Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17,417, Thomas Dougal, Continental (Conn.)
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SERVICE
Continental (Conn.)

Dougal, or Dugal, Thomas
Page, or Paige, Ann (Former widow)

NUMBER 
W. 17,417
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3470
Connecticut
Ann Page former widow of [crossed out "Samuel Page] Thomas Dougal who died Aug 26, 1794 [crossed out "on the in March 1820.]
of New Haven in the State of Connecticut who was a Corporal in the ~~ commanded by Captain Conns of the Regt commanded by Col. Sheldon in the Connecticut line for 2 years.

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 120 Dollars ~~ Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of November 1840 and sent to C. B. Phelps, Woodbury, Conn.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1840 $1140.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar '41   60.00
_________
$1200.00

{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3d}
Recorded by Wm. C. Lantzinger Clerk
Book C Vol. 1 Page 80
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State of Connecticut
Probate Court
District of New Haven

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Be it remembered that on the 13 day of June 1839 personally appeared before said court Ann Paige a resident of the town of Branford in the county of New Haven in said state aged eighty one years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed the fourth day of July 1836 and the acts supplementary thereto.
That she is the widow of Thomas Dougal formerly of New Haven in New Haven County in said state now deceased. Said Thomas Dougal enlisted into Col. Sheldon's Regiment Light Dragoons on the first day of June 1780 for and during the war. He was a member of the 6th Troop and was appointed a corporal on his enlistment and in that capacity served until the close of the war.
That she married said Thomas Dougal on the 10 November 1780 at New Haven aforesaid. The Rev. Jonathan
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Edwards DD Minister of White Haven Church in said Town of New Haven performed the marriage ceremony.
That she lived with said Dougal untill his death on the 26 August 1794. He died at New Haven.

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She also declares that she was subsequently married to Samuel Page of Branford aforesaid and that said Page died in March 1820. And that she has not again contracted marriage but is now old & unmarried.
And that she was a widow on the 4 July 1836.
Ann Paige X her mark

Sworn to & subscribed on the day and year above written.
In testimony whereof I have affixed the seal of said Court and set my name & office.
Nathaniel R. Clarke
Judge of the Court of Probate in the District of New Haven.
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I Zebiel Bradley of New Haven in New Haven County, being duly sworn deposes and says that he is now aged sixty years last January. That in the forepart of February seventeen hundred and ninety eight I went to live with Simeon Jocelyn then of New Haven now deceased that when I went there to live, I found living with said Jocelyn as an apprentice, Thomas Dougal the son of the then widow Dougal now widow Ann Page now of Branford in New Haven County, Connecticut.
That at the time I went there as aforesaid in 1798, said Thomas Dougal called himself between fourteen and fifteen years of age, and from my best knowledge and belief that was then his age. I am more certain about his age because he claimed as he went to live with said Jocelyn before I did, although I was three years older than he, he ought to be considered the oldest apprentice. That four or five or six years after that, I knew another Thomas Dougal who was a shoemaker and I believe no relation of the said Thomas, who was the son
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of said Widow Page. The trade which said Thomas who lived with said Jocelyn and myself learned was that of a clock and watch maker. And I further remember that which said Thomas and myself were apprentices to said Jocelyn, his mother was married to a Mr. Page of Branford.
Zebiel Bradley

Sworn before me and subscribed to this 22d day of September 1840.
R. Hinman Justice of Peace

I hereby certify that Zebiel Bradley who has signed & made oath to the foregoing deposition is a respectable man and a credible witness.
R. Hinman Justice of Peace
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Lucianah Jocelyn of New Haven in New Haven being duly sworn depose and say that I am now seventy five years old last October. That I am the widow of Simeon Jocelyn who was a goldsmith or clock and watch maker. That I am acquainted with widow Ann Page of Branford, and knew her when she was widow Ann Dougal, and also before her first husband Thomas Dougal died. That said Thomas Dougal and said Widow Page when he was alive lived together in Union Street in the city of New Haven and not far from where I then lived. That I saw said Thomas Dougal the then husband of said Widow Page go out of the house when he then lived in Union Street with his military clothes on, and it was then said that he had been in the army. That afterwards Thomas Dougal the son of said Thomas who was the husband of said Widow Page, and of said Widow Page, was an apprentice to my husband said Simeon Jocelyn.
Lucianah Jocelyn

Subscribed to and sworn before me this 22d day of September 1840.
R. Hinman Justice of the Peace
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I certify that the said Lucianah Jocelyn who has signed and sworn to the within deposition before me this day is a respectable person and a credible witness.
R. J. Hinman Justice of Peace
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Richard Wilson of Hamden of lawful age being duly sworn deposes and says that he was seventy five years of age last July. That he was born in New Haven, where his father used to live. That he knew Thomas Dougal a short time before he married Ann Hatch, and was also acquainted with said Ann Hatch. That said Ann Hatch & her mother lived in the same house with deponent before said Ann married, and deponent recollects hearing about said Dougal's courting said Ann Hatch, and deponent heard said at the time that they were married, and deponent has heard his mother speak of having seen them married, and deponent further says that at the time said Thomas Dougal was courting said Ann Hatch, said Thomas Dougal was a soldier and belonged to the light-horse, and at the time they were married and after their marriage said Thomas belonged to said Light-horse or troop. And deponent has seen said Thomas with his military dress on riding on horse-back in New Haven, when there was a company of Light horse stationed there, which was about the time of said marriage.
Said Thomas Dougal continued to reside in New Haven untill his death, which was at
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the time of the yellow fever raged in said New Haven with which disease said Thomas died. Deponent says that said Dougal was not born in New Haven, and came there to reside at the time the troop came there and deponent supposed that he came from out of the state, but does not know from what state he came.
Deponent resided in New Haven untill 1792, when he moved out about two miles, and has always lived with in ten miles of New Haven, and was never acquainted with any other Thomas Dougal.
Richard Wilson

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 23d day of Oct. 1840.
R. J. Hinman Justice of Peace

I hereby certify that Richard Wilson who has signed & sworn to the above deposition is a credible witness and a respectable man.
R. J. Hinman Justice of Peace
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Ann Page
Supplementary Evidence

Reply to Chas. R. Phelps
Woodbury Conn
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Woodbury 3 May 1840
To the Commissioner of Pensions
Your letter of the 18 November 1839 was duly received requiring more satisfactory evidence as to the date of the alleged marriage of Ann Page. Soon afterwards (6 December) I took the explanatory deposition of Hannah Hummiston which I have enclosed as likewise the depositions of Mr. Scarritt and Mr. Jones showing that due diligence has been made in looking for record evidence.
Before I was ready to send this testimony your letter to Judge Clark was shown me and his reply. I saw your office had received some communication of which I was ignorant. I concluded to suspend further [illegible], untill I know the [illegible] better. I wrote Mr. Page his deposition and letter in March explain the nature and reasons of his representations through B. R. Jacobs Esquire who died late in December or early in January.
I may apprehend the tenor of his communication erroneously but from all I gather from Mrs. Page I conclude imputations were made.
I know public officers have little business or inclination to hear
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irrelevant explanations but if asserted have an undoubted right to repel allegations unjustly made.
George Jones of Waterbury applied to me before the spring of 1834 relative to a pension for his grandmother. I have it no particular attention.
In April 1834 he requested me to give it a thorough attention and advise Mr. Merrells who had commenced or was about to commence taking proof for which he said he would remunerate me without any stipulation as to price  or [illegible] or time.
Jones gave me no intimation that a declaration had been made but said Page had tried to find proof and had abandoned the whole project. I promised when I should attend at New Haven on some business there I would go to Branford and Jones arranged with Merrells to meet me there.
I gave such direction as to testimony as I supposed necessary on 13 June. I think I went with Judge Clark and Merrells to Mrs. Pages house and informed her I was sent by her [illegible] Jones to take measures for her pension. We examined her as to her recollection in the usual manner and procured a declaration from her story and such other evidence as we had
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[illegible] of
Mrs. Page gave us no intimation of a previous declaration nor did her daughter, Woodward Pages wife. They spoke of having given up making a claim for want of evidence of the marriage.
On returning to New Haven I examined the Records and took depositions and employed persons to look for evidence of marriage.
On reading your letter to Judge Clark about 18 January I wrote to the Honorable Perry Smith of the Senate and concluded from his reply to wait for further information. But on seeing Mr. Page I have resumed it again. Mr. Page was here in March and then gave me the first intimation I had received of a previous declaration taken by Fowler or any other person.
Mr. Page has absolved Mr. Clark, Mr. Merrell and myself from all blame as his letter will show. 
I hope therefore the papers will be taken up without reference to Mr. Fowlers charges. I see no objection to apply the testimony to either declaration from all I can learn, and entertain no doubt that a record of the marriages never existed and have as little doubt of the honesty and accuracy
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of Mrs. Hummistons testimony.
Please to reply to me when any reply is made.
Respectfully yours
Chas. B. Phelps
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Woodbury Conn
March 20, 1840

To the commissioner of Pensions
Benjamin R. Fowler Esq lately deceased of Branford foreward to your office a pension Declaration of Ann Page. After this George Jones employed Mr. Phelps to assist him in obtaining a pension for Mrs. Page. Mr. Phelps being ignorant that any declaration had been made took before Judge Clark a new declaration, and obtained proof & sent the papers to your office. Subsequently I was alarmed that the old lady might foolishly spend her pension of Jones obtained it for her and last fall employed B R. Fowler as my agent & as agent for my mother to make a representation to the Com. taking objections to the proceedings before Judge Clark on further examination into the affair I am now satisfied to withdraw those objections or to have all the testimony in the last case apply to the first declaration or to the last as the commissioner supposes proper.
I wish the certificate
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or any other circumstances to be made to Mr. Phelps.
Woodward Page
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STATE OF CONNECTICUT,
NEW HAVEN COUNTY,
COUNTY COURT CLERK'S OFFICE.} ss.
I, Jno Beach Clerk of the County Court, within and for said County, and Keeper of the Seal thereof, and of the Commissions of Justices of Peace, within and for said County, hereby certify that
Henry T. Huggins Esq. is a JUSTICE OF PEACE,
within and for the said County, duly appointed, commissioned, and sworn, with power to administer oaths and take the acknowledgement of Deeds; that his Commission is dated the 8th day of June A.D. 1839 and will expire on the twentieth day of June, A.D. 1840; that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and that the signature hereto annexed, purporting to be his, is his genuine official signature. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of said Court, this 7th day of Dec. A. D. 1839.
Jno Beach Clerk.
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I John Scarritt of the town of New Haven in New Haven County, Town Clerk testify and say that I have been Town Clerk about seven years and such Clerk have in my custody the public records of said town.
IN said office are lists & entries of marriages. I have at the request of Chas. B. Phelps Esq re-examined said lists and entries with great care and industry and cannot find the name of Thomas Dougal.
I am certain there is no such entry in said office and am confident in that opinion by the consideration that the Law of this state before 1821 did not require marriages to be recorded and from the fact that I cannot find any entry of marriages celebrated by Rev. Dr. Edwards
[page cut off and the page underneath is showing
"and at the time I was married I went to the place where said Ann lived, with her husband Thomas Dougal, in Mr. Hicks house I think; she had then a young child. She was at our house some time perhaps two months before the child was born. She was married in the fall before & I was"]
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same clergyman caused the marraiges to be entered.
I think Dr. Edwards never did.
John Scarritt, Town Clerk of the Town of New Haven

Signed in presence of Aynd Blackmore
David B. Clark

State of Connecticut Ss. New Haven County
New Haven Dec 6, 1839
Be it remembered that on the sixth day of December A. D. 1839 at said Town of New Haven personally appeared before me, the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in & for said County of New Haven duly commissioned and authorized to administer oaths, John Scarritt Town Clerk of the Town of New Haven to me well known as such and as a credible witness and subscribed the foregoing deposition and having been duly cautioned also made oath that the matters therein set forth are true.
Before me
Henry T. Huggins
Justice of Peace
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State of Connecticut
New Haven County
Ss. Hamden
Decr 6, 1839

Be it remembered that on the said 6 Day of Dec 1839 before me Henry T. Huggins a Justice of the Peace within and for the county of New Haven duly commissioned and authorized to administer oaths personally appeared Hannah Humiston of said Hamden and being duly cautioned & sworn by me to speak the truth, on oath declares that before her marriage she was well acquainted with Ann Hatch, now Ann Page, said Ann resided in her house with her mother. & was married Thanksgiving day in the year 1781 at New Haven. And at the time I was married & went to the house where said Ann lived, with her husband Thomas Dougal, in Mr. Hicks house I think; she had then a young child, she was at our house some time perhaps two months before the child was born. She was married in the fall before & I was
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I am now eighty three years old and was twenty five years old when I was married. I know Ann Hatch was married about one year before me. I remember she was likely to have a child while my husband was courting me, for her pregnancy rendered her stay to home a good deal and I used to go to her.
Hannah Humiston X her mark

In presence of
Jared Bassett
Chas B. Phelps
Subscribed and sworn to this 5th day of December A. D. 1839 before me
Henry T. Huggins Justice of Peace

I hereby certify that the above deponent Hannah Humiston is to me well known & that she is a credible witness.
Henry T. Huggins Justice of Peace
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State of Connecticut
Litchfield County
Ss. Woodbury
Decr 10, 1839
Be it remembered that on said Day before me Charles B. Phelps a Justice of the Peace within and for Litchfield County duly authorized to administer oaths personally appeared George Jones of Waterbury in New Haven County to known to be a reputable and credible witness and the said Jones having been by me duly cautioned to speak the truth on oath declares as follows
I am the Grandson of the widow Ann Paige of Branford in New Haven County. My Grandfather was Thomas Dougal a Revolutionary Soldier. My Grandmother Page after they were giving Pensions to widows wanted to get a Pension and asked to me help her about it. I was told that proof of her marriage with my Grandfather would be necessary. My Grandfather
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and Grandmother as she said were married at New Haven. I went there and with Mr. Hewitt the Town Clerk and Elijah F. Merrell Esq examined the Town Records for said marriage and could find no entry. This was last summer or spring. I went also to Deacon Charles Bostwick & after examining the records of Fair Haven Church could find no entry in their books we examined all the [illegible] Doct. Edwards [illegible] minutes.
I wrote letters to a Mr. Hatch at Boston a Grandson to know if they had any book of entries on the subject. He Hatch wrote back he had no such entry & have enquired of her son by Mr. Page (Woodward Page who lives in Branford) he also wrote to her brother Jerry Hatch in Vermont and could find no register or written entry. There constitutes with my father all the relatives of my Grandfather alive when she was a widow. My father married a daughter of said Dougal, he knows nothing of any entry of Dougals marriage. My mother has been dead five years since.
My Grandmother has an old relative [cut off] which is reputed
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an old Bible which is reputed to have belonged to my Grandfather. No entry of marriage or any other family register, or entry, can be found in it. None were made in it as I think.
I also sent to Dr. Chapin at Weatherfield a son in law of Dr. Edwards can find nothing thus.
George Jones

Sworn and subscribed before me
Chas. B. Phelps Justice of Peace

To the Commissioner of Pensions
I certify that I have examined the Town Records in New Haven with Mr. Scarritt the Town Clerk and can find no entry of Thomas Dougal.
I have also examined with Deacon Chas. Bostwick the Fair Haven Church Record in vain for entries of Thos Dougals marriage.
Woodbury 11 Dec 1839
Chas. B. Phelps
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Ann Paige
Additional Evidence

The Commissioner is requested to readdress replys to Chas. B. Phelps
Woodbury Conn.
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STATE OF CONNECTICUT,
LITCHFIELD COUNTY,} ss. Litchfield
I Origen S. Seymour Clerk of the COUNTY COURT of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Charles B. Phelps Esquire is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and by Law authorized to administer Oatha and to take the acknowledgement of Deeds. And that his commission was dated on the 27th day of May A.D. 1839 and will expire on the 20th day of June, A.D. 1840. And that the foregoing signatures which purport to be his are in his genuine handwriting.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said Court this 29th day of April A.D. 1840
Origen S. Seymour Clerk
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State of Connecticut
Litchfield County
Ss. Woodbury
Be it remembered that on this 27 day of March 1840 personally appeared before me Chas. B. Phelps a Justice of the Peace within & for the county of Litchfield, Woodward Page of Branford in New Haven County whom I certify to be a credible witness and being duly cautioned and sworn on oath declares and says as follows.
I am the son of the widow Ann Page of Branford. She has lived with me for twenty years and I have maintained and supported her after the passage of the law giving widows pensions. I applied to Benjamin R. Fowler Esq of Branford recently deceased in behalf of my mother to aid in obtaining a pension for her. He sent a declaration to the Pension Office but not being able to find proof of her marriage, the matter was suspended. George Jones subsequently reported the old lady he consulted Chas. B. Phelps Esq of Woodbury. I was
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Advanced by Fowler to look for evidence of marriage on some record or family entries. We wrote to Jerry Hatch the Brother of Ann Page & to Robin Hatch, Jerry Hatch lives near New Haven Vermont where Marain lives. I do not now remember the town in Vermont. 
We could hear of no evidence from them.
My mother has a part of an old Bible which I think she had before her marriage with Samuel Page my father - but no entry of any record is to be found on this Bible nor in any other paper in her custody. I am confident no family records were preserved by the Dougals or my mother if any were ever made.
I also wrote to Rebecca White in Vermont. Rebecca White is the sister of my mother. She replied that she had no record nor know of any record or entry.
I wrote also Wm. Brooks in Vermont. Brooks is a son of Rebecca White by a first marriage. He knew of no record or entry.
I have also
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spent [cut off] record in New Haven and Branford but can find none. And am confident none exist.
Woodward Page

Sworn to & subscribed before me.
Chas. B. Phelps Justice of Peace
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Ann Page
former widow of Thomas Dougal who died in 1794 & of Page who died 1820.
Act July 4 1836
Married 1780. Allow 2 yrs Corporal Sheldon's Dragoons. $120 per anum. On roll.

C. B. Phelps Esq.
Woodbury Conn.
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See Sheldons rolls. Aug 1779. Corpl. Jan 1. 1780
Final [illegible] cat. Vol 2 & 96 Jany 1783
M. Nov 1780
enlisted June '80
Mita Mass
Lewis Jones son-in-law
& Thos Dugal
dec dated 1839
Tallmadge cat Aug 1839
Dougal died 94 married 1780
Page decd 1820

Aug 79 Corpl Jun 1 80
19 Jany 1789 he 2 / 96
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Branford December 17th 1839

Sir
Therin has a question risen him relative to the arrears of a Pension that was due from the 4th of last March up to the time of the Death of the Pensioner which was in August following the deceased pensioner left a will but no widow children nor child, but brother Nephius and nieces. The answer I wish for who so I as attorney pay this money to the Executor on the will of the said deceased pensioner so that the money you to the heirs at will or do I as attorney pay over to the heirs at law if they are not heirs at Will. The question I wish answered is whether I pay this arrears of pension money into the Hands of the Heirs at Will or the Heirs at Law. If you are at leisure so you can answer me this soon it would oblige me much.
All the information I have on the subject in what is stated in the official Circular Treasury Department 2nd Comptrollers Office June 10th 1833
In case of the death of any pensioner the arrears of pension due to him at the time of his death must be paid. - 
1 - stating to whom
11 - do   do
111 - if there be no widow child or children then the amount due such pensioner at the time of his death must be payed to the legal representatives. In this case, the heirs at will claim the money of me and likewise the heirs at law if there is any pensions law [illegible] or custom which is more explicit in the subject please forward it to me soon or your opinion would be safe for me to cast upon in this case then I remain.
Respectfully yours &c.
Benjamin R. Fowler

James L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions}
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James L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

Ann Page

The widow Anna Page as subscribed William will claim under the services of William Dougall her first husband as belonging to Col. Seldons Light Dragoons &c
Benj. Fowler
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Branford Decr 11th 1839

Sir
I would mention and more the case of Anna Page if you have received declaration for a pension signed by Anna Page of Branford New Haven County State of Connecticut as yet you will probably examine those papers carefully the Declaration was made before a Judge that could not act in our District as our Probate District comprises only Guilford and Branford therefor those proceedings must be void in the case of Mrs. Page.
Mr. Woodward Page informs me that he has supported his mother the above named Anna Page for more than twenty years last past. He says that when he was from home one day - Merrills from Waterbury as he is informed, came to his house in a hack with two judges of probate not belonging to this district. That his mother told him Mr Merrills told her that if she would sign that declaration which he brought with him he would give her four hundred dollars when he got her pension and he would have allowed that sum. She told him she could not swear her marriage. He Merrill in answer said that he would take care of that. She wanted to know how he could prove it he said by an old woman in Hamden. She wished to know who it was he would not tell her. Mrs Page say there is found in those proceedings for he cannot find any old woman in Hamden of that description and if his mother is entitled to a pension he wishes that it might be obtained by proper proceedings, and good testimony. Mrs. Page is an old and very informed woman.
Yours respectfully
Benjamin R. Fowler

James L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
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Jan 21, 1840
CT

J. L. Edwards Esq
Com Pensions
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New Haven 17 Jan 1840

To the Comr of Pensions
Judge Clark of this city has informed me you have required a copy of the records in the former application of Ann Page and his reply.
Judge Clark went to Branford at my request and with me. Mrs. Page is a feeble old woman & could not be conveniently transported to Guilford. The evidence of the probate judge in Guilford District is to [illegible]. I entertained  them as I do now no doubt of the power of Judge Clark to take testimony and administer an oath out of his district ancillary to proceedings within the District can if their proceedings are judicial and certainly to in all ministerial acts. Many analogous cases can be put if it were necessary to sustain the statute referred to Judge Clark by precedent or analogy and I believe no such exception can be taken to the
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legality of the proceedings. But if you entertain a different opinion will you inform me and she shall make a declaration subject to no such exception. Her case is a fair one as I suppose.
Yours respectfully
Chas. B. Phelps
Woodbury Conn
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Mrs. Page has the Probate District of Guilford & Branford. Judge Clark a Judge of the District of New Haven.
It is said by Mrs. Page's son that there is fraud in the proceedings.
That the witness who swears that she was present at the marriage cannot be found.
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Probate Office, District of New Haven
New Haven January 19th 1840

Sir,
In answer to the communication from the Pension office of the 4th District to the Clerk of this Court, making certain enquiries in relation to the declaration of Mrs. Ann Page of Branford, an applicant for a pension, I have the honor very respectfully to reply. That it is not the practice of the Courts of Probate in this state (so far as my knowledge extends) to make any record of their proceedings in the matter of application for pension - judicial acts only are recorded, taking the declaration of an applicant for a pension as a ministerial act, similar to taking a deposition by a Judge or Justice, the act of the Court is a more attestation by a certain Sess. of public function and that he has made a statement of facts; Nothing is decided by the Court or submitted for its decisions. This distinction between judicial and ministerial acts has been judicially [illegible].
It has been known the custom of this Court for the last eighteen months, since I have presided over it, to keep a short record or memorandum of declaration for pensions, made before me, this memorandum is kept in a book wholly separate from the judicial records of this Court, and I annex a copy of the memorandum in the case of Mrs. Page.
The town of Branford is not within the Probate District of New Haven.
In reply to your final question "Where the said Court was held on the day stated (13th of June 1839), I have to remark, that the gentleman who acted as the agent of Mrs. Page in obtaining the papers and documents necessary in such cases, called upon me and requested as a favor that I would accompany him to Branford for the purpose of taking her declaration or administering the oath, after remarking that the town of Branford was out of my District, and expressing my doubts in the matter, together
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with my great reluctance in absenting myself even for a few hours from the duties of my office. I finally consented to his proposal, the more readily so, when I heard that Mrs. Page was very aged and infirm. The oath was administered by me at her house in Branford, and that was the only act performed out of my Probate District. The document or declaration was brought to my office in New Haven, where the certificate was made, and all the official acts done, excepting the administration of the oath as aforesaid; therefore the act of the court in certifying was within the district of New Haven, acting on evidence received out of it. The power to administer oaths is [illegible] by ministerial officers and is strictly ministerial. Allow me to present in abstract form the statute of this state, which may help them whether I possess authority to administer the oath in the case referred to,
"The Judges of this Superior Court, Judges of the County Courts, and the Courts of Probate, and Justices of the Peace, may administer oaths in all cases where by law an oath may be administered, and where provision is not now by law, made."
The gentleman who requested my official service in the case of Mrs. Page is well known in this state and of Washington, for many years he occupied the station of Judge of Probate, has been a member of both branches of our state legislature; and is a lawyer of great experience and continues practice.
In administering oaths and making certificates in Pension cases, it is very seldom that I receive any compensation, or make any charge, it is often certainly inconvenient, to me to be subject (as above) to these calls upon my time, and frequently, upon my patience, and in all cases I would avoid them, if consistant with my view of humanity.
Very respectfully, I am, sir, your obedient servant
Nathaniel R. Clark Judge of said Court of Probate
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To/
Geo Wm. Crump Esq
Acting Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

Extract or copy from memorandums book of declarations for Pensions
"Ann Page of Branford ~ applicant for pension
Declaration made June 13th 1839 before me"
Nath. R. Clark
Judge of Probate
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Free
J. L. Edwards Esquire
Comm of Pensions
Washington D. C.

Jan 22, 1840

Hon. Perry Smith
Senate US

Hon. P. Smith
U.S.S.

Claim of Mrs. Ann Page
Conn
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Washington Jany 21, 1840.
Sir, Charles B. Phelps Esq, a highly reputable lawyer with whom I am well acquainted, informs me, that in case of Mrs. Page, an application for a pension that you [illegible] whether the Judge of Probate, before whom the papers were prepared and taken on oath, and make a certificate before his District, the statute Mr. Phelps informs me, authorizing the judge of probate to administer oaths, in general, and does not limit his power to administer the oath to his District. The place, when Judge Clark administered the oath was in the same County where he resides, vis New Haven. The magistrate in Conn. authorized to administer oaths, I suppose, may do it any where in the county. It has always been so considered there. There is no record, so that no copy of a record can be given, as I understand you requested.
Very respectfully, I am sir, your obedt svt
Perry Smith

J. L. Edwards Esq
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Town Clk Hamden
Conn

Jan [illegible] 1840


War Department           25
G. W. Crump
Acting Com of Pensions
City of Washington


S. Camden Ct
Jan 20
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Sir I Received your Letter - January 7, 1840
In Respect to Hannah Humiston their is a person now Liveing in the town of Hamden to my Certain knowledge said to be 82 years old last June by the Name of Hannah Humiston I have Conversed with her since I Received your letter together with Judge Bassett near Neighbour to her.  She appears to be of a Sound mind good Memory and Understanding for a person of her age.  I find she is much Respected by her Nabours said to be a pious good Woman.  I have no Doubt but her testimony may be fully Relied upon as a Witness

the above is a Correct Statement according to the best Information I Could Obtain Dated at Hamden this 16th day of January 1840 County of Northaven Connecticut Certified by Russel Pierpont Town Clerk
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Rev WIDOW, &c.

File No. 17417
Ann Page
Wid. of
Samuel Page
Corp'l Rev. War

Act:  July 4, 1836
Index:--Vol. M, Page 113

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Thomas Dougal a Dugal Corporal Sheldon
Dragoon June 1, 1780 forwarded

Certificate issued to [illegible] October 1789

Act 4 July 1836 - 4740
Ann Page - formerly widow of Thomas Dougal
Connecticut
C. B. Phelps 18 November 1839

Clerk of Probate, New Haven District 4 January [18]40
B. R. Fowler 4 January  [18]40
Ditto to Honorable] P. Smith, Senate U.S. January 23, 1840
C. B. Phelps 20 August [18]40

Act [18]36
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Woodbury Connecticut
15 November 1840

To the commissioner of Pensions

Yours of the 20 August was received and I have given much attention to the case of Ann Page and am certain no record or other written evidence exists regarding her marriages.

Since yours of that above date I have employed the Reverend A B Chapin of New Haven and others to look up and examine the old gazettes and the records of the New Haven Church it has resulted in not finding any notice of the marriage.  He has also made Enquiries of all the old people in New Haven who were likely to have known Dougal and Ann Hatch.  Many persons knew them and supposed they were married.

I went to East Haven and Branford but after diligent effort could find no more proof than the accompanying Depositions [illegible].

Your Letter requires further proof as to the identity of Dougal with the person of that name who served in Sheldons Dragoons

That Anns Husband was in Sheldons Dragoons is proved by General Marcus Merrimans
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Deposition of the 24 Oct 1840 herewith transmitted

That Anns Husband was the same man in Sheldons Dragoons is also provided by
Sylvanus Bills
William Storer
Richard Wilson
Deposition of 23 Oct 1840

2nd Date of the Marriage. further evidence is required not to the fact of the marriage which seems to be admitted, but as to the time of its celebration.

The date in Nov 1780

1  Is provided by the Oath of Declarant

2  By Hannah Humiston Deposition of 6 Dec 1839 who swears they were married   she is credited on this point.  This date is fixed by her own marriage in Nov 1781, which she swears was after Ann's marriage.

3 By cohabitation & reputation there are proved in 1780 by [illegible] and Depositories and cohabitation & reputation during Dougals service in Sheldons Regiment by Sylvanus Bills

Wm Storer
Richard Wilsons 2nd depos.
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2

3  Was Thos Dougal from Milton Mass?

To this enquiry we can only reply by Mrs. Pages declaration and statement which I have subjoined and by [illegible] Merriman
2 Depositions
and 
Wm Storers Deposition
they so understood it then

4  When did he become an inhabitant of New Haven?

The reply in 1780 Mrs. Page so thinks & Merriman & Storer and Richard Wilson's 2 Depositions so say. [mark out]

5.  "Her declaration is dated 13 June 1839 and purports to have been authenticated by the Clerk of the Court at that date while the certificate of Mr. Tallmadge as to the services is dated Aug 1839"

If this constitutes an objection it is not chargable to Mrs. Page but to me 

Before taking the Dep...
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declaration I had been furnished with a memorandum of Colonel Tallmadges Book, described I believe from a copy given by 
Colonel Tallmadge to George Jones who applied to Colonel T[allmadge] to enable Mr. [illegible] to make an application for bounty land before November 1834 when Mr. S died.
from this memorandum and the certificate of the Comptroller I was enabled to insert the service accurately in the declaration

The papers were kept open in the Probate Court at my request for the very purpose of obtaining Mr. Tallmadges Deposition which was I thought more minute and better evidence than the Comptrollers certificate as being an original paper and the accounts at Hartford secondary evidence derived from Tallmadges entries and returns.

When this Deposition was received or some time after it was sent to the [illegible] office to be enclosed under the same seal with the other papers

Which was certainly my practice when in the Probate court

The Court does not certify to Tallmadges Deposition owes no
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3

act regarding it [illegible] appending it to the other papers

It would have been evidence if sent separately.

I have made by myself and others a diligent enquiry for written evidence of this marriage.  I do not believe written evidence of it is in existence it could not have escaped our research

I have annexed by way of explanation a statement of Mrs. Page made to me.  It is not verified by oath, but can as if it is required

I make no apology for this tedious annotation.  It is a business concern and must be treated as such. I cannot however refrain from expressing a hope that this protracted affair may be satisfactorily and finally closed

I am with great respect
yours
Charles B Phelps
Woodbury Connecticut
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I have omitted to make answer to the enquiry whether F Dougal applied for & received Bounty Land

Mrs. Page is ignorant on this point she does not recolect about Bounty Lands and did not seem to know that he was entitled   

Dock Munson of Macon who was an officer in the Revolutionary army suggests that Dougal might have held under some false impression

Before 1834 George Jones the husband of Mrs. Pages daughter Betsy applied to John Strong Esquire there an attorney him to obtain the Bounty to this end Jones obtained a copy of Colonel T Book.  But Jones says that Mr. Strong [illegible] nothing about it 
Mr. Strong died in 1834.  [illegible] his papers have been examined and furnish no information on this point
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Supplementary Statement
of Mrs. Ann Page

I have been requested to state more particularly about my marriage with Mr. Dougal.

The first time I saw Dougal was in Union Street N Haven he was dressed in his Regimentals riding on horseback along with Chilian Palmer he came near riding over me and spoke to me.  This was Saturday.  The next Sunday night he came to our house in company with Robert Merriman to see me. not long after this I was married to him on Thursday the 10 November 1780 when my husband came home from the war after he was discharged it would have been three years the next fall after our marriage.

I remember Hannah Humiston she was married about a year after me  It was the next fall my Husband Dougal came from Milton Massachusetts as he always told me during my husbands life his father removed from Milton to the State of Maryland and proposed to have my husband move there but he never went he always  meant to do so but died suddenly.  My first child I lost.  My second child was Thomas
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Dougal he was born at New Haven the 2nd day of August almost three years after my marriage the November next after he was born would be three years after I was married my next child was Nancy and she was born 5 August two years after my next child which was Betsy, she was born June 15th almost two years after Nancy my next child was born in March almost two years after Betsy his name was William my next child was Jeremiah he was born 8 May two years and two months after William.

They are all dead Betsy died last.

Branford 22 Sept 1840
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I Sylvanus Bills of the city and county of New Haven aged seventy four years in November 1839 depose and say I was born in New Haven and have lived in New Haven  ever since except from the year 1793 to 1806 or thereabouts I have moved in between. I was a private in Captain Van Doogens or [illegible] [illegible] company of artillery.  I became acquainted with Thomas Dougal in the spring of 1780 at New Haven during that year he belonged to the towns Regiment I have often seen him doing duty and exercising on horseback as a Dragoon or Light Horseman.

I was also before that time acquainted with Ann Hatch. she was married to said Dougal.  As I then understood and now believe they lived together as husband and wife The man Dougal who lived with her as her husband was a member of Colonel Sheldons
Regiment I know
Sylvanus Bills

State of Connecticut New Haven County ss
Be it known that before me Elijah F. Merrell a Notary Public in and for said State on the 24th day of October 1840 personally appeared Sylvanus Bills and made oath in due form of law to the truth of the above deposition by him given and subscribed.  The deponent is a man of truth and his deposition is entitled to credit

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Notarial seal this 24th day of October 1840.

E. F. Murrell Notary Public
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I William Storer of the City and County of New Haven, and State of Connecticut, now in the seventy sixth year of my age, testify and say, that in the war of the Revolution, in the
Spring of the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty, I enlisted into a company of Artillery raised by Authority of said State of Connecticut, and Stationed at New Haven in said State under Captain Phineas Bradley of said New Haven, I enlisted as a private, and served as waiter to Captain Bradley untill the first day of January Seventeen hundred and Eighty one, when the service of said company expired.
I well remember, that, in the Spring or Summer of the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty, when I was a Soldier in Captain Bradleys Artillery, as above stated, that there was a small detachment of Continental Light Horse, said to belong to Col. Sheldon's Regiment stationed in New Haven to be sent on Express, as the public service might require,
I became acquainted with several of those horsemen while Stationed in New Haven, but more particularly with Thomas Dougal, who was publicly reported to have been married to
Ann Hatch, of said New Haven in the Summer or autumn of that year, and I never heard it doubted by any one, I was some what acquainted with the said Ann Hatch
before her Marraige, as she and her Mother, usually attended Doctor Edwards Church, where I, and the family with whom I resided, were constant on the sabbath, it being our
place of worship. I resided in New Haven untill the Summer of Seventeen hundred and Eighty six, when I left New Haven the said Thomas Dougal was residing there, with his wife, the before mentioned Ann Hatch. I was also acquainted with a family of Dongals who lived in Southern [illegible] in New Haven and knew
that said Thomas Dougal above mentioned did not belong to that family.
William Storer

Sworn before me & subscribed in my presence this 26 day of October 1840
R. J. Hinman, Justice of Peace
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New Haven County ss
I hereby certify that William Storer who signed & made oath within deposition is a credible witness and a respectable man

R. J. Hinman Justice of Peace
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I Elijah F. Merrell of Waterbury New Haven County Connecticut certify that two years ago last spring I was called on by the niece Ann Page of Branford Ct to state the testimony and depositions necessary to enable her to draw a pension for the services of her former husband Thomas Dougal who was said to have moved in Col Sheldons Regt.  [light marked out] Cavalry and having learned that the muster Roll of said Regt was in possession of a widow Talmage of Litchfield Ct.  I sent for and procured it where I found the name of said Dougal as a corporal, but not being able to find any record or other satisfactory evidence to prove the marriage I delayed proceeding until the Roll was sent for and returned to Litchfield.  One year ago last summer her friends supposing they had found sufficient testimony and again requested me to proceed to take the same I accordingly took such testimony as was shown me and the declaration of the widow made after which I sent again to Litchfield for the roll, but finding that widow Talmage had died and the papers in her possession carried by her son to New York.  I waited
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while sent to Mr. Talmage at New York and after a while obtained the deposition of him which accompanied this declaration & other papers forwarded to obtain her pension

E. F. Merrell

State of Connecticut}
New Haven County}  ss
Town of Waterbury }  

On this 10 day Nov AD 1840 Elijah F Merrell appeared before me & made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed & I certify that I am with acquainted with said deponent that he is a respectable man & credible witness & his Statement is entitled to credit.

Joel Hinman 
Justice of the Peace
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I Marins Merriman of New Haven in the State of Connecticut depose and say that the Thomas Dougal to whom I referred in my Deposition given on 13 June 1839 was as I have believed and understood from the State of Massachusetts what town I don't know.  I became acquainted with him in the hard winter 1779 and 1780.  then afterwards as it was said he married Ann Hatch and lived with her as husband and wife one year.  He belonged in the year 1780 to Colonel Sheldon's Regiment I supposed.  It was then said he came from Massachusetts.
Marins Merriman
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State of Connecticut New Haven County. ss  Be it known that on the 24th day of October 1840 before me Elijah F. Merrell a Notary Public in and for said State personally appeared General Marins Merriman and made oath in due form of law to the truth of the within deposition by him given and subscribed The deponent is a credible witness and his deposition is entitled to credit

E. F. Merrell Notary Public
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[stamp at the top of the page is illegibl]

STATE OF CONNECTICUT,
NEW HAVEN COUNTY
COUNTY COURT CLERK'S OFFICE}  SS

I, Jno Beach Clerk of the County Court, within and for said County, and Keeper of the Seal thereof, and of the Commissions of Justices of Peace, within and for said County, hereby certify that
Robinson S. Hinman
Esq.  is a Justice of Peace,

within and for the said County, duly appointed, commissioned, and sworn, with power to administer oaths and take the acknowledgment of Deeds; that his Commission is dated the 5th day of June A.D. 1840 and will expire on the twentieth day of June, A. D. 1841; that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and that the signature hereto annexed, purporting to be his, is his genuine official signature.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of said Court, this 24th day of October A.D. 1840

Jno Beach Clerk
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Conn  June 20
Anna Page,

J.L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of pensions }  Washington City
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PS You will probably soon receive a declaration signed by Anna Pager of Branford for a pension for her former Husband Thomas Dougal they may claim for Thomas Dougal it is the case I consulted you about last Nov when I was at your office and I gave it up as not a propper case to apply for as others have their proof of marriage &c but her relatives have sent to the further part of the State and got a Judge of Probate to officiate which is entirely out of his District therefor the proceedings must be all void it was Judge Phelps from Woodbury that brought the Declaration such things I think one impropper and wring you in [unk]

Benj R Fowler

To J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions}

New Haven June 17th 1839

NB please excuse my freedom and keep this to yourself you can have more information if wanted
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postmark
[illegible]
Aug 7

J L Edwards Esq
Comr Pensions
Washington City

Aug 10. 40.
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Woodling town
August 7, 1840
J.L. Edwards Esquire
In compliance with
the respective importunites of Mrs. Anne Paige
of Branfield and her previous [illegible]
I [illegible] an enquiry
as to the case.  at the
[illegible] to the general rules of your
Office.
that her husbands service is not doubted. The [illegible] of her marriage is [illegible] satisfactory. The last communication was [illegible] in early April or May.
any objections to the [illegible]
Of pressing said case will [illegible] to [illegible] [illegible] a [illegible] [illegible] now.

a reply will confer a
favor on the applicant
respectfully yours

Phelps
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Ann Page  Abstracts of her care
Hurbeuce William (crossed out) Thomas Dougal
Philains Reg Light Dragoons
6 Troop

[illegible] during the war
H. F. Tallmadge Dep
Page. 3
Rank H. F Tallmadge Dep P 3
Marriage to Dougal
No Record Evidence existing
1 on Form Records
Idea nets Dep
Page 5
2. None in church Record
C Bostwick Dep
Page 9
3. None in the private entries
or memorandum of Dr. Edwards
Dr. Chapins Depo Page 11

Parol Evidence in their acconnable
1 She was married in the 
presence of Hannah Humiston
Depo Page 13
2. In Presence of Richard Wilson
Depo Page 15
3. Gen reputation
M Merrimans Depo
page 6
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Death of [illegible] husband and now
his widow     Elias Goodrich Deposition[?]
page 17
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V 4740
Anna Page
famy ina of Tho Dougal
Conn
Act 4 July 1836




Accounts
Chas B Phelps
Woodbury
Conn
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State City & County of New York Ss:
I Henry F Tallmadge of the City County & State of New York of lawful age being duly sworn do depose & say that I am a Son of Col. Benjamin Tallmadge late of the town & county of Litchfield Connecticut, deceased and am one of his executors. Th? there is in my possession sundry books of papers left by my said father and among them the Regimental Book in his handwriting kept by him when Major in Col. Sheldon's Regiment of Light Dragoons_ That upon the first page of the said Regimental Book is the following Entry viz:  "Regimental Book"
"Containing a list of the names of the officers & soldiers who have belonged or still belong to the 2nd Regt. Lt. Dragoons Commanded by Colonel Elisha Sheldon with the dates of their appointments & enlistments promotion, resignations & or with casualties. Begun with "the appointment of the Regiment Dec 12th 1776 & ending with the Revolutionary War
"Prepared & kept by Benjn Tallmadge
Major 2d Reft L.D.

Here follows a Roll of the names of the officers & soldiers & upon the 34th page are the following headings & under the proper headings the following Entries in relation to Thomas Dougan viz

names: Thomas Dugal 6th Troop
rank: Corl;
Time of enlistment: 1. June 1780
Time: During the war
State: Massachusetts
Town: Milton
Trade or occupation: Farmer
Stature: 5 ft 8 in
Complexion: Dark
Eyes: Dark
Hair: Dark
Gave a certificate to his son in law Jones March 10. 1829

and further saith nothing
Dated at the city of New York Augt 28th 1829
H. F. Tallmadge

County of New York Ss
On this 27th day of August AD 1839 before me John B Stoples a Notary Public duly commissioned & sworn residing in the city of New York, personally appeared Henry F Tallmadge to me will known & who is entitled to credit who subscribed the above deposition in my [words cover by stamp] esecence made solum oath to the truth of the same [words cover by stamp] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office at the place [words cover by stamp] aforesaid on the day & year last above written
John B Stoples
Notary Public
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I the subscriber Town Clerk of the Town of Neuf hereby certify that I have carefully examined the Records of marriage in the Town Clerk's office in said Town of New Haven, and have not been able to find any record of the marriage of Thomas Dougal and Ann Hatch and I verily believe there is no such Record in this office
Certified by 
John Scarritt
Town Clerk of New Haven

Town Clerk's Office}
New Haven June 13th AD 1839}
State of Connecticut
SS. New Haven County
New Haven

Be it remembered that on the 13 day of June 1834 personally appeared before me Elijah F Merrell a Notary Public within and for said State of Connecticut the above named John Scarritt who releputed the foregoing deposition and certificate and being by me duly cautioned to speak the whole truth made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate by him releputed as Town Clerk of New Haven. The said John Scarritt is known to me and is a credible witness. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand on the said 13 day of June 1839
I also certify said Scarritt is Town Clerk of the Town of New Haven
E.F. Merrell Notary Public
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State of Connecticut ss. New Haven County
New Haven

Be it remembered that on the 13 day of June 1839 before me Elijah F Merrills a Notary Public authorized by the laws of said State to administer oaths personally appeared Marins Merriman of New Haven aforesd who being first duly cautioned and from in oath delivers as follows

In the year 1779 I performed military duty as a private Capt Phineus Bradleys company I also served under the service officer in 1780. It was an artillery company stationed at New Haven & during said service I became acquainted with Thomas Dougal who was a private in Copl Sheldon [unk] Regiment of Dragoons as I believe. He was stationed at said New Haven & I saw him frequently in his military equipment. At this time he was married as I then understood and believed, he reside with his wife in a single room back of my fathers home and [unk] in what is now called Union [unk]. They continued to live together as husband & wife until 1794 in August or Sept when he died of the yellow fever at New Haven. They had a family of children, I do not know how many & were regarded as man & wife by the neighbors.
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I never heard their marriage questioned.

Marins Merriman

State of Connecticut
New Haven

Be it remembered that on the 13th day of June 1839 personally appeared the above named Marins Merriman and made oath in conforming law to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him given & subscribed.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my notarial seal the day and year last above mentioned and further certify that the said deponent is a man of truth and his deposition is entitled to credit.

E F Merell Notary Public
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State of Connecticut
New Haven County
New Haven
June 13 1839

Be it remembered that on the above day personally appeared before me the subscriber a Notary Public appointed according to law & competent to administer oaths Charles Bostwick of the City of New Haven to me personally known to be a credible & respectable witness & being cautioned to speak the truth on oath deposes and says that he has resided in said City of New Haven there forty years last part & has been a Deacon of United Church of White Haven in Fair Haven Churches in sd City that Doct Jonathan Edwards decd was pastor of the White Plains Church. That as such officer of sd Church I have had the papers & records of said White Haven Church in my hands and have been [unk] to examine the same to find entries of marriages celebrated by said
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Doctor Edwards while pastor of sd Church and after [unk] diligent & careful examination of papers of sd White Haven Church have been unable to find any entry of marriages and am confident none exist in sd Records & papers I have [unk] to find the marriage of Thomas Dougal but cannot find it.
It is about twenty four years since I was appointed Deacon of sd Church.

Chas Bostwick

State of Connecticut New Haven County ss.
Be it remembered that on the 13th day of June 1839 personally appeared the above names Charles Bostwick and made oath in due form of law to the truth of the above deposition by him [unk] & subscribed and I certify that the said Charles Bostwick is a man of truth and veracity and his deposition is entitled to credit.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my notarial seal the day and year last above mentioned.

E F Merell Notary Public
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I Calvin Chapin of Wethersfield in the county of Hartford, & State of Connecticut, depose & say.
That I was well acquainted with the late Jonathan Edwards, D.D., & when he was pastor of the White Haven Church, in New Haven; & likewise, when he was pastor, afterwards, of the church on Colebrooke, Conn, & still later, while he President of Union College, Shenectady, N.Y.-
That my wife is daughter of the said Rev. Dr. Edwards-
That I have the care of the said Edward's manuscript, that are on loose papers-but that his manuscript books, of which there are several, are not, & I do not doubt, in the care of his grandson, the Rev Tryon Edwards, pastor of a church in Rochester, State of New York- that I have thoroughly examined them, & believe, unhesitatingly, that they contain no records of the marriages which he solemnized; that I have been often inquired of, upon that subject- have examined his children & relatives, with respect to such records, & by every one have been told, that such records were not understood to be, as yet, found- & that I doubt, whether such records can be found.

Attest C. Chapin
Pastor of the 3d Church in Wethersfield, Con.

State of Connecticut
Hartford County} ss.
Be it remembered that on the 21st day of June 1839 personally appeared before me Elijah F Merrell Notary Public within and for the state of Connecticut the above named Calvin Chapin who subscribed the above deposition by him given and after being cautioned to speak the whole truth under solemn oath to the truth of this deposition by him given. The deponent is known tome as pastor of said church and his deposition is entitled to credit. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my notarial seal this 21st day of June AD 1839.

E F Merrell Notary Public
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I Hannah Humiston of Hamden New Haven County Connecticut aged eighty two years depose and say that I formerly lived in New Haven Connecticut I was acquainted with Thomas Dougal then of New Haven he belonged to the army of the Revolution was called a trooper and generally went by the name of Corporal Dougle. I was also acquainted with his wife whose name before marriage was Ann Hatch. I was present at their marriage which I think was about sixty years ago. They were married by Rev Jonathan Edwards then pastor of a church in New Haven. After the close of the war they went to house keeping in New Haven where they lived until his death which I should think was more than forty years ago he died of yellow fever at the time it raged in New Haven.

Hannah Humiston her mark X

State of Connecticut New Haven County ss.
Be it remembered that on the 21st day of September 1839 before the subscriber a Notary Public within and for said state personally appeared Hannah Humiston above named and made oath to the truth of the above deposition by her subscribed. The Deponent is a person of respectability and truth and her deposition is entitled to credit. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Notarial Seal the day and year above written.

E F Merrell Notary Public
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I Richard Wilson of Hamden New Haven County Connecticut aged seventy five years depose and say that when about fifteen or sixteen sixteen years old I was well acquainted with one Thomas Dougal then of New Haven who was corporal in a company of light horse in the war of the revolution & was knowing to the circumstances of his marriage to Ann Hatch of said New Haven which Ann Hatch lived in my fathers family- they were married by Jonathan Edwards D.D. then Pastor of a church in New Haven. As near as I can recollect by my age they were married in the fall of 1780 after their marriage they went to house keeping in said New Haven and near to my fathers dwelling where they lived until his death. He died of the yellow fever at the time when that fever prevailed in New Haven. I should think and am positive in the year 1794 this I know by the age of a son of mine- this Dougal left a family of four or five children. After the death of said Dougal his widow removed to Branford and I have been but little acquainted with her since.

Richard Wilson

State of Connecticut New Haven County ss. 
Be it remembered that on the 26th day of June 1839 before me Elijah F Merrell Notary Publoic within and for the state aforesaid personally appeared Richard Wilson who subscribed the above deposition by him given and after being cautioned to speak the whole truth made solemn oath in due form of law to the above deposition by him given. The Deponent is a man of strict truth & veracity and his deposition is entitled to credit. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my notarial seal the day and year last above mentioned.

E F Merrell Notary Public
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I Elias Goodrich of Branford New Haven County Conn aged sixty six years depose and say that I was acquainted with Samuel Page of said Branford until his death he died at said Branford about eighteen or nineteen years ago. I attended his funeral and am now acquainted with his widow Ann Page, know that she has not married since his death but remains his widow now.

Elias Goodrich

State of Connecticut New Haven County ss.
Be it remembered that on the 13th day of June 1837 personally appeared before me Elijah F Merrell Notary Public within and for the state aforesaid Elias Goodrich above named who subscribed the above deposition by him given and after being cautioned to speak the whole truth in due form of law to the truth of the above deposition by him given & subscribed.
The Deponent is a man of truth and his Deposition is entitled to credit. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my notarial seal the day and year last above mentioned.

E F Merrell Notary Public
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To J L Edwards Esq
Mrs Ann Page the above declarant request any & all communication & replies to be made to me. Woodbury Conn
30 [unk]

Chas B Phelps
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD

NAME Dougall, Thomas
GRADE Private
LINE Sheldon's Dragoons (Connecticut)

WARRANT NUMBER  5732
ACREAGE  100
ISSUED Oct. 7, 1789
to Benj. Tallmadge

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