Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4754, for Levi Parker, Connecticut
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Conn.

Parker, Levi
Eunice

NUMBER
W. 4754
B.L.WT.34858-160-55

CONTENTS
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Vermont 30512 
Levi Parker of Orange Co in the State of Vt. who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Swift of the Regt commanded by Col Huntington in the Connecticut line for 10 months.  
Certificate issued in favor of Eunice Parker widow of the Levi Parker deceased 
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of March 1836 and sent Simeon Short Thetford Orange Co Vt 
allowance ending Aug 25 1835 day of his death   
$149.46 
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.} 
Recorded by D D Addison Clerk 
Book E2 Vol. 3, Page 93
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(all black, unreadable)
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[unreadable]  Mar. 1855 
10th Augt 
Eunice Parker Wid of Levi Parker  dec’d
Pri. 
Capt 
Col 
Ens [Ensign] 
Dis [discharge] 
Widow 
Revy War 
No. 34858 issued July 24 / 56
Pensioner under act 5 Feby 48 inscribed on pension Roll 5th July 1848 - Vermont 
Ohio Feby 48 - 617 
AD: 160 Ac July 22d 1856 
Boynton 
C. B. Stickney Norwalk Ohio 
Rec’d 18
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Levi Parker
Application & certificate
16534
PO
Apr 6 1832
No papers
Return to be made to Probate Thetford Orange County Vt.
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State of Vermont Orange County, Probate District of Bradford } ss: 
On this 25th day of July 1832 personally appeared in open court, before the Probate Court for the district of Bradford aforesaid now sitting being a court of record - Levi Parker a resident of Thetford in the county of Orange & State of Vermont aged seventy six years next August - who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.   That he enlisted into the army of the United States in Capt James Danas company at Mansfield in the state of Connecticut about the first of February 1776 for the term of two months.  John Arnold being the sergeant in said company, Roger Hovey & Benjamin Collins all of said Mansfield having enlisted firstly in said company & performing service at the same time, that he does not recollect the name of the Col of the regiment, but he thinks the adjutants name was Arocan. That he marched in said company from Mansfield to Cambridge, Massachusetts near Boston & was there when the British evacuated Boston & was after marched to Roxbury south of Boston & was there discharged from the service about the first of April 1776 having provided his full term of two months. 
He further declares that in the same year 1776 about the last of Sept or first of October as he thinks, a call was made for the militia in Connecticut to go & assist Samuel Thompsons company of Mansfield Connecticut, Col. Starrs regiment
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volunteered in this service & marched directly to Frog’s Neck in New York then crossed Kings Bridge on to the Island of N. Y., took up quarters at Fort Washington them crossed the East River & marched to the White Plains & was in the engagement at the White Plains.  He remained near the White Plains until about the first of December of the same year & was dismissed from service at that place & he is confident he served more than two months at this time.    
He further declares that in the year 1777, 1778 & 1779 he entered the service as a volunteer in the State troops of the State of Connecticut & served two months each year, two months in Providence in Rhode Island,  two months at Groton Fort Griswold & two months New London in the State of Conneticut; but he cannot recollect distinctly in what year he was at these places respectively nor does he recollect the names of the officers except Col Ledyard at Groton & he believes Col Mumford either at Groton or New London.   
He further declares, that the  7th of June 1781 at Mansfield in the State of Connecticut where he resided, he enlisted into the service of the United States as a Teamster & was placed under the direction of one Dewey who was called a Captain or Conductor of Teams & was attached to a Corps of Teamsters who were under the superintence of Genl Wadsworth Commissary General - Contractor for the French Troops or division of the Army,  that he took charge of a team at Mansfield
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went to Providence State of Rhode Island & they took Baggage & then marched through Hartford in Connecticut to the White Plains in New York then passing through New York & crossing the Hudsons river in to New Jersey, marched to Philadelphia & them to Baltimore in Maryland & then to Williamsburg near James River in Virginia.  That he was at York Town when Corn Wallis [Cornwallis] was taken & assisted in drawing ammunition to be used in the Battle by the French Troops & was dismissed from the service near York town about the first of November he thinks &  was allowed one month to return home & arrived home in the month of December.   
He also declares, that at Mansfield in the month of June 1783 he enlisted again into the service of the United States for the term of six months in the first company of the Connecticut line, under the command of Capt Swift as he thinks in Col. Huntington’s Regiment & Genl Huntington’s Brigade.  That he marched to West Point in the State of New York & was stationed there most of the summer & fall of that year, that he was detached with about one hundred other men to cut wood for the use of the army the next winter.  That on his return to West Point after cutting wood he was discharged at West point in the month of December after serving out his full time of service.  
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to any pension or annuity except the present and that his name is not on the roll of any agency of any state.  That he has no documentary in relation to his claim that he knows of no person
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except Roger Hovey of Thetford Vermont, who can testify to his service 
He relinquishes any claim to any pension & that [unreadable] his name is not on any roll of the agency of any State.
The following interrogatories were then put to the applicant & [unreadable] 
1. Where in what you was you born? 
Ans I was born in Mansfield in the State of Connecticut in the year 1756.  
2  Have you any record of your age & where is it?  
Ans  and I expect I have in Mansfield Connecticut  
3 Where did you live when you entered the service, where have you lived since the revolutionary war & where do you now live?  
Ans  In Mansfield in the State of Connecticut until about the year 1785. when I moved to Thetford where I have ever since lived & so reside now.  
4 How were you called into the service, were you drafted, did any you volunteer or were you a substitute?   
Ans I voluntarily enlisted in the first place for two months in 1776, and I volunteered to Serve in the Militia & State Troops in the years of 1776, 1777, 1778 & 17779 as stated in my declaration.  5.  State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served, such continental & militia Regiments as you recollect & the genl circumstances of your service.  
Ans I do not know that I can be more particular than I have stated in my declaration.  
Levi Parker
Sworn to & subscribed the day aforesaid 
Sworn to & subscribed the day aforesaid 
I Roger Hovey of Thetford in the County of Orange & State of Vermont, hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Levi Parker who has subscibed the above declaration & am confident he served the first term of service by him above mentioned as I served in the same company at the time, that I knew him & fully believe the whole his statement.  Roger Hovey
Subscribed & Sworn to day & year aforesaid
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[unreadable] residing in Thetford in the County of Orange & State of Vermont herby certify that we are well acquainted with Levi Parker who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be 76 years of age; that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the revolution & that we concur in that opinion.   
Asa Burton
Josiah Hubbard
Subscribed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid  
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, & putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Asa Burton who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in Thetford Vt. & that Josiah Hubbard is a resident of said Thetford is a credible person & his statement is entitled to credit. Also that Roger Hovey whose affidavit is incorporated above, was duly Sworn in & [unreadable] is a credible person & his statement is entitled to credit.   
Simeon Short Clerk or Register of the Probate Court aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Levi Parker. 
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 25th day of July AD 1832- Simeon Short Clerk
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16,524 
Levi Parker 
Orange Co. Vermont 
Admd [admitted] 
10 mo pri  
$33.33. 
to Eunice Parker Widow to 25 Aug ‘35 
Simeon Short, Clk 
Thetford Orange Co Vert.
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WAR DEPARTMENT 
Pension Office, 
11 June 1833
Sir. 
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed before a pension can be allowed. the notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by compling with this request greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim. 
A Statement, showing the Service of  Levi Parker
Period when the service was rendered.    1 Feby 1776   Duration of Claimant’s Service. 2 Months   Rank of claimant.  Private   Names and rank of the Officers under whom he served.   Capt Dana  Col not recollected    Age at present and place of abode when he entered the service.   76 years, Mansfield, Connect.   Proof by which the declaration is supported.  Traditionary & Clergyman
Period when the service was rendered.  October 1776   Duration of Claimant’s Service.  2 Months  Rank of claimant.  Private   Names and rank of the Officers under whom he served.   Capt Thompson, Col. Starr
Period when the service was rendered.  1777, 78 & 79 2 months each year    Duration of Claimant’s Service.   Rank of claimant.   Names and rank of the Officers under whom he served.   Col. Ledyard & Col Mumford are the only officers recollectable
Period when the service was rendered.  1781 7th June to December   Duration of Claimant’s Service. 6 Months  Rank of claimant.  Teamster   Names and rank of the Officers under whom he served.   Captain Dency 
Period when the service was rendered.  1782   Duration of Claimant’s Service.  6 Months   Rank of claimant.   Private    Names and rank of the Officers under whom he served.   Capt Swift  Col. Huntington
I am respectfully 
Your obedient servant 
JAMES L. EDWARDS, 
Commissioner of Pensions.
It cannot be readily be admitted that the above service is insusceptible of proof and the regulations require the production of the best to be procured.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.            
The following regulations have been adopted:                  
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.              
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:  
1. The Regular Troops.  
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.    
3. Persons employed in the Naval service.             
4. Indian Spies.                 
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first in stance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.             
DECLARATION.                        
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.           
State, Territory, or District of 
County of } ss.
On this day of A.B. a resident (b) of personally appeared (a) before in the county of and State, Territory or District years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the in the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) served in the (e) regiment of the line, under the following named officers:    
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]            
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only that of Agency in the State of    
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. A. B. 
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]            
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. 
I of the Court of hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of for a pension.               
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this day of & c.            
If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.          
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz: (k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be and C.D. residing in (the same) who has years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.                 
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.                 
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]     
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.               
I, Clerk of the Court of contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of for a pension. do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this day of & c.         
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission ; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.            
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
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alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted ; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.            
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.    
1. Where and in what year were you born?                
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?          
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war , and where do you now live?               
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?              
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.           
6. To a Soldier. { Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it? 
To an Officer. {Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what Town officer has become of it?              
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.                 
The Court will see that he answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.         
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons -one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the character and standing of other persons, giving such certificates. 
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject     
Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.        
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed his genuine signature.          
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can cure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the person of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.        
[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.    
[b]   The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.     
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.    
[d]  The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served. 
[e]  Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had.        
Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: 
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:--For---year - months , and days , I served as a - months and --- days, I served as and for such service I claim a pension."
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State of Vermont 
Orange County SS}  On this 18th day of October AD 1839 personally appeared before me Simeon Short one of the Judges of the County Court within & for said Orange County Mrs Eunice Parker aged 72 years a resident of Thetford in said Orange County & widow of Levi Parker late of said Thetford a revolutionary Pensioner deceased (she the said Eunice Parker by reason of her great age & infirm health being unable to travel & attend at the sitting of any Court of record)  who being first duly sworn, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 7 1838 entitled an act granting half pay & pension to certain widows.   That she is the widow of Levi Parker late of said Thetford dec’d, who died at his residence in Thetford on the 29th day of August AD 1835 & to whom a pension was allowed about the time of his decease on account of his revolutionary service of about $34.00 a year, the precise sum she does not recollect. And this declarant refers the commissioner of Pensions to the documents & proofs furnished to said department in the case of the said Levi’s application for a pension as evidence of his revolutionary services & as the grounds of her claim for a pension.  She also declares that she was married to the said Levi Parker on or about the eleventh day of February AD 1785 at Mansfield in the State of Connecticut by the Reverend Cook Welch, then a minister of the Gospel in that place, that her maiden name was Eunice Davis, that she was not married to the said Levi Parker previous to his leaving the service but the marriage took place prior to
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the first day of January Seventeen hundred & ninety four to wit at the time above stated.  That her husband the said Levi Parker died as above stated at his residence in Thetford on the 29th day of August 1835 & that she still remains his widow. This declarant further states that she has been the mother of Seventeen children by her said husband Levi Parker, the oldest of whom Isaac Parker will be fifty four the last day of November 1839 & to her certain recollection was born just ten months & eighteen days after her said marriage. This circumstance enable her to recollect, that her marriage took place as above stated on the eleventh or twelfth day of February 1785.  
Eunice Parker 
Sworn to & subscribed on this said 18th day of October AD 1839 aforesaid before me. 
Simeon Short  first assistant Judge of Orange County Court 
I also certify that the above named Eunice Parker is too infirm to travel & attend the regular session of a Court of record.  
Simeon Short Judge 
We George Parker aged thirty one last March & Chloe Parker aged twenty nine years last May both of Thetford in the County of Orange State of Vermont & both children of Levi Parker late of said Thetford deceased & Eunice Parker who has signed the above declaration, hereby certify that we were present & witnessed the death our said father Levi Parker on the 29th day of Augt 1835 & know that our mother the said Eunice Parker has remained his widow and is now his widow we also certify that it has always in our recollection been reputed & understood in the family that Isaac Parker our oldest brother, who now resides in the State of Illinois is 25 years lacking six months older them the said Chloe Parker which would make him 54 next Novr.
George Parker
Chloe Parker
 Sworn to subscribed this 18th day of Oct 1839 & I certify that the said George Parker & Chloe Parker are credible persons & before me Simeon Short first assoc Judge of Orange County Court.
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I Mary Hubbard of Thetford in the County of Orange State of Vermont, aged Eighty four years do testify ay that I am well acquainted with Eunice Parker of Said Thetford widow of Levi Parker late of said Thetford deceased who as I am informed is making application for a pension under the late act of Congress & recollect that some four or five years after I was married & moved into Thetford which was in 1781, She came with her husband Levi Parker to reside in the same neighborhood with me & has lived in the same neighborhood with me ever since. The said Levi Parker & Eunice lived together as husband & wife until his death which was about four years ago.  They have always been accounted respectable people & have brought up a large family of children & no body, to my knowledge, ever disputed their being husband & wife - I well recollect that their oldest son Isaac was near the age of my oldest son Josiah who was 55 last August.   
Mary Hubbard x her mark
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 19th day of Oct AD 1839 & I certify that the above named Mary Hubbard is a credible person.  Simeon Short assoc Judge of Orange County Court.
I  Orange Hubbard of Thetford in the County of Orange & State of Vermont aged fifty two years do testify say that I have for many years been acquainted with Levi Parker & Eunice Parker & family mentioned in the foregoing affidavit of my mother Mary Hubbard, having lived in the same School District with them & attended
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the same school with Isaac their oldest son & other younger children of the family.   I well recollect that Isaac was always called a year or two older them myself & not quite so old as my brother Josiah who was 55 last August.  The said Levi & Eunice were all considered respectable people brought of a large family of children & no body, to my knowledge ever disputed their being husband wife. The said Levi died about four years ago & the said Eunice remains still his widow.  
Orange Hubbard 
Sworn & subscribed this 19th day of October AD 1839 & I certify that the above named Orange Hubbard is a credible witness Before me Simeon Short Judge of Orange County Court 
6561
Eunice Parker
State of Vermont
Orange County ss} I John W Smith Clerk of the County Court within and for Said Orange County hereby certify that Hon Simeon Short before whom the foregoing declaration & affidavits were executed is one of the Assistant Justices of Orange County Court in and for said County duly Commissioned and qualified to act as Judge of Court and as Justice Peace Exofficio that his commission is dated in November 1838 and will expire on the last day of November 1839 and that the foregoing Signature purporting to be his are genuine In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this 29th day of October AD 1839 
John W. Smith Clerk
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The State of Ohio,  
Erie County, ss.} On this 28 day of April one thousand eight hundred and fifty five, personally appeared before me, Wm W. Parker Justice of the Peace within and for the county and State aforesaid, Eunice Parker aged 89 years, a resident of Florence Township in the County of Erie in the State of Ohio who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Levi Parker deceased, who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain -  in the regiment of - commanded by  -  in the Revolutionary War so called, that her late husband not recollected at -  on or about the day of  - A. D. 18, for the term of -  and continued in actual service in said war for the term of  - and was honorably discharged at -  on the day of A. D. 18-  
She further states that she was married to the said Levi Parker in the State of Connecticut on the 13 day of February A.D. 1785 by one Cook Welch a Minister of the Gospel and that her name before her said marriage was Davis that her said husband died at Thetford Vermont on the 1 day of August A. D. 1834 and that she is now a widow.   That she is now a pensioner as a Widow of said Levi Parker inscribed on the Pension List Roll the 5 day of July 1848 under the Act of Congress of Feby 2 1848, at the rate of $ 33 33/100 per annum.  There is no public or private record of her said marriage as [unreadable] to be had.  She resided om Thetford Orange County in the State of Vermont until the Month of Oct 1854 when she moved to this place of her present location to reside with her Daughter.  She further states that he has no means of knowing all the particulars of her husbands enlistment or such other than that set forth in her papers in file I the pension department at Washington City & She says that she has fifteen children by her said husband & raised all but four.  She has now living ten of her said Children.  Her [unreadable] of her said husbands service in Revolutionary war she refers to his petition for a Pension now on file in Pension Department in Washington City. & that she makes [unreadable] apply for a [unreadable] Bounty Land under this or any Act of Congress [unreadable] 
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the “act approved March 3d, 1855."  
Eunice Parker x her mark 
STATE OF OHIO,
Erie County ss}
We, Josiah Clough and Winthrop Clough residents of the County of Erie Township of Florence in the State of Ohio upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Eunice Parker in our presence, and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be. That she signed the above by making her mark 
Winthrop Clough 
Josiah Clough 
STATE OF OHIO
Erie County Ss}  The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim. 
Wm. W. Parker 
Justice of the Peace in Florence Erie Co. Ohio, 
STATE OF OHIO 
Erie County SS } I Horace N. Bill Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Erie  do hereby certify, that William W. Parker before whom the above declaration and affidavits were taken, was at the time of taking the same, Justice of the Peace duly qualified as such and authorized by law to administer oaths for general purposes in said county, and that the signature thereto attached, purporting to be his is genuine signatures 
In Witness of whereof, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at Sandusky, the 17th day of May A.D. 1855 
Horace N. Bill Clerk
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Experience Davis
affidavit of Marriage
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State of New York 
Livingston County ss }  Experience Davis of the Town of Livonia in said County aged Sixty nine years and upward being duly sworn deposes and says that he is the brother of Eunice Parker of the Town of Thetford in the State of Vermont.  That he was present when the bonds of Matrimony between his said sister and Levi Parker were joined by the Reverend Cook Welch a minister of the gospel.  That this deponent is unable to state the Exact day or year that said marriage took place let according to his best recollection and belief it was in the year one thousand seven hundred and Eighty four or five that this deponent well recollects that it was after said he was discharged from service in the war of the revolution, and further says not.   
Experience Davis
Subscribed and Sworn before me this Eighth day of May one thousand eight hundred and Thirty nine.  Seman Gibbs a judge of 
STATE OF NEW YORK, 
COUNTY OF LIVINGSTON, } ss   I, WILLIAM H. STANLEY, Clerk of the County of Livingston, do hereby certify, That Seman Gibbs Esq whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument, and thereon written; was at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Judge of County Courts in and for the County aforesaid, dwelling in the said County, commissioned and sworn and duly authorised to take the same.   And further, that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of such Judge and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine. 
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County, the Eighth day of May 1839 
William H. Stanley clk 
Scr Wm H Whiting Dep clk
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State of New York 
Livingston County ss }  Experience Davis of the Town of Livonia in said County aged Sixty nine years and upward being duly sworn deposes and says that he is the brother of Eunice Parker of the Town of Thetford in the State of Vermont.  That he was present when the bonds of Matrimony between his said sister and Levi Parker were joined by the Reverend Cook Welch a minister of the gospel.  That this deponent is unable to state the Exact day or year that said marriage took place let according to his best recollection and belief it was in the year one thousand seven hundred and Eighty four or five that this deponent well recollects that it was after said he was discharged from service in the war of the revolution, and further says not.   
Experience Davis
Subscribed and Sworn before me this Eighth day of May one thousand eight hundred and Thirty nine.  Leman Gibbs a judge of Livingston County Court
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State of Ohio
Erie County ss}  On the 28 day April 1855 before Mr Wm. W. Parker Justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Winthrop Clough Esq a resident of Green Township in the County and that four who being duly sworn according to law declare and says that he knew Levi Parker and Eunice Parker his wife live together in the Town of Thetford in the County of Orange in the State of Vermont for about forty years that they were reputed to have been legally married to each other, and that they lived together as husband and wife before and during the time above mentioned and raised a family of fifteen children Ten of whom are now living. That she is a pensioner of the U.S. at the rate of $33.33 per annum. That she removed to Florence Erie County Ohio Ohio in Octr 1854, to reside will her Daughter Sally Parker.   That she is about 89 years of age, and is now living and is a widow of the said Levi Parker and has not since his death again intermarried and is living.   
That Levi Parker her said husband died at Thetford in Orange County State of Vermont on the 9 day of August A.D. 1834 and that he is 79 years of age and is disinterested.   
Winthrop Clough 
Also at the same time and place came Josiah Clough of the same place as the above Winthrop Clough now resides and says that he married one of the Daughters of the above named Eunice Parker and also was well acquainted with Levi Parker & his wife the said Eunice Parker.   That she is the widow of said Levi.   That she has not since his death intermarried with any one, and is now living.   She lives with said Levi as his wife and raised a large family of children fourteen or fifteen, ten of when are now living and is the identical Eunice Parker
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who is a widow Pensioner of the U.S. and who removed the State of Ohio on Oct 1854 to reside with her Daughter Sally Parker, and is now living & and Also this affiant further says that her said husband in Levi Parker died at Thetford Orange Co. Vermont on the I day of August AD 1834.  
That affiant is 79 years of age and is disinterested
Winthrop Clough
Josiah Clough
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and above written I also certify that I am well acquainted with the above affiants that they are respectible persons of Credit and of good reputation, and worthy of credit.  
Wm. W. Parker Justice Peace Erie Co Ohio
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Revy  WIDOW, &c. 
File No. 4754 
Eunice Parker  
Widow  
Levi Parker 
Pri.   Rev. War 
Act: Feby 2d / 48 
Index:- Vol.  M,  Page 109 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Revolutionary.  Widow claim for Bounty Land under Act 3 Mch 1855.  Act upon this claim immediately if you can.
C. B. Stickney atty Norwalk
[stamp] NORWALK Ct. AUG 6
Official Business
FREE
Commissioner of Pensions  Washington City D.C.
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34,858
160 Acres
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Parker
[unreadable] 
Parker
Can’t be found
[unreadable]
(Official Business)
FREE
Geo C. Whiting Esq
Commissioner 
Pension Office
Washington D. C.
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5031
Vermont 
Eunice Parker 
widow of Levi Parker dec’d who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 25th August 1835 of Orange Co in the State of Vt.  who was a Private in the compy commanded by Captain Huntington of the Regt commanded by Col Huntington in the Ct line for  10 mos.
Inscribed on the Roll of Vt. at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836 
Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of Feby 1840 and sent to Simeon Short Thetford Vt.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1839   $116.66  
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar 40   16.66 
$133.32  
{Act July 7, 1838.} 
Recorded by D. D. Addison Clerk 
Book A Vol. 2. Page 52 
See letter to S. G. Heaton June 19. 1843-
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2HI 
Vermont  
Eunice Parker 
widow of Levi Parker who was a Private in the Ct line for 10 months  
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 27th day of Sept. 1843 
S. G. Heaton Port Mills Vt. 
[Act of March 3, 1843.] 
Recorded in Book A Vol.  1 Page 29 
AW Sept 27
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Thetford August 1834 
Sir
The declaration papers & relative to the claim of Levi Parker are again transmitted to you. There has been a delay on account of the ill health of Mr Parker, the hope that some further evidence might be obtained in favor of his claim.   
It will be perceived that he has procured the depositions of Calvin Topliff & James Topliff  respecting his service in Col Storrs regt in 1776.   James Topliff tells that he served 3 months at the time Parker himself is not confident as to the time, but is now satisfied that it was three months or more although in his first statement he was not confident it was over 2 months.   His statement respecting his first service commencing in Feby 1776 is corroborated by the testimony of Roger Hovey taken from to before the Probate Court.   
His service while a teamster is supported by the affidavit of John Dexter Enclosed-
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He has not been able to obtain any testimony respecting his service in 1782 in Swifts company Huntington Regt.  He supposed their would be evidence in the department of that service as it was done near the close of the war when documentary papers were kept in better order.  If the record be doubt about this last service, it is possible that the applicant right with great trouble & Expense obtain some evidences to support it, though he has not yet found any.  He has no hope that he can furnish any proof of his serving in the years 1777 78-79. Although he is consistent that he served in those years.  He will abandon his claim for those years if no testimony can be found in the department.  
I am yours with much respect
 Simeon Short
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Thetford Dec 8. 1835 
Hon J.L. Edwards 
Commissioner of Pensions  
Sir 
By your favor of August 4th I learn that the explanatory deposition of Levi Parker as to his services for the years 1777, 78, & 79 is not satisfactory.  I informed Parker that I had doubts whether he was sufficiently definite in his statement of those services to satisfy the department. His reply was that the transactions of those times, were so far effaced from his memory, that he could not be more particular & that he could not after the most diligent enquiry hear of any one who was with him at the time.   
I am authorised by Mr Parker to inform the Department that it will not be in his power to furnish any further proof in the case & that he will accept the decision already made - viz the 2 months under Capt Thompson in 76 & the 6 months under Capt Wolcott in 82 - if the department considers that the claim to other portions if service has not been fully satisfactorily proved I would, however, refer the attention of the department to the two months service in Capt James Danas Company in the winter of 1776.   I believe that the affidavit of Roger Hovey was obtained & forwarded in support of this service & Mr Parkers own recollections respecting the same appeared to be very clear & definite. It would be very desirable if this term could be added to the other two.   
I am Sir with great respect your obedt & very humble svt 
Simeon Short
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Levi Parker
Died
25 Aug 35
Eunice Parker widow
Thetford Vt
Dec 9
Vt. Dec 14
45
Honl James L. Edwards  
Commissioner of Pensions  
Washington D.C.
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To the Hon’l the War Department of the United States 
I Simon Short Register of the Court of Probate within & for the District of Bradford & State of Vermont do hereby certify that it has been made to appear to this Court by the most satisfactory testimony, that Levi Parker of said Thetford whose application for a pension is now pending before you, for his services as a revolutionary soldier died at his residence in said  Thetford on the 29th day of August 1835 & that he left a widow by the name of Eunice Parker, who was at the time of his decease his lawful wife.  
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Probate Court this 21st day of November AD 1835 at Thetford in said Probate District.  
Simeon Short Register
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I James Topliff of Bridgewater in the County of Windsor State of Vermont, being in the Seventy fourth year of my age do testify and say that in 1776 I lived in Mansfield in the County of Windham & State of Connecticut.  I was then well acquainted with Levi Parker Living in the in the said town of Mansfield above named.  I further testify & say that in the month of August in the year 1776 the Ridgement [regiment] of Militia Commanded by Col Stowers [Storr] ware Called out for actual service, the above named Levi Parker and myself were attached to the ridgement.   We both of at belonged to the Company Commanded by  Capt Samuel Thompson of said Mansfield.  
We immediately marched to New Haven Connecticut, thence to Horse Neck, and West Chester  thence to Fort Washington thence to White Plains, thence to North [unreadable] and there discharged, it being three and one half months service,   I was knowing to the above Levi Parker being in said service through the above named time and places.  
James Topliff
State of Vermont 
Livingston County ss}   at Woodstock County of Windsor and  State of Vermont on the 15th day of September  1835 the above named James Topliff made oath to the truth of the above deposition before me.  I have been acquainted with James Topliff many years and know him to be a creditable witness his and memory it good for a man of his age.   
Daniel Taft Justice Peace
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State of Vermont 
Windsor County } I Benjamin Swan Clerk of Windsor County Court, Do hereby certify that Daniel Taft is one of the Justices of the Peace within a for said County duly commissioned & qualified and, and that his signature within written, I believe genuine.  
Given to my hand & the seal of  County Court this Sixteenth day of Feb AD 1833 
Benj Swan Clerk
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I Calvin Topliff of Hanover in the County of Grafton State of New Hampshire, being seventy four years of age do testify & say that I am well acquainted with Levi Parker now of Thetford in the County of Orange State of Vermont that said Parker & myself were  both born & lived till we were men in the town of Mansfield, in the County of Windham & State of Connecticut; that said Parker & myself in the year of our Lord 1776 were both private soldiers in Captain Samuel Thompson's company & Colonel Experience Storrs regiment of Connecticut Militia, in August of that year near the end of the month, the particular day I can not recollect, orders came for Colonel Storrs regiment to march for New York & on the same day the whole regiment took up their march for New York we made no considerable halt till we took post at West Chester, where we remained about a month. At West Chester I was taken sick & unable to proceed with the regiment when they took up their march from that place to New York.   Until the regiment marched as I have above stated said Parker was with the company & did service in it from the time when we marched as above stated from Mansfield
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I did not afterwards join the regiment from my own personal knowledge state that said Parker served longer than I served, longer than stated as above; but I know that he returned in the month of November, about three  months from the time when the regiment was ordered out with the rest of regiment, I have always understood & believed that he continued serve with the regiment until it was dismissed.  
Calvin Topliff
State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss  August 15. 1833. Then Calvin Topliff who is well known to me, set his above signature to the foregoing affidavit in my presence & made oath  that the above is just & true  before me 
Ira Perley Just Peace   
July 29. 1834 -  I further certify that Calvin Topliffe the deponent above named is a credible witness.
I Perley J. P.
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State of New Hampshire 
Grafton ss  - I Stephen P. Webster Clerk of Superior Court and Court of Common Pleas within & for the County of Grafton do hereby certify that Ira Perley Esquire before whom the within Deposition of Calvin Topliff was taken was on the 15 day of August 1833, before & one same has been an acting Justice of the  Peace within and for said County duly commissioned & sworn, and that his signature, here written within is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Superior Court at Haverhill in said County in fourth day of August Anno Domini 1834 
S. P. Webster Clerk
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Levi Parker
Supplementary Declaration
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State of Vermont
Probate District of Bradford
In the County of Orange}   On this 22d day of July AD 1835 before the Probate in the County Court for said Bradford now open sitting personally appeared in open Court Levi Perker of Thetford in the County of Orange State of Vermont, who has heretofore made his declaration for a pension before this Court, which is now forwarded to the war department who being first sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following statement in addition to the one already before the war department that in the winter of 1777 he verily believes, though it might have been in 1778, Providence in Rhode Island, was threatened with an attack from the British & a call was made for the militia in Mansfield in the State of Connecticut where this applicant then lived to turn out & repel the enemy & this declarant with one Eleaser Hosmer & others volunteered & went to Providence & joined a company in Genl Spencer Brigade, his Col & Captains name he does not recollect, but he thinks that one Elijah McCall from said Mansfield was his Lieut or Ensign - that he remained in active service at said Providence at least two months & was employed in keeping Guard was then dismissed & returned to Mansfield.  There were not many
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Continental Troops in Providence at the time.   
That in the spring or early in the summer of 1778 or 1779 he is not certain which though he thinks it was in 1778, there was a call made, at Mansfield where he then lived for the Militia to turn out & repel the enemy who threatened an attack upon Groton in the said State.  That this applicant volunteered among others in this service, he thinks that John Russ & Gamaliel Fenton  both of said Mansfield one of the number, that he joined a company Regiment under the command of Col Ledyard or Captain & other officers he does not recollect & was employed in making Fascines & at work on Fort Griswold.  He is certain that he was engaged at least two months at this time in active service.  Them dismissed & returned home to Mansfield.    
That in the year 1779 or 1780, it was about year after he was at Groton there was a call for militia go to New London that he engaged for the term of two months & left Mansfield about the first of August & went to New London & was employed in keeping guard & upon Fort Griswold.  One James Fletcher & Joseph Davis went from Mansfield with him & was
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in the same company & did duty with him his at New London but he has wholly forgotten his officers,  he recollects that he said Col Ledyard at New Loudon & other offices but he has entirely forgotten who commanded them at the time or who were his company officers.   That owing to great age, loss of memory & bodily infirmity he cannot be so particular as he could desire but according to his best recollection & belief be rendered the service above mentioned that all the persons he has refered to are either dead or gone to parts unknown & that he cannot  hope to give the war department any further light upon the subject of his service as a revolutionary  soldier,  that he is now almost 79 years of age 
Levi Parker  
In testimony whereof I Simeon Short Register of the said Probate Court do hereunto set my hand & affix the seal of said Court this said 27 day of July AD 1835 
Simeon Short Reg
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State of Vermont 
District of Bradford in the County of Orange } On this 19th day of September AD 1833 before the Probate Court in said District now now sitting Personally appeared Levi Parker of Thetford in the County of Orange State of Vermont, who on the 25th day of July 1832 made his declaration before this Court for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the act of June 7, 1832. & who after being duly sworn, doth on his oath  make the following additional declaration in amendment of the former.  namely that after the most diligent enquiry he cannot find any living witnesses, who can testify of his services in the years 1777. 1778 & 1779 nor can he be any more definite in the statement of those services, than he has already been in his first declaration & if his statement of his serving in those years is too general to satisfy the commissioner of Pensions, he must abandon his claim for those services for the years 1777-8-9.
He has been able to obtain the affidavits of James Topliff & Calvin Topliff relation to his service in Capt Thompsons Company & Col Storrs Rept & his conversing with them he is fully convinced that he served at least three months & he thinks more in Capt Thompsons company as a Private.  
In relation to his service as a Teamster he states in addition that he felt himself under the same obligations & liabilities in that service, that he did, when serving as a soldier in the regiment draw his pay the same was a much restricted from any private business or civil purposes & directions furnished in the same way,  he has not been able to obtain the testimony of a witness who was with him in that service but furnishes the war department with the affidavit of John Dexter who is now a pensioner of the United States who testifies of his enlistment into the teaming Service & of his six months absence, which this applicant hopes will be satisfactory
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With regard to the service in 1782, in Col Huntington’s Reg & Gen Huntington’s Brigade this applicant states that he understood that to be Continental Service & supposed that his name would be found on the rolls of Col Huntington Regiment.  Upon for the reflection, he thinks it is possible that he has mistaken the name of the Captain.  His impression is that it was Swift, but it might have been another name.   As to the Col & General he is confident that he is not mistaken & he is sure  the term was six months.  He served the whole time as a Private.   
Levi Parker 
In testimony whereof I Simeon Short the Register of said Probate Court have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court this 19th day of Sept. 1833 
Simeon Short Register
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I John Dexter of Stamford in the County of Windsor & State of Vermont in the eightieth year of my age do testify & say that I think in the year 1781 I then lived in Mansfield in the County of Windham & State of Connecticut I was then acquainted with Levi Parker who was then living in Mansfield he was about three years younger than myself.   I was knowing to his enlisting to drive a team to convey the baggage of the French Army to Virginia.  He started the first of June  & returned the first of December.  Mr Parker is now living in Thetford in Vermont 
John Dexter
 State of Vermont 
Windsor County ss} at Stamford in said County on the eighth day of August 1833 the above named John Dexter made oath to the truth of the above Deposition before me, I have been well acquainted with Mr Dexter for thirty years past & know him to be a creditable witness his memory & reason is good altho he is an old Man.   Isaiah Finkhaus Justice Peace 
State of Vermont 
Windsor County } I Benjamin Swan Clerk of Windsor County Court do hereby certify that Isaiah Finkhaus Junr is a Justice of the Peace in for said County, duly Commissioned & qualified, and that the above written signature I believe to be genuine 
Given under my hand, and the seal of said County Court this Seventeenth day of September AD 1833 
Benj. Swan Clerk
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Declaration of Eunice Parker for the Benefit of the Act of Congress of the Feby 1848 granting Pensions to widows 
Admitted 
S. G. Heaton Post Mills Vt
I hereby certify that the foregoing declaration is [unreadable]  that she is the [unreadable]
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State of Vermont 
Orange County }  On this thirty first day of May 1848 Personally appeared before the subscribing authority a Justice of the Peace within and for the County aforesaid Eunice Parker a resident of Thetford in the County aforesaid Aged Eighty two 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 Pension made by the act of congress passed on the 2d day of February 1848 granting Pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war - That she is the widow of Levi Parker who was a Private in the army of the revolution but to what regiment or corps he belonged she cannot state but would refer to evidence now in the war department - That she received under the Act of 17 June 1844, Thirty three Dollars and thirty three cents per annum.  She further declares that she is still a widow.
Eunice Parker her mark  
Subscribed in presence of  S. G. Heaton 
J. A. Heaton 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written Before me 
S. G. Heaton Justice Peace
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I hereby certify that the foregoing declarant is known to me and that she is the same individual who drew a Pension under the act of congress of the 17 June 1844, as stated by me in the foregoing declaration 
S.G. Heaton  Justice Peace
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STATE OF VERMONT 
ORANGE COUNTY, SS. } I Calvin Blodgett Clerk of the County Court of the County of Orange in the State of Vermont, do hereby S. G. Heaton Esq is an acting  Justice of the Peace in and for said county and his commission was dated on the first day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty seven and will expire the thirtieth day of November next and that is his signature hereto affixed genuine. I
Given under my hand and the Seal of said County Corut, this 23d day of June  A.D. 1848  
Calvin Blodgett
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Perley C. Jones Clerk 
Declaration of Eunice Parker 
$33.33 per annum 
S. G. Heaton Port Mills Vt.
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State of Vermont 
Orange County } On this Eleventh day of April Eighteen hundred forty three personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the state and County  aforesaid Eunice Parker a resident of Thetford in the County of Orange and State aforesaid aged Seventy five 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 the third of March Eighteen hundred Forty three granting Pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war-  That she is the widow of Levi Parker who was a Private in the war of the Revolution.  That she cannot tell the regiment or Corps in which he served but would refer to the records now at the war department.  That she was a Pensioner under the act of Seventh July Eighteen hundred thirty Eight which she received at the rate of Thirty three dollars thirty three cents per annum.   She further declares that she is still a widow.   
Eunice Parker her mark
Subscribed in  presence of S. G. Heaton 
William Heaton
Sworn and subscribed the day and year above named Before me 
S. G. Heaton Justice Peace 
I hereby certify that Eunice Parker the above declarant is personally known to me 
S. G. Heaton Justice Peace
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State of Vermont 
Orange County ss } I Perley C Jones Clerk of the County Court of the County of Orange in the State of Vermont do hereby certify that S. G. Heaton is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified that his commission was dated on the 9th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and forty two and will expire the thirtieth day of November next and that his signatures written in the within declaration are genuine 
Given under my hand and the seal of said County Court this 26th day of June A.D. 1843 
Perley C. Jones Clerk
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Norwalk O. August 4. 1855 
Comr of Pensions D.C.
Dear Sir
 Inclosed I send you application of Mrs Eunice Parker of [unreadable] Erie County in the State of Ohio with original Certificate of Enrollment on Pension list, at $33 33/100 per Annum dated 5th Day of July 1848 under act 2 Feby 1848, commencing 4 March 1848. Widow of Levi Parker Private in Revolutionary war to be transferred from the agency at Montpelier Vermont to the Agency at Cleveland Ohio 
You will please act upon this immediately and oblige &c
C.B. Stickney Solr for applicant 
Norwalk Huron Co Ohio
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Pension Agency Montpelier Vt  Aug 15 1855 
J Minot Esq  
Comr of Pensions 
Sir 
Eunice Parker widow of Levi Parker a pensioner on the Roll of this Agency under the act the rate of 2 Feby 1848 at 33 33/100 Dollars per annum was last paid up to 4th September 1854 
Respectfully 
W H H Bingham
Pen Agent 
Wm. G. Hames
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6561- 
Eunice Parker 
Vt 
Act 7 July 38 
m [married] 85 d [died] 35 
Admd [admitted] 
10 mo pri.  
$33 33/100 
No deduction 
Simeon Short Esq  Thetford Vt.
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Thetford January 2 1840 
Sir
Enclosed I forward the application of Mrs Eunice Parker, widow of Levi Parker and who was a pensioner at the time of his death obtained for Mrs Parker, a certificate from the Town Clerk of Mansfield, Connecticut that he had searched the records of Marriages in that Town, but could not find the record of her marriage with Mr Parker. This paper I think, I must have forwarded through mistake to your office as I do not find it among my papers. 
I also forward further testimony in relation to the marriage of Mrs Betheil Bryant.   
I omitted to obtain the County ss certificate of my official character & signature in this last case, believing that the certificate upon Mrs Parker papers would be sufficient.   
Very Respectfully Yours 
Simeon Short 
Honl J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions
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Thetford Sept 22d 1834 
Sir
I have conversed with Levi Parker of this Town relation to his revolutionary services who mentions some particulars which I believe will aid you in the investigation of his case that are not contained in his declaration.   
He is much surprised that his name is not on the roll of Col. Huntington, Regiment. He says he understood it to be the first company first Regiment of the Connecticut line.   He also says, that he enlisted at Windham, County of Windham in Connecticut & that one James Hopkins of Mansfield (the town to which he belonged) enlisted at the same time with him into the same company. He tells me also that one Hathaway & one Crouch belonged to the same company with him & that he messed with them.  Their given names he has forgotten.   
In relation to his service at Providence in 1777 he states that one Elijah McCall was a Lieutenant or ensign of the company & that he was then in the Winter season. He states that one John Russ & Gamaliel Fenton of Mansfield were with him at Fort Griswold in 1778 or 1779, he helped work on the Fort.  Was employed a part of the time in making Fascines.   He thinks now that he was at New London in 1780 as he came directly from that place to Vermont arrived here a short time after Royalton was burnt which was in Oct 1780.  He recollects of seeing Col Ledyard at Fort Griswold & Cor Mumford [unreadable] at that place or at Fort Trumbull.   
I can say, as an individual in relation to Mr Parker, that he has lived in my immediate vicinity for many years & has ever been accounted a very honest man & when making statements relative to his revolutionary services he seems to be scrupulously conscientious. He is quite infirm & not able to make a Journey to Mansfield, the place of his early residence
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and he has not yet ascertained that any person is now alive at that place who can aid him as regards his pension.   
As an individual I fully believe that he  performed the services mentioned in his declaration.  He may be mistaken as to the length of his serving in the year 1777 – 8 - 9, but I have no doubt that he performed service during each of those years.  And as regards his service in 1782 he expresses the utmost confidence as to the length of his enlistment & his place of encampment & the time of year when he performed duty.  From the fact that his name is not on the roll of the company & Regt where he placed it, it seems very certain that he must be mistaken in the particulars.  
I hope he, that a further investigation of his case will unravel every difficulty.  Possibly the facts he has refered as contained in this letter, or the names of persons who enlisted with him will throw some light upon the case. He has requested me to write to Mansfield, his native town to obtain further evidence if possible.    
I am he yours with much Respect 
Simeon Short
Honl J L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions
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Norwalk. O. August 4. 1855 
Com of Pension D.C. 
Dr Sir  
Mrs Eunice Parker Widow of Levi Parker Private in Revolutionary War herewith inclose her application for Bounty Land under act of Congress approved March 3, 1855,  
She is now a Pensioner at $33 33/100 per Year and she begs to refer you of the papers on file in the application of herself for pension for proof of the service of the service of her husband Levi Parker in war of the Revolution.   
If you can act immediately on this case do as she is an old lady of the Revolutionary [unreadable] & forward the same to me (160 acres)  and oblige yours 
C.B. Stickney Solr  for Applicant Norwalk Ohio
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State of Ohio 
Erie County }  On this 28 day of April AD 1855 before me Wm. W. Parker subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said County of the personally appeared Eunice Parker who upon her oath declares that she is the identical person who was inscribed on the Pension list Roll on the fifth day of July AD 1848 as the Widow of Levi Parker, under the act of Congress passed and approved of February 2, 1848, at the rate of $33 33/100 per annum for Revolutionary services, in the U.S. Army in the war of the Revolution.   That when she was so inscribed in said Pension Roll she resided in Thedford in the County of Orange in the State of Vermont, whose she had resided for about 70 years.   That she was paid her said pension money at Montpelier in the State of Vermont, and was last paid up to the 4th day of September AD 1854.   That in the month of Oct. 1854, She removed from Vermont to reside with her daughter Sally Parker in the Town of Florence Erie County in the State of Ohio, and has resided there ever since, and expects there to reside the remainder of her life. And that she wishes her said pension to be paid at the agency in Clevland Ohio, and for a change to that effect from Montpelier Vermont to said Cleveland and for that purpose she forward herewith inclosed her said Certificate of written &c That she was obliged to leave her son in Vermont with whom she had resided for many years became of his extreme poverty, and was obliged to come to her said Daughter in Ohio to live because she is better able and willing to support her.
Attest 
Eunice Parker her Mark 
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year first above written by making her mark 
Wm. W. Parker Justice of the Peace for Erie County Ohio
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State of Ohio
Erie County}  This is to certify that I Winthrop Clough a resident of the County of Erie in the State of Ohio am well & personally acquainted with Mrs Eunice Parker the within declarant and have known her for forty years.  Knew her in Thetford Orange Co. State of Vermont, and that the within named Eunice Parker is the identical Eunice Parker who is the widow of Levi Parker decd and is a pensioner at $33 33/100 per annum. That she came to the State of Ohio in Oct. 1854, to reside with her daughter Sally Parker and she is living with her in said Florence.  She is an old Revolutionary widow aged 89 year and is in needy circumstances, and is now living, and is a Widow 
Josiah Clough 
Winthrop Clough 
The above is subscribed to and sworn to this 23 day of April 1853, before me, And I do hereby certify that the said Winthrop Clough & Josiah Clough are persons of Credit and  respectability and highly worthy of credit as a man of truth and veracity, in this section of the County, and that the above facts are true to my knowledge & that the interlineations were made before signing  
Wm. W. Parker Justice Peace Erie Co O. 
The State of Ohio 
Erie County } I Horace N. Bill, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Erie do hereby certify that William W. Parker Esq. before whom the foregoing  declaration & affidavits were taken, was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace duly qualified as such and authorized by law to administer oaths for general purposes in said County and that the signatures thereto attached purporting to be his are his genuine signatures 
In Witness of which I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at Sandusky this 17th day of May AD 1855 
Horace N. Bill Clerk
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34858 – 160     Nathan Parker decd
Erie Penn. Nov. 20th 1858 
Geo C. Whiting Esq. Commissioner 
Sir
We write the Pension Department the last of August last, in regard to Warrant issued to Eunice  Parker, and received an answer to the effect that and Warrant No. 1462 for 160 acres of land was issued to said Eunice Parker Dec 28/ 55 and was sent  to her Agent H. A. Billings Springfield X Roads Erie Pa. Now the fact is that Eunice Parker has never received said Warrant and since we received your answer We wrote to H. A. Billings who is now residing at Spring Valley Fillmore Co. Minnesota but can receive nothing from him although it has been near two months since we wrote him thinking Perhaps there may be some fraud an the matter. We would suggest that the matter be investigated and would  like the assistance of the Department in the premises.   
Truly yours 
Brigden & Hutchinson Attorneys