Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4187, Peaslee Eastman, N.H.
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CONTENTS
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Notification sent Sept 11th 1820 to [illegible]
C.C.P. to Washington Co'y Ohio 

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17,332
Ohio
Pearley Eastman of Washington Co in the state of Ohio who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Cilley of the N. Hampshire line, for the term of 3 yrs [illegible]
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Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 8" Dollars per month, to commence on the 28" of April 1818. 
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Certificate of Pension issued the 2d of June, 1820 and sent to Levi Barber Esq Marietta, Ohio
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Arrears to 4th of March 1820 177.83
Semi-anl. all'ce ending Sept 1820 48.
$235.83
[margin notes: 22 X8=176 31/9 30/2
+1.83=177.83]
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
Continued
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[verso]
4231.
Ohio Cincinnatti
Mary Eastman widow of Peaslee Eastman NH who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848. 
Certificate of Pension issued the [blank] day of [blank] and sent to Hon. S. F. Vinton M.C.
43&44
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 340 Vol. 4.

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Letter  Hon S. F. Vinton 28 Jan'y 1850
Reported  Mch 16/49
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[illegible] Rolls
vol 3 - vol 4 13
Cilley's N.H. Reg't
adm'd pr.
P.F. cert vol. 1. p 225 to 22.295
on roll vol 4 May 3. 1782 for three years, Pr

on roll vol 3. Cal Mooney 1779 for 6 mo 6 days Pr
Peasley Eastman's name is not on the Roll of Cilley's Reg't. The declaration is therefore returned for proof of service.
J. L. Edwards
9 Dec. 1818
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State of Ohio Washington County ss} personally appeared before the subscriber one of the associate Judges for the County of Washington, Peaslee Eastman, of the Township of Bellpre [Belpre] County & State aforesaid, who Deposes & says that some time in June AD 1778 he Entered the service of the confederated colonies in Captain Reynolds company of New hampshire Militia in Col. Moony's [Mooney] Regiment for six months which time he served compleatly out. - he then Entered the the Continental Service by Enlisting into a company commanded by Captain Hutchens, Co'l Cilly's [Cilley] Regiment, past of the Newhampshire line, Brigadier General Poor, for the Term of six months, which line he served compleatly out, imediably afterward he Enlisted into Captain Fry's [Frye] Company for six months in the same regiment which time he also served, he afterwards in May AD 1781 Enlisted for three years in Captain John Munro's [Munroe] Company in Co'l Cilley's regiment, Newhampshire line - he served out the last Term of three years all but four months or thereabout & was discharged at west point by General Knox who gave him an honorable discharge - that he is in reduced  circumstances & wishes to be placed on the list of pensioners of the United States agreeably to an act of Congress Dated March AD 1818 - & further this Deponant saith not
/s/Peaslee Eastman
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 28th Day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred & Eighteen
/s/John Sharp, associate Judge C.C.P. Washington County
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No 4
['Peasly' crossed out] Eastman Peasly Ohio - 
I John Sharp, Judge of the Court of Common pleas as aforesaid Do Certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Peaslee Eastman did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding Declaration, against the Common Enemy, for the Term of nine months on the Continental Establishment, & I now transmit the proceedings & Testimony taken & had before m to the Secretary of the Department of war pursuant to the Directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
Marietta April 28th 1818 /s/John Sharp. 
I Certify that I am personally acquainted with Peasly Eastman and know him as a poor man, and as it respects property comes for within my view of the provisions of the Act under which he applies for relief 
Washington City Mar 9th 1818
/s/L. Barber 
Member H. of Reps.
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Peaslee Eastman
No. 17.321
June 1820 Con'd Sep 11 1820
Con't Sep 11, 1820
Sep '20
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The State of Ohio
Washington County ss.} Court of Common Pleas July 24, 1820
On this 24th day of July 1820. - personally appeared in Open Court being a Court of Record Peaslee Eastman aged fifty eight years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows that he enlisted about the first of May 1782 in Capt Josiah Munro's [Munroe] Co. - Col. George Reid's Reg't New Hampshire line for three years and served in said Reg't untill the close of the war, after which he was transferred to I. Frye's Co. in Col. Henry Jackson's Reg't and was discharged by Gen'l Knox on the 30th June 1784 at West Point - that on the 28th day of April 1818 he made his declaration to receive a Pension and has rec'd a Certificate No. 17.332.
And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818. and that I Have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent, thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed.
Schedule
I have eight acres of 3rd rate land with a log Cabin on it, and five acres improved estimated at $30. 
One Cow estimated at [blank]
Household Furniture to wit, Eight old Chairs, 1 Table. 1-10 Gall Kettle small pot & Spider, 6 Pewter Plates, 1 Platter, 2 Basons, Case Knives & Forks
My Family to wit, Seth 58 years old by profession a Husbandman not able to labour more than six months in a year. - My wife aged 54 years, and Daughter, Mary 15 years. One Daughter Lucy aged 9 years. 1 Son George Washington aged 7 years.
I have One shoulder broken & have been many years troubled with a fistula which often has been opened. - 
/s/Peaslee Eastman
Sworn to and declared on the 24th day of July 1820 before the Court of Common Pleas of Washington County in Session.
Attest, /s/Geo Dunlevy Clerk 
The
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The Court doth certify that the Declarant's statement of his bodily disabilities is correct & that he is unable to earn his subsistence by labour.
Attest /s/Geo Dunlevy Clerk
I, George Dunlevy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for the County of Washington in the State of Ohio do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of said Court. And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is Sixty nine dollars and Thirty seven cents. - 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court on this twenty eighth day of July Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and Twenty. - 
/s/Geo. Dunlevy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas Washington County Ohio
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V6133
Mary Eastman of Peasley
Ohio
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"This day appeared in open court Mary Eastman who made and filed her declaration to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 "an act Granting half pay & pensions to widows." in the words & figures following to wit, "State of Ohio Court of Common pleas of August Lawrence County Court Term 1839. 
On the 9th day of August In the year 1839 Personally appeared before the Judges of the court of common pleas in & for the county of Lawrence now sitting - Mary Eastman a resident of the county of Lawrence in the State of Ohio, aged Seventy two years having been born on the 13th day of January 1767. who being first duly sworn, according to law doth on her path, makes the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7th 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows" That she is the widow of Peaslee Eastman, who was a soldier in the American Army during the Revolutionary War, but at this time is unable to state the particular services, in which her said husband, was engaged but relies upon the records, in the War office, for that evidence, he the said Peaslee Eastman having been placed on the pension list, and been such pensioner at the time of his death - she further declares that she was married to the said Peaslee Eastman on the first day of November in the year Seventeen hundred & Eighty Six (1786) That her husband the aforesaid Peaslee Eastman died on the 11th day of September Eighteen hundred & twenty three (1823) 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. 
/s/X her mark Mary Eastman"
Sworn to in open court before me August 9th 1839 
/s/Jos. Wheeler
At the time aforesaid came into open court Mary G. Proctor Jacob Proctor and B. T. Miles witnesses and made within affidavit in the words & figures following to wit - 
"At a court of common pleas now sitting in and for the county of Lawrence in the State of Ohio, personally appeared in open court Mary Eastman who signed the foregoing declaration
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and made oath in due form of law, to the facts thereon stated and at the same time & place appeared Mary G. Proctor, a person of respectability and credit, who upon her oath says that she is the daughter of Peaslee & Mary Eastman, and that she resided ['and that she resided' crossed out] in the same neighbourhood with him the said Peaslee Eastman and her the said Mary Eastman from her earliest recollection up to the time of her father's the said Peaslee's death - which took place at the time set forth in the foregoing declaration, and that since the death of her said father, the widow (her Mother) has resided in Ohio, and is now a member of her the said Mary G's family, and that she knows that her mother, the said Mary Eastman, never has married since the death of the said Peaslee Eastman, and at the same time and place appeared Jacob Proctor who upon oath says that he married the daughter of Peaslee and Mary Eastman, the persons set forth on the foregoing declaration, and that he knows that his mother in law the said Mary has never married since the death of her s'd husband according to the best of my knowledge & belief, and at the same time and place appeared B. T. Miles, who upon oath says that he personally knew said Peaslee Eastman, in his life time, & that he died as before stated, and that for the space of twenty five years past & upwards he has been personally acquainted with Mary the Widow of said Peaslee deceased, & that she has not since the death of her said husband been again married. 
/s/Mary G. Proctor
/s/Jacob Proctor
/s/B. T. Miles
Sworn to and Subscribed in open court and this 9" day of August 1839. before me 
/s/Jos Wheeler Clerk}
The State of Ohio Lawrence County ss
I Joseph Wheeler clerk of the court of common pleas for said county, do hereby certify, that the foregoing is a true copy of the Journal Record of said court, as recorded on the Ninth day of August & of the Term of August AD 1839
I also certify that the original declaration & affidavits of Mary Eastman, Mary G. Proctor, Jacob Proctor, and B. T. Miles. of which the foregoing is a copy on the Journal Record as aforesaid are now on file in my office - 
[court seal affixed] In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of
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said court at Burlington this 11" day of September A.D. 1839
/s/Jos Wheeler Clerk of the Court of com. Pleas for Lawrence Co
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State of Newhampshire
County of Merrimack ss}
Canterbury Town Clerk's office February Eleventh In the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty nine, I Benjamin Sanborn Clerk of the Town of Canterbury in the County of Merrimack and State of Newhampshire aforesaid do certify that that the following is a true extract or Copy from the records of the Town of Canterbury County and State aforesaid with the exception of the date which is expressed on the records in fair legible figures as follows
Peaslee Easman [Eastman] married to Mary Graham November first (1) Seventeen Hundred and Eighty six (1786)
/s/Benjamin Sanborn} Town Clerk
(copy) Peaslee Easman [Eastman] Married to  Mary Graham November 1st 1786 
I certify the above a true copy from the records
/s/Benjamin Sanborn} Town Clerk
State of Newhampshire, County of Merrimack ss I Benjamin Sanborn above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk of the Town of Canterbury in the County and State above named and that the above is a true extract of said records of the town of Canterbury with the exception above named as certified by me
/s/Benjamin Sanborn} Town Clerk
State of Newhampshire
Merrimack ss Canterbury February 11th 1839
personally appeared the above named Benjamin Sanborn and made oath that the above Certificate is true
/s/Richard Greenough {Jus. Peace
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State of Ohio Scioto County ss
On the twenty third day of April A.D. 1840, personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace in & for said county Mary Eastman, a resident of Lawrence county, (now being on a visit in Scioto County) who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath say & declare that she is the same Mary Eastman of Lawrence county who has made application for a Pension on half  pay is the widow of Peasely Eastman deceased, which application is now filed in the Pension office of the United States, and the said Mary Eastman also produced before me a Holy Bible on the Fifth page of which is Printed as follows - "New York: Printed by M. L. & W. A. Davis, 1801." and on the last blank sheet of said Bible is a Family Record - a copy of which the said Mary Eastman says upon her oath was made out & sworn to before Hector Prichard a Justice of the peace of Lawrence county, sometime about the last of December 1839 - & was sent to said Pension office - She further saith upon her oath, that said Bible has been in the Family of her husband Peasly Eastman - for the span of about thirty-three years past - & in her the said Mary Eastman's possession since the death of her said Husband - That said Record as she believes - is a true & genuine Record of said Family, & has been made & remained as a family record aforesaid for the span of thirty three years past - and that said family Record was made by said Peasely Eastman deceased & was & is his own proper hand writing as she verily believes - & further she saith not - 
N.B. said Record was cut out & attached to the affidavit, before sworn to - 
Subscribed & sworn to this Twenty third day of April 1840 before me}
/s/Alexander Lacroix J.P. 
N.B. the word County is interlined on or in the fourth line
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State of Ohio Scioto County ss;
I the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in & for said county, do hereby certify, that the sheet containing the Family Record mentioned in the foregoing affidavit of Mary Eastman was a part of the Bible when produced before me by said Mary, & said sheet & Record was by me cut out of said Bible described in said affidavit, & was by me attached to this affidavit - a copy of which has been heretofore transmitted to the Pension office as has been stated - & before is also a copy - viz
"Hannah Eastman was born @ New hampshire oct. 28th 1791. 
Asuba Eastman was born in Castleton Vermont 
Sally Eastman was born in Castellon (Castleton) May 12th 1798 Vermont
Polly Eastman was born in Castleton march 18 1804 in Vermont
Lucy Eastman was born in Castleton March 25th 1806, and died February 8th 1808. 
Lucy was born Castleton Nov 1st 1808
George Washington Eastman was born in Belprey [Belpre] Ohio January 2nd 1811. "
Witness my hand & seal this 23nd day of April A.D. 1840
/s/Alexander Lacroix J.R. [facsimile seal 'seal']
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Hannah Eastman was born [illegible: damaged paper] Newbury Oct 28th 1791 - 
Asuba Eastman was born in Castellton [Castleton] Vermont
Sally Eastman was born in Castleton May 12 1798 Vermont
Polly Eastman was born in Castleton March 18 1804 in Vermont
Lucy Eastman was born in Castleton March 25th 1806 and died February 8 1808
Lucy was born Castleton Nov'mb 1808
George Washington Eastman was Born in Belprey [Belpre] Ohio January 2th 1811
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V Mary Eastman 
Ohio 
Suspended 
let: 4 Dec 39 S. Berkley
let 20 March 40 N. C. Morris
do 26 March 1840
Act 7 July 1838
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8502
Ohio Cincinnatti
Mary Eastman widow of Peaslee who was a pri. in the N. Hampshire Line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 day of Mch 1849. and sent to Hon. S. F. Vinton M.C. 
[Acts of March 3, 1843, and June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 2 Page 203.
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[verso]
Let to P. Agt Sept: 24.1840,
  "  "  Jacob Procter Sept: 26. 1840
let to Hon S. F. Vinton Jan 5. '48

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Cinn: 5612.
Ohio.
Mary Eastman widow of Peaslee Eastman who was a pensioner under the Act of 18. Mar: 1818. and who died on the 14 September 1823. of Washington in the State of Ohio who was a private in the Compy commanded by Captain Monro [Munroe] of the Reg't commanded by Col. Cilley in the N. Hampshire line for 2 years
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Inscribed on the Roll of Cincinnati at the rate of 80 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of Dec: 1840, and sent to Hon: C. Morris. Hos Reps.
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept: 1840 $360:00
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Mar. '41 40:00
$400:00
{Act July 7, 1838.}
Recorded by Wm. C. Zantzinger Clerk,
Book A. Vol. 2 Page 216.
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Revy WIDOW, &c. [initials: own]
File No 4187
Mary Eastman Wid.
Peaslee Eastman
Pvt. Rev. War
Act: Feby 3d/48
Index: - Vol. A, Page 206
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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[addressed envelope]
[margin note: Sept 26 46 Mary Eastman]
Quaker Bottom O.
Sept 19. free
Jacob Procter P. Agt
J. L. Edwards Esq'r
Comr. of Pensions
Pension office - Washington City D.D.
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[handwritten letter]
Quaker Bottom Sept 19 1840
J. L. Edwards Esqr

Sir, I herewith send you a copy of a certificate which Mary Eastman received from the Pension office of U.S.A. - 
I certify that in conformity with the act of July 7, 1838. - Mary Eastman widow of Peaslee Eastman who was a Private in the Revolution and died on the fourteenth day of September 1823 is entitled to receive a pension at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum, commencing on the Fourteenth day of September 1823 "and in case of the death or marriage of said widow before the 4th of March 1841" the pension will cease on the day of such marriage - or - death
Given on War office of the United States this ninth day of July one thousand eight hundred and forty - 
Signed by J. R. Poinsett Secretary of War & examined & countersigned by - 
J. L. Edwards 
Com'r of Pensions
The said Mary Eastman appointed me her attorney for receiving the money - consequently I had the papers prepared and
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[handwritten letter]
presented to the Agent in Cincinnati Ohio, and he refuses to pay as the certificate requires, but said he could pay for four & half years, and no more - 
It appears to me to be a very singular circumstance that the agent, should refuse to pay as the Certificate requires - 
You will confer a favor by informing me at your earliest convenience the course to be pursued as I am merely acting as agent for the widow.
I am dear sir your obedient serv't
/s/Jacob Proctor
J. L. Edwards Esq'r
Washington City
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6133
Mary Eastman of Peaslee. 
Ohio,
admitted
Pr: 2 yrs $80.
Cap. Monro [Munroe] Col. Cilley N.H. 
died 14th Sept 1823. 
Act 7 July 1838
Hon. C. Morris H.R.
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[addressed envelop]
[margin notes: Mar 20. 1840 Ohio Mary Eastman Hon C. Morris H.R.] Free
J. L. Edwards Esqr
Pension Agent
Washington City
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[handwritten letter]
House of Reps
March 18th 1840

J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Dear Sir
I am requested to enquire what is done in relation to the claim of the Widow of Peasly Eastman & whether further Testimony will be required. 
Very respectfully your obt Serv't
/s/C. Morris
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[addressed envelope]
[margin notes: May 26.1840 Ohio Addl proof Mary Eastman, Perhaps not acted on.]
Hon. J. L. Edwards 
Com of Pensions
Washington City
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[handwritten letter]
Burlington O. May 9th 1840
Hon J. L. Edwards
Com. of Pensions

Sir, In looking over my papers to say, I found the enclosed Papers relative to the claim of Mary Eastman widow of Peasely Eastman for a Pension I suppose they were left with me for the purpose of being transmitted to you with the original Papers & have been retained by mistake - I now enclose the same to you. 
Permit me to request that this claim of Mrs. Eastman may receive an early examination & decision - 
Your most obt. servant
/s/Sol'o Berkley
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[addressed envelope]
[margin notes: July 9. 1840 Ohio. Mrs. Eastman Hon C. Morris HR]
J. L. Edwards Esqr
Pension Agent
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[handwritten letter]
House of Reps
July 7th 1840

Dear Sir
I am requested to inquire, what decision you have made on the applications of Wm Gillilan & Mrs Eastman of Lawrence Co for Pension. Will you please inform me
Very respectfully
/s/C. Morris
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[addressed envelope]
[margin notes: Jany 4/49 Add'l proof Hon. S. F. Vinton]
John L. Edwards Esq
Com'r of Pensions
Washington City
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[addressed envelope]
Washington City Jany. 1st 1849.
John L. Edwards Esqr
Com'r of pensions - 

Dear Sir - 
Will you do me the favor to send me the information which Mr. Proctor the writer of the enclosed letter desires to obtain, and with it, please return to Mr. Proctor's letter?
I am, very respectfully your Most ob't serv't
/s/Sam'l F. Vinton
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[handwritten envelope]
Washington City, Feby. 6th 1849
J. L. Edwards Com'r of Pensions

Sir - 
Enclosed I send you the papers relating to the claim of Mary Eastman for a pension, and ask your attention to them, at your earliest convenience - 
I am very respectfully Your most Ob't Serv't
/s/Sam'l F. Vinton
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[handwritten letter]
House of Rep
Oct 9th 1840 
J. L. Edwards Esq

Dear Sir
I enclose to you the Pension Certificate of Mary Eastman in the issueing of which there seems to have been a mistake. 
Please have the correction made and enclose it to me again. 
Very Respectfully Your Ob't Serv't
/s/C. Morris
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Payment to be made at Cincinnati by J. S. Armstrong, Esq Agent for paying pensioners, in the Agency of Ohio. 
Payable on the 4th March and 4th September in each year.
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book A. Vol. 2. Page 216 by 
/s/Wm C. Zantzinger Clerk.
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WAR DEPARTMENT. 
Five years' Pension.
I certify that in conformity with the act of July 7, 1838, Mary Eastman, widow of Peaslee Eastman, who was Private in the Revolution and died on the fourteenth day of September 1823, is entitled to receive a pension at the rate of Eighty dollars and [blank] cents per annum, commencing on the Fourteenth day of September 1823; and in case of the death or marriage of said widow before the 4th of March, 1841, the pension will cease on the day of such marriage or death. 
[overwritten: cancelled]
[official seal affixed] Given at the War Office of the United States, this Tenth day of Jany(?) one thousand eight hundred and Forty
/s/J. R. Poinsett
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned,} 
/s/J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
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[addressed envelope]
[margin notes: 6133 Sept 24 Ohio July 7. 1838 Eastman papers Mary Eastman Papers]
Burlington O.
Sept 16. } free
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Com. of Pensions
Washington City
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[handwritten letter]
Burlington Ohio Sept 14, 1839
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Com. of Pensions - 
 Sir. I enclose herein an application of Mary Eastman, a widow of a Pensioner, viz Peasly Eastman dec'd, for a Pension - 
I am not certain whether the original paper on file in the court should be sent. If necessary, you will please inform me & it will be forwarded. 
your decision upon the application you will please communicate to me as the agent of the applicant - 
Your obt. Servant. 
/s/Solomon Berkley
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Declaration
State of Ohio}ss.
On this 16th day of January AD 1849 personally appeared before the undersigned, one of the Justices of the peace for the County aforesaid Mary Eastman a resident of Quaker Bottom Union Township in the County of Lawrence aged eighty two years (82 years) who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3d of March 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Peasley Eastman who was a private in the militia in the Revolutionary war, and the annual amount of the pension which she received under the act of July 7th 1838 was Eighty Dollars ($80) for five years. She further declares that she is still a widow.
/s/Mary Eastman
Executed in presence of 
/s/Helen S Reckard
/s/Eliza Mcginnis} 
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me Clark M. Singer one of the Justices of the peace within and for said County
/s/Clark M Singer Jus of the Peace in and for Lawrence County Ohio
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State of Ohio
Lawrence County ss} I. Clark M. Singer one of the Justices within and for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that the declarant Mary Eastman in the foregoing declaration as personally known to me to be the person whose name is thereunto subscribed. and that she is the identical person who obtained the benefit of the law of Congress of 1838 (granting half pay and pension to widows of Revolutionary soldiers for five years) according to papers now in her possession. 
Given under my hand this 16th day of January AD 1849}
/s/Clark M. Singer Justice of the Peace in and for aforesaid County 
The State of Ohio, Lawrence County, ss. 
I Louis Anderson clerk of the Court of Common pleas within and for the county of Lawrence aforesaid do hereby certify, that Clark M. Singer is a justice of the peace in the township of Union in the county and State aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit are due and ought to be given to all his Official acts as such
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Burlington the 22d day of January A.D. 1849
/s/Louis Anderson Clerk [illegible]
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[addressed envelope]
[margin notes: Feb. 13, 1840 add'l proof Mary Eastman chg'd to Mr. Allison 20th March 1840]
Burlington O.
Feb 5} free
War Department Pension Office
G. W. Crump Esq
Washington City
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[handwritten letter]
Burlington O. Feb 5, 1840
G. W. Crump Esq - 

Sir - Your Letter of Dec. 7, 1839 - has been duly received - I yesterday called on Mrs. Eastman & have taken an affidavit & Certificate of the Justice - embracing as further evidence in respect to her Pension Claim - a Copy from the family Record of Births of the Children of the Claimant - Also I send from the Clerk's office hereto attached, the original proceedings- which I thought had been sent before - It is very uncertain whether any further evidence as to the Marriage can be obtained - It is hoped & believed that the papers heretofore sent in relation to that point, will be deemed satisfactory - 
If not, another effort will be made to get additional evidence from New England - if you will please give me notice. I shall be happy to get as early a reply to this as possible - 
I am respectfully yr obt. S't 
/s/Solomon Berkley
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[addressed envelope]
Double 25
Mr. Jacob Proctor
Quaker Bottom
[margin note: Little Hocking O Feby 18]
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[handwritten letter]
To the Honorable Secretary at War Washington City 
The undersigned inhabitants of the Township of Belpre, Washington County Ohio, would represent to your Honor that Peaslee Eastman and family came to this place from the state of Vermont, about twenty five or six years since, & in 1820 the said Peaslee Eastman commenced drawing a pension as a private in the Revolution and in 1823 the said Peaslee Eastman died, since which time his Widow, Mary Eastman has lived in this place & vicinity with her children, & would further state that the family have ever been considered respectable.
25th day of Feb 1859
/s/Bial Stedman
/s/Daniel Goss
/s/Wm. Pitt Putnam
/s/O. R. Loring
/s/William M. Miles
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[state seal affixed]
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, 
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE. 
Concord, February 17, 1839
I hereby certify, that from the Records in this office it appears that on the Eleventh day of February A.D. 1839 Richard Grenough was duly in Commission as a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County of Merrimack and that his signature as such to the annexed Instrument is true and genuine. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said State. 
/s/Josiah Stevens Secretary of State.
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State of Ohio.
Washington County ss} Daniel Harper of lawful age testify and say that I was well acquainted with Peasley Eastman of Concord, in the state of New Hampshire, and that I am personally knowing of his the said Eastman joining the Continental Army at Saratoga, which to the best of my recollection & belief was in the forepart of the summer of 1782. And I am further knowing that the said Eastman served in the continental Army untill the peace took place between the United States & Great Brittain, after which the said Eastman Joined Capt. Isaac Frye's Company in a Reg't commanded by Col'o Henry Jackson & repaired to West point in which company & Reg't the said Eastman continued to serve untill the Reg't at West point was discharged, which to the best of my recollection & belief was in the month of June 1784 and further the deponant saith not - 
/s/Dan'l Harper
Sworn to and subscribed before me at Marietta this fifth day of February 1820
/s/James Whitney a Justice of peace
State of Ohio
Washington County ss} As Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County, I do hereby certify that James Whitney, Esquire, who hath signed his name to the foregoing Certificate, then was, and now is, an acting Justice of the peace within and for said County, duly elected, Commissioned and qualified agreeable to Law. And that full faith and Credit are due to all things by him thus Certified, as well in Courts of Justice as elsewhere. - 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand and affix my Official Seal at Marietta in said County this Sixth day of February AD one thousand Eight hundred and twenty. 
/s/Geo. Dunlevy Clerk C.C.P. W.C. Ohio
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Peasly Eastmen
[illegible] H Jackson jr
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I Jonathan Cass late a Commissioned officer in the New Hampshire line of the Revolutionary army and now a Citizen of the State of Ohio do swear that I have full belief that that Peaslee Eastman (altho I do not recollect his person,) is the person he represents himself to be, and that he did serve in the New Hampshire line for the term &c &c as he has represented in his application to government for a pension dated the 28 of April 1818. sworn to before John Sharp Judge of the County of Washington altho I do not recolect the Person of Peasley Easman [Eastman] my belief that he is the man that he represents him self to be, is founded on his correctly relating facts which took place at various times and places that none could know but those present. 
/s/Jonathan Cass
Jefferson Township
Feby 2 1820 
Sworn to before me Just. Peace
/s/Peter D. Reasoner Justice Peace
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It may at first view appear strange that I do not recolect the person of Peaslee Eastman, but when it is considered that he Joined the Corps in which I served a recruit and a lad in his 19th years and at so late a period of the war and that I have not seen him to my knowledge ['since' crossed out] since the army was disbanded in the 1783 the wonder will bear - 
His name may be found in the Rolls of Captain Josiah (not John) Munroe's Company in the first New Hampshire Regiment from the Spring of 1782 to to the disbanding of the army, and after that in the Rolls of Capt Isaac Fries [Frye's] company of Col'o Henry Jackson's Reg't at West Point till the 30 day of June 1784 at which time that Regiment was disbanded
/s/Jonathan Cass
To Whom Concerned
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State of Ohio
Muskingum County ss} I David Chambers clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Muskingum county do hereby certify that Peter D. Reasoner Esqr before whom the within deposition of Jonathan Cass was taking was at the time of taking the same & now is an acting justice of the peace in and for the County of Muskingum duly qualified and commissioned 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix my official seal at Zanesville this 3d day of February 1820. 
/s/David Chambers Clk
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Declaration
County of Lawrence}ss.
On this 16th day of January AD 1849 personally appeared before the undersigned, one of the Justices of the peace for the County aforesaid Mary Eastman a resident of Quaker Bottom Union Township in the County of Lawrence aged eighty two years who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress, passed on the 2d February, 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Peaslee Eastman who was a private in the Revolutionary war. She further declares that she is still a widow.
/s/Mary Eastman
Executed in presence of
/s/Helen S Reckard
/s/Eliza Mcginnis}
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me Clark M. Singer one of the justices of the peace within and for County aforesaid
/s/C. M. Singer Justice of the Peace in and for Lawrence County Ohio
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State of Ohio
County of Lawrence} ss.  I Clark M. Singer one of the Justices of the peace within and for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that the declarant Mary Eastman in the foregoing declaration as personally known to me to be the person whose name is thereunto subscribed. and that she is the identical person who obtained the benefit of the law of Congress of 1838 (granting half pay and pension to widows of Revolutionary soldiers for five years) according to papers now in her possession.
Given under my hand this 16th day of January AD 1849}
/s/Clark M. Singer Justice of the Peace in and for aforesaid County
The State of Ohio, Lawrence County, ss.
I Louis Anderson Clerk of the Court of Common pleas within and for the county of Lawrence aforesaid do hereby certify, that Clark M. Singer is a justice of the peace in the township of Union in the county and State aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit are due and ought to be given to all his Official acts as such
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Burlington the 22d day of January A.D. 1849
/s/Louis Anderson clerk [illegible]
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No [blank]
Mary Eastman widow of Peaslee, O. 
all'd act 43 & 44 at $80. per ann
Pd/
Act 48.
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Mary Eastman widow of Pension
Application for Pension
filed Augt 9 1839
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State of Ohio
Laurence County to wit} Court of Common Pleas of August Term 1839. 
On the 9th day of August In the year 1839 Personally appeared, before the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Laurence now sitting Mary Eastman, a resident of the County of Laurence, in the State of Ohio, aged Seventy two years having been born on the 13th day of January 1767. 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 7th 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions, to certain widows." that she is the Widow of Peaslee Eastman, who was a Soldier in the America Army during the Revolutionary war, but at this time, is unable to state the particular services, in which her said husband was engaged but relies upon The records, in the war office for that evidence, he the said Peaslee Eastman having been placed on the pension list and been such pensioner at the time of his death. 
she further declares that she was married to the said Peaslee Eastman on the first day of November in the year seventeen hundred and eighty six (1786). That her husband the aforesaid Peaslee Eastman died on the 14th day of September Eighteen hundred and twenty three (1823); 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. 
/s/X her mark Mary Eastman
August 9 1849
Sworn to in open court before me 
/s/Jos Wheeler
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At a Court of Common pleas, now sitting in and for the County of Lawrence, in the State of Ohio, Personally appeared in open court Mary Eastman, who signed the foregoing declaration and made oath in due form of law, to the facts therein stated, and at the same time and place, appeared Mary G. Proctor, a person of Respectability and credit who upon her oath says that she is the daughter of Peaslee and Mary Eastman, and that she resided in the same neighborhood with him the said Peaslee Eastman and her the said Mary Eastman, from her earliest recollection, up to the time of her father's the said Peaslee's death, which took place at the time set forth in the foregoing declaration and that since the death of her said Father, the widow (her mother) has resided in Ohio and is now a member of her the said Mary G family, and that she knows, that her mother, the said Mary Eastman, never has married since the death of the said Peaslee Eastman, and at the same time and place appeared Jacob Proctor who upon Oath says that he married the daughter of Peaslee and Mary Eastman, the persons set forth in the foregoing Declaration and that he knows, that his mother in law, the said Mary has never married since the death of her s'd husband according to the beast of my knowledge & belief. and at the same time and place appeared B. T. Miles, who upon oath says that he personally knew said Peaslee Eastman, in his life time, & that he died as before stated, and that for the span of twenty five yars past & upwards, ['I have' crossed out] he has been personally acquainted with Mary, the widow of said Peaslee deceased, & that she has not since the death of
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her said husband been again married - 
/s/Mary G. Proctor
/s/Jacob Proctor
/s/B. T. Miles
sworn to and subscribed in open court this 9th day of August 1839 before me 
/s/Jos Wheeler Clk
The state of Ohio Lawrence County ss
I Joseph Wheeler Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for and within said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the Matter of the application of Mary Eastman Widow of the Pensioner Peaslee Eastman dec'd made ['now at' crossed out] in open Court on the ninth day of August and of the Term of August A.D. 1839 - 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court at Burlington this 31st day of Jan'y 1840
/s/Joseph Wheeler Clerk
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State of Ohio Lawrence County ss
On this fourth day of February A.D. 1840 personally appeared before me Hector Prichard a Justice of the Peace in & for said county, Mary Eastman a resident of said Lawrence county aged seventy ['two' crossed out] three years, who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath declare that she is the identical person who appeared in the court of common Pleas in & for said county on the 9th day of August A.D. 1839, & made & submitted a declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 - which declaration is hereto attached - Also the said Mary Eastman produced a Bible - which appears to have been "Printed by M. L. & W. H. Davis New York 1801" in which Bible is a record of Births as follows viz "Hannah Eastman born New Hampshire Oct twenty eighth - seventeen hundred & ['eighty' crossed out] ninety one - Asuba Eastman was born in Castleton Vermont - Sally Eastman was born in Castleton May twelfth one thousand seven hundred & ninety eight, Vermont. Polly Eastman was born in Castleton March eighteenth, eighteen hundred  & four, in Vermont. Lucy Eastman was born in Castleton. ['November twelfth' crossed out] March twenty fifth Eighteen hundred & six - and died February Eighth ['eighth' crossed out]  Eighteen hundred & eight Lucy ['December' crossed out] was born Castleton November twelvth eighteen hundred & eight. George Washington Eastman was born in Balpry [Belpre] Ohio January second eighteen hundred & eleven - " 
And the said Mary Eastman upon her oath declares that said Bible has been in his possession of the family of Peaslee Eastman, her late husband, & herself since his death, for the span of about thirty years - & the said record which is above copied has been & remained in said bible as it now stands since ['about the three' crossed out] the same has been in the said family & all the names was entered before the birth of George W. Eastman - except his name - which latter was recorded
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soon after his birth. - & further she saith not - 
/s/X her mark Mary Eastman
Subscribed & sworn to this 4th February Eighteen hundred & forty before me 
/s/Hector Prichard J. P. 
I Hector Prichard, the Justice above named do hereby certify that the above mentioned copy of the record of Births from the Bible above mentioned, is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows 
"Hannah Eastman born New Hampshire Oct. 28th 1791 - 
Asuba Eastman was born in Castleton Vermont.
Sally Eastman was born in Castleton May 12th 1798 Vermont.
Polly Eastman was born in Castleton March 18, 1804 in Vermont.
Lucy Eastman was born in Castleton March 25th 1806. and died February 8, 1808.
Lucy was born Castleton Nov'r 12. 1808.
George Washington Eastman was born in Belprey [Belpre] Ohio January 2th 1811."
That in the first name above mentioned between the born & New Hampshire there is a word lost by obliteration - whereby it cannot be copied - 
I do further certify that I am personally acquainted with Mary Eastman who has signed the foregoing affidavit - also with Mary G. Proctor, Jacob Proctor & B. T. Miles - who subscribed to declaration hereto attached dated 9th August 1839, and I do further certify that all the above named persons are persons of respect
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ability, & credit, ['and that as' crossed out] I do further certify that the following words were erased in the above declaration of Mary Eastman before the same was sworn to viz - the word two in the fifth line - & the word three interlined - the word Eighty in the Eighteenth line, & ninety interline - November Twelvth in the twenty forth line - the word Eighth in the 26th line - the word Eastman in the 27th line - & the words erased in the 6th line from the bottom. - before the same was signed.
Witness my hand & seal this 4th day of February A.D. 1840
/s/Hector Pritchard J.P.
The state of Ohio Lawrence County ss
I Joseph Wheeler Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County do hereby certify that Hector Pritchard Esquire before whom the foregoing Affidavit of Mary Eastman appears to have been made on the 4th day of February AD. 1840 was at the time of taking said affidavit and now is an acting Justice of the Peace for and within said County duly commissioned and qualified and that ['his' crossed out] the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine 
[court seal affixed] In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Burlington this fifth day of February one thousand eight hundred and forty 
/s/Jos Wheeler Clerk