Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26,607, for Thomas Pollock, New Hampshire
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
N. H.
Pollock, Thomas or Pollick or Pollard
Elizabeth
NUMBER W. 26.607 
CONTENTS
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
N. H.
Pollock, Thomas or Pollick or Pollard
Elizabeth
NUMBER W. 26.607
CONTENTS
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Hon J P Benson
Sep 3 1853
Same May 28 1856-
Same Sept. 29, 1857
5.170
Maine
Elizabeth Pollock deceased widow of Thomas Pollock
who died on the ___ of NH in the State of ___
who was a Private in the ___ commanded 
by Captain ___ of the ____ commanded by ___
in the ___ line for Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of Portland at the rate of 34 Dollars 52 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 day of March, 1831. Ending 10. Feb. 1837
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of
Decr 1852 and sent to the Hon. J.W. Bradbury S.U.S.
Arrears to the 4th of ___
Semi-annual allowance ending ___ 
{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the ___}

Recorded by R. McRae Clerk,
Book D Vol. D  Page 334
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No 7141
Elizabeth Pollock aw
Act 4th July 1836
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Me [MAINE]
Act 4 July 1836
Husband died 1814
[illegible] died 10 Feby 1837
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Declaration
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In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836. 3d Section
State of Maine
County of Kennebeck} Ss. On this seventh (7th) day of June 1847. before a court of Probate
holden at Augusta, in and for said County in open Court personally appeared Martha Lyon of said County and State aged fifty five years and upwards, 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 above named.
That she is a child of the late widow Elizabeth Pollock, who was the widow of Thomas Pollock,
late deponents [sic] father, and who was formerly a resident of Lee Strafford County N [NEW] Hampshire o near a place called New Market Bridge, and who done [sic] much service in the army of the United States, during the Revolutionary War, that a part of the
service was done with a captain Winborn
Adams in Col Enoch Poor's Regiment, that he was married to deponents [sic] mother, whose name before marriage was Elizabeth Woodman same year of the commencement of the Revolutionary War - it is believed in the town of Lee in Strafford County N [NEW] Hampshire about the year (1775) One thousand Seven hundred and seventy five - as their oldest child i now living is about seventy one years of age, that her said father Thomas
Pollock, died about the year 1814, and left
deponents [sic] mother above named a widow
who did not intermarry after his death, but remained his widow until her death, which took place on the tenth day of February (1837) One thousand Eight hundred and thirty Seven,
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in the town of Acton in the County of York and State of Maine that at her death, she left the following named children her surviving which
are her only children her surviving viz -
Betsey Elizabeth Barry of said Acton, and Jonathan Pollock, of New Hampshire, Martha Lyon and Nancy
Merrow of Maine - Stephen Pollock of Masstts [MASSACHUSETTS] and Joseph Pollock of New Hampshire and that each one of the age of twenty one years and upwards.
Martha Lyon
Sworn and subscribed before the Court, the day and year afore mentioned by Martha Lyon who is a credible person
I hereby certify that the above named Martha Lyon subscribed the foregoing declaration having been cautioned & sworn thereto previously & then
subsequently to subscribing her name in open Court as stated in said declaration and the day & year therein specified, the blanks in said declaration having been filled up by me before signature & oath hereto by the said Martha Lyon - and I do further certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Martha Lyon, & for as I know she is a credible witness.
Williams Everson, Judge of the Court of Probate
York Co State of Maine
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State of Maine
Kennebec County} Ss.
I Francis Davis clerk of the Court of Probate, for said County, do hereby certify that at a Probate Court holden at Augusta, in and for said County, Satisfactory evidence was adduced before said Court in open Court to show, that Elizabeth Pollock, late the widow of Thomas Pollock, remained a widow from the date of his death, about the year 1814, untill [sic] 
her death, and that she died in the nineth day of February (1837.) One thousand Eight hundred and thirty seven, and at her death left the following named children her surviving, being her only children her surviving viz Elizabeth Berry, Nancy Merrow, Martha Lyon - Joseph, Stephen, and Jonathan Pollock, and that each one of the age of twenty one years
and upwards.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and impressed my Official seal, this 7th day of June 1847.
Francis Davis

Betty Elizabell Berry in the name above intended same as in her affidavit accompanying this declaration
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State of Maine
County of York} Ss. Personally appeared before
the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, Nancy Merrow of Acton in the County and State aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith, that she is a
child of the late Elizabeth Pollock who was, the widow of Thomas Pollock, who was deponents [sic] father, and who deponent has always understand performed much service in the Revolutionary,
that he was a native of New Hampshire -
believes of the town of Lee. That he done [sic] service a part of the time with Captain Winborn Adams in Col Enoch Poors [sic] Regiment, that he
was married to deponents [sic] mother some years before the commencement of the Revolutionary War, - as their oldest child would now be if living
near Seventy one years of age, being same years older than this deponent. That his said father died in the last war while in service about the year 1814, that after his death his widow deponents [sic] mother remained a widow untill [sic] her death, which was on the tenth day of February (1837) One
thousand Eight hundred and thirty seven, that at her death she left the children named in the annexed Declaration her surviving, being her only children her surviving, & that each one of the age of 21 years.
Nancy her X mark Merrow
Attest
Horace Bodwell Martha Lyon
Sworn and Subscribed before me
this 6th day of July 1847 by Nancy
Merrow whom I certify to be a credible person

Horace Bodwell Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that I have always understood the said Nancy and the other surviving five children were the children of the said Thos [THOMAS] Pollock which have all at different times lived in Acton Horace Bodwell
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I Joseph Pollard of Somersworth in the County
of Strafford and State of New Hampshire aged
sixty two years last August depose and say that
I am the Son Thomas Pollard and Elizabeth
Pollard, that my Father was a soldier in the war 
of 1812 and died in service before he enlisted
his name was Pollock as was all our Family
since we have assumed the name of Pollard
My Father moved from Durham in the County of Shafford in the State of New Hampshire soon after the Revolutionary War to the Town of Shapleigh in the County of York & State of Maine. The Town of Shapleigh was divided and my Fathers [sic] residence fell into that part now called Acton. My mother continued his widow and died in said Acton on the tenth day of February 1839 I was present at her funeral on the twelfth day of said February
Joseph Pollard
State of New Hampshire
Strafford County Ss. Somersworth July 5, 1847
Then personally appeared the above named
Joseph Pollard a credible man to me well
known & made oath that the above affidavit
by him signed is true.
Before me Richard Russell Justice of the Peace
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Eleazer Bennett
[illegible]
J Pollock

Eleazer Bennett
Deposition
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I Eleazer Bennett of Durham in the County
of Strafford & State of New Hampshire aged
ninety seven years depose and say that I
was well acquainted with Thomas Pollock
from the year 1770 untill [sic] he removed to Shapleigh now Acton in the State of Maine - And I further say that I was knowing to his being married to Elizabeth Woodman of Lee an adjoining town to Durham and after their marriage they lived on the Sullivan farm so called, And I also knew of his being in the Revolutionary War. And I have also heard that after he removed to Shapleigh he went by the name of Pollard
Eleazer his x mark Bennett

Danl [DANIEL] Smith. Witness to his mark

Strafford Ss.
Durham June 29. 1847
Subscribed and sworn to before me
Danl [DANIEL] Smith. Just [JUSTICE] of Peace

The above named Eleazer Bennett is and [sic]
old man of verry good memory and sound
mind and can related incidents back with great
accuracy
Danl [DANIEL] Smith
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I Samuel Woodman of Deerfield in the County of Rockingham and State of New-Hampshire [sic] of the age of Sixty eight years depose and say that I have the records of the family of Edward Woodman of Le [LEE] in the County of
Strafford in custody it is borne upon said Record the name of Elisabath [ELIZABETH] Woodman a daughter of the said Edward Woodman who was born on the Eighteenth day of November 1753 that I further depose and say that as near as I can assertain [sic] that the said Elizabath [ELIZABETH Woodman was married 1775 to Thomas Pollock of Durham in the County afforesaid [sic] and that the said
Thomas Pollock afterwards assumed the name of Thomas Pollard
Deerfield July the 14, 1847
Samuel Woodman

Deerfield July 14, 1847
State of New-Hampshire [sic] Rockingham Ss
Personally appearing the above named Samuel
Woodman made oath the affidavit by him
subscribed is true
Before me Samuel Woodman Jr Justice of the Peace
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Thos [THOMAS] Pollock
Lee N.H.
Sept 25. Free [postage] Thos [THOMAS] B Hall P.M. [Postmaster]

W. G. Wade Esqr.
Rose,
Wayne County N.Y.
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Lee N.H. Sept. 24th 1847.
Dear Sir
Agreeable to your request, I now write to inform you that I called on the Clerk of this town, to see if there was any record of the marriage of Thomas Pollock & Elizabeth Woodman or of the birth or caption of one of their children and he informed me there was not, and that Mrs Lyon a daughter of theirs has
been here twice from the State of Maine to obtain records and could not find any in this town or in Durham, our Town Clerk told me
that he gave Mrs Lyon a certificate that there was no record of their marriage &c [ETC] in Lee
if there was any Church record kept at that time in this town I do not know where they are, I presume there was none.
Yours &c. [ETC] 
Thos [THOMAS] B. Hall Post Master [sic]
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Thos [THOMAS] Pollock
afft [AFFIDAVIT] of Thos [THOMAS] Bennett

Durham NH
Aug 26th

W.G. Wade Esquire
Rose,
Wayne Co.
New York
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State of New-Hamshire, [HAMPSHIRE]
Strafford Ss. -
I Eleazer Bennett of Durham in the County
of Strafford and State of New Hampshire aged
ninety years and upwards, being first duly sworn according to law depose and say that I have been well acquainted with Thomas Pollock, a native of Durham, from the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy, that said Thomas Pollock, was married to Elizabeth Woodman, of Lee a town adjoining Durham in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy
five that said Thomas Pollock was in the service of the United States, in the army of the Revolution, more or less, after their marriage, the exact length of time and Officers names deponent does not recollect, That deponent well knows that they were married in the year above mentioned as it was the first year of the Revolutionary war. That deponent was married
in the month of April 1783 and he well knows said Thomas Pollock and Elizabeth Woodman were married some eight years before this deponent
Eleazer Bennett
Sworn and subscribed to before me this 5th day August 1847 - Danl [DANIEL] Smith Just Peace
I certify that the above named Eleazer Bennett is a credible witness and although an aged man, a person of very good memory, and sound mind, and can relate incidents which occured [sic] during the Revolutionary
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war, with much accuracy 
Danl [DANIEL] Smith Just. [JUSTICE] Peace
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Durham Aug. 25, 1847-
W. G. Wade Esqr,
Dear Sir I have taken the deposition of Eleazer Bennett as you requested and have been to the Town Clerks books but have not been able to find the marriage of Thos. [THOMAS] Pollock or the births of any of his Children Rev Mr Adams was the settled minister about the time they were married and his books and papers are at Newfields Maine
Yours Respt [RESPECTFULLY]

Danl [DANIEL] Smith
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of
her
death
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I Hannah Pollick of Acton County of York and state of Maine aged thirty nine years - depose and say that on the tenth day of February eighteen  hundred and thirty seven, I received the vial of Pulmonary Jelly  from the hands of my husband Stephen Pollick but it was of no use when he returned with the Medicine Widow Thomas Pollick our mother was dead.
Hannah Pollick

State of New Hampshire, Strafford Ss.
Nov. 6th 1845 Personally appeared the above Hannah Pollick made oath that the above affidavit in her belief was true -
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Before me - John L Swinerton Justice Peace
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her Sworn Af [AFFIDAVITT]
case Elizabeth Pollock
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I John L. Swinerton of Milton County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire aged forty years depose and say that on the tenth day of February eighteen hundred and thirty seven I sold Stephen Pollick a vial of Gorelick's Pulmonary Jelly which he said was for his Mother widow of Thomas Pollick late of Acton County of York State of Maine deceased - But I 
understood afterwards that when Stephen Pollick arrived home with the above named Medicine his mother was so far spent that it was not necessary to administer it and she died very soon -
John L. Swinerton

State of New Hampshire Strafford Ss.
November 5th 1845
Personally appearing the above named John L. Swinerton made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavitt [sic] by him
subscribed before me
James Berry Justice Peace

I further certify that the above named
John L. Swinerton is a regular practising [sic] physician and a man of good character and his statements entitled
to full credit
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James Berry Justice of the Peace
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No 7141
Elizabeth Pollock decd [DECEASED]     
Me [MAINE]      
Let [LETTER] to Hon H Belcher           ⎬
August 7. 14 [18]83
Also same date to Hon J W Bradbury
March 9, 1849
J.W. Evans Oct 23/[18]51
Act 4 July 1836
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No 7141
Elizabeth Pollock
Me [MAINE]
Let. [LETTER] to Hon. H. Belcher
August 7th 1848 also to Hon. J. W. Bradbury
of same date

Act 4 July 1836
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[postal stamp] GARDINER ME JUL 
 FREE [postage]

Hon James E. Heath
Commr [COMMISSIONER] Pensions
Washington D.C.

[left sideways] July 14 - 1851 Reld [RELATED] to claim of Mrs Martha Lyon daughter of [illegible] Pollard [illegible] Geo [GEORGE] Evans
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same Agency
Elizabeth Pollock dr
widow of Thomas who was a private Poor's Regt. N [NEW] Hampshire troops

adm [ADMITTED] Act July 4, 1836.
10 months 11 days private
$34.52 per Ann. [ANNUM]
[illegible] March 4, 1831.
End Feb 10, 1837, when she died - payable to
Betsey Elizabeth Berry,
Nancy Morrow,
Martha Lyon,
Joseph Pollock,
Stephen Pollock &
Jonathan Pollock, only children &c [ETC]

Hon. J.W. Bradbury
Senate U.S.
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[stamp] WINTHROP ME SEP 4
Saml [SAMUEL] P. Benson MC. FREE [postage]

Hon. Geo. [GEORGE] C. Whiting
Comr [COMMISSIONER] of Pensions
Washington D.C.

[left sideways] Elizabeth Pollock Thomas Me. [MAINE] [illegible] 1836 Com

[right sideways] $204.95
Portland
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State of N. [NEW] Hampshire
Strafford Ss}
I Rufus W. Brackett depose and say that I was one of the Overseers of the poor of the Town of Acton in the year 1851 and that Stephen Pollock died sometime during the summer of 1851-
Rufus W. Brackett
Strafford Ss Milton December 4th 1855
Sworn to before me, John L. Swinerton Justice of the Peace
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I Aaron Hubbard of Acton York County Maine testify and say that I was Personaly [sic] acquainted with Tomas [THOMAS] Pollock [in] my  boyhood untill [sic] he inlisted [sic] in the last war with Great Britton [BRITAIN] he left a large family in poor circumstance one of them is now a criple [sic] and is supported by this town I recollect well when he and the rest of the family took the name of Pollard and think it was about forty two or three years ago
Aaron Hubbard
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State of N. [NEW] Hampshire, Strafford Ss. Milton Oct 27 - Personally appeared the within named Aaron Hubbard and made oath that the within affidavit by him signed is just and true -
Before me John Swinerton Jus. [JUSTICE] of the Peace
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Revy [REVOLUTIONARY]
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 26607
Elizabeth Pollock
Wid [WIDOW] of
Thomas Pollock
Pri [PRIVATE] Rev [REVOLUTIONARY] War
Index:-- Vol.
-
Act: July 4th 1836
Index:- Vol. M, Page 411
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Death of Mrs P
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This may Certify that I Samuel Thompson of
Acton County of York & State of Maine do testify and say that I was at the funeral of the Widow
Elizabeth Pollard formerly known by the name of Pollack and I have no doubt it was on the 12th day of February 1837. the above named
woman was formerly from Lee N.H.
Samuel Thompson
York Ss
October 11th 1845 Personaly [sic] appeared Samuel Thompson and made oath that the above deposition by him signed is true
Before me Aaron Hubbard Justice Peace
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Gardiner Maine, July 7 1857
Hon James E. Heath
Commr. [COMMISSIONER] of Pensions
Sir,
Mrs Martha Lyon of Augusta in this State, daughter of Elizabeth Pollock, widow of
Thomas Pollock, both deceased, has requested me to ask your attention to her claim for pension due her Mother under the act of
July 1836 -
From the representations which she gives I fear
her case has been neglected by the numerous 
agents who have hitherto had charge of it - She says additional proof has been filed since the letter from the office to Mr Senator Bradbury of 9th March 1849.
That letter says - I have the honor to inform you that the additional evidence in the case of Elisabeth Pollock widow of Thomas Pollock,
deceased is satisfactory as to the date of her marriage - but it does not furnish the proof of 
their marriage -
I do not comprehend the [illegible] system.
How it can be satisfactory proof of the date of the marriage - & not proof of the marriage itself, to say the least strange -
The letter concludes nor does any of those who testify as to their marriage, refer to any record past to show that
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are correct in their recollection of the date of
that event - or as first stated the additional evidence was satisfactory as to the date, I am at a loss to understand what more or why any more, should be required.
The other difficulty, as to identity &c [ETC]
Mrs Lyon thinks has been received by proof since furnished as to the different mode of spelling, the name of Pollock, upon which she seems to have been laid.
I think no new importance should be attached to it - It is by no means an uncommon
thing that names become very partially changed from father to son - No other person soldier or widow as she states, has ever claimed for the service upon which she relies
& proved by the Rolls -
The present claimant Mrs Lyon is herself a widow now poor & ignorant of what is necessary to [illegible] one & I have no other
inducement than that of charity, to assist her - I stand in need of the proof filed & relyed [sic] on her statement- & copy of letter to her person who has undertaken to assist her, I am unable to meet any other witness which may have heretofore been present -
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I beg to request your careful attention
to the case - & to be informed of the precise difficulty in the way if any exist.
With great respect,
Your obt [OBEDIENT] Servant
Geo [GEORGE] Evans
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Valentine Smiths [sic]
Affidavit
to character of
Witness
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I Valentine Smith of Durham Strafford Co. State of New Hampshire, aged seventy four years, testify and say that I have long been acquainted with Eleazar Bennett, Joseph
Burnham and Joseph Coe all of this town, and who have given Depositions in the application of Martha Lyon of Augusta, State of Maine, for a pension on account of services rendered by her Father Thomas Pollock late of Acton in the State of Maine, and hereby certify that they are all persons of credibility, and that their respective statements are entitled to belief. I can also certify to the credibility of Paul Giles who is the Town Clerk of Lee and who has made deposition in the same Case.
I further state that I have held under the appointment of the Executive of the State of New Hampshire the office of a Justice of the Court of Sessions and Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Strafford, and also have represented this town in the
Legislature of the State for several years.
Valentine Smith
State of New Hampshire
Strafford ss. Oct. 24. 1848 Personally appeared
Valentine Smith and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed before me,
J A Richardson, Jus. [JUSTICE] Peace
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Brief in the case of Elizabeth Pollock, [illegible]
Kennebeck [sic] County and State of Maine.
act July 4 1836.
Claim, ("original," or "for increase.")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Satisfactory evidence of service after marriage
Record evidence of service.
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed in the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Name and residence of Agent
Hon J.W. Bradbury
Senate U.S.
Examining Clerk.
Ogden Miles
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Winthrop Sept. 23. 1837.
Dear Sir
The Widow Martha Haskell, formerly Widow
Lyon, and daughter of Thomas Pollock who served in the Revolutionary War & the War of 1812 has just called on me to aid her in getting
what she says is due for the amount of her Fathers & Mother's Pensions. Her Mothers [sic] Name was Elizabeth Pollock. She says her
father lived for 10 years after the passage
of the Pension law & was entitled to $96 a
year - that her mother lived 24 years a widow & was also entitled to a pension - And all that
due me on both is $102. she says that the
necessary proofs have been furnished -
claims immediate attention to her case &
complains of poverty, neglect &c. [ETC]
She wishes me to ask what sum was paid
J.W. Bradbury on account of above.
I have written to the Comr [COMMISSIONER] heretofore but the poor woman is not satisfied-- There is something for her in the hands the Pension Agent in Portland which the
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Comr [COMMISSIONER] wrote me about & I transmitted the reply to the poor woman but she has lost it-- Please state what is necessary to enable her to get that money $102. I think.
I hope for an early reply for the is an
"infortunate [UNFORTUNATE] Widow"

Yours very truly
Saml. [SAMUEL] Benson
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[illegible]
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Pension Office
March 7 1849.
Sir,
I have the honor to inform you, that the
additional evidence in the case of Elizabeth Pollock, widow of Thomas Pollock, is satisfactory as to the date of her marriage, but it does not furnish the proof of their marriage, or of the identity of her husband with the soldiers of Col Poors [sic] Regiment required by my report to you of the 7th of August last,
if one of the witnesses were in the service with Pollock nor does any of those who testify as to the marriage refer to any recorded fact to show that they are correct in their recollection of the date of that event
I have the honor to be, Very respectfully
your obt [OBEDIENT] Servt [SERVANT]
J G Berret
for Comr [COMMISSIONER] of Pensions,
Hon J W Bradbury
U. S. Senate,
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[illegible]
May 1. 1848
Sir
I am requested to ask for information in regard
to the application of the representatives of Thos. [THOMAS] Pollard for a pension.
It has been for some time before you I believe February or March obliged to be informed of the present position of the case.
With much respect I am Your [illegible]
J. W. Bradbury
Hon J.L. Edwards
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State of New Hampshire Strafford Ss} I Betsy E. Berry depose and say that Joseph Pollock died November 27th 1848 and Jonathan Pollock died April 10th or 11th 1849 I also attended the funeral of them both-
Betsy E. her x mark Berry

Strafford Ss. Milton Dec 5th 1855
personally appeared Betsy E. Berry and made
oath that the above affidavit by her signed
is just and true in her belief -
Before me John L Swinerton Justice of the Peace

I Personally certify that I well recollect of hearing of the above deaths and have no doubt but what the dates of their deaths
are correct -
Milton Dec 5th 1855 John L. Swinerton
I further certify that Betsy E. Berry is now living-- and Martha Haskell also -
Dec. 5th 1855 John L. Swinerton
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I, Elisha Bodwell of Shapleigh in the County of York and State of Maine testify and say that I am one of the Selectmen of the town of Shapleigh, that I find by the tax lists in the selectmen's office that Archelaus Pollock was taxed in said Shapleigh in the years 1804, 1805, 1806 & 1807 -that Joseph Pollock and Stephen Pollock were taxed in said Shapleigh in the years 1810, 1811, 1812, 1813 & 1814 - I believe the aforesaid Archelaus Pollock, Joseph Pollock and Stephen Pollock and also Jonathan Pollock, all deceased, and Martha Pollock now Martha
Haskell were the legitimate children of Thomas Pollock - I never heard a question raised to the contrary - said Jonathan Pollock dec'd [DECEASED] were he now living would be about fifty six years of age and I think the youngest of Thomas Pollock's family-
Thomas Pollock enlisted by the name of Pollard was a soldier in the service of the United States some time during the war with Great Britain between the year 1812 and 1814 - I understood, during said war, that he died in said service - It is said Thomas Pollock had two other children, daughters, but I was not acquainted with them.
Elisha Bodwell
State of Maine, York County, ss. Subscribed and sworn to by the above named Elisha Bodwell, this ninth day of November A.D. 1852. Before me,
William Lewis Just [JUSTICE] of Peace
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Winthrop Aug. 25, 1855.
Dear Sir,
A poor woman, whose name now Martha Haskell, Widow of Abner Haskell, late of Augusta, and daughter of Thomas Pollock referred to in the copy here enclosed, is now before me, asking my aid in getting her pension.
I understand by her that her father Thomas Pollock was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and served nearly through the whole war.- That he also served about a year in the War of 1812 & died in the service.  That he recd [RECEIVED] no pension during his lifetime - That her Mother Elizabeth Pollock still a widow twenty four years and died without having received any pension.

This woman further informs me that she has furnished the proof of the service of her farther in both wars - that as the result of all the proof
[illegible] her two sisters
have recd [RECEIVED] $102, & that an equal amount is in the hands of the Agent for paying pensions in Portland belonging to the heirs of her three deceased
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brothers. Thus far by way of narrative, and now there are some things I desire to know.
1 Mrs Haskell has employed a number of Agents and she thinks much more money has been paid by the Government than has ever reached her - I want to know what the Books show to have been paid? [sic]
2 Are not the heirs of said Thomas Pollock & his widow entitled, according to the proof on file in the Department, to more than has been paid? If so, how much?
3. I want a copy of a document signed by Hon [HONORABLE] William Emmons Judge of Probate for the Court of Kennebec & Francis Davis, Register, which is on file among the papers in Mrs Haskells [sic] Case- This Copy is wanted for purposes connected with the disposition of the $102, now in the Agents [sic] hand in Portland. 
I have told a long story I know for it was & is with difficulty that I can understand what this
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poor widow does want. I therefore
have progressed along as well as I could
I hope to put some light, all the light there is to be had from your office, and then I shall know 
what further to do.
I address this to Hon. M Waldo, with whom I have a pleasant business acquaintance. If he
has left the office of Comm [COMMISSIONER] it will be put into the hands of his Successor, a stranger to me.
I trust it will receive a prompt reply.
Very Respectfully Your Obt Servt [OBDIENT SERVANT]
Saml [SAMUEL] P.Benson
Rep 4th Cong. Dis. Me. [REPRSENTATIVE 4th CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT MAINE]
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This certifies that I Ralph Farnham of Acton in the County of York & State of Maine testify and say that I was personally acquainted with Thomas Pollock Some times called Pollard and I have no doubt that he was out in the
Revolutionary war and was knowing to his inlisting [sic] in the last war with Great Britan and that he died in said war and after the death of said Pollock or Pollard his widow
whose name was Elizabeth Woodman before marriage she called on me for her third of a piece of Land which I bought of [OFF] her husband she not signing the deed and I paid
her what the demanded in lieu of the land
Acton Nov 5th 1852 Ralph Farnham
Witness Aron Hubbard
Fanny Farnham
York ss Nov 5th 1852 Personaly [sic] appeared Ralph Farnham and made oath that the above written deposition by him signed is true before me Aaron Hubbard Justice of the Peace
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Eliza Dow
deposition
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This may certify that I Eliza Dow of Lee County
of Strafford and State of New Hampshire do testify and say that my mother in law often told me that when Thomas Pollock was married to Elizabeth Woodman Mr Woodman the said Elizabeth Woodmans [sic] Father came to James Bunkers [sic] father to my mother in law and staid [STAYED] the day through and said he would not stay in his own house while his daughter was about being married to Thomas Pollock
I further state that my former residence was in
Acton State of Maine and when I lived in Acton
I understood Thomas Pollock of that town moved from Lee NH to Acton, I lived in Acton untill [sic] I was sixteen years of age Miss Pollock was an aunt to my mother Mr Pollock lived with wife & family untill [sic] he enlisted in the last war with Great Brittan [BRITAIN] and died while in the service
after I came to Lee I was informed by my father
that Joseph Pollock altered the name and called it Pollard and the family has gone by the name of Pollard ever since I further state that I never herd [HEARD] of any other family within my knowledge of the name of Pollock or Pollard
Eliza her x mark Dow

Witness
Thos [THOMAS] B Hall H. D. Pendergast
Strafford Ss
October 23rd 1848 Personally appeared Eliza
Dow and made oath that the above deposition
by her signed is true
Before me H. D. Pendergast Justice of Peace
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Genl. [GENERAL] Acquaintance -

[illegible] in [illegible] case
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State of Maine York County, I Ralph Farnham of Acton do live in aforesaid state and County and am of ninety two years of age last July do depose and say that Thomas Polluck [POLLOCK] lived a near neighbor to me for many years we frequently had conversation about the revolutionary war with Great Britone [BRITTAIN] I used to frequently visit Col. Poor's Regt and Capt Winton Adam's Company which the said Polluck [POLLOCK] belong [sic] too [sic] I have no doubt, but was not personally acquainted with him while there and the said Thomas Polluck [POLLOCK] left a widow in
my neighborhood and she remain'd [sic] a
widow untill [sic] her death and her oldest child
is now about seventy two or three years old -
About forty three years ago the family of
Pollucks [POLLOCKS] became dissatisfied with their original name for some reason and changed it themselves to Pollard and have always gone by that name since and I understood that Thomas Polluck [POLLOCK] enlisted in the last war with Great Britone [BRITTAIN] by the last mentioned name which is Pollard and enlisted at Paul Jewels Esq. at Milton in the County of Strafford and State of N. [NEW] Hampshire
Ralph Farnham
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State of N. [NEW] Hampshire Strafford Ss. Personally appeared the within named Ralph Farnham and made oath that the within named
affidavit by him signed is in his belief true.
Before me John L Swinerton Jus. [JUSTICE] of the Peace
This may certify that the above named
Ralph Farnham is a person of sober life
and sustains an irreproachable character
John L Swinerton
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Deposition of J L Swinerton
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I John L Swinerton Depose and say that on the
10th day of February 1837 I delivered to Stephen Pollard son of Mrs Elizabeth Pollard a vial of Medicine which he wanted for his mother but about the time he returned home with the medicine I learnt [LEARNED] afterwards his mother was dead and did die that night which was on the 10th day of February 1837 -
John L Swinerton
York Ss October 12th 1848 Personaly [sic] appeared John L Swinerton and made oath that the above deposition by him signed is true before me Aaron Hubbard Jus [JUSTICE] Peace
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Death of Mrs Pollard
Feb 10 1837
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I Tamson Ramsay depose and say that I was
present and witnessed the death and assisted in laying out Mrs Elizabeth Pollard wife of Thomas Pollard late of Acton County of York State of Maine they were both formerly of Lee N.H.
Tamson Ramsay

State of N. [NEW] Hampshire Strafford Ss Milton Oct. 13 1848
Personally appeared Tamson Ramsay and made Oath that the above affidavit by her signed was in her belief true-
Before me John L. Swinerton Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above death was in the evening on the 10 day of February 1837
John L Swinerton
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affidavit of Paul Giles Town Clerk of Lee
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I Joseph Coe of Durham Strafford Co. State of
New Hampshire, testify and say that I am Clerk
of said town of Durham and have the custody of the Records of said town - that I have carefully searched the same, and can find no evidence of the publishment of intention of marriage of Thomas Pollack or Pollard to Elizabeth Goodman of Lee an adjoining town - I further state that Town Clerks in New Hampshire were not required to record deaths and marriages previous to the year 1780, and that no records of death or marriages previous to that year are  to be found as I have understood-
Joseph Coe

State of New Hampshire
Strafford Co. Oct. 24th 1848.
Personally appeared the above named Joseph Coe and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed before me
John A Richardson Jus. [JUSTICE] Peace
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The State of New Hampshire
County of Strafford Ss. Court of Common Pleas
Clerk's office

I, John H. Smith, Clerk of said Court hereby certify, that John A. Richardson is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified that his commission is dated June 20, 1844,
and will expire June 19, 1849, and that the
signature to this paper purporting to be his,
is true and genuine-
And I further certify that Gorham W. Hoitt is a Justice of the Peace, throughout the said State of New Hampshire, duly commissioned and qualified, that his commission is dated December 7th, 1847, and will expire December 6th, 1852, and that the signature to the paper hereto attached, purporting to be his is
true and genuine
-
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this
twenty sixth day of October A.D. 1848.
John H. Smith Clerk
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I Paul Giles of Lee in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire of lawful
age depose, & certify that I am Town Clerk
of said town of Lee, that I have examined
the Records of said town of Lee now in my
office and do not find the Record of the
marriage of Thomas Pollock and Elizabeth
Woodman, that the records from the years
1772 to 1780 are very much demolished and
obliterated by the mice eating and tearing
them before they came into my possession,
there is but one marriage to be found on
record by Elder Hutchins
Paul Giles
State of New Hampshire
Strafford Ss Lee October 2nd 1848
Then personally appeared the above named Paul Giles and made oath that above affidavit by him subscribed is true
Before me G. W. Hoitt Justice of the Peace

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Marriage by reference to will of her said father

Elizabeth Chapmans affidavit
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I Elizabeth Chapman of Lee in the County
of Strafford and State of Newhampshire [sic] depose and say that I am in the Eighty ninth year of my age that I was acquainted with Thomas Pollock of Durham Newhampshire [sic] that it was said he married Elizabeth Woodman of Lee aforesaid of which fact I have no doubt although I was not present
at their wedding that her parents were opposed to the match that I was present at the funeral of Edward Woodman the father of the said Elizabeth and heard his will read in
which he gave her the said Elizabeth but five shillings on the account of her marrying said Pollack that I think I was not over sixteen years of age at the time of said Woodmans [sic] death that I should think said Pollock and Elizabeth were married some two or three years prior to his death that I never knew any
other man by the name of Pollock or Pollard either in Lee or Durham
Elizabeth her x mark Chapman

Lee Oct. 24th 1848
Witness Elijah York

Strafford Ss. October 24th 1848 Then personally appeared the above named Elizabeth Chapman and made oath that the above affidavit by her subscribed was in her belief true
Before me
George Lang Jus [JUSTICE] of Peace

I hereby certify that the above named Elizabeth Chapman retains her faculties remarkably well for a person of her age
that her Character has alway [sic] stood fair
even since my remembrance}
George Lang
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[illegible] Jan 7th 1849
Sir
I have been asked to call your attention to  
to the additional testimony in the case of the heirs of Thos. [THOMAS] Pollard, in the hope that the additional facts may now be found to be acceptable. 
Very respectfully Your Servt [SERVANT] J.W. Bradbury
J. L Edwards Comr. [COMMISSIONER] Pensions
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE,
SECRETARY OF STATE' S OFFICE.

I DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the war of the Revolution, which remain in this office, it
appears that the name of Thomas Pollack is
borne upon the Pay Roll of Capt. Winborn
Adams- Company, as a private in said Company, with an allowance for two months and Eleven days service commencing May
26th 1775. Said Company was in Col. Enoch Poors [sic] Regt. and upon "a list of those men in Capt. Adams Compy [COMPANY] who have rec'd [RECEIVED] pay for their regimental
Coats" is borne the name of Thomas
Pollik [sic] acknowledging the receipt of
four dollars in full for said coat Said Thomas Polluck was from the town of Durham
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said State, this 13th day of July 1847
Thomas P Treadwell Secretary of State.
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State of Maine County of York} Ss 
Personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County -- Stephen Pollick of Acton in the County and State aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he is a child of the late Elizabeth Pollick, who was the widow of Thomas Pollick who was deponents [sic] father and who deponent has always understood performed much service in the Revolutionary that he was a native of New Hampshire believe of the town of Lee that he done service a part of the time with Captain Wenborn Adams in Col Enoch Poors [sic] Regiment that he was married to deponents [sic] mother some years before the commencement of the Revolutionary War as their oldest child would be if living near seventy-one years of age being some years older than this deponent That his said father died in the last war while in service about the year 1814 that after his death his widow deponents [sic] Mother remained a widow untill [sic] her death which was on the tenth day of February (1837) eighteen hundred and thirty seven, That at her death she left the children named in
the annexed declaration her surviving being her only children now surviving and that each are of the age of twenty one years
Stephen Pollick
Sworn and subscribed before me this 6th day of July 1847 by Stephen Pollick which I certify to be a credible person
Horace Bodwell Justice of the Peace
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I Nancy Merrow of Augusta in the State of
Maine, widow of the late Stephen Merrow, and
of the age of Seventy five years make affidavit
and say that my maiden name was Nancy Pollock
that my father's name was Thomas Pollok of
Shepley in the State of New Hampshire -
that Mrs. Abner Haskell - widow - is my sister
and daughter of said Thomas Pollok that previous to her Marriage with Haskell she was married to Eli Lynn. that her maiden name was
Martha Pollok, that said Martha is now living in Augusta in the State of Maine and is of the age of sixty six years.
Nancy her X Mark Merrow

State of Maine Kennebec Ss. Augusta Dec. 7. 1855 Then the above named Nancy Merrow
personally appeared and made oath that the
foregoing declaration by her Subscribed
is true
Before me
Manly T. Abbott
Justice of the Peace
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State of Maine - Kennebec County ss
I hereby certify that Manley T. Abbott Esq.
before whom the within written affidavit was made, was, at the date thereof, a Justice of the Peace for the said County, duly authorized to administer oaths &c. [ETC] and that his signature thereto is genuine.
Witness my hand and the seal of our Supreme Judicial Court for said County this tenth day of December A.D. 1855
Wm. [WILLIAM] M. Stratton, Clerk of said Court.
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In the name of God, Amen.
I Edward Woodman of Lee in the County of Strafford in the Colony of New Hampshire, Yeoman, being an old man and calling to mind the mortality of my body, knowing that it is appointed unto all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last Will and testament, bequeathing my soul to Almighty God that gave it, and my body to a decent Christian burial at the discretion of my Executor hereafter named. And as to such worldly estate as it hath pleased Almighty God to bless me with in this life, I will and bequeath it in manner following after my honest debts are paid and funeral charges defrayed.
Imprimis [first] I give and bequeath unto my
wife Mary the one third of my Real Estate
during her natural life, and one third of my
personal estate to her and her disposal.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my son Eighty acres according to quantity and quality of the same in the Grant of land made me by the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay, which grant is laid out a little ways [sic] above the township of Lebanon in said Colony, and near Salmon Fall [FALLS] River
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(so called) to him his heirs and assigns.
Item. I give unto my son Samuel all my land in the Parish of Lee where I now live, together with the house and barn standing thereon
(excepting his mothers [sic] dowry while she lives) with all my personal estate, to him his heirs and assigns, on condition that my said
Son Samuel Shall make and execute a good
and valid conveyance of all his right and title of a whole lot of land in Rochester to his brother John, being the lot on part of which his said brother now lives
Item. I give and bequeath unto my sons
Edward, David and Ebenezer, all that right of land before mentioned granted me by the 
Colony of the Massachusetts Bay equally
divided between them (except the eighty acres
given by these presents to my son John) to them their heirs and assigns.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth five shillings to be paid her by my son Samuel. And I do appoint my aforesaid
son Samuel to be my Executor in things in trust, to see this my last will and testament performed in all things, revoking all former wills by me made or signed, ratifying and confirming this
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and no other to be my last will and testament,
this tenth day of May A.D. 1776.
Edward his X mark Woodman I.S.

Signed Sealed and declared by the said Edward
Woodman to be his last will and testament
in presence of
Gideon Mathes
Thomas Noble
George Dutch
Ebenezer Thompson.

Recorded agreeably to the Original
Attest. John Wentworth Jun. [JUNIOR] Regr. [REGISTER]
A true copy of Record
Attest, John H. White, Register.

Strafford Ss At a Court of Probate holden at Dover within and for said County on
Wednesday the 12th day of June A.D. 1776, before the Hon.ble [HONORABLE] Ichabod Rollins Esq. Judge of the Probate of Wills &c this instrument, purporting to be the last will and testament of Edward Woodman late of Lee in said County Yeoman, deceased, was presented for Probate by the Executor therein named, and Gideon Mathes, Thomas Noble and George Dutch, three of the subscribing Witnesses
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thereto being then present made solemn oath that they saw the said Edward Woodman sign and seal, and heard him publish pronounce and declare the said instrument to be his last will and testament, that at the time of doing thereof, he was, to their best discerning of a sound and disposing mind and memory, and that they subscribed their names together as witnesses to the Execution thereof, at the testators request, in his presence, and in the presence of each other.
wherefore the said instrument is hereby proved, approved and allowed as the last Will and testament of the said Edward Woodman,
before Ichabod Rollins, Judge of Probate.
Recorded agreeably to the original
Attest. John Wentworth Jun [JUNIOR] Regr [REGISTER]
A true copy of Record, Vol 1, pages 145, 146 & 147. Straff [STRAFFORD] Co. [COUNTY] Prob. [PROBATE] Records.
Examined by John H. White, Register

I John H. White Register of Probate for the County of Strafford in the State of New Hampshire, do further certify that I have
examined the Probate Records of said County from their commencement in Feb. 1773 down to the year 1820 and find recorded thereon no
will of Edward Woodman who left a legacy to a daughter Elizabeth, excepting the said Woodman, a copy of whose Will & the Probate thereof is given above.
John H White Register.
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W. Deerfield NH
Case of Mrs. Martha Lyon
Mrs Martha Lyon
Augusta M E [MAINE]
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Mrs. Lyon
i sic] received your letter last Monday it was miss carried [sic] it was directed to East Deerfield it should have been directed to West Deerfield i [sic] have ben [sic] to Concord and the Secretary has examined all the Records and papers there is [sic] in his custody and there is no more service than is emboded [EMBODIED] in that sertifficate [sic] that he gave when you was [sic] here he said that the military coat is the pay for six months service and the 2 months 11 days is in addition to the six months making 8 months 11 days and as i [sic] have no coppy [sic] of that sertifficate [sic] he thought it was not best to make another and that is all that he can certify to but if there  is any more it is at Washington an [AND] last if you want a nother [sic] you send a coppy [sic] of that one and direct to west Deerfield
Yours Respectfully
Samuel Woodman Jr
i [sic] should have wrot [sic] before but we have lost one of our family M Kineson
Adrews [sic] Wife is better the rest of the folks
are well
Deerfield December 2. 1848
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Wid [WIDOW] Haskell Deposition

Widow Haskell Augusta 
Wants pension [illegible]
[ crossed out "Please return this to S.P. [illegible]"]
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Copy
State of New Hampshire
Office of Secretary of State
I do hereby certify, That from an examination
of the Books and Documents relating to the war of the Revolution, which remain in this office it appears that the name of Thomas Polluck is borne upon the pay Roll of Capt. Winborn Adams in Col. Enoch Poor's Regt. as a private in said Company, with an allowance for two months and eleven days service commencing May 26 1775 - And upon "A List of those men in Capt. Adams Compy [COMPANY] who have recd [RECEIVED] pay for their regtt. [REGIMENTAL] Coats, Col. Poor's Regt" is borne the name of Thomas Pollick acknowledging the recpt. [RECEIPT] of
"one pound four shillings in full for a
"Regimental Coat promised by the Colony of
New Hampshire. Said list is dated Oct. 4th 1775
And I further certify, That upon
"A List of Capt. Winborn Adams Company
June 2nd 1775 is borne the name of Thomas
Polluck age 25, occupation - husbandman.
Town - Durham - County - Strafford - Said list is signed by Samuel Hobart, by whom said Company was mustered and received June 2nd 1775
Given under my hand and the Seal of the State, this 20th day of October A.D 1848
Seal (Signed) Thomas P. Treadwell
Secretary of State
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I the subscriber testify and say that Thomas Pollock was a soldier in the American army in the last war with Great Brittian 1812-14 and he was the lawful husband of Elizabeth Pollock I was personally acquainted with them, and their children attended the same district School
with me and I was [sic] to Thomas Pollock widow [sic] funeral
Some called him Pollock and some called him Pollard the same man
Acton York County Me -
Nov. 5 - 1852
Samuel Thompson
Witness A Hubbard
Susan E Drew
York November 5th 1852 Personally appeared Samuel Thompson and made oath that the above Deposition by him Signed is true
Before me Aaron Hubbard Justice of the Peace
I Aaron Hubbard do testify and say that I was well acquainted with the above named
Pollock or Pollard and that he was some times [sic] called by one name & some times [sic] by the other
Aaron Hubbard
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Certificate of
Secretary of State of
New Hampshire
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State of New Hampshire
Office of Secretary of State
I do hereby certify, That from an examination
of the Books and Documents, relating to the war of the Revolution, which remain in this office, it appears that the name of Thomas Polluck is borne upon the pay Roll of Capt. Winborn Adams in Col. Enoch Poor's Regt. as a private in said Company with an allowance for two months and eleven days service commencing May 26 1775 - and upon "A List of those men in Capt. Adams Compy [COMPANY] who have rec'd [RECEIVED] pay for their regtt. [REGIMENTAL] Coats Col. Poor's Regt" is borne the name of Thomas Pollik acknowledging the recpt. [RECEIPT] of
"one pound four shillings in full for a
Regimental Coat promised by the Colony of
New Hampshire. Said list is dated Oct. 4th 1775
And I further certify, That upon "A List of Capt. Winborn Adams Company
June 2d 1775" is borne the name of Thomas
Polluck - age 25 - occupation - husbandman -
Town, Durham - County, Strafford. Said list is signed by Saml. [SAMUEL] Hobart, by whom said Company was mustered and received June 2d 1775.
Given under my hand and the Seal of the State, this 20th day of October A.D 1848.
Thomas P. Treadwell
Secretary of State
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State of New-hampshire [sic].
Office of Secretary of State.
I, Thomas P. Treadwell, Secretary of State aforesaid, do hereby certify, that John L. Swinerton is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Strafford duly
Commissioned and qualified. His Commission was dated on the 15th day of December 1843 and will expire on the 15th day of December 1848 and his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of the State, this 30th day of August 1847.
Thomas P. Treadwell Secretary of State.
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State of New Hampshire
County of Strafford} Ss. 
Personally appeared before John
L. Swinerton the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County, Betsy Elizabeth Berry of Milton, in the County and State aforesaid who being duly sworn
according to law deposeth and saith, that she is a child of the late Elizabeth Polluck, who was the widow of Thomas Polluck, who was deponents [sic] father and who deponent has always understood
performed much service in the revolutionary war, that he was a native of New Hampshire I believe of the town of Lee, that he done [sic] service a part of the time with Captain Winborn Adams in
Col. Enoch Poor's Regiment, that he was married to deponents [sic] mother some years before the revolutionary war as I the said Betty Elizabeth Berry am the oldest
child and am now seventy one years of age and upwards.
That her said father died in the last war, while in service about the year 1814. that after his death his widow deponents [sic] mother remained a widow untill [sic] her death, which was on the tenth day of
February 1837 One thousand eight hundred thirty seven that at her death she left the children named in the annexed declaration her surviving, being
her only children now surviving, and that such are of the age of twenty one years and upward.
Betsy E. her X mark Berry

Attest John L. Swinerton
Ann A Swinerton
Sworn and subscribed before me this 3rd day of July 1847 Viz Betsy Elizabeth Berry whom I certify to be a credible person}
John L. Swinerton Justice of the Peace
.