Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17,327, Joseph Bolles, Continental (Conn.)
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Continental (Conn.)
Bolles, Joseph or Bolls,
Betsey
NUMBER
W.17,327
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16626
Connecticut
Joseph Bolles
of New London in the state of Connecticut who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Webb of the Connecticut line, for the term of one year.

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 8 dollars per months, to commence on the 31 of March 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 7 of Sept 1819 and sent to Jeremiah G Brainard Esq, New London, Connecticut.

Arrears to the 4th of Sep 1819 137.31
Semi-annl. all'ce ending Mar 1820 48.00
1ymo 1/31 4/30
$185.31

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}

Dead. See letter to Pen. Agt. & S.H. Parsons Feb 4, 1832. Let to WP Cleveland Nov 18, 1837
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2572
Connecticut 
Betsey Bolles
widow of Joseph Bolles who was a private in the Conn. line for one year
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 40 Dollars 
00 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issue the 1st day of November 1843 and sent to 
Nathan Daboll
Centre Groton 
Conn.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1 page 62
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Joseph Bolles
14626
for March 1820
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State and District of Connecticut, ss.

On this 27th day of June 1820 personally appeared in open Court before the bounty Court holden within and for the community of New London in said State on the 27th day of June 1820, the same being a court of record, proceeding according to the course of common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having power of fine and imprisonment, Joseph Bolles aged sixty five years, resident in the town of Waterford in said State, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows:  That he the said Joseph Bolles enlisted was called - The years service on or about March in the year 1776 in New London in the state of Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain Nathan Hale in the regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Webb in the line of the State of Connecticut on the continental establishment: That he continued to serve in the said corps until the last of December 1776 or first of January 1777 when he was discharged from the said service in Scranton in the state of New Jersey.
That he made a declaration to obtain a pension under the law of the 18th of March 1818, as nearly he can recollect, having no minutes, on the 31st day of March 1818; and had transmitted to him a certificate for a pension from the Secretary for the Department of War, No. 14626.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or an part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled, "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War;" and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
That I am by occupation a laborer, infirm and afflicted with rhumatism.  My family consists of my wife Betsey, aged 64 years, my daughter Hannah aged 17 years and my son Johnson aged 15 years.  My daughter Betsey Worthy aged 35 years is a widow & together with her these children Harriet Worthy aged 11 years, Nelson aged 8 years and Jane Worthy aged 3 years is entrusted by me, as far as it is in my power to assist them.
Joseph Bolles

Schedule- 
1 cow worth $100
1 old bureau $2 
2 old tables 2.00 
1 [illegible] looking glass $1.22
7 old chairs 2.00
1 stand, .75
1 set knives and forks .70
1/2 dozen cups & saucers .20
9 iron [illegible] .70
1 old trunk .75
1 chest, 20
1 hoe & crowbar .80
1 pr [illegible]  30
1 pair iron shovel and tongs .30 
1 (illegible) $1.50
accounting to $81.92 
Joeseph Bolles

Signed Sworn to and declared on the 27th day of June 1820 before the County Court Charles Lathrop I, Charles Lathrop Clerk of the Court for New London County, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is thirty one dollars and ninety two cents.  In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this 27th day of June 1820. 
Charles Lathrop 
Clerk of the County Court for the County of New London.
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for support.
Joseph Boller
Sworn before me the day and date aforesaid
In witness and for cause whereof I have hereto
caused the seal of the Superior Court of the State of Connecticut to be affixed the day and year aforesaid.
Jeremiah Brand Judge of Superior Court
of the State of Connecticut
I Jeremiah G. Brainard Judge & as
aforesaid do certify that it appears to
my satisfaction that the said Joseph
Bolles did serve in the Revolutionary war
as stated in the preceeding [preceding] declaration
against the common enemy and I now
transmit the proceedings & testimony taken
& had before me to the Secretary for the Department
of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned
act of Congress. The foregoing declaration was made to
the as the aplicant [applicant] declared in order to obtain the pension made by the late act of congress entitled "an act to
provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of 
the United States in the Revolutionary war
[strike out "Joseph Bolles"]
New London
March 31st 1818
Witness the seal aforesaid
Jeremiah Brainard a Judge of the Superior Court State of Connt [Connecticut]
Certify that Joseph Balles [Bolles] the applicant within case is in poor and indigent [illegible]
Jeremiah Brainard a Judge [illegible]
State of Connecticut
March 22 1829
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 State of Connecticut New London 
On this 31st day of March 1818 before Jeremiah G. Brainard a Judge of the Superior Court of the State of Connecticut personally came Joseph Bolles of Waterford in New London County in said State formerly Joseph Bolles 4 to saw and and being duly sworn according to the law and usuage of said State did on his said Oath by me to him administered declare say that about the first of April 1776 he enlisted as a private in the Company of Capt Nathan Hale in the Regiment of Col. Chas Webb. The men were enlisted for a year one 1 particular time & at the end of the year one that time which commenced shortly before his enlistment he was honorably discharged at Trenton in N Jersey on or about the first of Jany 1777. He was marched to New York in said Company & served ten or eleven months in what was called the Connecticut line on the continental establishment in the above named Company & Regiment in a Brigade commanded part of the time by Gen. McDougle & part of the time by Lord Sterling. His discharge is lost by time & [illegible]. He is a native & resident citizen of the United States from his received circumstance needs the assistance of his country
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for support  Joseph Bolles
Sworn before me the day and date of [illegible]
In witness

{unreadable}
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The said Joseph Bolles in addition to and in Explanation of his said Declaration states that in deposition and further consideration he is confident and his Oath says that he enlisted early in the month of March 1776- although he did not join his company and Regiment untill about the first of April- as he had [illegible] from the Officer who undertook him to remain at home a [illegible] time- that when he made his Declaration and stated the time of his Enlistment “about the first of April”- he had responded to the time of his joining- that through forgetfulness and lapse of time he made a mistake and stated the time of his joining as the Time of his enlistment.
Joseph Bolles
State of Connecticut
Sworn before me this day of July 1819- Jeremiah Brainard, Judge of Sup Court
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of [unable to read] of the 7th July 1838. [unable to read] not granting half pay and pensions to certain widows, State of Connecticut. 
New London County } [unreadable] District of 
                                     New London
                                     On this 28th day August 
                                      1838, Personally approved by the Court of Probate for the District of New London Now setting in said district, Betsey Bolles a resident of the corner of New London county and state afore[unreadable], aged 73 years who being [unreadable] duty room recording to Lord doth on [unreadable] the following declaration in order to obtain the the benefit of the provision of the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838, Entitles an act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widow ... That she is the widow of Joseph Bolles is wooden [unreadable] of the Untitled States that he served in the Connectional line and was placed   on the pension all of the United States on the 7th September 1810, and [unreadable] $96 [Unreadable] and says, that She was married to the Late Joseph Bolles in the fall of the 1783 at being the same that peace took place at the close of the [unreadable]. That she was married by Elder ...... Lee, in Chesterfield - Society in the town of Mondoille adyoining the town now called Waterford in P. New London County... That the P. Elder he was not a Nahanay Preacher in said Town and soon after her said Marriage  left there and resided in the town of in, E.T. where he died many years ago...  That he did not leave any memorandum or record whatever, that can now be found of her said marriage or any of the Marriages by him, preformed and that the elder not found of any second  evidence whatever nor in existence other said marriage nor does she know of any person now living who was present at her to marriage, but that Guy Wheeler, Grace Wheeler, & Simon Cole of Waterford were there her near neighbors and were acquainted with the circumstances of her said Marriage. She further declare that is consequence of age infirmity and lots of memory that she does not now recollect the incise month and day of the month of her said Marriage.
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but that from the circumstances of the declaration of Peace at the close of the Revolutionary war she knows the year of her s'd [said] marriage to be as she has before stated in this declaration, she further declares and says that her husband the aforesaid Joseph Bolles died on the 7th day of June 1826 and that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but ghat the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four (to wit) at the time above stated and that she has remained a widow ever since the deceas [decease] of her husband.
Sworn and subscribed by the s'd [said] Betsy Bolles on the day and year above written
Betsy Bolles
Before me in Court,
Lyman Lau Judge of the Court of Probate for New London District
I Ebenezer Learned clerk of the court of probate for the District of New London hereby certify that the above and foregoing contains the original proceeding of the s'd [said court in the matter of the application of Betsy Bolles for a pension and that Lyman Lau Esq is now the judge of said court duly appointed and qualified and that his above signature is genuine. I also certify that Nathan Dabell Esq before whom were taken the depositions of Guy Wheeler, Grace Wheeler, Simeon Cobb and Hannah Woods is now a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of New London duly appointed and qualified and that his signature to s'd [said] depositions are genuine in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of s'd [said] court this 28th day of August AD 1838
Eben Learned Clerk
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December 29, 1939

BA-J/MCS
Joseph Bolles, W. 17327

Mrs. J. T. Miser
Quarters H-1
U.S. Navy Academy
Annapolis, Maryland

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your request for the records of Revolutionary War soldiers Isaiah and Joseph Bolles, of New London, Connecticut.

Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims for pension and bounty land made to the United States and based on the military service of soldiers in that war. A careful search of the records fails to show such claims on file on account of the service of an Isaiah Bolles.

The data which follows were taken from papers on file in the pension claim, W. 17327, based on Revolutionary War service of Joseph Bolles.

The date and place of birth of Joseph Bolles and the names of his parents are not shown.

He enlisted in New London, Connecticut, in March or April, 1776, served as private in the company of Captain Nathan Hale (the spy) and after the death of Nathan Hale, Joseph Bolles served in Captain Alpheus Chapman's company and these companies were in Colonel Charles Webb's Connecticut regiment; Joseph Bolles was discharged about the first of January, 1777.

He was allowed pension on his application executed March 31, 1818, at which time he was living in Waterford, New London County, Connecticut, and he was then referred to as Joseph Bolles the 4th.

Joseph Bolles was living in Waterford, Connecticut, in 1820 and he stated that he was then sixty-six years of age and referred to his daughter, Hannah, aged seventeen, his son, Johnson, aged fifteen, and to another
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daughter, Betsey Worthy, aged thirty-five who was then a widow with three children, namely, Harriet, aged eleven, Nelson, aged eight, and Jane, aged three.

Joseph Bolles died June 7,1826.

He married in Chesterfield Society in Montville, Connecticut, sometime between the years 1782 and 1786, Betsey, her maiden name not shown.

Said Betsey Bolles was allowed pension on her application executed August 28, 1838, while a resident of New London, Connecticut, and she stated that she was then seventy-three years of age. She was living in New London, Connecticut, in 1843.

Their eldest child, Joseph Bollen, died July 28, 1828, in New London, Connecticut, and was buried in the churchyard there.

In 1838, Simeon Cobb, aged seventy-eight years, resident of Waterford, Connecticut, stated that Betsey Bolles was his cousin and that she and Joseph Bolles reared a large family.

There are no further discernible family names.

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator

stated it this way as did not wish to make any reference to illegitimacy } son, Joseph
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Rev Widow, &c.

File no. 17327
Betsey Bolles
wid of Joseph Bolles
Priv, Rev, War

Act: March 3, 1843

Index:-Vol. 1, Page 74

[Arrangement of 1870]

1939 Dec 29 hist. to Uris J.T. Miser MCS
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Betsey Bolles widow of Joseph Bolles
Connt
act July 7 1838
See letter 17 Oct, 1838 to N. Daboll
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2341
Connecticut
Betsey Bolles
widow of Joseph Bolles decd
who was a pension under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 7th June 1826 of New London in the State of Ct. who was a private in the compy commanded by Captain     of the Ret commanded by Col. Webb in the Ct. line for 1 year.

Inscribed on the Roll of Ct. at rate of 40 dollars per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of Apl 1839 and sent a Nathan Daboll Centre Groton, Ct.

Arrears to the 4th of Mar '39 $120.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept $20.00
$140.00

{Act July 7, 1838}

Recorded by DD Addison Clerk,
Book A, Vol. 1st, Page 167

[left column:]
see letter to N. Daboll May 8 1839
letter Nathan Daboll 21 Oct 1843
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State of Connecticut New London ss.
On this 22 day of March 1819 before me
Jeremiah G. Brainard one of the Judges the
Superior Court of the State of Connecticut
personally appear Joseph Church and Lebbens
Haughton both of Montville in the County of New London in said State of Connecticut both persons to me well known by me to be men
of truth and veracity who being by me first
duly sworn according to Law do of the said
Coles declare and say that according to their
best recollections the latter part of March 1776 they enlisted at New London under Lieutenant Alpheus Chapman into a Company commanded by Capt Nellar Hale in a Regiment and by congress 
for the tour of One year commanded Colonel
Charles Webb 
that soon after they enlisted [illegible] they joined their Company and Regiment at New York which according to them but recollection was as early as the middle of April. [Illegible] they [illegible] join they found Joseph Bolles the applicant in this case and whose declaration is hereunto
annexed [illegible] A  a private soldier belonging to said Company and Regiment that we well know him then and ever since have known him that he continued in said company and regiment. That we well knew him then and ever since have known him that he continued in said company and regiment according to our best recollection during the whole of the campaign. That the deponents will [illegible] That the said Bolles was with said company and regiment on York Island now Long Island and White Plains after our return from York Island nor they the deponents have no doubt that the said Joseph Bolles continued nor belonged to said regiment untill his tour of service expired and said regiment was discharged on disorganized [illegible] was at Trenton in New Jersey on the first of January 1777 as they [illegible] i did to the contrary
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ary - But they are confident - the said Joseph Bolles served in said Company and Regiment as before stated  a period of five months or more
  [Signed]  Joseph Church
                 Lebbens Haughton
   
Sworn before me the Day and year aforesaid -  
   [Signed]  Jeremiah Brainard  
                  Judge of Sup Court
                  State of Connecticut
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We Guy Wheeler aged 85 years and his wife Grace Wheeler aged 77 years both of the town of Waterford County of New London and State of Connecticut do on our oaths depose and say that we were formerly at the close of the revolutionary war and before and [strike out "after"] ever since that time well acquainted with Joseph Bolles (a pensioner of the United States now deceased and his wife Betsy Bolles. And we well remember the time of their reputed marriage we were no present at their wedding but we were near neighbors to them at that time and know that their marriage was a matter of notoriety in the [illegible] and we further depose and say that we know that the said Joseph and Betsy Bolles always lived together as man and wife from the aforesaid time of their reputed marriage untill the death of sd [said] Joseph. They raised up a large family of children and no one of their acquaintance ever doubted or questioned the legality of their marriage. We further depose and say that we cannot testify as to the precise month and year of their marriage we know it was about the close of the revolutionary war but to put the matter perfectly withing the limits of our certain recollection where by we may not possibly give in wrong testimony we [illegible] depose and say that we know that sd [said] reputed marriage of Joseph and Betsy Bolles aforesaid took place [illegible] of four years after the close of the revolutionary war.
Guy Wheeler
Grace Wheeler
State of Connecticut}
County of New London} ss.
August 24th 1838.
Then personally appeared Guy Wheeler and Grace Wheeler of the town of Waterford signers of the foregoing deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same (and I certify that they are witnesses of the most respectability and credibility)
Before me
Nathan Daboll Justice of the Peace
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Note:  The deposition on this document is too faded to be read except for the signature of Simeon Cobb.

State of Connecticut}
County of New London} ss
Waterford August 24th, 1838.
Then personally appeared Simeon Cobb who signed the foregoing deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same.  (And I certify that he is a credible witness)
Before me
Nathan Daboll Justice of the peace
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Joseph Bolles
Private
76 to 77
Webb Connect.
Regt

Admitted
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State of Connecticut ss. New London
On this 22nd day of March 1819 before me [illegible] G. Brainard one of the Judges at New London County said State of Connecticut personally appears Alpheus Chapman of Montville in the County aforesaid [illegible] said State of Connecticut a person to me well known [illegible] by me to be a man of truth and veracity who being by me duly sworn according to law doth on his said oath declare and say that in the year 1775 he was a commissioned officer in the regiment raised by the then [illegible - Congress?] of Connecticut commanded by Colonel Charles Webb that he belonged to the [illegible] (Major Jon'th Latimer) which was immediately [illegible] by [illegible] - Nathan Hale. That Joseph Miles the person which declaration is her [illegible] was a private soldier in a company and regiment hereinafter mentioned [illegible] signature viz - that after the expiration of that campaign he this deponent received from Congress first lieutenant commission in a company commanded by Capt Nathan Hale in a regiment raised by Congress for the term of one year and commanded by the same Colonel Charles Webb. That the same Joseph Bolles whom the deponent then well known ever since has well known enlisted us a private soldier into said company and regiment at New London above
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[illegible] in 1776 for the term of one year or the term [illegible] and Reg't [regiment] [illegible] the regiment or some other [illegible] the said Bolles he is not able to say That the said Bolles continued with said company and regiment doing duty as a private [illegible] for a time on furlough that when the army marched through New London to New York in the Spring of 1776 their Reg't [illegible] with a [illegible] Bolles with it in said Comp [Company] that at New York after the death of Capt. Hale this deponent as first officer of said [illegible] the company the said Bolles [illegible] belonged to it and the deponent has no doubt that he continued in service belonging to said company and Reg't untill the expiration of his term of service [illegible] discharge of said Reg't which was about the last of December 1776 or 1st of January 1777 that he never had any idea to the certainty that according to the deponents best recollection nd belief the said Joseph Bolles served in said company Reg't nine months or more
Alpheus Chapman Lieut.
Sworn before me the day and year aforesaid 
Jeremiah Brainard a Judge of Sup. Court
State of Connecticut
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State of Connecticut ss
On this 22nd day of march 1819 before me Jeremiah G. Brainard one of the Judges of the Superior Court of said State of Connecticut personally appears Lemuel Maynard of Montville in said County of New London & State aforesaid who being before me first duly sworn according to law on his said oath doth depose declare & say that at Cambridge or Roxbury the last of December 1775 or first of January 1776 he enlisted as a musician for the term of one year into a company commanded by Capt Nathan Hale in a Regt. raised by congress for one year that he well knows [illegible words] Joseph Bolles the applicant in this case [remainder of sentence too faded to be read] Joseph Bolles as a soldier in same Company & regt. that when the army marched from Boston into New York in the spring 1776 their Regt. marched with it & said Bolles joined them at New London about the last of March or first of April 1776 and marched with it in said company as a private soldier having enlisted at New London that he well recollects the said Bolles being during
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the campaign following with said com[pany regiment doing duty particularly on Long Island and York Island   That he has no doubt that the said Bolles remained & belonged to said company & regiment until the expiration of his said term or service & [illegible] or dismissal of said Regt. which was on or about the last day of December 1776 that he never had any idea to the contrary.  That according to his best recollection & belief the said Bolles belonged to said company & regiment nine months or more
Lemuel Mynard
Sworn & subscribed the Day and year of [illegible]
Jeremiah Brainard a Judge of Sup Court
State aforesaid
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2363
Declaration of Betsey Bolles

$40 per ann

Nathan Daboll
Centre Groton
Con
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of the 3d of March 1843 granting pensions to certain widows, who have received pensions under the act of July 7th 1838.

State of Connecticut
County of New London

On this 24th day of June 1843 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said New London County Betsey Bolles of the town of New London in sd New London County and State of Connecticut aged about 79 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed on the 3d March 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Joseph Bolles, who was a private in the Army of the Revolution, and that the annual amount of the pension, which she received under the act of July 7th, 1838, was forty dollars, she further testifies that she has often heard her husband the sd Joseph Bolles tell the names of the officers of the company and regiment in which he served, but that she does not know of any person now living who can testify to that fact, the witness who testified in her former declaration being since dead, and that she must refer her former declaration (now in the pension office) for proof on that point if such proof is necessary. She further declares that she is still the widow of the aforesaid Joseph Bolles.

Betsey Bolles her mark X

Sworn to and subscribed by the said Betsey Bolles the day and year above written. In presence of
Nathan Daboll
Hannah Woods

Before me

Nathan Daboll Justice of the Peace

An I hereby certify that the abovenamed Betsey Bolles is personally known to me and that to the truth of her above statement I am fully satisfied.

Nathan DaBoll Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut
County of New London ss.
Probate District of Groton 
I David A. Daboll Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Groton in the State of Connecticut do hereby certify that Nathan Daboll Esq before whom the within affidavit was taken is a Justice of the Peace in and for said New London County duly commissioned and qualified and that his signature is genuine and in his own proper hand writing and full faith and credit are due and may be had to all his acts and doings in said capacity.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this twenty fourth day of June Anno Domini One Thousand eight hundred and forty three.
David A. Daboll Clerk
N.B. Direct Certificate (if granted) to Nathan Daboll Centre Groton C.T.
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State of Connecticut}
County of New London} ss.

I John D Witt Clerk of the County Court for the County of New London in the State of Connecticut do hereby certify that Nathan Daboll Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit of Betsey Bolles was taken is a Justice of the Peace in and for said New London County, duly commissioned and qualified and that his signature hereto is genuine and in his own proper hand writing.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of said Court at Norwich this 25 day of October Anno Domini One thousand eight hundred & forty three
John D Witt Clerk
State of Connecticut}
County of New London}
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Declaration of Betsey Bolles (widow of Joseph Bolles a revolutionary pensioner) to amend her former declaration for a pension now on file in the pension office at Washington.
State of Connecticut}
County of New London} ss
Probate District of New London
On this 10th day of November 1838 Personally appeared before said Court of Probate for New London district, Betsey Bolles a resident of New London within sd. district (and widow of Joseph Bolles a revolutionary Pensioner decd.) who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration to amend her sd. former declaration for a pension (Viz) that she is now informed by a letter from the Commissioner of Pensions that according to age given in her husbands declaration in 1820.  She would now be 82 years of age whereas she has stated her age now be only 73 and that she is also informed that it is necessary for her to give the name and age of her oldest child in answer to which she declares that she has no record of her age but that she has given it in former declaration according to her best knowledge and belief and that of her sd. husband was given it different in his declaration it must have been a mistake in his.  And in regard to the name and age of her oldest child she declares & says that his name was Joseph Bolles.  That he was born July [crossed out] 1783 and died in July 1828 and was 45 years old when he died.  She further declares that when she was about 16 years old that she and the sd. Joseph Bolles became affianced to each other by solemn contract and that the said Joseph went away about that time before their marriage was legalized and that her son the sd. Joseph Bolles was born when she was about 17 years of age and that between two and three years after the birth of sd. child the sd. Joseph Bolles her husband returned home and on his return that they were lawfully married as stated in her former declaration and lived happily together untill the time of his decease
Sworn to and subscribed by the sd. Betsey Bolles on the day and year above written
Betsey Bolles
Before me
Lyman Law
Judge of the Court of Probate for New London District
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I John P. C. Mather Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of New London do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the amendment of the declaration of Betsey Bolles for a pension and also that Nathan Daboll Esqr before whom the Depositions of Hannah Woods & Elizabeth Powers were taken is a Justice of the peace within and for the County of New London duly appointed and qualified and that his signature thereto is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 10th day of November 1838.
John P. C. Mather
Clerk of Probate pro tem. 
I Hannah Woods of the city and County of New London State State[sic] of Connecticut of lawfull age do on my oath depose and say that Joseph Bolles late of New London decd son of the sd Joseph and Betsey Bolles (named in the foregoing declaration of Betsey Bolles) decd on the 28th July 1828 and was reputed to be 45 years old when he died, and the same is now so recorded on his tomb stone in the Church yard at new London.
Hannha [Hannah] Woods
I Elisabeth Powers of the City & County of new London aged 73 years do on my oath depose and say that I was well acquainted with Betsey Bolles, Widow of Joseph Bolles a revolutionary Pensioner decd both before and after her marriage with the sd Joseph Bolles I know that their oldest child Joseph Bolles (now deceased) was born some time before their marriage took place (viz) according to my best recollection I should say between two and three years
Elizabeth Powers
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State of Connecticut}
County of New London} ss
New London November 10th 1838
Personally appeared Elizabeth Powers the signer of the foregoing deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same and I certify that she is a credible witness
Before me
Nathan Daboll Justice of the Peace
Connecticut ss Court of Probate
District of New London, November 10th 1838
I Lyman Law Judge of the said Court of Probate do hereby certify that John P. C. Mather who has certified the preceeding [preceding] is Clerk of said Court of Probate pro tem duly appointed and sworn and that his signature to the preceeding [preceding] is in his own proper hand writing and that full faith and credence is due to his signature as such and that the seal hereunto annexed is the proper seal of said Court
In testimony of all which I have hereunto set my hand date above written.
Lyman law
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1082
Betsey Bolles
wid of Joseph 
Ct
Act July 7 1838
Married 1783  dec 1826
allow 12 mo for
$40 per ann

Nathan Daboll
Center Groton, Ct.
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Note:  The handwriting of the document is so poor and most is illegible.
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Note:  The handwriting is so poor that most of the document is illegible.
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I Hannah Woods of the Town and County of New London and State of Connecticut aged 33 years do on my oath depose and say that I am well acquainted with Mrs. Betsey Bolles the widow of Joseph Bolles (a revolutionary Pensioner) deceased and know that she now is and has remained a widow ever since the decease of her sd. husband Joseph Bolles aforesaid, which took place on the 7th June 1826.
Hannah Woods
State of Connecticut}
County of New London} ss. New London 
August 28th 1838
Personally appeared Hannah Woods - who signed the foregoing deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same, and certify that she is a credible witness
Before me
Nathan Daboll Justice of Peace
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Annapolis Md
November 27, 1939
Bureau of Pensions
Department of War
Washington D.C.
Gentlemen:
Will you please advise me if you have any record of pension papers issued to Isaiah Bolles or Joseph Bolles of New London Connecticut  I am interested in checking my genealogy and believe these men fought in the Revolutionary War
Yours very truly
Mrs J T Miser
Quarters H1
U.S. Naval Academy
Annapolis Md
(Stamped Received 29 1939 Mail Subdivision ?No 11)