Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21,259, Samuel Havens, Vt.
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Vt. Havens Samuel  W. 21.259
                   Olive
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Letter to Pension Agent April 8th 1842
to J. Douglass Woodward, April 30, 1842

14997
Albany New York
Samuel Havens, dec'd.
of Clinton Co. in the State of New York who was a  Private in the comp'y. commanded by Captain Comstock of the Regt. commanded by Col. Fitch in the Vermont line for 7 months, + 6 days 
Increased from $20 77/100
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany N.Y. at the rate of 24 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of ['March, 1834' crossed out] September 1837.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of April 1822 + sent to J. and D. Woodward Plattsburg New York
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1839 $4.82
['Semi-annual' crossed out] allowance ending 22nd August 1839 the day of his death} 1.38
[sum] $6.22

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by D. D. Addison Clerk, Book E Vol. 4 Page 31 {Payment to be made to Olive Havens, widow of said deceased}
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1416 
New York Albany
Olive Havens. widow of Samuel Havens [annotated: Vt] who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 24 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of August 1848 and sent to 
William Hedding
West Chazy
Clinton Co. NY
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848. Page 83 Vol. 4. 

Reported
List
H. H. Sylvester Aprl 9/51 -
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14393.
Samuel Havens application for a pension -
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State of New York
Clinton County ss.
Daniel Baker of the town of Beekmantown in the said County + State of New York being sworn maketh oath and says that he is Sixty Seven years old, that he was a Soldier in the Revolutionary War in the militia of the State of Vermont that in the Spring of 1781 the town of Manchester in the said State was [illegible] and  has been obliged to furnish a Substitute, for the term of one year - that Samuel Havens of the town of Chazy in the County of Clinton, was a substitute for one of the said [illegible]; that this deponent served with him in the same company with left said Samuel Havens int for about ten months + then left the company but left the said Samuel Havens in the service. That he now well knows the said Havens + that he is the identical Samuel Havens now applying for a pension - that their Captain was Daniel Comstock, their Major Gideon Ormsby - Col. Fletcher's Regiment - 
/s/Daniel Baker
Sworn to + Subscribed this 3d day of October A. D. 1832
/s/Julius C. Hubbell
Commission of Dev.
Clinton County ss. I hereby certify that I am acquainted with Daniel Baker who made the above affidavit is a reputable inhabitant of this town
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of Beekmantown in the County of Clinton and that he is a credible witness + that his testimony may be [illegible] - Dated May 22d 1833 - 
/s/Julius C. Hubbell Justice of the Peace - 

State of New York
Clinton County}ss. I George M. Beckwith acting Clerk of the said County do certify that Julius C. Hubbell before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same a Commissioner of deed in and for the said county duly appointed and authorised by Law to administer oaths and to take affidavits, and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature - Witness my hand and Seal of Office this fourth day of October 1832 - 
/s/Geo M. Beckwith acting clerk

State of New York
Clinton County } ss. I Nathan Taylor Clerk of the County of Clinton do certify that Julius C. Hubbell Esq. by whom the above certificate purports to have been made was at the rate of the same ( to Wit. on the 22d day of May instant) one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said Certificate to be in his proper hand writing and Signature - 
Witness my hand and Seal of Office this 25th day of May A.D. - 1833
/s/Nathan Taylor Clerk
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 - 

State of New York
County of Clinton ss.

On this fourth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two - personally appeared in open court before John Farmer John Warsam and James W. Wood - 
the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid, now sitting Samuel Havens a resident of Chazy in the County of Clinton + State of New York aged sixty six years last August who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 - 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated - that he was born in the town of Glocester in the State of Rhode Island, in the year 1765 - but has no record of his age, except one kept by himself in an account book - that when he entered the Service of the United States, he lived in the town of Manchester Bennington County + State of Vermont, - that in the spring of the year of 1781 thence came across to the state to [illegible] a certain number of men in each town, and the town of Manchester aforesaid were [illegible] for the term of one year, that he was hired for a class and as per substitute for said class, and as such substitute
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engaged for the term of one year as a soldier in the militia of the State of Vermont - that he belonged to a company commanded by Captain Daniel Comstock, Lieut Daniel + Ensign James Lewis, Colonel Fletcher's Regiment and under the Command of Major Gideon Ormsby none of whom are alive to his knowledge - that he joined the Company in the town of Pittsford in the County of Rutland, State aforesaid - Joseph White was the Captain of another company, stationed at the same place, that their duty and business was to keep guard, and scout to Lake Champlain - that his Father Cornelius Havens + a Brother Cornelius Havens Jr. were with him at the same time, + for the same length of time, both of which have been dead several years, that his Father and two other Brothers Joseph Havens + Banasah Havens, entered the service of the United States at Boston, in the first of the war, now are dead - 
That he served out his time, but was permitted to go home sometime in the winter - that he received a discharge as his Father did for him, but when it is, does not at this period knows - That has no documentary evidence. - 
That he lived in Manchester aforesaid after his return six or seven years, from whence he removed to the town of Essex [illegible] the County of Essex, in the State of New York, where he lived about twenty years - from thence removed to Chazy aforesaid whence he has since lived and now remains - He hereby relinquishes every
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claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State - that he has no documentary evidence, and does not now know of any surviving witness or witnesses whose testimony he can provide and who can testify to this services, except Daniel Baker annexed - 
That he states the names of the following persons to whim he is known in his present neighborhood, and who can testify as to his veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution, viz, Solomon Wood + Shuble Burdick junior
/s/Samuel Havens
Sworn to, + subscribed  the day + year aforesaid in open court before me - 
/s/Geo M. Beckwith, Acting Clerk of Clinton Com. Pleas

Mr. Solomon Wood + Shubel Burdick junior residing i the town of Chazy in the County of Clinton + State of New York, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Havens, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, and we believe him to be Sixty Six 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-
/s/S. Burdick Jr.
/s/Solomon Wood
Sworn + subscribed the day + year aforesaid in open Court before me -}
/s/Geo. M. Beckwith
Acting Clerk of Clinton Com. Pleas -
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And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states - And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Shubel Burdick Junior + Solomon Wood who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in the town of Chazy in the County of Clinton and State of New York, and are credible persons, and that their statement are entitled to wit - 
I George M. Beckwith acting clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Clinton do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Samuel Havens for a pension - 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this fourth day of October 1832 - 
/s/Geo. M. Beckwith acting clerk
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Top middle: 8153

Olive Havens
declaration
--- July 7, 1838

husband died in 1839

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7 mo.  6 days
24 $

J.D. Woodward
Plattsburgh
N.Y.
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State of New York
County of Clinton ss. On this Eleventh day of March 1841, personally approved before William Hedding a Judge of County Court of said County. Olive Havens a resident of Chazy in said county aged sixty nine years who being first duly sworn doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision which has been made and which may hereafter be made by act of Congress for widows.
That she is the widow of Samuel Havens who was a soldier in the army of the Revolution and as she believes served one year under Captain Comstock of the Vermont Troops. He is the same person named in the annexed pension certificate which for some reason appears to be for a sum less than that to which she supposes her husband was entitled. She further declares that her maiden name was Olive Sawyer, and she was married at Charlotte Vermont by [blank] Hosford Esq., Justice of the Peace on the fifth day of March Seventeen hundred and eighty nine, but has no record of her marriage and that her husband the aforesaid Samuel Havens died at Chazy New York on the twenty second day of August eighteen hundred and thirty nine. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four vis. at the time above stated.
/s/ X her mark Olive Havens
Sworn and Subscribed to before me on the day and year first above written, and I certify that deponent is a credible person + cannot write her name having never learned how + that she is unable by reason of bodily infirmity to attend court which sits more than eleven miles from where this declaration is taken , & she appears old + feeble and has difficulty in getting about.}
/s/William Hedding, a Judge of Clinton County Courts.
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Olive Havens 
Declaration to obtain a pension.
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State of New York
County of Clinton ss.  Jonathan S. Havens of Chazy in said County being duly sworn says that his Father Samuel Havens was a Revolutionary pensioner under the act of 1832. and drew a pension under the annexed certificate up to 4 March 1839. That he died at Chazy aforesaid on the twenty second day of August 1839 leaving a widow whose name is Olive Havens (mother of Deponent) and she still remains a widow and resides in Deponent's family - Deponent has always understood from his Parents that their marriage took place in March seventeen hundred and Eighty nine - and he believes it did.
/s/J. S. Havens
Sworn and Subscribed to before me this Eleventh day of March 1841 and I certify that Deponent is a credible witness.}
/s/William Hedding, a Judge of Clinton County Courts
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State of New York
County of Clinton ss}
[court seal affixed] I the Subscriber clerk of said County certify that William before whom the within declaration of Mrs. Olive Havens + affidavit of Jonathan S. Havens were taken and Sworn on the Eleventh day of March 1841, was at said time a Judge of Clinton Courts and at Plattsburg this first day of November AD 1841. These papers are fastened together by a piece of red tape the ends of which pass under my said official seal. - 
/s/Smith Mead Clerk

8153
Olive Havens
declaration
Act July 7, 1838.
husband died in 1839.
adm'd
7 mo. 6 days
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24$

JD Woodward Esq
Plattsburgh NY.
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14393
Samuel Havens 
Clinton County N.Y.

Admitted Private 12 months
['admitted as Private' crossed out]

14 P. 382
Admitted 

6 months & 7 days 
Treasurer's Certificate

May 8 '35

J. C. Hubbell esq.
Chazy, New York,
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BRIEF in the case of Samuel Havens of Clinton Co in the State of N. York
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? open Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 66 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
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[column headings: Period.|Duration of Service.(Years,|Months,|Days.)|Rank.(As a)| Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.(Gen.)|]
Spring In 1781|(1| - |[blank])| Private|(Capt. Comstock Col. Fitch)|]

5. In what battles was he engaged? none
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Manchester Vermont
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, 
or by the rolls? By a living witness & tradition.
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned. 
/s/Richard Cutts
Examining Clerk.
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Albany 14,997
Samuel Havens
of Clinton Co. is the State of N. York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Comstock of the Regt commanded by Col. Fitch in the Vermont line 6 months + 7 days
Certification 7 mo 6 days
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Subscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 20 Dollars 77 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
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Certificate of Pension the 3 day of January 1839 and sent to J. C. Hubbell, Chazy, N.Y.
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Arrears to the 4th of 
Semi+anl. allowance ending

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book E.2. Vol. 4 Page 31

Reduced from $40
Agent notified
Let. To H. Hubbell 25 Jan 1839
J. D. Woodward
February 8th 1842
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Susp. See Settlement Per Agt. + Pension in Mar. 20. 1838 - 
Let to I. Aldridge 21, July '38.
 "    to J. C. Hubbell 21. Sep '38

New York 14997
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Samuel Havens of Clinton Co in the State of N. York who was a Private in the Comp commanded by Captain Comstock of the Reg. commanded by Col. Fitch in the Vermont line for 1 Year - 
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Inscribed on the Roll of N. York at the rate 40 Dollars - Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of July 1822 and sent to J. C. Hubbell Chazy
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Arrears to the 4th of Mar 23 $80
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep. 23 $20
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$100
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{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by G. C. Stiles Clerk, 
Book E. Vol. 3. Page 67
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8153
NY.
Rejected
Let. J. D. Woodward
Feby 8, 1842
same Aug 15, 1842
   "     July 6, 1843
Act 7, July 38
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Reported
4185
New York Albany
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Olive Havens widow of Samuel Havens who was a Private in the Revolution 
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 34 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence om the 4th day of March, 1843.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 3rd day of Jany. 1844 and sent to J. D. Woodward
Plattsburgh
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[Act of March 3, 1843.}
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1. Page 100.
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J. L. Edwards
Com. of Pensions
Washington City
[vertically at left]
West Chary N. Y.
April 25
NY May 1
[illegible]
Solo' Wood
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Chazy April 25th. 1838
Sir, I Revd. your Communication under date of March 20th 1838 and agreeable to your advise(sic) I have written and Recd. from the Treasurer of Vermont his certification in relation to Solomon Wood's services rendered in the Vermont Militia in the Revolutionary War, which I forward to you with his statement of facts in relation to the Records, He Certifies that Solomon Wood was in the service 10 months at one time and two days at another as appears by the Rolls which fully established those two points and for which he is entitled to pay. Mr. Wood informs me that you have evidences in the Office the Affidavit of Richard Harkin and his own that he was Called Out in the alarm when Panton was burned by the Tories and indians and that they both took boats and went to Skenesborough and from there to Panton and was out 16 days at that time and that he stood as minute man in the lines for more than two years and until the Close of the war. 
Now Sir with the evidence before you I place implicit confidence in your Judgment and fidelity and that your decision will be in accordance with law and equity - And hope you will communicate to me the result of your deliberations that Mr. Wood may be informed on the Subject.
I am informed that a remark from Mr. Wood in his previous letters to your in relation to the services done y Samuel Havens in the United State Service affected his pension and that it was suspended in consequence of what he had said, I am instructed by Mr. Wood to say that what he said in that letter was not in the least designed to affect
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Mr. Havens' rights, but that the information that Mr. Woods has as to the time of Havens' services was by information and not personal to his own knowledge and that he never thought that Mr. Havens' drew too much or used any deception to gain his pension Certificate, + Can Only say on this subject that I have been acquainted with both of the Claimants and have been for upwards of Forty years and from personal knowledge can with propriety say that they are men of good moral habits truth and veracity and should not think that either would dissemble in order to obtain a pension wrongfully. 
I wish Sir when you answer this you would inform me if Tousent Lavarnway a Refugee Claimant ever had any claims accepted by the department for services rendered in the Revolutionary war as his papers has been made out since two or three years ago with a power of attorney to receive his back pay and the papers and affidavits are lost or suppressed by his agent and he thinks that there is something wrong about it by his atty.  And desired me to inquire of you, I am about to present his claims as soon as I can obtain the requisite proof as to the merits ['of his claims' crossed out], but if there should be any thing heretofore clandestine on the parts of his agent I should like to be informed on the subject as the claimant is ignorant and needy - I am sir with the greatest Respect Your Obt. Servt.
/s/Isaac Aldridge

J. L. Edwards Esquire
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P. S. In the Other Communication to you in making [illegible] out the statement of Mr. Woods I think I wrote that he was at the Battle of Bennington and [illegible] the taking of Burgoyne which if that be [illegible] the [illegible] it is an error as I am informed [illegible] Mr. Woods and that in his Statement he said to me that his two older Brothers were [illegible] in those two Battles, but not himself and that the mistake sits on me in Coppying his [illegible] minutes - He says that he was at Bennington & at the time of the Battles but not engaged in it but was helping our army at that time.
Respectfully yours
/s/I. Aldridge
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Rev'y WIDOW, &C.
File No. 21259 [annotated: aw]
Olive Havens
Wid of Samuel Havens
Priv. Rev. War
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Act: Feb 2d/48
Index: - Vol. A, Page 315
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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f 7635
New York
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Olive Havens widow of Samuel Havens who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died om the 22d August, 1839 - of Clinton County in the State of N. York who was a private - in the company commanded by Captain Comstock - of the Regt commanded by Col. Fitch in the N. Hampshire line for 7 Months + 6 days - 
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Inscribed on the Roll of Albany - at the rate of 24 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 12th: - day of September, 1843 and sent to J. D. Woodward Plattsburgh, N. York
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Whole amount due . . . .$120.00
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by WM Stewart - Clerk, 
Book A vol. 2 Page 84
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[addressed envelope]
Mr. Cole 
[postmark: PLATTSBURGH NY AUG 3]
FREE
Hon J. S. Edwards
Commissioner Pensions
Pen Office
Washington D.C. 
[annotated initials: 'Mah' crossed out]
MW
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West Chazy, Clinton Co. New York
Aug 3d 1848

Dear Sir
Enclosed I send you the Declaration of Olive Havens, widow of Samuel Havens + Elizabeth Howard widow of Stephen Howard for the purpose of obtaining a continuance of their Pensions under the Act of Congress of the 2nd day of February 1848 - 
An early attendance is respectfully requested as they are both needy and in want of the means to live - Please direct the Certificates to the care of William Hedding W. Chazy Clinton Co. NY.
Yours very Respectfully, 
/s/William Hedding

J. S. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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County Clerks Certificate
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State of New York
County of Clinton ss. I the Subscriber Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said county, + of said county, certify that at a Court of Common Pleas hold in and for said County at the Court House in Plattsburgh on the fifth day of October 1841, present Hon. William F. Haile, William Hedding, + George Parsons, Judges, it was proven to the satisfaction of said court that Samuel havens late of Chazy in said County, was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States under the act of June 7, 1832, and died at Chazy aforesaid on the twenty second day of August 1839, leaving a widow whose name is Olive Havens, who is still a widow and resides in Chazy aforesaid. The evidence adduced was satisfactory to said Court and was given in open court before the Judges thereof. 
In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and official seal this fourteenth day of April 1842. In a former certificate of which this is a duplicate, the word "twenty" was omitted by mistake.
/s/EH McLaughlin
Dep. Clerk
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[addressed torn envelope]
FREE

S. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.
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Sir
I enclose the declaration of Mrs. Olive Havens under the act of July 7 1838 + refer to her papers on file.
Yours very Respectfully,
/s/J. D. Woodward
atty
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Olive Havens
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State of New York
County of Clinton} ss.
On this fourteenth day of October A. D. 1850, before me, a Justice of the Peace within and for the county aforesaid, personally appeared Live Havens who being duly sworn according to law, doth, upon her oath, make the following declaration for the purpose of obtaining the full benefit of the Act of Congress of 29th July, 1848, and the Joint Resolution of the 1st of July 1848, to wit:
That she is the widow of Samuel Havens last of the Town of Chazy in said County + State deceased, who was a Pensioner of the United States, at the rate of ['ninety six' crossed out] Forty Dollars per annum: [inserted: for a number of years + after that for a less amount] That since the decease of her said husband, she has been placed upon the pension roll at the rate of twenty four dollars [blank] cents, per annum, and is now in the receipt of said pension. And she further states that she has been advised that by virtue of said Act of 29th July, 1848, and said Joint Resolution of 1st July, 1848, she is entitled to receive the same rate of pension that her said husband received in his life time. or was entitled to
She therefore herewith returns the Certificate she now hold, and prays that a new Certificate may be issued to her for such increase of pension as she may be entitled to by law.
The printed words "ninety six" erased + the words "forty dollars" substituted, + the words" for a number of years + after that for a less amount" substituted + all done before signed
/s/ X her mark Olive Havens

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written, before,}
/s/Ira P. Chamberlain Justice of the Peace

STATE OF NEW YORK,
County of Clinton} ss.
I, Charles H. Jones - Clerk of the said County, do hereby certify that Ira P. Chamberlin was, on the day of the date of the above instrument, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County, and that the signature above, purporting to be his, is genuine.
Witness my hand and official seal, at Plattsburgh this fifteenth day of October A. D. 1850
/s/C. H. Jones Clerk
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Washington Dec. 18 1851

Sir

I enclose for Olive Havens dec't Her dec husband, Samuel Havens, was pensioned at $40, but subsequently reduced to $24.
Will you please cause an examination to be made, on this case.
Yours Respectfully
/s/H. H. Sylvester

Hon J. E. Heath
Comm'r
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Please state the payments to Samuel Havens Albany, first at 40$ per an'm. + afterwards at 20.77/100 per an'm.
/s/G.M.C.

25 March 1842
He was paid to 4 Sep 1837 at $40 per annum + was paid from 4 Sep 1837 to 4th March 1839 at $20.77 - per annum, the former overpayment was not deducted, by the order of the Commissioner of Pensions.
/s/JH
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Olive Havens
Act July 2, 1848.
[initials] Ad
4183
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Admitted

William Hedding
West Chazy
Clinton Co
N.Y.
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Declaration under act of Feby 2. 1848.
State of New York
County of Clinton ss.  On this twenty fourth day of July 1848, before the subscribed Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared Olive Havens a resident of Chazy ['Mooers' crossed out] in said County aged Seventy Six years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on er oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed on the 2d day of february 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war, and that she is the widow of Samuel havens who was a private in the revolutionary army and served as she has been informed and believes about one year in Capt Comstock's Comp'y, Col Fletcher's Regiment of Vermont State Troops, and she received a pension under he act of June 17, 1844 of twenty four dollars per annum. She further declares that she is still a widow.
/s/X her mark Olive Havens

Sworn and subscribed to on the day and year first above written and certify that she is unable to write her name by reason of old age and infirmity.} Witness /s/Orson Hedding

/s/Ira P. Chamberlain Justice Peace}

I certify that the word Chazy was interlaced(?) in the above affidavit before execution - 
/s/Ira P. Chamberlain Justice
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State of New York
Clinton County ss.  I Charles H. Jones Clerk of the Said County, do hereby certify, that Ira P. Chamberlain Esq before whom the within affidavit was taken, was at the time of taking the Same a Justice of the Peace in and for Said County Commissioned, and Sworn, and duly authorized to take the  Same.
And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of Said Justice, and verily believe that the Signature within written, is genuine
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto Subscribed my name + affixed the  Seal of Said County, the third day of August 1848.
/s/Charles H. Jones Clerk,

Olive Havens 
Act feby 2, 1848.
[initials] Ad
4183

Admitted 
William Hedding
West Chazy
Clinton Co 
N.Y.
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Plattsburg. N. Y. April 14th. 1842.
James L. Edwards Esq.
Dear Sir:
There was an error in the Clerks certificate as to the period of Samuel Havens' death, by omitting the work "twenty" which the Clerk has corrected by a new certificate. You will perceive on an examination of Mrs. Havens' declaration and her son's affidavit that Mr. Haven died on the 22nd day of August 1839. Please to alter the enclosed pension certificate by inserting the word "twenty" before the word second in the 10th line from the top.
I presume from your certificate that Mr. Haven [illegible] his pension from March 4th. 1831. to September 4th 1837, at a rate exceeding $20.77. otherwise, the present pension Certificate should be altered by striking out the words 'September eighteen hundred and thirty seven," and inserting the words: March 4, 1831"
An examination of the papers will determine whether or not the above alteration ought to be made.
Yours respectfully,
/s/J. D. Woodward
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Plattsburg Jany 7. 1842

Col. James L. Edwards
Comm.er

Dear Sir., 
I enclose the declaration and papers of Mrs. Olive Havens who supposes herself entitled to a pension for a larger amount than that allowed her late husband.
An examination of his papers and of the enclosed Certificate of C. L. Knapp Esq. may perhaps determine the sum to which she is entitled. 
The arrearages due her from the 4th of March to the 23d day of August 1839 have not been drawn, and She wishes the pension certificate + also the certificate of the Court returned so as to accompany her power of attorney, or that you give the Pension Agent at Albany directions to pay the arrearages upon the widows power without providing the said certificates.
Yours Respectfully, 
J. D. Woodward
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Col
James L. Edwards 
Comm'r
Washington,
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Plattsburg March 17/42

Col. James L. Edwards

Sir, 

I enclose the certificate required by [illegible] of the 8th feby last in the case of Mrs. Olive Havens and wish you to give a new Pension Certificate for the amount to which her husband was entitled.
Yours Respectfully
/s/J. D. Woodward
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County Court. 
Certificate.
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State of New York
County of Clinton ss.
I the subscribed Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said county and of said county certify that at a Court of Common Pleas held in and for said County, at the Court House in Plattsburgh on the fifth day of October 1841 present Hon. William F. Haile, William Hedding, + George Parsons Judges, it was proven to the satisfaction of said Court that Samuel Havens late of Chazy in said county was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States under the act of June 7. 1862, and died at Chazy aforesaid on the second day of August 1839, leaving a widow whose name is Olive Havens, who is still a widow and resides in Chazy aforesaid. The evidence adduced was satisfactory to said Court and was given in open Court before the Judges thereof. 
In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and official seal this seventeenth day of March 1842.
/s/E. H. McLaughlin
Deputy Clerk.
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4038
Olive Havens 
at March 3. 1843 




$24 per annum 




J. D. Woodward 
PlaHsburgh
N.York
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Declaration under Act March 3. 1843.

State of New York
County of Clinton ss. Om the twenty first day of September 1843 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Olive Havens a resident of Mooers in said County aged seventy one years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the Act of Congress passed on the 3d March 1843. granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Samuel Havens who was a private in the Revolutionary Army + spent as she believes one year in Capt Comstock's Company Vermont Troops, and was placed on the Roll of Pensioners at twenty four dollars per annum under the act of July 7. 1838. and the 12th Sept 1843. and is still a widow.
/s/ X her mark Olive Havens
Witness present /s/I. V. Havens
Sworn and Subscribed to the day and year first above written. and I certify that Deponent with whom I was personally acquainted cannot write her name having never learned to write.} 
/s/James Fitch Justice Peace

State of New York
County of Clinton ss. I the subscriber Clerk of said County certify that James Fitch before whom the foregoing ['power' crossed out] declaration of Mrs. Olive Havens was taken and acknowledged on the 21st day of September 1843 a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly qualified and that his signature above is genuine. I being acquainted with his hand writing. - 
Witness my hand and official Seal at Plattsburg the 25th day of September 1843.
/s/John B.L. Skinner
Clerk by E. H. McLaughlin 
Dep. Clerk
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Proof of the Marriage of Mrs. Olive Havens
Louisa Vanornam
Affidavit.

Edmund F. Williams Chazy
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State of New York
County of Essex ss. Louis [Louisa] Vanornam of Brooksfield in said county aged sixty eight years being duly sworn says that Samuel Havens and Olive Sawyer were married at Charlotte Vermont by Daniel Hosford a Justice of the Peace on the fifth day of March seventeen hundred and eighty nine, and that Deponent was present om the occasion and saw the ceremony performed. Deponent is a Sister of said Mrs. Olive Havens and fixes the above as the correct date of the marriage from her recollection of the age of his sister at the time and events of that period. - There is no record of said marriage to her knowledge or belief. 
/s/ X her marks. Louis Vanornam 
Sworn and Subscribed to before me this 18th day of December 1840 and I certify that Deponent is a credible person and cannot write her name having never learned how. 
/s/Wm. S. Merriam
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State of New York
Essex County ss.}  I Edmund F. Williams Clerk of the County of Essex and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, do Certify that William S. Merriam before whom the within affidavit was taken was at the time one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County, duly elected and qualified and authorised to act as such [illegible] in the said County and further that I am well acquainted with the hand Writing of the said Justice and believe the Signature within, Wm. S. Merriam Justice to be his proper hand Writing.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set My hand and affixed my Official seal at the Office of Clerk of said County at Elizabethtown this 19th day of December A. D. 1840.
/s/Edmund F. Williams Clerk

Proof of the Marriage of Mrs. Olive Havens
Louisa Vanornam 
affidavit.
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Town Clerk of Charlotte Vt.
proves there is no record of Mrs. Olive Havens marriage

[annotations]
.49
147
4.21
2.9/4.6
666.30 - 1086
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Town Clerks Office
Charlotte Chittenden Co VT
November 27 1841}
I hereby certify that I have made diligent search of the records kept in said office and am not able to find any record of the Marriage of Samuel Havens to Olive Sawyer.
Attested
/s/Samuel H. Barnes Town Clerk
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State of Vermont
Chittenden County ss Charlotte November 27, 1841
I Ezra Holt a [illegible] as Justice Peace within and for the County of Chittenden whereby certify that Samuel H. Burns, who hath subscribed his name to the foregoing certificate was at the date thereof, and still is, the Town Clerk of the Town of Charlotte duly Elected and sworn, and that to all done by him as such, all faith and credit may be given
Certified by Mr. Ezra Holt Justice Peace

I hereby certify that there was no Law in Vermont as far back as the year 1789 making it the duty of those authorised to solemnize marriages, to make as causes the same to be Recorded, the Law making it their duty to cause the same to be Recorded papers the Legislature in the years 1797 and became a Law, which none exists in our Statute Books.
Certified by Mr. Ezra Holt Justice Peace
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Plattsburg N.Y. Aug't 10 1842

James L. Edwards Esq
Comm'r

Sir, 

Mrs. Olive Havens widow &c. whose papers are on file supposes her case is provided for by a recent resolution of Congress and desires you to forward her pension certificate by mail. 
Yours Respectfully
/s/J. D. Woodward
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[addressed envelope]

Chazy N.Y. Dec 11

Free
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
______
[annotated] 
Jn - ab Dec 24
[illegible]
Sam'l Havens
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[addressed envelope]
On public service
____________

Julius C. Hubbell Esq
Chazy 
New York

[annotated]
/216 / 42.40 - 
/26 / 14
_________
/10 /   1-6-50
   6
_____
[illegible]
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[addressed envelope]

[postmark] PLATTSBURGH N.Y. OCT 12]

James L. Edwards Esq
Com'r of Pensions
Washington D. C.

[annotated] 4038
Oct 17 1843
['Vt' crossed out]
N.Y. 
March 30 1843.
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Plattsburg NY Oct. 11 1843

Dr Sir

Mrs. Ruth Bunker, Mrs. Olive Havens + Mrs Mindwell Finch suppose themselves entitled under the act of March 3, 1843. To a pension. 
I enclose their declarations.
Very truly yours
/s/J. D. Woodward

Jas L. Edwards Esq
Comm'r
Washington DC
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Sam'l Havens - 
moved to Chazy in 1810 since in Town & Co. of Essex previously 
Payments to be made at N. York by Pres. U.S. [illegible initials]
Agent for paying Pensionors, in the Agency of [blank]

N.York

Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book E. Vol. 3 Page 67 by Geo. C. Stiles
Clerk.
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Samuel Havens of the State of New York who was a Private in the Revolutionary Army is entitled to receive Forty dollars ['and cents' crossed out] per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this 29 day of July one thousand eight hundred .and thirty-three.
/s/Robb

Examined and Countersigned.} J.
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['Seth Graves' crossed out]
Samuel Havens -
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Samuel Havens
BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply  to the claim of ['Seth Graves' crossed out] Clinton Co N. York which require further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes
II. did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? [blank]
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes
V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yes
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? no
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? no
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? yes
XIV. +If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? No
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? yes
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? [blank]
XVI. ++Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodies corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the tie during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
+QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of  his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
++QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
>In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany papers.
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State of Vermont
Treasurer's Office Windsor July 19. 1838

I Allen Wardner Treasurer of said State do hereby certify that there is a paper on file in this office purporting to be a "True List (the names and sums of Capt. Danl. Comstock's Pay Roll of himself + company in the service of the State of Vermont, from yr. Beginning of the Campaign 1781 to the 30th of June 8 year, inclusive taken from the original Roll, in the Pay Masters Office."
I further certify that the name of "Saml. Havens" appears upon said List as a private with an allowance annexed of Two pounds nine shillings + four pence - amount of service not stated. I further certify that the Pay Table Committee o the 21 Aug. 1783, as it appears on record, after naming and comparing said List with the original Roll allowed the same to Thos. Tolman Esq. Pay Master, being the sum of Three Hundred fifty seven pounds four shillings + ten pence one farthing Lawfull Money + which sum it appears was received by said Tolman from the Treasurer of this State on the 2d Octr. 1784 - I further certify that there is another paper on file in this office purporting to be a "Pay Roll of Capt. Daniel Comstock's Company in the Battalion of Infantry in the service of the State of Vermont commanded by Samuel Fletcher Esq Lieut. Col. Commandant" I further certify that the name of "Sam" Havens" appears upon said Roll with an allowance for one Hundred forty-seven days service annexed - which service appears to have been performed between the first of July 1781 + the twenty fourth day of December of the same year - I further certify that said Pay Roll appears to  have been properly authenticated, allowed + paid
/s/Allen Wardner, Treasurer of State of Vermont
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Secretary of State's Office, 
Montpelier, Jan. 3, 1842.}

I Chauncey L. Knapp, Acting Secretary of said State, do hereby certify that there is on file in this office a paper, purporting to be a "Pay Roll of Capt. Daniel "Comstock's Company in the Battalion of Infantry in the Service of the State of Vermont, commanded by Samuel Fletcher, Esq. Lieut. Col. Commandant."
I further certify that there is on file in this office another paper, purporting to be a "True list of (the names and sum of) Capt. Danl. Comstock's Pay Roll of himself and company in the service of the State of Vermont, from yr. beginning of the campaign, 1781 to the 30th of June in said year, inclusive - taken from the original roll, in the paymaster's offices."
I further certify that the name of "Saml. Haven" appears upon said pay roll, in the list of privates, with an allowance of "[pounds]2:9:4." annexed.
[margin note: $10.86] And I further certify that the above mentioned pay rolls appear to have been examined, allowed and ordered to be paid by a committee acting under the
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authority of this state, and that the same were duly paid by the Treasurer.
[seal affixed] Given under my hand and the seal of this office, at Montpelier, then this fourth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.
/s/Chauncey L. Knapp,
Acting Secretary of State.
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Olive Havens
Act July 7, 1838.
[postmark: PLATTSBURGH N.Y. JUNE 13]
PAID
Jonathan S. Havens + Edward Springer Esq.
Mooers N.Y.
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Mooers NY
July 8
J.D. Woodward
Plattsburg NY -
Page 71

Declaration under the act of July 7, 1838. + Resolution of August 6. 1842. granting half pay + pensions to widows.

State of New York
County of Clinton ss. On the 13th day of June AD 1843, personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Olive Havens a resident of Mooers in said County ( late resident of Chazy) aged seventy one years who being duly sworn doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 7. 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows that she is the widow of Samuel Havens who was a private in the army of the Revolution and served as she believes one year in Capt Comstock's Company of Vermont State Troops. Her said Husband received a pension of twenty dollars per annum but she supposes he was entitled to a larger amount. Her maiden name was Olive Sawyer, and she was married at Charlotte Vermont by [blank] Hosford Esq a Justice Peace on the fifth day of March seventeen hundred and Eighty nine, but has no record of her said marriage. Her said husband died at Chazy NY. on the twenty second day of August Eighteen hundred and thirty nine - She was not married to him previous to the time of his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz. at the time above stated she is still a widow. She wishes her pension certificate made out + forwarded.
/s/X her mark Olive Havens

Sworn and Subscribed to before me this 13th day of June 1843. and I certify that the Deponent with whom I am well acquainted is a credible person + cannot write her name having never learned how to write, and that she is unable by reason of bodily infirmity to attend Court which sits more than fifteen miles from the place where this Deposition is taken.} 
/s/Ira Richards - Justice Peace.
State of New York County of Clinton ss. I the Subscriber Clerk of said County certify that Ira Richards before whom the foregoing affidavit or declaration of Mrs. Olive Havens was taken + sworn on the thirteenth day of June 1843. was at said time a Justice of the Peace in aforesaid County and his signature above is genuine as I verily believe - witness my hand + official seal this 11th day of July 1843.
/s/ John B. L Skinner Clerk
By E. H. McLaughlin Dep. Clerk
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Samuel Havens
Payment to be made at Albany by T. W. Olcott, Esq. Agent for paying Pensionors, in the Agency of  Albany
Dead|
Issue new certificate
7 mo. 6 days pri
______
$24 - from ['4 March' crossed out] ['4 Sept 37' crossed out] to 22 augt. 39-to Olive Havens widow - 
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book E. 2. Vol. 4 page 31 by d. Brown, Clerk. 
/s/J.D. Woodward 
Plattsburg N. Y. -
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 7th June, 1832, Samuel Havens of the State of New York who was a Private in the War of the Revolution is entitled to receive Twenty dollars and seventy-seven cents per annum, during his natural life, com=mencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi= annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September, in every year. This certificate is ____ in lieu of one dated July 27th, 1833, which is cancelled.

Given at the War Office of the United State this third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty=nine.

J.R. Poinsette
Secretary of War.

Examined and Countersigned.}
J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
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[addressed envelope]
Chazy N.Y. Jany 14 Free

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

[annotated: Jnat(?) Jan 21 NY.]
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Chazy Clinton Co. N.Y. Jany. 14th. 1839 - 

Sir
I duly rec'd the Pension Bill of Samuel Havens of this town - you grant him $20 per year, commencing March 4th. 1831 -I commit you to inquire if this authorises him to that sum yearly, from that time up to September last and 4 March next, as he may make out his power, - making the sum of $160 in March next - 
I am very Respectfully, 
Your Obt. Servt.
/s/J. C. Hubbell

Hon. J. L. Edwards
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Saml. Havens
further testimony of services -
Page 77

I Frederick Perrigo of in the County of Clinton in the state of New York being of lawful age being duly sworn doth testify and say that in the year of seventeen hundred and Eighty one that Samuel Havens now living in the town of Shazee [Chazy] did on or about the first of March Enter the servise(sic) of the United States in what was then called the Vermont  Line under Captain Daniel Comstock and Lieutenant James Lewis stationed at Fort Vengeance in which was them called the Town of Pitsford in Vermont was then in the servise all summer and fall till December after. I know this to be correct as I was in the same servise with him served all the time above mentioned and further this Deponent saith not.
/s/Frederick Perrigo
Sworn before me This 1st Day of December 1838
/s/E Button Justice Peace

I Isaac Webb of Peru in the County of Clinton in the state of New York doth Depose and say that I was in the same servise part of the time and as far as my knowledge extend, it is correct + further this Deponent saith not.
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Sam'l. Havens
further testimony of Services - 

State of New York
Clinton County} ss.
I the subscribed Clerk of Clinton County Do hereby Certify that Elisha Button Esq. before whom this within affidavits were taken was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the peace in said County, and that his signature as within written is Genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have been unto set my hand and affixed the Seal of Said County this 12th Day of December, 1838.
/s/E. H. McLaughlin
Dep Clk
Clinton County
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At a Court of Common Pleas held in and for the County of Clinton at the Court House in Plattsburg on the fifth day of October 1841 present Hon. William F. Haile, William Hedding, + George Parsons Judges.
It was proven to the satisfaction of said Court that Samuel Havens, late of Chazy in said county deceased was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, and that he is the identical person named in the accompanying Pension Certificate and recd his pension by virtue thereof in the fourth day of March 1839. and died at Chazy in said County on the Second day of August 1839. leaving a widow whose name is Olive Havens, and she is still a widow + resides in Chazy aforesaid - The evidence adduced was satisfactory, and was given in open court before the Judges thereof, 
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and official Seal the day + year and at the place first above mentioned - 
[county seal attached] /s/Smith Mead Clerk
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Chazy. Clinton Co. New York - 
Dec 17th 1888 - 

Sir
I am requested by Samuel Havens of this town, to [illegible] you which I do herewith, his Pension Bill + add further evidence of his Services, - He wishes now to earnestly request you to examine again, the certificate of the Services of Vermont, as he thinks you have overlooked the facts therein stated, he thinks that at least ten months and proved by what is thence certified - I cannot judge the truth within the enclosed  testimony, embraces any time, that is not verified by the said evidence, not having a copy before me. - 
I am very Respectfully
your Obt. Servt.
/s/J. C. Hubbell

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Com. of Pensions
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[addressed envelope]

Chazy NY. Augt - 15
free
J. L. Edwards Esquire
Com. of Pensions
Washington City

[annotated]
N.Y. Aug 21
A00-pass
Saml. Havens
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Chazy Clinton Co N.Y. Augt. 14, 1838

Hon J. L. Edwards

I am requested by Samuel Havens of this town to enclose the within certificate of this Pensioner of Vermont + procured at your suggestion, - He hopes it will be satisfactory, as it makes out about the time, proved by Mr. Baker, who is now dead - the one man who has become a [illegible], and can't understand why it is, that he is suspended, after making the proof required, as he supposed - 
Very respectfully your obt. servt
J. C. Hubbell
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

NAME Havens, William  GRADE Private LINE New York

WARRANT NUMBER 7233 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED March 29, 1791
to James Roosevelt, assignee

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.