Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20681, Samuel Bacon, Mass. New York.
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Service Number
Mass. New York
Bacon, Samuel 
Anna
W 20681
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[handwritten]
Samuel Bacon
[illegible] Anna
W.F. 20681
Mass.

[cross stiched]
Samuel Bacon was married to Anna Guiteau Jan  17 1787 Lanesborough

Samuel Bacon born Feb 10th 1788
[illegible line]
Harriet Bacon Born May 22 1794
Betsy Bacon born [illegible] 1795[?]
Ebennezer
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8665
New York
Samuel Bacon
Oneida Co in the state of New York who was a private in the company commanded Captain Cooke of the [eighth?] commanded Col Worthing in the map 5ma for 9 mo

Dead - Let to J Billings [paper folded]
13 1846

Paid at the treasury - - the act of this 6 April 1838, from Lt [illegible] to 1 May 1840 Apl [April] notified 31 March 1843

Inscribed on the roll of New York at the rate of 30 dollars 00 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831

Certificate of pension issued the 25 day of Apl 1833 and sent to J Billings, Trenton

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $60.00 semi anl. allowance ending 4 sept 15.00
$75.00

Revolutionary Claim Act June 7 1832
Recorded by W. W. Williams Clerk,
Book 8 Vol. 4 Page 43
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State of New York Oneida County
Is, on this fifth day of October 1832 personally appeared in open court before the court of [crossed out] chancery, held before the [trim?] chancellor of the fifth circuit, city on Utica[?] now sitting Samuel Bacon, a resident of Trenton in the county of Oneida and state of New York, aged seventy seven 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 of 1832, that he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. I enlisted under Lieutenant Young, of Lancaster, in upper Cohos, for, I think three years, and received five dollars bounty, in April 1777 being 15 years of age. I afterwards joined Capt Coome & company in Co. Woodbridge regiment, in Gen. Warners Brigade in old H[?] ley Hampshire County, Massachusetts, of the Massachusetts line. I was born on the 5th April A. D. 1762 in the town of Medford, County of Suffolk, state of Massachusetts. I have not any record with me but I expect that my birth was recorded by Mr. Toovil[?] our Minister and I suppose the record is now in the parish of Medford. In the year 1777 my Mother persuaded me to go with Abraham Guile who had been a boarder at our house and a sitter at Cambridge to the upper Cohos. I was at this time desirous to go a privateering  and to prevent this my mother had sent me so far away from home with Guile. One of my brothers had already left home and gone of board of Captain Munley's [?] vessel who had also been a boarder at our house. After arriving at the upper Cohos I embraced an opportunity and enlisted under Lieut Young as above stated. At this time I was 15 years old. I entered the service at Stillwater after the British had left Ticonderoga and before the battle of Bennington fought by Gen Starks. Between these two counts I joined the army and our bridgade was engaged in the first battle at Stillwater. How long it was before the second battle I do not exactly remember but on the morning of that engagement, ten of us got liberty to go out of the camp into the country. We went out to different Houses a mile or two from the camp when we heard a brisk firing and hastened back to the camp. When we arrived there our regiment were all gone and were engaged in the battle. But we knew not where our regiment was engaged and went to General Gates to enquire. Gen Gates was on the  little fort in the rear of the battle and he immediately addressed us thus when we asked him where we should go. Strok[?] your armies in the fort and let that young man meaning me stay with them and the
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rest of you go out and help bring in the wounded. One of the Aids [Aides] came in with his fingers bleeding and said the darned British had shot his ring off. After the battle we went back to our tent. The next morning the British retreated back to Saratoga and we were ordered to strike our tents and follow, which we did, but it rained so hard that we were ordered back and pitched them again. But the next day we struck tents and followed on after the British. We marched on through the place where they encamped and there we were ordered to flank off to the left which we did and marched all day and at night we came in sight of Saratoga. We encamped but did not pitch our tents and after we had built our fires the British fired some shots at us and we were ordered to put out the fires and go back under the hill out of the reach of their shot. The next morning we were ordered on towards the front and came to Schuyler Mills but the mills and the bridge were burnt and our regiment crossed on the logs in the milldam. When we got on the other side we were drawn up in a circle and informed that we were a going to st[?] the fort and the orders were read. Then we formed a line and marched towards the fort till we came to a log fence and there we halted awhile. Orders were then given to march to another fence prehaps [perhaps] 40 rods ahead where we halted again a few minutes and then marched again till we came to a gutter of considerable depth and width where we were ordered to stop and unswing our packs and stack them. One Elias Smith solicited to guard the packs but the Captain said he was a great stout young man and could handle the ax to cut down the pi [inkblot] and that I was to small. Then Smith burst out a crying and I said let him stay I had as live go as not. Shortly after we had orders to march up to the fort and we left the gutter and marched a few rods when a cannon was discharged from the embrasure opposite us and the grape shot passed directly over our company. At this we all fell back and made for the gutter as fast as possible. We had orders to march up again but did not and why we did not I never knew. We lay in the gutter till evening when we were ordered back far enough to form a picket guard and I was one of the first of them on sentry and my post was by a tree where the cannon had raked all day. From that day we lay upon our arms till the surrender of Burgoyne a period of days during which time we were called upon the lines every few hours. It is unnecessary to discribe [describe] the fatigue and anxiety which we all endured during this time till Burgoyne surrendered; every one knows that our sufferings were grate [great] As it was reported that the Boston forces
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were to guard Burgoyne, the hearts of many of us were cheered with the hope of soon seeing our homes again and our disappointment when after Burgoyne had passed through we heared [heard] that the Connecticut forces were to guard him, was very grate [great]. We were ordered back to pitch our tents where we struck them in the morning and remained there till orders came to march down the river. Our bagage [baggage] was carred on batteux and we went all the way by land till we came to Newburg. On our way thither we passed through Albany to Catskill creek where we lost our boat and all the bagage [baggage], blankets and every thing except our guns. We arrived at the mouth of the creek a little before night and the boat had not yet arrived and it rained very hard and there being but one house there, and that full; we went up the creek to look for shelter. the boat did not arrive till dark. They drew the boat on the bank and went into the house to warm and the creek rose so fast that the boat drifted so when they returned it had gone and the bagage [baggage]. Our distress after then for three days was massive[?]. My eye sight was greatly [?] and it was with the greatest difficulty we could procure sufficient food to support life. At Newburg we took a sloop and [?] the third day. A night i had not a mouthful of  food. We landed at Peekskill and there we marched to Tarrytown where we were dismissed the last of December or the first of January I cannot remember which. I never received a discharge. I have no documentary evidence and I know of no person whose testimony I can procure who can testify to my services. I hearby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State. Te whole time that I was a soldier was about nine months. Sworn to and subscribed, this day and year aforesaid. Since the war I resided in Lanesborough Berkshier [Berkshire?] Massachusetts for 41 years, and am now a resident of Trenton in the county of Oneida & state of New York. 
Samuel Bacon
Sworn transcribed and aforesaid before one N. Williams him Chancellor.

We Luther Guiteau and John Billings residing in the county of Oneida town of Trenton and state of New York hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Bacon who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy years of age. that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion & believe him a man of truth and veracity. 
Luther Guiteau
John Billings


Sworn and subscribed Sept 14th 1832 before me
John Storrs, Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Clerk's Office Oneida County: I George Brown, Clerk of the said County do certify that John Storrs Esq before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn was on the day of the date to the same one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said county and duly authorized by law to act as such and that I am well acquainted with his handwriting and verily believe the signature "John Storrs" subscribed thereto to be genuine. [Illegible] ny hand and seal of office the fifth day of October AD 1832.
George Brown, Clerk
Joseph B, Read, Dpt Clerk
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the Investigation of the Matter and after filing the Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above applicant was a Revolutionary War soldier served as he states, And the court further certifies that Luther Guithan and John Billings who signed the  foregoing certificate are residents of the town of [Illegible] County of Oneida and are credible persons and it appears that the clergyman at the church to which the [Illegible] belongs has been lately [Illegible].
I James Watson Williams Clerk of the 
court of Chancery for the fifth Circuit of the State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the Matter of the application of Samuel Bacon for a pension.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set  my hand and seal of office the fifth day of October AD 1832 
J Watson Williams, Clerk in Chancery Fifth Circuit New York
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Samuel Bacon 
admitted
9mo Private

5.17
GOC '92
13 Dec

D154
J. Billings
Trenton
Oneida
New York
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No. 11601
Brief in the case of Samuel Bacon of Trenton County of Oneida in the state of New York (Act 7th June, 1832)

1. Was the declaration made before a court of a Judge? Before a court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily imfirmity?
3. How old is he? 70 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period. In 1777 Aprile
Duration of Service. about 9 [months]
Rank. As a private
Names of Generals and Field Officers under whom he served. Capt Cooke, Col. Woodbridge, General Warner
5. In what battles was he engaged? Battle of Stillwater
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? at Stillwater
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By traditionary evidence
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?

I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
James Ord Examining Clerk
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State of New York
Oneida County

On this 23d day of February 1843
personally appeared in the Court of Common
pleas of Oneida County Anna Bacon
resident of Trenton in the County of Oneida aged 74 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" That this the widow of Samuel Bacon who was private in the war of the Revolution, and a pensioner under the act 1832

She further declares that she was married
to the said Samuel Bacon in the month of
January and the 17th day of January 1777 at Lanesboro [Lanesborough] Berkshire County
Mass. That she was married by the Revered
Daniel Collins that there is no record of his
marriage as will appear from the affidavit
hereto annexed - that she refers to the annexed
affidavits in support of her marriage - That her
husband the aforesaid Samuel Bacon died on
the first day of May 1840 at Trenton Oneida
that she was not married to him prior to
his leaving the service - but the marriage took
place previous to the first of January 1794 in the time above stated, her maidin [maiden] name was Guiteau.
Sworn to and subscribed in
open Court the day & year above written
Anna Bacon
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State of New York Oneida County
-
Luther Guiteau of Trenton in said
County aged 63 years in June last being
duly sworn deposes and says that he is well
acquainted with Anna Bacon within named who
is a sister of this deponent - that he was present at her marriage which took place at Lanesboro [Lanesborough] Mass in the month of January 1787 as stated in her affidavit and the ceremony was performed by the Rev Daniel
Collins - This deponent well recollects the circumstances as this was the first marriage which had taken place in his fathers family and
this deponent further says that the
said Samuel Bacon died on the first day of
May 1840. This deponent was his attending physician the did at Trenton Oneida- and that the said Anna Bacon has remained a widow ever since his death

Sworn to in open court
this 23 day of February
1843. and I certify that
Doctor Guiteau the witness
above named is a man
great respectability [?]
P. Sheldon Root, Clk

Sideways Below:
8779
Anna bacon Declaration
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4959
Albany, New York
Anna Bacon widow of Samuel Bacon N.Y. who was a private in the Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 23 dollars 33 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of pension issued the 17 day of Feb 1844 and sent to Hon. S Beardsley House of Rep

Act of March 3 1843
Recorded in Book A, Vol 1, Page 259
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In the matter of Anna Bacon an applicant pension additional proof

Benj [Benjamin] P. Johnson
agent Rome N.Y.

23.33
Hon, S Beardsly HR
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I certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of Samuel Bacon, late a Pensioner of the Untied States, deceased, and that the annexed record is in his own proper hand writing and I further certify that I, this day, saw said record torn from an old family Bible belonging to the family of said Samuel Bacon deceased
Trenton Aug 10 1984
T Jos Douglas

Sworn and subscribed before me, this 10th day of August 1843. James W Watkins, Justice of the Peace
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Clerk Office Oneida County
I, P. Sheldon Root, clerk of said county do certify that James W. Watkins Esq [Esquire] before when the annexed affidavit was taken was at the time of taking the paper a Justice of the Peace, in & for said County, duly authorized to take the same and further that I am well acquainted with his hand writing & firmly believe that his signature to the same is genuine. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed this seal of Oneida county this  12th day of July 1843
P Sheldon Root, Clerk
Wm F Kittle Def.
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[illegible] Bacon born Apl [illegible] 17[illegible]
Anna Guster born Sept 10 - 17[illegible]
& Both Married June 17 -17[illegible]
Saml Bacon [illegible] Feb 10 1744
Anna Bacon born March 8 - 1754
Sally Bacon born april 10 17[illegible]
Timot Bacon borm May 22 17[illegbile]
Betsy Bacon born april 15 17[illegible]
Eb E W Bacon born Jany 1 [illegible]
Lewis Bacon born Janry 11 1801
Frances N Bacon Nov 22 - 1804
George G. Bacon born august 16 1811

Bacon
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State of New York
Oneida County ss

Harriet Bacon of Trenton in said County, being duly sworn deposes and says, that she is daughter of Samuel Bacon and Anna Bacon, and is aged 49 years, and upwards–– that the Bible which accompanies this, marked S. B on the cover, is the Bible from which the Record was taken which was sent to the War Department in the application of Anna Bacon for a pension under the act of 1838 ––that said record was in the hand writing of her father Samuel Bacon, and was entered in said Bible about the year 1830–– having been transcribed from an old Bible on which the family record had been originally entered –– which record was also in the hand writing of the said Samuel Bacon––
And this deponent further says that the said Bible from which said record was transferred, has been lost for several years–– and that this deponent does not believe that the same is now in existence.
And this deponent further deportes and says that the sampler annexed on which is worked part of the Family Record of the said Samuel and Anna Bacon, was worked by this deponent when she was either 10 or 11 years of age, being 38 or 39 years of age. That said sampler was worked from the record [underlined] in the Bible above referred to, and from which the copy was taken and transferred to the Bible which accompanies this affidavit––––
And this deponent further says that her father the said Samuel Bacon
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died may 1st 1840 and further says not

Sworn and subscribed           }
before me this 4th day of      }
January 1844, and I certify     } Harriet Bacon 
that this is a woman of          } 
credibility truth and veracity }
Benj P. Johnson [signature]
JoP Court Comm

State of New York
Oneida County SS.
John Billings of Trenton in said county, being duly sworn deposes and says, that he was well acquainted with Samuel Bacon in his life time - and has known him and his wife Anna Bacon since the year 1800 - first became acquainted with them at Lanesboro Mass. and afterwards knew them at Trenton, Oneida County N.Y - That the said Samuel Bacon was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States - 
that the said Samuel & Anna Bacon lived together as man & wife and were always reputed to have been married at a very early day - and that this deponent knew them as persons of integrity and veracity & that he
has no reason to doubt, that their marriage took place as stated in the papers of Mrs Bacon in [word crossed out] 1787. - That they were ever esteemed persons of character and respectability, and that for credit in the opinion of this deponent ought
to be given to her statements -
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and further this deponent says not. 
John Billings

Sworn and subscribed before me this 4th day of January 1844 and further certify that the said John Billings is a man of credibility truth and veracity.
Benj. P. Johnson
[illegible] Court Comm

State of New York 
Oneida County
Anna Bacon widow of Samuel Bacon being duly [illegible] appeared and says that she has heard the affidavit of her daughter Harriet Bacon hereto annexed read- That the facts therein stated relative to the [illegible] of the record to the Bible from which the record [illegible] to Washington was [illegible]. [Illegible] the working the daughter which is hereto annexed as stated by her daughter are in all respects just and true and this 
[illegible] says that the old Bible [illegible] which the record was transcribed has been lost for many years, and is [illegible] in existence. [Illegible] knowledge or belief of this deponent.
Anna Bacon

Subscribed and Sworn before me this 4th day of January 1844. I certify that I am acquainted with the said Anna Bacon and she is a woman of credibility, truth, and veracity. 
Benj. P Johnson, [illegible]
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[handwritten note: Rev War]
12.119
Invalid.
File No. 12,119
Samuel Bacon
Priv. Rev. war
Act: June 17th 1832
Index: —Vol. A Page 23
{Arrangement of 1870.}
Consolidated with
Wid. File #20681
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Rev
Widow, &c.
File No. 20,681
Anna Bacon
Widow of Samuel Bacon
Priv. Rev. War
Act Mar. 3 1843
Index: Vol. A, Page 38
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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No. 8779
Anna Bacon
N.Y.
let to B P. Johnson Apr. 24, 1843
April 24' 43
" " " " " Oct. 7 1843
Act. 7 July 1838
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New York 8035
Anna Bacon
widow of Samuel Bacon
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 1st May 1840 of Oneida Co. in the State of N. York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Martin of the regt. commanded by Col. Warner in the N. York line for 7 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27th day of January 1844 and sent to Hon. S. Beardsly, House of Representatives.
Total Amount, $110.65
[Act July 7, 1838]
Recorded by D Brown Clerk,
Book D. Vol. 1 Page 149
[handwritten opposite: Rep.]
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[handwritten in dark shadow: NY Feb 14, 44]

NY
Mar 3 1843
Ann Bacon
$23:33 per an.
Hon. S. Beardsly
HR
[handwritten sideways over center of page:
J L Edwards
Pension Office]
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[Handwritten note across the top of page: Receipt for Bible filed June 30 1872

20681
Anna Bacon
Widow of Samuel Bacon
Priv Rev War
1844
Trenton Oneida Co. NY.
Affidavit &
Sampler Received by
Daughter Harriet Bacon
Witness John Billings
T. Jos Douglas
Agent
Benj. P. Johnson
Rome Oneida Co NY
Hon Samuel Beardsly
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In the matter of
Anna Bacon
Under act 1838
Addl. affidavits
Benj P Johnson
Agent, Rome NY.

Can
Hon Saml Beardsly
Member Congress
Washington
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State of New York
Oneida County ss.  Personally appeared before me, the undersigned Justice of the Peace of Trenton in said county, Samuel Bacon, who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned, below, and in the following grade: For at least nine months, I served, as a private soldier, in the Revolutionary war, (and I think something longer, but am not positive;) and for such service I claim a pension.
Samuel Bacon
Subscribed and sworn 
Jany. 25th 1833 before me
John Storrs, Justice of the Peace,
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Anna Bacon
Certificates
& Records in Lanesboro
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Berkshire ss
I do herby certify that I have carefully examined the records of the Congregational church in Lanesborough Mass. and that I do not find on the said records, the record of a marriage between Samuel Bacon & Anna Guiteau. the records of the church under the Pastoral charge of the Rev. Daniel Collins are defection There are but a few of the Marriages Solemnized by Rev. Daniel Collins recorded on the records of the Church. If he had a separate record of Marriages it is lost or carried away by his Family
Attest
Richard Whitney Clerk of's Church & Parish
& Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Oneida County
on this Seventh day of February 1844 before the subscribed in a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, personally appeared Anna Bacon a resident of the Town of Trenton in Said County, aged Seventy five years, who being first duly sworn, according to law. doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Provision made by the act of Congress framed on the 8th of March 1843 granting Pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war.

That she is the widow of Samuel Bacon who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States and served as a private in the war of the Revolution.

And that she received under the act of July 7th 1838 a pension of $23.33/100 per annum; she further declares that she remains a widow and has done so ever since the death of her husband.
[signed: Anna Bacon]

State of New York
Oneida County  sworn and subscribed before me the day and year above written and I further certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Anna Bacon. I know her to be the person described in the above declaration & who was a pensioner under the act of July 7 1838
James W. Watkins Justice
State of New York
Clerks Office
Oneida County J. Delos Dewolf Clerk of the said County certify that
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James W. Watkins Esquire was on the 7th day of February 1844 a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Oneida duly elected and qualified to act as such, and that his signature subscribed to the acknowledgement or proof of the foregoing deposition is genuine.

In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed my Official seal; and subscribed my name Feby. 9, 1844
Delos Dewolf Clerk
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[written on side: 
Aug 17 43
NY 
Addl proof [?]
Anna Bacon]

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, DC
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Rome N.Y.
August 12th, 1843
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Sir
Enclosed are the papers additional in the case of Anna Bacon showing the date of marriage by a record from an old family Bible—and also the certificate from the church clerk that there is no record of marriage at the place where the marriage took place.
Returns are most respectfully requested to the subscriber.
I am most respectfully 
your ob. Sevt.
Benj P. Johnson
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Anna Bacon 
City Secty & 
Comptroller NY
Oct 1843.
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State of New York
Secretary's Office
I have carefully examined the Military Register in this office and do certify that I found no soldier returned in the same of the name of
Samuel Bacon.

There is no return in this office as far as I know of the soldiers who served in Colonel Seth
Warners Regiment.

Ar.chd Campbell [signature]
Dep Sec. of State.

Albany Oct. 16. 1843
fees 25 cents

Comptrollers Officeons
Albany Act 17th 1843
I have carefully examined the books & rolls in this office and do certify that I found no soldier returned in the same of the name of Saml Bacon
J. Gardine [signature] Comp Clerk

fees 25 cts

Turn over
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[written vertically along left side of page]
8779
Mar 23 '43

[round stamp]
MAR 17

N.Y.
July 7. 1838,
Anna Bacon
Samuel

[written horizontally on page]
Hon. J.L. Edwards
Comr. Pensions
Washington
Dist Col
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Rome Oneida. N.Y.
March 16th 1843

Hon. J.L. Edwards
[illegible]
I have the honor to inclose you the papers of Anna Bacon under act 1848 - Plan to send returns to the subscriber.

I am most respectfully
Your obt sevt
Benjn P Johnson. [signature]
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3 Oct 12
13370.
Oct 13. 1840
Pension Office

[round stamp on left side of page]
[illegible]
OCT 8

Free
J. Billings P.M

Hon. J. R. Poinsett
Secretary of War
Washington

Saml. Bacon
N.Y. M
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Trenton, Oneida Co. N. York
Oct 8th 1840

Hon J.R. Poinsett, 
Sir, I address you, at this time, in behalf of Mrs. Anna Bacon, Widow of Samuel Bacon, who died on the 1st day of May last and who was, at the time of his death a pensioner, for services rendered the U.S. during the war of the Revolution. Mrs. Bacon is in very low circumstances, & if entitled to the pension which was granted to her late Husband, it will, small as it was, be of great relief to her—
She was married to the said Samuel Bacon whose widow she now remains, in the year 1786 or 1787— the precise time when – the place where & by whom married, she can fully prove – As I am not acquainted with the act of Congress granting pensions, I respectfully enquire whether hers is a case coming under the act, for the relief or benefit of widows, & if so whether the proof above mentioned is all that she will be required to make?
Very respectfully yours
ob. sevt. 
J. Billings
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Affidavit of
Preserved Wheeler
&c in the case
of Mrs Bacon
for a pension
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Berkshire County ss,
I Henry W. Brown Town Clerk of the Town of Lanesborough in said County for the year
1840. Certify that there is no record of the Marriage of Samuel Bacon and Anna Guiteau on the Records of said Town - Witness my hand this twenty ninth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred & forty-
H. W. Brown [signature] Town Clerk

Berkshire ss. Sept 29th 1840 
The personally appeared Henry W. Brown above named and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true
Before me Richard Whitney [signature] 
Just. of Peace

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.

Berkshire, ss.
I Charles Sedgwick, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Berkshire, do certify, that Richard Whitney
Esquire, whose signature is [is is crossed out] are affixed to the certificates, on the paper hereunto annexed, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Whitney and believe his signatures to said certificates, is [is is crossed out] are genuine.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said Commonwealth, this thirtieth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty.
Chas Sedgwick [signature] CLERK.

[round seal to left of the above paragraph]
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Rome
Jany 4 1844

Hon Samuel Beardsley,
SS.  Enclosed are some addl papers in the case of Mrs Anna Bacon of Trenton [illegible]  I also enclose you letter from Department of 7th oct 1843.  Mr Bacon proved by her brother Daut of Luther Guiteau [name is underlined] but whom you are acquainted her marriage in Feby last.  She then did not know of any Record in Bible -

In August last a Bible was found in the family
from which a record was taken which had been written therein by my Bacon, husband - 

The affidavits herewith enclosed - [illegible] when this record was made - but in 1830, the same year the Bible was published from an old Bible which is lost

I also enclose a sample worked by one of Mr Bacons, daughters, in 1804. or 1805  This testifies that she worked that from the old Bible [from the old Bible is underlined] from which the Record put on in August last was
taken & transferred -

I also enclose the Certificate of the
Secretary State showing there is no record of
service in the office - and that there is no record [no record is underlined] those [illegible] who served in Col. Seth Warners Regt.  Mr Bacon drew his pension, and the proof on which
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he drew, should be sufficient to give the widow
her pension. Such [illegible] is the Law, and 
should be its construction.
I presume these affidavits which
I send you will be sufficient.
I also forward the Bible as
requested by the Com Pensions.
Your knowledge of the high standing
of Dr. Guiteau & John Billings, &c will satisfy
the Department I doubt not, that all is right.
I am most respectfully
Your obt Sevt
Benj P. Johnson
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In the matters of
Anna Bacon
Letter from Com Pensions
Oct [illegible] 1863.
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Pension Office
October 7, 1843
Sir,
The papers in the case of Anna Bacon, Claiming a
pension under the act of July 7, 1838, have been examined and
filed. The proof of the time of the Marriage is not satisfactory,
the book from which the family register, so called, was taken, should
be produced. The Certificate of the Comptroller of New York should
be produced to establish the Service of Semuel Bacon, who says he
volunteered in 1778, in a company commanded by Captain Martin
in the New York State troops, and was under the command of
Colonel Warner and served for seven months.

I am very respectfully,
Your ob Servant,
Geo Wm Crump

B.P. Johnson, Esq
Rome,
New York
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Treasury Department,
Second Comptroller's Office
March 20th, 1843.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act
directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners,
and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United 
States," and the 3d section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending
the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pen-
sion agents, the widow of Samuel Bacon, decd..
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany, N.Y.
Agency, at the rate of thirty Dollars
and Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June
1832, has been paid at this Department, from the
4th of March to the 1st May 1840.
Respectfully, yours, 
Albion K. Parris 
Comptroller

To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.
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J.L. Edwards
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Washington Jany 9 [illegible]
Sir
I send papers, including a
bible in the case of Anna
Bacon - which, I trust,
are sufficient to establish the
truth of her claim.
I am &c yours
Saml Beardsley

J.L. Edwards
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J.L. Edwards
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HO: of [illegible]: Feby 13 [illegible]
Sir,
Mr Johnson enclosed this written to me
saying it was for 1 years pension under
the act of 1843
I am &c
Saml Beardsley
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Washington June 5th 1834
Dr Sir
I return you the Papers of Samuel 
Bacon with a [illegible] of authentication
and duly certified. I hope a Certificate
will supersede the necessity of further
correspondence on this case.
Enclosed is also a supplementary
afft in support of the Claims of 
Samuel Patchin whose papers are now
in the office. If the evidence be still 
defective Please inform.
Yours &c
Henry C. Martindale

JL Edwards Esq
Commr of Pensions
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Anna Bacon
family record filed
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[illegible]
Division
Department of the Interior
Pension Office.
Washington, D.C. June 11th, 1877

Sir: Please furnish this office with
the names and post office address of some
of the descendants of Anna Bacon
Widow of Samuel Bacon late [illegible] Rev War,
who formerly resided in your town
Application for pension was made by 
the widow in 1844 through her agent
Benj P Johnson, Rome, Oneida Co NY
A bible containing a family record
as filed in evidence. It is now
desired to return said bible to the
family.
Please return this letter with your reply
Very respectfully
Jas Bentley
Commissioner
[illegible]

To the 
Postmaster
Trenton
Oneida Co NY
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File No. 20,681
Bacon

[Oval stamp]
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
JUN 29 1877
PENSION OFFICE.

Wiel [handwritten on right side of page]

[writte vertically on bottom right of page]
Respectfully
Laura Bacon
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B S Div
File No. 20681 Pension

Department of the Interior
Pension Office
Washington D.C. June 22 1877

Miss Laura Bacon
I herewith transmit to your address an old family Bible belonging to your Parents and sent to this office in 1844 by Mrs. Anna Bacon to be filed in evidence in her application for pension

You will please acknowledge the receipt of the Bible on the back of this letter and return it to this office in the enclosed envelope. 

[written on the side: Bible published in 1820
Very respectfully
J A Bentley
Commissioner
Pen office [?]
Trenton
Oneida Co.
N.Y.
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Trenton June 25, 1877

Sir
the Bible is thankfully received. I am disappointed & regret that the family record is taken out. 
Respectfully,
Laura Bacon

[written on the side: File No. 20681 Bacon Wid.
Stamp: Department of the Interior
Jun 29 1877
Pension Office]
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Department of Intrior
Jun 21 1877
Pension Office

P.O. Trenton Oneida Co
J.A. Burthy
N.Y. June 19/77
Commission
Sir
In reply to the inclosed should
say Miss Laura Bacon the Daughter
of Samuel & Anna Bacon resides
in this town and would
be glad to receive the Bible
Respectfully [illegible]
G. Richard [illegible}
,