Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 18313, Ashbell Webster, Conn.
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(3-1776)

Service:
Conn

Webster, Ashbell or Ashbil
               Mercy

Number:
W. 18313

Contents:
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(3-1776)
Service
Conn.
Webster, Ashbell
or Ashbil
Mercy

Number
W.1831.3

Contents
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Nov 18 1846 Oct 20 M.R. Webster history family record [illegible]
Date of death [illegible]

Albany New York 3329
Mercy Webster, widow of Ashbell Webster, decd. who died on the 13th November, 1838, of Allegany in the State of New York who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Wright of the rept commanded by Col. Pipkin in the Connecticut line for 11 months 14 days.

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 38 Dollars 20 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of Nov 1838.

Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day on May, 1840 and sent to Hon. L. C. Peck, Name of Representative.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1840 $49.81
Semi - annual allowance ending 4 left 19.10
$68.91
Revolutionary Claim
Act July 4, 1836
Section the 3
Recorded by S. A. Elliot Clerk Book [illegible] Vol.2 Page 214.
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State of New York Allegany County
On this 4th day of February 1840 in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty personally appeared in open court before the judges of the court of common pleas of the said county Mercy Webster a resident of the town of Cuba in the said county of Allegany who first being duly sworn according to law; doth on her oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed - July 4. 1836. Entitled an act granting half pay to invalids and pensions to certain widows and for other purposes. That she is of the age of Seventy nine, and that she is the widow of Ashbell Webster deceased who was a soldier in the army of the Revolution as will appear from his declaration now on file in the pension office or war departments and that he drew a pension under the act of congress passed in 1832 and she further declared that she was married to the said Ashbell Webster on the 7th day of September 1777. by the Rev Elber Colton paster of the Presbyterian society of the town of Bolton, state of Connecticut at the house of the said Colton. She then lived in the town of Hartford adjoining the said town of Bolton, and her name was Mercy Swetland before her marriage to the said Ashbell Webster - and she further declares that the said Ashbell Webster her husband was in the service after her marriage to him and after her second son was born in the year 1780 or 81 and was absent from home about two months as she thinks will appear by referring to the evidence on which he obtained his pension. And further that she lived with the said Ashbell Webster her husband from the day of their marriage to the day of his death which was on the 13th day of November 1838 as will appear by the record aforesaid - and she further declares she has no record of her marriage nor does she know there is any person living who was present at the marriage but that she has a family record of the ages of her eleven children. Eight sons and three daughters that she had by the said Ashbell Webster her said husband which has always been kept ever since their marriage in the family Bible and that she know it to be a -
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true record of the ages of the children and that her fourth son George copyed it from the old family Bible on to the new family Bible about twenty years since which will be forwarded herewith, and she further swears that she is still the widow of the said Ashbell Webster and has not since married any other husband and further says not.

[Illegible] Mercy Webster
before me
Janus G. Arnold 

deb & M (?)

We hereby certify that the above named Mercy Webster appeared before an open court $ made the [illegible] declaration [illegible] 1840

[Illegible]

State of New York
Allegany County Court of Common Pleas
I Jared Van Nickle Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in said county do bereby certify that on the 4th day of February 1840 the above [illegible] Mercy Webster appeared in open Court before the judges of said Court of Common Pleas and made the above statements before said Court, and at the same time was duly sworn to the law - And further that Ransom Lloyd E. Hirtow - N Hicks - and Josiah Utter Esq - Judges of said Court, also at the same time affixed their signatures to the above certification.
In witness whereof I have here unto affixed the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County and [illegible] name this 4th day of Feb 1840
Jared Van Nickle Clerk
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Copy of the Family record Ahbel and Mercy (Sweltand) Webster, containing the names and dates of the birth of their children, together with the marriage of ten of the eleven of them
Plumley born January 8 1779 married September 17 1801
Jesse born September 19 1780 married September 2 1801
Ahbel born February 15 1783 married November 2 1804
George born April 12 1786 married January 1 1809
Jason born January 12 1789 married June 4 1815
Hannah born February 4 1791 married December 31 1809
Daniel born December 2 1793 married September (9?) 1819 [illegible]
Jared born February 17 1795 married December 16 1821
Mercy born March 16 1798 married July 18 1819
[illegible] born August 29 1801 married November 23 1823
Eliza born April 10 1804

Pension Bureau
Oct 1891
I certify that the above is a correct copy of the family record taken from a leaf filed by the widow Mercy Webster in her application for pension the original of which has been delivered to the Rev Ashbelle R Webster.

[Illegible signature]
Chief [illegible] & Navy Division
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War Department
Pension Office, 183

Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed, The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (this: } ). You will, when you return your paper to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

At statement, showing the Service of Ashbell Webster Allegany County New York
Period when the service was [illegible] | Duration of the claimant's service years months days | Rank of the claimant | Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served | Names and Rank of the General and Field officers | Battles in which the applicant was engaged | Country through which he marched | Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period | Evidence by which the declaration [illegible].
Enlisted 1775 | 9 months | private | Cap Wright | Gl. Putnam Col Pipkins | Marched to [illegible] hill | 70 years East Hartford Connecticut | [illegible] |
Engaged Jany 1776 | 2 months | private | Gl Huntington | Marched to providence 
Vol. April 1776 | 8 months | private | Cap Watts | Col Gay | Marched to New York, Long Island
1778 | 2 months | private | Cap Cove
Sub 1779 -1780 | 8 months | private | Gl. Huntington | Marched to West Point

I am, respectfully, your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards, 
Commissioner of Pensions.
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Regulations Under The Act OF JUNE 7, 1832.

The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State Troops." "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, & c. Teamsters, Boatmen, & c. Persons who served on the board of Privet Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at nights, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.

Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops,
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Person employed in the Naval service.
4. Indian Spies.

As rolls of regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.


DECLARATION,

In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.

State, Territory, or District of County of } ss.

On this _________ day of _______ personally appeared (a) before ________

A.B. a resident (b) of __________ in the county of _____ and State, Territory or District of ______ aged (c) ______ 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 provion made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) _____, with _____ and served in the _____(e) regiment of the _____ line under the following named offices:

[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged,
and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]

He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of
the Agency in the State of _____

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. 
A.B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.

I _____ of the Court of _____ do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of
the application of_____for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this day of _____
& c.

If, on examination of the proper recorded the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule give in note (j) points out.

Every application who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, whi the following additions, viz:

(k) We, A.B., a Clergyman, residinging in the  _____ and C.D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well aquainted with _____, who has subscribed and sworn to the abobe declaration; that we believe him to be _____ years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a solider of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. 

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[And themm will follow the certificate of the Court.]

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 aboved named application was a Revolutionary Soldier, adn served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it apppeals to them that A.B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, redident in the _____ and that C.D. who has also signed the same is a resident in the _____ and is acredble person, and that their statment is entitled to credit.

I, _____ Clerk of the Court of _____ do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the orginal proceeds  of the said Court, in the matter of the application of _____ for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this _____ day of _____  &c. 

Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.

If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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See relinquishment within

AOMd

11 mo. 14 ds/ri

Daniel Raymond esq

Cuba

N.Y.

[unintelligible left side]
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State of New York Allegany County SS
On this 3d day of June 1833 per undersigned a Justice of the peace of the said County of Alley
the County aforesaid Ashbel Webster who being duly sworn of old age and consequent loss of memory he cannot swear to his services but according to the best of his recollection he served below and in the following grades: For two years forin (M) served as a private soldier for which I claim a pension (illegible) and 15 days service I was not employed in any civil (missing) And further this deponent saith on his oath, to the questions and put to him sepparately by me the said Justice he made
below- 1st whene were you born and where? answer at Glas(missing)
8th day of August 1756 2nd Have you any record of your age? Answer None when called into service? Answer East Hartford Connete (missing) have you lived since the revolutionary  war Answer till about the year 1793 then moved to poultnig in (missing)
in 1796 or and now live in culeu as above stated
4th (missing) called into service? Answer-- first time enlisted under L (missing) Second time-- cant remember how he come to go but knows
he was 2(missing) Third time enlisted under Capt Samuel Wells State troop volunteered under capt cone of Bolton for two months in the (missing) fifth time was pursuaded to enlist by Col Huntington and (missing)
in a paper whion that officer hold
and per 5th State the names of some of the regular officers wh(missing) the troops where he served & answer-- Dont remember who
officers till he saw those at West point among whom Huntingtons saw the southern troops at New York and at (missing) at West point-- The York Grenadiers he saw at New York they(missing)
6th Did you (illegible) receive a discharge (crossed out) from the army? Ann(missing)
more two by Genl Huntington and the third at Boston
all lost or burned us useless long since
and further this deponent saith on his oath after ration which is written on the other side of this one and
the same declaration which he subscribed and sworn to
October last at Angelica in Allegany County aforesaid or diminution (signature)
Sworn and subscribed as cubu aforesaid on the day (missing) (illegible) 
state of New York  I Judson W. Sherman clerk of the (missing)
whom the above certifficate and proceed peace of the said County of Allegany in the (missing) that his signature is in his propper
my hand and seal of office this (missing)
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State of New York Allegany County SS

On this 3rd day of June 1833 personally appeared before me this undersigned, a justice of the Peace in the said county of Albany and of my office in Cuba  in the county afore said Ashbel Webster who being duly sworn [Illegible] and [Illegible] that by reason of old age and consequence loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his services but according to the best of his recollection he served not up than the periods mentions below and in the following grades: For two years four months and fifteen days I served as a private solider for which I claim a pension during which time of the 2 years 4 months and 15 days service I was not employed in any civil pursuit.
And further this deponent doth on his oath to the questions provided by the war department and put to him separately by me the said Justice he made the following answers as written below -

1st where were you born and when?
Answer at Glastonbury in Connecticut on the 8th day of August 1736.

2nd Have you any record of your age?
Answer None

3rd Where were you living when called into service? 
Answer East Hartford Connecticut 

questions continued 

Where have you lived since the revolutionary war about the 
Answer lived in East Hartford
till about the year 1793 then moved to Poultney in Vermont and from there to this State in 1796 and now live in Cuba as above stated

4th How were you called into service? 
Answer - first time enlisted [Illegible] Luet. Senne Wright

Second time- Cant remember how he come to go but knows he was 2 months intermittently out

Third time enlisted under Capt Samuel Wells State troop 
fourth time volunteered under capt cone of Bolton for two months in the Militia

Fifth time was persuaded to enlist by Col Huntington and put his names in a paper which that officer hold

5th State the names of some of the regular officers who were with his troops where you severed at

Answer-- Dont remember who were (continued) officers till he saw those at West point among whom [Illegible] Col and [Illegible] Huntington saw the southern troops at New York and ask each [Illegible] and also [Illegible] of West Point - The york commanders he saw (out?) New York may [Illegible] [Illegible]

6th Did you earn measure a discharge from the army?

Answer - Yes. Three citations (each?) perhaps more: Two by Genl. Huntington and the third out of Boston dont know who signed it - they were all lost or burned us useless long since and further this deponent saith on his oath after a full examination of the (?)  nation where is written on the office side of this once and a half sheet of paper that this is the same declaration which he subscribed and swore to in open court on the 30th day of October las at Angelica in Allegany County aforesaid with out any alteration addition or decimation

Ashbell Webster

Sworn and subscribed at Cuba aforesaid on the day and Year aforesaid
where me John Powers JP and I Jusdon M. Sherman of the said county do here by certify that John Powers before whom the above certificate and [Illegible] further to have [Illegible] [Illegible] is a Justice of the Peace of the said county of Allegany in the town of Cuba - that I am acquainted with his hand writing and that his signature is [Illegible] his genuine hand writing 

Witness my hand and seal of Office this 8th day of June 1833

JM Shermann

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State of New York Allegany County

On the 4th day of June 1833 
personally appeared before me the undersigned Justice of the Peace of the said county of Allegany John Griffin Cate first Judge of the said county and now a suiator (senator?) of the State of New York and a resident of the town of Cuba in the county aforesaid and Daniel Raymond of the same place who being duly sword do on their oaths respectively declare that they are well acquainted with Benjamin Webster who has subscribed and sworn the the written certificate and that they saw him execute the same - that Asbell Webster. The written applicant whos thus and there present and is the service member he meant to describe and there as well as at this time they believed he was said Benjamin was a credible person and his statement entitles [illegible] [illegible]

John Griffin 

David [illegible]

Sworn and scribed the day and year afore said before me at my office in the said town of Cuba

Joseph Henry Justice of the Peace

Jusdon M. Sherman of the said county do here by certify that Josiah Stevens before whom the  above certificate to hence [illegible name] is a Justice of the Peace for the said County in the town of Cuba - that I am acquainted with his hand writing and that his signature is subscribed to the above is in his own proper hand writing hand and seal of the office this  [illegible] day of June 1833

JM Shermann
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State of New York
Allegany County

On the 30th day of October 1832 personally appeared Court before John Griffin, Asa S. Allen and Josiah [illegible] Judges of the Court of Common Places in and for the county of Allegany aforesaid Ashbell Webster a resident of the town of Cuba in the county and state aforesaid aged seventy six years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits from the Act of Congress passed Juen 7th 1832 

That he was born the 8th day of August 1776 in the town of Glastonbury in the State of Connecticut - has no record of his age but thinks his recorded in Bladenburg In March 1775 being then a resident with his Father in the town of East Hartford same State he enlisted in the service of the colonists for Eight month under Lieutenant Samuel Wright of the same town in the State troops mustered at Suffield and soon after marched by Springfield and concord to Roxbury thill, Stationed there during the whole season, and took his discharge and got home to East Hartford on the first day of January 1776 - gone about 9 months 

Hanchard of Suffield was his Captain S. Wright Lieut and King of Suffield was Ensign - Was in Col. Pipkin's Regt and - Meigs was Major, was under Gel Putnam till Washington arrived from the South-- staid to guard Boston Neck on the day of Bunker Hill Fight

In the month of January 1776 he engaged in the State troops and went to Providence and was there when the british came to Rhode Island staid 2 months and went home, Recollects nothing more about that tour of service than above stated and is not sure as to the [Illegible] but knows he was out 2 months 

In the latter part of  April 1776 again volunteered in the State troops for Eight months [Illegible] under Capt Samuel Walls of the same Town, Thomas Hollister was his Lieutenant and-- Kibbe of Somers was his ensign - Marched to New Haven and then went by water to New York stationed there and afterwards on Long Island till after the battle on Long Island then left the Island for New York in the night-- soon afterwards was drove out of New York retreated by White places and finally to Harlem Heights where he was discharged on the 25th day of Decr. and went home to East Hartford having for served his eight months 

Gay of Farmington was his Colonel till he died of sickness in New York-- Huntington of Connecticut was his General in this tour Repeatedly saw Genrals Washington & Sullivan in this tour. In 1778 was out on a tour of two months at New London during which time he helped convey 29 prisoners British and Hessians taken in a ship near New London and latter part the summer-- one of Bolton corn was his caption. 

In 1779 or 80 was hired by a class at East Hartford for Eight months-- went to West point in New York state was there put into a company to supply the places of those who were dead or missing in the various companies thinks he was under Colonel Huntington was stationed at and near West Point sometimes on one side of the Hudson River and some times on the other - When his right months expired took his discharge of General Huntington and went home to East Hartford.

Dont know whether he was in continental companies or not-- The whole time he served was about 29-- months his discharges were most of them in writing and have long since been lost or burned He moved from East Hartford in 1789 to Poultney in Vermont and in 1792 or 1793 moved to this state and has lived here ever since has no documentary evidence of his services until his name was entered with the regular troops at West point, but he with submits the affidavit of Benjamin 

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to this State and has lived here ever since Vermont and in '92 or '93 moved has no documentary evidence of his services until his name was entered with the regular troops at West point, but have with submits the affidavit of Benjamin Webster which goes to prove that they were brother in one family during the war of the revolution and that he served in that war and finally that his declaration is substantially true in all its parts. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity the present and declares that his name is not on the pension role of any State Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid 

J W Sherman Clerk 
Ashbel Webster

Mr. Peter Powers a Clergyman residing in the town of Cuba aforesaid and John Phelps of the town of Angelica and County of Allegany aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Asbel Webster the above named applicant who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and we believe him to be seventy six years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have me a solder of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion John Phelps has him well acquainted with him for these 30 or 40 years at least and always had the same opinion Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid 

J W Sherman Clerk
Peter Powers Eld
John Phelps 

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states- And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Peter Powers who has the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Cuba aforesaid and that John Phelps who was also signed the same is a resident of the town of Angelica aforesaid that their statement is entitled to credit and is a credible person 
John Chillin 
Josiah [illegible] 
Asa S. Allen
The Judges

Judson W. Sherman clerk of the Court of the County of Allegany aforesaid do hereby [illegible] that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of application of Ashbel Webster for a pension. In testimony where I have hear unto my hand and seal of office this 30th day of October 1832 New York 

J.W. Sherman Clerk

State of New York Allegany County 

On the thirtieth day of October A.D. Sherman Clerk Eighteen hundred and now sitting In testimony whereof I have hereunto thirty two personally appeared in Court in the town of Angelica and County of Allegany aforesaid Benjamin Webster of the town of Canmade in the said County of Allegany of Who being duly sworn deposeth and saith- that he is a brother of the above named Ashbel Webster who has signed the above declaration and is about four years younger than Ashbel.

That during the War of the revolution himself and his brother Ashbel were members of the same family at the fathers house in East Hartford in Connecticut and he distinctly recollects that the said Ashbel Webster was in the service of the revolution as he has set forth in his declaration some part of which time in the said Benjamin was a soldier a the same places and times there set forth 

And he further deposeth and saith that he knows that the said declaration is substantially true in all its parts - Sworn to and subscribed the 30th day of October 1832 in presence of the Court 

Benjamin Webster 
JW Sherman Clerk
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By the within declaration it will at once be
discovered that Mr Webster has, in some degree lost
the powers of his mind and I should not be
surprised if some of his dates should not agreed
with history  He is very respectable
D Raymond scribe
All communication to be directed to
Daniel Raymond of Cuber Allegany
County N. York

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See relinquishment within
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Daniel Raymond esq
Cuba
N.Y.
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State of New York
Allegany County
Personally appeared before me John Powers one of the Justices of the [illegible] of the Said County George Webster and after being duly sworn by me does depose and say that he is the fourth son of Ashbel Webster and Mercy Webster and was fifty three years of age Last April according to the family record and that his Father the said Ashbel Webster drew a pension under the Law of Congress passed in the year 1832 and that his Mother the said Mercy Webster now Lives in the town of Cuba near him in Said County and that his Father and Mother always lived together as Husband and wife ever since his Remembrance and he has often heard them say that they were Married in the time of the Revolutionary War at the town of Bolton in the State of Connecticut and this [illegible] further says that the annexed Leaf is the family Record and that it has always ben Left in the family ever since his Remembrance and that he copyed it from the Old family Bible into the new family Bible and knows it to be a true copy when he copyed about twenty years ago and further says that his Father the said Ashbel Webster Died on the 13th day of November 1838 and that his Mother the said Mercy Webster has not since married and further says not
Sworn and Subscribed George Webster before me this 3rd day of February 1840
John Powers Justice
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I hereby certify that I have ben well acquainted with George Webster the person who signed the within affidavit in my presence for the last thirty years and that he has always sustained a good moral Character for truth and verasity  John Powers Justice

State of New York
Allegany County Clerks Office
I Samuel Van Wickle Clerk of said County do hereby Certify that John Powers Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit purports to have been taken and subscribed his name to the above Certificate was at the same a Justice of the Pension and for said County duly Commissioned and qualified and authorized by law to act on such. And further that I am well aquatinted with this have writing of said Justice and known that the signatures above purporting to his is Genuine In Witness whereof I have here unto affixed the seal of said County and subscribed my name this 4th day of February in the Year 1840
 Samuel Van Wickle Clerk
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April 16, 1935
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Mrs. Mary B Bishop 
142 Grove Street
Putname, Connecticut
BA-J/REL
Ashbell Webster - W.18313
Dear Madam: 
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the pension of Ashbel Webster (W.18313), widow Mercy. 
The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, W.18313, based upon the military service in that war of Ashbell Webster. 
Ashbell (the name appears, also, as Ashbil) Webster was born August 8, 1756, in Glastonbury, Connecticut. His father was living during the Revolution; names of soldier's parents are not shown. 
While residing in East Hartford, Connecticut, Ashbell Webster enlisted May 3, 1775, served as private in Captain Oliver Hanchett's Company, Colonel Joseph Spencer's Connecticut Regiment and was discharged December 17, 1775: soldier stated that during the battle of Bunker Hill, he was acting as guard on Boston Neck: he enlisted in January, 1776, and served two months; names of officers not stated: he enlisted the latter part of April, 1776, serviced as a private in Captain Samuel Welles' Company, Colonel Fisher Gay's Connecticut Regiment, was in the retreat from New York and was discharged December 29, 1776: he enlisted sometime in 1778, and served two months in Captain Cone's Connecticut Company: he enlisted in 1779 or 1780, and serviced eight months in Colonel Huntington's Connecticut Regiment. 
After the Revolution, he continued to reside in East Hartford, Connecticut, until 1789 or 1793, then moved to Poultnay, Vermont, where he resided for several years; then moved to the state of New York. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 30, 1832, while residing in Cubs, Allegany County, New York. 
He died November 13, 1838, place not stated.
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Ashbell Webster married September 7, 1777, at Bolton, Connecticut, Mercy Swetland, of Hartford, Connecticut. 
Soldier's widow, Mercy, was allowed pension on her application executed February 4, 1840, at which time she was aged seventy-nine years and resided in Cuba, New York. 
The names of the following children are shown: 
Plumley Webster Born January 8, 1779, married September 17, 1801. 
Jesse or John webster " September 19, 1780, " " 2, 1801. 
Ashbell Webster " February 15, 1783, " November 2, 1804. 
George Webster " April 12, 1786, " January 1, 1809, 
was residing in Allegany County, New York in 1840. 
Jason Webster " January 12, 1789, married June 4, 1815. 
Hannah Webster " February 4, 1791, " December 31, 1809. 
Daniel Webster " December 2, 1793, " September 9 (?) blotted, may have been "7", 1819
Jared Webster " February 17, 1795, married December 16, 1821. 
Mercy Webster " March 16, 1798, " July 18, 1819. 
Israel Webster " August 29, 1801, " November 23, 1823. 
Eliza Webster " April 10, 1804. 
The names of the persons to whom the above named children were married are not stated. 
In 1832, soldier's brother, Benjamin Webster, was living in Caneadca, Allegancy County, New York, and stated that he was four years older than the soldier. In 1834, another brother, Allen Webster, was aged sixty-seven years and resided in Truxton, Cortland County, New York. 
Very truly yours
A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.
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Comptrollers Office
May 22 1834

I Elisha Phelps Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Connecticut do certify that it appears by a copy of the pay roll of the 10th Co. 2nd Regt of [illegible] raised by the Colony of Connecticut May 1775, that Ashbel Webster served [illegible] as a private from the 3rd day of May to the 17th day of December 1775, being seven months fourteen days. His company was commanded by Capt. Oliver Hanchet, regiment by Gen Joseph Spencer.
That by the records of the State a regt commanded by Col. Fisher Gay was ordered to be raised in June 1776 to serve until the 25th of December 1776.
And that the [illegible] roll of Capt Samual Wells' company Col. Gays regt is charged to the [illegible] the books of the Pay [illegible] under date March 24th 1783, but no roll of his company has been found or any other [illegible] of the decoration.
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of services
And that I do not find any evidence
of the service of said Webster in 1779 or 1780.
E Shelfs
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Cuba [illegible] 4th June 1834
Sir
Enclosed is Ms. Phelps certificate in favor of Ashbel Websters claim for a pension -
In Feby? last I sent to your office an application of Zachariah Dodds for a pension have heard nothing from it since. If it has not reched you please inform me without delay and much oblige.
yours very Respectfully
Daniel Raymond
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Hon Philo C Fuller
Member of Congress
Washington City

Feb 18
Ashbel Webster

Cuba [illegible] Dec 24

Hon. P.C. Fuller
HR
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Cuba 15th Decr. 1884

Dear Sir 
I again take the liberty to trouble you a little more on the subject of Pension claims the importunities of these old claimants and more especially but indirectly, their greed relatives, creditors, or other Expectants is doubtless such as to weary the partence of all who would be their minds to do them justice. Since the passage of the act of 7th June 1832 I have been considerably engaged in proceeding those pensions and in most cases I have to express my entire satisfaction of their proceedings at the [Illegible] [Illegible] I have yet the charge of three cases which are undecided Viz Jeremiah Williams, Ashbel Webster and Simon Brandt. 

The first of these has proved by record 5 months and18 Days and is now trying to procure additional proof- Mr. Brant and you have before known some thing of and will hear again soon - the other, Ashbel Webster has proved to the satisfaction of the department I believe nearly twelve months [illegible] also produced by his brother Benjamin that his [illegible] which was for over 2 years service was substantially true in all its parts - but it appeared that in 1775 he declared for services 1 before the 19th April which was the day of Lexington battle as no troops were called into actual service before that day this must have been an error of 19 day actual service. The old man till says he enlisted about the last of May and he thinks was paid by the State (Connecticut) for 9 months service that year—

The last communication from Mr Edwards States that if he will sign a release to the United States for all other services except the above 11½ months he shall have a certifficate to that amount-- To this the old man could not willingly concert and his hands concluded to defer all further proceedings till [illegible] and they had a man there who they think will as ever look to the rights of the people of the hills of Allegany 

Comment on this case is perhaps unnecessary but I would just remark that I hope you will enquire a little into it with caution and let me know the result-- Mr W. and his frinds are respectable here and if they are obliged to compound them just and lawful claims on the nation at a loss of 55 per cent to be it
I am as ever your friend

Hon. P.C. Fuller 
Daniel Raymond
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Note I have a claim for family lands for [illegible] as in the case where the Law generating those lands expire Last summer if it is measured. a phase uniform [Illegible] [illegible] DR
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State of New York
Allegany County
On this 16th day of March 1830 personally appeared before me, John Powers a justice of the peace of said county, at my office in Cuba. Ashbel Webster of the same place aged 78 years and to me personally known who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and say - That on or about the 30th of October 1832 in open court at the court house in Angelica in said county he the said Ashbel did, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision of the act of congress of 7th June 1832 in due form as prescribed by the war department, on his oath make and subscribe, a declaration of his services in the war of the revolution, by which said declaration he considered himself entitled to a full pension under said act - That subsequently he has been duly notified by the commissioner of pensions that in consequence of a part of his said declaration not being duly substantiated by corroborating testimony, he is required to assign a limit to his claim in said declaration - 
Now therefore to the end that such part of his said claim as is duly authenticated may be [illegible] liquidated he hereby relinquishes for the present all claims to a pension embraced in said declaration except for eleven months and fourteen days services in the war of the Revolution, reserving always the right at any time hereafter to review his claim and said act? for the residue of a full pension

Sworn and subscribed before me John Powers Justice

Ashbel Webster
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WAR DEPARTMENT. 
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM. 
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States on the 7th June, 1832, Ashbell Webster of the State of New York who was a private in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive Thirty eight dollars and twenty cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March 1834, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September in every year. 
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 27th day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty five
Lew Cass
Secretary of War
Examined and Countersigned. 
JL Edwards 
Commissioner of Pensions
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller's Office
April 16th 1839
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," The widow of Ashbel Webster, dec? a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany, N. York, Agency at the rate of Thirty eight Dollars and Twenty Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June, 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Marc, 1837, to the 4th March, 1838.
Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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[illegible]
May 11. 1840 

Sir
I had the honor to transmit to you, on the 9th Inst. Additional evidence in support of the claim of Mercy Webster Widow of Ashbel Webster deceased, for a pension, when I sent the papers in this case on the 9th Inst. I supposed the papers sent herewith had been long since transmitted to you. I [illegible] this [illegible] papers in [illegible] reads [illegible] [illegible] by evidence hence [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] this time

Verry Respectfully 
Your Obt. Servant
LC Peck

Hon. J L Clevland 
[illegible]
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Ashbel Webster
N.Y. Albany

38.20/[illegible] oct/ June [illegible]? 

G.M
16 May 40
Died 13 Nov 1838 [illegible] to that perceived 
DH
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5061

Mercy Webster
N.Y 
Act. 4 July 36
[illegible] '38

Adam 
11 mo. 14 oz / [illegible]
38.20 / [illegible]
Died: 13 Mos - 38
Pen: Com: 14 Nov 38

Hon. L.C. Peck
H.K.
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New York
Revol =
Ashbel Webster
Lus Pended

See letter to
Daniel Raymond
24 Sept. 1833 -
[illegible] to [illegible] 28 April '34
" " do 30 Aug, 311
Hon. P.C. Fuller 25 [illegible] '35

Adams

Rev J. Dune 1832
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13th April 1835

Dear Sir.

I send this back for the reason that Mr Websters give name is put down [illegible] instead of  Ashbel which is his true name

respectfully yours
DR
D. Raymond
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Rev
WIDOW, &c.
No. 18313
Mercy Webster
Widow of Ashbell Webster
Pri Rev War
Act : July 4th 36
ex :- Vol. M, Page 322
Arrangement of 1870.
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Aug. 12 1903

was L.P. Smith
saw [Illegible] [illegible]

1932 - Mar 29
Hist. to Mrs T.R. Roessmer [illegible]

1935 April 6 - Hist to Mrs Mary R Bishop - [illegible]
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Ecumenical Conference, Washington, D.C., Oct.19.1891.

15313
To the Pensions Bureau:
I desire the military and family history of Ashbel Webster of Connecticut probably Glastonbury or vicinity, and the leaf from the family bible which is supposed to accompany his application for a pension. He served in the War of the Revolution. Please deliver to Mr. WM H. Webster of the Civil Service Commission. Respectfully MR Webster
Rochester, NY.
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OWTNEC
N.S. Comm. of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir.
Please send military history or Certificate of service of the Rev. soldier Ashbill Curtis Webster regiment New York.
You will oblidge [illegible] sincerely Mrs. W. P. Smith
San Francisco Cal. 2191 Hyde St
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142 Grove Street
Putnam, Conn. 
April 1, 1935
Veterans Administration, 
Washington, D.C. 
PENSION RECORDS. 
Kindly send me the Pension Record, Revolution, of Ashbel Webster, (widow Mercy) W-18313
Very truly, 
Mary B. Bishop
142 Grove St
Putnam Conn.
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March 29, 1932
RA-J/REL
Mrs. Frank W. Roessner
301 Cherry Street
Clearfield, Pennsylvania 
Dear Madam: 
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information relative to soldiers of the Revolutionary War. 
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension and bounty land based upon military service of soldiers in that war. 
A careful search of the Revolutionary War records has been made on your behalf and no record found of such claim having been made on account of services of Richard Mather, Charles Mather, Jonathan Kelsey, Jonathan Webster, John Lovell or Amos Chipman, in that war. 
This history of Ashbell Webster is furnished herewith. 
Very truly yours 
A.D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.
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March 29, 1932
RA-J/REL
XXXXXXXXXXXX
Ashbell Webster-W.18313
Mrs. Frank W Roessner
301 Cherry Street
Clearfield, Pennsylvania 
Dear Madam: 
The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claims for pension, W.18313, based upon the military service of Ashbell Webster in that war. 
Ashbell (the name also appears as Ashbil) Webster was born August 8, 1756, in Glastonbury, Connecticut. His father was living during the Revolutionary War, name of his father not stated. 
While residing in East Hartford, Connecticut, he enlisted May3, 1775, served as a private in Captain Oliver Hanchett's Company, Colonel Joseph Spencer's Connecticut Regiment, and was discharged December 17, 1775. Soldier stated that during the battle of Bunker Hill, he was acting as a guard on Boston Neck. He again enlisted in January, 1776, and served two months, offices names not given. He enlisted the latter part of April, 1776, served as a private in Captain Samuel Welles' Company, Colonel Fisher Gay's Connecticut Regiment, was in the retreat from New York and was discharged December 29, 1776. He enlisted sometime in 1776, and served two months in Captain Cone's Connecticut Company. He enlisted in 1779 or 1780, and served eight months in Colonel Huntington's Connecticut Regiment. 
After the Revolution, he continued to reside in East Hartford, Connecticut, until 1789 or 1793, then moved to Poultney, Vermont, where he resided for several years, then moved to the state of New York. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 30, 1832, while residing in Cuba, Allegany County, New York. 
He died November 13, 1838. 
The soldier married September 7, 1777 at Bolton, Connecticut.
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Mercy Swetland, of Hartford, Connecticut. 
Soldier's widow, Mercy, was allowed pension on her application executed February 4, 1840, at which time she was aged seventy-nine years and resided in Cuba, New York. 
They had eleven children as follows: 
Plumley born January 6. 1779, married September 17, 1801. 
Jesse of John " September 19, 1780, " " 2, 1801. 
Ashbel " February 15, 1783, " November 2, 1804. 
George " April 12, 1786, " January 1, 1809, was residing in Allegany County, New York in 1840. 
Jason " January 12, 1789, " married June 4, 1815. 
Hannah " February 4, 1791, " December 31, 1809. 
Daniel " December 2, 1793, " September 9 (?), blotted may have been "7" 1819. 
Jared " February 17, 1795, married December 16, 1821. 
Mercy " March 16, 1798, " July 18, 1819. 
Israel " August 29, 1801, " November 23, 1823. 
Elisa " April 10, 1804. 
In 1832, soldier's brother, Benjamin Webster, was living in Caneadca, Allegany County, New York, and then stated that he was four years older than the soldier. In 1834, another brother, Allen Webster, was aged sixty-seven years and resided in Truxton, Cortland County, New York. 
Very truly yours 
A.D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.
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J. Paul Frantz, M.D. President
F.W. Roessner, Health Officer 
Phone 908

Members:
J. Paul Frantz, M.D.
Edward T. Kelley, Esq.
Chester L. Cowder
Cecil R. Bloom
Ord L. Norris

Clearfield Borough Board of Health
Clearfield. Penna. 
301 Cherry St., March 231932

Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.

My dear Sir -
The Adjutant Generals office at [illegible] suggested I ask if you have a record in the Revolutionary rolls of Richard Mather, Chas Mather, Johnathan Kelsey, Jonathan Webster, Ashbel Webster, John Lovell, Amos Chapman.
Richard Mather of Suffield Corner
Chas Mather son of Richard, from Lovington Corner
Jonathan Kelsey of Lovington died in 1792
Jonathan Webster from Glastonbery? & Suffield [illegible]
Ashbel Webster from
John Lovell from Sharon Corner
Amos [illegible]
Respectfully yours
Mabel Mather Roerrver

PS If you can [illegible] forward 2 look up first Richard Mather then Jonathan Kelcsey then Amos [illegible]
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Cortland County
State of New York 

Stephen Court and of the town of Trenton in the said County being duly sworn says that he is seventy six years old that he thinks Ashbel Webster of Cuba in the County of Allegany in the said state is to around seventy eight lived during the revolutionary war in the County of Hartford Conn knows that in the year 1776 the said Ashbel enlisted with this deponent in the State troops for eight month under Capt. Samuel Wills of Glastonbury Conn. 

Thomas Hollister was sick in the first place after they enlisted the said Ashbel with this deponent went to the New York then to Long Island [illegible] them till it was taken there back into New York stayed there till N. Y. was taken then went to White Plains State stayed there till time was out and went home together.  Says he was not with the said Ashbel in the service at any other time but believes he the said Ashal was in the service a number of other times how many and had long he does not know further he says not 
Subscribed & sworn before me February 14 1834 
Alvin Brown Justice
Stephen Couch 

Allen Webster of Trenton in the said County being duly sworn says that he is sixty seven years old and is brother to Ashbel Webster above mention think the said Ashbel is seventy eight or thereabouts lived in Hartford Con during the revolutionary war knows that the said Ashbel enlisted into the service some time the spring of 1776 for eight months and thinks he was out the whole term, thinks he was a number of other times how many or how long does not know further says not 

Subscribed & sworn before me 
Allen Webster
February 11, 1834 
Alvin Brown Justice
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I hereby certify that the within deponent are credible persons and their testimony credible to conduct

Alive Brown

State of New York
Cortland County Clerks office SS. 
I Samuel Hotchkiss a Clerk of said County do certify that Alvin Brown Esq before whom the within affidavits purports to have been sworn, was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in the Town of Trenton in said County duly Elected and Sworn Also that I am well acquainted with his hand writing & verily believe his name to the said affidavit subscribed to be his genuine signatures 

Witness my hand and seal of Office 
February 12th 1834
Saml. Hotchkiss Jr. Clerk
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JL Edwards Esquire Cuba 4th March 1834
On this sheet is all the evidence I have yet procured for Ashbel Webster - His friend in Cortland and Onondaga  counties write there are other pensions living who earned once have testified more fully to his services - but they are so broken down with old age it was thought not proper to call on them - you say your rules require the "[illegible] evidence in the form? of the applicant is procure" - to what extreme this rule is to [illegible] I am not fully apprized but from the nature of the case I presume it is not to be urged unreasonably [illegible] any one - I believe Ashbel Webster must in the summer season be conveyed to Cortland County and in that case I think he could by convening with his old friend there refresh his memories so that they would testify to all his services set forth in his declaration - So I cannot in truth say this to all which I think he could procure - but I think it is all the evidence he can obtain without incurring a heavy [crossed out: unreasonable] expense and [crossed out: not too] also at the extreme risk of his health and even his life -
In this view of the subject as you have the positive testimony of Benja Webster it is hoped the little error in the first part of his declaration if you still consider it will be attributed to its proper cause and not to an intention to deceive.
Mr. W though not rich is in easy circumstances and able to live without a pension - so that it is and always has been in some degrees a matter of honor with him and his memories and respectable family as well as a source of profit which has urged him on to apply for a pension.
I am very respectfully your servant
Daniel Raymond
JL Edwards Esq Court