Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21716, Asaph Butler, N.H.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE|[blank]|NUMBER|
N.H.|Butler, Asaph|W.21716|
[blank]|Jane|B.L.Wt. 18378-160-55|
CONTENTS
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[verso]
14,699 R
Ohio
Asaph Butler of Clark County in the state of Ohio who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Cilley of the New Hampshire line, for the term of Five Years 
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Inscribed on the roll of Ohio War at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 27 of May 1819
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Certificate of Pension issued the 24 of Sep. 1819 and sent to Ira Butler Esqr. Springfield Ohio
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Arrears to 4th of Sep. 1819. 26.35
Semi-anl. all'ce ending Mar 1820 48.00
3 Mo 5/31 4/30 $74.35
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
Continued

[recto]
Notification sent September 11th 1820 to Ira Butler, Clark County, Ohio
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[verso]
Reported
Jan'y 4/49

[recto]
2793
Illinois
Jane Butler widow of Asaph Butler N.H. who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 day of Jan'y 1849 and sent to Wright & Abel Springfield Ills
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 342 Vol. 3
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Mar 3/55
145936 May 24/55
Jane Butler of Asaph Butler 
Capt Col} Pensioner under Act of 1848 
Private $80 per ann
Ent. Col. Cilley
Dis NH Rolls
War 1775
[overwritten: no 18378 iss Mar 18/56]
Ill's Feby 48 - 2793
Ad. 160 ac's Mar 14/56
Dodge
Rec'd Yates Jacksonville Ills RCM
Vol. B2. - 140.
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Case of Asaph Butler 4309
Ira Butler Agt.
Springfield, Ohio
rec'd July 12, 1819
New Hampshire 1st Col'o Cilley Regm't
Nov. 7-1778
1783 5 yrs
Springfield O
Mch 25 Free
[addressee: Hon. J. C. Calhoun
Secr'y Department War
Washington City]
Asaph Butler
Private 78 to 83
Cilley N. Hampshire Reg't on Roll
Admitted
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State of Ohio
Clark County SS}
On this 27th day of May 1819 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the county aforesaid, personally appears Asaph Butler aged fifty seven years resident in Clark County aforesaid, who being first by me duly sworn, according to law doth, on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the late act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" That he the said Asaph Butler in March 1778 enlisted in Claramont in the State of New Hampshire in the company commanded by Captain Jason Wait first New Hampshire Regiment that he continued to serve in the said corps in the service of the United States until March seventeen hundred & eighty one three years from his enlistment then discharged and enlisted in the same company then commanded by Capn Moody Dustin and continued to serve in said corps until December 1783 when he was discharged from service on Constatution Island near West Point in the State of New York and that he in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services
[signed] Asaph Butler
Sworn and declared and subscribed before me the day and year
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aforesaid -
[signed] Daniel McKinnon
Associate Judge Clark County
I Daniel McKinnon Judge of the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Asaph Butler did serve in the revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of war pursuant to the directions for the aforementioned act of congress
Clark County Ohio May 27th 1819
[signed] Daniel McKinnon
Associate Judge C.C.
State of Ohio Clark County SS -
This may certify that Daniel Mc [cutoff]
have been taken was at the time of [cutoff]
Clark County duly commissioned a [cutoff]
faith & credit is due
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Ira Butler agent for the applicant Springfield
If this form is not right I wish that you Sir would be good enough to send me one that is
I am Sir Very Respectfully
Your Obedient Servt
[signed] Ira Butler

The Judges certificate of reduced circumstances of applicant is required. Pension Office.

I Daniel McKinnon in addition to the foregoing do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the aforesaid Asaph Butler is in reduced circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for support Givin under my hand at Springfield Clark County Ohio this 27th day of August 1819
[signed] Daniel McKinnon
Associate Judge
Clark County

[cutoff] Kinnon Esquire before whom the foregoing proceedings 
[cutoff] taking the same an associate Judge in & for
[cutoff] and sworn and to all official acts as such full 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name & affixed my official seal of Springfield in said county this 24th day of June 1819
[signed] Thos Armstrong
Clerk Clark Cy
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Asaph Butler
No. 14.699 - Sept'r 1819
Cont'd Sep 11 1820
Notification sent Ira Butler Esq'r Clark Co. Ohio
Springfield O
July 28
[addressee: Hon. J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington City]
Ohio 7.
Rec'd 10d Aug. 1820 
[illegible]
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State of Ohio SS
Clark County
On this 22nd day of July 1820 personally appeared in open court being the Supreme Court (and Court of Record) of the state aforesaid held within and for the county aforesaid Asaph Butler aged 58 years resident in Clark County aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare he served in the revolutionary war as follows
I enlisted in Clermont in the State of New Hampshire in March 1778 in Capt Jason Waits Company 1st Regt in New Hampshire line commanded by Col Joseph Silley I joined the Army the 8 day of June at Valey Forge for three years and was discharged at high lands in New York and in February 1781 reenlisted for 3 years in the same company and continued with the Regt and was discharged at Constitution Island in December 1780 my original declaration is dated 27t May 1819 and my pention certificate is numbered 14.699 And I do solemnly sware that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged
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in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on the 18 day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed
Viz
1 Horse - $35
4 Cows - 48
2 Heifers - 14
1 Steer - 7
3 Heifers - 13,50
1 Steer - 4 50
5 Calves - 10
1 Plow - 2
2 Hors Gurs - 3
1 Tea Kettle 2 50
1 Iron Kettle 50
6 Tea Cups & Saucers - 50
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land forward $141 50* 
[written in margin] * a mistake of 1.00 in putting

Account Book forward 141 50
6 Knives & forks 1 00
6 Plates 75
2 Buckets 1,50
1 Barrel 75
1 Chest 75
2 Chairs 1,00
10 Hogs
And [illegible] not half sufficient for the family
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from $147 25
I am partly & legally to Richd Dillon $36 00
To A Butler 62 40
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Take $98 40
Balance $48 80
[signed] Asaph Butler 

I am by occupation a farmer but am not able to perform more than half or a third of a common mans labour The age of my family are as follows my wife Jane aged 49 years my daughter Amanda aged 24 years of a feeble constitution much deformed with the rickets also Lucinda aged 13 years my son Anson R. aged 12 years
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also Franklin aged 10 years my daughter Fanny aged 7 years my son Charles aged four years total 8 who are able to do but little towards there own support
[signed] Asaph Butler

Subscribed sworn to and declared in open court on the 22d day July 1820 before the supreme court of the state aforesaid
I Saul Henkle Clerk of the supreme court do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Files of said court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is 141 dollars 50 cents In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this 22nd day of July 1820
Said Supreme court being a court of Record because it is expressly made so by the constitution and Laws of this State creating it proceeds according to the court of the Common Law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings & keeps a seal & possesses the power of fine and imprisonment 
July 22, 1820
[signed] Saul Henkle, Clerk
By his Deputy
[signed] John H. Scott
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V3023
Jane Butler widow of Asaph 
Ohio. 
admitted 
Pr 2 yrs $80.
Hon. S. Mason H.R.
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State of Ohio
Clarke County ss} On this fifth day of October 1838 personally appeared before me the undersigned An Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas and for the County of Clarke aforesaid Widow Jane Butler a resident of said County aged sixty seven years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pension to certain widow," (as well as any other acts of Congress passed for the like purposes) That she is the widow of Asaph Butler who she believes served as a private soldier for near or quite six years in the war of the revolution under two enlistments for the term of three years each she believes in the New Hampshire or Massachusetts line (more probably the former) but for more certain and particular proof she would refer to the files of the pension office to the proof made by the said Asaph Butler in his lifetime in the year & under the law of Eighteen hundred & Eighteen and which procured the inscription of his name on the pension Roll of the Ohio agency at Chillicothe, and of which the following is a copy the original will be herewith transmitted (viz) 
War Department No. 14699
Pension Office
September 11 1820
Sir you are hereby informed that the schedule of your property has been examined. and the
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Secretary of war has directed your name to be continued on the Pension Roll
I am, respectfully Your Obedient Servant
/s/J. L. Edwards
To Mr. Asaph Butler
Care of Ira Butler Esqr
Clark County Ohio
And further that she the said widow Jane Butler the daughter of Jesse McFarland was legally married to the said Asaph Butler above mentioned by Joel Brownson Esquire a Justice of the peace at the Town of Jeric(h)o in the county of Chittenden and State of Vermont in the month of December Seventeen hundred & ninety (1790) and that my children are as follows (viz)
Ira Butler born Feby 1792 now aged near 47 years
Joel Butler born August 1793 now aged 45 years
Amanda Butler aged forty three 43 years
William H. Butler aged forty one 41 years
Zimri F. Butler aged thirty nine 39 years
Levi Butler Twin to Zimri died young
John Butler aged Thirty Seven 37 years
Fanny Butler born 1803}
Sally Butler born 1805} both died young
Lucindia Butler aged now thirty one 31 years
Anson R. Butler aged Twenty nine 29 years
Bingham F. Butler aged Twenty seven 27 years
Fanny Butler aged Twenty five 25 years
Charles W. Butler born 1815 near Twenty three 23 years
Eleven of the a above named fourteen children are yet (supposed to be) living And that the
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said Asaph Butler pensioner aforesaid died in the fall of the year eighteen hundred & twenty five 1825 as may be seen by the discontinuance of his name upon the pension Roll of that year 
And that she has not been since married to any other person but remains the widow of the said Asaph Butler. Also that she has not in her possession, nor is there within her knowledge any documentary evidence going to proove her marriage with the said Asaph Butler, with the exception of the pretty considerable progeny above set forth - 
And she further states that as near half a cantaury (century) has already elapsed since the period of her marriage she verily believes there is not now living a single individual who was present at the marriage except it may be the said Joel Brownson Esquire who performed the cerimony, And that she is informed and verily believes the he the said Brownson has some years since remooved from the said County of Chittenden to parts unknown to her the said widow Butler, That within the two last years her last remaining sister & brother in law have died, they being the last remaining persons whom she can recollect were present at the weding
/s/Jane Butler
The above deposition was sworn to and subscribed by the deponant at her place of residences the date above written who on account of bodily infirmity was unable to attend in open court ['Given' crossed out] before me
/s/John R. Lemon Associate Judge
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The State of Ohio
Clark County} ss I James S. Halsey Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County and State aforesaid (the same being a Court of law and of Record) do hereby certify that John R. Lemon whose name is subscribed to the foregoing deposition is at the date one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Clark and State of Ohio duly commissioned and qualified and that his signatures so appended is genuine and full faith and credit is due to all his Official Acts 
[court seal affixed] In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand affixed the seal of said Court at Springfield this fifth day of October A.D. 1838. 
/s/James S. Halsey Clerk
By J. R. Crain D Clerk
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"Jeric(h)o December y'e30th 1790.
Then Asaph Butler and Jane McFarlin (McFarland) both of Jeric(h)o, presented themselves for marriage, and produced a certificate that they were published as the law directs, and were lawfully married to each other, by me, Joel Brownson, Justice Peace."
State of Vermont
Chittenden County. ss.} I William Noble, Clerk of Chittenden County Court, do hereby certify, that the foregoing is a true copy of the original record, in this office being & remaining, having been returned & deposited in this office, on the removal of the said Joel Brownson Esq, Justice of the Peace, from this State, as by the Statute laws of this State is required. I further certify that by the laws of this State Justices of the Peace are authorised & empowered to solemnise marriage, & have so done since the first organization of this State, & that full faith & credit is given in all the County in this State to their official acts, as such Justices as aforesaid.
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at Burlington in said County this 27th day of October A.D. 1838. 
/s/William Noble.
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State of Illinois
Morgan County} ss.
On this 11h day of May AD 1855 personally appeared before me Matthew Stacy Clerk of the County Court within and for ['said' crossed out] the County and State aforesaid Jane Butler aged 85 years a resident of the County of Morgan in the State of Illinois, who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Asaph Butler deceased who was a Private in the Revolutionary war, and who died at Springfield Ohio in the year 1825. She further states that she is still a widow, that she has never intermarried since the death of the said Asaph Butler - and that she has been for many years past and is now receiving a pension as the widow of said Asaph Butler deceased - She now holds the Certificate of Pension of W. L. Marcy Secretary of War bearing date 4th day of January 1849, granting to her a pension for life from the 4th day of March 1848 at the rate of eighty dollars per annum unless she should again marry, which certificate is recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners in the Pension Office Act Feby 2, 1848 Page 342 Vol. 3. and she now refers to the papers on file in said Office allowing to said Asaph Butler and to herself pensions as evidence of his service in the Revolutionary war and of ['the' crossed out] her rights ['of the' crossed out] as the widow of said Asaph Butler deceased.
She further declares that she has never received a warrant for bounty land, nor does she believe that he ever received it, or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever. 
She makes this Declaration for the
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purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled from the Government of the United States. 
/s/Jane Butler
We Benjamin Gass and Thomas Ford residents of Morgan County in the State of Illinois upon our oaths declare that the foregoing Declaration was signed and acknowledged by Jane Butler in our presence and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the Applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be. 
/s/Benj'a Gass
/s/Thomas Ford
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written, and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in this claim. 
[court seal affixed] In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto Subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of Said Court at Jacksonville this the 14th day of May AD 1855
/s/Mat Stacy clk
145936
Bounty Land Claim 
Jane Butler.
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STATE OF ILLINOIS,
Fulton COUNTY,}ss. On this Twenty-seventh day of July 1848, personally appeared before the undersigned, an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said County [1]Jane Butler a resident of the County of Fulton and State aforesaid, aged seventy nine years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed on the 2d February, 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war, 
That she is the widow [2]Asaph Butler who was a [3]Private in the army of the Revolution; that she received a pension under the act of Congress of 17th June, 1844, at the rate of [4]Eighty Dollars per annum. She further declares that she is still a widow. 
/s/Jane Butler[1]
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year above written before me}
/s/Anson Smith Justice of the Peace.
2 WITNESSES /s/L. S. Botkin
/s/Velorous Hicks
STATE OF ILLINOIS,
Fulton County,} I, Fitch J. Porter Clerk of the County Commissioners' Court of the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Anson Smith whose signature as a Magistrate appears above is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified, that his commission was dated on the twenty third day of August 1847, and will expire on the twenty third day of August 1849, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
[court seal affixed] Given under my hand and seal of said court this twenty eight day of July A.D. 1848. 
/s/Fitch J. Porter Clerk. 
N.B. - (1)Pensioner's name. (2)Husband's name. (3)A private or captain, as the case may be, (4)What he drew per annum. 
⇨As this sheet must go to Washington city, and, if allowed, they will issue a new Pension Certificate, therefore you will please have it correctly filled up, and return it to E. Wright, of Springfield, Illinois immediately.
The Com'r of pensions will please forward my pension certificate to E. Wright Springfield Ills 
/s/Jane Butler
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Jane Butler - wid Asaph - Act 2 Feby 48 - No 2793-Ill
Feby 20/55 Mr Gordon
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✓ 
18,378
160 acres
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✓ 
Jane Butler 
Ohio.
suspended
See let 5 Dec 38
Hon. S. Mason 
do. 8 Dec. 38. 
see let Dec 7 38 from H. S. Mason filed with Ensign Mitchell's papers
Act 7 July 1838
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Rev WIDOW, &c. [initials: own]
File No. 21716
Jane Butler Wid. of Asaph Butler
Priv. Rev. War.
Act Feb. 2d 1848. 
Index: - Vol. A, Page 106
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Jacksonville May 17. 1855
Hon. L.P. Waldo
Commr of Pensions
Dear Sir.
Enclosed please find Application of Priscilla Hurst for Additional Warrant - and of Jane Butler widow of a Revolutionary Soldier. I do not know of any law under which the last application is field and I forward the application at the request of the old lady - a very needy and infirm person who has been repeatedly perhaps not truthfully told of others similarly situated getting warrants - Your statement as to her rights in the premises would make her easy - If she could obtain a warrant it would be most opportune and worthily bestowed -
Very Respectfully
[signed] Richd. Yates
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Say to Hon. Mr. Mason that if he will return the Pen. Cert. a new one will be issued payable at the Illinois Agency by new evidence
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Asaph Butler Ohio. Act March 18, 1818
to what time paid?
Pen. Office Dec 5, 1838
pd to 4 Sep 1825 JH
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[addressed envelope]
[margin notes: JB Ill 2d feby 48 7867]
[postmark: SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS AUG 5] FREE
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
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[handwritten letter]
Springfield Ills Augt 4th/48

J. L. Edwards Esqr
Com of Pensions
Washington City DC

Dear Sir
Inclosed please find application Jane Butler for pension under act 2d Feby 1848 - Which when acted upon please address us - 
very respectfully Your Obt Svt
/s/Wright & Abel
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[addressed envelope]
[margin notes: May 5, 1846 Jane Butler march 5 1843. Get the No.]
[postmark: SPRINGFIELD ILLS APR 27] 20
Comm'r of Pensions} J. L. Edwards Esq
Washington City D.C.
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[handwritten letter]
Springfield Illinois 25th April 1846

J. L. Edwards Esqr
Enclosed please find Declaration of Jane Butler for a Pension to continue under act 7 July 1838 - It may be a little informal but is has the substance. We have no forms comprehending all the several Acts. If not sufficient Please sent back the form & directions
Yours Respectfully
/s/Erastus Wright
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[handwritten letter]
House of Reps
Fby. 21 1839

J. L. Edwards Esq

Sir
Your favor of the 20th inst. came to hand last night and agreeably to your suggestion I have the pleasure to transmit to you the pension Certificate of Mrs. Jane Butler
your obt Servt
/s/S. Mason
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
December 11th, 1840. 

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," Jane Butler, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Illinois Agency, at the rate of Eighty Dollars ['and [blank' Cents' crossed out] per annum, under the law of the 7th July 1838, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1839, to the 4th March 1840.
Respectfully yours, 
/s/Albion K. Parris
Comptroller. 
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.
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[addressed envelope]
[margin notes: In at Dec 20. Ohio Mrs. Butler Hon S. Mason H.R.]
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Comm'r of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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[handwritten letter]
Washington Dec 19 1838

J. L. Edwards Esq
Dear sir
Enclosed you will receive an exemplified copy of the record of the certificate of marriage between Asaph Butler and Jane his widow who is an applicant for a pension under the act of 1838. It came to hand to day through the mail from my partner who rec'd it in a letter addressed to Ira Butler the sone of the applicant at Springfield. I understood from I. Butler when he requested me to attend to the business that there was no law requiring a record of marriages to be kept in Vermont - I hope the evidence now before you, will be found sufficient to establish the fact of marriage.
Yours Truly /s/S. Mason
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[addressed envelope]
[margin notes: May 25 '46 Jane Butler Rev file 38 & 43 1503-38]
[postmark: CINCINNATI O. MAY 19] 10
The Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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[handwritten letter]
Ellisville Fulton County Illinois 28th April 1846
To the Honorable the Commissioner of Pensions at Washington City 

Sir
My mother has in her possession a certificate of which the following is a true copy and on which she has received the full amount as stipulated therein (viz)
War Department
Five years Pension 
I certify that in conformity with the act of July 7, 1838 Jane Butler widow of Asaph Butler deceased who was a private in the Army of the Revolution and died in the year 1825 is entitled to receive five years' pension at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum, commencing on the 4th day of March, 1836; and in case of the death or marriage of said widow before the expiration of said five years the pension will cease on the day of such marriage or death
Give at the War Office of the United States this 22d day of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine 
(Signed) J. R. Poinsett Secretary of War 
Examined and Countersigned) J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions 
please turn over
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Sir will you have the goodness to inform her (or me) at this office whether or not there is any law now in existance extending any farther favor to her, and if so where and in what manner may she apply for the same.
Respectfully your obedient Serv't
/s/Ira Butler
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[addressed envelope]
[margin notes: Feb. 20 In at Mr. Evans Hon S. Mason HR]
J. L. Edwards Esq
Pension Office
Washington
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[handwritten letter]
Washington Feby 1839

J. L. Edwards Esq

Sir
Jane Butler whose pension certificate you forwarded to me a few weeks ago left her residence in Clark Co'y Ohio immediately after she made her application and before it was allowed and went to reside with some of her children in the State of Illinois. There is I am informed a pension Agency in that State 
A letter from her son requests me to ask that the pension may be paid at the Agency in Illinois. The certificate is now in my papers not having been out of it.
It would save a great deal of trouble & delay if you could receive the certificate back and make the pension payable in Illinois I will enclose it to you for that purpose if it can be done. 
If you think the change can be made, as it seems to me it can (without doing wrong) in the mode suggested, please to inform me so
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[handwritten letter]
otherwise I will ask you for a copy of the forms required for bringing about the change
Yours very Respectfully
/s/S. Mason
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Payment to be made at Cincinnati Ohio by J. H. Groesbeck Esq Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of Ohio Payable in the 4th March and 4th September in each year ['thereafter. First payment to be made 31st December, 1838' crossed out]
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book A Vol. 2d Page 215 by D. D. Addison Clerk
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WAR DEPARTMENT. 
Five years Pension. 
I certify that in conformity with the act of July 7, 1838, Jane Butler widow of Asaph Butler dec'd who was a Private in the Revolution and died in the year 1825 ['day of [blank]' crossed out] is entitled to receive five years' pension at the rate of Eighty dollars ['and [blank] cents' crossed out]  per annum, commencing on the fourth day of March, 1836; and in case of the death or marriage of said widow before the expiration of said five years, the pension will cease on the day of such marriage or death. 
[seal affixed] Given at the War Office of the United States, this 29th day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight
['J. R. Poinsett' crossed out
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned.} ['J. L. Edwards' crossed out] Commissioner of Pensions
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The clerk of the Court Copy this in the order to  the Pension Agent certify the copies & send them to you
/s/J. Butler
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[handwritten letter]
War Department, Pension Office, 
May 13th 1821

Sir,
The Pension Agent in Chillicothe, has been, this day, requested to inscribe the name of Asaph Butler, on Ohio list of continued pensioners, and to pay him accordingly. 
I am, respectfully, Yr. Obt. Sert. 
/s/J. L. Edwards
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The Clerk of the Court
Copy this & the inclosed & send the copy on Certified
/s/Ira Butler
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[typewritten letter]
War Department, 
PENSION OFFICE, No. 14.699
September 11 1820. 

SIR, 
You are hereby informed that the schedule of your property has been examined; and the Secretary of War has directed your name to be continued on the Pension Roll. 
I am, respectfully, Your obedient servant, 
/s/J. L. Edwards

To Mr. Asaph Butler
Care of Ira Butler Esqr
Clarke County Ohio
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[verso]
Letter to Hon. S. Mason 20 Feb 1830. 
New Certificate issued and inscribed on the Roll of Illinois 22d Feb. 1839. - & sent to Hon. S. Mason, House of Reps.
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6th April 1838 from 4 March 1839 to 4 March 1840 
Notification to Agt 15 Decr 1840
let to Ira Butler May 25, 1846

[recto]
Illinois 1.503
Jane Butler wid of Asaph Butler dec'd who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died in the year 1825 of Clarke Co in the State of Ohio who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain [blank] of the Reg't commanded by Col. Cilley in the N.H. line for 5 years
______
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 80 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. 
______
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of Dec'r 1838 and sent to Hon. S. Mason Ho of Reps. 
______
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1838 $200.00
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Mar. '39  40.00
$240.00
{Act July 7, 1838.}
Recorded by D. D. Addison Clerk,
Book A Vol. 2. Page 215
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[verso]
Illinois 
Jane Butler widow of Asaph Butler who was a Private in the Revolution husband died in 1825
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of July, 1846. and sent to
Erastus Wright, Esq
Springfield, Illinois
[Acts of March 3, 1843. & 17th June, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A. Vol. 2. Page 225

[recto]
Reported
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State of Ohio
Clarke County} ss. personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid Humphrey Guptail of lawful age & fully entitled to credit now deposes and says that he resided in the town of Jeric(h)o in the County of Chittenden & state of Vermont in the years seventeen hundred eighty eight & eighty nine that he was well acquainted with Hesse McFarland & his family & in the latter year he left that county & state & returned in the year following  (viz) seventeen hundred & ninety and was informed on his return that the daughter of the said McFarland (viz) Jane was marraid to Asaph Butler with whom he was also acquainted & at whose house deponant was ['friqanly' crossed out] several times at, & that he verily believes & has no doubt but that they ware maried as genrally or universally reputed ['& also' crossed out] 
/s/Humphrey Guptail
Sworn to & Subscribed before me this 16th day of October 1838
/s/John Garlough J.P.
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State of Ohio
Clark County} ss. On this 16th day of October 1838 personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the peace Smith Barnet & Margrate Barnet his wife both of lawful age & entitled to full credit the said Magrate declares that she ['in the' crossed out] resided in the County of Chittenden & state of Vermont in the year seventeen hundred & ninety & for some years previous and after and was well acquainted with Jesse McFarland & Jane his daughter at that time she was said to be married to Asaph Butler which report she verrily believe to be true never having hadd it disputed or doubted from that time to his many thirty years out of the last fifty years she has lived in the same neighbourhood & been well acquainted & that she has raised eleven children and that the youngest of whom is more than twenty two years of age (viz) Charles Butler but that she the said Margrate ws not present at the weding but she the said Margrate has no doubt that the ['marriage of the' crossed out] said widow Jane Butler was married to the said Asaph Butler on or about the year seventeen hundred & ninety - And the said Smith Barnet declares that he has been acquainted with the said widow Jane Butler from a child that they are near the same age that he was not in the neighborhood in the year seventeen hundred
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and ninety but from his knowledge of the family there is not the least doubt upon his mind but that the marriage took place as above stated (viz) in the year 1790 seventeen hundred & ninety that he never heard any imputation against the character of the parties or a doubt expressed of their marriage and that he knows they have raised eleven children to be grown
/s/Smith Barnet
/s/X her mark Marget Barnet
Sworn to & subscribed before me the day and year above written}
/s/John Garlough Justice of the Peace in and for said County 
/s/Charles Catrane

The State of Ohio
Clark County} ss. I James S. Halsey Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County & State aforesaid do hereby certify that John Garlough whose name as subscribed to the foregoing Instrument of writing is at this date one of the acting Justices of the Peace within and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and that his signature so appended is genuine and that full faith and credit is due to all his Official acts in Judicature and thereout. - 
[court seal affixed] In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court this 16th day of October A.D. 1838. - 
/s/James S. Halsey Clerk By J. R. Crain D.Clk.
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State of Ohio
Clark County}ss on this twenty third day of October 1838 personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace Smith Barnet & Margrate his wife both of lawful age & fully entitled to credit the said Margrate declares that she (with her family) resided in the town of Bolton County of Chittenden & State of Vermont and within three miles distant of Jesse McFarland & his family in this their Town of Jeric(h)o now Richmond in the year seventeen hundred & ninety & for several years previous & several years after and during the whole time she resided as aforesaid she was well acquainted with the said Jesse McFarland & his family & particularly his daughter Jane who she the said Margrate believes was about the year seventeen hundred & ninety was married to Asaph Butler & that the said Butler & wife Jane continued to reside in said neighbourhood for several years & that she the deponant resided for a time in the said Butler family after the birth of Joel their second son & that she the deponent declares that she herself has been married forty four years this present fall, and for more thirty years out of the last fifty she the said deponent had resided in the near neighborhood and been intimately acquainted with the said Jane Butler widow of the said Asaph Butler who died in the fall (she believes) of Eighteen hundred & twenty five, and that she the said Margrate knows intimately the  whole Eleven children of
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the said widow Jane & that the youngest of whom (viz) Charles W. Butler is more than twenty two years of age being born a little before she the said Margrate mooved from the said Bolton to this County which was in eighteen hundred & sixteen. - 
That she the said Margrate was not present at the widing but she knows it was reputed to have taken place at that time & she has not the least doubt of it never having heard an intimation to the contrary from that day to this that her own marriage took place shortly after her residence in the family of the said Butler
/s/X her mark Margaret Barnet
/s/Charles Catrane
sworn to and subscribed before me 
['Witness my hand and Seal' crossed out] this 23rd day of October A.D. 1838. 
/s/John Garlough Justice of the Peace in and for Clark County Ohio
[margin note: The Town of Richmond was made by taking a part of Jerico Bolton Huntington & Williston]
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The State of Ohio
Clark County} ss I James S. Halsey Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas (the same being a court of law and of Record) of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that John Garlough whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Affidavit as at this date, and was at the time the same purports to have been made, one of the Acting Justices of the Peace within and for said County of Clark duly Commissioned and qualified and that his signature so appended is genuine 
[court seal affixed] in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court of Springfield this 26th day of October A.D. 1838. - 
/s/James S. Halsey Clerk By J. R. Crain DClerk
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[handwritten letter]
Hon J. L. Edwards
Sir
Enclosed I send the the declaration of Widow Jane Butler & also your letter to me and notice to Asaph Butler of his name being placed on the pension list & the afidavit of Humphrey Gubtail (Guptail) & Smith Barnet & wife & of the wife again after the first was taken it was thought not suficiently explicit & one was made out more full for the credibility of the witnesses 
If it is doubted I would refer to Hon Samson Mason of the house of representatives - 
And for the custom of recording marriages in Vermont I would refer to any o f the Vermont delegation Judge Prentiss for instance
Very Respectfully Yours /s/Ira Butler
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8950 act 44/446
Jane Butler Ills
acts '43 & '44
adm'd
2 yrs. private
$80. 
Erastus Wright
Springfield, Illinois.
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Declaration 
State of Illinois
Fulton County} 
On this Twenty-sixth day of January 1846 Personally appeared Before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Jane Butler a Resident of the County of Fulton in the State of Illinois 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 Benefits of the Provision made by 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 Asaph Butler who was a Private (she Believes) in the army of the Revolution and was Pensioned at the Rate of $80. per annum and that she Received a Pension as his widow from the 4th of March 1836 to the 4 March 1841. 
She further declares that she is still a widow and now applies for a continuation under the different Laws authorizing it 
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day
over
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and year above written Before me
/s/Samuel Sexton Justice of the Peace}
/s/Jane Butler
two witnesses} /s/Levi S. Botkin
/s/John Yorty
State of Illinois
Fulton County}
I Henry B. Evans Clerk of the County Commissioners Court in & for said County certify that Samuel Sexton is a magistrate duly commissioned and qualified to act as such and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name at Lewistown in the year of our Lord 1846 - January 30th 
/s/Henry B. Evans clk
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State of Illinois
Fulton County January 1846
I Samuel Sexton a Justice of the Peace in and for said County do certify that I am personally acquainted with Jane Butler who signed the foregoing Declaration and believe she is of the age specified therein and entitled to the Benefit of the Acts of Congress passed 3 March 1843 and the Subsequent acts in relation to similar cases to continue said Pensions to widows under Act 7 July 1838 
/s/Samuel Sexton Justice Peace