Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 25526, Samuel Dewey, Mass.
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(8-1776)

SERVICE 
Mass.

Dewey, Samuel
Edith

NUMBER
W 25526
B.L.WT. 24763-160-55

CONTENTS
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19



Vol. D. 58. ~

172121
Act Mar 3
June 18} ss

Edith Dewey wid.
Samuel Dewey
Priv.

Mass. Contl line,
num

(illegible).
no 24763 (illegible) May of 56
(illegible).


Revy. war

Ad: 160 A (illlegible) May. 7th 1856
Pensioner 
3823
(illegible signature)

J. L. Woodward,
Plattsburg, N.Y.
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3.823.
New York, Albany
Edith Dewey widow of Samuel Dewey who served in the Revolutionary was as a private.

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 94 dollars 00 cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of March 1854 and sent to J.D. Woodward 
Present
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{sideways, left]
Notif of [pen] Nov 6 1820 to John Palmer
Plattsburg,  NY

[certificate]
15.585    R
New York
Samuel Dewey of Clinton Co in the State of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Putnam of the Massachusetts line, for the term of three years
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8- Dollars per month, to commence the 27th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 29th of Oct 1819 and sent to John Palmer Esqr
Agt. Plattsburgh, New York
---
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819    $130.13
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1820   48
= 178.13
16 mo 8/30

Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th Mar 1818.}

Continued
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Samuel Dewey
Rev. Pension Claim
27 April
Corrected

The Judge is requested to certify to the indigent circumstances of the applicant.

File this with Samuel Dewy's other papers. IL.E.
Jan. 1, 1820

This is the original application which was
said never to have been recd at the office & the applicant has since been placed on the 
roll in affidavits of its having been sent &
this was recd from the war office since he was put on the roll & is now entitled to be placed with those [illegible] 
RH Walworth (signature)
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STATE OF New York
Clinton COUNTY, SS.
On this twenty seventh day of April 1818, before me the
subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the county and state aforesaid:
Personally appears Samuel Dewey aged sixty years, 
resident in Peru in the said county and state, who being by me first duly
sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain
the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons
engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war." That
the said Samuel Dewey enlisted in White Plains in the state of
New York in the company commanded by Captain Daniel Sharp
of the 5 Reg. Massachusetts Line in June 1778 for three years; that he continued to serve in the said corps,
or in the service of the United States until July 1781
when he was discharged from service in Plattsburgh state of New York:
that he was in the battles of (the battles of crossed through) several skirmishes & in the militia at the Battle of Stilwater
and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of assistance of his country for 
support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services. 
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.
Caleb Nichols
a Judge of Clinton Common Pleas

STATE OF NEW YORK,
Clinton COUNTY SS.
of Peru
Samuel Brown
in the county of Clinton aged fifty six
years, being duly sworn, says that he is acquainted with Samuel Dewey
in the preceeding declaration named and described, and know that he served in the army of
the United States in the war of the Revolution, as is mentioned in the preceeding declaration
that the said Dewey served in the same company
with this deponent in the 5th Massachusetts line
one year & eight or nine months when he 
was transferred to the Light infantry
Samuel Brown
Sworn the 27th Day of
April 1818 Before me
Caleb Nichols
A Judge of Clinton Common Pleas
I Caleb Nicholas Judge of the court of
Common Pleas of the county of Clinton and state aforesaid, DO CERTIFY, that 
it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Samuel Dewey did serve
in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy;
and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the secretary,
for the department of war pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress,
Plattsburgh 27th April 1818 Caleb Nichols
[L.S.]
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I Reuben H Walworth a notary public for the state of New
York certify that Caleb Nichols whose signature
in his own proper hand writing is affixed
to the annexed certificates & affidavits was at the
date thereof a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the
County of Clinton & State aforesaid. In witness
whereof I have subscribed my name & affixed my
seal of office this Eighth day of May 1818
Reuben H Walworth
Notary Public
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Samuel Dewey
Rev. Pensioners
oath & Inventory

15.585
March 1820
$26,25

John Palmer
6th Nov Plattsburgh
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At a Court of Com Pleas holden at the Court-House in Plattsburgh, in and for the County of Clinton, and State of New-York, on the third day of October 1826  Present: Elisha Arnold Caleb Nichol Nathen Carver and Allen R. Moore Judge of the said Court COUNTY OF CLINTON ss: On this third day of October 1826 personally appeared in open Court, it being a Court of Record proceeding according to the course of the common law, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, and keeping a record of their proceedings in and for the County of Clinton, Samuel Dewey aged Sixty two years resident in the town of Peru in the said County of Clinton, who being first duly sworn according to law; doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows: That he enlisted at White Plains the ninth of June 1778 in Captain Daniel Shays Company Col Rufus Putnams Massachusetts Regiment for three years and continued to serve therein until the expiration of the time and was discharged the 13th July 1781 at Philipsburg and his original discharge accompanied his application for a pension that in October 1782, he again enlisted at Worthington in Captain Wattles Company sixth Massachusetts Regiment for three years and served till the 30th June 1784 and was there discharged in the American Regiment at West Point and his discharge which he has now was signed by H Jackson Brig General that his original declaration to obtain a pension under the Act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 was made the twenty seventh day of April 1818 that he he (sic) has received a pension certificate Numbered 15.585 and dated the twenty ninth day of October 1819 And I do solemnly swear - that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818, and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled" An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war, passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me, nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule, hereto annexed and by me subscribed. 
Real Estate None. 
Personal Estate Excepting necessary bedding and cloathing two pine chests & New Knife & Tobacco Box $ 2.25 
2 Decanter and 1 Earthen Jug and 2 Glass Bottles 175 
nik stand fr. Shoe Bristles and tooth Bushes and Box Blacking
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2 Rasor and Strop 2 Lather Boxes $125 
one tumbler and one wine Glass & 1 [illegible] 1.25 
one Columbian Orator and Watts Psalms 1-
Abrgd. [abridged] History of America old and worn one hoe and one sythe 2.75 
one watch which I bot with my pension money 15 
= $26. 25 

I did not receive my pension certificate so as to draw any of my pension untill about five months since at which time I drew from the twenty seventh of April 1818 to the 4th of March 1820 T the watch above mentioned was paid for out of the same and I owe about one hundred dollars which I expect to pay out of what still remains of the same which is in two Notes of $50 each of Jehial Bradley and Edward and Isaac Hallock 
I am by occupation a farmer and have taken two or three acres the present year to cultivate on shares and have no wife or family and do not keep House 
I have for about two years been troubled with a swelling in my grans which incapacitates me from hard Labor 
Samuel Dewey (signature)
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Sworn to and declared on the third day of October
1820 before before the above 
named Judges in open court
Charles Platt
Clerk

I Charles Platt, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
held in and for the County of Clinton; do certify that
the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed
are truly copied from the record of the said Court, and I do further certify that it is
the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in
the aforesaid schedule is twenty six dollars and
twenty five Cents And further certify that
the last term of this court closed on
the 11th of May last and before the
promulgation of the Act of Congress
of the 1st of May 1820 and that there
has been no court below the said
County before the present term
at which the aforesaid schedule
and oath could be received

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
the seal of said Court, on this third day of
October 1820
Chs Platt
Clerk of the Court for the County of Clinton
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State of New York County of Clinton ss.
On this 8th day of July 1853 before the County Court of said County at the Court House in the town of Plattsburg. - in said County present Hon Thomas Watson County Judge personally appeared Edith Dewey a resident of Ellenberg in said County 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 3d of February 1853 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war: That she is the widow of Samuel Dewey who was a private in the Massachusetts line of the Continental army, and was a pensioner of the United States under the act of March 18 1818 at $96. per annum in the New York Roll. She further declares that her maiden name was Edith Palmer and her name at the time of her marriage with said Samuel Dewey was Edith Van Dusen, and she was married to the said Samuel Dewey in the town of Peru in the County of Clinton and state aforesaid by Horace Beach Esq. Justice Peace on the fifteenth day of May in the year Eighteen hundred and twenty three and remained his wife until the [blank] day of [blank] in the year 1832, on which day the said Samuel Dewey her said Husband died in the Town of Pompey --- the County of Onondaga, and State of New York leaving her a widow and she has ever since remained and still is a widow,-- She authorizes J.D. Woodward of Plattsburg NY to act as her attorney and receive a certificate for the pension to which she may be entitled 
 Edith  Vandusen her X mark
Attest. Nancy Vandusen (signature)
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Attorney - John Warden
Edith Dewey Her X Mark


Sworn and subscribed to on the day and year first above written before me and declarant cannot write her name owing to infirmity she is known to me as the identical person within Described.

Thos. B. Watson (signature) County Judge of Clinton County. 

State of New York County of Clinton ss,
John Van Dusen & Nancy Van Dusen both residents of Ellenburg in said County of lawful age being duly sworn says that they are well acquainted with Edith Dewey who has signed the preceeding declaration and that she is the identical person therein described as the widow of Samuel Dewey deceased who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States.
John Vandusen (signature)
Nancy Vandusen (signature)

Sworn and subscribed to before me this 8th day of July 1853 and I certify that Deponents are credible witnesses and I have no interest in the result of the claim to which the above declaration & affidavit relates and am not concerned in its progression.
Thos. B. Watson (signature)
 Clinton, County Judge
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172121

Edith Dewey
of N. York widow of
Samuel Dewey
Act March 3 1855
see papers of Mrs Dewey
under act Feby 3, 1853.




Filed by
J.D. Woodward atty
Plattsburg N.Y.
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State of New York, County of Clinton ss,

On this Seventeenth day of March 1855 before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County personally appeared Edith Dewey a resident of Ellenbury in said County, aged Eighty Six years who being duly sworn according to law declared that she is the widow of Samuel Dewey deceased who was a private in the war of the Revolution and served therein more than fourteen days, That he was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States on the New York Roll under the act of 1818, and she refers to his papers on file in the Pension office for a particular statement of his services that she was married to the said Samuel Dewey in the town of Peru of Clinton County State of New York on the fifteenth day of May in the year Eighteen hundred and twenty and her name before her marriage was Edith Vandusen that her said Husband died at Pompey in the month of November in the year Eighteen hundred and twenty nine, and that she is now a widow. She is a pensioner under act of february 3, 1853, at $96 per annum as the widow of said Samuel & applied from Clinton County N.Y.  She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she act approved be entitled, under the act approved March 3, 1855. 
Edith Dewey her X mark
The words "day of"  erased before signing , 
Witness, E Lyons (signature) 
Ruben Near (signature) 

We Edwin Lyons and Ransom Near residents of Ellenburg in said County & State of New York, upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Edith Dewey above named in our presence, and that believe from the appearance and statements of the applicants that she is the identical person she represents herself to be, 
E. Lyons (signature) 
Ransom Near (signature)
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The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above writing; and I certify that & know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim, and that the foregoing declaration was read and explained to the said Edith Dewey before she made oath to the same - 
J W Havens Justice Peace (signature)

Court of Pensions, please deliver my land warrant to my attorney J.D. Woodward of 
Plattsburg N.Y. 

Edith  Dewey her X mark 

Witness 
J. W. Havens Jus Peace (signature) 

[sideways]
Edith Dewey Widow of Samuel Dewey [illegible]
3..1853


J.D. Woodward  Atty
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State of New York Clinton ss.
Edith Dewey of Ellenburg in said County in addition to her declaration sworn to on the 17th day of March 1855, being duly sworn says that she has never received nor applied for Bounty Land under any other act of Congress than that of March 3. 1855, and her witnesses Edwin Lyon and Ransom Near of said Town being again duly sworn say that the said Edith Dewey at the time of making her declaration, was a widow and is now a widow, and that said Edwin and Ransom have no interest in her claim for Bounty Lands - 
Edith & Dewey her X mark 

Witnesses (signatures)
E. Lyons 
Ransom Near 

Sworn and subscribed to before me this 9th day of April 1855 and I certify that the claimant is the identical person she represents herself to be in her declaration for Bounty Land, and I know the above named Witnesses to be credible persons & that I have no interest in this claim 

J.W. Havens Justin Peace 
'April' erased & "June" interlined before signing
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STATE OF NEW YORK. 
CLERK'S OFFICE OF CLINTON COUNTY. ss. 
{seal]

I, LEWIS W. PIERCE, Clerk of the County Courts of said County, (the same being Court of Record,) do hereby certify that J. W. Havens Eq, whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument and thereon written, was at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Clinton, dwelling therein, commissioned, sworn and duly authorized to take the same. And further, that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Justice of the Peace, and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine and that the said instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of this State. 

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my name and allied the seal of said Court and out the 14th day of June A.D. 1855
W. Pierce Clerk (signature)
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No. 2676
Edith Dewey 
Widow of 
Samuel

Let to J D Woodward 27 Sept /53

Oct 3rd Feby 1853
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Priv: act /53 N.Y.
Boyton


24,763
[illegible]
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Revolutionary widow applies under act March 3, 1855
17212
postmark: Jul 14 Plattsburg N.Y. 


The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City DC

free
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Pension Office
23d Feby 1853
Sir
Please certify the time
to which the within named
pensioner was paid, or the
date of his death
Very Respectfully
SP Waldo
Commissioner
Samuel Denvey, act 1818.
$8 p. month. - Paid to
4th Sept. 1829- no date
of death on our Books
F. Burt
Auditor
Francis Burt Esqr
Third Auditor Treasury
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July 22, 1853
Appl. of Edith
Dewey widow of
Samuel Dewey
Clinton Co.
N. York
M. 20
Act Feb. 1853
$96  per an
Com: Feb 3, 1853
Rev
J.D. Woodward
Plattsburg
N. York
Department of the Interior
Pension office Official Business
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Widow, Etc.
File no. 25526
Edith Dewey
Widow of Samuel Dewey
(Briv?) Rev. War
Act. Feb. 3, 1853
Index: Vol. A, Page 178
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State of New York Clinton County ss: 
Reuben H. Walworth being sworn says that on the ninth day of May one thousand Eight hundred & Eighteen he put into the Post office at Plattsburgh a package Directed to the War office of the United States enclosing a number of revolution pension Claims with a letter to the Chief Clerk of the Pension office from John Palmer Member of Congress among which was the Declaration & proof in the case of Samuel Dewey of Peru late a soldier in Daniel Shays Company of the 5th Massachusetts Regiment, which declaration was made & certified before Caleb Nichols Esquire a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County on the twenty seventh day of April 1818 and Certified by the said Judge to the Honorable the Secretary at war agreeable to the act. And this deponent further says Pension Certificates were granted to Samuel Brown & several others whose Declarations were contained in the same Package so that the same must have been received at the Pension office. That this deponent has had nothing from the said Papers untill a few days since Wm Palmer received a letter from J. L. Edwards her papers could not be found in the office – that this deponent supposing that the papers were
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not acted upon pursuant of further testimony directed the applicant to endeavor to obtain further testimony in consequence of which be undertook a journey of several hundred miles & has now returned with his originals [illegible] change & further says not. 
Reuben H Walworth (signature)

Sworn this 28th day of August 1819 before me & I certify the deponent is a reputable witness 
Caleb Nichols a Judge of Clinton Common Pleas  (signature) 

State of New York Clinton County ss,
Samuel Dewey of Peru in the County of Clinton aged sixty one years being duly sworn says that he enlisted in the month of June 1778 at White Plains in the State of New York in Captain Daniel Shays Company in the fifth Massachusetts regiment, for three years on the Continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said Corps or in the service of the United States in till the ninth of June 1781 being the full term of three years when he being searing with the light infancy in Virginia received a pass to join his regiment in the State of New York at Philipsburgh which he did & was discharged there on the thirteenth day of July 1781 & his original discharge is hereto annexed that during the time he was in no general engagements that on the twenty seventh day of April 1818
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he made a declaration on oath before Caleb Nichols Esquire a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County of Clinton  in order to obtain the provision madr by the act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & Naval service of the United States in the revolutionary War" which he understands has been lost or mislaid at the War office of the United States and that he then was & still is in reduced circumstances & there stood & still stands in need of the assistance of his country for his support that at the time of his first declaration be did not know that he could procure his original discharge but has during the month of July last found the same in a Chest of papers & other things at his son in law's about two hundred & fifty miles from his residence in Peru & further says not 
Samuel Dewey (signature)

Sworn & Subscribed to this 28th day of August 1819  before me
Caleb Nichols (signature) 
a Judge of Clinton Common Pleas
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Caleb Nichols a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Clinton in the State of New York do certify that some time in the Spring of the year 1818 the within named Samuel Dewey made a declaration & proof before me for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" which I then certified to the Hon. the secretary of War.  That the said Samuel Dewey is in reduced circumstances & in need of assistance of his country for support and I am satisfied that he served in the war of the revolution agreeable to the said act also which I Certify to the Honorable the Secretary of War with the annexed affidavits said act Dated this 28th day of August 1819  -
Caleb Nichols (signature) 
a Judge of Clinton Common Pleas
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Charles Platt Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Clinton in the State of New York certify that Caleb Nichols is a Judge of Common Pleas in said County & has been for several years and that his name subscribed to the within Certificates and the annexed affidavits is in his hand writing. 

[seal]
In testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of my said office this 28th day of August 1819 Chas Platt Clerk of Clinton County  (signature)

[sideways]
Samuel Dewey
Rev. Pension Claim
additional vouchers 
Declaration made 27th April 1818 

I Caleb Nichols a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Clinton in the state of New York do certify that the original declaration of the above mentioned Samuel Dewey was made on the  twenty seventh day of April 1818. Dated the 
18th day of Octr 1819
Caleb Nichols (signature)
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Edith Dewey widow of Samuel
Dewey 
Act Feby 3 1853.
Allenud Watson. J.
J D Woodward
Atty
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State of New York
County of Clinton ss. ⎬

Zimri Hawks  of Ellensburg in said County aged fifty years being duly Sworn Says that he was well acquainted with Samuel Dewey and Edith Vanduesen and was present at at their Marriage which was solemnized in the town of Peru in the County of Clinton & State aforesaid on or about the fifteenth day of May in the year
Eighteen hundred & twenty three by Horace Beach Esq then a Justice of the peace in presence of Deponent, and others who were present on the occasion, that said parties were Husband & wife and lived together as such until about the year 1832 when the said Samuel Dewey Went to Onondaga County New York on a visit to his daughter, and died there as deponent understood at the time and verily believes leaving the said Edith Dewey a widow and she has ever since been & still is a widow & was a widow on the 3d day of February 1853-
Z Hawks (signature)

Sworn & Subscribed to before me this 9th day of July 1853 and I certify deponent is a credible witness & I have no interest in the result of the claim to which the foregoing affadavit relates & one not concerned in its prosecution.

J W Havens (signature)
Justice Peace
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State of New York County of Clinton Ss: 
John Van Dusen of Ellensburgh in said County aged fifty one years being duly sworn says that he was well acquainted with Samuel Dewey and Edith Van Dusen and was present at their marriage which was solemnized in the town of Peru. - in the County of Clinton and State aforesaid on or about the fifteenth day of May in the year Eighteen hundred and twenty three by Horace Beach Esq then a Justice of the Peace in presence of this deponent and others who were present on the occasion. 
That said parties were husband & wife until about the [blank] day of [blank] 1832 when the said Samuel Dewey died in the town of Pompey in the County of Onondaga and State of New York leaving the said Edith Dewey a widow and she has ever since been & still is a Widow, That there is no record of said marriage to the knowledge or belief of Deponent.
John VanDusen (signature)

.Sworn & subscribed to before me this 8th day of July 1853. and I certify that Deponent is a credible witness, and I have no interest in the result of the claim, which the foregoing affidavit relates and am not considered in its prosecution  
Thos R Watson (Justice Peace crossed out)
Clinton County Judge
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At a County Court held at the Court House in the town of Plattsburgh in said County of Clinton & State of New York present Hon. Thomas B. Watson County Judge.  It was proved to the satisfaction of said court in open court that Samuel Dewey formerly of Peru in  said County was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at $96. per annum under the act of March 18, 1818. having applied from Clinton New York and that he died while on a visit to his Daughters in Pompey Onandoga County New York on or about the        day  of                            1832 leaving a widow him surviving whose name was Edith Dewey and she has remained a widow since that event, and is still a widow and was such widow on the 3rd day of February 1853.  It was also proven that the marriage of the said Samuel Dewey with the above named 
Edith (whose name at the time was Edith Van Dusen) was solemnized at Peru Clinton County New York on or about the fifteenth day of May 1823.  The evidence adduced was satisfactory to said court.
D. H. Parsons Clerk
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State of New York County of Clinton Ss.  I the subscriber Clerk of said County Certify that Thomas B Watson before whom the within declaration of Edith Dewey & affidavit of John Van Dusen, Nancy Van Dusen was taken on the 8th day of July 1853 County Judge of said County and his signatures within are genuine & that John W Havens before whom the within affidavit of 3 (illegible) was taken and sworn on the ninth day of July 1853 was at said time a Justice of the Peace inand for said County duly qualified and that his signature within is genuine . In witness whereof I have fastened there papers together by a piece of red (?) tape the ends of which pass under the official seal hereto affixed this 13th July 1853 & I have no interest in the claim to which these papers relate nor am I concerned in its prosecution.
C. Demming Vaughan
Deputy Clerk of Clinton County

[there is the image of a round seal with two pieces of tape folded over the top]
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The Bearer hereof Samuel dewey a Soldier In the 5th Massachusetts Regiment, having served As A Faithful Good soldier, in the Said Regiment, the Term Of three years Being the full Term for which he inlisted is hereby Discharged from [word missing] Same.  
Given Under my Hand, at Philips Burgh (??)
The thirteenth Day of July __1781
Rufus Putnam,  Col.
[round stamp that says:]
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE 
(ILLEGIBLE)
[written near that is:]
SAMUEL     46
1-25526
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State of New York County of Clinton &
Zimri Hawks of Ellenburgh, in said
County aged fifty
years being duly
Sworn says that in an affadavit
made by him On the 9th of July 1853
he stated as a matter of opinion that
Samuel Dewey & Edith Dewey were
Husband and wife until about the
year 1832 when he went to Onoundanga County and died there, while
on a visit to his daughter, deponent
on reflection and having received other
information upon that point is satisfied he was mistaken as to the year in
which said Dewey died, & is convinced
that his death occured in the year 1829
at the place aforesaid, Z Hanks
Sworn and Subscribed to before me this 1st
day of March 1854 and I certify that deponent
is a credible witness & I have no interest in the
result of the claim to which the foregoing affa
davit relates & am not concerned in its prose
ecution
J.W. Havens
Justice Peace
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State of New York, County of Clinton ss.
Edith Dewey of Ellenburg in said county aged 84 years being duly sworn says that in her declaration to obtain a pension she stated the her husband Sam"l Dewey died in Pompey N, Y. while on a visit there, about the year 1832. She was mistaken, as to the time though not as to the place of his death: He died there, as near as she can fix the time about twenty four or twenty five years ago, say in 1829 - He went to Pompey N. Y,. to see his daughter who resided there, & never returned.                        her
                                       Edith    X   Dewey
Witness  John Van Dusen           mark

Sworn & subscribed to before me this 1st day of Mach [Jan is crossed] 1854 and I certify that Deponent is a credible person and cannot write her name owing to an infirmity and that she well knew the contents of the above affidavit, when she made oath to the same & I have no interest in the result of the claim, to which said affidavit relates and am not concerned in its prosecution.
        J W Havens
Justice of Peace
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State of New York, County of Clinton Ss
John Van Dusen, of Ellenburg in said county aged 51 years, being duly sworn says that he was well acquainted with Sam"l Dewey and Edith Van Dusen and was present at their marriage which was solemnized in the town of Peru, in said county in the fifteenth day of May in the year 1823 by Horace Beach Esq, than a Justice of Peace  (since dec"d) in presence of Deponent and others who were present on the occasion- That said parties were husband & wife until the year 1829 when the said Sam"l Dewey died in the town of Pompey, County of Onondega and State of New York, as Deponent understood leaving the said Edith Dewey a widow and she has ever since been & still is a widow.  That there is no record of said marriage, to the knowledge in belief of Deponant That in a previous affidavit made by him in which he stated the death of Mr. Saml Dewey to have occurred in 1832 he was mistaken & made a miscalculation.  It was about 25 years ago, which would bring it in 1829 at the place aforesaid.      John Van Dusen

Sworn & subscribed to before me this 1st day of January(January is crossed out) March 1854 and I certify that Deponent is a crewdible witness & I have no interest in the result of the claim to which the foregoing affidavit relates & am not concerned in its prosecution.
J. W. Havens   Justice of Peace
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State of New York County of Clinton ss.
I the subscriber Clerk of said County certify that J.W. Havens Esq before whom the within affidavits of Edith Dewey, Zimri Hawks and John Van Dusen was taken and served on the 1st day of March 1854 was at said time a Justice of the peace in and for said County and his signatures within for the jurats of said affidavits are genuine -- In witness whereof I have fastened these papers together by a piece of red tape the ends of which knot under my official seal this 2d day of March 1854 and I have no interest in the result of the claim to which these affidavit relate and am not concerned in its prosecution,. - 
Lewis W. Pierce (signature)
Clerk.

[seal with ribbon]
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James L. Edwards Esqr
Office of rev. Pensions
Dep of War
Washington.

[written sideways and to the left]
Rec.  (illegible)  Lehtn. 3 to 1819

[flourishes]
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Sir,
I find by entries on a memorandum book which I kept for that purpose that the application of Samuel Dewey for a Pension under the law to provide for indigent Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary army was forwarded to your office on the 9th Day of May 1818, accompanied with several others among which others are David George, Allen Smith, Aaron Bingham, & Samuel Brown, Aaron Troit & Abijah Stow &c.  Certificates having been granted on those last the Package must have been received at your office and Dewey's Papers in all probability enclosed with them but overlooked instead in your office.   having lately received a Line from you stating that his papers are not found in your office the Applicant has made a new application acompanied with his original discharge since found by him which is likely sufficient independent of his first application, to substantiate his claim anew.  he however wishes to have its allowance refer back & be founded on his original application as stated in the deposition of Mr. Walworth & also in the Certificate of the Judge.  The Judge, it will be preceived does not recollect the precise day and only states the original application to have been in the Spring of 18181 but (there is a tear in the paper here) Mr. Walworthy Affidavit naming the 27 Day (same tear) of April 1818.
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Case of Samuel Dewey

Jno (Johnathan) Palmer, Agt. 

Platabo A.rk

M***d Septr 13, 1819

[illegible]

Adm.
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being taken from entries on Book made at the time & which are now before me, must be connected.
If it is absolutely necessary the original application should be produced it will still I think be found among some of the thousands of applications now in your office.  It being sent in company with a number of others might notwithstanding your utmost care have been overlooked when the others were entered as received at your office.  The applicant being poor & having become considerably involved in debt while in expectation of the receipt of his pension, it would be a relief to him, if possible, to have his claim allowed as if previous to the 4th September so that he may not be obliged to wait untill March before he can receive his first payment.  
I am sir
with the utmost respect & esteem
Your obedient Servant
John Palmer

J. L. Edwards Esq
of office of Pension
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Washington DC.  March 8, 1854

Sir.
I  enclose the additional evidence required in your letter of Sept 27, 1853 in the case of Edith Dewey widow of Samuel Dewey.
Respectfully yours
J. D. Woodward.

Hon Loven P. Waldo
Commissoner (illegible)
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Brief in the case of Edith Dewey. widow of Saml.                                                          Clinton County and State of New York.
act 3d Feby: 1853.
__________________________________________________
Claim, ("original," or "for increase.")  [or for increase is crossed out.]
Proof Exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls?  If either, state the substance.

Husband was a pensioner under the Act of 18th March, 1818. and Continued
Two witnesses testify that they were present at the marriage.
(if for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim?  If so, what?

J. D. Woodward, Esq.  Present.
Name and residence of Agent

S. C. Boynton
Examining Clerk
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Plattsburg NY July 20, 1853.

Sir,

I enclose the application of Edith Dewey widow of Samuel Dewey dec'd under the act of Feby 3 1853.
respectfully yours,
J. D. Woodward

Hon Loven P Waldo 
Commr of Pensions
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Comr of Pens.
Sept 27, 1853
in case of 
Edith Dewey-
See additional evidence 
(illegible)
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Pension Office
Sept 27th 1853

Sir,
Mrs. Edith Dewey, claimant of a pension under the Act of Feb 3rd 1853, must prove the precise date of the death of her husband.
No revolutionary pensioner of the name of Samuel Dewey, died in 1832, as Mrs. Dewey alleges, or within a number of years of that date.
Her claim is necessarily suspended.
Very Respectfully 
L P Waldo
Commissioner

J. D. Woodward, Esq.
Plattsburgh,
New York