Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7817, for Ephraim Osborn, Vermont
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Continental
Vt.
Osborn, Ephraim
NUMBER
R 7817

CONTENTS
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Rec'd 18 Jany 1832
William Osborn and Amos Osborn both of the Town of And County of Cayuga and State of Newyork being duly sworn Deposeth and Says that they are well acquainted with Ephraim Osborn of the Town of Northumberland in the County of Saratoga and state of New York and Was acquainted with the said Ephraim Osborn in the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven hundred, and Seventy Nine and Seventeen hundred Eighty Who was then called Ephraim Osborn that at that Time We was all Living in one family in the Town of Poundal (Pownal) in the State of Vermount that we well Recolect that the said Ephraim Went into the Revolutionary Services and after the said Ephraim had been absent from home Several months We Well Recollect that said Ephraim Sent a Letter home directed to his Father & which Letters we did Read and found that the said Ephraim had enlisted as a Soldier in Col Seth Warner Ridgement and in Captain Smith's Company. the said Letter Did inform that the said Ephraim had the Pensions of Eigty Dollars Bounty and Lands at the Close of the War that he the Said Ephraim had Enlisted as a Soldier into the Continental services During the War & the Said William Red (read) the Said Letter in the Presents of the said Amos We Well Recollect of the said Ephraim Coming home on a furlough and after the Close of a War the said Ephraim came home and Was Regularly Discharged which said Discharge We Well Recollect of Ridding (reading) and the amount of the discharge was that the said Ephraim had served as a faithful Soldier During the War and further these Deponents says not 
/s/William Osborn
/s/Amos Osborn
NB the words into the Continental Services were interlined before signing 
Subscribed and Sworn before me this 21st day of November 1831 
/s/Charles Roys Commissioner of Deeds and authorised to take affidavits to [illegible] be Read in Courts of Record
I do hereby Certify that I have been acquainted With the above Deponants Residing for Twelve years that they are persons on Whos Verasity I think there is no Doubt
/s/Charles Roys
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State of New York
County of Onondaga}ss. I Reuben S Hess - clerk of the said County do certify that Charles Roys before whom the within affidavits purport to have been sworn was at the date of the same a Commissioner of Deeds &c. and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to his proper hand writing and signature
[court seal affixed] Witness my hand and Seal of Office this 24th day of November 1831. 
/s/Reuben S. Hess Clerk pr A. Edwards Jr Depy.
[margin note: evid]
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The following is a copy of Section. 49. Chapter 3. Title 2. Part 3. of the Revised Statutes of the State of New York, Volume 2. page 284. 
Wherever any oath or affidavit is or may be required or authorized by law, in any cause, matter or proceeding, (except oaths to jurors and witnesses in the trial of a cause, oaths of office, and such other oaths as are required by law to be taken before particular officers,) the same may be taken before any judge of any court of record, any circuit judge, supreme court commissions, commissioner of deeds, or clerk of any court of record; and when certified by any such officer to have been taken before him, may be read and used in any court of law or equity, of record or not of record, within this State, and before any officer, judicial, executive or administrative, before whom any such cause, matter or proceeding, may be pending; and affidavits to be read in the supreme court, may also be taken by any commissioner appointed for that purpose, by the justices of the said court. 
[margin note: evid]
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Application of
Ephraim Osborn 
for a Pension

Northumberland, Saratoga Co.
New York


Thomas J Sutherland
Atty at Law
Chittenango, N.Y.
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Declaration - in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. 
State of New York
Saratoga County.} Ss. On this 26th day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty=four, personally appeared in open court, before the Court of Common pleas of the county of Saratoga now sitting, Ephraim Osborn, a resident of the town of Northumberland, and said county of Saratoga, aged seventy 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 7, 1832. 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated: - 
On the first of March, (the 4th or 5th day as he now thinks) in A.D. 1777. he became a substitute for his father who had been drafted for three months service - entered the army of the Revolution, and joined a company of Infantry under the command of one * Captain Nathaniel Seely (Seeley) - at Pownal, [margin note: *belonged to Bronson's Regiment] in the state of Vermont. His Lieutenant was one Joseph Briggs, of Pownal - and one Watson of Pownal, was Ensign and Roswell Osborn, of Pownal, Orderly Sergeant. From Pownal he marched to Bennington, with the company under the command of Capt. Seeley, where the company was joined to the regiment. Colonel Seth Warner of the Continental Line, or perhaps of the Vermont Line - as he may not rightly have understood the
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service - had the command at that place as he now recollects - and had his regiment there. Samuel Robinson, of Bennington was his Colonel - the Lieutenant Colonel he does not recollect. The other officers of the regiment, he recollects, were Major Samuel Safford, and Adjutant Joseph Fay. The regimental officers were frequently superceded and changed - and he was many times commanded by officers who were strangers and whose names he never learned - Among those under whose command he was at different times, he recollects Major Gideon Bronson, Major Sawyer, Major or Colonel Wright, and he now thinks one Hopkins served some time as Adjutant and afterwards as Major. [margin note: 3 months service as private] There were a number of field officers - of the Continental Line, as he then supposed - at Bennington, while he was there - but their names he never learned or has forgotten. From Bennington he marched with his regiment under the command of Colonel Robinson to Castleton, Vt where he was stationed with the regiment for some time. In the month of May, as he now thinks, he marched from Castleton to Fort George with two companies - under the command of a Captain whose name he does not recollect. A report had been received at Castleton that depradations had been committed upon the Whig's at Fort George by the Tories and Indians - and that some persons had been murdered. On this account the expedition was sent out. From Fort George he marched with the detachment immediately back to Castleton. In the same month he marched from Castleton with the whole regiment to Hubbardton. At Hubbardton was commanded by one Major or Colonel Bronson - who was of the Continental Line as he then supposed - but who possibly may have been a Vermont Officer. At Hubbardton done garrison duty a short time and was then sent back to
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Castleton, and dismissed from the service - (his time having expired) - after having served three months as a private.
In the month of April, A.D. 1778, an alarm was spread through the country that the British and Indians were committing depredations upon the shores of Lake Champlain - and volunteers were beat up for - and he then volunteered in a company of Infantry under one Captain Joseph Briggs - in which company he served as a private for about five months - and not less as he now thinks. Col. Robinson was again his Colonel - one Herrick, Lieutenant Colonel - one Chipman Major and one Fossett Adjutant. - Does not recollect the name of any of the other officers. He marched from Pownal, where he volunteered [margin note: 5 months service as private] with the company under the command of Capt. Briggs, to Bennington, where the company was joined to the regiment of Colonel Robinson. From Bennington he marched with the regiment to Wood Creek from thence to Hubbardton. At Hubbardton he done Garrison duty three or four weeks, - and then marched from Hubbardton to Fort=Ann, and there was dismissed from the service. 
About the middle of April A.D. 1779, he volunteered again under Capt. Briggs, at Pownal, and marched to Bennington, where he remained as a Guard for Public Stores which were kept at that place - and in transporting provisions from Bennington to Wood=Creek where troops were then stationed until about the middle of August - when he was dismissed and went home - after having served four months as a Corporal. [margin note: 4 months service as Corporal.] He was commanded by Captain Farnsworth, Commissary, Col. Robinson Major Safford, a Captain Robinson - and Isaac Tichenor, who has since been Governor of Vermont, was Adjutant. Captain Briggs did not remain there.
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In the month of September following, as he now believes, he again volunteered at Pownal, under Capt. Briggs, and marched to Bennington - and from thence to Fort=Edward - and from thence to Fort=Ann, where he was dismissed after having served a few days more than two months as a private. [margin note: 2 months service as private]
About the first of March A.D. 1780 - he enlisted under one Capt. William Dyre of Shaftsbury, Vt. for three months - he marched from Pownal, where he enlisted, with seven or eight others, under the command of one Serg't Joseph Cummings, to Shaftsbury - where they were received by Capt. Dyre - and then having been furnished by Capt. Dyre with $1,25 a man, to defray their expenses - and joined by about fifteen others, he marched with the detachment under Sergt. Cummings to Wood Creek - by the way of Salem, N.Y. When arrived at Wood=Creek they were joined to a regiment commanded by one Colonel Ebenezer Walbridge, of Bennington. About a week after their arrival Capt. Dure came on and took command and organized a company in said Walbridge's regiment. One Sax or Senton (Sexton?) was Lieut. and one Pettebone (Pettibone), Ensign, and one Nathaniel Osborn, Orderly Serg't. The regimental officers were Major Simpson Cowden, of Cambridge and Adjt. James Dole, of the same place. At this time he was employed under the command of Col. Walbridge, in building a picket fort at East=Creek - about two miles from Wood=Creek. [margin notes: 3 months service as private 3-] In June, or perhaps the first of July. while stationed at Wood=Creek, one General Enos, or Eno. came over the Mountain from Vermont, with about five hundred men and requested of Col. Walbridge a part of his forces to accompany him to Fort George, on account of an alarm - and two
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companies were given him. With the command of Gen. Enos, came one Captain Smith, who had recruiting orders from Colonel Seth Warner, to enlist men to serve during the war - by whom he was told that if he would enlist,
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whose names he has now forgotten. In the spring of A.D. 1781. he received a suit of uniform - a rifle frock and trousers - which were said to have been given by Gov. Chittenden, who, also, gave him four dollars once when he happened to be at his house. In the winter of A.D. 1783, after having been in the service of the Revolution, them about two years and six months, he received a discharged signed by Col. Seth Warner - which discharge was burnt with all his papers in his house of Fort=Miller, Washington Co. N.Y. more than forty years  since. That he now has no documentary evidence, and that he knows of no person, whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his service, except Roswell Osborn, of the town of Sullivan, in the county of Madison and State of New=York, whose affidavit duly attested, as hereunto anexed.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any state. 
/s/Ephraim Osborn
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid, in open court before Harry Granger one of the Judges of Said Court
We Robert Washburn a Clergyman, residing in the town of Northumberland in said county of Saratoga and William Velzy of the same place, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ephraim Osborn, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; That we believe him to be seventy years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. 
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid} 
/s/Robert Washburn
/s/William Velzy
Sworn & Subscribed in open Court the 26th day of August 1834 
/s/A. Goodrich Clerk
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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 applicant was a revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. 
And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Robert Washburn who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman, resident in the town of Northumberland and that William Velzy who has signed the same, is a resident of the same place, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
I Alpheus Goodrich, clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Saratoga, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Ephraim Osborn, for a pension.
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court of Common Pleas, this 2[blank]th day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred and thirty=four.
/s/A Goodrich Clerk
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To the Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department and propounded by the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Saratoga, now sitting this present term of ['October' crossed out] August A.D. 1834, to Ephraim Osborn, an Applicant for a pension under the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832, he upon his oath makes the following answers: - 
To the 1st Interogatory - He says he was born in New Haven, Conn. on the 8th of January A.D. 1764.
To the 2d - He says his brother, now residing in the county of Cayuga N.Y. has in his poss'ion an old family Bible in which there is a record of his age entered by his father. 
To the 3d - He says he was residing with his father at Pownal, in the state of Vermont whenhe was first called into service - that from Pownal he afterwards removed to Fort=Miller, in the county of Washington, N.Y. - from thence he removed to the town of Saratoga in the county of Saratoga in the county of Saratoga, and from thence to the town of Northumberland in the county of Saratoga where he ['now resides' crossed out] has resided ever since & where he now resides. 
To the 4th - He says he first entered the service as a substitute for his father, Ephraim Osborn, Sen. Afterwards volunteered twice and then enlisted twice as herein before stated
To the 5th - He states the substance of his declaration.
To the 6th - He says he received a discharge signed by Col. Seth Warner, which was burned in his house at Fort Miller. he does not recollect any other written discharge.
To the 7th - He says Nicholas W. Angle, Esquire, who has been acquainted with him for the last forty years - and he believes every other person with whom he is acquainted
I ['certify the above to be a true copy of the Minutes of the Court. Clerk of Court Com. Pl.' crossed out] Elder Robert Washburn of Northumberland, William Velzy a Justice of said County of Saratoga Elijah Strong, Peter Steverson,
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/s/Ephraim Osborn
Subscribed and sworn in open Court the day & year aforesaid
/s/Harry Granger  one of the Courts
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State of New York,
Madison County, }Ss. On this 19th day of August, A.D. 1834. personally appeared before me, the undersigned, justice of the peace, Roswell Osborn, a resident of the town of Sullivan in said County of Madison, of the age of eighty=two years, who being by me duly sworn according to law - doth on his oath depose and say: - That Ephraim Osborn, now of the town of Northumberland, in the county of Saratoga and state of New York, an applicant for a Pension under the Act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832, is a distant relative of this deponant - and that he believes him, the said Ephraim to have been seventy years of age on the eighth day of January last - that he was intimately acquainted with the said Ephraim from some time in the year A.D. 1772 - (at which time the said Ephraim was about eight years of age - and this deponent about 20.) - until the year A.D. 1786 - when this deponent removed from the town of Pownal, in the state of Vermont - at which place the father of this deponent, as also the father of the said Ephraim, resided with their respective fathers, in the said town of Pownal during the whole period of the Revolutionary War - except the times and periods during which they, this deponent, and the said Ephraim were serving in the American Army. 
And this deponant further saith, that on or about the first of March, A.D. 1777 - he the said Ephraim entered the service of the Revolution, at Pownal in the state of Vermont, as a substitute for his father Ephraim Osborn, sen. who had been drafted in the Militia for three  months
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and joined a company of Infantry under the command of one Captain Nathaniel Seely (Seeley), of which company this deponent was then Orderly Sergeant - that the said Ephraim Osborn, junr. the applicant for a pension, was then a boy about 13 or 14 years of age - that the said Ephraim served three months as a private in said company immediately succeeding his entering therein - during which time, he the said Ephraim marched with said company from Pownal to Bennington Vt. under the command of Captain Seely (Seeley) - where the company was joined to the regiment of Colonel Samuel Robinson, of Bennington. - that, as he recollects, the other field and staff officers of the regiment were Major Samuel Safford and Adjutant Joseph Fay  - that he the said Ephraim marched with the said regiment from Bennington to Castleton, Vt. and from Castleton to Fort=George, N.Y. with two companies upon an expedition - and from thence back to Castleton and that he the said Ephraim, marched with the said regiment from Castleton to Hubbardton, Vt. where he remained a short time doing garrison duty - and then returned to Castleton [margin note: 3] about the first of June, and was dismissed from the service, his term of service having expired. 
And this deponent further saith, that the said Ephraim, volunteered in the Militia at Pownal aforesaid, in the month of April, A.D. 1778 - and joined a company of Infantry under the command of one Captain Joseph Briggs, and served therein as a private, as this deponent believes and as herein set forth, for the period of five months [margin note: 5] immediately succeeding his entering therein - that this deponent volunteered and joined the said company under the command of Captain Briggs, at the same time - and served three months together, and at the same time
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with the said Ephraim - that the Troops were called out on account of an alarm having been spread through the country that the British and Indians were committing depredations upon the shores of Lake Champlain - that the said Ephraim and this deponent marched with said company under the command of Captain Briggs from Pownal to Bennington, at which place the company was joined to the regiment of Col. Robinson, of which one Herrick was then Lieutenant Colonel - one Chipman Major, and one Fossett Adjutant - that the said Ephraim then marched with said regiment from Bennington to Wood Creek - from thence to Hubbardton - where he done garrison duty three or four weeks, and then marched with the regiment to Fort=Ann, where this deponent was dismissed in the month of July, from the service  - and went home leaving the said Ephraim in the service - that in the month of September following he this deponant was informed that the said Ephraim was sick at Castleton, to which place he immediately proceeded, [margin note: 1778] to see the said Ephraim, and there found him with his regiment sick - and having obtained leave from the commanding officer, took him home to Pownal. 
And this deponent further saith, that in the autumn of A.D. 1779 (in the month of September as he now thinks) the said Ephraim, as also this deponant, again volunteered under Captain Briggs, at Pownal, aforesaid - [margin note: 2+ day] and and marched from thence to Bennington - and from thence, to Fort=Edward - and from thence to Fort=Ann, where the company was dismissed and went home - (in the month of November as he now thinks) - and that he verily believes that the said Ephraim, at this time served two months or more as a private 
And this deponent further saith that he frequently saw the said Ephraim in the spring and summer of the year A.D. 1779 - previous to their volunteering
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the last time under Captain Briggs, dressed in a military uniform and equipage - and then understood from the said Ephraim and others, that he the said Ephraim was serving in the army. And that in the year A.D. 1780 and at other times, until the close of the Revolutionary War, the said  Ephraim was reputed to be serving in the Revolutionary Army - and that at various times he saw the said Ephraim, at his father's house, during the period from the year A.D. 1780 to the close of the Revolution, dressed in Military uniform and equipage - and the said Ephraim at those times told this deponent he was serving in the Army - and that he was at home on leave of absence. And further this deponent saith not. 
/s/Roswell Osborn
Sworn and subscribed before me this 19th day of August A.D. 1834. } 
/s/Friend Barnard Justice of the peace
I Certify that the above named Roswell Osborn, is reputed in his neighborhood to be a man of unblemished character, and that I have been acquainted with him for six or seven years past - during which time I have lived near him, and know him well - and believe him to be a man of truth - and have myself since I have been acquainted with him understood and it is so believed in the neighborhood that he served as a soldier in the Revolution. And I have no doubt he would be believed on oath whereever he is known. 
/s/Friend Barnard
/s/Jarius French Justice of Peace
Sullivan August 19th 1834.
We most readily concur in the above statement.
/s/Thos French.
/s/W.K. Fuller.
N.B. William K. Fuller who has signed this certificate has been Adjt. General of this state recently a judge of this county - and is now a member of Congress. }
/s/Thomas J. Sutherland, Atty at Law
/s/Jonas Brown
/s/Aaron Brown
Chittenango N.Y.
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State of New York
Madison County Clerk's Office} ss. I, Andrew S. Sloan, Clerk of the said County, do certify that Friend Barnard before whom the preceding affidavit purports to have been sworn, and also whose name appears to the preceding certificate, was, at the date of the same, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County. And that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit and certificate to be his proper hand writing and signature 
[court seal affixed] Witness my hand and seal of Office this 20th day of August 1834.
/s/A.S. Sloan Clk
[margin note: evid]
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[verso]
Date
1888 Augt 27 E.S. Stearns - Prior
1930-Feb-11-Photos to W. E. Osborn

[recto]
Rejected
[blank] Ex'r. OLD WAR. REJECTED
File No. 7817
['Acts of July 11, 1862, March 2, 1878.' crossed out]
Ephraim Osborn
Died at [blank]
[blank] other claim.
[blank], 187[blank]. [blank] Clerk.
Application filed: [blank], 18[blank]
Attorney: [blank]
P.O. [blank]
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New York
Ephraim Osborn
Rev'y.
Suspended
Let. Hon. J. Cramer 6 Feby '34
see let to Hon J. Cramer age 
Ap 19, 34 - same
Dec. 31. 1836 let to Hon D. P. Brewster - July 28, 1841 to Nathan Leake March 8th '47
to Hon. Hugh Waite June 21, 1848.
to same July 26, '48
Act 7. June 32
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In the Case of Eli Osborn, I wish you would write a threatening letter, for I am exceedingly angered by the applications of Arad Joy.
Eve Wendell is not His,
Elias Osborn
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Be particular & attend to Mr. White's request - Write a letter for Arad Joy addressed to Mr. W.
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I assign my agency to N. Leake Esq
Arad Joy
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To Hon J. L. Edwards Com'r of Pensions
Sir I as the widow of Ephraim Osborn have appointed Arad Joy my true and lawful attorney for me to investigate my claim to the pension due to my said husband & to me 
Dated August 18th 1846 /s/X her mark Catherine Osborn
Witness} William T. Osborn
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March 1783 (the resolution of Congress committing half pay for life, having passed on the 22nd of March 1783) I infer that he retired under some arrangement of the Army, previous to that time, but the  particular period is not ascertainable from the records of this Office - 
Treasury Department
3d Aud'rs Office
24th February 1835.
/s/Peter Hagner Aud.
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Is there a record which will shew whether Col. Seth Warner of Vermont (recognized as a N. Hampshire officer) was actually in service in the summer & fall of 1783?
/s/Geo Wm Crump
Peter Hagner, esqr 3rd Aud'r
It appearing that Col'o Seth Warner's commutation certificates were put on Interest from the 23d of
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Ephraim Osborne - Pvt - N. York line
New York
Osborn certifies for McFerrin & McFerrin certifies for Osborn & there is nothing found of either.
Rej-File No 7,817/OK
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[stamp: [illegible] Jan. 15. 1866]
Naval
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Ephraim Osborn of Mass made no application for pension but in a certificate of the Sec'y of State for Mass filed in a case appears the following particulars
On the alarm of the battle at Lexington Ephraim Osborn turned out as Serg't in Capt Ebenezer Bridges Co in the reg't of Col'o John Whitcomb that marched from Fetchburg to Cambridge about 14 days [illegible] to Dec 12 1778
He Served corporal 4 mos from July 4 to Nov 9 & Nov 10 with Capt Peter Woodburg & reg't of David Jewett} in Col'o Jacob Gerrish
Under Capt Thomas Cowdry Co & Col'o Sam'l Demong
private from Oct to Nov 1779 - one month
Under Capt Timothy Boutelle's (Boutell) & Colo John Randolph of Worcester 3 mos from July to Oct 1780
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[handwritten letter]
Washington 17 July 1808

Hon J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Dr Sir
I have been requested to make a demand, pro forma, for the papers or copies of papers, requested by Eli Osborn, in the case of his Father Ephraim Osborn, or the reason, that an executive officer, can not rightfully establish a rule, which may defeat a law. The parties interested insist that the rule of your office refusing copies of papers, is not only arbitrary but illegal, and insist upon my further applications, and in conformity with those instructions. I do hereby insist upon your repealing that obnoxious, and unjust rule Just so long as it would require some of your Clerks to make a copy and enclose it tome. Having obeyed my instructions, I leave the matter in your hands, hoping that nothing more services those an exchange or two of shots may grow out it, in case of your refusal of so righteous and reasonable a demand
Truly Yours
/s/Hugh White
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[Massachusetts state seal] Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston:
August 7th 1848.

I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Ephraim Osborn is borne upon a Muster Roll of Capt Ebenezer Budge's Company in Col. John Whitcomb's Regt. that marched from Fitchburg to Cambridge on the alarm of April 19, 1775, as a sergeant 15 days. Upon a Muster Roll of Capt Peter Woodbury's Company, in Col Jacob Gerrish's reg't as a private from July 11 to November 9 1778 inclusive, 4 months. This roll is dated "Lancaster February 19, 1779." Upon a "Muster Roll of Capt David Jewett's Company, in said Col. Gerrish's reg't, as a private from November 10 to December 12, 1778, including allowance of 3 days travel. 1 Month and 5 days. This roll is dated "Lancaster March 29 1779."
Upon a Pay Roll of Capt Thomas Cowden's Company, in Col Samuel Denny's Reg't for service in the state of New York, as a  private from October 26th to November
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application for certificate of Revolutionary Services made by the widow of the party who rendered the service 
State of New York - Seneca County Town of Ovid
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the rolls in his office, of the Service of Ephraim Osborn in the war of the Revolution - His residence was in Vermont, but he may have resided so near the line of Mass as to have served under officers from that State, he served under Capt Briggs, Col Robinson, Capt Wm Dyer, Col Walbridge, Capt Simeon Smith Col Seth Warner, he may have served under other officers
Witness my hand this 13th day July 1848
/s/Catharine Osborn By Arad Joy her agent
Signed by said agent in my presence
/s/James Foster Justice
I certify that the said Arad Joy, secures to be the lawful agent 
/s/James Foster Justice
of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set  forth, contains all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
/s/Wm. Tufts Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth.}
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23 1779, including allowance of 9 days for 180 Miles travel. 1 Month & [margin note: 7] 7 days. Upon a Pay Roll of Caps. [illegible] Timothy Boutelle's Company, in Col John Rand's Regt, from the County of Worcester, as a private from July 20 to October 10 1780 including allowance of 10 days for 200 miles travel. 3 Months and 1 day. - Not upon rolls any of the Officers named on the annexed application. The preceding is all the evidence of service of any one of the name, showed by the Military records in this Office.
And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case. 
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written. 
/s/Wm. Tufts Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth.}
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[handwritten letter]
Washington July 5 1851

James E Heath Esq
Sir
Enclosed you will please find Power of Attorney in the cases of Catharine Averill widow of Josiah, and Catharine Osborn wid of Ephraim authorizing me to act as their agent in the prosecution of their claims to pensions. 
I wish to be allowed the privilege of examining the papers now on file in your office in relation to their claims. 
With Much Respect Your Obt Servt
/s/Geo C. Ames
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Ephraim Osborn (deceased) an applicant from New York - please reexamine all of the proof & report how much Service is admitted & what further is required - 
Yrs &c 
/s/W T Jackson H of R
Sept 12/30
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State of Vermont
Secretary of State's Office
Montpelier August 30, 1850.
I hereby certify that there is on file in this office "A pay roll of Capt. William Dyre's Company of Volunteers in Col. Ebenezer Walbridge's Battalion, raised for the defence of the frontiers of the state of Vermont and stationed at the port of Skenesboro' 1781." on which pay roll is the name of Ephraim Osborn" with an allowance of £5.5.8 - for sixty three days service as private, said service commencing September 20, 1781 and ending November 22, 1781. 
[official seal affixed] Given under my hand and the seal of this Office this 31st day of August A.D. 1850. 
/s/Ferrand F. Merrill Secretary of State
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[handwritten letter]
Washington Jan'y 28th 1847

Sir
I herewith enclose a power of attorney assigned to me by A. Joy Esq in the case of E. Osborne dec'd of New York an applicant for a pension from that state under the law of 7 June 1832 - also a similar power of atty, in the Case of George Hempleman dec'd of Ohio, an applicant, under the same act, and who performed service in the Pennsylvania troops.
Osborne is represented to me as having served for 2 or three years in Col Seth Warner's Regiment, but for further information with regard to the cases of each. I would respectfully ask for the official report, or permission to see the papers in their respective cases.
Very Respectfully Your obt Servant
/s/Nathan Leake
Hon J. L. Edwards
Com'r of Pensions, Present.
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Revolutionary Claims
Richard Rush Sec'y of the Treasury
Washington City
['859' crossed out]
E. Osborne 876.
Rec 23 Aug
ack 30
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[handwritten letter]
Saratoga Springs
Aug. 18. 1828

Hon'l R. Rush, 
Sir
Enclosed are papers of Ephraim Osborne of Northumberland, Saratoga County. State of New York - Letters to him or me may Be Directed to this place - 
I am Respectfully Yours
/s/Wm. L.F. Warren
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L Edwards, Esq.
Comm of Pensions
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[handwritten letter]
Washington Jany 8 1868

Dear Sir
Mr. Joy wishes me to ask you to report to me in the following applications forwarded to you by him as follows
✓Elizabeth Lush Sep't 12-1848
✓Anna Presson  "  18- " 
Ephraim Osborn Aug't 12-1848
Mary Dunning Aplicant from NY under law of 1838
Yrs truly
/s/E Blackmer
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[handwritten letter]
Washington 20 May 1848

Hon J. L. Edwards
Dr Sir
Can you comply with the requisition of Mr Osborne, He is a very worthy and respectable man; and if the usages of your office will allow, I shall be very much obliged for the copies desired, which I will immediately transmit to Him 
Very respectfully Yours &c
/s/Hugh White
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[handwritten letter]
Ovid Aug't 12 '48
Sir
So much (if any) of the service named in the inclosed Certificate as you judge was performed by Ephraim Osborn of New York, an applicant under law of '32 you will of course allow please report to me your decision, he is dead but the widow is living
Respectfully Your Obt Sert
/s/Arad Joy
Hon J. L. Edwards
Com'r of Pensions
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[handwritten letter]
House of Reps July 26th 1841
Dear Sir
I have received a communication requesting me to make enquiries at the pension office about the Case of Mr Ephraim Osborn an applicant for a pension whose papers were presented a number of years ago by Hon John M Taylor and subsequently looked after by Hon. John Cramer 
Mr Osborn as I understand has heard nothing from his Case since he completed his proofs in the Saratoga Co. Courts and is desirous of information
Very Respectfully Yours &c
/s/D. P. Brewster
J. L. Edwards Esqr Com. of Pensions}
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State of New York
County of Saratoga}ss. Aaron Nash of the Village of Ballston Spa in said county being duly sworn says that from an Examination of Original memorandums it appears that Ephraim Osborn the applicant for a Pension under the act of 5. May 1828 refered to by Mr. Edwards in his letter hereto attached, Enlisted into the company of Infantry commanded by Captain Simon Smith in Colonel Seth Warner's Regiment for during the War & that he served to the Close of the War and that the affidavit made different was a mistake of which I have no doubt
/s/Aaron Nash
Subscribed & sworn this 8th day of March 1834}
before me /s/A Goodrich Justice - 
I certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Aaron Nash, and that he is a credible person, and his statement is entitled to credit - 
/s/A Goodrich Justice
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State of New York
Saratoga County}ss: ['I certify that' crossed out] 
I Alpheus Goodrich Clerk of the County of Saratoga do certify that Alpheus Goodrich 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 the said County and that I am acquainted with his hand writing & verily believe his name subscribed to the said Affidavit & the subjoined Certificate to be his proper hand writing and signature - 
[court seal affixed] Witness my hand & Seal of Office the Eighth day of March 1834
/s/A Goodrich  Clerk
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[handwritten letter]
[margin notes: Rec'd 18 Jany 1832. 4275.]
House of Representatives
Washington Jan. 16. 1832

Sir
The enclosed affidavit is transmitted in further support of the application of Ephraim Osborn for the benefit of the Act of May 15. 1828 for the relief of certain surviving officers & soldiers of the Army of the Revolution. 
The affidavit having been taken before a Commissioner of deeds, I transmit therewith a copy of a Sec. of the Revised Statutes of N.Y. shewing the authority of such officers to administer oaths. 
When decision shall have been made on the additional evidence please notify me of the result.
Very respectfully Your obed't Serv't
/s/John W. Taylor
The Hon Louis McLane
Sec'y of the Treasury
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[handwritten letter]
[margin notes: Rec'd 17 March 1832 4386]
House of Representatives
March 16, 1832

Sir
Early in the present session of Congress I transmitted to your Dept. the affidavit of Amos Osborn & William Osborn in support of the application of Ephraim Osborn to pay as a Rev. soldier under the act of May 15. 1828. About the middle of last January I received notice that the claim had been reexamined & again rejected. By ['the day's' crossed out] yesterday's mail the enclosed certificate reached me. Not knowing the certifier I sent it to Mr. Doubleday who represents in the House the district where they live. He has returned it to me with his certificate. I consider it my duty to lay it before you, under an apprehension that the characters of A. & W. Osborn may not have been considered respectable. If that was the ground of rejection, it may deserve to be reconsidered. 
I am not aware that any other ground has been stated than generally "the evidence is insufficient.
Yours &c.
/s/John W. Taylor
The Sec'y of the Treasury
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[handwritten letter]
[margin note: Rec'd 31 July 1830 2050]
Ballston Spa N.Y. July 26. 1830

Sir
Ephraim Osborne is an applicant for the relief granted to certain surviving officers & soldiers of the army of the Revolution by the act of 15th May 1828. I have known him from my youth. He has always been reputed to have been a soldier in the continental army since my first acquaintance with him.
I hope his papers may be found satisfactory
Very respectfully Your Mo obed't
/s/John W. Taylor
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State of New York
Oswego County}ss.
Personally apeared before me a Justice within and for the County and state aforesaid Catherine Osburn (Osborn) aged 90 years a resident of the town of Hannibal County and state aforesaid who being sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Ephraim Osburn (Osborn) deceased that as his widow She has a direct ['claim' crossed out] interest in the application and claims for a pension due this deponant by the services of ['the said' crossed out] her husband in the war of the revolution 
/s/X her mark Catherine Osborn
Sworn and subscribed this Eighteenth day of June Ad 1851
/s/Ransford Case Justice of the peace
Know all men by these presents that I  Catherine Osburn of Hannibal County of Oswego and state of New York do hereby constitute and appoint George C. Ames of Washington City D.C. my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to investigate my Claim to a pension due me by my late husband Ephraim Osborn hereby ratifying and confirming That he may lawfully do in the premises
/s/X her mark Cathrine Osburn
State of New York
County of Oswego}ss.
Be it known that on the 18th day of June A.D. 1851 before me the subscriber a Just of the peace within and for the county and state aforesaid Personlly appeared Catherine Osburn the above named and acknowledge the foregoing power of attorney to be her act and deed
/s/Ransford Case Justice of the peace
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State of New York
Oswego County Clerk's Office}ss I do hereby certify that Ransford Case whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the ['above' crossed out] within instrument and thereon written was at the date of the said certificate a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and duly authorized to take the same and further that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said Justice and verily believe the signature to the said certificate of proof or acknowledgment to be 
[county seal affixed] In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County this 26th day of June 1851
/s/P. Rathbun Clk
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[handwritten letter]
Ballston spa March 10th 1834
Dear Sir
Enclosed you'l receive the affidavit of Ephraim Osborn and also my affidavit in answer to the requirements made by Mr. Edwards in his letter of the 6th Ult'o & herewith enclosed 
And it is hoped that the explanation given may prove satisfactory, Please have the goodness to attend to Case of Mrs. Osborn as early as any way convenient and transmit to me the Certificate (if he is found entitled to one) or any other decision which may be made & oblige
Sir Your most Obedient Humble servant
/s/Aaron Nash
To the Honorable John Cramer 
Washington City D.C.
N.B. Please call the attention of Mr. Edwards to the Claim of Daniel Gray for a Pension under the Act of June 7, 1832.
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Rec'd August 31 -
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[handwritten letter]
To the Honorable S. D. Ingham
Sec'y of the Treasury
Sir, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter of the 7th Inst. in relation to the Revolutionary claim of Ephraim Osborn, stating as follows, "Before any further decision is had on your claim under the above mentioned act It is desirable to know from whom you received your last pay, when & by whom you you were discharged, and who were your officers at the time of your discharge,"
It is hoped the facts set forth in the enclosed affidavit will be found to be a satisfactory answer to the same. 
Very Respectfully your Obedient Serv't
/s/Aaron Nash
Ballston Spa August 26th 1830
P.S. Please direct to me at this Post Office.
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[addressed envelope]
Jonesville August 26 Free
To the Honorable S. D. Ingham
Secr'y of the Treasury
Washington City U.S.
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Wm L F Warren for Ephraim Osborne 876 1327.1958,
Rec'd 25 Aug't 1829.
308
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[addressed envelope]
Free
Secretary of U. States.
Washington City
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[handwritten letter]
Saratoga Springs
Aug. 19. 1829. 
Sir
Sometime last Winter I forwarded papers of Ephraim Osborne a Revolutionary Soldier for the purpose of obtaining a pension. To the Treasury Department - Since which no information has been had relating to the same Except that the Papers were Received - I wish you to inform me whether the Papers have been passed on & Rejected, or whether more papers are necessary - You will confer a great favor, on me as well as on a very Worthy pensioner by an early attention to the subject. 
I am Sir very Respectfully Yours.
/s/Wm. L.F. Warren
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[handwritten letter]
[margin notes: Rec'd 31 July 1830 2051]
Ballston Spa N.Y. July 26, 1830
Sir
I have the honor to enclose additional testimony in support of the application of Ephraim Osborn, for the benefit of the Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution approved 15. May 1828 his original application was made some time previous to the 27. November 1828 - to the Sec'y of the Treasury was received stating among other things that it would be desirable for him to obtain from one or more persons who knew him to have served in the continental army on affidavits to that effect
It is hoped the enclosed testimony will be found satisfactory.
Please direct your answer to me at the Ballston Spa P.O. N.Y.
Very respectfully your Obd't Serv't 
/s/Aaron Nash
The Honorable Samuel D. Ingham 
Secretary of the Treasury
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876.
Revolutionary Claims.
Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828. 
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, 11 Sept. 1828. 
The annexed paper, relating to the claim of Ephraim Osborne, under the abovementioned act, is respectfully referred to the Secretary of War, with a request that he will be pleased to cause me to be informed whether it appears, by any records in the War Department, that the claimant has received, or is entitled to receive, the bounty in land granted by Congress for service in the Continental line of the Army of the Revolution. 
/s/Richard Rush
The Hon. the SECRETARY OF WAR. 
War Department.
Bounty Land Office
19. Sep'r 1828
Ephraim Osborne, a private in the New York Line, is not returned, as entitled to land from the United States, nor has a warrant issued for him. 
/s/E. Stephens
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REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, 30 August 1828. 
Ephraim Osborne of Northumberland in the County of Saratoga in the State of New York has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private in captain Smith's company, in the [blank] regiment of the New York line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing. 
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office. 
By Order of the Secretary F. A. Dickins. 

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
3d September 1828
['It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to [blank] in the [blank]' crossed out]
It further appears that Ephraim Osborne is not now on the pension list of ['the' crossed out] any agency, and has not been so since the 3d. March 1826 ['at the rate of [blank] dollars per month.' crossed out]
The name of Ephraim Osborne cannot be found among those of the New York line, to whom Certificates for the gratuity of Eighty Dollars, were issued - 
/s/Peter Hagner Aud
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Revolutionary Claims.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, 1 Dec 1830. 
Ephraim Osborne of [blank] in the county of Saratoga in the State of New York has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private in captain Smith's or Allens' company, in Col Warner's regiment of the line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in this office. 
By Order of the Secretary.
/s/F. A. Dickins. 
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
Dec 3d 1830
It does not appear by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Ephraim Osborne in ['the' crossed out] Warner's Reg't Newyork Line. 
It further appears that Ephraim Osborne is not now on the pension list of the Newyork agency and has not been so since the 3 March 1826 at the rate of [blank] dollars per month. 
/s/Peter Hagner Aud
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Rec'd 17 March 1832.
This may certify to all whom it may concern, that we the subscribers of the town of Ira, have been acquainted with Amos Osborn, & William Osborn (of the said town of Ira in the County of Cayuga & State of N. York) for several years past they sustain good character as to the truth and veracity and full faith and credit may be given to their affidavits - 
/s/Augustus F. Ferris
/s/Andrews Preston
Dated at Ira this 6th day of March 1832. 
I know the above named Augustus F. Ferris and Andrews Preston to be gentlemen of high respectability whose statements are entitled to full credit
/s/U. F. Doubleday
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State of New York
Saratoga County ss. Ephraim Osborn of the Town of Northumberland in the County of Saratoga and state of New York aforesaid, being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he received from Captain Simeon Smith, under whom he enlisted. Settlement notes or Certificates on the Continental Government signed by the Paymaster of Colonel Seth Warner's Regiment, his name this deponent does not recollect, that a few months before his discharge he received from his said Captain Simeon Smith sixteen Dollars in Continental Notes. 
And further this deponent saith that he received his discharge from the said Captain Simeon Smith or Captain Allen, which he does not recollect, it was some time in the Winter, whither before or after the commencement of the year 1784 he does not recollect, the said Discharge was signed by the said Colonel Seth ['Smith or' crossed out] Warner or Captain Simeon Smith, to the best of his recollection. 
That he this deponent further saith that he was under the immediate command of the following officers at the time of his discharge, to wit, Capt. Allen, Lieutenant Sax the names of his other officers he does not recollect
/s/E Osborn
State of New York
Saratoga County} ss: I certify that on the 21st day of August 1830 before me personally appeared the above named Ephraim Osborn, & made oath before me that the facts stated in the above affidavit are true, and I further certify that I have known the said Ephraim Osborn for a number of years and that he is reputed to be a man of truth & veracity - 
/s/A. Goodrich Justice -
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State of New York Saratoga County ss: I, Thomas Palmer Clerk of the County of Saratoga Do Certify that Alpheus Goodrich whose name as subscribed to the within Certificate was at the date thereof a Justice of the peace in & for the County of Saratoga acting under the authority of the State duly commissioned & sworn & that the name of A Goodrich subscribed to the said Certificate is in the proper hand writing of the said Justice
[county seal affixed] Witness my hand & the seal of the said County the 21st day of August in the year 1830
/s/Thomas Palmer Clerk
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Rec'd 31 July 1830.
State of New York
Saratoga County ss. Ephraim Osborn of the Town of Northumberland in the County of Saratoga aforesaid aged sixty six years, being duly sworn doth depose and say that he enlisted as a private soldier in the Revolutionary War. for during the War, that he enlisted in the spring of 1780 at Skeensbury (Skenesborough) now White Hall in the county of Washington and State of New York aforesaid in the company commanded by Captain Simeon Smith in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Seth Warner on the Continental establishment, continued at the place of enlistment for several months doing duty as a private soldier in said Company ['and company' crossed out] & Regiment on the shores of Lake Champlain, from thence he Marched to Castleton under command of the said Captain Smith in said Regiment, and was attached to a Brigade Commanded by General Enos, and after a short duration there Marched under the command of the said General Enos, to Fort Ann, and kept guard there a short duration and then said Captain Smith calld his Company from the said Brigade and marched to Fort Edward & there met a small part of Colonel Warner's Regiment, and kept guard awhile at Fort Edward and from there was marched to Post Creek and put under the command of Colonel Ebenezer Walbridge, and was employed with the said company in building a Picket Fort, at Post Creek, continued in said Regiment about three months, during that period was under the command of several different officers, and then was called out of the said Regiment and put under the command of Gideon Bronson an officer belonging to the aforesaid Colonel Warner's Regiment, and them was marched to Fort George & helped to keep that Fort a short time & was employed in scouting parties under command of the said Bronson for several months, & then said Bronson left us under the command of Captain Allen at Skenesborough & remained under command of the said Captain Allen & other officers until the close of the War., and during the aforesaid services he was engaged in several Battles & Skirmishes & he received a Regular Discharge at the head of Lake champlain, the discharge he lost or it was destroyed by fire in a House at Fort Miller with some of his Household Furniture, fifteen or twenty years after it was received and that he this deponent was promised at the time of his said Enlistment -
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eighty dollars Bounty & Lands, and that he has never received the Bounty or Land, 
/s/E Osborn
Sworn the 15th day of July 1830, before me}
/s/A Goodrich, Justice of the peace & Com'r of deeds - 
State of New York Saratoga County ss: I Thomas Palmer Clerk of the county of Saratoga do Certify that Alpheus Goodrich whose ['signa' crossed out] has subscribed the Jurat of the above affidavit was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in & for the county of Saratoga acting under the authority of this State, and duly authorised to take affidavits and that the name of "A Goodrich" subscribed to the said Jurat is in the proper hand writing of the said Justice.
[county seal affixed] Witness my hand & Seal of the said County of Saratoga the 15th July 1830
/s/Thomas Palmer Clerk
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Rec'd 31 July 1830
We the undersigned inhabitants of Whitehall in the County of Washington Do hereby certify that we are personally acquainted with William McFerrin the person named in the annexed affidavit, and that we have known him many years as a respectable Citizen he is by occupation a farmer of West Haven in the state of Vermont - the truth of whose statement would not be doubted where he is known
Dated Whitehall June 28th 1830 - 
/s/Ezekiel Jones
/s/Amasa Allen, Physician
/s/John Parke
/s/H. Blakeslee
/s/Thomas Bartholomew
I James J Stevens one of the Justices of the Peace of the town of Whitehall in the county of Washington do certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Ezekiel Jones Amasa Allen John Parke H Blakeslee and Thomas Bartholomew in that they are Respectable citizens of the town of Whitehall and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the persons above named and believe that the above signatures to be the proper hand writing of the said persons above named
/s/Jas J. Stevens Justice of the Peace
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Rec'd 31 July 1830
State of New York
Washington County }ss:
Solomon T Vine of the town of Whitehall in the County of Washington being duly sworn saith, That during the years 1777, 1778 & 1779 he this deponent was well acquainted with Captain Simeon Smith, who then commanded a company in Col Seth Warner's Regiment, and that when this Deponent left the said regiment, to which he belonged, in the fall of 1779 he the said Cap't Simeon Smith then belonged to the said Regiment - 
He this Deponent further said that Col. Seth Warner's regiment was mustered as "during the war men" - 
/s/Solomon T. Vine
Subscribed & sworn this 28th day of June 1830. Before me - 
/s/Jas. J. Stevens Justice of the Peace
And I do further certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Solomon T. Vine and that he is a credible witness. I have known him many years as a respectable citizen. he is by occupation a farmer, an old inhabitant of said town of Whitehall, the truth of whose statement would not be doubted where he is known. 
/s/Jas. J. Stevens Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
County of Washington}ss. I James Proudfit Deputy clerk of the county courts of the said county do certify that ['William H. Parker' crossed out] James J. Stevens Esqr. before whom the within affidavit was taken was on the day said affidavit purports to have been taken a Justice of the peace of said county and that the within signature is genuine and the proper handwriting of the said Justice.
[county seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said County this ninth day of July one thousand and eight hundred and thirty - 
/s/James Proudfit Dep'y Clerk -
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Rec'd 31 July 1830
State of New York
Washington County ss. William McFerrin of the Town of West Haven in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is acquainted with Ephraim Osborn of the Town of Northumberland in the county of Saratoga and state of New York. That he this deponent was acquainted with the said Ephraim Osborn in the years 1780 That the said Ephraim Osborn enlisted as a private soldier in the spring of 1780 in the Company commanded by Captain Simeon Smith in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Seth Warner. That, the said Ephraim Osborn enlisted in the Town of White Hall in the County of Washington & state of New York aforesaid, then called skeensbury (Skenesborough) for during the War, That this deponent then belonged to the same company & that he the said Ephraim Osborn continued to serve until the Close of the War, and knows that the said Ephraim Osborn served & did duty as a private soldier in said Company from the time of his said enlistment untill the close of the War. 
/s/William McFerrin
Subscribed & Sworn this 28th day of June 1830 before me}
/s/W. H. Parker Justice of the Peace
And I do further certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named William McFerrin and that he is a credible witness I have known him many years as a respectable Citizen, he is  by occupation a farmer an old inhabitant of said Town of West Haven, the truth of whose statement would not be doubted where he is known.
/s/W. H. Parker Supreme Court Commissioner & Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Washington County ss I James J. Stevens one of the Justices of the Peace of the Peace of the Town of Whitehall in said County do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with William McFerrin the person named in the within affidavit and that I have known him several years, as a respectable citizen he is by occupation a farmer of Westhaven in the State of Vermont the truth of whose statement would not be doubted where he is known
Given under my hand this 28th day of June 1830
/s/Jas. J. Stevens Justice of the Peace

State of New York
County of Washington }ss. I James Proudfit Deputy clerk of the county courts of the said county do certify that William H. Parker before whom the within affidavit was taken was on the day the said affidavit purports to have been taken a Justice of the peace of said county and that the within signature is genuine and the proper hand writing of the said Justice and I further certify that James J. Stevens whose name is subscribed to within certificate is a Justice of the peace in and for said county and that the signature is genuine and his proper hand writing - 
[county seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said county this ninth day of July one thousand eight hundred and thirty - 
/s/James Proudfit Dep'y Clerk -
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State of New York
County of Washington }ss. I James Proudfit Deputy clerk of the county courts of the said county do certify that William H. Parker before whom the within affidavit was taken was on the day the said affidavit purports to have been taken a Justice of the peace of said county and that the within signature is genuine and the proper hand writing of the said Justice and I further certify that James J. Stevens whose name is subscribed to within certificate is a Justice of the peace in and for said county and that the signature is genuine and his proper hand writing - 
[county seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said county this ninth day of July one thousand eight hundred and thirty - 
/s/James Proudfit Dep'y Clerk - 

State of New York
Washington County ss I James J. Stevens one of the Justices of the Peace of the Peace of the Town of Whitehall in said County do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with William McFerrin the person named in the within affidavit and that I have known him several years, as a respectable citizen he is by occupation a farmer of Westhaven in the State of Vermont the truth of whose statement would not be doubted where he is known
Given under my hand this 28th day of June 1830
/s/Jas. J. Stevens Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Saratoga ss: For the purpose of obtaining the Benefit of "An Act for the Relief of certain surviving officers & Soldiers of the army of the Revolution" approved on the 15th of May 1828 I Ephraim Osborne of Northumberland in the County of Saratoga in the State of New York do hereby declare that I enlisted in the continental line of the army of the Revolution for & During the war & continued in its service untill its Termination: at which period I was a private in Captain Smith's Company in Colonel Walbridge's Regiment of the New York line - and I also declare that I afterwards Received a certificate for the Reward of Eighty Dollars to which I was entitled under a Resolve of Congress passed 15th May 1778 - and I further declare that I was not on the fifteenth day of March 1828 on the Pension list of the United States - 
/s/E Osborn
Before me Wm L F Warren Esqr. a Justice of the peace in the County of Saratoga in the State of  New York personally appeared this day William Velsey and Deborah Velsey of the said County who did severally make oath that Ephraim Osborne by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally Reputed & believed to have been a Soldier of the Revolution in the army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated
Witness my hand this 10th Day of July 1828. 
/s/Wm L F Warren Justice
I Thomas Palmer clerk of the Court of the County of Saratoga in the State of New York do certify that William L F Warren before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn was at the time a Justice of the peace & duly empowered to administer Oaths 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court this 31. day of July 1828
/s/Thomas Palmer
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State of New York
Washington county}ss: Israel Warner of the town of Whitehall in said county being duly sworn saith, That he was well acquainted with Captain Simeon Smith, who commanded a Company in the Regiment commanded by this Deponents father Col. Seth Warner during the latter part of the Revolutionary war, And that in the years 1779 & 1780, he the said Captain Simeon Smith, was a recruiting officer under the said Col. Seth Warner - 
/s/Israel Warner
Subscribed & sworn this 14th day of June 1830 - Before me - 
/s/J. J. Stevens Justice of the Peace
And I do further certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Israel Warner, and that he is a credible witness - 
/s/J. J. Stevens Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Washington County }ss: I Jesse S. Leigh clerk of the county courts of the said County do certify that James J. Stevens Esq whose name is within subscribed and before whom the within affidavit was sworn was at the time the said affidavit purports to have been made a Justice of the peace of the said county and that the within signatures are genuine and the proper hand writing of the said Justice. 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said county courts this fifteenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and thirty. 
/s/J. S. Leigh Clk
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State of New York
County of Saratoga} ss
I, Alpheus Goodrich Clerk of the said ['company' crossed out] County, do Certify that Nicholas W. Angle 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 the said County; and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit, and also his name subscribed to the Certificate of the character of the said Ephraim Osborn to be his proper hand writing & signature
[official seal affixed] Witness my hand and seal of Office this [blank] day of March 1834
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State of Newyork
County of Saratoga}ss.
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for the county of Saratoga in the said state of Newyork. Ephraim Osborn of Northumberland in the county of Saratoga aforesaid Aged seventy years, who being by me Duly sworn according law Doth Depose and say that he entered into the United States services Early in the year of seventeen hundred and seventy Eight under the command of Capt Nathaniel Sealy (Seeley) which said Capt then lived as a neighbour to this Deponent's father in the Tow of Pownell (Pownal) in the state of Vermont which said capt told this deponent as his being young and Did not pass muster he would take this Deponent as a waiter in colonel Samuel Robinson's Regment this Deponent went and served untill late in the fall under the command of said capt, and in the year of seventeen hundred and seventy nine this Deponent served under the command of capt Joseph Briggs in said Col Robison Regment and this Deponents services were performd at Bennington Hubberton (Hubbardton) Castleton Forteann (Fort Ann) and other places as this Deponent was commanded by his officers. And in the latter part of the year of seventeen hundred and seventy nine or early in the year of seventeen hundred and eighty this Deponent enlisted out of said Briggses (Briggs') company into a company commanded by capt William Dyer in col Ebenezer Walbriges (Walbridge's) Regment for three months mustered at benington (Bennington) and marched to skeenesborough (Skenesborough) and served under said officers in keeping the gard at the head of the  Lake and a little before this Deponent's time was out he enlisted into Capt Simeon Smith's company in colonel seth Warner's Regment for During the war which said captain told this Deponent that he should be entitled to Eighty Dollars bounty and lands at the expiration of his service which said capt paid this Deponent sixteen Dollars at the time of his Enlistment towards his bounty and this Deponent Enlisted inn said smith's company at skeenesborough (Skenesborough) in the spring or summer of seventeen hundred and eighty and this Deponent served in said smiths company and said Col Warner's Regment from the time of his Enlistment untill the close of the war although in the absence of capt
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sheensborough in the spring for
and Smiths company
and eighty and this Deponent served in son
and said Coltons Regiment from the time of his enlistment
untill the close of the war although in
the absence of Capt
Smith said company was commanded by Caplin and other
officers and this deponent further saith that co ther himself
was not with the Regment but a very little of the was wound
at the halfway brook and part of his Regment cut of a
the bloody and out the Regiment was called Morners
Requent and this Deponent further
saith that he never ment
to be understood that have
belonged to any other compay
During the war, than Smiths company
although commed
ly different officers.
it must, in
error in
writing saying
that I belonged to Capt Allens company
the
close of the war of
to be under stood so. said Deponent is not positive that
he has got all the dates of the years perfectly correct but as
near as he can recollect
Sworn & Subscribed
28th Feby 1834
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to be under stood
he has got all the dates of the years perfectly correct but as
near as he can recollect
Sworn & Subscribed
Son
28th Feby 1831
before me
W. R. Ester Shear
I certify I have been personally aquainted with
the Subber E. Osborn, to the above affidavit,
over forty years, and nearly all that time resided
within
two miles, and
less of him. I have alwaysunderstood
, and believe from report that he served
in the revolutionary any of the United States of
of America, and believe
him to be a man
truth and veracity.
of
Moran, Sam Co N.H.
28th Feby W
Molas W.J.
I hereby certify
that I have been very well acquainted with Ephraim Osborn
who signed the above affidavit for nearly twenty years part and believe from report
that he was a soldier in the United States Severs in the revolutionary war that he
in considered a man of truth and veracity
Northumberland County of Saratoga
March 3rd 1834
Nathl McMillan Justin of
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I certify the
applicant
concur in A
at I have been acquainted with the foregoing
Ephraim Osborn about twenty years and
the opinion expressed in the above certify
 to his credibility March 3rd, 1834
R. M. Livingston
I have been acquainted with the within mentioned
Ephraim Osborn for twenty years or more and
in the opinions above expressed as to his cred
City March 3, 1834
John Metcalf
hereby Certy by
that I have ben acquainted
with Ephriam Orson for twenty-five years or 
Believe him to have been a Revolution success 
from Information varies ways
March 3 1854
Robert Washburn
A Minister of the gospel
certify that I have been acquainted with Ephraim
for twenty years past & from my personal acquaint
believe that his statements of respects his being
revolutionary soldier is correct & that he is to believe
oath in the County where he resides-
20
March 1834
Tehum
New York
County
---
I Alphus Goodrich Clerk of the County
of Saratoga do Certify that Nicolas W. Angles
fore whom the within affidavit of Ephraim Oct
purports to have been sworn was at the rate of the same
one of the Justice of the peace in and for the
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 & signature-
Witness my hand and seal of
Office, the fifth day of March
1834 A Goodrich Clerk
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SUBMIT IN DUPLICATE.
1
All inquiries regarding this should refer to Requisition No.
Requisition for Duplicating, Addressograph, Photostat, and Blueprint Work.
PHONE Branch 476
39617
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
CHIEF, Division of Publications,
Room G 137.
WASHINGTON
Please furnish work specified below.
PENSION
Feb. 4, 1930
Bureau ordering
Deliver to Room No. 233
(ALL COPY FOR DUPLICATING WORK SHOULD BE PLAIN AND WRITTEN IN ELITE TYPE,
EXACTLY LINE FOR LINE AS IT IS TO APPEAR ON FINISHED JOB.)
Title and description of job photostatic copies of 28 pages from Rev. War
No. of
Approved
NOTE:
Shall form be kept standing?
Mrs. Finch
the
copies 1 of each
days
further information see
5033
541
Room No.
Phone No.
sonby


March
---
S
Chief Clerk of Bureau
Chief of Branch or Division
No order made ""SPECIAL"" unless statement showing necessity is written
below and approved by Chief Clerk of Bureau ordering
●
RIOR
CHECK WORK DESIRED
Duplicate
Multigraph
single or double space?
Mimeograph
one side or both sides?
Folding
once or twice?
Assembling
Stapling
Once?
Twice? Side? End?
Electric typewriter
Fill in addresses?
Addressograph from lists
Envelopes, size
Cards, size
Proof list
Pay rolls
Labels (submit sample)
Corrections
Fill in letters
Photostat X Size actual
Official use?
Blue Print Size
Official use?
marks
Facsimile signature?
Facsimile signature?
Dated?
Tabulation sheets
(OVER)
Repay? Yes
Repay?
4.20
.
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NOTE:
Routine changes of addresses may be made on this blank without
reference through or initialing of chiefs of branches or lief l
bureaus.
(Date)
INDICATE BY AN X IN PROPER SQUARE ACTION TO BE TAKEN.
Make new addressograph plate
Change present addressograph plate
Destroy present addressograph plate
as follows:
Now reads
Should read
Operator
Remarks:
Operator
Remarks:
FOR USE OF DUPLICATING AND ADDRESSING SECTION
ADDRESSOGRAPH
The above change was made
Date
Operator
MULTIGRAPH
Type set by
MIMEOGRAPH
Date
Cut
Date
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Rev.&1812 Wars Section.
MMHF
Dear Sir:
January 17, 1930.
W. E. Osborn,
441 Nuber Avenue,
Mount Vernon, New York.
I advise you that photostatic copies of papers on
file in Revolutionary War pension claim (R.7817) of
Ephraim Osborn, containing the soldier's statements and
supporting affidavits, will be furnished you at the rate
of fifteen cents a page.
The number of pages to be copied is twenty-eight.
Should you desire certification allow twenty-five
cents additional for the set.
Interior.
The proper amount should be forwarded to this bureau
by money order drawn to the order of the Secretary of the
Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH,
Commissioner.
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441 Nuber Avenue, Mount Vernon, N. Y.
October 21, 1929.
In re EPHRIAM OSBORN -- Revolutionary Soldier
Department of the Interior
Person in charge of Revolutionary Records,
Some months ago you were good enough to give me photostat copy
of the application of Roswell Osborn for a pension under the act
of 1830 for family record purposes.
I now learn that an application was filed at or near this time by
EPHRAIM OSBORN for a similar purpose.
I would like if possible to secure photostat copy of the Declaration
and Interrogatories filed and answered by the last named as supplementary
to those in hand.
Kindly advise your charge for making the same remittance will be
forwarded promptly.
A
1929
Yours truly,
W. E. Osborn
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UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
WASHINGTON
pager to W.E. Osborn
Sales statement or as Ad. 1828 dated at Sutton
pages 31 day of July 1828
Israel Warner's affid. June 14, 1830
Solomon S. Vine's
Wm McFerrin's
June 28, 1830
James Proudfit & James G. Stevens June 28, 1830
Sigh of Ezekiel Jones, Dr. Amon Allen
dated
June 28. 1830
Sasine dated July 15, 1830
rents receiving from
Capt Simon
Smith, dated Aug. 21. 1830
& Amos Osborn's affid. Nov. 21 1831
Augustus M. Finnis
Andrew Prest
Sided. Feb. 28, 1834
Mch 3, 1834
M. Livingston's statement he knew
Alphen God his statement this day of March 1834
Bilsded. Aug. 26, 1834 pages & one additional
with Court offer & seal died Aug 2-1834- making
Interrogations and
subscribed & sworn
Roswell Osborne offid Aug. 19. 1834
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Department of the Interior,
441 Nuber Avenue,
Mount Vernon, N. Y.
January 20, 1930.
Bureau of Pensions,
Revolutionary and 1812 Section,
Washington, D.C.
Earl D. Church, Commissioner.
Dear Sir:
M. 21333-420
JAN 9 1930
15
Photostatic copies of Revolutionary War claim
( R. 7817) of Ephraim Osborn.
I note the charge for the copies is 15 per sheet and that
there are twenty - eight sheets to be copied. I am sending herewith
Post Office money order $4.20. As the papers are only for family
history purposes, certification is not necessary.
Kindly forward the copies at your convenience,
Very truly yours,
.