Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17,065, George Healy, Conn. Mass.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE    Conn, Mass
NUMBER W. 17.065
Healy George
Bethia
CONTENTS
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Rep?
Let Hon. W. B. McClay
Nov. 14, 1845.
Same Feb 18 1846
Same March 20 1846
" to Hon. H. Johnson, April 14 1846
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New York 4048
Bethia Healy
widow of George Healy
who died on the 23d March 1814
of N. York Co. in the State of New York
who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain .............. in the Regt
commanded by Col. Swift (Conn)  in the Conn't & Mass line for 6 months
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Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 20 Dollars per annum to
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
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Certificate of Pension issued the 17th day of July 1844 and sent to George F. Thomson, New York
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Arrears to the  4th  of  March    1844........260      
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept "  ........10    
..............................................................................$270-
Revolutionary Claim
Act July 4, 1836
Section 8   
Clerk
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State of New York}
City and County of New York} Ss.
on this 29th day of November 1839 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Common pleas for the City & County of New York now sitting, Bethiah Healy, a resident of said City, County and State of New York, aged seventy three 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 law of Congress granting pensions to certain widows of Soldiers of the Revolution.
That she was married to George Healy in the Autumn of the year 1784 by the Rev'd Elisha Rexford, then, the settled and officiating minister of the Congregational Church in the parish of New Stratford, then, in the Township
of Stratford, Fairfield County Connecticut, where she then resided with her father's family, at his house. From that ime she lived with her said husband, several years in said New Stratford, then in Huntington in said County afterwards in Derby in New Haven County about four years; then in Wallingford in New Haven County, where her said husband George Healy deceased on the 23 day of March 1814. That she has remained his widow ever since and still remains his widow. That the following year she with her children that remained with her moved into the City of New York where she has resided ever since. That she always understood from her said husband and others and she verily believes that he came to said New Stratford from Attleborough in the State of
Massachusetts some four or five years previous to said marriage. That she has frequently heard him, during his life time, speak of his being out in the service of the United States, in the War of the Revolution. She remember particularly, of hearing him say that the first time he went into the service
he enlisted and served as Fifer. That his father objected to his going because he was so young, and that the Captain told his father that he would take him under his particular
care and protection, if he would consent to let him go, upon which his father consented and he enlisted and went into the service. That she also remembers hearing him speak of the Soldiers having the dysentery in the summer
of that campaign. She also remembers having heard him speak of his going into the service after he moved to said New Stratford. That he and Abel Deforest enlisted and went together into the service and served in the same
company.
   Bethia Healy
Sworn and subscribed in open Court the day and year first above written.
Attest:  Joseph Hoxie  Clerk
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I Joseph Hoxie ---Clerk of the Court of
Common pleas in and for the City and County of
New York do hereby certify that the foregoing are the original proceedings of this Court in the matter of the application of Bethiah Healy for a pension.
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court
this 29th day of November 1839.
Joseph Hoxie Clerk
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State of Connecticut}
 Probate District of Newtown County of Fairfield} Ss.

On this ........day of December 1839 personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Probate for the District of Newtown, now sitting Samuel C. Blackman, a resident of Newtown in said County of Fairfield aged seventy one years, who, being first duly sworn according to law testifies as follows, to wit.
I am the Brother of Bethiah Healy of the City of New York widow of George Healy deceased, who has made her declaration before the Court of Common Pleas in the
City and County of New York in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress granting pensions to certain widows of Soldiers of the Revolution for five years. I well remember that I was present and saw my said Sister Bethiah married to said George Healy at my father's house in the Parish of New Stratford Township of Stratford, Fairfield County in the Autumn of the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty
four to the best of my recollection and belief, by the Rev. Elisha Rexford, then the officiating Clergyman in the Congregational Society of that place. I should not remember the year in which she was married but from the circumstances of hearing my father, at the time, speak of her being in his opinion, too
young to be married & take the charge of a family and as she is only about two years older than myself (and I remember it was in the fall) I am confident it was not later than the Autumn of the year seventeen hundred and eighty four. The said Elisha Rexford has been dead, I should think more than twenty years; and, to the best of my knowledge and belief, has left no Record of that or the marriages generally which he performed. There was a family record kept by my father, in his Bible of the births of all his children but not of their marriages. No Statute law of Connecticut at that time, required any
Record of marriages to be kept by any person.
If further evidence of the Marriage should be required, I have a Sister now living in said New Stratford, who, I presume would agree with me as to the time and circumstances of said Bethiah's marriage. What I recollect first regarding said George Healy is, that one
Daniel Reed & he were engaged in making combes in said New Stratford, I then and always understood, they were from Attleborough in Massachusetts. That when
I was a lad, I should think in the winter of 1781 or 1782 said Reed was employed to instruct the young people of said Parish in singing, Two evenings in a week were spent in singing through the winter. Said George Healy
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and my said Sister both attended and first became acquainted to the best of my recollection and belief that those singing meetings. Said George Healy has been dead, I should think, more than twenty years.
   Samuel C. Blackman
Sworn to and subscribed the 5th day of December 1839
in open Court ---
Attest
Cyrenius H. Booth Clerk

And this Court further certifies that the said
Samuel C. Blackman who made oath to &
subscribed the foregoing affidavit, is well
known to this Court, is a credible person and
his testimony entitled to credit.
Allest, Cyrenius H. Booth Clerk-

I Cyrenius H Booth Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Newtown do hereby certify that the foregoing affidavit was taken by this Court to be used on the application of Bethiah Healy for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and the seal office this 5th day of
December AD. 1839
Cyrenius H. Booth Clerk
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Rev
WIDOW, &c.
No. 17065
Bethia Healy
Widow of
George Healy
Pri. Rev War
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Act July 4th '36
Book:-  Vol....A... , Page ....326...

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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6433
Let. to Sam'l C Blackman
February 29, 1840.
Let. From J B Osborne
April 26, 1840
Let. to Hon Perry Smith Feb. 27 1843-
 "     "   "      S. Simons Dec 18, 1843-
 "     "   "      S. Simons Jany 8, 1844-
Copies of papers sent to Same Feb 13,1844
Let. to Hon C G Atherton May 22nd 1844
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New York City wid-
Bethia Healy, widow of
George, $20 pr annum.
From 4 March 1831-
Act June 17, 1844

(Inscribed under act
July 4 1836 )


Geo F. Thomson
Nyork City
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Pension Office
July 12. 1844
Sir
Your letter of the 21st ult'o has been received.
The Bill before Congress in relation to compensation to the Pension Agents, did not become
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Washington
at Mrs Beawney Dec 23 -43
Hon J.L. Edwards
Com'r Pensions
Sir
Yours of 18th Inst informing me "that the testimony of Abel Deforest is not sufficient to establish the allegation of six Mo. Service in the Conn't line in 1780 or 1781" might imply that the testimony could be made to establish service in or about that time. It would not by me be considered strange that dates night
be forgotten or mistakes made in them after the lapse of so long a period; but it would be irreconcilable to me that the Hon Judge Blackman & Deacon Wm Deforest should be so much mistaken for they are men of high standing for truth & good conduct & all the parties are among the first families in the State I would ask sir if it is not to be found
in the Archives of your office that Mr Healy
performed service in the Revolution? and in
what year? how long? I am very respectfully
Your obt servt
   Sam'l Simons
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House of Reps
Feb 10 1846
Sir
Judging from your reply to my letter in the case of Bethiah Healy, it would be reasonable to infer, the papers on file had not been examined, or if so, without proper inspection.
The allowance for six months pension granted her by Congress was for services rendered by her husband George Healy in the year 1781, when he enlisted from the State of Connecticut performed duty in New York. That service was established upon its own merits & allowed accordingly.
I have presented to you the official evidence,
from the records of Massachusetts of six months & nineteen days service rendered in the year 1782, when George Healy was a citizen of that State & three years before he removed to Connecticut & get the Department very confidently asserts there is no ground for increasing the Pension
of Mr Healy, I undertake to say, Sirs, the proof
in this instance, is of ever a higher standard,
than that upon which the existing Pension
was granted
By refusing to the
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original declaration of Mrs Healy to the
affidavit of Welcome Healy to the affidavit
of Obed Robinson & to the affidavit of Samuel Tingly, as well as other witnesses, you will find the identity of George Healy established and this service generally assisted, which is now specifically proved
Owing to the ignorance of the parties who conducted to this claim originally for Mrs Healy, no application was made to the Secretary of States office in Massachusetts, for the proof of the service, which would
have enabled her to have claimed the years allowance at once- But, the family always knew of the right, & under my advice, the inquiry was instituted within the last three months, the result is now before you
& I think it is not venturing too much to say, the Pension office has never been furnished with more positive & unassailable testimony. I must hope therefore this opinion of the Pension office will be reversed & that the original papers will be examined before I am favored with a reply and if the testimony now furnished for service under an enlistment in Massachusetts in the year 1778 constitute any
post of the proof for allowance of the pension
for service in the year 1781 under an enlistment from Connecticut, I desire it to be pointed out to me. In my view no clearer case was ever submitted to the Department, and I must confess
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to some astonishment at the manner in which
it has been met.
you refer to the items of Capt Thoms case
particularly & questions it because some witness did not assist it. The aggregate of service was assisted & this item of proof is as strong as any other named-- I did not understand before that the record evidence required oral corroboration-- Why not dispute every item as well as one which might with as much propriety be done, as to inform me,
that six months & nineteen days service in 1778. only gave an increase of 19 days, to six months of independent service which was rendered in 1781 in another State.
I beg to be favored with an early answer
your Obt Servt
W B Maclay


To
J L Edwards  Esq
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Washington 3rd Jan 1844
Hon J.L. Edwards
Commiss'r of Pensions
Sir
On the 23d Inst I addressed you a note asking to be furnished with the Declaration of Timothy Clapp a Pensioner now deceased &
I also several days since wrote you making further inquiry about widows of service in your transcription of Mrs Healy whose widow application you have seen fit to reject-
also the inquiry whether Elijah Simons of Conn't or his heirs ever obtained a pension for Revolutionary services--- to all these inquiries I yet wait answers. I am very desirous to
obtain the information sought---
I am sir very respectfully 
your obt. Servt.
Sam'l Simons
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P.S.  I have a desire that the papers of Rhode Island should be examined in regard to service rendered by Mr Healy, as it is possible that they contain evidence of such facts- I am reluctant to assent to the mistake, much less to misrepresentation & still much less to wilful perjury of such men as have testified to these papers-

Yours &  S. Simons
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Pension office
May 22d 1844
Sir
I herewith return the papers of Mrs. Bethia Healy, and have the honor to inform you that there is no evidence of her husband's service
at an earlier period of the war than 1780, except two months and twenty five days as a Fifer in the Massachusetts line. It is alleged that he served six months in the Connecticut line, but neither the records of this office, nor those at Hartford furnish any evidence of the fact. The service shown to have been performed in Rhode Island was but for three months, which added to the 2 months and 25 days in Massachusetts, fail to make six months service, the amount required by law.
I have the honor to be
Very respectfully
Your Obt Servant
   J. L. Edwards
 
Hon. C. G. Atherton
Senate U States
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Hon. W B Mc Clay
Nov. 14, 1845.
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New York
November 12. 1845
Sir,
Mrs Bethia Healy of this City, the widow of George Healy a soldier of the Revolution, was pensioned by a Special act (June 17, 1844), at the rate of $20 per annum. This trifle is not sufficient to support her declining old age and her friends design to make a movement in the State wherein her husband performed a part of his service, to have some remuneration extended to her. I contemplate also an effort in her behalf before the Government, & I beg therefore that you will send me copies of all the papers on file in your office, relating to this case if it be in accordance with the rules if not, I shall apply for authority to that effect. Be pleased to furnish them as early as possible, as I should like to examine the subject before starting for Washington
Yours Very Respectfully
W B Maclay

Hon J L Edwards
Comr of Pensions
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Washington Feb 9th 1844
Hon J.L. Edwards
Commiss'nr of Pensions
Sir
I have to request that you furnish me with the Declaration & all accompanying papers of Mrs. B. Healey for a pension or a copy of the same, if consistent with your duties-- I should be glad
of an early possession of these papers.
I am Sir very
respectfully your
Obt. Servt.
Sam'l Simons
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July 1, '44
Bethia Healey
Snt Act
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Ⓧ
J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Newtown June 26th 1844-
J.L. Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir,
As you refused to grant a pension to Bethiah Healey, widow of George Healey decd
because his name was not on the rolls, She,
by myself as her attorney, petitioned Congress for a small pension. The Committee, on that subject, in the House of
Representatives reported a resolution in favour of one. It passed the House of Representatives & a report in favour was made by a Committee in the Senate.
I suppose it is reasonable to believe that paper the Senate. If so I expect it is in your hands to make a certificate.
I should like to know whether a pension was granted her; and if she has I wish it might be sent to me soon enough for me to present it
to her on the 4th of July ensuing.
Respectfully your
Friend & Serv't
Samuel C. Blackman
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Feb. 25, 1843
Ct
Bethia Healy

Hon Perry Smith
Senate US

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J.L. Edwards, Esquire
Comr of Pensions
Washington DC
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Washington Feby 25th 1843
Sir I enclose to you a paper in regard to a pension for which an application has been heretofore, I understand, made.
Will you have the goodness to examine it, with other papers related to the case, and give me an answer. I am Sir Very Dutfully, your Obd. Svnt Perry Smith

J.L. Edward Esquire
Comr of Pensions
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Washington
March 17 1841
Sir I beg leave to withdraw the claim of increase in the case of Mrs Bethia Healey & I would also respectfully request that you will return to me the original certificate from the Secretary of the State of Massachusetts, or,
if this be not compatible with the rules of the Department, a certified copy thereof
Very Respectfully
Your obt Svnt
W B Maclay

To
J L Edwards Esq
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Hon Perry Smith
Senate US
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State of Connecticut, Fairfield County ss Newtown
Be it known, that on the eighteenth day of February 1843 personally appeared before the Subscriber a Notary Public within and for the State of Connecticut. Elisha Hawley of Monroe in said County, aged seventy four years, and being duly sworn according to law, made oath as follows, to wit.
I was present and saw Bethiah Blackman married to George Healy at her father's house in said Monroe, then called the parish of New Stratford, They were married by the Revd Elish Rexford, then the officiating Clergyman in that parish. They were married to the best of my knowledge and belief, in the Autumn of the year seventeen hundred and eighty four. The Rev Mr Rexford who married them has been dead about thirty five years. I am and have been for several years past a member of
the Church in said Monroe, and have known
enquries made for the Church Records of said
parish; but to the best of my knowledge and
belief, the members of said Church have not, nor has any of them, ever been able to since the death of said Mr Rexford.
   Elisha Hawley
Sworn & subscribed this eighteenth day of February 1843 Before me
Samuel C. Blackman
Notary Public

I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with
Elisha Hawley who subscribed & made oath
to the foregoing deposition & that I know him to be a Credible Witness & that his testimony is to be believed.
Samuel C. Blackman
Notary Public
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Bethia Healys
Petition for Pension.
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To the Hon. Senate and house of Representatives in Congress now assembled, at Washington in the District of Columbia.
The petition of Bethiah Healey of the City, County and State of New York humbly sheweth, that the petitioner is the widow of George Healy late of Wallingford in the State of Connecticut deceased. That said George Healey served several times, in the war of the Revolution as a fifer and as a Private.
That his native place was in Attleborough in the State of Massachusetts where he made it his home, untill about eighteen years of age, when he moved to New Stratford, then a Parish, in the Town of Stratford, State of Connecticut. That when his home was at
Attleborough, in the year 1776, he enlisted and served as Fifer, at, and in the neighbourhood of New York, a term of seven months, as may appear by the testimony
of Welcome Healey, That in the year 1778, he served as Fifer three months and twenty five days; as appears by the rolls in the office of Commissioner of Pensions. That in the year 1779 he moved to said New Stratford in Connecticut. That in the year 1780 or 1781, he enlisted and served as a private, for the term of six months at or in the neighbourhood of
Peekskill in the State of New York, (as may appear by the testimony of Abel Deforest & Nathan Fairchild), that she was married to said George Healey in the Autumn of 1784 and lived with him in Connecticut untill his death which occurred on the 23 day of
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March 1814. That soon after, in the course of the year 1814, she, with their children, which he left with her, moved to said New York where she has resided ever since. That since the death of said George Healey she has ever remained and still remains his widow. That at his decease she was left poor and almost penniless.
That she believes herself to be entitled to a five years pension by virtue of the law of Congress granting pensions for five years to certain widows of officers and soldiers of the Revolution. That she made application to the Commissioner of pensions in hopes of obtaining her rights, but the Commissioner of Pensions has refused it on account of some technical objections. Wherefore, your Petitioner prays this Honourable body to take
her case into consideration and in proof of the facts herein stated to grant her such pension, as in their wisdom they may consider her entitled to or in some other way grant relief as your Petitioner, in duty bound, will ever pray.
Dated February 6th 1844
   Bethiah Healey
by her Attorney
Samuel C. Blackman
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Wm Deforrest
Affidavit
Dec 11 - 43

Hon. Sam'l Simons
H. Reps
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State of Connecticut Fairfield County ss. Faifield on the 23d day of November 1843 personally appeared before the subscriber a Notary Public within & for the State of Connecticut William Deforest a resident of said Fairfield and having been duly sworn and
cautioned according to law made oath that
he is in the seventy first year of his age that he is well acquainted with Abel Deforest formerly of New Stratford Parish in the Town of Stratford now of Binghampton in the State of New York and that he is a man of strong mind and memory and would not in the Deponents opinion state any thing for a fact which he did not know to be so, that he
was also acquainted with Nathan Fairchild
late of Huntington in the State of Connecticut
deceased, & that he was by reputation a man of truth & veracity. That he the Deponent
well recollects, when he was a boy of hearing the said Abel Deforest, Mills Deforest, & George Healy now deceased, converse together of the events that occurred in the army when they were together
in the service, he recollects hearing them
converse frequently together, they & others.
The Deponents father at that time kept a
public house & they & others were frequently
the other there.
    William Deforest

State of Connecticut}
Fairfield County ⎬ Ss.   I Samuel C. Blackman a Notary Public in & for the State of Connecticut do hereby certify that on the 23
day of November AD 1843 personally appeared before me William Deforest to me
known & being by me duly sworn & cautioned according to law, made oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true to the best of his knowledge & belief.
Samuel C. Blackman
Notary Public
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston;
January 20, 1846
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of George Healy, is borne upon a
Muster Roll of Capt Moses Wilmarth's Company in Col John Daggett reg't. as a Fifer
from January 1. 1778.  2 months & 25 days
Upon a Pay Roll of Capt Alexander Foster's
Company, in Col Thomas Carpenter's Reg't for service at Rhode Island, as a fifer, from July 27
1778, 17 days-- upon a Pay Roll of Capt John
Shaw's Company, in Col Jacob Gerrish's Reg't stationed at Cambridge, as a private from September 7 to December 14. 1778. 3 months & 7 days Said Roll is dated "Raynham, January 22, 1779.
Not upon Rolls of Capt Caleb Richardson, no
rolls of said Capt Richardson for the year 1776-
The above, is all the evidence of service if any one of the name shown by the Military Records in this office.
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And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John Gorham Palfrey
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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Abel Deforrest
Affidavit
Dec 12  43


Hon. Sam'l Simons
H. Reps
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State of New York }
Broome County Ss.}

Abel De Forrest of Chenango in said County of Broome, being duly sworn deposeth
and saith that he is now in the Eighty third year of his age- that he was a soldier in the army of the Revolution- that he enlisted in the Town of Stratford, Fairfield County in the State of Connecticut some time in the month of May A.D. 1781-That he joined the army at Peekskill about the last of June or the first of July in the same year. And this deponent further saith that he was well acquainted with George Healey of the Town of Stratford aforesaid - that he knew him from the time that he became of the age of Eighteen years or thereabouts. That he came from the Town of Attleborough in the State of Massachusetts, when he came to said Town of Stratford
that said George Healey had considerable musical talents and this deponents recollects to have heard him say that he had served one
campaign as a fifer before he came to Stratford
And this deponent further saith that said George Healey enlisted as a private in
the army of the revolution at the same time and at the same place and on the day that this deponent enlisted - that they left home at the same time, marched together to Peekskill
aforesaid and joined the army at that place
together. And this deponent further saith that after joining the army as above mentioned
he (this deponent), and the said George Healey were in the same company lodged in the same tent and messed together until they were regularly discharged at the expiration of the Term for which they enlisted which was for the Term of six months and this deponent further saith, that at the expiration of their term of service he this deponent and the
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said George Healey were regularly discharged on the same day and returned home together-And this deponent further saith that Heman Swift of Cornwall Connecticut was the colonel of the Regiment in which he and the said George Healey served- That Charles McDonald (or Mc Daniel) was the orderly Sergeant of the company to which this
deponent and the said George Healey belonged and he further saith that he recollects the names of Billings - Converse and Srong as captains of Companies in said Regiment - that his impression is that Capt. Billings was the captain of the company
to which this deponent and said George Healey belonged but of this he is not certain -
Dated Binghamton Broome County N. York this 22d day of November A.D. 1843
   Abel De Forest,
 
State of New York ⎬
Broome County Ss. }
I, Hamilton Collins a Justice of the Peace of said County of Broome do hereby certify that 
on the 22d day of November A.D. 1843 personally appeared before me Abel De Forrest to me known, and on being by me duly sworn according to law, deposed and
said that the affidavit by him above subscribed was true according to the best of his knowledge and beliefs-
   H. Collier J. Peace.-

State of New York}
Broome County, ss.}
I, John C. Moore, Clerk of said County Do hereby Certify, that Hamilton Collier, Esq. whose name appears to the above certificate of taking an affidavit, was at the time of swearing or taking said affidavit a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County duly elected and sworn, and authorized to act as such
Justice, and that I am well acquainted with his handwriting and believe his signature to said certificate above to be genuine.
Given under my hand and seal of office
at Binghamton, in said County this 22d day
of November A.D. 1843.
John C. Moore Clerk
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State of New York}  Ss. 
City & County of New York} 
Be it known that before me, a Commissioner of Deeds in and for the City and County aforesaid, personally appeared Bethia Healy, a resident of the City of New York, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain a pension certificate to which she is entitled:
That she is the widow of George Healy, a
soldier of the revolution, who to the best of her knowledge & belief, served in a Regiment
commanded by Colonel Heman Swift of the
State of Connecticut: that a petition for her relief was presented to Congress during the past winter by Mr Simons, a member from Connecticut; and that an act was passed granting her a pension on the 17th June, 1844. She further saith that she is the identical person mentioned in said act
   Bethia Healy
Sworn to and subcribed

STATE OF NEW-YORK,}
CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW-YORK,} Ss.
I, James Conner, CLERK of the City and County of New-York, DO HEREBY CERTIFY,
That Moses B. Maclay, whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument, and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Commissioner of Deeds for said City and County, dwelling in the said City, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorized to take the same. And further, that
I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such Commissioner, and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said County,
the 12th day of July 1844.
James Connery   Clerk
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State of New York }  Ss.
City & County of New York ⎬
Be it known that before me, a Commissioner of Deeds in and for the City and County aforesaid, personally appeared Bethia Healy, a resident of the City of New York, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain a pension certificate to which she is entitled:
That she is the widow of George Healy, a
soldier of the revolution, who, to the best of her knowledge & belief, served in a Regiment
commanded by Colonel Heman Swift of the
State of Connecticut:  that a petition for her relief was presented to Congress during the past winter by Mr Simons, a member from Connecticut; and that an act was passed granting her a pension on the 17th June, 1844. She further saith that she is the identical person mentioned in said act.
   Bethia Healy
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 11th day of July, 1844
Moses B. Maclay
Commissioner of Deeds

I hereby authorize the Commissioner of
Pensions to transmit the pension certificate to be issued in my name to
George F. Thomson, Custom House,
New York City. July 12th 1844
   Bethiah Healy
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6433
Bethia Healy,
widow of
George Healy
N. York
Act 7 July, 1838

Vol 24/2/17.  fifer 2.25th
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State Massachusetts}
Bristol County} Ss.
Be it Known that before me Noah Claflin
Justice of the Peace within and for said County this 27th day of July 1839 personally appeared Obed Robinson of the age of 77 years and having been duly engaged according to law deposeth and Saith that he was in the service in the war of the Revolution with George Healey of Attleborough three months in the year 1777 or 1778 he cannot
be certain which in Warwick State of Rhode Island the Regiment commanded by Col John Daggett Capt Moses Wilmarth Company Ebenezer Tyler Lieutenant, the said Healey served the whole of said Term of three months commencing the first of Jany and
ended the first of April he served as a musician-
   Obed Robinson
Sworn and subscribed by the the said Obed
Robinson before me the day and year last above written and I further certify that I am well acquainted with the said deponent and that he is a credible witness-
Noah Claflin Justice of Peace
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I Samuel Tingley of Attleborough in the County of Bristol of lawful age and engaged according to law, do testify & say that I am a revolutionary pensioner, that I was well acquainted with George Healy having lived in the immediate neighbourhood with him for a number of years that I knew that said Healy went into the service in the revolutionary
war in the year one thousand seven hundred
seventy six four months at New York the
officers under whom he served, I do not recollect he went as a fifer, the fact of said George Healys serving in the war I am entirely sure the circumstances connected with it & the name of the officers have entirely gone from me. & further the deponent saith not
   Samuel Tingley
Attleborough July 26th 1839

Bristol ss July 26 1839. Then the above named
Sam'l Tingley personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed
Before me  Lemuel May Jus of the Peace

I hereby certify that the above named Samuel Tingley is a credible witness on whose testimony full confidence is to be placed
Lem'l May  Jus of the  Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston September 6. 1839
---
I, hereby Certify, That at the dates of this attestation Noah Claflin and Lemuel
May were Justices of the Peace for the
County of Bristol, in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned;
and that to their acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given
in and out of Court.

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John P. Bigelow
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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Bethia Healy's
Petition
.....................................................
For Pension as
widow of Geo. Healy
..................................................
Feb 19. 1844, ref to
Comee on Rev. Pensions.
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Feb. 28 /44 - (Bill No. 168 )
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Simons 26
Rev. Pen
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MADISONIAN OFFICE:
I HEREBY CERTIFY, that the accompanying pages numbered from one to 17, inclusive are truly copied from the originals in the Office of the Commissioner of Pensions.
J. L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.

BE IT REMEMBERED, That James L. Edwards, who has signed the foregoing certificate, is Commissioner of Pensions; and that to his attestations full faith and credit are and ought to be given.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto
subscribed my name, and caused the seal of the Department to be affixed, on this 12th
day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-four
J. M. Porter
Secretary of War.
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State of New York }
City & County of New York } Ss.
On the 29th day of November 1839 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Common pleas for the City & County of New York now sitting Bethiah Healy a resident of said city County and State of New York aged seventy three 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 law of Congress granting pensions to certain widows of soldiers of the revolution- That she was married to George Healy in the autumn of the year 1784 by the Rev'd Elisha Rexford then the settled and officiating minister of the Congregational Church in the parish of New Stratford, then in the Township of Stratford Fairfield County Connecticut  where she then resided with her father's family at his house. From that there she lived with her said husband several years in said New Stratford then in Huntington in said County afterwards in Derby in New Haven County about four years; then in Wallingford in New Haven County, where her
said husband George Healy deceased in
the 23d day of March 1814. That she has 
remained his widow ever since and still remains his widow. That the following year
she with her children that remained with
her moved into the city of New York where
she has resided ever since. That she always
understood from her said husband and
others and she verily believes that he came to
said New Stratford from Attleboro in the State of Massachusetts some four or five years previous to said marriage. That she has
frequently heard him during his life time speak
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of his being out in the service of the United States in the war of the revolution. She remembers particularly of hearing him say that the first time he went into the service he enlisted and served as fifer. That his father objected to his going because he was so young and that the Captain told his father that he would take him under his particular care and protection if he would consent to let him go upon which his father consented and he enlisted and went into the service. That she also remembers hearing him speak of the soldiers having the dysentery in the summer of that campaign. She also remembers having heard him speak of his going into the service after she moved to said New Stratford. That
he and abel Deforest enlisted and went
together into the service and served in the same company
   Bethiah Healy

Sworn and subscribed in open Court the day and year first above written
Attest Joseph Hoxie  Clerk

I Joseph Hoxie Clerk of the Court of
Common pleas in and for the City and
County of New York do hereby certify that the
foregoing are the original proceedings of this Court in the matter of the application of Bethiah Healy for pension.

Witness my hand and the seal of said Court the 29th day of November 1839
Joseph Hoxie   Clerk
℗
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3.
State of Connecticut} Ss.  Probate District of
County of Fairfield}   New Town

On the XX day of December 1839 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate for the District of Newtown now sitting Samuel C Blackman a resident of Newtown in said County of Fairfield aged seventy one years who being first duly sworn according to law testifies as follows, to wit
   I am the brother of Bethiah Healy of the City 
of New York widow of George Healy deceased
who has made her declaration before the Court of Common pleas in the City and County of New York in order to obtain the benefit of the law of Congress granting pensions to certain widows of soldiers of the revolution for five years. I well remember that I was present and saw my said sister Bethiah married to said George Healy at my father's house in the parish of New Stratford Township of Stratford Fairfield County in the autumn
of the year one thousand seven hundred and
Eighty four to the best of my recollection and
belief by the Revd Elisha Rexford then the
officiating Clergyman in the Congregational
County of that place. I should not remember the year in which she was married but from the circumstances of hearing my father at the time speak of her being in his opinion too young to be married and take the charge of a family and as she is only about two years older than myself and I remember it was in the fall, I am confident it was not later than the Autumn of the year seventeen hundred and Eighty four. The said Elisha Rexford has been dead I should think more than twenty
years; and to the best of my knowledge and
belief has left no record of that or the marriages generally which he performed there
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was a family record kept by my father in his bible of the births of all his children but not of their marriages. No Statute law of
Connecticut at that time required any record of marriages to be kept by any person
If further evidence of the marriage should
be required I have a sister now living in said
New Stratford who I presume would agree
with me as to the time and circumstances
of said Bethiah's marriage. What I recollect first regarding said George Healy is that one Daniel Reed and he were engaged in making combs in said New Stratford. I then and always understood they were from Attleborough in Massachusetts. That when I was a lad I should think in the winter of 1781 or 1782 said Reed was employed to instruct the young people of said Parish in Singing. Two evenings in a week were spent in singing
through the winter. Said George Healy and
my said sister both attended and first became acquainted to the best of my recollection and belief at those singing meetings. Said George Healy has been dead, I should think more than twenty years
  Samuel C Blackman
Sworn to and subscribed the 5th day of December 1829 in open court Attest Cyrenius H. Booth Clerk
And this Court further certifies that the said
Samuel C. Blackman who made oath to and
subscribed the foregoing affidavit, is well known to this Court is a credible person and his testimony entitled to credit-
Attest Cyrenius H Booth Clerk
I Cyrenius H Booth Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Newtown do hereby certify that the aforegoing affidavit was taken by this Court to be used on the application of Bethiah Healy for a pension
℗ In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and the seal of office this 5th day of December 5th AD 1839.
Cyrenius H Booth Clerk
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I Welcome Healy of Thomaston County of
Lincoln and State of Maine formerly of Attleborough in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts) aged seventy four years do testify and say
That in the year 1776 my brother George
Healey of Sd Attleborough, enlisted as a Fifer
in the service of the States in the seven months service in Capt Caleb Richardson's company, Stephen Richardson's Regiment. That he was stationed at New York and served there the seven months and left the service as Fife Major
My said brother was about fifteen years
of age where he enlisted
   Welcome Healy

State of Maine}
Lincoln County Aug't 17. 1839

Personally appeared Welcome Healy and made solemn oath that the foregoing statement by him subscribed is true
Before me
D.S.Fales   Justice of peace

I hereby certify that the above named Welcome Healys character stands fair for truth and that his statement as above may be relied on
D. S. Fales Just of Peace

John Fairfield. Governor of the State
Maine
To all who shall see these presents greeting-
Know ye that David S. Fales of Thomaston
whose name is borne upon the paper hereon
to annexed was at the date of the within at
testation Justice of the Peace within and for
the County of Lincoln, duly nominated and

{SEAL}
John Fairfield
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appointed, commissioned and qualified
and that to his acts and attestations as such
full faith and credit are and ought to be
given in and out of Court.
This testimony whereof I have caused
the seal of the State to be hereunto affixed. Given under my hand at Augusta the fifth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine and
in the sixty fourth year of the Independence of the United States
By the Governor
A. R. Nichols   Secretary of State


State of Connecticut}
Fairfield County} ss. Monroe
Be it known that on this 15th day of August 1839 before the subscriber a Justice of the peace within and for said Fairfield County personally appeared Nathan Fairchild a resident of Huntington in said County aged seventy six years and having been duly sworn according to law testifies as follows, to wit.
   In the year 1781 in the month of August
I should think I enlisted and served on the American side in the war of the revolution at Peekskill and served until the 25th day of December of the same year when I was discharged - General Heath commanded. In the course of my service I well remember that I saw George Healey there and Abel Deforest who both went into the service together from these parts. I was in the first Brigade but said George Healey and Abel Deforest were in the
second Brigade, to the best of my recollection. The said George Healey was out
in the service at that time six months
or more to the best of my knowledge and
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belief as he enlisted some months before I did
I saw him there in the service but did not see him as often as I otherwise should have done because he belonged to a different company and regiment from those to which I belonged
   Nathan Fairchild

Samuel Wheeler Justice of peace
I hereby certify that Nathan Fairchild who has subscribed and made oath to the foregoing deposition is a person of credit and his testimony entitled to belief
Samuel Wheeler   Justice of Peace

State of Connecticut} SS.
Fairfield County}
I Thomas Robinson Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Fairfield in said State of Connecticut and keeper of the Seal thereof and of the commissions of the Justices of the peace of said Fairfield County hereby certify that Samuel Wheeler is now and since the 20 day of June last past has been a Justice
of the Peace within and for sd Fairfield County duly commissioned and acting as such. That his commission is dated the 29th day of May 1839 and will expire with the 19th day of June 1840- and that the signature annexed to the deposition on the other side hereof and also to the certificate of credibility under sd deposition purporting to be his signature are his genuine official signatures
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of said County
Court at Fairfield this 2d day of October 1839.
   Thomas Robinson   Clerk
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State of New York}
Broome County} Ss.

Abraham Deforest of Chenango in the
County of Broome and State of New York
being duly sworn deposeth and saith
that he is seventy eight years of age that he
was a soldier of the revolution and is now
a pensioner of the United States, he further
says that he was well acquainted with George Healey of the Parish of New Stratford in the town of Stratford Connecticut that he this Deponent and the said George Healey enlisted together in the month of May 1781, and both joined the American Army then lying in the neighbourhood of Peekskill NY in the latter part of June 1781. Gen'l Washington was in command at that time
hington was in command at that time during the summer Genl Washington went South and the command devolved on Major General Heath - The deponent cannot at this time recollect the name of the Captain under whom he and the said Healey enlisted but knows that it was in Col. Herman Swifts Regiment and Genl Huntington's Brigade. The deponent and the said George Healy were discharged at the same time in the month of December, the latter part of the month at
place called the Connecticut Huts in the Highlands 1781 by Colonel Butler who then acted as commander and further the Deponent saith not
   Abel Deforest

Sworn and subscribed this 2d day of September 1839 before me by the above named Abel Deforest whom I certify to be
credible person
Geo. Park   Justice the peace

State of New York}
Broome County}
J. B. Marvin Clerk of said
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County do certify that George Park Esq before
whom the foregoing affidavit was taken
was on the the date thereof a Justice of the
Peace in & for this County and I am well acquainted with his hand writing and
believe the signature is genuine
Witness my hand & seal of office this 2d day of September 1839   ℗
B. Marvin  Clerk
Dear Sir-
It was with grat (sic) pleasure that I recd your letter the other day especially since it was in my power to answer your request. It was quite pleasing to me to here (sic) you speak in  flattering of me and my brother. I need not tell you that Capt Blackman's family always stood high with the Deforests - yours for
   Abel Deforest
Samuel C Blackman Esq
Newtown Fairfield Co
Connecticut

State of Massachusetts}
Bristol County     } Ss.
Be it known that before me Noah Clafin a Justice of the peace within and for said
County this 27th day of July 1839 personally
appeared Obed Robinson of the age of 77
years and having been duly engaged according to law deposeth and saith that he was in the service in the war of the revolution
with George Healey of Attleborough three
months in the year 1777 or 1778 he cannot
be certain which in Warwick State of Rhode
Island the Regiment commanded by Col John Daggett Capt. Moses Walmarth's company Ebenezer Tyler Lieutenant the said Healy served the whole of said term of three months commencing the first
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of Jan'y and ended the first of April he served as a militiaman
   Obed Robinson

Sworn and subscribed by the said Obed Robinson before me the day and year last above written. And I further certify that I am well acquainted with the said deponent and that he is a credable witness
   Noah Claflin Justice of Peace

I Samuel Tingley of Attleborough in the
County of Bristol of lawful age and engaged according to law do testify and say that I am a revolutionary pensioner that I was well acquainted with George Healy having lived in the immediate neighbourhood with him for a number of years that I know that said Healy went into the service in the revolutionary war in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six - four months at New York the officers under whom he served I do not recollect he went as a fifer the first of said George Healy's serving in the war I am entirely sure The circumstances connected with and the name of the officers have entirely gone from me & further the deponent saith not.
   Samuel Tingley
Attleborough July 26th 1839

Bristol Ss. July 26 1839. Then the above named Sam'l Tingley personally appeared and
made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed before me
Lemuel May Jus of the peace

I hereby certify that the above named
Saml Tingley is a credible witness in
whose testimony full confidence is to
be placed
Lemuel May Just of the peace
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Commonwealth Of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office Boston September 6 1839
I hereby certify that at the date of their
attestations Noah Claflin and Lemuel May
were justices of the peace for the County of Bristol in the said Commonwealth duly constituted and commissioned and that to their acts and attestations as such full faith
and credit are and ought to be given
in and out of Court.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Commonwealth the date above written
John P. Bigelow
Secretary of the Commonwealth

{SEAL}
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12.
State of Connecticut
Fairfield County SS
Fairfield

On the 23rd day of November 1843 personally appeared before the subscribed
a Notary Public within & for the State of
Connecticut William Deforest a resident of said Fairfield and having been duly sworn
and cautioned according to Law made Oath
that he is in the seventy first year of his age
that he is well acquainted with Abel Deforest
formerly of New Stratford Parish in the town of Stratford now of Binghampton in the State of New York and that he is a man of strong
mind and memory and would not in the Deponents opinion state any thing for a fact which he did not know to be so. That he was also acquainted with Nathan Fairchild late of Huntington in the State of Connecticut deceased & that he was by reputation a man of truth & veracity. That he the deponent well recollects when he was a boy of hearing the said Abel Deforest Mills Deforest & George Healy now deceased converse together of the events that occured in the Army when they were together in the service, he recollects hearing them on converse frequently together they & others. The deponents father at that time kept a public house & they & others were frequently together there
   William Deforest
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State of Connecticut}
Fairfield County} SSs1

I, Samuel C. Blackman a Notary Public in & for the State of Connecticut do hereby certify that on the 23rd day of November A.D. 1843 personally appeared before me William Deforest to me known & being by me duly sworn & cautioned according to law made oath that the foregoing Affidavit by him subscribed is true to the best of his knowledge & belief
Samuel C. Blackman
Notary Public  ℗

State of Connecticut}
Fairfield County} Ss
Newtown
Be it known that on the eighteenth day of February 1843 personally appeared before
the subscriber a Notary Public within and for
the State of Connecticut Elisha Hawley of
Monroe in said County, aged seventy four years, and being duly sworn according to law, made Oath as follows to wit: I was present and saw Bethiah Blackman married to George Healy at her Fathers house in said Monroe, then called the Parish of New Stratford. They were married by the Rev. Elisha Rexford then the officiating Clergyman in that Parish. They were
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married to the best of my knowledge and
belief in the Autumn of the year Seventeen
hundred and eighty four. The Rev Mr Rexford
who married them has been dead about
thirty five years. I am and have been for
several years past a member of the Church
in said Monroe and have known enquiries
made for the Church Records of said Parish
but to the best of my knowledge and belief
the members of said Church have not nor
has any of them ever been able to find them since the death of said Mr Rexford
   Elisha Hawley
Sworn and Subscribed this eighteenth day
of February 1843 before me

Samuel C Blackman
Notary Public ℗

I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Elisha Hawley who subscribed & made oath to the foregoing deposition & that I know him to be a creditable witness & that his testimony is to be believed
Samuel C. Blackman
Notary Public ℗
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15.

State of New York}
Broome County} Ss

Abel De Forrest of Chenango in said County of Broome being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is now in the Eighty third year of his age. That he was a soldier in the Army of the Revolution. That he enlisted in the Town of Stratford Fairfield County in the State of Connecticut some time in the month of May A.D. 1781. That he joined the army at Peekskill about the last of June or the first of July in
the same year. And this deponent further
Saith that he was well acquainted with 
George Healey of the town of Stratford aforesaid that he knew him from the time that
he became of the age of eighteen years or
thereabouts. That he came from the Town of
Attleboro in the State of Massachusetts when
he came to said Town of Stratford that 
said George Healey had considerable musical
talents and this deponents recollects
to have heard him say that he had served
One campaign as a fifer before he came to
Stratford. And this deponent further saith that said George Healey enlisted as a private in the Army of the Revolution at the same time and
at the same place and on the day that this
deponent enlisted. That they left home at
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the same time, marched together to Peekskill
aforesaid and joined the Army at that
place together. And this deponent further
saith that after joining the Army as above 
mentioned he (this deponent and the said 
George Healey were in the same company
lodged in the same tent and messed together
until they were regularly discharged at
the expiration of the term for which they
enlisted which was for the term of six
months, and this deponent further saith that
at the expiration of their term of service
he this deponent and the said George
Healey were regularly discharged on the same
day and returned home together. And this deponent further saith that Herman Swift of Cornwall Connecticut was the Colonel of the Regiment in which he and the said George Healey served That Charles McDonald or McDaniel was the orderly Sergeant of the company to which this deponent and the said George Healey belonged and he further saith that he recollects the names of Billings,  Converse, and Strong as Captains of Companies in said Regiment
that his impression is that Capt Billings
as the Captain of the company to which
this deponent and said George Healey belonged, but of this he is not certain.
   Abel De Forrest

Dated Binghamton, Broome County N. York this 22d day of November A.D. 1843
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State of New York}
Broome County} Ss.
I, Hamilton Collier a Justice of the Peace of said County of Broome do hereby certify that on the 22nd day of November A. D. 1843 personally appeared before me Abel De Forrest to me known and on being by me duly
Sworn according to law deposed and said that the affidavit by him above subscribed was true according to the best of his knowledge and belief.
   H. Collier J. Peace

State of New York}
Broome County ⎬ SS.

I,  John C. Moore Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Hamilton Collier Esq whose name appears to the above certificate of taking an affidavit was at the time of swearing or taking said affidavit a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly elected and sworn and authorized to act as such Justice, and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and believe his signature to said certificate above to be genuine. Given under my hand and seal of Office at Binghamton, in said County this 22d day of November A.D. 1843.
   John C. Moore Clerk
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Samuel C. Blackman Esq.
Newtown, Fairfield Co
Conn
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State of New York}
Broome County} Ss. 
 Abel De Forest of Chenango in the County of Broome and State of New York being duly
sworn deposeth and saith that he is seventy eight years of age that he was a soldier of the Revolution and is now a Pensioner of the United States, further says that he was well acquainted with George Healy of the Parish of New Stratford in the town of Stratford, Connecticut, that he this deponent and the said George Healy Enlisted together in the month of May 1781 and both joined the
American Army then lying in the neighborhood of Peekskill, N.Y. in the latter part of June 1781 Washington was in command at that time, during the summer Genl Washington went south and the command devolved on Major Gen'l Heath-
The deponent cannot at this time recollect the
name of the captain under whom he and the
said Healy enlisted, but knows that it was in
Col. Herman Swifts Regiment and in General Washington's Brigade-- The deponent and XXXX Healy were discharged at the same XXXXX month of December the latter part of
XXXXXX at a place called the Connecticut
XXXXXX Highlands 1781 by Colonel Butler who acted as commander- and further the deponent saith not
   Abel De Forest
Sworn & Subscribed this 2d day of September
1839 before me by the above named Abel De Forest whom I certify to be a credible person
Geo. Park Justice of the peace.

State of New York}
Broom County }
J. B. Marvin Clerk of said county do certify that George Park Esq before whom the foregoing Affidavit was taken was on the date thereof
a Justice of the peace in & for the County and I am well acquainted with his hand writing and believe the signature is genuine-
Witness my hand & seal of office this 2d day of September 1839
B. Marvin Clerk
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Dear Sir
It was with great pleasure that I rec'd your letter the other day especially since it was in my power to answer your request. It was quite pleasing to me to hear from you.  You speak of flattering of me and my brother. I need not tell you that I and Blackman formerly always were high with the DeForests
Your &c
Abel DeForest
.
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County ⎬ ss: Monroe
Be it known that on this 15th day of August
1839 before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace within & for said Fairfield County personally appeared Nathan Fairchild a resident of Huntington in said County aged seventy six years and having been duly sworn according to law testifies as follows, to wit,
In the year 1781 in the month of August I
should think I enlisted & served on the American side in the war of the revolution at Peekskill & served untill the 25th day of December of the same year when I was discharged - General Heath commanded. In the course of my service I well remember that I saw George Healey there & Abel Deforest, who both went into the service together from these parts. I was in the first Brigade, but said George Healey and Abel Deforest were in the second Brigade, to the best of my recollection. The said George Healey was out in the service at that time six months or more to the best of my knowledge and belief
as he enlisted some months before I did-- I saw him there in the services but did not see him so often as I otherwise should have done because he belonged to a different company and regiment from there to which I belonged. 
      Nathan Fairchild

Samuel Wheeler Justice of Peace
I hereby certify that Nathan Fairchild who has
subscribed & made oath to the foregoing deposition is a person of credit and his testimony entitled to belief.
Samuel Wheeler  Justice of Peace
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State of Connecticut}
Fairfield County ⎬ Ss.
I Thomas Robinson Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Fairfield in said State of Connecticut and keeper of the Seal thereof, and of the Commissions of the Justices of the Peace for said Fairfield County, hereby certify that Samuel Wheeler Esq
is now and since the 20th day of June last past has been a Justice of the Peace within and for sd Fairfield County duly commissioned and acting as such. That his commission is dated
the 29th day of May 1839 and will expire with the 19th day of June 1840 and that the signature annexed to the Deposition on the other side hereof and also to the certificate of credibility consider sd Deposition purporting to be his signatures are his genuine official signatures. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of County Court at Fairfield this 2d day of October 1839
Thomas Robinson Clerk
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I, Welcome Healy of Thomaston County of
Lincoln and State of Maine, formerly of 
Attlebrough in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged Seventy four years, do testify and say That in the year 1776. My Brother, George Healy of sd Attleborough enlisted as a Fifer in the service of the States in the seven months service, in Capt. Caleb Richardsons Company, Stephen Richardson's Regiment. That he was stationed at New York and served there the seven months, and left the service as fife Major-
my said Brother was about fifteen years of age when he enlisted
   Welcome Healy
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State of Maine
Lincoln County Aug. 17, 1839
Personally appeared Welcome Healy and made solemn Oath that the foregoing
statement by him subscribed is true.
Before me
D.S. Fales, Justice of Peace
Lincoln Ss. I Hereby certify that the above mentioned Welcome Healy character stands fair & for truth and that his statement as above may be relied on-
D.S.Fales, . Just of Peace
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JOHN FAIRFIELD.
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MAINE.
TO ALL WHO SHALL SEE THESE PRESENTS.
GREETING:
Know ye, That David S. Tales, of Thomaston,
whose name is borne upon the paper
hereunto annexed, was, at the date of the within attestation, Justice of the Peace within & for the County of Lincoln duly nominated and appointed, commissioned and qualified; and that to his Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court.
In testimony whereof, I have caused the Seal of the State to be hereunto affixed. Given under my hand at AUGUSTA, this fifth
day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, and in the sixty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America.
BY THE GOVERNOR.
A.R.Nichols  Secretary of State
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An Act granting a pension to Bethia Healy, widow of George Healy, deceased.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United State of America in Congress assembled, That the
Secretary of War be directed to place the name of Bethia Healy, of the city of New York, widow of George Healy, on the revolutionary pension-roll; and to pay her at the rate of
six months' service, rendered by her late husband in the revolutionary war as a soldier, under the act of July, eighteen hundred
and thirty-six,
Approved. June 17th 1844. A true copy from the Roll in this Office
Dept. of State}
July 5th 1844}
R. H. Cralle  Chief Clerk
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July 3d '44
Bethia Healy
Sp. Act
.............................................................................................
Hon. James L. Edwards
Commr of Pensions
Washington DC
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New York July 1st 1834
Sir
The Hon James Clinton M.C. from this State has given me your address as the proper person from who I could obtain information in regards to a pension. On the last day, I think
of the session of Cong just closed, the Senate passed the House Bill granting a pension (under the law of 1836) to Bertha Healy, Widow of the late Geo Healy.- My object in writing you is to know what forms must be gave this with to obtain the money & whether it is necessary for me as her agent to proved
to Washington in reference to it. Any
information you can give me, or any thing
that you can do to expedite this matter will be
grateful received by an old lady much in want, & receive the sincere acknowledgements of 
Respectfully
Your obt servt
Geo. F. Thomson

Hon James L Edwards
Comm of Pensions
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Geo. Healey  d. 1814
Bethiah     M  '84
from Attleboro Mass.
+  fifer Caleb Richardson. 8. R. Reg  &lt;
76.7.
81 6          X
77 or 78  2.25

Morris Milath - R5
      ( Obed Robinson wit.)

+Sam Tingely ser 4 mo
'+' Sept 78 Record Healy on X
Vol 3 P 264 Obed Robinso on -
Vol 2nd P117  Cap M Milmath
Geo.Healy fifer 2 mo 25 from
-
Vol 3. 264 Obed Robinson on -
Vernep 117 lap meath
Geebly fife me 25 from
1 Jan 78
+ Mory Milmath fifer
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Abel Deforest states that
himself & Healey both joined
the army in Jun 1780 in Strfd Ct
and was dischrg'd in Dec 1781
Rolls
Abel Deforest join'd 1780 Johnson's Co Col. P B Bradley's Regt Conn
Sd Healy fnd on Army roll of the Conn. Line
Nathan Fairchild Capt on Rgt Col P B Bradly
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J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Newtown Ct  December 5th 1839
L. Edwards Esq
Sir
Herewith is forwarded the Declaration
and Evidence in behalf of Mrs Bethiah Healy
for a pension for five years on account
of her husbands services- The reasons for
delay untill this time, are, she did not know
untill a little more than a year ago
that she was entitled to one; and since
that time it has required much time
to who are living witnesses and where
they live & then to procure the evidence.
It is requested that of any thing further 
should be wanted to make out the whole of
what she is entitled to, you will give
the information to me. So if you give
her a certificate for a pension, she request
that you would send it to me and  
will see that it be forwarded to her
immediately.
very respectfully your
Obt Servt
Saml C. Blackman
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New York July 12th 1844
Sir
I hereby transmit to you the papers necessary for the purpose of obtaining a pension certificate for Bethia Healy which will serve to her the payment of a pension in accordance
with a special act of Congress passed
during its late session.- The papers I present and all correct as I had the direct assistance of Mr Irving the Pension agent of this city.
As Mrs Healy has authorized me tor receive the certificate.
I should deem it an especial act of kindness on your part if it could be transmitted immediately that I might hand it over to her before I leave the city which I propose doing in a few days to be about several weeks, & I should exceedingly regret being the cause of a single days delay knowing her pressing wants
with many thanks for
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your kindness & attention in forwarding me the necessary information in reference tothe manner of proceedings - forms etc
I remain
Yours Respectfully
Geo. F. Thomson

Hon J.L. Edwards
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Washington City
Com of Pensions  ??????
May 20th 1844
Sir
Please  send me any information or remarks which you think may be useful in deciding the case of Fred'k Hopkins & Bethia Healy enclosed

Yours respectfully
CGAtherton

Hon. JLEdwards
Com'r Pensions
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House of Rep
Jany 26 1841,
Sir
Enclosed is evidence from the Secretary of States' Office in Massachusetts entitling the widow of George Healy- Mrs Bethiah Healy, to be increase of her resent pension. This venerable lady now resides in the City of New York. Your early attention this matter & a certificate of her legal dues will much oblige
Yours respectfully
M B  Maclay

To Cmr J Edwards
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July 10, 1844

Bethia Healy
Sp Act
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New York July 8, 1835
Sir
I addressed you a note a few days since in reference to a pension Bill in fav. of Bertha Healy. I have since called upon the Pension Agent in this city & he says that I had better request from you a certificate of the fact that Ruth Healy widow of the late Geo. Healy being entitled to a pension-the amt rec'd  have the same directed to myself or to Mrs. Healy 427 Houghton St . W.M.- If this meets with your views & you will comply with the above request you will much oblige.                       
Yours Respectfully
G.F.Thomson

Hon. James L Edwards
Comm'r of Pensions
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28th CONGRESS
1st Session.
Rep. No. 214.    HO. OF REPS.
BETHIA HEALY.
To accompany bill H. R. No. 168.
FEBRUARY 28, 1844.

Mr. SIMONS, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, made the following
REPORT:
The Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Bethia Healy, widow of George Healy, report:
That the marriage of the petitioner is proved by the testimony of Samuel C. Blackman, who was present and witnessed the rite performed by the Rev. Elisha Rexford, in the autumn of 1784, at her father's house. Mr. Elisha Hawley also testifies that he was present at the same time, (viz: fall of 1784), and witnessed the same marriage; and that he was for many years a member of the Rev. Mr. Rexford's church, in Stratford, where he was the pastor, and where all the parties resided; and that the records of marriages were never found after the death of Mr. Rexford, if he ever kept such; and that said George Healy married Bethia Blackman. Mr. Nathan Fairchild, aged 81, testifies, that in August, 1781, he enlisted and served in the revolutionary war four months at Peekskill, N. Y., and saw George Healy and
Abel Deforest there, who served together, and all three went from the same town; and that he was in the 1st, and Healy and Deforest in the 2d brigade, and believes Healy served six months, or more, and that Healy enlisted
before he did.
Abel Deforest, aged 84, testifies that he was a soldier of the Revolution, and is a pensioner; that he enlisted at Stratford, in Connecticut, in May, 1781, and at the same time and place George Healy enlisted, and that they
went together from Stratford to Peekskill,
N. Y., where they joined the army, served in the same company, lodged in the same tent, messed together until discharged at the termination of their enlistment, (which was for six months, and that they returned home together; that General Washington commanded a while, but in the summer went south, and was succeeded by Major General Heath; that they were in Colonel Heman Swift's regiment, and General Huntington's brigade, and that they were discharged by Col. Butler, then acting.
Samuel Tingly testifies that he is a revolutionary pensioner, was well acquainted with George Healy, and that he knew he went into the revolutionary service in 1776, and served four months at New York as a fifer.
Obed Robinson, aged 83 years, swears that he was in the revolutionary war with George Healy, in 1777 or 1778 -- not certain which year--- at Warwick, Rhode Island, under Captain Moses Wilmarthis, Ebenezer Tyler
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Blair & Rives, print.
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2.  Rep. No. 214.
lieutenant; and that Healy served three months, from January to April, as a musician.
William Deforest, aged 71 testifies that he was well acquainted with George Healy and Abel Deforest, and has at various times heard them relate incidents and adventures of theirs, and relate them to companies visiting his father's house, when he was a child, that took place when in the revolutionary service.
The testimony before the committee is ample to prove that the petitioner is the widow of said George Healy, and that each witness is credible and to be relied on; and the committee are of opinion that the service of six months is sustained by the testimony of two very credible witnesses, and report a bill conformably thereto.