Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3644, Rufus Barnard, Conn.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Conn.

Barnard, Rufus
Mary

NUMBER
W 3644

CONTENTS
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Vermont  6557
Rufus Barnard
of Addison co. in the state of Vermont
who was a private in the Co. commanded
by Captain Hill of the Re. commanded
by Col. McLellan in the Connecticut
line for 1 year.

Inscribed on the roll of Poultney, Vt
at the rate of 40 dollars 00 cents per
annum, to commence on the 4th day of March
1843, the time when suspended.

Certificate of pension issued the 23rd day of March 1847 and sent to W G Wade, Rose, N York

Arrears to the 4th of March '4 7$160
Semi-anl allowance ending Sept  $20
$180

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7,1832}

Recorded by D. H. Wood, Clerk
Book E 2, Vol 3, Page 57

(right side)
Rep:
[illegible] to
W G Wade
July 21/51
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972
Vermont
Mary Barnard
widow of Rufus Barnard (Conn)
who served in the Revolutionary
War as a private

Inscribed on the roll at the rate of
40 dollars 00 ents 
per annum, to commence on the 23rd of September 1851

Certificate of Pension issued the
7th day of Oct 1852
and sent to
Hon. J. Meachan
Middleburg, Vt

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
July 29, 1848, Page 25, Vol. 4

(right side)
R W Bates, May 8181
same May 12 1854
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State of Vermont
Addison County
On this 4th day of July 1832 personally appeared before the Judges of the County court, in open court, Rufus Barnard, resident in Bristol in said county aged seventy two years and being first duly sworn, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress of the 7th June 1832. 
That he the said Rufus Barnard enlisted in the month of May in the year 1777 in the state troops of the state of Connecticutt, at Coventry in said state under Lieut. Ezra Root, in a company commanded by Capt. Hill, in a regiment commanded by Col. McLellan, for the term one year.  The troops were raised for one year to serve in the Continental Army, and that he served out the full time of his said enlistment at New Haven, and Horse Neck, and White Plains, and West Point and was discharged at New Londonn in the state of Connecticutt and had a written discharge, but it is lost. 
And in the years 1778 and 1779 he, the said Rufus Barnard performed two tours of militia service of three months each, chiefly at Groton Fort in Connecticut, commanded by Col. Ledyard.
That he resides in the state of Vermont more than forty, and in Bristol, his present residence, more than thirty three years.  That he receives no pension, nor claims any except the present, nor is he on the roll of any agency of any state.
Rufus Barnard
Sworn and subscribed in open court the day and year above written.
E D Barber,  Clerk
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And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.
Edward D. Barber, Clerk
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Mary Barnard
wid of Rufus
Vert

July 29, 1848
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State of Vermont District of New Haven SS
On this 19 day of December 1851 personally appeared before the probate court of the district of New Haven in the State of Vermont Mary Barnard a resident of Bristol in the County of Addison and State of Vermont aged 90 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 29th 1848. That she is the widow of Rufus Barnard who was a private soldier in the revolutionary war and that  he served as she believes for twelve months or more in the Connecticut Militia or Connecticut Line but under what officers she cannot say, she believes that he resided in Coventry in the County of Tolland and State of Connecticut when he entered the service, and that he he was placed upon the pension roll at the rate of forty dollars per annum on the 23rd day of March 1847 under the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 and as she has no documentary evidence in support of her claim, she would refer to the declaration of the said Rufus Barnard and the evidence on which he was pensioned to substantiate her claim, the said Rufus Barnard continued to draw his said pension to the 4th of September 1851. She further declares that she
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was Married to the said Rufus Barnard on the 4th day of April in the year seventeen hundred and eighty one, at Rutland in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont by Joseph Banker a Justice of the peace for said county that her husband the aforesaid Rufus Barnard died at Bristol aforesaid on the 23d day of September one thousand eight hundred and fifty one; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the second of January eighteen hundred Viz; at the time above stated. She further swears that she is now a widow and that she has never before made any application for a pension & that she has no record of marriage.
Mary Barnard X her mark

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before 
Wm T Richardson
Harvey Munsill
Harvey Munsill Judge

I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Mary Barnard who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing declaration and that she is a credible witness.
Harvey Munsill Judge
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Probate Court
District of New Haven

I hereby certify that Harvey Munsell, Esq. is the Judge of the Probate Court for the District aforesaid and that his signature affixed to the within certificate is his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature and affixed the seal of said court at Vergennes in said district this 16th day of February, AD 1852.
J Pierpoint, Registry
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FAMILY RECORD -  BIRTHS
Rufus Barnard     Sept 5th AD 1751
Polly Barnard       December 12 AD 1761
Lucy Barnard        June 3 AD 1782
Luther Barnard     March 8 AD 1784
Rufus H. Barnard  Feby 1 AD 1786
Francis Barnard     July 27 AD 1788
Frederick Barnard  July 27 AD 1788
Zerniah Barnard    Sept 21 AD 1790
Lansing Barnard    April 6 AD 1793
Polly Barnard (Lucy) Feb 14 AD 1795
Almira Barnard      March 4 AD 1797
Norman Barnard    Nov 8 AD 1799
Byron Barnard        March 26 AD 1802
George Hall            November 28 1793 


Page A
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FAMILY RECORD - MARRIAGES

Almira Barnard married George Hall 
Oct 13 1819

Almira Hall married Nathan Whitman 
Oct 15 1821

Page B
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                         FAMILY RECORD.
            BIRTHS                                DEATHS

Francis Barnard Dies October 29th 1817 - aged 29 years
Frederick Barnard Died Sept 26th 1819. Aged 31 Years
George Hall Died October 24th 1820 aged 26 years 11 months
Almira Whitman Died June 4th 1824c-
Polly Barnard junior Did June 4th `827aged 32 years
William Richardson Died November 23 1830 aged 55 years 1830
Luther Barnard Died January 1st 1831 aged 47 years
Zerniah Richardson Died December 28th 1831 aged 41
   
                 (B)
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State of Vermont
Addison County Js}
   On this 24th day of July one thousand Eight hundred and fifty two, personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace within and for the County and State aforesaid Solon Summer, a resident of Bristol in the County of Addison and State of Vermont aged forty years who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his Oath depose testify and say that the family record attached to and accompanying this affidavit,  was this 24 day of July AD 1852 by me, taken from an old family Bible of Rufus Barnard late of Bristol aforesaid deceased, and now in the possession of Mary Barnard his Widow; the Bible from which this record was taken was printed at Philadelphia by Matthew Carey No 122 Market Street, 1810 and as I am informed by the Widow Mary Barnard and believe that the record is in the hand writing of a Son of the said Rufus and Mary by the name of Luther Barnard who is also dead and I have no doubt both both [sic] was written with the same hand - that is on the records of Births written by Luther Barnard - and the marriage of Almira Barnard to George Hall and Almira Hall to Nathan Whitman and the deaths pf Francis Barnard, Frederick Barnard, George Hall, Almira Whitman
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Polly Barnard Jun, William Richardson, Luther Barnard & Zeceriah Richardson is in the hand writing of Rufus H. Barnard who is also deceased   I also say that I am the nearest neighbor to the said Mary Barnard on the south and that she now lives in the same house where the said Rufus Barnard died, and I further say that I have always  with the exception of about four years lived within or about three quarters of a mile of the said Rufus and Mary Barnard and know that they lived together as husband and wife until the death of the said Rufus Barnard and I also know that the said Rufus Barnard was a pensioner of the United States & that I have several times made the paper for him for the purpose of drawing his pension from the pension agent
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State of Vermon
Addison COunty Js}
  On this 24th day of July one thousand Eight hundred and fifty two personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace within and for the County and State aforesaid Mary Barnard a resident of Vermont aged 90 years who being duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath say that the two sheets of family record accompanying the affidavit of Solon Summer was taken by him in my presence from an old family Bible of my late husband Rufus Barnard late of Bristol aforesaid deceased which said Bible is now in my possession and has been ever since the death of the said Rufus and I further say that on the first leaf on the side over the Letter (A) is in the handwriting of my Oldest son Luther Barnard who is also deceased and I further say that I have no knowledge of any other record either public or private except that which accompany the affidavit of Solon Summer taken from the Bible aforesaid
  [Signed]                                      her
   Solon Summer                 Mary    X    Barnard
                                                    mark
sworn to and Subscribed the day and year above written Before me and I hereby certify I am personally acquainted with the said Mary Barnard & that she is a credible witness
[Signed]  Harvey Munsel Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont
Addison County Js}
I George S Swift clerk of the county court for the county of Addison in the State of Vermont hereby certify that Harvey Munsell whose signature is attached to the certificate annexed to the accompanying affidavits of Mary Barnard and Solon Summer was at the respective dates hereof a Justice of the peace within and for said county commissioned and qualified and that I am well acquainted with his handwriting & verily believe said signature is genuine.
   In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Middlebury in said county this 27th day of July 1852
             [Signed] George S. Swift Clerk of
                                   Addison County Court

[A stamp is affixed to the left of the first paragraph]
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No 3041.
Vermont 
Admd
18 mos
Priv
$60.00
Hon C O Slade
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Brief in the case of Rufus Barnard of Bristol
County of Addison in the State of Vermont
  9Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?   Court
2 If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he?  72
4. State his service as directed in the form annexed.

[A chart with four columns follows]
Period.
Duration of Service.  
Rank.
Names of General and field Officers under whom he served.

May in 1777   1 year    Private     Capt Hill.    
     Col McLellan
1778-1779       6 months   do    Col Sedgard

5. In what battles was he engaged?
6. Where did he reside when he entered the 
         service?  Coventry Connecticut
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?          Living
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
     Correct

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
    [Signed]  James Arshen Examining Clerk
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION                  
                                3-525
            DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
W 3644             BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
                          Washington, D.C. ............., 19.....

In reply to your request of ................., received ..................... for a statement of the military history of Rufus Barnard a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
[A chart follows with five columns]
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
LENGTH OF SERVICE.
RANK.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.     CAPTAIN.   COLONEL.
STATE

May 1778      6 mos       Pvt    Captain Hill  
       Colonel Saml. McClellan     Conn.
        1778       3 mos   at Fort Groton Ledyard
        1779       3 mos           "        "          "           


Battles engaged in  [check mark]
Residence of soldier at enlistment  Coventry 
                     Conn.
Date of application for pension,  July 4 1832 
               Pers claim was al.
Residence at date of application,    Bristol 
            Addison Co. Vt.
Age at date of application, b Sept 5, 1761 in Coventry Conn.
    Remarks:  .... mar. at Rutland Vt April 4 1787 Mary or Polly Hale     born Dec. 12,1761
Died at Bristol. Vt. Sept. 23, 1851    She was al. pension on her ap ex Dec. 19, 1851 while living in Bristol Vt.  Children Lucy, Luther, Rufus H. born Feb. 1, 1786, Francis, Frederick, Zeruiah, Lansing, Polly, Almira, Byron
     Respectfully,
                             Commissioner.
I only gave birth of Rufus H. in writing to E.B.L. on Jan 7, 22 as he was her direct ancestor   see her letter
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[LEFT PAGE, WRITTEN VERTICALLY]

1922  Jan. 7. Hist. to E. B. Lawrence. AW

[RIGHT PAGE]

Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 3644
     Mary Barnard
                 Widow
     Rufus Barnard
            Pvt. Rev War
     Act:  July 29, 1848
Index: - Vol. A, Page 29

      [Arrangement of 1870.]
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[LEFT PAGE] 

                              No. 6557
                              Vermont

                       Rufus Barnard
of Addison County in the State of Vermont
who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Hill of the Regt. Commanded by Col. McClellan in the Connecticut line for 18 months Private  $60.00

Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont
at the rate of 60 Dollars  ..... Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued 2d day of March
            1833 and sent to Hon. W Slade
                                                            H.R.

Arrears to the 4th Sept.1832                    70.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4                  30.00
                                  March 1833           _______
                                                            $ 120.00

       Revolutionary Claim,
              Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk,
Book D.  Vol. 4    Page 48


[RIGHT PAGE]


let to Claimant & Pension Agent
Augt 19. 1843
Let to Hon W. Slade Oct. 17, 1843
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              No 1110
       Mary Barnard
  widow of Rufus
             Vermont
...  Jas Meacham   July 7 1832

3d Aud 25 June 1832
Act 29 July 1848
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Brief i the case of Mary Barnard widow of Rufus
  County and State of Vermont
   act 29 July 1848

Claim, (original." )
Proof exhibited, (if original,)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls?  If either, state the substance.
  Husband was a pensioner at 60$ per annum
Act June 7 1832 -
Proof of marriage Documentary (birth of children) and Passed

(If for increase,)
 has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim?  If so, what?

Name and residence of Agent
Hon Jas. Meacham
           Middlebury
                      Vt.

      [Signed]  Thornton Triplett
                    Examining Clerk.
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Joseph C Bradley of Bristol in the County of Addison and State of Vermont aged seventy three years who being duly sworn according to Law, before Harvey Munsill a Justice of the peace for the County of Addison aforesaid and authorized by Law to administer oaths, depose testify and say that he was; and had been for a long time, personally acquainted with Rufus Barnard and Mary Barnard of Bristol aforesaid his wife, and that the said Rufus Barnard and the said Mary Barnard lived together as husband and wife from my first acquaintance with them which was as early as the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety untill the death of the said Rufus which was same time in the month of September one thousand eight hundred and fifty one; the said Mary Barnards name before her marriage was Mary Hale; the said Rufus and Mary had a number of children, some eight or nine children that lived to be men & women the oldest son Luther Barnard must have been born as early as seventeen hundred & eighty five or six, he represented the town of Bristol in 1812 in the general assembly & was not present when they was married but know they lived together as husband and wife for nearly or quite sixty years there never was to my knowledge any (illegible) funeral
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other man by the name of Rufus Barnard living in the town if Bristol aforesaid, but he had a son Rufus H Barnard who who [sic] represented the town of Bristol in the year one thousand Eight hundred and thirty - The said Rufus Barnard was, as I have always understood, a pensioner of the United States & have from my youth with the exception of about eleven years lived near and been well acquainted with most of the inhabitants of said Bristol
                 [Signed]  Joseph E. Bradley

Sworn to and Subscribed 
this 4th day of March
1832 Before me, and I
hereby Certify that I have
been personally acquainted
with Joseph C Bradley for 
more than forty years and
that he is a credible
witness
[Signed] Detach [?]  Harvey Munsill Justice of 
                                    the Peace
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State of Vermont
Addison County Js}
On this 5 ay of February 1852 Personally appeared before Harvey Munsill a Justice of the peace within and for the County of Addison Henry G Sumner a resident of Bristol in the County of Addison and State of Vermont, aged 80 years who being duly sworn according to Law, doth, on his oath depose and Say, that he has been for forty five years or more personally acquainted with Mary Barnard the Widow of Rufus Barnard late of Bristol aforesaid deceased, and that he knows that the said Rufus Barnard deceased , and the said Mary Barnard lived together as husband and wife until the time of the death of the said Rufus Barnard, and they had a large family of children when he was first acquainted with them, and the oldest son he should think was then over twenty years old by the name of Luther, who represented the town of Bristol aforesaid in the Legislature of Vermont in the year 2816.
he further declares that the said Rufus Barnard & Mary Barnard lived from the time he was first acquainted with them, untill [sic] the death of the said Rufus Barnard, within less than a mile distance, and was [illegible] of his near neighbor, the street on which he lived being thickly settled  he also further declares that he knows that the said Rufus Barnard was a pensioner of the United States, and that he died at Bristol aforesaid on the 23d day of September one thousand eight hundred and fifty and as he believes, he was not present at his death but was present at his funeral
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and saw him buried and knows that the Widow Mary Barnard now lives in the same house where her husband the said Rufus Barnard died, & that she is as he believes of the age set fourth [sic] in her declaration made before the probate Court for the district of New Haven on the 19th day of December 1841 to wit ninety years and still a Widow.
       [Signed]  Henry G. Sumner

Subscribed and Sworn
before me on the day and
year, fist, above written
  [Signed] Harvey Munsill Justice of the peace
I hereby Certify that I am personally acquainted with Henry G. Sumner who has transcribed & sworn to the foregoing affidavit and that he is a credible witness   
  [Signed] Henry Munsill Justice of the peace
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State of Vermont
Addison County  Js}
I George S. Swift clerk of the county court for the county of Addison in the State of Vermont hereby certify that Henry Munsill whose signature is attached to the certificate annexed to the affidavit to which this is appended, of Joseph G. Bradley & Henry G. Sumner, was at the inspection dates thereof a Justice of the peace within & for said County duly commissioned and qualified and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe said said [sic] signature is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Middlebury in which said county this 4th day of March A.D. 1832.
     [Signed]  George S. Swift Clerk of
                     Addison County Court.
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   +                                                 Pension Office
(Burlington)                                      June 25 1832
   Vermont Rolls
     Act June 7 1832}
                                         Rufus Barnard Jr
pen $40 per annum.  In what time was he paid?

J.S. Gallagher           Paid to 4th September 1851                                                              
               P. Alwd                              BL.B.  
                   + always note the agency
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                                 Middlebury Vermont
                               Oct 9 1843

Sir
   Mr Rufus Barnard has handed me yur etter to him of the 19th of August last, by which he is notified that it has been discovered that he served but 6 months under Capt Squire Hill in 1778 instead of a year as disclosed by him, and requesting a return of his certificate for correction.  Mr. B requests me to write you upon this subject.
   I desire to be informed whether any objection exists against the six months service for which he declared independently of the years service referred to in your letter; and in what year, and written what times, that six months service was staged by him to have been performed.
    Would you have the goodness, also, to inform me in which of the months of 1778 it appears by the rolls that Mr. B. served in Capt. Hills Company.
    I desire also to learn the names of the witnesses who testified to the years service in
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in 1778, under Capt Hill, and whether they stated that they were with him in the service, and if so, whether they were in the same company with him.
   It seems to me improbable that both Mr. Barnard and his witnesses should have made so great a mistake as to have actually doubled the real  service  in one year.  The 6 months service under Capt Hill - if it was but 6 months may have been followed by another 6 months under some other officer.
   An early answer to these inquiries will very much oblige
                                Your obedient servant
                                     [Signed]  Wm Slade


J.S. Edwards Esq.
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                                    Rose New York
                                          February 24th 1847
    Sir,
        Your letter (as one from the pens Office of the 19th August 1843, addressed to Rufus Barnard of Bristol Vermont requesting a return of his pension certificate was duly noted - but the request was not complied with, - fearing he should lose his pension certificate and not understanding your letter of the above mentioned date, - and one dated October 17 1843, addressed to Him then  [illegible], - in which it is stated that the only [last word underlined] service objected to is that of 1778, which by the law of its organization was limited to two [word inserted] tours of three months [illegible]" - which course would only reduce his pension to $40 - per annum - for which I doubt sent a certificate - will be immediately issued
                             I have the honor to be
                                 very Respectfully,
                                       Your obt Servant,
                             [Signed] W.G. Wade

J.L. Edwards
Comr. Pensions
   Washington
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Rufus Barnard Vt. 
application for
Back Pension

Filed by R W Bates
May 6, 1854
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L.P. Waldo Esq               Washington May 6 1,854
Comr. Pensions
                         Sir
                    I enclose herewith a Power of Atty
in my favour, from Lansing Barnard of Erie County Penn, a claiming the amount of back Pension, withheld from his father Rufus Barnard late a Revolutionary Pensioner of Addison County Vermont from the 4th of March 1843 to the 4th of Sept 1848.
                  Very respectfully Yours
                                    [Signed] K. W. Bates
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              $40.-
Rufus Barnard
              Payment to be made
        at Poultney
    by M. Clark
   Agent for paying Pensions
   as in the [illegible] Agency of
                  Vermont


          Recorded in this Pension
       Office in Book E Vol.
       Page 57 by
          [Signed]  D.  H. Wood Clerk
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       WAR DEPARTMENT
               REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 7th June, 1832, Rufus Barnard who was a Private in the Connecticut Line is entitled to receive Forty --- Dollars and --- cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March 1843, and payable semi-annually, on the 4th day of March and 4th of September, in every year. Issued in lieu of one dated 2d March 1838, which has been annulled.
      Given at the War Office of the United
              States, this 23d day of
              March one thousand eight
               hundred and forty-Seven.
          [Signed]    W. L. Macy,
                             Secretary of War.

[Seal affixed left of last paragraph]

Examined and
Countersigned}           J. L. Edwards
                            Commissioner of Pensions.
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Please send to Carlidge
some form for an 
Increase pf Pension

LG Office

[Initials EL are written across the above ]
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Rufus Barnard
Vert Act 7 June 32
For Markland to examine for Mr Bates
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Mary Barnard
widow of Rufus
                   Vt
Admd. 29 July 1848
    W Rev 1 July 1848
1 year pr   40 $
per annum from
23 Sep 1857
when he died

Payable to Widow



Certf
    Hon Jas. Meacham
             Middlebury
                          Vt
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                                                       Rose New York
                   August 7th 1834.

Sir,
                      I beg leave to state in reply to a letter from your Office of the 21st  alt regulations of the Pension Office, opened on the 18th August 1834, in the case of Rufus Barnard, of Vermont, claiming an increase in Pension under act of June 7th 1832, - that ne appointment as his atty. has been filed in your Office, and this correspondence with the Office respecting said claim will show that I have been heretofore acknowledged by the Dept as the atty duly authorized.
                        I am Respectfully,
                            Your obt Sevt,
                               [Signed] W. G. Wade


JE Heath Esq
    Comr of Pensions
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Rufus Barnard
                 Vt.
Act 7 June 1837
         Admitted
1 year private
        $40 per annum
from 4th March, 1843
when his former pension
at $60 per annum
was suspended.



W. G. Wade, Esq
         Rose,
                  New York
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Rufus Barnard   Vermont (Poultney, formerly Burlington) Act of June, 1832 - $60 per annum. Will the third auditor please say to what time he was last paid?

Pension Office
March 20, 1847}

paid to 4" March 1843
                    W. Tyson
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 Rufus Barnard
Pensr Act 1832
                  Vermont
Claims 12 mos Service in Col McClellans Regt as per enclosed or written ctfc of Comptroller - only 6 mos of which is admitted - in the present allowance of his pensn.



W.G. Wade, Atty
                    Rose,
                        N.Y.
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                              State of Connecticut
                                 Comptrollers Office
                                   Hartford  April 24th 1857

I certify that on the application for evidence of the service of Rufus Barnard [name underlined] in the war of the Revolution, I have examined the Books &documents remaining in this Office and do not find the name of the said Barnard on any Pay Roll now in this Office.
    Among the documents now in this Office is a memorial addressed as follows:  "To the Honorable General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, now sitting at Hartford Oct. Session 1778, the Petition of the Commissioned Officers, Non Commissioned Officers and Soldiers in the Battalion under the command of Col. Samuel McClennan being one of the Battalions included in the two Brigades raised by order of the General Assembly at then adjourned and Sessions in Febry, 1778"
     This document is signed by the Officers and soldiers of the Battalion, and among the privates is the name Rufus Barnard [name underlined].
Said Battalion was raised in the early part of the year 1778, a serve one year. [last four words underlined]
         [Signed] R.G. Pinney Comptroller
                 by Geo. Robinson Clerk
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                        Washington May 9 1954

L.P. Waldo Esq
Comr of Pensions
                     Sir
                   I have to acknowledge the receipt of your of the 8th enclosing a Copy of a letter addressed to Rufus Barnard of Vt on the 19th of August q843, which you state will show that his Barnards pension was reduced from $60 to 40 Dols per yearly and that no increase is [last three words underlined] due
      By reference to mine of the 6th it will be  seen that the Hon Court of Pensions has entirely misapprehended its import Mr Barnard has not asked, nor does he claim that the pension allowed his father should be "increased from $40 to 60 Dols, but that he may be allowed [last three words underlined] at the rate of $40 per annum) which amt it is admitted his father was entitled to) from the 4th of March 1843 to the 4th of Sept 1848 the same having been withheld from him without authority of Law - In proof of the last position I beg leave to refer you to the Case of Capt Vernon (which is analagous [sic] in every respect) which will be found in Morton & Mayo, Page 489.9310 - in this Case Atty Gen Butler says - "except where the overpayment has been made by fraud, I think it most agreeable of the spirit of the Pension laws to treat the overpayment in the light of Money paid and received by mistake and constituting a debt from the Pensioner to the U.S. which is no bar to the payment of the Pension According to the equity of the Act of the Act of 20th of May 1836" - It is not pretended that there was any fraud practiced by Mr. Barnard or any one else in obtaining this pension originally nor does it seem reasonable that the pension was withheld in consequence of the overplus from March 4, 1831 to March 4, 1843, which would amount to $240 while Mr Barnards Certificate was withheld only from the 4th of March 2843 to the 4th of Sept 1848 - 5 years & 6 months
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as $40 per annum $220 - now why was not the full amount, claimed to have been overpaid by the Pension Office withheld or why should the Office withhold the $220, while Mr. Barnard was indebted 240$ and not withheld also the additional $20, when the amount was entirely [last word underlined] in their own hands
   I do not understand that the decision of the Atty Genl. heretofore referred to has ever been reversed, but on the Contrary, that it has been repeatedly acted upon & carried out from that time to the present -
         The Hon Court of Pensions will confer in fuvour [sic] by causing the claim to be reexamined at as early a fate as is convenient.
                        I am Sir with great respect
                            Your Obedt Servant
                                     R.W. Bates
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                        State of Vermont
                           Rutland Town Clerk's Office
                                February 6. AD 1852

I Ambrose L. Brown, Town Clerk of the town of Rutland in the State of Vermont do certify that I have carefully examined the records in my office and cannot find any record of the marriage of Rufus Barnard and Mary Hale and I am fully satisfied that there is no such record in my office
      [Signed]    H.L. Brown Town Clerk

Rutland Js   Feby 6"1852 Sworn before me
                   J. H. Hodges Justice peace


STATE OF VERMONT
RUTLAND COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE

I, Frederick W. Hopkins, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland, do certify that Silas H. Hodges Esquire, was, at the date of the Certificate to which this is attached, a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned, and qualified .................... and that I verily believe his signature to the same is genuine.

[A seal is affixed to the left of the prior paragraph]

In Testimony whereof, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the Seal  of the Court, at Rutland in said County, this Eight day of February Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two

   [Signed] F. W. Hopkins Clerk
      By A.L. Brown Deputy Clerk
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Rufus Barnard
Pensr Act 32 - Vt
Proof of kinship  [First and last words 
            underlined]
R.B. died 23d Sept 1851
Rufus Barnard claimed
12 mos service under Col
McClellan, 6 mos was
admitted - by reference to
ctfe of Comptroller recently 
filed, - it will be seen that 
his enlistment was for 
$2.  Months, -by refering [sic]
to papers of Roswell Green, 
pens @ NH - Act 32, it will
be seen that he was allowed
for 12 months the service in
said Regiment an increase
is asked for in this claim.
     [Signed]   W.G. Wade
                   [illegible]
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State of Vermont
District of Addison Js}
I Jedidiah S. Bushnell, Register of the Probate Court for the District of Addison aforesaid, do hereby certify, that at a session of said Court holden at Middlebury in and for said District, in this 22d day of March A.D. 1852. Present Hon. Horatio Seymour Judge; it was proved, to the satisfaction of said Court, that Rufus Barnard said late of Bristol in the County of Addison in the State of Vermont deceased, was at the time of his decease a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of forty dollars per annum, and that he died at said Bristol on the 23d day of September  9A.D. 1851) one thousand eight hundred and fifty one, and that he left a widow named Mary Barnard who still survived him and now resides in said Bristol.

The testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County at said Middlebury, this 22d day of March A.D. 1852
   [Signed]  Jed.S. Bushnell Register
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State of Pennsylvania
   Erie County} SS
    On this 1 day of May A.D. 1854 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid Lansing Barnard and makes Oath in due form of Law that he is the son of Rufus Barnard who was a Revolutionary Pensioner in Addison County in the State of Vermont, and was first Pensioned at $60 per Annum and Subsequently at $40 per Annum, died in the County and State above named about the 23 day of September One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty one   That he has reasons for supposing that these is back Pay due the heirs of Said Rufus Barnard on account of his said services as a Revolutionary Soldier  ... therefore by these present that I Lansing Barnard one of the children of Rufus Barnard do hereby Constitute and appoint R. W. Bates of Washington D.C. my true and Lawful Attorney for me in my  name & stead to make application for and receive from the Court of Pensions whatever back Pay or Pension may have been due my decd father at the time of his death hereby notifying and confirming whatsoever my said Attorney may do in the premises
    [Signed] Lansing Barnard
Signed sealed & delivered
in the presence of
John S. Barnes
S. B. Hamlin

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me
    [Signed]  John S. Barnes
                      Justice of the Peace
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State of Pennsylvania
      Erie County, SS}
     I Samuel Puley, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Please in and for the County aforesaid, do certify that John S. Barnes, Esq., before whom the annexed Affidavit was taken, is now, and was at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace, duly authorized to take acknowledgements of Deeds, etc., in and for the said County, regularly commissioned and sworn, and to all whose acts as such full faith and credit are due, and that the same is executed agreeably to the Laws of Pennsylvania - and further, that the signature of the said John H. Barnes to the said Affidavit is genuine.  In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Erie the 11th day of May A.D. 1854.    
         [Signed] Samuel Puley   Prothonotary
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             Brief
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Mary [underlined]  Barnard widow of Rufus
Married [underlined] 4 April 1781, Record, birth 
        of children     [Last 4 words underlined]
He died 23 Sep 1831.  Proven by witnesses, and agreement with Auditors report.
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                                               No. 6557 -
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       Payments to be made
at Burlington
by the [illegible] Mr L Bn Bk Jr
Agent for paying Pensioners
in the Agency of Vermont



Recorded by D. Brown
Clekr, in Book D. Vol. 4
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                           WAR DEPARTMENT.
                       REVOUTIONARY  CLAIM.

I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Rufus Barnard of the State of Vermont who was a private in the army of the Revolution is entitled to receive Sixty dollars per annum, during his natural life, commencing n the 4th of March. 1934. and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.

        Given at the War Office of the United
                 States, this second day of
                         March one thousand
                 eight hundred and thirty three
                              [Signed]   Lew Cass
                                              Secretary of War.

Signed and 
Countersigned}
J.L. Edwards
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State of Vermont,
Addison County, ss}

    I, EDWARD D. BARBER, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Addison, do hereby certify that the annexed documents contain the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Rufus Barnard for a pension.
  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court this 24th day of July A.D. 1832

            [Signed] Edward D. Barber Clerk
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State of Vermont
Addison County Js}   I Rufus Barnard of the town of Bristol in the said County of Addison and State of Vermont having been duly sworn depose testify and say that I am the identical person named in the pension certificate herewith attached & forwarded upon which certificate I received an annual pension of Sixty dollars per annum until the 4th day of March AD 1843, Since which time I have  received no pension that I now reside in the said Town of Bristol in said State of Vermont I have resided there Forty Six years last past & that previous thereto I resided some time on Middlebury in said County and State    & previous thereto I resided in the town of Rutland in the County of Rutland & State of Vermont  & previous thereto I was born in & Resided in the Town of Coventry in the State of Connecticut.  I am between Eighty five & Eighty six years old.
     [Signed] Rufus Barnard

State of Vermont 
Addison County Js} Bristol February 18th AD 1847  then personally appeared Rufus Barnard the subscriber of the above affidavit & made oath that the above said affidavit by him so subscribed contains the truth & nothing but the truth    I further testify that I am well acquainted with said Rufus Barnard & I saw him Subscribe his name     above & that he is a man of truth & veracity=
          Before Me,, Horatio Needham Justice of                                                                                                                                                     the peace

I further certify that the above name Rufus Barnard is the Identical person he represents himself to be in the above affidavit
  [Signed] Horatio Needham  Justice of the                                         peace
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State of Vermont
Addison County Clerks Office}

                     I, George S. Smith, Deputy Clerk of the County Court for the county of Addison, do hereby certify that Horatio Needham was at the date of the within certificate, a Justice of the peace  within and for said county, duly commissioned, and qualified, and that his signature to said certificate is genuine.  In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Middlebury in said county this 18th day of February A.D.1847.
    [Signed] George S. Swift Deputy Clerk
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I Jonathan Dike of Chittenden in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont of Lawful age do testify and say that I am personally acquainted with Rufus Barnard of Bristol in the County of Addison and State aforesaid and am knowing to his enlisting under Lieut. Ezra Root of the Connecticut the State troops Raised forvone year to serve in the Continental Army in the year 1777 and further I am knowing of his serving out the term of his enlistment and also of the said Barnard being out in the militia two different times about three months each time and further this deponent saith not.
               [Signed] Jonathan Dike

State of Vermont
Rutland County Js}
Chittenden June 29th AD 1832
then personally appeared Jonathan Dike the signer of the above affidavit and made solemn oath to the truth of the same before me.
    [Signed]   Moses Randall Just Peace

I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Jonathan Dike and know him to be a person of truth and veracity.
   [Signed] Moses Randall Just. Peace
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State of Vermont
Rutland County Js}

I Robert Pierpont Clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland do certify that Moses Randall Esq is a Justice of the peace for said County duly commissioned and that [illegible] the signature to the foregoing certificate are his proper hand writing

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Rutland this 3d day of July A.D. 1832
                      [Signed] R. Pierpont
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I Abigail Tailor [sic] of Chittenden in the County Rutland and State of Vermont of Lawful age do testify and say that I am personally acquainted with Rufus Barnard of Bristol in the County of Addison and State aforesaid & am knowing to his enlisting under Lieutenant Ezra Root of the Connecticut State troops, Raised for one year to serve in the continental army in the year AD 1777 and further knowing to his serving out the term of his enlistment and also of the said Barnard being out with the militia two different [illegible] the next year after and further the deponent saith not.
            [Signed} Abigail Taylor

State of Vermont
Rutland County }

   Chittenden June 29th 1832
then personally appeared Abigail Tailor the signer of the above affidavit and made solemn oath to the truth of the same before me
     [Signed]  Moses Randall Just Peace

I hereby testify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Abigail Tailor and know her to be a person of truth and veracity
   [Signed]  Moses Randall Just. Peace
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State of Vermont
Rutland County Js}

I Robert Pierpont Clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland do certify that Moses Randall  Esq is a Justice of the peace for said County duly commissioned and that the signatures to the foregoing certificates I believe to be his proper hand writing

In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Rutland this 2d day of July A.D. 1832.
              [Signed]  R. Pierpont
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                                                     3041
                                           Declaration of
                                            Rufus Barnard
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        ONE SIXTY NORTH EL MOLINO
             PASADENA CALIFORNIA
                   Dec 7. 1921

Pension Bureau
Washington, D.C.     Revolutionary Soldier Dept.

Gentlemen:
    I am the daughter of John Barnard and Prusha Allen Barnard, married Jan. 1st 1847. John Barnard born Feb 20, 1824 son of Rufus H. Barnard and Calurah Barnard Bible record [last two words inserted]  (Tombston [sic] record Bristol Vt -Kelurah Barnard wife of Rufus H. Barnard , Died June 18th - AD 1873)
   Rufus H. Barnard was a son of Rufus Barnard.
I have the following in my fathers hand writing (John Barnard)         [A Pension Office stamp dated Dec 12 1921 appears here]


'My grandfather Rufus Barnard [name underlined] served in the Revolutionary War, and was a pensioner, and he and my grandmother lived to be 96 years old. My father Rufus H. Barnard [name underlined] was a volunteer in the War of 1812 and would have been at the Battle of Platsburg if they could have crossed the lake in a sail vessel. against a head wind.
My name is Emogene Barnard {word inserted] Laurence. I was from al-Winthrop Iowa July 3d 1870.
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My information is from records in Whitstones. and in an old family bible owned by my          12   grandfather - Rufus H. Barnard.  none for this
  I am asking for what information you can give me to verify these facts, to find out if I am eligible to be a Daughter of the American Revolution.
        Respectfully yours,
     {Signed]  Mrs. Emogene Barnard Laurence

[Stamp dated Dec 13 1927]