Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 18293, Increase Waid, Conn.
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(3--1776)

SERVICE
Conn.

Waid, Increase
Freelove

NUMBER
W. 18293
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CONTENTS
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New York 4174
Freelove Waid widow of Increase Waid, who died on the March 11, 1832 of Oneida in the State of NY who was a Pri in the Com commanded by Captain ____________ of the ____________ commanded by N. Y. in the N. Y. line for 8 ½ mos.
Inscribed on th Roll of Albany at the rate of 28 Dollars 32 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.  Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of Mar. 1845 and Sent to Hon. Preston King
Present
Arrears to the 4th of
Semi-annual allowance ending
{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act July 4, 1836,}
{Section the 3d}
Recorded by F. S. Swann, Clerk,
Book C Vol 1 Page 134
See letter to Sec. War Feb. 21, 1846.
Repd.
do to Hon. H. J. Teaman H. R.
Dec. 22d, 1846-
1884 June 7 Sent history for [illegible]
1889 Octo. 9 Wm Durant - Copied history Prior
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Freelove Wade
widow of Increase
Pensioned d  N. Y.  36 or 38

Ziphu Loomis 
w of Abner -
allowed Mass

W G Wade
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POWER OF ATTORNEY.
STATE OF New York}
COUNTY OF Oneida} ss:
Be it known, that before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, duly authorised by law to administer oaths, personally appeared *Isaac Waid a resident of Amesville in the county of Oneida and State aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law, states that he is †a Son of Increase Waid ^late of Amesville in the county of Oneida and State of New York who was a revolutionary ††Soldier and that he believed the United States are still indebted, under existing laws, for the pension that was due under the application heretofore made, and that he is directly interested as a claimant in the pension for which application was heretofore made as aforesaid, and constitutes and appoints WILLIS G. WADE, of Washington, D. C., his true and lawful attorney, with irrevocable power to examine into, investigate, and establish the claim for said pension, and do all acts necessary thereto.
In Witness Whereof, Isaac Waid has on this 17th day of December 1852, hereunto signed his name, and affixed his seal. 
Isaac Waid
Witness;  
Julius C Thorne
Signed, sealed, acknowledged, and sworn to before me, on this 17th day of December 1852
Julius C. Thorne, J. P.
*Here, if the soldier or officer is living, insert his name; if he is dead, and the widow is living, insert her name; if both dead, insert one of the living children's names; if the children are all dead, and either of them survived the former unsuccessful applicant, insert the name of the administrator of that former applicant.
†Here, if the soldier or officer is living, insert his name again; if the widow is living, insert the words "widow of," and the name of her husband; if both dead insert the words, "son or daughter of," and the name of the former unsuccessful applicant.
††Here insert the word "soldier," or "officer," whichever he was.
NOTE—When a female is the person who executes this paper, please put the letter s before the word he in every place where it occurs.
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State of New York
County of Wayne } ss:

On the Twentieth (20th) day of
March in the year Eighteen hundred
and forty three personally appeared
Mary Woodruff, a resident of Wolcott
in the County of Wayne, who being first duly
sworn according to law, doth on her oath testify
and say that she is now seventy nine years
of age. That she was born in Watertown in the
County of Litchfield, State of Connecticut
That she is a sister of Freelove Waid the
widow of Increase Ward, late of Annsville
in the County of Oneida in the State of
New York deceased - That she was
present at the marriage of said Increase
Ward and her sister which took place at
the house of John Nettleton in said Watertown
her father, in the year seventeen hundred
and Seventy Eight. That the Rev. John Trumbull
married them. That she was acquainted with
Capt Nathaniel Edwards of said
Watertown - That after her sister's first
child was born, which was more than a year
after the marriage, said Increase Waid
Enlisted under Captain Edwards for one year
and went away with him into the service
and served out his time. That said
Waid broke his arm while out under
Captain Edwards, and returned home
and stayed a short time on furlough
until his arm got well and then went
back into the service- That her sister
Freelove Waid lived with her father till
after the close of the War and is now a
Widow and never married again after
the death of her husband Increase Waid
That she was married to her husband
Lambert Woodruff in the year one
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thousand seven hundred and Eighty
four in Watertown aforesaid
his
Mary X Woodruff
mark

Sworn to and subscribed
before me the day and
year first above written by the above named
Mary Woodruff, who is to me well known
and who I certify is a respectable and
credible person
[signed] E.Y. Munson J. P.
Wayne County

State of New York
Wayne County Clerk's office ss:
I hereby certify that Elias Y. Munson Esquire
was at the time of taking the preceding affidavit,
a Justice of the peace in and for said County, duly
qualified and elected, and authorized by the
laws of said State to take affidavits and
administer oaths: and that I am well
acquainted with his handwriting, and that his signature
above written is genuine. Witness my hand & seal of office at
Lyons this 22d day of March A.D. 1843
[signed] Daniel Chapman Clerk of said
County
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State of New York}
County of Wayne} ss:
On this Twentieth day of March in the year Eighteen hundred and forty three personally appeared Lambert Woodruff, a resident of Wolcott in the County of Wayne, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath testify and say - that he is now seventy nine years old, that he lived in the town of Watertown Litchfield County in the State of Connecticut from the commencement of the Revolutionary War until the end of it - That he knew Increase Waid and his wife Freelove Waid - That he was present at their marriage, which was solemnised by Rev. John Trumbull, in the year seventeen hundred and seventy eight, in the spring or summer of that year, at the house of John Nettleton the father of said Freelove in the town of Watertown aforesaid - That he knew Capt Nathaniel Edwards of said Watertown - That he trained under him - That he knew that Increase Waid enlisted under Captain Edwards for a year and went away from Watertown with him the said Edwards into the service and remained in service at Horse Neck for a year and until peace was proclaimed - That he recollects said Waid coming home at the expiration of his years time and firing off his gun in front of one of their neighbors, to give him a salute as he said.  That he knew that said Increase Waid was called out and went into the service, several times before he enlisted under Capt Edwards for the year - and that he once went with said Waid on an alarm to New London
Lambert Woodruff
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year}
first above written by the above named}
Lambert Woodruff (who is to me
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well known, and who I certify is a respectable and credible person) before me.
E. Y. Munson}
Justice of the Peace}
Wayne County}
State of New York,
Wayne County Clerk's office ss:
I hereby certify, that Elias Y. Munson Esquire was, at the time of taking the preceding affidavit a Justice of the peace in and for said County, duly elected and qualified; and authorised by the laws of said State to take affidavits and administer Oaths:  And that I am well acquainted with his handwriting, and that his signature above written is genuine.  Witness my hand and seal of office, at Lyons, this 22d day of March A. D. 1843.
David Chapman Clerk of said County.
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State of New York
Oneida County ss 
Josiah Waid of the Town of
Governeur in the County of St Lawrence
New York aged 55 years being duly sworn
deposes and says, that he is son of Increase Waid and Freelove Waid. the said
Increase Ward formerly a resident of Annsville
in the County of Oneida and who died
according to the best recollection of this
deponent he not having been present, but
having been informed of it soon after on
or about the 11th day of March 1832 and
this deponent further says that the accompanying
bible is a bible which belonged
to the said Increase aid during his life
time and that the Entries of the names of
John Waid, Polly Waid and Aron Waid
with the date of their birth, is in the handwriting of the said Increase Waid and
that this deponent further says that he
recollects seeing this book with the record
as it now is forty years since And that
he has often seen it since that time
And that there was not any record of
the ages of the other children. That this
he has always understood and verily
believes to be the true date of the birth of the
children there named and that their ages
have always been calculated so far as he
has any knowledge, from the above dates
And this deponent further say that the
pencil marks "Increase Waid died the 10th
day of March 1832 "married May 1778"
were made by this deponent in January 1843
the date of the death I put down having
asked some individual who was present
at the time, who remarked that it was the
10th of March
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And this deponent further says that the said bible has been in the family of the father of this deponent down to the time of his death - and has been kept in the family ever since so far as he has any knowledge in relation to it, having often seen it in the family when he has been on a visit to his fathers since his removal from the place of his fathers residence, though for the last few years he has not seen it - And this deponent further says that his sister Polly Satchel computed her age in the presence of this deponent, and afterwards on reference to the record of this Bible it was found that the age corresponded with the record here made
And this deponent further says that his mother Freelove Waid is a woman who never had much advantage as to education and never could readily compute by figures to any extent - her education being only sufficient to read in common reading 
And this deponent cannot recollect of her ever pretending to make any calculations of figures-
Josiah Waid
Sworn and Subscribed before me this}
8th day of March 1843 and I certify the}
said Josiah Waid is a man of credibility}
truth & veracity -}
Benjn P. Johnson
Justice
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State of New York
Oneida County ss
Nelson Satchell of Annsville in said County being duly sworn deposes and says that he went to Wayne County New York in the year 1837 and for the purpose of procuring the affidavit of Mary Woodruff who was a sister of Freelove Waid in order to prove the marriage of Increase Waid and Freelove Waid - That the said Mary Woodruff had not any record or papers by which she came at the time, but stated as in her affidavit that it was on or about the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty one -
That after procuring her affidavit this deponent went with her to B. P. Johnson who drew her declaration and then went before Hon Arnon Comstock with the said Freelove Waid to make her declaration for a pension under the act of 1836, and that she stated (after I had informed her the year Mrs Woodruff had mentioned) that her marriage took place in the year 1781 - and that she had no record or paper before her to which reference was made in relation to that date, and this deponent called her attention to the time as stated by her sister Mrs Woodruff
And this deponent further says that he is a grandson of the said Freelove and Increase Waid, and that the Bible now present and referred to in the affidavit of Josiah Waid has been in the family of his grandparents ever since his earliest recollection - he now being 36 years of age - and that the names in writing on the same is in the hand
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writing of said Increase Waid - which is well known to this deponent - This deponent lived in the family of his Grandparents from the time he was eleven years of age until he was twenty one years of age -
And this deponent further says that he has never seen or heard of any record of the marriage of the said Increase Waid and the said Freelove, being or having been in their possession.
Nelson Satchell
Sworn and Subscribed before me this 8th day of March 1843, and I Certify that the said Nelson Satchell is a person of credibility truth and veracity
Benj P. Johnson
Justice
Oneida County ss.
I Benjamin P Johnson the Justice above named do further certify that I am acquainted with the said Freelove Waid and that her declaration for a pension was prepared by myself - that at the time of making the same out, when the question as to the time of the marriage of Mrs Waid came up - she seemed to be uncertain as to the time, but on a reference being made by Mr Satchell to the time as stated in Mrs Woodruffs affidavit and she concluded that was correct - and having no record of the time, it was so inserted.  She supposing that was correct - - Mrs Waid is a woman of integrity, and I have no reason to doubt her honesty and fairness in every particular - I further certify that the Bible referred to in the
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foregoing affidavits has a certificate of mine
on the leaf with the record as follows
"This produced before me B P Johnson Justice
March 8th 1843" -
[signed] Benj R Johnson
Justice Peace
March 8th 1843. 

State of New York
Oneida County ss 
Isaac Waid of Annsville in said
County being duly sworn deposes
and says that he is son of Increase Waid and Freelove Waid - that he is 43 years of age - that the Bible referred
to in the preceding affidavit and certificate of the Justice
is the Bible that belonged to his father- and that the record
made upon it is in the hand writing of the said
Increase Waid
and this deponent further says that
he went to Wayne County obtain from Mary
Woodruff her affidavit which was taken on the
fourth day of February 1843
and that he took
at the same time the family Bible heretofore referred to
and after she had examined the same, she was
satisfied that the affidavit before made as to the marriage was
incorrect in regard to the time, as she distinctly recollected
the birth of the eldest child John who was born
about a year after they were married, and before his father enlisted under Captain Edwards for one year - this
deponent further saith that this Bible had not
been referred to before as it was not supposed that it was of importance, and it had been laid aside on account of its being so much worn out and one of the sisters of this deponent suggested in January last that the old bible if it could be found would
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know  when the oldest children were born-- and on its being found, the record shewed as appears thereon, and this deponent then went to see Mrs
Woodruff, and obtained her affidavit as above
state
[signed] Isaac Waid
Sworn & subscribed
before me this 8th day
of March 1843 and
I certify that he is a man
of credibility, truth and
veracity
[signed] Benj. P. Johnson
Justice


Clerks Office
Oneida County  ss
 I .P. Sheldon Root Clerk of said
County do certify that Benjamin
P. Johnson Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavits was taken, was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly qualified and authorized to take the same; and further that I
am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily
believe that his signatures so subscribed to said affidavits are genuine and in the proper hand writing of said Justice
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of said County
this 24th day of March 1843
[signed] P. Sheldon Root Clk
Jno. F Kittle Defd
[to the left is a seal with a ribbon underneath it]
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Freelove Waid
app[]   [   ]
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Wayne County SS. I certify that Mary Woodruff
to me known this day personally appeared before me
the undernamed Justice of the Peace of said County
and being by me duly sworn deposed that she is the
Sister of Freelove Ward that she was present and saw her married to Increase Waid by the Revd John Trumble
that the marriage was Solemnized at her Fathers
house in Watertown in the County of Litchfield and
State of Connecticutt, and that to the best of her
collection the marriage took place on or about
the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and
Eighty one.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
at Wolcott in the said County aforesaid
this 16th day of February 1857 -
[signed] Jedidiah Wilder
Justice of the Peace

I certify that the above named Mary Woodruff is to me
known as a person of truth and veracity.
[signed] Jedidiah Wilder J.P.
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State of new York
Wayne County ss}
I certify, that Jedediah Wilder, before whom the within affidavit purports to have been taken, was at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the peace in and for said County, duly qualified:  And that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name within subscribed is genuine.  Witness my hand & seal of office 
July 21, 1837.D. Chapman, Dep. Clk. Wayne Co.
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2732
In the matter of Freelove Waid
a Revolutionary Pensioners widow
under 3d Section act 1836.
B. P. Johnson
agent
Rome Oneida Co
NY
Hon Silas Wright Jr
Senate US
Dec 15, 42
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[handwritten]
Comptrollers Office
Hartford Connecticut
August 18th 1837
I certify that the following entre appears on a
Book in this Office under date of Jany 15th 1777, to wit, "Sundry Accounts Dv to the State of Connecticut Post of New London, For pay subsistance &c of a Company stationed at New London under the command of Capt Nathaniel Saltonstall Col Erastus Wolcotts
Regt from July 4th to Dec 25th 1776, viz-
Enlisting & Equiping premises
71-14 -0
Billiting
3 -16 -6
Wages
624 -9 -11
Milage
1 -10 -0
Commissions
11 -8 -4 
[pound sterling sign] 772-18-9 11

He is also credited on Haskells Receipts Jany
15th 1777 [pound sterling symbol] 772-18-9. under the following head, to wit,
The United States Dv to the State of Connecticut for
sundry expenditures for the service and expence
of troops stationed at New London for the defence of
said State,

He is also charged on the pay table books August
15th 1776 as follows, to wit, "To order on Treasurer on
account for his Company Matross at New London 240
Also Jany 15th 1777. To Order on Treasurer to
Balance 532.12.91 and was is charged the same
amount,
Lieut Nathaniel Edwards is charged May 27th
1778 as follows, to wit, "To Cash advanced by Col
Hart on Long Island pr Receipt -
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Lieut Nathaniel Edwards is further charged as follows to wit.  "To sundries supplied his family pv}
Waterbury Comte supplies  30.12.8
To Cash for Col John Ely  7-6-6
Tor order on Treasurer  87-8-10
To ditto to secure the payment of  265-0-0
£390-8-0
Capt Nathaniel Edwards is also charged at sundry times from March 17th 1781 to March 6th 1723 £2,310-6-9.
I further certify that the name of Increase Waid has not been found
Wm Field Comptroller
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DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the Act of Congress of the 4th July, 1836.
State of New York,}
County of Oneida.} ss.
On this 6th day of September 1837 personally appeared before me Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, of said county, Freelove Waid a resident of Annsville in the county of aforesaid, aged 75 years, who being first duly sworn according to the 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 4, 1836:  That she is the widow of Increase Waid who was a Revolutionary  Soldier of the United States and served to the best of her knowledge as follows - In the summer of 1776 he entered the service as a substitute for Jonas Waid in Captain Saltonstalls Company and served at New London for the term of two months - and after this he the said Increase Waid enlisted in month of April 1777 at New London Cont. for one year in a company of artillery commanded by Capt Saltonstall and stationed at Fort Trumball for one year.
He enlisted at Watertown Cont. for one year in March 1780 in a Company commanded by Capt a Lieut Nathan Edwards - Brigade commanded by General Saltonstall - troops were stationed during the summer at White plains Stamford & at or near New York - and were discharged in March 1781 having served in the whole two years and two months
She further declares that she was married to the said Increase Waid in the month of July in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-one; that her husband, the aforesaid Increase Waid died on the 11th day of March 1832 and that she had remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereunto annexed - that she was married by the Rev John Trumbel in Watertown County of Litchfield State of Connecticut - that she has no record of her marriage and refers to the affidavit of her sister Mary Woodruff who was present at the marriage --
her mark [hand drawn X] Freelove Waid
Sworn to & subscribed before me- the said}
Freelove Waid not being in a condition on}
account of health & infirmity to appear}
personally in court & made her mark because}
she never learnt to write her name}
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State of New York
Oneida County ss
Nelson Satchell of Annsville in said County being duly sworn depose and says that he is well acquainted with Freelove Waid who is widow of Increase Waid who died the 11 March 1832, and that she has remained widow ever since his death
Nelson Satchel
Sworn before me this 6th day of}
September 1837 and I certify she is a} 
woman of credibility with veracity}
Annon Comstock Judge of Oneida County Pleas
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Mr Waids
afft
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State of New York}
Oneida County} ss
Josiah Waid of the town of Wilton in said County aged eighty six years being duly sworn deposes and says, that he was well acquainted with Increase Waid formerly a Revolutionary Soldier of the United States.  that the deponent, some time in the fore part of the summer of Seventeen hundred and Seventy six was drafted to serve under Captain Saltenstall at New London in the State of Connecticut, that this deponent was then living in the town of Lyme in the County of New London; that the tour of service for which this deponent was drafted was two months; that the above mentioned Increase Waid, was then living with this deponent, and went and served the said term of two months in stead of this deponent; that this deponent well knows that the said Increase Waid did not enlist in the service of the United States previous to the Said two months service, and further this deponent saith not.
Josiah Waid
Personally appeared before me this 8th day of
March 1837, the above named Josiah Waid to me well known as a man of truth and veracity, & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit
Israel Smith a Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Clerks office Oneida County ss
I John D Leland Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Arnon Comstock before whom annexed declaration was taken is a Judge of said County, and that Israel Smith Esquire, before whom the foregoing afft. was taken is a Justice of the Peace of said County, and that each of these signatures is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & affixed my seal of office, this 12th day of Septr 1837
John D leland Clk
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Mrs. C. P. Hazen
10 Reed Street
Springfield, Vermont
BA-J/ady
Increase Waid
W.18293
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter relative to Increase Waid, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The data contained herein were obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W.18293, based upon the military service in that war of Increase Waid.
The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of Increase Waid, the name is also shown as Wade, are not given.
While a resident of Lyme, New London County, Connecticut, Increase Waid enlisted in the summer of 1776, and served two months as substitue for Josiah Waid, no relationship stated, as private in Captain Nathaniel Saltonstall's Company, Colonel Erastus Wolcott's Connecticut Regiment.  Increase Waid enlisted in April 1777, and served one year as private in Captain Saltonstall's Company of Artillery at Fort Trumbull.  He enlisted in March 1781, and served one year as private in Captain Nathaniel Edwards' Connecticut Company, and during this service had his arm broken, no details of the wound given.
He died March 10, or 11, 1832, in Annsville, Oneida County, New York, his age not shown. 
Soldier married May 30, 1778, Freelove.  They were married at the home of her father, John Nettleton, in Watertown, Litchfield County, Connecticut.  The name of her mother not shown.  Said Freelove was born in November 1757, day and place not given.
She was allowed pension on account of the services in the Revolutionary War of Increase Waid.  In 1843, she was living in Annsville, New York.
The following names of the children of Increase and Freelove Waid are shown:  John Waid, born November 2, 1779, and living in
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Annsville, New York, in 1843; Polly Waid, who married .......... Satchell, given name not stated; Aaron Waid; Josiah Waid, residing in Gouverneur, St. Lawrence County, New York, in 1843, and aged fifty-five years; Isaac
Waid, a resident of Annsville, New York, in 1843, and forty-three years old.

Nelson Satchell, grandson of soldier, was living in Annsville, New York, in 1843, and aged thirty-six years. Isaac A. Waid, grandson of soldier, was living in Gouverneur, New York, in 1880, his age not given. He
He was the son of the above named Josiah Ward, who was then deceased.

In 1837 one Josiah said, aged eighty-six years,
was residing in Western, Oneida County, New York, no relationship stated. 

In 1852, Willis G. Wade, an attorney, was living in Washington, D. C., his age and relationship not stated.

In 1843, Mary Woodruff, aged seventy-nine, was living in Walcott, Wayne County, New York. She was born in Watertown, Connecticut, and married in said Watertown, in 1784, Lambert Woodruff, who was seventy-nine years old,
and living in 1843. Said Mary Woodruff was the sister of soldier's widow, Freelove.

In 1842, George C. Woodruff, was Assistant Clerk of the Court of the County of Litchfield, Connecticut, his age and relationship not given. There are no further family data.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of
pension, the name of person paid and possibly the death date of widow, you should apply to the Comptroller General,
General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C., and cite the following data: Freelove Waid, widow of Increase said Certificate No. 4174, issued March 14, 1845,
rate $23.32 per  July 4, 1836, New York Agency"".
Very truly yours
[no signature present]
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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[printed form completed in handwriting]
Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 18,293
Freelove Waid
Wid. of
Increase Waid
Private Rev. War
Act: July 4, 1836
Index: - Vol. M, Page 3111
[Arrangement of 1870.]

[right page, handwritten]
1925 - July 31 - Hist. to Lillian W Clingan MMH
1940 Jan. 16. Hist. to Mrs. C.P. Hazen ADY.
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Freelove Waid widow of Increase Waid, private
8 ½ months act 4 July '36
3d Section.
married 30 May 1778
husband died March 11 1832.
Albany Roll
$28.32 per annum
to commence March 4, 1831
Hon. Preston King
Present.
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[handwritten]
2732
Freelove Waid
NY July 4, 1836.
Rejected
Ltr to Hon Silas Wright
Dec: 19: 1842

Same Feby 18th 1843, to same April 19. 1843. [illegible] D L Seymour Dec. 24. 1844.
Act 4 July '36
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I accept a pension for Freelove Waid for eight a months service
Washington March 12. 1845  Preston King
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28th CONGRESS,
2d Session.
Rep. No. 171.
Ho. OF REPS.

FREELOVE WAID.
[To accompany bill H. R. No. 641.]
__________
FEBRUARY 25, 1845.
__________
Mr. D. L. SEYMOUR, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, made
the following
REPORT:
The Committee  on Revolutionary Pensions, to whom were referred the petition and papers of Freelove Waid, report:
That it appears, from the testimony submitted in this case, that Freelove
Waid is the widow of Increase Waid, a soldier of the Revolution; that said
Freelove Waid was 85 years old in November, 1842; that she was married
to increase Waid on or about the 30th day of May, 1778; that the said Increase Waid died on the 10th day of March, 1832, and that the said Freelove Waid has never been married to any other person; that the said Increase
Waid was out in the service on several occasions during the revolutionary
war, under Captain Saltonstall, at New London and Horseneck.
The length of time of such occasional service does not appear; but it appears
from the testimony that the said Increase Waid enlisted as a soldier in
the company of Captain Nathaniel Edwards in March, 1781, for the term of
one year; and that the said Increase Waid served out his full term of one
year in the said company, under the command of Captain Edwards. It appears
by the certificate of the comptroller of the State of Connecticut, that
Captain Edwards's company was in actual service in the regiment of Col.
Erastus Wolcott, of the Connecticut troops, from March, 1781, to March,
1783.
The facts set forth above appear fully and satisfactorily to your committee
from the papers obtained by the committee from the Pension Office, and
from the affidavits and testimony presented with the petition of the said
Freelove Waid. The said Freelove Waid applied to the Commissioner of
Pensions for her pension; but, from a defect of the proof as to the time of
her marriage, was denied a pension. In the declaration of the said Freelove Waid to the Commissioner of Pensions, the year of her marriage is stated to be 1781, upon the testimony of Mary Woodruff, a sister of said
Freelove Waid; but, by other witnesses, and by the record of the births of
the children of said Increase and Freelove Waid in the family Bible of the
said Increase Waid, now in the possession of the descendants of the said
Increase and Freelove Waid, and subsequently produced before the magistrate
who took the depositions, it satisfactorily appears that the marriage of
the said Increase and Freelove Waid was in the year 1778. Whether the
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Blair & Rives, print.
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[printed]
2
Rep. No. 171.
marriage was in 1778 or 1781, the petitioner would, in the opinion of your
committee, be entitled to a pension; and the proof being satisfactory that the
marriage was in 1778, leave is asked to report a bill for placing the said
Freelove Waid upon the pension roll, under the act of 1836, granting pensions
to widows of the soldiers of the revolution.
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[handwritten]

Petition of Mrs
Freelove Waid
for the Widows
Revolutionary Pension

17 Preston Kind
Dec. 10. 1844. 
Referred to the
Com. on Revolutionary Pensions

1845 - Feb. 25 - Bill 641


Mr. Preston King
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[handwritten]

To the Congress of the United States
in Senate and House of Rep-
resentatives-- the undersigned
Mrs Freelove Waid widow of
Increase Waid a soldier of
the Revolution. respectfully
represents that she has been
been for some time an ap-
plicant for the widows pen-
sion granted by an act
of Congress to the widows
of Revolutionary Soldiers
but that she has been
unable to obtain it. And
she prays that the proofs
of her claim may be
examined and that
Congress will pass an act
giving her a pension
her
by Freelove  X Waid
mark
Annville Oneida N.Y.
November 1844
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Canton 11 April 1843
James L. Edwards,
Commissioner of Pensions,
My Dear Sir, 
In the month of December last I sent you the pension papers in the case of Mrs. Freelove Waid for a pension under the act of 1836. Your letter of the 19 Dec. 1842 informed me that her application was rejected upon the ground that it did not appear from her own declaration that her husband was in service after the date of their marriage. 
I presume the marriage is stated in her declaration to have taken place in 1781, as I learn from Josiah Ward, the son of the applicant, andwho is prosecuting this application for his aged mother, that in the first papers made out and testimony taken, by very great carelessness, the date of the Marriage was stated to be 1781, Mrs Woodruff, the sister of the applicant having led the old lady herself into the error in the manner pointed out in the enclosed affidavit of Josiah Ward and the proof annexed to it. Thus the proof now sent will be satisfactory to show, notwithstanding the mistake in the former papers, that the marriage actually took place in the spring, or summer of 1778.  Mr. Waid tells me that the amended declaration of his Mother is already on file, correcting this mistake, and enclosed I send the Affidavits of Mrs Woodruff and her Husband, also correcting it, and proving that the service of twelve months under Capt. Edwards was subsequent to the marriage.  I trust also that these two affidavits will be satisfactory proof
of this service.
It will, I presume, be asked why the new testimony of Mrs. Waid herself and of Mr. and Mrs Woodruff does not refer to their former testimony as to the marriage and expressly explain their mistake as to its date?  Mr. Waid tells me that they were not aware of this mistake when these affidavits were drawn, as your letter to me does not say ^at what time the marriage was represented
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to have taken place, but merely that the service all appeared to be after the service, which they knew was not the fact, and that you wished a greater degree of certainty as to the date of the marriage; that he wrote upon these points, when a sister of himself and daughter his mother, residing near her in Oneida County, made search for an old bible which she recollected to have been in the family in her Father's life time and in which she remembered there was a record made by her Father of the births of some of his oldest children.  The old bible was found and I now send it to you.  This record enabled them to fix the time of the marriage from the distinct recollection and knowledge that the birth of the first child was more than a year after the marriage, and that the service under Capt. Edwards commenced after the birth of that child; that these affidavits were then drawn and sent without a relevance to the fact that the ^first papers had stated the [first crossed out] marriage to have taken place in 1781; that after the receipt of my letter, written upon the receipt of yours, and returning to him the second affidavits of Mr. and Mrs. Woodruff for the defect that the Justice had not certified to their credibility, he caused copies of these affidavits to be made and sent them to Mr. and Mrs. Woodruff to be re-executed; that after that was done, he thought to examine copies of the first papers, which he had retained, when he discovered that this mistake existed; that he went in person to Oneida County to find out the explanation of it, and there found the old Bible and and caused the manner of the mistake in the manner he has explained it in his deposition enclosed, and in the proofs annexed to it.
I have known Mr. Josiah Waid personally for more than twenty years, during nearly the whole of which period he has been a Deputy of the Sheriff of this County and I think all the time a Constable of his Town.  ( [Governeur)  He is a highly respectable man, of proverbial integrity, and I would confide in any statement he should make upon his mere word as fully as if made upon his oath, and there is no man whose oath I would confide in with more confidence.  I do not doubt therefore at all the perfect truth of his explanation of this mistake, nor that it was made, as he states, from pure carelessness, and that the explanation and correction
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of time is strictly true. My conversation with Mr. Waid was a hasty one and at the time I did not think of attempting to commit his explanation to paper and repeat it to you. I may not therefore, have recollected the transactions with accuracy as to time, as the material fact in my mind was the reason
why the affidavit of his mother and of Mr and Mrs Woodruff, counting the date of the marriage, had not refered to their former testimony and to their mistake, and I know he stated that the discrepancy of date had not  been discovered by them, when their second testimony was taken, but the old bible having been looked up and refered to, upon the second occasion, the date was corrected from that record.
I owe an apology for this long and hasty letter, which will itself show my imperfect knowledge of the testimony may not be held sufficient to make out two years of service, as I have an indistinct recollection that you spoke, in your letter to me, of further proof as to more than one period of service.
Please inform me whether the proof now sent will be sufficient as to the marriage, and if further proof of service are required, as to what periods of service and under what officers.
The great mistake in this case has been the Mr. Waid has himself undertaken to prepare this case, and not being a lawyer, as conversant with your rules, the papers have been loosely, imperfectly, and carelessly drawn, and do not present as strongly and particularly as they might the testimony which the witnesses evidently could give.  This seems to me apparent upon the face of the papers.
It may not be amiss that I should say that I am well acquainted with Benjamin P. Johnson Esq. the Justice in Oneida before whom much of this testimony has been taken.  He is a lawyer of high standing and has been frequently a member of our State Legislature.
I am With Great Respect
Your obedt. servt
Silas Wright Jr.
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[handwritten]
Washington 14 Feby 1843

James L. Edwards Esq
Commr of Pensions

Dear Sir:

I am called upon to send you some
additional testimony in the case of the pension application of Freelove
Waid, the papers in which I sent to you, I think in December last.
I am unable, as I have often had occasion to say to you, to judge
of the testimony in these cases, but from a perfect knowledge of the great
integrity of the son, who sends the papers to me, I hope the enclosed
additional Evidence may be found satisfactory.

If that should not be so. I enclose his letter to me and ask
you to refer to his request contained in it that would bring all the
papers back to him. I have an impression that you do not permit
them to be taken from the files. Please notice this subject in your
letter to me, in case the evidence is yet insufficient
I am very Respectfully
Your obt Servt.
[signed] Silas Wrights Jr
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[handwritten]

Washington 14 Dec. 1842

James L. Edwards Esq
Commr of Pensions,
Dear Sir:

Herewith I transmit a set of pension papers
in the matter of the application of Freelove Waid. I presume the case
must have been before you at some former period, though upon a very
hasty look at the papers, without reading them, I do not see the evidence
of that fact.
The papers are sent to me by Josiah Waid Esq. of Gouverneur, St. 
Lawrence County New York, the son of the applicant, and a gentleman I have known very well for full twenty years. He is a man of standing
and Character, and has been for almost the entire period of my acquaintance
in various public offices of trust and responsibility and is proverbially
a man of strict integrity. I understand from his letter covering the papers
that the case has been suffered by the former agent unreasonably to
[illegible], and that it is but recently that he has taken the charge of the
matter,
 Will you cause the last to be examined at your earliest convenience and let me have the result, and, if there be defects which
can be supplied, point them out so that Mr. Waid may understand
what they are
with Great Respect
I am Your obt Servt
[signed] Silas Wrights Jr.
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[handwritten]
State of New York
Oneida County ss
Isaac Waid of Annsville
being duly sworn deposes and says
that he is son of the within named Freelove
Waid, and that the reason why earlier
measures have not been taken to complete
the proof is, that he was not aware that
further proof was necessary until a few
months since - when he was informed what
was necessary and also that he might
probably procure testimony which he
has here and which is hereto
annexed
[signed] Isaac Waid
Sworn &  Subscribed
before me & I certify
Mr Waid is a man of
credibility truth and
veracity. Oct 18th 1842
[signed] B.P. Johnson
Justice Peace
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State of New York}
County of S Laurence} ss:
Josiah Waid of the town of Governeur in the said County of S Laurence, being duly sworn deposes and says - that he is the son of the within named Freelove Waid - that she, the said Freelove Waid, is the widow of Increase Waid and is the identical person mentioned in and who made the annexed declaration and application for a pension as the widow of said Increase Waid.
Josiah Waid
Sworn & subscribed this sixth day}
of December A. D. 1842 before me}
and I certify that said Waid is a man}
of credibility truth and veracity -}
Harvey D. Smith
Justice of the peace
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[handwritten]

State of New York
County of Oneida ⎬ ss
On this 8th day of February in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
forty three, personally appeared Freelove Waid a resident
of Annsville in the County of Oneida and State of New York,
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 4, 1836 - That she was eighty five years
old in November eighteen hundred and forty two. That
she is the widow of Increase Waid, who was a private
in the Connecticut militia under Captain Nathaniel Edwards.
That her Husband enlisted under Capt. Edwards in March
Seventeen hundred and eighty one, for one year, and served
out his term and came home in April seventeen hundred
and eighty two. That she recollects his going to Horse neck
with Capt. Edwards- That her eldest son John was a babe
at the time of his enlistment and while he was in the service
under Capt. Edwards. That she knew that her husband
had been out several times for short periods in service, before
their marriage and he had been a waiter to one of the
Officers and stationed at a fort at New London - She further declares that she was married to the said
Increase Waid, by Rev. John Trumbull in Watertown County
of Litchfield and State of Connecticut about the thirtieth day
of May, seventeen hundred and seventy eight - That her
husband the aforesaid Increase Waid died on the tenth day
of March Eighteen hundred and thirty two, and that she
has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more
fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
her
Freelove  X Waid
mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before
 [signed] Julius C. Thorne Justice
of the Peace
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[handwritten]

State of New York
County of Oneida ⎬
ss
On this Eighth day of February eighteen
hundred and forty three, personally appeared John Waid
a resident of Annsville in the County of Oneida, who being first
duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath testify and
say - that he is now Sixty three years old-- that he
was born on the second day of November Seventeen hundred
and seventy nine. That his father's name was Increase Waid,
who died in Annsville aforesaid, March the tenth eighteen
hundred and thirty two - and that his mother's name
is Freelove Waid, who is now living-
And he further testifies that the day of his birth is recorded
in the Family bible, now in the possession of his mother, in
the words and figures following (viz ) "John Waid born Nov the 2 1779"
and that he recollects seeing his name and the date of
his birth so recorded in his earliest childhood, when he
first began to read. And that he was told that such
was the day of his birth from his infancy - and
he further testifies that his mother Freelove Waid
was never married after the death of his father- and
that she is the same person who claims a pension from
the United States for revolutionary services of her late
husband Increase Waid deceased -
[signed] John Ward
Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year above written before
[signed] Julius C. Thorne Justice
of the Peace
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[handwritten]
Clerks Office
Oneida County
I P. Sheldon Root Clerk of said
County do certify that Julius C.
Thorne Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavits of
Freelove Waid and John Waid were taken was
at the time of taking the same a Justice of the
Peace in and for said County duly qualified and
authorized to take the same: And further that I
am well acquainted with the hand writing of the
said Justice and verily believe that his signature
to the said affidavits, is genuine and in the proper
hand writing of said Justice.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal
of said County this 9th day of
February A.D. 1843.
[signed] P. Shelden Root Clk
Jno. F. Kittle Dep
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[handwritten]

Wayne County ss
State of New York ⎬ 
I certify that Lambert Woodruff of the Town of Wolcotte
in said County to me well known, this day personally
appeared before me the undersigned Justice of the Peace
of said County and being by me duly sworn deposeth, that he
was well acquainted with Increase Wade and that he is knowing to his serving in the Revolutionary War for the term of about
one year under Capt Nathaniel Edwards, and that Freelove
widow of Increase Wade and deponents wife was sisters
and that this deponent saw them married by the Revd John
Trumbull, the time this deponent cannot recollect but knows it
was during the Revolutionary War and that the Marriage
was solemnised at the house of John Nettleton father of the
said Freelove in Watertown Litchfield County Conn.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand at
Wolcott in said County of Wayne this 26th day of August 1842
[signed] E.Y. Munson Justice
of the Peace-

State of New York
Wayne County ss

I certify that Mary Woodruff (wife of the above
named Lambert Woodruff and Sister of Freelove Wade
to me well known personally appeared before me the undersigned
Justice of the Peace of said County being by me duly sworn deposeth and
saith that she was well acquainted with Increase Wade  that she was present when he was married to her sister Freelove and that
she was knowing to said Increase Wades serving in the Revolutionary War
for the term of one year or more
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand at Wolcott in said County of Wayne this 26th day of August 1842
[signed] E.Y. Munson Justice
of the Peace

I certify that the above named Lambert and Mary Woodruff are to
me known as persons of truth and veracity
[signed] E.Y. Munson J P.
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[handwritten]

State of New York
Wayne County Clerks office 
I James Hawley Clerk of said County
do Certify that Elias Y. Munson before whom the within affidavits
was taken was at the time of the taking of said affidavits a Justice
of the Peace in and for said County duly authorised to act as such
Justice and his signature as subscribed to the within affidavits is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed
my name and affixed the seal of the Court
of Common Pleas of said County this 27th day
of August A D 1842
[signed] James Hawley Clerk
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[handwritten]
Know all men by these presents that I Holbrook Curtis of Watertown in Litchfield County Connecticut of lawful age do depose and say that I
am the lawful and legal Town Clerk of sd Town of Watertown, and that it does not appear by
the Records of sd Town of Watertown, that
Increase Waid and Freelove Nettleton formerly
of sd Watertow were ever married, nor is there any entry made upon the Books of sd Town nor
any Record of sd Town to that effect In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my hand &
seal this 21st day of September 1842
[signed] Holbrook Curtis

Litchfield County of Watertown Sept 21st 1842
Personally appear Holbrook Curtis personally
known to me as the Town Clerk of said Watertown
and being duly sworn made oath to the truth of
the above deposition and affidavit by him sub
said before me
[signed] Leman W Cutler
Justice of peace
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[printed form completed in handwriting]

STATE OF CONNECTICUT.} ss. Litchfield.
LITCHFIELD COUNTY.
I Geo. Woodruff Assistant Clerk
of the County Court of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Leman
W. Cutler Esq is a 
Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and by law authorized
to administer Oaths and to take the acknowledgment of Deeds. And that his commission
was dated on the 10th day of June
A.D. 1842 and will expire on
the 20th day of June, A. D. 1943 and that the signature to
the annexed certificate which purports
to be his is genuine
Given under my hand and the Seal of said Court this
23d day of September A.D. 1842
[signed] Geo. C. Woodruff
Assistant Clerk
[round stamp to the left of the signature "of Litchfield" is visible]
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[handwritten]
File No. 18293
Widow

Freelove Waid
Widow of 
Increase Waid 
Recpt. for Bible &c
Enclosed and to be 
filed with case 
W. B. Evans
clk
26/3/80

[to the left is a stamp stating:
Department of the Interior
Pensions Office.
Mar 25 1880]
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[printed letterhead]

Department of the Interior.
Pension Office.
Washington, D.C. Mch 18, 1880

1812 D
E
Dear Sir - 
I herewith transmit to
your address the old Bible which
was sent to this Office by your
Grand Mother - Mrs Freelove Waid
to be filed in evidence when she made
application for pension in 1843.
Please acknowledge the receipt of the
Bible and return this letter with your
reply in the enclosed Envelope

Very respectfully
[signed] J. A. Bentley
Commissioner
for WBE

Isaac A Wade
Govuernour
St Lawrence Co.
NY 

I rec'd the the Bible all right
am very much oblidged for
your trouble 
You &c
I. A. Waid
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[handwritten]
1812

[oval stamp}
Department of the Interior
Pension Office.
Mar 10 1880
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[letterhead]
GOUVERNEUR POST OFFICE,
GEO. B. WINSLOW, --- Postmaster.
Gouverneur, N.Y. , March 8th 80.

Sir
In answer to your com
munication of the 5th [illegible] returned
herewith relative to the names and
present P. O. Address of some of
the descendents of Freelove Waid &c
I have to inform you that
Isaac A Ward son of the
late Josiah Waid. resides in
this Village

very respectfully
[signed] Geo. B. Winslow

Hon. J. A. Bentley
Com Pensions
Washignton D.C.
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[printed letterhead with handwritten letter]

1812 D.
No 18.293

Department of the Interior,
Pension Office.
Washington, D.C. March 5 1880

Dear Sir
Please furnish this Office
with the names and present P. O. Address
of some of the descendants of Freelove
Waid, Widow of Increase Waid late
a Private in the Rev. War.
The Widow made application
for pension in 1843 and sent to this
Office a small Bible containing
a family record to be filed in evidence
It is now desired to return this Bible
to some member of the family, all of
whom resided in St Lawrence and Oneida
Counties and some of them in your
(over)
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Department of the Interior
PENSION OFFICE.

Washington, D. C.               18

Town in 1843

The names of the children are John, Aaron, Isaac, Polly and Josiah Waid or Wade.  The last named was resident of your Town.

Please return this letter, as soon as practicable, with your reply under cover of enclosed envelope.

Very respectfully 
J A Bentley
Comm. pensions
[            ]

Post Master
Gouverneur
St. Lawrence Co.
N. Y.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
MAR 10 18[]0
PENSION OFFICE
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1810 1/4 New England Ave.
Los Angeles, Calif.
June 3, 1925

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:

I desire to obtain information concerning my great grandfather, Increase Wade (mustered out as Waid, I understand).  I want to find out date & place of his birth and death and also his wife Freelove Nettleton whom he married May 30, 1778.

He was substitute 2 months - 1776  (Conn. Men in Revolution  p. 621)
Capt. Mathers - New London.
Apr. Enlisted 1777
March Enlisted 1780 Watertown.
July 20 1781  State Brigade (Capt. Nathaniel Edwards)
Conn. Men in Rev. p. 568

Is there any way of finding out if this was his 1st legal wife.
Watertown book of 1780 war Westbury

PENSION
C
JUN
U.  9  S.
1925
OFFICE
Page 57

I believe.
Any information you can give me will be gratefully received.

Sincerely yours,
Lillian Waid Clingan
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RECEIVED
DEC 27 [   ]
MAIL [      ]
READER NO.
VETS ADM.

Springfield, Vt., Dec. 26, 1939.

Veterans Administration,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sirs,

Will you be so kind as to give us all data in pension papers, widow's pension, or bounty land papers, on the service of Increase Wade, or Incres Waid of Connecticut?  There was some kind of pension.

Before the Revolutionary War, he lived in Litchfield and New London Counties, Conn.  Later, he lived in Vermont, where he gave some service.  He or his family removed to Pennsylvania.

We desire all facts of genealogical value.

Very truly yours,
Celeste P. Hazen
Mrs. C. P. Hazen, 
10 Reed Street, Springfield, Vermont
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Following is excerpt from letter dated November 20, 1939, to Mrs. C. P. Hazen, 10 Reed Street, Springfield, Vermont.
Letter in miscellaneous file.

"In the claim for pension, W. 18293, based upon service of Increase Waid of Connecticut, in the Revolutionary War, it is not shown that he served in Captain William Hutchins' company  in Vermont, nor is it shown that any part of his name was James."
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Rev. and 1812 Wars Section     MMHF


July 31, 1925

Lillian Waid Clingan
1810 1/4 New England Ave.,
Los Angles, Calif.

Madam:

I have to advice you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 18293 it appears that Increase Waid while a resident of Lyme, New London County, Connecticut enlisted in the summer of 1776 and  served two months as a private in Captain Nathaniel Saltonstall's Company, Colonel Erastus Wolcott's Connecticut Regiment.

He enlisted in April 1777 and served one year as private in Captain Saltonstall's Company of Artillery at Fort Trumbull.

He enlisted in March 1781 and served one year as private in Captain Nathaniel Edwards' Connecticut Company, and during this service had his arm broken, details of the wound given.  He died March 10 or 11, 1832 at Annesville, Oneida County, New York.  HIs age is not 

(written on side)
This service was all 
OK'd by [     ]   Nelson
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stated.

Soldier married May 30, 1778 in Watertown, Litchfield County, Connecticut, Freelove born in November 1757, the daughter of John Nettleton of said Watertown.  She was allowed pension on account of the service of her husband.  In 1843 she was living in Annsville, New York.

They had children:
John born November 2, 1779, living in Annsville, New York in 1843.
Polly who married --------Satchell whose given name is not stated.
Aaron
Josiah living in Gouverneur, New York in 1843 aged fifty-five years.
Isaac living in Annsville, New York in 1843 aged forty-three years.

Nelson Satchell born about 1807, a grandson of the soldier living in Annsville in 1843, and another grandson Isaac A. Waid of Gouverneur, New York in 1880 was the son of the above named Josiah who was then deceased.

Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner

(written on the side)
I didnot  [    ] the date of the applications.  There were 2 & she was not really allowed on either one.