Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 15074, Israel Hull, N.H.
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N.H.
Hull, Israel
McLaughlin, Lydia (former widow)
W150
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Dead

Paid at the Treasury under the act of April 5th 1838 from 4th March 1840 to 8th June 1840
Agt. notified June 14th 1940

1837
Concord 

Lydia McLaughlin
widow of Israel Hull dead
who died in the summer of 1779

of Sullivan (?) in the State of N.H.
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain Robinson of the Regt. commanded by Col. Hall in the N.H.
line for 17 months and 121 days

Inscribed on the Roll of Concord N,H, 
at the rate of 59 Dollars - Cents, per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831

Certificate of Pension issues the 8th day of March 1838 and sent Jesse Slove Est. Ruttand Vt.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1838 $411.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept. of 28.50
Total $439.50

Revolutionary Claim, 
Act July 4, 1836
Section No. 3a
Paid Mar. 3rd, 1837
Recorded By  D.D. Addison, Clerk,
Book A. Vol. 20, Page 28
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Joseph Hull's Deposition
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I Joseph Hull of Salem in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire of lawful age [illegible] and testify that I was present and saw my brother Israel Hull married to Lydia and to the best of my recollection it was in the month of December in the year seventeen hundred and seventy four, that they were married by Homer Bailey, that several years after the death of said Joseph Hull, she the said Lydia was married to David McLaughlin and that the said McLaughlin has been dead several years and the said Lydia remains a widow, and I understand that she now resides in Joshua in the County of Sullivan & State of New Hampshire- that the said Israel Hull served in the army of the Revolution I should think about two years.  That he listed for three years. That he died in the army.

Joseph Hull

State of New Hampshire
Rockingham ss - Subscribed and sworn to this eighth day of February A.D. 1838 Before me John Woodbury  Jus. Peace

Rockingham February 8th 1838.

I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted  with the above named Joseph Hull and consider him a man of undoubted truth and veracity.
John Woodbury, Jus. Peace


State of New Hampshire 
Deputy Secretary office Feb. 9, 1838. I hereby certify that the above named John Woodbury is duly commissioned as a Justice of the Peace for and within the County of Rockingham in said State.

Jno Whipple, Dep. Secy
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3208

Lydia McLaughlin's Declaration and Israel Hull dec'd
8 m 6d 1777
9 mo 15 1778 17 mo 21 d
[illegible] p 80
Married 1774
died 1778
Allow 17 m 21 ds
[illegible] 4 March 1831
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State of New Hampshire
County of Sullivan

On this Twelfth day of February in the year of our Lord one Thousand  eight hundred and thirty eight, personally appeared before the Superior Court for the County of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire. Lydia McLaughlin, a resident of Goshen in the County of Sullivan and state of New Hampshire, aged seventy-six years, on the twenty fifth day of December last. Who being first duly sworn according to law, does on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the _ made by the act of Congress passed July fourth one thousand eight hundred and thirty six, and the act explanatory of said act, passed March third one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven; that she was married to Israel Hull, who was a soldier in the service of the United States, he enlisted in the month of April in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven, in the company commanded by Captain Caleb Robinson, at Salem in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire, the Lieutenant's name was Luker Woodbury, and in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Nathan Hale of the New Hampshire line, he (reported?) at said Salem at the time of his (?)_
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he enlisted for three years, he marched from said Salem for Ticonderoga, and according to her belief was in one or more battles at that place that he remained in the service of the United States until his death which happened in the summer of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine, that the claimant has no documentary evidence in support of the claim. she further declares that she was
married to the said Israel Hull on the seventeenth day of December one thousand seven hundred and seventy four, that her husband the aforesaid Israel Hull, and according to the best of her knowledge and belief died at said Ticonderoga, in the later part of the summer in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy nine; that she was afterwards married to David McLaughlin who died on the sixteenth day of February one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; that she was a widow on the fourth day July one thousand eight hundred and thirty six and still remains a widow as will more fully appear by refer to the proof hereunto annexed
Thos M Laughlin
Lydia McLaughlin X her mark
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written Before me Ambrose Cossett Judge of the
Court of Common Pleas
I hereby certify that the above named Lydia McLaughlin is a person of good moral character and is a credible witness.
I also certify that the applicant from bodily infirmity was not able to attend the Court
Attest Ambrose Copot, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas
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I Samuel Blodgett of Claremont in the County of Sullivan and state of New Hampshire depose and say that I was aquainted [acquainted] with David McLaughlin late of said Claremont. He died about twenty years since at said Claremont. I am also aquainted [acquainted] with Sylvia McLaughlin, widow of the said David McLaughlin who now resides at Goshan in said county of Sullivan who is a person of good moral character and has remained a widow since the death of her husband David McLaughlin.

Signed Samuel Blogget

State of New Hampshire    ]
Sullivan                                 } February 12, 1838

Subscribed and sworn to before me
Ambrose Copet, Judge of the Court C-P

I hereby certify that the above named Samuel Blodgett is a [illegible] witness

Ambrose Copet
Judge of the Court C-P

The State of New Hampshire
Sullivan ss

I, T. W. Gilmore, Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature do hereby certify that the Hon. Ambrose Copet is an Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for said County and that his signatures herewith are genuine -
Given under my hand & Seal of the Court this twelfth day of February A. D. 1838
T. W. Gilmore, Clerk
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT 

SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,

June 2ᵈ, 1842

Sir:

Under the date of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and author-zing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States,"
Eight of the nine children of Lydia McLaughlin, decᵈ late a Pensioner on the roll of the Concord, New Hampshire Agency, at the rate of Fifty nine --- Dollars and ---Cents per annum, under the law of the 4th July 1836, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1860 to the 8th June 1860-

     Respectfully, yours,
          Albion K. Parris
                  COMPTROLLER

To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS,
              Present.
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August 24, 1933.
Nellie Greene Clarke		BA-J/ILL
1276 North Mentor Avenue
Pasadena, California.
Dear Madam:
Re: Israel Hull-W.15074.
Widow, Lydia McLaughlin.
The data furnished herein relative to Lydia McLaughlin, the pensioner of Goshen, New Hampshire, in 1840, are found in the papers on file in pension claim, W. 15074, based upon the service of Israel Hull in the Revolutionary War.
Israel Hull, a resident of Salem, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, married December 17, 1774, Lydia Ober, who was born December 21, 1761. They resided in Salem, New Hampshire, at the time of the Revolutionary War.
He enlisted in April, 1777, for three years, as a private in Captain Caleb Robinson's company, Colonel Nathan Hale's New Hampshire regiment, marched to Ticonderoga and died in the service there in the
latter part of the summer of 1779.
Lydia Hull, soldier's widow, married some time later, David McLaughlin; the date and place of his birth, names of his parents and date of his marriage to said Lydia are not stated. David McLaughlin died February 16, 1818, in Claremont, New Hampshire.
Lydia McLaughlin, applied on February 12, 1838, for pension on account of the service of her former husband, Israel Hull, in the Revolutionary War. The claim was allowed. She was then a resident of
Goshen, Sullivan County, New Hampshire.
She died June 4, 1840, survived by children.
In 1838, her son, Thomas McLaughlin, resided in Clarendon, New
1.
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Hampshire, and her son, James McLaughlin, resided in Claremont, New Hampshire.
In 1838, Joseph Hull, brother of Israel Hull, was a resident of Salem, New Hampshire, and stated that he was present at the marriage of said brother to Lydia Ober.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of Lydia Hull and the names of the persons to whom said payment was made, you should apply to the Comptroller General, Central Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, citing the following:
Lydia McLaughlin
Widow of Israel Hull,
Certificate #1837
Issued March 8, 1838.
Rate of $59 per annum
Commenced March 4th, 1831.
Act of July 4, 1836.
New Hampshire Agency.

Very truly yours,

A.D. HILLER,
Assistant to Administrator.
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August 24, 1933.
BA-3/ILL
Nellie Greene Clarke
1876 North Mentor Avenue
Pasadena, California.
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to yours in which you request the records of Lydia McLaughlin, a pensioner in 1840, John and Samuel McAlilly (variously spelled), Thomas Steele who landed in Londonderry, New Hampshire, in 1719, John Steele, David Steele who was born in Londonderry, New Hampshire, in 1757, and whose widow was Ann Ramsay Steele, Daniel Greene whose widow was Rebecca Barton Greene, James Clarke whose widow was Barbara Tillinghast Clarke, and Cornelius Clarke.

Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims upon service of soldiers in that war.

A search of the records has been made and fails to show such claims on file on account of the service of Thomas Steele, David Steele, Daniel Greene, and James Clarke as described by you, and no claims for John or Samuel McAlilly and Cornelius Clarke. Various spellings of these surnames have been searched, The record of John Steele cannot be identified without definite information regarding him.

The record of Lydia McLaughlin has been found, also, records two soldiers with name James McLaughlin (or similar spelling) have been found; those three records are furnished you herewith, as it cannot be determined just which James McLaughlin might be the one in whom you are interested.

Very truly yours,
A.D. HILLER, Assistant to Administrator.
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Nellie Greene Clarke   BA-J/ILL
1276 North MentorAvenue
Pasadena, California.

Dear Madam:
[underlined] JAMES MCLAUGHLIN-S.11048.
The record of James McLaughin, as his name is borne on the pension rolls, but who signed his name McClaughlon, is given below as found in the papers on fie in gis pension claim, s. 11048, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.

James McClaughlon was born in the year 1758, in Londonderry, New Hampshire; the names of his parents are not stated.

While residing in Salem, New Hampshire, he volunteered 
April 20, 1775, on the Lexington alarm, and served seven weeks as private in Captain James Gilmore's New Hampshire company, during which period of service he was in the battle of Bunker Hill. He enlisted in September,1775 and served three months in Captain Charles Furbush's Massachusetts company, re-enlisted December 4, 1775 and served two months in Captain Gilmore's New Hampshire company, after which he served another two weeks; all of these enlistments were served as private at Cambridge, Massachusetts, or in the vicinity of that town in the regiment of Colonel Durkes, who was stationed at that place. He enlisted in July,1776, at Andover, Massachusetts, served as private in Captain Samuel Johnson's company Colonel Fuller's and Wigglesworth's Massachusetts regiment, was at Ticonderoga and Mount Independence, and was discharged December 4, having served two months as private Wisom's company, Colonel Nichols' New Hampshire regiment, during which period of service he was in the battle of Bennington.

After the Revolution, the soldier resided in Aceworth and in Charlestown, Sullivan County, New Hampshire.

He was allowed pension on his application executed July 27, 1832
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at which time he resided in Charlestown, Sullivan County, New Hampshire.

There are no data relative to the family of James McClaughlon, the soldier, in the papers on file in this claim.

Very truly yours, A.D. HILLER, 
Assistant to Administrator.
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August 34 [?] 1933
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
James McLaughlin
B.L. Wt. 59096-160-55
BA-J/AWF
Nelie Greene Clarke
1286 North Mentor Avenue
Pasadena, California
Dear Madam:
From the records of this office it is shown that James McLaughlin was the son of John McLaughlin, and was of Irish descent. The date and place of his birth are not stated, nor is the name of his mother given.

James McLaughlin enlisted August 7, 1779 and served twenty-three days as a private in Captain James Aiken's company, Colonel Moses Kelley's New Hampshire regiment

He was a resident of Bedford, New Hampshire about the year 1805.

The soldier, James McLaughlin, married March 26, 1828 in Madison, Somerset County, Maine, Miss Sarah Hooper: he was then of said Madison. He died December 16, 1843 in Madison, Maine.

the widow, Sarah McLaughlin, was allowed one hundred and sixty acres of bounty land on Warrant No. 59096, on he[?]ount of the above noted service of her husband, on an application executed 
December 1, 1855, then aged seventy-two years and living in Anson, Somerset County, Maine.

It is stated that the births of the children of the soldier, James McLaughlin, were recorded on the books of the Town Clerk of Madison, Maine. His son, David P. McLaughlin, was a resident of Madison, Maine in 1857; names of other children not stated.

Henry and Powers Hooper, brothers of the
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widow, Sarah McLaughlin, were both living in 1855 in Anson, Maine. It is stated that they were the children of Caspar Hooper, "a Hessian taken by General Washington at Trenton".

Sophronia Hooper was living in 1855 in Anson, Maine. One Captain Thomas McLaughlin had a son, James, too young for service in the War of the Revolution, the relationship to the family shown. Very truly yours

A.S. HILLEER
Assistant to Administrator
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In reply to your request of ___, received ____
for a statement of the military history of Israel Hull, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his widow's application for pension on file in this Bureau.
W. File 15,074
[a table is below]
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
[illegible] 1777 - 1779
he died in the service at Ticonderoga in the latter part of 1779
LENGTH OF SERVICE.
RANK.
[blank]
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
Caleb Robinson
COLONEL.
Nathan Hale
STATE.
N. H.
Battles engaged in, Ticonderoga
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Salem, Rockingham Co, N. H.
Date of application for pension, by widow, Feb. 12, 1838
Residence at date of application, Goshen, Sullivan Co., N. H.
Age at date of application,  born Dec. 21, 1761
Remarks: he married checkmark] Dec. 17, 1774 Lydia Ober
He died in the service in 1779.
she afterwards married (date not stated) David
McLaughlin who died Feb 16 1818.  She was allowed pension for the service of her first husband Israel Hull.  She died June 8 1840.
and the arrears of her pension was paid to eight of her nine children.  Their names are not stated, there is no information whatever in this office concerning them.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

6-2856
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2 letters
other in James
McLaughlin

Veterans Administration
Revolutionary Division
Washington D.C.
Gentlemen:
May I have a report from you
on the pension granted Lydia
McLaughlin of Goshen N. Hamp
shire?
Mrs McLaughlin was receiving
a pension in 1840 at the age
of 78.
I am seeking her
date and place of birth
Date of marriage and name of husband
(James?  I believe)
Her maiden name
Date of death
Date of his death and place
and any other data that accom-
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panies the record.  James
had a ten day Revolutionary service.
I shall be very grateful
for this information
I am seeking also the
information to be secured
[illegible] you office concerning
Mrs. Bettie Martin McAlilly,
in 1790 living in Chester, 
S. Carolina.  John McAlilly
husband may have
outlived her.  Did he have a pension?
                                   in the revolution
I think he served from
Leacock, Lancaster Co. Penn.
Samuel & Wm served from
there and the John McLilly, 
and again John McCally or
McAlly, were all [illegible]
John McAlilly [illegible] appears
in Chester S.C 1790 as McAlily.
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Would it be asking too much
for a [illegible] report?
Steele
1. Thomas landed in Londonderry N.H. 1719.
2.  John I know nothing of him.
3.  David b. in Londonderry N.H. March 1757
               d. in a hotel in Albany N.Y. Mar 18 1813
                   enroute west.
His wife was Ann Ramsey.
What was their marriage date?
Did she have a pension?
Did he have a pension?
I hope he is the David Steele
who enlisted July 9 1782 for three
years to serve for the town of
Washington.
I thank you again
Very truly yours
Nellie Greene Clarke
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Columbus. O.
August 13.  1919

Pension
Commissioner,
Dear Sir;
Pension Roll for
1840 (p. 406, state Papers of
New Hampshire VolXXX) gives
Lydia McLaughlin, aged 78,
Goshen, New Hampshire,
residing with Ebenezer
Stevens, a pension for Rev-
olutionary or military service.
Will you please
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give me the name of the
soldier for whose service she
receives a pension, his relation
to her, his service, his
age, and his place of
residence when he enlisted
or died & names of his children.
Lydia McLaughlin was
a kinswoman, I hope an
ancestor.
[Mrs] Very truly yours
Lydia McLaughlin Greene
1129 Bryden Road
Columbus Ohio
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1919 Aug. 21.  Hist to Mrs. Lydia
McLaughlin Greene 
1933 - Aug. 24.  Hist to Nellie Greene
Clarke.[illegible]

Revy. WIDOW, & c.
File No. 15[crossed out] 74
Lydia McLaughlin
widow of
Israel Hull
Pri Rev War
Act: July 4th 36
Index:-Vol. M 9or W), Page 24
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Ruttand V 26 February 1838

Sir.,

I am requested by Mr Thos. McLauglin of
Clarendon, a brother of M. James McLauglin of Claremont,
to inclose to your case the accompanying declaration
and vouchers of their mother, Mrs Lydia McLauglin,
for a pension under the provisions of the act of Congress
passed July 4, 1836, and the act supplementary thereto,
passed March 3, 1837.  The documents consist of,
1. Lydia McLaughlin's Declaration -
2. Lydia McLauglin's Affidavit
3. Joseph Hull's Deposition
4. William Bradford's deposition and
5. Israel Woodbury's deposition.
On inspecting the official certificates of Mr.
Whipple the Deputy Secretary of New Hampshire, it
appears that he his omitted to certify as to the
genuineness (as required by the Regulations of the War
Department) of the signatures of John Woodbury Esquire,
before whom the three last mentioned depositions purport
to have been attested.  Presuming the omission
was casual on the part of the Secretary, and to
save the delay of returning the papers for those
additions, I take leave, on behalf of Mrs McLaughlin,
respectfully to request you, or some other gentleman
of the New Hampshire delegation to whom John
Woodbury Esq. is probably known, to supply the
defect above pointed out; and, also, to have the
kindness, furthermore, to present them, with the
other documents, to the Commissioner of Pensions.
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Although Mrs McLaughlin is at present
in Goshen, N.H. she purposes to remove early
the ensuing spring, to the vicinity of this town:
on which account it is desirable, in case a pension
be granted, to inscribe her name upon the Vermont
Roll, and that it be made payable, either at
Burlington, or Windsor; in one of which
Agencies she will, for a time, take up her
future abode.
The Commissioner is respectfully requested
to communicate his decision through me.
I am very respectfully,
Sir,
Your most off [illegible],
Jepr Gove [unsure of name, signature is hard to make out]

Honble Henry Hubbard
Senator in Congress
City of Washington
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William Bradford's
Deposition
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I William Bradford of Salem in the County of Rockingham and state of New Hampshire of lawful age depose and testify that I am personally acquainted with Lydia McLaughlin and have been from her youth. That her maiden name was Lydia [illegible]. That I was present and saw her married to Israel Hull that they were married by Rev Abner Bailey. I do not recollect the year they were married but distinctly recollect that it was before he listed into the Army of the Revolution. That the said Israel Hull died while in the army but the time he died I do not recollect. That after the death of said Israel the said Lydia married David McLaughlin and I am informed that the said McLaughlin has been dead some years and that the said Lydia now remains a widow
William [his mark] Bradford

State of New Hampshire
Rockingham Co. Subscribed and sworn to this eighth day of February A.D. 1838
Before me John Woodbury Jus. peace

Rockingham Co. February 8th 1838
I freely certify that I am personally acquainted with the abovenamed William Bradford and consider him a man of undoubted truth and veracity.
John Woodbury Jus. Peace

State of New Hampshire
Deputy [illegible] office Feb. 9, 1838
I hereby certify that the above names John Woodbury is duly commissioned as a Justice of the Peace for and within the County of Rockingham in said state.

[illegible] Dep. Sec'y
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I Israel Woodbury of Salem in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire being seventy eight years of age depose and testify that I was personally acquainted with the Hull family of said Salem[illegible] that he served with me in Revolutionary war in Captain Caleb Robinson's company and Colonel Nathan Hale's Regiment in the New Hampshire line that we listed into the army in the month of April in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven under Lieut. Luke Woodbury for the term of three years. That we went together from Salem to Ticonderoga in the State of New York. That the said Hull remained in the Army until his death according to the best of my recollection was in the summer of seventeen hundred and seventy nine. That I am personally acquainted with the widow of the said Hull and have been for many years that her maiden name was Lydia O[illegible] That after they were married they lived within about half a mile me. That she remained a widow several years after the death of said Hull and then married David McLaughlin who has been dead about twenty years and she now remains a widow.

Israel Woodbury

State of New Hampshire, Rockingham Co
Subscribed and sworn to this seventh day of February A.D. 1838
Before me John Woodbury Jus. Peace

Rockingham Co, February 7th A.D. 1838
I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Israel Woodbury and consider him a man of undoubted truth and veracity.
John Woodbury Jus. Peace
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State of New Hampshire
Deputy Sec. Office  Feb. 9. 1838  I hereby certify
that the within named John Woodbury is duly
commissioned as a Justice of the Peace for and
within the County of Rockingham in said State.
Jno. Whipple Dep. Secy


Israel Woodbury's
Deposition
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I Lydia McLaughlin do testify and say that there is not in my possession or of that of any other person to my knowledge nor was there ever made any family record whatsoever of my intermarriage to my first husband the late Israel Hull deceased 
Goshen February 21st 1838
Lydia McLaughlin her X mark
Attest John Gunnison
21st February 1838
Sullivan Ss} then the above named Lydia McLaughlin made sollem (sic) oath that the above affidavit by her subscribed is just and true before me John Gunnison Justice Peace
This certifies that I have been acquainted with Wid. Lydia McLaughlin for many years and consider her to be a woman which may be relied on for truth and veracity.
John Gunnison Justice Peace
The State of New Hampshire
Sullivan Ss.
I J. W. Gunnison clerk of the court of common pleas for said county do hereby certify that John Gunnison is a justice of the peace within and for said county and that his signatures herewith are genuine.
Given under my hand and seal of the court this 22d day of February AD 1838
J W Gunnison clerk