl.
Dis.
Rev. War
Pension
July 48-233
S. R. Waller
New York City
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Let. S. R. Waller Aug 15/56
Let. C. C. Waller Sept 9/56
Let. S. R. Waller Nov 11/57
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State of Vermont
Addison County ss.
On this fourteenth day of February 1833 personal appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the peace for said County John C. Waller, an applicant for a pension under the late act of Congress who being sworn deposeth and saith, that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of  his service; but according to the best of his recollection he said not less than the period mentioned below and in the following grades, namely, for one year I served as a private of infantry and for such service I claim a pension.
And the said John C Waller on his oath further states that he served as set forth in his declaration in an embodied corps, called into actual service by the authorities having at that time the government of the territory, now the State of Vermont; and that he verily believes the officers under whom he performed said service were commissioned and acted under the order of their superior officers and were regarded as serving under the authority of the then united Colonies as much as any volunteer militia who served the country at that time who were citizens of Vermont- and he further states that during the time of the war, after the service which he performed at Rutland mentioned in his declaration, there was constantly kept up a line of communication, by small forts, for the public safety between the East and west side of the green mountains in Vermont and that his said service, on the East side of the mountains, at Royalton Bethel and Barnard, was at forts which formed a part of this line of communication & defence.
He further states that his first term of service at Rutland was three months and that for this definite period he volunteered to serve - He further states that he served in the summer & fall of 1780 & 1781 as long as during those years, the said forts were manned and he believes upwards of five months in each year & that his service afterwards to the close of the war was as follows, viz.  changed with other soldiers who composed a part of the corps and served for two days at a time, in each week, others taking his place for the remaining five days, and so alternately, during the latter part of the spring and the summer & fall months from the breaking up to the recommencement of writer in 1782, and he states that he verily believes that one year is considerably less than the time he actually served exclusive of the service last mentioned
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and the said John C Waller further states that he has not yet been able to obtain the deposition of David Waller to which he alludes in his declaration; but that he is advised that said David Waller does not remember (being several years younger than said John C. and living for the last year previous to his being taken by the indians several miles from whence the said John C. was stationed & being only about 13 years of age in 1780) any material facts in this case.
John C Waller
Subscribed & Sworn before me at Middlebury in the County of Addison and State of Vermont this fourteenth day of Feb. 9,1833
Joel Doolittle Justice Peace
State of Vermont
Addison County
I, Samuel Swift, Clerk of the County Court for the said County of Addison, do hereby certify that the above named Joel Doolittle, before whom the above affidavit of John C. Waller was made was at the time, a Justice of the peace for said County, and his name above written is his own signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 15th day of February 1833
Saml Swift