Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 8219, Ashburn Hillary, Penn.
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SERVICE [illegible]
Hillary, Ashburn or
Ausburn
Elenore
NUMBER W.8219
B.L. Wt. 26633-160-55
CONTENTS _
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Oct March
54841 Apl 9th 1833
Elenore Hillary Widow
of Ashburn Hillary Priv
Ashburn
Applicant refers to the
pension claim recorded
under 2d Sec. of act Feb. 3d 1853
Page 105, Vol. a
Rev War

Regiser
Penn Ledger   4193
A: 160 A May 16/56
W Panhull
Uniontown
Fayette Co Pa
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4.193
Pennsylvania Pittsburgh
Elinore Hillary
widow of
Mc
Ashburn Hillary
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of ┃
75 Dollars 52
Cents per annum, to commence
on the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate
of Pension issued
31st day of May 1854
and sent to A S. Fuller
Uniontown Pa
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 3, 1853, Page 105, Vol. A
(32)
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4597 Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Ashburn Hillary
of the State of Pennsylvania who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Morony of the Reg commanded by Col Hand in the Maryland line for Private 22 mo & 20 days $73.52

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of 75 Dollars 32 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of January 1833 and sent to Hon. A. Stewart
Home Rafes

As to 4th of Sept. 1832 $113.28
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 1833. 37.76
$131.04

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832. ⎬
Recorded by  Vinal Lucas Clerk,
Book D Vol. 2 Page to 196

Paid at the Treasury under
of the act of the 6 April 1838
from 4 March 1837 to 4 Sept 1837
Agent notified 24 July 1838.
3rd [illegible] 9/53
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21.158
Ausburn, Hillary
of
Pennsylvania
Adm'd
Private
22 mo. 20 d
$75.52
Hon. A. Stewart
[illegible]

Hon. A. Stewart
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Brief in the case of Ashburn Hillary of Fayette County in the state of Penna
(Act 7th June, 1832.
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge: Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity:
3. How old is he? [illegible]
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period.
June 5 In 1776
March 1781
Duration of Service.
Years,
Months, 6
Days.  20
Rank.
As a
Names of General and Field Officers
under whom he served.
Gen.
Capt. Marony M.  Capt Mance
Col. Hand 2nd [illegible] 
Gen'l Wayne
Capt Hillery Col Beatty

in 1777 and I long in all 4 months
1-10-76

5. In what battles was he engaged: White Plains
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Fredericksburg, Maryland

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by
incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
Traditionary
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
Court (?)
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J [illigible]
Examining Clerk.
19 1838
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declaration
of
Ashburn Hillary
21.58
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Fayette County
Pennsylvania

On this 22d day of October one
thousand Eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared before the Judges of the Court of Common pleas of Fayette
County aforesaid being a court of Record Ashburn Hillary a resident of Springhill Township County & State aforesaid
aged seventy three years on the eleventh day of April last
that being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following
declaration in order to
obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June
7th 1832. That he first
entered the service
in what was called the flying Camp
under Captain Philip Marony in Frederick Town Maryland
marched from thence
to Phila & New York was put under
and of Major Peter Mance,
Col Hand and Genl Smallwood Genl Anthony Wayne was in a skirmish with the Enemy
near New York and was in the battle at the White Plains when Genl Smallwood wounded in both shoulders on
the retreat & Capt Scott & Brokaw were
killed that under this engagement he served
six months twenty days being 20 days over his time
He entered at Frederick as above mentioned he things the fifth day of June was
discharged in Phila about Christmas
In the year 1776 the battle of the White Plains was fought the better part of October. That he again entered the service 
be enlisting under Captain Ralph Hillary
his eldest brother for one year at Fredericktown Maryland in the month of March 1781
Marched to Baltimore then to the south under Col Charles Beattie went though Williamsburgh
and afterwards returned went as a guard to the prisoners captives of the surrender of Corwallis in October 1781 [in Lancaster?] he
he was discharged after the expiration of his years service in the spring of 1782 but is not certain as to the date of his discharge which he has lost it might
have been a week or two  before the expiration of the year of this he is not certain. He also served after his discharge in
December 1776 under Captain George Burket
as a drafted militia man for two months January and February 1777 & was in a skirmish with the enemy on Baskingridge
Quibble town New Jersey also another
like tour of two months after the Battle of Germantown under the same Captain Burket this was during
the months of November & Decenter of the
same year 1777 Making in the whole
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one year and ten months. That he has no
documentary evidence that he knows of no 
[illegible] living who can testify to his service after diligent search and inquiry to discover
some such, he hereby relinquishes
any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state in answer to the inquiries required to be propounded by the Court the applicant answers that he was born Prince George County the State of Maryland on
the 11th of April 1759. He has no record of his age. He lived when called in the served in Frederick Maryland
where he has lived until about 25 years ago when he moved to where he now resides in Springhill Township Fayette County Penna The manner of his entering the service
was as a drafted militia man and by enlistment [illegible] state. The names of his officers regiments [illegible] of service are as before stated as before stated he [illegible]
but it has been long since lost. The names of the persons who will testify to my [illegible] & their belief in my [illegible] as required
required are Thornton Fleming & James
C. Ramsey
Ashton Hillary his mark

Sworn & subscribed in open Court
the 22d Oct 1832


Wm Beeson Prothy

Wm Thornton  Fleming a clergyman of Uniontown Fayette Co Pa
& James C. Ramsay Springhill Township, in County
certify that we are well acquainted with Ashburn Hillary who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy three years of age
that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and
that we concur in that opinion
Thornton Fleming
James C. Ramsay

Sworn Subscribed in Open Cour
22d Oct 1832

HW Beeson Ruthy
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And the court do hereby declare their opinion after investigation of the matter and often putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department that the applicant therein named was a revolutionary solider and served as therein stated. And the said Court do further certify that it appears to them that Thornton Fleming who has signed the foregoing certificate is a clergyman resident of Union Town Fayette County PA and that James C. Ramsey who has also signed the same, is a resident of Fayette County, Pa, and is a credible person. and that their statement is entitled to credit.


Fayette County Pennsylvania
I Henry W. Beeson Prothonotary of the Court of Common pleas in for said county, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court, in the matter of the application of Ashburn Hillery for a pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 26th day of December AD 1832
[signature]
H.W. Beeson
Prothy
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Agent for applicant
W. Parshall
Uniontown
Fayette Co.
Penna.
Hillary
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Fayette Ss

On this twenty second day of March A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the justices of the peace within an for the county and state aforesaid Elenore Hillary aged seventy three years a resident of Springhill township in the County and sate aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law doth declare that she is the widow of Ashburn Hillary deceased who was a private in the Revolutionary war and that she is the Identical person to whom a certificate for a Pension was issued at the Department of the Interior in the thirty first day of May one thousand eight hundred and fifty four under the 2d, section of the act of February 3. 1853 and which is recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act of February 3d 1853 page 105 Vol. A. she further states that she is unable for the want of recollection and information to give the particulars of the services of her late husband the said Ashburn Hillary deceased and refers to the proof of his services to the record and evidence filed with her application for a Pension in the Pension  office of the United States-She further states that she was married on the first day of May about the year one thousand eight hundred and two but cannot be positive of the year in Frederick County in the state of Maryland to the said Asburne Hillary by one John Dubois a catholic Priest and that her name before such marriage was Elenore King that her said husband died in Springfield Township on Fayette County state of Pennsylvania on the sixth day of February one thousand eight hundred and forty seven for the proof of all of which she refers to the records evidence furnished with her ap-
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-plication [application] for a pension to the Department of the Interior. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled to under the act passed March 3rd 1855 never before having received any.
[signature]
x her mark Elenore Hillary

Sworn to and subscribed and acknowledges before me the day and year before written. And on the same day, and year first before me written And on the same day personally came Jonathan Monroe Esq, And Stacy Whitacre residents of Springhills Township in the County and state aforesaid to one personally Known to be creditable witnesses who being duly affirmed according to law declare that they are personally acquainted the above named Elenore Hillary widow of Ashburn Hillary who has made and subscribed the foregoing declaration and that they saw her make her mark her mark to the same-That they were personally acquainted with Ashburn Hillary and his wife the above named Elenore in the lifetime of the former and know that they lived together as man and wife and to be so reputed and that the said Ashburn Hillary, was the identical person who was a pensioner of the United States and that the above named Elenore Hillary is the identical person who is a pensioner as she has declared above and that the said Ashburn is now dead and that the said Elenore is now a widow and they further swear that they are disinterested in her application for land aforesaid
affirmed to and subscribed before me the day and year first above written the word "sworn" erased and "affirmed" interlined before signing
[signatures]
Jos G. Williams [seal that says J.P.]

Jonathan Monroe
Stacy Whitacre

I hereby certify and declare that I am not interested in this claim
Jos G. Williams
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Pennsylvania, Fayette County, SS.
I. R.T. Galloway Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, do hereby certify that
Jas. G. Williams, Esquire, before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavits appears to have been made, was at the date thereof and now is an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that the signatures thereto purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and seal of the said Court, at Uniontown this 5th day of April A.D. 1855.
R.T. Galloway Prothonotary
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No. 1252
Eleanor Hilliary
wid of Ashburn
Pa
July 28. 1848
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Pennsylvania
Fayette County

On this 12th day of April A.D. 1852, personally appeared in Open Court before the judge of the General Court of said County [illegible] HIllary aged eighty [illegible] years has been duly sworn according to ... on his oath made the forthcoming declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pensions made by the act of Congress ... July 1848 that she is the widow of Ashburn Hillary, who was a Soldier of the revolutionary war ... a pension from the United States ... at the rate of [illegible] five dollars [illegible] cents ... The petitioner ... that She was married ... Ashburn Hillary in the year Seventeen hundred and ninety one that her husband the afforesaid Ashburn HIllary died on the [illegible] day of February eighteen hundred and forty Seven that She was not married to him previous to his leaving the Service but the marriage took place [illegible] to the second of January eighteen hundred [illegible] at the time [illegible] stated.  She further [illegible] that she is now a widow and that she has never been made application for a pension and that their is no record of the marriage ... in the day and year [illegible] above ... in open Court 

Elenore Hillary
her mark


In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the Courts of Fayette County aforesaid the 12th day of April A.D. 1852

Richd Huskins Prothonotary
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[Except for 2 signatures & a date the top portion of certificate is illegible]
Thomas Acklin J P
Wm Downard
Thomas Acklin
[Illegible seal on bottom part of certificate]
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA:
FAYETTE COUNTY, SS.-I Richard Huskins Prothonotary.
of the Court of Common Pleas of said county, do certify that Thomas Acklin Esq before whom the above and following affidavits purports to have been made, was at the date thereof, and now is
an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified according to law, and that his signature as Justice to said affidavits as genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at
Uniontown, in the county aforesaid, the 7th
day of September A.D. 1853
Rich Harkins Prothonotary.
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[A written statement from someone in Fayette County.  Writing too faded to render a meaningful translation]
that
will appear
the be
11 peace as
entitled to as the
it
an a
death and saith that in
with
the
went with the
the Contents
then and seal at the time
that in the year
the other man but that
to
,
the
1
is in the
11
to
7th
Sept
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Widow, &c.
File No. 8219
Elenore Hillary
Wid.
Ashburn Hillary
Priv. rev. War
Act: Feby 3rd 1853
Index:-Vol. A, Page 334
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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[illegible]
Fayette County

[Illegible] appeared before [illegible] a Justice
[illegible] said County William Dougherty,
who did know [illegible] hand he that
that he has been acquainted with Ashburn Hillary and [illegible]
forty years and [illegible] that they have [illegible]
as was with    up to    time the [illegible]
said Ashburn Hilary and knew that the said Ashburn [illegible]
to be a revolutionary soldier and that they have [illegible] in Fayette County during that [illegible] time

Wm Dougherty

22nd day of February
1853
Jonathan Monroe JP
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State of Pennsylvania
Fayette County, SS- I Richard Huskins Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said county, do certify Jonathan Monroe Esq before whim the foregoing affidavits purports to have been made, was at the date thereof, and now is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified according to law, and that his signature as Justice to said affidavits are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at Uniontown, in the county aforesaid, the 1st day of April, A.D., 1853
Richd Huskins Prothonotary
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(illegible)
John Davenport
(illegible)
John Davenport
(illegible)
Brownsville april 9th 1833
I do certify that I am well acquainted with William Dougerty and John Davenport whose names are affixed to the (illegible) papers are men of good standing in the community in which they reside for truth and veracity
Jno L Dawson
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Union Town
Fayette County Ss

Personally appeared before the subscribed a justice of the peace in and of said county Elizabeth Eberhart who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that she has been acquainted with Ashburn Hillary, and Elanore his wife for upwards of Forty five years and that she came from Maryland to Fayette County Pennsylvania with the said Ashburn Hilliary, and Elanore his wife and arrived in said County in September AD 1807 and she further knows that they have been living together as man and wife up to the time of the death of the said Ashburn. She also knows that the said Ashburn was reputed to be a revolutionary soldier and that they have resided in Fayette County during the time above mentioned
Sworn and subscribed this 22nd day of February AD 1853
[signatures]
Jonathan Monroe  J.P.
SW Selman

x his mark Elizabeth Eberhart
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[A written statement from someone in Fayette County. Writing too faded to render a meaningful translation]

26th
1
1
Pennsylvania
it part
1
⌨⌨⌨⌨⌨⌨⌨⌨⌨⌨⌨
to Andrew
Parke
time to
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with
Forty
have the
⌨ ⌨ ⌨ ⌨ ⌨ ⌨
the time of the death of the said
that said thus upon
, then in
to
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Andrew Lake
Hometha Monroe
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Fayette County

[Illegible] a Justice of the Peace in the aforesaid 
County Adolph Eberhart 
[illegible]
Forty two
 [illegible]
said Ashburn [illegible]
said Ashburn was reputed to be a revolutionary soldier and that he [illegible] the County during the time above mentioned.
Adolph Eberhart
his mark

26th day 11 [illegible] 161.3
Jonathan Monroe JP
Attest
A.B. Eberhart
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(illegible)
State of Pennsylvania
Fayette County, SS. - I Richard Huskins Prothonotary.
of the Court of Common Pleas of said county, do certify that Jonathan Monrow Esqr.
before whom the above & foregoing affidavits
purports to have been made, was at the datethereof, and now is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified according to the law, and that his signature as Justice to affidavits are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand affixed the seal of said Court, at Uniontown, in the county aforesaid the 24 day of October A.D. 1853
Rich Huskins Prothonotary
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[Illegible]
with   Ashburn
[illegible]
Elinore
[illegible]
Ashburn
[illegible] 
United States
Stacy Whitacre

this 22nd day [illegible]
Jonathan Monroe JP
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Brief in the case of Elinor Hillary wife of Ashburn
Fayette County and State of Pa
act
[illegible] 57
Claim, ("original", or "for increase")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance 
State proofs [illegible]

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
A.S. Fullerton
11
Name and residence of Agent   Pa
Examining Clerk
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Treasury Department
Second Comptroller's Office,
July 18. 1838
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 payments of the same at the Treasury of the United States, " Ashburn Hillary a Pensioner on the Roll of the Pittsburgh Penn, Agency at the rate of seventy five Dollars and fifty two Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832 has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1837 to the 4th of September 1837-
Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Present
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Eleanor Hillary
wid of 
Ashburn Hillary
[illegible]

JJ Coombs
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[Illegible]
Search
I [illegible] of Jeremiah Asher [illegible] to [illegible]
of Ashburn Hilary
[illegible]
attest that   I have been [illegible]to [illegible] it is a long [illegible]
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This document has faded to almost completely illegible.  There is a date at the bottom 12/33

Please refer to the original document.
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[illegible]
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Pension Office
Nov. 9, 1853

Sir,

I write, by obligio, if you will State to what time the pension of Ashburn Hillary, decd, who was a pensioner, on the 19th of the Pennsylvania (Pittsburg) Agency under the Act of June 7, 1832, at the rate if $75:52ct, per Annum, and whose papers are herewith, enclosed, was last paid and to whom [preceding 3 words underlined] paid.

Sam Resp'ly
Senr. M. Servant

S P Waldo
Commissioner


Died 6th Feby 1847. Paid to his death.  Papers to establish any further claim in this case not received at this [preceding 4 words underlined] office.

Saml S. Rind
Actg. 3d Auditor

F. Burt Esq.
Third Auditor
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Uniontown April 20th 1853

Hon L. Waldo Comm of Pensions

I inclose [sic] you the application of Mrs. Hillary of for a pension.   [illegible] Please give it your attention as quickly as possible.  The declaration was drawn under act of 1848 it herein contains all the facts necessary to receive a pension under the act of 5 February last.

[illegible]
A.S. Fuller
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[A letter. Because individual letters in words and entire words are so faded as to be wholly illegible, a meaningful transcription cannot be provided.]
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[A letter. Because individual letters in words and entire words are so faded as to be wholly illegible, a meaningful transcription cannot be provided.]
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The apt. wrote Hon: jno L. Dawson.  [illegible] date of May 24”/54 that he Would take under act of 53.  The letter went to Mr. Dawson on aftn [illegible]. L hr wen written May  [illegible]. 

B [illegible]
May 30 /52.
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Uniontown Sep 9 1853
[illegible] Comm of Pensions

I enclose you the affidavits [illegible]  Lennard and a Jacob Williams which [illegible] the  marriage of Ashburn Hillary and Elenore the applicant beyond all doubt In Penna cohabitation is all that is necessary to prove in or to establish Marriage; and I think it had been asked by the pension Department

You State in your letter that the applicant must show that there is evidence of the Marriage   You will find that fact set forth in the declaration the applicant near the close of the declaration

your, etc
[illegible signature]
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Washington March 28 [the second digit is overwritten and may be a 4 or a 9] 1854.

Sir: 

Enclosed please find additional evidence in support of the claim of Eleanor Hillary, widow of the Act of of 24th July 1848. 

I hope you will find the evidence satisfactory to prove year [illegible] to 1800.  The declaration alleges that the marriage took place prior to 1794. Although the evidence may not be sufficient to Establish clearly a marriage below that date, yet I think it will be favorable [illegible] to establish the marriage prior to 1800 and this being the claim within the Act of 1848 - the only Act under which she has a claim. 

Very Respectfully 
Your obt sevt 
JJ Combs

Hon J.P. Edwards
Comm of Pensions
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Eleanor Hillary
wid of Ashburn Hillary

PA. [Act?] 1848-

Addl. Evidence


JJ Coombs
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Pennsylvania
Fayette County Ss
Personally appeared in open Court Charles Williams and made oath in due form [illegible] that he is upwards of fifty seven years of age and that Elanore Hilliary [illegible] Hilliary has children  [illegible] and that she and the said [illgibel] had children [illegible] before the years eighteen hundred 
sworn and subscribed this 11th day if March 1854
Richd Huskins [illegible]

x his mark Charles Williams
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Ellenore Hillary
widow of Ashburn Hillary
Pa

Letter to A S Fuller July 22/53
A.S. Fuller 5th October 1853.
"' Nov 9. 1853
[illegible] Mch /54
Hon: [illegible] Jno Lawson, May 30/54
Rejected (See over)
Set 29 July 1848


act Feb 3/52

Nc 4.728
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[Post Stamped] APR 5 PA [illegible]
FREE
H. P. Waldo Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City, D.C.
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26,633
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