Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25809, Jesse Humaston, Conn.
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Conn.   Humaston, Jesse                                                        Number: W.25809
             Humaston, Abi
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Order to Pay, 30 Sept. 1837
                                                                 Connecticut No. 28,383

Jesse Humaston of Plymouth in the State of Connecticut who was a private in the Corps commanded by Captain Porter of the Regt. commanded by _____ in the Connecticut Line for 8 months.

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 26 dollars 66 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued on the 19th day of May 1834
and
Chs. Butler, Plymouth, Conn.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1834 ------------  79.98
Semi-annual allowance ending 4th Sept ----- 13.33
                                                                          $93.31

Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by R. Burdine, Clerk
Book E2  Vol. __
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Connecticut 6184

Abi Humaston
Widow of Jesse Humaston, who was a Private in the Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of Sept. 1844 and sent to Elisha Johnson, Plymouth, Connt.


Rep'd 
Settled to Pd Agt Jan '47
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30,873

Jesse Humaston

Admit as a private, 8 months

$26.66
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
State of Connecticut
County of Litchfield

On this 3rd day of May 1834, personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the District of Plymouth in said Litchfield County held in Plymouth in said County now sitting, Jesse Humaston, a resident of said Plymouth, aged eighty-four years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That some time in the month of April 1775 as near as he can recollect, he enlisted for a time of eight months, as a private soldier, into a company of State troops of the State of Connecticut, commanded by Capt. Phinehas Porter, first Lieut. Matthews, 2nd Lieut. Isaac Bronson, and Ensign David Smith. That he entered the service as he thinks some time in the said month of April 1775 in the same company commanded by the same officers, but the names of the field officers he cannot remember except, he is confident he served under (David) Wooster, either as General or Colonel. He thinks he left the service in the Month of December 1775, but cannot, from age and loss of memory, state the day of the month, nor with absolute certainty, the month when he entered or left the service.; but is very confident he served as a private eight months in the year 1775. He was born in Stratford, of the then town of Waterbury in New Haven County, and State of Connecticut, which is now the Town of Plymouth in Litchfield County, where he lived at the time he entered the service, and ever since has continued to, and still does reside. He was born on the 15th day of December 1749, and his age is recorded in the town records of the said town of Waterbury.
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That he marched from Waterbury in the State of Connecticut, when he first entered the service, to Fairfield in the same state, and continued there for about three weeks, then marched to Harlem in the State of New York, remained there about the same time, then marched to the City of N. York, staid (sic) there about the same time, returned to Harlem, soon passed over Long Island Town to the canton (?) of Long Island and onto Shelter Island and Gardner's Island in the State of N. York, and assisted in bringing off cattle and sheep from those Islands. After staying three or four weeks on these Islands, he returned to Harlem and soon sailed up the North River to Albany in the State of N. York, staid (sic) there a short time, and soon marched to Ticonderoga and Crown Point, on the west side of Lake Champlain, and from there to St. John's (phrase crossed out and replaced with) Fort St. John in Canada on the same Lake, and was engaged in the attack on, and capture of that fort, and from there marched to Laprairie (sic), opposite Montreal in Canada, and passed over to Montreal, and entered that place with the American troops, when it was taken possession of by them. The term of service, eight months, for which he enlisted having expired, he was dismissed and left the service and returned to his place of residence in Connecticut. He received no written discharge. He was engaged in no battle except the storming and taking of Fort St. John, as stated above. He does not recollect that he served with any Continental or militia regiment or company, and cannot remember the names of the regular officers under whom he served.
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Mr. Daniel Burham D.D. and Colo. Micah Blakeslee, both of said Plymouth

He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid

                                         Jesse Humaston

We, Daniel Burham, a Clergyman residing in the town of Plymouth aforesaid and Micah Blakeslee residing in the same town, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jesse Humaston, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be eighty-four years of age, that he maintains (?) a fair character for veracity and is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
                                                                                         Daniel Burham
                                                                                          Micah Blakeslee   

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after an investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogation prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them, that Daniel Burham, who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman, resident in the town of Plymouth aforesaid, and that Micah Blakeslee, who has signed the same, is a resident in the same town, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
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I, Charles Butler, Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Plymouth in Litchfield County, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the origins of proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jesse Humaston for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 3rd day of May 1834.
                                                                                     Charles Butler, Clerk
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Abi Humaston
Con.

Act 7 July '38

[illegible]
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State of Connecticut
County of Litchfield

On this 4th (? - crossed out) 10th day of (September - crossed out) February A.D. 1834 (? - crossed out) 1841, personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate for the District of Plymouth, in the County aforesaid, Abi Humaston, a resident of Plymouth in the County and State aforesaid, aged eighty-one years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed July 7th 1838, entitled "An Act granting half-pay and pensions to certain widows," that she is the widow of Jesse Humaston, who was a private soldier in the Army of the Revolution, and at his death was a pensioner under the Act of Congress of 1832 on the Connecticut agency, and for proof and length of his service, she refers the department to his declaration, made, as she thinks, in 1834 to prove his pension.

She further declares that she was married to the said Jesse Humaston on the second day of October in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-five, and that her husband, the said Jesse Humaston, died on the twenty-first day of February 1837, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety-four, viz. at the time above stated, that she has no record written (?) of her marriage, other than the family record.

Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above written before the said Court of Probate
                                                                Abi Humaston
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And (?) on the same day and year (unknown word) above named before the same Court of Probate          Bennet Humaston, a resident of said Plymouth in said State of Connecticut, who being first duly sworn according to law, produced and brought into the Court a family Record of the family of Jesse Humaston, late of said Plymouth deceased, who while living was a Revolutionary pensioner from which family Record, the following is a true extract: "       second seventeen hundred and eighty-five" and that the above is a true copy of the record with the      of the    which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows           and the said Bennet Humaston   made oath that the said record is the true family record of the family of the said Jesse Humaston, and has been known to be such by the deponent for more than fifteen years....and that the above named applicant is the person who was married to said Jesse Humaston and is now his widow.

And the said deponent doth also depose and say that he was present at the death of the said Jesse Humaston, and that he died at said Plymouth on the 21st day of February 1837, and that the said Abi Humaston has not been married since, but still remains the widow of the said Jesse.

Sworn and subscribed the day and year above written before said Court of Probate.

Bennet Humaston
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And the said Court of Probate hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant is the widow of Jesse Humaston, deceased, who, while living, was a Revolutionary pensioner, as before stated, and that she was married to him on the second day of October A.D. 1785, and that he died on the 21st day of February 1837, and that the said Abi has not been married since the death of said Jesse, but still remains his widow.

I, Egbert T. Butler, Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Plymouth, in hte County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Abi Humaston  for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and    of office of said Plymouth this 10th day of February A.D. 1841.
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V.L.M. [top left-hand corner]
Rev. War Section.
February 3, 1915.
Mrs. M. E. Crawford,
Box 422, Pontiac,
Madam:-  Illin ois. [Illinois]
In addition to the military history of Jesse
Humaston or Humastun, W. F. 25,809 Rev. War, you are furnished
the following data as to his family.
Sidney | born | April 22, 1786.
Caleb | " | April 14, 1788.
Bennet | " | February 15, 1790.
Morris | " | December 4, 1792.
Bennet | " | August 7, 1795.
Morris | " | April 5, 1797.
Bennet | [crossed out] | June 29, 1794.
Morris | [crossed out] | July 7, 1794.
Morris | " | May 7, 1828.
Caleb | " | July 29, 1839.
Very respectfully,
[signature] GM Seltzzaber {?}
Commissioner.
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6163
Connecticut
Abi Humaston [handwritten]widow of [printed] Jesse Humaston, [handwritten] 
who was a pensioner under the Act  of [printed] June 4th 1832 [handwritten] and who died on the 21st of February 1837. [Handwritten] 

of [printed] Litchfield [handwritten] in the state of [printed] Connecticut [handwritten] who was a [printed] private [handwritten]in the [printed] Comp any [handwritten] commanded by Captain [printed] Porter][handwritten] of the [printed] Regt [handwritten] commanded by [printed] Col.___________ [handwritten] in the [printed] Connecticut [ handwritten] line for [printed] 8  Months [handwritten]

[Act July 7,}
{  1838       

Inscribed on the roll of [printed]] Connecticut [handwritten] at the rate of [printed] 26 [handwritten Dollars [printed] 66 cents per annum to commence on the [printed] 22nd of Febry:  [handwritten]

Certificate of Pension issued the [printed] 29 [handwritten] day of [printed] April 1841 [handwritten] and [printed] Sent to Calvin Butler  Plymouth , Conn. [handwritten]

Arrears to the 4th of [printed] March 1841 $107.35 [handwritten]
Semi-annual allowance ending [printed]   $107.35 [handwritten]

Act July 7, [printed]
Recorded by [printed] W.W. Tyler [handwritten] Clerk, Book [printed] A [handwritten]  vol. [printed] 1[handwritten]  Page 1[illegible]2
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[left side]
 C.  163
Connecticut
Abi Humaston [handwritten]

widow of [printed] [Jesse handwritten]
who was a pensioner under the Act of [printed] 1832 [handwritten] and who died on the [printed] 21 Feb 1837[handwritten] of [printed] Litchfield [handwritten] in the State of [printed] Connecticut [handwritten] who was a [printed]private [handwritten] in the [printed] Company [handwritten] commanded by Captain Porter _______ of the Reg___ [printed] commanded by the  [printed] Conn____ [handwritten] line for [printed] 8 months [handwritten]]
Inscribed on the Roll of [printed] Connecticut [handwritten] at the rate of [printed] 26. [handwritten] Dollars [printed ] 66.[handwritten]cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March [printed]& ending 21 Feby 1837.
Certificate of Pension issued the [printed] 25 [handwritten] day of Feby 1843 and [printed] Sent to Henry Fowler, Hartford, Conn [handwritten]
Arrears to the 4th of
Some annual allowance ending[printed]
{Act. July 7, 1838.]  Recorded by [printed] F. S. Evans [handwritten] clerk
Book [printed]  A. [handwritten]   Vol     [illegible] [printed]  Page [printed]
184 [ handwritten]
[right page]    Reparted.  A new certificate was issued in this case under the opinion of the Attorney General of the 2d Sep 1842 which was given in consequence of the resolution of Congress of the Resolution 16 August 1842 . [handwritten]
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Abi Humaston

Con.

Act 7 July    38

$26.66 from ________
4 march to 21 Feby 37
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State of Connecticut
Office of Secretary of State
Hartford Jany 2d 1843

I hereby certify that Calvin Butler whose signature is affixed to the attached paper is a Notary Public as appears from record in this office.


In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said State an officially signed the same.
N. A. Phelps  Secretary of State


 [outline of large seal and ribbon]

[handwritten]
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State of Connecticut, Litchfield County, Plymouth

On this 28th day of December, A.D. 1842, before me, Calvin Butler, a Notary Public, in and for the State of Connecticut, personally appeared Abi Humaston, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on her oath make the following Declaration, in order to obtain arrears of Pension -- That she is the widow of Jesse Humaston, late a resident of Plymouth, Litchfield County, Connecticut, who was a private in the Army of the Revolution, and received a Pension from the United States at the rate of 26.66 dollars per Annum, that he died in said Plymouth on the 22nd day of February 1837.

She further declares that she recieved (sic) a pension as his widow issued in her favor April 29th, 1841, at the rate of 26.66 per annum, commencing on the 22nd day of February 1837, and terminating on the 4th day of March 1841. She now claims the amount which was deducted from her Pension on account of her husband's Pension - viz. - from the 4th day of March 1836 to the 22nd day of February 1837, the day of his death.
Abi Humaston

Sworn and subscribed this 28th day of December, A.D. 1842 before me and I certify that I am fully satisfied with the truth of the foregoing statement.

[handwritten]
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State of Connecticut, County of Litchfield

On this 9th day of Sept. 1844 - personally appeared before me, Elisha Johnson, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Litchfield, Abi Humaston, a resident of Plymouth in said County of Litchfield, aged eighty-five years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3rd March 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War - That she is the widow of Jesse Humaston, who(se) family resided in said Plymouth, that her late husband, the said Jesse Humaston was a private in the Revolutionary Army, that she does not recollect the name of the Regiment in which he served, and that she received under the Act of July 7th, 1838, the annual amount of pension of twenty-six dollars and sixty-six cents. She further declares that she is still a widow.

Abi Humaston

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me and I certify that the above-named declarant is personally known to me.

Elisha Johnson
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STATE  OF  CONNECTICUT}  ss.  Lichfield
  LITCHFIELD COUNTY,      }  [Printed]

I [printed] Geo. C. Woodruff Assistant [handwritten] Clerk of Court of the County and state aforesaid, do hereby certify that [printed] Elisha Johnson Esq is a _____[handwritten] Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and qualified, and by Law authorized to adminster Oaths and to take the [illegible].  And that [printed it  [handwritten] was dated on the[printed] 4th [handwritten] day of [printed]
June [handwritten]A.D. 18 [printed]44 [handwritten] and will expire on the 20th of June, A.D. 18 [printed] 45 and that the signature letter foregoing certificate which purports to be his genuine [handwritten]
Given under my hand and  Seal of said Court this [printed]10th [handwritten] day of [printed] Sept. [handwritten]    A. D. 18 [printed] 44 

George C. Woodruff Assistant Clerk [handwritten]
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V  7690
Con
Suspended
Let to Calvin Butler
March 29  1841




Act. y July '38

[handwritten]
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I  31427 - mass

"  14 706  RJ

[Verticle  Stamp black circle PENSION A   AUG  2 1902  OFFICE] U.  S.] [Printed]

[Verticle Rectangular Black box  four corners  U. S. P. B. centered  [illegible]  & NAVY AUG 41902   FILES]
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Commissioner of Pensions   Washington D. C.

Dear Sir,
Will you kindly send me the record of service, and a copy of the certificate of the of the pensions of Joseph itus of Washington, Connecticut and also of Jesse Humiston of Litchfield, Co. Conn.  Revolutionary Soldiers.
Pensioners 1852 - & Joseph Titus also in 1840.

[Hanwritten]
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Respectully Yours
Bennett H Sutliffe
Plymouth
Connecticut

July 30 1902



[handwritten]
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[stamp pension U. S. office D Jan 20 1915
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one 29 [illegible] [illegible]   [upper right corner written ok Rws
Pension Commissioner
Stmpd  envd retd - 6 Lev.
Please inform me if Captain Thomas Blakeslee first- Capt-of Northbury Conn, who died in 1778 Jun 5 ever drew a pension his commission was spelled Blackley also did Jude Blakeslee who was Ensign and [died crossed out] and his son in law Jesse Humiston who died Feb 21 1837 Please ask if Capt John Prindle of Conn who died 1799 [illegible]


[handwritten]
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received a pension.  this is to establish some [illegible] necessary

Very Respectfully

Mrs. M. E.  Crawford Box 422    Pontiac, Ills.


[handwritten]
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[left side]
Revy[handwritten]

WIDOW, &C  [printed]
No. [printed]   25  809 [handwritten]
Abi Hummaston  Wid of Jesse Hummaston Pri Rev War [handwritten]

Act [printed]  March 3d 43 & June 17th 44 [handwritten]

ex: Vol [printed]    A  [handwritten]     Page [printed] 360  [handwritten]

[Arrangement of 1870]  [printed]
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[Right side]

Oct. 3 __ 190
Bennett H. Lut
Plymouth Conn
[Illegible] 3 [illegible] to Mrs. M. E. Crawford

[handwritten]
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Abi Humaston

Conn  43

[illegible] No. 6184


[handwritten]
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Dec 28 1846 [a tiny 410 above 28]

Ct.

Mr Humisen
June 17, 1846  

 Abi Humaston
Conn.   43____[

[all above handwritten vertically]

J L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

[handwritten horizontally]
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Pension Agency
Hartford Dec 26, 1846

Sir
I herewith transmit the paper of Abi Humadton a pensioner under the Act of June 1844 claiming one years pension for special directions relative to payment

I am  very Respectfully  your Obedt Servt H Godwin 2d per H Fowler per Clerk


J L Edwards Esqr. Commissioner of Pensions  Washington

[handwritten]
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Abi Humaston

Wid. of Jesse

Conn.

Act. July 7 1838

Married 1785

died 21 feb. 1837

Allow $26.66 per ann

from feb 22 1837
[handwritten]
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Plymouth  April 19th 1841

Sir
In the case pf Abi Humiston's application for a pension I inclose the leaf containing the family register, in proof of her marriage.  The regulation under the Act of 1838, requires that the family record must be produced and sworn to; by that I understood and should still understand that they must be produced  before the court, before which the application is made and proof taken.  Please return the leaf.
   Respectively yours  Calvin Butler
J L Edwards Esqr
[handwritten]
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Plymouth Conn  Feby 10 1841

Respecting the accompaying application of Mrs Humaston a pension with [illegible]  A Humaston 

     Calvin Butler

 [handwritten]
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION   3____525
  w. f. 257809                      DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
                  Washington, D. C.,

In reply to your request of -------------------------received--------------
for a statement of the military history of [printed] Jesse Humaston Humastun   [handwritten] a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
______________________________________________________________________________
Dates of  Enlistment or   Appointment| Length of Service  | Rank| OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED|   Captain| Colonial | State | [printed] | Apr 1775 |   Dec 1775|  Pvt | Phineas Porter|    Wooster |
Conn | [handwritten]
 
Battles engaged in [printed] St Johns Montreal [handwritten]
Residence of soldier at enlistment [printed] Plymouth Litchfield Co. Conn [handwritten] 
Date of application for pension [printed] May 3, 1834 [illegible] [handwritten]
Residence at date of application[printed] Plymouth Litchfield, Co Conn [handwritten]
Age at date of application [printed] born Dec 4 or 15 1749 that part of Waterbury New Haven Co Conn which later became Plymouth Litchfield Co. Conn died Feby 21, 1837 at Plymouth, Conn.  He married Oct 2, 1785 Abi --- born Apr. 28, 1759.  She was allowed pension on an application ex. 
Feby 10, 1841 while a resident of Plymouth, Conn.   [illegible] Supplement herewith family data [handwritten]  Respectfully           Commissioner
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Hartford January 2d 1843
Sir
Herewith  {illegible] & [illegible] Mrs Abi Humaston's Declaration in order to claim arrears of Pension ____ If the papers are found to be correct please forward a certificate to me and much oblije.

Very Respectfully Your  [illegible] Serv      Henry Fowler

J L Edwards Esq     Commissioner of Pensions        Washington

[handwritten]
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1441    lfg [illlegible] 14 44

Ct
Mar 3 1843

Abi Huntington J 
 acts 43 & 44 
$26.66 [illegible]

Elisha Johnson
Plymouth  Con

[all vertical handwritten]

James .L Edwards  Commissioner of Pension  Washington  D. C.
[horizontal  handwritten]
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Plymouth (Ct) Sept 11th 1844
Dr Sir
Enclosed I send you the declaration of an aged widow lady of my acquaintance for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the act of congress
passed on the 5th of March 1843 granting pensions to [illegible] &c [illegible] you have the goodness you give it your attention as soon as possible & send the necessary papers to me

Respectfully yours,    Elisha Johnson

Hon J S Edwards   Washington

[handwritten]