Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 23487, Jonathan Barron, N.H.
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(3-1776)
Service                                                   Number
N.H.        Barrone, Jonathan            W 23487
                            Susannah              B.L.W. 38-100
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[verso]
Albany N. York 1136
Jonathan Barron Livingston in the State of New York who was a Private in the State of New York in the Company commanded by Captain Frye of the Regt commanded by Col. Dearborn in the New Hampshire line for the War.
[receipt stamp: THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES]
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 80 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum, to commence on the ['4th day of March, 1831.' crossed out] 3d day of March 1836
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of April 1836 and sent to George Hastings Mt. Morris N.Y.
Arrears to the 3th of March 1836 $800.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 3 Sept. 40.00
$840.00
{Revolutionary Claim, ['Act June 7, 1832' crossed out}
Recorded by D. D. Addison Clerk,
Book G. Vol. 4 Page --
act 15th May 1828

[recto] See let to Pen Agent May 16th 1836
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6201
New York, Albany 
Susannah Barron widow of Jonathan N.Y. who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the ['4th day of March, 1848.' crossed out] 22d August 1853
Certificate of Pension issued the 16" day of Jany/54 and sent to Hon. Geo: Hastings House of Reps 
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 16, Vol. 4
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Jonathan Barron 
births of Children Recorded Libra 2d Folio 998. 
Attest /s/Jon'a Burt Town Clerk 
A true Copy 
fees 24 Cents
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(Document A.}
The following are the births of the Children of Jonathan and Susannah Barron of Rockingham in the County of Windham and State of Vermont (viz)
Dolly Aiken was born July 29th 1791
Annis born -- May 15th 1793
Moses  do  September 26th 1795
Harriet  do  June 3d 1798
Abel  do  November 6th 1801
Sally  do  March 30th 1804
Rec'd June 2d: 1804 Recorded & Examined by Jonathan Burt Town Clerk
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No. 100
Susannah Barron Wid of Jonathan Livingston NY
H. Chalker Octo 14 1853
H. Chalker 3d Dec'r 1853. 
Adm'd $80 per annum, commencing 22d August 1853 - date of husband's death - Pay to widow. Certificate to Hon Geo. Hastings House of Reps. 
2d Feby 1848
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State of New York
County of Livingston ss.}
On this 21" day of November 1853 personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in & for said County Susannah Barron a resident of the town of Nunda in the said County of Livingston, aged 86 years, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed Feb'y 2. 1848 entitled "an act making further provisions for surviving widows of the soldiers of the Revolution" that she is the Widow of Jonathan Barron dec'd who was a Soldier in the New Hampshire line of the Army of the Revolution, & to whom was issued a Pension Certificate under the act of Congress, approved May 15, 1828 entitled "an act for the relief of certain Surviving Officers & Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution" & which Certificate has been surrendered & is now on file in the Pension Department at Washington & to show the rank & service of the said deceased she refers to the evidence on file in the said Department upon which the said Pension Certificate was granted - 
She further declares that she was married to the said Jonathan Barron on the ['22d' crossed out] 19th day of ['September' crossed out] October 1790 that her husband the aforesaid Jonathan Barron died on the 22d day of ['September' crossed out] August 1853 - that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the
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service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen Hundred & Ninety Four viz, at the time above stated - 
['Sworn to & Subscribed on the day & year first above written before' crossed out]
and She further declares that before her said marriage her name was Susanna Aiken, & She resided in Bedford in New Hampshire, that she was married as aforesaid at Bedford by one Rev. Wm. Pickles, now dead & she knows of none who were present at said marriage to be now living besides herself & her said Sister - that there was no Church Record made or certificate of such marriage given - that she is able to fix the date of said marriage by a clear & abiding recollection thereof & by the ages of her children & by reference to events which occurred near the said date of her marriage as also various other circumstances & that there is no family record of the date thereof - that she knows of no written evidence of the date of said marriage, but has children now living whose ages are confirmatory of the date above stated. 
/s/Susanna Barron
Sworn & Subscribed before me the day & year first above written and I further certify that I am well acquainted with the said Susanna Barron - that she is is a credible person - that I believe the facts as above stated by her are true - & & that she by reason of age & bodily infirmity is unable to appear before a court of record to make & execute the above Instrument - 
/s/Wm. D. Hammond
Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Livingston County ss}
I James S. Orton Clerk of the County Court of Livingston County holden at Geneseo in & for the said County on the 22" day of November 1853 do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that Jonathan Barron was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of Eighty Dollars per annum, was a resident of Nunda in the County of Livingston & State aforesaid, & died in the said town of Nunda on the 22" day of August 1853. & that he left a widow whose name is Susanna Barron - that the above facts were proved on the oath of Ethan H. Gilbert & his oral examination on oath in open Court, from which examination it further appeared that said Gilbert is a son in law of the said Jonathan & Susanna Barron, that he has been acquainted with them for 13 years, & for 13 years last past, has resided in the same town with them, that said Gilbert was present at the death of the said Barron & witnessed his death & was also present at his burial - & I further certify that the said Ethan H. Gilbert is a credible person & further that William D. Hammond whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate of acknowledgment to the declaration of Susanna Barron was at the date of such Certificate a Justice of the peace of the
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said County of Livingston duly authorized by law to administer oaths, that I am acquainted with his hand writing & that I believe his said Signature to the said Certificate is his genuine signature - 
[court seal affixed] In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my Official Seal at Geneseo in said County on the day & year first above written - 
/s/James S. Orton Clerk
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33.532
Final settlements
Jonathan Barron
1 Jany '83 $9.88
1 " 84. 80.
20 " " 80
 "  "  "  40.60
In one of Green books & detached paper headed casualties - Col. Reid.
"Jonathan Barron enlisted Octr. 15. 1781"
In 1803. rec'd Bounty Land as a War'sman and was identified by a certificate of Capt. Moody Dustin of the same Regiment
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State of New York
County of Livingston ss.
On this 25th day of January 1836 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Livingston County now sitting Jonathan Barron a resident of Mount Morris in the county of Livingston and state of New York aged sixty eight years & upwards who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated.
About the middle of the month of November in the year 1781 I enlisted as a private soldier during the war in a company commanded by Captain Ebenezer Frye belonging to the first New Hampshire regiment which was then commanded by Colonel Henry Dearborn & one Scott was Major of the regiment. 
Sometime in January 1782 we were ordered to join the regiment Captain Frye was then absent on a furlough & the company was commanded by Lieutenant Carter. At this time the regiment was at Saratoga, & immediately after receiving the order we marched for that place, & joined the regiment on the first day of February 1782. Col. Dearborn was then absent & the regiment was commanded by Major Scott. On the day after we arrived at Saratoga I was inoculated for the small pox & went to the hospital. There were at Saratoga at this time only the first New Hampshire regiment & a part of a regiment of New York Militia, who went away soon after we arrived. 
While at Saratoga we were on Gen. Schuyler's farm & remained there until the fall of that year, (the precise time I do not recollect) & were then ordered to leave. Our place was supplied by a black regiment from Rhode Island. After we left Saratoga we marched to Albany, where we embarked for Newburgh. Having landed at Newburgh we marched westerly
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four or five miles to a place then called New Windsor Precincts where the principal part of the army lay. Directly after our arrival then the snow fell & the winter set in. Our regiment built their hut in line with the New Hampshire troops. The New Your troops lay on the right of the Massachusetts & Connecticut troops lay East of us on a hill about a mile distant, while we were there the Second New Hampshire Regiment was broken up & the first regiment filled up out of it & the remainder formed into a battalion - the whole were placed under the command of Col. Geo Reed (Reid) Col Dearborn by the arrangement was dismissed from his command & went home. Gen. Stark commanded the New Hampshire troops, Gen Washington was there & I saw him frequently. We remained there During the winter & the next summer until the soldiers enlisted after the war were discharged. What was the precise time I cannot tell. ['Next we were made' crossed out] While at the New Windsor Precincts in the summer we were employed in building a meeting house for divine service. Major Morrell who was also paymaster commanded the battalion formed of the Second Regiment: I don't recollect the exact time the troops were discharged but it was not until the war was closed. 
And to the interrogatories of the court the said Jonathan Barron says - 
1st I was born in Bedford, Hillsborough county in the State of New Hampshire on the ninth day of April 1767 - 
2d There is a record of my age in the office of the town clerk of Bedford - But I have none in my possession
3d When I was called into service I lived in Merrimack in Hillsborough County N.H. & since the war I lived for a time in Merrimack & Bedford & then removed to Rockingham, Windham County Vermont, where I resided until the fall of 1824, & then re-
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moved to Mount Morris my present place of residence.
4th I enlisted during the war. 
5 The names of some of the officers who were with the troops where I served are Col. Henry Dearborn, Major Scott, Capt. Monroe. Capt Livermore Capt Center, Capt Moody Dustin, Capt Isaac Frey (Frye), Lieut Seeley Lieut Wier - Capt Dimmick
6th Just before the close of the war I went home on a furlough & before my furlough expired the troops were discharged, & consequently I received no written discharge.
7th The names of some persons to whom I am known in my present neighbourhood are Rev. Amos Benton George Hastings
I would also add the the names of Daniel Kellogg Esq. U.S. District Attorney for the district of Vermont, whose certificate is hereunto annexed, but who when I saw him had not leisure to go before a magistrate to make oath to the facts stated in it. 
['Frederick Isaac' crossed out] Ladoc Reed whose affidavit is also hereunto annexed is now dead. His affidavit taken August 26 1820 was procured with a view to my making application for a pension under the old law & I did not make the application because I had some property.
My reason for not making an earlier application for a pension is that I was unwilling to make the application until I could procure sufficient proof I reside about three hundred & sixty miles from the place where my witnesses reside, & it has not
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been convenient for me to visit that neighbourhood until recently.
Nor did I suppose it could make any difference when my application was made provided I complied with the directions given by the Secretary of War. 
I would add that I enlisted under one Obed McLane who had enlisting orders & was mustered before one Col. or Gen. Nichols of Amherst, new Hampshire - I recollect when I passed muster that he remarked to me - "You are a boy but as you have enlisted during the war you may grow to be a man & I will let you pass"
/s/Jonathan Barron 
Sworn & subscribed this 25" day of January 1836
We Amos Benton a clergyman residing in the town of Sparta in the County of Livingston & George Hastings residing in Mount Morris Livingston County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jonathan Barron who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be sixty eight years of age & that his character for probity truth & veracity is unimpeachable and I the said Amos Benton do certify that I have been acquainted with the said Barron about ten years - & that he is reputed & believed to have been a soldier of the Revolution - & I have no doubt the above declaration made by him is true. 
/s/Amos Benton
/s/Geo Hastings
Sworn & subscribed this 25th day of January 1836
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after an investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier & served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Amos Benton who has signed the preceding Certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Sparta in the county of Livingston & that George Hastings who has also signed the same is a resident of the town of Mount Morris in the county of Livingston & is a credible person & that their statement is entitled to credit. 
I Elias Clark Clerk of the Court of Common pleas of Livingston County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Jonathan Barron for a pension. 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of office this 25th day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty six - 
/s/Elias Clark clerk
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truth & veracity. that I am also acquainted with Jonathan Barron who has subscribed to the foregoing affidavit & have been acquainted with him for ten or Eleven years since he has resided in the town of Mount Morris that he is a man of good character [illegible] respect. And that no other person of his name has ever resided in the town of Mount Morris to my knowledge information or belief. 
dated March 30" 1836 - 
/s/Eli Lake 
State of New York 
Livingston County SS. I John Bennett of the town of Nunda in the County of Allegany being sworn saith he resides about five miles distant from the present residence of Jonathan Barron of the town of Mount Morris, who is now present & who subscribed the foregoing affidavit; that he is well acquainted with the said Barron & has been well acquainted with the said Barron & has been well acquainted with ['the said' crossed out] him for more than forty six years. That he this deponent was born in Rockingham in the State of Vermont & has lived there ever since until last fall. This deponent well recollects the time when the said Barron moved to Rockingham since & it was then reported & believed in that neighbourhood that the said Barron came from Bedford or Merrimack in the State of New Hampshire. this deponent was well acquainted with the inhabitants of the said town of Rockingham & he never knew ay person who resided there of the name of Jonathan Barron except the said Jonathan Barron now here & who resides in the town of Mount Morris. That is was always understood & believed in the neighbourhood where the said Barron lived in Rockingham that he was a soldier of the Revolution And that the said Bar-
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ron has always since the deponent has been acquainted with him sustained an irreproachable moral character. And the deponent knows the said Jonathan Barron now here to be the person of that name who formerly resided in Rockingham as aforesaid & further this deponent saith not - 
/s/John Bennett
Subscribed & sworn this 30" day of March 1836 before me /s/Eli Lake Justice peace 
I certify that I am acquainted with John Bennett who subscribed the above affidavit that he is a respectable farmer of the town of Nunda Allegany County & has a good character for truth & in other respects. March 30 1836.
/s/Eli Lake 
State of New York
Livingston County ss George Hastings being duly sworn saith that he resides in the town of Mount Morris in said county & is well acquainted with Jonathan Barron now present & who subscribed the annexed affidavit that he is the same Jonathan Barron who made his declaration before this Court of Common pleas of Livingston County in January last which declaration this deponent sent to to the pension office in Washington
/s/George Hastings
Sworn this 30th day of March 1836 before me 
/s/Eli Lake Jus peace
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State of New York 
Livingston County ss - I Elias Clark Clerk of said county of Livingston hereby certify that Eli Lake before whom the annexed affidavits purport to have been taken & who has subscribed the annexed ['affidavits' crossed out] certificates was at the time of taking of said affidavits a Justice of the peace in & for the county of Livingston aforesaid & legally authorized to act as such: and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Eli Lake & verily believe that his name subscribed to the said affidavits & certificates is genuine. 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County at Geneseo this eighteenth day of April 1836
/s/C. Clerk Clerk by J. W. Curtiss Deputy Clerk (Clerk being absent)
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Rev WIDOW, &c. [initials: own]
File No. 23,487
Susannah Barron Wid. of Johnathan Barron
Priv. Rev. War
Act: Feb 2d 1848.
Index: - Vol. A, Page 39
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Pension Office
Jan. 13/54

Sir,
Please certify the date of last payment in this case [margin note: n m 53]
Very respectfully Your Obt. serv't
/s/S. Cole For Commissioner

F. Burt Esqr
3d Auditor Present}
Jonathan Barron, act 1828 $80 per annum, paid to 4 Mar. 1853. No death
/s/F. Burt 
Auditor
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State of Vermont
Windham ss} I Lemuel Whitney Clerk of the County Court within & for the County of Windham afores'd do hereby Certify that Henry Bond Esq'r who certifies as above is and hath for a number of years past been a Justice of the peace within & for said County of Windham. And that due faith & Credit is, and ought to be given to all his Official Acts, attestations, and doings as such - 
[court seal affixed] In witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of said Court - Done at Brattleboro in s'd County this 2d day of October AD 1800
/s/Lemuel Whitney Clerk
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I HEREBY certify, that Jonathan Barron who signed the above deed and power of attorney, has been personally known to me, for seven years and that I verily believe him to be the soldier he represents himself to be, and he is a Farmer by occupation Dated this Sixth Day of March one Thousand Eight Hundred
/s/Henry Bond Jus. of the peace
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PERSONALLY appeared before me, Henry Bond a justice of the peace, for the County of Windham & State of Vermont Jonathan Barron of the town of Rockingham County of Windham and State of Vermont and acknowledged the above instrument, to be his voluntary act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned. Given under my hand, this 6th day of March 1800
/s/Henry Bond Just. peace
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I Certify that the within Named Jonathan Barron was a Soldier in the Continental Armey During the Late War with Great Britton in the First New Hampshire Reg't for me 
[illegible] Oct'r 5th 1800
/s/Moody Dustin Capt in the First New Hampshire Reg't 
I Certify that the within Signer Jonathan Barron was a Soldier in the late New Hampshire line and was inlisted for During the war with Great Briton and sent the same for me 
/s/Sam'l Chury Capt 2d New Hampshire Reg't

Jon'a Barron priv. New [illegible-obscured] The identity of the claimant is proven by a Certificate from an Officer of the Regiment or Line to which he belonged
The Clerk of the County Court must certify the magistrate
Issued W No. 38
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KNOW all men by these presents, that I Jonathan Barron of Rockingham in the County of Windham and State of Vermont for the Consideration of ten Dollars received to my full satisfaction of Abijah Holbrook of Torrington Litchfield County and State of Connecticut Do give, grant, bargain, sell, assign, and confirm, unto Abijah Holbrook or to his heirs, or assigns forever, all my right, title, interest, and demand, which I have to the bounty land, which was granted to me, by the United States, for my services as a Soldier during the late war with Great-Britain: And I do hereby appoint the said Abijah Holbrook my true and lawful attorney for me, with power of substitution, and in my name to demand, ask and receive, from the war-office of the United States, for his use and benefit, whatever land I am entitled to for my services as a Soldier in the First New Hampshire Regiment hereby irrevocably ratifying and confirming whatever my said attorney or his substitutes shall lawfully do, by virtue of these presents. In testimony whereof, I hereby set my hand and seal, this 6th day of March 1800
/s/Jonathan Barron 
In presence of /s/Mary Bond
/s/Henry Bond
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State of Vermont Windham ss
Grafton March 6 1800 then personally appeared before me Henry Bond one of the Justices of the peace for the County of Windham Jonathan Barron & made oath that he was a Soldier Listed During the Late war with Great Briton ad that the Belonged to the first Newhampshire Regiment and that I know the said Jonathan Barron and in my opinion that full credit ought to be given to  his Testimony as such
/s/Henry Bond Just. peace
State of Vermont
Windham ss. I Lemuel Whitney Notary public within and for the County of Windham do hereby certify, that Henry Bond Esq who certifies as above is, and hath been for a number of years past, a Justice of the peace within and for said County of Windham and that due faith and credence is, and ought to be given to all his official Acts, attestations and doings as such - 
[notarial seal affixed] In witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed my Notarial Seal of my said Office - Done at Brattleboro in s'd County this 7th day of March 1800 - 
/s/Lemuel Whitney N.P.
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State of New York
In the matter of the application of Susanna Barron widow of Jonathan Barron dec'd a revolutionary pensioner, for an extension of pension - 
County of Livingston ss
John Bennett of Nunda in said County being sworn says, that he is the age of 77 years, & upwards, that in the year 1787 deponent lived in the town of Rockingham County of Windham & State of Vermont - that deponent in that year became acquainted with Jonathan Barron at said town which was the place of residence of the said Barron also, & that deponent has been well acquainted with the said Barron from that time to the time of his death in August last past that deponent at the time of becoming so acquainted with the said Barron resided about two miles distant from him & deponent knows that the said Barron was not then married - that in the year 1792 & before the 1st Tuesday in March in that year deponent was sent by his father to the house of the said Barron to carry money to pay to said Barron for his father's taxes, that said Barron was then a Constable & collector & also captain of a Militia Company - that deponent then paid to him the tax money & rent & deponent then saw the said Barron living with Susanna Barron as
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his wife & deponent also then & there saw in the cradle an infant female child of the said couple who was then & ever since has been & still is called Polly Aiken Barron - that deponent well remembers the above facts from the impressions they at the time made on his mind & also from the fact that deponent after paying the said money as aforesaid & in the same year did military duty for the first time in his life under the  said Barron at said Rockingham as such captain as aforesaid - that deponent was frequently after being at the said Barron's house as aforesaid at the said Barron's residence for many years, & deponent well remembers seeing each of the subsequent children of the said Jonathan & Susanna Barron, to wit, Annis, Moses, Harriet, Abel, & Sally Barron, in the cradle & was afterwards well acquainted with each of said children as they grew up, & has continued his acquaintance with some of them, to wit, Annis Barron now wife of Doct. Barnabas Wright of said Nunda, Moses Barron & Abel Barron of Mt. Morris in said county, & Sally Barron wife of Ethan H. Gilbert of said Nunda, to the present time - That each of them bore the family name of Barron, the males hitherto & the females until their marriage & deponent well remembers that the said
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Jonathan & Susanna Barron were uniformly among all their neighbors relative & acquaintances at all times, & in all places reputed husband & wife & lived together as such from deponent's first visit to their house as aforesaid in the year 1792 down to the time of the said Jonathan's death at said Nunda in August last past - and deponent says that he also well remembers that some year or two before paying the said tax money as aforesaid he first heard of the marriage of the said Jonathan Barron to Susanna Aiken, now Susanna Barron - that he heard it as recently then occurring & the same was currently reputed & believed in the said town of Rockingham & vicinity - And deponent further says that he was well acquainted with Jonathan Burt of said town of Rockingham & know him to be town clerk of such town - that deponent was well acquainted with the hand writing of said Burt & verily believes that the signature of said Burt to the annexed Document marked "Document A." & purporting to be a true copy of the record of the births of said Barron's children, is the genuine & proper hand writing of the said Jonathan Burt such town clerk as aforesaid - And deponent further says that both he & the said Barron resided near other in the said town of Rockingham from the
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year 1792 until the year 1824 or thereabout - that the said Jonathan & Susanna Barron then moved therefrom into Western New York & deponent moved therefrom into Western New York in 1835 - & deponent ever since so moving has resided near the said Jonathan & Susanna Barron & their said Children & that all the said children of the said Jonathan & Susanna known are now living & deponent has recently seen them all - & further deponent saith not
/s/John Bennett
Subscribed & sworn this 21st day of Dec'r 1853 before me & I further certify that I am well acquainted with the above named John Bennett & know him to be the affirmant mentioned in the above affidavit, & that he is in every respect a credible person - 
/s/Wm. D. Hammond Justice of the Peace in & for Livingston County
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Payment to be made at Albany by the President of the Mechanics & Farmers Bank Agent for paying Pensioners at the Agency of Albany - 
Recorded in the Pension Office in Book F Vol 4 page [blank] by D. D. Addison Clerk
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Revolutionary Claims
Under the Act entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution" approved 15. May 1828. 
I Certify that Jonathan Barron of Mount Morris in the County of Livingston in the State of New York is entitled to receive pay under the above mentioned Act as a surviving Soldier in the New Hampshire Line of the Army of the Revolution at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum payable during his life on the third day of March and third day of September in each year. 
It is provided by law that the said pay "shall not in any way be transferable, or liable to attachment, levy or seizure by any legal process whatever."
[seal affixed] Given under my hand and the Seal of the War Office of the United States this 30th day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty six and of Independence the sixtieth.
/s/C. A. Harris Acting Secretary of War
Examined & Countersigned}/s/J. L. Edwards Comm'r of Pensions
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Brief in the case of Susannah Barron, widow of Jonathan Barron Livingston County and State of New York
act 2d February 1848 
Claim, ("original," ['or "for increase."' crossed out]
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was a pensioner under the Act of 15th May 1828 at $80 per annum 
He died August 22, 1853
Marriage proved to have taken place prior to 1794 by verified copy of private record of births of children and parol testimony, certified to be credible.
['(If for increase.) Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?' crossed out]
Pension allowed in this case under act of February 2, 1853, the date of husband's death - 
/s/R. Geddes
Examining Clerk. 
Hon. Geo. Hastings, 
House of Representatives
Name and residence of Agent
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Susannah Barron widow of Jonathan Barron - application for Pension under act of July 7th 1838
address 
Geo Hastings H. of Reps
From 
H. Chandler
Nunda N.Y. 
Hon. Geo. Hastings H.R.
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[handwritten letter]
Nunda August 22/53
Dear Brothers & Sisters Your Father expired this morning at 5 minutes before 10 O'clock this Morning he was taken sick the next day after Sister Harriet left with the disentary we chect it and then give him the same Oil it operated twice and [illegible] of the disentary but his Olde complaint troubled him he had his senses a most of time a little feisty at times this morning he said that he could not live but a short time and said fare well to all that was present  Mother hold out well. No more at present some one will write in a few days know particulars
Your affectionate Brother 
/s/E. H. Gilbert
{Letter A.}
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[handwritten letter]
Nunda August 22/53
Dear Brother, Your Honorable Father expired at five minutes before ten O'clock this morning he had been sick Eleven days this morning he said to us I shall not live long and bid us all fare well  he had senses all of the time except a little feisty at times for the last three day No more at presant some one will write a yarn in a few day The funeral will be a 10 O'clock on Wedensday
Your affectionate Brother /s/E. H. Gilbert 

Letter to Quartus H. Barron marked B.
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Be it remembered that on the eighteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty five, at Amherst in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally came Hugh Moore of the same Amherst, and being sworn in due form of Law, testified as follows - that in the months of February or March 1781, at Windham in the County of Rockingham in said State, he enlisted for said Town of Windham in the service of the United States to serve three years.
On the tenth of March 1781 he as mustered at said Amherst by Lieut. Howe, and then marched, under Capt Isaac Frye to a place then called by the men Soldiers' Fortune, east from West point. That he served in Capt. Daniel Livermore's Company in the First New Hampshire Regiment until
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the tenth day of July 1783 - That before his enlistment he was acquainted with a Mr. Jonathan Barron of Merrimack, a Town adjoining said Amherst. Which the Regiment was at Saratoga in February or March 1782 he had the small pox, and was in the barracks appropriated for that purpose. He there saw the same Jonathan Barron, who had the disease at the same time. He was then in the Army and in one of the Companies of the same Regiment, but which the said Moore cannot now say. He knows that said Barron served in said Regiment, as he frequently saw him, and that he served until the men, enlisted during the War, were discharged. 
After the war he was intimately acquainted with said Barron ten years or more - He then lived in said Merrimack and Bedford - Afterwards the said Barron moved to Rockingham in
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the State of Vermont, and he said More was at said Barron's house in Rockingham two or three times. The same Jonathan Barron is now present, and this testimony is given at his request. 
/s/Hugh Moore
State of New Hampshire
County of Hillsborough ss - On this eighteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and thirty five, the said Hugh Moore personally came and signed the foregoing affidavit, and made oath in due form of Law that the same it true. 
Before me /s/Edmund Parker Justice of the Peace
I certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Hugh Moore - and that he is a credible witness, and his statement entitled to full credit. 
/s/Edmund Parker, Justice of the Peace
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I Andrew Wallace Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the County of Hillsborough in the State of New Hampshire, certify that Edmund Parker within named is a Justice of the Peace for said County of Hillsborough as within mentioned, and that the foregoing signatures, purporting to be his, are genuine. 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office, and subscribed my name this nineteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred and thirty five
/s/A. Wallace Clerk
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State of New Hampshire
Hillsborough County ss. 
On the seventh day of November 1853 personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for said County, Jane Harris, whom I know, and who being by me duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say, that she resided at Manchester in said County of Hillsborough and has resided there for one year last past, that she is the sister of Susanna Barron of Nunda New York widow of Jonathan Barron deceased, that she is seventy seven years old and is now herself the widow of Walter Harris deceased, that her name before marriage was Jane Aiken and she resided at Bedford in said State of Newhampshire with her sister the said Susanna Barron, that she was ['pres' crossed out] present at and witnessed the marriage of her said sister Susanna to the said Jonathan Barron, that one Rev. Wm. Pickles officiated at such marriage and the same occured at Bedford aforesaid, that the said marriage of the said Susanna to the said Jonathan Barron took place in the fall of the year 1790. that she knows of no other living witness of the fact except said Susanna, and she knows of no Church or other record of the date of said marriage, that she recollects the
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said date, is able to fix the time thereof as aforesaid not only from such recollection, but also by referance to the ages of other persons, and by circumstances in her own life, she further states that from age she is unable to appear befor a Court of Record to make this affidavit
/s/Jane A. Harris
Sworn and subscribed this Seventh day of November 1853}
Before me & I also certify that I am well acquainted with the said Jane Harris that she is a credible person that I believe the facts as above stated by her to be true and that she is unable from age to appear before a Court of record for the purpose of making this instrument
/s/William P. Riddle Justice of Peace
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State of New Hampshire
Hillsbor'o County ss. 
I Perley Dodge Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that William P. Riddle, who signed the foregoing certificate by him subscribed, was at the date thereof a Justice of the peace, in and for the County aforesaid, duly authorised by law to administer oaths, that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said William P. Riddle and that I believe his signature to the above Certificate to be his proper signature
[seal affixed] In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Official Seal at Manchester in said County this Seventh day of November A.D. 1853. 
/s/Perley Dodge Clerk.
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[addressed envelope]
[margin notes: Feb 3d original N.Y. Wm. G. Dake]
[postmark: MOUNT MORRIS N.Y. JAN 29] free FREE FREE
J. L. Edwards Esq
Comm'r of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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[handwritten letter]
J. L. Edwards 
Sir, 
I enclose papers relating to the application of Jonathan Barron for a pension under the act of 1832. 
William G. Dake desires that the papers on which his application was made last May or June be sent back to him if it is consistent with the rules of your office. His object is to make another application & there are papers accompanying his declaration which will be of service to him - 
I reference to either one of the above cases please address me at Mt. Morris Livingston Co N.Y. 
Yr obt Serv't 
/s/Geo. Hastings
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
For ascertaining whether any increase or arrears of Pension are due the ['Widow or heirs of' crossed out] Revolutionary Pensioners, &c.*
Jonathan Barron 
State of New York
County of Livingston} Be it known that before me W. D. Hammond of the Peace personally appeared Jonathan Barron aged 85 years, who being duly cautioned and then sworn in due form of law, states that he is the Identical Man of Nunda, who draws a pension of $80. per anum who was a Revolutionary Soldier and Pension of the State of Hampshier formerly now of New York ['died on the' crossed out] now living ['day of'  [blank], 18[blank] and that [blank] mother named' crossed out] of New York ['died on the' crossed out] now living ['day of' crossed out] on this 12 May 1852 and that they were ['married on the' crossed out] married ['day of' crossed out] in the year ['in the year' crossed out] 1790 and that they were residents of Bedford in the State of New Hampshire and that they resided there about 16 years, and that he resides in Nunda and that furthermore he BY THESE PRESENTS, constitutes, appoints and fully empowers and authorizes irrevocably and with powers of substitution - F. E. Hassler, of Washington City, D.C., as his true and lawfully Attorney for him and in his name and stead, to examine into, to prosecute, to demand, and to receive from the U.S. Government Officers his rights in all and in any manner of claim for increase or arrears of Pension or Land, that may be due him as the Identical Soldier of the Revolutionary Army ['who died leaving the same undrawn, as' crossed out] in right of law, custom, or equity he is or may be entitled (who served 2 years in he Revolution War
IN WITNESS WHEREOF he has on this twentieth day of May 1852 hereunto signed his name and affixed his seal.
/s/J Barron Barron (L.S.)
Witness: /s/W. D. Hammond
Witness: /s/Granville Sherwood}
At the same time appeared before me W. D. Hammond a Justice of the peace two credible and disinterested witnesses named Granville Sherwood and Isaac Brownson residents of the aforesaid County and State, who having been by me cautioned and then duly sworn according to law, do depose and say each for himself, that he has always heard it said and it is generally believed by the community that Jonathan Barron was a Revolutionary Soldier, and that he is now living in Nunda aforesaid) was by him always treated as and is by the witnesses believed to be the (county & state) of the said Revolutionary Soldier. ['and that' crossed out] 
/s/Granville Sherwood (L.S.)
/s/Isaac Brownson (L.S.)
Sworn to before me the day and year first above written.
/s/W. D. Hammond J.P. (L.S.)
State of New York
County of Livingston} to wit: 
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That William D. Hammond Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavits and acknowledgment were made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature above written is genuine. 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of Livingston County Court, this seventeenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and fifty two
/s/Israel D. Root Clerk.
[illegible] "the date of marriage, and date of death of her husband." 
over
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Revolutionary Claims
Under the act entitled an Act for the Relief of certain surviving officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution approved 15 May 1828
I certify that Jonathan Barron of Mount Morris in the County of Livingston in the State of New York is entitled to Receive pay under the above mentioned Act as a Surviving Soldier in the New Hampshire line of the army of the Revolution at the Rate of Eighty dollars per annum payable during his life on the third day of March and the third day of September in each year 
it is provided by law that the said pay shall not in any way be transferable or liable to attachment levy or seizure by any leagal process whatever 
Given under my hand and the Seal of the War office of the United States this the 30th day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty six and of Independence the Sixtieth
/s/C. A. Harris
acting Secretary of War
Examined & Countersigned} /s/J. L. Edwards Comm'r of Pensions
Recorded in the pension office in Book F Vol 4 page [blank] 
/s/D. D. Addison Clerk 
J. Barron Nunda New York 
See New Hampshire
Sep 20 - 52
F. E. Hassler
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[addressed envelope]
[margin notes: Jonathan Barron Apl. 30. N.Y. act. 1828.]
[postmark: MOUNT MORRIS N.Y. APR 21] $1.00
J. L. Edwards Esqr
Com'r of Pensions 
Washington D.C.
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[handwritten letter]
J. L. Edwards
Dr Sir
I enclose a supplemental affidavit on the application of Jonathan Barron for a pension. The reason he renders for not applying at an earlier date I trust will prove satisfactory. He lives in a part of the County which in 1828 was very remote from any important [illegible] - this with the fact that as far as any acquaintance [illegible] the law of '28 received very little attention in this section of the county where the number of applications made [illegible] have ben exceedingly limited, rendering [illegible] remarkable. Yet I suppose his is a case that is provided for by the law of 1828 - & if he is entitled to  a pension he comes within the provisions of that act: And altho his application is made with more particular reference to the law of '32, I presume that will be no sufficient reason why he should be deprived of privileges to which he is  legally & equitably entitled. 
Mt. Morris N.H. April 20 1836 
Respectfully Yrs &c 
/s/Geo Hastings
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I David Kellogg of Rockingham in the County of Windham and State of Vermont do certify, that I have been acquainted with Jonathan Barron Esquire, late of said Rockingham but now of Mount Morris in the County of Livingston and State of New York, for more than twenty years last past; and that during all that period he has sustained a high and unimpeachable character for truth and integrity. I have often, in years past, heard him relate his Revolutionary Services and I believe that his neighbors never doubted that he  had performed the services by him related, as entire credit was given to his statements upon that subject as well as all others. 
September 30. 835. /s/David Kellogg
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I Zadock Read of Antrim in the County of Hillsborough and State of New hampshire - of Lawful age Doth testify and say that I was ['knowing' crossed out] acquainted with Jonathan Barron in the Revolutionary war I know said Barron to be a Soldier in Capt Ebenezer Frye's Company and in the first newhampshire Regiment then Commanded by Coll. Henry Dearborn and I was knowing to said Barron joining said regiment in January or February 1782 and I was knowing to his continuing in said Regiment untill June 1783 then Commanded by Coll George Read (Reid)
/s/Zadock Read
Antrim August 26th 1820
Then Personally appeared Zadock Read and made oath that the above Deposition by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth 
before me /s/Jacob Tuttle J. Peace
This certifies that the above named Zadock Read is considered a man of truth and verasity
/s/Jacob Tuttle J. Peace
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State of New Hampshire
Secretary's Office} Aug't 27. 1820
I hereby certify that Jacob Tuttle Esqr. whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate is a Justice of the peace for the county of Hillsborough in said State duly appointed and commissioned and that faith & credit are due to his official acts
[state seal affixed] In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the public seal of the State on the day of the date hereof. 
/s/Sam'l Sparhawk Secretary
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Sept. 29, 1853.
Appl. of Susannah Barron, widow of Jonathan, Livingston Co., N.Y.
1848 Feb
act 2nd Feb./48
Cole 
Address,
H. Chalker Esq
Nunda N. York
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State of New York
Livingston County ss.}
I James S. Orton Clerk of said County & ex. officio clerk of the County Court of said County, do hereby certify, that at a Term of the said Court holden at Geneseo in said County on the 19th day of September AD 1853 satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that Jonathan Barron of Nunda in said County was a Pensioner of the United States at the rate of Eighty Dollars per annum, was, a resident of said Nunda at the time of his decease, that he died at that place on the 22" day of August in the year 1853, & that he left a Widow heir surviving whose name is Susanna Barron - 
Also that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that the name of the aforesaid Widow before her marriage with the said deceased was Susanna Aiken, that she was married to the said Jonathan Barron at Bedford in the State of New-Hampshire by the Rev. William Pickles, in the year 1790, that she was 86 years old on the second day of February last past, that she still resides at said Nunda & remains the Widow of the said Jonathan Barron - 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my Seal of Office at Geneseo in said County
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this 19 day of September Ad 1953 - 
/s/James S. Orton Clerk
State of New York
Livingston County ss} 
On this 17th day of September Ad 1853 personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in & for said County duly authorised by law to administer oaths, Susanna Barron a resident of Nunda in the County & State above named, to me known to be the identical person who is the Widow of Jonathan Barron deceased, & who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed on the 2d February 1848 granting pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War - That she is the Widow of Jonathan Barron deceased, the person named in & to whom the annexed Pension Certificate was issued, who was a private Soldier in the New-Hampshire Line of the Army of the Revolution for & during the War, & who served as such during the same, as will fully appear on reference to the evidence on file in the Pension Office on which the said Pension Certificate was granted -
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She further declares that she is still a Widow of the said deceased, & that accompanying Pension Certificate was issued to & held by her said husband until his decease, that he died at Nunda aforesaid on the 22d day of August 1853, & that she hereby surrenders the said certificate for the purposes, above mentioned - 
/s/Susanna Barron
Sworn to & subscribed on the day & Year above written before me 
/s/Wm. D. Hammond
Justice of the Peace
STATE OF NEW YORK,
LIVINGSTON COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE,}ss.
I Certify, That Wm. D. Hammond Esquire, was, at the date of the foregoing or annexed affidavit, a Justice of the Peace In and for said County, duly qualified and authorized to take the same; that I am well acquainted with his hand-writing, and verily believe that the signature of said Justice to the Jurat thereto is genuine.
[county seal affixed] In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County, this 20 day of Sept. A.D. 1853. 
/s/James S. Orton Clerk.
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Livingston County ss
Ethan H. Gilbert of Nunda in Said County & State of New York being sworn, in addition to his affidavit & other testimony given on the application of Susanna Barron for an extension of Pension, says that he possesses & has possessed for the space of 56 years last past a mental faculty, known & styled as 'memory' by which he is enabled to retain after their occurrence a knowledge of facts as they transpire & the precise day where they transpired & is able to recall them & depose to them with certainty - that on his trust in this faculty & by its aid he transacts his daily business & many important business transactions - that it is by his reliance on said faculty he is able to swear that the death of Jonathan Barron the revolutionary pension heretofore mentioned by him & in the Certificate of Jas. S. Orton Esq. Clerk of said County of Livingston relative to the said application occurred at said Nunda on the 22d day of August last past - that the occurrence at the time & its circumstances made a deep impression in deponent's mind, that deponent was as before stated, present & saw him die, & has therefore the same means of fixing his death at that date that he has of knowing he himself attended church last Sunday or that the last time he voted at a general Election in this State was on the 8th day of Nov'r last past. - or that he ate his dinner yesterday.
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And deponent further says that he is also able to fix the said date at that time by the fact that immediately after the death of said Barron & on the same day  deponent went from said Barron's house where he died to his own house about a quarter of a mile distant & then & there wrote the letter hereunto annexed & marked it & deposited the same in the Post Office at Nunda in an envelope directed to Ebenezer & Harriet Wright Schoolcraft Michigan that deponent has since procured the said letter from them & herewith sends the same - And deponent is also able to fix the said date at the time aforesaid by the fact that he rode from said Barron's to his own residence as a aforesaid with one Largus B. Smith & receiving some money of said Smith to apply on a mortgage immediately made an entry on deponent's cash book of which the following is a copy 'Aug't 22. To be endorsed on Smith's mortgage $42.94' & on the same day deponent gave to Polly Barron $1.25 & immediately made another entry on said book as follows '22d Aunt Polly Barron $1.25' - 
And deponent further says that he is also able to fix the said date as aforesaid by the fact that at the same time he wrote & mailed the above mentioned letter to the said Ebenezer & Harriet Wright he also wrote & mailed the letter hereunto
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annexed & marked B. to Quartus H. Barron at Fay Lake Wisconsin in an envelope, & that since then deponent has procured the same & herewith transmits the letter, ['and further the deponent saith not. Subscribed & sworn this 5th day of Jan'y 1854 before me}' crossed out]
And deponent further says that he is Executor of the Last Will & Testament of the said Jonathan Barron dec'd duly legalised by letters testamentary from the Surrogate of said Livingston County & duly qualified, & that this deponent found the Certificate of Jonathan Burt mentioned in the accompanying affidavit of John Bennett & thereunto annexed marked 'Document A.' among the papers of the said Jonathan Barron dec'd in searching among them at said Barron's residence since his decease, & further deponent saith not - 
/s/Ethan H. Gilbert
Subscribed & Sworn this 5th day of Jan'y 1854 before me} 
& I also certify that I am well acquainted with the said E. H. Gilbert, & know him to be the person mentioned in & who executed the foregoing affidavit & also that he is a credible person - 
/s/Wm D. Hammong
Justice of the Peace.
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STATE OF NEW YORK,
LIVINGSTON COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE}ss. 
I Certify, That Wm. D. Hammond Esquire, was, at the date of the foregoing or annexed affidavit, a Justice of the Peace In and for said County, duly qualified and authorized to take the same; that I am well acquainted with his hand-writing, and verily believe that the signature of said Justice of the Jurat thereto is genuine. 
[county seal affixed] In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County, this 7th day of Jany. A.D. 1853.