Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 194, John Anderson, Continental (N.Y.)
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SERVICE
Continental (N.Y.)
Anderson, John 
Lydia
NUMBER R 194


CONTENTS
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9,100
Lydia Anderson
NY
Act 7 July 38.

Hon. Jno DeMott  16th May '46
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Declaration 
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled “an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows”
State of New York 
County of Tompkins } ss.  On the sixth day of May 1843 personally appeared before the Subscriber a Judge of the court in and for said County Lydia Anderson of the town of Enfield in said County & State aged Seventy nine years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows 
And also a further 
Declaration 
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 3d March 1843 granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the act of July 7 1838 
That she is the widow of John Anderson who was [crossed out text] a Soldier in the war of the Revolution, that he served in the New York line in the war of the Revolution, probably under Col Van Schoick [or Schaick?] or Col Morgan, that he served to the end of the revolutionary war, recd an honorable discharge which entitled him to bounty land, which was appropriated to him in the town of Hector in the County & State aforesaid, that the said discharge is lost or out of the reach or knowledge of this deponent, she further declares that she was married to the said John Anderson in November 23d day 1786 seventeen hundred and eighty six, that her husband, the aforesaid John Anderson died in May 1807 eighteen hundred & seven: that she was not married to him prior to his having the service, but the marriage took place
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previous to the first of January, Seventeen hundred & ninety four, viz, at the time above stated; that she has not nor never had a family record of her marriage & that she is still the widow of aforesaid John Anderson 
[signed] Lydia Anderson  X her mark
Sworn & Subscribed before me the this Sixth day of May 1843 
[signed] H. S. Walbridge Judge of Tompkins County Courts and of the degree of Counsellor of the Supreme Court 
I certify that Lydia Anderson above named is respectable person, is worthy to be believed, that I consider her of the age represented by her, & that from her old and extreme age & disability she ought not to be required to appear in open court to make her application 
[signed] H S Wallbridge Judge of Tompkins County & Counsellor of the Supreme Court 

State of New York 
County of Tompkins   Personally appeared before me one of the judges of the court of said county, Norman Anderson of Enfield in said county & state, aged fifty three years last Oct, having been born Oct 1789. after being duly sworn according to law, deposeth & saith that he is a son of the above named Lydia Anderson, and that his father was the late husband of the aforesaid Lydia Anderson, whose name was John Anderson, who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution as this deponent has from his first and earliest recollection always been informed & believes, & that the aforesaid John Anderson served in the Revolutionary war to the close of the same and recd an honorable discharge & drew a lot of County land in the town of Hector in said County & State, & that the above named Lydia Anderson is the identical widow of the aforesaid John Anderson and that his foresaid father & mother lived together as husband and wife till the death of his said father which took place May 1807 eighteen hundred and seven
[signed] Norman Anderson
Subscribed & Sworn before me the sixth day of May 1843
[signed] H S Walbridge Judge of Tompkins County Court & Counsellor of the Supreme Court
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I certify that the annexed named Norman Anderson, is a respectable person, & is entitled to full credit. 
[signed] H. S. Wallbridge 
Judge of Tompkins County Courts & Counsellor of the Supreme Court
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July 24 ‘43
N.Y.
Lydia Anderson
[postmarked Ovid July 19]
[stamped FREE]

Hon J. L. Edwards
Comr. of Pensions
Washington
D. C.
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Ovid July 18th 1843
Hon J.L. Edwards 
D Sir 
Yours of the 11th July relating to the case of Lydia Anderson, I will say that I have acted as the Agent for Mrs Anderson this spring in examined her claim to bounty land, & that I found that her late husband served in "Lamb's Artilley”, & drew 500 acres of land on lot No. 38 Hector, which was awarded by the Onondaga Commissioners of N.Y. to Albert & Tunis Vandersee, I also found that there was 100 acres of land still due to her late husband John Anderson, & I beg leave respectfully to ask where the 100 acres was located & all the facts relating to it = my examination of her case, took place after I had prepared her papers & made out her application, you will please notice, that her son testifies that he was born in 1789. I am of the impression that he is the only surviving child 
Respectfully your Obt Sert 
[signed] Arad Joy
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A List of Childrens Ages
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John Anderson Born Oct the 13 1818 
Norman Anderson Born Jan the 9 1821
Abram Anderson Born May 13 1823 
Alla K Anderson Born Nov 12 1826 
James Anderson Born May 29 1829 
George A Anderson Born Oct the 3 1831 
Parous Anderson Born Sept. the 29 1833 
Gerard P Anderson Dec the 5 1835 
Henerta Anderson Born Oct the 22 1838
Alla H. Anderson Died Nov the 28 1838 
aged 12 years fifteen days
Let us so number our Days that we may aply [apply] our hearts unto wisdom Zopher D Pasco preached 
Norman Anderson Born Oct 27, 1789 
Experience Anderson Born July [?] 1798. 
Norman and Experience Married Sep 1 1817 
Sarah Anderson Born Jan the 11 1841 and Departed this life Sept 16 1841 age 8 months and four days  
John Cook Departed this Life May the 17 1836 aged Seventy four years and four Days Peas to his [illegible, mains?] 
Zophar D Pasco
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State of New York 
County of Tompkins } SS. Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County, Lydia Anderson of Enfield in said County aged eighty one years, after being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith, that she is the identical person, who made application for a pension from said County as the widow of John Anderson late a soldier in the war of the Revolution, this deponent deposeth and saith, that before her marriage to the said John Anderson & Soon after the close of the war of the Revolution and as early as seventeen hundred and eighty seven, she was informed by her late husband the said John Anderson, that he had served in the standing army through the war of the Revolution, that he belonged to the New York Line, and that her late husband the said John Anderson informed her at her first acquaintance also that he had been a during the War’s man; that he had served to the close of the war of the Revolution; and that he was entitled to a bounty lot of land in the military tract in the Western part of the State of New York , that at the date of all of this first knowledge, as early as Seventeen hundred and eighty seven of her late husbands Revolutionary service & of his being entitled to bounty land and for years after his marriage to the said John Anderson, the bounty lot of land was considered to be of little value, and located at most out of the world; this deponent and her late husband, at that time residing in Salisbury Connecticut, that owing to the almost valueless expectation of the land, it was not attended to and little or no attention paid to it; that her late husband died in 1807, eighteen hundred and Seven Western New York the being almost an entire wilderness, nothing had been done relating to the securing of the said bounty lot of land, but that this deponents husband the said John Anderson, was the identical person who drew for his revolutionary services a bounty lot of land in the town of Hector in said County 
[signed] Lydia Anderson  X her mark
Subscribed and sworn before me this 21th day of October 1844 
[signed] Jonathan Sheffield Justice Peace 
I certify that the above named Lydia Anderson is a respectable person - entitled to full credit in her deposition above 
[signed] Jonathan Sheffield Justice Peace 

State of New York 
County of Tompkins } SS.  Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County Ezra Cram of Danby in said County, aged Seventy eight years after being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith that when a boy he was personally acquainted with
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said John Anderson was the identical person and Soldier who served as a War’s man in the New York Line in the War of the Revolution; that he was the identical person and Soldier who drew a bounty lot of land in the Military tract in the State of New York, as a reward for his revolutionary services, all of these facts were known to this deponent at his first acquaintance at the close of the war of the Revolution; that this deponent having been acquainted for more than sixty years with the said widow Lydia Anderson, deposeth and saith, that he has full confidence in the truth of the annexed deposition executed by her; that she is fully to be believed, and that she is the widow of the identical John Anderson who drew a lot of land as bounty
[signed] Ezra Cram
Sworn and subscribed before me this 21st day of October 1844 
[signed] Harvey D Miller Justice of the Peace 
I certify that the above named and within named Ezra Cram is a respectable person entitled to full credit & belief. 
[signed] Harvey D Miller Justice of the Peace 

State of New York 
County of Tompkins Ss. Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County, Norman Anderson of Enfield in said County aged fifty five years the present month, after being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith, that the attached old original family record, is the true record of the age of this deponent; that the said record has been in this deponents possession, made by him & been used as the true record of his age more than twenty years; that this deponent was a bound apprentice, that in his indentures his age is stated to be the same as in the attached family record, that this deponent enlisted in 1812, eighteen hundred and twelve in the late War in the third New York Regiment or 3d Regt of Artillery under Col [name illegible]  that his age was then given in, as can no doubt be seen in the war office the same as stated in the said family record, that this deponent from his first recollection deposeth and saith, that he learned, understood and believed, from his father John Anderson, the late husband of Lydia Anderson who made application for a pension from said County that he had served as a War's man in the war of the Revelation in the New York line, and that his said father the said John Anderson then informed him, that his bounty lot of land was located in the western part of New York, that he drew said lot of land for his Revolutionary Services; of the fact of his said father John Anderson having drawn a bounty lot of land, it was of publick notoriety at the first recollection of this deponent and of frequent conversation- 
[signed] Norman Anderson
Subscribed and sworn before me this 21st day of October 1844 
[signed] Jonathan Sheffield Justice Peace 
I certify that the above named Norman Anderson is a highly respectable person- 
[signed] Jonathan Sheffield Justice Peace
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Arad Joy   Ovid

[the following address is crossed out]
John W. Quigg Esquire
Ithica
Tompkins Co New York
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State of Connecticut County of Litchfield
Personally appeared before me Donald J. Warner a Justice of the Peace in & for said County of Hannah Saunders of Salisbury in said County & State aged seventy seven 77 years & upwards who on being duly sworn according to law doth depose & say. That Lydia Anderson of the of the town of Enfield in the County of Tompkins & State of New York and who has made application for a pension as the widow of John Anderson who during the war of the revolution was a soldier in said war and who served in the New York line as a Soldier and who drew a lot of land for his services in said war is the identical widow of the said John Anderson, and that the said Lydia Anderson is this deponent's sister, and that the said John Anderson married my sister the said Lydia Anderson the widow who is now applying for a pension as the widow of John Anderson (the Soldier in the New York line and who drew a lot of land for his said services in the year about 1785 one thousand seven hundred and Eighty five and that the said John Anderson the soldier aforesaid died in the year 1807 and he left my sister the said Lydia Anderson who is now applying for a pension as his widow, him surviving and that she still remains a widow & that the said land was granted to said John Anderson for his services in the State of New York 
[signed] Hannah Saunders
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 24th day of June, 1845 
Donald Warner Justice of the Peace --- I certify that the above statements made upon oath by the above named Hannah Saunders are entitled to full credit and belief and that she is a respectable person 
[signed] Donald Warner Justice [page corner torn]
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Rcd on of
Lydia Anderson.

Hon, J L Edwards
Coms, of Pensions
Washington
DC
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Ovid N.Y. April 3d 47 
Dear Sir
I beg leave to speak of the case of Lydia Anderson of N. York under law of 1838. I am now informed that her late husband was a foreigner, probably an Irishman, this fact may not have been mentioned, if I mistake not, it has been mentioned that he deserted from the British Army, from his having been a foreigner, you may perhaps find the entry of his enlistment in Col Lambs Artillery & determine from it, as to his being the late husband of the said applicant- 
Respectfully 
Your Obt Sevt 
Arad Joy


Hon J. L. Edwards 
Comr of Pensions
Washington 
D C
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Lydia Anderson

pension

Norman Anderson
her son & heir


Representative letter
Atty
Washington
D C
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the affidavit of Norman Anderson the Son & only heir of Lydia Anderson who was the widow of John Anderson a Revolutionary soldier, & who being first duly sworn states, that he is now over sixty one years of age, he having been from Oct 27/89 - that he was himself married in 1817 - that he has often heard his father John Anderson say that he was in service a private in Col Lambs Regiment of artillery of the New York line that he always said be served to the end of the war - that his father drew a lot of land in the Town of Hector in the State of New York for his services in the Revolution = that always understood from both his father & mother that they made a runaway match, & were married in the year 1786 - that they went from Salisbury Connecticut the then residence of his mother to the Town of North East
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in Columbia County New York - that his mothers maiden name was Lydia Bignell - that his father & mother always lived together as man wife  & he never heard it doubted that they ever lawfully married as aforesaid - that he has after heard his father & mother mention the name of the Justice who married them, but the name he does not now remember but he thinks it was Lawrence - that his mother applied for a pension some few years since, but it was not then allowed - that his father died in the year 1807 when this affiant was about 18 years of age, but that he recollects the statements made by his father distinctly as above mentioned - that his mother Lydia Anderson died about the 26th March 1847 - that this affiant respectfully asks that the papers heretofore filed in the case of his mother Lydia Anderson
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deceased may be reexamined, and that whatever is due for the services of his father which his mother did not receive may be awarded to him, & a certificate or warrant for the same may be delivered to Mr Vespasian Ellis his (affiants) attorney 
[signed] Norman Anderson
Sworn to and Subscribed this 6th day of December 1850 before me a Justice of the peace, and certify that Mr Norman Anderson is a man worthy of confidence & his statements are entitled to credit.
[signed] Saml Crittenden Jr.  J. P
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State of New-York. 
County and Tompkins County Clerk's Office } ss.  I, HORACE MACK, Clerk of said County, and also Clerk of the Courts in and for said County, do hereby certify that Saml Crittenden Jr. Esquire, before whom the preceding declaration was subscribed and sworn, and whose name appears to the Jurat thereto, was at the date of the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly elected, sworn, and authorized to act as such, and to take the same; and further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such Justice and verily believe that the signature to the preceding Jurat is genuine. 
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the seal of the said , County and Courts, at Ithaca this sixth day of December 1850 
[signed] H Mack  Clerk.
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State of New York 
Tompkins County 
Surrogates Court } ss:  I, Alfred Wells, County Judge of said County of Tompkins, and ex officio Surrogate of said County do hereby certify, that at a Surrogates Court held in & for said County at Ithaca on the 26th day of November A.D. 1850, satisfactory evidence was produced before said Court, that Lydia Anderson late of the Town of Enfield in said County, died on or about the 26th day of March A.D. 1847. & that the said Lydia Andreson left, her surviving, Norman Andreson of said Town of Enfield, her only child, heir at law, & next of kin 
In Testimony whereof I have caused the seal of said Surrogates Court to be hereunto affixed.- Witness, Alfred Wells, County Judge of said County of Tompkins at Ithaca this 26th day of November A.D. 1854 
[signed] Alfred Wells 
County Judge
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54   No 37- 
Pension Office 
Jany 10. 1852 
Commissioner of Pensions 
Report in the case of Lydia Anderson: Act 7th June 1832 appeal of V. Ellis Esqr 

See letter to Court of Pension March 25 1852



HbT
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Pension Office 
January 10th 1852. 
Sir,
I have the honor herewith to transmit the papers relating to the case of Lydia Anderson deceased on which Mr V. Ellis appeals 
In her first declaration she claimed that her husband John Anderson served during the war in a New York regiment, probably Van Schaick's or Morgans and received Bounty Land. No such man served either through the war or for any period in Van Schaick's Regiment nor was there such a regular regiment belonging to that State of Morgan's. Nor, though she was required to do so, could she shew what had become of the bounty land received by her husband. There is not a single witness who knows any thing of his service. It was subsequently found, however, that one of that name served in Lamb's Artillery under Captain Moody and the Claimant immediately seized upon that service and attempted to appropriate it. But still she adduces one evidence to jus [continued on next page - justify]
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[Justify] tify this charge of position or to connect her husband with that service. Upon this plain Statement of the case it would require but little knowledge of the rules of this office of the laws of evidence in general to shew how little it had to stand upon.
We are, however, in this instance unable to prove the negative, for the John Anderson who served in Moody's Company of Lamb's Artillery was a pensioner under the Act of 1818, and subsequently under that of 1832, and since his death his widow Sarah Anderson has been placed on the pension roll, as may be seen by reference to her papers herewith transmitted 
Very Respectfully 
Your Obt Servt 
[signed] J E Heath 
Commissioner of Pensions Hon. 

Honl. A. H. H. Stuart 
Secretary of the Interior.
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To A H H Stuart Esq 
Secretary Interior 
Sir,
On reading the foregoing report & examining the papers of Sarah Anderson (never seen by me until this day) I am decidedly of the opinion that I have been most outrageously imposed upon & I have to request that the case may be rejected & the parties prosecuted.
[signed] V Ellis 
24 March 52
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[Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 8, 1873. , crossed out]
[stamped] REJECTED

Lydia Anderson 
P.O. John 
Service:: Fraudulent claim as appears by Letters within 
Enlisted:  , 18 
Discharged:  , 18
Application filed:  , 18
Alleges: 
Re-enlisted: 
Attorney: 
P.O.
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9.100
Sydia [sic] Anderson
NY
Arad Joy, April 22/ '47
let to Arad Joy July 11 1843
let to Arad Joy Sep. 12 1843
let to Arad Joy July 6, '44
let to same March 24 '45
Act [day?] July 1838
let to same Augt 16 45  
Hon J DeWitt 14th May 46

No 9110
Lydia Anderson
NY
[REMAINDER TOO DARK TO READ CLEARLY, BUT APPEARS TO BE SAME INFORMATION RE-WRITTEN ON ABOVE PIECE OF PAPER]
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Dec 9, 1850
Norman Anderson
Son of
Lydia Anderson
widow of 
John Anderson
Entd
Referred to Capt. Triplett
Decr. 9, 1850

Vespasian Ellis Atty
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Refd to the Comr of Pensions for a Report
Dept Into
Decr 30 /51
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Lydia Anderson wid John for Rev Pension act 1838 
N York suspended file 

[illegible, Proper?]
J.P.M.
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13 Mar 1848
Reop 
Lydia Anderson 
D C.

Hon W. T. Lawrence 
H R
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Lidia [Lydia] Anderson widow of John Anderson wishes to obtain a pension - Her husband served through the revolutionary war and died in 1807 - He drew Lot No 38 in Hector as hers was a runaway match the cannot obtain any other evidence of their marriage than the fact of their living together as man and wife and being accredited or known as such 
request the Office not to pay a Mr Philips who formerly had an authority to act for her but who has never made any return or report of his action 
[signed] William T Lawrence  MC
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STATE OF NEW YORK. 
COUNTY OF TIOGA. } ss.  I, David Wallis, Clerk of the said County of TIOGA, certify that Andrew H. Calhoun whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or acknowledgement of the annexed instrument, and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgement, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, dwelling in the said County, commissioned and sworn, and duly autorized to take the same. And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such Justice and verily believe the signature to the said certificate is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said County, the 16 day of October 1843 
D Wallis CLERK.
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State of N. York 
County of Tioga } SS.  Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace Chas Pumpelly of Owego in said County & State of New York aged sixty four years after being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he was personally acquainted with John Anderson late a soldier in the war of the Revolution and his present widow Lydia Anderson more than Fifty Years since say Fifty Five years since that this deponent can recollect of the aforesaid parties John Anderson & Lydia Anderson living together as husband and wife as early as Seventeen hundred & Ninety can recollect of their having as the legal fruits of their Marraige a son (Norman Anderson) born in the year Seventeen hundred & Ninety that the said Lydia Anderson who is applying for a pension as the Widow of John Anderson the late soldier of the war of the Revolution as early as Seventeen hundred & Ninety that she is the identical Widow of the identical Soldier John Anderson who this deponent has understood & believes drew a lot of land in the Town of Hector in said County of Tompkins for his Revolutionary Services 
[signed] Charles Pumpelly
Sworn & Subscribed before me this 16 day of October 1843 
[signed] Andrew H. Calhoun J.P. 
[I c]ertify that the above named Charles Pumpelly is a highly respectable person 
[signed] Andrew H. Calhoun J.P
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John Andersen [Anderson] enlisted in Capt Moodey Company August 18th 1780 to take the place of James Masen 
from J De Mott


Hon J DeMott
ltr
May 6. ‘46
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One of the witnesses Hon Amasa Dana is an Ex member of Congress - Arthur S. Johnson is one of the Judges of the Court of Tompkins Co. Caleb B Drake is attorney 

3 Such witnesses will no doubt remove all objection as to the Marriage of Lydia Anderson, law of 1838
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State of New York 
Tompkins County } ss  On this 28th day of April 1846 personally appeared before the subscriber a Judge of the County Court in and for said county Caleb B Drake of Ithaca Tompkins County aged Fifty Nine years who on being duly sworn according to law doth depose and saith that he is acquainted with Norman Anderson whose mother Lydia Anderson is applying for a pension that is due her for the service of her Husband John Anderson in the war of the Revolution and this deponent has been acquainted with the said Norman Anderson for the term of Twenty five years and rising and that in his opinion he is over fifty six years of age 
[signed] Caleb B Drake 
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 28th day of April 1846 
[signed] Anton S. Johnson Judge Tompkins County County Counsellor TC

State of New York 
Tompkins County Clerks Office } ss   I Ezra Weaver, Deputy Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Arthur S Johnson Esquire whose name is subscribed to the Jurat to the preceeding & before whom the same was subscribed & sworn was at the date of the same a Judge of the County Courts &c in & for said county commissioned & sworn & duly authorized to act as such & to take the same and further that I am well acquainted with his hand writing & verily believe his signature to the foregoing Jurat is genuine 
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of the said county at Ithaca this 28th day of April A.D. 1846 
[signed] Ezra Weaver  Deputy Clerk
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State of New York
Tompkins County ss. Amasa Dana of Ithaca in the said County being duly sworn says that he is fifty three years of age, that he is acquainted with Norman Anderson whose mother Lydia Anderson is applying for a pension for the services of her husband John Anderson in the war of the revolution. this deponent has been acquainted with the said Norman Anderson for at least thirty six years last past and this deponent is confident that he is over fifty six years of age
[signed] Amasa Dana
Sworn & Subscribed this 28th day of April 1846 before me 
[signed] Caleb B Drake J. P.
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State of New York 
County of Tompkins } ss. On this 28th day of April 1846 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Arthur S Johnson of Ithaca County of Tompkins aged fifty two years who on being duly sworn according to law doth depose and saith that he is acquainted with Norman Anderson whose mother Lydia Anderson is applying for a pension that is due her for the services of her husband John Anderson in the war of the Revolution and that this deponent has been acquainted with the said Norman Anderson for the total of Twenty Five years and rising and that in his opinion he is over fifty six years of age 
[signed] Arthur S. Johnson
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 28th day of April 1846 
[signed] Caleb B Drake J.P 

State of New York
Tompkins County Clerks Office } ss  I Ezra Weaver Deputy Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Caleb B Drake Esquire whose name is subscribed to the Jurat & before whom the same was suscribed & sworn was at the date of the same an acting Justice of the Peace in & for the said county commissioned & sworn & duly authorized to act as such & to take the same and further that I am well acquainted with [his] handwriting & verily believe his signature thereto is genuine 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of the said county at Ithaca this 28th day of April A.D. 1846 
[signed] Ezra Weaver Dep Clerk
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State of New York 
Secretary's Office }  I certify that it appears by the Balloting Book of the Commissioners of the Land Office of this State in this office, that John Anderson was a Matross in Col. John Lambs Regiment of Artillery in the revolutionary war , and that 500 acres of Land were granted to the said John Anderson as bounty Land by Letters patent under the Great Seal of this State bearing date the 9th day of July 1790. The date of the Enlistment of said Anderson is not found in this office; but it appears by an original list of the said Regiment on file certified by Col. John Lamb that John Anderson was a Matross in Captain Moodies Company. The certificate to the said List is in the words following: “I certify the above to be a true return of the men enlisted for the War and were discharged from the Regiment of Artillery under my command at the conclusion thereof New York April 28. 1785. John Lamb Late Col 2d Regt Artillery.”
[signed] Archd Campbell Dep. Sec. of State 
Albany Nov 5th 1845. 

fees 50 cents Paid by T. Joy
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STATE OF CONNECTICUT,
Litchfield County } ss. Litchfield
I Douglas Watson Assistant Clerk of the County Court of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Donald J Warner Esq of Salisbury in said County is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and by Law authorized to administer OATHS and to take the acknowledgment of DEEDS And that his commission was dated on the 11th day of June A. D., 1845 and will expire on the 20th day of June, A. D. 1846 & I further certify that said Justice is personally known to me & that his signatures to the accompanying instrument are genuine 
Given under my hand and the Seal of said Court this 26 day of June A. D. 1845 
[signed] Douglas Watson   Assistant Clerk
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State of New York 
County of [Tioga, crossed out] Tompkins } ss  Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in & for said County William Adams of Danby in said County aged 63 sixty three when on being first duly sworn deposeth & saith that from his earliest recollection & for fifty five years last past he has been well acquainted with widow Lydia Anderson of Enfield Tompkins County New York, who is applying for a pension as the widow of John Anderson, whom this deponent has always heard & believed was a revolutionary soldier  that at the earliest recollection of this deponent & for the space of fifty five years last past, the aforesaid John Anderson & his then wife the present widow Lydia Anderson lived together as husband & wife & this deponent has no doubt that they were husband & wife before the year 1790 that this deponent was acquainted when a small boy with their son Norman Anderson one of the children of the fruit of their marriage, and that this deponent can well recollect of their having children as the fruit of their marriage before the year Seventeen hundred & ninety, all of which facts relate exclusively to the aforesaid John Anderson & his then wife the present widow Lydia Anderson that this deponent understood & believed & now believes the aforesaid John Anderson drew bounty land as a proof of his Revolutionary services & that the present applicant for a pension, viz, the widow Lydia Anderson is the identical person & widow of the aforesaid John Anderson, & that the aforesaid John Anderson died about the year 1807 & that the widow Lydia Anderson above named is still his widow having never since his death married 
[signed] William Adams
Subscribed & Sworn before me this 10 day of May 1843 
[signed] C C Howell Justice of the Peace 
I certify that the above named William Adams is a highly respectable man, a man of first standing & is fully to be believed in his deposition.
[signed] C C Howell Justice of the peace
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Answer to this from Washington to be returned to Arad Joy Ovid
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State of New York 
Tompkins County ss.  I Samuel Crittenden Jr. Deputy Clerk of the said County of Tompkins & of the County Courts in & for said County do hereby certify that Henry S. Walbridge Esq before whom the annexed & preceding Declaration of Lydia Anderson and affidavit of Norman Anderson purport to have been subscribed & sworn & whose name is subscribed to several Jurats thereto & certificates thereunder written, was at the date thereof & still is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County, commissioned & sworn & duly authorized by law as such. And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Judge & that his signatures to said several Jurats & certificate are genuine - And I further certify that James Tripp Esq before whom the annexed affidavit of Maheteble Ryant purports to have been subscribed & sworn & whose name is subscribed to the Jurat thereto & to the certificate thereunder written was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly elected, qualified & sworn and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice & that his signature to said Jurat & certificate is genuine – 
And I further certify that Charles C. Howell Esq before whom the annexed & preceding affidavit of William Adams purports to have been subscribed & Sworn & whose name is subscribed to the Jurat thereto & to the Certificate thereunder written was at the date thereof a Justice of the peace in & for said County Commissioned & sworn & duly authorized by law as such. And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and that his signature to said Jurat & certificate is genuine – 
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal at Ithaca this 13th day of May in the Year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred & forty three –
[signed] Samuel Crittenden Jr.  Deputy Clerk Tomp Co 

ans to the above paper to be sent to Arad Joy Ovid Seneca Co
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State of New York
County of Tompkins } ss.  Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in & for said county Mahetable Ryant of Danby in said County aged Eighty Two years, when on first being duly sworn according to law deposeth & saith that she was born & brought up in the neighborhood and was well acquainted fifty five years since with the present Widow Lydia Anderson of Enfield in said County & who is applying for a pension as the widow of John Anderson, and that she is the identical widow of John Anderson who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution & who drew a lot of bounty land in Hector in said county of Tompkins as a proof of his services in the war of the Revolution & as a reward for his services in said war, that this deponent can well recollect that as early as 1790 Seventeen hundred and ninety, that the aforesaid John Anderson & the aforesaid present widow Lydia Anderson above named lived together as husband and wife, that they thus lived together as husband & wife from the earliest period of this deponent and that they had children as the fruit of such marriage before the year seventeen hundred and ninety & that their son now living Norman Anderson, this deponent has known from a child, and for fifty years and upwards, that their son aforesaid vis Norman Anderson must be about the age of fifty five years; this deponents acquaintance with the said John Anderson & his wife Lydia Anderson has continued up from before the year seventeen hundred and ninety to the present date & till the death of the said John Anderson which took place about the year 1807 - that the aforesaid husband & wife lived together as husband & wife till the death of the said John Anderson and that the present applicant for a widows pension is the identical widow of the aforesaid John Anderson and that she is aged seventy nine or eighty years & that she has not since married but remains the widow of the aforesaid John Anderson
[signed] Mehetable Ryant  + her mark
Subscribed & sworn before me this 10th day of May 1843
[signed] James Tripp Justice of the Peace 
I certify that the above named Mahetable Ryant is a respectable person & worthy of full credit 
[signed] James Tripp Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Tompkins County } ss.  I Henry B. Weaver Clerk of the County of Tompkins do hereby certify that Jonathan Sheffield Esquire and Harvey D. Miller Esquire before whom the above declarations were subscribed and sworn and whose names are subscribed to the several Jurats thereto and to the certificates thereon written was at the dates of the same acting Justices of the peace in & for said County Commissioned and sworn & duly authorized to take the same and further that I am well acquainted with their hand writing & verily believe their signatures thereto genuine. 
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County at Ithaca this 22nd day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty four [signed] Henry B. Weaver Clerk
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State of New-York, 
COUNTY OF TOMPKINS. } SS. I, Willet B. Goddard, Clerk of the county of TOMPKINS, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That William Senn whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or acknowledgement of the annexed instrument, and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgement, a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid, dwelling in the said county, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorized to take the same. And further, that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such Justice- --- and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate of proof or acknowledgement is genuine. 
IN TESTMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said County, the 1st day of August 1843.
[signed] N. Crittenden Depy. Clerk.

State of New-York, 
COUNTY OF TOMPKINS. } SS. I, Willet B. Goddard, Clerk of the county of TOMPKINS, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That Amos Curry Esq whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or acknowledgement of the annexed instrument, and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgement, a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid, dwelling in the said county, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorized to take the same. And further, that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such Justice- --- and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate of proof or acknowledgement is genuine. 
IN TESTMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said County, the 1st day of August 1843.
[signed] N. Crittenden Depy. Clerk.
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State of New York 
County of Tompkins } ss  Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in & for said County Doctor Parris A Williams of Enfield in said County aged fifty two years, on being duly sworn according to law, deposeth & saith that he is personally acquainted with Lydia Anderson who is applying for a pension as the widow of John Anderson late a soldier in the war of the revolution & that she is the identical person & widow of the aforesaid soldier John Anderson who served in the war of the Revolution, & drew 500 acres of bounty land on lot No 38 in the town of Hector, that this deponent when a member of the Legislature of the State of New York, Several years since, was employed by the above named widow Lydia Anderson as the widow of the aforesaid John Anderson to investigate her claim to the said lot of land, & that this deponent learned that the land had been awarded to Albert & Tunis Vanderzee, with large quantities of Soldiers rights in the State of New York, by the decision of the Onondaga Commissioners, that the aforesaid Lydia Anderson is the identical widow of John Anderson the soldier who served in the war of the Revolution & to whom was awarded the lot of land above named, & that the aforesaid Lydia Anderson as the legal fruits of her marriage has now living one son, that is two years older than this deponent, & who was born in 1789 and that, that son is the lawful child & heir of the late husband of the said Lydia Anderson, the aforesaid John Anderson & that she is now a widow 
[signed] P. A. Williams
Subscribed & Sworn before me this 31 day of July 1843
before me [signed] Amos Curry Justice of the peace

I certify that the above named Paris A. Williams is a highly respectable person & entitled to full credit in his deposition 
[signed] Amos King Justice of the peace
State of New York 
County of Tompkins } ss  Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in & for said County David Quigs of Ithaca in said county aged Sixty two years & on being duly sworn according to law, deposeth & saith that he is & has long been personally acquainted with Widow Lydia Anderson who is applying for a pension as the widow of John Anderson late a soldier in the war of the Revolution, & that she is the identical widow of the aforesaid John Anderson late a soldier in the war of the Revolution, to whom was granted 500 acres of land on Lot No 38 Hector for his revolutionary services & that the aforesaid John Anderson & his wife Lydia Anderson had as the lawful fruit of their marriage One son who is now living with her, who is aged fifty four years, having been born in 1789, this deponent is intimately acquainted with the family & with the facts here set forth 
[signed] David Quigg
Subscribed & Sworn before me this 31st day of July 1843 
[signed] Wm Linn Justice of the Peace 
I certify that the above named David Quigg is a reputable person & entitled to full credit in his deposition
[signed] Wm Linn JP
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Answer to this to be returned to Arad Joy Ovid N.Y.
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State of Connecticut 
County of Litchfield 
On this the 24 day of June 1845 Personally appeared before me Donald J. Warner a Justice of the peace in and for said County Josiah Woodworth of the town Salisbury in said County and State, aged 77, seventy seven years who on being first duly sworn doth make the following statement upon oath. That he has been acquainted with John Anderson, who was a soldier in the New York line during the war of the revolution and who for his services in the said war drew a lot of land in the State of New York and who married Lydia Bignell now Lydia Anderson who is now applying for a pension that is due her, for his the said John Anderson's services in the war of the Revolution as his widow and who died in the town of Salisbury in the year 1807 and left the said Lydia Anderson as his widow and that he was acquainted with John Anderson the Soldier who served in the New York line for more than sixty years ago, and that the said John Anderson is the identical soldier who for his services in Revolutionary war drew a lot of land in the State of New York & that the said John Anderson is the identical person who married Lydia Bignell now Lydia Anderson who is now applying for a pension due her as widow of the afs Soldier John Anderson and that the said John Anderson died in Salisbury in the County afs in the year 1807, and that the said John Anderson & his wife Lydia lived together [as man &, crossed out] and raised a family of children the oldest of which if living would be about 55 or 58 years old 
[signed] Josiah Woodworth
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 24th day of June 1845.
[signed] Donald, J. Warner Justice of the Peace 
I hereby certify that the above statements made by the above named Josiah Woodworth are entitled to full credit & belief 
[signed] Donald J Warner  J.P.
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LA
State of N York 
County of Tompkins } SS  Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Lydia Anderson of Endfield [Enfield] in said County Aged Eighty Years 80. in November 1843 after being duly sworn deposeth & saith that she is the Widow of John Anderson late a soldier in the war of the Revolution that she is the Widow of the identical soldier John Anderson who belonged to the New York line and who drew lot No 38 in Hector that she was married to the aforesaid John Anderson and had as the fruit of her marraige a son born October 1789 That she has for fifty years been fully apprised of her late husband drawing Bounty land & the identical lot No 38 Hector that her only reason for employing an Agent to investigate the Title & her claim to that Lot was that she well knew that if her said husband had by any pretence sold it he had not received a fair compensation & that it was due to her as his widow to make a claim upon it she therefor employed an agent to attend to it with a hope of realizing some compensation from the occupant provided that she would release her claim to the said Lot 
[signed] Lydia Anderson X her mark
Sworn & subscribed before me this 12th day of October 1843 
[signed] Jonathan Sheffield J. Peace 
I certify that the above named Lydia Anderson is a highly respectable person that she appears to recollect distinctly every fact set forth in her deposition 
[signed] Jonathan Sheffield Justice Peace 
State of New York
County of Tompkins } Ss  Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Ezra Crane of Danby in said County aged Seventy Eight years 78. after being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he was personally acquainted with John Anderson late a soldier in the war of the Revolution & his present widow Lydia Anderson more than Sixty Five years 65 or from his earliest recollections that this deponent can recollect of the aforesaid parties John Anderson & Lydia Anderson living together as husband & wife as early as seventy [sic] hundred & Ninety 1790 can recollect of their having as the legal fruits of their married son named Norman Anderson born as early as the year Seventeen hundred & Ninety That the said Lydia Anderson who was applying for a Pension as the widow of John Anderson is the identical person who was the wife of the aforesaid John Anderson the late soldier of the Revolutionary War as early as the year Seventeen Hundred & Ninety 1790 That she is the identical widow of the identical soldier John Anderson whom this deponent has far understood has drawn a lot of land in the Town of Hector in said County of Tompkins for Revolutionary Services 
[signed] Ezra Crane
Subscribed & Sworn before me this 18th day of October 1843 
[signed] Harvey D Miller Justice of the Peace 
I certify that the above named Ezra Crane is a highly respectable person that full credit should be given to his deposition 
[signed] Harvey D Miller Justice of the Peace
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State of New York 
Tompkins County Clerks office ss  I Norman Crittenden Deputy Clerk of the County of Tompkins do hereby certify that Jonathan Sheffield before whom the preceding affidavit of Lydia Anderson purports to have been made and Harvey D. Miller before whom the preceding affidavit of Ezra Crane purports to have been made were severally acting Justices of the peace in & for said County dwelling in said County commissioned and sworn and duly qualified to act as such and further that I am personally acquainted with each of their hand writings and verily believe their signatures to each of the several affidavits and certificates attached to the same are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County at Ithaca this 18th day of October A D 1843 
[signed] N. Crittenden Dep Clerk
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Mr V, Ellis

Lydia Anderson
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Ithaca NY Nov. 9th 1850 
The Commissioner of Pensions will please point Vespasian Ellis to examine the pension papers filed by my mother Lydia Anderson who was the widow of John Anderson a solder of the N.Y. line & which papers were presented in the year 1843 & rejected about 1846
The said Lydia Anderson died in 1847 and I am her only son & the only son & heir of sd John Anderson 
[signed] Norman Anderson
Witness David Quigg
Mr Anderson lived in Tompkins Co NY Please see cases act 3 Mar 1837 & 3d 1843
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Oct 30 43
[initials]
N.Y.
Addl proof Lydia Anderson


Hon J. L. Edwards 
Comnr of Pensions 
Washington D. C.
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Ovid Oct 25th, 43 
Hon J. L. Edwards 
Dr Sir 
I enclose further proof of the identity & marriage of Lydia Anderson, widow of John Anderson = I have written to Oblong N.Y. adjoining Salisbury Connecticut for a certificate of her marriage, she was there married, but I have been unable to procure and know of any kind - I hope the present proof will be satisfactory 
Respectfully your Obt Servt 
[signed] Arad Joy
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Jul 14 1848.

[postmark Ovid NY  Jul 9]

[illegible]

Magt [Margaret] Albright & Lydia Anderson & [illegible] Han. [Hannah] Mead

Hon J. L. Edwards
Comnr of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
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Ovid July 8th 1845 
Sir
I enclose authority from William Mead one of the two surviving children & Hannah Mead deceased, late a pensioner, asking a review of the case, as to facts in the case I have no knowledge 
Respectfully your Ob 
Arad Joy 
Hon J L Edwards 

Ovid July 8th 1845 
Sir
I enclose proof, such as I suppose you ask & require in the son of Margaret Allbright, Respectfully your Obt 
Arad Joy 
Hon J L Edwards

Ovid July 8th 1845 
Sir 
I enclose further proof & as I presume, and believe, proof fully to sustain the case of Lydia Anderson, you have on file the family record of the age & the eldest son, & you have on file also as I presume his oath as to his age taken 33 years since which is referred to in his affidavit with his family record, which can easily be compared with the record but without either there is ample & sufficient proof of the marriage as early as 86 I think 
Respectfully Your Obs 
Arad Joy
Hon J L Edwards
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Aug. 5 1848.

Addl the case of Lydia Anderson

Mr J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
DC
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[illegible] July 31 1843

Dear Sir
Just [illegible words] the within Paper to Arad Joy of Ovid Seneca Co NY
[initials]
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Lydia Anderson
Pension
Norman Anderson
son & heir

Vespasian Ellis Atty
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Washington Dist. 2/50 
To the Commissioner of Pensions 
Sir
I submit herewith a declaration, signed & sworn to by Norman Anderson of the County of Tompkins, N. Y. who is the Son & only heir of Lydia Anderson decd, who was widow of John Anderson a soldier of the N. York line in the War of the Revolution.
John Anderson served as Matross in Col Lambs Regt of Artillery, N. York line, to the of the war, & recd Bounty land as a “War” soldier, from the U. States, & also he recd 500 acres of land from N. York, for his Services as a “War” (that is to the end of the War) soldier as aforesaid 
Only one John Anderson is returned as having thus served in the N.Y. line See the Records in room of Wm Gordon Esq of your office. Only one John Anderson
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received Bounty land from the U. States or from N. York for such services. See Records in Mr Gordons room 
John Anderson the soldr died in May 1807 before the pension laws were enacted 
Lydia Anderson, the widow, was married - November 23 1786. & was entitled to the benefit of the acts of 7th July 1838, 3 March 1837- 3d March 1843 & subsequent acts in relation to widows down to her death in March 1847 
Lydia Anderson, applied, through an agent in 1843 for a pension, but in making her declaration, according to a form prepared by the agent, she was made to say (for she did not herself know how the fact was) that her husband served in either - Col Van Schaiks or Col Morgans Regt
In consequence of this misstatement, for which she certainly was not responsible because of her ignorance of the truth of the case, she was denied a pension 
But
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there were facts stated by her, & proved by half a dozen witnesses which ought to have relieved her from the effects of that ill advised statement, touching the person in whose Regiment he served.
This stated by her,& proved beyond all cavil or controversy that her husband was the man who drew a lot of land in the Township of Hector N.Y. for his services and the records in MR Gordons Room show that that man was a soldier in Col Lambs artillery!
Surely the misstatement by her, in regard to a fact, she would not know, ought not to prevail to her prejudice, when the truth is exhibited in another way or made, that is undeniable & which identifies her as the widow of the soldier who drew that lot of land! On this point (his drawing the lot of land in Hector Township) I refer to
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the depositions of Norman Anderson 
Charles Pumpelly 
Mehetable Ryant
 William Adams 
Dr Parris A Williams 
Josiah Woodworth &
Ezra Crane 
This submitted, that the proof of identity is thus clearly made out 
As to the Marriage of Mrs. Lydia Anderson I refer to the declaration, and also to the original declaration or affidavit of Norman Anderson (certified by Judge Walbridge to be entitled to full credit) & to the following witnesses 
Charles Pumpelly, who know the parties since 1790 as man & wife 
Mehitable Ryant who be the parties as man & wife since 1790 
William Adams, who proves similar knowledge 
Hannah Saunders the sister of Lydia Anderson, the widow & who swears to the marriage "about 1785” & that Anderson died in 1807. This witness 
(see p. 5.)
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page 5
evidently gives her deposition without consent [?] or contact with Mrs Anderson when in another state, & from memory says “about 1785” when the marriage was in 1786. If she had been under any sort of influence or drilling, she would have fixed the precise period of the marriage 
Josiah Woodworth, knew the parties 40 years ago & that they lived as man & wife & raised a family speaks with full knowledge 
Ezra Crane States almost the same facts.
Norman Anderson in his deposition, provides the leaves of a bible containing the family record showing that he was born October 27th 1789, so that this confirms conclusively the family marriage, about the time it is alleged to have been celebrated by the parties, He also knows that he
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himself married in 1807. He also swears that he was himself an enlisted soldier in 1812 in 3d Regt of Artillery under Col McComb & then gave in his age. This reference will sustain his age. Several other persons who have known Norman Anderson (the son) for 20 to 30 years show his of age to be about what he says it is. The proof on this point is full. His submitted therefore that Lydia Andersons marriage before 1790 is fully proved 
Lydia Anderson died 26 March 1847. See the declaration of Norman Anderson now filed, together with proof of his mothers death & that he is the only son surviving accompanying the declaration 
I now ask that the case of Mrs Lydia Anderson, widow,
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be reexamined, with the documents herewith filed, and that her son be allowed the amount which was due her at her death 
The original papers filed under act 7 July 1838, No. 9.100, amongst the widows rejected cases.
Respectfully submitted 
[signed] Vespasian Ellis 
Atty of Norman Anderson, son of Lydia Anderson wid of John Anderson New York line.
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Department of the Interior 
March 25, 1852 
Sir- 
I herewith return the papers relating to the case of Lydia Anderson, decd from your decision in which V. Ellis Esq. took an appeal – 
Upon reading your report and examining the evidence filed by Sarah Anderson Mr. Ellis expresses an opinion that he has been "outrageously imposed upon and requests that the case may be rejected and the parties prosecuted" 
A decision by me upon the merits of the claim would therefore seem to be unnecessary – 
I am, Sir,
Respectfully
Your obt. servt,
[signed] Alex H. H. Stuart 

James E. Heath Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
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Washington 30th dec 1851 
To the Secretary of the Interior.
Sir,
I ask an appeal from the decision of the Commissioner of Pensions in the claim of Lydia Anderson widow of John Anderson N York roll.
very respectfully 
your ob servt 
Vespasian Ellis