Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5399, for Asa Naromore, Massachusetts
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Service Mass
Number W 3399, B.L.W. 30-917-160-55
Naromore, Asa
or Naramore or Narramore
Sally
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Increase  No. 731
Vermont
Sally Narramore widow of Asa Narramore who served ^Mass in the Revolutionary war as a private

Rutland agency
Rate 96 Dollars ---cents per annum commencing July 27th 1868
"Deduct payments made since"

Certificate dated November 4, 1869 and sent to Wm. B. Shaw Burlington 
Chittenden Co., Vt.

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853,  Page 180 Vol. N
7th July 1868
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No. 18432
Vermont
Asa Naromore
of Chitn. Co. in the State of Vermont who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Porter of the Troops commanded by Genl Stark in the Mass. troops for 2 years.

Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 80 Dollars per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831

Certificate of pension issued the 30 day of August 1833 and sent to N. B. Haswell
Burlington Vt.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833  160.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. 1833   40.00
$200.00
{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by D. Brown Clerk
Book E, Vol. 3, Page 80
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(Illegible-paper folded/torn) 

Act 3d March 1855
29 June
Narramore
Sally Narramore Wid. of Asa Narramore dec'd Private
Capt.---
Col.---
Husband was a Pensioner Act June 7 1832-Vermont Rolls
Mass. Mil. Rev. War
Vt. (illegible) 53-731
(illegible) June 19,/56
Boynton

West & Shaw
Burlington Vt.
Vol N-2
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Revolutionary Claims

State of Vermont
Chittenden County, SS

On this seventeenth day of August A. D. 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before the Honorable county Court for the County of Chittenden, now sitting, Asa Narramore a resident of Charlotte in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont, aged seventy one 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 under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
I enlisted in May or June 1777 or 1778 (and the precise month and year not recollected) into Captain Porters Company of Massachusetts troops for (illelgible) months and served five months, we marched to Albany and was stationed under Genl. Stark. I was discharged at Albany. In June or July 1780 I entered the service at Lanesboro Massachusetts in Captain Whites Company in Col. Browns Regiment of State troop, I was in the service at the Battle of Stone Arabia in the State of New York in October 1780 where Col Brown was killed. At this place I was taken prisoner by the enemy and taken to Canada where I remained a prisoner until the fall of 1783. I enlisted for three months. I was unable to return from Canada until the 19th of October 1784-my absence by reason of my being a prisoner being about 4 years. 
I was born in Northampton Massachusetts April 19, 1761. I have no record of my age except the one in my Bible and that was received from my parents.
At the time I entered the service I was living at Pittsfield Massachusetts. Since the Revolution I have lived the principal part of my time in Vermont having lived for the last forty years in Charlotte.
I do no recollect that I received a discharge, after my return from Canada my claim for wages was (illegible) to Col. or Egsn. Skinner of 
(illegible) Massachusetts and he provided my back pay either from the United
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States or from Massachusetts, it was received in what was called Public Securities.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of the agency of any State.
Asa Noramore
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid Before
Nathan B. Haswell Clerk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states, And the Court further certify, that it appears to them that Calvin Yale who is a clergyman and David Hubbell who have signed the annexed certificate and who are residents of the town of Charlotte are credible personas and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Attest Eli Brownson, John Van Sickler, Judges of Chittenden County Court

State of Vermont
Chittenden County, ss. 
I Nathan B. Haswell Clerk of the Chittenden County Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Asa Naromore for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 17th day of August A. D. 1832.
Nathan B. Haswell
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We the undersigned inhabitants of Charlotte do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Asa Noramore who has subscribed and sworn to the annexed declaration, that we believe him to be seventy one years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
David Hubbell
Calvin Yale
Sworn and subscribed this 17th day of August A. D. 1832 and I hereby certify that the above persons are credible witnesses.
Nathan B. Haswell

I hereby certify that the above named Calvin Yale is a clergyman in regular standing.
Nathan B. Haswell Clerk
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State of Vermont
Chittenden County
We the undersigned inhabitants of Charlotte in Chittenden County do hereby testify on oath that we are aquainted with Asa Noromore of said town and from our acquaintance with him we believe him to be about seventy one years of age and that he is reputed and believed i the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier.
Jeremiah Boston (crossed out)
David Hubbell
Sheldon Whalen (crossed out)
Calvin Yale
Sworn and subscribed this 17th day of July AD 1832 and I hereby certify that the above persons are credible witnesses
Before me
Nathan B. Haswell-Justice of the peace & sworn to in open Court
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I Amos Pettibone of Lanesborough in the County of Berkshire & Commonwealth of Massachusetts being seventy one years of age the seventh day of April (illegible) last past testify & say that I was well acquainted with one Asa Narrymore then an inhabitant of said County but now a resident in the Town of Charlotte in the County of Chittenden & State of Vermont, said Asa Narrymore enlisted into the army of the Revolution in the year A. D. 1780 for three months under Capt. White. The regiment was commanded by Colonel Brown of Pittsfield & said Asa Narrymore was taken prisoner in the action at Stone Arabia in the state of New York in the month of October A.D. 1780 & said Narrymore remained a prisoner of war until the cessation of hostility.
Amos Pettibone

Berkshire SS March 8th 1833 then the above named Amos Pettibone personally appeared and made solemn oath to the foregoing statement by him subscribed to before me
Calvin Hubbell Justice of the Peace

additional no 3
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Berkshire ss
 I Charles Sedgwell a Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of said Commonwealth for said County of Berkshire do certify that Calvin Hubbell Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County of Berkshire & that I verily believe that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this eighteenth day of May AD. 1833 Chas. Sedgwell Clerk
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Madrid St. Lawrence Co
N. Y.
Jno Horton J. Peace

State of New York
St. Lawrence County SS
I William H. Root clerk of said County do certify that John Horton Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit purports to have

Norramore No. 6465
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Personally appeared before me one of the Justices of the peace of the Town of Madrid St. Lawrence County on the Eighth day of March A.D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
Thadeus Hurlbert of the said Town of Madrid to me personally knows and made oath and says that he is personally acquainted with Asa Narramore of the Town of Charlotte Chittenden County State of Vermont and has known the said Asa for the last Fifty Three years and that during the War of the Revolution of the United States of America said Asa Narramore lived in the town of Pittsfield in the State of Massachusetts distance from the residence of this deponent Ten miles. this deponent then living in the town of Lanesborough in the said State of Massachusetts. This deponent further says that it was generally known and reputed that the said Asa then and there inlisted into the continental service as a volunteer in Captain William White's company of the Militia of the State of said State of Massachusetts commanded by Colonel Brown. This deponent further says that it was known and reputed that the said Asa was taken by the Brittish and Indians a prison of War at the Battle of Stone Robbry on the Mohawk River in the state of New York and this deponent further says that he knows that the said Asa was absent upwards of four years from the time he enlisted and that this said Asa did draw from the Treasury of the said State of Massachusetts four years pay and that the service was allowed him by the said State in payment for the time he was kept Prisoner of War by the British Government
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And this deponent further says that the said Asa Narramore now a resident of the Town of Charlotte Chittenden County State of Vermont is the same Asa Narramore that I represented in the whole of this deponents affidavit.
Thadeus Hurlbert
Sworn & subscribed this 8th day of March 1832 before me Madrid St. Lawrence Co
N.Y. 
Jno. Horton J. Peace

State of New York
St. Lawrence County SS
I William H. Root Clerk of said County do certify that John Horton Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit purports to have been sworn was on the date of the same one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit is his own proper hand writing and signature
Witness my hand and Seal of Office this tenth day of March 1832
Wm. H. Root Clerk
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State of Vermont
District of Chittenden Ss

On this fourth day of March in the year eighteen hundred and fifty three, personally appeared before the Hon. Probate Court within and for the District of Chittenden aforesaid Sally Narramore a resident of Charlotte in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont aged sixty six years in October last who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath made the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by  ^the second section^ of an act of Congress passed on the third day of February 1853 granting pensions to widows of all officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates of the revolutionary army who were married subsequent to January A. D. 1800. the she is the widow of Asa Narramore, late of said Charlotte, deceased, who was a private during the war of the revolution in the Massachusetts troops and who was at the time of his death a pensioner of the United States, inscribed in the Burlington, Vermont roll at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum. that she does not know the names of the officers under whom her said husband served in said war nor the period of his service though she believes he served more than two years, and she refers to his declaration and proofs made under the act of June 7 1832 (1832) for a more particular description and the duration, of his services, which she believes are on file in the Pension office. She further declares that she was married to the said Asa Narramore on the tenth day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty four at Williston in said County of Chittenden and that her name before
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said marriage was Sally Joslin.
She further declares that her husband, the aforesaid Asa Narramore, died on the eleventh day of April, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty one, that she was not married to him prior to  the year eighteen hundred, but the marriage took place at the time above stated. She further declares that she is now a widow and that she has never before many any application for a Pension
Sally Narramore
Sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written. And I certify that the declarant is a woman of truth and credibility; so, that the words "second section of an" were interlined on the first page, before signing.
W. H. French, Judge
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State of Vermont
Chittenden County SS
I Mary Elizabeth Leavenworth of Charlotte in said County of Chittenden aged thirty five years is April last, testify and say that in the year eighteen hundred and forty four I was a resident of and a housekeeper in the town of Williston in said County and Sally Joslin resided in my family at that time, and that while she so resided there she was married to Asa Narramore of said Charlotte. The marriage was celebrated by Chauncy Brownell Esq. now deceased, then a Justice of the Peace in said Williston, in the month of January A. D. 1844, but I do not remember the day of the month. I knew the said Narramore until he died. He died on the eleventh day of April in the year eighteen hundred and fifty one. I was at his house on the day of his death and I attended his funeral. He was a pensioner of the United States at the time of his death and received eighty dollars per year. the said Sally Narramore (formerly Sally Joslin) resides in said Charlotte and is still the widow of the said Asa Narramore, deceased, never having married since his death.
Mary E. Leavenworth
Sworn to and subscribed before me this fourth day of March, 1833, and I certify that the affiant is a woman of truth.
W. H. French Judge
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I Abel Leavenworth of Charlotte in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont aged fifty two years testify and say that I was well acquainted with Asa Narramore, late of said Charlotte deceased. He died on the eleventh day of April in the year eighteen hundred and fifty one. I was at his house on the day of his death and attended his funeral. He was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of eighty dollars per annum. I am and for some years past have been acquainted with Sally Narramore who has made the foregoing declaration for a pension. She has never married again since the death of the said Asa and is still a widow.
Abel Leavenworth
Sworn to and subscribed before me onthe fourth day of March A. D. 1843 and I certify that the affiant is a man of truth.
W. H. French Judge

State of Vermont
District of Chittenden
I hereby testify that W. H. French before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavits were made and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, and still is, Judge of the Court of Probate within and for the District of Chittenden aforesaid, duly qualified and that the signatures thereto subscribed purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office as Register of the Probate Court of said County, this 10th day of March A. D. 1853.
(seal)
J. S. Adams, Register
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State of Vermont
Chittenden county ss 
Be it remembered that at Williston in the County aforesaid on this tenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty four Asa Narramore of Charlotte in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont, and Sally Joslin of Williston in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont were duly joined in marriage by me.
Chauncy Brownell, Justice of the Peace.

A true copy of Record, Attest Chauncy Brownell Justice of the peace 
Recorded January 10th 1844 Attest Chauncy Brownell Town Clerk

I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the Record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows: "On this 10th day of January in the year of our Lord 1844"
Attest, Rollin Bradley Town Clerk of Williston

I Rollin Bradley above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the Town of Williston in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said town of Williston with the exception above named as certified by me.
Williston April 13, 1853
Rollin Bradley
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 13th day of April A. D. 1853
Wm. M. Miller Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermon
Chittenden County ss
I Daniel B. Buckley Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Chittenden aforesaid do hereby certify that Wm. M. Miller Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavit of Rollin Bradley was made and whose name is thereunto subscribed is and was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Chittenden aforesaid duly qualified and that the signature thereto purporting to be his is in said Millers own proper hand writing.
(Seal) In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office as Clerk of said County Court this 13th day of April A. D. 1853
Daniel B. Buckley
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168.394
Sally Narramore
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State of Vermont
County of Chittenden
On this thirty first day of May A.D. 1855 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid Sally Narramore aged sixty eight years a resident of Charlotte in the State of Vermont who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Asa Narramore, deceased, who was a Private in the Massachusetts Militia in the Revolutionary War; she is unable to state the time he entered said service, the names of his officers nor the date of his discharge, but she believes that he served in said troops for as long as a period as two years; she further states that the said Asa Narramore was a Pensioner of the United States under the act of & June 1832, and was inscribed on the Vermont Roll at the rate of Eighty Dollars per annum and for a more particular description of his said service she refers to his declaration for pension under said act and the proofs sent therewith now on file in the Pension Office at Washington D. C.
She further states that she was married to the said Asa Narramore in Williston Vermont on the tenth day of January A.D. 1844 and that he name before her said marriage was Sally Joslin, that her said husband died at Charlotte Vermon on the 11th day of April A.D. 1851 and that she is now a widow.
She further states that she is a Pensioner of the United States under the 2d section of the Act of 3 February 1853 and is inscribed on the Vermont Roll, Burlington Agency at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum and for further proof in regard to her marriage to and the death of the said Asa Narramore she refers to her
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declaration for Pension under said last mentioned act and the proofs sent therewith now on file in the pension office at Washington D. C.
She makes this application and declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3, 1853. She also declares that she has not received a Warrant for Bounty Lanad under this or any other act of Congress nor made any other application therefor.
Sally Narramore
We Clark W. Reynolds and Hannah L. Reynolds residents of Burlington in the State of Vermont upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Sally Narramore in our presence and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be an that we know that she is now a widow.
Clark W. Reynolds
Hannah M. Reynolds

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year first above written, and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in this Claim.
Wm. G. Shaw Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont
Office of the Secretary of State
Montpelier June 28th `855

I Certify that Wm. G. Shaw Esq. whose name is subscribed in his own proper hand writing to the foregoing Certificate, is and was at the date thereof, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County of Chittenden duly elected and qualified, with full power and authority under and by virtue of the laws of said State to administer oaths and take Deposition, and Acknowledgments of Deeds, and that to his official acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given.
Given under my hand and the Seal of this office this 28th day of June A. D. 1855
Geo. R. Thompson Deputy Secretary of State
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6465
Asa Narromore
Adm. by the commr.
2 years

N. B. Haswell
Burlington
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WAR DEPARTMENT
Pension office
April 27,1833

Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and subjoined notes, you will perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. These points to which our attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, {thus : } )/ You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

A Statement, showing the service of Asa Narramore

Period when the service was 
rendered: 1778
Duration of the claimant's service: 4 mos.
Rank of the claimant: Private
Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served: Gen. Tilliner
Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service: 71 years old/when I entered the service I lived in Pittsfield

Period when the service was rendered: 1780
Duration of the claimant's service: 4 yrs/3 mos/1 day
Rank of the claimant: private
Names and rank of Field Officers under whom he served:

I am, respectfully, Your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards,
Commissioner of pensions

Mr Asa Narromore
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2
REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7 1832

The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been contrued to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line" "State troops," "militia" and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c.  Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefit if the law, as well as persons who turned our as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops
2. The State Troops, Militia and Volunteers
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service
4. Indian Spies
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.

DECLARATION
in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832
State, Territory or District of
County of ..........ss
On this..........day of ........personally appeared (a) before.............A. B. a resident (b) of ..............in the county of ........and State, Territory or District of .......aged (c) ..........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 provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. that he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) .....,. with.......and served in the .......(e) regiment of the .........line, under the following named officers;

[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rand and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. 
--->This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy &c.]

He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of an Agency in any State or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of...........
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. 
I, ...................of the Court of..................do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of ..............for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this...........day of...........&c.

If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers, or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and  State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the .........and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with.........., who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be............years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the Warr Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the ..........and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the.........and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I,..........Clerk of the Court of .............do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of ..........for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this......day of ..........&c.

[hand-marked with brackets)
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person 

(hand written note: If the facts stated by the witness are (illegible) of the State Massachusetts)
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. all applicants will appear before some court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
[end of hand marked bracket)
The court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1. where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; where you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6. To a Soldier, Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
   To an Officer, Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of person to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons--one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents  and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will also certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. and the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of  bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is requested to be done by a Judge or Justice of a court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such a person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person who may have died before the taking effect of the Act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a court of Record, showing the services of the deceased  the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant and opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
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(a) the declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
(b) the declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
(c) the age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
(d) the declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
(e) Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me the undersigned, a Justice of the peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith that by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; the, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less that the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For.........year.......months, and .....days, I served as a ............, for ...........months and ........days, I served as a ...........; and for such service I claim a pension".
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. this form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison and for the time during which the service was performed he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
(f) The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
(g) the opinion of the Court is always required.
(h) The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
(i) The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no devise or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate  of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

Mode of Authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

Proof of Service
(j) In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
--->The notes from (a) to (i) are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in not (j) applies to continental troops only.
(k) this traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
(l) If a witness cannot be found, the declarants must state the fact.
(m) the answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department with the declaration.

[hand written note-(illegible) can be obtained from the office of the Secretary]
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M.C.S.
Rev. & 1812 War Section

June 17, 1924

Myrtle A. Keeler
113 N. 3rd Ave.
Minneapolis, Minn.

Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War claim, W. 5399, it appears that Asa Naramore, Naromore, or Narramore, was born April 19, 1761, at Northampton, Massachusetts.
While living in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, he enlisted July 1, 1778, and served five months as a private in Captain Peter Porter's Massachusetts Company.
He enlisted July 18, 1780, in Captain William White's Company, Colonel Brown's Massachusetts Regiment, was in the battle at Stone Arabia where he was taken prisoner, carried into Canada and was held until (the close of the Revolution-crossed out) peace was declared in 1783.
he was allowed pension on his application executed August 17, 1832, while living in Charlotte, Chittenden County, Vermont.  He died there April 11, 1851.
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He married January 10,1844, at Williston, Chittenden, County, Vermont, Sally Joslin of said place born in October 1786. She was allowed pension on her application executed March 4, 1853, while a resident of Charlotte, Vermont.
There is no further family data on file.
Respectfully,
Commissioner
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30917

(illegible)
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Revy WIDOW, &c.

File No. 5399
Sally Narramore
Wid.
Asa Narramore
Pvt. Rev War

Act Feby 3rd/53 July 27/68
Index: Vol. M, page 78

[Arrangement of 1870]

1924 June 17 Hist. to Myrtle A. Keeler MCS
(see letter filed in case of Jacob Peck W26869)
1926 Sept. 19, hist to Mrs. O. P. Robb  MCS
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April 18, 1853
No 1084
appl. of Sally Narramore widow of Asa
Chittenden Co., Vermont
18432

Act 3d Feby 1853
Admitted $80. per annum commencing 3d February 1853
Rev.

Weston & Noyes
Burlington Vt.


Department of the Interior
Pension Office, Official Business
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(post mark-Burlington Vt. Apr 15)

Free

Loren P. Waldo Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.
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Burlington Vt. Oct 18th 1869

Hon. H. Van Aernam
Comm. of Pensions

Sir,
I transmit herewith the application of Sally Narramore, widow of Asa a revolutionary pensioner under the act of Feb.3 1853 2nd section for increase of pension under the 13th section of the act of July 27, 1868 accompanied by her pension certificated No 731
yours Resp.
Wm. G. Shaw
Atty.
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731
vermont, Burlington
Sally Narramore
widow of Asa who served in the Revolutionary War as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on 3d February 1853
and sent to Weston & Noyes
Burlington Vt.

Recorded on the Roll of Pensioners under act July 28, 1848 page 31 vol. W
1832

168394
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Rockford Ills., July 27, 1926

To the Commissioner
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D. C.

Dear Sir:
Will you kindly give me the military records, as you have the, on the names of the men on the enclosures.
I understand these men served in the Revolutionary War and I am anxious to get what information I can on them.
Thanking you kindly and awaiting your reply at your convenience, I remain
Very truly yours,
Carrie J. Robb
Address: Mrs. O. P. Robb
c/o Emerson Printinghouse  Co

Rockford Ill.

(stamped-U. S. Pension Office L July 28 1926)
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Samuel Narramore 
Born
Died
Married Rachael Paul at Lynn, Mass., 1705
Was a resident of Charleston, Mass. First settled in Boston near line of Lynn. Moved in 1727 to Killington, Conn and lived in that part of town of Thompson. Was a weaver.

Samuel Narramore, son of Samuel and Rachael
Born at Lynn, Mass., Oct. 9 1706
Died
Married Lydia Davis at Boston, Mass. 
Feb.20, 1727
Moved to Killington with his father

(clerk's note on above two-"none at all but too old to have been in Rev")

John Narramore son of Samuel and Lydia
Born at Killington, Conn. May 20, 1735
Died
Married Tabitha Newell at Dudley, Mass.
April 23 1760
Born
Died
Lived at Lanesboro, Mass.
(clerk's note-"none as des")

Asa Narramore, Esq. 
Born April 19, 1761 at
Died
Married Mary Lake Mar. 29, 1790 at
Born Sept. 27, 1770
Died April 1851 age 90 at 
Charlotte, Vt. 
Asa Narramore was a soldier in Revolutionary War and drew a pension for services. Mary Lake was a daughter of Phineas Lake & Elizabeth Stilson
(clerk's note-S5399)

Polly Narramore daughter 
of Asa and Mary 
Born at Charlotte, Vt. Nov. 26, 1793
Died at Charlotte, Vt. Nov. 23, 1868
Married Caleb Miller, Nov. 12, 1811 at
Died Sept. 17, 1853 at Hopkinston, N. Y.

Maryett Miller
daughter of Caleb & Polly
Born at Burlington Vt., Aug. 31, 1828
Died at Florenceville, Ia. April  22, 1895
Married Samuel Kennedy at Hopkinston
N. Y. July 22, 1851
Born at Hopkinston N. Y. April 30, 1827
Died at Scenic S. D. Jan. 27, 1910

Ellen Kennedy daughter of Samuel
& Maryett
Born at Odgensburg, N.Y. Dec. 17, 1854.
Died at Los Angeles, Cal. Dec. 24, 1923.
Married George Arneson at Harmony, Ia. 
May 27, 1873
Born at Whitewater, Wisc. May 28, 1853
Died at Los Angeles Cal. Feb.28, 1922

Carrie Arneson daughter of
George and Ellen
Born near Sioux Falls, S. D. Mar. 17, 1880
Living
Married Oscar P. Robb at  Sioux Falls, S. Dak.
June 22, 1903
Born at Gainesville Tex., Sept. 1876
Living

(clerk's note-"This must be kept. only paper on which soldiers-Please return)

(stamped-U. S. Pension Office L July 28 1926)
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Soldier in Revolutionary War
Jacob Peck Born at Harwinton Conn.
Died at Cornwall Vt., Feb. 11, 1838
Married Elizabeth Gibbs, Jan. 18, 1781 at
Born Dec. 1760 at
Died April 29,1843 at Cornwall Vt.
Jacob Peck was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and drew a pension for services.
W.26869

Polly Peck-Carried mail horseback during 
Revolutionary War
Born at Cornwall Ve. March 8, 1792
Died by drowning in Lake Michigan 1846
Married Hugh Kennedy
Born 16 miles from Dublin Ireland
Died at Bluffton Ia.

Samuel O. Kennedy
son of Hugh and Polly
Born at Hopkinston N. Y. April 30, 1827
Died Jan. 27, 1910 at Scenic S. Dak.
Married Maryett Miller at Hopkinston N. Y.
July 22, 1951
born at Burlington Vt. August 31, 1828
Died at Florenceville Ia, April 22, 1895

Ellen Kennedy daughter of Samuel and Maryett
Born at Odgensburg, N. Y. Dec. 17, 1854
Died at Los Angeles, Cal. Dec. 24, 1923
Married George Arneson at Harmony, Ia,
May 27, 1873
Born at Whitewater, Wisc. May 28, 1922
Died at Los Angeles Cal. Feb. 28, 1922

Carrie Arneson daughter of George & Ellen
Born near Sioux Falls, S. Dak, March 17, 1880
Living
Married Oscar P. Robb at Sioux Falls, S. Dak, June 22, 1903
Born at Gainesville, Tex. Sept. 26, 1876
Living
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M.C.S.
Rev & 1812 Wars Section

September 19, 1926

Mrs. O. P. Robb
c/o Emerson Branting Lane Co.
Rockford, Ill.

Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 5399, it appears that  Asa Naramore, Naramore or Narramore was born April 19, 1761 at Northampton, Massachusetts.
While a resident of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, he enlisted July 1, 1778, and served five months as a private in Captain Peter Porter's Massachusetts Company. He enlisted on July 18, 1780 in Captain William White's Company, Colonel Brown's Massachusetts regiment, was in the battle at Stone Arabia where he was taken prisoner, carried into Canada and was held until peace was declared in 1783.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 17, 1832, while living in Charlotte, Chittenden County, Vermont. He died there April 11, 1851.
He married January 10,1844, at Williston, Chittenden County, Vermont, Sally Joslin of said place and who was born in October 1786. she was allowed pension on her application executed March 4, 1853, while a resident of Charlotte, Vermont.
There are no further data on file relative to family.
Respectfully,
E. W. Morgan
Acting Commissioner
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Mrs. Narramore

Payment to be made at
Burlington by Wm. J. Odel Esq.
Agent for pay Pensioners, in the
Agency of Vermont
Payable on the 4th September and 4th March

Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 3d, 1853, Page 31, Vol. A.
H. R. Weightman
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Widow's Pension

I certify that in conformity with the 2d section of the act of Feb. 3, 1853, Sally Narramore widow of Asa Narramore who was a private in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum, commencing on the 3d February 1853, and continuing for life unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.
Given at the Department of the Interior,
this twentieth day of June
One thousand eight hundred and fifty three.
R.McClelland, Secretary of the Interior.

Examined and Countersigned
L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
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D. Ewing (crossed out)

Revolutionary War
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Increase
Rutland
731
Biref in the case of Sally Narramore Widow of Asa Private Rev. War
Burlington Chittenden County and State of Vermont
Act 2d Sec. Feby 3, 1853

Claim for New pension Certificate
Proof Exhibited,
A pensioner on the roll of Vermont at $80 per ann. she returns certificate & applies for increase under 1st Sec Act July 27, 1868.
Identity and widowhood properly shown.
Adm. Oct. 26, 1869 pension at $96. per ann. to commence July 27, 1868 deducting payt. since.
W. E. Trask
Examining Clerk.

Name and residence of Agent
Wm. G. Shaw, Burlington
Chittenden Co., Vermont

(illegible)
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Narramore
Page 44

Brief in the case of Sally Narramore, widow of Asa Narramore, Chittenden County and State of Vermont
act 3d February 1853

Claim, ("original") (or for increased-crossed out)
Proof exhibited, (if original)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband of the claimant was a pensioner under the act of June 7, 1832.
Marriage proved by certified copy of town Records.
(If for increase)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
R. Geddes
Examining Clerk

Mass. 
Weston & Noyes, Burlington Vermont
Name and address of Agent
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Sally Narramore
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Burlington Vt. april 14, 1853

L.. P. Waldo, Esqr.
Comm. of Pensions

Dear Siur;
We enclose herewith papers for a pension to Mrs. Sally Narramore under the 2d sec. of the act of Feb. 3, 1853.
Please transmit to us the certificate if granted.
Respectfully,
Weston & Noyes

List of papers sent:
Declaration Mch 4, 1853
Affidavit of Mary E. Leavenworth
Affidavit of Odel Leavenworth
Certificate of record of marriage R. Bradley
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Pension Office
June 15, 1853

Sir,
Please state to what time Asa Naromore, a revolutionary pensioner was paid. He was a pensioner as private under the act 7th June 1932 at $80. per annum made payable at the Burlington Agency.
Very respectfully
Your obt. servant
L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions

Died 11th April 1851, paid to his death
F. Burt Auditor

Francis Burt Esq.
Third Auditor
Treasury Department
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18914
Nathan B. Haswell
Burlington, Vermont
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office, May 16th, 1833

I Hereby Certify, that from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Asa Narramore is found a pay roll of Capt. Peter Porter's Company in a detachment of Genl. Fellows Brigade on duly at Albany, having entered service July 1, 1778 where he is allowed four months. (M-4, d-0)
Asa Narramore's name is found on a Pa7-1y Roll of Capt. William White's Company in Col. Brown's Regiment on service at Stone Arabia, State of New York having enlisted July 18 1780 and being discharged Oct. 19, 1780 where he is allowed for service and travel three months and one day. (3-1) 
7-1
Edward D. Bangs, Secy.
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State of Vermont
Chittenden County
(seal with ribbon)

I hereby certify that the papers hereto attached and marked from A to D in the same documents heretofore forwarded to the pension office to substantiate the declaration of Asa Narramore and that since then return from the Pension office the documents marked additional No 1. 2. & 3. have been added.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of Chittenden County court at Burlington this 9th day of July AD, 1833.
Nathan B. Haswell
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additional No. 1
State of Vermont
Chittenden County
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace for Chittenden County Asa Narramore to me know as the same person who made his declaration before the Honorable Chittenden County Court on the 17th day of August, AD 1832, who being duly sworn doth made the following additional declaration-That by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he can not state positively as the length of his service in 1778-that he well recollects that on the 19th day of October 1780 he was in the engagement at Stone Arabia, and it was said to be on the day that the time of the men in his company expired, but is positive he never received a discharge for he was taken a prisoner on that day during the battle and carried to Canada and did not return until the 19th of October 1784. He was carried when a prisoner into the interior of Canada and was not able to return sooner. It is not in his power to prove further documentary proof of his service that what accompanies this declaration.
Asa Narramore (signature)
Sworn and subscribed this 24th day of June AD 18333 and I hereby certify that the above named Asa Narramore is a credible person.
Before me
Nathan B. Haswell Justice Peace
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State of Vermont
Chittenden County
I Nathan B. Haswell Clerk of Chittenden County Court do hereby certify that Nathan B. Haswell Esq. before whom the within declaration was taken, was a Justice of the Peace, duly qualified as and that his name thereto subscribed is his own proper signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 7th day of July AD 1833.
Nathan B. Haswell
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State of Vermont
County of Chittenden SS
On this 15th day of October A.D. 1869 personally appeared before me W. H. Root, Clerk of the city Court of City of Burlington Sally Narramore who being duly sworn according to law makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of Section 13 of an act of Congress relating to pensions approved July 27, 1868; that he person on account of whose death pension was granted was Asa Narramore who was a private in the revolutionary war.
That the pension certificate numbered 731 and bearing date June 20th 1858 is herewith returned; that the undersigned claimant has not remarried since the death of said Asa Narramore; and that she appoints William G. Shaw of Burlington Vermont her attorney to prosecute the above claim and that her residence is at Underhill in the county of Chittenden and State of Vermont and her post  office address is Burlington Vt, Care of Wm. G. Shaw.
Sally Narramore
Attest: Clark W. Reynolds
Hannah Reynolds

Also personally appeared Clark W. Reynolds and Hannah Reynolds both residing in Underhill, County of Chittenden, State of Vermont, persons whim I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit and who being by me duly sworn say that they were present and saw Sally Narramore the claimant sign her name to the foregoing declaration; that they have every reason to believe from the appearance of the applicant and their acquaintance with her that she is the identical person whom she represents herself to be and that they have no interest in the prosecution of this claim.
Clark W. Reynolds
Hannah Reynolds
(over)
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Sworn to and subscribed before me this 15th day of AD 1869 and I hereby certify that the contents of the above declaration and power of attorney were made fully known and explained to the applicant and witnesses before swearing; and that I have no interest direct or indirect in the prosecution of this claim. the words "Sally Narramore" was interlined before signing.
(Seal)
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said City Court of the said City of Burlington
Wm. H. Root clerk of the City Court of the City of Burlington Vt.