Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19176, Asa Dibbel, Continental (Vt)
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Continental (VT) Dibbel, Asa     W. 19176
                              Dibbel, Lois
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1881- Apr.14-P.M's at Lockport of Lewiston
de returning Bible
Reputed February 8/49

3770
New York Albany
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Lois Dibble
widow of Asa
N. H.
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 8 day of February 1849 and sent to

A.H. Moss
Lockport
N.Y.
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Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 60  Vol. 4
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Sn.88. d. 1828 19.932
New York
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Asa Dibbel of Onider Co in the State of New York who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Sill---of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Warner in the N. Hampshire line, for the term of the war from April 1778 to October 1780
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Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 14th day of May 1828
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Certificate of Pension issued the 23rd of May 1828 and sent to Beny P. Johnson Esqr. Rome, N. Y.
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Arrears to 4th of September 1828 $29.70
Semi-anl. all'ce ending                    _______
                                                           $29.70

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Acts March 18, 1818,}
{and May 1, 1820.}
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State of New York}
Creeda County}ss

On this tenth day of March 1828 personally
appeared in open Court in our Court of Pennal Sessions being a Court of record by statute - Asa Dibbel aged 66 years & upwards
who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress, of the 18th March 1818 & the 1st of May 1820, that he the said Asa Dibbel enlisted for the war in the month of April 1778 in GranVille in the State of New York in the company commanded by Captain Thomas Sill, in the regiment commanded by Colonel Seth Warner in the line of the State of Vermont on the continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said Corps until the 11th day of October 1780, when he was taken prisoner at Fort George on Lake George by Major Carlton of the British army was taken to Montreal, and there remained until the close of the war - being confined in the Hospital on account of sickness. And in pursuance of the act of the 1st May 1820 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 provision of an 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"" passed March 18, 1818, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me-- to have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule below. That the said Asa Dibbel is aged & infirm & has a wife 63 years
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old-- and has no other family and has no property except necessary clothing bedding & household furniture in the whole not worth over forty dollars-- his said wife is now blind & has been for the last five months- Asa Dibbelon

Sworn to & declared this 10th day of March 1828 in open Court before me. 
James Dean Judge Oneida}
Com. Pleas & Genl Sessions}


State of New York}
Oneida County}ss: 
Richard Laubee of Westmoreland Oneida County aged 65 years & upwards being duly sworn says he is well acquainted with Asa Dibbel who formerly was a soldier in Capt. Thomas, Sill's Co. in Col Warner this deponent was a soldier in Capt. Smiths Co in the said Regt. let and knew the said Asa Dibbel well at that time for two years in service in said company & regiment and was taken prisoner at Fort George on the 11 October 1780 with the said Asa Dibbel & carried to Montreal
and this deponent left the said Asa Dibbel at Montreal when he was taken from there to Quebec & then in a Cartel to Boston and further says not -                              Richard Lauabee

Personally appeared before me the subscribed this 18th day of February 1828 Richard Lauabee to me known & who is in my opinion a man of truth & veracity & made solemn oath to the truth of the above affidavit

B. P. Johnson
A Common Pleas to take affidavits
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I John A Ostrom Clerk of the County of
Oneida in the State of New York do hereby
certify that it appears to the satisfaction of
the Court that the said Asa Dibbel did serve in the revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common Enemy, for the term of nine months under one engagement on the continental establishment also certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule therein written & contained, are truly copied from the records of the said County 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 forty dollars-
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of the said
Court on tenth day of March 1828

J. A. Stroms clerk
of the Court of the County of Oneida
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State of New York
Oneida County}ss

On this 28th day of April 1828 before me personally appeared before me as Fibbel named in the conveyed papers who being first duly sword upon his oath declare, that he enlisted
in the Revolutionary army as therein stated
and that Colonel Seth Warners Regiment was
as he now believes attached to the New Hampshire line of two and the said Asa Dibbel farther say that he has not since the 18th of March 1818 had any property except two cows, both of which he has lost-- one of them by
being mined in the mud, the other killed
by the falling of a tree - His other property
has been his wearing apparel, bedding
and household furniture & nothing else except the corn which never has amounted to more than what is stated in his application hereto annex.  The reason why this deponent did
not sooner apply for a pension, was
because he did not know where
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he could procure a witness to testify of
service until the 17th day February last-- when he came across the within named Richard Larrabee at Westmoreland in the County of Oneida.
This deponent having formerly lived in a distant part of this State, near the Village of Buffalo-- did not know until he saw the said Larrabee, when witnesses were to be had, to prove his
services. -He has since obtained another
witness whose testimony s herewith annexed and further says not                Asa Dibbel

Personally appeared before me Asa Dibbel and
made oath to the with of this his supplementary affidavit April 28, 1825

B.P. Johnson
A Comm & C
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State of New York Oneida county [illegible] on this sixth day of May 1828 personally appeared before me Henry Dibbel of Westmoreland, Oneida County, aged 59 years, who being sworn says that he is a brother of Asa Dibbel within mentioned and that he knows of the said Asa Dibbel enlisting in April 1778 in Capt Thorney [illegible] company in Colonel Seth Warners Regiment for the war as stated in his affidavit and that this deponent never saw the said Asa Dibbel until the war was over when he returned home - having been a prisoner as this deponent understood at the time and verity believes to be true - Henery Dibbel State of New York Oneida County on this 6th day of May 1828 personally appeared before on Henry Dibble above named who is in my opinion a person of credibility and made solemn oath with above affidavit J B.P. Johnson A comm [illegible]
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State of New York}
Oneida County}ss

I Joshua Hathaway of  Rome in said County being sixty six years old and being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that he resided in Bennington, in the State of Vermont, during the
Revolutionary War, and that he knew the
family of Benjamin Dibble who resided
about four miles from this deponent, and
that he this deponent resided in the Same
neighborhood of Col. Seth Warner,  & Col.
Samuel Safford, and Major Wright Hopkins
who was killed on an island in Lake George;
This deponent also well recollects the day when
Col. Warners Regiment was cut off at Fort George; and that this deponent has lately conversed with the within named Asa Dibble son of the said Benjamin Dibble, and from his correct statement of a great vanity of facts respecting the Regiment of Col. Seth Warner, which facts are well recollected by this deponent-- he has no doubt of the said
Asa having belonged to said regiment &
that he was taken prisoner at the time the
Regiment was cut off and further says no
Joshua Hathaway
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State of New York}
Oneida County} ss


On this 13th day of May 1828 personally appeared before me the Hon Joshua
Hathaway, to me well known, as a person of credibility who being duly sworn, declared the above affidavit to be true-
Johnson A Commr & C
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State of New York
Oneida County Clerks Office}ss
 I. John A. Ostrom Clerk of the County of
Oneida Do hereby certify that Benjamin P. Johnson whose name is subscribed to above certificates was on the days of the date thereof a Commissioner in & for said County Commissioned and sworn & duly authorized by law to take affidavits &c. and further that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe that the foregoing signatures are genuine.-

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 14th day of May A.D. 1828.
J. A. Ostrom Clerk
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I certify that the annexed leaf containing
the family register of Asa Dibble and
was taken by a copy of the New Testament
funded the office by A H Moss in
the case of Mrs. Lois Dibble, by me.

G H Clifter
May 23, 1840
Clk
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[per by his it]
[This may my post  Will of our agent]
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State of New York}
County of Niagara} Ss.

On this Sixth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty personally appeared before me Levi F. Bowen one of the Judges of the Court. of Common pleas of the County of Niagara County
in the State of New York said Court being a
Court of Record, Lois Dibble a resident of
the town of Zorry in the Province of Upper
Canada aged Seventy five years who being first 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 July 7. 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows"" That she is the widow of
Asa Dibble who was a private Soldier in the War of the Revolution for which he received during his life time a pension from the United States
Government which was granted to him so
that he drew four months pension which accrued prior and up to the fourth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight which was about one month before the said Asa Dibble death. The evidences of his services as a Soldier in the War of the Revolution
the duration thereof, the time of his leaving the
service his discharge and the paper relating
to his pension are supposed to be on file in the
pension office at Washington to which the
undersigned legs leave to refer.
           She further declare that was and to the said Asa Dibble on the Eleventh day of May in the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty six that her husband the aforesaid to Dibble died in the fifth in the fifth day of October in the year Eighteen hundred and twenty eight. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the
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Marriage took place previous to the first day of January Seventeen Hundred and Ninety Four. Viz at the time above State.
Sworn to and subscribed by making her mark on the day and year above written.
L. F. Bowen Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County of Niagara.
Lois [X her mark] Dibble

I hereby certify that the foregoing declaration was taken by me in the Village of Lockport in the County of Niagara and State of New York not in open Court. that the person making the same is entity blind and wholly unable from bodily infirmity to appear in Open Court.    
Given under my hand at Lockport this
Sixth day of April AD 1840.
L. F. Bowen Judge of the Court of
Common Pleas of said County of Niagara
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"The New Testament of our Lord and
"Saviour Jesus Christ translated out of the "original Greek and with the former translation diligently Company and Revised by his Majesty's Special Command
"Appointed to be read in Churches Oxford
" Printed at the Clarendon Press, by
"W Jackson and A Hamilton Printer to the
"University, and sold at the Bible Warehouse
Patemoster Row London
"Cum Privilegio"


State of New York}
County of Niagara} Ss.
Harvey Dibble of the town of Zorry in the Province of Upper Canada being duly sworn deposes and says that he is the son of Asa and Lois Dibble mentioned and described in the foregoing declaration of of the said Lois Dibblee, aged forty four years.

That there is now in the possession of the said Lois an ancient Volume of "the New Testament of which the above is a copy of the title page that said book contains the family Records of the said Asa and Lois Dibble that said Records
are upon the other page of the same leaf from
which the above copy of title page was taken
that the said Records have become so defaced
that they are partly illegible and cannot be
Copied, deponent further states that he has
known this book to be the family Records of said Asa & Lois Dibble since he was a mere boy
he recollects to have seen it as such with the
entries therein upon the back of said title page
about thirty years since and frequently and
at different times since that time said
volume was originally the old and new Testament, but the old Testament has been
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all destroyed excepting five leaves and once small part of other leaves which and immediately precede the said title page a copy of which is above him given deponent further states that his mother the said Lois Dibble is now blind and has been for about twelve years is seventy five years of age and is now quite feeble and infirm & further saith not.

Sworn & Subscribed to before me}
this 6th day of April AD 1840}   Harvey Dibbel
L. F. Bowen Judge of the Court of
Common Pleas of said County of Niagara

State of New York
Niagara County ss Lois Dibble being duly sworn deposes and says that the book described in the foregoing affidavit of her son Harvey Dibble contains the family Records of the said Asa Dibble and his family that said book
has always been in her possession it was obtained about four years after her marriage which was about fifty years since and the entry of her and the said Asa Dibbles marriage was made there very soon after the same was obtained by and in the hand writing of one William Hugin. deponent in consequence of kindness has not seen the book for about twelve years but is confident the one described
by the affidavit of her son Harvey is the one
containing said family Records.
                                        Lois [X her mark] Dibble

Sworn to & subscribed before me
this 6th day of April A.D. 1840
L. F. Bowen Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County of Niagara
STATE OF NEW YORK, ss.
Niagara County Clerk's Office.
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STATE OF NEW YORK
Niagara County Clerk's Office}ss

I Hiram A Cook do hereby certify that Levi Bowen Esqr before whom the annexed
instrument of writing purports to have been proved or acknowledgement bears date, a  
Judge in and for said County, duly appointed and sworn, and authorized by the Laws
of said State to take the same, and that I am well acquainted wth his
hand writing, and believe his signs CERTIFICATES Of proof or acknowledgement, is genuine.
In testimony whereunto set my name and affixed Seal than of said County, at Lockport
this sixth day of April A. D. 1840
H. H. Cook Clerk.
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State of New York}
Otsego County}ss
Warren Babbit of Otsego in said County aged Sixty five years, being duly sworn
deponeth and says, that he was well acquainted with Asa Dibble in his life time, and also with his widow Lois Dibble who is a sister of this deponent, that he this deponent was present and saw the said Asa Dibble and Lois Babbit Married at the Dwelling house of Elkanah Babbitt the father of the said Lois and this deponent In the town of Lanesboro, County of Berkshire and State of Massachusetts, which Marriage was solemnized by the Reverend William Collins then Pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Lanesboro (now deceased) on the Eleventh day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty six, that the said Asa Dibble was a private soldier the war of the Revolution, and a Pension of the United States at the time of his death, that the
said Asa Dibble died at the house of this deponent on the fifth day of October (1828) Eighteen Hundred and Twenty Eight that the said Lois Dibble now resides with her son Cyrus Dibble in the province of Upper Canada
and remains the widow of the said Asa Dibble and is a person of good character for truth and veracity and her statement is entitled to full credit and further saith not.
Subscribed Sworn before me October 11th 1839.                                     Warren Babbit

Chester James Justice of the Peace
I the said Justice do further certify that I am well acquainted with the said Warren Babbit the person who subscribed & sworn to the North, of the above affidavit is a Pine of Good cherish his statement is entitled to full credit October  1, 1839.              Chester James, Justice of Peace
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State of New York
Otsego County} ss: 

Annis Rexford of Otsego in said County aged sixty nine years, being duly sworn according to
Law doth depose and say that she was well acquainted with Asa Dibble and Lois Dibble and was present at the marriage of the said Asa Dibble with the said Lois Babbit who is a sister of this deponent, that the marriage was solemnized at the town of Lansboro, in the
County of Berkshire & State of Massachusetts at the dwelling house Elkanah Babbit the father of this deponent and the said Lois by Round William Collins then Pastor of the Presbyterian Church of that time which marriage took
Place in the spring of the year (1786) Seventeen Hundred and Eighty six, that the said Asa Dibble was a Private soldier of the Revolution and a Pensioner of the United States
at the time of his death, that the said Asa Dibble did at the house Warren Babbit (the Brother of this deponent) on the fifth day of October (1828) Eighteen Hundred and Twenty Eight, that the said Lois Dibble now remains
the widow of the said Asa Dibble and resides with her son Cyrus Dibble in the Province of Upper Canada and further saith not
Annie[X Mark]Rexford

Subscribed & Sworn before the October 1st 1839, Chester James Justice of the Peace

I the said Justice do further certify that I am well acquainted with the said Annis Rixford and do know her to be a person of Lord character for truth & veracity and her statement is
Entitled to full credit, that she stated to me that by reason of bodily infirmity she was unable to write her name and therefore made her mark.
October 1st 1839  Chester James Justice of Peace
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State of New York}
County of Otsego}ss
I Jesse Rose Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Chester James, Esqr before 
whom the foregoing affidavits purport to have been sworn was on the day of the law of
the same a Justice of the peace in and for said
County duly elected and qualified And further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting
of said Justice and verily believe his name signed to each of the foregoing affidavits and the annexed certificates to be his genuine handwriting and Signatures

With my hand and seal of office the first day of October 1839.       Jesse Rose, Clerk
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Mrs. O.P. Judd
Lockport
N. Y.

File in Old War
Widow #19. 176
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B. L. N.EA
Madam:
DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR
PENSION OFFICE.
Washington, D.C. May 5th 1881.

Madam:-
Herewith please find copy of the New Testament filed, many years ago, in evidence
in her pension claim, by Lois Dibble, widow
of Asa Dibble a soldier of the Revolutionary War

The letters received from the Postmaster
at Lockport and from yourself, point to you
as the proper person to receive the book, a curiosity of value only from its great age and its connection with the history of a family.
Please acknowledge the receipt of the book on
the back of this and return this letter that it
may be filed in the pension claim O. W. Wid. No. 19, 176.

Very respectfully
O.P Clarke, Acting Commissioner.


Mrs. O. S. Judd
Lockport.
N. Y.
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State of New York
Niagara County} ss

On this 13th day of September 1848
personally appeared the undersigned Lothrop Cooke a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid Lois Dibble a resident of Zora
in Canada was 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
2nd February 1848 granting pensions to
Widows of persons who served during the
Revolutionary War. That she is the Widow
of Asa Dibble who was a private in the
Revolutionary War and served in the Regiment
& Company and for the period, as stated by this
declarant in her papers upon which a pension
was granted to her under the act of July 7, 1838
and now on file in the pension office at
Washington, that she drew a pension of Eighty dollars per annum under the act of June 17, 1844, on account of the Revolutionary services of her late husband,
She further declare, that she is still a widow
Lois [X her mark] Dibble

Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year above written before me} 
Lathrop Cooke J.P.}
E. M. Cooke}

I hereby certify that for Gibbel who this day made the above declaration before me, is personally known to me & that she is the same person who drew a pension as stated by her. she having made her papers before me to draw the same & that the executed the above paper by making her mark not being able to write from blindness.
 Lathrop Cooke J.P.
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State of New York
Niagara County
Clerk office} ss

I John Van Horn clerk of said County do hereby certify that Lothrop Cooke before whom the foregoing deposition was taken is a Justice
of the peace in and for the County aforesaid duly elected & sworn and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and
that his signatures within written are genuine.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of said
County at Lockfort  this fourteen day of September AD 1848
John Van Horn Clerk
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Sir
Cyrus, I think was my Great Grandfather name
and my Grandfather died before I can remember. I think he was killed in the Army
and think his wife name was Lois. I have uncles by the Name of Silae and Tompkin and Rhode and Carney and Grodie, they and all Dibble of
Scotch descent.
Yours, O. P. Judd
formerly Ann Eliza Dibble
Born 1821

POS. Cannot tell about the Dibbles in Canada
but know there are some there the son of Cyrus
was my Father Levi Gible
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Post Office Lockport, N. Y.
ESTABLISHED 1822.
April 22 1881

Commissioner of Pension
Washington D.C.

Sir,
I think undetectable the have and sealed in the enclosed letter (Mrs. O. S.Judd) is the proper person to received the bible.

Respectfully
J. A.  Hubbard
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6940
Lois Dibble Wid of Asa
NY
Act: July 7, 1838
Married 1786
Deed 1828
Allow $80 per ann

A. H. Moss Esq
Lockport
N. York
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Lockport Sept 14. 1848

Hon J L Edwards
Comm. of Pensions
herewith I send you Mrs. Dibble's application to be placed on the pension Roll & for a pension certificate under the late Law on that subject
please make return as soon as convenient

Respectfully yours &c
A H Moss, Atty
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B. L.
U.S. PENSION
APR 25, 1881
OFFICE
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OW HIS.#19.176
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
PENSION OFFICE.
Confidential Washington 20 April 14th 1881.℗
B.L.
N.R

Sir:-
In the year 1844, one Lois Dibble, as widow
of Asa Dibble, who was a soldier of the Revolutionary War, made application for pension, and filed a Bible in evidence which it is now desired to return. Some of the papers were executed at Lewiston, before Lothrop Cooke, Justice of the Peace, but she was said to reside
at Torry or Loray, Upper Canada, with her son Cyrus Dibble. If you can do so without inconvenience, will you favor this Office with the postal address of said Cyrus Dibble, or with the name and address of any other descendant of the above-mentioned
Asa and Lois Dibble? What is the nearest Canadian post office to said Zorry or Zoray? Please return this letter with your reply.

                                           Very respectfully
                     OPE Clarke, Acting Commissioner
Postmaster
Lewiston
Niagara Co.
N.Y.
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BSL
S PENS OFFICE 
APR 25, 1881
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  OW. WID. 19.176
B.L. DEPARTMENT OF THE JUSTICE
N.R. PENSION OFFICE
Confidential  Washington D.C. April 14th 1881.

Sir:-
In 1844, one Lois Dibble, as widow of Asa
Dibble, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, applied for pension, and filed a Bible in
evidence, which it is now desired to return. She
made application at your place, though said to
be a resident of Zorry (?) Upper Canada. If you
can do so, without inconvenience, will you please to send the post office address of one Cyrus Dibble, a son, or the name and postal address of any other descendant of the pensioner? If you cannot do so, will you give the nearest Canadian post office to the above-named place? Please return this letter with your reply.
Very respectfully,
OPE Clarke, Acting Commissioner.

Postmaster,
Lockport,
Niagara Co.
N. Y.
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Post Office - Lewiston N.Y.
April 22nd 1881


Sir
I have not been able to gain any information regarding the person inquired forn Mrs Lois Dibble) of any of her
I have inquired some of the oldest residents of the town but none of them remember her
I do not know where Zoray or Zorry is situated-

Yours very respectfully,
To J A Fleming,  Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D. C.
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Rev. WIDOW, &c.
_____________
File No. 19176
Lois Dibb
Widow of Asa Dibble
Pri. Rev War
Act: Feb 2nd, 48
Index:--Vol. A. Page 184

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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New York 5440
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Lois Dibble, widow of Asa Dibble decd
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818
and who died on the 5 Oct 1828
of Zorry Town in the of Upper Canada
who was a private in the Company commanded
by Captain Sill of the regt commanded
by Col. Warner in the N. Hamp
line for 2 years.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 80 Dollars--------- Cents per to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of May
1840, & sent A.H. Moss Lockport, New York
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Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1840             $320.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sep 40 40.00
                                                                  $360.00
{Act July 7, 1838.}

Recorded by D. McCurdy, Clerk
Book A. Vol. 2.  Page 75.
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Ref. certificate corrected & sent to Hon W. Hunt, 6 June 1844
______________________________________
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of 6, April 1838 from 4th Sep 1840 to 4th March 1841. Agt Notified 12 Dec 1844
_______________________________________
5578 
New York, Albany
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Lois Dibble of Upper Canada
widow of Asa Dibble
who was a Private 
in the Revolution
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
80 Dollars-------Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of May 1844 and sent to Hon W. Hunt
House of Representation
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[Act of March 3, 1843.]
-Recorded in Book A. Vol.1.  Page 263
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5843
Lois Dibble, app
for 1 years pension under law of 3 March 1843

$80 per ann
Hon. W. Hurt
H.R.
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State of New York
Niagara County Ss.

On this fourth day of May 1844 personally
appeared before the undersigned one of the Justices of the peace in and for the County aforesaid Lois Dibble a resident of Zorry
in Canada West aged Seventy nine years who being first duly sworn anding to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3d March
1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Asa Dibble who was a private in the Revolutionary war & who served as set forth in the papers presented and filed when a pension was granted to this declarant under the Law of July 7, 1838
a certificate for which was issued to her from the War department of the United States under date of the twenty fifth of May 1840. She further declares that she received the sum of Eighty dollars a year under the law of July 7. 1838 for four and a half years and that there is still her due a half years pension to draw which she has just executed papers. She further declares that she is still a widow-- and has not been married since the death of Asa Dibble.
Lois[X her mark]Dibble

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me Lothrop Cooke J.P.}

I hereby certify that Lois Dibble who has this day made the foregoing declaration before me is personally known to me & that she has before appeared before me and her papers to draw her pension under the law of July 7, 1838 & that she is unable to write from old age & total blindness
Dated at Lewiston this 4th day of May 1844 Lothrop Cooke J. P.
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State of New York
Niagara County Clerk's Office
James C. Lewis, clerk of said County do hereby certify that Lothrop Cooke before whom within deposition was at the time of taking the same a justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid duly elected and sworn and that I am well acquainted with his handwriting and signature, written writing are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name & affixed the seal of said County this Sixth day of May A. D. 1844
James C. Lewis, Clerk
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Col. Edwards will please correct the error in
the enclosed certificate.
W Hugh

Com June 6, 1834
Hon. Washington Hunt
member of Congress
Washington City
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Lockport May 31, 1844
Hon W. Hunt
Sir:
Your favor of the 25th enclosing a pension certificate for Lois Dibble this moment came to hand. I now return it for (illegible) Asa Dibble received an invoice of $80 per year the widow received $80 a year for five years and is entitled under the Law of March 3, 1843. With same for one year, the certificate received is for $8. Mistake I presume-please have it counted and return it to me.
Regretfully yours, c
A. H. Moss
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GIDEON, PRINTER.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE.
May 15th 1844
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 ," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents,
Lois Dibble, ________________a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany NY.----------------
Agency, at the rate of Eighty___________Dollars
[- and Cents ]per annum, under the law of the 7th July 1838 has been paid at this Department, from the4th of Sept.1840,to the 4th March 1841

Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris. Comptroller

To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.
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House of Representatives
May 10. 1844

Sir:
I enclose the Declaration of Lois Dibble
which entitle her to a continuance of her
Pension under the act of March 3, 1843.

Please send me the certificate at
Your convenience

With much respect
Your obedient Servant
W. Hunt

Col. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner &c
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Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commission of Pensions
City of Washington
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Lockport April 6th 1840
Hon. J. L. Edwards

Sir
Enclosed I send an application of Mrs. Dibble
widow of Asa Dibble who was a Soldier in the
Revolutionary war and as such at the time of his death was in the receipt of a pension which he was only granted him a short time before his death so that all he drew as I am informed was about four months pay- the applicant is a stranger to me but from Somas which I think entitled to great confidence the has very strong claims upon the clemency of the Government from the reflection arising from a personal interview, and the facts which have come to my knowledge the application is a meritorious one, the claims is under the Law of July 7, 1838. the widow is quite aged totally blind, and so infirm and feeble that she can only get out of her chair of with the help of some one and only in and
out of the Waggon in which she traveled to this
place with the help of three or four men
and she is totally destitute of money, not a
dollars in the words - she lives entity on the charity of her children the papers I send are her Declaration taken by a Judge - she being unable to appear in Court.-

2 Appts of her marriage an old vol of bible containing an almost legible family Record
her and her sons appts respecting this Record
should the evidences of the service of the husband is proved by the papers in your office which was used to obtain his pension which
was probably obtained in May 1828.
If there should be a diffining in the evidence
in any point you will please advise me and
I will finish it if possible. In the mean time I hope your earliest attention will be
given to the investigation of this matter as it
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is very important for the widow if she is to
realize any thing to support her in her misfortune and old age and infirmity she should
have it at once-please let me hear
from this matter at your earliest convenience

I am very Respectfully your with Respect
A.H. Moss
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J. L. Edwards, Esq
Pension Office
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Rome, N.Y.  16 May 1828

J. L. Edwards Esq
Enclosed are the papers of
Asa Dibbel -with the
additional proof required. Return are respectfully requested to be made to the subscriber.

I am very respectfully
Your obedient Servant
Beny P Johnson