Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26306, for Daniel Pettibone, Connecticut
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SERVICE   Conn.
Pettibone, Daniel
Eunice
NUMBER  W. 26306
B.L. Wt. 39492-160-55
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State of New York 
Madison County ss 
Eunice Pettibone on this Twenty second day of March 1855 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace of the Town of Lenox in & for the County and State aforesaid who being duly sworn declares that she is the widow of Daniel Pettibone deceased that she is of the age of Eighty five years and is a resident of Lenox in the County of Madison aforesaid - that the said Daniel Pettibone deceased was a soldier or Private in the Revolutionary (War) Army and drew an annual Pension of Twenty six dollars & sixty six cents to which he became entitled for services rendered as such private in the Revolutionary Army for the United States as appears from the Original Certificate of the Secretary of War a copy of which is as follows viz: 
“War Department.  
Revolutionary Claim 
I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 7th June, 1832 Daniel Pettibone of the State of New York who was a Private in the Revolutionary Army is entitled to receive twenty six dollars and  Sixty six cents per annum during his natural life commencing on the 4th of 15 March 1831 and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March & 4th of September in every year.    Given at the War Office of the United States this 21st day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty two 
(signed)  Lew Cass 
Secretary of War
(L.S.)
Examined and Countersigned} 
(signed) J. L. Edwards”
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that the said Original Certificate is indorsed “(No. 3276), Recorded by Geo. C. Stiles Clerk in Book D. Vol. 5 Page 164” 
She further states that she was married to the said Daniel Pettibone on the Seventh day of January 1824 at Canastota Madison County in the State of New York by one Rev. Ira Olds a Presbyterian Minister and that her name before her said marriage was Eunice Graham, that her said husband died at Vernon Center Oneida County State of New York in the 9th day of April 1844, and that she is now a widow, and has remained a widow since his death - that there is no public or private record of her said marriage.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the Act passed March 3d 1855; never having received bounty land is knowing that she is entitled except for the above service and she believes that no Bounty Land was ever received by her said husband. 
Eunice Pettibone 
Sworn to, subscribed and acknowledged before me the day and year first above written and on the same day personally came before me Marcia Burlingame a resident of Castle town of Lenox Madison Co. in the State of New York and Lucia Fay of the same place to me well known to be credible witnesses
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in the State of New York and Lucia Fay of the same place to me well known to be credible witnesses
who being duly sworn declare that they are personally acquainted with Eunice Pettibone, widow of Daniel Pettibone, who has made and subscribed the foregoing declaration; that they were personally acquainted with Daniel Pettibone and his wife during the lifetime of the former and know that they lived together as husband & wife, and to be so reputed, and they believe that the husband of the said Eunice Pettibone was the identical person who performed the military services mentioned in the above declaration & for which the certificate was given a copy of which is correctly set forth in said declaration - that they have compared said copy with said Original - that the above named Daniel Pettibone is now dead, and the said Eunice Pettibone is now a widow and has so remained since the death of said Daniel Pettibone - that they were both present at the marriage of Daniel Pettibone & the said Eunice on the 7th day of January 1824 or thereabout & they the said Daniel & Eunice were married by Rev. Ira Olds as a forth in the foregoing application - they for the state that they have no interest nor are they concerned in the prosecution of the claim of said Eunice Pettibone.   
Lucia Fay
Marcia Burlingame
Sworn to subscribed before me & I that I am not interested in claim or concerned in its prosecution 
Smith Sayles Justice of the Peace, in and for said County
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19.918
State of New-York,  
Madison County Clerk's Office ss} I, LUCIUS P. CLARK, Clerk of said County, and of the Courts of Record thereof, do hereby certify, That the annexed Instrument is executed and proved or acknowledged in due form, according to the laws of the State of New-York, to entitle it to be recorded therein 
Also that Smith Sayles Esquire, before whom the same was proved or acknowledged, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgement, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly elected, sworn and authorized to take the same. And I further certify that I am well acquainted with his handwriting, and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate of proof or acknowledgement is genuine. & that I have no interest ins the within claim.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County, this day of March 
Lucius P. Clark CLERK.
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3276 
Utica, New York 
Daniel Pettibone 
of Vernon in the State of New York who was a Private in the Compy commanded Captain Watson of the Regt commanded Col. Burina in the Connecticut line for 8 months 
Inscribed on the Roll of Utica the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of Dec 1832, and sent to E. Allen Vernon, Oneida
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1832   $39.99 
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar ’33  13.33 
$53.32 
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Geo. C. Stiles Clerk, 
Book D  Vol. 5   Page 164
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19,918  Act ‘55
March 27 / 55 
Eunice Pettibone, widow of Daniel Pettibone priv 
Capt
Col } Revolution Army- 
Enls
Disch  } Revolution War 
No. 39492 issued Sept 1 / 56
Revolutionary Pensioner, Certificate 3276 – Record IIV Vol 5 page 164, 
Pens act 32- 3276 
Boynton
Ad:160 acres Aug 27 / 56: 2736 
Boynton
B. F. Chapman R. Clockville Madison Co. N.Y. 
let to S. Farley July 24 / 55 
WD 
Act 32 No 3276
Vol P=61
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6462 
New York A 
Eunice Pettibone 
widow of Daniel Pettibone Conn who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 26 dollars 66 cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853. 
Certificate of Pension issued 7th day of Oct 1858 and sent to B. F. Chapman  Clockville Madison Co. 
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 25 Vol. H
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In the matter of Claim of Eunice Pettibone widow of Daniel Pettibone a Revolutionary Soldier Additional proof 
B.F. Chapman Atty for claimant Clockville New York To the Commission of Pensions,
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Madison County 
State of New York } SS: Eunice Pettibone being duly sworn says that she is the identical person who applied to the Pension office for a pension as the widow of Daniel Pettibone who was a private in the Revolutionary Army, and whose application is now on file in the Pension Department.  
And deponent alleges that her husband Daniel Pettibone died April 9. 1844, and that in her application she intended to state the death to have occurred on said 9th day of April 1844 instead of 1840 - that if it is stated to have occurred in 1840 instead of 1844 it is a clerical error in filling out the papers. 
That deponent has a family bible which she has owned and had in her family since about the year 1818 in which was kept the family record of the Marriages births and death which bible and family record she now has. 
That the following is a true and Exact Copy of said family record with reference to her marriage to Daniel Pettibone and also with reference to the death of said Daniel Pettibone 
Viz: “Marriages Daniel Pettibone & Eunice Graham Married 7th January 1825.”   
“Deaths” 
“Daniel Pettibone died April 9th 1844.”  
That the record above given was made and entered in said family Bible
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at the times therein mentioned by this deponents daughter Eunice Tryon who now resides in the State of Ohio. 
And deponent alleges that she is the widow of Daniel Pettibone a pensioner and she now has in her possession the original Pension Certificate held by her said husband as set forth in her original application. 
That the newspaper hereto attached contains a published notice of the death of her husband Daniel Pettibone 
Eunice Pettibone 
Madison County SS: 
State of New York } Lucia Fay and Marcia Burlingame Each for herself  duly sworn says that she attended the wedding of Eunice Graham & Daniel Pettibone on the 7th day of January 1825 at the town of Lenox Madison Co N.Y. 
That said Pettibone is the same identical Daniel Pettibone named in said Original Pension Certificate set forth in the said Eunice Pettibones application for a pension now on file in the Pension Department at Washington.   
That this deponent also attended the funeral of said Daniel Pettibone.  That he died at the town of Vernon Oneida County on the Ninth day of April A.D. One thousand Eight hundred and forty four.   And deponent intended so to state in her former affidavit, and if it was stated in deponents affidavit to be at a different time, it was a clerical error in inserting it in this deponents affidavit
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That deponent has often seen the Bible and family record of said Daniel & Eunice Pettibone and the record of which a copy his been inserted in the affidavit of said Eunice Pettibone, is a true and accurate Copy of said Record as to the Marriage and death of said Daniel Pettibone.  That deponent has compared the same with said Original family Record and that she has no interest in the claim for pension made by said Claimant Eunice Pettibone as the widow of Daniel Pettibone.
Marcia Burlingame
Lucia Fay
State of New York Madison County } SS. 1 George B. Burlingham been duly sworn 1 Says that he was well acquainted with Daniel Pettibone during his life time.  Deponent knows he was married to Eunice Graham (Now Pettibone) from what he has heard said Pettibone & Eunice say,  he is not present at the wedding but recollects very well when they were married & has often been at said Pettibone house, and that he the said Daniel Pettibone & Eunice Pettibone, the foregoing Claimant whom deponent well Knew lived and cohabited as
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husband and wife until the death of said Daniel Pettibone, That said Daniel Pettibone died at Vernon Oneida County on the Ninth day of April Eighteen hundred and forty four.  That deponent saw and conversed with said Daniel Pettibone but a few days before his death, and that soon after his death the said Eunice Pettibone came into the family of this deponent to live and has lived with deponent ever since.   
That deponent his often seen the Family Bible and said record of the said Eunice Pettibone & David Pettibone - that the same is now in the possession of said Eunice Pettibone that the copy of said Record set forth in said Eunice Pettibones affidavit hereto annexed has been compared by this deponent with the Original Record and the said Copy is a true and accurate copy of said Record.   That said Entry in said Record as to the death of said Pettibone was made a short time after the death of said Pettibone and is in the hand writing of Eunice Tryon a daughter of said Eunice Pettibone.  That deponent has no interest in this claim, 
Geo. B. Burlingame
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The foregoing affidavits were Subscribed in my presence by the said Eunice Pettibone, Marcia Burlingame, George B. Burlingame and Lucia Fay, and sworn to before me this 25th day of September 1858.
And I further certify that I am well acquainted with the foregoing affiants, and have known them since about the year 1820 and they are each and every of them reputable citizens in whom implicit confidence can be placed; and I further certify that I believe the statements in said affidavits to be true, and I certify that I recollect of hearing of the death of said Daniel Pettibone, and believe that it was in the year 1844.   
I further certify that I have compared the copy of the family Record set forth in the affidavit of Eunice Pettibone aforesaid with the original Family Record in Possession of said Eunice Pettibone and the same is a the copy of said Record, and I further certify that I have no interest in said claim. 
H Beecher Justice of the Peace
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No. 8046 
David Pettibone 
14th Septr ‘32
12 Novr 
p. 45
14:16
E Allen Vernon 
Oneida Co.  New York 
Utica Bank 
admitted
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No. 8006
BRIEF in the case of  Daniel Pettibone of Vernon County of Oneida
in the State of  New York
(Act 7th June, 1832.) 
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?   before Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? 
3. How old is he?    Seventy Eight years - 78
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
Period.  Enlisted the latter part of April or first of May In 1775  Duration of Service.  7 Months  Rank. private  Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.  Col. Hinman’s regt. Capt John Watson Compy Lieuts Woodbridge, Watson, Connecticut State troops.
Period.  In 1777  Duration of Service. 1 Month  Rank. private  Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.  Col Burrill’s regt. Capt Timothy Masey regt, Lieut Asahel Case, Ensign Samuel Coles
5. In what battles was he engaged?  At the Capture of St. Johns
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?  At Norwich Connecticut
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?   By a living witness as to his pvt service on oath before Justice of the Peace, By the respectable citizens as to his tradition, known character & credibility, certified by the Judge 
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?  No ribbons
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above 
Chas G. Wilcox
Examining Clerk
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Madison County State of New York S.S. 
On this 23 day of April 1858 personally appeared before the County Court of Madison County being a Court of Record Eunice Pettibone a resident of Lenox, Madison County State aforesaid aged Eighty Eight 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 act of Congress, passed as it in the February 1853 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war.   That she is the widow of Daniel Pettibone who was a private in the Revolution any she further declares that she was married to the said Daniel Pettibone on the 7th day of January 1824; that her said husband died on the 9th day of April 1840; That she was not married to him prior to the Second of January 1800, but at the time above stated.  She further declares that she is now a widow.  
She further declares that her said husband during in his life time received from the United States an annual pension of $26.66 for his services in said Revolutionary
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War under the act of June 7, 1832 as will more fully appear by a certificate issued to him by the Secretary of War of which the following is a true copy. 
“War Department 
Revolutionary Claim 
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Daniel Pettibone of the State of New York who was a private in the Revolutionary Army is entitled to receive twenty six dollars and sixty six Cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.  
Given at the war office of the United States, this 21st day of December One thousand Eight hundred thirty two. 
L.S. 
Lew Cass 
Secretary of War
Examined & Countersigned 
J.L. Edwards " 
[Endorsed on the back as follows] 
“Payment to be made at Utica by the Pres’d, U. S. Br.  Bank Agent for paying pensioners in the agency of New York 
Recorded by Geo. C. Stiles Clerk in Book D. Vol. 5, page 164”
Reference to the papers on which said certificate was granted, on file, the service of said Daniel Pettibone will at large and fully appear.
Eunice Pettibone
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In the Matter of the Application of Daniel Pettibone for a pension 
E. Allen Vernon
Oneida County Attorney 
Applicant will receive his pension at the U. S. B. Bank 
Utica 
admitted 
8 Mo 
$26.66
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State of New York 
Oneida County }ss: Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. 
On this third day of December in the year of our Lord 1832 personally appeared me Nathan Kimball one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Oneida State of New York at Vernon in said County Daniel Pettibone a resident of Vernon in said County aged seventy eight years 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 entered the service of the United States by enlistment as a volunteer in the Connecticut State troops the latter part of April or first of May 1775. that he entered the service as early as May 10th in captain John Watsons Company, Colonel Hinman's Regiment, one Woodbridge was first Lieutenant, Titus Watson second Lieutenant,  Jehiel Hull Ensign, one Elmer of [unreadable] was a Major and one Stoddard Adjutant of the Regiment.  That he enlisted for seven months.  That the company rendezvoused at Canton & Marched from there to fort George at the head of Lake George in New York by way of Sheffield, Barrington, Spencertown & Stockbridge to Greenbush on the Hudson River & from there to Halfmoon. The Regiment rendezvoused at Fort George & was soon after marched to Ticonderoga which had then lately been taken from the Brittish by Colonel Arnold & Allen. That the Regiment remained there three or four weeks & Captain Walton & another company of the Regiment were ordered to Crown Point which had also been taken from the Brittish. that he remained at Crown Point several weeks & was employed in repairing & strengthening the works. Went with the army which was commanded by Gen Montgomery from there to attack St. Johns, encamped in Isle Aux Noux [Ile aux Noix} & remained there two or three weeks preparatory to the attack.  Says he was at the taking of St. John & was one of fifty two picked men who first entered the fort,  that Col. Waterbury's Connecticut regiment & Col. Bebees
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Vermont Regiments were there, Captain Griswald of Torrington & Buel of Salisbury were in Col. Hinman’s Regiment. He remained at Johns in the service to the early part of December that many of the troops volunteered to go to Montreal.  That he was dismissed having served out his time.
One month service} 
That in the year 1777 he lived at Norfolk in Connecticut & was enrolled in Captain Timothy Moses Company of Militia in Col. Burril's Regiment. Asahel Case was Lieutenant & Samuel Cole ensign of the company.  That in September of that year the whole company remaining at home were ordered to Esopus on the Hudson River to watch the movements of the Brittish vessels Rose and Phoenix which were moving up the river & did go up as far as Livingston's manor.  That he went with the Company to Esopus & from there to Livingstone Manor. That most of the Regiment had gone to join the Northern Army under Gen. Montgomery & were gone until after the Surrender of Burgoyne. After he reached Living Stones Manor Gen. Putnam arrived & took command. He remained there until they heard of Burgoyne’s Surrender when the ships went down the River & the troops was dismissed.  He was in the service one month at least this time but in no action.  
Says he knows of no person by whom he can prove his service in 1775 except Heman Smith of Vernon aforesaid & knows of no one by whom he can prove any thing about the months tour in 1777.   
Says he was born at Simsbury in Hartford County Connecticut in the year 1754 that he has no record of his age.   That he resided at Norfolk each time of his entering the service, in Litchfield County Connecticut & resided there until the year 1816 when he removed to Vernon where he now resides.   
That he never had a commission or warrant nor any written discharge from the service & has no documentary evidence.   
Served as a private each time.  That Erastus N. Nichols & Asahel Gridley are persons residing in his immediate vicinity who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution.  That said Erastus N. Nichols is a Clergyman
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He further says that by reason of age & bodily infirmity he is unable to attend a court of record.   Can State the names of no other officers or regiments then the above.  
He hereby relinquishes all claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of agency of any state.   
Daniel Pettibone 
Sworn & Subscribed the  day & year aforesaid}  
Nathan Kimball Judge of Oneida common pleas 
We Erastus N. Nichols a Clergyman residing in the immediate vicinity of Daniel Pettibone in  Lenox Oneida County and State of New York and Asahel Gridley residing in the said Vicinity in said town do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the said Daniel Pettibone who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration, and we believe him to be of the age of Seventy eight years. that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & we concur in that opinion & do also certify that he is a man of fair character in community & of truth & veracity. 
Erastus N. Nichols
Asahel Gridley
Subscribed & sworn the  day & year aforesaid 
Nathan Kimball Judge of Oneida common pleas 
State of New York 
Oneida County ss:} Heman Smith of Vernon in said County being duly sworn says that in the year 1775 he resided at Goshen in the State of Connecticut. that he was then acquainted with Daniel Pettibone who resided at Norfolk, that about the first of May of that year this deponent enlisted in the service of the United States in the Connecticut troops in Captain Josiah Starr's Company in which Asaph Hall was Lieutenant, this deponent went to Ticonderoga & was in Col. Hinman’s Regiment, & served about four months when he was discharged on account of sickness
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that he was at that time informed that said Daniel Pettibone enlisted about the same time this deponent did & this deponent believes such was the fact this deponent saw the said Daniel Pettibone in the service at Ticonderoga in June of that year in Captain John Watson's company in the same Regiment with this deponent, this deponent was acquainted with said Watson. This deponent further says that he verily believes the said Daniel Pettibone served out his time of seven months.  That he now resides within a mile of said Daniel Pettibone & knows him well & he is a man of fair character and generally reputed in the neighborhood to have been a soldier of the revolution. This deponent has known him upwards of fifty seven years and this deponent is now seventy eight years of age 
Heman Smith
Sworn & subscribed this day 7 of December AD 1832 before me }
Nathan Kimball Judge of Oneida common pleas 
And I the said Judge do hereby declare my 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 & served as he states. And do also certify that it appears to me that Heman Smith who has subscribed and sworn to the forgoing affidavit of his is a person of credibility & that his statements are entitled to credit and further that it also appears to me that Erastus N. Nichols who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman residing in Vernon in the vicinity of said applicant & that Asahel Gridley who has also signed the same is a resident in the same town & vicinity and is a credible person & that their statement is entitled to credit.
Witness my hand at Vernon the day & year aforesaid And further I do certify that I am of opinion
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APPLICATION 
Eunice Pettibone widow of Daniel Pettibone For Bounty Land. 
additional Evidence 
B. F. Chapman, Atty for Claimant. Clockville, Madison Co.
 memorandum 
New-York. claim under act of 1855. 
Suspended new application and amended law of Mor 14, 1856- 
Send to B. Chapman
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State of New York 
County of Madison } SS. On this 14th day of June personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within & for the County & State aforesaid Eunice Pettibone aged 87 years a resident of Lenox in said County & State who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Daniel Pettibone deceased who was a private in a company in the Revolutionary army the Captain regiment, or colonels name deponent cannot State, in the war with Great Britain declared by the United State July 4, 1776. That her said husband volunteered or enlisted at Norfolk Ct.  as deponent is informed and verily believes, and continued in actual service in said war for more than 14 days & was honorably discharged.   The particulars of his service deponent has no knowledge except that her said husband During his life time had and received a Pension Certificate from the War Department, doled December 21st 1832 upon which he received from the Government of the United States $26.66 annually during his lifetime - That said Certificate is now & ever has been in deponent person since the death of her said husband and the following is a true copy of said Certificate 
“War Department Revolutionary Claim I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Daniel Pettibone of the State of New York who was a private in the Revolutionary Army is entitled to receive twenty six dollars and sixty six Cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March”
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“1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year. Given at the war office of the United States, this 21st day of December One thousand Eight hundred thirty two. L.S. Lew Cass Secretary of War Examined & Countersigned J.L. Edwards " [Endorsed on the back as follows] “Payment to be made at Utica by the Pres’d, U. S. Br. Bank Agent for paying pensioners in the agency of New York Recorded by Geo. C. Stiles Clerk in Book D. Vol. 5, page 164”
She further states that she was married to the said Daniel Pettibone of Vernon Oneida County on the 7th day of January 1824 by Ira Olds of Lenox Madison Co. and that her name before her of said marriage was Eunice Graham; that he said husband died at Vernon Oneida County On the 9th day of April 1844, and that she is now a widow. 
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3, 1855, and the act amending said act Approved May 14, 1856 she further states that she has one made an application for bounty land under the 1st named act, and that said application was suspended for the want of Record Evidence.   And deponent and that the department will refer to and adapt the papers already in file in the department upon which said pension
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certificate was granted, also the papers find by deponent on the application which are suspended No  - as part and parcel of deponent's present application. 
She further states that she has never received any bounty land Warrant.   
Eunice Pettibone 
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 14th day of June 1856. and I further certify that I am well acquainted with the affiant and that she is a credible person & further that I have no interest in this matter I also certify that I have compared the foregoing copy of pension certificate with the original and that the same is a true copy of said Original pension Certificate. 
Smith Sayles Justice Peace
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State of New York 
Madison County } SS.   Marcia Burlingham [Burlingame] aged 56 years a resident of Canastota in said County being duly sworn says that she is well acquainted with Eunice Pettibone the widow of Daniel Pettibone and has been well acquainted with her during her life time, and that she was well acquainted with Daniel Pettibone during his life time - that said Eunice Pettibone’s name  before her marriage to said Daniel Pettibone was Eunice Graham - that she was present and knows of the marriage of said Daniel Pettibone to Eunice Graham on or about the 7th day of January 1824 at the town of Lenox Madison County. That said Daniel Pettibone is the same identical Daniel Pettibone who held a Pension Certificate from the war department a true copy of which is set forth in said Eunice Pettibone’s affidavit hereunto annexed. That deponent has compared and the same with the Original Certificate. 
That deponent has personal knowledge of the death of said Daniel Pettibone - That he died at Vernon Oneida County on the 9th day of April 1844.   That Eunice Pettibone the applicant above named is now a widow, and is the widow of said Daniel Pettibone deceased. that said widow now resides in the deponents family.  
Marcia Burlingame
Subscribed & sworn to the day of June 1856 } and I  further  certify that I am well acquainted with the affiant & that she is a person worthy of Credit. 
Smith Sayles Justice of the Peace
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and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, 
State of New York,
Madison County } SS. Lucia Fay a resident of Canartola in said County aged 51 years being duly sworn says that the has read the foregoing affidavit and has personal knowledge of all the facts stated in said set forth affidavit of Maria Burlinghame and that each and every statement made therein is true.  That deponent was present & has personal knowledge of the manage of said Daniel Pettibone to Eunice Graham as the time therein stated,  also that said Daniel Pettibone died as therein stated and [unreadable] said Eunice Pettibone is now a widow, also that she has compared the original pension Certificate with the copy set forth in claimants affidavit and that the same as set forth is a true copy of said Original certificate that said Daniel Pettibone is the identical Daniel Pettiborn who held & owned said Certificate at the time of his death the same has been (and now is) in possession said widow ever since – 
Lucia Fay
Subscribed sworn to the 14th day of June 1856 
And I further certify that I am well acquainted with the affiant & that she is a person entitled to credit. 
Smith Sayles Justice of the Peace
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Madison County}  On this day of 1855, personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the county and state aforesaid aged years, a resident of in the state of who being duly sworn according to law declares that he is the identical who received under act of 28 September 1850, a land warrant for acres No. for services in Capt. company
war of 1812 which warrant is sold. He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land granted by the act passed March 1855, and he hereby declares that he has not applied for or received, and he believes he is not entitled to bounty land except as above stated, and he hereby appoints B. F. Chapman, Attorney at Law, Clockville, Madison Co. N. Y. to prosecute his claim and receive his Warrant when issued.
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MMHH 
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
February 13, 1928  
Jennie P. Turner 
928 Argyle St., (2nd) 
Chicago, Ill. 
Madam:  
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 26306 it appears that Daniel Pettibone was born in 1754 in Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut.
While a resident of Norfolk, Litchfield County, Connecticut he enlisted in April or May 1775, served seven months as a private in Captain John Watson's Company, Colonel Hinman's Connecticut Regiment and was at the taking of Saint Johns. 
He enlisted in September 1777 and served one month as a private in Captain Timothy Moses' Company, Colonel Burrell 's Connecticut Regiment. 
In 1816 he moved from said Norfolk to Vernon, Oneida County, New York where he was allowed pension on his application executed December 3, 1832. He died April 8, 1844 in Vernon Centre, Oneida County, New York. 
Soldier married January 7, 1824 or 1825 in Lenox or Canastota, Madison County, New York, Eunice Graham. She was
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I did not say their daughter as the claim says her, and she was 88 yrs old in 1858 or born in 1770 -  mar. [married] in 1824 or 25 & was 84 or 55 yrs old at marriage. This is probably a dau. [daughter] by former marriage or perhaps the soldier’s dau. by a former wife.
allowed pension on her application executed April 23, 1858 while a resident of Lenox, New York aged eighty - eight years. Her daughter Eunice Tryon was living in Ohio in 1858.
The above noted is the only soldier named Daniel Pettibone found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.  
Respectfully, 
E. W. MORGAN 
Acting Commissioner.
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D. Pettibone
Daniel Pettibone 
Conn W. 26306
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A great error of Mr. Mattison lies in the presumption that "Societies, Agents and Lecturers” are “substituted” for “the church, the ministry and the gospel.”  This is not the fact Those were never intended to displace these, nor did the former ever aim to do the work of the latter.  The former aim to do away certain great evils and promote particular virtues, while the peculiar work of the latter is to promote Christianity and fit the soul for heaven. “Through Temperance, Peace, Humanity & c are not indeed religion, they are her essential ingredients and without them she cannot exist. Hence their advocates may very property and efficiently aid the church and the ministry to promote the ultimate ends of the gospel.
But says Mr. Mattison, "such societies are inexpedient, because (1) they are superfluous." Enough has been said to show the fallacy of this argument. And as it abundantly appears that those associations are not “superfluous”, they certainly are not, for that reason “inexpedient” and here we might safely rest the question. But we will proceed to notice his other arguments in favor of the above proposition.
(2)  “Such societies have no stability or permanency.  They rise and fall and are modified and changed in everlasting succession.”  
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94.   THE LIBERTY PRESS.  April 23, 1844.   THE LIBERTY PRESS.  
physical or spiritual, is the boon of all. The interference of slavery with the spiritual and eternal interests of its subjects, is that on account of which it is especially and pre-eminently to be ablurred.  Apart from this, he could not justify the system but other considerations [unreadable] magnificence when compared with the most painful, most odious of all – the interference of the slave power between God and the soul of its degraded vessel.
American slaves cannot render to God the service that he demands.  They may give him their affection for them no despotism can usurp the control. But their service is not at their disposal.  Even their free agency is denied.  It has been openly aviewed…
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APRIL 23, 1844.    THE LIBERTY PRESS.  95 
[4TH column]
4th Senate District.
The friends of Liberty, in pursuance of a resolution passed at a recent convention of Liberty men in Clinton county, are invited to meet at Plattsburgh, on Tuesday the 14th day of May next, to nominate a Senatorial Candidate for said District.
Also, a convention to be held at the same time and place, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for Congress for the 15th Congressional District.  Three delegates from each county in the District are requested By order of the Liberty Party of Clinton County.
O. B. Ashman cor. Secty. Clinton Co.
Books and Phamplets for sale at the Anti-Slavery Office.
Jay’s View, price 20 cts. Single copy, or $1.50 per dozen.
Belief without confession by Beriah Green; price 4 cts, single copy or 41 cts per dozen
DIED
At Vernon Centre, Oneida county, on the 9th instant, DANIEL PETTIBONE, senior, in the 91st year of his age.
He was one of the earliest pioneers of the rugged forests of Norfolk, Conn. In the struggle for our National Independence, he bore a conspicuous part, and has invariably contended for those inalienable rights, and a universal participation of the same.  He has long demonstrated his reliance alone on the atoning sacrifice of his Redeemer.  His remains were followed to their deposit by an affectionate companion and a numerous posterity.  The subject matter of his funeral discourse was from Zach. 1:5. “Your fathers, where are they?”
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THE LIBERTY PRESS.  April 23, 1844
POETRY. For the Liberty Press. Gathering Song for 1844. --- On sing not of freedom, showing not of glory. Say nought of our country, on tell not its story, For mark is the page, polluted the song. 'Tis fraught with our shame and bitter with wrong- Yes, hang thy head freeman, and blush for dishonor- And weep for thy kind, for dark clouds now hang o'er her -- The storm gathere wild, the combat's begun, The castle of hope by foes may be won On hear ye the widow and orphan are eighing On gales from the southward the echoes are flying- On make their woos thine, do unto them thus, As ye would that God should do unto us. Beware ye of Clay-pits, there's danger of falling- Remember and hearken, thy brother is calling- Then freemen awake, and slumber no more, Till slavery accurs'd, ye drive from your shore. Prepare ye for combat, gird on your bright armor, The merchant, mechanic, the clerk and the farmer, The lawyer and priest, come forth to the strife, Come join ye as one, in struggling for me. Ahmen are now rousing, the bold and the mighty The press is a weapon, with tongue they are fighting The Bay State has spoke, the Yankees have come, The Yorkers now start at the tap of the drum. Bold freemen all over the land are arising From slavery to purge it, schemes are devising To wipe off the stain that rests on our name, In bloody red blots eclipening our fame. Now rouse ye, ye freemen, let nothing delay thee, Though Claymen or Vanites, should seek to betray ye, Be firm for the cause of freedom and right, Be wary and hold, arm, arm for the fight, 
H. April 2, 1844. E. J. B. 
For the Liberty Press. Who made the Negro Who made the negro with his colored skin, And placed him a country all his own; Wallamark for Cain's most heinous sin, ing to wear, entailed to them alone! And was this mark then, either white or black, Tell me ye wise ones, if in trath ye can; For this alone my senses yet must lack, Day of which color should be slave to man Within the black man claims his Maker care, And boasts of beauty with as good a grace; And claims the right to breath the vital air, Though God hath made him with a darker face Love he not freedom as a right divine, Without his shackles or to bondage burr Has he no mind to make his virtue strine, ┃ ion. And live a free man in a christian world Has he no feeling. -- passions to control, And like the white man, filled with mental strife, And wear within, as pure, as white a coul, With love for freedom, children, and his wife On bill of rights bids all mankind be free- No tyrant here can all our service crave; To no one manter need we bend the knee, And be his servant or become his slave. Then by what right do whites assume command O'er black men, as of property or thing; Against the rules of this our favored land, His wife and children into bondage bring Who holds the right a man to buy or sell, And be conveyed as property to man; For in man's own self, this power does not dwell He is his own in spite of every plan. Ye Southern planters, what then do we hear, You black men buy and sell, and claim their seed; Have you no feeling, or no God to fear, When with the lash you make their backs to bleed! Exchange with negro and be slave awhile, 
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1911 July 8 Hist. to Madelia P. Peek. V.L.
1912 Nov. 20 Hist. to Ruth B. Parker 
1926 - Feb. 13- Hist to Jennie P. Turner MMHF
1928 - Oct 29, Mrs. Jenny P. Turner advised hist furn in Her letter in of Jeremiah Eakert (R. 32) MEE  
Revy WIDOW, &c. 
File No. 26.306 
Eunice Pettibone 
Wid of Daniel Pettibone 
Pri Rev. War  
Act: Feb 3, 1853, 
Index: -- Vol. P  Page 125 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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39.492
the Army
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No. 7035 
Eunice Pettibone 
widow of Daniel 
Madison Co New York 
For B. F. Chapman 
June 12, 1858
Act Feb 3 1953
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[stamp] CANASTOTA N.Y. JUL 18
Boynton
Free
Commisioner of Pensions
Washington D. C. 
Eunice Pettibone
Wid
Daniel
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[stamp] CANASTOTA N.Y. MAR 24
19.918
Free
To the Commisioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Eunice Pettibone widow of Daniel Madison Co New York 
Admitted Act Feb 3 / 53 at rate of $26.66 per annum, commencing of date of said act 
Service- 
Private 8 months 
Pay widow 
Certificate to B. F. Chapman 
Rockville Madison Co New York
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3d Auditors Office June 11. 1838 
Sir
Daniel Pettibone Albany N.Y. Act 1832 appears to have been paid to Mar. 4 1844
Very Respy 
R. J. Anderson
Auditor  
Geo. C. Whiting Esqr 
Commr of Pensions 
Pension Office, June 10, 1858 
The Third Auditor will please certify the date of last payment to within named pensioner.  
Very respectfully 
S. Cole 
Chief Clerk
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State of New York, CLERK'S OFFICE, MADISON COUNTY, } SS. 
I W. E. Lansing do hereby certify, that H. Beecher whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or acknowledgement of the annexed instrument, and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgement, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly elected or appointed, and qualified, and authorized by the laws of said State to take the same; and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe the signature to the said certificate is genuine, and that said instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of said State. 
IN TESTMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal, the 27th day of September 1858.  
W. E. Lansing Clerk. 
STATE OF NEW-YORK. 
Clerk's Office, Madison County,} SS. W. E. Lansing Clerk of said County, do hereby certify, that Smith Sayles whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or acknowledgement of the annexed instrument, and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgement, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly elected or appointed, and qualified, and authorized by the laws of said State to take the same; and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe the signature to the said certificate is genuine, and that said instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of said State. 
IN TESTMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the 16th day of July 
Chas Kennedy Dep Clerk
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19.918
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To the Commissioner of Pensions Washington City 
D Sir 
Enclosed I send you the application of Eunice Pettibone for Bounty Land 
Very Respectfully 
Loring Fowler 
Canastota Madison Co New York 
March 24 1855
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Brief in the case of Eunice Pettibone, widow of Daniel 
Madison County and State of New York 
act February 3, 1853 
Claim, (original)  
Proof exhibited, (if original.) 
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance. 
Husband was a pensioner under Act of June 7, 1832, at rate of $26.66 per annum, and was paid to 4th March, 1844, as her 3d Auditor's Certificate. 
Marriage in 1825, and death of husband 9th April 1844, proved by verified
(If for increase.) 9th April, 1844,  Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what? 
transcript from family bible, Identity and present widowhood proved by parole 
B. F. Chapman Esqr 
Rockville, 
Name and residence of Agent 
Madison County New York 
R Geddes Examining Clerk.
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State of New York 
Oneida County } I George Brown Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Oneida & State of New York do hereby certify that the annexed papers contain the original proceedings in the matter of the Application of Daniel Pettibone for a pension taken before Nathan Kimball Esquire, & do also certify that at the time when the said proceedings purport to have been taken before said Nathan Kimball said Nathan Kimball was a Judge of the said Court of Common Pleas duly commissioned and sworn & that his signature annexed to the within papers is his genuine signature & that the said Court is a Court of Record. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this tenth day of December AD 1832 
Geo Brown Clerk
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Application Eunice Pettibone for a Pension – 
B F. Chapman 
Atty for claimant
 Clockville Madison Co. New York
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Clerks Office 
Madison County SS 
State of New York } I do hereby certify that Sidney T. Holmes Esq was on the 23 day of April 1858, County Judge of Madison County & of the County Courts thereof and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and that his signatures to the annexed Jurat & certificate are genuine. That said County Court is a Court of Record & has a Seal. 
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said County Court this 10th day of May 1858 
Chas. Kennedy Dep Clk
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Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before Sidney A. Holmes County Judge of Madison County and I further certify that the above declarant is in possession of the original certificate a true copy of which is above set forth, and further that I believe her to be the person she represents herself to be, and further that I have no interest in this claim and that said Eunice Pettibone is so old and infirm that she cannot very well be & appear in open Court being 14 miles from the Court House 
Sidney L. Holmes County Judge of Madison County
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State of New York 
Madison County } SS. I Marcia Burlingham and Lucia Fay being first day sworn before the County Court of Madison County Very a Court of Record each for herself doth declare and say that she is a resident of the term of Six in said County and state; that she knew Daniel Pettibone during his life time; that she is well acquainted with Eunice Pettibone whose application for a pension is hereto attached, and has always knew her since deponent was a child before and since her marriage to said Daniel Pettibone, And deponent says that she knows of her own knowledge that said Daniel Pettibone (the identical person named in the pension certificate a copy of which is true set forth in said is declaration hereto annexed) and said Eunice Pettibone (formery Ennie Graham) were married to each other on or about the 7th day of January 1824 at Canastota Madison County N.Y. 
That said Daniel Pettibone died in Vernon on the 7th day of April 1840, and deponent attended his funeral, that said Eunice Pettibone is the widow of said Daniel Pettibone, that she has not been married since the death of said Daniel Pettibone, and that she now remains his widow.   And this said Marcia Burlingham for herself says that said Eunice Pettibone is now residing with her, and that she has she her so resided with her for many years last past, and since the death
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of the said Daniel Pettibone, 
Taken subscribed  and sworn this 20 day of April 1838 before me 
Sidney T. Holmes County Judge of Madison County 
Lucia Fay 
Marcia Burlingame
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Clockville N.Y. 27 Sept. 1858
To the Comm of Pensions 
Dr Sir 
Enclosed please find Additional Evidence as to the death & Marriage of Daniel Pettibone to Eunice Pettibone. 
The original papers are on file, and as no number was given to me I cannot refer to them more definitely. 
The applicant always told me her husband died in 1844 it must have been an enor of mine or of Judge Holmes in files in the date.  
I have entered a newspaper printed in 1844 given be account of Daniel Pettibones death which I will be quit conclusive appurtened of that event
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and hope the affidavits will be satisfactory.  The old lady did not
want to loose the Bible Record of her family, Otherwise I would have cut it out
and sent the original-
Very Respectfully
B.F. Chapman
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Revolutionary Soldier 
928 Argyle Street (2nd) 
Chicago Illinois 
Dec. 31st 1925. 
Commissioner of Pensions 
War Department 
Washington D.C. 
Dear Sir:- My grandfather, Oliver Pettibone, was born in New Paltz, Ulster Co. N.Y. Sept 2, 1788, settled in Hartsville, Steuben County N.Y. in 1832, afterwards lived in Hornellsville, N.Y. also in Andover, N.Y. where he died May 5, 1882, at the age of 93 years, and was buried at Pendy's Creek, about ten miles from Andover.  His second child, my grandfather, Daniel Pettibone, was born in Hales County, N.Y. Dec. 5, 1814,
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and my father, Charles Alexander Pettibone, late of Waupun, Wisconsin, was born in Hartsville, Steuben County, N.Y. May 26, 1841 and moved to Dodge Co. Wis, with his parents in 1850.  
My gr. grandfather Oliver Pettibone’s niece , Mrs. Anna Whilford, of Alfred, N.Y. aged 88 years, tells me that said Oliver was born in New Paltz, Ulster Co. N.Y. at or near a place now called Lloyd and that he was the son of one Daniel Pettibone and his second wife, Prudence Latimore Pettibone.   
There is a Daniel Pettibone named in "New York in the Revolution under Ulster Co. Militia (land bounty rights) regiment and in the rolls of  Connecticut soldiers there is Daniel Pettibone who
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served in 1775, Hinman’s Reg – 
In the state roster (N Y) page 446, there is the name of Daniel Pettibone who served as private in Capt Peleg Ramsen's company of Colonel John Cantine's  regiment, Enlisted in the third regiment of the Ulster Co militia (land bounty rights) under Capt Depue. 
[stamp] RECEIVED OLD RECORDS DIVISION JAN. 4 - 1926 
Is there any thing in your record to show whether these  two Daniels were really one and the same person, or to identify one of them as my gr gr grandfather Daniel?   
I shall be very glad of any information You can give me 
Yours very truly 
Jennie Pettibone Turner
[stamp] 87 RECEIVED A. G. O JAN 4 1925
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(son of Daniel Pettibone & Prudence Latimore Pettibone)
Oliver Pettibone Sep. 2, 1788 mar, Jan. 26, 1812  
Elizabeth Eckert July 1st, 1794 Nov. 10, 1824 
Sophronia Blakesley b March 31st 1807, on Sept, 15, 1837 
Children  (by first wife only) 
Maria b. Dec. 11, 1812 
Daniel b. Dec 5, 1814 (mar Hannah Fuller May 1840)  
Prudence b Nov. 4, 1816 
Jeremiah b  Nov 19, 1818 died Oct 21, 1824 
Oliver Jr. b Oct. 9, 1820 
Anna b. Sept 24, 1822
From Record in Family Bible now in possession of Mrs. Charles A. Pettibone 120 Olmstead Street, Waupun Wisconsin
Oliver Pettibone enlisted at Benton, Yates Co. N.Y. for War of 1812
Charles A. Pettibone at Beaver Dam Wis for Civil War
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337 Pennsylvania St. 
Buffalo H. L. .July 3 1911 
Pension Dept 
Washington D.C 
Gentlemen-  
Will you kindly give me what information  you may have concerning Daniel Pettibone from Litchfield Coun. Who was in the Revolution -
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Nov 20 - 1775
Thanking you in advance for the
favor I remain Respty
Mrs Madelia Pettibone Peek
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OFFICE BOARD OF EXAMINERS HARRY ENGLISH SECRETARY 
Board of Education  of the District of Columbia, 
FRANKLIN SCHOOL BUILDING. 
WASHINGTON, D.C. 
November 25, 1917 
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington D.C. 
Sir
I am desirous of verifying the service of one Daniel Pettibone, who served in the 4th Connecticut troops, under Captain John Watson, Jr. discharged November 20th 1770. 
Said Daniel Pettibone was born in Simsbury Connecticut, 1751 and died in Vernon, Oneida Co. N.Y. 1844 any information which you can give me on the subject will be greatly appreciated 
Yours truly 
Ruth Barnard Parker
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[unreadable] as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this bureau.  Daniel Pettibone W. F. 26306 
DATE OF ENLISTMENT OF APPOINTMENT. Apr or May 1775   LENGTH OF SERVICE.   7 Mos.  RANK.  Pvt.   OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.   Captain John Watson  Colonel Hinman  STATE.   Conn.
DATE OF ENLISTMENT OF APPOINTMENT.  Sept 1777   LENGTH OF SERVICE.    1 mo. RANK.   Pvt.    OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.  Captain Timothy Moses  Colonel Burrell STATE. 
Battles engaged in,  Taking of St Johns  
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Norfolk Litchfield Co. Conn. until 1816 and
Date of application for pension, Dec. 3. 1832. His cl al [his claim was allowed]  
Residence at date of application, Vernon, Oneida Co. N.Y. 
Age at date of application,  b [born] at Simsbury, Hartford Co. Conn. in 1754 d.[died]  April 9 1844 at Vernon, N.Y. 
Remarks;  Soldier married at Lenox or Canastota Madison Co. N.Y. Jany of 1824 or 1825. Eunice Graham.  She was allowed pension on an application executed Apr. 23, 1858, while a resident of Lenox, aged 87 yrs.  Their daughter Eunice Tryon was living in Ohio in 1858. 
Very Respectfully
Commissioner