Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25,490, for Jacob Tillotson, Connecticut
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Tillotson, Jacob                          W.25.490
            ", Lovena
            ", Lovina
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Paid a the Treasury under the Act of the 6th April 1838 undecipherable 4 March to 4th of Sept 1840. Agt notified 23rd Sep, 1841

New York 28725
Jacob Tillotson

Undecipherable in the State of New York 
who was a Private in the Compy commanded by Captain Mathe... of the Regt commanded by Col Ledyard in the Connecticut line of 6 mos, 10 days

Subscribed on the roll of New York
the rate of 21 Dollars 11 cents per annum
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831

Certificate of Pension issued 24 day of May, 1834 and sent to Isaac Jones Columbus, NY

Arrears to the 4th of March '04                63.33
Same amt allowance ending Sept 4, '34   10.55
                                                                  73.88

Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Sam H. Page  Clerk
Book ?    Vol 4   Page 82
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Lovina Tillotson
widow of Jacob Tilliotson
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 21 Dollars 11 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of December, 1852 and sent to 
 >>> Bennett
H of R

Date of death
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Jacob Tillotson
Pension Application
31.052

fee of 
first term dis...aled being under 16. Two ...  ... furnished

unintelligible
6 mo  100 ...
$21.11

Address. Isaac Jones James
Columbus Chenango Co.
New York
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Opinion of the Court

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories presented by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and 
xxx the state.

   And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Benjamin Roland Mxxxx signed the 
----- certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of L------ and that Ole---Pal--- ---- has also signed the same is a resident of the town of Columbus and is a credible fellow and that their statement is entitled to credit.

Mitchell M _rudy    
--------------               Judges of County Court
Nathan Taylor
---- -----

Clerks Certificate

I ----K. Pike clerk of the court of -------- seat of said county do hereby certify that the said county in the ---- of the application of unintelligible

Witness
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State of New York
Chenango County   Joseph Mather of the town of Sherburne in said county being sworn saith that he was a soldier in Capt Samuel Mather's company and Colonel Asa Wolliott's regiment stationed at Fort Trumbull in New London, State of Connecticut in the year 1776 and that he knows Jacob Tillotson of Sherburne in the county of Chenango ... aforesaid, served as a soldier in the same company and regiment for the term of about six weeks according to the best recollection of this depo... and further this depo... saith not.
                                               Joseph Mather
Sworn and subscribed before me this 26th day of September 1832   Milo Hart   JP

I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Joseph, the person who above subscribed in the affidavit, that he is a resident of Sherburne above mentioned and is a man of very respectable character and in my opinion entitled to full credit and belief as a witness.  Milo Hart   JP
26th September 1832

State of New York
Chenango County   I do certify that Milo Hart was at the date of the preceding affidavit and certified as .... of the period in ... for said county, and that his signature to the ... are genuine

Written in hand and the seal of said county ...11th February 1834
PB Pruitte Desk Clk
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... he never had a written discharge
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State of New York
Chenango County  On this 29th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and forty five before the ... a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county came before me Reuben Tillotson a resident of Columbus in the said county who being first duly sworn according to said de... and says that he is a son of Jacob Tillotson late of said Columbus deceased and Lovena Tillotson that he is fifty years of age in December last that he has always lived in the family with his said parents from the time of his birth up to the time of the death of his father and since his death with his mother. That the papers hereto anexed are blank leaves from his fathers family bible which he has known for many years in his fathers family Bible and that the entries therein are all in except the death of 
(Jacob Tillotson) and the birth of (Russell M Tillotsin) and (Hannah W Tillotson)
That he had two ..... Jacob Tillotson Jr and Hiram Tillotson and that the other entries of more distant branches of the family that the said Bible was in his fathers family many years before his death and has continued in the family since and that the anexed leaves were taken out at the time of  making this affidavit to the former neighborhood of the Rev Isaac
... and amongst his parishoners and made enquiries in regard ro him and was informed by several members of his former church that the said Isaac M... removed from ... and many years ago had died should think thirty years as they understood and could find no one who knew any thing of his family on of his even
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having kept a record of marriages remembered by him and further saith not.
Subscribed and sworn before me this 29th day of May 1845                Reuben Tillotson

Timothy P. Bissell Justice of the Peace
I certify that I am acquainted with Reuben Tillotson who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing affidavit and that he is a credible person
Timothy P. Bissell  Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Chenango County  I John Lathane Clerk of the County of Chenango do hereby certify that Timothy P. Bis... Esquire is a Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly elected and qualified that his term of office commenced in the first day of January 1845. And will ..... on the thirty first day of January 1848 And further that I then will ...... with the handwriting of said Juatice and really believe that his .... to the acc... certificate is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of the county this 5th day of June 1845
John Luthane  Clerk
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Lovenia Tillotson was born  ... 1821

Mary Tillotson was born March 1st 1823

Diane Tillotson was born March 31st 1812

Elizabeth Tillotson was born April 21st 1823

Elocta Tillotson was born October 13th 1824

Mary Le...ion Tillotson was born January 26 1824

Russell M Tillotson was born August the 26th 1824

Hannah W Tillotson was born January the 1st 1831
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[679]
Family Record
Births
Jacob Tilltson was born March 19th 1761
Lovena Tillotson was born Desember [December] 27 1765
Jacob Tillotson jr was born February 6th 1793
Reuben Tillotson was born Desember [December] 15th 1794
[illegible - Kirdin?] Tillotson was born March 30th 1797
Henny Tillotson was born October 28 1815
[illegible - Alta?] Tillotson was born April 2d 1796
Thinzey Tillotson was born April 12th 1801
Mary Tillotson was born October 27th 1738
Lonzo Tillotson was born May 9th ye 1819
Kenamy Tillotson was born May 10th 1821
Deaths
Mary Tillotson died Apr [April] the 12th 1819 aged 80 years 5 moths [months] 17 days
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[677]
Family Record
Marriages
Gaeol Tillotson and Livena Tillotson was married Janu [January] 12th 1792
Jacob Tillotson jr and Alta Tillotson was married Feb 5th 1815
Reuben Tillotson and Sherzey Tillotson was married Feb 18th 1817
Hiram Tillotson & Electa Tillotson was married March 15th 1819
Marriages
4R
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Jacob Tillotson died April 24 1843 Aged 82 years 1 month and 7 days
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August 1850    Lewis Miller  Justice of Peace

I certify that I am well acquainted with Reuben Tillotson who has subscribed and sworn to the above affidavit that he is a credible person and his statement is entitled to full credit
Lewis Miller  Justice Peace
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State of New York Chenango County residing in the 
Mr William C Byer a Clergyman  town of Columbus county of Chenango and State of New York and Benjamin Storrs Supervisor of the town of Columbus residing in the samme town hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Reuben Tillotson who has subscribed and sworn to the written affidavit that we believe him to be fifty five years of age that he is a credible person and that his statements are entitled to full credit.

Subscribed and sworn this 16th}  William C Byer
                                                      Benjamin Storrs
                                                    Lewis Miller 
                                                     Justice of Peace
day of August 1850 before me}

I certify that it appears to me that William C Byer who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in the town of Columbus Chenango County and that Benjamin Storrs who has also signed the same is Supervisor of and resident in the said town of Columbus that they are credible persons and their statements are entitled to full credit
 Lewis Miller Justice of Peace

State of New York
Chenango County, Clerk's office
Nelson Pellet, Clerk of said County
I hereby certify that Lewis Tillotson before whom the foregoing affida
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vit  were taken and whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate is a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County, duly qualified, Elected and authorized to act as such. And further that I am well acquainted with his handwriting and verily believe the foregoing signatures purporting to be his, are his own proper and genuine signatures.  In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal at Norwich this 16th day of Sept 1830

Nelson Pellet  Clerk
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Lovena Tillotson
Widow of Jacob
NY
Act of July 1838

Rej... husb died 1844
Act of June 1844 No 779
Married 1791

Hus died 12 Apr 1844
>>> Act 17 June 1844
$21.11 per annum
ca... 12 Apr 1844
also
Act 2 Feb 1848
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State of New York
County of Chenango

On this 24th day of January, 1844, personally appeared in open county before the ... of Oy.. and ... at Norwich in said county, a court of record. Lovena Tillotson, a resident of the town of Columbus in said County, aged 78 years who being duly sworn doth, on her oath, say (in order to obtain the benefit of the Acts of Congress of July 7, 1838 and of March 3, 1843; that she was married to Jacob Tillotson at Sharon, Connecticut on the 12th day of January 1792 by the Rev Isaac Root, her maiden name being Lovena Woodruff that her said husband Jacob Tillotson was a Revolutionary pensioner ... aforesaid on the 24th day of April last and that she remains his wido ever since and is now his widow. That for evidence of his Revolutionary service she refers the Department to the proof on the files of the Pension office.    Levonia Tillotson

Sworn and subscribed (and of March 3, 1843 inter... before Execution)
John Latham Clerk of the County of Chenango
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Chenango County   Isaac Jones of Columbus in said county aged 33 years being sworn in open court, saith that he is well acquainted with Lovena Tillotson, hither named, who is an applicant for a pension, and that she is the widow of Jacob Tillotson, also hither named, who was a Revolutionary pensioner and who died last April. And that she the said Lovena has not, to the best knowledge and belief of this depositoin, intermarried with any person since her husbands death, but has remained his widow ever since.
                                       Isaac Jones

Sworn and subscribed in open court this 24 July 1844

I, John Latham, Clerk of the said County, do Certify that in the opinion of the said Court, the above named, Lovena Tillotson is the widow of the said Isaac Tillotson, a Revolutionary pensioner and that Isaac Jones who has subscribed to the above affidavit is a credible person

In testimony whereof I have set my hand and seal of the said Court this 24th day of January 1844

John Latham Clerk of the County of Chenango
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August 15, 1935

XXXXXXX

BA-J/REL
Moses Ballard-W.6074
Jacob Tillotson-W25490


Greta L. Jewett
Superior Court House
Federal Street
Salem, Massachusetts

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the records of Moses Ballard, Samuel Barker, Jacob Tillotson and Ezekiel Sheldon, soldiers of the Revolutionary War who received pensions while residing in Chenango County, New York.

Due to the great demand for Revolutionary War data and the limited clerical force available for furnishing such information,
it has not been possible to make a series of investigations and reports for one person or organization. The records of Moses Ballard and Jacob Tillotson are furnished herein.

Moses Ballard
W.6074
The data which follow are obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, W.6074, based upon the military
service in that war of Moses Ballard.

Moses Ballard was born April 11, 1756, in Montague, Massachusetts. The names of his parents are not shown.

While residing at his father's home in said Montague, Moses Ballard volunteered about June 1, 1775, and served two months at
Boston under Colonels Doolittle and Holden in the Massachusetts Troops: he volunteered about May 1, 1776, served in Captain Timothy
Childs' Massachusetts Company, marched to Ticonderoga and remained there until November following when he was discharged; he volunteered again about May 1, 1777, served in Captain Harvey's Massachusetts
Company, marched to Bennington, Vermont, thence to Skenesborough; returned to Bennington in charge of some sick soldiers,
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and hearing the cannonading at Saratoga, left immediately for that place and was present when Burgoyne surrendered, after which he
marched to White Plains, at which place he became lame and about the middle of November, 1777, was granted a furlough and did not again enter the army.

After the Revolution, Moses Ballard remained in Montague, Massachusetts, for about two years lived in Gill, Massachusetts; moved to
Greenfield, Massachusetts, and lived for nearly thirty years; then moved to Smyrna, Chenango County, New York.

Pension was allowed on his application executed October 9, 1833, while he was residing in Syria, New York.

The soldier married February 18, 1795, in Gill, Massachusetts, Ruth Morley or Morsley. Both were then of Gill, Massachusetts.  He died at Smyrna, New York, April 4, 1833, and his widow, Ruth, married February 21, 1837, Bethuel Slate, of Gill, Massachusetts, who died at said Gill, January 22, 1848, aged seventy-one years.

Ruth State was allowed pension on account of the services of her former husband, Moses Ballard, on her application executed May 19, 1851, at which time she was aged seventy-four years and resided in Will County, Illinois. In 1855, she was living in Maine, Cook County, Illinois.

She died February 18, 1859, place not shown. The date and place of her birth and the names of her parents are not stated.

It was stated that Moses Ballard and his wife, Ruth, reared a family of children; only two names are designated, as follows:

Moses Russell Ballard......born October 27, 1801.
Luther Western Ballard......born October 3, 1804.

The above dates of birth were recorded on the records of the town clerk of Gill, Massachusetts.

In 1855, Luther W. Ballard and Rachel Ballard were living in Cook County, Illinois.  Relationship of Rachel to the family was
not shown. In 1851, one Alvah Ballard lived in Gill, Massachusetts; and in 1859, one H.C. Ballard, Esquire, was a resident of
Chicago; no relationship of Alvah or H.C. Ballard to the family was shown.  In 1832, Patty Carrier, sister of the soldier, Moses Ballard, lived in Columbus, Chenango County, New York. The name of her husband was not given.
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Jacob Tillotson
W.25490

The data which follow are obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, W.25490, based upon the military
service of Jacob Tillotson in that war.

Jacob Tillotson, the son of Jacob, was born March 17, 1751, in Lyme, Connecticut. The name of his mother is not designated.

While residing in said Lyme, Jacob Tillotson enlisted and served as a private with the Connecticut Troops, as follows:
from July, 1776, six weeks as substitute for his brother, Samuel Tillotson, in Captain Samuel Mather's Company and was employed at Fort Trumbull under Colonel Ledyard;  from April, 1777, two months
under Ensign Elisha Marvin and was employed at Fort Griswold at Groton, Connecticut; from July or August in the year that the ship, "Trumbull," was brought to New London, two months in Captain Richard Deshon's Company; went to the mouth of the Connecticut River and assisted in bringing the ship to New London: later, date not given, two months as a guard at Frog's Neck, in Captain Daniel Cone's Company, of which company soldier's father, Jacob Tillotson, was ensign: at the time of the burning of New London, ten days in Captain Manassa Leech's Company, was detached and served under Ensign
Andrew Griswold as a guard for the sea coast. He stated that he served also at other times on short tours on alarms; names of officers, and dates of these tours are not given. There are no claims for pension on file based upon the service in the Revolution of soldier's father, Jacob Tillotson, senior and of his brother, Samuel Tillotson.
[in pencil on right side of paragraph]
Could not find sol or his father in Conn book.  Found Capts Samuel Mather & Richard Deshon.

After the Revolution, he lived at Lyme and Sharon, Connecticut and in Sharon, Schoharie, New York.

He was allowed pension on his application executed February 11, 1834, while living in Columbus, Chenango County, New York.
where he had lived for twenty years.

He died at said Columbus, on April 24, 1843.

The soldier married January 12, 1792, in Sharon, Connecticut, Lovena Millard, a widow. Her maiden name was Woodruff and she was
born December 27, 1765, place not stated, nor are the names of her parents shown. The Christian name of her former husband,
the date of their marriage and of his death are not given.
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In 1845, Joshua Millard, aged seventy-five years, Peter Millard, aged seventy years and Josiah Millard, aged sixty-six years, all residents of Egremont, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, made joint affidavit that Jacob Tillotson and Lovina Millard were married in their presence in their father's home in Sharon, Connecticut, on January 12, 1792.  It was stated that the above named Joshua, Peter and Josiah Millard were brothers of the former husband of Lovena or Lovina Millard and that she was residing at the home of her father-in-law, whose name was not
given, at the time of her marriage to Jacob Tillotson.

Solider's widow, Lovena (pensioned Lovina) was allowed pension on her application executed January 24, 1844, while residing in
Columbus, New York.

The following family data are shown:

BIRTHS
Jacob Tillotson born March 17, 1761
Lovena Tillotson born December 27, 1765
Jacob Tillotson, Jr. born February 6, 1793
Reuben Tillotson born December 15, 1794
Hiram Tillotson born March 30, 1797
Henry Tillotson born October 28, 1815
Alta Tillotson born April 2, 1796
Thirsey Tillotson born April 1, 1801
Mary Tillotson born October 27, 1738; died April 12, 1819
Lonzo Tillotson born May 9, 1819
Hiram Tillotson born May 10, 1821
Lovenia Tillotson born October 8, 1821
Mary Tillotson, 2nd born March 1, 1833
Diane Tillotson born March 31, 1812
Elizabeth Tillotson born April 21, 1823
Electa Tillotson born October 13, 1834
Mary Levenia Tillotson born January 26, 1827
Russel M. Tillotson born August 26, 1834
Hanah W. Tillotson born January 1, 1831

MARRIAGES
Jacob Tillotson and Levene Tillotson, 
married January 12, 1793

Jacob Tillotson, Jr. and Alta Tillotson,
married February 5, 1815
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Marriages continued:

Reuben Tillotson and Therzey Tillotson, married February 18, 1817.

Hiram Tillotson and Eleta Tillotson, 
married March 15, 1819.

Reuben Tillotson, soldier's son, stated in 1845, that he had two brothers, Jacob and Hiram Tillotson and that the others named
above, recorded by his father, Jacob Tillotson, were more distant branches of the family. Reuben was then living in Chenango County, New York.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Lovina Tillotson, widow of Jacob Tillotson (W.25490), you should address The Comptroller General,
General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:

Lovina Tillotson, widow of Jacob Tillotson, Certificate No. 6008, issued December 7, 1852, rate $21.11, commenced March 4, 1848,
Act of February 2, 1848, New York Agency.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.
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Columbus Chenango Co. N.Y.
May 23rd 1851

Sir
Yours of 8th of May has been received in conformity with your directions I forward proff [proof] that Mrs Lovina Tillotson is still living.

Respectfully yours 

JE Heath Esqr                   Isaac Jones
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Columbus NY
April 7


Commissioner of Pensions

Washington DC
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April 11 1833
Rel: to case of 

Lovina Tillotson



Isaac Jones
Albany 
NYork



DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
PENSION OFFICE, OFFICIAL BUSINESS
Commissioner.
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Revy Widow &C

File No. 25 490
Lovina Tillotson
Wid of Jacob Tillotson 
Priv Rev War

Act Feb 2nd 1848

Index Vol 7  Page 276

1935 Aug 15 Hist
to Greta Jewet

Letters in case of Moses Ballard
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State of New york
Chenango County

On this 16th day of May 1851 came before me (the subscriber a justice of the peace in & from the county aforesaid duly authorised to Administer oaths) Stephen H Tuttle who being first duly sworn according to law deposes & says that he is a neighbor of Widow Lovina Tillotson of Columbus NY (widow of the late Jacob Tillotson) who is an applicant for a pension on account of the revolutionary service of her said husband. That he gave the said Lovina Tillotson the day before yesterday who was then alive and well that he heard from the family last evening & heard nothing but what She was well and has no doubt but she is now alive and well.
                                   Stephen M Tuttle
Subscribed and sworn before me this 16th day of May 1851

Isaac James Justice of the Peace
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Columbus Chenango County
New York Feb 11th 1846

Dear Sir

Yours of the 24tj July last in regard to the claim of Lovena Tillotson "states that the claim is barred by the act of 30th April 1844  her husband Jacob Tillotson having received a pension during the time to which both those acts were limited" in answer  I would state that I think a mistake has occurred in regard to the time during which he received a pension by refference to Mrs Tillotsons papers on file you will perceive that Mrs Tillotson died in April 1843 and of course could not have received a pension during that year Mrs Tillotson also claims under Act of 1844

In regard to the documentary proof furnished in the case I enclose the affidavit of Mrs Reuben Tillotson this I trust will be satisfactory should any thing more be necessary in the case please instruct me speciffically on the subject
Respecfully yours

Isaac Jones
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Treasury Departmnet 
Second Comptroller's Office
August 26th, 1841

Sir:

Under the act of 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensions, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Jacob Tillotson- a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany, NY Agency, at the rate of twenty one Dollars and 11 cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1832, to the 4th of Sept 1840

Respectfully Yours,

Albion E. Parris
Comptroller

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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Columbus 17th February 1834
Sir
In the accompanying papers a mistake of a word has occurred in the affidavit of Mr Mather & that
is in the place of residence of Applicant he resides in Columbus his farm adjoining Sherburne this mistake was not discovered untill after the affidavit was appended to the declaration this explanation it is hoped will be satisfactory as it would be attended with considerable trouble & expence to applicant
to obtain a new affidavit
J L Edwards Esqr
Respectfully yours &c .
Isaac  Jones
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Columbus Chenango Co New York
June 9th 1845
Sir
I enclose papers in support of the
Claim of Mrs. Lovena Tillotson for a pension
you will perceive that in the application
of Mrs Tillotson she states her maiden
name (Lavina Woodruff, and in the affidavit
of Joshua Millard, Peter Millard and Josiah
Millard they testify that they saw Jacob
Tillotson Married to Lovina Millard this
you will understand when I inform you
that we Tillotson had a former husband
by the name of Millard [illegible] to the above
named Joshua Peter, & Josiah when
you have examined her papers
please address me as her Agent
Isaac Jones
Hon [Honorable] J L Edwards Com. [Commissioner of] Pensions
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Deposition of [illegible - Israel?] Camp Esq.
Jur. [illegible] of [illegible]
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I Israel Camp of Sharon in the county of Litchfield and State of Connecticut do depose and say that I am the town clerk of the said town of Sharon and have the custody of the records thereof I have this day examined said records and and can find no record of the marriage of Jacob Tillotson with Lavina Woodruff or Lovinia Millard or with any other person. And further the deponent saith not.
Israel Camp
Litchfield County ss May 5 1845 there personally appeared Israel Camp Esq. who I certify was the town clerk of the town of Sharon in said county and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed and I further certify that this deponent is a credible witness.
Chas F. Sedgwick Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut
Litchfield County ss Litchfield
I Gideon H. Hollister clerk of the court of the county and state aforesaid do hereby certify that Charles F. Sedgwick Esquire is a Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified and by law authorized to administer oaths and to take acknowledgment of deeds and that his commission was dated 4th day of June AD 1844 and will expire on the 20th day of June AD 1846 & I further certify that I am personally acquainted with the said justice & that his signature to the accompanying instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said court this 9th day of May AD 1844
Gideo H Hollister clerk
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State of Massachusetts
County of Berkshire ss
We Joshua Millard, Peter Millard, and Josiah Millard all of Egremont in said county of Berkshire and state of Massachusetts the said Joshua being seventy five and the said Peter being seventy and the said Josiah sixty six years of age being duly sworn do severally testify and say that we were each of us present at our father's house in Sharon in the county of Litchfield and state of Connecticut on or about the twelfth day of January one thousand seven hundred and ninety two when Jacob Tillotson and Lovina Millard of said Sharon were joined in marriage at our said father's house in our presence by the Rev. Isaac Roof a Baptist clergyman then of the town of Warren in said county of Litchfield and state of Connecticut. and these deponents further say severally that the said Jacob and Lovina lived together in the married state in said Sharon something more than a year after their said marriage when they removed together into the state of New York
Joshua Millard
Peter Millard
Josiah Millard
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 25th day of February AD 1845 and I do further certify that the said Joshua Millard, Peter Millard, and Josiah Millard are credible witnesses they being all of them well known to me.
Wilber Curtis
Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Berkshire ss
I Charles Sedgwick clerk of the Judicial courts of the commonwealth for the county of Berkshire do certify that Wilbur Curtis Esquire whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereto annexed was at the date thereof one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County duly commissioned and acting under the authority of this commonwealth and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Wilbur Curtis and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the court of common pleas for said commonwealth this third day of March in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and forty five
Charles Sedgwick clerk
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State of New York
Chenango County ss
On this 11th day of August 1845 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in & for the county aforesaid personally appeared Reuben Tillotson who being duly sworn deposes and says that he is a son of he late Jacob Tillotson a revolutionary pensioner of the United States & that he is the same person who made an affidavit in regard to the authenticity of the family record of the said Jacob Tillotson (which affidavit accompanied the papers of Lovena Tillotson claiming a pension as widow of the said Jacob Tillotson) that the rec'd [received] record was transcribed from an ancient family bible in which it was originally made and which was very much to pieces & that in the fall of the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen his father Jacob Tillotson bught [bought] a new bible and copied the family record into the new bible from the old one so far as the events had then transpired that he knows that his father copied the entries previously as they were in the old shattered bible & that the record to which his said affidavit was affixed was the one made as above mentioned in the year 1814 & that so far as he knows or believes the old bible & record above mentioned have not been in existence for many years & that the reason that his father transcribed the record was because the old book was so in pieces that it could not be preserved.
Reuben Tillotson
Subscribed & sworn before me on this 11th day of August 1845
Timothy P. Bissell Justice of the Peace
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I certify that I am well acquainted with Reuben Tillotson who has sworn to the within affidavit is a credible person & that his statements are entitled to full credit.
Timothy P. Bissell Justice of the Peace
Chenango County Clerks Office ss.
I John Latham clerk of said county do certify that Timothy P. Bissell the person making the above certificate and before whom the within affidavit was made and whose name is subscribed therer to was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for Chenango County duly commissioned and qualified as such and further that I am well acquainted with this hand writing of such Justice and verily believe that the hand writing above ad within purporting to be his is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of the said county this 15th day of August 1845.
John Latham clerk
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Columbus Chenango Co. NY [County New York]
12th Nov [November] 1850
Dear Sir
I enclose further testimony in support of the claim of Lovena Tillotson for a pension which I flatter myself will be satisfactory if it should not be sufficient you will please instruct me particularly what further is required.
Respectfully yours [illegible]
Isaac Jones
J.L. Edwards Esq.
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J. E. Heath Esq
Will you please look up the within case & see if the proof is not sufficient now & if so, grant the certificate. If not, specify the defect returning this letter.
Truly
H. Bennett
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Columbus 25th Feb [February] 1851
Dear Sir
I spoke with you last fall in regard to attending to the business of Mrs. Lovena Tillotson at the pension office if I did not get returns from there I have waited till a late hour & have heard nothing I will therefore briefly state the case to you & request you to attend to it
Mr. Jacob Tillotson was a revolutionary pensioner at 20 dollars on a little upwards per year 22 some cents I believe on his death several years ago his widow Levina Tillotson made application for the pension under the act giving it to those who were married before the 1st of January 1794 Mr. Reuben Tillotson went to Sharon Ct [Connecticut]  were [where] they were married & made research in the town clerks office & could find no record & got the town clerks certificate to that effect he then made enquiries for the clergyman who married them and learnt that he had left that country many years ago and was dead & no one knew of his marriage record. Reuben Tillotson made affidavit of those facts he then got an affidavit from three brothers of Mrs. Tillotson's former husband (in whose fathers family she married at the time of her
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marriage to Tillotson stating the time of their marriage & that they were present
I then took the family record out of Ezra Tillotson's family bible & attached an affidavit of Reuben Tillotson that he was a son of Jacob Tillotson that he knew that record to be his fathers family record that he saw his fathers copy it from an old dilipidated [dilapidated] bible (in which it had been kept) in the years 1814. I supposed I had now all the evidence required under the act & sent on the papers & received an [illegible] "that the proof was unsatisfactory that the documentary evidence was of too recent a date but if it could be made satisfactorily to appear that it was written by Jacob Tillotson & done in 1814 it might be received." soon after this a circular was received from a Mr. Philips of Washington directed to the widow & heirs of Jacob Tillotson offering his services in the pension business I then wrote him on this matter receiving no answer from him after a while I had occasion to write him on an other matter & called his attention to this matter he wrote me that he had written me on the subject of Mrs. Tillotsons claim & if I had not received his letter let him know & he would immediately write me on the subject I wrote him that I had not received his letter & have not heard from him
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since last fall I got an additional affidavit from Reuben Tillotson stating that the reason he knew it was in 1814 that his father made the transfer of the record near that in March 1814 he father moved from Sharon Schoharie Co [county] into Columbus that the bible was printed by subscription & that the reason before his father left Sharon he subscribed for the book & the summer after they moved to Columbus the bible was delivered & immediately after he received it he coppied [copied] the record into it I then got an affidavit from a clergyman residing in this town & from the supervisor of this town to the reputable character of Reuben Tillotson & forwarded to the department since which I have not heard from it I have thus given you a brief view of the case & wish it would give it your attention.
Respectfully yours [illegible]
Isaac Jones
George Bennett
PS I thank you for the financial report & take the liberty to say that if you have any of president Taylors messages & documents or reports from the patent office which are in your [illegible] you may send a copy to me & they would [be] thankfully received.
I.J.
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Pension Office
March 10th 1843
Sir
In reply to that part of the letter of Isaac Jones Esq [esquire] which relates to the case of Levina Tillotson I have to inform you that if she will return her certificate with the act of 17th June 1841 a new certificate will be issued commencing in 1843 when her husband died.
I have the honor to be very respectfully 
J E H [illegible] Comm'r [Commissioner]
Hon.[Honorable] [illegible] Bennett
House of Reps [Representatives]
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Columbus Chenango Co NY [county New York]
April 7th 1853
Hon [Honorable] Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
In reply to the suggestion within that Mrs. Tillotson return her pension certificate under the act of June 17th 1844 I would state that she returned it to the pension agent at Albany when she [illegible] her money [illegible] to Isaac Jones
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Act 17 June 1844
No. 779
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May 29, 1851
Addl evi in case of Lovina Tillotson
Isaac Jones Columbus Chenango Co New York
Columbus NY
23d May
Fr[illegible]
J.E. Heath Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
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Brief in the case of Levena Tillotson Chenango County and State of New York act 17 June 1844
Claim ("original," or "far increase") Proof exhibited, (if original)
Is it documentary traditionary or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Hus [husband] was a pensioner 
Record proof of marriage
(if for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Name and residence of Agent
H. Bennett  H of R [House of Representatives]
L. Cole, Examining Clerk
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11973
Lovinia Tillotson
NY [New York]
I [illegible] May 8/51
to [llegible] in the proof of death & or [illegible] 3d A[illegible] Aug 22/37
Acts - Rejected 1838
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No. 11973
Lovinia Tillotson NY [New York]
Rejected 
Let [letter] to Isaac Jones in July 24 45
[illegible] 14 May '40
Act 7 July 1838
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721 New York
Lovina Tillotson widow of Jacob who was a private in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 21 dollars 11 cents per annum to commence on the [strike out "4th day of March 1843"] 12th April 1844
Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of December 1857 and sent to 
Hon [honorable] H. Bennett HofR [House of Representatives]
[Acts of March 3 1843 & June 17 1844.]
Recorded in Book A Vol 2 Page 87