Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16,437, for Josiah Terwilliger, New York
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SERVICE  New York  Terwilliger Josiah  Rachel  NUMBER W.16437

CONTENTS
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[column 1] Date of death not on AB

[column 2]  
Rachel Terwilliger
widow of Josiah Terwilliger
who was a pensioner under the Act of June 1832
and who diied on the 29 January 1833
of Chenango NY  in the State of NY
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain Drake of the Regt commanded
by Col Palmer in the N York
line for 11 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 36 dollars 66 cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March 1836

Certificate of Pension issued the 7 day of Dec
1839 and sent to H. Redlygatt
Oxford, N.Y.

Arrears to the 4th of Sep 39  128.31
Semi-annual allowance ending   18.33
$146.64
{Act o July 7, 1838}

Recorded by D. Brown Clerk,
Book A. Vol 2 Page 107
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20633
New York
Josiah Terwilliger
of Chenango in the State of New York
who was a Private in the [illegible] commanded
by Captain Drake of the Rep commanded 
by Col Palmer in the New York 
line for 11 mos.

Inscribed on the day New York
at the rate of 36 dollars 66 cents
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834

Certificate of Pension issued the 25th day of Sep
1833 and sent to P B Phinde [illegible]

Arrears to the 4th day of Sep 33  $91.66
Semi-anl. allowance ending   18.33
$109.99
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by [illegible] clerk,
Book E. Vol. 4 Page 81
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No. 18272

Josiah Terwilliger Chenango
County New York

Admitted 
Private 11 months 

P B Prindle Norwich
Chenango County N York
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WAR DEPARTMENT, Pension Office, June 4 1833 To: The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace (thus: }) You will when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim. [

form - 9 columns] A Statement, showing the service of Josiah Terwilliger Chenango   New York

Period when the service was rendered/Duration of the claimant's service. years, months, days / Rank of the claimant. / Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom they served. / Names and Rank of the General and Field officers. / Battles in which the applicant was engaged. / Country through which he marched. / Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period / Evidence by which the declaration is supported.

Enlisted Spring 1776 /  4 mo  / Private / Capt Drake / Gen Clinton /  / Marched to Fort Montgomery / [illegible] Ulster Co NY / traditionary evidence & 1 living witness certified credible no clergyman who was sufficiently acquainted to certify papers not properly attached

Enlisted Fall 1776 / 4 mo / private / cap Conklin / Col Palmer /  /  / 

Enlisted Fall 1778 / 3 mo / private / Cap Rose / " /  /  / 

* the applicant states that he enlisted for 6 months but served only 3 months because of sickness

I am, respectfully, your obedient servant,
J.L.Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
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[REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7,1832.]
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[REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7,1832.]
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Married 15 June 1783
Husband died 29 Jan 1833
[illegible]
Capt Drake

Admitted
Private 11 mo

Harry R. Mygate Esq
A Hford
New York
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State of New York
Chenango County ss  Rudolf Ostrom of Guilford in said county of Chenango being duly sworn says that he is seventy eight years of age  that he lived in Clinton in Dutchess County New York and saith that he is well acquainted with Josiah Terwilliger and Rachel Mills and was present when said Josiah was married to said Rachel on the 15th January 1783 by the Revd Coeuer Bullock of the Baptist Church of said Clinton and that deponent married her sister. That deponent was at the funeral of said Josiah Terwilliger who died in Guilford in Chenango County in December 1832 or 1833.  That he left his widow Rachel who was married to as aforesaid, and that he has seen said Rachel this day at Guilford aforesaid who has not married since her said husbands death, and that her said husband was a Revolutionary pension of the United States under the late pension act. 

[signed]  Rudolph Ostrom
Sworn to Aug 1 1836 Before me did certify that said Rudolph Oshom is a credible person  John Tracy Judge of the Court for the County of {illegible] State of New York
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State of New York
Chenango County ss On said 21st day of December 1838 personally appeared before Samuel M Koon one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said county of Chenango Rachel Terwilliger a resident of Guilford in the County of Chenango and State of New York aged 75 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7, 1832 entitled "An Act Granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" that she is the widow of said Josiah Terwilliger who was a Revolutionary pensioner under the act of June 7 1832 and for the evidence of his service the refer to the proof of which he was pensioned.

She further declares that she was married to the said Josiah Terwilliger on the fifteenth day of January in the year seventeen hundred and eighty three that her husband the aforesaid Josiah Terwilliger died on the (forgot) day of December eighteen hundred and thirt two or in (illegible) eighteen hundred and thirty three, 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.
: at the time above stated 

[signed] Rachel Terwilliger

Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year above written before me and I certify that from bodily infirmity said Rachel Terwilliger cannot attend court

Samuel Mc Koon Judge of Chenango County Court.
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State of New York
Chenango County ss Samuel Fairchild of Guilford in said county of Chenango being duly sworn says that he is fifty years of age that he was well acquainted with Josiah Terwilliger who was a revolutionary pensioner of the United States under the late pension act and who died at Guilford in said County of Chenango on the (forgot) day of December 1832 or in January 1833 leaving a widow Rachel Terwilliger whose declaration is annexed  That said Rachel is the aunt of and lives with deponent and there is no family record of the marriage of said Josiah and Rachel Terwilliger.

[signed] Samuel Fairchild

Sworn to December 21st 1838 before me and I certify that said Samuel Fairchild is a credible person  Alvan S Perkins Commissioner of Deeds
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State of New York
Chenango County ss I [illegible] Randall clerk of said county of Chenango, hereby certify that John Leahy is a Judge of the court for the [illegible] Samuel MKeen a Judge of the Chenango County Courts and Abrm S Perkins a commissioner of deeds are [illegible] written and that the signature within purporting to be theirs are genuine, In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my hand and the seal of said county December 22d 1831[?]
[signature illegible] Clerk
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State of New York
County of Chenango ss

On this ninth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before John Tracy Levi Bigelow Nathan Taylor Charles York and Hevickipah Read Esquires judges of the court of common pleas in and for said County of Chenango being a court of record in and for county now sitting Josiah Terwilliger a resident of  Guilford in the county of Chenango in said State aged seventy seven (77) years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated viz the spring of the year 1776 (but he cannot recollect the precise time or month) he enlisted for four months at the town of Shawangunk Ulster County and State of New York into a company commanded by Captain Uriah Drake by Ensign Thomas Dunn the name of the Lieutenant he does not recollect. The regiment to which his company was attached and belonged was under the command of Colnel Palmer the names of the other regimental officers he does not recollect - and the commandant of the Brigade after his enlistment to the captain and that he received no payer bounty at the time of his enlistment on the same or the next day after he passed muster he went to Fort Montgomery
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(as it was then termed) the place of rendezvous with his company  at which place he remained with his company until the expiration of the four months the term for which he enlisted and was then discharged by the Captain of his company verbally. and that he was not present at any battle or skirmish during the term of four months - one Benjamin Lane Corporal Garret Van Benoctor drummer served in the same company with him and were discharged at the same time with him

and that in the fall of the same year he enlisted a time for four months in Shawangunk to Ulster County New York into a company commanded by Jacob Conklin Captain John Johnson a Lieutenant. The name of the Colonel or any other names of officers he does not recollect - the Commandant of the Brigade was General Clinton that he received no pay or bounty at the time of his enlistment  that he passed muster the same day he enlisted at the place he enlisted and in the course of three or four days marched with his company to Fort Montgomery the place of rendezvous - at which place he remained with his company until the expiration of the four months term for which he enlisted and then discharged by Captain of his company verbally and that he was not present at any battle or skirmish during the last said term of four months

and also that in the fall of the year 1778 (the precise day or month he does not recollect) he enlisted a third time for six months at Shawangunk Ulster county New York into a company commanded  the Captain Jacobus [illegible] Lieutenant [illegible] The name of the ensign he does not
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recollect  thinks that General Clinton was commanded the Brigade  That he received no pay or bounty at the time of his enlistment  That he passed muster immediately on the same day of his enlistment at the place he enlisted - on the second or third day after his enlistment he marched with his company to Fort Montgomery the place of rendezvous about three months after he arrived at the Fort he was attacked with an intermittent fever and not able to do service and he obtained a forlough and remain until he recovered from [illegible] and about a week after he went home on this forlough the Fort was taken by the British forces and his company were taken prisoners and dispersed. And when he recovered which the company were dispersed and he was never required to join in again and that he received no discharge at the time but was only absent on the forlough

That at the time of each of these aforesaid enlistments he resided in the above named town of Shawangunk Ulster Co New York  That he has no documentary evidence of his services and he knows of no person who se testimony he can procure except the affidavit of Haminus Terwilliger hereto attached who was all performed in the Revolutionary war.
He hereby relinquishes every 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

In answer to the interrogatories required to be put to applicants for pensions by the War Department to the first answer that he was born at Shawangunk Ulster County NY in 1756
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the second - that he has no record of his age but there was one in his Fathers family but he has it not   Left the service he remained at Shawangunk Ulster County until the year 1798 or 1799 and then went to nine parntey and remained there about a year and then came to Guilford Chenango County New York his present place of residence.

4th He enlisted as above stated
5th Is answered in his declaration already given
6th Already answered

7th He gives the names of Samuel Kent farmer. Samuel A Smith late sheriff Abner Gilbert Justice of the Peace Hebert Baldwin merchant William Baldwin Merchant all of the town of Guilford as men who can testify as to his character for truth and veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution   

He further states that there is no clergyman in his neighborhood who is sufficiently acquainted with him to give the certificate required by the Pension law.
Sworn to & subscirbed the day & year aforesaid. P.B. Prindle Dep Clerk

[signed] Josiah Terwilliger

We Hewitt Mills and Daniel North of the town of Guildford County of Chenango State of New York do certify that we are well acquainted with Josiah Terwilliger who has sworn to and subscribed the above declaration that we believe him seventy seven years and upwards of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a solider of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion  that we have never heard any doubts expressed by any person as his having been such soldier  we further on that there is no clergyman in the neigh
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bourhood in our estimation sufficient by acqauinted with the applicant to make the certificate required by the pension law.
[signed] Hewit Mills

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
P.B.Prindle Dep Clerk

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 at not the court does certify that it appears to them that Wit Miller and Daniel North of the town of Guilford Chenango County of who have subscribed the proceeding to credit and it further satisfactorily appears to the court that there is no clergyman in the neighborhood of the said Josiah Terwilliger sufficiently acquainted with him to give the certification as required by the Pension law

Her Read
Charles York
Mo Wray
Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Chenango County N. York

Paris K Pike Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Chenango do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said court in the matter of the application of Josiah Terwilliger for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of office this ninth day of October of 1832.
P.B. Prindle Dep Clerk
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Josiah Terwilliger
Pension Application

Direct Pension Certificate
if allowed
P.B. Reudle
Norwich
Chenango Co
NY
18272
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I Certify that I served as a soldier in the militia in the town of the revolution and that Josiah Terwilliger then of the town of Shawangauk  county of Ulster now of the County of Chenango in the state of New York did also serve as a soldier in the militia in said war that the said Josiah Terwilliger served under Capt Uriah Drake four months to the best of my knowledge and belief at Fort Montgomery in the said State of New York  The year I do not recollect but believe he served the four months at the commencement of the war. I saw him frequently at Fort Montgomery during the time he served under Capt Drake Col Paulding commanded the Regiment. I also certify that the said Josiah Terwilliger served one month in the year 1776 in a company commanded by Basset Rosa at [illegible] in the county of Rockland Major Jansen on Col Jansin commanded Regiment  I also certify that the said Josiah Terwilliger volunteered as a soldier to serve in the militia in the year 1777 for four months under Capt Rosa that Capt Rosa was killed at Fort Montgomery
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miny as I have been friends and I have seen the said Josiah Terwilliger at various times at Fort gomery during the time he served under the said Capt Rosa and also that the said Josiah Terwilliger is a Brother to me

[signed] Harmanus his X mark Terwilliger

I certify that the above named Harmanus Terwilliger is known to me to be a man of truth & veracity and a credible person  June 10th 1833 Abm A Deyo one of the judges of the court of common pleas in and for the county of Ulster

Harmanus Terwilliger of the town of Plattskill in the county Ulster to me well known personally appeared before me and made oath to the above certificate this sixteen day of October in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty two

Abm A Deyo one of the Judges of Court of Common pleas for the County of Ulster

Ulster County ss I Jacob Snyder Clerk of said county court that Abraham A. Deyo before whom the within on preceding affidavits purports to have been sworn and whose name is signed to the preceding certificate of credibility was at the date of the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said county that law well acquainted with his hand writing believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his genuine handwriting and signature,
Witness my hand and seal of office the tenth day of June 1833  

Jacob Snyder
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State of New York
Chenango County ss
Josiah Terwilliger of the town of Guilford in said county being duly sworn says that he is the son of Josiah Terwilliger late of the said town also made application at the last October term of the court of common pleas of said County for a pension under the Act of June 7, 1833 - and whose papers have been returned from the War Department for alteration or correction [interlined] marked 18274 that the said Terwilliger died in the said town of Guilford on the 29th day of January 1833 - and further saith not

[signed] Josiah Terwilliger

subscribed and sworn to before me this 10th June 1833 and I certify that he is a person of credibility truth and credit (the interlineations first noted)  Charles York Judge of Chenango County Courts

State of New York
Chenango County ss I Jarvis K Pike Clerk of said court certify [illegible] Charles York before whom the preceding affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the Judges of the County Court of said County and that I am acquainted with his handwriting and verily believe his name subscribed to the affidavit to be his genuine handwriting and signature

Witness my hand and seal of office this
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May 7, 1936

BA-J/EEL
Josiah Terwilliger - W.16437
Simon H. Terwilliger-R.10472

Miss Marian Hart
McDonough
New York

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the records of Simon H. Terwilliger and Josiah Terwilliger, who served in the New York Troops in the Revolutionary War and received pensions while residing in Chenango County, New York.
The records of these soldiers have been found and are furnished herein.

Josiah Terwilliger
W.16437

The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War Pension claim W.16437, based upon the military service of Josiah Terwilliger in that war.

Josiah Terwilliger was born in 1756, exact date not shown in Shawangunk, Ulster county, New York. The names of his parents are not stated.

While a resident of of said Shawangunk, Josiah Terwilliger enlisted in the spring of 1776, served in Captain Uriah Drake's company, Colonel Palmer's New York Regiment and was stationed at Fort Montgomery for four months: in the fall of same year he served another four months at Fort Montgomery under Captain Jacob Conklin in the New York Troops: later he enlisted for six months in Captain Jacobus Roze's New York Company, again marched to Fort Montgomery, and after serving about three months was taken sick and sent home to recover his health and while at home, Fort Montgomery was captured by the British and all the members of his company either captured or dispersed.
[handwritten note on the side] Found Uriah Drake under col Palmer in NY aikins  He stated that this had enl was in 1778. but as Ft Montgomery was captured in 1777 I did not use 1778
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After the Revolution, Josiah Terwilliger continued to reside in Shawangunk, New York, until 1798 or 1799, then moved to Nine Partners, New York where he remained for about one year; then moved to Guilford, Chenango County, New York, of which place he was a resident when he applied for pension on October 9, 1832. His claim was allowed.

He died at said Guilford on January 29, 1833.

The soldier married January 15, 1783, in Clinton Dutchess County, New York Rachel Mills. The date and place of her birth and name of her parents are not shown.

Soldier's widow, Rachel, was allowed penion on her application executed December 21, 1838, at which time she was aged seventy-five years and resided in Guilford, New York.    (Rachel born 1763)

The only name of a child that is shown is son Josiah Terwilliger, who, in 1833, was a resident of Chenango County, New York.

In 1833, Hermanus Terwilliger, a brother of the soldier lived in Plattskill, Ulster County, New York.

In 1836, Rudolph Catrom, a resident of Chenango County, New York, stated that he married a sister of the widow, Rachel Mills Terwilliger but did not give his wife's name.

In 1838, Samuel Fairchild, of Guilford, New York stated that Rachel Mills Terwilliger was his aunt and lived at his home. He stated that he was fifty years of age but did not give the names of his parents.  (born 1780)


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Simon H. Terwilliger
R.10472
The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, R.10472, based upon the military service of Simon H. Terwilliger in that war.

Simon H. Terwilliger was born in 1752, exact date not shown, in Schenectady, New York. The names of his parents are not stated.

At the beginning of the Revolutionary War, Simon H. Terwilliger
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resided in Johnstown, Tryon (later Montgomery) County, New York then moved to Shawongunk, Ulster County, New York. He volunteered at said Johnstown. in June, 1775 or 1776, served in Captain Davis' Company, Colonel Johnson's New York Regiment and was in a skirmish; place where skirmish took place and length of this service not shown: he enlisted in the fall of 1776, and served five months in Captain Roos' Company, Colonel Hardenburg's New York Regiment: he enlisted in the fall of 1777, in same company and regiment, went to Fort Montgomery where he served for three months, was in the engagement where Fort Montgomery was captured by the British, in which engagement Captain Roos was killed and his place taken by Captain Cornelius Martin: in the spring of 1776, he enlisted and served two months in Captain Cornelius Martin's Company, Colonel Johnson's New York Regiment: then enlisted in Ulster County, in same company, Colonel Paulding's New York Regiment and was stations on the frontiers until fall: length of this service, four months: he again enlisted the following spring and served three months in Captain Jacob Conlin's Company, Colonel Johnson's New York Regiment. The soldier stated that he assisted in building Forts Montgomery and Constitution and the fort at West Point.

Simon H. Terwilliger was allowed pension on his application executed August 31, 1832, while living in Greene, Chenango County, New York, where he had lived for nine years.

He died the last day of February or the first day of March 1834, at the home of his sone, Henry S. Terwilliger, in Greene, New York.

The soldier married in February, 1780 Sorchy Van Kuren. They were married by the Reverend Goetchus, of the Reformed Dutch Church, of Shawangunk, New York. Sorchy was eighty-one years in 1838.

No names of children appear, other than son Henry S. noted above.

In 1838, the widow's brother, Jacob Van Kuren was aged seventy-nine years and lived in Ulster County, New York, where he stated, he has always lived.

The names Cornelius, Peter and James Terwilliger appear: no relationship to the family stated.

Very Truly yours,

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.
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[stamp] OXFORD Oct 11

Oct 15 1839
NY 6214
7 July, 1838

FREE

J.L. Edwards Esq
War Department
Washington City
D.C.
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Oxford Chenango Co NY Oct 10. 1839

Sir
I send declaration and proofs of Rachel Terwilliger widow of Josiah Terwilliger for a pension.
The widow expects that you will address me at the place above dated
I have the honor to be your obt ser
Henry R. Mygalt

J.L. Edwards Esq
Com of Pensions
War Depart
Washington City
DC
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State of New York
Dutchess County ss
Thomas N Wilbar of Clinton in said county of Dutchess being duly sworn says that he is Thirty [?] years of age and the town clerk of said town of Clinton and that he has diligently examined the records of said town of Clinton under his charge to find evidence of the marriage of Josiah Terwilliger to Rachel Mills and deponent further saith that he has searched the records of the Baptist Church in said Clinton over which the Revd Corni Bullock presided in 1783. to find evidence of said marriage and that neither the town or church records can find any evidence thereof.

[signed]  Thomas N Wilber Town Clerk
Sworn to Feby 4 1839 and I certify that the affiant is a credible person before me Tilly Arsure Justice of the Peace
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Jan. 18, 1935

Veterans Admins.
Wash DC
I would like the Rev. War record of Simon H. Terwilliger and Josiah Terwilliger, both sent in New York militia and received pensions in Chen. Co. N.Y. Would also like family data of the same. Thank you!
Sincerely,
(Miss) Marian Hart
McBonough, NY

[stamp]
Recieved Jan 21 1935 [illegible]
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[column 1] 
1935 May 7  Hist on marian Hart EL

[column 2]

Rev Widow, & c.
File No. 16434
Rachel Terwilliger
Widow of 
Josiah Terwilliger
Pri New York
Act July 7th 38
Index: Vol M, Page 268
{Arrangement of 1870.}