Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21,550, for James Lamb, New Hampshire
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SERVICE
N.H.

& French & Indiana War

Lamb, James
Judith

NUMBER
W 21.550
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Reported
Date of death not on ab
65

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1410
New York Albany
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Judith Lamb
widow of James Lamb
N. H.
who served in the Revolutionary war
as a private
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars -----Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 24, day of August 1848 and sent to
C. Fenton
Crown Point N.Y.
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Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848   Page 118  Vol. 4.
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15.577
New Hampshire
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James Lamb
[illegible] in the state of New Hampshire
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Cilley of the New Hampshire 
line, for the term of three years
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Inscribed on the roll of New Hampshire
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 9th of July 18??
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Certificate of Pension issued the 30th of October 1???  and sent to Elisha Huntley Esq
Keene [illegible] N. H.
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Arrears to 4th of Sept 18?? / [illegible] 23/30 & ?/30     11.99
Semi-anl. all'cd ending [illegible 1820  4?:
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$62.99
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Revolutionary Claim,}
Act 18th March, 1818.}
Discontinued under Law [illegible] 1820
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James Lamb

[next writings very faint]

Examined
[illegible]
New Hampshire
Examined

[illegible] taken out
paid as Mr Edwards
No 15577 Wendell
82 10 Oct 19
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
CHESHIRE COUNTY SS.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
On this 18th day of July AD 1820 personally appeared
In open court being a court of record for said county, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of its proceedings, James Lamb aged eighty eight years, resident in Wendell in said county,
who being first duly sworn, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: That he the said Lamb served in the company commanded by Capt. Ebenezer Fry in the Regiment command by Colo Cilley in the New hampshire Line on the continental establishment for the full term of three years.
The date of my original declaration in order to obtain a pension is the ninth day of July AD 1819. The number of my pension certificate is 15,557.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818: and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to
provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war,” passed on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
I am by Occupation a farmer or husbandman I am of insufficient ability to pursuit, by rea son of old age and Rheumatic Complaints. My family consists of a wife Judah aged sixty years, who is disabled from Laboring by the Rheumatisms and other complaints incident to old age. And a son Joseph Aged 21 years who is subject to fits a great proportion of his time, and costs me considerable
to look after and maintain him. None of our family are of sufficient [illegible] to maintain themselves. I owe to several persons the sum of one hundred and twenty one dollars.
James Lamb

Sworn to and declared at Newport in said County, on the
eighteenth day of July 1820 before
Elisha Huntley Judge of said Court
I, SALMA HALE, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for the County of Cheshire, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are
truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property in the aforesaid
schedule is 248 dollars and [blank] cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this nineteenth day of July A. D. 1820
S. Hale
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Schedule,
Of the whole estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) and income of James Lamb of Wendell in the County of Cheshire and State of New hampshire, Applicant for a Pension under the act of Congress of May 1st, 1820.
A farm in Wendell - $200.00
1 Horse $8.00, 1 Cow $14.00 - 22.00
Two year old stears [steers] - 6.00
1 Dirk Kettle, 25 cts [cents], 1 Pot, 50 cts [cents] - .75
1-4 pail Kettle poor and old - .50
6 Knives and forks old and worn - .25
Earthen Ware - .50
[Total] $248.00
Debts due from me to several persons 121.00
James Lamb

We the Subscribers testify and say, that we have viewed the property contained in the above Schedule, shewn to us by [blank] above named, as his property; and of opinion that the sums set against the respective items are their true value.

Cheshire SS. 182[blank] Personally appeared, [blank] above named and made oath to the truth of the above statement, by them subscribed. Before me, Justice of the Peace
I certify, that [blank] above named, are disinterested and credible witnesses. Justice of the Peace.
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I James Lamb of Hinsdale in the County of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire Husband man do make the following declaration upon oath_____
That in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven Hundred and Twenty Seven in the month of April I enlisted as a private soldier in the Continental army in the United States of America at Hopkentown in the State of New Hampshire in the new hampshire line for three years in Capt Ebenezer Frye Company in Col Jospeh Cilley Payment in Genl Poor Brigade and marched to Tyconderoga  and from that was at the taking of Burgoyne and from that to Valley forge and from that to the Jares and from place to place until my three years had expired and was honorable discharged at Danbury in the state of Massachusetts  but Since have lost my Buildings by fire and my discharge was burnt____Also I further say upon oath that I am poor and stand in need of the assistance of my Country for support  I was eighty seven years of age last october
James Lamb
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State of Newhampshire
Cheshire ss July 9th 1819 then before Elisha Huntley A Justice of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Cheshire personally appeared James Lamb within named and made oath that the within Declaration by him subscribed Contains the truth and nothing but the truth and it having been made to appear to my Satisfaction that the Said
James Lamb did Serve in manner as by him is Stated in Said Declarat [crossed out] in the Revolutionary war against the Common enemy in manner by him is Stated in said Declaration also that he is poor and Stands in need of the assistance of his country for Support all which I herby
certify to the Honble [Honorable] John C Calhoun Secretary War
Elisha Huntley one of the Justices of the Court of Common pleas for said County

Cheshire SS Sept 30 1819
I Salma Hale Clerk of the Judicial Courts in said County certify that Elisha Huntley is one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in said County, that the foregoing is his signature and that no particular impression is used as a seal
by said Court
S Hale
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V  No 7558
Judith Lamb
N. Y.
Act 7 July 1818

add
2 yrs pri
80$

no deduction

Wolcott Tyrrel
Schroon Lake N.Y.

Hon A C Hand HR  [crossed out]
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State of New York }
County of Essex}  ss.

On this twentieth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty personally appeared before me Wolcott Tyrol First Judge of the court of common Pleas in and for the said county of Essex
Judith Lamb a resident of the town of Schroon in the county of Essex and state of New York aged eighty three years the tenth day of May last 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 the 7 AD 1838  That she is the widow of James Lamb who was in his life time a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States, and that on drawing the arrears of his pension after the death of her saihusbang she returned his pension certificate to the agent who paid the arrears of his said pension and that the documentary evidence of his being a pensioner may be found in the pension office of the Unites States.
she further declares that she was married to the said James Lamb on the twenty first day of February in the year seventeen hundred and eighty four at Newlondon in the state of New Hampshire by the Rev M Ambrose of Sutton Newhampshire and she saith that she knows of no documentary evidence of their said marriage and she further declares that she lied with her said husband James Lamb until the time of his death which happened or took place at the town of Wendall  Newhampshire according to the best of her recollection on the 16 day of February AD 1830 And
that she has remained a widow ever since and has not  been married as will appear by the following affidavit of Joseph  Lamb
her
Judith  X  Lamb
mark

sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me Wolcott Tyrol First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Essex 
The applicant cannot write and has to make her mark
Wolcott Tyrrel Judge
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I hereby certify that the applicant is unable to appear in court by reason of bodily infirmity residing thirty two or three miles from the place where the court is held.  And for a considerable part of the way a very rough Road.
The said applicant character for truth and veracity is good.
Wolcott Tyrrell Judge
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I Joseph Lamb of the town of Schroon County of Essex and State pf New York being duly sworn according to law do testify and say that I was acquainted with James Lamb in his life time for more than twenty five years before his death that he died in February to 1830
And Judith Lamb lived with her said husband James Lamb from the time of my first acquaintance with them until the death of the said James as husband and wife and I know that the said Judith took care of the said James until the time of his death   And I further declare that the said Judith has lived with me for more than half the time since the death of her said husband and that she remains the widow Lamb and has not since been married  And I know that the said James Lamb was a pensioner in his lifetime I have seen his pension Certificate and know the he drew from the Unites a pension for Revolutionary services
I think ninety six Dollars per year I have been with him when he drew his pension money and have seen him receive it
An further this deponent saith not
Joseph Lamb [signature]
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 2d day of June AD 1840
Wolcott Tyrrel Judge

I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with Joseph Lamb the above deponent for a number of years and that he is a man of good moral Character and a credible witness
Wolcott Tyrol Judge
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I Mary Hall of Rochester in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont of lawful age do testify and say, that fifty six years ago the 21 day of last February I was present at the wedding of James Lamb and Judith Austin (now Judith Lamb) and saw them united in marriage at New london in New hampshire by the Rev Mr Ambrose of Sutton N.H. and further your deponent saith not
Rochester May 24th 1840
Mary Hall her mark

Rochester May 24, 1840
State of Vermont Windsor County
Then the above named Mary Hall personally appeared and after being carefully examined and duly cautioned made
solemn Oath that the foregoing deposition by her
subscribed contains the whole truth and nothing but
the truth before me
Joel Cooper Justice Peace
The above deposition taken at the request of
Joseph Lamb to be used at the United States Pension
office in the examination of the case of Judith Lamb
Joel Cooper Justice
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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 {Joel Cooper} is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the twenty-fifth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, and will expire on the thirtieth day of November next, and that his signature above written is genuine.

Given under my hand and the seal of said County Court, this {28} day of {May} A.D. {1840}
N Williams, Clerk.
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State of New York
County of Essex, SS
I Edmund F. Williams Clerk of said County of Essex and
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do
hereby Certify that Wolcott Tyrrell Esqr whose name is subscribed to foregoing papers was on the day of the date of the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County duly Commissioned appointed and Qualified and residing therein and further that I am well acquainted with the
hand Writing of the said Judge and believe the
Signature, within "Wolcott Tyrrel" is his own proper hand Writing
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed my Official Seal this 26th day of June A.D. 1840
E. F. Williams Clerk
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I Phinias Bean of Newbury in the county of Merrimack State of New Hampshire of lawful age depose and say that I have made diligent search for a record of the marriage of Judith Austin with James Lamb on the town record of Newlondon and the church record of the Rev. Samuel Ambrose deceased formerly of the town of Sutton in the County aforesaid and the on said records there is no such marriage recorded and further saith not 
 
State of NewYork Essex county
Sworn and subscribed before Phineas Bean me at Schroon the 19 day of January AD 1841

I hereby certify that Phinias Bean the above named deponent from what personal acquaintance I have had with him and from depute is a man of good moral character and a credible witness
Wolcott Tyrrel Judge

State of New York
county of Essex ss}
I Edmund F Williams Clerk of the County of Essex and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do certify that Wolcott Tyrrel whose name is Subscribed to that within or above certificate was on the day of the date of the same one of the Judge of the said County dwelling in the said county duly appointed and qualified and authorized to act as such and fourth that I  am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and know the signature above to be his proper hand writing

In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed My Official Seal as the Office of Clerk of said County this 21st day of January A. D. 1841.
N. Williams Clerk
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State of New York}
Essex County}

Jonathan Worcester and Mary W. his wife of the the town of Crown Point in said County being duly sworn they say that they became acquainted with James Lamb in the year of our Lord 1798 in the tow of Wendell in the State of Newhampshire [sic] that they resided for more than twenty years within half a mile of said Lamb and they knew the said Lamb and his wife lived together as man and wife until the death of said Lamb and the their acquaintance has continued with the widow and the family to the present time the one of Lambs sones [sic] married one of their daughters and that their were great intimacy between the two families the they have heard Lamb and his wife both speak of their marriage and say that priest Ambrose married them and they have hence other person speak of their having been married about the time they first became acquainted with them on the account of their ages Lamb being near thirty year older than his wife  And they further say that they was not at the wedding and did not see them married but that they have no more doubt of their having been married by priest Amborse that tho they had been present and witness the [illegible]  they understood from Lamb and his wife and others that they had been married more than a dozen years before they knew them
Jonathan Worster
Mary H Worster

Sworn and Subscribed before me October the 22 1841
Wolcott Tyrrel a Judge of the Court of Cops Pleas of the County of Essex
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I do hereby certify that Jonathan Worster and Mary H Worster his wife the within named deponants I have been acquainted with for a number of years and from my personal knowledge and by repute no persons in this region of contry [country] rank higher for truth and verasity [veracity] than the within named deponants
Wolcott Tyrrel Judge

State of New York
County of Essex SS I George Throop Junr Deputy Clerk
of the County of Essex do hereby certify that the
within named Wolcott Tyrrel before whom the within
affidavit was taken was at the time of taking said
affidavit First Judge of the County of Essex, duly appointed
and sworn, that he took and Subscribed his oath of
office on the 29th day of May 1838 and that his time
of office will not expire until the 18th day of April 1843 being five years from the date of his commission now on file in this office. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the said County the 23d day of Nov. 1841
Geo. Throop Jr Dep. [Deputy] Clerk
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Rev
Widow, etc.
File No. 21.550
Judith Lamb 
wid of
James Lamb
Priv Rev War
Act Feb 2d [18]48
Index: - Vol. A, Page 421
Arrangement of 1870.
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5130
Jan 16 1844
N Y
Mar 3 1843
Judith Lamb

Hon L. Stetson
H R [House of Representative]
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Ho of Reps [House of Representatives] 15th Jany 1844
Col Edwards
Com Pensions- Sir I hand you with this Judith Lamb[']s
declaration for a pension having reced [received] the same from Judge Wolcott Tyrrel of Schroon N.Y. I hope you
will be able, soon, to pass upon the case.
Respy [Respectfully] Yrs [Yours]
L. Stetson
of N. Y.
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Crown Point N York
August 9, 1848
Dr [Dear] Sir
Enclosed I send you two Declarations to obtain certificates under the last Pension act
The applicants are very aged and feeble and I wish their cases might be decided with as little delay as possible
Please write me
Yours Truly
C Fenton

Hon J L Edwards
Com Pensions
Washington City
D C
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Col. Edwards
The enclosed were sent me by Judge Tyrrel a very honorable and upright man first Judge of the County in which I reside -
Will you examine the case as soon as convenient -
Very Respy [Respectfully]
A C Hand
H of R [House of Representatives] Fev 1 [18]41
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No 15577
War Department
PENSION OFFICE
31 July 1820
Sir,
You are hereby informed that the Secretary of War does not, on account of the amount of your
property, consider you entitled to a Pension under the Acts of the 18th March, 1818, and 1st May, 1820; and has, therefore, directed your name to be stricken from the Pension List.
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards

To Mr. James Lamb
Wendell
New Hampshire
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For reconsideration
To re-consider
Recd [Received] 4 Sept. 1820

Free
Secretary of War
Washington City
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Newport, N.H. August 28. 1820

Will the Secretary of War examine this inclosed Petition with his former Pension Papers under the act of May 1, 1820, and decide if Mr Lamb cannot be Kept in the Pension Roll.
Yours etc
D. Hale

Sec War
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Albany Pension Agency
July 8, 1842.
James L. Edwards Esquire
Commissr [Commissioner] of Pensions,
Sir,
The Attorney for Judith Lamb applies for payment of her pension, on the enclosed Vouchers.
Agreeably to your instructions of the 3d ulto. I submit them for your inspection-
Very Respectfully
Your obt Servt [obedient Servant]
Thos M. Olcott Prest and
Pension agt [agent] per
L Jenkins
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Pensioners property - an unproductive farm - valued at $200 - personal property $48 - total $248. (indebted to individuals $121.) Pensioners age - 88 - Served Several years in the old french war and 32 months in the Revy War - his family - wife aged 60 - infirm - one son - aged 21. partially deranged - unable to labor - May 22, 1821

Reinstated and Sent to David Hale New Port, N H
July 17, 1821
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feb 14, 1842
N Y
Judith Lamb

Schroon Lake
Feb 8th

free

Hon J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington
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Dear Sir
The reason for this great delay in not sending the papers to the pension office before is that I was informed by the applicant Judith Lamb of some persons that was present at her wedding
and saw her married to James Lamb, and the last knowledge she had of any of those persons they resided in New hampshire, I then learned from some people that had formily [formerly] lived in Wendall New hampshire that some of those persons the
applicant named was living there eight or tin [ten] years ago, and as I was wishing to put the question of Marriage beyond a doubt
I was anxious to obtain a deposition from some of the persons that was present at the Weding [wedding].
The applicant being wholly destitute of means and exteamly [extremely] poor, and I have expended as much in sending to New hampshire to examine the richards and Other expenses as I feel disposed to advance knowing that I should receive nothing
if she failed in geting [getting] a pension, I waited until a Chance offered to send and have but Just got returns, I learn the persons the applicant named are all dead and gone
I sent to Vermont last spring and got the affidavit of Mary Hall and it is the same in substance as the One you have in the pension office except she quallifies it by saying, as to the time of the marriage, to the best of her recollection and saith that she suposed the one you have had that quallification
I have indeavered to obtain an affidavit from her calling her attention to state same circumstances that makes her recollect the time of the marriage but she was sick and the man by whom I sent could not be detained I got no affidavit
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but I learn she is the sister of the applicant and the only reason she offer for recollecting the time of the marriage is the time of her own Marriage and that her sister was married
so long before she was and all this she qualifies by saying to the best of her recollection
If she is living I supose I can obtain an affidavit to that amount if it would be of any use
I here enclose the affidavit of Mr. Worster and his wife which is the best evidence that I have been able to obtain
Schroon January the 10 AD 1862
Very Respectfully
Yours etc
Wolcott Tyrrell

J. L. Edwards Esqr etc.
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Rep Jan 20. 1844

4535 A
New York
Judith Lamb
widow of James Lamb
who was a Private
in the New Hampshire line

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
80 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 20th day of January 1844 and sent to Hon L. Stetson
Ho. of Representatives

Act of March 3, 1843.
Recorded in Book A
Vol 1 Page 215
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6559
Albany, New York
Judith Lamb widow of of James Lamb decd
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818
and who died on the 16th February 1830
of Essex Co. in the State of NY.
who was a Private in the Compy [Company] commanded
by Captain [blank] of the Regt [Regiment] commanded
by Col Cilley in the N. H. line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany N. Y. at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 23rd day of Feby
1842 and sent to and Wolcott Tyrrel Schroon Lake N. Y.

Arrears to the Mar 1841 $400.00
Semi-annual allowance ending Mar [18]42 40.00 [crossed out]
[Total] $400.00
Act July 7 1838.
Recorded by D. D. Addison Clerk,
Book A Vol. 3d Page 88
Let to Albany Agt [Agent] July 11 1842
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5130
Judith Lamb
$80

Hon. L. Stetson
H. R. [House of Representatives]
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State of New York
Essex County SS
On the six day of December in the year of Our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and forty three personally came and appeared
before the undersigned First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Essex and State aforesaid Judith Lamb who being
first by me duly sworn upon her Oath maketh the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress approved March
the 3th 1843 Entitled "An act granting a pension to certain Revolutionary soldiers" That she is the widow of James Lamb late of this town of Wandall [Wendell] State of New hampshire, deceased, That she obtained a pension as such widow under a former act of Congress for five years, and was inscribed on the pension list Rolls of the
New York agency for five years at the rate of Eighty dollars per Annum commencing on the 4th day of March 1836 and the last payment
was due at the agency of the United States for paying pensions in the City of Albany on the 4th day of March 1841, But she did not obtain her certificate until the 23rd day of February 1842 and drew her money after that date, at which time she returned her Original pension Certificate issued out of the war Office of the United States, at the
said agency and which together with the Evidence which she made to procure her original pension for five years she believes to be now on
file in the War Office of the United States referance being had thereunto the same will fully appear
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That she has not since intermarried and still remains the widow of the said James Lamb deceased That she now resides in the town of Schroon in the County of Essex and State of New York and has resided there for the space of Eight years last past, and that previous thereto she resided in the town of Wendall State of Newhampshire That she is now aged seventy six years
Judith Lamb her mark
subscribed and sworn
to this 6 day of December
AD 1843 before me
Witness
Wolcott Tyrrel Judge

State of New York
Essex County
I Wolcott Tyrrel First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Essex and State aforesaid, before whom the
foregoing declaration was made and sworn to do hereby Certify That I am well and personally acquainted with the Declarant Judith Lamb and know her to be the Identicle [Identical] person she declares herself to be and further that she is a reputable
person and her statements are entitled to credit, and further that from Old Age and Debility and owing to the distance it would
not be prudent for her to appear at Our Court of Record
Given under my hand and seal
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at Schoon this 6 day of December
AD 1843
Wolcott Tyrrel Judge

State of New York
County of Essex
I Edmund F. Williams Clerk County Essex and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby Certify that Wolcott Tyrrel Esquire before whom the foregoing declaration was made and
who administered the foregoing affidavit and who signed the jurat to the same and who signed the foregoing Certificate was on the day of the date of the same a Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas in and for the said County duly appointed and Commissioned and qualified to act as such residing within the said County and
I further certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and Verily believe the foregoing signatures "Wolcott Tyrrel" to be genuine
In Witness Whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed my
official seal at the office of the
Clerk of said County this 16th
day of December A.D. 1843
E F Williams Clerk
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State of New York
County of Essex SS
On this second day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred
and forty eight personally appeared before the subscriber
a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Essex in the State of
New York Judith Lamb a resident of the town of Crown Point in the said County of Essex aged ninety years, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed on the 2d February 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War That she is the widow of James Lamb who was a private in the Army of
the Revolution in the New Hampshire line and who drew a pension under the act of Congress passed the 18th March 1818 of Eight dollars per month, and on account of whose services she was pensioned under the Acts of 7th July 1838. 3d March 1843 and 17 June 1844 and the annual amount of the pension which she received under the
act of 17th June 1844 was Eighty dollars. She further declares she is still a widow. 
Judith Lamb her mark x
Subscribed & sworn to the
day and year first above within Chauncey Fenton Justice Peace
Witnesses
H. H. Holder
Rachel Lamb

I certify that the above named declarant
is personally known to me
Chauncey Fenton Justice Peace

I certify that Judith Lamb above named by reason of old age and feebleness is unable to write her name
Chauncey Fenton Justice Peace

State of New York
County of Essex  I Edmund F. Williams Clerk of the said County
do certify that Chauncey Fenton was on the day of the date of the above Declaration and Certificates a Justice of the Peace within and for the said County duly appointed and sworn and that the signatures to the Jurat of the above declaration and to the above Certificates, purporting to be his are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the said County this third day of August 1848.
E F Williams Clerk
By G. S. Nicholson Dept [Deputy] Clk [Clerk]
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To John C. Calhoun Secretary of War.
The subscriber has received a notice from the War department informing him "that the Secretary of War does not, on the account of the amount of his property consider him entitled to a Pension", and supposing that this judgment may have passed upon his case without the immediate inspection of Secretary under some general instructions to the Clerks, and believing his circumstances if rightly understood would not take from him this favor of his government, is induced to lay his case before the Secretary.
I am an aged man perhaps as old as any who may have applied in this way for the assistance of his country, being now eighty eight years, and as infirm and incapable of performing manual labor as the regulations of the Secretary could have anticipated. I have a wife, and a partially deranged son dependent on me for support.- I am a poor man and altho my property was appraised at $248 a fair representation of it will I believe convince the Secretary it affords but little towards my support. It consists principally of a poor little farm, rocky, broken and unfruitful, without an Acre of tillage upon it. I am unable to labor, and have for several years part to purchase articles for my subsistence on a credit, which has been lately extended to me on
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on the faith of my former pension Certificate. Take away this pledge of my government, and I am reduced to Indigence. My farm is unsaleable and my other property comparitively nothing.
Besides my age, my poverty, and the situation of my family, permit me to briefly recount to you my services and my misfortunes.
I served my country several years in the Old French war- was at the taking of Louisburg in Cape Breton was ordered to Boston from Boston to the Mohawk from there back to Boston, took shipping went the St. Lawrence was at the taking of Quebec,
fought and was wounded on the Plains of Abraham on the day Gen. Wolf was killed. And was in the previous battle under Mount McKinsey
In the commencement of the Revolutionary war I inlisted for 8 months, was in the battle of Bunker Hill and suffered much fatigue. I afterwards inlisted for 3 years. Was in the skirmish when Ticonderoga was taken by the British - Was at the taking of Burgoine [Burgoyne] at Saratoga- marched in the night to Albany, from thence to Valley Forge at which place I had the
ball extracted from my foot which I received when I was wounded on the Plains of Abraham having lain in my foot for more than 18 years. I was afterwards in the battle of Monmouth, Went
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under General Sullivan to the Genesee country, and destroyed the Indian Settlements. Returned to Albany from whence I went to Danbury in Con. where I was discharged.
In all of these battles and in some others of trifling note, I was most actively employed, and faced every day and received the applause of my officers.
I have been an unfortunate man. Three times I have had my dwelling house and effects consumed with fire. Once while in the 8 months service at New london Once at Wendell while engaged in my three months service, and once since the close of the war. And have been dependent on, and often received the assistance of my benevolent friends and neighbors.
May I then hope that this story of my age, poverty, services and sufferings will lead to a revision of my case by the Secretary, and result in that decission which will save my little property from the hammer of the Sheriff, and my body from prison[.]
To the credibility of an Old soldier who never swerved
from the truth. I add that of the most solemn obligation
James Lamb

Cheshire SS
August 28th 1820
Sworn to before me
W. Clagett Jus Peace.
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I Philip Greeley of Hopkinton in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire of Lawful age testify and say that I did agree with James Lamb then of New London in said County, now of Wendell in the County of Cheshire in said state about the last part of the month of March in the year Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven to inlist and serve for the term of three years in the  continental army in the then American war and I know that he said Lamb did inlist for said term and that I was present when he was mustered before William White Esq. of Chester
in the County of Rockingham in said State who was muster master at that time and that I did with Aaron Greeley then of said Hopkinton (since deceased) pay to him said James Lamb the sum he demanded as a bounty for said service and that he said Lamb was afterwards returned for one of the twenty six men which said Hopkinton had to furnish at that time as their proportion of men that said state was called upon to furnish for said army at that time and that I have been aguainted with said Lamb since he left said service and that he is now present and that I am againted with Samuell Caldwell and John Chadwick whose Depositions are taken at this time Respecting said James Lamb service in said armey and I think their verasity may be without doubt
relyed on and further saith not
Philip Greeley
Hopkinton June 3d 1819

State of New Hampshire
Hillsborough SS June 3. 1819. Then Philip Greeley
made solemn Oath that the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed is true
before me Baruch Chase Jus Peace
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I Samuel Caldwell of Hopkinton in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire of Lawfull age testify and say that I inlisted into the continental service about the second day of July A.D. one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven for three years in Capt Nathaniel Hutchins Company and served under said Hutchins in Col Joseph Cilley's Regiment belonging to the
State of New Hampshire the full term of three years and
and I well knew James Lamb who was then a soldier in Capt
Ebenezer Frye's Company in said Regiment the said term of three years and do know that said Lamb did serve more than nine months in the continental armey within the said term of three years and that he said Lamb is now present and further saith not Saml Caldwell
Hopkinton June 3rd 1819

State of New Hampshire②
Hillsborough Ss. June 3. 1819
Then Samuel Caldwell made Solemn Oath that the
foregoing Deposition by him subscribed is
true
before me Baruch Chase Jus. Peace

I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with said
Samuel Caldwell, and that he sustains a good
character and is a man of undoubted veracity and
he is a credible witness
Baruch Chase Jus Peace
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I John Chadwick of Hopkinton in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire of Lawfull age testify and say that I inlisted into the continental service about the sixth day of April A.D. one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven for three years in
Capt Nathaniel Hutchins Company and served under said Hutchins in Col Joseph Cilley's Regiment belonging to the State of New Hampshire the full term of said three years and that I was a Serjeant in said Hutchins Company and that I well knew James Lamb who was a sol[page torn] in Capt. Ebenezer Frye's Company in said Regiment the whole of said term of three years and do know that said Lamb did serve more then nine months in the continental army within the said te[page torn]
of three years and I have been with [crossed out] aquainted with said Lamb since he left said service and that he is now present and further saith not
John Chadwick
Hopkinton June 3rd 1819

State of New Hampshire
Hillsborough ss. June 3d 1819
Then John Chadwick made Solemn Oath that the foregoing Deposition, by him Subscribed is true before me
Baruch Chase Jus. Peace

I am well acquainted with said John Chadwick
and that he is a credible witness and his character
as it respects truth good
Baruch Chase Jus Peace
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James Lamb Priv
Col. Cilly's
N. Hampshire Regt
1777 3 years
July 9 1819

James Lamb on the Roll

Admitted
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State of New Hampshire
Secretarys office
July 22 1819
I hereby certify that Baruch Chase Esqr who made and signed the certificates hereunto annexed is a Justice of the peace
within and for the County of Hillsborough in said State duly appointed and commissioned that he was so before and at
the time when the said certificates were made to wit on the third of June last, and that to his acts and attestations as a magistrate as aforesaid full faith and credit are due and ought to be given
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
Subscribed my name and affixed the public seal
of said State on the day of the date hereof
Sam Sparhawk Secretary