Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16,884, Nathaniel Calkins, Conn.
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Conn.    Calkins, Nathaniel     W.16.884
Calkin
Lois
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14782 New York
Nathaniel, Calkin
of Corinth in the State of N York
who was a private in the company commanded by Captain __of the Regt commanded
by Col Barrett in the Connecticut
line for 7 months
Inscribed on the Roll of New York 
at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March 1834
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of June 1833 and sent at Goodrich Ballston NY.
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 35 -   
                                                        $44.66
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep 33- 
                                                           11.66
                                                         $58.32
Revolutionary Claim,
for June 7, 1832 
Recorded by Tho Cromwell Clerk,
Book E   Vol. 4    Page 51

Paid at the Treasury under the Act of this 6th April 1838 from 4 Sep 1839 to 4 March 1840 ajt modified 10 March 1841
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Nathaniel Calkin
1992
from spring to 2nd Sept 
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service extended 
for 7 ms.
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7 mo pri
$ 23.33
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A. Goodrich cigl
Ballston -
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[stamp THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES] 

CALKINS, NATHANIEL
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CALKINS, 
NATHANIEL 

[stamp THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES]
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We Zebedee Mosher & Thomas Dibblee residing in the town of Corinth county aforesaid hereby certify that we are acquainted with Nathaniel Calkins who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy nine years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion.
Thomas Dibblee
Zebedee Mosher

Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open court.
Thomas Palmer Clerk

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states, and the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Thomas Dibblee, who has signed the preceding certificate was late a Judge of this Court, now resident in the town of Corinth in the County of Saratoga & State of New York, and that Zebedee Mosher who has also signed the same is a resident in the same town & a credible person & that their signature is entitled to credit.
Thomas Palmer Clerk of the County of Saratoga & of the Court of Common Pleas of said county, do certify that the foregoing contain the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Nathanial Calkins for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this fifty day of September 1832.
Thomas Palmer Clerk

Pension application
of Nathaniel Calkins
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this Court by record of his bodily infirmities that said Joseph has a personal knowledge of some part of this deponents services as will more fully appear by his affidavit hereto annexed.

And this deponent further saith that Thomas Dibblee, Zebedee Mosher, Jeremiah Eddy, Isaac Edwards of Corinth aforesaid residing near this deponent can testify as to his character for veracity, their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution. & further that he never received any other discharge than the ones herein mentioned.
Nathaniel Calkins
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Thomas Palmer Clerk
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In the fall of the year 17___ he was called out by the authorities of the State of Connecticut as a militia infantry soldier in Captain John Peneyars company. The company proceeded to Fishkill, he remembers he saw there Genl Putnam. He has now no recollection of the names of the other officers of the company; He was in service on this occasion about six weeks. The particulars of which he is unable further to state in consequence of the badness & failure of his memory. He has been afflicted with the [illegible] in his head for 25 years. He was engaged in no battle during the last time he was called into service.

He further saith that there is a record of his age in the town of Sharon aforesaid as he verily believes that a record of his age has also been preserved in his family Bible and the same still remains in his family Bible which last record corresponds with the account of his age as derived from his parents. He hereby relinquishes any claim to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
This deponent further saith that Joseph Barnes of the town of Corinth in said county of Saratoga is unable to attend

CALKINS, NATHANIEL
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The only names of the officers of said company which he now remembers are Lieutenant Kingsbury & Colonel Jonas Lawrence. The company was ordered into service by the state authorities in the summer just before harvest. The company proceeded to Fishkill or Peekskill in the state of New York on the Hudson River, remained there a short time on Hoyts Plains a place in the vicinity; then proceeded to Westchester & East Chester & made a halt at the latter place.
There was a company of Continental Cavalry commanded by Captain Buell of Hartford in Connecticut which served with the deponents company & the two companies proceeded from Peekskill to East Chester together. While stationed at East Chester the two companies send out a small scouting party who took prisoners. Several of the picket guard of the British force stationed at or near Kingsbridge. A Lieutenant of the British Army was also taken on this occasion. Deponent was not one of the scouting party & therefore denied a part of his knowledge on this subject from the statements of others made at the time. Afterwards the deponents company proceeded to Norwalk in Connecticut & was present when the British burnt that place. There was no general engagement tho there were several men killed & wounded on both sides. The time of service by the deponent during the summer of 1778 as above detailed was rising of six weeks, the deponent not having the means or the power of filing the time accurately.
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The deponent remembers he got back to Chambly about the fourth of June & was inoculated for the small pox on the seventh of that month. He remained at this place eleven or twelve days & then proceeded to St. Johns where soon afterwards the whole American forces on their retreat met; The number of troops assembled there was quite large; The deponent in company with the troops above mentioned proceeded in Batteaux to Crown Point & Ticonderoga at which latter place the deponent was taken sick with a malignant nervous fever, from thence he was carried to Fort George where in consequence of his illness & the belief of the commanding officer as expressed in his discharge, that he would be unfit for duty during the residue of his enlistment, he was regularly & honorably discharged; The discharge above alluded to bore date on the second day of September 1776 & he was unable to reach home until the 17th day of October following. That he remained ill until the next season & continued in feeble health during that year. That in the year 1818 he made an application for a pension under the act of Congress of that year which was rejected. That on such application the discharge obtained as aforesaid was forwarded to Washington & was never returned with the other papers to the deponent who supposes the same now remains in its proper place in the War Department.

That in the year 1778 the deponent belonged to a company of Militia cavalry commanded by Rufus Dutchie of Sheffield in the County of Litchfield & State of Connecticut;

CALKINS, NATHANIEL
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State of New York
County of Saratoga} On this 5th day of September 1832 personally appeared in open court before the court of Common Pleas of said county of Saratoga now siting, Nathaniel Calkins, a resident of Corinth in the County of Saratoga and State of New York aged seventy nine years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That he was 79 years old on the 11th day of June last past & was born s he has been informed & believes in a place called Oblong in the State of New York that when he was one year old or thereabouts he and his family moved to the town of Sharon in Connecticut & resided there until he was thirty one years of age, that then he removed to Canaan in Columbia County State of New York where he resided a little less than one year, he then removed to the town of Milton in the County of Saratoga where he resided seven or eight years & then removed to the town of Hadley now Corinth in the same county where he has ever since & now resides. That he removed tot he place where he now resides thirty five years ago last March. That the military services herein afterset forth were performed while he was a resident in the town of Sharon in the County of Litchfield & State of Connecticut. 
That about the middle of February 1776 he enlisted as a volunteer soldier in the state troops of Connecticut for the period of one year to go to Quebec; that such enlistment was in the company commanded by Captain David Downs on Col. Burralls regiment the names of the other officers of the company were Lieutenant Adonijah Griswold & Ensign Samuel Johnson. He is unable to state the names of any of the other officers of the company. He was not much of the time with his company in consequence of his acting as a waiter to Major John Sedgewick. The whole number of men in the company was nearly
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100; He is unable to state with any certainty or accuracy the companies regiments and officers with whom he acted in this service, but he remembers Capt Titus Watson of Norfolk in the State of Connecticut commanded a company attached to the expedition, he also remembers Capt Swift of the town of Kent & Captain Luther Stoddard of Salisbury in the same state & Lieutenant Colonel Beach of Salisbury & Major John Sedgewick of Cornwall in the same state for the latter of whom he acted as a waiter as aforestated. He also remembers Quarter Master Beach who lately resided in Baleston in the county of Saratoga but who is now deceased. That he left home on the 7th March with his company passed through Albany where they remained three weeks & then passed through Stillwater Saratoga to Fort George, then down the Lake George to its outlet & thence by land to Ticonderoga & thence to St. Johns in Lower Canada stopping at Crown Point & the Isle Aux Nois & thence to Chambly, the Three Rivers & lastly to Point Chambeaux forty miles or thereabouts from Quebec. At Chambly he was separated from Captain Downs company who went from thence to a place called the Cedars & where he with his company as he deponent was informed, was taken prisoners of war in an engagement with the enemy. The deponent staid at Point Chambeaux only one day. Major Sedgewick having directed him to proceed to St. Johns with his baggage. On his way up he staid twelve days at Sovill. The deponent returned in a boat in company with the sick. At Point Chambleaux the troops met the remainder of the American Army on their retreat from Canada.
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4017
New York
Lois Calkins
widow of Nathaniel Calkins who died on the 19th April, 1843 of Saratoga in the State of New York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Conn. of the Regt commanded by Col. Barrell in the Connt line for seven months.

Inscribed on the roll of Albany at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 19th April 1843, the day of his death.

Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of May 1844 and sent to Hon. [illegible]

Arrears to the 4th of 
Semi-annual allowance ending


{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the ~}
Recorded by Tho Lumpkin Clerk
Book C Vol 1 Page 109

Reported

Paid at Treasury under act of 6 April 1838 from 4 Sept 1842 to 4 March '43. Agent notified 23 Ma '46

Let to Wm. Valentine Feb 5, '44
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DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by an act of Congress, passed July 4, 1836 entitled "An act granting half-pay and pensions to certain widows."
State of New-York,
Saratoga County}ss.
On this 23d day of Dec in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty three personally appeared before Thomas Marvin One of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County Lois Calkins a resident of the town of   Moreau in the County of Saratoga and said State of New York, aged eighty eighty 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 an act of Congress, passed July 4, 1836 entitled "An act granting half-pay and pensions to certain widows."
That she is the widow of Nathaniel Calkins late of the town of Moreau in said state of New York who departed this life on the 19 day of April 1843. 
That her husband the said Nathaniel Calkins was a soldier during the war of the Revolution & at the time of his death a pensioner of the United States under the act of June 7 1838. That of the revolutionary services of her said husband, she this deponent, remembers the following particulars. 
In the month of March 1775 her said husband was called into the service & was engaged in an expedition to the north from whence he returned about the 26th of October following sick of a fever. In the year 1777 he served upon two expeditions. The one of five weeks & the other of four weeks. In 1778 he served six or seven weeks. The above service was performed under the command of Capt. Downs of Connecticut, Major Sedgewick & Colonel Burrall, but owing to old age & loss of memory declarant cannot relate the particulars of the service, but believes the 2d & 3d expeditions were at White Plains, West Chester and West Point.
And declarant further saith, that she was married to the said Nathaniel Calkins on the 7 day of February seventeen hundred and seventy one by Rev. Cotton Mather Smith at Sharon Conn. That the following persons were present at her marriage, to wit: Col. Williams & wife, James White & wife, David Boris & wife, & Isaac Purdy & wife. All of whom declarant believes are now dead.
That previous to her said marriage she resided in the town of Sharon Conn and bore the maiden name of Lois Boris.
That her husband the said Nathaniel Calkins died as aforesaid on the 10 day of April eighteen hundred & forty three being at the time of his death a pensioner as aforesaid. And further that the accompanying record is the family record of this declarant & in the hand writing of [no name given here].
Lois Calkins X her mark

Subscribed and sworn the day and year aforesaid, before me by making her mark to write her name.
Thomas Marvin
First Judge &c
Co Court
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I here certify that the within declarant is unable to attend court owing to the infirmities of old age.
Dec 23 1863
Thomas J. Marvin 
First Judge Sar Co, Court

State of New York
Saratoga County}ss. I Horace Goodrich Clerk of said county do hereby certify that Thomas Marvin was at the time of the execution of the within declaration First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County & that his signatures to said declaration & the above certificate appear to be genuine. I also certify that John R. McGregor was at the time of the execution of the annexed affidavit a Justice of the Peace in & for said county & that his signature to the jurat of said affidavit appears to be genuine. Witness my hand & official seal this twenty second day of March 1844.
Horace Goodrich Clerk
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Lois Calkins
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Genealogy of the family of
Nathaniel Calkin
Clarry
was born March
the 22nd 1775
Eber was born Sept 15th 1777
Lydia was born May 1st 1780
Sally was born March 22nd 1782
Lois was born March 6th 1784
Nathaniel was born June 4th 1786
Polly was born June 8th 1788
Reuben Born July 19th 1790
Parthine born December 29th1793
Hiram was born May 29th 1797
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State of New York
Saratoga County ss}
John Roberts of the town of Morequ in the said county aged seventy four years, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith that he was well and intimately acquainted with Nathaniel Calkins late of the town of Moreau in the said county, deceased for more than forty years before his decease and often during that time did business with him.  That said Calkins died at Moreau on or about the nineteenth day of April 1843 and was at the time of his death a pensioner of the United States, under the act of the seventh 1832 and that he left a widow by the name of Lois, who is still living and is an applicant for a pension. That the said widow has in possession a family record which was preserved by and in the family of the husband of said widow as a record of his family and is in the hand writing of this deponent and is a true copy of the original record and was taken therefrom by this deponent more than forty years ago at the request of one of the married daughters of the said Nathaniel Calkins, which original record was in the hand writing of the said Nathaniel Calkins this deponent being well acquainted therewith. Which copy of the original family record of the said Nathaniel Calkins the said widow nor furnishing to be attached to this affidavit & to her own declaration in proof of her marriage.
John Roberts
Subscribed & sworn this 25th day of December 1843 before me and I certify that said John Roberts is a credible witness.
John R. McGregor Justice of the Peace
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April 1844
1153
Lois Calkins
Applicant for pension
Act July 4, 1836
husb. died 19 Apl 1843-
admd. 7 mo
7 mopir
23 33 from
19 Apl 1843 the day
of her husbands death
Hon B. Tappan
Senate U State
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I hereby certify that the following is a true copy of the record
of the marriage of Nathaniel Calkins & Lois Burrows
as the same appears upon the register of Marriage of
the first Congregational Church of Sharon, Conn.
kept by the Revd Cotton Mather Smith then Pastor
of said Church Vz
Feby 11 1773 Nathaniel Calkins and Lois Barrows both of Sharon, were married,
From which it
appears that said Nathaniel Calkins was duly
married to said Lois Barrows, pursuant to the rites
of said Church. On the eleventh day of February
Seventeen hundred & Seventy three. And I further certify that the date of said marriage is expressed
in fair legible figures
Grove L. Brownell
State of Connecticut
Litchfield County
Js
On this
ninth
day of March A.D. 1844 personally appeared before me
Chas F. Sedgwick a Justice of the Peace in & for said County
Revd G. L. Brownell above named & made oath in due form
of law that the facts contained in the above certificate
by him subscribed are true. And further that he is the
present Pastor of the church in said certificate mentioned
Chas. F. Sedgwick Justice of the Peace
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Doe & paid

Origen S. Seymour Esq
County Clerk
Litchfield Conn

20

William B. Pierce
Albany NY

Origen S. Seymour Esq
Albany March 12 /44
Sir:
Please affix your certificate to the within & return the same to me.
Respectfully, Wm B Pierce
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Dbl & Paid
PAID   20
Origen S. Seymour Esq.
County Clerk
Litchfield 
Conn
[stamp] [illegible] MAR 12
[stamp crossed out]
[stamp] LITCHFIELD MAR 19 CON.   20
William B. Pierce. Esq
Albany N.Y.

Albany March 12/44
Origen S. Seymour Esq.
Sir, Please affix your certificate to the within & return the same
Wm. B. Pierce
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I hereby certify that the following is a true copy of the record of the marriage of Nathaniel Calkins & Lois Barrows as the same appears upon the register of marriages of the First Congregational Church of Sharon, Conn. kept by the Rev Cotton Mather Smith then pastor of said church, viz:
"Feby 11 1773} Nathaniel Calkins and Lois Barrows both of Sharon, were married"

From which it appears that said Nathaniel Calkins was duly married to said Lois Barrows, pursuant to the rites of said Church on the eleventh day of February seventeen hundre3d seventy three. And I further certify that the date of said marriage is expressed in fair legible figures.
Grover L. Brownell

State of Connecticut
Litchfield County}ss.
On this ninth day of March AD 1844 personally appeared before me Chas F. Sedgwick a Justice of the Peace in & for said County Revd G L, Brownell above named & made oath in due form of law that the facts contained in the above certificate by him subscribed are true. And further that he is the present pastor of the church in said certificate mentioned.
Chas. F. Sedgewick Justice of the Peace
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Rev WIDOW, & CO
File No. 16,884
Lois Calkins
Widow of Nathl Calkins
Pri. Rev. War.
Act: July 4th 1836
Index:--Vol. A, Page 119
[Arrangement of 1870]
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Washington City Oct 6th 1848 

Sir 
Enclosed is the Declaration of Lois Calkin widow of Nathaniel Calkin Dec. under the Act of February 2, 1848.

 I am Yours very respectfully, 
[underlined Wm Valentine] 
of Albany N.Y. 

J.L. Edwards Esq 
Com of Pensions 
Washington
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On the twenty  first day of February 1833 before me personally appeared Joseph Barrows, and being by me duly sworn said that in the year previous to the taking of General Burgoine according to his best recollection and belief, he was residing in Sharon in the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut. That he was intimately acquainted with Nathaniel Calkins who was then a brother in law of this deponent, having married his sister. That the said Nathaniel Calkins enlisted into Captain David Down's company some time in the winter, as he was then informed & believes, and left said Sharon in the said Capt. Downs company as soon as the travelling in the spring would permit, and he believes as early as the month of March. That he was informed at the time that the company were going to the north, and believes they did go there in the service of their Country, and the said Calkins did not return until the fall of the year following. That this deponent was informed in the latter part of September of first part of October that the said Nathaniel Calkins was sick near Lake George in the state of New York and this deponent went immediately after him and found him sick & unable to do duty & brought him home, some time in the month of October.
And this deponent further states, that he related all the above circumstances in substance on his examination before Asahel Denel Esq, hereto annexed, and supposed that the term "from spring to fall" was sufficiently definite and would be construed to mean from the end of winter season to the commencement of the next winter season, or approach of cold weather, and was not intended to exclude all such the months of summer, and
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he believes the said Justice so understood it. Joseph Barrows 

Subscribed and sworn before me the twenty first day of February 1833 - and I certify that I have known the said Joseph Barrows for about forty years, and that he is a credible person, and his statement entitled to credit. 
A Goodrich Justice- 

State of New York 
Saratoga County I Alpheus Goodrich Clerk of the County of Saratoga do certify that Alpheus Goodrich before whom the foregoing & written  affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the peace in & for the said County and that I am acquainted with his hand writing & verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit, to be his proper hand writing and signature- 
A Goodrich Clerk 
Witness my hand and seal of Office the twenty first day of February 1833 - 
A Goodrich Clerk
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[illegible] unty SS of Sept 
On the third day of Sept. 1832 personally came Before me Asahel Derel one of the Justices of the peas of said County Joseph Barrows Personally known the formerly of Corinth in said County And Made the following Affirmation viz Says that in the year Before General Burgoin was taken he lived in Sharon Litchfield Connecticut State that he then and Know nows that Nathaniel Calkins did enlist into the United States army in that same year under Capt David Downs Does No that said Culkins was Gove from the spring untill fall and did then and has always heard he spent his time in the servis of the United States and in the Army during his enlistment M Further more knows not town of Corth Joseph Barrows Saratoga County at the personally come Before me the under armed Justice of the peace Joseph Barnes and made oath to the above Deposition as it being the truth to the best of is Recollection that he is now 79 years old as he think or as he has been informed a certify that I wink, Said Barrage of sound mind- --- the good Memory age considered and of good Mollie Subscribed and sworn before the this third day of September in the year of Lord 1832 Asahel Devel Justice
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State of New York 
Saratoga County: I Thomas Palmer Clerk of the County of Saratoga, do certify that Asahel Dereel before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County; and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name, subscribed to the said Affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature- 

Witness my hand and seal of Office the fifth day of September 1832- 
Thomas Palmer Clerk
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1836
Hon J L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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In the matter of the application of Lois Calkins for pension under the Act of July 4, 1836.
Albany March 28 1843

Sir
By reference to the accompanying papers you will perceive that the applicants husband was a pensioner under the act of June 7 1832 & departed this life on the 19th day of April 1843.
The applicant has erred in the date of her marriage two years. The set it down as having occurred in 1771. The church record shows that she was married in Feby 1773.
The case is respectfully submitted.
I am very respectfully
Your mo obt svt
Wm, B. Pierce

Hon J. L. Edwardsw
Commissioner of Pensions
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Nathaniel Calkins
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War Department 
Pension Office
November 8 1832

Sir,
I return the papers in support of the claim of Nathaniel Calkin.
His declaration as to his service in Capt. Downs company and Col. Brurells Regt of one year does not appear to be sustained by his witness, who testifies as to his service and absence from home, from the spring to the fall. This requires some explanation.
The certificate of Silas Adams is forwarded.
I am Respectfully
Yr obt. Servt.
J. L. Edwards

A. Goodrich Esq
Ballston Spa. N. Y.
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Treasury Department,
Second Comptroller's Office
January 19th, 1841

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," Nathaniel Calkin, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany, NY Agency at the rate of Twenty three Dollars and 33 Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th of June 1832, has been paid at this Department from the 4th of Sept., 1839 to the 4th of March 1860.

Respectfully yours,
[Illegible Signature]

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present
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State of New York
County of Washington}ss. On this 22 day of September 1848 before me Timothy Staughton a Justice of the Peace in and for said county personally appeared Lois Calkin who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed February 2 1848, that she is the widow of Nathaniel Calkin who was a private in the War of the Revolution that she received a pension under the Act June 17 1844 at the rate of twenty three dollars and thirty three cents per annum and that she still remains a widow.
Lois Calkin X her mark

Subscribed & sworn to before me this 22 day of September 1848.
Timy Stoughton Justice
John Roberts
I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Lois Calkin and that she is the identical person above described.
Timy Stoughton Justice

The said Lois Calkin makes her mark in consequence of old age.
Timy Stoughton Justice 

Agt. Wm. Valentine Albany N.Y.
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Agt Wm. Valentine
Albany N.Y.

State of New York
Washington County ss. I Henry Shepherd Clerk of said County do certify that at the date of the within Jurat and certificate Timothy Stoughton Esq was a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly elected and sworn and that his signatures to said Jurat & certificate are genuine.
Witness my hand official seal this 30th day of Sept AD 1848.
H. Shepherd Clk