Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 27,442, for James Lucas, New Hampshire
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SERVICE
N.H.     
Lucas, James
Anne S or
Nancy
NUMBER
W. 27442
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J. N. Coffin Sept. 28. 1857
5346
Lucas Nancy
widow of James Lucas
who died on the 2d March 1835
in the State of
who was a Lt. & paymaster in the commanded
by Captain     of the      commanded 
by    in the Revolution
line for
Inscribed on the Roll of Concord
at the rate of 420. Dollars
per annum, to commence on the 2d day
March, 1835, and ending 18th July.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of
January 1856 and Sent to
Isaac N. Coffin
Arrears to the 4th of
Semi-annual allowance ending present
-
Revolutionary
Act July 4,
Section the
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Vol. 1
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2620
New Hampshire.
James Lucas deceased
of Stafford in the State of N.H.
who was a Lt. & Paymaster in the company commanded by Captain Richardson of the Regt. commanded by Col. Bedel in the N. Hampshire line [ ]

Inscribed on the Roll of N. Hampshire at the rate of 420 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
ending 2 March 1835

Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of March 1851 and sent to
Hon. R. Smith present
Increased from $320 per ann
Arrears to the 4th of
Semi-annual allowance ending
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by R. McRae, Clerk,
Book E, Vol. 1, Page 100
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Copy of a Sampler containing the family birth, & Marriage of James & Nancy
Lucas, a Revolutionary Soldier & pensioner & his widow, who was also pensioned
See File No 27.442 - The Sampler sent May 25, 1882 to Mrs C. A. Emerson 413 Pearl St Cleveland, Ohio, who is the grand daughter of Nancy A. Lucas & great grand daughter of the above Soldier, who married Eri Curtiss

James Lucas, born March 9, 1753 - Anne S Whiteman born July 22, 1760
They were married Feby 27, 1778-
Levi, born Feby 9, 1780 married, Oct 1, 1799
Timothy, born Oct 9, 1787 married Jany 1, 1804
John, born Jany 30, 1790
George W. born May 13, 1793 married Nov 14, 1816
Legrand, born Jany 27, 1795
Nancy A. born Jany 1. 1797 Married Oct 27, 1816
Hiram born Oct 15, 1799
The above is a true Copy of
the Original, Pension Office May 25 1832
Wm H. Webster
Chief of [D___] of old war
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11,408
James Lucas
Lt & Paymaster
W. C. E.
2 years
$320

Hon. J. M. Weeks
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11408
BRIEF in the case of James Lucas
of Stratford in the State of New Hampshire
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? a Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? ---
3. How old is he? 79
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period.
5 Sep. In 1775
15 Dec 1777
1 Apl 1778
Duration of Service. Years, Months, Days:
2  years 3 months,
 4 months,
 1 year
Total 3 years, 7 months

Rank. As a:, Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served:
Lieutenant of Cap Richardsons Company,
paymaster of Col. Bedel Regt.,
ditto

5. In what battles was he engaged? none mentioned
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? don't say
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by
incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
Living Witnesses, documentary evidence 
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
all right

I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

W. C. Easton
Examining Clerk.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County Suffolk
On this third day of January 1856 before me a
Justice of the Peace within and for said County
duly authorized by law to administer oaths
personally appeared LeGrand Lucas aged sixty years of West Newton in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth
of Massachusetts and who being sworn according to law deposes that his mother Anne S. Lucas had a large German Bible with silver clasps, in which was kept the Family Records of the births and marriage of his Father James Lucas and his mother Anne S.
Whiteman, also the births of their children, that the record was in his Father's hand writing and that the deponent often consulted the Family Record during his minority, that his sister Nancy A Curtis wrought a facsimile of the Family Record on canvass in the year
Eighteen hundred and thirteen, and in that year or soon after the above mentioned Bible was missing from his Fathers house and never after found, and was supposed to have been purloined on account of the silver clasps, that the canvass record was exhibited to his Father and Mother after its completion and always
said by them to be correct, and which has since been carefully preserved as the Family Record of his Fathers family.
LeGrand Lucas
Sworn to and subscribed on the day
and year aforesaid, and I hereby certify
that LeGrand Lucas above mentioned is a person of respectability & credibility. Before me, H. L. Hazelton, Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office, Boston Jany 3rd 1856
hereby Certify, That at the date of the attestation hereunto annexed
H. L. Hazleton was a
Justice of the Peace for the County of Suffolk

in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that
his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.

In Testimony of Which, I have hereunto affixed the SEAL OF THE
COMMONWEALTH, the date above written.
E M Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832-

State of New Hampshire County of Coos, Ss. Lancaster Sept 5. 1832

On this Fifth day of September A.D. 1832, personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the Court of Probate for said
County now sitting at said Lancaster, James Lucas, a resident of Stratford in the County of Coos & State of New Hampshire aged
seventy nine years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832-
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated, to wit, On
the fifth day of September A.D. 1775, he entered the service of the United States in the Militia of New Hampshire a second Lieutenant in the sixth company in the twelfth Regiment. His Commission of that date signed by Matthew Thornton, President of the then Colony of New Hampshire is herewith exhibited. Said Company was commanded
by Capt. Luther Richardson, & said Regiment was commanded by Col. Charles Johnson. That on receiving his said Commission he was a
resident of Landaff, New Hampshire & he immediately repaired to Haverhill N.H. & remained in said Company in said
Regiment until the fifteenth day of December A.D. 1777. That during the time he served in said Company, he was employed in constructing Forts at said Haverhill, keeping watch & on scouts to guard the frontiers. That on the fifteenth day of December A.D. 1777 he received a commission of Paymaster to the Regiment of Volunteers raised by order of Congress for an expedition against
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against Canada commanded by Col. Timothy Bedel. His Commission of that date signed by said Col. Timothy Bedel is
herewith exhibited. We remained at said Haverhill, laying up provisions & preparing snow shoes, until February A.D. 1778, when an express arrived from Genl. La Fayette then commanding at Albany New York to Col. Bedel by a Lieutenant of Hazen's Regiment (name not now recollected) for Col. Bedel to repair
forthwith to Albany. Col. Bedel requested me to accompany him & I did. Col. Bedel & myself, having some knowledge of the Indian language, accompanied Genl La Fayette, at
his request, to Johnstown N.Y. where we held a conference with some tribes of Indians. We returned to Haverhill aforesaid & the expedition failing, the Regiment was discharged on the thirtieth
day of March A.D. 1778. That on the first day of April A.D. 1778 he received a commission of Paymaster to a Regiment raised for the
defense of the Frontier on & adjacent to Connecticut River commanded by Col. Timothy Bedel. His Commission of that date signed by said Col. Timothy Bedel is herewith exhibited. This Regiment was discharged early in April A.D. 1779 at, or about the time
Hazen's Regiment arrived at Haverhill New Hampshire. That during all the time, he performed all the duties of his office, and
further, was frequently out on scouts as a volunteer, & went frequently on expresses by order of Col. Bedel.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, & declares that his name is not on the
Pension Roll of the Agency of any State. James Lucas
Sworn to & subscribed the 5th day of September A.D. 1832
Benja Hunking
Judge Probate-
We John W. Weeks residing in Lancaster aforesaid & Adino N. Brackett
residing in said Lancaster hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with a
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with James Lucas, who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy nine years of age; that he is reputed & believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier
of the Revolution, & that we concur in that opinion.
J.W. Weeks, Member of Congress
A.N. Brackett, Clerk of Sup. Court
Sworn to & subscribed the 5th day of Sept 1832-
Benja Hunking Judge Probate

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the 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 certifies, that it appears to them that John W. Weeks, who has signed the preceding certificate
is a resident in the said Town of Lancaster & that A. N. Brackett, who has also signed the same is a resident in the said Town of Lancaster and are credible persons, & that their statement is entitled to credit.
Benja Hunking, Judge Probate

I Jared W. Williams Register & Clerk of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application
of James Lucas for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this Fifth day of September A.D. 1832.
Jared W. Williams
Register & Clerk of Probate

A true copy of record examined by me
Jared W. Williams, Clerk & Register of Probate
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State of New Hampshire
County of Coos
On this Seventeenth day of December 1855, personally appeared before the Court of Probate of the County aforesaid in the State aforesaid Hiram Lucas, a resident of Stratford in the County of Coos and State of New Hampshire, aged fifty six years who being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to assert
the claim of Anne S. Lucas (sometimes called Nancy Lucas) his mother to the benefit of the
provision made by the Act of Congress passed
July 4th 1836. That she was the widow of James Lucas who was a Lieutenant and Paymaster in the Revolutionary War and a Pensioner of the United States under the act of June 7th 1832. He further declares that the said Anne S. Lucas was married to the said James was on the twenty seventh day of February in the year seventeen hundred and seventy eight, that her husband the aforesaid James Lucas died on the second day of
March Eighteen hundred and thirty five and
that the said Anne S. Lucas remained a widow
ever since that period up to the day of her death which occurred on the Eighteenth day of July in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty six, that the
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children of the said Anne S. Lucas now living
are as follows, viz Timothy Lucas aged seventy three years resident of Newton in the County Middlesex in the State of Massachusetts, LeGrand Lucas aged sixty years, resident of West Newton in the County of Middlesex in the State of Massachusetts, Nancy A. Curtis wife of Eri Curtis aged fifty eight years, resident of Northumberland in the County of Coos in the State of New Hampshire, and Hiram Lucas aged fifty six years resident of Stratford in the County of Coos, in the State of New Hampshire, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed
That he hereby appoints Isaac N. Coffin of Washington D.C. his true and lawful attorney to examine into investigate and establish the claim for said pension, and do all acts necessary thereto. That he hereby asserts the said claim of said Anne S. Lucas as the administrator on her Estate.
Hiram Lucas

Witnesses
Benj Merriam
Hiram Lucas
Abby Herman
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Probate Office Coos County 
October 26, 1841
I Geo. A. Cossit Register of the Court of Probate for said County of Coos. do certify, That it was proved to the satisfaction of said Court, That James Lucas late of Salford in said County, deceased testate died on the second day of March AD 1835 having a widow, Nancy Lucas who died July 18th 1836 and the following heirs his estate being the only heirs to his estate in Timothy Lucas aforesaid Stratford, George W. Lucas of Lancaster in said County of Coos,
Legrande Lucas of Newton in the State of Massachusetts, Nancy A. Curtis wife of Eri Curtis and Hiram Lucas both of Northumberland in said County of Coos.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the Court of Probate this 26th day of October A.D. 1844.
Geo. A. Cossitt Register of Probate
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Power of Attorney
Hiram Lucas
to
Robert Smith

Jas Lucas
N. H. @ 32
10 Jan 1851
Thos. R. Smith
Mr Cole

James Lucas deceased
1 year 13 months Paymaster $300
9 months              Lieutenant $120
increase to                               $420

former payments at $320 per annum
Commencing 4 March 1831 & ending 2d March 1835.
Payable to Hiram Lucas,
Administrator, for the
benefit of
Timothy Lucas
Geo W. Lucas
Legrand Lucas
Nancy A. Curtis &
Hiram Lucas, only
surviving children.

Concord A
Hon R. Smith
Present
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Know all men by these presents that I Hiram
Lucas Executor of the last Will and Testament of James Lucas deceased a Revolutionary Pensioner do hereby constitute and appoint Robert Smith of Alton Illinois my true & lawful
Attorney for me & in my name as Executor
of the said James Lucas deceased to
prosecute and recover from the Government of the United States all arrears of
Pension which may be due, on account
of the services of my late father James Lucas
as Lt. & Paymaster in the War of the Revolution hereby revoking all former powers & ratifying and confirming whatsoever
my said Attorney may legally do
in the premises this power is intended
only to enable my said Attorney to procure
the Pension Certificate for arrears of Pension.
In witness whereof I have hereto set
my hand and seal this 28th day
December 1850.
Hiram Lucas Exe
Sealed & delivered in
presence of Hiram Clough
State of New Hampshire Coos Dec 28. 1850
Personally appeared the above [record] Hiram Lucas and acknowledged the above instrument to be his free act & Deed
Before me Hiram Clough Justice of Peace
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State of New Hampshire
Coos
I Geo A Cossett Register of Probate for said County of Coos, do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited
said Court that James Lucas was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of $320 per annum, was a resident of the County of Cows & State of New Hampshire and that he died in the town of Northumberland in said State on the second day of March A.D. 1835 and that he left him surviving his wife Nancy Lucas
who died on the 18th day of July A.D. 1836
& Timothy Lucas, Geo W. Lucas, Legrand
Lucas, Nancy A Curtis & Hiram Lucas
are the only children surviving of said
James Lucas all of which are now
living.

I also certify that Hiram Lucas is Executor of James Lucas & Administrator of Nancy Lucas deceased.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 12th day of February A.D. 1851.
Geo A Cossett Register of Probate
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State of New Hampshire
County Coos

Be it known that on this fifteenth day of December 1855 before me a Justice of the Peace duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared Hiram Lucas resident of Stratford in the County of Coos
and State of New Hampshire aged fifty six years who being duly sworn according to law deposes, that, on the 21st of February 1853, he made an affidavit which was sent to the Pension Office of the United States in the pension case of Nancy Lucas widow of James, in which he stated as follows "my mother who was of German origin used to have a large German Bible with heavy silver clasps, and
in which was our Family Record; that about the
year 1810, said Bible was missing from the house and was never afterwards found and was supposed to have been purloined on account of the Silver clasps" and in regard to the year in which said Family Bible was lost, he hereby amend his former affidavit and states that instead of the year Eighteen hundred and ten, which year was inadvertently stated in his above mentioned affidavit, he now makes his
solemn oath that said Bible was lost or purloined in or soon after the year Eighteen hundred and thirteen, that at the time of making that affidavit his impression was, as then stated about the year 1810, but on full and thorough reflection and recalling to mind events which occurred in that year one
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of which is, that the school he attended in that
in the winter of that year was taught by James
Burnside as will appear by his receipt hereunto
annexed, and that said German Bible was there
produced one morning at his Fathers house
as a joke for said Burnside to read, he being
then a student at Dartmouth college; he now remembers that it was in the year Eighteen hundred and thirteen or soon after that the Bible above mentioned was lost, but that before the Bible was lost his sister Nancy A Curtis made a copy of the Family Record therefrom on a sampler which he saw at the time of its being made and knew then and now that the date of the marriage thereon of James Lucas and Anne S. Whiteman
on February twenty seventh seventeen hundred and seventy eight was correct as stated by his father and mother who saw them on said sampler and approved their correctness.
Hiram Lucas

Sworn to before me on this fifteenth day of December 1855 and I certify that Hiram Lucas
above named is a person of respectability and credibility

Charles Mahurin
Justice of the Peace
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State of New Hampshire
Coos 
I, Albro L Robinson Register of Probate
for the County of Coos hereby certify
that Charles Mahurin is a Justice
of the Peace within and for the County
of Coos duly qualified and that his
Signature to the above is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the
Seal of said Court and subscribed my name this 17th day of December 1855.

Albro L Robinson, Register of Probate
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J. Burnside
Rent
1813
460.75
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Northumberland March 19, 1813
Received of James Lucas, as selectman for District No. 3, in Northumberland sixty dollars & seventy five unto in full for teaching school three months & contingent expenses of coming from Hanover & returning.

James Burnside
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State New Hampshire
County Coos
On this thirteenth day of December 1855
before me a Justice of the Peace within and
for said County duly authorized by law
to administer oaths, personally appeared
Nancy A Curtis aged fifty eight years,
resident of Northumberland in the County
and State aforesaid, wife of Eri Curtis,
and who being sworn according to law deposes that, in the year Eighteen hundred
and thirteen, she the deponent worked the
annexed sampler with her needle, that she
copied the words thereof (with the exception
of the date of her own marriage and that of
George W. Lucas) from a memorandum furnished and delivered her by her Father James Lucas when she was attending school in Lancaster in the summer of Eighteen hundred and thirteen, and that she is enabled to remember that it was thus copied in that year, is from the fact, that many people were sick and died of Typhus fever in that year, herself and two brother being sick at the same time, and were attended by Doctor Child of Peacham Vt. the family Physician being unable to attend them, & which memorandum was given her by her Father as a transcript of the Family Records, for the
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purpose of working on canvass when at
school to be preserved as the family record
and that her father James Lucas and her
mother Anne S. Lucas saw it after it was
completed and stated that the date of their
marriage and the date of their children's
births, were all accurately placed thereon,
and the sampler hereunto annexed has always
been preserved sacred as the only remaining
Family Record of her fathers family.
Nancy A. Curtis

Sworn and subscribed on the day and year aforesaid and I hereby certify that Nancy A. Curtis above mentioned is a person of respectability and credibility.
Eph H. Mahurin

Justice of the Peace & quorum throughout the State of New Hampshire


State of New Hampshire
Coos ss.

I. Albro L Robinson Register of Probate for the County of Coos hereby certify that Ephraim H Mahurin is a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Coos duly qualified and that his signature to the above is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court and subscribed my name
this 17th day of December 1855
Albro L Robinson, Register of Probate
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State of New Hampshire
County Coos  ss.

On this fourteenth day of December 1855 before me a Justice of the Peace within and for said County duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared Phebe Stone widow of Samuel Stone aged eighty years, resident of Stratford in the County and state aforesaid and who being sworn according to law deposed that she knew and recollects James Lucas and his wife Anne S. Lucas in the time of the war of the revolution, that her the deponents father then lived at Bedel's Mills in Haverhill New Hampshire, that her father David Greenleaf was waiter to General Bedel of the army during the war, that
her father and James Lucas came home on a visit to their families, were at her fathers house and partook of some refreshments and that James Lucas purchased some calico to carry home, which the deponent wished him to give her, but he wished to carry it home to his wife & would give her something else. That the deponent recollects her father and James
Lucas each purchased a bushel of wheat of Cal
Hutchins for their respective families, that William Whiteman carried home to James Lucas wife the flour of said wheat from the mill and that her father David Greenleaf and James Lucas afterwards returned to the army, and that Levi Lucas oldest son of James Lucas and his wife Anne S. Lucas, was about
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three years old at the close of the war on the return of her father to his family, that the
war continued seven years, that Anne S. Lucas
wife of James Lucas often visited her fathers
house in the time of her husband's James Lucas absence in the army being a near neighbor in Haverhill N.H.
her mark
Phebe Stone

Attest Ephm H. Mahurin,
Le Grand Lucas

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written and I certify that Phebe those above named is a respectable and creditable person.
Eph H. Mahurin Justice of the Peace & Quorum through the State of N.H.

State of New Hampshire
Coos ss.
I Albro L Robinson Register of Probate for the
County of Coos hereby certify that Ephraim
H Mahurin is a Justice of the Peace within and
for the County of Coos duly qualified and that
his signature to the above is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court and subscribed my name this 17th day of December 1855.
Albro L Robinson, Register of Probate
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Affidavit of Hiram Lucas and others
Additional proof in the claim of the
Heirs of James Lucas

Robert Smith
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I, Hiram Lucas, of Stratford in the County of Coos in the State of New Hampshire aged fifty four years depose and say that I have used great efforts to find some recorded evidence of the marriage of my parents James Lucas
and Nancy Lucas, both now deceased, late
of Northumberland in the State and County
aforesaid, but without success; and for that
purpose have visited the towns of Warren and Haverhill in the County of Grafton in the State aforesaid, and thoroughly examined the Records in both of said towns and have not been able to find any record of their marriage as aforesaid and know of no other place in which to look for such record. I further depose
and say that my mother, who was of German origin, used to have a large German Bible with heavy silver clasps, and in which was our Family Record; that about the year A.D. 1810 said bible was missing from the house and was
never afterwards found and was supposed
to have been purloined on account of the silver clasps; and I know of no other Family Record of my fathers family.

Hiram Lucas
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State of New Hampshire
Coos, ss. - Feby 21, 1853

Personally appeared Hiram Lucas within named
and made solemn oath that the within affidavit by him subscribed is true. And I hereby certify
that the said Hiram Lucas is a person of
respectable standing and is a credible witness.

Charles Mahurin
Justice of the Peace
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I, Richard Holbrook of Stratford in the County of Coos in the State of New Hampshire, aged eighty five years depose and say, that I became acquainted with Major James Lucas and his wife Nancy both now deceased, late of Northumberland in the State and County
aforesaid about the year A.D. 1784; that I knew of their living together as reputed man and wife from that time up to the time of said  Lucas' death which occurred about the year
A.D. 1835 being something over fifty years; that I knew of their having children born during that time; that they sustained the  reputed relation of man and and wife as aforesaid; and that they were persons who were respected.

Richard Holbrook


State of
New Hampshire
Coos  ss. February 21,1853

Personally appeared Richard Holbrook above and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true. And I hereby certify that said Richard Holbrook is a man of respectable standing and a credible witness.
Charles Mahurin
Justice of the Peace
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Washington Feb. 28th 1853. I hereby
certify that I am personally acquainted with
Charles Mahurin of Columbia, Coos County, New Hampshire, and know him to be now a Justice of
the Peace for said County duly commissioned
to act as such, and that he has so acted.  I have been acquainted with his handwriting and believe that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.

Harry Hibbard
[unknown] N.H.
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Affidavit of
Ephm H. Mahurin
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I, Ephraim H. Mahurin of Stratford in the County of Coos in the State of New Hampshire, aged seventy three years depose and say that in the year A.D. 1802 I removed from Westmoreland N.H. to Stratford aforesaid adjoining Northumberland in the State and County aforesaid and in the year aforesaid soon after my removal to said Stratford I became acquainted with Major James Lucas and his wife who then resided in said Northumberland and was intimately acquainted with them from that time up to the time of said Lucas' death which took place about the year A.D. 1835. That in the period intervening between the year 1802 aforesaid and the year A.D. 1808 I taught school three winters in the district which said Lucas lived and boarded a part of the time during each of said winters at said Lucas' house and was well acquainted with the fact of the cohabitation of said Lucas with his wife (whose maiden name was Nancy Whiteman) at that time and
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and up to the time of the death of said Lucas
about the year 1835 aforesaid - that I never heard the fact of their legal marriage questioned; that at the time I taught school as aforesaid they had five children living with them at home, besides one who was absent and who was reputed to be the oldest child; that the age of the oldest of said Lucas' children who lived with him at home was his son Timothy Lucas who was at that time about twenty three years of age; and that said Lucas and wife were persons of high respectability.

Ephm H. Mahurin


State of New Hampshire
Coos ss. February 21, 1853

Personally appeared the above named Eph
H. Mahurin and made solemn oath that the
above affidavit by him subscribed is true.
And I hereby certify that the said Eph H. Mahurin is now a Justice of the Peace
and Quorum throughout the State of N.H. and is a person of high respectability and credibility as a witness.
Before me, Charles Mahurin
Justice of the Peace
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I Joshua Marshall of Stratford in the County of Coos and State of New Hampshire aged
seventy two years, if I should live in October next, do depose and say that I have resided in said County of Coos sixty three years, and that I was well acquainted with Maj. James Lucas and his family, who formerly resided in
Maidstone in the State of Vermont, that said Lucas moved from said Maidstone into the town of Northumberland, N.H. where he resided the latter part of his life; while he 
resided in Maidstone I resided within one mile and a half of him, while he resided in Northumberland he was was next door neighbour to me, my first acquaintance
with said Lucas was as early as 1795, and continued until his death; during all that time he lived with a woman as his wife, whose maiden name as I understood was Nancy Whiteman, that they raised up a family of seven children, the eldest was older than myself, I boarded in said Lucas family while teaching a school at which five of his children attended, the said James Lucas was a man
of respectability; While residing in Maidstone, Vt. he was elected a representative in the legislature of Vermont, was a Justice of the Peace in Vermont and in New Hampshire many years, and a representative several years in the Legislature of N.H. from Northumberland in said County of Coos; while said Lucas and family resided in said Northumberland an old venerable looking man, said to be from Warren N. H. by the name of Whiteman visited the family of the said Lucas as the father of the said Nancy. I have no doubt that the said
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Lucas and the said Nancy were married; they lived together as lawful man and wife and the family were of respectable standing in society during during all the time of my acquaintance with them until death separated them.
Joshua Marshall

State of New Hampshire Coos ss.
July 14, 1852.
There the within affidavit was sworn to & subscribed before me Nahum D. Day, Justice Court of Common Pleas
I hereby certify that the within named Joshua Marshall, is a man of truth & veracity, a respectable citizen, has been Judge of
The Court of Common Pleas some twenty years & several times a member of the Legislature;
is now one of the select men of Stratford & a Justice of the Peace & Quorum throughout the State.
Nahum D. Day Justice C. C. Pleas
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I James M Rix Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for the County of Coos, State of
New Hampshire, do hereby certify that Nahum D. Day is a Justice of Peace within and for said
County, as above, and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of said Court this fifteenth day of July, A.D. 1852
James M. Rix, Clerk
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I Moody Rich of Maidstone in the County of
Essex and State of Vermont depose and say that I am seventy two years of age this present month and I have resided in said Maidstone sixty eight years. I further say that I was well acquainted with Maj. James Lucas and his family who formerly resided in said Maidstone & within a short distance of me. But the latter part of said James Lucas life he resided in Northumberland New Hampshire about three miles from me. Said James Lucas' wife's maiden name was Nancy Whiteman. She is niece of my mother & my cousin. Said James Lucas moved from Haverhill New Hampshire to said Maidstone as early as seventeen hundred and eighty six or seven but I do not recollect the precise date. From the time that I knew said Lucas and his family up to the time of his death (which took place in 1835) said James Lucas and said Nancy lived together as man and wife and they had and raised up a family of seven children. Levi Lucas the eldest of said children is a little older than I am; as I have understood said James Lucas was a Representative in the State Legislature from said Maidstone and held other office there and after he removed to said Northumberland he was several years Representative in
the Legislature of that State. Said Lucas and his wife were respectable people and I have no doubt that they were lawfully married.
Moody Rich
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State of New Hampshire, Coos ss.
July 13th 1852. Then the within affidavit was sworn & subscribed to before me. 
Joshua Marshall, Justice of the Peace

I further certify that the within named Moody Rich is a man of respectability & veracity and a credible witness.
Joshua Marshall Justice of the Peace


I James M. Rix, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for the County of Coos, State of New Hampshire, do hereby certify that
Joshua Marshall is a Justice of Peace within and for said County, and that the signature
purporting to be his is genuine.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court,
this fifteenth day of July A.D. 1852,
James M. Rix, Clerk
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Benton
Feb 19th 1851
I William Whiteman of Warren in the County Grafton and State of New Hampshire depose and say that in the year of 1778, or about that time my sister Nancy Whiteman was married to James Lucas of Haverhill N H. or said to be married and lived together as man and wife.
They then lived in the town of Haverhill. I was then from 16 to 20 years of age and lived with and worked for said Lucas. Said Lucas moved from Haverhill to Piermont N.H. and from that place to Maidstown Vt and after this to Northumberland in Coos County where they lived together till the year 1835 at which time the old gentleman died.
William Whiteman, his mark

Grafton Ss Feb the 18 1851

Personally appeared the above named William
Whiteman and made Oath that the above
affidavit by him subscribed is just and true.
Before me,

Jonathan Little, Justice of the Peace
(over)
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I Harry Hibbard certify, that I am acquainted with
Jonathan Little of Warren in the County of Grafton State of New Hampshire and know him to be an acting Justin of the Peace in said Court.
I am acquainted with his handwriting and believe that the full signature purported to be his is genuine.

Harry Hibbard
MC
[unknown] July 22,1852

William Whiteman's Deposition
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I Jacob Schoff of Maidstone in the County of
Essex & State of Vermont testify & say that I was well acquainted with James Lucas now living in Stratford in the County of Coos & State of New Hampshire, during the war of the revolution. That the said Lucas was in the service as an officer in Colonel Charles Johnson's Regiment early in the summer
of 1776. That he assisted building the forts in Haverhill in New Hampshire & that he was frequently out on scouts & spying out the enemy & guard the frontiers on Connecticut River. That in December 1777 said Lucas was commissioned Paymaster in the Regiment commanded by Col. Timothy Bedel which
Regiment was raised for a winter expedition into Canada but the expedition failing the regiment was discharged in March following. In April 1778 another Regiment was raised  commanded by Col. Timothy Bedel for the defense of the frontiers on & adjacent to Connecticut River for one year & that said Lucas was commissioned as paymaster of the
Regiment & served as such until it was disbanded in April 1779. I was a soldier in the said Regiment & know of his doing the duty of his office, & other duties such as scouting, & acting as a spy. That in the winter of 1778 said Lucas went to Albany with Col. Bedel to meet Genl. La Fayette to have a talk with some tribes of Indians as I understood. That in the summer of 1779 said Lucas had charge of a detachment of artificers from Hazen's Regiment & spent the season in building stables at Haverhill New Hampshire
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I further depose that said James Lucas now
living in Stratford aforesaid is the same person whom I knew in the revolutionary war & that he performed the services I have described.
Jacob Schoff

State of New Hampshire
Coos ss. Northumberland August 13th 1832
Personally appearing the afore named Jacob
Schoff made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him signed is true.
Before me, Wm. Brooks, Justice of Peace

I certify that Jacob Schoff the signer of the foregoing affidavit is a man of truth & respectability.
State of New Hampshire
County of Coos SS. Sept 5. 1832 -
Wm. Brooks
Jus. of Peace

I certify that Wm Brooks above named is a Justice of the Peace for said County & that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.

Jared W Williams ⎬ Register & Clerk of the Court of Probate
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I Moses Quimby of Lunenburg in the County of Essex & State of Vermont depose that I was a Soldier in Capt. Luther Richardson's Company in the Regiment commanded by Col. Timothy Bedel in 1778-1779 & was well acquainted with James Lucas now of Stratford in the County of Coos & State of New Hampshire. That he was paymaster of the Regiment & not only did the duties of paymaster but was frequently out on scouts & acted as a spy. 
Moses Quimby

State of New Hampshire
Coos ss. Northumberland August 13th, 1832
Personally appearing the above named Moses Quimby made oath that the above affidavit by him signed is true. 
Before me, Wm. Brooks, Justice of Peace

I certify that Moses Quimby the signer of the
above affidavit is a person of truth & respectability.
Wm Brooks, Jus. of Peace

State of New Hampshire County of Coos ss. Sept 5. 1832
I certify that Wm. Brooks above named is a Justice of the Peace for said County & that the
signature annexed is his genuine signature.
Jared W Williams, Register & Clerk of the Court of Probate
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I Moody Bedel of Bath in the County of Grafton & State of New Hampshire testify & say that I knew James Lucas in the year A.D. 1777. 1778 & 1779. That said Lucas was paymaster to the Regiment raised for an expedition to Canada in 1777-78 commanded
by my father Timothy Bedel & also that said Lucas was paymaster to the Regiment raised for the protection of the frontiers on & adjacent to Connecticut River A.D. 1778-79
also commanded by my Father said Timothy Bedel  & that he performed the duty as such as set forth in his declaration & that James Lucas now residing in Stratford in the County of Coos & State of New Hampshire is the same person who performed the services aforesaid - He now being in my presence and I knowing him to be the same person.
Moody Bedel

State of New Hampshire
Coos ss. September 4th 1832 Then personally
appearing the above named Moody Bedel made oath that the above affidavit by him signed is true.
Before me, Joshua Marshall, Justice of the Peace

State of New Hampshire County of Coos ss.
Sept 5. 1832. I certify that Joshua Marshall above named is a Justice of the Peace
for said County & that the signature annexed
is his genuine signature.
Jared W Williams
Register & Clerk of the Court of Probate
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Dec 27 '99
Mrs. J. D. Davis
Meriden Ct.
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 1020
Mabel Lucas
Wid
Israel Lucas
Privt. Rev. War
Act: Feby 3 1853
Index:--Vol. A, Page 446
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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2620
New Hampshire
James Lucas
of Stafford in the State of N.H.
who was a Lt. & Paymaster on the company commanded by Captain Richardson of the Regt commanded Col. Bedel in the N. Hamp
line for 2 years as Lt.

Inscribed on the Roll of New Hamp
at the rate of 320 Dollars - Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 3rd day of Dec 1832 and sent J W. Wei[?]
Lancaster N Hampshire

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832                 $480.00                                       
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar '33 $160.00
                                                     Paid $640.00

Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by DD Addison, clerk,
Book D Vol. 1st Page 167

Let to D. D. Addison
Oct 10th 1844

H.H. Sylvester
March 17,'49.
Let to Honl. Harry Hubbard
Jany 12 /50
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Paymaster Warrant
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Timothy Bedel Esquire Colonell Commanding a Regiment raised for the defense of the Frontiers on and Adjacent to Connecticut River

To James Lucas Gentleman Greeting
I do hereby reposing especial Trust and  
Confidence in your Skill and Abilities Constitute and Appoint you the said James Lucas Paymaster to the Regiment under my Command You will Carefully and Diligently Discharge the Duty of Paymaster for said Regiment And all Inferior Officers and Soldiers are hereby Required and Commanded to Obey you as such And are yourself to Observe and follow such Orders and Directions as you may from Time to Time receive from me or the Commander in Chief or any other your Superior Officers according to Military Rules and Discipline in War in pursuance of the Trust reposed in You and for which this is Your Sufficient Warrant Given under my Hand and Seal at Haverhill the first day of
April Anno Domini 1778-

Tim. Bedel, Col.
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U.S. Pension Office Apr 22, 1914
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W. E. WHITE, President    JOS. D. SMYTH, V. President   A. F. SMYTH, Secretary  WM. F. SPRAGUE, Sales Agent

QUINCY COAL CO.  QUINCY, ILL 222 So. 8th
PHONE 128
INCORPORATED 1869
Quincy Coal Company
Wholesale and Retail Hard and Soft Coal
Quincy, Illinois

All Contracts and Orders
are subject to strikes and 
contingencies of transportation.

Mine Weights to govern
settlements shipments; thereafter
at risk of consignee.

Settlements required by
the 10th of each month for
Coal shipped during the preceding
month.

April 20, 1914.
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Sir: Please give me what information you may have in the Pension Office or elsewhere of one James Lucas, a paymaster in Col. Bedell's regiment of New Hampshire troops in the Revolutionary War. I desire especially
the place of his birth. He probably enlisted from Haverhill, N. H., or vicinity.

Very truly,
Mrs. Wilton E. White
803 North Sixth Avenue.
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U.S. PENSION OFFICE
MAR 1 1917
[Ink stamp on lower right hand corner of page]
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Revo. Sec. M 1[upper right hand corner]

To the Dept' of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Please send me copies of Pension Papers of two Rev. Soldiers, Antipas Marshall, James Lucas
Lancaster, N.H., Coos Co.

Send the same to
Mrs. Benj. S. Rolfe
48 South St
Concord, N.H.
Feb. 28-1917
Regent Rumford Chap. D.A.R.
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Nancy Lucas dec'd
Widow of James
NH

Adm? July 4 1836
$420 a year from 2d March 1835, when her husband died to 18th July 1836 when she died.

Pay to Hiram Lucas 1 - adm. for himself,
Timothy Lucas 2 - Le Grand Lucas 3 -
Nancy A Curtis 4 - or any of them or any others who may be alive.

Cert to
Isaac N Coffin Esq
Present.
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State of New Hampshire
County of Coos ss.

I, Albro L Robinson Register of the Court of Probate holden at Lancaster in and for the County of Coos in the State of New Hampshire
do hereby certify that on the Seventeenth day of December 1855 Hiram Lucas appeared before the said Court and swore to and Subscribed and acknowledged the aforegoing Declaration in the presence of Benjamin Merriam and Abby Merriam residents of Northumberland in the County of Coos and State aforesaid who it is hereby certified as
respectable and credible persons who testified that Hiram Lucas who has subscribed the aforegoing Declaration is the identical person he represents himself to be therein.
Also I hereby certify that satisfactory evidence
has been exhibited to said Court by the testimony & under oath of said Benjamin Merriam and Abby Merriam that Anne S Lucas sometimes called Nancy Lucas widow of James Lucas was a resident of Northumberland in the County of Coos in the State of New Hampshire and died in Northumberland in the County of Coos in said State, in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty six on the eighteenth
day of July having remained a widow from
the day of the death of said James Lucas to the day of her death: that her children now living are as follows, viz: Timothy Lucas, aged Seventy three years resident of Newton in the County of Middlesex in the State of Massachusetts, Legrand Lucas aged
Sixty years resident of West Newton in the County of Middlesex in the State of Massachusetts, Nancy A. Curtis (wife of Eri Curtis) aged fifty eight years resident of Northumberland in the County of Coos
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in the State of New Hampshire and Hiram Lucas aged fifty six years resident of Northumberland in the County of Coos in the State of New Hampshire. I also certify that Hiram Lucas was appointed Administrator on the Estate of said Anne S. Lucas on the Ninth day of January A.D. 1851 and still is administrator thereon, and the amount of whose Bond as such Administrator is one thousand Dollars.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office at Lancaster in the County of Coos in the State of New Hampshire this Seventeenth day of December
AD 1855.
Albro L. Robinson
Register of Probate
for the County of
Coos and State of
New Hampshire
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Stamp in upper right hand corner
U.S. PENSION OFFICE MAY 24 1882
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413 Pearl St
Cleveland Ohio
May 20, 1882 -

Wm W. Dudley Esq
Pension Office
Washington D.C.

Sir,
Your letter of Dec 9th 1881
addressed to the Post Master of
Northumberland N.H. was this
week forwarded to my mother, the
daughter of Said Nancy A. Lucas
and it will prove a source of
great comfort to her in her declining
years - to add this aforesaid Sampler
of her mothers needle work to her
other mementoes of her deceased
mother.
Trusting that this delay in receiving
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your letter into our hands - may not prove disasterous to this desire I remain
Very Respectfully
Mrs. C. A. Emerson.
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5 Sep 1775. to 15 Dec 1777
as Lieut. 2 years 3 mo. 10 day
15 Dec1777 to 13 March 1778. 3 months less 2 days.
1 April 1778 to April 1799. 1. --
Paymaster 1 year 3 months Pay Master
9 months Lieutenant.

$240.00
    60.00
   $20.00
----------
$420.00
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Brief in the case of Nancy Lucas decd widow of James
County and State of New Hampshire
act July 4 1836
Claim, "original,"
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Her husband was a pensioner under the Act of
June 7 1832 at $420 year. He died March 2 1835.
He served to April 1779.
Marriage Feby 27 1778 proved by witnesses and by the production of an ancient Sampler made by a daughter in 1813 at the dictation of her father
---
Cohabitation, general reputation of marriage,
identity of the children as being the children of the deceased widow of the pensioner, his death as mentioned above and her death on the 18th of July 1836 proved agreeably to our Regulations by credible witnesses.

Name and residence of Agent
Isaac N Coffin Esq
Present
Thornton Triplett
Examining Clerk
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Ins Old war - upper left hand corner

Department of the Interior
PENSION OFFICE
Washington, D.C. May 25, 1882

Madam,
Agreeable to your request of the 20th inst., you will receive enclosed the Sampler containing the births, marriages and deaths of the family of James Lucas, a revolutionary Officer, which was executed by his daughter Nancy A Lucas, who married Eli Curtiss and lived in Northumberland, Coos County, N. H.
Be pleased to acknowledge the receipt of the same, returning this letter-
Very respectfully
Wm W Dudley
Commissioner
m

Mrs C A Emerson
413 Pearl Street
Cleveland
Ohio
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Nancy Widow of 27442 written vertically, partially obscured

On a separate piece of paper:

James & Annie S Lucas (Whitman ) of German origin - he was a Revy soldier & in her application file a sampler of the family record births & marriages - This Sampler with its border was work by Nancy A Lucas with her needle in summer of 1813 while at school at Lancaster New Hampshire & copied from a memordum  furnished to her by her father - She was born in 1797
She mar' a Mr. Eri Curtis in 1816 The only family record & in 1855 was Living in Northumberland Coos Co NH
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Hon. Lewis Cass
Secy. of the War Dept.
Washington D.C.
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Lancaster N.H. Sept 14. 1882
Hon. Lewis Cass Secy. of the War Dept

Sir, Enclosed herewith is the application of Majr. James Lucas for a pension. I have been personally acquainted with him more than
forty years during which term he has been ranked and our most respectable citizens, &
been considered as a revolutionary soldier,
his mental powers are not impaired, I am
confident he has stated nothing but the truth.
With high respect, I am sir,
Your Obe't Ser't
J. D. Weeks
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Washington Jan. 2, 1849

Dear Sir
I am desired, in behalf of constituent Mr Williams of Lancaster NH, to ascertain from your office whether their is any thing due from Government, as commutation pay to the following persons , or their heirs.

Lieut & Paymaster James Lucas, N.H. Line, Rev. Army
Lieut Obadiah Mann - Mass Line, Rev. Army
Sergt (& perhaps Lieut.) Silas Durgins, 10th Regt of for Capt. Bartholomew Co.
Major James Carr, N.H. Line

If anything is found to be due in the above cases I believe that the heirs contemplate making  application for the same and
the proof necessary to support them.
If not contrary to your rule or usages
please inform me as to the matter foregoing.
Accept my thanks for the obliging attention
to the affairs with which I have before troubled you.
I transmitted to you a communication
the other day, from Mr. Bedel of N.H. respect the
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heirs of Major Whitcomb, (I think it was) to which I would be glad to have an answer when you
find it convenient.
Yours very respectfully
Harry Hilebrand

Hon. J. L. Edward,
Com'r of Pensions.
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Washington Jan 16th 1837

Sir
I would respectfully call up for re examination & an increased allowance of Pension the claim of the Children of James & Nancy Lucas, on account of the Revolutionary services of James Lucas late of Stratford N.H.; and also the claim of the children of John Remmington Decd, late of North Adams Mass. who served in the War of the Revolution & who was at the time of his death in the Receipt of a Pension. This is also a claim for an increased allowance of Pension-
I have the honor to be very truly
Your Obt Sevt
Robert Smith

Hon J. E. Heath
Com of Pensions
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Washington Feby 1st 1857

Sir
Early in January I called up the case of the heirs of James Lucas who was a Revolutionary
Pensioner from New Hampshire & who was pensioned for 2 years service as Lt & Paymaster at the rate of $320.00 per annum under the act of 7th January 1832. In this service it is established by the office, that $600 per annum is the proper late of Pension. The proper certificate of the Court & proof of administration will be found on file, and I would respectfully ask the proper increase above referred to.
I have the honor to be very
Respectfully your
Obt Servt
Robert Smith

Hon James E. Heath
Court of Pensions
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Hiram Lucas
Stratford N.H.
March 1851
Jas Lucas,
24 Dec

Mr Cole will please
show the papers in this case
to W Smith [illegible initials]
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Stratford March 25 1851
R Smith Esqr
Dr Sir
In your letter dated at Boston on the 17th inst enclosing the pension Certificate for which we feel much obliged. I have also this day executed the papers sent, and have authorized Mr Hutchins to [illegible] the money & pay to you your proportion 133$.
I have an affidavit of one of my mothers brothers stating that she was married to my father in 1778 or about that time I also find that my fathers Commission as paymaster, of which I have a copy, is dated on the 15th of Dec 1777, and I think that my eldest brother told me that he was
born in Nov 1780. but my dear sir I have not the means of knowing the year that my parents were married or whether it was during his service in the army or not but the above circumstances rather indicate that they might have been married during his service in the Army of the Revolution
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My health has been poor since I saw you in this place if it had been such that I could have got
around I might have found out more about it I have been to Haverhill on that business since you were here but found the old settlers all gone
pretty much & not feeling very [illegible]
abandoned the search too soon
I think I know of people if I could see
I could find out considerable & as soon
as I recover my health I will attend to it
I think of nothing more to write at this time
but if any thing occurs that I can assist
you let me be informed
Respectfully yours
Hiram Lucas
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Hiram Lucas 54 in 1853
----
Jas. Lucas died 2 March 1835
Ann S Lucas died Jul 18, 1836
----
Timothy Lucas 1
Geo W Lucas 2
Legrande Lucas 3
Nancy [?] Curtis 4
Hiram Lucas 5
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Washington Feby 28th 1853

Sir
I herewith submit additional proof in the claim of the Heirs of James Lucas, for arrears of Pension due their mother, on account of the services
of her husband James Lucas, in the Revolutionary War. The proof now added will I think fully make out the case I would respectfully ask an early
examination of this claim

Respectfully your Obt Servt
Robert Smith

Sent P.C. Johnson
Chief Clerk
Pension Office
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Washington July 21st 1852

Sir
I herewith submit the affidavits going to prove the marriage of James Lucas to Nancy Whiteman in 1778 in order that the heirs of the [illegible] said Nancy Lucas widow of the said James Lucas may [illegible] the pension due them from the time of the death of the said James Lucas until the death of the said Nancy. The papers now on file in the office show the time of death of both of these his persons and that Hiram Lucas Esq is Administrator in the case. I would respectfully ask an early Examination of this Claim.
Respectfully your
obt servt
Robert Smith

Hon James E Heath
Comm of Pensions
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July 16 '49

Sir
Will you please inform me whether there are
any papers upon your files for increase of pension of James Lucas the pension named of by 
 his son in his letter to Ce. Johnson.
James Lucas was pensioned as Lieut & Paymaster of [illegible], Coos Co N Hamp
Please Report to me
[illegible] respectfully
H.H. Sylvester

Cc J.L. Edward
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Oct 9, 1844 [illegible]

J.L. Edwards, Esqr. 
Comr. of Pensions
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Washington October 8th 1844
Dr Sir,
I am authorized by Hiram Lucas, Esq. son, and Executor of the Estate, of James Lucas, dec'd to request the favor of a reexamination
of his Fathers papers, with a view of obtaining the increase of pension due the said
deceased, at the time of his death. Lieut & Paymaster, James Lucas, was a pensioner on the N. Hampshire roll, under the act of June 7th 1832, at $320 p. an. for his revolutionary
services as Lieutenant, [and Paymaster, crossed out] in the N. Hamp Continental Line, and having been only pensioned for his services in the
line, his heirs now claim an increase on
account of his additional services as Paymaster in the staff.
I am very respectfully yr mo obt svt
D.D. Addison
J.L. Edwards, Esq.
Comr. of Pensions
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Nov  8 44
NH
addl[illegible]
James Lucas dec'd
Act 1832

J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Commiss'r of Pensions
Page 80

Washington Nov'r  7th 1844

Dr Sir
I enclose herewith a certificate of a Court of Probate, showing the period of the death of James Lucas, of N.H., a pensioner under the Act of June 7th 1832, and the names of his surviving heirs.
I have written to the Secretary of State of New Hampshire for evidence of Mr. Lucas' service &c, as required in your letter of the 10th ulto. & so soon as I receive a reply will enclose it to you.
I am very respectfully
Yr mo obt servt
D.D. Addison

J.L. Edwards Esqr
Commss'r of Pensions
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Pension Office
October 10th 1844

Sir
In answer to the request communicated thro' you of the representating of James Lucas,  deceased, I have to inform you that he received much more than he was entitled to.
He at no time served in the double offices of Lieutenant and Pay Master, but was allowed three hundred and twenty dollars per annum, upon his statement of two years and three months service as Lieutenant in Luther 
Richardson's company, from the 5th September 1775, four months as paymaster in Bedels Regiment in 1777, and twelve months as paymaster in the same Regiment in
1778. If the records of the Secretary office at Concord show that he was entitled to more than he received, it will be allowed.
I am, very respectfully
Your Obt. Servant
J L Edwards

D. D. Addison, Esq

Present
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Washington Jan'y 18th 1856.

Sir,
In the Revolutionary pension case of "Anne S.
Lucas sometimes called Nancy Lucas" widow of James Lucas of New Hampshire, under the Act of July 4, 1836, I herewith transmit additional evidence as follows
Official Certificate of Jonathan Little Es.
Justice of the Peace in Warren in the County of Grafton NH --- and 
Statement of Richard Whiteman who is
the son of William Whiteman (which
William Whiteman on 19th February 1851
made an Affidavit in the case abovementioned) that William Whiteman
"died in the month of May 1853 aged 
ninety one years".
Certificate of Hon'ble Aaron H Cragin
who represents Grafton County that Jonathan
Little is a Justice of the Peace for the
County of Grafton.
This Evidence corroborates William Whiteman's Oath, as this age shows that a fact by which he remembers that she was married in the year 1778 is correct, viz. that he was then 16 years of age. And also shows that a fact by which he remembered that "in the year of 1778" they "lived together as man and wife", is correct, viz, that he was then 16 years
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of age. Added to the other two facts by which he remembered viz that he then "lived with" and "worked for" said Lucas.
Although the Certificate of the Justice of the Peace is not sworn to, still as he signs Officially, and is under oath as a Justice, there is great reason to believe his Certificate correct.

I am
Very Respectfully
Your Obedt Servt
Isaac N. Coffin

Jonah Minot Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
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Washington Jan'y 15th, 1856

Sir
In the Revolutionary pension case of Anne S
Lucas sometimes called Nancy Lucas, widow of James Lucas of New Hampshire, under the Act of July 4, 1836, I herewith transmit additional Evidence and Declaration as follows, viz:
Declaration of Hiram Lucas
Certificate of Court of day of death of Anne S. Lucas sometimes called Nancy Lucas -- and names, ages and residence of her children -- & Certificate that Hiram Lucas is Administrator of the Estate.
Certificate of Nathaniel Bailey Esq. Town Clerk.
Certificate of Rev'd John Smith of Haverhill.
Sampler Family Record with Affidavit of
of Mrs Nancy A Curtis attached.
Amendatory Affidavit of Hiram Lucas Esq.
Affidavit of Mrs. Phebe Stone.
Affidavit of Le Grand Lucas Esq.
Also, you are respectfully referred to the Evidence already on file of Judge Moody Rich, Judge Joshua Marshall, William Whiteman Esq.
Richard Holbrook Esq. and Ephraim H. Mahurin Esq.
The Pension Office granted him, James Lucas
a pension for service up to April 1779, as shown by the Report of William C. Easton Examiner among the papers on file in the
Pension Office.
The Certificates of Nathaniel Bailey the Clerk
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of the Court, and of Rev'd John Smith prove that there is no public Record of the Marriage.
Although as this Evidence herewith produced proves that there is neither of the three kinds of Record Evidence in existence, and therefore gives the right to produce parol testimony, of the Marriage being prior to April 1779, still a
a higher evidence is herewith produced than solely parol testimony, to wit -- that which was considered as the Family Record after the Bible was purloined -- the Sampler, which has
Recorded on it, that they were married Feb. 27th 1778.
Evidence which proves that they were married
on the 27th Feb. 1778 is as follows - and which is Legal Evidence as shown by the decisions of the Supreme Court as quoted at top of next page.
Mrs. Nancy A Curtis of whom the Officer Certifies is "a person of respectability and credibility" swears that "she worked"
it "from a memorandum furnished and delivered her by her father James Lucas, when she was attending school in Lancaster in the Summer of Eighteen hundred and thirteen, and that she is enabled to remember that
it was thus copied in that year, is from the fact, that many people were sick and died of Typhus fever in that year, herself and two brothers being sick at the same time, and were attended by Dr. Shedd of Peacham Vt., the Family Physician being unable to attend them, which memorandum was given her by
her Father as a transcript of the Family Records, for the purpose of working on canvass when at school to be preserved as the Family Record and that her father James Lucas and her mother Anne S Lucas saw it after it was completed and stated that the date of their marriage and the date of their children's births, were all accurately placed thereon, and the Samplar hereunto annexed has always been preserved sacred as the only remaining Family Record of her Father's family"

[Strikes through the following: Le Grand Lucas, whom the Officer Certifies is a person of respectability and credibility", swears that his sister]
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That the Family Record being lost its contents can be proved, is shown by the following principles of Evidence Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States, viz:
"Secondary evidence of the contents of written instruments is admissible, whenever it appears that the original is destroyed or lost, by accident, without any fault of the party." Renner Renner vs Bank of Columbia J Wheaton 581.
"If the original is lost or destroyed, secondary evidence (being the best which the nature of the case allows) will be admitted. Riggs vs Taylor J Wheaton 483. 5 Cond 646.
"The party in such case, may read a counterpart, or, if there is no counterpart, an examined copy; or if no such copy may give
parol evidence of the contents. Ib.486.
"The affidavit of a party to the cause, of the loss or destruction of an original, offered in order to introduce secondary evidence of the contents of the paper is proper." Taylor vs Riggs, [illegible] 596.
Le Grand Lucas, whom the Officer Certifies
to be "a person of respectability and credibility", swears that "his sister Nancy A Curtis wrought a fac-simile of the Family Record on canvass in the year Eighteen hundred and thirteen and in that year or soon after, the abovementioned Bible was missing from his Father's house and never after found, and was supposed to have been purloined on account of the silver clasps; that the canvass record was exhibited to his Father and Mother after after its completion and always said by them to be correct, and which has since been
carefully preserved as the Family Record of his Fathers family."
Hiram Lucas whom the Officer Certifies to be
"a person of respectability and credibility", swears, -- "in the year
Eighteen hundred and thirteen, or soon after, that the Bible
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above mentioned was lost, but that before the Bible was lost his sister Nancy A Curtis made a copy of the Family Record therefrom on
a Sampler, which he saw at the time of its being made and knew then and now that the date of the marriage thereon of James Lucas and Anne S. Whiteman on February twenty
seventh Seventeen hundred and seventy eight was correct as stated by his Father and Mother who saw them on said Sampler and approved their correctness."
By the Decisions of the Supreme Court above
quoted, it is demonstrated that the above is valid evidence, and thereby the marriage is fully proved by the above Evidence to have been entered into on the 27th of Feby 1778.
But in addition to the above full proof there is a large mass of other Evidence as follows
1st. The three "persons of respectability and credibility" above quoted also swear that their own ages are, what on referring to the Samplar, the Record of their birth found Recorded on the Sampler shows them to be.
2d. The Court certifies that their ages are, what on referring to the Samplar, the Record of their birth found Recorded on the Samplar show them to be. These two facts are circumstantial evidence of the correctness of the Samplar as to the Marriage as it proves it to be correct three now existing facts.  Added to the fact that [crossed out: it is] in the words of the Supreme Court quoted above it is "an examined copy".
3d. Judge, Moody Rich whom the Officer Certifies "is a man of respectability & veracity and a credible witness", and who has been a Judge of a Court, swears, "I am seventy
two years of age this present month and I have resided in
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said Maidstone sixty eight years. I further say that I was well acquainted with Maj. James Lucas and his family who formerly resided in said Maidstone & within a short distance 
of me. But the latter part of said James Lucas life he resided in Northumberland N.H. about three miles from me. Said James Lucas wife's maiden name was Nancy Whiteman. She was niece of my mother and my cousin. Said James Lucas moved from Haverhill N.H. to said Maidstone as early as seventeen hundred and eighty six or seven, but I do not recollect the precise date. From the time that I knew said Lucas and his family up to the time of his death (which took place in 1835) said James Lucas and said Nancy lived together as man and wife and they had and raised up a family of seven children. Levi Lucas the eldest of
said children is a little older than I am."
As he states he is 72 "this present month" "July" "1852" and states "Levi Lucas the eldest of said children is a little older", it corroborates the Record of the Samplar in regard to the birth of Levi Lucas which being Feb 9th, 1780 Levi was in fact "a little older".
4th. Judge Joshua Marshall, whom the Officer Certifies "is a man of truth and veracity, a respectable citizen, has been Judge of the Court of Common Pleas some twenty years & several times a Member of the Legislature, is now one of the Selectman of Stratford & a Justice of the Peace" Swears as follows - "aged seventy two years, if I should live in Oct'r next-- have resided in said County of Coos sixty three years and that I was well acquainted with Maj. James Lucas and his family who formerly resided in Maidstone in the State of
Vermont, that said Lucas moved from said Maidstone into the
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town of Northumberland N.H. where he resided the latter part of his life. While he resided in Maidstone, I resided within one mile
and a half of him, while he resided in Northumberland he was next door neighbor to me. My first acquaintance with said Lucas
was as early as 1795, and continued until his death: during all that time he lived with a woman as his wife, whose maiden name as I
understood was Nancy Whiteman, that they raised up a family of seven children, the eldest way older than myself. I boarded in said Lucas family while teaching a school at which five of his children attended, -- the said James Lucas was a man of respectability."
As he states, "aged seventy two years if I should live in Oct'r next", and his statement was made on "July 14, 1852" and states "a family of seven children, the eldest was older than myself", this "Judge of the Court" also as well as the Judge next above mentioned corroborates the Record of the Sampler.
5th. William Whiteman, swears, "in the year of 1778 or about that time my sister Nancy Whiteman was married to James Lucas of Haverhill N.H. or said to be married and lived together as man and wife. They then lived in the town of Haverhill. I was then from 16 to 20 years and lived with and worked for said Lucas." He states in this extract two facts. 1st that in 1778 they were married and 2d. that they "in the year 1778 **** lived together as man and wife", and states two exceedingly striking facts by which he remembers viz 1st. that he "then "lived with" and 2d. that he "then" "worked for" said Lucas". These are important events in his own personal history and would have the highest possible
tendency to impress on his memory the year in which his own sister was married.
6th. Richard Holbrook, whom the Officer certifies "is a man of respectable standing and a credible witness", swears "I knew of
their living together as reputed man and wife from that (1784) up to the time
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of said Lucas' death" --thus corroborating the other evidence as far back as that date.
7th. Ephraim H Mahurin Esq., whom the Officer Certifies "is now a Justice of the Peace and is a person of high respectability and credibility as a witness" Swears, "in the year intervening between the year 1802 aforesaid and the year AD 1808, I taught school three winters in the District in which said Lucas lived and boarded a part of the time during each of said winters at said Lucas's house and was well acquainted with the fact of the cohabitation of said Lucas
with his wife (whose maiden name was Nancy Whiteman) both at that time and up to the time of the death of said Lucas about the year
1835 aforesaid -- that I never heard the fact of their legal marriage questioned - that at the time I taught school as aforesaid they had
five children living with them at home, besides one who was absent and who was reputed to be the oldest child-- that the age of the oldest
of said Lucas children who lived with him at home was his son Timothy Lucas who was at that time about twenty three years of age".
As he states the oldest at home Timothy was about twenty three years of age, which he must have been, in one of the years between
"1802 and 1808". The universal rule where affidavits are so worded is to take the medium year, as it would be unjust to take any other year as the basis of computation of the date of his birth. This medium year is 1805 and 
deducting the age 23 years from the year 1805 
his statement exactly accords with the date of 
birth of the Sampler Family Record, to wit 1782.
8th. Mrs. Phebe Stone, whom the Office Certifies "is a respectable and credible person", Swears, "she knew and recollects James Lucas 
and his wife Anne S. Lucas in the time of the war of the revolution, that her the deponents' father then lived at Bedel's Mills in Haverhill 
N.H., that her father David Greenleaf was waiter to General Bedel of the army during the war, that her father and James Lucas came home
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on a visit to their families, were at her father's house and partook of some refreshment and that James Lucas purchased some calico to
carry home, which the deponent wished him to give her, but he wished to carry it home to his wife & would give her something else.
That the deponent recollects her father and James Lucas each purchased a bushel of wheat of Col. Hutchins for their respective families,
that William Whiteman carried home to James Lucas wife the flour of said wheat from the mill and that her father David Greenleaf and James Lucas afterwards returned to the army and that Levi Lucas oldest son of James Lucas and his wife Anne S Lucas was about three years old at the close of the war on the return of her
Father to his family, --that the war continued seven years, --that Anne S. Lucas wife of James Lucas often visited her father's house in the time of her husband's James Lucas absence in the Army being a near neighbor in Haverhill N.H.
Thus does the Evidence of Six Respectable persons (two of them Judges) viz Mrs. Nancy A Curtis, Le Grand Lucas, Hiram Lucas (added to the evidence of their own age) Judge Moody Rich, Judge Joshua Marshall and Mrs Phebe Stone (this last person in the words underscored above) prove that Levi Lucas was born in 1780, and being thus born, the Marriage must have taken place at least nine months prior - and thus in addition to its proving generally the Samplar a correct Record - it proves that the Marriage [Marriage is double underscored] must have taken place at least nine months prior to Feb. 2, 1780 and thus has proved the marriage as far back as year 1779 the year that the government has formally decided and recorded that he was in the service. The difference between that year 1779 and the little time back of it to Feb 27. 1778 is proved by three pieces of Evidence, viz. 1st. By the Record of the Samplar, it being as styled by the Decision of the Supreme Court quoted at top of 3rd page hereof an "examined copy". 2d. Is proved by the Oath of William Whiteman that
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she was married in 1778, he stating important facts in his own history by which he remembered the year -- and 3d. proved by the Oath of that Respectable and Credible Eye Witness Mrs. Phebe Stone 1st his coming home to his wife during the War and returning, and stating several facts, such as his making purchases of attractive goods for his wife, which impressed it on her mind and 2d. of Anne S Lucas often visiting her, Mrs. Stone's father's house while her, Mrs. Lucas', 
husband was in the War.
I am
Very Respectfully
Your Obedt Servt
Isaac N. Coffin

Josiah Minot Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Washington June 25th 1857

Sir:
In the Revolutionary pension case of Nancy Lucas widow of James of New Hampshire under the Act of July 4, 1836 Admitted, there was in the pressure of business an accidental mistake made in the computation of her pension, as follows.
She was pensioned or a pension admitted in her right in 1856, at the rate of $420 per annum. A paper among the papers in the case probably made by the Examiner in computing his pension states or contains the following words and figures
1 year 3 months Pay Master
9 months Lieutenant
240..00
  60..00
120..00
420..00 [total]
It is respectfully represented that the following is a correct computation of her rate of pension
Instead of $240 as above, for 1 year as Pay Master, 300..
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Amount brought over --- 300.
Instead of $60 as aforegoing fo 3 monts as Paymaster ---$75..
And for 9 months as Lieutenant same as in foregoing computation-- 120..
Total ---- 495., instead of $420.
James Lucas swears in his Declaration that "on the 15th day of Dec. AD. 1777 he received a Commission of Pay Master to the Regiment of Volunteers raised by Order of Congress for an Expedition against Canada" And that on the 
1st day of April AD 1778 he received a Commission of Pay Master to a Regiment raised for the Defence of the Frontiers". As
these troops were raised for the General
Defence, they were Continental Measures
and of course were entitled to Continental
pay.
I respectfully claim an increase on the said James Lucas's pension and on his widow said Nancy Lucas's pension of the difference between $420 and $495 per annum from March 4, 1831 in his case & in her case from 2d March 1835 the date of his death to 18th July 1836, the
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date of her death.
I would also farther Respectfully represent, that Jacob Shoff in swears that "in the Summer of 1779 said Lucas had charge of a detachment of artificer from Hazen's Regiment and spent the Season in building Stables at Haverhill New Hampshire" --- and request that the Rolls of Hazens Regiment etc. in the Pension Office be
examined for this service -- but if not
found request that the increase  beforementioned be acted on.
I am
Very Respectfully
Your Obedt Servt
Isaac N. Coffin

George C. Whiting Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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D. D. Addison, Esq.
Washington D. C.
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[A vertical notation in the upper left hand corner of the letter: "This was a different James Lucas from the one below who was an officer in Col. Richardson's rgt. at that .."]

Secy of States Office
Concord, N.H. Nov 14. 1844

Dr Sir;
From an examination of the Revolutionary Rolls in this Office it appears that James Lucas served as a Corpl. in Capt. Titcombs Co., Poors Regt. in 1775, 2 Mo. & 11 days - that he also rec'd pay for a Regt. Coat - for this service it has be usual at the Pension Office to allow for 8 Mo. Service.
James Lucas also served as Sergt. in Capt. Gilmans Co. in 1777, 2 Mo & 11 Days & was
discharged Sept 30th, of that year
I find upon the Ration Rolls of Col. Bedels Regt. the following services of James Lucas as Pay Master - Viz
From 15th Nov 1777 to 31st March 1778 - 107 days
From 1st June 1778 to 30th Novr 1778 - 183 days
From 1st Dec. 1778 to 31 March 1779 - 121 days
Making in all 411 Days
The above is all the service of James Lucas
which appears upon our Rolls
Should you want copies of the above Rolls
the expence for copies will be $5,
Very Respectfully
Thomas P. Treadwell
The fee for examining Rolls is $3, which remit by mail
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James Lucas
New Hampshire
No 42620
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Certificate from James Lucas
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Haverhill New Hampshire Grafton County

This may cirfie that I have examed the records
of the Town Haverhill in said County and do not
find any record of James Lucius nor Armas
Whiteman marrige in the Books of said Town
and that there was not but six or eight marrigues
on record in year of 1778
Havhill (Dec 18, 1855)
Given under my hand and 
Sean this day
Nath Bailey
Town Clerk
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House of Representatives
Jany 18, 1856
Jonathan Little is a Justice of the
Peace for the County of Grafton in the
State of New Hampshire

Aaron N. Cragin
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To Whom it may Concern
We the undersigned hereby certify that we live in the same neighborhood that William Whiteman lived in for several years the last part of his life and that he died in the month of May 1853 and
aged ninety one years

Warren Dec 19th 1855
Jonathan Little Justice of Peace
Richard Whiteman
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I hereby certify that in the year 1778 or previous
the year there was no settled minister in Haverhill N.H. that marriages were solemnized by Justices of the peace, and that all marriages were not recorded on the Town Records the country being in an unsettled state in time of the Revolutionary war, my predecessor was settled in 1792 being the first settled minister of Haverhill and Piermont.
Haverhill N.H. December
19th 1855-
John Smith
aged Eighty [illegible]
Late minister of Haverhill NH
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3. Auditor's office
Jan'y 28. 1856
Sir,
James Lucas, the within named pensioner died 2 March 1835, & has been paid in full to that date. (Increase from $320, to $420 per annum was paid in 2d qr. 1851)
Very Respectfully
Robr J Atkinson
Auditor

J. Minot Esqr
Comm. of Pensions


Pen off. Jan'y 24 1856
Sir
Please state when James Lucas of NH Act 1832, was last paid at $420 a year
Very Respectfully
R McRae
for Commissioner

R J Atkinson Esq
3 Auditor

Triplett
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7852
Nancy Lucas
decd widow of James
N.H.
Hon Robt. Smith Sep
25 1852 - same June
15 1853 -
[ ]82 Jan 28 Post Master at
Huntington V that on request by a 
proper party their name [ ] family
of the name of [-------]
July 4 1836
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Mr C F Emerson returning
ntaining birth, manage & death
1914 Mch 10 Mr. M. Frank
Lucas informed that name of
Soldier's parents are not stated
1914 Apr. 27 Hist to Mrs. Wilton
C. White, V.L.M.
1917 ch. 16 Hist to Mrs. Benj S. Rolfe
1926 Nov 10 photos to
A.W. DeGoosh au
1927 Mar 25 Photos mailed
to AW  DeGoosh, au

WIDOW, & c.
---
File No. 27.442
Nancy Lucas
widow of
James Lucas
Lieut Rev War
---
Act July 4. '36
Index: Vol. A, Page 447
[Arrangement
t of 1870.]
1882 May 25
Sampler
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413 Pearl st
Cleveland C. May 27
M. M. Dudley Esq.
Pension Office
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir

We are glad to acknowledge
the prompt arrival of the Sampler
Very Respectfully
Mrs C. C. Emerson
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COLONY OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE }

The CONGRESS of the Colony of New-Hampshire

TO James Lucan _ Gentleman Greeting

WE repos1ing [reposing] especial Trust and Confidence in your Fidelity, Courage and good Conduct, Do by these Presents constitute and appoint you the said James Lucan to be Second Lieutenant of the Sixth Company in the Twelfth Regiment of Militia within the said Colony of New Hampshire

You are therefore carefully and [diligently??] to discharge the Duty of a Second Lieutenant in leading, ordering and exercising said Company in Arms both Inferior Officers and Soldiers, and to keep them in good Order and Discipline ; hereby commanding them to obey you as their Second Lieutenant and Yourself to observe and follow such Orders and Instructions, as you shall from Time to Time receive from the Congress of said Colony for the Time being, or (in recess of Congress) from the Committee of Safety, or any your Superior Officers for the Service of said Colony, according to Military Rules and Discipline, pursuant to the Trust reposed in You.

By Order of the Congress,

Exeter the fifth Day of September A D. 1775  
Mathew Thomson, President
E Thompson Secretary
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Paymaster
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State of New Hampshire}

Timothy Bedel Esquire Colonell [Colonel] of a Regiment of Volunteers raised by Order of Congress for an Expedition against Canada

To James Lucas Gentleman_ Greeting

I do hereby reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Courage, good Conduct, Skill and Abilities_
Constitute and Appoint you said James Lucas to be Paymaster to the Regiment of Volunteers under my Command, You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of Paymaster to said [illegible] Regiment according to the [illegible] Judgement, And all Inferior Officers and Soldiers are required to Obey you as Paymaster, And you, yourself are required to Obey Observe and follow such Orders and Directions as you shall from time to time receive from the General and Commander in Chief of said Expedition or any other your Superior Officers for said service according to Military Rules and Discipline in War in pursuance of the Trust reposed in you and for which this shall be your sufficient Warrant Given under my Hand and Seal at Haverhill this Fifteenth day of December AD. 1777_

Timd. Bedel Coll
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6769
3 -- 2233

BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Finance Division
March 9, 1827.
Chief Rev. War Section
I have this day received from
A. W. DeGoosh
cash No.
for $2.25.
in payment of photostat copy
O. J. RANDALL
Chief Finance Division.
H. C. L.
c 12
1927 Mar 25 photos mailed  & finance Div [illegible] au
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March 9, 1927
Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir:

I desire photostat copies of seven pages from Revolutionary
War pension claim Richard Wallace S. 46659;
three pages from Revolutionary War pension claim James Lucas, W. 27442; four pages from Revolutionary War pension
claim Nathaniel Merrill S. 41865; and one page from
Revolutionary War pension claim Nathaniel Merrill S. 45008,
in all fifteen pages.
Recd. payment
$2.25
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.
Antonia W. Lord
[stamp] FINANCE DIVISION
BOOK-KEEPER'S DESK
MAR 9 1927
BUREAU OF PENSIONS

A. W. DeGoosh
NS Shippy Bd
Wshgtn D.C.
 1
3
4
7
15
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CATE
1-681
PHONE Branch 476

regarding this job should refer to Requisition No. 13699
tion for Duplicating, Addressograph, Photostat, and Blue Print Work.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
WASHINGTON

CHIEF, Division of Publications, Room G 137. Please furnish work specified below.

March 22, 1927.
Bureau ordering | Pension
Delivery to Room No. 5033

(ALL COPY FOR DUPLICATING WORK SHOULD BE PLAIN AND WRITTEN IN ELITE TYPE, EXACTLY LINE FOR LINE AS IT IS TO APPEAR ON FINISHED JOB.)

Title and description of job | Photostat copies of 3  pages from the Rev. War pension claim, W, 37442, James Lucas.
No. of copies | 1 of each page
Shall form be kept standing?  [blank] days
For further information see | A. E. Wilson
Room No. | 5033
Approved:  [illegible] Reed, Chief Clerk of Bureau
[illegible] Wilson, Chief of Branch

NOTE:  No order made "SPECIAL" unless statement showing necessity is written below and approved by Chief Clerk of Bureau ordering


CHECK WORK DESIRED

Duplicate
Multigraph | single or double space? _____ | Facsimile signature? _____
Mimeograph | one side or both sides? _____ | Facsimile signature? _____  
Folding | once or twice? _____
Assembling Stapling | Once?     Twice?     Side?     End?
Electric typewriter | Fill in addresses? _____ | Dated? _____

Addressograph from lists
Envelopes, size | [blank]   
Cards, size | [blank]   
Proof list | [blank]   
Pay rolls | [blank]   
Labels (submit sample) | [blank]   
Corrections | [blank]   
Fill in letters | [blank]   
Tabulation sheets | [blank]   

Photostat [X]   Size _actual_   Official use? _____   Repay?  Yes   $0.45
Blue Print [  ]   Size _____   Official use? _____   Repay? _____

Remarks | [blank]   

(OVER)

[stamp] DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS   DEPT. OF THE INTERIOR   MAR 23 1927
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NOTE: Routine changes of addresses may be made on this blank without formal
reference through or initialing of chiefs of branches or chief clerks of
bureaus.
( Date ) 192  .
INDICATE BY AN X IN PROPER SQUARE ACTION TO BE TAKEN.
Make new addressograph plate
Change present addressograph plate } On list... Destroy present addressograph plate
as follows:
Now reads
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Should read
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

FOR USE OF DUPLICATING AND ADDRESSING SECTION
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6769
3 - 2233

BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Finance Division
Nov..8 1926
Chief Rev War Division Section
I have this day received from
A.W. De Groosh
Cash No.
for 45/100
● ● ●
requesting
photostat copy
as per
letter herewith.

O. J. RANDALL
Chief Finance Division.
H. C. L.
OK not Ctf
1926 Nov 10 Photos mailed & Finance notf aw
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Commissioner of Pensions,
Sir:
I desire photostat copies (not certified) of
three pages from Revolutionary War pension claim
W. 27442, James Lucas, widow Anne S. or Nancy
New Hampshire Troops.
Received payment
45 cents.
Antonia W. Ford
Rev. & 1812 War Section.
November 6, 1926
Aw
A.W. DeGoosh
c/o W.
Shipping Board
Washington D.C.
[stamp] FINANCE DIVISION
NOV 8 1926
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
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1-681
PHONE Branch 476

this job should refer to Requisition No. 13699
for Duplicating, Addressograph, Photostat, and Blue Print Work.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
WASHINGTON

CHIEF, Division of Publications, Room G 137. Please furnish work specified below.

NOV, 8, 1926
Bureau ordering | Pension
Delivery to Room No. 5033

(ALL COPY FOR DUPLICATING WORK SHOULD BE PLAIN AND WRITTEN IN ELITE TYPE, EXACTLY LINE FOR LINE AS IT IS TO APPEAR ON FINISHED JOB.)

Title and description of job | Photostat copies of 3  pages from the Rev. War pension claim, W, 27442, James Lucas.
No. of copies | 1 of each page
Shall form be kept standing?  No    days
For further information see | A. E. Wilson
Room No. | 5033
Approved:  [illegible] Reed, Chief Clerk of Bureau
[illegible] Wilson, Chief of Branch

NOTE:  No order made "SPECIAL" unless statement showing necessity is written below and approved by Chief Clerk of Bureau ordering


CHECK WORK DESIRED

Duplicate
Multigraph | single or double space? _____ | Facsimile signature? _____
Mimeograph | one side or both sides? _____ | Facsimile signature? _____  
Folding | once or twice? _____
Assembling Stapling | Once?     Twice?     Side?     End?
Electric typewriter | Fill in addresses? _____ | Dated? _____

Addressograph from lists
Envelopes, size | [blank]   
Cards, size | [blank]   
Proof list | [blank]   
Pay rolls | [blank]   
Labels (submit sample) | [blank]   
Corrections | [blank]   
Fill in letters | [blank]   
Tabulation sheets | [blank]   

Photostat [X]   Size _actual_   Official use? _____   Repay?  Yes   $0.45
Blue Print [  ]   Size _____   Official use? _____   Repay? _____

Remarks | [blank]   

(OVER)

[stamp] DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS   DEPT. OF THE INTERIOR   NOV 8 1926
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NOTE: Routine changes of addresses may be made on this blank without formal
reference through or initialing of chiefs of branches or chief clerks of
bureaus.
( Date ) 192  .
INDICATE BY AN X IN PROPER SQUARE ACTION TO BE TAKEN.
Make new addressograph plate
Change present addressograph plate } On list... Destroy present addressograph plate
as follows:
Now reads
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Should read
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

FOR USE OF DUPLICATING AND ADDRESSING SECTION
ADDRESSOGRAPH
The above change was made 192 .
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V.L.M.
Rev. War Section.
March 9, 1914.
Mr. M. Frank Lucas,
Lucas Court & Border Street,
West Newton, Mass.
Sir:
In reply to your letter dated the 26th ultimo, you are advised that in the claim of James Lucas, W. File No. 27, 442,
Rev. War, the names of his parents are not stated.
Very respectfully,
[illegible signature]
Commissioner.
&

Letter returned by
mistake to  writer
Mch 9. 1914