Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25722, for Samuel Morehouse, Connecticut
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(8-1776)
    SERVICE
  CONN.         SAMUEL MOREHOUSE  W.25722
                 or Moorhouse
                                        Mary
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           18.
Connecticut, Hartford
  Mary Morehouse
widow of Samuel Morehouse
  Con
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
80 Dollars -
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March. 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the
   9 day of June 1848
and sent to
     Jesuper Alvord.
         Southport, Connt.
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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield} Js
On this 24th Day of May.  A 1841
Personally appeared before the Court Of Probate within and for the District of Bridgeport in said 
County & State Mary Morehouse of Fairfield in said County now a resident of said Fairfield aged 82 years, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her Oath make the following [next word crossed out] declaration
in order to obtain the benefit of  the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7 1838; entitled 'An act granting half pay and Pensions to certain Widows;
That She is the widow of Samuel Morehouse late of Fairfield and who according to the best of her Knowledge and belief served in the Revolutionary Was as a private Soldier in the following manner     [Signed with initials]
That his first term of Service was in the 4th Brigade of Connecticut Militia in Col Ichabod Jervis Regiment. Capt.  [blank space] Company of the Parish of Greens Farms in said Fairfield
who went with said company to the City of New York in the fall of 1776. and served until he was taken sick & had permission to return home to said Parish which time of service was at least one month -
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That said Samuel served four terms of nine months eachat said Parish of Greensfarms in the Connecticut State Coast Guards under the command of Capt Joseph Bennett. & Capt A. Thomas Nash commencing in the Spring of 1778 as a private Soldier as proved by the Depositions of Selleck Batterson, Jonathan Godfrey, Betsey Elwood &  William Allen. hereto annexed
Also (next four words crossed out) in the same company of Guard at said Greensfarms in the Summer of 1782 at least Six months. Which company of Guard was raised by authority of the State of Connecticut and was attached to Said 4 Militia Brigade under command of Genl.  Gotd S. Selleman an of said Fairfield.  Capt Samuel Lacey commanded said Guard in 1782. &  succeeded said Nash in command of this same
Interrogations by Said Count.
Where and what year was said Samuel Morehouse born & have you a Record of his, both & where were you born.
Answer he was born in said Fairfield in the month of February 1758 had a Record of his birth which is not in her possession  She was born in said Fairfield Sep 12 that she has not madeth 1758. she cannot give the name of the Captain of the said husband. the reason she has not mad her application at an earlier day as that she did not obtain sufficient proof [inserted] until recently.
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Where was said Samuel Morehouse living when called into service and where did he live since the Revolutionary War and at the time of his decease
Answer always lived in said Fairfield in said Parish until his decease
She further declares that she was married to this said Samuel Morehouse on the twenty third day of Seventeen hundred and Eighty three by the Revd. Hezekiah Riply the Congregational minister of said Parish in the Town of Fairfield
That her husband the aforesaid Samuel Morehouse died in said Parish of the Consumtion [sic] January 7d A 1831
That her marriage to the said Samuel Morehouse did not take place prior to his  leaving the Service  but took place [inserted] previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred twenty four and that her maiden name was Mary Bradley and that she has not married again since the death of said Samuel Morehouse.
          [Signed]   Mary Morehouse
Sworn to and subscribed on the Day and year above written before me and I certify that the erasures and word place underlined in this instrument of the words *at least 6 months did not take but took proof that & not* [*underlined] [illegible] done before execution
         [Signed]  Isaac Sherman Judge of said
                                    Probate Court.
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And the said Court do hereby declare this opinion that the above named  applicant by the widow if Samuel Morehouse as Revolutionary Soldier & that he served as She states.
Attest        Attest Isaac Sherman
                        Judge of Probate
Philo Nunn Clerk
I Philo Nunn  Clerk of the Court aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the [inserted] original proceedings of the said  Court in the matter of the application of the widow Mary Bradley for a Pension. And that Isaac Sheman was at the time of taking the Depositions hereto annexed a Justice of the Peace [inserted] 7 Judge of said Court within & for the District of Bridgeport and Justice of the Peace for said County of Fairfield and that his signatures to the Declaration of Mary Bradley & Deposition of Selleck Batterson, Jonathan Godfrey, William Allen, Dan C. Curley  & Gideon Morehouse are genuine -
Also that Wait S Northrup is a Justice of the Peace & was at the time of his signing the Deposition of Betsey Elwood hereto annexed within & for said County of Fairfield duly commissioned & qualified & that her signature
to said Deposition is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this 24th day of May, AD 1841.
   Attests   Philo Nunn Clerk
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Gideon Morehouse of the Town of Fairfield County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut 55 years of age Deposeth and Saith that he is a son of Samuel & Mary Morehouse of Said Fairfield and that said Samuel Morehouse died at Said Fairfield died at Said Hartford of Consumption 7th day of January [inserted] A 1831 and that said Mary Morehouse has not enters married but continues the widow of said Samuel and that he has seen her Declaration tis Day executed to obtain a Pension and from what Deponent heard his father say relative to his Service before his draft he has no doubt of the truth of the Service claimed on said Declaration having been performed by his father as therein States.
      [Signed]  Gideon Morehouse
Fairfield County JB
Sworn & Subscribed in open Court this 24th day of May AD 1841 before me and I certify that the said Gideon Morehouse is a credible witness well known to me and that the date of January [underlined] in this Deposition was [illegible] before execution
           Isaac Sherman
Judge of the Probate 
Court for the District 
of Bridgeport in [illegible abbreviation] County
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I hereby certify that according to the records of the Congregational Church in the Parish of Greensfarms in the Town of Fairfield in Fairfield County State of Connecticut Samuel Morehouse  and Mary Bradley were united in marriage by the Rvd Hezekiah Ripley on the twenty third day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand seven thousand and eight three
and the following is a  true extract from Said Record now in my Keeping under  [word crossed out,  illegible word inserted] The Record of Marriages -
   - Feby 23.   Sam ll Morehouse & Mary Bradley
         [Clergy name illegible]
         Pastor of Said Church

State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield }JB  Fairfield May 24 AD 1891  
Personally appeared Dan C. Curtis and Subscribed and made oath to the truth of the above certificate before me who I certify is known to me, the Pastor of said Church and is a credible witness and that the erasure of the words [two words underlined, illegible] & underlining this word Revd was done before execution
      [Signed] Isaac Sherman Justice of Peace
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Selleck Batterson of Catskill County State of New York formerly of the Parish of Greensfarms in the Town of Fairfield State of Connecticut now on a visit to [illegible] Man in Said Greensfarms 72 years of age [inserted] the 24th day of last May, 1840.  Deposeth and Saith that he lived with Grummond Morehouse of said Greensfarms from the Spring of 1778 until the year 1786. and remembers perfectly well that said Grummond Morehouse was Insign of the Connecticut State Guards that was stationd [sic] at Said Greensfarms on Long Island Sound under Capt Joseph Bennet and that he served as Insign of Said Guards from the Spring of 1778 to fall at least nine months also from the Spring of 1779 to the fall at least nine months remembers perfectly well the Second Season  was at the time Said Town of Fairfield was burned by the British, and he further testifies that Samuel Morehouse a brother of said Grummond belonged to the Same company and Served Said two campaigns with his Said brother of nine months each as a private soldier of Said Guard.  The reason he remembers the above facts is that Said Samuel lived during the Revolutionary War in the same neighbourwhood [sic] with Said Grummond and Deponent was almost every day during that time at the Guard House and Saw them both on duty, and remembers that the British landed to take
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to take Capt Thomas Nash who succeeded Capt
Bennett in the Command of the Said Guard, also remembers that Samuel Continued and served in Said Guard After that [last two words inserted] every Season from the Spring of 1780 until the peace in 1782. That Capt Samuel Lacey
commanded Said Guard [last two words inserted] near the close of Said War. Thinks that Said Grummond was on list of Said Guard under Said Lacey. is confident that Said Samuel served as aprivate under Said Officers in Said Guard every season [word inserted] from the Spring of 1778 to the fall of 1782  after heard that Said Samuel went to New York in 1776 in the Militia Company of Said Greensfarms & that he came home Sick. That the Deponent [word inserted] lived during Said time Within a quarter of a Mile of the Guard House where Said Guard was Stationed on Long Island Sound
remembers Said Guard House was burned by the British after Fairfield was burned also remembers that the Guard Room of Said Samuels fathers House was used as a Guard House until a new Guard House could be built. also remembers that said  Samuel was married to Mary Bradley at the time the Deponent [word inserted] lived withsaid Grummond is confident that Said Samuel served faithfully in Said Guard  generally nine months in each Season and not
less than 8 months in any one Season
                   [Signed] Selleck Batterson
State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield Js Bridgeport October 5th 1840 Personally appeared Sillicke [sic] Batterson before me and made oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition who I believe to be a respectable & credible witness.
               [Signed] Isaac Sherman
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Jonathan Godfrey of the Town of Fairfield in the County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut will be 72 years of age the 10th day of November 1840 
Deposeth & Saith that he lived neighbour to Samuel Morehouse during the Revolutionary War
in the Parish of Greensfarms in Said Town of Fairfield and remembers perfectly well that Said Samuel went to the City of New York in the Summer or fall of 1776 in the Militia Company of Said Parish remembers was ripe when he went to New York and when he came back Sick which was at the time field Grapes was ripe from which command [next word covered with ink blot] he thinks it was about the twentieth of September 1776 remembers that Doctor Hobbert [Holebert?] told him he might eat ripe grapes if he craved them. Cannot Say how long he served in this campaign -  Also remembers that Said [next word crossed out] Samuel was inlisted [sic] Soldier in Connecticut State Guards that was Stationed at Said Greens farms on Long Island Sound all the time of the Revolutionary War - after he returned from New York. thinks  [illegible] commended Service in Said Guard and early in the War as the Spring of 1777 Said Guard was commanded a part of the time by Capt. Joseph Bennett a part of the time by Capt Thomas Nash and recollects to have heard that Capt Daniel Lacey commanded Said Guard the latter part of the War but recollects distinctly that
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Capt. Joseph Bennett & Capt. Thomas Nash 
commanded Said Guard  *at different periods during Said times* [* inserted]  Grummond Morehouse a brother of Said Samuel was Insign of Said Guard    Moses Nichols, was orderly Sergeant of Said Guard remembers that Said Samuel was in Service in Said Guard at a time the british [sic] lands for the purpose of Sirpprizin [sic]  Said Guard &  taking Capt Nash Prisoner failed in the attempt
Remembers that Samuel was married to Mary Bradley about the close of the War
      [Signed}  Jonathan Godfrey
State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield Js  Bridgeport October 5. 1849   Jonathan Godfrey personally appeared before me and Subscribed and made Oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition who I certify is a credible Witness
   [Signed]  Isaac Sherman Justice of the Peace
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William Allen of the Town of Westport formerly Town of Fairfield Parish of Greensfarms Fairfield County State of Connecticut 76 years of age a Pensioner of the United States under Act of June 7th 1832  Deposeth & Saith that he was well acquainted with Samuel Morehouse .... the husband of Mary Morehouse of Fairfield in Said County who is now applying for a Pension during the Revolutionary War & until his death Said remembers that Said Samuel himself served two terms off nine months each as a  private Soldiers in a Company of Connecticut Coast Guards under Capt Nash at Said Greensfarms on Long Island Sound the first term commencing as near as Deponent can Recollect in the Spring of 1789 and the Second term  commencing in the Spring of 1781.
Also Remembers that himself & Said Samuel served one term as privates in Said Guard [inserted] in 1782 which Guard was then under command of Capt Daniel Lacey at least Six Month  remembers that they Drew their rations together while in service in the Said Guard and remembers the British landing and Said Guard that a skirmish with them when  a man by the name of Jonathan Wakeman was Killed that Said Samuel was in Said Skirmish with Deponent.      Deponent further
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Testifies and Says that he remembers that Capt Joseph Bennett commanded Said Guard the first part of Said War and that Capt Thomas Nash succeeded him in the command of Said Guard  is confident in his own mind that Said Samuel served faithfully in Said Guard for the terms, before mentioned also after heard it Said that Samuel went to New York at the time the City of New York was taken & came home Sick as a private soldier in the Militia Company of Said Parish-
                [Signed] William Allen
State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield Js  Bridgeport April 27th. 1841   William Allen personally appeared subscribed and made oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition before me who I certify as a credible witness    
      [Signed] Isaac Sherman Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County }  J. Brookfield

   I Betsy Elwood of said Brookfield, being first duly sworn according to law, do on my oath Depose and say that i am seventy nine years of age - That I was well acquainted with Samuel Morehouse of Greens Farms in the Town of Fairfield, during the revolutionary war, and well remember that Samuel Morehouse served in the State Guards of Greens Farms - I am confident that Said Morehouse served in said Guards as much as four years and I don't know  but longer  I well remember that the said Samuel was brought home from New York sick While in the service and think that must have been in the forefront of the war It was certainly before Fairfield was burned and in the Summer Season, or forefront of the fall - Capt Thomas Nash commander said Guards Of Greens Farms most of the time; I believe Capt. Joseph Bennett commander a [illegible] of the time.
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Grummond Morehouse was an Ensign in said Guards - The reason that I remember these facts is that I lived at the time in Greens Farms, in the immediate Neighborhood and was well acquainted with the particulars and also that  my husband was in the same service with the said Samuel Morehouse and we were married while he was in the service.
   [Signed X, noted her mark,  Betsey Elwood]
Sworn and subscribed this 10th day of October 1840 before me, and I certify that the deponent, Betsey Elwood sustains a good character for truth and is a  credible witness
[Signed ] Wait S. Northrup  Justice of the Peace
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                          723


Admit private $80
Connt.  Agency

Send to
   Thomas Robinson  
          Southford  
                Connt.
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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield} Js
On this 17th day of April 1843 personally appeared before the subscriber & Justice of the Peace in an [illegible] County aforesaid Mary Morehouse a resident of Fairfield in said  County and State of aforesaid, aged 83 years who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to Obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress  passed on the 3rd of March 1843 granting pensions to widow of persons who served during the Revolutionary War - that she is the widow of Samuel Morehouse deceased who was a private in the Coast Guards of said  Fairfield in the Revolutionary War under Captain Lacey & Capt. Nash in that she received a pension as such widow under the Act of Congress on July 7, 1838.  The annual amount of which was eighty dollars - she further declares that she is still a widow
     [Signed]  Mary Morehouse
Sworn to and subscribed this day and year first above written before me 
    {Signed]  Thomas Robinson  Jus of Peace
I further certify that the Declarant the above named Mary Morehouse is well known to me certified the day & yrs - first above written
    [Signed] Thomas Robinson Jus of Peace
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STATE OF CONNECTICUT
County of Fairfield} Bridgeport
COUNTY COURT, CLERK'S OFFICE 

     Large Seal Affixed    I, William H Noble Esq.,
 CLerk of the COunty COurt, within and for County of FAirfield and keeper of the seal thereof, and of the Commission of justices of the Peace for said COunty, hereby CERTIFY:-

Thoomas RObinson  ESquire was on the 17th day of April 1843 and now is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly appointed, commissioned and sworn by the laws of this State, to administer OATHS, and take the acknowledgement of DEEDS and other instruments; that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and that the signature to this instrument hereby annexed, purporting to be his, is his genuine official signature.

  IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and seal of the said Court this 20th day of April 1843
       [Signed Wm H. Noble Clerk
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Hon. T.B. Osborne
     H.R
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I Stephen Allen of the Town of Ridgefield  the County of Fairfield in the & State of Connecticut
of lawful age  depose &  say that I was twenty six years old and I was born and brought up in the Parish of Greens Farms in the Town and County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut and continue to reside their [sic] until after the War of the revolution and then moved to the Town of Ridgefield where I have resided ever since I was well acquainted with Samuel Morehouse from my youth until his death he was born and brought up in the Parish of Greensfarms Town and County of Fairfield & State aforesaid   We were boys together I enlisted in the War of the Revolution into the Shore Guards as a private to serve on the Shores of Long Island Sound in the Town of Fairfield under Capt Thomas Nash for two seasons in succession that is I enlisted in the Years 1780 & 1781 for nine months in each Year I enlisted Ttogether  [sic] with  Benjamin Allen William Allen James Elwood Abraham Elwood & Nathaniel Johnson were taken prisoners by the British & was taken to Long Island & their was  [illegible word] in prison a few days & from thence we were taken to New York &.... Again! put in prison and then a few Months & then we were exchanged
I was the last that was exchanged we were landed at [ word inserted] Elizabeth Town point  I returned Home & again went on duty  Samuel Morehouse enlisted as a private into the Shore Guards to serve on the shores of Long Island Sound  under Capt. Thomas Nash at the same time and for the same term of time [word inserted} I did for two seasons in June from that is he inlisted [sic] in the years 1780 & 1781 for nine months in each year and served his term faithfully   reenlisted in 1781 the last year I served that Southern Coast one of the Guards was taken prisoner by the enemy & was taken to Long Island he was gone   [ illegible word] four days & was exchanged & returned & Again went on Duty -
     [Signed] Stephen Allen
                                                [seal affixed]
State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield Js Ridgefield  June 29 AD  [year illegible]  Personally appeared before me this day Stephen Allen foresaid who
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is personally well known to me and whose signature above affixed is also known to me to be genuine and Made solemn Ooath [sic] in the form  of Law to the truth of the facts stated in his said Deposition and I do hereby/further certify that the said Stephen Allen is a Man of [next two words Credibility  (illegible) crossed out] and I do also Certify that the word ,it, [sic] in the Nineteenth line and the word time in the twenty third line of the aforesaid Deposition was in two [illegible] before such Deposition was [illegible]
     [Signed]   Thomas F. Rowland Justice of the 
                               Peace

NOTE:  Approximately 80% of the writing that follows, completing the page,  is too faint to read
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I Fanton Beers of the Town of Weston County of Fairfield & Connecticut of lawful age depose & say  [inserted] that I am Eighty five years old that I was acquainted with Samuel Morehouse of the Parish of Greensfarms Town and County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut during the War of the revolution I enlisted into the War of the Revolution into the shore Guards to serve on the Shores of Long Island Sound in the Parish of Greensfarms in the Town of Fairfield under Capt. Thomas Nash as a private in the year 1781 for nine months After I enlisted I was made sargeant of said Guard & served My time out faithfully   Samuel Morehouse aforesaid enlisted into the shore Guards as a private to serve on the shores of Long Island sound aforesaid under Capt. Thomas Nash at the same time that I did & for the same term of time that I did that he enlisted in the year 171 for Nine Months & served his time out faithfully.
            [Signed] X, noted his mark and his name 
                  Fanton Beers
State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield  Js   Weston July 23 . 1841 -
Personally appeared before me this day Fanton Beers aforesaid who is personally well known to me and whose signature above affixed is also now to me to be genuine and made solemn Oath in the form of Law to the truth of the facts stated in his said Deposition & I do further certify that the said Fanton Beers is a Man of Credibility - & I do hereby certify that the word (suy) in the second line of the above deposition was underlined before the execution of the deposition aforesaid.
   [Signed]  Thos F. Rowland Justice of the Peace
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Gershom Wakeman of the Town of Fairfield County of Fairfiels & State of Connecticut and a landowner of the United Sates 79 years of age Deposeth and saith that himself & Samuel Morehouse of said Fairfield [illegible] married Sisters soon after the close of the Revolutionary War and he saith he was intimate with said Samuel until his death and often heard him speak about his service in the Coast Guards at Greensfarms in said Fairfield on Long Island Sound under Capt Thomas Nash and from conversations he had at deferant [sic] times with said Samuel he surely believes That said Samuel was in said Guard Service in several years during the Revolutionary War and served faithfully as a he was a Strong Whig and Zealous in the service of his country,
Deponent further saith that he was not intimately acquainted with said [next word crossed out] Samuel until 1781.  Allways [sic] lived in the same Town of Fairfield as did said Samuel until his death
          [Signed]  Gershom Wakeman

State of Connecticut County of Fairfield Town Fairfield June 24th 1841 personally appeared 
Gershom Wakeman before me and subscribed and made oath to the truth of the above Deposition who I certify is  credible witness.
   [Signed}  Isaac Sherman Justice of Peace
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Mary Morehouse of Fairfield Parish of Greensfarms County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut 80 years of age Deposeth and saith that her husband was brother of Samuel Morehouse also of said Fairfield who is also Dead and that Deponent served during the Revolution and until this day at said Greensfarms in the neighbournhood [sic] of said Samuel and remembers perfectly well that said Samuel served in the Guards that was stationed at Greensfarms in Revolution for several years in succession until  .... .... remembers Capt Thomas Nash commanded said Guard a part of this time and remembers that Grummond Morehouse  a brother of said Samuel was an Insign - or [illegible]  in said Guard  Also that her husband  Abraham Morehouse, D_nny Chapman & Lovel Chapman Simon Couch, Thomas & John Andruss George Batterson Stephen Batterson, Joshua Jennings & Peter Jennings William Allen  Tolcott Burr  Joseph Wakeman all of whom are dead except G William Allen served in said Guard
         {Signed]  X  noted as her mark and her name Mary Morehouse
      Signed in presence of Gideon Morehouse

Fairfield County State of Connecticut Town Fairfield June 24 1841 Personally appeared before me Mary Morehouse and made oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition who I certify is  a credible witness.
  [Signed] Isaac Sherman Justice of the Peace
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Lydia Nash of the Town of Westport formerly of the Town of Fairfield in Fairfield County State of Connecticut the 21st Day of December next Deposeth and Saith that she lived during the Revolutionary War and until this Day in said Parish and during said War next neighbour but one to Samuel Morehouse [next few letters crossed out] the husband of the Widow Mary Morehouse of said Parish and that She Deponent [word inserted] lived during the REvolution within 1/4 of a Mile of the Guard House where the Guard was Sationed. that said Samuel belonged to & Served in said Guard which [word inserted] was commanded and she {word inserted] [word inelligible] believes a part of the time by Capt Joseph Bennett part by [word inserted] Capt Thomas Nash & part by [last two words inserted] Capt David Lacey  remembers Grummond Morehouse a brother of said Samuel was an officer in said Guard thinks he was Insign or Let. that Samuel Taylor was an officer in said Guard a part of the time  remembers that said Guard was Stationed at Greensfarms  before said [word inserted vertically] Fairfield in Connecticut was burned by the British and She remembers perfectly well that Samuel {word inserted] saw command Service in said Guard before said Fairfield was burnt and continued in Service in said  Guard until the close of the War that Capt Daniel Lacey was the officer that commanded & Guard the last year that it was Kept. one reason that She remembers that & Samuel command Service before Fairfield was burnt was that
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the House of Doctor Ebenezer Jesup was burnt which she Deponent lived at the time Fairfield was burnt and remembers  perfectly well that said Samuel [word inserted] was in service in said Guard before Doctor Jesups House was burnt. Also remembers that the brittish [sic] landed and took all of Jesups Stock of Cattle one - night which was before than House was burnt and that She remembers perfectly well that said Samuel belonged to said Guard at that time and continued as She verrely believes to service in every  Successive years until the peace in Said Guard. Also remembers that Selleck Batterson lived with & Grummond Morehouse during the Revolution, that George Batterson did the brother of Selleck [last four words inserted] also Served in said Guard with said Samuel  Also Abraham Morehouse now did  Joshua Jennings Peter Jennings William Allen, Powel Batterson, John Andrews  Tolcott Burr Samuel Smith all the persons she has named as belonged to said Guard except said WIlliam Allen and Powel Battisson ^^ and dead & Powel [inserted] may be living but canno [last letter off edge of page] say whether he is or not as he removed fro 
= m  [carried over from previous line]  Said Fairfield several years ago.
     [Signed]  X her mark and name Lydia Nast
  Signed in presence of Gideon Morehouse

State of Connecticut County of Fairfield [illegible mark] Westport personally appeared before me Lydia Nash and Subscribed and made oath to the foregoing Deposition that it is true who I certify is a credible witness that of the words which, She, by part by Samuel the father of Selleck, are  dead, Deponent  [illegible] Powel was [illegible] before execution 
   [Signed]   Isaac Sherman Justice of Peace
Dated June 24th 1841
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County} Js  District of Bridgeport 28th July 1840
I Philoshun Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Bridgeport do hereby Certify that Thomas F. Rowland and J David Sherman are both Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Fairfield duly appointed; Commissioned and Sworn and their Commission Runs from the 20th of June 1841 to 20th June 1842 and that their signatures as Justice of the Peace attached to the foregoing Deposition of Stephen Allen Fanton Beers, Gershom Wakeman, Mary Morehouse & Lydia Nash above written in their genuine Signatures
     [First two words illegible] my hand and Seal of said Officer at Bridgeport this 28th day of July 1841
       [Signed] O Philoshun  Clerk

 Light stamp mark in area of word Signature above.
  Dark stamp mark lower left corner
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                MAry Morehouse
                 No 7830
                 Wid of Samuel
                    Conn




                 Isaac Sherman Esq
                             Bridgeport
                                          CT 



              Hon. T.B. Osborne                                                               
                  HR
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               Comptrollers Office
                            Hartford May 29 1841
 I Certify that an application for evidence to Services of Samuel Morehouse who claims service in the Revolutionary War Coast Guards, Fairfield in 1778 under Cap Joseph Bennett 9 months and nine months in 1779 Subsequently Cap Thomas Nash  succeeded Cap Bennett in Said Guards  and the said Samuel Morehouse claims service under cap. Nash 9 mo in 1780 and 9 mo in 1781 -Subsequently Cap Daniel Lacey [inserted] succeeded Cap. Nash and served under the Said Cap. Daniel Lacey 6 month in 1782 -
That I have examined the Books & papers remaining and do not find the Pay Rolls of Either the above Officers -That on Our Table Books I find the following Asets [sic]-
    Lieu Joseph Bennett
1779  Sep 2 To order on This as       8442 18 9
                 his a/c -                                                       
1780 July 11 To Order on This to    L 10550.18.9
                 Ballance his a/c             Cos 
1780 Feb 11[two illegible words]
  his account Rendered to Balance  L10550.18.9

In [illegible] R.cipts, Expence of Coast Guards
1781 Apr - Cap Thomas Nash at Fairfield 
    Coast Guards  his Pay Roll L 144.13.2
1782  July 28     Cap Thomas Nash in Fairfield
    Coast Guard   Pay Roll      L 1396-2.8

      [Signed]  Henry Melbourn  Comptroller
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Hartcells Receipts Expence of Court Guards
1782 Jany 30 

ensign Daniel Lacy expence Guards at [illegible]  L. 5h.13.9 [illegible]
Huey  Kelbourn Comp

Dr Sir
Enclosed you have the amount Credited on Pay Table Book
for Lieut Joseph Bennett Cap. Nash  & Ensign Lacy-
In Amount Credited to assign May is  $ more, but nothing
further appears on our Books for him you any
one or not

Yours Respectfully
H. Kilbourne

May 29 1841
Isaac Sherman [illegible]
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Declaration In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of 2nd February.1848. entitled "An Act Making further provision for the surviving Widows and Soldiers of the Revolution".
         State of Connecticut 
         County of Fairfield} Js
                    On this 11th day of April 1848 personally appeared before me Joseph [illegible] a Justice of Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, Mary Morehouse a resident of the town of Fairfield in the County of Fairfield, State of Connecticut Aged Eighty Eight years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 2nd of February 1848, granting pensions to Widows of persons, who served during the Revolutionary War; hat She id the Widow of Samuel Morehouse who was a Private in the Army in the War of the Revolution;  That She received a pension under the Act of 17th June 1844. at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum -  She further declares that She is still a widow _      Mary Morehouse [sig]
Sworn to and subscribed on the  
day and year above written,
   Before me
          Joseph [illegible]  Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that the above Declarant is personally known to me as the Widow of Samuel Morehouse and the same individual who drew a pension as state in the foregoing declaration.    [Signed]  Joseph Ahord Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County}  js
             I Thomas Robinson clerk of the county court within and for the County aforesaid, and keeper of the Seal thereof & of the Commissions of the Justices of the Peace for said county duly commissioned and acting as such and duly authorized by the law of this State to administer oaths, and take the acknowledgement of deeds:  That his commission is dated 19th of June 1847 and will expire with the 19th day of June 1848, and I further certify that the within signature purporting to be his, is his genuine Official Signature.

   Seal affixed    In testimony whereof I have 
                         hereunto set my hand, and the 
                         seal of said County court in 
                         Norwalk -
                         This 13th day of April 1848
          [Signed]        Thomas Robinson Clerk

[Written vertically at lower left]:
Admitted,

[Signed]  Joseph Alvord
Southport
Connecticut
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Round stamp dated April 2 1891.

Rectangular staMp:
        Army & Navy Survivors'
                 April 4  1891
                    DIVISION
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[Block, upper right corner]:  Refer in reply to this initial:
       
        DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
             GENERAL LAND OFFICE,
                     Washington, D.C.     Mar. 31. 1891
ADDRESS ONLY THE
COMMISSIONER OF 
THE GENERAL LAND
OFFICE

Hon. Green B. Runin,
   Commissioner of Pensions,

Sir:
   My maternal great grandfather Joseph Morehouse of Fairfield, Conn. and latterly of Saratoga Co N.Y. (probably town of Bullston) was, as I am informed, "a soldier of the Revolution."
  Would you please inform me if he, or hos widow, Mary, or "Molly" (Bradley) Morehouse, ever applied for a pension, and, if so, please advise me what is shown, by the files, as to Co. and Regt. in which he served, time of service etc. and if a family record, or memoranda relating to his family be on file please furnish me a copy.

I will be greatly obliged if you will refer this letter, for reply, to Mr. G. N. Prior, "Old War Div.'
                       Very respectfully,
                         Nelson D. Adams
                                Gen. Land Office
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Old War.... Div.
  INT............Ex'r.

Department of the Interior
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Washington, D.C.  July 21, 1891

Sir, In answer to your request, relative to Joseph Morehouse a Revolutionary Soldier from Fairfield Conn, later, of Saratoga County N.Y.,  who married Mary or Molly Bradley you are advised that there is no record of application for pension on account of his serve, nor in the list of "Connecticut men" recently published for Said war -

 A Samuel Morehouse, in that war, born in Fairfield, married Mary Bradley who applied for pension, and she stated that Samuel always lived and died in Fairfield- There is no allusion to her residence in any other place than Fairfield -

If your enquiry had been for Samuel Morehouse, the only explanation needed to
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                     Bridgeport June 1st 1841

Dear Sir,

I send you the Pension application of the Widow Mary Morehouse of Fairfield which you will please present to the Commossioner of Pensions.  There is one term of service claimed in 1776 for one month & 6 months in 1782 that is not embraced in the Comptrollers certificate announced to her Declaration but the Compt. certificate to show that Col. Ichabod Lewis [illegible]  mony for that Service can be found .... the Pension office with the Declaration of the Widow Abiah Lewis of Connecticut who was Pensioned under the Act of July 1836 and the Compt. certificate to  prove the Service of Capt Samuel Lacey in 1782 can be found with the Pension papers at Washington of Jeremiah Osbourne of (Southport) Fairfield  State of Connt under Act of June 7th 1832 and if not found within may be found with the papers of Nathan Odell of Norwalk Cont. under Act of June 7th 1832
  Honl. T.B. Osbourne         Yours respectfully,
  Washington City                 Isaac Sherman
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Sir
   I enclose herewith the application of Mrs Mary Morehouse for a Pension with the evidence i support of her Claim-
  You will perceive by the letter of Isaac Sherman Esquire also enclosed that reference is made to Documents in the office -

Please examine the papers at your earliest convenience and communicate the result to me -
                          I have the honor to be 
                           with great respect 
                           your Obedt Sevnt
                                Thomas B Osbourne
James L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
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     House of Representatives
                   January 6, 1882

Sir - I enclose herewith additional evidence in the case of Mary Morehouse, which will, I trust, remove the objection taken when the case was examined before - The discrepancy between Mr. Allens Deposition this former Declaration is, I have not the least doubt truly explained - the substantial [underlined] facts were truly stated in his first Declaration but made a slight mistake which is now explained & corrected - I hope there will be no difficulty, in the present view of it, in allowing the Pension -

                                I have the honor to be 
                                with great respect
                                your Obedt Srvt
                                Thomas B Osbourne 
Samuel L Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
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                               Pension Office
June 12th 1841

Sir, 
I have examined the claim of Mrs. Mary Morehouse widow of Samuel Morehouse deceased and have placed her papers upon our files.
Mrs. Morehouse alleges that her late husband performed several terms of coast guard duty from the year 1778 of nine months duration each and one term in 1782 of six months. Several witnesses are produced who testify to the service as above set forth one only however was himself in the service with said Morehouse.
This witness (William Allen) does not appear to have a very clear recollection of the service of himself or that of Mr Morehouse and as his present statement differd [sic] materially from that made by him in 1823 when applying for a pension for himself, it  will be required by this Department, that
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further proof of Mr Morehouse service be produced. This testimony of Seleck Batterson and Jonathan Godfrey can have but little weight in this case for the reason that at the time the alleged service of Mr Morehouse were performed they were  but about  [word inserted] twelve years of age but could have little or no knowledge of Military service.

                                I have the honor to be
                                with great respect
                                You Obed. Sevt.
                                J L Edwards

Hon T. B. Osbourne
House of Representatives.
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                                     Appts
    Wm Allen  [illegible]   76. pen
80, 2 [crossed out]   9 ms    Nash
81,       -                    9.            -
82                              6         Lacy

                        1832 76.
dec. July 1831 age 67.9  1765    1781
                                           16     _____
&pg '81      9 mo.  Nash  Col [illeg]
[line illegible]
&pg  '82  9 mo  Fairfield Shore.   x  Nash
amend doc          June   '33   

AD '80     9 mos     Quin [?]
Mar 81    9 -           Nash      prison etc.
       81      9 -          Nash
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Saml Morehouse  d Jan 7 1891
Mary                        M 1723    S
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Benjamin Brothwell of the Town of Fairfield in the County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut a Pensioner of the United State under the act of June 2nd 1832 Deposeth and Saith that he was well acquainted with the arrangement and establishment of the Connecticut Coast Guards Stationed on Long Island Sound in said Town of Fairfield which was a Chain of Guard Posts running along said Sound the width of said Town from a place called Mutton Lane on Fairfield Beach adjoining the Town of Stratford then running Westerly on said Sound to Saugatuck River a distance of about ten miles and said Guard contained about 100 men Stationed at different points by Mutton Lane or Fairfield Beach at the & Fairfield [last two words inserted and crossed out]] Town [illegible]  Engers Point, Mill River,  Sasco Creek, Greensfarms  Compo, Saugatuck FC  different officers all were under Capt Thomas Nash who was head commander of the whole until the Spring of 1782  cannot say when said Nash commenced said Service and that Capt Daniel Lacey took charge of the whole of said Guards in the Spring of 1782. That Deponent was a corporal in said Guard under Cat Daniel Lacey from April 1782 to December 1782  8 months. 
Grummond Morehouse of said Greensfarms was a
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a Leut under said Lacey in said Guards in 1782 and that Capt Daniel Lacey succeeded said Capt Thomas Nash in the command of said Guards.
     [Signed]  Benjamin Brothwell

State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield} Js Bridgeport October 11th.1841
Personally appeared Benjamin Brothwell and Signed and made Oath to [illegible] the truth of the foregoing Deposition before  me and who I certify a credible witness well know to me
     [Signed]  Isaac Sherman
Justice of Peace

State of Connecticut
Fairfield County  Js   Bridgeport 31st December 1841I Philo Nunn Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Bridgeport do hereby certify that Thomas F Rowland and Isaac Sherman Esquire are Justices of the Peace within and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and that their [the three words illegible] until June 18212. and that the Signatures of the aid Thomas F Rowland to the Certificate of William
    ' Given  Allway Deposition, and that of Isaac Sherman to the Certificate of Benjamin Brothwell Deposition are their Genuine Signs 
Given under my hand and the seal of Court at the Probate office in  T Bridgeport this 31st day of Decr.  1841
      [Signed}  Philo Nunn
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I William Allen of the Town of Westport County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut of lawful Age depose & say that in addition to what I have hereunto declared impose and said I find on reflection that I was Mistaken unto the Years& time I Served in the Shore Guards on the shores of Long Island sound Under the several commanders that instead of doing duty under State Service in 1780 the first two years I enlisted into the Shore Guards to serve on the Shores of Long Island Sound it was Under Capt Thomas Nash who had, My impressions are, the command of all the Shore Guards in the Town of Fairfield from Norwalk to Stratford line during that period & the first year that I enlisted it was the year After the Meeting House was burnt in Greensfarms by the Enemy which was in 1779 which must be of course in 1780 for Nine Months I was together with Benjamin Allen Stephen Allen  Isaac Elwood Abraham Elwood Thomas Phillips & Nathaniel Johnson was in  July 1780 [next word crossed out] taken prisoner by the British & carried to Long Island & from there we wer taken to New York & was confined in the prison called the Sugur (Seeger?) House, untill [sic] late in the following fall & then we ware eschanged  [sic] & we ware landed at Elizabeth Town Point & we came Home & in 1781 I again enlisted under Capt Nash to serve in the Guard aforesaid in the forepart of the season  I think it was in April it was at the time the enemy burnt the Guard House in the Parish of Greensfarms & that Joshua Couch one of the Guards was taken prisoner by the enemy & was taken to Long Island  I was very Near him & can go now to the very spot where he was taken  I was on one side of the House & he the other he was gone a few days & Capt. Nash took a flag and went to the Island & got him exchanged & he returned back with him & again turns out with Capt Nash faithfully I was well acquainted with Samuel Morehouse until his death we were Mates together  he enlisted into the Shore Guards at the same time [word inserted] that I did each year & served his time out each year faithfully  My impressions are [word inserted] that in 1782 Capt Daniel Lacey took the command of the Shore Guards on Long Island Sound in the Town of Fairfield and I again enlisted into said shore Guard for Nine Months & served part of the time under said Lacey & part of the time under [illegible] Jarvis who had the command of the Guards
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Near Sago Creek in the Eastern part of the parish of Gransfarms
in said Fairfields it was in 1782 According to my best recollection it was
the next year after I had served under Capt. Nash that I served in [] a
Guard under said Lucy instead of 1780 who my impressions are [] Nash
in the Command of [] and the [] under Dassy & Jarvis was but 
one [] in [] of []under Jarvis nine months & []
Month an fix it [] but one & the [] thing it was but
for nine months both & [] my time out for []
William Allen 

State of Connecticut
Fairfields County [] Westport December 13th 1841
Personally appeared before me this day William Allen
aforsaid who is personally well known to me & whose signature
above affixed is also known to be genuine & made solemn oath
in due form of law to the truth of the facts stated in his disposition
& I do hereby further certify that the said William Allen is []
& I do hereby certify that the word line  in the twenty[] & the word are
in the thirtyith & the word Month in the forty second lines were
in [] line before said disposition was executed
Thos F. Rowland  Justice of the Peace

J.B. Osborne
{]
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   [illegible]   Agent notified Feb 16, 42

Connecticut
Mary Morehouse widow of
  Samuel Morehouse dec
[next line crossed out] : who was a pensioner under the act of 
and who died in the month of Jany. 1831.
of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut
who was a Private in the Comp commanded
by Capt Nash of the regt commanded 
by Col. Dumond in the Connect
line [word crossed out] for Coast Guards for 2 
              years
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of 80 Dollars     Cents  {Crossed out] 
             per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 16, day of Feb. 1842 and sent to Hon, F.B. Osbourne, H Reps
Arrears to the 4th of March '41  40000
 [last line illegible, crossed out]
                                                  $ 400.00
                                                  {Act July 7,
                                                       1838}
Recorded by Theo L. Moody Clerk,
Book A, Vol. 1  Page 176
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[Left panel]      to ansonia, Conn.     

[Center panel]
                 WIDOW, &C.
   No.     25,722
Mary Morehouse
widow of Samuel Morehouse
Pri    Rev War
Act:  Feb 2nd 48
Index:  Vol. M   Page 66
  [Arrangement of 1870.]

[Right panel}
1894 Nov. 23 Hart
Mrs. Wm J. Clark,
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Mary Moorhouse
Wid of Samuel
Conn.
Act July 7 1838
Married 1783
died Jan. 1831.
Allow $80 per ann.
[illegible] Conn Court [illegible]
Capt Nail. Fl Dimond

Hon JB Osborne
Ho Rep
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      No 7850
Mary Morehouse
Wid of Samuel
     Conct
to Hon T.B Osborne Aug 21, 41

let to T.B. Osborne
June. 14 1841 HRep
  [Word  Rejected  is scribbled out]
Act 7 July 1838
Suspended
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                                  2750
     Mary Morehouse
       Conn.
       Suspended


Act of July 1838
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                       1841
Stephen Allen      16 May
                        1761    
   1780 ---  9
    1781---  9        Nash
            dec.
1780     [illegible]
    81    G           Bennett - Abel
    82     G           Nash   taken prisoner
                                                       



1841
   74
 ____
1767
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Sam Morehouse born in Fairfield Feby 1758} always lived in Fairfield Parish Green Farms
wife born Sept 2 1758  Mary Bradley 
Feby 23 1783   He died in said Parish Jany 7 1831



Gershom
Isaac
David
Stephen
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Circular Stamp:

PENSION
U Oct S
     30
   1894
OFFICE


Rectangular Stamp:

OLD WAR & NAVY
     NOV 1 1894
         FILES
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12South Cliff St. Ansonia, Conn.
     Oct. 29th 1894
Wm Lochren, Commissioner
Bureau of Pensions

Dear Sir,
    {letter M written in ooen space]
 The record and terms of service for which a pension was granted to Ann Morehouse Fairfield County, Conn a widow of a Revolutionary War soldier, is desired, also a statement that she was wife of Samuel Morehouse.  Will you kindly send the complete record as soon as possible?
                                   Yours respectfully,
                                   Mrs. William Clark
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                                        766
Connecticut
Mary Morehouse
widow of Samuel Morehouse 
who was a Private 
in the Conn line for two years
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
     80 Dollars --
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the
6th day of July, 1843
and sent to Thomas Robinson
Southport,  Conn.

[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1  Page 72.