Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3,479, John Waklee, Conn.
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SERVICE
Conn.

Waklee, John
or
Wakly
or
Wakelee

NUMBER
N. 3,479
B.L.Wt.29030-160-55

CONTENTS
Elizabeth
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4578
Pennsylvania
John Wakly
-in the State of Pennsylvania
who was a Private in the - commanded by Captain Boswell of the Rej. commanded by - in the Connecticut line for - $30

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania is the rate of 30 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of January 1833 and 

Assess to 4th of - 1832 $45.00
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 March 1833 15.00

$60.00

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by Final Luce Clerk, Book D Vol. 6 Page 92
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Service   
Conn

Waklee, John or
Wakly or
Wakelee

Number W.3479
B.L.Wt. 29030-160-55

Contents
Elizabeth
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[on left side]
24,699/act Mar 3/63
May 9/55
Elizabeth Wakelee
[illegible]
John Wakelee  Priv

[written angled]
   [light pencil]
No 29030 of May 29/56

[horizontal]
Rev. War

Penn. Feby  48    3607
W. 16 ac Mh 24/56
[signature illegible]
 [illegible initals]

J. Goodspeed
Knoxville
Pa.

[on right side]
Civ. J. Goodspeed. Feb 1/56
S.A. Hon. G. A. Grow, Mch. 3d/56 
Set. J. Goodspeed Mch. 31/56
  "  Hon. G. A. Grow, May 2d/56
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V 4687
Elizabeth Wakelee
of John
Pennsylvania
4687 [handwritten sideways]
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State of Pennsylvania}
            Tioga County} ss
         On this 17th day of January
1839 Personally appeared in open Court before the Judge 
of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting in for the
County of Tioga aforesaid Elizabeth Waklee
widow of John Waklee a deceased Revolutionary
pensioner now residing in Wellsboro in the County
aforesaid aged Seventy three years who being
duly sworn according to law doth upon her
oath make the following declaration in order to
obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed
July 7, 1838, entitled "An Act granting Half Pay
pensions to certain widows"
   That She is the widow of John Waklee a
deceased Revolutionary pensioner - that her husand
the said John died on the 4th day of
last February at Brookfield township County
of Tioga aforesaid - that she was born in Kent
County State of Rhode Island in the year 1766 and
is now Seventy three years old-- that she was
married to the said John Waklee in March
1785 by Esquire Barber of the town of Pownal in
Bennington County State of Vermont that she
& her husband have resided together till his death
the last eighteen years in the County of Tioga
aforesaid - that She knows of no person in
this vicinity who was present at the time of
her marriage or that knows the fact other
than herself-- that she has eight children
living, the fruit of the said marriage, her eldest
son being fifty three years old & resides in
Otsego County in N.Y.
                                     her
                       Elizabeth  X  Wakeler   
                                    mark
The foregoing declaration was 
Sworn to in open court before me
the day and year above written.
                [signed} T. Danielson  Proth'y
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I John Maklee (formerly ) son of John Maklee did wed elizabeth Maklee (illegible) makes this within declaration do certify  of the age of forty two years w and have one brother and have sisters older than (illegible) that my father John Maklee died on the 4th day of February. last Oct Brookfield after saw that he drew a pension of thirty (illegible )a year. that to the best of my knowledge and belief call the facts set forth by my mother in the (illegible) declaration are true that she (illegible to second to last line) has since the death of my father, she yet  remaining a widow.

The foregoing sworn to in the aforemention before 
me   January 16th 1839

SERVICE NUMBER
Conn. Waklee, John N. 3,479
or
Wakly B.L. Wt. 29030-160-55
or
Wakelee
CONTENTS
Elizabeth
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State of Pennsylvania
of
County of Tioga
On this third day of May AD one thousand
eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared
before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid
Elizabeth Waklee aged eighty nine years a resident of Troupsburgh in
the State of New York who being duly sworn according to Law declares that
she is the widow of John Waklee deceased who was a soldier in the
Revolutionary War - that she is now a pensioner of the United States
and is the identical person named in an original certificate in her
possession of which I certify the following is a true copy. War Department
Widows Pension I certify that in conformity with the Act of
February 20, 1848 Elizabeth Waklee Widow of John Waklee who was
a private in the Revolutionary War is inscribed on the pension list at
the rate of thirty dollars per annum commencing on the 4th of March
1848 and continuing for life unless she should again Marry, in which
case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage
Given at the War Office of the United States this 2 day of February
one thousand eight hundred and forty nine W. L. Marcy
Secretary of War Examine and countersigned SG Bennet for
Commissioner of Pension she further states that she was married
to the said John Waklee on the 10th day of March AD 1785 by one Esqs
Barber and that her name before her said marriage was
Elizabeth Commings that her said husband died on the fourth day
February AD 1838 at Brookfield township Tioga County Pennsylvania
and that she is now a widow - she makes this declaration for
the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under
the act approved March 3, 1855
[illegible]
Elizabeth X Waklee
              mark
We John Goodspeed and David Beach residents of Knoxville
in the State of Pennsylvania upon our oaths declare that the foregoing
declaration was signed and acknowledged by Elizabeth Waklee in
our presence and that we believe from the appearance and statements
of the applicant that she is the identical person that she represent
herself to be
John Goodspeed
David Beach
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The foregoing declaration and affidavits were sworn to and
subscribed before me on the day and year above written and I certify
that I know the affiants to be credible persons, that claimant is the
person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in this
claim
J. E. Wild J.P.
Tioga County Pa.
I John F. Donaldson, Prothonotary of the
Court of Common Pleas of Tioga County
Pennsylvania, do certify that J. E.
White Esq. is and was at the date of
the within an acting justice of the
peace in and for said County and that the foregoing
signature purporting to be his is genuine.  In
testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed my seal of office the 4th day of
May 1855.
A.F. Donaldson, Prothy
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State of New York}
         Erie County } ss
              Be it known that before
me H. Cummings a Justice of the peace
in and for the County aforesaid personally
appeared Jacob Cummings a resident of the town 
of Newstead in said County of Erie to me well
known aged Seventy Six years and Made Oath
in due form of Law that he is the brother of
Elizabeth Waklee Widow of John Waklee a Revolutionary
pentioner Dec'd formerly Elizabeth Cummings who
now resides as deponent understands & believes in
the County of Tiago State of Pensylvania that he
the said deponent was present and saw the said
Elizabeth Married to the said John Waklee on the
Tenth of March 1785 or about that time by ---
Barber a Justice of the peace in the town of Pownal
County of Bennington & State of Vermont
                         [signed] Jacob Commings 
Sworn & Subscribed the}
30th day of Sept 1839   }
Before me [signed] H. Commings JP}
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STATE OF NEW-YORK, ERIE COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE } ss. I, Cyrus K. Anderson, Clerk of the county of Erie, do hereby certify that Hezakiah Cummins Esq. whose name is subscribed to the annexed affidavit was, at the time of taking the same 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 hand writing of said Justice and verily believe  the signature "H. Cummins" 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 1st day of Oct. A.D. 1839
R.W. Padelford [ ] Clerk
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John Wakelee
Declaration for Pension
under act Jun 7th 1832
17529

$30 per am
Hon J. Ford H.R.
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State of Pennsylvania
Tioga County ss
     On this 24th day of September 1832 personally
appeared in open court before the honorable 
Edward
Herrick President and Ira Kalburn & Samuel
W Morris his associates now filling and holding
a Court of Common Pleas of the Said County of
Tioga and State of Pennsylvania John Wakeley
aged seventy three years who being first duly
Sworn according to law doth on his oath
make the following declaration in order to obtain
the Benefit of the act of Congress passed June
7th 1832.
   That he entered the Service of the United States under 
the following named Officers and served as [illegible]
as he stated. That he Entered the Service of the United 
States in the Connecticut State Troops in June
1776 under Brigadier Genral Wadsworth in the division
commanded by General Spencer in the Regiment
of Colonel Gould Selick Silliman and under Capt
Ruben Bostick, Lieutenants Isaac Defries and
Ruggles, Ensign Jeremiah Canfield that he
Enlisted in said company about the 15th June
1776 and served there till the 25th December next
After that he Enlisted as aforsaid in the Town of
New Milford in the County of Litchfield & State of
Connecticut and after his Enlistment the Regiment
in which he served with himself Marched to Stratford
in Fairfield County C't. and then Embarked on
board a Sloop and Sailed to New York and
in August he thinks the Brigade and Regiment
went on to Long Island and continued there
Eight days and then Retreated again to New York
and remained there till the Sept following and
on about the 15th Sept Same month thinks
they Retreated from New York up to Harlem
four miles below King Bridge and remained there
something like three or four weeks then we continued
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retreating and making several short halts untill
we arrived at White Plains when we Joined the
main Army. At White plains the British made several
attacks upon the Army and this deponent was in
Two short battles in one day. After leaving White
plains the deponent was for a time in Service at
Mile Square and Bedford and Philips Manor and
at this last place was verbally discharged by
Col Silliman. In the February of 1777 this deponent
again enlisted in the service of the United States
in the State Troops of Conneticut. Under the following
Officers General Worcester Col Samuel Canfield in 
a company in which David Whittlesy Ensign took 
the command. the captain and [illegible] names
not reccollected. that he enlisted for this last time
in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut
In the first place we went to a place called [1 illegible]
Neck
a few days marched to Monnick and
stayed there some length of time and returned to the
and was then verbally discharged of
having served for the time of  [illegible] months from
And of his enlistment. And this deponent
States that he stood as a minute man in
the Town of New Milford County of Litchfield and for
about Two years commencing in the fall
of 1777 he thinks in the month of November and 
during that time was several times called out
into actual Service towit under Capt Wm. Cogsell at
the line of the taking of fort Montgomery and was then
absent from home about five days and also about one
week when Fairfield and Norwalk were beset  by the
British, after having served for the time aforesaid again
as a minute man he removed to Waterbury in New
Haven County Ct. In December 1781 he was then drafted
as a militia man and served one month in the
Militia at New Haven in Capt Bronsons Company
That he was soon in the town of North Stafford County of
Fairfield and State of Conneticut on the 15th of Jany 1759
That he had not at present any record of his age. Just at
the close of the revolutionary war he removed to Pownal
Bennington County and State of Vermont from there he
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removed to Petersbug Renilan County N.Y. and resided there about five years , [illegible] he removed to Otsego Co Town of Middlefield same state, and lived in that County about 12 years theredo he removed to Tioga County Pennsa. and has lived there Ever since except 2 years, during which he resided in Troops 2 vrg Stuben [Steuben] County N.Y. he has no documentary Evidence of hiz service and knows of no person whose [illegible] he can procure who can testify to his service. That he is acquaintance with Thomas Cummings, Jacob Cummings, Cyprian Wright & Jonathan Bonnie  in his neghborhood [neighborhood] That there is no clergyman residing within his neighbourhood with whom he iz acquainted he hereby relinquishez Evry claim whatever to Pension or annuity Except the Present and declarz that hiz name iz not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.

Sworn and Subscribed in open court 
thiz day of Sept 1832 John Wakle.
Jonah Brewster Prothy

Mr Thomas Cummings, Jacob Cummings, Cyprian Wright residing in the county of Tioga Penna. hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Wakeley who haz subscribed and Sworn to the above declaration that believe him him to be seventy three years of age that he iz repected [respected] and believed in the neighbourhood whereas he residez to have been a soldier of the revolution and that are concean in that opinion 
Sworn and Subscribed 
the day and year aforesaid
Jonah Brewster Prathy

Cyprian Wright
Jacob Cummings
Jonathan Bonney
Thomas Commings

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matters and after filling the interrogatoing prescribed by the war department above named applicant was a revolutionary the war department - that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states, and the court further certifies that it appears, to them
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That Thomas Cummings, Jacob Cummings, Cyssian [Cyprian] Wright
and Jonathan Bonnig who have signed the same as residents, in the said County and in the neighborhood of the said applicant and that their statement is Entitled to Credit
And I Jonah Brewster Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Tioga do hereby Certify that the
foregoing Contains, the original proceedings, of the said Court
in the matter of the application of John Wakeley for a pension
Witness my hand and seal of
Office affixed this, 24th day of Sept 1832
Jonah Brewster Prathy
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I certify that I am acquainted with
Cypreon Wright & Jonathan Bonney &
know them to be respectable
J. Ford MC
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information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
John * Waklee Wid. File 3479
Wid. File 379
^he was pensioned Wakley + She Wakelee.
[column headings: Dates of Enlistment or
Appointment. Length of Service. Rank. Officers Under Whom Service was Rendered. State.]
June 15, 1776. Dec. 25, 1776. Prt. Reuben Bostick. Gould S. Silliman. Conn.
Feb'y 1777. 2 mos. [rank not listed] Ensipor David Whittlesy. Samuel Canfield.
* 1777. 5 days. Minute Man. William Caydell. at taking of Fort Montgomery
[no enlistment date] 1 week. ,.. where Fairfield and Norwalk were burned
Dec 1781. 1 mo. Pvt. Bronson.
^* He was a minute man in town of New Milford Conn. for two years beginning Nov. 1777.

Battles engaged in, [handwritten] Retreat from Long Island. White Plains [end handwritten]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, [handwritten] enlisted at New Milford Litchfield Co. Conn [end handwritten]
Date of application for pension, [handwritten] Sept. 24, 1832 His [illegible] was al [end handwritten]
Residence at date of application, [handwritten] Tioga Co. Penn. {end handwritten]
Age at date of application, [handwritten] { born of North Shatford Fairfield Co. Conn. Jan'y 15. 1759.
died Feb'y 4, 1838. of Brookfield Imp. Tioga Co. Pa. [end curly bracket] [end handwritten]
Remarks:
[handwritten] Soldier married at Panu at, 
of Bermington Co. &r. Mah 10. 1785. Elizabeth Cummings, who was born in Kent Co R.I. in 1766. She was allowed pension on an application executed Jan'y 17. 1839, while a resident of Willsboro, Tioga Co. Pa. In 1839 there were eight children living,
eldest son was then 53 years old; no names Itated [stated] other than John who
was 42 yrs old at that date {end handwritten]
 Very respectfully,
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[handwritten] REV. [end handwritten] WIDOW, &c.
File No. [handwritten] 3479 
Elizabeth Wakelee
Widow
John Wakelee
Pri. Rev. War [end handwritten]
Act: [handwritten] Feb. 2, 1848 [end handwritten]
Index:-Vol. [handwritten] M.[end handwritten], Page [handwritten] 305. [end handwritten]
[Arrangement of 1870.] (Brackets in original)
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1909 Apr. 22 Hist To 
Mrs. C. G. Cook
1909 May 10 Mrs C. G. Cook
To apply To and for Fnt.
for date of last payment
of pension + probable
date of widow's death.
[next page ripped out]
L. M.

[illegible] L. M.
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5001
Pennsylvania
[double underline]
[handwritten] Elizabeth Wakelee [end handwritten]
widow of [handwritten] John Wallete, decd [end handwritten]
who was a pensioner under the Act of [handwritten] 1832 - [end handwritten]
and who died on the [handwritten] 4 February 1838 - [end handwritten]
of [handwritten] Tioga Co [end handwritten] in the State of [handwritten] Penna [end handwritten]
who was a [handwritten] private [end handwritten] in the [handwritten] Compy [end handwritten] commanded
by Captain [handwritten] Bostwick [end handwritten] of the [handwritten] regt [end handwritten] commanded
by [handwritten] Col Gould [end handwritten] in the [handwritten] Conre [end handwritten]
line for [handwritten] 9 monthly. [end handwritten]
[double lines]
Inscribed on the Roll of [handwritten] Philadelphia [end handwritten]
at the rate of [handwritten] 30 [end handwritten] Dollars [handwrtten] - [end handwritten] Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of [handwritten over typeset text] Feb 1838 [end handwritten]
[double lines]
Certificate of Pension issued the [handwritten] 5 [end handwritten] day of [handwritten] Feby 1840, & sent to B. B. Smith [end handwritten]
and
[handwritten] Wallsboro Penna [end handwritten]
[double lines]
Arrears to the 4th of [handwritten] Septr 1839 $47.50 [end handwritten]
Semi=annual allowance ending [handwritten] 4 Min [illegible marking] 40 15.00 [end handwritten]
[double lines]
$62.50
[double lines]
[in large curly brakets] Act July 7,
1838. [end curly brakets]
Recorded by [handwritten] D.M. Curdy [end handwritten] Clerk
Book [handwritten] A. [end handwritten] Vol. [handwritten] 2 [end handwritten] Page [handwritten] 169. [end handwritten]
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[handwritten] 3379
Pennsylvania Phila [end handwritten]
[double underline]
[handwritten] Elizabeth Wakelee [end handwritten]
widow of [handwritten] John Wakelee [end handwritten]
who was a [handwritten] Private [end handwritten]
in the [handwritten] Revolution [end handwritten]
[double underline]
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of [handwritten] 30 [end handwritten] Dollars [handwritten] --- [end handwritten] Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
[double underline]
Certificate of Pension issued the [handwritten] 7th [end handwritten] day of [handwritten] Dec. 1843 [end handwritten] and sent to
[handwritten] S. Goodspeed 
Knoxville 
Penn [end handwritten]
[double underline]
[Act of March 3, 1843.] ["[ ]" in original document]
Recorded in Book [handwritten] A [end handwritten]
Vol. [handwritten] 1. [end handwritten] Page [handwritten] 137 [end handwritten]
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30.00
15.00
2.50
------
47.50

4687   5001
Elizabeth Wakelee of John
Pennsylvania [underlined]
admitted 
Pa g ins $30
Cap Bostwick Col. Gould
Con.

died 4 Feb. 1838
Act 7 July 1838.
B.B. Smith
Wellsboro.
Pa
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[check mark]
29.030
[squiggle]

Meo Acre
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ElizaVbeth [Elizabeth] Wakelee of John
Pennsylvania [underlined]
suspended [underlined]
So let a July 1839 B.B. Smith.

Act of July 1838
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124698
Sarah [large lettering - possible middle initial]G [end large lettering] Seely

124699
Elizabeth Waklee
[written sideways, starting from top right] 
[overlaps "Waklee"] Thiceulle 12
Mar 3
[unknown letter - resembles upside-down 4]rec

[first letter overlapping "Elizabeth"] J Minot Esqr Commissioner of Pensions
Department of the Interior
Pension Office of Bursary
Washington
D C

[written upside-down, faint, and overlapping Dept information]
Mrs Wakelee,
[illegible]
Mch 2%2
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John Wakelee Pa. cert 7 June 1832
Wakly, to what time paid?
Pen. Officer 
July 7, 1839
[faded] $30, died 1837 [end faded] Died 4th, Feb 1838 p% that period 
[illegible letters]
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Knoxville 4th March 1856
Dear Sir, 
I sent to the Offices of the Commission of Pensions two applications for Bounty Saved for Elizabeth Wakelee and Sarah Seely widows of Revolutionary soldiers the receipt of which was acknowledged by Commissioners. Waldo & cho^d 124.698 + 124.699 and last month p
[illegible] the warrant for Sarah Seely ^warrant issued for 160ar and have heard nothing from the Widow Walkee and the old Lady is getting verry anxious to hear from is [it] - if the application is granted please send her Warrance and if not and there is any thing wrong in the application or more or other evidence is necessary please inform me at your earliest convenience. 
Respectfully yours & [illegible]
S Goodspeed
I Morris Esq.
Commu[illegible] &
[faded] John Waklee Charged to Boynton Jan, 221
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475 -
Elizabeth ^Waklee, [crossed out: Walker]
Penn^a - Phila.
Joint Resolution 23d.
January, 1845. [underlined]
Adnd.
$30 her ann.
9 months private, commencing 4th March, 1836, and terminating 3rd Feb. 1838 - when former pension commenced. 

461. -

Harvey Heath, Esq.
Locke, N.Y.
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Elizabeth Wakelee widow of John -
Act of Feb. 2d 1848
Application for Increase of pension

Thompson Jones
Atty for Appt. [Aplct]
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Washington City D.C.
March 11th - 1858.
Sir,
Enclosed pleaser find papers of Eliz. Wakelee
at present a pensioner under Act 2d Feb. 1848, asking for an increase of her pensien.
By reference to the original papers it will be found that John Wakely served 9 mos. in the Revolutienary War, aud [and] for this service she thinks the pension [underlined] pro rata [end underline] should be more than $30 per annum which auch [such] is all that she has ever rec[']d. The examination of the matter is requested.
Yours truly
[signature] Thompson Jones
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Wallsboro [Wellsboro]
File &
pded
J. L. Edwards Esqr,
Com r Pensions
Washington 
D.C.

[written vertically on left side] Feb. 13, 1839 [faded] PA 
4 686
4 687 [underlined]
[illegible]1838[end faded]
[unknown letter]art

[illegible]
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Wellsboro Feb. 7, 1839
Dr Sir - I forward the evidence
taken before our last Court in the
case of two widow,s [widows,] residing in
one County who are applicants for
pensions under the act of a/w July
last - The witnesses & parties are
all known to Judge Morris
except perhaps the widow of Mr
Waklee - the witness is his son and
is our present Sheriff - I have
drawn the pensions for the deceased
husbands for several years in the
case of Col. Dartt & for a Short
time for Waklee & know the fact,
set forth to be true -
Very Respectfully
Your Hum ["e"-like shape] servt
[signature] Benj B. Smith ["L"-like S]
J. L. Edwards Esqr }
Com r of Pensions
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State of [faded] Pennsylvania ⎬ ss [end faded]
County of [faded] Tioga [end faded]
Know all men by these present, That
I Elizabeth Wakelee hereby constitute and appoint Mr Thompson & F. W. Jones of Washington City My true and lawful
agents and attorneys to prosecute the claim of myself for any amount of revolutionary pension or increase of pension that may be due and I hereby authorize my said agent to examine all papers and documents in relation to said Claim on file in the departments at Washington City or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments and to receive the certificate which may be issued for said claim which Certificate I wish
made payable to Stebbins Warner

To appoint one or more substitutes under them for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things That I might or could
do were I present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said attorneys and agents shall lawfully do in the premises
Witness my hand and seal this 13 day of January in the year of 1858 [faded] Elizabeth my X mark Waklee [end faded][faded mark of seal]
[illegible text below signature]
Signed and sealed in presence of [faded] S H Murdock
L. D. Seely [end faded]
State of [faded] Pennsylvania [end faded]
County of [faded] Tioga [end faded]
on this [faded] 13 [end faded] day of January in the year of 1858
Before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and State aforesaid Personally appeared Elizabeth Wakelee
and acknowledged the Toregoing [Foregoing] Power of Attorney to be her act and deed for the Purposes therein mentioned
In Testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand the day and year aforesaid
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County of [faded] Tioga [end faded]
On this [faded] 13 [end faded] day of January in the year of 1858
Before me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County and State afore said Personally appeared Elizabeth Wakelee and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be her act and deed for the Purposes therein Mentioned
In Testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand the day and year aforesaid
[faded] L. D. Seely [end faded] Justie [Justice] of the Peace
State of [faded] Pennsylvania [end faded]
County of [faded] Tioga SS [end faded] Be it known that on this [faded] 13 [end faded] day
of January in the year of 1858 before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and state aforesaid

Personally appeard [appeared] Elizabeth Wakelee a resident of [faded] Brookfield [end faded] in said County and made oath according to law that she is unable to go before a Court of record on account
of great age and bodily infirmity, - That she is the widow of John Wakelee who was a revolutionary Pensioner at the rate of thirty dollars per anum. That she has been informed
that the said pension ought to be increased. That she is interested as a claimant in said Pension and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence as arguments as her agent may use in prosecuting said claim

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid and I further Eertify that said Elizabeth Wakelee is a respectable resident of this County and is directly interested in said Claim as therein set forth
[faded] L. D. Seely, Justice of the Peace [end faded]
State of Pennsylvania,
County of Tioga, ss
on this 3d day of ^February, [crossed out: January] in the year 1858 before

[underlined] attach Certificate here [written vertically on lower left side of document]
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Me Personally Come John Waklee and John. E. White who being by me duly sworn according to law each for himself on his oath says That they were well acquainted with John Wakelee in his life time and are also well acquainted with his Widow Elizabeth Wakelee. That the Said John Wakelee. That the said John Wakelee was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the U States at the ratee [rate] of thirty dollars pr year. That we were knowing to kis [his] death and that he died on the [faded text] 4th [end faded text] day of [faded text] February [end faded text] in the year of [last two digits faded] 1838 and that his Widow the aforesaid Elizabeth Wakelee is a pensioner of the United States at the Same rate of thirty dollars per annum. That said wedow [widow] is unable to go before a court of Record on account of great age and bodily infirmity and that she is still surviving
John Waklee
J. E. White

Sworn and subscribed before me this 3d day of February in the year of 1858.
s H.S. Archer J.P.

State of Pennsylvania
County of Tioga, ss. }
It is hereby certified that evidence has been adduced to me to prove that John: Wakelee was a pensioner of the United States on account of service in the revolution war at the rate of thirty dollars per anum [annum] That he died on the [faded] 4th [end faded] day of [faded] February [end faded] in the year of 1838 [last two digits faded] and left the aforesaid Elizabeth who is still surviving as his widow who is still [illegible] a pension of thirty dollars per annum
In Testimony whereof I have hereunteo,e [hereunto] set my
hand and affixed my seal of office This 3d day
of February in the 1858
J. F. Donaldson, Prothy.
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Tioga County, p. [ss.] 
I John F. Donaldson, prothonotary
of the Court of Common Pleas of Tioga
County Pennsylvania do certify that
L. D. Seely and H.S. Archer Esqr.
an acting justice, of the peace in
and for said County and were such
justice, at the respective dates above and that the foregoing signatures, purporting to be theirs, are genuine. - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of
office the 3rd day of February 1838 -
J. F. Donaldson, Prothy [ink blot]

[illegible] fees 75 cents
Paid by John Waklee, Pleas Request
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the resolution of Congress of the 23d January 1845

Whereas the act of the 30th of April 1844 prohibited me from drawing a pension for the same period during which my husband was a pensioner I now make the following statement under oath to obtain the benefits of the resolution above mentioned 
I am the widow of John Waklee 
who was a private 
in the war of the Revolution I have drawn a pension at the rate of thirty [large gap] dollars per annual from the 4th day of March 1838 and now ask for the amount due me from the 4th day of March 1836 to the 4th day of March 1838 when my former pension commenced I made my declaration before the 30th of April 1844 and it was filed in the pension office before the 23d of January 1845
Elizabeth her X mark Waklee
Sworn to and subscribed before me on this 10th day of January in the year 1846 at Knoxville Tioga Co P. A
Arch. Knox Justice of the Peace
I certify that the declarant is personally Known to me and that she is the same individual she represents herself to be in the foregowing [foregoing] affidavit
Arch. a Knox Justice of the Peace

over
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I do hereby certify that the within named Elizabeth Waklee cannot write her name by reason of the infirmaties [infirmities] of old age
Arch. ^a Knox Justice of the Peace

Tioga County sz. [ss]
I John F. Donaldson, prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas of said county certify Archibald Knox, Esq. to be a magistrate as above and within and that the signatures, purporting to be his, is genuine. - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 19th day of May 1846
J. F. Donaldson, Proth'y
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State of Pennsylvania [squiggle] sf [ss]
On this Seventh day of September in the Year one thousand eight hundred and forty eight personally appeased [appeared] before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Tioga Elizabeth Waklee a resident of Brookfield township in the County of Tioga aged Eighty two 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 2d February 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War That she is the widow of John Waklee who was a private in Captain Boshwick’s Company of foor [foot] in Col Sillamon’s Regement [Regiment] and that she secured an annual pension of thirty dollars under the act of the 17th June 1844. She further declares that she is still a widow 
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and Year above written before Arch,, Knox, J.P. [squiggle]
Elizabeth her X mark Waklee

I Certify that the above named declarant is personally known to me
Arch,, Knox J.P.
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I John F. Donaldson prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas of Tioga county do hereby certify that Archibald Knox, Esq. is a magistrate as above, and that the foregoing signature, purporting to be his, is genuine - In testimony whereof, I have here unto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this nineteenth day of September, in the year eighteen hundred and forty eight. 
J. F. Donaldson Prothy.
of the court of Common Pleas
of Tioga County
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Elizabeth Wakelee
$30

[written vertically, top to bottom]
Knoxville Pa 3441 Ppee
Augt. 16 Aug 24 '43
Pa
[illegible]
Mar 3 1843,
Eliz Waklee
[end vertical text]

J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commisioner of Pensions
Pension Office Washington City 
DC

S. Goodspeed
Knoxville 
PA [underlined]
[marking resembling stamp that was torn out]
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Tioga 
[squiggle] sf [ss]
On this twenty seventh day of July AD 1843 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Tioga aforesaid Elizabeth Waklee a resident of Brookfield township in the county of Tioga aforesaid aged seventy seven 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 3d March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War That she is the widow of John Waklee who was a private in the army in Col Sillimans Regemint [Regiment] and that she secured a pension of thirty dollars per annum under the act of July 7, 1838 She further declared that she is still a widow
sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above
written before me John Goodpeace Justice of the Peace [squiggle] Elizabeth Waklee [signed with her mark X]
Witness to the mark of Elizabeth Waklee 
Henry . Suly . .
I do certify that Elizabeth Waklee the declarant above names is personally known to me
Witnessing hand July 27th 1843
John Goodspeed J.P.

Tioga County, Ps
I John F. Donaldson prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas, of said county, certify John Goodspeed Esq. to be a magistrate as above and that signature purporting to be his is genuine. - In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Wellsboro, the 28th day of July 1843.
J. [illegible] [F] Donaldson, Prothy.
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Knoxville 12th August 1843
Sir
At the request of Miss. Elizabeth Waklee I send you her declaration to obtain a pension under the Law of Congress granting pensions to widows passed the 3 March 1843. If any other testimony be required please inform me
Respectfully Yours
I Goodspeed
J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
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C. G. Cook, Model Millinery,
[stamp] CCG.
[handwritten] Wid 3479 
[written vertically] Rev [illegible] [end vertical text]
[end handwritten]
Addison, N. Y., [handwritten] April 5 [end handwritten], 1909[final digit handwritten]
[handwritten] Pension Commissioner
Dear sir
Will you kindly send me war record [r written over c] of John Waklee a private serving in the revolutionary war
Hed [He'd] died in Brookfield Penn. in the year 1838 - or 1839 - am not sure
His widow Elisabeth was a pensioner at the time of her death in 1858 or 1859 - also living at Brookfield Pa.
Respt yours
Mrs C G Cook
Addison N. Y.
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[stamp]
Record Division
Apr 7 1909

W3479
[stamp]
U. S. A. Pension Office.
Apr 8 1909
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3479
Addison N. Y.
Dept of Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Gentlemen -
Would you Kindly send me. record and date of death, of Elisabeth Wakelee revolutionary war widow, who was granted a pension in an application executed Jun 17, 1839 while a resident of Wellsboro.
Yours Very Truly
Mrs C. G. Cook
Addison
N. Y.
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[hand written] W 3479

[stamp print] Pension A  U. S. Office. May 4 1909
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Record Division.
May 10, 1909.
Mrs. C. G. Cook,
Addison, N. Y. 
Madam:
In reply to your letter without date received the 4" instant, you are advised that you should apply to the Auditor for the Interior Department, U. S. Treasury Department for date of last payment of pension and probable date of death of Elizabeth, widow of John Wakelee, citing the following data: Wid. Ctf. No. 3,607, issued February 3, 1849, under Act of February 2, 1848, Agency Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.