Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22,621, Jacob Wilson, Conn. Continental
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[typed](3-1776)                                [typed]NUMBER
[typed]SERVICE                   [handwritten]W. 22,621
[handwritten]Conn.     Wilson, Jacob 
[handwritten]Continental         Ruth

[typed]CONTENTS

[handwritten]res. at [illegible] Plainfield, Conn.
d. Aug. 13, 1833 at Sardinia, Erie Co. N.Y.
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4 396.
New York  Albany
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Ruth Wilson
widow of Jacob
Conn.
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
22 Dollars 20
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 
19 day of Mch 1849
and sent to 
C. O. Shepard
Arcade,
N.Y
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Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 242   Vol. 4
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[printed]THE NEW 
TESTAMENT 
Of our Lord and Savior 
JESUS CHRIST,
Newly translated out of the
ORIGINAL GREEK;
And with the former
TRANSLATIONS
Diligently Compared and Revised,
By His Majesty's Royal Command.
Appointed to be Read in Churches.
[Crest with two unicorns]
[On a banner under the crest] NEMO ME IMPUNE LASESSET
[Printed] EDINBURGH:
Printed by the ASSIGNS of ALEXANDER KINCAID, His Majesty's Printer.
MDCCLXXXIV
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Windsor   April 7th 1781

Thomas Jacob Wilson
those age was 29 years
Married to Ruth Knight
those age was 19 years
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Zadock Wilson was
Born February ye 18th 1785

Hanah Wilson was 
Born September 23d 1787

Olive Wilson 
was born October
 the 28 day 1789
And died January
ye 7 1790
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Ruth Willson
Declaration


Col D Megis Roll
Enlisted 10 June 1777 discharged
[ ]  Jany 1778  - 6 mo  20
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Mr.  Clerk
The end of the tape to be fastened to the Seal by wafer with the impression.
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Declaration
State of New York
Erie County
On this 13th day of August 1844 personally appeared before me Bela H Colgrove a judge of the court of Common Pleas in and for said county.  Ruth Wilson resident of the town of Sardinia in said county of Erie, aged seventy eight 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 "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" and of all other Acts of Congress passed since the date of the said act, amending the [illegible].  That she is the widow of Jacob Wilson, who was a soldier in the Army of the Revolution, that from the relation of her said husband, he served in all about three years.  That in the year 1776 he served under Captain Darrow in Colonel Durgie's (or Durkees) regiment in the Connecticut line, that when he enlisted he lived in [illegible] in Connecticut; the deponent understood from her husband that he was in battles near New York and at Germantown, that he marched from Connecticut to New York through New Jersey on to the Delaware and was at Valley Forge. The Deponent has heard husband tell of serving under other Officers but she does not recollect their names. She was not acquainted with her said husband at the time and cannot state what time he enlisted or left the service. She further declares that she was married to the said Jacob Wilson on the seventh day of April in the year seventeen hundred eighty four at Windsor in the state of Vermont.  That her husband the aforesaid Jacob Wilson died on the fifteenth day of August 1833. That she was not married to him prior to
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his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four viz. at the time above stated.
Ruth (her mark) Wilson
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written.   [illegible] to mark Samuel Lake
Before me Bela H Colegrove
A  Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Erie County

Erie County
I also certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Ruth Wilson and have been acquainted with her many years , that she cannot from bodily infirmity attend court.
Bela H. Colegrove
Judge of Erie County
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State of New York
Erie County
Benjamin Willson being by me duly sworn according to law doth on his oath say that Jacob Wilson, late of the town of Sardinia, died on the fifteenth day of August eighteen hundred thirty three.  That deponent was [illegible] at the time and attended the funeral.
Ben T Wilson
Sworn and subscribed this 13th day of August 1844 before me, and I certify that the deponent is a credible witness.
Bela H Colegrove
Judge of Erie County

I hereby certify that I attended Jacob Wilson during his last sickness as his physician and that his death looked peace at his residence in
[illegible] at the time stated in the foregoing affidavit of [illegible] Wilson.
Bela H Colegrove
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A. M. Printer.
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State of New - York,}
County of Erie,} ss.

I, MANLY Colton, Clerk of the County of Erie, and the Court of Common Pleas thereof, do hereby certify that Bela H Colegrove Esq. whose name is subscribed to the annexed affidavits & certificates was at the time of taking the same a Judge of the county courts in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and acting as such.  And further, that I am acquainted with the hand writing of said Judge and verily believe the signatures  to said Affidavits & certificate to be his genuine signatures.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my name and affixed the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, this 11th day of Decr  A. D. 1844.

Isaac F Maltby   Dep. Clerk
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State of New York
Allegany County

I, Lewis Willson, being duly sworn according to law oath on his oath say that Jacob Willson deceased was his Father.  That his father frequently talked of his service in the Revolutionary War, of the battles he was engaged in and of his officers, That on the 14th day of August 1833 the deponent went with his father to a magistrate for the purpose of making an application for a pension.  That his father was then quite unwell but commenced giving a statement of his services which was penned down in order to have the papers prepared for presentation. He then stated that he enlisted the last of January 1776 and served til January 1778 when he was discharged at Valley Forge and [illegible] home, that he enlisted for a year and [illegible] for a year at a time and that he served 3 years 1776, 1777 and 1778.  That he entered the army when he first [illegal] in Capt Darrows (the name reads Darrows) company in a Connecticut Regiment commanded by Col Parsons who was soon after appointed Gen'l and John Durkee was appointed Col of the regiment that John McGregor was his Lieutentant and and John Buckley Ensign that the Adjutant of the regiment in 1776 was named,  Day the 2nd year of his service.  Marvin, he also stated that he was in the battle at Flatbush, Harlem Heights and Germantown  that he marched from Plainfield to [illegible] to Rhode Island to Providence to Roxburg, Massachusetts; there in consequence of collery or a disease of that type, the deponent says his father has told him at other times Jersey, of being on the Delaware and in mud for at, or near, Red Bank when the Fort was evacuated.  Has heard him tell of other officers under whom he served but cannot remember their names except the name of Major Prentice and Lieut Cleft.
Lewis Wilson
Sworn and subscribed this 29th day of November 1844 before me, and I certify the deponent to be a credible witness.
A Lyon Judge of [illegible] County
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State of New York
Allegany County

Joshua Willson of Rushford in said county being duly sworn according to law on his oath says that during the Revolutionary War he resided in Plainfield in the state  of Connecticut, that he knows his brother Jacob Willson, then residing in the same town, enlisted into the service of the United States and went away from home and was absent from home two or three years, and as   then believed was a soldier in the Continental Army, the service was performed that first part of the Revolution but the deponent cannot be particular as to the date of the enlistment or the period when his brother returned, and cannot state anything about his services or the officers names under whom he served, as the deponent was not with him in the service.  The deponent says he is now eighty three years of age and that Ruth Willson is the widow of his brother, Jacob Willson, deceased.
Joshua Willson
Sworn and subscribed this 29th day of November 1844 Before me,
A Lyon, Judge of Allegany County Courts

I also certify that I have been acquainted with Joshua Willson the above deposed , many years, that he sustains a good moral character and is entitled to full credit and belief.
A Lyons, Judge of Allegany County Courts
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State of New York
Erie County
I, John Willson, being duly sworn according to law, on his oath says that he the deponent will be sixty nine years old if he lived, the 2nd day of April next.  That his father and Jacob Willson, late of Sardinia, deceased, were brothers, and that they resided near each other when the deponent was a child.  That deponent recollects that the said Jacob Willson and Ruth Willson 
 his wife, lived together as man and wife and had several children previous to the year seventeen hundred ninety four that they lived in Windsor, Vermont and deponent [illegible] that they had children born in that town, and that they moved from that place toOneida County and from there to Rushford, Allegany County and from there to the town of Sardinia in the county where the said Jacob Willson died.  That his wife Ruth is now living in said town of Sardinia. 
The deponent has been personally and well acquainted with the said Jacob and Ruth Willson ever since his earliest recollections, that they resided together and sustained the relations of man and wife, and supported through life a good reputation.  The deponent never heard any report or suggestion that they were not legally married and he has no doubt but they were legally married soon after the Revolutionary War.  The deponent also believes that the said Jacob Willson was a soldier in the war of the revolution, as he has frequently heard him relate his services and also has been informed by other old men that he has been a soldier. 
John (his mark) Willson
Sworn and subscribed this 12th day of March 1845 and I certify the deponent to be a creditable witness.
A C Needam, Justice of the Peace

I certify that the deponent cannot [illegible] in consequence of [illegible] of eyesight.
A C Needham
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Ruth Willson

affs. of Marriage

Certificate
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A. M. Clapp, Printer

State of New Yori
County of Erie

I, Manly Colton, Clerk of the County of Erie and of the court of Common Pleas, thereof, do hereby certify that A C Needham Esq whose name is subscribed to the annexed Certificate  [illegible] was at the time of subscription the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly elected and sworn, and acting as such.  And further, that I am acquainted with the handwriting of said Justice and verily believe the signatures then to be his genuine signatures. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of the Court of Common {leas of said county this 29th day of March AD1845.
Manly Colton. Clerk
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In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank] for a statement f the military history of Jacob Wilson, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will find below the desired information as contained in his widow's application for pension on file in this Bureau.
W. File 22621
Date of Enlistment : January 76
Length of service: 3 yrs
Rank: Private
Officers, Captain: Darrow, John McGregor
Officers, Colonel: Parsons, Durkee
State (see Conn. book & son's aff.):  10 Continental, 4 Conn
Battles engaged in: [illegible] Harlem Heights, & Germantown
Residence of soldier at enlistment: Plainfield, Conn
Date of application for pension: Aug 13, 1844, [illegible]
Residence at date of application: Sardinia, Erie Co., N Y
Age at date of application:  78 yrs
Remarks:  Soldier was 29 yrs of age when he married at Windsor, Vt.[illegible] 7, 1784  Ruth Knight aged 19 yrs.  He died Aug 15, 1833 at Sardinia N Y.
Children Zadock b. Feb 18, 1785. Hanah b. Sept 23, 1787, Olive b Oct 18, 1789 and died Jany 7, 1790.  In 1844 son Lewis testified in the 
case.
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Rev
WIDOW, &c.
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File No.  22.621
Ruth Wilson
Widow of 
Jacob Wilson
Priv Rev War
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Act Feb 2nd 1848
Index:   Vol M,   Page 845
[Arrangement of 1870.]

(Second Page)
1905 Nov 23 - history to A.P.
McIntosh.                 Jn.13.H
1910 Feb 24 Hist to Shirley A Pomeroy [  ]
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7553                   Repd.
Albany, N. York
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Ruth Wilson
widow of Jacob Wilson
who was a Private 
in the Revolution
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
22 Dollars 20 
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843
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Certificate of Pension issued the
4th day of February 1846
and sent to Hon. Wm A. Moseley
House of Representatives
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[Act of March 3, 1843.]
& June 17, 1844

Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2.    Page 91
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New York   9857                Repd.
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Ruth Wilson

Widow of Jacob Wilson
who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 15th August 1833 of Erie Co. in the State of N. York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Darrow of the Regt. commanded by Col. Durgeo in the Connecticut line for 6 mons. & 20 days.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 22. Dollars  20 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836
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Certificate of Pension issued the 4th day of February 1866 and sent to Hon. Wm. A Moseley, House of Representatives
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Total amount,          $
[Act July 7, 1838.]

Recorded by D. Brown        Clerk,
Book D.   Vol. 1    Page 189
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No 11.655
Ruth Wilson
[    ] of Jacob
NY
let to : Hon W. A. Mosely [    ]

Act 7 July 1838
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No 11655

Ruth Wilson
[     ] of Jacob
No
Act 7 July 1838
Admd.    6 mo  20 days/w
$22.20 per ann

Admd.  Act 3 March 1843
and 17 June 1844
$22.20 per ann

8630.
  437

Hon.  Wm A Mosely
House of Reps
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Arcade Jan 26, 1849
Sir,
I enclose the application of Ruth Wilson for a new pension [illegible].  I have made out her papers for two or three years past and know her to be the individual described and entitled to a new [illegible] as she claims. I knew her husband before his death.
Mrs. Wilson is very much broken by age infirmities.  Her memory is ell nigh gone, which accounts for her non-recollection as appears in her application.
I hope you will find it convenient to examine this case immediately and return the decision to me at an early day.
It is important to her [illegible] before 4 March maximum.
Your obt Serv
C. O. Shepard

Hon J L Edwards, Comm. Pensions
Washington DC
This applicant has recently received from Freedom, Catt Co., N York, W Sardinia N Y.
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No. 11655
Ruth Wilson
[  ] of Jacob
NY
Act 7 July 1838

Married before 1794
husband decd  15 Aug 1833

Proof of Service
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State of New York
Allegany County
Clerks Office

I, William Windsor, clerk of said county do hereby certify that Abraham J Lyon, before whom the preceding declaration was taken was at the date of the [illegible] a judge of Allegany County [illegible] in and for said county and that I am well acquainted with his handwriting and verily believe his name subscribed hereto is his genuine signature. 
Witness my hand and the seal of said county this 3rd day of December AD 1844
Wm Windsor Clerk
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State of New York
County of Erie

On this 18th day of January 1849, personally appeared before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, Ruth Wilson, a resident of Sardinia in the county of Erie, New York, aged eighty four years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed on the 2nd February 1848 granting pensions to widows of person who served during the Revolutionary War.  That she is the widow of Jacob Wilson who was a private in the army of the Revolution in (she thinks) Capt McGregson's company.  That he entered the army at Plain[illegible] town, and went to Bunker Hill (she thinks though she is so far demented she will not be positive, nor can she state any further particulars).
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State of New York}
Erie County Clerk's Office,} SS.

I , MOSES BRISTOL, Clerk of said County, and of the Courts thereof, do hereby Certify, that Obadiah J. Green  Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the annexed affidavit and thereon written, was at the time of  taking the same, a Justice of the peace duly  listed sworn, and acting as such and further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Obadiah J Green and verily believe the signature thereto to be his genuine signature.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court and County, this 20th day of January 1849.
Moses Bristol   Clerk.
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State of New York
Wyoming County
James Morse, of the town of Perry in said county being duly sworn doth on his oath say that he is a Revolutionary pensioner and was in the Army of the Revolution from the year 1776 to the close, served in Capt Webb's and Bull's company in Col. john Durkee's regiment of the Connecticut line, that he well recollects that Jacob Willson of Plainfield Connecticut was a soldier in the same regiment that he frequently saw  him while a soldier and thinking he must have belonged to Capt Duranci's company  but cannot say positively, nor can the deponent state what time he entered the service.  The army went into winter quarters at Valley Forge at the close of the campaign of 1777 where they stayed til spring and suffered much on account of [illegible], smallpox and for ant f provisions and clothing.   The deponent does not know when the said Jacob Wilson left the service and does not recollect seeing him after the winter of 1778.  From the information received in relation to the service and residence the deponent has reason to believe that Jacob Willson, late of Sardinia in the county of Erie was the same person above referred to.
When deponent enlisted he belonged to Canterbury in Connecticut, joining Plainfield and was acquainted with many people of that town.
James (his mark) Morse
Samuel Lake, witness
Sworn and subscribed this 17th day of September 1844 before me.
Phicol M Ward, J Peace
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I certify that I am well acquainted with the deponent James Morse, that he is a man of [illegible] and sustaining a good moral character and is entitled to full credit and belief.
September 7, 1844
I also certify that the deponent cannot  write in consequences of blindness and therefore made his mark in my presence.
Phichol M Ward, J Peace

State of New  York
Wyoming County
I Walter Howard, Clerk of said county do hereby certify that Phichol M Ward before whom the foregoing affidavit of James Morse was taken was at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly authorized to take the same, and that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of  such Justice and verily believe that the signature of said affixed is genuine.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal at  [illegible] in said county this 19th day of September  1844.
Walter Howard
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Ruth Willson
Record of Marriage
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State of Vermont  County of Windsor ss.

Windsor Town Clerk's Office}
December 9th 1844}

This certifies that I have carefully searched the Windsor Records of marriages now in my office and can and do not find therein the record of marriage of Jacob Willson to his wife Ruth.  From the period commencing with the year 1775 to 1798 , the marriages in this  town appear but a small proportion of them to have been recorded on said records, and those not many if any in a legal and authorized manner as they now are.  Since the year 1798 or thereabouts  they appear to have been generally & regularly entered or returned into the office by the persons who solemnized the marriages, by their certificates and then recorded in the records.
Mr. Caleb Kendall, Town Clerk

Subscribed and sworn to at said Windsor, this 9th day of December A. D. 1844 Before me,
Warren Curried
Justice of the Peace
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STATE OF VERMONT,}
Windsor County,...ss}

I, Norman Williams, Clerk of the County Court of the County of Windsor in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify that   Warren Currier  is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the  31st day of October  in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty four and will expire on the thirtieth day of November next, and that his signature hereunto annexed & above written  is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said County Court, this  10th  day of December A. D. 1844
N. Williams  Clerk
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Ruth Willson
Marriage Record
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mark the affidavit here and put a wafer in the margin attaching the Record to the sheet with the Seal.
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State of New York
Erie County
Ruth Willson being by me duly sworn on her oath says that the annexed record of her marriage is the only record she is able to present or procure as she is informed by the certificate of the Town Clerk of the Town of Windsor,  Vermont that there is there no record of her said marriage.  That the annexed leaf is taken from her Bible, that it is a true family record and is in the handwriting of her husband, the said Jacob Willson, deceased.  She wishes the leaf returned to her after her claim is decided.
Ruth (her mark) Wilson

Sworn and subscribed this 14th day of January 1845 before me,
Bela Colegrove, Judge of Erie County Court

I also certify that I cut the leaf from the deponents Bible and from the appearance of the Book, the handwiting and my long 
 acquaintance with the family, I have no doubt of the correctness of the same.
Beda H Colegrove 
Judge of Erie County Court

State of New York
County of Erie

I, Manly Colton, Clerk of the County of Ernie and the Court  of Common Pleas thereof, do hereby certify that Bela H Colegrove Esq whose name is subscribed to the annexed deposition was at the time of taking the same a judge of the county court, in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn, acting as such. And further, that I am acquainted with the handwriting of said Judge and verily believe the signature Bela H. Colegrove to be his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my name and affixed the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said county, this 24th day of January AD 1845.
Isaac F Maltby, Clerk
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Belfast N. Y.  Nov, 11th 1905

Hon. Comrs, Pensions
Washington 
D. C. 

C. D. WAR & NAVY
NOV 14 1905
FILES.
B.

Dear Sir:

Sometime about 1842 or 5.  Ruth Wilson widow of Jacob Wilson. I think for services in the war of 1812, but perhaps the war of the Revolution.  At the time the pension was obtained the widow Ruth Wilson lived at Freedom, Cattaraugus Co. N. Y.  At the time and as a part of the proof before the Department the family records of Jacob Wilson were forwarded to the Department at Washington.  Will you please inform as to what record there is of the aforesaid pension and also if the family records of Jacob are on file in the office and if so what will be the expense of obtaining a copy of same.

Very respectfully
A. P. McIntosh
Belfast
N.Y. 

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Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 10, 1910.

Pension Department,
Washington, D. C.

[   ]
22,621

Gentlemen:

Kindly send me what records you may have of Jacob Wilson, Revolutionary War Veteran, who enlisted from Plainfield, Conn., Jan. 1776.  I enclose stamped envelope for reply.

Thanking you in advance for an early reply, 
 I am
       Very truly yours,
           Shirley A. Pomeroy

422 Chamber of Commerce.

No stamped envelope enclosed.
AW Feb 12, 10

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FEB 12, 1910