Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 22278, for Edward Soper, Vermont
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Service:  Continental (VT)
Soper, Edward    
           Mary

Number: W22278
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Reported  Feby 12 / 49

3811
New York, Albany
Mary Sloper
widow of Edward  who served in the Revolutionary War as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of $ 0 dollars cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1848
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 day of Feby 1849  and sent to  Hon R.H Gillett
H of R

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848  Page 187 Vol 4
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Soper, Edward
Cont. - VT. - W22278

Psalter and Family Record of Freeman Perry (1778 - 1793)
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The Psalms of David in Metre
Newly translated and diligently compared with the original Text and (illegible) translations

More plain [illegible] agreeable to the Text [illegible] heretofore.

Allowed by Authors of the General Assembly of he Kirk of Scotland and appointed to be sung in Congregations and Families

Edinburg
Kincaid
MDCCLX
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Edward Soper and Mary Perry
Married 
August 9th  1793

Boiggs S. Soper  Born Aug 15 1796
[illegible] ard Soper jnr
born [illegible]
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PSALMS W. VI
ed with a
:
of a new
of mere mat in the grand do by
cut on that has set
this
who shall give thanks to the
I wish my gearing way as
Issued for to swim with tears
my coun watered.
by reason of my vexing grist,
was
the
that be mine enemies.
But man depart from me, all
.
any other
when I did mourn and erythe

Unto my replication
the Lord and hearing give
by their own unique
new mayor
When I to him my prayer make,
the Lord will it receive.
for they paint the road.
10 Let all be sham'd and troubled for
horses and say that are in the
that entries are to me
Let them turn back, and suddenly
For the man to set all that love ashamed let them be
or into the righteous man
PSALM VII.
copal
Lord, my God, in thee do I
my confidence repose.
Aboot, as with a shiels.
ture and deliver me from all
my persecuting foes.
PSALM VI.
a bell that the enemy my foul
.
in its rena in while there
O Lord my God, if it be for
out before me
that committed this
R
If it be to that in my hands
merce.
mise that related are
this
ories shall so remembrance have
that was at peace with me
( Yea, even the man that without cause
---
my foe was I did fice )
ning weary as-
Then let the foe por us, and take
my soul, and my hire run
Down to the cart, and let him lay
with a youth have entered.
Lord their
for my fols raging be
has with workers all.
And to the judgment which thou had
commanded, wake for the
To hail th' adembly of thy folk
in the County
late
P
integrity in me
ens,
my we
and that
2 Behold, to win
that
PRAEMShe


,
and he shall bring for
the
.
Upon his own head his valuable
shall be returned home
his oldest dealing it down
on his own pate malcome.
87 according to righteous
the same
of God that is most he
PSALM VIII.
now excellent in all the earth,
bore the party frame.
From th
mouth
rant and from the
moudise strength of
fathoumight a
the evening for rain.and

that he
---
that will go atsis
nature
when the
The number for the proper
That he entered
may all the past seven
And that I may rejoice above
in thy fellerance
house
which thine own
to the moon, and to the State
he
which were
by this ordain'd,
Then lay ┃
What is man, that he
that the
to hand to him to be
none
For thou alline tower has
him han the sweets and
For they are
with glory and with any
was crowned at the head forory

hand-works for man to him
ts.
all under the day
A 22 and brake
Fowl of the air, if of the
and that although the same
New enement is all the
FUALME.
Lord, our Lord, be my name:
,
PSALM IX.
at the pale with all my
when a .

The whole
he
The weather the robbed her,
the wicked over
own or ceremors have
A
2
4
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PALMER, ENKEN.
men.
---
interest in town there is
-
PSALM XII.
he was in his
are the only man
last
.
---
by one all
,
,
God shall out on a little lies,
pray, thus
no contest see
mour
-
27
the
from such as his duty.
The word of God reward
-
,
pathy.
that there
was the wicked, when
was in place.
wich as
PSALM XII.
,
Home
how long shall it be, shar on
last
named the
a
that beset
O Lord my God consider well.
no one cannibal, let us as
,
ESALE IN
But I have all my consists
---
treaty,
prive in
his home
FAALM XIV.
in the
PEAUME XV XVI XVI.
a mass for the Lesson for our feet at the Hon.
and loy shall be one
in the
And there is none that both took
10 Because my soul in grave to deal
,
only one
4
at least
---
There fear'd they much; for God is before thy race, at my right hand
the whole one of the ┃
You shame the counter of the poor
are plenfurt evermore.
OCCAUS GORE TUR.
PSALM XVII.
Letinerans from Lies come:
when both the Lord shall be
Ore, hear the right, and mayor
he
PSALM XV.
.
Ithin thy tabernacle, Lord,
ment for
who shall abide with me?
ably will
The press of mine heart of
The man that women uprightly,
by it, then the
and warmer situate.
And, as he hunters in his heart,
found from
town the empress.
A,
nor to his friend do hurt;
he son not under with stores as manager of the set
Nor yet again be rigour ocks
take us in all remit.
in whose gentlemen were
Hold up my goinge, Lord, to guide
but those that on as far
He honoureth and changed not,
to test my footment may not slide
thou O H Burt he wear.
His coin but not to usury,
,
nor take reward will he
Against the pillors. Who doth thus,
.
shall never moved be
Thy wondrous loving kindness show.
PSALM XVI.
Ord, keep out for I tru in thee.
he
that up again them since.
Aan'apels of the eye the best
my goodness doth not reses:
To teller,
,
where her plate.
one round, as guily forto
them
of their drink-ofariage of Hood
er together outgoing
I who off in make
down being set their eye.
Yea, sinner I they very names
a man in
Jane
the rest of
or in part, which lurking
in secret pistenmay-
13 Are the pay of
,
the man when the work there,
From men under my hand,
,
from wordly made me five
which only in this reignt life
,
.
their part and portion have
whose bery will my real and
Before me on the Laws
they may even have
this
intent to the
they to their
634
of
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PSALE IVEE
,
PSALM XVII.
They me prevented in the day
The will lore, O Lord, my trength.
Mary
stay was
ton, where they
,
my salvation.
he may sell lance wrosent.
to Accordes to my righteous
upon the Lord, who worthy to
,
.
ine before him was my heart
in my office of God.
And at
,
from mine duty.
At my righteousness the Lord
completed.
has
were
us from his sorily came a smoke.
and from his mouth there came
ture, and rose by it
the countenance
those whose looks are high.
28 The Lord will fight my candle to
that it shall the further
under his fist attend.
The hat my God will to make
And he upon a cherub rode.
to be light. Great
By thee through troops of men
A.
or tent,
over-sens a wall.
:
3 And as the brightness of that late
When
or Lord
was
under the
.
,
many
to be his protest arose,take

bo-
,
years as
,
-
That I go farely, as any fou⌨
the
,
The
---
PSALMSER, NEIXI.
ment for
27
streets
That the witness
for them that here the time.
Yea, they did cry unto the Lord,
who at his resiall
a
ton.
before the war that fles:
from all
And it came out as it
and to not offer them to have
Dominion over me
upon the fire that is
Thou meete free from people's
and heathen's hear the farm
The words which from my
people whom I have not known,
the thoughts that from my heart
At a time
Accept, O Lord, for in my
to me they half.
and my Redeemer art.
as Strangers for fear shall fade away,
PSALM XX.
Khoven hear once in the day
my death
was rubish both in
that the
yea, mother lines he
the
Let mythis


,
is our duty well
and his seed without end.
5 Now know I, Gothic king the
he from his holy her's
PEALM XIX.
will hear him, with the first
To
=
We gift, and upright hand, when they
in them he let the fall a tent
who bridegroom the form goes
PSALN XXI.
From her as one man down,
T .

The hall bestowed upon him
a
W
see all
he
For their
The Lord command is pure, and doth
light in the eye impart.
-
Unfeated is the fear of God,
in for a length of days, was as
and sent for ever
,
In that fatuation wrought by the
Hour
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from the women
from my mother's hall. Lord
and use art thou.
BARKER
E
more
33 Their months they open'd wide on
he
or for the
all as a
the
he
the right hand shall find out those
All my bow, in the way
of her that her
mediaborn
on the mairies make
15 my strength in the speeches or
in the
my tongue it cheerful
me to the
of Grath that brought me hall.
to me about
the wicked, that the meet
.
Now there shall make men
I all my bones may well they to
upon his loom and care.
,
with the
my earlier set same
wife alime.
21 Out of the crime lines most
PSALM XXIX.
to settle a fire
of unisons
.
27
late of
my work that son are
they
ther the
I declare
of the
rate of the Lord, who to his
thou that
has been
, at the
face, but heard
when the
A.
they were not put to the
But for me, a worm am,
that thehe


never
27 All men of the remember
A halls
This man was that hethe


the said
he
,
the
29 Earth's fat oner eat, and work
---
this
10 And I was can upon my este.
what
tal death
,
21 They
REAL MEN KEY, INY.
he
PALM X
PALM XXIII.
for some
T
this
tant
the quarter by
.
3
And that the
the
as for his own name. The
For those that do
Yes, though I walk in death's dark
yet will not rivals,
or thou art with me, and thy ros
the day
expecting to attend.
and half me cornfort Will.
may table thou hat rurallies,
6 Thy under mercies, Lord,
lament,
pay them to remember
and my top overhows.
the
Gonne and mercy all my time
Motion
for more
he
say eating place shall be.
PSALM XXIV.
.
T
There will
and in my post by all.
10 The whole paint of me Lord
are true and
.
Now for mine own name
Lord, the street.
Who in the man as shall spread
to place
a mine ininity
4 Whose hands are class, whose heart
.
13 Ela foul as well as
He from 'Buerant shall receive
he
.
.
he
5 Mine eyes upon the Land
he
the feet out of that
so that he the Kies
in the
E .

East fame Lord, that great is
27 My heart a princess's
You soon
my sale.
at the
and all my rain or
because they may or
the same is
.
200 do thou here my soul.
colonel
the King of
and
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FALLS EXVE, XXVI.
so do thou hoes a foch,
as o let integrity was truth
that
of the
To
PSALM EXVI.
Lord, for I have all
2
that the end
Anames let them be or
amine may, at same prove
That they
,
thy wall paths I have trode.
of my life that God
with palaevole I have not the
this
Date
to fir with saith I thun-
a man in insolence, or
house?
to to thine holy alley 20
and compass will I
That I, with voice of thanksgiving
mer mouth and estate
And tell of all thy mighty works
.
in was that they should go
Lord, I have loved will
Tasmack as lowly he will gutes
-
.
with finners gather of my souls
to whose hand muthievous plate
But as for me, I will will on
in mine integrity
the
Do mow refrem the, and, O Lord,
as merciful to see
M
within the congregations
the Eternal I will bless.
,
PSALM XXVII. Then,
Lord may light and the
who shall make me may of
nearest to the Lord, of whomthen

dead?
When as mine enemies and food,
not wished to all
-
Against me thrust in his stamp,
my heart be fearless to
Though war opin as mine, I will
,
and will seek the
,
al
and all my has forgive-
That I the history of the Lord
thou mine enemies,
this
house they many are
many
.
-
DEATHS IN THE INT.
They had
And now, on the estate
of his assisted he
How
---
Lord, give ear unto my faith
way to the
for evermore since
PSALM XXIX.
the face.
my
G
ter unto the hall enter
-
.
the
---
who has
The Lord's voice of the water at
an helper been to me
.
leave me not fail
of the
time in the way
of sterious many
The vote of the tenthor

it
said me riven are, as both
a breath out truck
that, that the
mountain sirion.
the
are afore
the heart, yea, to those
day upon the Lord.
PSALM XIVINT.
or other
brewerne, O Lord, my roth,
hold not my niece to me,
27
what to pit tokens
tence beof
my humble pray"
with
when unto thee:
PALEXXI.
.
of
within men draw me not swayhe

And, as
is to be
,
not belie, at the
the sons of thesewas

, at a moment this week
late of
Worley
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O children, hither do ye come,
unto me give ear
in to teach to underland
now ye the Lord should rear-
,
.
Depart from the good, took posse
tages; also
The month unto the Lord,
late
that are in heart contrite
The robin that affic the lue
in the
That the use of them
at in all the within days laid waste
none parish that sins true.
PSALM XXXV, and fight
ples Lord, with others,
hold,
mine els to be
has also out the fear, and to
same as on the way,
Tennessee, and had
to confines brought
staff
A.
won seran over to their way,
, without cause, have they forme
army thus disposi-
Set in size him unawares,
SALE.
any but is God shall pay and sad
,
that free from him
The
that polls and sold his wrong
In Faise witnesses rose to my charge
et al
me ill for good repaid.
for me when they were of
My humane comes to my gray
into my before tired.
.
that mournain for his mother.
5 But in my mounte iney rejoic'd,
gathering themselves together;
yea, sheds wherever the
the most pains me gather:
I knew it not, they ate me tear,
hypocrites at
they gath'd their feet at me.
27 New sons, Lard, lock's thou on
derutons they intend from those
Rescue my toil, rivet lions pound
my caring to defend.
at I will give thanks to thee, O Lord,
30 Let not my wrongful enemies
house
let them wink with the eye.
10 For peace they do not speak at all:
in the last
that meek and quiet are
at Win mourns for wide they gain
, aunt
commence
a ser us thyself, wake, that thou
judgment to me afford may
that
my God, thou me Jules
And let them not destroy me
will
Ann, we would have if the
TEE
a sham'd and confounded be they all
that at my hat are at
.
Let them that for my righteous
be glad, tout, and not a
To lay, the Lord be manufy,
PEARMS REEVE, HERVIS
that shall once he
---
As a
---
wall or his heart
PSALM XXXVI.
wishes man's transition
as my heart in art
innot

those that at the
wore on his arrested
the earth shall
,
ture.
10 For ye a little while, and then
he
,
our it thou that are
-
By whom they are
meet on the pit
They also shall eat themselves
T
in incessant peace.
in the wild state and theand

at him where his teeth, and
The far his
up in all grew to lay
The property, and to mass
They with the latest of my house
men of an upright wayter
of the same
29 But my own food, which he
of the the fountain pare
area.
he
and
the part
As a
in the
of
.
There are they, have
the
---
to our wicked men, and loss of God,
PSALM KEKVII.
or roll of the
,
lustyin

the cotton
wherein the sight out merry showe,
and gives his own away.
of ┃
the
Another by the loss
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PSALM MIXTET, THIS
O my heart so great inertially.
men do last and that that hearers see,
who men not opens was
Ranen ports, and behold
 For I hate me, on the should
 For I fear to have my grief
Fore man, says
 And that for good that render ill,
PSALM XXXVII.
use of my cares, that means
may have in the on the silent
when with refuse thou doth 
Therefore the bulge is in mine host
the time
with my father all
reference me that I may rent
shall be
rent a part
and hams, that with my
For a reward of this their final
has here no longer remain of
PSALM XL.
Then waited for the Lord my God
any be at length to the late
The Lord be truly to
and yet the Lord
And on the
of macaron
a war-
Thou art my hand and Saviour,
he put a new one in my mouth,
PSALM ILL
Many shall see it, and shall fear
a turn for to lie
 my God, fill many a .
give the train would use
 Nation, or offering
for way?
I have offence
who sat in the area engines
in the time of thy book
all other at which he Date
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ALMS ELN XLIX.
Even when by mass. Where
tidally to me.
May et al
her, and mail not
Value of
was that with said he
who ate my breathe his fees
For yet how I shall him praise,
10 But, Lord, be merciful to me,
equate
PSALM
Use me, O God, and plead my
again the' ungodly nation:
From the unjust and greedy man,
triumphs not over me.
of my free
But us for me, thou me upholder's
by countenance
more continually.
hereof
30 And thy right forth, and thy truth
From age to age eternally
the hymn,
Amess yes, and meser
's where thy wellings be-
PSALM XLI.
will are
thy name to pass
And way, with vexing thought, or
good cause I yet shall have
or have in these meet
He of my countenance is the health,
my God that the love.
Waite worn me continually.
PSALM XLIV.
God, we with other have heard.
who is thine upon failure
Thy hand did drive the heathen out,
in the late God's hour I went, an
in them there.
to wear thou, my full
For nettner for their food the land,
more their arm the five
the right hand, are countenance
The army into Jacob Loe,
My God, my foul cat down in me:
amine will
Through the
ther to spend we fund.
he
we, through my name, shall tread down
nation again to have
up both call
For in my home, I shall not true,
new shall sue for thee.
from the wave,
 unjust yet the Lord
and ever praise thy name.
by when I live. I pray
But now we are cast off by thee,
and as thou suffer
10 Thou make a hop the supt the
age of
flat-based to turn back
The is a word within my house. And they who have us from
your spoils away the
And it shall be
of Egypt
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Scripture
As Epish, Mall End and P.
A
As a
in the same hat. An outer or Corn at
A Hand's Bressin, Ices,
A Span, 9 Maches.
Page.
A Foot, a man.
Cubit, and in all
Master of Ligath.
An holy Corbit, Tier.
A Lee. May a Phar.
The Klan's Cubitant and was a
the
,
.
A Pace, &c.
al
A Furions, 125 pass.
A Minture or Chornin,
A Mile, Pa.
And all day.
A Sabbath-day's Journey, 600 parse.
Wigan
,
An Omer, and what
Darers,
A Pound, 12.
A feature of the Latin and A. Tait,
A Mule's Nerves, the
ATABLE of Money.
Mire, Perry C.
Ever
A later or maker of the sand
A Cunerans of Farmington
Mares.
A Male or Foust, L.
An Affry of Fine Arts of
of
Gas Colin
Waif-pay-
Asahel of God,
A Drachm or Feny, mason, Darius, or Brown.
L. C. C.
2
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table of Psalms from the bible
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TABLE of Ole and Conditions of Mrs.
and his benefits
Judgments. their
Inferior to the
weapons of
Hebrew. Descendants the law.
while the
wishes of
Government
two seated the Liberty of the
de Grecian M.
their practice was
Manila, the successors of Yusas
should be saved by their Knowle
taught the Community of Wives.
Roman Powers.
the
Groom
Jews provisions Christ.
of Angels, and
or persons for
mark he maketh bre come down from
leaves on the earth, in the fight of
healed sway of the Hon.
And received them that Joel
on the earth and two
on the earth, by former
autocracies which he has power
of the fight of the beast, saying to
Oregon or out of his mouth.
them that dwell on the earth, that
and the dragon was wroth with
to there was of
and did lie.
and be concern oil, born shall.
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he
the special
TON.
money is
the
the
he
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A
an ain

the
And
,
that
peak,
he
V
of
the
Lamb,
Grent
Willows
, he
into the ┃
he
as
the
the
8
one of the
heard a pole has
FIS full of the wrath of God was
in the
As we walked with
of a
behold, a
the cloud on
in
fille
-
---
as well, is an eleven
of
and
And as to west as our
his will upon the earth are there
fall a noise and porous for upon
nent of
the men which has the work of the
he
Seal, at the which
he became
-
, to an every white
.
chid
,
tent
of the waregister
,
it
has led the
has the blood of
:
:
with
,
ted not
D
And
pecul
out of
A
ped out
the
mouth
or are now
,
FIC
he
FIT.
every word
hall out of heaven, very few spot
the weight of a faint and men
III.
we had the seven in
will
he
near
manyhave


pinihead
-
in
ager
W
A
earth, I
mighty
es of the
Babylon tame
the
rier colourpin

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A
And I
and me
gone,
he may go
at
.
.
F
this
A.
10 And there are ROSE MOST
fallen, and
in street
on he
one in
come and with her
a continue a forthe

rived
,
and that
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the REVELATION.
 power as kings one with here the same time
give their power and Aithen other to lament set off, for the rear
Then shall make war with the
In the merchants of the earth
mortal them of old, as
Manner vein of mother
and of brake and red, and their
after are departed from there and
truth, and the
shall had them no more at all.
3 The savants of the inters,
meant, bearing and willing
of every Pain:
 For in one hour to great riches
has come to nought. And every in matter
 and all the company in this
many a tale by
of a base hour is me made
to move her, thou bear.
ties and prophets, or
the voice of havers,
a day, month, and mourn, and
chose too where
was in his were
And I then sated in
eth unto the and
by me, the meant
And I saw use board, and the
kinds of the farm, and their armies
out of the
throne, May led, Preside our God, all
are as it were the vote
potent run as
he is
Let us be glad and rejoice, and
the word of him that the
tour to
borne, which favored prisoner out of
his mouth, and all the fowls were
the man
herself ready.
and with their firm.
And to her was granted, that the
should be arrayed in fine linen, clean
the has linen is the
the portents it, and a great has
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REVELATION, No.
well. This then for the former patted
well as holy is he that he
As he that he wrote the
the found death but no power, but
in the
they shall be tricks of hot, and of
Alan and the beginning
at the end: I will give him the
the basis of the water
And shall go out to deceive the
, which are in the four quarters
shall inherit
thing up I will he is God, and
out them, and believe
mountain, and murderers,
And they went up on the breadth
whoremongers, and sorcerers, and
papers, and all age, shall have their
in form, and compared the thing
out of heaven, and secured
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And the devil that deceived
the seven angels, which had the seven
he was cast into the lake of fire
tion, where the head and
pale fall of the laven las olagues, and
ated with saw, fering, same at her
the prophet are and shall be
whither then the bride, the names
get his throne,
18 And he carried me away in the
Spirit to a great and high mountain,
that fat on it, from whose
and showed me that great city, the
fourth and the heaven the
holy Jerusalem, descending out of
had there was found no piste
er to God.
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I devise story of God: and her
light was his into a stone most preciand
before fine, and the books
to the persons, clear as
ones I and another book was
it is the case of fire and
And a wall west and his
return of the things
had twelve gates, and at the gates
new written in the books, acceive
angels, and was written
dress, which are the names of the
the
twelve tribes of the children of Israel.
in the
┃ On the ear, three gates on
ing north, three games on the south.
three gates; and on the west, three
14 And the wall of the city and
twelve mentations, and in them the
names of the twelve apostles of the
whatever was not found
And be that talked with me
and the notes thereon, and the
 Behold, I come quickly: he
that keepeth the sayings of the
these things, and
, when I had heard
And the twelve 
praris; every great
gate was of one Pea
; and the tract of the city is
ed me these things
pure gold, as it were we apparent girl.
The faith as unto me, few
at and I saw was temple therein
mott for a man to harvest
for the Lord God Almighty, and the
am, are the temple
of them who are laying at
23 And the city had no need of
book: worthis Gos.
neither
for the glory of one
10 And he saith unto me, seal of
gate it, and the
Lamb is the light
hereof.
It is that is unjust, for him be-
14 And the nations of them which
are lived shall walk in the light of a
law will and he which in nuthy, it
him be sity will and neat is faband
the stage of the earth to bring
their glory and honour into
trots, let him be righteous will and
that is holy, let him be holy fall.
25 And the gates of it shall not be
and behold, I come quickly and
that at all by day: for there shall
word it with me, to give way
they shall bring the store
fering as his work all
in Alpha and Omega, the beand
honour of the nanous rate it.
and the end, the first and the
27 And there shall in no will enter
into it any thing that denieth,
they that to his comneither
hard worketh some
nation, or mature a me: but they ┃
which are written in the Lambs book
egates into the city.
without a case and for-
CHAP XXII.
whoremongers, and pur-
The river of the manner of ufr &
relative, and whatever
And he shewed me a pure river of
water of fire, clear as chrystal,
mine
proceeding out of the throne of God,
and of the Latis
the most of the feet of it
and of either any of the river,
the
are the use of it when I
event of
and the bride
of him that he
her wait every month; and the leaves
of the was here for the beating of
And there shall be no more cure.
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has a
the
hull
And there shall be no meat theremen
shall to
,
them light; and they that
And I said unto me
will
his right to the
and the mass which
The End of the
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Freeman Perry
His book given to him by his father Joseph Perry
Who deceased (sic) this life the 21 day of may and in his 36 year of his age 1778
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows"

State of New York
St. Lawrence County

On this fourth day of January 1840 personally appeared before  the Horace Allen on the Judges of the Court of Common Please in and for said county Mary Soper a resident of Parishville in said county of St. Lawrence aged seventy five years on the eighth  day of October 1839 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 made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows"    That she is the widow of Edward Soper who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, at first as a private and afterwords as she believes as a Sergeant that he enlisted as she always understood in Danby or Manchester in the State of Vermont at an early period in the war in 1776 as she believes in a regiment commanded by Col. Seth Warner and in Capt. Gideon Brownson Company and Served o six or seven years until he close of the war.  That he performed considerable service at Fort George and in that vicinity and was in the battle of Bennington & Saratoga and at the taking of General Burgoynne and was
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discharged at Fort Edward in th eyear 1783, that she does not remember the names of any other officers under which he served nor any other particulars of said Edwards service in the war than she had above related which she knew principally from hear say from the said Edward.  She has no documentary evidence of his said service, and believes the discharge which he received, if he received one, must have been lost many years ago.  She has been able to procure the annexed affidavits of Nathaniel Beeman, Lorin Lorkin and Christiana Lorkin in relation to his said services and does not know of any other persons whose affidavits she can obtain which will be of service to her.
She further declares that she was married to the said Edward Soper on the 9th day of August in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety three. that her husband, the aforesaid, Edward Sloper, died on the 1st day of June 1813. that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January 1794 viz: at the time above stated.  She further saith that she was born October 8 1764 at the Great Nine Partners in Dutchess County in the state of New York that she went with her father to New York to live when she was about nine months old and after living there a few years, he would
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to the Nine Partners and subsequently moved to Massachusetts and there dies. after his death her mother & family came back to the Nine Partners and lived with her uncle Jeremiah Sherman, a brother of this deponent father whose name was Job Sherman.  She was 17 years old when she returned from Massachusetts with her mother. She afterwards lived with her mother, brother, Prinias Brigg, on Quaker Hill in Dutchess County.  The said Edward Soper was son of this deponents mothers sister who died in Danby, VT and the said Edward was at the request of his mother brought down to the deponents mother when he was 3 or 4 years old to be taken care of by her and he lived in her family with this deponent until he was about 14 years old when he went to live with his Uncle Henry Briggs to learn the shoemakers trade and he went with his said uncle soon after to Danby VT where he enlisted into the army and after a long period of service and being honorably discharged as  above stated, he cane down to Quaker Hill and lived there one or two years and was married to one [Ludanna Harland] and would back to Danby VT.  This deponent afterwards married one Freeman Perry at the Nine Partners and by him had two children Eunice Perry and James Perry.   That her said husband Freeman Perry was killed by the fall of a tree in the town
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of Bush Kill Delaware County NY where they then lived and she afterward went back down to live with her uncle on Quaker Hill. and in the month of February 1793 the said Edward Sloper came down from Vermont to see her and she then learnt that he had previously lost his wife.  Having had by her five children whose names and ages are contained on one of the leaves taken from and account book and hereto annexed.  She then went up with the said Edward to Stephentown in the County of Rensselaer to keep house for him and believes five or six months months afterwards, being one year and ten months after the death of her husband, and on the ninth day of August 1793 she and the said Edward Sloper were married by one John Stower Esq, a Justice of the Peace in the said town of Stephentown. Soon after being married they removed into the town of New Canaan in the county of Columbia and there became acquainted with Daniel Lake and his wife Sally whose affidavits are hereunto annexed.   They lived in the neighborhood on the said Daniel Lake and Sally as stated [ilegible] in their affidavit and the said Edward Sloper moved into the town of Charlotte in the county of Chittenden and state of Vermont and loved there within a short distance of the said Lake as stated also in their affidavits.  After residing about three years in Charlotte the said Edward and the deponent and family removed to the town of Peru on the opposite side of Lake Champlain in the state of New York where they lived until
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until the first day of June 1813 when the said Edward died. The said declarant resided there afterwards until 1823 or 1824 when she came to Parishville aforesaid to live with her said son Briggs S when she has ever since lived with him.   This deponent  has obtained the certificate of the Town Clerk of Stephentown Renssalaer County when she was married that there is no evidence of her marriage on record in the Town Clerks office and she is not able to procure the affidavit of any person who attended the wedding as she and the said Edward went to the house of the said Justice and ever married them and she believe no person is living except herself who was present  on that occasion. She has obtained the affidavits of Daniel Lake and Sally his wife hereunto annexed showing that in the year 1793 they were acquainted with this deponent and the said Edward them living together as husband and wife at New Canaan and also the affidavits of Timothy Reed , Lorin Lorkin and Chirstiana Lorkin.  She has procured and hereunto has annexed. She further saith that as early as when she & the said Edward resided at New Canaan previous to the year 1802 the said Edward wrote down in their family bible a record of their ages and names and also of the ages  and names of all their children as well as those of the said Edward and his first wife as those of him and this deponent and also the names and
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ages of the children of this deponent and her first husband.  the said Perry she further saith that the Bible containing such record was and by the e children at school for a long time and was finally destroyed, but that before it was destroyed the whole of the record therein contained as aforesaid was copied into an old account book which the said Edward formerly kept and two leaves containing them are are cut out from the said account book and are hereunto annexed and forwarded to the Pension Department. That the [illeg] record has been kept by by this deponent ever since it was first [illegible] by the said Edward at New Canaan and it is all the record she has of her age and of the ages of her children that she has no record of her marriage to the said Edward [illeg] having entered that with the other records. She further saith that she has ever remained a widow since the death of the said Edward.

This deponent further saith that she always understood and believed that her said husband discharge was burnt up in his father's house where he was living in Manchester VT, in a year or two after the war and that his father and brother had also been soldiers  and their discharges were also burnt as well as Land certificates for Bounty Land which all three of them had were also burnt up.

Mary Soper (X) Her Mark

Subscribed and Sworn to this 4th day of January 1840 before me Horace Allen First Judge of St. Lawrence County Courts
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A record of Edward Soper & his family ages the months and year when they were born

Edward Soper was born March the tenth  10 1762
Susannah his wife B April the twelfth 12..1766
Deborah Soper Born September the sixth - 1786
Hazelton Sooper Born September the 23 - 1788
Orra Soper Born July 27, 1790
Olla Born July the 27 1790
Eunice August 24 1792
Hazelton Soper died Thursday the 13th Day of October AD 1803
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Susanna Soper Died Sunday the 15th Day of November in the year 1792.
Mary Soper Born October the eight day 8 - 1764
Briggs Soper Born May 15th 1796
Edward Soper Junior Born June the 8th day 1799
Eunice Perry Born March the 19 day 1788
James Perry Born March the 19 Day  1792
Edward Soper deceased this life in the morning of the 1 day of June in the year of our lord 1813
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117 {illegible] account
August  8 1806
Andrew Town 
to weaving 7&1/4 yd of Chack at / 10 pr yd 0.60
and 9&3/4 yd at / 9 pr yd 0.73


August 6  Nicholas Barker Sr
to weaving 1 [illeg] yd of cloth
at / 10 pr yd---0.15-0

20 John Laine [illeg] to
weaving [illegible] yd of striped at [illegible]   0:2:6
and 91/2 yd plain at / o   0:64

Sept 6
Andrew Town to weaving 6 yd of cloth at / ----0.5.6
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I certify that said Mary Soper resides 15 miles from the place of holding the courts in said county and from her age and infirmity I claim it to be imprudent for her to attend court personally to take her declaration in open court.

State of New York
St. Lawrence County
Horace Allen [illegible] Judge of St. Lawrence County Courts

Briggs S Soper of Parishville in said county being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he has heard the foregoing declaration of Mary Soper read that he is son of Edward Soper therein named and the said Mary as he always understood and believes.  that he is aged forty three years on the 15th day of May 1839.  That he has always lived with his said mother  except part of a year when he moved from Peru to Parishville before his said mother came then to live with him and that he always lived with his said father until he died.  That he has heard his said father and other persons talk a  great deal about his said fathers services in the revolutionary war. and he believes that parts stated in his said mothers declaration are true as well. What related to his said fathers services in the war as what relates to the memory and family history of his said father and mother.
He further saith that the record contained on the two leaves of an old account book hereunto annexed is in the handwriting of his said father except the last entry on one leaf that of his said fathers death which is in the handwriting of this deponent.  He saith that said record is a true record of his fathers and mothers ages and also of their
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child as he always understood & believed. and he always understood that his said father & mother were married two years and between nine and ten months before he was born. He has heard both his father and mother state that fact a great many times and many years ago. and he also understood the same fact how them in relation to their said marriage that are set.  Saith by his said mother in her said declaration and he believes them to be true that ever since his said father and mother lived together as husband and wife until his father died and he believes they were lawfully married as stated in the said declaration.
   Briggs S Soper
Sworn this 4th day of January 1840 before me Benjamin G Baldwin, Justice Peace
I certify that the above named Briggs S Soper is well known to me to be  a person of respectable character and of good conduct for truth and veracity.
B.G. Baldwin, J.Peace
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he is acquainted with Mary Soper of Parishville in said county, widow of Edward Soper deceased. hat he first became acquainted with the said Edward and Mary at the town of Charlotte in the county of Chittenden in the state of Vermont about the month of January or February 1802 at about which time they removed from New Canaan in the state into said town of Charlotte and occupied a farm belonging to this deponent. That this deponent took a daughter of said Edward by his first wife to [illegible] up. and that he was always after that time well acquainted with the said Edward until the time of his death and with the said Mary unto the present time  that the said Mary now resides with her son Briggs S Soper in Parishville aforesaid.  That ever after the first acquaintance of this deponent with the said Edward & Mary they passed and were reputed and generally believed in the community where they resided to be
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husband and wife lawfully married. the said Mary being his second wife and having had two children Briggs S Soper and Edward Soper by him as such husband when this deponent first knew them  that the said Edward & Mary were reputed as respectable persons and this deponent have no doubts that they were lawfully married at the time stated by said Mary in her declarationfor her pension and this deponent [illegible] saith not - Timothy Read

Sworn this 1st day of February 1840 before me Benjamin G. Baldwin
Justice Peace

I am well acquainted with the above named Timothy Read and beleive him to be a credible person.  B G Baldwin, JP

Stat of New York
St Lawrence County
Clerks Office
I Alvin G Low Clerk of said county hereby certify that Horace Allen before who the foregoing declaration Mary Soper
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6686  Mary Soper
application for a pension under the act of July 7 1838

BG Baldwin
Postdam  NY 
agent

Hon Jno Fine,   HR
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Sworn and Subscribed to before me this 4th day of [illegible] 1837
Chittenden County Court  [Garrad] Burritt   Justice Peace

I hereby certify that I am formally acquainted with the witnesses names David and Sally Lake and know them to be humans if truth and veracity.
G. Burritt, Justice Peace
Shelburne, Chittenden County, Vermont
[illegible] 1837

State of Vermont
Chittenden County

I William Noble Clerk of Chittenden County Court as hereby certify that Garrad Burritt before who the foregoing deposition of David and Sally Lake were taken and sworn to was and is a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Chittenden duly commissioned & sworn on the first day of December acting under the authority of the State & that his name thereto subscribed is his own genuine & proper signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto se t my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Burlington in said county this 5th day of November 1839.   William Noble
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State of New York
Clnton County

I Smith Mead Clerk of the County of Clinton do hereby certify that Philip B Roberts is a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County duly commissioned and qualified that his commission is dated as the 13th day of March 1837 and that his signature above written is genuine. 

Given under my hand and affixed seal of sid county the 11th day of June 1839.

Smith Mead Clerk
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State of Vermont
Chittenden County
Daniel Lake & Sally Lake his wife of Charlotte in said County being sworn do respectively testify and say that they are acquainted with Mary Soper of Parishville in the County of St. Lawrence and State of New York now widow of Edward Soper deceased. that they both became first acquainted with the said Edward Soper and the said Mary at New Canaan in the County of Columbia in the state of New York in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety three.  that that these deponents were then living in New Canaan and the said Edward and Mary removed into said town from Stephentown in the Fall of the same year 1793. and lived in the neighborhood of the deponents. that the said Edward & Mary came there as husband and wife and lived together as such. the deponents then understood that they had recently been married. that the said Edward had lost a former wife by whom he had several children and the said Mary had lost a former husband by whom she had two children. The deponents became well acquainted with the said Edward and Mary and their family and there was much familiarity between them.. They
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well recollect that their own oldest child, a daughter, Mary, was born on the 14th day of May 1796 and that the next day after, on the 15th of May 1796, the said Edward and Mary had a son Briggs S Soper, who they believe is now living in Parishville aforesaid, and they further say that they resided themselves in New Canaan until the year 1800 when they moved to Charlotte aforesaid where they have ever since resided.  That the said Edward & Mary had another son, Edward Soper before they left New Canaan [illegible] they removed to Charlotte about two years after the deponents did and they resided within 40 or 50 rods of the house of these deponents for the span of about three years during which time there was much familiarity between their families. the said Edward & Mary & family then removed to from Charlotte to the Twon of Peru on the opposite side if Lake Champlain in the State of New York. about thirty miles from the residence of the deponents and lived there until the said Edward died which they believe was in the year 1813. All the while the said Edward lived at Peru the deponents were only more acquainted with his family having frequently seen him and members of his family their house in Charlotte. and the said
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Daniel Lake having been at his house in Peru frequently. and they would further say that during the whole of their acquaintance with the said Edward & Mary Soper they always lived together as husband and wife, were publicly believed to have been lawfully married and their deportment never had any doubt of the fact. and they were always esteemed and respectable and worthy people. the said Edward had several children by a former wife and the said Mary had two children by a former husband one Perry.  as these deponents understood after the death of the said Edward and about the year 1822 as they believe the said Mary moved from Peru to Parishville aforesaid to live with her said Briggs S Soper and has ever since lived with him as they understand  and believe. and the said Daniel saith that he  has once called on the said Mary since she removed to Parishville aforesaid and they have frequently heard of the said Mary is living with the said Briggs S Soper in Parishville and they believe she is still living there as the widow of the said Edward Soper.  They further say that they alwas understood that said Soper was a revolutionary soldier and performed much service in the revolutionary army.
Daniel Lake
Sally Lake X her mark

Shelburne  Nov 4 1839
Luther M Hagan
Garrad Burritt

over to the bottom of the next page for their oaths
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Sworn and subscribed to before me this 4th day of [illegible] 1837
Chittenden County Court  Garrad Burritt, Justice of the Peace

I hereby Certify that I am formally acquainted with the witnesses named Daniel & Sally Lake and know them to be persons of truth and veracity.
G Burritt Justice of the Peace
Shelburne, Chittenden County, State of Vermont 
[illegible]  11 1837

State of Vermont
Chittenden County
I William Noble Clerk of Chittenden County Court do hereby certify that Garrad Burritt he for whom the foregoing deposition of Daniel Lake and Sally Lake were taken & sworn to was & is a Justice of the Peace within 7 for the the county of Chittenden duly Commissioned and sworn on the first day of December acting under the authority of this state and that his name thereto subscribed is his own genuine & proper signature.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Burlington in said county this 5th day of November AD 1839.    William Noble
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State of New York
Clinton County

Christiana Larkins, wife of Loren Larkins of Beekmantown in said county being sworn and deposeth and saith that she is aged seventy three years and that she is acquainted with Mary Soper of the town of Parishville in the count of St. Lawrence and state of New York widow of Edward Soper who died in Peru in said county of Clinton in 1813. She further saith that her mother & the mother of this deponent and father of the said Soper intermarried when the said Soper and this deponent were small children and the said Soper and this deponent then lived together in the family of their parents for several years in Manchester, Vermont

That the said Edward Soper soon after the Revolutionary war broke out enlisted as a soldier and left home and was gone several years and served as a soldier in the war. She could not tell the precise time that he was gone but he was absent in the army as she always understood and believed.  Several years during almost the whole war and served in Col. Seth Warners Regiment in Capt Gideon Bransons Company in said Regiment and recollects well when the said Soper returned home at the close of the war.
Christiana Larkin  X her mark

Subscribed and sworn before me this 3rd June 1839
Philip B Roberts, Justice Peace

I certify that the said Christiana Larkin is to me well known and that she is a respectable person and of sound mind.
Philip B Roberts, Justice Peace
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State of New York
Clinton County

Lorin Larkin of Beekmantown in the said county of Clinton being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is eighty three years of age last September and has been acquainted some time with Mary Soper widow of Edward Soper who died in the year 1813 in Peru in the said county of Clinton. and that he this deponent served as a soldier in the revolutionary war and was acquainted with the said Edward Soper previous to the war and since the termination of the same, and while the war was in operation understood and believes that the said Soper was an enlisted soldier in Col Warners Regiment and served under Capt Gideon Branson in the said regiment for the term of about three years.  This deponent was not personally knowing to the said Sopers enlistment as above but at the time during said war nor since never heard it contradicted.
This deponent recollects a circumstance related to him by the said Soper which was concerning the fact of Capt Gid. Bronson being taken by the Indian which confirms this deponent in the belief of the fact above stated to which Soper told this deponent that on the day that Capt Bronson was taken by the Indians he said Soper was with him but did not go over the Lake with the Capt that day.

Lorin Larkin

Sworn & subscribed before me this 2nd June 1839
Philip B Roberts, Justice Peace

I certify that the said deponent Lorin Larkin is a credible witness and of sound mind.
Philip B Roberts, Just Peace
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Town Clerk cert
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State of New York
Rensselaer County Clerks Office

I, Leland Crandall, Clerk of the County of Renssalaer, do hereby certify, that Nathan Howard Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the annexed deposition was at the time the annexed deposition purports to have been taken one of the Commissioner of Deeds in and for said county; And further, that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of said Nathan Howard and verily believe the above signature to be genuine.  In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County
[illegible] day of April 1839

Crandall, Clerk
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State of New York
Rensselaer County Clerks Office

I, Leland Crandall, Clerk of the County of Renssalaer, do hereby certify, that Nathan Howard Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the annexed deposition was at the time the above deposition purports to have been taken one of the  in and for said county; And further, that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of said Nathan Howard and verily believe the above signature to be genuine. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County
this eighteenth day of April 1839

Leland Crandall, Clerk
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State of New York
Renssalaer County
I, Hosea W Brown, Clerk of the Town of Stephentown of said county do hereby certify that I have made  a search among the books & papers of this office & that there is no record of marriage of Edward Soper to Mary Perry and that there is no record of John Stower Esq in said office  

Hosea W Brown

Sworn and subscribed before me April 16, 1839
Nathan Howard, Comm

The first above certificate was forwarded to me and by me annexed hereto in consequence as a witness om the court by the clerk
-B G Baldwin, Justice Peace
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State of New York
County of Franklin

Be it known that before me Theodous P Roberts Esq a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County personally appeared Nathan Beeman and being sworn in due force of law maketh oath and saith that he was well acquainted with Edward Soper a revolutionary soldier.  This deponent further saith that he was present in the town of Manchester in the State of Vt and saw the said Edward Soper enlist as a private soldier in a company commanded by Capt Gideon Bronson in a regiment commanded by Col Seth Warner. that said enlistment was for three years or during the war. This deponent is knowing personally that the said Edward Soper subsequently received a sergeants warrant and that he served during the war.  This deponent further saith that he was present with the  said Edward Soper and is knowing to his having participated in the battle of Saratoga at the Taking of Burgoyne also in the Battle of Bennington  and Huberton [Hubbardton] - that he frequently  heard the officers  of the regiment speak with the said Edward Soper as a man of true courage and a faithful and obedient soldier - This deponent further saith that he was present at Fort Edward in the State of New York where he saw the said Edward Soper receive an honorable discharge in the year seventeen  hundred and eighty three  - This deponent further saith that after the last mentioned circumstance with the said Edward Soper for a number of years he thinks it might be twenty six years thereafter when this deponent again saw the the said Edward Soper in the Town of Plattsburgh in the county of Clinton, that he there ascertained from the said Edward Soper that he was living in the Town of Peru in the said county of Clinton . This deponent distinctly recollects that they then conversed one whole evening upon the events of the war. This deponent further saith that Soper then told him he had lost his first wife and the then living with his second. This
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deponent further saith that the said Edward Soper enlisted in the regiment and company has heretofore related in seventeen hundred and seventy six he thinks in the winter or early  in the spring of that year.  This deponent further saith that about Twenty six years since he was informed that the said Edward Soper died at Peru aforesaid - This deponent further saith that the late widow of the said Edward Soper was ever reported to be the lawful wife of Edward Soper, that he never heard the fact disputed or called in question - this deponent further saith that in the conversation aluded to in the statement above the said Edward Soper told this deponent he had been married to his second wife about sixteen or seventeen years and further this deponent saith not.
-Nathan Beeman

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 12th day of November 1839 at Chateaugay 
Theodoues P Roberts, Justice of the Peace

State of New York
Franklin County
I Uriah D Meeker Clerk o the County of Franklin do hereby certify that Theodues P Roberts Esq. before whom the above affidavit was taken and whose name is subscribed to the above [illegible] was on the day of the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said county residing therein duly elected and sworn. That I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and verily  believe his signature the said Uriah is genuine.

Given under my hand and this seal of said county the 12th day of November 1839
U.D. Meeker, Clerk
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New York  - 681
Albany Agency
Mary Soper
Widow of Edward Soper who was a private in the line
Inscribed on the roll at the rate of 80 dollars
cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1843

Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of July 1843 and sent to B.G. Baldwin, Potsdam, N York

[Act of March 3, 1843]
Recorded Book A
Vol 1 page 113
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Johnson [illegible]
Soper --

Benijah Warner
Thomas Landow

Edward Soper
William Johnson
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Know all men by these presence that I William Johnson for a consideration here after mentioned; do let or lease out to unto Edward Soper for the term of three years from the date of this lease, the improved part of the Farm I live on except my dwelling House & two log houses the Gardings joining the same, two acres of stalk land that Holaday planted last year with Indian-corn, also do let out unto said Soper my part of the sawmill standing on my farm, my farms I bought of John Tibble my stock of cattle, horses, sheep, Hogs & Fowl, expect one span of horses, one sheep.  Said Johnson keeps one the premises for his own use.  The stock as follows: one span of horses prized at thirty pounds, one mare colt two years old, one horse colt three years old prized at nineteen pounds, one pair of oxen prized at at fourteen pounds, ten milk cows prized at fifty one pound eight shillings, four heifers, one steer & one Bull each two years old prized at twenty three pounds four shillings.  Eleven yearlings, four of them heifers, six steers & one bull prized at Twenty one pounds.  Seven this Spring calves prized at five pounds five shillings, eight Hogs weighing seven hundred, Eighteen old sheep, sixteen ewes  one wether, one ram & seventeen lambs prized at 

Thirteen geese prized at two pounds twelve shillings & twelve Dung hill fowls prized at twelve shillings. And part of my farming tools. Vz  one large chain weighted 21 pounds two ounces, one hammer, one set of harnesses for horses, Three small clevises & bolts  Two yokes well and round for use, one set of drag teeth weighted thirty eight pounds twelve ounces, three large clevis & bolts, one cart, three sled, one good hoe, one good axe, four pitchforks with good rales, five good rakes, one fanning mill with three brass riddles, said mill prized at six pounds. one dog -wedge & ring, one betle with rings, two iron wedges, three mill saw & two files prized at seven pounds twelve shillings & eight pence, one swivel clevis & 15 bolt, one good bush scythe, one grass scythe and rigin, one key, knife, one dung fork, one shovel, one cheese-press, four cheese hoops, two cheese tubs, one cheese sieve, twenty-five earthen milk pans, five wooden milk pans, three milk pails, Nine tons of good hay in my barns. Nine bushels of wheat sowed on eight acres of land last fall.  Fourteen bushels & three pecks of Rye sowed on thirteen acres of land last fall, one bull-plough well ground, one lock 
 share & plough well ground. WT of the [illegible] share forty-four pounds and three quarters to furnish the house which I built this Spring for Soper & his family to live   Said Soper to have fuel for his fire to be cut
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where said Johnson shall direct. Said Soper does fetch onto the premises one breeding mare prized at nineteen pounds, one Cow prized at six pounds, one two years old heifer and calf prized at four pounds ten shillings, one swine weight one hundred & twenty, one plough well & round the [illegible] of the share & twenty, one pounds and a hald, one chain wt two pounds ten ounces, one set of drag teeth wt twenty four pounds six ounces, all the above tools now in the best repair. Said Stock 7 tools prized as wheat at six shilling & [illegible] at four shillings, for each bushel and the Said Edward Soper on his part doth covenant and agree for himself his heirs and his assigns with William Johnson his heirs and his assigns to occupy, maintain, cultivate and improve the Said Johnson Farm Stock, Mill, Tools and all the priviledges in his hands of said Johnson & c. on the following conditions.  
all the work to be done by said Soper according to the best of farming and in good season each year , Said Johnson to keep one span or pair of horses & one sheep to grass 7 hay for his own use the above term    on the premises.  Hay to be cut & secured by said Soper each year. Said Johnson to have the stable he now occupies for his own use. Each of said party keeps two cows for their own product use. Said Johnson to have the use of the other oxen or horses and time to work & use not injuring on said Sopers  Farming Business.  Said Soper is is to make all the butter and cheese deliver Said Johnson one half of all butter and cheese when fit for market each year. Said Soper to sow twenty acres with wheat and rye each year top plant ten acres, Indian Corn, potatoes, Beans, Pompions [pumpkins] and pease. each year & sow as many oats as his convenient each year. The crops to be sowed and planted i good season each year; the land to be cultivated in the best manner Said Soper to take the whole care of all the stock & work.  Except said Johnson pair of horses which said Johnson takes care of himself. Said Soper is to receive all crops in good season each year; when grain is thrashed and cleaned to be divided  by Said Soper & said Johnson hen, each one receives their equal half of all of the crops of grain, sauce seed or seed that is [illegible] on said farm by said soper; and when flax is dressed, said Soper & Johnson divides each one taken one half of flax each year.   Each of the parties furnish one half of the seed each year for said Soper to supply said farm with stock, with the stock now in his possession what said farm will keep cattle, horses, sheep, hogs & c.  The parties each one is to have one equal half of all the profits, growth or betterments to said stock, the profits of said stock is to be  equally divided  on the third day of April each year and if the stock is more at any time in the said term then  premises will support then each one to provide one equal half for said stock
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said Soper is to leave nine tons of good hay for said Johnson in said Johnsons Barn at the expiratory of this lease/  When pork & beef he's killed and dressed said Soper delivers said Johnson one equal half of the beef, pork, fat, hides and tallows each year.  Any stock that shall be sold at any time in said term each one receives one half of the money of said stock is sold for, Said Soper leaves said stock stock as good on said farm  at the expiration of this lease as it now i.  The parties each one bares one half of the Life by Death or accident except Death sickness or accidents take place by neglect or fault by Said Soper in that case Said Soper bares all the loss. Each party furnishes one half of the Salt. Said Stock and one half of the rennet for cheese the said term, and the parties each one pays one equal half of all taxes that shall be on the property and premises the above term.  The Black Smiths bill for repairing Tools to carry on said work is to be paid by the parties equally alike and said Soper doth sow as many acres of wheat and as many acres of Rye the last season of this lease in good order & in good season as he now received sowed on said Premises to be sowed where said Johnson shall direct & Left to said Johnson for his own use as a compensation for the grain now sowed and said Soper is to carry all the dung and manure the last fall or autumn and then well spread for the benefit of said Johnson.  Said Soper is to gather all the apples  & make all the cider each year, then fruit & cider to be divided each party receiving one equal half. And furthermore said Soper doth promise and agree if said Soper should be absent by Death or any other way before the expiration of this lease the stock to remain on said premises until said Johnson receives his profit and Damages.  and all the tools to be left in good order and repair & worth as much money as they now are. and Stock of all kinds that is on said farm his to be worth as much money at the expiration of this lease as they now are, to be delivered to Said Johnson at the expiration of this lease. Said Soper is to cut & draw logs to said mill sufficient for said mill to saw each year, logs to be cut where said Johnson shall direct & attend to said mill after said Johnson has sowed what logs he has got at said mill until the expiration of this lease.  Said mill is to saw all the time when these is water sufficient. said Soper is to deliver said Johnson one equal half of all the board, each time when sowed. Said Soper is to pay one half of all mill repairs said term, to deliver said mill & tools in as good repair as they now are at the expiration of the lease
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Said Soper is to make & repair fences and buildings in said term all that is wanted on said farm; & cut and mow all the bushes in pasture meadows each year to clean meadow from stones and windfall trees each year,  said Johnson to have what [illegible] he wants for his garden [illegible] year .  Said Soper to [illegible] his stock to himself at the expiration of this lease which he brought on the premises of stock to the some value and at the Expiration of this lease on the third day of April 1800. Said Soper doth promise and agree& believe the possession with all  the stock, tools and property as above agreed without trade or delay and for the true performance of all and  [illeg] of the above agreements we bind ourselves our heirs and assigns each one to the other in the sum of one thousand pounds currency in witness whereof we have [illegible] Let our hand and Lease this 3rd day of April 1797.

Edward Soper

William Johnson

HH Benijah Warner
Thomas Lowden

Johnson Lease
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Rev Widow
File No - 22.278
Mary Soper   Widow Of Edward SoperPri Rev War
Act:  Feb 2   48

Index: Vol M, Page 231
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March 2
1838
1897
he
No
July 7
Col J L Edwards
of
Com of Gen
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May 4. 1843
J L Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
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Potsdam N.Y. Apl 1843
J.L. Edwards E
Com of Pensions
in. Sendose you
declaration of Mary John for a pension
under act of March 3. 1843. Phare examine
& if certificate is allowed said
same to me
may I also trouble you for any
of the Resolution of Congress of 16 August
1842 & the act of 23d day he relating
to widows pensions - The Session
Law of Congress of last have
not be held in this County and
I cannot otherwise obtain copy of
said acts
Young
B. G. Baldwin
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6686
Mary Soper
Act July 7. 1838
Maine Aug. 9. 1793
Husband and Aug. 1813
Col Seth Warner
Capt Bronson
E 17th Apl 1777
must to 4 July 1779
Admitted
Pinale 2 years $80-
Hon
Jun Five
House Reps
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In Forces on
compliments to be
words and belong
him the papers of
Mary Soper and in
impends him by
his
severally attention
of Sep
March 1842
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Col J L Edwards
Com of Pensions
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Family data
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N. York
Mary Soper
Hon. J. Fine C. March 1840
Act. July 1838
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In the matte of
Mary Soper
application for
a pension and
the act of July
1838
Supplementary
affidavits
B. G. Baldwin
Potsdam, N.Y.
Kent
Hon Jno Fine
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State of New York
S. Lawrence County SS
Mary Soper of Parish
ville in said County being sworn saith
that she hath heretofore made her declare
tion in order to obtain the benefit of the
act of Congress of the 7th of July 1838 entitled
an act granting half pay and pensions to
certain widows"" and caused the same to
gether with all the proof she could then
make to be forwarded to the Pension Office
through Hon. John Five a miner of
Congress. The further saith that by a
letter received from the Commissioner
of Parsons dated March 6. 1840 Eldred
to Mr Fin it appears that the papers in
her case are filed and that the proof in relation
to the marriage of this deponent is in
sufficient and it is stated in the said
that the family Record forwarded
with the other papers in her case shew
that her oldest child was born in 1799
it is believed that a more particular
reference to these records will then the
with of her eldest son Briggs & John
to have been in 1796
This Deponent further saith that in January
last she went out to the County of Essex in
the State aforesaid to visit some friend
that County and Clinton and she has but
lately returned in the present month
in the course of the part summer her son
Briggs S. Soper with whom the resides on
admining some old papers in his house
found as he informs her the leaves of an
old Bible which are enclosed in the develop
hereto annexed and sealed up in her presence
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she further saith that on examining
the said leaves she recognized them as
part of a very old Bible which he first
husband Freeman Perry had when he may
and this deponent and she always under
stood the said Freeman Perry received it
from his parents the said Bible was a
ways kept in the family of this depoment
during the lives of both of her said
husband Freeman Perry and Edward
John as long as she lived with them
or until it was mostly destroyed or lost.
she well remember the said Bible It
was of the same size of the enclosed leaves
and had the sales of David in the
at the end of the Bible in the same Book
there was a blank leaf between the different
Book of the old new Testament and be
tween the testament and the Pale in due
and many of them contained Records
of the family history of the said Freeman
Henry and his ancestors and her said
second husband the said Edward
wrote down on some of the leaves the
marriage of himself & this deponent
and also the with of their children
she well remembers that the said Bibb
was a very old one and had becom very
much torn to pieces and part of lot
and that the said Edward Soper some
time before his death took several leaves
of the said Bible, all that have maning
and carefully forded them up and in
closed them in some paper and laid
them away.
she had entirely forgotten
that certain until time he
said son found the second leaves.
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and the now well remembers seeing
the said Edward Lord of said leaves
and put them away: and on inspecting
the endand leave the recognises the
hand writing of her said first husband
Freeman Perry on the blank leaf met
after the last chapter in Revelations and she
know also that the writing upon the leaf
next according the sales of David in
late purporting to state the time of
his marriage with this deponent and
the births of their two children is the proper
hand writing of her said husband the
said Edward Soper the said ward
also comes and with the recollection of
this deponent as to the date of such man
riage and births
this deponent further saith that her
long absempombor is the reason
of her not making this affidavit at
an carlin paid and she saith
that the war not now know of any
other mony which she can obtain of her
said marriage. She further saith
that she now will remembers that
her said husband Edward Soper, used to
keep all his paper in a small box made
by him or purpose to contain his paper
and that the said Carter, brought by
her to Parishvill when she came to
live then and that soon after
she came then and she thinks about
seven or eight years after the said Edward
death, the one day opened the said
Cox and took out for he receipts
and papers which she had patented
herself him his death and she then
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took out the old papers of the said
Edward, and without opening them
put them into the till of a chest which
has stood in the house ever side and is
the same
chest in which her son the
said Briggs says in found the said
have, and the supposes the same
have been put into the same has
by the said Edward before his death.
the paper in which said leaves were found
being as she understands a lease from
on William Johnson to the said Edward
Son of his farm
in Candan
Colum
and County Arthen has this
deponent and the said Edward a few
year after the marriage the well
remember the said Johnson for
for the term of them or
under a hare.
Sworn this 21st day of
June 1840 before
Benjamin G. Baldwin
Justice Peace
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Lawrence County SS. Briggs S. Soper of
Parishville in said County being sworn
saith that he hath heard the foregoing
affidavit of Mary Soper read and as for
as this deponent knows any of the matter
therein stated, the said affidavit is time
and he further saith that he is aged
44 years last May the 15th day that the
is son of the above-named Mary Soper
that the said Mary has for a long time
lived with this deponent, and now lives
with him at his house in Parishville
that after the papers in the case of her
plication for a pension was made out
and sent to Washington, and the said
Mary had become sufficiently strong to
endure the former
she went some time
in January last to visit some friend
in Essex and Clinton County and
remained there until the forepart
of the present month when he returned
home and this deponent first
saith that in June last as he was
searching for some screws in an old chest
which was brought from pers after the
death of his father, and which is the same
chest referred to by the said Mary in
he foregoes affidavit he found accidentally
in the Will of said Chest on
old paper, purporting to a Lease from one
Johnson to his father being the same
paper marked A and
and annexed to this affidavit and being
ed from curiosity to open the paper he
found within it confully enclosed the
leaves of an old bible which are now
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endowed in said paper the same have
being in the same condition and
containing the same writing upon
the blank leaves as now, on examining
the writing therein he was seen that that
part of it which relates to his own father
family was the proper hand writing of
his father. Edward Soper deceased,
that he immediately brought the same
paper with the leaves enclond all being
in fincisely the same condition as when
found and as they now are in down to
Patlan and delivered the in all over
to Benjamin S. Baldwin the agent
employed by his mother to attend to
her said application, that said papers
have not any of them been in the last
attend sum be found them, except that the
said agent put the letter upon the outside
of the paper, and he further saith that the chest
in which the said papers were found as generally
been kept up stairs in the house and has been
used but very little for many years. He
further saith that the absence of the said
Mary as aforesaid is the reason why
the said paper have not been forwarded
to Washington at an early day
Sworn this 28th day
of October 1860 before
me Benjamin G
Briggs S. Soper
Baldin, Justin
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with
the above named Briggs S. Soper and
have been for many years and can truly
say that he is a very worthy and pritable and
Indiperson, and I would purchan
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say that his statement in relation to bringery
and having the papers above alluded to
with me is strictly court, and that the
papers have not been attend sir they
an so left with
Benjamin Bolden
Just Peace
St Lawrence County SS. Timothy Read of
Potsdam in said County being sworn
saith that he is aged 72 years last Felman
that he is well acquainted with Mary
Soper named in the annexed papers
that he became acquainted with her and
her late husband Edward Soper larly
in the year 1802 in the town of Charloth
in the State of Vermont that he lived
very man to them and was or along the
intimately acquainted with them, and
knows that they were reputed to be
husband & wife lawfully married
He further saith that he had considered
be with the said Edward Soper and
was very familiar with his hand writing
and has been a great deal it he has
lately examined acount Books kept
by the said Edward in his own handwriting
in which he finds entires in the said
Edwards hand writing of workdon
for and articles of property sold and delivend
to this deponent which this
deponent well recollects to have
herd of said Edward and he further
saith that said deal between them
was continued blong for a number
of years, so that he became quite a
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Sir
familiar with the said Edward and
writing so much so that he was retained
his knowledge of it to this term
that when he was first then the
leave of an old Bible encloud in the are
nexed crop and refered to by the
said Mary Soper in her annexed affidavit
he recoused the said Edwards hand
writing in the entry on one of there
pupliting to give the date of the marriage
of the said Edward & Mary and of the
with their oldest son Bugs & John
and upon examining the said account
Books of the said Edward as aforesaid
and other writing of his this deponent
states untiritatingly, without the last
doubt in his mind that the said entry
upon the said leaf of the Bible was
made by the said Edward John
and in his own hand writing
this deponent well recollects stating
with the said Edward for the identical
charges made in the said account
Book, that some accounts were
open and continued between the
until the said Edward death
on this 21st day
October
1860.
Timothy Read
Son
Benjamin G. Baldwin
Justice Peace
I am well acquainted with the above
named Timothy head and believe
him to be a person of good character
Witnest veracity B.G. Bolden
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Lawrence County ss: James Perry of Panchville
in said County being sworn saith
that he is a son of Freeman Perry and
Mary Penn (now Mary Soper) that his
said father died when he was very young
the line between one and two years
old, that his said mother was named
to Edward Soper as he always understood
from the family in a little less than two
years after the death of his said father; that
he lived with the said Edward Soper
and Mary Cope his mother, at New Cannon
N. Y. and Charloth at, until he was about
thirteen years old when he went away to
have the blacksmith trade, and after
being absent a few years he returned and
lived at home five or sixton before
the said Edward Soper deed which
event took plan at Pen on the first
day of June 1813. This Deponent within
saith that the said Ed
ward & Mary
lived together as husband & wife and
he believes they were lawfully married
He further saith that when he lived at
home he frequently saw a Bible with
the sale of David in the bound
in the same book in which upon a block
have was written down the record of
the marriage of said Edward clanand
the birth of the two children
Briggs Edward Soper and also
upon other leaves was written record
of this deponent, then it
requinity saw the said Bible and
to that it was one which his father
Freeman Perry received from his
Walter Joseph Pary. as always understood
in the family. He further saith that he has
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often seen the said Bible in his said mothers family and has often seen the said record of her marriage with the said Edward Soper and he further saith that he has examined the leaves in the enclosed or annexed package  found to be his said mother in her annexed affidavit, and he has no doubt but that they are all of them leaves which once belonged to the said Bible and that the record of the marriage of the said Edward and Mary Soper is the same which he as above described. that the same is in the handwriting of the said Edward Soper his said step father that it is very familiar to him and he has no doubt of its being in his said step falls hand writing this deponent further saith that he has been absent from said town of Parishaieu for about three years last past and has but just returned and has not heretofore had anything to do with his said mothers application  for a pension-[sign] James Perry
 Sworn this 21st day of October 1840 before  me Benjamin G. Baldwin Justice Peace  I hereby certify that the above named James Perry is known to me to be a person of good character truth & veracity B. G. Baldwin J.P.
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Lawrence County ss: I Alvin C. Low
Clerk's Office Clerk of said
County hereby
certify that Benjamin G. Baldwin, before
whom the foregoing affidavits of Mary Soper, Time
Read, Briggs S. Soper & John Perry purport
to have been taken was at the date of said
affidavit a Justice of the Peace in and for said
County, and that his signatures thereto re
spectively is in his own proper handwriting
with which sum well acquainted
In testimony whereof I
have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the
seal of said County
this 5th day of Dec
AD. 1841-
A C H Clk
The word December, and the Ligion" 1840 and
January interlined
of W Walk
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Mary Soper
declaration
Act of 2d Feby. 1848
B. G. Boldon
Potsdam N.Y.
agent
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of
Congress of 2nd February 1848 entitled An act
making further provision for surviving
widows and Soldiers of the Revolution
State of New York
Jane County SS
on this thirtieth
day of August A.D. 1848. before the Subscribed
Justin of the Peace in & for said County of
. Lawrence personally appeared Mary
Seper a resident of the town of Parish will
in said County aged eighty-four
years who being first duly according to
law, doth on her oath make the following
 declaration in order to obtain the
benefits of the provision made by the act
of Congress passed on the 2d February 1845.
granting pensions to widows of persons
who served during the Revolutionary
Mar
That she is the widow of Edward Soper
who was a private in the war and served in
Col. Seth Warner's Regiment. that she
drew a pension of eighty dollars per
annum under the act of 17th June 1844.
and she further declares that she is still
a widow.
sworn to and subscribed
her
on the day and year above
Mary Soper
with before
.
Benjamin G. Baldwin
Just Peace
witness Emeline Baldwin
I certify that I am well acquainted with Mary Soper
above named and know she is the same person who
drew a pension under the act of June 17. 1846
and that she made her mark to the above
declaration in my presence as her hand 
that she could not unto
Dated August 30th 1848
B. G. Baldwin J.P.
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Lawrence County
State of New York, Martin Shelby County of
of the County of Alamance and also Clerk of all the Court of
and directed by Law to be held in and for said County do
hereby certify that Benjamin G. Baldwin whose name is
signed to the Jurat of the pregoing affidavit of Mary Soper
and to the foregoing certificate was at the time of taking such
Affidavit, and at the date of said Certituate a Justice of
the Peace in and for the County of Lane Elected and in
and duly authorized to take the same. And further that I
am well acquainted with the hand writing of such Justice
an only believe the signature to the end of said affidavit
and to me certificate is genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand & affixed the seal of said Court County
this Sixth day of September A.D. 1878
to
Martin Thatcher Clerk
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806,
Mary Soper
Declaration for
years Pension
under act 3d
March 1843
Admit private $80
Albany Agency
Send to
B. G. Baldwin
agent
Potsdam St Law
Co. N.Y.
S
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the
Act of Congress of the 3rd March 1843 granting
Pensions for one year to certain widows who
have received pensions under the act of July
7. 1838
State of New York
Lawrence County SS. On this twenty fifth day
of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and forty then personally appeared
before Benjamin G. Borden a Justice of the
Peace of said County, Mary Seper a resident
of the town of Parishville in the said County of
S Lawrence aged seventy-eight years on the 8th
day of October 1842, who being first duly sworn
according to law doth on her oath, make
the following declaration in order to obtain
the benefits of the provision made by the act
of Congress passed the 3d March 1843 granting
pensions to widows of persons who served
during the revolutionary war. That she is
the widow of Edward Soper who was a private
in the said War and served in the Company
commanded by Capt. Gideon Bronson in
the Regiment commanded by Col Seth
Warner belonging to the Continental army
as she believes. but of this she is not certain
that she believes he enlisted at Manchester
, in 1776 for three years or for during the
war and she has frequently under
stood that he received a warrant as
Sergeant at some period during the
war, but of this she is not certain
And she further saith that she has
received five years pension as
his widow under the act of July
7. 1838. the same being eighty
Dollars ($50) per annum, which
terminated on the fourth day
March A.D. 1841 and she further
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declares that she is still a widow-
Sworn to & subscribed
on the twenty fifth day of
April 1843 the day
year above written
her
Mary X Seper
mark
before me
Benjamin G. Baldwin
Justice Peace
Benjamin G. Baldwin the justice
the Peace before whom the foregoing
declaration of Mary Soper was made
& sworn to do certify that the said Mary
Soper is personally known to me to be
the same person mentioned & described
in said declaration - that he made her
mark in subscribing the same in my
unson deceasing that she never learned
to write-
Dated April 25, 1843 Benjamin G. Baldwin
Justice Peace
State of Ann Duck of the
said County do hereby certify that Benjamin B Balder in
Esquire was on the day of the date of the preceding certificate
a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly
ted and qualified, and that the above and foregoing
signatures purporting to be his are genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the Seal of the said
County this 27 April 1843
Wolk
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Abstract of proof
the widow applies for a pension under that
July 7. 1838-
she was marrying Edward Soper Aug 1793
the then died June 1. 1813
He served in the Revolutionary war
first as a private and afterward as Sergent
record of the age of Mr. & Mrs. S. & their children
The Town Clerks certificate also is forwarded that
there is no evidence of their marriage on 
Briggs S. Spenson of M. U.S. aged 43 May 15
1839 testifies to genial reputation & chiding
Timothy and also testifies to the same thing was
acquainted with them nearly of 180
Christina Larkins & Loren Larking life as
to the reputation of Mr Seper as a soldier in the
Revolutionary War
on Lake & Sally Lake both certify more
particularly then my other of their mariage
with Mr
the first became acquainted
Mr Soper in the Fall 1793, and then
understood that they had been recd
hand
Have
be well acquare
ted
with them for a long time-
Nathan Beman Kent M Spersonlisting
in 1776 for 3 yes. and was with him
seal battle, and was present when
I was honorably discharged 1783
there was probably more than one enlistent
-- the Lord at the
department will probably shew eviden
of M.S. Services-
B. G. Baldwin