Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 18,446, for Daniel Parrish, New York
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SERVICE
New York

Parrish, Daniel
Williams, Ruth
Former widow

NUMBER 
W.18.466

CONTENTS
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10691
New York
Ruth Williams [illegible]
for my
Widow of Daniel Parrish Conn,
who was a pensioner under the Act of ----
and who died on the 4th Feb 1800 of Cayuga in the State of N.Y. who was a Sergt in the Compy. commanded by Captain Townsend of the Regt. commanded by Cl [sic] in the Revolution for 8 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany, at the rate of 40 Dollars 0 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836 and ending 25 June 1840

Certificate of Pension issued the 23rd day of July, 1849 and sent to Hon Wm. T. Jackson Havanna N. York

{Act July 7, 1838.}

Recorded by Th Lumpkin, Clerk,
Book D Vol. 1. Page 533,

Payable to Betsey Roberts & Eldred Parrish.
JV
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4446

Ruth Williams

Act July 4. 1836

Married to Daniel Parish
2nd June 1779 who died 4 Feb. 1800

Now due 1840

Agent A Gould
Auburn N.Y.

Capt. Elijah Townsend
Company of of 8 mo new
Ent 22 Apl 1778
Served to 22nd July 1778
Say 8 months Sergt

8 mo service has been
Admitted to the roll

Act 4th July 1836.
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"Daniel Parrish & Ruth Eldred joined in marriage June second AD Seventeen hundred Seventy nine"

I Geo. P Tallmadge town clerk of the town of Warren Litchfield county Connecticut to certify that the above is a true copy of the record of said town of Warren in relation to the marriage of Daniel Parrish & Ruth Eldred with the exception of the date which is expressed on this record in fair legible figures as follows "June 2 A D 1779" -
I Geo. P Tallmadge above named depose & say that I hold the office of town clerk of the town of Warren in the county of Litchfield & State of Connecticut & that the above is a true extract from the records of said town with the exception above named as certified by me.

[signed]
Geo. P Tallmadge Town Clerk
of said Town of Warren
August 10th 1838
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State of Connecticut
County of Litchfield SS

At Warren August 10th 1838

Personally came before me Geo. P Tallmadge town Clerk of said town of Warren & made oath to the truth of the above certificate by him subscribed
[signed]
George Starr Justice of Peace


I Origin S. Seymour Clerk of the County Court of the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that George Starr Esq of Warren 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 the acknowledgement of Deeds.  And that his commission was dated on the 29th day of May A.D. 1838 and will expire on the 20th day of June, A.D. 1839 & that the above is his genuine signature.

Given under my hand and the Seal of said Court this 10th day of August A.D. 1838.

[signed]
Origin S. Seymour Clerk
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State of New York
Cayuga County ss

On this 5th day of April 1839 personally appeared before me first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Cayuga County aforesaid Ruth Williams a resident of Springport in said County  aged 82 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the Act of Congress passed July 4th 1836 and the Act explanatory of said Act passed March 3 1837
That she was married to Daniel Parish who was a Sargeant in the company of Militia or State troops commanded by Captain Townsend and in the Regiment commanded by Col Hathorn as she believes.  She further says that according to her last recollection she removed with said Daniel Parish from the town of Warren in the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut soon after the second day of June 1779 to the County of Westchester in the State of New York.  That the the said Parish according to her last recollection entered said service soon after said removal and in the same or succeeding year but at what time she can not state particularly.  That he continued to serve one year and was then dismissed and returned home.  That according to her best recollection the said Captains name was Henry Townsend but of this she is not positive
She further states that the said Daniel Parrish enlisted according to
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her best impression, and was stationed on the lines at or near Bedford in the said County of Westchester.

She further states that she knows of no battles in which he was engaged, and that she has no discharge or other documentary evidence of Service
She further declares that she was married to the said Daniel Parish on the Second day of June (1779) Seventeen hundred and Seventy nine at the town of Warren in Litchfield County Connecticut
That her husband the aforesaid Daniel Parish died on the 4th day of February of 1800.  That she was afterwards married to Peter Williams who died on or about the month of December 1827 and that she was a widow on the fourth day of July 1837 and still remains a widow as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.

[signed]
Ruth Williams
X her mark

Sworn to & Subscribed on the day & year above written before

[signed]
J.L. Richardson
first Judge of Cayuga

I certify my opinion that the said Ruth Williams can not attend in open court by reason of extreme old age & bodily infirmity
[signed]
J. L. Richardson
first Judge of Cayuga
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New York State
Cayuga County ss

I certify that Joseph L Richardson Esqr was on the date of the foregoing affidavit first Judge of the County Court in and for said County duly qualified, and that the signature above purporting to be his is genuine 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said County Courts and subscribed name this sixth day of April 1839

[signed]
Geo Warren Foster 
Dept Clerk
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State of New York
County of Cayuga ss.

Ransom Tidd of said County whom I certify is a respectable person, after being duly sworn according to law, deposes & says that that he was acquainted with Ruth Williams late of said county an applicant for a pension 
that the said Ruth Williams died in said county on the 25th day of June 1840 (eighteen hundred and forty) as a certain guide of this deponent in stating the exact day of her death, is the following - vis, that this deponent was the undertaker & made her Coffin & that he finds entered upon his book at the time it took place, that the Coffin was made Jjune 26th 1840 that she died the day before, that at her death she left the following named children her surviving, being her only children her surviving & that is of them is over the age of twenty one years, to wit Betsy Roberts of Detroit Michigan and Eldred Parish of Delaware Co N. York.

[signed]
Ransom Tidd

Subscribed and Sworn before me this 14th day of August 1847
[signed]
Thomas Cushman
Justice of the Peace
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March 4, 1937.
N. Y. Green
131 Chestnut Street
Battle Creek, Michigan.

BA-J/ILL
Daniel Parrish
W. 18446
John Parrish
S.O. 14610

[written in pencil] This correspondence belongs in [Points to Daniel Parrish above]

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Daniel Parrish who served from New York and the War of 1812 of John Parrish, his grandson, who is buried in Shiawasee County, Michigan.

The records of Daniel Parrish who served in the Revolutionary War, and John Parrish who served in the War of 1812 are furnished you herein.  It is not shown that the latter was a grandson of Daniel the Revolutionary War soldier.

DANIEL PARRISH-W. 18446.

The data given herein were found in the papers on file in pension claim, W. 18446, based upon service of Daniel Parrish in the Revolutionary War.

Daniel Parrish enlisted April 22, 1778 and served eight months as sergeant in Captain Henry Townsend's company, Colonel John Hathorn's New York regiment;  he served subsequently as private and sergeant in Captains Edmund Baker's and George Lane's companies, Colonels Henry Ludington's and Roswell Hopkins' New York regiments.

The soldier married June 2, 1779, in Warren, Litchfield County, Connecticut, Ruth Eldred;  the names of her parents and the date and place of her birth were not given.  Just after their marriage, they lived in Westchester County, New York.

Daniel Parrish died February 4, 1800.  His widow, Ruth, married Peter Williams, who died sometime in December 1827;  the date of marriage of said Ruth to her second husband was not given.

Ruth Williams, was a resident of Springport, Cayuga County, New
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York, in 1839, aged then eighty-two years.  She died June 25, 1840 in said Cayuga County.

Daniel Parrish and his wife, Beth, had children; the names of the only two surviving children in 1847 were Eldred Parrish of Delaware County, New York, and Betsey [sic] Roberts, of Detroit, Michigan.

The pension which was due Ruth Williams at the time of her death on account of the service of her first husband, Daniel Parrish, in the Revolutionary Was, was allowed the two children, names above.

In 1847, Albert Roberts of Wayne County, Michigan, stated that he was acquainted with Ruth Williams in Cayuga County, New York, in June 1837, that he left that county then for three years, that he returned June 24, 1840, saw her the day before her death, and was present at her funeral.  He did not state any relationship to Betsey Roberts, Ruth's daughter.

------

JOHN PARRISH - S. O. 14610

The data given herein were found in the papers on file under S. O. 14610, based upon service of John Parrish in the War of 1812.

John Parrish enlisted in Hamburg, New York, served one months and twenty-seven days as private in Captain Frederick Richmond's company of New York militia, and was discharged September 24, 1814.  It was stated also that he enlisted in September 1812 and served as private in Captains Benjamin Clough's and Esekiel Cook's companies of New York militia near Buffalo, which service was rendered as substitute for his older brother, Lewis Parrish.

The soldier applied June 2, 1851 for the bounty land which was due on account of his service in the War of 1812.  He was then a resident of Genesee County, New York, aged fifty-five years.  On this application, he was allowed 40 acres of bounty land on warrant # 48001, under the Act of 1850.  He applied April 4, 1855 for additional bounty land

2.
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under the Act of 1855.  On his second application he was allowed 120 acres of land on warrant #18927, Act of 1855.

In 1871, John Parrish resided in Chesaning Township, Saginaw County, Michigan.  His brother, Lewis Parrish, resided then in Wisconsin.

John Parrish married June 26, 1817 in Hamburg, New York, Clara C. Vincent.

There are no further data pertaining to the soldier's family.

If you desire information in regard to the location of the land whish was granted John Parrish on account of his service in the War of 1812, you should address the Commissioner, General Land Office, this city, and furnish that official the numbers of warrants, acreage, and Acts, as given in this letter.

Very truly yours,

A. D. Hiller,
Executive Assistant 
to the Administrator
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In pursuance of a law passed the 27th of April, 1784, entitled " An act for the settlement of the pay of the Levies and Militia, for their service in the late War, and for other purposes therein mentioned," the following certificates have been issued, bearing interest at five per cent per annum, viz:
[chart with no headers]

9 June 1779. |  Daniel Parish  Pt. | 1 | 3 | 6
22 Nov  Do  |     Do             Sergt | 4 | 9 | 0

STATE OF NEW-YORK
Comptroller's Office, Albany, 15th Feby. 1847.

I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No.  [blank]  now remaining in this office, and that the service for which the certificates above named were issued, were performed under the following officers, viz:

First - under Capt. Edmund Barker  in Col. Henry Livingston Regt.

Second  "  " Geo. Lane " " Roswell Hopkins "''
[signed]
Philip Phelps
Dept Compt
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Free
[stamped] FREE

Hon J L Edwards
Comm of Pensions
Washington
DC

[written sideways]

Aug 18, 48.
Ruth Williams
add proof
Arad Joy

[postmarked]
Aug 18 NY
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Ovid N.Y. Augt 22nd '48

Sir

On the 11th Feb & 16th March I forwarded through Hon A. Birdsall M.C proof in the case of Ruth Williams, an applicant from New York under law of 1836.  proof of marriage etc.  having 4 times written to him, receiving no answer, will you please report to me the result of the last proof forwarded.

Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Arad Joy

Hon J L Edwards
Com's of Pensions
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Warren Ct
Dec 29

Jany 3rd

Mr Arad Joy Ovid
Seneca County N.Y.
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Warren Decm 27th 1847

Dear Sir - 
I have at your request examined the Records of the Town and find the Records as follows

Daniel Parrish & Ruth Eldred Joined in Marriage
June 2nd 1779

A true Copy of the Records are Recorded in the Warren Town Records

attest Benjah Mallory, Town Clerk

Warren Town
11- 27-1847

Yours with Respect
B. Mallory

I find also the Records of the Births & Deaths of the Children

I should have wrote you as you requested while you was in New York had I received your letter in time
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Washington at Feb 6th 1848

Dr Sir, I find from my Court Register that Mr B Mallory is Town Clerk of Warren but I do not know him nor his hand writing & therefore I can not sign the certificate you desire

Yours 
[signed]
T. Smith
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In pursuance of a law passed the 27th of April, 1784, entitled " An act for the settlement of the pay of the Levies and Militia, for their service in the late War, and for other purposes therein mentioned," the following certificates have been issued, bearing interest a five per cent per annum viz:

[chart with no headers]
22n Nov. 1779 | Daniel Parish     Sergt | 4 | 9 | 0

STATE OF NEW-YORK,
Comptroller's Office, Albany, 23rd Sept  1847.

I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No. 3.  now remaining in this office and that the service for which the certificates above named were issued, were performed under the following officers, viz:

First--under Capt.  Geo. Lane   in Col. Roswell Hopkins Reg't.

[signed]
Philip helps
Dep Compt
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Binghamton Aug 30 1848

Hon J. L. Edwards

Sir

Will you have the goodness to update on the case of Ruth Williams at your earliest convenience & much oblige

Yours Truly 
A. Birdsall
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[stamped] FREE

Hon J. L. Edwards 
Com's of Pensions
Washington 
DC

Aug 24 1847
Aov by Mr Ames
Ruth Williams
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Ovid N. Y. Aug't 20 '47

Sir I enclose proof in the case of Ruth Williams mentioned in yours of the 19th April last

Respectfully
Your Ob't Servt

[signed]
Arad Joy



Hon J. L. Edwards
Com's of Pensions
Washington 
DC
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Washington Feb 16th 1848

Hon J. L. Edwards
Com. of Pensions

Sir

I send you enclosed some additional papers i the case of Ruth Williams - late Parish an applicant for a pension.  Your reference to [illegible] upon the case is expected

Truly Yours
[signed]
A. Birdsall
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Hon J L Edwards
Coms of Pensions
Washington
DC

[written sideways]
Oct 8 47
AOV evidence
Ruth Williams
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Ovid  Oct 4th 1847

Sir 

If you judge the service of Daniel Parish named in the within certificate to have been performed by the first husband of Ruth Williams alluded to in yours of the 7th Sept last, I ask if it would not establish her claim to a pension under the law of 1836 since she alledges to have been married prior to Nov '79 which I suppose is in proof before you.  If I am not correct in my suppositions, pardon me, as I wish to be right, & I will not knowingly ask further than is just & proper;  was the Service named performed after the date of the proof of the marriage, & was the service her late husbands

Respectfully
Your Obt SErvt
Arad Joy


Hon J L Edwards
Com's of Pensions
Washington
DC
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Allens Hill Oct 18th 1848

Sir

Ruth Williams of New York an applicant for a pension under law of 1836 formerly the widow of Daniel Parish I am informed that the proof of marriage 2nd June 1779 has been made and that the Comptrollers certificate of service of a pension of the name of Daniel Parish Nov 1779 has been furnished.  I ask if you admit the service for '79 of Daniel Parish to have been performed by her first husband, if so does it not bring her case under the law of 1836.  I further ask what service you admit of her said first husband.

Yours truly
[signed]
Robt L. Rose

Hon J L Edwards
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Rev
WIDOW, &c.

File No. 18446
Ruth Williams
Widow of 
Daniel Parrish
Sergt. Rev. War

Act:  July 7th 1838

Index: -Vol. M, Page 344

{Arrangement of 1870.}
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Battle Creek, Michigan
Feb 5, 1937

A.D.Hiller
Pension Dept
Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C.

[written in pencil]  Only Daniel

Dear Sir;-

May I please have the pension record of Daniel Parrish, who was an orderly sergeant in Capt Geo. Lane's Co, Col. Hopkin's New York Regiment in the Revolutionary War?  Or of his grandson, John Parrish [written pencil pointing to the name] finish 1812[] who was a soldier of the war of 1812.  The latter was buried in Shiawasee County, Michigan.  I would like to know the birthplace of John Parrish particularly.

Thanking you in advance for your kindness.

Yours truly,
[signed]
N. Y. Green
131 Chestnut St.
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State of New York
County of Seneca SS

I James K Richardson the Surrogate of the Said County of Seneca do hereby certify that at a Surrogates Court holden before me at my offices in Waterloo in Said County on the 19th day of August 1847 satisfactory evidence was adduced before the said Surrogate, that Ruth Williams late an applicant for a pension from Cayuga County New York died on the 25th day of June 1840 eighteen hundred and forty, that at her death she left the following named children her surviving, being her only children her surviving and that each of them is over the age of twenty one years, to wit Betsy Roberts of Detroit Michigan, and Eldred Parish of Delaware County New York.

In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand and affixed my official Seal, the day & date above mentioned to wit the 19th day of August 1847

[signed]
J. K. Richardson Surrogate
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State of Michigan
County of Wayne SS

Catharine M Bishop, of said county whom I certify is a highly respectable person, after being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that she was intimately acquainted with Ruth Williams late of Cayuga County New York, an applicant for a pension, that the said Ruth Williams died in said county on the 25th day of June 1840 eighteen hundred and forty, that this deponent is governed in the certainty of the date from the following circumstances, to wit, this deponent at the time of her death resided at Auburn in said county of Cayuga & was in the habit of visiting the said Ruth Williams, hearing of her sickness she visited her on the 24th June 1840 found her very sick, but this deponent was obliged to return to Auburn again the same day, but on the 25th June 1840 again visited the said Ruth Williams, when on her arriving she found that she was dead, this deponent knows the fact of her death having taken place on the 25th June 1840 also from having noted the date of her death at the time it took place & from business that this deponent did at the date of her death which business records bear date & were made at that time dated 25th June 1840 & she also knows the fact of the date, from her brother who had been three years absent returning on the day before her death which she finds was on the 24th June 1840 - that at the death of the said Ruth Williams she left two children her surviving being her only children her surviving & that each of them is over the age of twenty one years, to wit, Betsy Roberts of Detroit Michigan and Eldred Parish of Delaware

[signed]
Catharine M Bishop

Subscribed & sworn before me this 9th day of August 1847

[signed]
George Clancy
Justice of the Peace
Wayne County 
Michigan
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State of Michigan
County of Wayne  ss
Albert Roberts of said county, whom I certify is a highly respectable person, after being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he was intimately acquainted with Ruth Williams, late of Cayuga County & an applicant for a pension, that the said Ruth Williams died in said county on the 25th day of June 1840 eighteen hundred and forty, the reasons upon which the deponent bases his certain knowledge of the day of her death is, that this deponent left the said county of Cayuga on the 21 day of June 1837 that he was absent three years, returning on the 24th of June 1840, that he found the said Ruth Williams very sick, & that she died the next day, the 25th day of June 1840, that from dates & memorandum made at that time, this deponent knows that the said Ruth Williams died on the 25th day of June 1840.  this deponent attended her funeral - the said Ruth Williams at the date of her death left the following named children her surviving, being her only children her surviving & that each of them is over the age of twenty one years, to wit Betsy Roberts of Detroit Michigan & Eldred Parish of Delaware County State of New York

[signed]
Albert Roberts

Subscribed and sworn before me this 9th day of August 1847
George Clarey
Justice of the Peace Wayne County Michigan

State of Michigan
County of Wayne

I DeWitt C Holbrook clerk of said County do hereby certify that George Clarey who administered the oaths to the affidavits hereto annexed was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Wayne, duly elected and qualified according to law, and that the signature purporting to be his I verily believe to be true and genuine

Witness my hand the seal of said County aforesaid this 10th day of August AD 1847

D C Holbrook
County Clerk
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[stamped] FREE

Hon J L Edwards
Com's of Pensions
Washington DC

[written sideways]

April 5 1847
Rec'd of 
Ruth Williams
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Ovid N.Y. March 27. '47

Dear Sir

There is to me a mistory [sic] in the copy of the letter of 21 Feby. 1840 which you enclosed to me 19th March instant, relating to the case of Ruth Williams.

I understand your copy to say she applied under the law of 1836.  You seem to admit 8 months service, & I furnished the Comptrollers Certf for 2 months more, if it be correct & her late husband, this would make 10 months, but you go on to say "The claim seems not to be provided for under the act of July 7th 1838"

Her application being under the act of 1836, I do not see how the act of 1838 has any bearing upon her case, thus if her case was under that act, & 10 months service admitted, I do not understand how it appears that the act of 7 July 1838 does not provide for her case - pardon me for respectfully asking an explanation, my head is too thick to see through it

Your Obt Servt
[signed]
Arad Joy

Hon J L Edwards
Comm's of Pensions
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No 4446
Ruth Williams decd
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Allens Hill Nov 10th 1848

Sir,

In reply to yours within, allow me to ask whether you allow the Service embraced in the Comptrollers Certificate of New York June 1779 and Nov. 1779 as having been performed by the Daniel Parish the first husband of Ruth Williams, or do you reject that service.  If you allow the service of Nov. 1779 would not the widow come under the law of 1836.

Yours truly
[signed]
Robt L Rose

Hon J L Edwards
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Pension Office
October 25th 1848

Sir

In answer to your letter of the 18th inst. respecting the case of Ruth Williams, I have the honor to inform you that eight months service of her first husband Daniel Parish commenced on the 22nd April, 1778 and must, therefore, have terminated prior to June 2nd, 1779, the date of their marriage.  I repeat that this claim cannot be admitted under the Act of July 4th, 1836.

I have the honor to be,
Very respectfully, 
Your Obt. Servt.

J. G. Bunt
Commr. of Pensions

Hon. R. L. Rose
Allens Hill
New York
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J. L. Edwards Esq
Commiss of Pensions
Washington

[written sideways]
SEpt 7. 1846

Rec'd
Anthony Caslo &
Ruth Williams
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Pension Agency
Detroit Sept. 1. 1846

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commish of Pension
Sir,
I wrote you some months ago in reference to an application for a pension for Anthony Caslo late of Albany.  I have recently been informed by Caslo that the papers were forwarded by a W. Westerlo of Albany in November last.

The Heirs of Ruth Williams, Widow of Daniel Parish for whom application was made for a Pension in 1839 by Amos Bould Esq of Auburn, New York, desire me to ascertain if the papers were sent and if so what steps they must take to procure the amount of pension.

Parish never drew a pension & his Widow is deceased.

I am Sir respectfully
your obt. Serv't
E. P. Hastings
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Ruth Williams
former wid of Daniel Parish
Pen. law '38 '44 NY
old case of mine from Arad Joy
See if it will go under '36, copy out pretty full
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Amos Gould Esq
Auburn

[written sideways] Mrs Williams
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State of New York
Secretary's Office

Albany January 14. 1839

It appears by the minutes of the Council of appointment of this State in this office that on the 19th of February 1778 Henry Townsend was appointed Captain in the Regiment of Militia in Orange County whereof John Hathorn was Colonel:  died on the 28. of April 1781  Lawrence Townsend was appointed Captain in the Regiment of Militia in the County of Albany whereof Killian Van Rensselaer was Colonel.

[signed]
Arch'd Campbell
Dep Secretary
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Hon J. L. Edwards
Com's of Pensions
Washington
DC

[written sideways]

Feb 25, 1847

[illegible]  case
Ruth Williams
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Ovid N.Y. Feb 19 '47

Sir

I enclose Comptroller of New York Certf 
if you find the Service embraced in it, to correspond with the alledged Service of the fine husband of Ruth Williams of New York, who applied under the law of 1836, will it establish her claim or not, of course, if the service was performed by another person of his name, & not by her first husband, I do not wish it allowed to her, you will be the judge.  Does not the Department allow some 8 months or more service performed in Court by her first husband - will not the Department please give me a full statement of the state of the case, I am informed the widow died 25th June 1840

Respectfully
Your Obt Sevt
[signed]
Arad Joy

Hon J L Edwards
Com's of Pensions
Washington
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Hon A. Birdsall
March 3 '48
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Pension Office
March 3rd, 1848

Sir,

I have the honor to inform you that the Certificate of the Town Clerk of Warren transmitted by you in the case of Ruth Williams and family widow of Daniel Parish is but a  duplicate of one from the same office already on file.

In this case the marriage of Mrs Williams to her first husband in 1779 and his service for 8 months as a Sergeant in 1778 has been duly established.  But as no service [illegible] subsequently to their marriage has been proven the certificate cannot issue to her children under the act of 4 July 1836.

The parties interested have been informed that if they will file a declaration under the act of 7 July 1838, and produce the certificate of a court of record showing the date of Mrs Williams death and give the names and places of Residence of her children now living a Certificate will issue under thus act for the 8 mo service as a sergeant already admitted.

[written sideways]

Hon A. Birdsall
House of Reps
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N. York
Ruth Williams

let. to A. Gould 3. Aug. 1839

" to Hon. C. Morgan 21. Feb. 1860
Let. E. P. Hastings
Sep. 18. 1846.
Let to Arad Joy
March 19 - 1847
Let to Arad Joy Apl 19 '47
to same Sept 7 '47
to Pettg  Oct 28 '47
Act July 1836
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Let. to Hon. A. Birdsall
March 3rd 1848
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No 4446
Ruth Williams

Let to A. Gould, Augt 3. 1839
" Hon C Morgan Feby 21 '40
" Hon E. P. Hastings Sept 18. 46
" Arad Joy March 19 '47
"    do    do    April 19 "
"   Same         Sept 7    "
"       "             Oct 28   "
"   Hon A Birdsall March 3 '48  [struck out]
 
Act 4 July 1836
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Let to Hon R. L. Rose
Oct 25 '48,
Sent to same Nov 17 '48
Letter to Arad Joy Apr 25, 1849
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Ruth Williams of N.Y.
late widow of Daniel Parish - See Cover letter of Nov 19 1848

Please Examine the witness & report this result to me at Hanover Chenango Co NY

W T Jackson 
MC Elect

Hon J L Edwards
Coms Pensions

Havana Glen
16/49
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13902
Ruth Williams
former widow of
Danl Parrish
N.Y.
admitted

Pay't 8 mos   $40
[illegible] 4 March 1836
termination 25 June 1840
Act 7 July '38 [illegible crossed out]
Children Betsy Roberts & Eldred Parrish

Hon W. T. Jackson
[illegible]
Havanna, N.Y.

[written sideways]
Letter May 31. 1849
Page 52

I hereby certify that William C Noble of the town of Franklin Delaware County NY. is a justice of the Peace in said County.  that the within certificate which has been sworn to before & signed by said Noble as a justice of the peace & that I am acquainted with his signature & believe it to be genuine.

[signed]
Thomas D Gould

Letter May 31 1849
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State of New York
Delaware County ss

Eldred Parish whom I certify is a respectable person, after being duly Sworn according to law, deposes and Says that he is a Son of the late Ruth Williams who was an applicant for a pension on account of the Revolutionary Service of Daniel Parish her first husband who was the deponents father, this deponant being one of the children and interested as such in the Pension Office to accept a pension under the law of 7th July 1838, & asks it granted under that law

[signed]
Eldred Parrish

Subscribed and Sworn before me this 28th day of May 1849

[signed]
William S Noble Justice of the peace