Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26706, for Eben W Judd, Connecticut
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Conn.
Judd, Eben W.
Lydia
NUMBER
W. 26706
CONTENTS
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3183
Vermont
Lydia Judd widow of Eben W Judd who was a private in the N. York Line

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 46 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 4th day of Decemr 1843 and sent to Lydia Judd
Middlebury Vermt

[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1 Page 27

let to J Warner Apl 14. 1845
Let Danl Judd Apl 19/52.
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No 8026
Vermont
Eben W. Judd of Addison Co. in the State of Vermont who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Richards of the Regt. commanded by Col. Cook in the N. York troops for 15 months Private $50.00
deduct 1 mo no officer or other specification

Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 50 Dollars - Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of March 1833 and sent to Hon. S. Haight Present
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 100.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 1833 25.00
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$125.00

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book D. Vol. 4 Page 64
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Case of Lydia Judd.
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Marriages
Eben Warner Judd of Vermont to Lydia Giddings of Hartland Febuary Twenty Seventh Seventeen Hundred Ninety One

State of Connecticut Hartford County ss Canton Sept 25th 1838
I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows viz Febr 27 1791
Fanny Church

State of Connecticut Hartford County ss Canton September 25th 1838
I Fanny Church depose an say that I am daughter of the late Harry Church who was for many years a Minister of the Gospel in the Town of Hartland State and County aforesaid but who has long been dead that the above is a true extract from the record of Marriages kept by him with the above exception above stated which record is now in my Possession
Fanny Church

Certified and Sworn to before me this 25th of September 1838
William Selby Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that the above named Fanny Church is a credible person for truth and veracity
William Selby Justice of Peace

State of Connecticut
County of Hartford ss.
I James H. Holcomb Clerk of the County Court for said County hereby certify that William Selby who has subscribed the above & certificate is a Justice of the Peace for said County & that his signature thereto subscribed is genuine.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this 28th day of September 1838.
James H. Holcomb, Clerk.

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Declaration of Eben W. Judd
[illegible] 21, 1832
S. Haight
Aomd
15 mos
Private
$50
Hon. S Haight
Present
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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 Eben Warner Judd for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 9th day of July A. D. 1832
Edward D. Barber Clerk
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State of Vermont
County of Addison ss On this third day of July AD1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the County Court for the County of Addison and State of Vermont now sitting -
Eben Warner Judd, lately one of the Judges of sd Court a resident of the town of Middlebury in said County of Addison aged seventy one years, who being duly first sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7th June 1832-
That according to his best information and belief he was born in Waterbury in the County of New Haven and State of Connecticut in the year 1761, April 12th that he has a record of his age taken himself from the records of the town in which he was born and where as he supposes his birth still remains on reacord -
He resided at Waterbury & Woodbury except whilst he was engaged in the service of the United States 'till after the revolutionary war and untill he removed to the State of Vermont, where he has resided about forty five years. He further says that some time on or about the last of November 1776 he inlisted as a private soldier in Capt Benjamin Richards company for three months that the fore part of Decr. afterwards he joined the army then under the command of Genl. Wooster near fort Independance at West chester in the State of New York that he continued in that division of the army, and believes the Colo of the Ridgt. to which he belonged was Colo Cook -
That he was discharged the 4th March 1777 at a place called Rye, but no written discharge was given according to his belief -
And further some time in the month of August 1777 - he joined the army at a place called Fishkill in the State of New York in Capt Richards company - The army commanded by Genl Putnam - and he believes the whole of Capt Richards company turned out upon that occasion, about the time that the british forces took fort Montgomery & passed the highlands on the Hudsons [illegilbe]
That after he had joined the army at the Fishkill & performed [illegible] there some time was detached and marched to the Peekskill and was at a place called the Continental villiage placed under the command of Colo Roger Enos- That whilst under his command he aided a detachment who marched to the Hudsons river near
oposite
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oposite fort Montgomery at a place called Robisons farm where we took a few prisoners, a drove of Cattle horses & sheep then in possession of the british and returned with them to Colo Enos camp that night which had been removed within the neighborhood of Crumbpond -
Whilst on this tour he says - the troops had at three different times days of rejoicing for the first & second battles at Bemis heights and then for the capture of Burgoynes army -
That he continued with the division of the army near Crumb pond 'till after the British fleet desended the Hudsons river doing duty as a soldier till he was discharged but has no date when that took place but must have been absent at this time from home all of three months -
And further in the spring of 1778 he believes in the month of March whilst he belonged to Capt Richards Company was drafted for three months, placed under the command of Lieut Isaac Brownson of said Waterbury - marched to New Haven in Connecticut, where we for a short time kept up a guard and was then placed in the fort at East Haven called black rock fort where we kept a garrison under Lieut Brownson 'till he was discharged -
And further in the year 1779 when the british army carried fire & swoard upon the sea coast in Connecticut He was at New Haven when part of that town was distroyed, at Fairfield when that was burnt and at Norwalk when that was burnt and distroyed in the said Capt Benjn Richards company - was in the action under the command of Major Porter and Sgt Brownson - and after the british forces had drove us back & set fire to the north part of the town and after they retreated, aided in extinguishing a number of buildings then on fire - In this tour was absent about two months when I was discharged at Norwalk & returned home -
Further soon after he returned from Norwalk to Waterbury & whilst he belonged to Capt Richards Company was drafted for three months & placed under Capt Isaac Brownson who marched them to New Haven where he [illegible] as a soldier he believes in Colo Sabins Ridgt till discharged in Novr 1779 -
In the spring of 1780 he was drafted whilst belonging to Capt Richards company for seven months to be placed in the Continental army, but he & another person hired a substitute who joined the army during the war, and was afterwards free from draft during the war of the revolution
In
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Ethan Andrus' Affidavit

Eben W Judd's Case
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I Ethan Andrus of Middlebury in the County of Addison and State of Vermont aged 76 years testify & say that Eben W. Judd now of said Middlebury was a native of Waterbury in the County of New Haven & State of Connecticut, that we belonged to, and resided in the same neighbourhood, about a mile from each other during the war of the revolution - That I was knowing to his being in the army a number of times from the beginning of the year 1777 'till the year 1780 - and have no doubt but the declaration by him subscribed which I have examined is true -
Ethan Andrus [Signature]

Personally appeared Ethan Andrus the signer of the above Affidavit and made solemn oath before me Jedidiah S Busnell a Justice of the peace within and for the County of Addison & State of Vermont that the said affidavit is true - July 4th A.D. 1832
Before Jedh S. Bushnell Justice of the peace
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Declaration of Eben W. Judd

Declaration E W Judd
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In the years 1780 & 1781 he turned out several times as a voluntier and repaired to New Haven - Stratford and some other places on the sea coast also when New London was distroyed perhaps in the whole was absent from home about four weeks -
He hereby relinquishes every claim what ever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declare that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any state.
Eben W. Judd

Sworn and subscribed in open Court the day and year aforesaid.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the [illegible]vestigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories [illegible]scribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a soldier of the revolution and served as he states, and the Court also certify that from personal acquaintance with the said Eben W. Judd as well as with Ethan Andrus, whose affidavit is herewith transmitted, they consider them persons of veracity and entitled to credit, and that the affidavit of the said Ethan Andrus was sworn before a person having competent authority.
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Middlebury Vt. Dec 18. 1851
To the Hon Comr of Pensions
Dr Sir
It is now one year since I made application through Mr Horatio Woodman of Boston for a balance of pension due my Mother Mrs Lydia Judd, As there has been time since then for an examination of the papers, I would like to be informed if there is anything further necessary on my part, to accomplish my purpose,
Please write me by return mail
Yours Very Respectfully,
Daniel Judd.
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1460 | 13544
Lydia Judd.
Vt
Act 7 July 38.
m. 91. d. 37.
aomd 14 mo
$46. 66/100
Died 18 Sept. 37.
pen: com. 19. Sep. 37.

Hon. W. Slade HR
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State of Vermont
District of Addison ss.
On this 23d day of November 1838, personally appeared before the Probate Court for the said District of Addison Lydia Judd a resident of Middlebury in said District aged seventy two 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 7, 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;" - That she is the widow of Eben W. Judd, late of said Middlebury deceased, who was a private in the army of the revolution, that she has no knowledge of the service of the said Eben W. Judd, except from information obtained from him, and her recollection is very indistinct as to the facts stated by him; that he received a pension of fifty dollars per annum, under the act of 7th. June 1832, and his certificate is dated 12th March 1833, and numbered 8026.
She further declares that she was married to the said Eben W. Judd on the 27th day of February 1791, at Hartland in the State of Connecticut by the Rev. Aaron Church, then a minister of the gospel in that place; that her husband the aforesaid Eben W. Judd died on the eighteenth day of September 1837; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to first day of January Seventeen hundred ninety five, viz, at the time above stated.
Lydia Judd [Signature]

Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year above written before the said Court
Saml. Swift, Judge

State of Vermont
District of Addison ss On this 23d day of November 1838, before the said Probate Court personally appeared Hon. Horatio Seymour of Middlebury in said District, and being duly sworn testifies and says, that he has been acquainted with Eben W. Judd late of said Middlebury deceased, and his wife Lydia Judd, who has made the foregoing declaration, for nearly forty years - he having resided for nearly that period, in this place; that they lived
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together as husband and wife until the time of his death, which took place in the month of September 1837; that since that period, the said Lydia Judd, his widow has remained unmarried.
Horatio Seymour [Signature]

Subscribed and sworn the day and year above written before the Court aforesaid
Saml. Swift, Judge.

State of Vermont
District of Addison ss I Samuel Swift, Judge of the Probate Court for the said District of Addison, do hereby certify that foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said Court in the matter of the application of Lydia Judd for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 23d day of November 1838
Saml Swift, Judge
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I Joel Doolittle of Middlebury in the County of Addison & State of Vermont, being duly sworn, according to law, testify & say, that I have been acquainted with Eben W. Judd of the same Middlebury, applicant for pension, for more than thirty two years, last past, and I further say that soon after my first acquaintance with him I have heard him, in frequent conversations, relate events which which took place during the Revolutionary War, & connected therewith, and in those conversations related that he performed services, as a soldier, in sd War, in the State of Connecticutt, that he was frequently calld out on alarms, at the time the Brittish has possession of New York and Long Island sound, and were burning towns, & committing depredations on the inhabitants living near the sound; and said Judd has frequently, in my hearing, related minutely many of the events which took place connected with his service as a soldier as aforesaid - which left no room to doubt of his personal acquaintance & knowledge of those events -
I do not now recollect the particular periods or in what corps, said Judd related that he had performed those services as a soldier. And I further say that it has been generally un-
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understood in the neighborhood in which sd Judd resides that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, as stated by him in his declaration - and in that opinion I concur -
And I further say that I believe said Judd to be seventy years old & upwards - and I further say that said Judd is reputed to be a man of truth & veracity, and that his statement is entitled to credit -
Joel Doolittle

Sworn & subscribed this 5th day of Feby 1833
Before Dorastus Wooster Jus of Peace

State of Vermont
Addison County ss I Dorastus Wooster one of the Justices of the peace within & for said county do hereby certify that the Hon. Joel Doolittle late one of the Judges of the Supreme Court within & for said State who subscribed and made oath to the foregoing affidavit is a person of truth & veracity
Dorastus Wooster Jus of Peace
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State of Vermont
Addison County ss. Personally appeared before me one of the Justices of the peace within and for said county Eben W. Judd of Middlebury in said County who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that by reason of old age and consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively to the percise length of his service but according to his best recollection he served not less then the periods below as a private soldier.
The 1st. period from the 4th of December AD 1776 'till the 4th of March AD. 1777. Three months.-
The 2d. period from the 16th of August AD 1777 till the 15th or 16th of November AD 1777. Three months.-
The 3rd.. period from the 3d. of March AD. 1778 till the 3d day of June AD 1778. Three months.-
The 4th.. period from the 1st.. of July AD. 1779 till the 1st. of September AD 1779 Two months.-
The 5th. period from the 15th of Aug AD 1779 till the 15th of November AD 1779 Three months.-
In the months of June & July AD.1780 as a volunteer at least twenty days. And in the year 1781 at least ten days in the month of July. and for such service I claim a pension - In the whole say 15 months.
Eben W. Judd
Sworn & subscribed this 18th. day of Jany AD. 1833.
Before S.S. Phelps Judge of the Sup Court and Jus. of the peace ex officio

State of Vermont
Addison County ss.
I, Samuel Swift, Clerk of the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont, for the County of Addison, do hereby certify that the above named Samuel S. Phelps, is a Judge of said Court, and Justice of the peace throughout said State, and his name above written is his own Signature
In [illegible]mony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Supreme Court, this 9th. day of February 1833.
Saml. Swift
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[illegible]aniel Foot of Cornwall in the county of Addison and State of Vermont aged seventy two years who being duly sworn testifies and says -
That when young he resided in Westbury, a society of Waterbury in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut and was well acquainted with Eben W. Judd now of Middlebury in Vermont but formerly of the same town of this deponant
That I was knowing to his being in the army of the Revolution, and in the year 1779 he was in the same company with myself at New Haven in Connecticut in Capt Isaac Brownsons company & Colo Sabins Ridgt-
And further according to his best recollection he served in said company with this deponant three months and was discharged in the month of November of that year -
Daniel Foot [Signature]
Sworn and subscribed this 19h day of January 1833 Chs. Linsley Justice of Peace

State of Vermont -
Addison County ss. I Charles Linsley one of the Justices of the peace within and for said County do hereby certify that Daniel Foot who subscribed and made oath to the foregoing affidavit is well known to me and that he is a person of truth and veracity
Chs Linsley Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont
Addison County ss I, Samuel Swift Clerk of the County Court for the said County of Addison, do hereby certify that Charles Linsley before whom the foregoing affidavit of Daniel Foot was made, and Dorastus Wooster, before whom the foregoing affidavit was made were severally at the respective dates thereof Justices of the peace for said County of Addison, and their respective names are their own Signatures
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 5th. day of February 1833.
Saml. Swift.
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3031
Lydia Judd
46 66/
Mrs Lydia Judd
Middlebury Vt
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State of Vermont
Addison County ss On this 2d.. day of August 1843, personally appeared before me, one of the Justices of the peace for the said County of Addison, Lydia Judd a resident of Middlebury in said County of Addison, aged seventy six 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 provisions made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3d. March 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons, who served during the Revolutionary war.- That she is the widow of Eben W. Judd, who was a private in the militias that she has no personal knowledge of the Corps in which he served, but the nature and period of his service appear by the evidence furnished by him now in the pension office, on which a pension was granted to him in his life time, that the amount of pension, which she received under the act of 7. July 1838, was forty six dollars and sixty six Cents per annum. She further declares that she is still a widow.
Lydd[illegible] Judd [Signature]
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above written before me, and I certify that the said declarant is personally well known to me,
Dorastus Wooster Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont
Addison County ss On this 2d day of August 1843, personally appeared before me, one of the Justices of the peace for the said County of Addison, Lydia Judd, a resident of Middlebury in said County of Addison, aged seventy six years, who being sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the amount of pension, which she claims from the 4th.. of March 1836 to the eighteenth day of September 1837; from which period she has been already paid under the act of 7th. July 1838: And the declarant further alleges that she is still the widow of Eben W. Judd, who was a private during the Revolutionary war; that her pension was allowed at the rate of forty six dollars and sixty six cents per annum, and was paid to her at the agency at Burlington in the State of Vermont: And further she saith not.
Lydia Judd [Signature]
Sworn to & subscribed on the day and year above written, before 
Dorastus Wooster Justice of the peace

State of Vermont
Addison County ss I, Samuel Swift Clerk of the County Court for the said County of Addison, do hereby certify that the above named Dorastus Wooster, before whom the foregoing declaration of Lydia Judd purport to have been made is a Justice of the peace for said County and his name subscribed to each is his own Signature
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this 2d. day of August 1843.
Saml. Swift Clerk
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FREE
Commissioner of pensions
City of Washington
[Postmark reads:]
MIDDLEBURY VT AUG 2

3031 Aug 5, 1843
Lydia Todd [Judd],
March 2d/43
Vt.
L Judd
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Middlebury 2d. August 1843
Sir,
I enclose again the declaration of Lydia Judd; and I acknowledge, that I was not a little surprised, that her former papers, after three or four months' delay, should be returned for the objections mentioned; especially as I have heretofore sent many, - probably fifty, - papers authenticated in precisely the same manner, which have been received, without objection, as evidence, at the pension office.
Mrs. Judd is a very respectable lady and neighbor, but very feeble and unable to leave her house. She supposed, from my former official experience, and knowledge of the pension laws, that I could make her declaration better than another justice, and requested me to go to her house to make them. To gratify her, I complied with her request, without compensation; and then, as no other person could make the requisite certificate, I made that also.
And, besides, I have yet to learn,
1st Why a declaration may not be made before me, as well as before another justice. Neither the laws of this State, nor my commission, nor the rules of the pension office, hitherto, have made any such limitation of my powers: And
2dly Why my official certificate, under seal, does not authenticate my own signature, as well as that of another.
It is a more ministerial act, not requiring the exercise of judgment or impartiality, but only official knowledge of the fact certified. I might certify falsely to the signature of another person, as well as my own; and I certainly have as much knowledge of my own signature as of any other person's.
Please direct to Mrs. Lydia Judd, Middlebury of any future answer to her application.
Respectfully &c
Saml. Swift
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FREE
To the  Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington
[Postmark reads:]
MIDDLEBURY APR 24

760
Apl 28 1843.
Vt.
Mar 3d 1843
Lyd Judd
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Middlebury Vt. 22d. April 1843
Sir,
I forward the enclosed declarations, at the request of Mrs. Lydia Judd; and it is her request that the result of her application should be sent to her at Middlebury, Vermont.
Respectfully &c
Saml. Swift
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Washington Decr. 13, 1838
Sir
I send herewith the Declaration of Lydia Judd with proof of her marriage, the decease of her husband, Eben W. Judd and her continued widowhood, for the purpose of obtaining a pension for her under the Act of July 7 1838.
Very respectfully
Your obedient Servant
William Slade

J. L Edwards Esq
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J L Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
[Postmark reads:]
MIDDLEBURY VT [illegible] 9

Apl 14 45
Lydia Judd
[illegible]
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Middlebury 8 April 1845
J L Edwards Esqr
Dear Sir
I wish to inquire of you wheather Mrs. Lydia Judd of this place is entitled to draw a pension for four years from the 4th of March 1844 under the act of Congress of the 17th of June 1844. I make this inquiry as the applicant has forgotten (owing to her great age) precisely what was the act under which she formerly drew her pension. She thinks that she was on the five year list & for one year & if so is of course now entitled to four years pay. As her certificate has been surrendered she does not remember wheather the pay was $46 66/ per annum or $46 67/  Will you have the goodness to inform me at your earliest convenience what was the exact amount named in her certificate & as to her right now to draw & much oblige Yr Obet Serv.
J Warner
Middlebury Vermont
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File 26706
SHELDON'S MUSEUM.
A. 1881 D.

Middlebury Vt April 21, 1882
Dr Sir
A letter from the Pension Office dated Apl 19, 1852 intimates a balance of pension due the heirs of Lydia Judd who died here in Oct 1848
She was the widow of E W Judd, a pensioner of war of 1812.
Please look at records and state result.
Very Respectfully
H. L. Sheldon
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Vermont (B.) 1460
Lydia Judd widow of Eben W. Judd, decd - who was a pensioner under the Act of 7 June, 1832 and who died on the 18th Sept. 1837 - of Addison co. in the State of Vermont who was a Private in the compy commanded  by Captain Richards of the Regt commanded by Col. Cook in the N. York line for 14 months private -

Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont (Bur.) at the rate of 46 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 19 day of Sept. 1837, after death.

Certificate of Pension issued the 22d day of December 1838 and sent to Hon. W. Slade, H. R.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1838 $44.72
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar '39 23.33
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$68.05
{Act July 7, 1838.}
Recorded by S. A. Elliot Clerk, Book A Vol. 2 Page 43.
See let. to Samuel Swift, 28th: July 1843
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Eben. W. Judd Vt act 7 June when last pd?
GWC
17. Der. 38.
[illegible] 4th Sep 1837
JH
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26706
Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 26,7[illegible]6
Lydia Judd wid of Eben W Judd
Pri N. Y. Line
Act March 3d.. 43
Index : Vol A, Page 386
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Sheldon, White
May 5/82 6. 486 [illegible]