Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 18329, Asa Webster, Continental N.H. Vt.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Continental
N.H.
VT.
Webster, Asa
Sally
NUMBER
W18329
CONTENTS
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New York 30.484
Asa Webster
of St. Lawrence Co. in the State of New York who was a Drummer in the Company commanded by Captain Stephens of the Rgt commanded by Col Bedel in the New Hamp. line for 11 mos & 10 days

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 41 Dollars 55 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March,1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 22d day of March 1836 and Sent. Hon. R.H. Gillett Ho of Reps

Arrears to the 4th of March '36 $ 207.75
Semi-anl. allowance ending Sept. 4 20.77
                                                        $228.52
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by D.D. Addison Clerk,
Book E2   Vol. 4   Page 81
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[left column]
Reported Jany 8/49

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2871
New York Albany
Sally Webster
widow of Asa Webster
N. 26
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 41 Dollars 55 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 day of Jany 1849
and sent to
J.C. Barter
Ogdensburgh
St. Lawrence Co, NY
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2,1848 Page 241. Vol. 4
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State of New York
St. Lawrence County Ss.
Adiel Sherwood of Brockville in the county of Leeds and province of Canada thus being sworn says that he has resided in the said County of Leeds for the space of sixty years last past & in the township of Elizabethtown in said county. That said township of Elizabethtown adjoins the township of Augusta in the county of Grenville. That at the time of the marriage of Asa Webster late of Augusta aforesaid deceased, and for many years subsequent to that time he the said Asa resided within about one half of a mile from the then residence of the deponent.  Deponent further says that until about the year Eighteen hundred & eleven there was no resident minister of the Gospel of any denomination in either of the said counties. That in the last mentioned year the Reverend William Smart settled as a Minister at Elizabethtown aforesaid & has remained there ever since. That said William Smart is a preacher of the Gospel of the Presbyterian denomination.


That in December last deponent made application to the said William Smart to search the records of his church for the records of the baptism of children of Asa & Sally Webster. That the said Revd. Wm. Smart made such search and could find no such records of a prior date to the year 1814, in which year he found that eight children of said Asa and Sally had been baptised-- a copy of which record was furnished to deponent by said Rev. Wm. Smart in his own hand and writing and is hereunto annexed. And further deponent saith not.

Adiel Sherwood

Subscribed & sworn this 3rd day of January 1845 before me

State of New York
St. Lawrence County} Ss.  Adiel Sherwood above named being duly sworn doth further depose & say that, for the
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last fifteen years has been Sheriff of the District of Johnstown composed of the counties of Leeds and [struck through] Augusta [end strike through] Granville, and is well acquainted with the records of the town clerk of the said town of Elizabethtown. Deponent further says that no record of marriages are kept in the office of the said town clerk, & no records of births or baptisms.

Deponent further says there is no records of marriages (solemnized prior to the year Eighteen hundred & Eleven) in any of the churches in said town of Elizabethtown.

Deponent further says that he was a magistrate in Elizabethtown aforesaid in the year 1815 & for several years afterwards, and Deponent further says that it never has been & is not now the custom in the District aforesaid to have records of Marriages kept by Magistrates deposited in the town clerks office or with the records of any church or transcribed or entered in or among the records of the town clerk or any church. 

Adiel Sherwood

Subscribed & Sworn this 3rd day of January 1865 before me
AC Brown Judge of the Exch & the [Leed?] A?

I certify that the above named Adiel Sherwood is a man of good character & a credible witness.
AC Brown 
Judge St. Law. Co.
[illegible]
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I hereby certify that the following is a true & faithful extract from the Record of Baptisms kept by me, of the Baptism of the children of Asa & Sally Webster of Augusta, District of Johnstown, Province of Upper Canada.

October 24, 1814    Baldwin
                                Asa
                                Norman
                                Parker
Sons of Asa & Sally Webser [Webster]
Octo 26, 1814          Sally
                                 Betsy
                                 Almira
                                 Pheby
Daughters of the above Asa & Sally Webster
                                 William Smart
Minister of the Presbyterian Church Brockville Brookville December 3 1844

I also hereby certify that the reason that the above eight children of Mr. & Mrs. Webster were all Baptised at one time was that there were no Settled Ministers of the Gospel of any denomination before my arrival in this part of Canada and at the time of the above Baptizms [Baptisms] & in that part of Augusta.
William Smart
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January 16 1791
Asa Webster & Salle [?baldwin]
was Maried [married] and our first
Child was born August the 11
on this day a Daughter died
the third day

July the 28 1792
then Was born the secont [second]
daughter on Satterday [Saturday]
and died the same day.

August the 10 1793
then was born My third
daughter on satterday
still born

September the 24 1794
then was born My son
Ephraim on Wdnsday [Wednesday].
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[illegible]
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[left column]
8
[T'ck?] of scriptures 
Isaiah 3:10 
Revelation 22.9
1 Timothy 12

Say ye to the Righteous 
it shall be wel [well] 
with him 
 Worship God
fight the good
fight of faith
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August the 28 1796
then Was born My
daughter polly on
sunday
---------------
January the 16 1799
then was born My
son Baldwin on
Wensday [Wednesday]
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November 19 1800
then was born my
son Asa on Wensday [Wednesday]
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State of New York
St. Lawrence County Ss:
Zenas Bissell of the township of Augusta in the county of Grenville in the province of Canada West being duly sworn doth depose & say that he was personally well acquainted with the late Asa Webster aforesaid, & who died in that township, leaving Sally Webster his widow, who still survives him & resides in Augusta aforesaid. Deponent further says that on the second day of December last deponent made inquiry & search at the dwelling occupied by the said Asa in his lifetime for papers & documents which might show the date of the marriage of the said Asa & Sally. That the only papers on record which he found relation to the said matter was the memorandum hereto annexed, and from which the following is an extract:
"January 16, 1791, Asa Webster and Sally Baldwin was married-- and our first child was born August the 11 on Thursday a daughter---died the third day"
"July the 28, 1792 then was born my second daughter on Saturday and died the same day"
"August the 10,1793-- then was born my third " daughter on Saturday--still born."
"September the 24th 1794 then was born my son Ephraim on Wednesday."
" August the 28, 1796 then was born my daughter Polly on Sunday."
"January the 16 1799 then was born my son Baldwin on Wednesday,"
"November 19, 1800 There was born my son Asa on Wednesday."

Deponent further says he was well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Asa Webster, deceased, & that the said memorandum hereto annexed, & whereof the above is an extract, is in the handwriting of the said
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Asa Webster deceased
Deponent also found a memorandum among the papers of the said Asa Webster showing the dates if birth of each of his children, but which is not in the handwriting of the said Asa Webster, & which has the appearance of having been made at a much later date than the memorandum hereto annexed, but corresponds exactly therewith in dates.
And deponent found no other papers, record or document, showing the date of said marriage, or of the births of the children, of said Asa & Sally Webster.

Zenas Bissell

Subscribed & sworn this 3d day of January 1845 before me

AC Brown
Judge St. Law [Lawrence] Com Pleas & Courts &c

I certify that the above named Zenas Bissell is a man of good character & a credible witness
AC Brown
Judge St. Law [Lawrence] Cy [County]
Cts &c [illegible]
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In 1823, in Augusta
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Stat of Michigan
County of Wayne Ss.
David S. Baldwin of the township of Howard in the Western District in Canada West being duly sworn according to law doth depose & say that he is Sixty five years of age. That he is a brother of Sally Webster, widow of Asa Webster deceased. That he this deponent resided in the same house with the said Sally Webster (then Sally Baldwin) from infancy until the year 1791, at which time they resided in the town of Elizabethtown in the county of Leeds in the province aforesaid. That the said Sally was then about sixteen years of age & deponent about twelve. 

This deponent further saith that the said Sally Webster (then Sally Baldwin) was, in the month of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety one, married to Asa Webster by & before Thomas Sherwood Esquire, a Justice of the Peace then & there acting as such & upheld & recognized as such Justice. That the said marriage was solemnized at Elizabethtown aforesaid, where the said Asa & the said Sally resided, in deponent's presence.
Deponent further says that the said Asa Webster was reputed and believed to have been a soldier in the Service of the United States in the War of the Revolution. 

Deponent further says that he last saw the said Sally in the month of February in the year 1823. That she was then residing with her said husband Asa Webster in the township of Augusta in the county of Grenville in the Province aforesaid.

Deponent further says that since the time last mentioned he has resided at a great distance from the said Sally Webster but has heard from frequently & and has written to her as often as once or twice a year. And
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deponent verily believes that she is still living & that she is now residing in the town of Augusta in the county of Granville in the Province aforesaid.

David S. Baldwin

Subscribed and sworn this fifth day of November 1844, before me at Detroit in the county of Wayne aforesaid

Hugh O Brirne
Justice of the Peace Wayne County Michigan

I certify that David S Baldwin who hath subscribed & sworn the foregoing affidavit before me is known to be a person of good character & a credible witness.
Given under my hand at Detroit in the county of Wayne in the state of Michigan this fifth of November A.D. 1844
Hugh O Brirne
Justice of the Peace
Wayne County
Mich
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State of Michigan
COUNTY OF WAYNE
SS.
I, Geo R Griswold, Clerk of said County, hereby Certify, that Hugh O Beirne the subscribing Justice, was, at the date thereof, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly Elected and qualified according to Law, and that the signature, purporting to be his, I verily believe to be true and genuine.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said Circuit Court, and subscribed my name, at the City of Detroit, this Fifth day of November A.D. 1844
Geo R Griswold Clerk 
for P I Griswold Dep clerk
Clerk of Wayne County, Michigan
Mich
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11323--
Sally Webster's
MS
Pension Application 
act 7 July 1838
No 91. Vol 7 Novr. '41
Admitted
Wm. Brown, Agent
Ogdenburgh 
New York
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State of New York
St. Lawrence county} Ss
On this seventh day of August in the year 1844, before me Anthony C. Brown one of the Judges of Court of Common Pleas of the said county of St. Lawrence, personally appeared Sally Webster,  a resident of the township of Augusta in the county of Granville in the Province of Canada West, aged 69 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 act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay & pensions to certain "widows" & of a Resolution approved August 16, 1843 entitled "A resolution declaration of the pension act of July 7th, 1838" & of the Act of Congress passed March 3rd 1843 entitled  "An act granting a pension to certain widows" & of a Resolution approved August 16, 1843 entitled "A resolution declaration of the pension act of July 7 1838" & of the Act of Congress passed March 3rd 1843 entitled "An act granting a pension to certain widows of Revolutionary soldiers," & of all other acts in relation thereto:
That she is the widow of Asa Webster, late of Augusta aforesaid, deceased, who was a Drummer in the service of the United States in the war of the Revolution. 

That she cannot specify particularly the services of the said Asa Webster, but she further declares that he the said [word crossed out] Asa Webster was a Pensioner of the United States from about the year 1836 until the time of his death. & as such drew a pension of Forty one 55/100 Dollars per annum, and for the particulars & proof of his services she refers to the Declaration of the said Asa Webster & the other documents in which his said Pension was granted.
She further declares that she was married to the said Asa Webster on the sixteenth day of January in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred ninety one
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at Elizabethtown in the Province aforesaid by Thomas Sherwood Esquire then a Justice of the Peace at Elizabethtown aforesaid. That her maiden name was Sally Baldwin. That the said Thomas Sherwood Esquire, died many years ago. That she has caused a search to be made among the books & papers of the said Sherwood to find a record of her said Marriage & is informed & believes that no such records of Marriages solemnised by him can be found. And she further declares that she has no record evidence of her said Marriage. 

She further declares that her said husband, Asa Webster died on the seventh day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty at Augusta in the county of Granville aforesaid. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred & ninety four, viz: at the time above stated.

She further declares that she has not intermarried but continues the widow of the said Asa Webster. That the Pension certificate of the said Asa Webster was as she is informed & verily believes was forwarded to the agent of the United States for paying pensions in the City of Albany to enable this declarant to obtain the arrears of said pension up to the time of the death of said Asa Webster & that this declarant received the said arrears. She further declares that in or about the month of March in the year 1841, she made a declaration before the Honorable Anthony C. Brown, for the purpose of Establishing the present claim, which she is informed was forwarded to the War department, but no answer ever received therefore
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And further this declarant saith not.
 Sally Webster
Subscribed and Sworn on the day & year first above written, before me,  at Ogdensburgh in said county of St. Lawrence
AC Brown Judge
St. Law, Cy, Cts. [illegible]
I do hereby certify that Sally Webster, who hath this day submitted & made oath to the foregoing Declaration, in consequence of her age & infirmities, could not with safety attend before any of the courts of Record in said county of St. Lawrence--the session of such courts being held at the distance of twenty miles from Ogdensburgh aforesaid and I further certify that the said Sally Webster is known to me to be a person of good character for truth and veracity. And that I believe and am satisfied that the statements contained in her said Declaration are true & that she is the widow of Asa Webster, who was a soldier in the United States service in the Revolution, and who was a Pensioner of the United States.
AC Brown Judge
St Law Cy Cts
[illegible] Clk
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State of New York
St Lawrence County
Ss
Enos Bissell of the township of Augusta in the county of Granville, District of Johnstown in the Province of Canada West, being duly sworn doth depose & say that he is sixty three years of age, & that for the last forty years he has resided in Augusta aforesaid.  That during nearly the whole of that time up to the time of death of the said Asa Webster (named in the papers hereto annexed) he this deponent was personally well acquainted with the said Asa Webster & with his wife, now his widow--Sally Webster, who hath this day in the presence of deponent subscribed the Declaration hereto annexed. That during all that time they the said Asa & Sally resided and received among all the acquaintances as Man & wife, and that they lived together in that relation & raised a large family of children. Deponent further says that the said Asa Webster immediately prior to his death, resided at the distance of about one mile & one fourth from this deponent. That the said Asa Webster died in the month of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & forty. That deponent was not present when the said Asa Webster breathed his last, but a few minutes afterwards deponent was present & saw the corpse of said Asa Webster & deponent attended his funeral.
Deponent further says that for a few years prior to the death of the said Asa Webster reputed & believed to be a pensioner of the United State, and used to journey to Ogdensburgh in said county of St. Lawrence for the purpose of drawing his money as he said and that he the said
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Asa used to make these journeys about every spring & fall for the three or four years prior to his death.
Subscribed & Sworn before me this 7th day of August A.D. 1844 at Ogdensburgh in said county of St. Lawrence
Zenos Bissell
A.C. Brown Judge
St Law Cy Cts [illegible]
I certify that, by the oath of Adiel Sherwood Esquire to be known to be a person of good character for truth & veracity, I have the most satisfactory evidence that Zenos Bissell who hath subscribed & sworn to the foregoing affidavit is a person of good character & a credible witness.
AC Brown Judge
St Lawr Cy Cts
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State of New York
St. Lawrence county
Ss.
Adiel Sherwood of the township of Elizabethtown, in the county of Leeds, in the province of Canada West, being duly sworn according to law, doth depose & say that he is aged sixty four years that he is the Sheriff of the District of Johnstown, including said county of Leeds, & is the son of Thomas Sherwood now deceased. That in the year 1791 & before and since the said Thomas Sherwood was a Justice of the Peace in Elizabethtown aforesaid, and as such was accustomed and authorised to solemnise marriages. That deponent was well acquainted with Asa Webster now deceased in his lifetime & knew him prior to the year 1791 & ever since until the death of the said Asa Webster in the year 1840. That he this deponent was well acquainted with Sally Webster prior to her marriage of said Asa Webster, in said year 1791, & until the present time. That in the said year seventeen hundred & ninety one, it was reputed and believed that said Asa & Sally were married, & deponent was informed by his father at the time & frequently since he had married them. That from the said year 1791 until the year 1840, the said Asa Webster & Sally Webster lived and inhabited together as man & wife, & raised a large family of children and deponent has ever since understood & believed & now believes that that said Asa Webster & Sally Webster were married in said year 1791 and they have always been reputed man & wife with neighborhood where they resided. That at the time of said marriage deponent resided with his father at the distance of about half a mile from the said Asa & Sally. That the father of the deponent did not keep any record of marriages to deponents
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recollection or knowledge. That deponent has recently made inquiry & search for such record but was unable to find any & believes none was kept.
That the said Thomas Sherwood died about seventeen years ago.
Deponent further says that during all the time in which deponent was acquainted with said Asa he was reputed to have been a soldier of the Revolution in the service of the United States, or that such was his reputation as far back as witness can recollect on the subject. And that for the three or four last years of his life of said Asa Webster he was reputed to be in the receipt of a pension from the United States for his service in the Revolution aforesaid.
This deponent further said that Sally Webster who hath this day in the presence of deponent signed a pension declaration & made oath thereto before the Hon A.C. Brown to the identical Sally Webster heretofore mentioned in this affidavit, & the widow of the said Asa Webster.
Deponent further says that he was personally well acquainted with William Wells Esquire of Augusta aforesaid for about 20 years prior to his death in 1842 or '41. That said William Wells Esq. for many years prior & until his death was one of her Majesty's Justices of the Peace in & for the town of Augusta & District of Johnstown aforesaid and as such was authorized & accustomed to administer oaths. That Deponent was also well acquainted with the handwriting and signature of said Wm. Wells Esquire. That said William Wells Esquire died in the year 1841 or 1842, and that he Sarah Baldwin therein named in the affidavit
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certified by said William Wells Esquire & hereto annexed is reputed and believed to have died in the London District in Canada West in the year 1841. Deponent further says that the hand writing and signature of the said affidavit and [an] in the proper hand writing of said Justice William Wells Esquire. And that the date of the deponents certificate appended thereto, it was believed by Deponent & other of the friends of said Sally Webster that the same was a sufficient affidavit to be read & received by the Pension offices of the United States. Deponent was then informed by the friends of said Sally who procured said affidavit, that it was made and prepaired [prepared] at a time when said Asa Webster was very sick & not expected to recover & the said Sarah Webster about to remove to the London District aforesaid.
And further saith not.
  Adiel Sherwood
Subscribed and Sworn this 7th Day of August 1844 at Ogdensburgh, St. Lawrence county (the said "Elizabethtown" on second page erased & "Augusta" written instead. Also the word "instead" on same page erased also
AC Brown
Judge St. Law Cy Cts &c [illegible] Ct
I certify that Adiel Sherwood Esquire who hath subscribed & sworn to the foregoing affidavit is known to me to be a person of good character for truth & veracity.
AC Brown Judge
St. Law Cy Ct
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This day before me William Wells Esq one of His Majesty Justice of the Peace from the District of Johnstown & province of upper Canada Sarah
Baldwin & saith that she was [illegible] I saw Sally Baldin married to Asa Webster by Thomas Sherwood Esquire in Elizabethtown in the District of Johnstown on the Sixteenth of January 1791. Sworn before me at Augusta this 23 Day of March 1837.
William Wells J.P
I certify that the above I believe to be the handwriting of Wm Wells Esq and that he is a magistrate in this District and has been for nearly twenty years [illegible] in the District of Johnstown 23rd March 1841.
Adiel Sherwood
Sheriff J.D.
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In the Matter of
Sally Webster
Pension Application
Wm. C. Brown
Agent.
Ogdensburgh, N.Y.
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State of New York
County of St. Lawrence Ss
I Martin Thatcher, clerk of said County do hereby certify that Anthony C. Brown whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate and affidavits was at the time of taking the same one of the Judges of the Common Pleas Court in and for the said county of St. Lawrence duly commissioned and qualified and duly authorized to take the same. And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said judge and verily believe that his signature above is genuine.
Given under my hand and seal of the said county the 5th day of September 1844
Martin Thatcher Clerk
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WAR DEPARTMENT
Pensions Office
183
Sir: The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The rules and regulations will show what is necessary to be done. These points to which you attention is more particularly, directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (this: } ). You will, when your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them, and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
__________________________________________________
A Statement, shewing the Service Asa Webster. St. Lawrence Co N.Y.
Period when the service was rendered
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Continental Map.5
Duration of the claimant's service.
Years 1 Month [blank] Days [blank]
Rank of the claimant. Pri
Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served   Cap Mann
Names and Rank of the General and Filed officers. Co. Reed
Battles in which the applicant was engaged [blank]
Country through which he marched. Mass Con:
N.Y.
Place of abode when her entered the service, and age at the present period 74 Mass:
Evidence by which the declaration is supported.
Frady if not on [illegible]

Period when the service was rendered.
March 77
Continental V
Vt:
Duration of the claimant's service.
Years. 2 Months. [blank] Days. [blank]
Rank of claimant. Pri ["]
Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served. Cap ["] Stephens
Names and Rank of the General and Field Officers Cap ["] Hosington
Battles in which the applicant was engaged. [blank]
Country through which he marched [blank]
Place of abode when he entered the service and age at the present period.
Newbury Vt.
Evidence by which the declaration is supported. [blank]

Period when the service was rendered.
End June '79
Continental
Vt:
Duration of the claimant's service.
Years 1 Month. [blank] Days. [blank]
Rank of the claimant. Drummer
Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served. Cap ["} Stephens ["]
Names and Rank of the General and Field officers. Cap ["]  Beddle
Battles in which the applicant was engaged. [blank]
Country through which he marched Newbury Vt. ["] ["]
Evidence by which the declaration is supported [blank]
On Roll Capt Steven's Company Col Bedels Regt enlisted as Drummer 21 April 1778.
Served 11 month & 10 days RL Bener [illegible]
I am, respectfully, Your obedient servant,
J.L. EDWARDS
Commissioner of Pensions.
 There are no Vt. rolls in this office he must prove his services.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms of "Continental Line," State troops," "militia," and "volunteers,' all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will be in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.

DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832. 
State, Territory, or District of County of} ss.
On this____day of ____personally appeared (a) before A.B. a resident (b) of ____ in the county of ____ and State, Territory or District of ____ aged (c) ____ years, who being duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) ____, with____ and served in the ____(e) regiment of the ____line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he serviced under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of [blank]
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I  [blank] of the Court of [blank] do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of [blank] for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this day of [blank] &c.
If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribed a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz: 
(k) We, A.B., a Clergyman residing in the [blank] and C.D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with [blank], who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be [blank] years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid,
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]'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. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A.B., who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the [blank] and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, [blank] Clerk of the Court of [blank] do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of [blank] for a pension.
 In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this [blank] day of [blank] &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected the therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction. 
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services each person
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and, unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case. 
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6. Soldier.{ Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become if it?
Soldier.{ Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what ahs become if it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons--one of whom should be the nearest clergy man, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of the applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they will also certify, to the character and standing of other persons, giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such a person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
(a) The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
(b) the declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
(c) The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
(d) The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
(e) Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: __________ "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:__ For ____ year_____months, and ____ days, I served as a _________. For ____months an ____days, I served as a ______; and for such services I claim as pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase "about three or four months," is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c., without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement' the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
(f) The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
(g) The opinion of the Court is always required.
(h) The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
(i) The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certify of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service
(j) In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
[ ]* The notes from (a) to (i) are equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note (j) applies to continental troops only.
(k) This traditionary evidence is indispensable in military cases.
(l) If a witness cannot be found, The declarant must state the fact. 
(m) The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
W. L. Williams Ex Clk
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21486

Asa Webster

not on rolls of N. Y.
Capt Stephens

suspd 

Admitted
John Steele & Phebe Steele prove as appears by the annexed affidavit that the applicant Asa Webster enlisted in the fall of 1775 & that he remained in the Service to their knowledge & was on the sick list in the fall of 1776 - - Edward Clark proved that he was a fellow soldier & served with Webster in the Spring & Summer of 1778 in Buttes Regiment.
Asa Webster proved by his own oath that he served in the Revolutionary War in all about four years - from all this testimony there cannot be over a shadow of doubt as to more than two years service of the said Webster in the Revolution - the pension [illegible] as it is, the evidences suffiant to cary conviction to the minds of any Court or Jury in this or any other county
A. C Low
Clk St Lawrence
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Asa Webster
21486

Admitted
Drummer 11 mo & 10 days

Hon R H. Gillett
House Rep
N. Y.
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I Edward Clark [illegible] three years hereby testify & say that I was a Soldier in Beetles Regt in the spring & summer of the year 1778. that I then knew Asa Webster a fellow Soldier in the same Regt; we were stationed at Haverhill N. Hampshire as a guard for Military stors and occasionlly employed in scouts on the frontiers I was also knowing to his having been in the army in the years 75 & 76 & returning into Newbury in the fall of 76 from the army sick
  Edward Clark
State of Vermont}
Caledonia County Ss}
Peacham July 16th 1833
Then personally appeared the above named Edward Clark who is a man of truth & veracity & entitled to credit and made oath to the truth of the above testimony
Jona Elkins Justice of Peace
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I john Skeele of lawful age, hereby depose and say that I was knowing to the fact of Asa Webster, enlisting into the [crossed out words] Army in the fall of seventeen hundred & seventy-five.  In Col Reads Regt. to Capt. Mans Company that he left his home in Newbury Vermont for the vicinity of Boston.  In the fall of 1776.  Hearing of his sickness in the army at Mount Independence I was induced by his father to go in pursuit of him.
Found him at Mt. Independence apparently in the last stages of camp distemper nursed him up & brought him home.  further your deponent saith not John Skeele 
Peacham

I, Phebe Skeele of lawful age Depose and say that I was personally knowing to Asa Webster enlisting in the fall of 1775 as stated in the above deposition of John Skeele & of his returning in the fall of 1776 from the army.

Phebe Skeele

State of Vermont Caledonia County Ss} 
Peacham July 16th, 1833
Then personally appeared John Skeele & Phebe Skeele and made this oath to the truth of the above deposition.

Jona Elkins {Justice of Peace

I hereby Certify that the above named John Skeele and
Phebe Skeele are credible persons and that their statement is
[entitled] to credit
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State of Vermont
Caledonia Co Ss}
I Benjamin F Deming Clerk of the
County Court for the County of Caledonia
aforesaid do hereby certify that Jona Elkins
[illegible] a Justice of the Peace for said County
and that the within I believe to be his genuine
signatures. In testimony whereof I hereunto set
my hand and the seal of said Court this 16th
day of July A.D. 1833
Benja. F Deming Clerk
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State of New York}
St Lawrence County} Ss
Personally appeared before me Anthony C Brown the undersigned Justice of the Peace of the Town of Oswegatchie in the County & State aforesaid Asa Webster of Oswegatchie aforesaid who is the applicant for a Pension under the act of June 7th 1832 in the annexed papers mentioned who being duly sworn deposeth & Saith in addition to his former Declaration that he Served in the revolutionary war as Stated in his Declaration herein to annexed the time therein Stated & under the officers named that he is unable to State whether the Company & Regiment in which he Served at the different times of Service ought to be [illegible] Continental or State Troops that it was in the Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War & Supposed it to be Continental Service That he does not know of any living witness by whom he could now prove his actual Services in the Revolutionary War except those hereafter named nor other Testimony than that which is hereunto annexed of John Skeele Phebe Skeele & Edward Clark
Asa Webster
Subscribed & Sworn before me this 30 day of July 1833
A C Brown Justice Peace
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State of New York}
St Lawrence County} Ss I Alvin C Low Clerk of the said County do hereby Certify that Anthony C Brown before whom the foregoing affidavit purports to have been Sworn is as on the date of the Same a Justice of the Peace in & for Said County duly elected & sworn and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice of the Peace and verily believe that his name Subscribed to the Said affidavit to be his proper hand writing & signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 29th day of July 1833
A C Low Clk
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of
the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832

State of New York
St Lawrence County } Ss

On the Nineteenth day of December in
the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty two, Personally appeared in open court, before the Court of Common Pleas in the County of St Lawrence and state aforesaid ^[Asa Webster] aged seventy
four years, who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress Passed June 7, 1832: That he enlisted in the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated: That in the
month of December one thousand and seven hundred and seventy five, at Winter Hill, near Bunker Hill, in the state of Massachusetts, he this deponent enlisted in a company commanded by Captain Mann, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Reed, in the Continental Service, for the term of one year: that in March following he was ordered to New London in the State of Connecticut
where the Regiment remained not more
than two or three days: that the Regiment was ordered from thence to New York City, where he remained about six weeks, and then marched to Albany where he and the Regiment remained about five
or six days. from thence the Regiment was ordered to Montreal in Lower Canada, to which place he marched with said Regiment, where he remained about two months, and then the Regiment was ordered back, and marched to Isle au Voix, and remained there about a week from thence marched to Crown-Point where the
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Regiment remained two or three weeks, and
then marched to the south end of Lake George,
where they remained a few weeks, and then marched
to Mount Independence near Ticonderoga,
at which place he was honorably discharged
That he served the full term of one year at the
rate of eight dollars per month: That he has
lost his discharge. That he again enlisted in
Newbury now in the state of Vermont, in the month
of March in the year one thosuand seven hundred
and seventy seven into a company commanded
by Captain Stephens in the Regiment
or Corps commanded by Colonel Hosington
in the Continental Service, during the war,
and mustered and was stationed in Newbury 
aforesaid, for the purpose of guarding that avenue
to Lower Canada. That he served in said company
and Regiment for the term of two years,
at which time said Regiment was disbanded
That he this deponent was entitled to eight
dollars per month, That he again enlisted
at said Newbury in the month of June in the
year seventeed Hundred seventy nine as near
as this deponent can now recollect into a
company commanded by the said Captain Stephens
in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Beddle,
in the Continental service, as a Drummer,
for the term of one year, and was stationed
during said term at Newbury aforesaid. That
he was to receive by the terms of said last enlistment
eight dollars and sixty six cents per
month. That he served said term as a Drummer,
as aforesaid, when said Regiment was disbanded.
And this deponent further saith that
he was born in Old Cheshire, in the state of
New Hampshire, in the year seventeen hundred
and fifty eight [illegible]
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[previous page] he was born in Old Cheshire, in the State of
New Hampshire, in the year seventeen hundred
[current page] and fifty Eight, as appears by a Record of his
age given to him by his father, which is all the
Record thereof to his knowledge. That at the
time of his first enlistmnet he resided in Newbury
now State of Vermont, and after he was discharged
from the same as aforesaid, he resided at
the same place: that he removed from thence to
Upper Canada about three years after the Revolutionary
War, and from whence to Oswegatchie
in the county of St Lawrence and State of
New York, where he now resides. And this
deponent siath to the several interrogators
propounded by the Court:-
Firstly ___ That he was born in Old Cheshire in the 
State of New Hampshire
Secondly __ That he knows of no other record of his age
than the Record given to him by his father, in a
small Book now in this deponents possession
Thirdly __ That he was living in Newbury now in the
state of Vermont when he was called into the
service ^aforesaid, and that since the Revolution has lived
at Newbury aforesaid - in Elizabethtown, Upper Canada, - Augusta, Upper Canada, and in the
town of Oswegatchie in the County of St Larence
and state of New York, aforesaid
Fourthly __ That he volunteered into Capt Manns company
in the Continental service
Fifthly __ The names of the Regular Officers who were with
the Troops when he served, are Colonel Reed
Capt. Mann, Lieut. Pettingill, Ensign Hawkin,
Capt Spalding, Capt Town, Adjutant Otis, Major
Hall
Sixthly __ That he has received but one written discharge
from the service as aforesaid, and that the same
is lost or destroyed
Seventhly __ That he this deponent is known in his present
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neighborhood by Joel J Emmis, a clergyman,
and by David Giffin, Samuel Wright, Archibald 
McLaran and Timothy Wright, who
can testify to his character for veracity, and
their belief of his services as a soldier of the
Revolution
And this deponent doth hereby relinquish
every claim whatever to a Pension or Annuity,
except the present, and declares that his name
is not now on the Pension Roll of the Agency
of any state.
Sworn to and subscribed
the day and year of [illegible]
A C Low clk}
Asa Webster

We Joel J. Emmis a clergyman resident in the
town of Oswegatchie & County of St. Lawrence and Timothy
Wright, Samuel Wright, Archibald McLaran, David Giffin
residing in the Town & County aforesaid hereby certify that we
are well acquainted with Asa Webster who has subscribed
& sworn to the above Declaration that we believe him to be seventy
four years of age, that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood
where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and
that we concur in that opinion & that we verily believe him
to be a man of truth & veracity
Sworn & subscribed this
17 day of December
1832}
[signatures]
Joel J Emmis
David Giffin
Samuel Wright
Archibald McLaran
[Illegible] Wright

John Tim
First judge of
St Lawr Co ct
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St Lawrence County

I Alvin C Low Clerk
of the said County do hereby certify that John
Tim Esquire before whom the foregoing affadavit of
Joel J Emmis, David Giffin, Samuel Wright,
Archibald McSwan and Timothy Wright purport
to have been subscribed and sworn to was at the time of
taking the said affidavit First Judge of the County
Court in and for said County, duly Commissioned
and sworn, and that I am well acquainted with
the hand writing of the said Judge and verily believe
that his signature to the said affidavit is genuine

In testimony whereof
I have here unto set my hand
and seal of Office at
Canton this 19th day of
December 1832
[signature] A C Low Clk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories above
prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states.
And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Joel J Emmis who has signed the preceding Certificate is a ^Clergy [?] resident of the Town of Oswegatchie in the County of St Lawrence and that David Giffin Samuel Wright Archibald McSwan and Timothy Wright who have also signed the same are residents of the Town and County aforesaid
and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I Alvin C Low Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County, of St. Lawrence, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings
of the said Court in the matter of the application of Asa Webster for a Pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Canton this
19th day of December 1832 [signature] A C Low Clk
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The Hon Lewis Cass
Sect at War
Washington
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State of New York
St. Lawrence County

Asa Webster being duly sworn says that he is the applicant to the war department for a Pension.  That the reason he did not apply for a pension under the act of 1818, was that he understood said act required him to make oath that he was unable to support himself & had no means to support which was not then the case.  He could not consciously make such oath.  But has since 1836 become poor & on account of the infirmities of age is now unable to support himself.

This deponent further says that he finds on making as estimate, he was mistaken as to the amount of pay per month he received the two first tours.  His pay was Forty Shillings per month lawful money which mistake occurred on account of estimating it in Halifax currency.  

This deponent further says that he supposed that Col. Hosington was in the Continental Services, but it was a long time ago & it may be he was mistaken.  That the said Col. Hosington was in the militia. 

A. C. Brown of Ogdensburgh is my agent who was originally employed by me, A.C. Low Esqui [Esquire] is the county clerk through whose hands the papers were in the first place transmitted to be certified but he was not my agent.

Asa Webster

Subscribed & sworn before me this 2 day of November 1835

A.C. Brown JP
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State of New York
St. Lawrence County} Ss

On the 2 day of November 1830
Personally appeared before me the
undersigned Justice of the Peace of the Town
of Oswegatchie in & for said county Asa Webster
to me well known to be a man of good morale
character & also of truth & veracity, and made
oath in due form of Law to the within
deposition

[signature] A C Brown JP
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Ogdensburgh 2 Nov 1833
Dear Sir
The inclosed affidavit of
Asa Webster is a full explanation of the
maine objections contained in Mr Edward's
last communication; which I hope will
prove satisfactory. And that no further 
obstacles will be thrown in the way of
his receiving his Pension To those who
know ^him there is no manner of doubt
of the justness of his claim It is
extremely hard for him ^to be debared [debarred]
of his rights. The Hon R. H Gillet [Ransom H. Gillet]
our worthy member of Congress is some
what acquainted with Mr. Webster & he
can inform you in relation to him
From yours Respectfully
A C Brown
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The Hon R. H Gillet
Member of Congress
Washington
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War Department
Pension Office
December 23 - 1835
Sir
I have the honor to state, in reply to yours of the 18th inst
enclosing a supplemental statement of Asa Webster, that 
he claims 1st for 12 months from December 1776 in
Capt Manns Company of Col Reeds regt. Massachusets
troops which cannot be admitted without the certificate of the
Secretary of that state. 2dly for two years under Capt
Stevens, Major Hossington which is discredited by the fact
that no such term of service was rendered by those officers
no enlistment for two years were made in that corps
And 3dly: for twelve months as a drummer under Capt
Stevens in Col Bedels regt, which is verified by the rolls to
the extent of 11 months & 10 days. The last term is admitted
to which will be added such portion of the first as may
be established by the records of Masschusets, and of the
second as he may shew he was in actual service.
I have the honor to be
Very Respectfully
Your obt Servant
J. L. Edwards

Hon. R. H. Gillet,
House of Representatives} (Copy)

Ogdensburgh 8 [illegible] 1834

Dear Sir,
[illegible] sent to Vermont to procure
proof of his service in Capt Stevens co, but the
witnesses by whom he expected to prove it
are dead. He says you must take
all you can get. He is worn out
with the application. He wishes (if you
think best) you to show the department
the affidavit he sent to you. He feels
that he is entitled to a full pension)
[illegible] is in hopes that it will be allowed
him.
Yours Respectfully
A C Brown
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Revo:

New York

Suspended act 7 Jn '32

letter 23  Nov. '33
to
A. C. Low
let to Hon R.H. Gillett
House Reps N.Y.  Jun 17. 35

Let to Hon R H Gillet 26 Nov 18 1835
" " " [Let to Hon] Same 23 Dec " [1835]
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Ogdensburg N. York

Sir,
I have just been called upon by Mr. Asa Webster, who is an applicant for a pension under the act of 1832, with a request that I would ascertain the situation of his case. His papers were originally sent you he thinks, by A. C. Low Esq of Canton NY & that A. C. Brown of this place has had his case in charge. He says that he has heard nothing from his last testimony since it was sent to you. He further alleges that some of the papers passed through my hands while at Washington I do not recollect anything about them.
From one letter he has from you, I learn that he is on the pay roll for [min?] a year & of course, is entitled to a pension for that time at least. Be so good as to inform me about his case & how much pension he can have without further proof. I understand he is a man of fair character
Your obt Sert
R H. Gillet

J. L. Edwards Esq
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Washington March 17 1836

Sir,
I enclose you the letter of A. C. Brown Esq, Agent for Mr Asa Webster, who claims I know of nothing that I can do to increase the amount of testimony in the case. I therefore think it best that you give him a certificate for what he shows himself entitled to.
Please send the certificate to me
You obt Sevt
R. H. Gillet

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commifsioner of Pensions
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House of Reps.
Decr. 18th 1835

Sir,
Herewith I send you the affidavit of Mr Asa Webster, in explanation of his former one, concerning his pension application. Comuted therewith in the certificate of the Justice of the Peace who drew the affidavit & before whom it was attested. That person is a magistrate & is authorized to administer oaths, the affidavit is in his hand writing & the signature is genuine.
I have had some knowledge of Mr. Webster, who resides within a few miles of me, & what I know of him is entirely in favour of his character as a man of truth & intigrity. Mr Webster resides where money is often reconed [reckoned] in Halifax Currency tho' it is not the currency of New York, but our Canadian neighbours reckon money in that currency, which rendered us familiar with it. I presume that owing to this circumstance, the error was committed, & probably more through the agency of the [town?] of the affidavit, than through any
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other means. Forty "shillings lawful" mentioned in the accompanying affidavit, I presume means, New England currency which I believe is six shillings to the Dollar. Halifax currency is five shillings to the Dollar.
With these explainations the case is submitted for further consideration, & if a pension is granted, I have no doubt it will be meritoriously bestowed
Your obt sevt
R H Gillet

J. L. Edwards Esq
Coms. of Pensions
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Stamp mark:
[illegible]

June 22
N.Y.

FREE

James L. Edwards Esq
Com Pensions
Washington C
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Ogdensbugh, N. Y.
November 16. 1844

Dear Sir:
In September last I forwarded to you the pension application of Mrs. Hannah Freeman & Mrs. Sally Webster.
Since that time a witness has been found in the West of Canada who was present at the marriage of Sally & Asa Webster; & where deposition taken in Wayne County Michigan, I herewith send to you.
Not having heard from you in reply since the applications were sent, I suppose they have not yet been reached. But the applicants are impatient & I hope soon to hear from you that their claims have been considered & allowed
Very Respectfully
Yours &c 
Wm. C. Brown

J. L. Edwards Esq
Comr of Pensions &c &c
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Ogdensbugh, New York
September 18. 1844

J. L. Edwards Esq

Dear Sir
I send you herewith the pension application of Sally Webster, widow of Asa Webster, for a pension under the acts in relation to Widows of Deceased officer's & soldiers of the Revolution. And also the application of Hannah Freeman, widow of Richard Freeman under the same acts. The deceased husbands of each of the applicants were pensioners of the United States
As now as the applications are passed upon please advise me of the result
Very Respectfully
Your Obt. Sevt.
Wm. C. Brown
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Ogdensburgh, New York
January 3d 1845

Sir:
On receipt of your letter of the 19th November last in relation to the pension application of Sally Webster I sent to her friends to cause search to be made for any record or paper, which could tend to show the date of her marriage with Asa Webster, & to have the Records of the churches in the neighborhood examined for the same purpose & to ascertain the dates of the baptism of their children.
It was not to be expected that any official record of the marriage could be found, it having been solemnised by a Magistrate when the country was new & in a wild state & before there was any organised churches in that part of Canada. But they found among the papers of Asa Webster a memorandum in the handwriting of the deceased sharing the date of the marriage, of the births of the eldest children, & which, to my mind, bears intrinsic evidence of age & authenticity. From its appearance, the difference in the ink &c  I should judge that the first part of it must have been written prior to the year 1796 - The first four entries having evidently been made at the same time & the others subsequently. However that may be it was written by Webster, & was probably the only
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memorandum he had of the date of his marriage. It is annexed to the enclosed affidavit of Zenos Bissell.
Annexed to the enclosed affidavit of Adiel Sherwood is a certificate of Revd. Wm. Lonait showing the date of the baptism of Eight children of Asa & Sally Webster. But as these baptisms are as late as 1814, I do not consider that they are of any importance.
After I had written the first affidavit of Adiel Sherwood, & before he left, I received your letter of the 21st ult. and in consequence of its suggestions drew his second affidavit which is enclosed, showing that the proposed certificates of the Town Clerk & Church Register can throw us additional light on the subject.
I hope that the memorandum enclosed will be deemed sufficient to fix the date of this marriage
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Sevt
Wm Brown

P.S. You have annexed to the other papers the Clerks Certificate of the official character of Judg Brown which, I trust will be deemed sufficient in the matter within the expense bring incurred of processing new ones
WCB
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State of New York}
St. Lawrence County} fs: Abigail Campbell of the township of Augusta in the Province of Canada West being duly sworn doth depose + say that she is eighty two years of age. That she first moved into the township of Augusta aforesaid in the year one thousand seven hundred + eighty seven, immediately after her marriage with her late husband. That her said husband was a farmer + resided with deponent on a farm near the town line between the said township of Augusta + the township of Elizabethtown. That the late Asa Webster resided in said township of Elizabethtown at the distance of only about three fourths of a mile from the residence of deponent - and that deponent resided within about that distance from the residence of said Asa Webster from about the said year 1787 until about the year 1800, when said Webster removed with his family to the distance of about six miles from deponents residence. That deponent was well acquainted with the said Asa Webster + his family from about the year 1787 until the death of said Asa, + that deponent is still acquainted with the said Asa's widow, Sally Webster. That deponent was well acquainted with said Sally Webster, then Sally Baldwin, prior to her marriage to the said Asa Webster, + as early as the year 1789.
That the said Asa Webster and Sally Baldwin were married about three years next after deponent moved to Augusta aforesaid. And deponent is confident that the marriage of said Asa to said Sally took place within four years next after deponent moved to Augusta aforesaid. That deponent was not present at the wedding,
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but was fully informed of the event at the time. That from the time of said marriage which must have been within years 1790 or 1791, until the time of the death of said Asa Webster in or about the year 1840, the said Asa Webster + Sally Webster resided together as man + wife + were reputed + received as such among their friends + acquaintances - and that they raised a large family of children.
That when deponent first became acquainted with said Asa Webster + for several years after his marriage to said Sally Webster, the said township of Augusta + Elizabethtown were thinly settled, + said Asa + Sally were two of Deponents nearest neighbors + deponent was intimate with them. And deponent is confident that said Asa + Sally Webster resided together as man + wife for two or three years prior to the year 1794.
Abigail Campbell

Subscribed + Sworn this 1st day of May 1845 before me 
The ands "at the", in the last line I have erased.
James C Barter
Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that I am acquainted with the above named Abigail Campbell, and her statements to be entitled the fullest credit, as an intelligent + credible witness
Ogdensbugh N. Y. May 1st 1843
J. C. Barter
Justice of the Peace
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State of New York}
St. Lawrence County} fs. Thomas Freel of the township of Augusta in the Province of Canada West being duly sworn doth depose + say that he is sixty four years of age. That deponent first commenced his residence in the said township of Augusta aforesaid in the year one thousand seven hundred + ninety, and then resided on a farm in said town of Augusta near the town line dividing said township from the township of Elizabethtown That Phineas Baldwin then resided with his family in said township of Elizabethtown + at the distance of only about one half a mile from the residence of deponent. That David Baldwin + Sally Webster widow of Asa Webster, were children of said Phineas Baldwin + at the date also mentioned were residing with said Phineas. That said David Baldwin then + for several years next following, was a constant companion + school mate of deponent. That until the latter part of the year 1791 or fore part of the year seventeen hundred ninety two, deponent was almost daily at the house of said Phineas Baldwin, + was intimately acquainted in his family. That in said latter part of said year 1791 or fore part of said year 1792 deponents father removed with his family including deponent to another farm, in the town of Young in Canada, distant about nine miles from the residence of said Baldwin, and that after the said removal deponent remained well acquainted with the family of said Phineas Baldwin, + and to visit + receive visits frequently from said David Baldwin.
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and this deponent further says that he became
acquainted with Asa Webster late of the township
of Augusta aforesaid, deceased, in the said year
1790 & continued to be acquainted with the said
Asa until the time of his death at Augusta
aforesaid in the year 1840. That in the said
year 1790 the said Asa Webster resided in
said township of Elizabethtown in the
family of the said Phineas Baldwin

That in the forepart of the year one thousand
seven hundred & ninety one, as deponent then
understood from the said Baldwin family &
others the said Asa Webster was married to the
said Sally Baldwin. That deponent distinctly,
recollects the circumstance that said marriage
caused a good deal of conversation & was the
subject of many remarks in the neighborhood
at the time, & particularly in reference to the
difference in the ages of the said Asa & Sally
the latter being then about sixteen, & the former
about thirty years of age according to deponent
present recollection. And deponent further
says that it was generally reputed & believed
by among the people in the neighborhood, that the
said Asa & Sally were married at the
time above mentioned. That from the time
of the said Marriage until the death of the
said Asa Webster deponent continued well
acquainted with Asa & Sally, & they
during all that time resided together as
man & wife.
and deponent further says that he is
confident that said marriage took place
prior to the time of the removal of deponent
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as herein before mentioned from the township of Augusta to the township of Young. And that said removal was as before mentioned in the latter part of the year 1791 or fore part of the year 1792, + while deponent was of the age of eleven years. That deponent well recollects that said Sally Webster resided with the said Asa Webster as his wife + in his house, + was called by + took his name, + was refuted his wife prior to the time of deponents removal to said township of Young, + prior to the year 1792.
Deponent further says that in said year 1790 + for several years afterwards deponent was acquainted with Major Alexander Campbell + his wife Abigail Campbell who were then the wealthiest + among the most respectable people at that time in said township of Augusta. That said Abigail Campbell is still living, + is of excellent character + intelligence.
Thomas Freel

Subscribed + Sworn this 3d day of May 1848 before me
J. C. Barter J. P.

I hereby certify that, I am acquainted with the above named Thomas Freel, and believe him to be a person entitled to the fullest credit, as an intelligent and credible witness
Ogdensburgh, M. Y. May 3. 1845
James C Barter
Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
County of St Lawrence} fs
I, Martin Thatcher Clerk of the County of St Lawrence and also Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County ~
Do hereby certify that James C. Barter is a Justice of the Peace of the County of St Lawrence in the State aforesaid elected and sworn and duly qualified that his time of Office commissioned on the 1st day of January 1843 and will terminate on the 31st day of December 1846 and that his signature subscribed to the foregoing affidavit of Abigail Campbell and Thomas Freel is genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court and County this the 8th day of May A. D. 1843
M Thatcher CLk
By Z N Ellis Depy
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May 16 1845
[illegible]
Sally Webster

J.L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Ogdensburgh N.Y.
May 10th 1845
Sir
Your letter of the 21st March inrelation to the case
of Sally Webster, was duly received in which you required
the cumulative testimony of disinterested credible &
intelligent witnesses who knew the parties as husband
& wife at some specific time prior to the 1794 &
can swear to it with certainty

I enclose the affidavits of Abigail Campbell &
Thomas Freel to this point. They were not present
at the marriage, but were neighbors, and had that
knowledge which every one in a country neighborhood
always has of such an event, & knew the parties
as husband & wife as early as 1792 from that
time down, swear to it with certainly. Freel
can not be mistaken in seeing that the marriage
was prior to the close of the year 1792, as he knows
that it was prior to the removal of his fathers family
from Augusta to the town of [illegible] & that removal
was when he was eleven years old,  he was born
in July 1770. Mrs Campbell also knows that the
marriage was only about 3 years after her own
Marriage & removal to Augusta

I believe the affidavits comply with the requirements
of your letter & trust they will be deemed satisfactory

It appears to me, with all deference, that you do not
attach sufficient weight to the memorandum
made by Asa Webster. Had it been entered in a
Bill it will doubtless have received credit.
it was probably made with a view of subsequently
transcribing it into a Bible. But it bears incontractable 
marks of age, was evidently made at
different times, & contemporanent, at least with
the late events which it records. It was made
by Webster himself & of course must have
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before the present application could have been 
contemplated
It is very probable that David S. Baldwin might
have been able to give an explanation of the means
by which he retains the particular date of the
Marriage. And yet, if he posseses any thing of a retentive
memory, there is nothing extraordinary in his remembering
the date of an only sisters marriage, without
reference to any other fact or matter. And the
remark is applicable to Mr Freed as well as him, that
a farmers life is an uneventful one, & facts relating 
to a sister or near friend, would be long
remembered by them, which are in the less
[illegible] walks of life and consider almost
trivial
I remain
yr obt svt
Wm G. Brown
J.L. Edwards Esq
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Ogdensburgh, A Lawrence Esq
N.Y. Sept 6th 1848
Hon J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
I present you enclosed
herewith, the Declaration of Mrs Sally
Webster for the purpose of obtain the
benefit of the act of 2 Febry 1848. - and
which I do at her request. If satisfactory, 
and a certificate should be awarded
you will please return the same to my
address
About 30 or 40 days sinc I forwarded
the declaration of Margret Barrager, for a
Widows pension, under the same law, Not
have heard any thing in relation thereto I am
apprehensive that it may have miscarried
Very Respectfully
our obt svt
J.C. Barter
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Widows Pension
Declaration of 
Sally Webster
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State of New York}
St. Lawrence County fs} On this fourth day of September 1848, personally appeared before the undernamed James C Barter a Justice of the Peace in + for the county aforesaid, Sally Webster, a resident of the township of Augusta, in the Province of Canada West Seventy three years of age, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth in her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of congress passed on the 2d February 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Asa Webster, who was a private in the war of the Revolution attached to the army of the United States That her said husband drew a pension of forty or forty one dollars for his Revolutionary service That this declarant cannot recollect the Corps in which her late husband served, but she thinks that a Captain Mann was commander of a Company in which he was engaged some part of his term of service and the declarant recollects that she has frequently heard her late husband speak of Reeds Regiment, and that he probably served under an officer of that name That the Declarant has received a pension of forty one dollars per annum up to the 4t March last, under the act of 3d March 1843 + June 17 1844, under a certificate dated the 9th day of July 1845, which has been surrendered. That the declarant
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has resided in the township of Augusta about forty years past and her late husband, Asa Webster, died in the Month of November 1840. And the said declarant further declares that she is still a widow
Sally Webster (her x mark)

Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year above Written before me the declarant makes her mark for a signature being too infirm to write
J. C. Barter
Justice of the Peace
of St Lawrence County N. Y.
Present Mr S. Daniels

State of New York}
St. Lawrence County fs} I James C Barter a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of St Lawrence do hereby certify that Sally Webster, who has this day appeared before me and made the foregoing declaration in other to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 2d February 1848, is and has been for many years past, personally well known to me
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 4t day of September 1848
J. C. Barter
Justice of the Peace

State of New York,
St Lawrence County fs I Martin Thatcher Clerk in the Court of St Lawrence and also Clerk in the Court of Record directed by law to be held in and for said Court, do hereby
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certify that James C. Barter Esq whose name is signed to the foregoing certificate and to the jurat of the affidavit of Sally Webster was at the date of such certificate and at the time of taking said affidavit a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of St Lawrence Elected + qualified and duly authorized to take the same 
And further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such Justice and verily believe the signature to such Certificate + affidavit is genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court + County this 5t day of September A. D. 1848
J. R. Tupper Dept Clerk
Clerk Absent
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[front of a post card]

[left margin] C & U[?] [/left margin]
U S POSTAL CARD
NOTHING BUT THE ADDRESS CAN BE PLACED ON THIS SIDE
[one cent postage stamp]
[postmark] BEDFORD IOA. MAY 19 [illegible] [/postmark]
[stamped] U.S. PENSION OFFICE MAY 22 1882 [/stamped]

Hon. Commr Pensions
Washington D. C.
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Bedford Iowa
5-16-82
My Dear Sir:
Mr. Asa Webster, A Revolutionary War drew pension till 1840 and his widow from thence till Mch 4, 1848 she died Feby 23, 1849, which sum was due her at death Her only son [illegible] with whom she resided at death Claims same as reimbursement for care during last illness.  Please send Blanks and instructions to me.  J. E. Huston
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[handwritten on left fold]
2 Cents:'44
1 act '38
1" '434 '44
rep

[right fold]

7114
Albany.
===
Sally Webster
widow of Asa Webster
who was a Private
in the NY Line
___
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
41 Dollars 55 
Cents per annum, to commence on 
the 4th day of March, 1843.
___
Certificate of Pension Issued the 
7 day of July '45
and sent to 
W C Brown
Ogensburg
NY
---
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
            June 17, 1844
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2 Page 91
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9463
___
New York
[left margin 7117 \ 91]
Sally Webster
widow of Asa Webster
who was a pensioner under the Act of 
and who died on the 7 Novem 1840
of S Lawrence in the State of N.Y.
who was a Pri in the Company 
commended by Captain [blank] of the [blank]
commanded by [blank]in
the N.Y. line for
11 Mos 10 days
___
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 41 Dollars 55
Cents per annum, to commence on the [stricken 4th day of March, 1836.]  7 Novem. 1840.
___Certificate of Pension issued the 9 day of 
July 1845 and Sent to 
W C Brown
Ogdensburg
Total amount, $ NY
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by J L Swann Clerk,
book D Vol. 1 Page 187
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No 11325.
Sally Webster
N.Y. | Asa
Act 7th July 1838
Jno. '91 died 7th Nov. 1840
Admitted-
11 Mos. 10 days- private
@ $41.55/100 pr. ann.
from 7th Nov. 1840.
                        7982
also acts 3 March 43 J
17. June '44 No 727
---
To S Lawrence - Albany-
W. C. Brown
(Agent)
Ogdensburg
New York
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11325
Sally Webster
NY
see let to W. C. Brown 19th
Nov.: 44.
send to same Dec 21. 44
to [illegible] March 21. 1845

Act 7 July 1838
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No 21486
New York
Asa Webster
Suspended
See letters notted within
Let to Hon RH Gillet 23 Dec 1835
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Rev Widow, &c.
___
File No. 18,329
Sally Webster
Widow of 
Asa Webster
Pri Rev- War
___
Act: Feb 2[9] 48
Index: - Vol. M, Page 322
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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1882 July 26 AR Clark to J.E. Huston Bedford Iowa