Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4747, Alfred Hathaway, Vt.
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Vt.
Hathaway, Alfred
Rebecca
R. 4747
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State of New York
County of Niagara Ss

On this sixth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty personally appeared before the Court of Common plea, of the said County of Niagara Rebecca Hathaway a resident of the town of Porter in the County of Niagara aforesaid aged Seventy Seven years now past who being first duty sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pension made by the Act of Congress passed July 4, 1838. Entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."

That she is the widow of Alfred Hathaway who was a private soldier in the War of the Revolution.

She further declares that she was married to the said Alfred Hathaway on the twenty sixth day of January in the year seventeen hundred and eighty three and that her husband the aforesaid Alfred Hathaway died on the fourteenth day of January in the year eighteen hundred and twenty nine that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four. Viz. at the time above stated the [illegible] declares written on [illegible] before signing from to & subscribed on the day and year above written in open court before me.

W. Hunt, First Judge
Rebecca Hathaway
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State of Vermont Ss

I Susan Green of St Albans in the County of Franklin and State of Vermont aged Sixty Six years in February last do depose and testify and say that I am the sister of Rebecca Hathaway now a resident of the town of Porter in the County of Niagara and State of New York formerly of Rutland in the County of Rutland in the State of Vermont. That her maiden name was Rebecca Alfords. That she was united in marriage to Alfred Hathaway of Clarenden in said County of Rutland in the month of January in the year seventeen hundred and eighty three (as near as this deponent can now recollect). (The particular day of the month she does not recollect.) by Elihu Smith esquire an acting Justice of the peace in and for said county of Rutland. That the marriage took place at my father's house in Rutland aforesaid. I was present at the marriage and have a distinct recollection of the fact and where it took place, and about the time when, but cannot give the precise day from the great length of time elapsed since. And the said Alfred and Rebecca lived together as man and wife or husband and wife in the said State of Vermont for a number of years and until about the year Eighteen hundred and twenty two, when about that time they removed from said State to the town of Porter in the County of Niagara and State of New York where they continued to live together as husband and wife until said Alfred died which was about eleven years since.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 17th day of March AD 1840.
Susan Green

William Bridges
Judge of Probate
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I further certify that I am acquainted with the said Susan Green the foregoing named deponent and know her to sustain a good character for credibility, truth, and veracity, when statement is entitled & implicit belief.

William Bridges Judge

Georgia District of J Romeo H Hoyt, Register of the court of probate in and for the District and certify that Wm Bridges who has affixed his name to the above & foregoing is judge of the court of probate in & for the district of Georgia and that the signatures purporting to be [illegible] and genuine.

In testimony [illegible] I have hereunto set my hand affixed the seal of the probate court at St. Albans in so district this 17th day of March AD 1840.

Romeo H Hoyt
Register of Probate
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M.C.S.

Rev. & 1812 Section

May 5, 1930

Mr. John P. Weston
1026 American Bank Building
Portland, Oregon

Dear Sir:

I advise you that in the papers of the Revolutionary War pension claims, R. 4747, it was alleged that Alfred Hathaway or Hatheway, while living in Pennington, Vermont, aged about nineteen years, enlisted in July or August, 1775, and served six months as a private in Captain Wait Hopkins' Company in Colonel Seth Warner's Vermont Regiment; that he enlisted August 15, 1777, and served until late in October, 1777, as a private in Captain Samuel Robinson's Company, Colonels Moses Robinson's and Nathaniel Brush's Vermont Regiment and was in the battles of Pennington; that after the surrender of Burgoyne he was employed in the Commissary Department for several months.

A report from the office of the Secretary of State of Vermont, filed in the claim, gives the following service of Aldred Hathaway: from March 2 until May 2, 1778, as a private in Captain Isaac Clark's Company; in 1780 six days as a private in Captain Ichabod Robinson's Company of Militia in Clarendon, Vermont; from August 4 until 11, 1780, as a private in Captain John Spafford's Company in Colonel Ebenezer Allen's Regiment; from October 1, 1778, until November 24, 1778, as private in Captain Joseph Brigg's Company; in 1781 thirteen days as private in Captain Ichabod Robinson's Company of Militia in Clarendon, Vermont.

[Handwritten note in the margin to the left of the above paragraph:
When writing this next time, place 1778 service before that of 1780.]

It was stated that Alfred Hathaway or Hatheway lived in St. Albans, Franklin County, Vermont.

He died January 14, 1829.

While a resident of Clarendon, Vermont, he married January 26, 1783, in Rutland, Vermont, Rebecca Alford.
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On February 6, 1840, his widow, Rebecca, a resident of Porter New York, aged seventy-seven years, applied for pension on account of his service in the Revolution. Her claim was not allowed as she failed to prove, in accordance with the requirement of the pension law, that the soldier had rendered at least six months military service.

Alfred and Rebecca Hathaway or Hatheway had a large family but the names of the children were not given. The first child was born in January, 1784, and the second child was born in March, 1786.

The Revolutionary War records of this bureau fail to afford any information in regard to a Simeon Hathaway or Hatheway.

Your letter has been forwarded to the proper division of this bureau for reply in regard to the Civil War service of William Andrews Weston and Sidney Owen Weston.

Very truly yours,

Earl D. Church
Commissioner
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Left page:

Oct. 25/97 John P. Weston
Rochester, NY,
See Ref. [illegible] 37520
1930 May 5, hist. to. Mr. John P. Weston, N.C.S.

1838 - N.Y.

Right page: 

Crossed out at the top: 
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.

Stamped text:
REJECTED

4747
P.O. Rebecca Hathaway
Service: wid. Alfred

Enlisted: ____, 18  .
Discharged: ___, 18  .

Application filed: ___, 18  .
1852 given fol. reason for suspension
"for further proof"

Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: ____

Attorney: ___
P.O. _____
___ Recognized.  ____Contrac
___ Cert. of Dis.   Searched for _____, 18
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6964

Rebecca Hathaway
N.Y.

CA to Hon. W. Hunt

July 24, 1844

Act of July 7, 1838
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Rebecca Hathaway
of Alfred
New York

Suspended

See let. 23 July 1840
(A.H. Moss, May 20 49)

4747

Act of July 1838
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A.H. Moss,
May 2d 49
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Pension Office
May 21st 1849

Sir,

In reply to your letter of the 20 Sept last in the case of Rebecca Hathaway widow of Alfred Hathaway I have to state that there is no pension law providing for the widows of those revolutionary soldiers who did not serve six months. Testimony in her case relative to her husband's service in 1776 in Capt. Wait Hopkins Company of Col. Seth [illegible] reg't has been exhibited. 

If any record evidence of [illegible, and crossed out] the alleged service can be obtained a pension will probably be allowed.

A.H. Moss Esq.
Lockport, NY
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Hon. W. Hunt
July 24, '44

[text written on the back of this page is visible in the scan]
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Pen Off
July 24 44

Sir

I have the honor to inform you that the paper reviewing the claim of Rebecca Hathaway have been examined and filed. 

The evidence is deemed satisfactory to establish the date of the marriage before Jany 94--but the only services duly made out amount in the agregate to 4 mos 28 d & only which is not sufficient to entitle her to a pension—

Hon. W. Hunt
Lockport N.Y.
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A.J. Mof
23. July 1840
{signature}
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Handrwitten Letter

Pen. Office,              275
July 23. 1840

Sir,
The papers in the case of Mrs. Rebecca Hathaway widow of Alfred Hathaway, dec'd have been examined and filed with suspended cases.  She should make a declaration in which each tour of actual service should be specific, and the (official character and signature of Ju***sentence is crossed out) Clerk of the court before which the declaration may be made should certify to the proceedings in the case under his seal of office.  The proof of the period of the marriage is not sufficient.  If there be a family record of the marriage or of the births of the children, it should be exhibited.  If there be none the claimant should state the fact under oath

A. H. Moss Esqr.
Lockport,
N. Y.

Note at bottom:   O. C   6964 act '38
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Lockport Sept. 2. 1848

Hon J S Edwards
Com'r of Pensions

Sir

I understand an act was passed on the 29 July 1848 granting pensions to all Widows of all Revolutionary Soldiers & who were married prior to 1800.  I made application once for Rebecca Hathaway & failed for the reason that I could not produce Satisfactory proof of her husbands Service of over about 4 months & 28 days Service.  If I understand the present law--widows whose husbands served for less periods than Six months can draw—  Is this So?  And would Mrs Hathaway on proof of about five months Services of her husband & of her marriage be entitled to a pension?  If so, please send me the forms prescribed for applications in such cases. 
 I am Very Respectfully Yours 
A H Moss
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Afft of Abel Davis
proof of Service
6 mos & more
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I Abel Davis of Swanton in the County of Franklin & State of Vermont testify & say that in the latter part of April or fore part of May AD 1775 I enlisted as Soldier in the American service under Capt. Seth Warner afterwards Colo. Seth Warner.  We immediately went to Ticonderoga & Crown Point on Lake Champlain—  early in May we were joined by Cap. Wait Hopkin's Company in which was one Alfred Hatheway a Soldier—
We remained at Crown Point and in the vicinity until Sept. when the regiment moved on to St Johns in Canada—  We remained in Canada at different places to wit Laprarie Lonqueil—Chambly & (illegibile) until late in the fall.  that is the latter part of November or fore part of December   Hatheway remained with us—  The regiment then returned into the States (tho with some difficulty from ice in Lake Champlain) when we were discharged—  Shortly after this I reinlisted & returned to Canada—   I have no recollection of seeing Hatheway in service after our return from Canada in Nov. or Dec.   A few years since Alfred Hathaway resided in St Albans in this County—  I frequently saw him and often recounted over our adventures while in the service & in Canada—

Swanton  Sept. 14. 1839    Abel Davis
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State of Vermont}
Franklin County ss}  Swanton Sept. 14th 1839

There personally appeared Abel Davis the signer of the foregoing deposition and made solemn oath that the same contained the truth & nothing but the truth.
Before me Jas. Fisk Jus Peace

I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with Abel Davis for a number of years (last & past?) that he has & does sustain a fair character for creditability truth & veracity—
Jas. Fisk    Jus Peace
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State of Vermont}
Georgia District}

I William Bridges Judge of the Court of Probate in & for the District afsd do hereby certify that James Fisk Csgr who has affixed his name to the deposition hereunto annexed is now and was at the time of taking the same a Magistrate duly qualified to act as such and that the signature purporting to be his is his genuine signature

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my Seal of office and subscribed my name at St Albans in said district this 11th day of September AD 1839

William Bridges  Judge of Probate

Stamp with round seal by signature reads:
PROBATE COURT
GEORGIA DISTRICT
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Afft. of Erastus Hathaway
of Service of A. Hathaway
as a Soldier
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I Erastus Hatheway of Swanton in the county of Franklin and state of Vermont aged seventy years do depose testify & say that in the year 1775 I was a resident of Bennington in the county of Bennington & state aforesaid  that in the summer of the year afsd should say in July or August, Alfred Hatheway a brother of mine there living with me at our fathers house in Bennington afsd  enlisted into Captain Wait Hopkins company and Col Seth Warner Regt for six months    that soon after he was enrolled he marched with the Regt afsd into Canada where he continued until his time was out.  I further say that in the month of August 1777 said Hatheway volunteered and served in Capt Samuel Robinsons company in Col Moses Robinsons & Nathaniel Brush's Regiment and served from about the 15th of August aforesaid to the last of October of the same year   that is he remained in the company of Capt. Robinson till after the surrender of General Burgoyne army and after the surrender afsd the said Alfred was employed in the commissary department for several months

Erastus Hatheway

Sworn to & subscribed this
12th day of September 1831
before me   W. Bridges

Judge of Probate

I further certify that I have been personally acquainted with the above named deponent for more than twenty years & know him to be a man in whose statement implicit confidence may be reposed
William Bridges   Judge
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State of Vermont}
Georgia District ss}

I Romeo H Hoyt Register of the Probate court for the District of Georgia do hereby certify that Wm Bridges who has affixed his name to the within is Judge of the Probate court for the district afsd and the two signatures purporting to be his are genuine

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at St Albans in said district this 17th day of September 1839

R H Hoyt      Register
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Handwritten letter

State of Vermont.
Secretary's Office,
Montpelier, 20th Sept. 1839.

I, Chauncey L. Knapp, Secretary of Said State, do hereby certify that there is on file in this office a paper purporting to be "A Pay Roll of Capt. Isaac Clark's Company of Militia, raised by order of Major General De La Fayette for the defence(sp) of the frontiers on and about Lake Champlain, to receive additional pay from the State of Vermont."  I further certify that the name of Alfred Hathaway, a private, appears upon Said pay roll, with an allowance for Sixty days Service annexed.

I further certify that there is on file in this office another paper purporting to be "a Pay Roll of Capt. John Spafford's Company in Col. Ebenezer Allen's Regiment of Militia in the Service of the State of Vermont in the month of August, 1780, from the 4th to the 18th both days included— at Pittsford."  I further certify that the name of Alfred Hathaway, a private, appears upon said pay roll, with an allowance of eight days service annexed.

I further certify that the said pay rolls appear to have been duly examined by a committee appointed by the
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Handwritten document


Legislature, approved, and duly paid from the Treasury of this State.

I further certify that many of the revolutionary pay rolls originally filed in the treasurer's office are now mutilated and illegible.

Given under my hand and Seal of office at Montpelier, this 20th day of September A. D. 1839.

Chauncey L. Knapp,
Secretary of State.
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Handwritten notes

A. L. Brown  Certif(missing) of no Record of Marriage





At bottom of page and upside down; also partially missing

12m
Bridges Esq
Albans
Vt.
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Mostly illegible stamp, upper left corner

12 m
William Bridges Esq
St. Albans
Vt.

Poorly legible at bottom of page:
A. L. Brown Certif(illegible)
of no Record of Marriage
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I Ambrose L Brown Town Clerk of Rutland in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont, being duly sworn, depose and say that I have carefully examined the records in my office, and that I cannot find any record of the marriage of Alfred Hathaway and Rebecca Alford therein—

A. L. Brown

Sworn to before me this 26th day of November A. D. 1839
F. W. Hopkins, Just. Peace

___________________________________________________

STATE OF VERMONT,                             }
RUTLAND COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, ss.}

I, Frederick W. Hopkins, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland, do certify that Frederick W. Hopkins— was at the date certificate to which this is annexed a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned:  that his commission is dated on the thirtieth day of October A. D. 1838, and will expire on the thirtieth day of November A. D. 1839; and I verily believe his signature to the same is genuine.

In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Rutland in said county this Twenty Sixth day of November A. D. 1839.

F. W. Hopkins
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Rutland 26 Nov. 1839

Dear Sir

After a diligent search of the records, I am obliged to make the accompanying affidavit in relation to your case—  There being no Index to the record of marriages in the old books, the records have to be hunted out by examining every page—

Yours & c.

A L Brown

Wm. Bridges Esqr.—
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Lockport April 22. 1840

Hon Com of Pensions

Sir

Enclosed I send you the papers in the application of Widow Rebecca Hathaway for a Pension under the law of 1838.  the papers consist of
2 affts of service of her husband Alfred Hathaway as a Soldier in the War of the Revolution
1 Ser of State of Vermont of Pay rolls on file & Hathaways name on
1 afft of Marriage
1 Certificate of no Record of Marriage
1 afft of Residence Identity & death of Alfred Hathaway
1 Widows declaration in open Court

these papers have veen prepared with much trouble and considerable expense and I hope will on examination will prove Satisfactory—  I have been a long time acquainted with the Hathaway family and if Alfred Hathaway deceased performed Services Sufficient to entitle him or his widow to the benefits of the Law her case presents strong claims upon the bounty of the Government.  as she is wholly destitute of means for her support entirely dependant upon her children who are all in Low Circumstances as to property & of course illy able to Support her—  I hope to hear as favorable a report in her case as is consistent and as soon as Your earliest Convenience will allow.—  if any additional papers are wanted - I will furnish them if I can.  the Records of the War depart(sp) may furnish Some facts.  When you have investigated, please address your answer to me at this place

Yours
A H. Moss
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State of New York
County of Niagara ss.

Elijah Hathaway of Lockport in said County being duly Sworn deposes and Says that he is the Son of Alfred Hathaway late, and Rebecca Hathaway his widow now of Porter in said County,  that deponent is now, fifty four years of age, that at the time of his earliest recollection the Said Alfred and Rebecca resided in the State of Vermont and lived together as man and wife and continued so to do until in the year Eighteen hundred and twenty two when they removed to the town of Porter in the County of Niagara and State of New York where they Continued to reside near the Village of Youngstown in the town of Porter aforesaid as husband and wife until the Fourteenth day of January in the year Eighteen hundred and twenty nine at which time the said Alfred Hathaway died,  deponent attended his funeral, Rebecca his wife Survived him and Continues His widow, and now resides in the Said town of Porter aforesaid

Elijah Hathaway

Subscribed & Sworn to 
before me this 20th day
of April A D 1840

E Lafford Jr
Com. of Deeds

I hereby Certify that I have been acquainted with Elijah Hathaway the above deponent for Several years past, and that his character for truth and veracity is good and his Statement intitled(sp) to belief

E Lafford Jr
Com. of Deeds
Niagara Co
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State of New York
County of Niagara ss.

Elijah Hathaway of Lockport in Said County being duly Sworn deposes and Says that he is the Son of Alfred Hathaway late, and Rebecca Hathaway his widow now of Porter in said County,  that deponent is now, fifty four years of age, that at the time of his earliest recollection the Said Alfred and Rebecca resided in the State of Vermont and lived together as Man an(d) wife and continued So to do until in the year Eighteen hundred and twenty two when they removed to the town of Porter in the County of Niagara and State of New York where they Continued to reside near the Village of Youngstown in the town of Porter aforesaid as husband and wife until the Fourteenth day of January in the year Eighteen hundred and Twenty nine at which time the said Alfred Hathaway died, deponent attended his funeral, Rebecca his wife Survived him and Continues His widow, and now resides in the Said town of Porter aforesaid

Elijah Hathaway

Subscribed & Sworn to
before me this 20th day
of April A D 1840

E. Lafford Jr
Com. of Deeds

I herby Certify that I have been acquainted with Elijah Hathaway the above deponent for several years past, and that his character for truth and veracity is good and his Statement intitled(sp)

STATE OF NEW-YORK,            }
Niagara County Clerk's Office}  ss.

I Hiram A Cook— do hereby certify that Elias Lafford Jr— before whom the annexed instrument of writing purports to have been proved or acknowledged, was, at the time the certificate of such proof or acknowledgement bears date, a Commissioner of Deeds—— in and for said County, duly appointed and sworn, and authorized by the Laws of said State, to take the same, and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his signature subscribed to said CERTIFICATE, of proof or acknowledgement, is genuine.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my name and affixed the Seal of said County, at Lockport, this Twenty first— day of April———A. D. 1840

H. A. Cook  Clerk.

Note:  There is a seal by the last paragraph but is entirely illegible.
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House of Representatives

June 8, 1844

Sir,

I have received the enclosed papers from A. H. Moss Esq of Lockport N.Y. which he supposes to be sufficient to entitle Rebecca Hathaway, a widow, to a pension.  I hope they may be so, and would request as early a decision as practicable.

Mr. Moss is also desirous that the case Aaron Beach may be acted upon, and I hope it will ve convenient to act upon it before the close of the session.

Very respectfully

W. Hunt

Col. J. L. Edwards
Comm'r. Pen.
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State of Vermont

Secretary of State's Office
Montpelier   May 20th 1844

I hereby certify that there is on file in this Office a paper purporting to be "A Pay Roll of Capt Isaac Clark's Company of militia, raised by order of Major General De La Fayette, for the defence(sp) of the frontiers and on Lake Champlain, to receive additional pay from the State of Vermont";  on which Roll, in the list of privates, is the name of "Alfred Hatheway" with an allowance for 60 days service commencing March 20 and ending May 20, 1778.

Also, a Pay Roll of Capt Ichabod Robinson's Company of Militia in Clarendon in the State of Vermont for the year 1780"; on which Roll is the name of "Alfred Hatheway" with an allowance for six days (6 days) service as a private.

Also, "A Pay Roll of Capt John Spafford's Comp in Col. Ebert Allen's Regiment of Militia in the service of the State of Vermont in the month of August 1780 from the 4th to the 18th, both days included, at Pittsford"; on which Roll is the name Alfred Hatheway with an allowance for seven days service as a private, ending August 11th.

Also, "A Pay Roll of Capt Joseph Briggs' Company of Militia, while in service of the United States of America,
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commencing the 1st day of October 1778 and ending the 24th of November 1778"; on which Roll is the name of "Alfred Hatheway", with an allowance for 34 days service as a private.

Also, "A Pay Roll of Capt Ichabod Robinson's Company of Militia in Clarendon in the State of Vermont for the year 1781"; on which Roll is the name of "Alfred Hatheway" with an allowance for thirteen days service as a private.

Given under my hand and the seal of this Office this 20th day of May A. D. 1844

Ferrand F. Merrill
Deputy & Acting Secretary of State

Note:  A seal has been stamped by the last paragraph but is completely illegible.
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11052 is crossed out


Hathaway
Secy 148 ds pri

3948
4-26


Hon W Hunt
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State of New York
Niagara County ss

On this fourth day of June in the year 1844 personally appeared before [the Court of Common Pleas is crossed out] one James Smith a Judge of Niagara County Courts in and for the County of Niagara Rebecca Hathaway a resident of the town of Porter in the County of Niagara aged Eighty one years and upwards who being first duly Sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to Certain Widows"   That She is the Widow of Alfred Hathaway who was a private in the War of the Revolution   She cannot State from her own knowledge the period of his actual Service nor every engagement in which he served nor all the officers under whom he Served as She was not acquainted with him before he entered or enlisted into the Service but She always understood and believes that he entered into the Service of of[error] the United States in the State of Vermont when he was about Nineteen Years old which was about the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy five   And that he Served from that time until the close of the War as his Services were wanted in that Section of the Country—  that he went with the American Army into Lower Canada to St Johns and Montreal which She now thinks was in Seventeen hundred and Seventy five perhaps Six.   that he was in Bennington Battle and in Several Smaller engagements which She cannot now particularly State.  She always understood that he was frequently Sent on Scouting parties and to carry expresses.  She recollects Capt Isaac Clark Capt John Spafford Col Eben'r Allen & General Ethan Allen Col Seth Warner and many other officers with whom She was personally acquainted and many of whom lived in that Section of Vermont near where She and the Said Alfred Hathaway lived and under some of whom if not all the said Alfred Served but She cannot now State under what particular ones.  She recollects of hearing and understanding that the said Alfred Hathaway was Sent by the officer in Command of the American forces at Crown Point or old Fort Defiance on the Vermont frontier as express to General La Fayette then at Albany as She thinks and that he carried the express and
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returned with an answer in two days and two nights without any rest or Sleep except what he got on horseback   She recollects one incident connected within his Service in Bennington Battle.  he became So fatigued and exhausted by the exercises of the engagement that after the Battle was over he could not get to his fathers only two and a half miles distant that night he was so beaten out.   and that he found a barn and Slept in that all night & the next morning when he Started for his fathers he met his Company Comrads[sp] returning in Search of him Supposing him Killed— that when he first entered into the Service he lived in the town of Bennington in the State of Vermont   She Cannot State whether he enlisted was draughted[sp] or Volunteered but she thinks he enlisted either when he first entered the Service or afterwards  She further States that She has no Documentary evidence of the Service of Said Alfred Hathaway in Support of her Claim except a Certificate from the Secretarys office of the State of Vermont.

She further declares that She was married to the Said Alfred Hathaway on the twenty Sixth day of January Seventeen hundred and Eighty three, that her husband the aforesaid Alfred Hathaway Died on the fourteenth day of JanuaryEighteen hundred and twenty nine, that She was not married to him prior to his leaving the Service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen hundred and Ninety four viz at the time above stated

She further States that She has no record evidence of the marriage   She has no family record of her marriage or the births of her children and there is none in existence to her knowledge.  She had Several children born prior to Seventeen hundred and ninety four the first in Seventeen hundred and Eighty four in January the Second in March in Seventeen hundred and Eighty Six— that many years ago.
She had a Small family Bible in which was the Records of Marriage & Births but it has been gone for a great many years and was never transcribed
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to her Knowledge

Rebecca Hathaway

Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and Year above written before Me

James Smith
Judge of Niagara County Courts

I hereby Certify that the Said Rebbeca(sp) Hathaway who this day appeared before me & made the foregoing declaration is old & infirm and unable from age & bodily infirmity & illness to appear in open Court to make the said declaration and ought not to be required to do So.  that the foregoing Declaration was drawn with a view to her appearing in open Court but altered So as to be taken before me- the words with & distant on the Second page interterm and the word enlisted written on is as me and a smaller as me made in the 12 line a same page before Signing   also the word "that" written on erasure

James Smith
Judge of Niagara County Courts
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State of New York
Niagara County
Clerks Office ss

I James C. Lewis Clerk of Said County and of the Court of Common Pleas of Said County do hereby Certify that James Smith Esquire before whom the foregoing declaration of Rebecca Hathaway was made is a Judge of Niagara County Courts in and for Said County duly Commissioned and Sworn and that full faith and Credit are and ought to be given to his acts as Such   And that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and that his Signature above and within written are genuine

In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto Set my name and affixed the Seal of Said County and of the Court of Common Pleas of Said County at Lockport this fourth day of June 1844

James C. Lewis 
Clerk of Niagara County

*There is a completely illegible seal beside the first paragraph.

*At bottom of page & left orientation are the following:

11052 (crossed out)
Secy 148 ds pri
Hon W Hunt
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State of New York
Niagara County ss

George Alford of Monroe in the State of Michigan being duly Sworn or affirmed deposes and Says that he is now Eighty years "old" and upwards.  that he resides in Monroe in the State of Michigan, that he formerly resided in the State of Vermont, that he went into the present State of Vermont before the Commencement of the Revolutionary War and he and his fathers family resided there at its Commencement.  This affirmant is the brother of Rebecca Hathaway of Porter in the County of Niagara and State of New York, the widow of Alfred Hathaway deceased late of Porter in the Said County of Niagara   this affirmant was well acquainted with Said Hathaway in his life time.  this affirmants Sister Rebecca now residing in the town of Porter afforesaid and the said Alfred Hathaway were married at this affirmants fathers in the town of Rutland in the State of Vermont by Elihu Smith Esquire then a Justice of the peace.  That this affirmant was present at the wedding and Saw the marriage Ceremony performed.   Which was as near as this affirmant can now recollect the last year of the Revolutionary War.  he knows they were married & he knows he was present & Saw them married but he cannot at this late day tell the precise day & month.  this affirmant was acquainted with the said Alfred Hathaway from his marriage with his Sister aforesaid until his death and with his Sister up to the present time and with their family and that the said Alfred and Rebecca lived together as husband and wife from their marriage until Said Alfred(s) Death and raised up a
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large family of children—  they resided for many years after their marriage and until Several of their Children were grown up and Settled in life for themselves {in the State of Vermont}   they afterwards removed from Vermont into the County of Niagara in the State of New York where the said Rebecca still resides.  this affirmant further Says that he is now and has been for a few days last past on a visit to his Sister and other friends in the County.  that his home is in Michigan aforesaid where he expects to return to in a few days more

George Alford

Subscribed & affirmed to before me this 20th day of April 1844. 
Lloyd Smith Justice of the Peace

{the word "old" on first page & the words "in the State of Vermont" interlined before the foregoing deposition was Sworn to
Lloyd Smith}

I hereby Certify that having no personal acquaintance with the Said George Alford who made the foregoing deposition except of a few days Standing   I examined Moses Goble & Elijah Hathaway on oath as to his character who stated under oath that they had known him from thirty to fifty Years & that his character for truth & Veracity was good & his Statements to be behind & implicitly relied on.  I have been acquainted with Said Goble & Hathaway for more than fifteen Years & Know them to be men of good Character for truth & Veracity & whose Statements are to be relied on & from their Statements and the little acquaintance I had with Said Alford I think his Statements to be implicitly relied on.

Lloyd Smith
Justice of the Peace
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State of ----- York
Niagara --------- office ss
*Note:  This heading partially obscured by a seal which is illegible.

I James C Lewis Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid do hereby Certify that Lloyd Smith before whom the foregoing depositions were taken was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid duly Elected and Sworn and authorized to take the Same.  And that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and that his Signature above written is genuine

In Testimony whereof I have hereto Set my name and affixed the Seal of Said County and of the Court of Common Pleas of Said County at Lockport this fourth day of June A D 1844

James C. Lewis, Clerk
of Niagara County