Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23325, Darius Houghton, Mass N.H.
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SERVICE 

Mass
N.H.

Houghton, Darius
Houghton, Sybil

NUMBER

N. 23325

B.L.W.T. 17721-160-55
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May 17, /15

Sybil (blotted out) Houghton
widow of Darius Houghton

Capt. John Fuller               } Mass 
ove  Whitcomb

act- 1775

in 

War of Revolution
Presumed act Feby. 2, 1848

(illegible) Lely 48- 199


Private N.H. Troops

Feb. 25/56 Dodge

Thomas F. Hammond
Brownsville
Vermont

Vol. No. 55
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Town Clerk's office,
Walpole N.H. April 23rd 1855.

I William Ruggles of Walpole, in the County of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire, do hereby certify that upon the Book of Records of marriages in my possession there is the following entry, "Darius Houghton and Sybil Eastman Both of Walpole married December sixteenth, seventeen hundred and seventy nine by the Revnd. thus (illegible).

I certify that the above 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; "December 16th 1779"

William Ruggles Town Clerk.

I William Ruggles above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the Town, County and State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said Walpole with the exception above named as certified by me.

William Ruggles, Clerk of the Town of Walpole

State of New Hampshire
County of Cheshire

Subscribed and sworn to by the said William Ruggles, this twenty third day of April 1855, before me. And I certify that I know the affiant to be a credible person.
Frederick Vose, Justice of the Peace.

State of New Hampshire
County of Cheshire

I Leonard Bisco, Clerk of the Court of Common Place of said state for said county, do hereby certify that Frederick Vose Esq. before whom the foregoing certified and officiated were made, was, at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in said county duly authorized by law to take deposition and administer oaths and that his signature thereto is in my belief genuine.
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129.705
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State of Vermont
Windsor County

On this 19th day of April, 1855, before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for the county and state above named, personally appeared Sibbell Houghton, aged ninety six years, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Darius Houghton, who was a private in a company (as she believes) commanded by captain John Fuller, in a Regt. of Infantry commanded by Col. Whitcomb, in the War of the Revolution. That her said husband, as she thinks, volunteered at Lunenburg in the state of Massachusetts on or about the (illegible) day of (illegible), 1775, and continued in actual service fourteen days and upwards, and was honorably discharged at Massachusetts aforesaid after something more than eight months service.  

She further states that she is now a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of thirty dollars and eighty eight cents per annum, under the act of February 2nd, 1848; and that her Pension Certificate is numbered, 199, and dated on the 15th day of June, 1848; and that the Revolutonary Services of her said husband will more fully appear by reference to her application for a Pension under the act of July 7th 1838, and proofs accompanying the same now on file in the Pension Department, to which reference may be had. She further declares that she was married to the same Darius Houghton, at Walpole in the state of New Hampshire, on the 16th day of December, 1779, by the Rev. Mr. Fesendon, a Minister of the Gospel, and that her name before her siad marriage was Sibbell Eastman. That her husband the same Darius Houghton died at Windsor in the county of Windsor and state of Vermont, on the 23rd day of August, 1830, and that she is now a widow.
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She makes this Declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she is entitled under the Act of March 3rd, 1855, never having received Bounty Land or knowing that she is entitled except for the above service; and she hereby constitutes and appoints Thomas F. Hammond of West Windsor in the County of Windsor and state of Vermont, her Attorney to prosecute her claim and procure her Warrant. Hereby authorizing and empowering her said attorney to obtain from the proper authorities at Washington City or elsewhere, certified copies of any Army Documents or Records in which her said husband's services may be recorded, and to procure any and all other evidence that may be necessary to substantiate her claim, as fully as if personally present; and revoking and countermanding all former authority that may have been given for the above specified purpose.

Witness- Israel Aiken, Cyrus F. Ruggles

Sibbell (her x mark) Houghton

Sworn to, subscribed and acknowledged before me the day and year first above written; and on the same day personally came before me Israel Aiken & Cyrus F. Ruggles, residents of Windsor in said county, to me known as credible witnesses, who being duly sworn, declare that they are personally acquainted with Sibbell Houghton, widow of Darius Houghton, who has made and subscribe the foregoing Declaration; that they were personally acquainted with Darius Houghton and his wife during the lifetime of the former, and know that they lived together as husband and wife and to be so reported; and they believe that the husband of the said Sibbell Houghton was the identical person who performed the Revolutionary services mentioned in the
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foregoing Declaration; That the above named Darius Houghton is now dead, and the said Sibbell Houghton is now a widow; and they further swear that they are disinterested.

Israel Aiken
Cyrus S. Ruggles

Sworn to and subscribed before me, and I certify that I am not interested in the claim or concerned in its prosecution.

Joel Hale
Justice of the Peace
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5201

5201
Sybil Houghton
widow of Darius.
Vt.
Act 7. July 38.

m79 & 30-
sol 14. 85_  on 8mo. 75
N.H. roll Voll. on 1 1. 8mo-

9.8

Admd
9 mo. 800 pri

$30. 88/100

No decleration

[crossed out: Elijah Sawyer]

For [illegible]
Windsor
Vt.
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State of Vermont,
District of Windsor

I, Thomas F. Hammond, Judge of the Probate Court for the District of Windsor; aforesaid, hereby certify, that Sibbell Houghton who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing Declaration, and Peter Houghton who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing affidavit, are each of them persons of truth and veracity, and each of their respective statements are entitled to full credit and belief.

Thomas F. Hammond, Judge of said Probate Court.

State of Vermont, 
District of Windsor

Probate Registry for said District,

I, Salmon T. Dutton, Register of the Probate Court for the District of Windsor aforesaid, I hereby certify that Thomas F. Hammond, before whom the following declaration of Sibbell Houghton, and the foregoing affidavit of Peter Houghton were respectively sworn to and subscribed, is Judge of the Probate Court for the District of Windsor aforesaid, which Probate Court is a Court of Record, the that the signature amended to the respective certificates of the Oaths, and to the certificate of the credibility of the said Declaration and affidavit, (illegible) to be the signature of him the said Thomas F. Hammond, is his own proper and genuine signature.

In Testimony whereof I have heretofore affixed the seal of said Probate Court, and subscribed my name at (illegible) in said District this (illegible) day of March A.D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine.

Salmon T. Dutton, Register.
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State of Vermont,
County of Windsor, ss.

On this twenty first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, personally appeared before The Hon. The Probate Court for the District of Windsor, in said County of Windsor, Sibbell Houghton, a resident of Windsor in the county of Windsor and state of Vermont, aged eighty years on the thirty first day of August now last past, who being first fully 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 half pay and pensions to certain widows."

That she is the widow of Darius Houghton, who was a Sergeant and Private in the wart of the Revolution; that she has no documentary evidence of the service of the said Darius, (and) not having been acquainted with him, until after the terms of his services have expired , she can only relate these services according to her best recollection from information subsequently received from the said Darius and must rely for the proof of these services, when Muster Rolls and Records in The War Department, and when such other evidence as may hereafter be able to find. That she understood from the said Darius, that at, and previous to the commencement of the Revolutionary War; he resided in Lunenburg in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and stood as a "minute man"; that immediately (after) the Lexington Battle, in seventeen hundred and seventy five, and before the close of the month of April, the same year, he joined the Army then collecting in the vicinity of Boston; that she cannot now recollect to what regiment the said Darius belonged, neither can she recollect the name of his Colonel, although she is very confident that she has heard the said Darius mention his name, but she is very confident that she has heard the said Darius say that the belonged to Capt. John Fuller's Company; that he, the said Darius was in the Battle of Bunker Hill, and continued in the army of the Revolution, as she understood from him, eight months, and did not return to Lunenburg until the latter part of December or for part of January after.

That as she understands, soon after the return of the said Darius to Lunenburg, he removed from there to Walpole in the county of Cheshire and state of New Hampshire, where he resided about one year, when he enlisted at said Walpole for three months, as she now thinks, but it might have been more or less, and marched across the state of Vermont, and was stationed at Ticonderoga, New York, until the time of his enlistment expired, which was in the latter part of June, seventeen hundred and seventy seven; that this last mentioned service, as she understood, was in Capt. Webber's Company, but she cannot now recollect any other officer's name; that he suffered much from hunger on his return, and she has heard him tell of finding a cow or cows in the woods on his way homeward, the milk of which gave him great relief; that she always understood from the said Darius that in both of the above services he was a private, but that a part of the time, and on particular occasions, he did the duty of orderly Sergeant; that she does not now recollect of hearing her husband mention of being in any other Battle except the Battle of Bunker Hill in seventeen
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hundred and seventy five, as above related.
She further declares, that she was married to the same Darius Houghton, at Walpole, in the county of Cheshire and the state of New Hampshire, on the sixteenth day of December, then the settled minister over the Congregational Church in said Walpole, her former name being Sibbell Eaastman,; that her husband, the aforesaid Darius Houghton, died at Windsor in the county of Windsor and state of Vermont, on the twenty-third day of August, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four; viz. at the time above stated. 

Witness-Thomas F. Hammond

I Peter Houghton of Windsor in the county of Windsor and State of Vermont aged fifty three years, do depose and say, that I am a son of the aforesaid Darius Houghton & Sybell Houghton, and have from my earliest recollections, up to the time of the death of the said Darius, constantly lived with my said Parents; and since the death of my Father , the said Darius, I have lived in the same house with my mother, the said Sibbell, who has, over since the death of said Darius, remained, and now is sole and unmarried; that the said Darius died on the 23? day of August 1830, at Windsor aforesaid, as stated in the foregoing Declaration.  I was present and saw him (?); that from my earilest recollection, my Father and Mother constantly lived together in the relation of husband and wife, and I never heard their marriage questioned by any one, not did I ever doubt their being legally married. I further depose, that I have heard the aforesaid (?) of the said Sibbell, read, and that I have frequently heard my said Father relate his services in the War of the Revolution, as related in said Declaration by the said Sibbell; and I further depose, that I have heard my Father say that he belonged to Col. Whitcomb's Regiment in seventeen hundred and seventy-five; and that he left Ticonderoga about a fortnight before General Burgoyne took possession of that for, in seventeen hundred and seventy seven. 

Signature of Peter Houghton

Sworn to and subscribed by the said Peter Houghton, on this 21st day of 
December, 1838, before me 

Signature of Thomas F. Hammond, Judge of said Probate Court.
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[printed fillable form]

information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen_
sion on file in this Bureau.

Darius Houghton W. F. 23325

DATES OF
ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.
Apr. 1775
Spring 1777

LENGTH OF
SERVICE.
8 mos.
2 or 3 mos.

RANK.
Pvt. &
Sgt.

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.           COLONEL.
John Fuller         Whitcomb
Webber              [check mark]

STATE.
Mass.
N.H.

Battles engaged in, Bunker Hill
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Lunenburg, Mass.
Date of application for pension, Dec. 21, 1838  Her [cl?] was al.
Residence at date of application, Windsor Vt.
Age at date of application, She was born Aug. 31, 1758
Remarks: Soldier married at Walpole Cheshire Co. N.H.
Dec. 16, 1779, Sybil Eastman and died at Windsor Vt.
Aug. 23, 1830. Widow was allowed pension as Sibbell Houghton
She died June 23, 1857*
Their Son Peter was 53 years old in 1838
Very respectfully

*from agency book,

Commissioner

31793b5m1C-07
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1911 May 27  Hist.
Mrs. Frank Haven V:

Revy.  Widow, & c.
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File No.  23325

Sibbell Houghton
wid of

Darius Houghton
Pri  Rev War

Act: Feb. 2nd  1848.

Index:- Vol  A,  Page 351

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Vermont,  Montpelier
Sibbell Houghton

widow of Dairus Houghton
who was a private
in the Vermont line
for 9 months & 8 days

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
30 Dollars 88 cents per annum., 
to commence on the 4th day of March 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 
17th day of June 1843.
and sent to 
Thomas F. Hammond
(?)
Windsor County
Ver. 

Act of March 3, 1853
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1 Page 27.
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Vermont  
Sibbell Houghton
widow of 
Darius Houghton 
who was a pensioner under the Act of 
and who died on the 23rd (August) or (Sept.) 1830
of Windsor in the State of Vermont
who was a Private in the Company commended by Captain (?) of the Regt. commanded 
by Whitcomb in the Vt. line for 9 mos. 8 days

Inscribed on the Roll of Montpelier at the 
of 30 Dollars 88 Cents per annum to commence
on the 4th day of March 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 23rd day of July '39, and (?)
Windsor Vt

Arrears to the 4th of March  $92.64
Semi-annual allowance ending $15.44
Total $108.08

{Act July 7, 1838}

Recorded by R. (?) Clerk, 
Boos A Vol. 2 Page 41
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17721

Remainder of text undeciperable
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Walpole MA     Price 12
March 7

Elijah Sawyer Esq. 
Keene
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Extract from the Records of the town of Walpole in the County of Cheshire, and State of New Hampshire, Darius Houghton and Sybil Eastman both of Walpole married December sixteenten one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine by the Rev'd Thos (?) 

I certify that the foregoing is a truy copy of the record, with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures, as follows, - December 1th 1779 - 
Attest.  William Ruggles  Town Clerk 

I William Ruggles above named depose & say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the County, town and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town, with the exception above named, as certified by me. 

William Ruggles Clerk of the town of Walpole

Walpole March 7, 1839

Cheshire ss.  Then the above named William Ruggles personally appeared & made oath that the above certificate by him subscribed is true, 

Before me, 
Signature of Walton Mead, Justice of the Peace
State of New Hampshire
Cheshire ss. 

I Elijah Lawyer Registry of the Court of Probate in & for said County.
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hereby certify that Walter Mead is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County of Cheshire duly Commissioned and qualified and that his signature above (or written) is genuine. 

In testimony Where of I herunto affix the seal of said Court of Probate this Eighth day of March A.D. 1839

Signature of Elijah Sawyer Reg.
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Mr. Sawyer - Please certify to the qualifications of these justices (your fees have been ?) & direct them by mail to Thomas L. Hammond West Windsor Vermont.
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I, Ephraim Stearns, of Walpole in the county of Cheshire and state of New Hampshire, aged eighty three years on the sixth day of April, now last past, being duly sworn, do depose and say that I have resided in said town of Walpole more than sixty seven years; that I for (?) resided in Westminster in the state of Massachusetts and whilst residing there I became acquainted with Darius Houghton; that after my removal to said Walpole in seventeen hundred and seventy one, the said Darius Houghton came to said  Walpole, I should think in the winter of seventeen hundred and seventy six; that he the said Darius resided with my father in said Walpole until the spring of seventeen hundred and seventy seven, when he the said Darius and myself, with others, volunteered at said Walpole, and started about the first of May, under the command of Capt. Webber of said Walpole, and marched to Ticonderoga and Mr. Independanse, where we arrived in the month of May, and were stationed at Mt. Independance aforesaid, on the easter bank of Lake Champlain; that we were in the vicinity of Ticonderoga and Mt. Independance util the last of June or fore part of July when we returned to said Walpole, having been in the service of the United States as nigh as I can judge, about two months: that I arrived with the said Darius a few days before him, and I cannot now tell which.  And I further say, that I was well acquainted with Silbbell Eastman who formerly resided at sail Walpole, who as I always understood and verily believe, was married to the said Darius Houghton at said Walpole, before the close of the war of the Revolution, and for several years after they were married, they resided in my neighborhood, before they removed from Walpole to Windsor, Vermont; that I have seen the said Darius and SIbbell at Windsor aforesaid, and always understood that they resided together in the relation of husband and wife until the death of the said Darius which, as I understood, happened several years ago. 

Signature of Ephraim Stearns
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State of New Hampshire
Cheshire ss.  March 6th 1839 

These the aforesaid Ephraim Stearns personally appeared and make solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true. 
Before me  Aldis Lovell, Justice of the Peace

I certify that the said Stearns is a person of trugh and veracity and entitled to full (?) and belief. 
Aldis Lovell Justice, Peace

State of New Hampshire

Cheshire ss. - I Elijah Sawyer, Register of the Court of Probate in & for said County of Cheshire certify that Aldis Lovell was at the above date and is now a Justice of the Peace in & for said County & that he is duly commissioned & qualified and that his signature above is genuine. 

In testimony where of I hereby affix the seal of said Court this eighth day of March A.D. 1839

Signature of Elijah Sawyer Regs.
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(?) 
Omitted
Thos. F. Hammond
Brownsville
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State of Vermont
District of Windsor ss. 

On this 10th day of May, in the year, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, personally appeared before the Probate Court in and for District of Windsor aforesaid, Sibbell Houghton, a resident of Windsor in the country of Windsor and State of Vermont, aged 89 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 2nd February 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served durint the Revolutionary War; that she is the widow of Darius Houghton, who was a private in the war of the Revolution; that she drew a pension of thirty dollars eighty eight cents per annum under the Acts of July 7th 1838.  March 3rd 1843, and June 17th 1844; and continued on the pension list until the 4th March, 1848; she further declaresthat she is till a widow. 

Signature of Sibbell Houghton (her mark X)

Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year first above written, the words "Per annum" being first interlined. Before me.  Thomas F. Hammond, Judge. 

I certify, that the above named declarant is personally known to me, and that she is the same individual who drew a pension as stated by her in the foregoing Declaration.  Thomas F. Hammon, Judge. 

The Certificate may be forwarded to me, at Brownsville, Windsor Co, Vt. 
Thomas F. Hammond
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State of Vermont
District of Windsor ss. 

I Salmon F. Dutton Register of the Probate Court for the District of Windsor aforesaid, hereby certify that Thomas Hammond, before whom the foregoing Declaration of Sibbell Houghton was sworn to and subscribed, as Judge of the Probate Court for said District of Windsor, which is a Court of Record (?) probate jurisdiction; and that the signature annexed to the foregoing certificates of the oath and identity of the said declarant, purporting to be the signature of (?0 the said Thomas Hammond, hi his own proper and genuine signature.  Given under my hand and the (?) of said Court, at Cavendish in said District, this 15th day of May, A.D. 1848. 

Signature of Salmon F. Dutton, Register
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Cavendish Vt
April 13, 1839

5201
(unreadable)

Vt. 
Crossed out - 7 July 1836
27 July 1838

Addressed to 
James P. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
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State of Vermont, 
District of Windsor, ss.

On the thirtieth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three, personally appeared before the Probate Court, in and for said District of Windsor, Sibbell Hoghton a resident of Windsor in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont aged eighty four years in August now last past, 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 erd March, 1843, granting pensions to the widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. 

That she is the Widow of Darius Houghton, who was a Private in the War of Revolution, but she cannot state the Regiment or Corps, tho which he belonged and in which he served, and as evidence of his services reference may be had to her former Declaration and proofs accompanying the same, now on the File in the Pension Department:
The she received a Pension of thirty dollars and eighty eight cents per annum under the Act of July 7 1838. She further declares that she has not intermarried, and that she continues to be, and is the Widow of the above named Darius Houghton

Witness
Peter Houghten 
W. H. Hamond
Signature of Sibbell Houghton  (her X mark)

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written. Before me Thomas Hammond. Judge of said Probate Court

I certify that Sibbell Houghton, the above declarant, is personally known to me. 

Thomas Hammond, Judge of Probaate Court.
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        State of Vermont.} 
District of Windsor ss.} 
 I, Salmon F. Dutton, Register of the Probate Court for the District of Windsor aforesaid, hereby certify that Thomas F. Hammond, before whom the within Declaration of Sibbell Houghton was sworn to and subscribed, and who has subscribed the within certificate of identity, is Judge of the Probate Court for said District of Windsor, which Probate Court is a Court of Record, and that the signature annexed to the within certificates, purporting to be the signature of him the said Thomas F. Hammond, is his proper and genuine signature.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the said Probate Court, and subscribed my name at Cavendish in said District this tenth day of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty three.
                                                       
                                                                                 Salmon F. Dutton, Register
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Proctorsville, Vermont
May 19, 1911

Messer

I am trying to help Mrs. Gertrude (Shedd) Foster of Proctorsville, VT find the records of Revolutionary Service of her great-grand father Darius Houghton who died in Windsor VT Aug 23 1830 aged 76 years. His wife Sybel (Eastman) Houghton died June 23 1857. She drew a pension. Mrs Foster has (illegible) that were bought with the pension money. but me knows nothing what became of her pension papers  or about the war record of the said Darius Houghton Mrs. Foster is anxious to join our new D.A.R Chapter

Stamp enclosed - hoping to hear soon.

I am very respectfully 
Florence Green Haven
Regent Cavendish Susanna Coffeen DAR address
Mrs. Frank Haven Proctorsville Vermont