Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20857, Jonathan Childs, Mass.
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(8-1776)

SERVICE
Mass   

Childs, Jonathan   
Anna

NUMBER
W. 20857

CONTENTS
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2.306

Bellows Falls Vermont

Anna Childs
widow of Jonathan Childs
Mass
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818
and who died on the 31st July 1819
in Windham Co in the State of Vt.
who was a private in the _____ commanded
by Captain ______of the Regt commanded
by Col Putnam in the Ma
line for 9 months

Inscribed on the Roll of B. Falls Vt.
at the rate of 30 Dollars ____ Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 5th day of Apl
1839 and sent Hon (James?) 
Hall Bennington Vt.

Arrears to the 4th of Mar. 39                 $90.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept. " 15.00
                                                              ________
                                                              $105.00
{Act July (illegible)
183(8?)}

D D Addison
Vol. 2d Page (illegible)

Paid at the Treasury under the
Act of the 6th April 1838 from
4 March 1836 to 3d Oct 1838
Agt notified 6th March 1841.

Widow Anna died
Oct. 3 - 1838
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8008
4
Vermont

Jonathan Childs
of Wilmington in the state of Vermont 
who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Putnam of the Massachusetts
line, for the term of 9 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 21 of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 22 of March '19
and Sent to Judge Roberts
Windham County, Vermont

Arrears to 4th of March 1819 
10 mos 10/30.4/31.                             83.69
Semi-anl. all'ce ending Sep: 4. 1819.   48 -
                                                          _________
                                                         $131.69 

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March,1818.}
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I Judah Moore of Wilmington in the County of Windham State of Vermont, of lawful age, testify & say - that I am acquainted with widow Anna Childs & was acquainted with her late husband Jonathan Childs, who died at said Wilmington the latter part of July AD 1819 - that I was present at the wedding & marriage of the said Jonathan Childs, late of said Wilmington, with the said Anna, whose maiden name was Anna Thomson.  They were married by Jesse Cook Esq. a Justice of the peace in said Wilmington, at said
Wilmington, on the 6th day of October 1786.
Judah Moore

Marlboro Probate District
State of Vermont - Windham County ss -
Wilmington, Nov. 28. 1838 - Personally appeared, the above named Judah Moore who, subscribed & made oath to the foregoing deposition, and who is a creditable witness, and made solemn oath to the truth of the same
Before me
Dana Hyde Judge
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State of Vermont}
Marlboro District ss}

I Samuel Elliot Clerk & Register of the Probate Court in and for said District of Marlboro - said Court being a Court of record - Do hereby certify that the Hon Dana Hyde is the Judge of said Probate Court - and that his foregoing signatures to the Certificates annexed to these two depositions, are his genuine signatures - 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said County this 28th day of November AD 1838. at Brattleboro in said district - 

Saml Elliot Clerk
   & Regr.
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Jonathan Childs of Wilmington in the County of Windham and State of Vermont a citizen of the United States deposes testifies and declares that in the month of March AD 1777 he enlisted into the army of the United States into the Mechanics Service for one year and served in Captain Anthony Posts Company under the direction and Command of General Knox and was dismissed the Service does not recollect whether he did or did not take a written discharge if he did he testifies that he has lost it or it is destroyed that he left the army in the month of March 1778 by the permission of his of his said Captain and not by desertion and that in the month of June AD 1778 he again enlisted into the army of the United States and served as a private Soldier in Captain Daniel Chains Company in Colonel Rufus Putnams Regiment being the fifth in the Massachusetts line that the term of inlistment (enlistment) last aforesaid was for nine months and that he served the whole term of enlistment in the Company and Regt. aforesaid and about the month of March 1779 was regularly discharged - which discharge he testifies is lost and not in his power to produce or to render any account of - that the Service aforesaid was on the Continental Establishment in the Massachusetts line in the war of the Revolution & against the common enemy and that he is now poor that he has but twenty five acres of Land partly improved and no buildings thereon that he is in debt to nearly the amount of the value of the land aforesaid and that it is under attachment which cannot procure a discharge of without disposing of the land etc. - that he has no personal property except his tools and household furniture that his age is 61 years and that his health is so impaired, that he can labor but little and that by reason of his reduced circumstances he stand in need of assistance from his country for support 
Jonathan Childs

Sworn to & declared this 21st day of April 1818 before me
John Roberts Jude of Windham County Court in the State of Vermont
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State of Vermont
Windham County ss} April 21st 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the County Court within and for the County of Windham in the State of Vermont Personally appeared the aforenamed Jonathan Childs who being by me first duly sworn hath on his oath made the foregoing declaration in order to obtain the provision of the act of congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the service of the United States in the revolutionary war."  Therefore I John Roberts Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Jonathan Childs did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine month on the Continental Establishment I therefore transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary of the war Department pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of congress the 21st day of April 1818
John Roberts Judge of Windham County Court in
the State of Vermont - 

State of Vermont
Windham County Court Clerks Office,
Brattleborough, May 21st A.D. 1818.

I certify, that the Honourable John Roberts, Esquire, is one of the Assistant Judges of the County Court aforesaid, and that the signatures of the foregoing certificates are in the hand writing of the said Judge
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court, the day and year above written.
Attest James Elliot Clerk.
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State of Vermont
Marlboro Probate District ss.
Windham County    On this 2nd day of (Sep crossed out) # October A.D. 1838. personally appeared before the Probate Court for the District of Marlboro aforesaid Anna Childs a resident of Wilmington in the County of Windham afsd. aged seventy four years (74) who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath (declare crossed out) make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th A.D. 1838, entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows:"  That she is the widow of Jonothan Childs late of said Wilmington deceased, who was a soldier in the army of the Revolution, and was placed on the pension list, roll of the Vermont agency, under the act of Congress passed March 18, A.D. 1818, and for proof of his said service she begs leave to refer to the files in the pension office

She further declares that she was married to the said Jona. Childs at Wilmington afsd. on the sixth (6) day of October A.D. 1786 - that her husband the Said Jonathan Childs died on the thirty first day of July A.D. 1819. 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 A.D. 1794 - viz. at the time above stated 
        her
Anna X Childs
       mark
Witness Chas K. Field
Horan Smith

Sworn and Subscribed the day and year above written before    Dana Hyde Judge.

# I certify that the above correction of a mistake in the date was made at the time of signing as also that on the other page.
Dana Hyde Judge
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I Spencer Alvord of Wilmington in the County of Widham (Windham) and State of Vermont, of lawful age, depose and say that I was well acquainted with Jonathan Childs late of Wilmington, and testify that he died on the 31st day of July A.D. 1819 - that Anna Childs now of Wilmington is the widow of the said Jonathan Childs and has not intermarried since the decease of her husband the said Jona: Childs - 
Spencer Alvord

State of Vermont}
Marlboro Probate District ss.}  On this 2nd day of (September crossed out) October A.D. 1838. personally appeared before the Probate Court for the district of Marlboro Spencer Alvord the above Subscribing deponent and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition and Subscribed the same before
Dana Hyde Judge

I also certify that I am acquainted with the said Spencer Alvord, and consider him a man of impeachable veracity
Dana Hyde Judge.
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Anna Childs

new Evidence




Hon
H Hall, Vt.
HR
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[Handwritten deposition of Adna B. Childs, page 1 of three pages, in ink.  Documents 34 and 33 of this collection are pages 2 and 3, respectively]

I Adna B. Childs of Wilmington Windham
County State of Vermont of lawful age
depose & say that I am the son of Jonathan
Childs And Anna Childs that I was born
in the town of Wilmington aforesaid on
the third day of Febuary A.D. 1799 my
mothers maiden name was Anna Thompson
my Father & Mother were Married by Esqr
Cook of this town as I have always under
=stood.  My Father deceased in 1819, recently
my Mother has applied for a Pension &
I have at her request endeavoured to procure
some record proof of her Marriage with
my father but have failed in my
Efforts to obtain any - I have in Company
with the town Clerk of this town
Carefully examined the records in his
Office but we were unable to find any
record of the Marriage of my father & Mother
we found but few records of Marriages.
Prior to 1790 about the time the Hon James
Hull was appointed Town Clerk Prior
to his appointment the records of the
town were very imperfectly Kept many
of them being placed upon loose sheets of
paper which probably accounts for the
loss of the record of this Marriage if any
was Ever Made.  I found at the old
Mansion House the residence of my father 
during his lifetime & now occupied by
a Grand Son of his, Laban Childs a Bible
which I immediately recognized as the old
family Bible considerably worn & part of
the binding gone it purports to have been
printed at Edingburgh by Mark & Charles Kerr
his Majesty's Printers in 1791 on a blank 
leaf of this Bible I find in my fathers
hand writing the following words & figuers
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[Handwritten letter, in ink; page 2 of 3-page deposition of Adna B. Childs.  Page 1 is document 35 of this collection; page 3 is document 33.]

Jonathan Childs Born October 24th 1756
Anna Childs born Febuary 29th 1766
Betsy Childs born May 6th 1787
Jairus Childs born Febuary 19th 1790
Clarrissa Childs born Febuary 5th 1792
Jonathan Childs born August 8th 1794
Freeman Childs born Febuary 17th 1797
Adna B. Childs born Febuary 3d  1799
William Childs born July 8th 1802
[The entire list is circled and in the upper-left-hand corner of the sheet, vertically, along the margin next to the names the following note, in another hand, is written:]
This is a correct copy
taken from family Bible

The first two named persons on the above 
list were my father & Mother.  I have no doubt
from the appearance of the hand writing that 
the first five names were entered at
the same time as Every indication favours
the Supposition that they were Entered ab
-out the time of the purchase of the Bible
in 1792 or 1793  The last four names
were evidently written & entered at [1 word smudged out]
different periods as there appears to have
been Each of them written down with
different pens & ink - I distinctly recollect 
of reading in this Bible from which I
have made the foregoing transcript
and verry clearly & distinctly remember
of seeing the names as they appear above
written in the blank leaf as they now
appear in the proper hand writing of
my father.  The Bible from which I have
transcribed the foregoing names is the only
Bible which was ever used in my fathers
family excepting a verry old Bible which
I remember seeing in my Childhood
verry much worn & defaced  I was told
that it was a Bible my father carried
with him during the revolutionary war
There were no family records in it
according to my recolection and it
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[Handwritten letter, in ink; page 3 of 3-page deposition of Adna B. Childs.  Page 1 is document 35 of this collection; page 3 is document 33.]

was lost during my Childhood And 
further the Deponent saith not
   [Signed]  Adna B. Childs

State of Vermont
Windham County Ss} Wilmington December 26 1838

   Personally appeared Adna B Childs
   the subscriber to the foregoing Deposition
   & made solemn oath that the same
   contains the truth the whole truth
   and nothing but the truth
   Before me Chas K Field Justice of the Peace
       
       
       Wilmington December 26th 1838
  Windham ss
            I hereby certify that the aforesaid
       Adna B. Childs [retains?] an unblemished
       reputation for truth and veracity -
       I have been personally acquainted
       with him for more than ten years
       [last past?] -
                   Chas K. Field Justice of the Peace 
                
                        
           
           I certify that Charles K Field whose
   official signature, to me well known, appears
   above, is an acting Justice of Peace for the 
   County of Windham, State of Vermont -
    I also certify that I am acquainted with
    Adna B. Child the above affiant, that he
    is + has been for several years Post Master   of Wilmington, & that his character for truth
    is undoubted.  Jany 1, 1839   H. Hall, M.C.
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[Typed letter, unsigned, with notations in pencil]

[Upper left corner:]
Rev.&1812 Wars Section 

[Upper right corner, handwritten:] 
MMNF (?)

[Typed:]

January 27, 1926

E.E. Childs
83 Franklin St.,
Providence, R. I. 

Sir:

  I have to advise you that from the papers in the
Revolutionary War pension claim W. 20857 it appears that
Jonathan Childs was born October 24, 1756, place not stated.
  He enlisted in March 1777 and served  one year as a 
private in Captain Anthony Post's Massachusetts Company.
  He enlisted in June 1778 and served nine months as a
private in Captain Daniel Shays' Company, Colonel Rufus
Putnam's Massachusetts Regiment.
  He was allowed pension on his application executed
April 21, 1818 while a resident of Wilmington, Windham
County, Vermont.  He died July 31, 1819 at said Wilmington.
  Soldier married October 8, 1786 in Wilmington, Vermont,
Anna Thompson born February 19, 1764.  She was allowed pen-
sion on her application executed October 2, 1836 while a
resident of Wilmington, Vermont.  She died October 3, 1838.
  Their children were:
Betsy      born May            6, 1787.
Jairus         "     February 19, 1790.
Clarissa      "     Fevruary    5, 1792.
Jonathan  "      August       8, 1794.
Freeman    "     February 17,  1797.
Adna B.      "     February    3, 1799, living in Wilmington, Vermont 
in 1838.
William      "     July              8, 1802,only son living in 1877.
  Soldier's grandson, Laban Childs, was living in Wilming-
ton,Vermont in 1838,the names of his parents not designated.
  The above noted is the only soldier named Jonathan
Childs found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau. 

    Respectfully,
    [unsigned:]
    WINFIELD SCOTT
    Commissioner.
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[Call slip (?), printed form with handwritten information written in ink and pencil, unsigned]

[Upper left corner, hw:]
W. D. (?) G. (?)

[Printed:]

3-871.

..................................

RECORD DIVISION.

Department of the Interior,

BUREAU OF PENSIONS

_______________

Briefed by [hw:] A. Ware (?) J. 8/11'/10

[Printed:] Claim No.

Certificate No.

Claimant

Soldier [hw:] Jonathan Childs

[Printed:] Service

Additional Service  [hw:]  Rev.

[Print:] No.........claim, State records......., 191...

No claim, combination records......., 191...

REMARKS:

[hw:] No Inv. of any service
Wid. 7. 20,857 {Mass res. Vt.
No other Wid of any service
No Ref. at all.

[Printed:]

6---1944       Chief Division
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[Call slip[?]; printed form on paper filled out with handwriting in ink and pencil, signed and stamped]
[Printed:]
3-082.

_______

Department of the Interior,

BUREAU OF PENSIONS.

_______
[hw:] OWWidow File 20857
[Printed:]
Application No. ............................................

Certificate No. ..............................................

NAME OF SOLDIER.
[hw:] Jonathan Childs
[Print:] Co. [hw:] Mass. [Print:] Reg't [hw:] Line

[Print:] INFORMATION DESIRED.
[hw:]  Revolutionary War

Papers

[Rectangular stamp, lower left:] Army and Navy Division
FILES.
DEC  19  1908
RECEIVED.

[Rectangular stamp, bottom center:]
FIRST
DEPUTY COMMISSIONER [?]
DEC   19   1908
U.S.
PENSION OFFICE

[Signature, middle right:]
L. B. Ating
3

[Printed at bottom:]
0-16
Page 17

[Printed and typewritten form letter with handwritten
text filling out the form in pencil]

[Typewritten:]
    In reply to your request for a statement of the military history 
of [hw:]Jonathan Childs [typewritten:], a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR,
                           [Handwritten in pencil:]C
you will find below the desired information contained in his (or his 
widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.

[Printed form:]    
DATES OF          LENGTH OF  RANK  
ENLISTMENT        SERVICE       
OR APPOINTMENT.
[Hw:]             [Hw:]      [Hw:]
Mar 1777          1 yr.      Pvt
June 78           9 mos      "

[Printed form, continued:]
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
      CAPTAIN.                  COLONEL.  
[Hw:]
    Anthony Post      
            Shays               [Hw:] 
    Daniel [crossed out:]Chaise Rufus Putnam[?]
    
[Printed form, continued:]
    STATE.
[Hw:]
    Mass
    Mass
    
[Printed form, continued (typewritten):]
Battles engaged in, [hw:] [check mark]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, [hw:] [check mark]
Date of application for pension, [hw:]Apr. 21, 1818   His claim was allowed
Residence of application for pension, [hw:] Wilmington Windham Co Vt.
[hw:] born Oct. 24, 1756
Age at date of application, [hw:] He died July 31 1819 at Wilmington Vt
  Remarks:  Sol. mar. Anna Thompson Oct. 6. 1786 at Wilmington Vt.  She was born Feb. 29, 1764
  and was allowed pension on[?] an ap[?] executed Oct 2 1838 at Wilmington Vt-
Their children were + record[?].
Page 18

[Handwritten letter, first page of 3, with rectangular stamp and notes in pencil written over letter text]

[Hw in pencil, upper right:]
C

[Hw in ink, upper right:]
319 West 80th Street
New York - 8 May 1903

[Rectangular stamp, upper right, over text:]
     OLD WAR & NAVY
      MAY 13 1903
         FILES.
    P.              B.
    
[Hw in ink:]
Pension Bureau-
    Washington D.C.
Gentlemen:
[Overwritten in pencil and underlined:]
Just one Jonathan
[Hw in ink:]
             For a family record
 I desire the official Record
 of Revolutionary Services 
 of the following:-
   1.  Jonathan Childs [ul]Senior[/ul]
   of Deerfield, Barre and
   Hardwicke Mass, who died
   at Hardwicke 18 March 1793
   aged about 73 years
   His son Jonathan Jr. was
   called Major + was born 1756-
Page 19

[Second page of handwritten three-page letter (document 28 is page one, document 26 is page 3) in ink, with notations in pencil]

2. Jonathan Childs [ul]Jr[/ul] lived at Wilming-
ton Vt. and was Serg't 5th
Vermont Infantry at one time [hw in pencil:] Born 1756
3.  Daniel Curtis [ul]Senior[/ul] of
New Salem, Mass.  Born 1735[ul]6[/ul]
and died after 1802 - Had son
Daniel Curtis [ul]Jr.[/ul] Born 1764
who served in the Revolution
about 1779 on to the end of the
War. "Daniel Curtis [ul]Sr[/ul] was at Bunker Hill".
                                   Family tradition-
4.  Daniel Curtis. [ul]Jr.[/ul] as a fave-[?]
For Revolutionary Services had
a grant of land in
western -New York- where
he died after War of 1812
in which four of his sons served
      Were these four men
Pensioners, or any of them?
     State fee for full report
and I will remit-
       I find it impossible to
sort out their services in the
Printed Mass. Record of Soldiers & Sailors
on account of the names being in
Page 20

[Handwritten in ink, signed and stamped third page of three page letter (documents 27 and 28 are the second and third pages, respectively)]

[Hw:]
each family duplicated
by father and son.
  It seems clear however
  that the family traditions
  must be correct in ascribing
  the services of the early
  campaigns to the fathers
  + the later services to their
  sons - 
        Yours truly
           Winchester Fitch
             319 West 80th St-
                 New York-
                 
[Round stamp in lower left-hand corner, rotated ~90 degrees clockwise:]
       PENSION
          C
         MAY
     U.  11   S.
        1903
        
       OFFICE.
Page 21

[Handwritten, signed letter in ink, on lined paper, with round stamp and notes in pencil; possibly front side of document 24 in this collection]

[Hw in pencil, upper left:]
O.W. + N.

[Hw in pencil, upper right:]
C

[Round stamp, left side directly under "O.W. + N.":]
         O. W. & N. DIV.
         
              JAN
               28
              1907
              
              FILES 
              
[Hw:]
                          Ottawa Ills
                              Jan'y 25, 07
Pension Dept
Washington D.C.
Gents[?]
      Please search your rec-
-ords for Capt [ul]William
Griffith[/ul] who enlisted for
the Revolutionary war from
Dutchess Co N.Y.
He had a son in the 
same company it is alleged
of whom we have a copy of
his descriptive roll.
We are "after all of our ancestors"
who carried a musket or
served in any capacity for
our independence.
  Awaiting a reply I am
           Resp,    L.M. Chamberlin
Co "H" 1st Vol Infty[vertical squiggle]              
203 Clay St
Page 22

[Handwritten note on lined paper, with two stamps]

Also Johnathan Childs
who enlisted from the
State of Vermont for the
Rev army.

[Upside-down round stamp, lower left:]
O. W. & N[?] DIV.
     
           JAN
             28
           1907

          FILES

[Round stamp, lower right:]
                 PENSION
                         A.
                      JAN
                 U.   28    S.
                      1907

                    OFFICE.
Page 23

[Printed form letter on lined paper, with printed letterhead, handwritten text and date stamp]

[Upper left corner, printed:]

      OFFICE OF
   CLERK OF COURT
   DAKOTA COUNTY, 
     MINNESOTA
     _________
     _________
     
 JOHN RAETZ, CLERK
 
 [Upper right corner, printed:]
 
 FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT,
     DAKOTA COUNTY,
   STATE OF MINNESOTA.
          _____
          _____
          
         JUDGES,
   
 HON. F.M. CROSBY, HASTINGS.
 HON. W.O. WILLISTON, RED WING.
          _____
          _____
          
      GENERAL TERMS.
      
FIRST TUESDAY IN MAY.
FIRST WEDNESDAY AFTER FIRST
  MONDAY IN NOVEMBER.
  
[Printed:]

HASTINGS, MINN., [hw:] Nov. 3d [printed:]190[hw:]10

[hw:]
Commissioner of Pensions,
                 Dear Sir:
                      Will you send me what the
records of your office show with reference to Jonathan
Childs who was pensioned under the Act of June 7th 1832
when residing in Windham County Vt
                               Yours truly
                                 F.M. Crosby
 
 
                                 



                [Date stamp:] NOV 7[?] 1910
Page 24

[Handwritten note on double-folded sheet of paper; in pencil]

[Upper left corner:]
No record Barney
Page 25

[First page of multi-page letter (page two is Document 20 of this collection); printed US Post Office letterhead and partial form letter, with handwritten note, on lined paper, signed]
[Printed letterhead:]
United States Post Office,
          
                [hw:]Brattleboro[print:]...........
                
                      ...............County,
               
              State of [hw:]Vermont.........
             
             Augt [print:]........, 189[hw:]2[print:].
 
[Handwritten vertically, left edge of paper:] B 

[Rectangular stamp at right of letterhead:]
U.                S.
  OLD WAR AND NAVY
  
    AUG 11'1892
  
      FILES
      
      Hon. Green B Raum.
        Dear Sir:
           I am anxious to ascertain
 if the name of Luke Barney appears
 on the soldiers roll of the [ul]Revolution[/ul]
  I am not sure where he enlisted
  but presume from some one of the
  New England states. possibly from
  Massachusetts  New Hampshire
  or Connecticut.  I also would like
  to know if [ul]Jonathan Childs[/ul] probably
  a Revolutionary soldier[written above line:from Vt or Mass] was ever
  a pensioner.  I hardly know whom
  to address for this information
  so venture to trespass upon your
Page 26

[Last page of multi-page letter; printed US Post Office letterhead and partial form letter, with handwritten note, on lined paper, signed]
[Printed letterhead:]
          United States Post Office,
          
                ...........................
                
                      ...............County,
               
              State of...............
              
                       ................., 189 . 
                       
          [In upper right-hand corner,               rotated 90deg counter-clockwise: Pension Office stamp:] PENSION
                       
          AUG
      U    4    S
          1892
          
         OFFICE.
         
valuable time.  If you can
without too much trouble, secure 
for me this information you will
confer a favor which I shall
be very glad to reciprocate

      Resp'y [Respectfully] Yours
                    [signed] F. W. Childs
                              Postmaster.
                              
[Handwritten in lower left-hand corner, vertically:] B + C
Page 27

[Handwritten note on lined paper, written across rather than on the lines]

[First line underlined:]

File No. 20.857
  Anna Child[s?]
   Wid of
     Jonathan Child[s?]
   Receipt for Bible +c
   to be filed Oct 16/77
   
               Evans
                 
                  clerk[?]
Page 28

[Printed letterhead with handwritten body of signed letter]

[Handwritten, upper left corner:] 
N.O.WBL [printed:]Division.

        [hw:] [ul]Evans[/ul]
                  [printed:]Department of the Interior.
                                PENSION OFFICE.
                    Washington, D.C.[hw:]Sep 13th 1877 
                    
      Dear Sir
               I herewith transmit
       to your address the old Bible sent
       to this Office in 1838 to be filed in evi-
       dence in behalf of Mrs Anna Childs
       Widow of Jonathan Childs when she made
       application for pension.
         Please acknowledge the receipt of the
       Bible on the back of this letter and 
       return it (the letter) to this Office in
       the enclosed envelope.
Mr Wm. Childs  [Vertical curlicue  Very respectfully
Wilmington P.O. design to right  [signed] O.P.G. Clarke
 Windham Co.      of address]    Acting Commissioner
        Vt.                       for J.F.M.
Page 29

[Handwritten note on lined paper, signed, Pension Office oval stamp rotated 90deg clockwise in upper right hand corner, partially covering text]
                                   [Pension Ofc Stamp:]
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR/OCT 15 1877/PENSION OFFICE.
Riecved[?] the their mentioned Bible
this the 17th day of September 1877
                [signed]William Childs
P.S.  Are the children of Anna Childs
      entitled to a Pension?  [signed] 
                              Wm Childs
Page 30

[Handwritten note]

                                  K

[First two or three words next line  unintelligible]  H. Hall
                          Dec[?] 6, 38
"  "   "  Same[?]       Jan '39
Page 31

[Handwritten document in various hands]

[Left side, written vertically:]

3430
[unintelligible] Dec. 5
VG[?]
7 July 1838

[Address, center, written horizontally:]

Col J L. Edwards
            
            Commissioner of Pensions
            
            
 [Right side, written vertically:]
 
 Hon H Hall,
        H. R. [House of Representatives]
Page 32

[Handwritten, signed note]

            Ho Reps. Dec 3. 1838
            
Sir

     I transmit for examination this
 application of Anna Childs for a
 Pension, & ask for an early & favor-
 able decision
         very respectfully yours
         
                     H. [Hiland]  Hall 
                     
                     

Col[?]  J L. Edwards
Page 33

[Two signed, handwritten notes on separate pieces of paper]

[Document 1:]

The enclosed [word crossed out] Leaf was that day
taken from a Bible sent to this office
by Mrs Anna Child of Vt.

                   [signed] H H Sylvester[?]
                            Clerk[?] Pen. Off
                               29 March 1839
                               
                               
                               
                               
[Document 2:] 

I certify this Bible + record is the same
alluded to in my affadavit to this
Department


         [signed]  A. B. Childs
Page 34

[Handwritten note]

Jonathan Child not on
roll of Artificer-- see
Roll__________ of Cap Post
Page 35

[Printed form document with handwritten interpolations]

[Printed:] Payment to be made

      at [hw:] Bellows Falls Vt.
      
[printed:]by [hw:] N. Fullerton Esq.

[printed:] Agent for paying pension=

ers, in the Agency of

    [hw:] Bellows Falls Vt.
[printed:]    
Payable on the 4th March

and 4th September in each

year.  [crossed out:] First payment to be

made 31st December, 1838.


Recorded in the Pension

Office, in Book [hw:] A [printed:] Vol. [hw:] 2.d

[printed:] Page [hw:] 36 [printed:] by [hw:] D.D. Addison

                   [printed:] Clerk.
Page 36

[Printed form letter with handwritten interpolations,
signed, sealed and dated]

    [printed:]WAR DEPARTMENT.
                
            Five years' Pension.
            
I certify that in conformity with the act of July 7, 1838,
[hw:] Anna Childs
[printed:] widow of [hw:] Jonathan Childs dec.d
[printed:] who was a [hw:] Private in the Revolution
[printed:] and died on the [hw:] 31st [printed:] day of [hw:] July 1819
[printed:] is entitled to receive five years' pension at the rate of [hw:] Thirty seven
[printed:] dollars and [hw:] Fifty ------ [printed:] cents per annum, commencing on the
fourth day of March, 1836; and in case of the death or marriage
of said widow before the expiration of said five years, the pension
will cease on the day of such marriage or death.

[Seal]   Given at the War Office of the United 
              States, this [hw:] 9th [printed:] day of
        [hw:] April  [printed:] one thousand
              
              eight hundred and [hw:] thirty nine
              
              [signed] J R Poinsett
              
                        Secretary of War.
                        
 Examined and }
 Countersigned. }    J. L Edwards

                                         Commissioner of Pensions.
 
 [Overwritten vertically in ink across signatures and seal:]  Should be 
                  $30
             for Infantry
                     HHS[?]
Page 37

[Front and rear cover of pension file; printed with handwritten interpolations and notes]

[Back cover, handwritten:]

1893 - Feb. 1.
Hist. to E. W. Childs,
Brattleboro, Vt.
        F.S.
        
_______________________________

Mar. 28/92 - Fred. Mack, City, for
G.W. Childs - order Col. Lincoln
                            NAR
__________________________________

May 14, 1903 - His. to
Winchester Fitch, N.Y. City

__________________________________

1907 Feb. 6 Hist - to L. M. Chamberlin 
                                     aw
1910 Nov. 11 Hist. to Hon. F M.
Crosby, F. [unintelligible]
1926 - Jan 27 - Hist to Elmer E Childs
His letter in re[?] of Seth Hinkley


[Front cover:]

[Handwritten:] Rev
[Printed:]      WIDOW, &c.
   __________________
 
File No. [hw:] 20857
             Anna Child
                  Widow of
           Jonathan Child
              Priv. Rev. War
           ___________
          
 [printed:] Act [hw:] July 7'' 1838
 
 [printed:] Index: Vol. [hw:]A [printed:], Page [hw:]132
 
 [printed:]   [Arrangement of 1870.]
Page 38

[Handwritten depositions, signed]

I Stephen P. Flagg of Wilmington in the County of Windham & State of Vermont of lawful age Depose & say 
that I am town Clerk for said Town of Wilmington - 
that I have recently been Called upon to furnish a copy
of the Marriage Certificate of Majr[?] Jonathan Childs
late of Wilmington deceased.  That I have carefully[?]
examined all the records of Marriages in my office
and can find no record of any such Marriage.  I find[?]
but very few records of Marriages prior to the year
1794. regularly entered in this office.

                  [signed][ul]Stephen P. Flagg - Town Clerk[/ul]\
                  
    
    State of Vermont Marlboro Probate District Ss.
      On this 28th day of November A.D. 1838
     personally appeared Stephen P. Flagg a credible per-
     son who subscribed and made solemn oath to
     the truth of the above deposition
               Before    Dana Hyde Judge.
Page 39

[Handwritten note]

                V[?]

            Anna Childs
            Declaration.
               3430
              Vermont
           Act 7. July 38.
            Married 1786  
             died 1819
         Allow 9 mos for Infy
         [crossed out:] [Artillery] $30.00 [changed from "$37.00"]
         per ann [annum]
Page 40

[Handwritten series of depositions on one page, signed]

I Martha Packard of Wilmington in the County of
Windham and State of Vermont aged seventy four years,
depose and say, that I have lived in Wilmington afsd [aforesaid?]
for fifty six years last past, and that I was well acquainted
with Jonathan Childs and Anna Childs his wife, and that
I knew her while she was Anna Thompson - that I have
lived a neighbor to them ever since their marriage at
which I was present, and which took place on the 6th day of October A.D. 1786 [signed] Martha Packard

State of Vermont Windham County
                               }
Marlboro Probate District [fs? - aforesaid?]
                                
                               On this second day of
October A.D. 1838, personally appeared Martha Pack-
ard [superscript: who] signed to the above deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same before
                           [signed] Dana Hyde Judge.
I also certify that I have been acquainted with
Mrs Packard the above deponent for twenty years 
and that she is a person of the most undoubted veracity

                          [signed]  Dana Hyde Judge
                          
[Seal of Probate Court, District of Marlboro obscures part of next line:]
[State?] of Vermont
District of Marlboro ss}Brattleboro Oct 20th 1838
I Samuel Elliot, Clerk + Register of the Probate
Court for said District of Marlboro - said Court 
being a Court of Record - do certify that
Dana Hyde was on the 2d day of October inst-
ant, & still is, Judge of the Probate Court for the
district of Marlboro aforesaid - and that the foregoing 
signatures purporting to be his, are his genuine signatures - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the seal of said court, this 20th day of October
AD. 1838 - [signed] Samuel Elliot Clerk + Register ---
Page 41

[Handwritten, folded envelope with multiple layers of writing over the original address]

[Upper left, written vertically:]
Jona.[?] Childs

[Lower left, in ink, written vertically:]
[ul]Adm. @[/ul] 
[ul]Wilmington, Vt.[/ul]

[Lower left, in pencil, written vertically over previous:]
Returned for con-[?]
of needy[?] circum-
stances.

[Center, in ink, written horizontally:]
Hon. John C. Calhoun Esqr
Secretary of War
Washington Ca,[Columbia?]

[Center in pencil, vertically, over previous:]
The Judge must certify as to his circumstances

X

Jno Roberts Esq.

Halifax Vt

[Right-hand side of envelope, between Esq. and War:]
[ul]Correct[/ul]
Page 42

[Handwritten note, signed]

I John Roberts Judge as aforesaid do hereby
Certify from my personal knowledge that
Jonathan Childs the applicant forenamed is
indigent circumstances

             [signed]  John Roberts asst[associate?] Judge of Windham
             County Court[?] by [unintelligible]
             [underlined]
Page 43

[Printed form letter, with handwritten interpolations, signed and dated]

                       
                       
                       [Printed:]
        TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
                       Second Comptroller's Office,[Handwritten:] January 5th, [printed:]18[hw]:41.
        
        
  [Printed:]
  Sir:
  
         Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An
               
act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain
 
Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury
 
of the United States," [hw:] one of six childn [children, "n" underlined] of Ann Childs,
 
[printed:] a Pensioner on the Roll of the [hw:] Vermont [printed:] Agency, at

the rate of [hw:] Thirty --- [printed:] Dollars and [hw:] ----- [printed:] Cents

per annum, under the law of the [hw:] 7[?]th July 1838, [printed:] has 

been paid [hw above this line:] 1/6 of her pension [printed:] at this Department, from the [hw:] 4th [printed:] of [hw:] March 1836,

[printed:] to the [hw:] 3d Oct. 1838.

                      [printed:] Respectfully yours,
                      [signed:] Albion K.[J E.?] Parris
                             [printed:] Comptroller.

[Printed:]
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
                       
                                                 Present.
Page 44

[Handwritten letter, signed, on printed "Department of the Interior.  PENSION OFFICE." letterhead]


[Upper left hand corner, handwritten:]
N. O. W. B. L. D.
W             Evans  [curlicue drawn in vertically next to these letters]

                                Department of the Interior.
                                          PENSION OFFICE.
                          Washington, D.C.  August 29, 1877.

Dear Sir
    Please furnish this office with the names and
present P.O. address of some of the descendants of Mrs
Anna Childs, Widow of Jonathan Childs - a private
in the Rev. War.
  The widow made application for pension in 1838.
+ filed a Bible in evidence in this office at that time.
 It is now desired to return said Bible - which contains
a family record - to the family. who resided in your Town
at the time specified.  The names of the children
are - Betsy, James, Clarissa, Jonathan, Freeman, [ul]Adna[/ul] B, 
and William Childs.
  Please return this letter with your reply -
Post Master                           Very respectfully
Wilmington  [vertical curlicue design on left]]                                           
Windham Co.                                       Jas Burtley          
                   Vt.                W[?] M P  Commissioner
Page 45

[Handwritten note on reverse side of letter, signed; Oval Pension Office stamp in upper right-hand corner]

[Pension office stamp, oval, upper right hand corner, vertical orientation:] 
                              DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
                                                SEP  10  1877
                                           PENSION OFFICE.

Wm [William] Childs is The only Son of the Widow Jonathan Childs living his P.O.
address is                    Wilmington,
                                                         Windham Co[unty]
                                                                           Vermont

Yours, &c       
                 O. O. Ware   P.M. [Postmaster?]