Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 479, James Bugbee, Conn.
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Service: Conn.
Bugbee, James Thirza
Number; W. 479
B.L. Wt. 28-576-160-56
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                                3603

                  Connecticut Roll
                   James Bugbee
                        Private
                  Connecticut Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the roll of Connecticut at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 7th of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 13th of October 1818 and  [illegible] Judge Swift -
                          Windham Connecticut
Arrears to the 4th of September 1818 ---39.47
Semi annually, all'se ending 4 March
1819                                                           48.
4 months --32
28/30 --        7:46.6                                 $87.47

                        Revolutionary claim
                        Act 18th March, 1818

                    13 months
            not entitled
Ashford, Windham
Notifications sent July 13th 1820
David Le Bolles Windham, Connecticut
Attorney General's opinion sent as above, on the 13th July 1821
,
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D. Swift, Esquire, Judge

Not to be found on the Connecticut rolls in Colonel Charles Webb's regiment

See endorsement in the case of Benjamin Bugbee

Admitted
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I James Bugbee of Ashford in the county of Windham and the state of Connecticut and a resident citizen of the United States - declare depose and say that in the month of December on thousand seven hundred and seventy five enlisted in the service of the United States as private soldier in the continental establishment for the term of thirteen months and in the same month of December joined the army near Boston, was attached to the company commanded by Captain William Hull in the regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Webb in the Connecticut Line from that time I continued constantly in the service and marched with the army to the state of New York and in the month of November one thousand seven hundred and seventy six was taken prisoner by the British army at Fort Washington in New York Island and confined on board the Sutton prison ship until the month of January one thousand seven hundred seventy seven when I was discharged from said prison ship a few days after the aforesaid thirteen months had expired, no parole was given me that affirms being held or a pledge that there who were the discharged should [illegible] since that time I have not enjoyed sound health am { illegible] in my circumstances, given
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and in need of public and for support and I further depose that in the month of August one thousand seven hundred and seventy six Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Knowlton was authorized to [illegible] a body or regiment of rangers of which he was commandant and from that time until the expiration of said thirteen months I was attached to that regiment in the company commanded by Captain Grant - his given name I do not recallest
Stated at Windham this 7th day of April 1818
                       James Bugbee

State of Connecticut Windham this 7th day of April 1818
Personally appeared before me Zephaniah Swift Chief Judge of the pension Court of the State of Connecticut James Bugbee Subscriber of the foregoing declaration and made solemn oath to the state of the same
             Attest Zephaniah Swift

I Eleazer Owen of Belchertown in the County of  
Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do testify and say that the above named James Bugbee in November 1775 enlisted into the Continental Army in the company commanded by William Hull and Regiment commanded by Charles Webb for the term of one year- that I enlisted into the same company at the same time I did and served with him and was knowing to his serving in the army in the manner he has stated and that he was taken prisoner in Fort Washington on the 16th day of November 1777 - and saw him after he was released returned home in March following -
Windham August 31, 1818
                      Eleazer Owen

Sworn to before
     Zephaniah Swift Chief Judge
     of the Superior Court
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I Phillip Squier of Ashford in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut do testify and say that I am well acquainted with the before named James Bugbee, and am personally knowing to his service in the Continental Army in the manner he has stated as I enlisted into the same Company and Regiment he did and further saith not.

Dated at Windham April 7th 1818
State of Connecticut Windham
                                Phillip Squier

Personally appeared before me Zephaniah Swift Chief Judge of Superior court of Connecticut Phillip Squier submit to the foregoing deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same.
                Attest Zephaniah Swift

Whoever it appears to my satisfaction from the foregoing declaration of the before named James Bugbee and from the foregoing deposition of Phillip Squier that the said James Bugbee served in the Revolutionary War against the  common enemy for the term of nineteenth months in Connecticut was in the Continental Army as he has testified in the foregoing declaration.
     I do therefore certify and transmit to the Secretary of the Department of War the aforesaid testimony pursuant to an Act of congress entitled an Act to provide for certain persons in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War.
            Certified by
            Zephaniah Swift Chief Judge
            of the Superior Court
            of the State of Connecticut
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in the compDistrict of Connecticut, ss
At a Special Court of Common Pleas, holden at Pomfret within and for the County of Windham, in said district -
On this 21st day of June - A.D. 1820, personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record for the County aforesaid, [Having the power of fine and imprisonment]
James Bugbee of Ashford in Said County - 
aged sixty two - years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz:  that he enlisted for the term of one year and one month - on the first of December in the year 1775 - in the State of Connecticut
in the company commanded by Captain William Hull
in the regiment commanded by Charles Webb
in the line of the State of Connecticut and Colonel Knowlton's Rangers on the Continental establishment: that he continued to serve in said corps until the 16th day of November 1776. When I was taken Prisoner at Fort Washington and released from prison sometime in the month of January 1777 - 
                       in the State of New York
I am a Pensioner under the Act of Congress 18th of March 1818. I applied therefore the 7th day of April 1818 the number of my certificate 3603- my occupation that of a Farmer but unable to labor in consequence of a broken shoulder - occasioned by a fall from a horse together with rheumatism. I have a wife aged forty four rather infirm - My wife's sister Elizabeth Welch I am under bonds to maintain during her life. She is insane and has been so for eight years past and very troublesome to take care of - I also have a grandchild named Hannah Addison age four years to support.

I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; 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, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; 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 hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
                              James Bugbee
Schedule containing the whole of Mr. James Bugbee estate of Ashford 
his necessary clothing and bedding excepted -
Five kitchen chairs 0.60 - 2 tables 1.50 - shovel and tongs 1.50 Pr five dogs 0.67 brass kettle 2.00 14 old casks - 3.00 Pewter, 68 - 100 weight of Pork 8.00 meat bundle, 34 c - 
frying pan 0.50 3 iron kettles 2.00 powder basins and bake pan 1.75 Tea kettle .75 - crockery .67 stone jug 25 c - pair of flats - 0.75
$ 3.60
   5.67
   9.02
   5.25
   2.42
$25.96
                   amount carried over
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/2                 Amount Brought over       $25.96

7 glass bottles 0.42 tinware 50 cheese tub 1.34
old loom sacks 4.5; 3 chest 2.00 wooden wheel and clock 6.00 - 3 pails.75 - 1 looking glass .34 - meal chest and bread trough .50 - hand bellows 34 - 7 tumblers 34 pair small steel yards 0.17 pr. five dogs 0.34 - 2 wheels 1.00 1 Bible book hymn .50 1/2 cart 7.50 - 1/2 [illegible] 0.75 10 - wool 3.34 - draft chain [illegible] hay fork .34 1/2 grind stone .50 plough 1.34 - ox yoke 0.67 shovel and [illegible] fork 50 - hog 4.00 - 3 pigs - 4.50 1 calf 2.00 - 1/2 mare 15.00 3 cows 5 calfs 13 sheep and lambs 10.00 2 yearling 11.00 - 3 1/2 bushels corn 3.34 1/2 of the rents and profits of this form value of the redemption right in the farm
I owe [illegible] persons 321.50
besides the mortgage on my farm
 25.96
   6.76
   9.09
   1.18
   2.01
 12.93
  3.01
 76.50
 24.34
  50.00
303.59

515.37
Subscribed by me this 20th day of June 1820
                     James Bugbee

June 20th 1820 I have this day review my [illegible] declaration and would explain the same and follows - I can labor at ploughing and easy kinds of work some- but not a chopping wood nor mowing and another man is equally bound with me to support my wife sister's Elizabeth
    Windham 29th June 1820  personally came before me, James Bugbee - signer of the above and make oath that the same is true
David Bolles Chief Judge Windham County Court
Sworn to and declared on the 21st day of June A.D. 1820 before the Court of Common Pleas, for the County of Windham, in the district of Connecticut.
        Attest. David C. Bolles  Clerk
I, David C. Bolles Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Windham, in the State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration and oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the 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 Five hundred fifteen - Dollars, and 37 - Cents. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court, on the 4th day of July A.D. 1820

David C. Bolles, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Windham County

James Bugbee
not entitled
(3603)
March 1819
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                            2056
                      Connecticut
                     Thiza Bugbee
                  widow of James
Who Served in the Revolutionary War Connecticut, as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on 3rd February 1853 
Certificate of Pension issued the 20th day of September 1853 and sent to

            J.D. Richmond
              Ashford
              Windham County
              Connecticut
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
54 Volume A
February 3rd 1853
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State of Connecticut
County of Windham and District of Ashford
On this 21st day of March A.D. 1853 personally appeared before the Court and Probate for the District of Ashford Thirza Bugbee a resident of Windham in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed February 4th 1853. That she is the widow of James Bugbee, who was a private in the Revolutionary War and a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States under the Act of Congress passes as she thinks and believes in 1818 and drew a pension of 96 dollars per annum for several years prior to his death. The precise time when he first drew a pension, she is now unable to state. The last time he drew his pension was at Hartford Connecticut, and whether he first drew his pension at Hartford she cannot now say.
She further declares and says, that she was married to the said James Bugbee at Ashford County of Windham and State of Connecticut in the 23rd day of January A.D. one thousand eight hundred that her name before marriage was Thirza Welch that her husband the aforesaid James Bugbee died at said Ashford on the day of January one thousand eight hundred twenty seven and that she has remained a widow
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Since that period and is now and was on the 4th of February 1853 a widow.
Sworn to and subscribed the 21st day of March A.D. 1853
                            Thirza Bugbee
Before me
         Jared D Richmond Judge of the
             Court of Probate for Said District

State of Connecticut Windham County of Probate District of Ashford I Benjamin C. Simmons Clerk of the Court of Probate in and for said District do certify that Jared D. Richmond before whom the forgoing declaration was taken is now and for more than one year last  [illegible] has been Judge of the Court of Probate for said District duly appointed and sworn and as such Judge is duly authorized to take depositions and administer oaths and that the forgoing signature purporting to be his genuine signature. The testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court this 21st day of March A.D. 1853
         Benjamin C. Simmons Clerk of Probate
                 for said District of Ashford
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I Henry L. Dow of Ashford in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut aged 49 years do depose and say that I was well acquainted with James Bugbee late of said Ashford deceased and late a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States that he died in the winter of 1827 in the month of January or February of said year - I cannot now tell certainly which month or the day of the month - He was living at the time of his death on my father's farm in Ashford and I was present at his death - and Funeral - I further depose and say that I am well acquainted with Thirza Bugbee widow of the said James Bugbee and know her to be his widow since the death of said James Bugbee.
I further depose and say that the said James Bugbee drew a pension of ninety six dollars per annum, but under what act of Congress I do not know and further deponent saith not
                                         Henry L. Dow
Windham County of Ashford
March 21st A.D. 1853
Then personally appeared Henry L. Dow signer of the forgoing deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same - and I certify that I
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am well acquainted with the said Henry L. Dow and consider him to be a man of truth and veracity and to be a credible person
        Jared D. Richmond Judge of the 
            Court of Probate for the 
                 District of Ashford
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Mr. James Bugbee of Mansfield and Miss Thirza Welch Ashford January twenty third one thousand eight hundred.
I Reuben Marcy of Ashford in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut do certify that the forgoing is a true copy of the Record of Marriage of James Bugbee and Thirza Welch with the exception of the date which is expressed in the record in fairly legible figures as follows
             January 23rd 1800
                      Reuben Marcy

I Reuben Marcy of Ashford in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut do depose and say that I am a deacon of the First Congregational Church of Ashford and have in my possession the original Book containing the Church records of marriages and deaths and that the forgoing is a true extract from these records with the exception of the date above named, and that the forgoing extract is under the head of Marriages. I further depose and say the there is at the
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present time no settles pastor over said church which is the reason why I have custody of said Church records
                                Reuben Marcy

Windham County of Ashford March A.D. 1853 then personally appeared Reuben Marcy signer of the forgoing deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same and I certify that I am well acquainted with the said Reuben Marcy and he is a credible person

                           Jared D. Richmond
                           Judge of the Court of Probate
                           the District of Ashford
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Cu: Claimant April 8, 1856
Volume Page 2 - 144

161.066   Act of March 2, 1853
                          June 6 1853

Thirza Bugbee
     widow of
James Bugbee    Pensioner
[illegible]

Revolution
Pensioned Act February 3 1850

[illegible ] 53 -2086
Number:160 [illegible] May 24, 1856
               Boynton

Claimant
Willimantic
Connecticut
Number 28576 [illegible] May 29, 1856
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                              161.066
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Form of a Declaration to be made by the WIDOW  OF A DECEASED SOLDIER WHO HAS NOT had a Land Warrant
STATE OF CONNECTICUT 
COUNTY OF  Windham               ss

     On the 2nd day of June A.D. one thousand hundred and fifty five personally appeared Thirza Bugbee before me, a Notary Public, within and for the County and State aforesaid,
         aged seventy eight years, a resident of Windham in the State of Connecticut, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of James Bugbee deceased, who was a private in the Company commanded by _____________ in the regiment of the Connecticut Line commanded by _____________ in the war of the revolution of 1776 with Great Britain by the United States that her said husband drew a pension under act March 18th 1818 of Ninety Six dollars a year and that she now draws a pension of Ninety Six dollars a year under the act of February 3rd 1853 and that she holds a certificate saying her names is subscribed on the pension last dated 20th day of September A.D. 1853 Signed by P McClelland Secretary of the Interior and examined and counter signed by L P Waldo Commissioner of Pensions and recorded in the roll of Pensions page 54 Volume A. She further states that she was married to the said James Bugbee in the year Eighteen hundred on the twenty third day of January A. D. 1800 by one Enoch Pond Congregation in Ashford, Windham County, Connecticut and that her name before her said marriage was Thirza Welch that her said husband died at Ashford, Windham County, aforesaid on the 26th day of January A. D. 1827 and that she is now a widow.
     She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approve March 3rd, 1855. She also declares that she has not received a warrant for bounty land under this or any other act of Congress, nor made any other application therefor.
                                       her
                             Thirza   X  Bugbee
                                      mark

We, Subscribers, and residents of Windham in the State of Connecticut, upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Thirza Bugbee in our presence, and that we believe, for the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
                                   S. J. C. Bartlett

     The foregoing declarations affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
                   Thomas Campbell Notary Public
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                           January 21, 1929

Honorable Richard P. Freeman
House of Representatives
Washington, D. C.
 
My Dear Mr. Freeman:

     In response to your request, I have the honor to advise you that you are herewith furnished, for Mrs. Mary B. Bishop, 142 Grove Street, Putnam, Connecticut, the histories of the following Revolutionary War soldiers.
     From the papers in the pension claim , W. 479, it appears that James Bugbee while a resident of Ashford, Windham County, Connecticut, enlisted December 1, 1775, served as a private in Captain William Hull's Company, Colonel Charles Webb's Connecticut Regiment until in August 1776 when he was transferred to Captain Grant's Company, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Knowlton's Rangers, was taken prisoner November 16, 1776 at Fort Washington and confined in the prison ship "Dutton" in New York until in January 1777 when he was released.
     He was allow pension on his application executed April 7, 1818 while a resident of Ashford, Connecticut.

The rest of this letter in Japhelle Cortis W. 17469 Ashbel Gridley W. 17961 [illegible]
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aged sixty years. He died January 26, 1827 in Ashford, Connecticut.
     Soldier married January 23, 1800 in Ashford, Connecticut, Thirza Welch of said Ashford, She was allowed pension on her application executed March 21, 1853 while a resident of Windham, Windham County, Connecticut, aged about seventy-six years.
     In 1820 soldier's grandchild, Hannah Addison, was aged four years , names of her parents not given, his son James Bugbee of Ashford, Connecticut died in September 1822, and a widowed daughter was living in Ashford, Connecticut in 1823, her name not stated.
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Revolutionary and 1812 Wars Section

                                     December 13, 1926

Marion E. Clarke
c/o The Winthrop Trust Company
New London, Connecticut

Madam:
     I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 479 it appears James Bugbee while a resident of Ashford, Windham county, Connecticut, enlisted December 1, 1775, served as a private in Captain William Hull's Company, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Knowlton's Rangers, was taken prisoner November 16, 1776 at Fort Washington and confined on the prison ship "Dutton' in New York until January 1777 when he was released.
     He was allowed pension on his application executed April 7, 1818 while a resident of Ashford, Connecticut aged sixty years. He died January 26, 1827 in Ashford Connecticut.
     Soldier married January 23, 1800 in Ashford, Connecticut, Thirza Welch o f said Ashford. She was allowed pension on her application executed March 21, 1853 while a resident of Windham,
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Windham County, Connecticut aged about seventy-six years.
     In 1820 soldier's grandchild, Hannah Addison, was aged four years, names of her parents not given, his son James Bugbee of Ashford, Connecticut died in September 1822, and a widowed daughter was living in Ashford, Connecticut in 1823, her name not stated.
                                 Respectfully,
                                 Winfield Scott
                                 Commissioner

widow's sister Elizabeth Welch
living with her in 1820
In 1821 so he stated he had a family of 9 - I did not use it - no names given
this includes all four - 
[illegible]
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By Place

Revolutionary WIDOW, and c.
File Number  479
Thirza Bugbee,
Widow,
James Bugbee,
Private Revolutionary War
Act. February 3, 1853
Index: - Volume A, Page 100
              {Arrangement of 1870.]

June 21/94 mailed history to Walter H. Coleman, 191 Berke Brooklyn, New York
December 13 - History to Marion E Clarke - [illegible]
January 21 History to Greg [illegible]  Freeman
for Mary Bishop [illegible}
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161.066

[illegible]

Lorin P. Waldo
Washington, D.C.
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[illegible]                                 [illegible] to labor

states that his son, on whom he relied for a support is dead, - wife aged 47 infirm, under bond for the support of his wife's sister, who is insane, and one grandchild, age not given

                      David C. Bolles, Esquire
                      Brooklyn, Connecticut
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                         28.576




                Revolutionary [illegible]
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                                                    April 11, 1853

Application of Thirza Bugbee
Widow of James
Connecticut
M 19

Act 3rd of February: 1853
$96l 00/100 per annum
Connecticut Revolutionary February 3rd 1853.

Jared D. Richmond
Ashford,
Windham County,
Connecticut

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Pension Office, Official Business
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                             Number 1164
                       Thirza Bugbee
Widow of James
Connecticut

Letter to J. D. Richmond
       20 June 1853
       11 August 1853

Act February 3, 1853
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District of Connecticut, ss.

At an adjourned Court of Common Pleas, holden at Brooklyn within and for the county of Windham, in said district - 
On this first day of May A.D. 18332 personally appeared in open Court, and being a court of Record for the county aforesaid, { Having the power of fine and imprisonment,} James Bugbee of Ashford in said County
aged Sixty Six years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare in order to obtain the pension [illegible] by the Acts of the18th March 1818 - first May 1830- 1st [illegible] 1823 that he served in the Revolutionary was as follows, viz: That he enlisted for the term of one year and one month on the 1st day of December in the year 1775 in the State of Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain William Hull in the regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Webb in the line of the state of Connecticut on the Continental establishment: that he continued to serve in the said corps until the 16th day of November 1776 when he was taken prisoner at fort Washington and released from imprisonment in the month of January 1777 - 
In the State of New York - I am a Revolutionary pensioner under the Act of Congress 18th March 1818 for which pension I applied on the 7th day of April 1818. The number of my certificate 3603 - My occupation is that of a farmer, but by reason of a broken shoulder, occasioned by a fall from a horse, I am unable to labor - to which is added a very severe Rheumatic affliction - I have a wife aged about forty seven years, and rather infirm - I am under bonds for the support of my wife's sister Elizabeth Welch, during her life, who is now insane and has been for many years. I am also obliged to support a grandchild by the name of Hannah Addison

And I do solemnly swear                    that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, ort 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, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; 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 hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Schedule of all the Estate, no change of clothing and bedding except owned by James Bugbee of Ashford in the County of Windham, State of Connecticut on the 30th day of April [illegible] - 
Two kitchen tables 1.50 - five old chairs 83c - fire shovel and tongs 1.00 pair of fire dogs, 50 c - small pot 3 small kettles 1.25- 21/2 tumblers 12c - 6 earthen plates 25c - 5 old tea cups and saucers 12c 6 old earthen plates 12c - 3 earthen bowls 25c 3 small pieces of tin ware 12 small bellows 30c - one hog head and 2 barrels 1.50 - one small draft chain, 80 one old ace 17 4 glass bottles 34 - old loom and quill wheel 3.00 [illegible] and wedge, 34 c - tin pail, 25c - one pair small steel yards, 12 c meal chest trough 50c Bible hymn book, 50c two spinning wheels 75
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owned by James Bugbee of Ashford [illegible] Connecticut on the 30th day of April viz - 
Two kitchen Table 1.50 - five old chairs 83c - fire shovel and tongs 1.oo pair of fire dogs, 50c - small pot and 3 small kettles 1.25-
6 old knives and forks, 34c - 1 black tin teapot, 17c - 5 iron spoons, 25c
2 - 1/2 pint tumblers, 12c - 6 earthen plates, 25c - 5 old tea cups and saucers, 12c
6 old earthen plates 12c - 3 earthen  bowls 25c - 2 small pieces tin ware, 12 c 2 earthen mugs, 10c - 1 pewter pint basin 17c - old chest with drawers - 50 small bellows. 30c - one hoghead and 2 barrels 1.50 - one small craft chair, 80 one old axe, 17c 4 glass bottles, 34 - old loom and quilt wheel 3.00 - [illegible] and wedge, 34c - tin pail, 25c - one pair small steely aids, 12c meal chest and trough, 50c - Bible and hymn book, 50c - two spinning wheel meal barrel 25 - frying pan, 34 c - stone jug, 16 c
                                           $16.91
And that since my first Schedule the following changes have been made in my property
Name of articles               To whom sold
1 brass kettle                    H Breckinridge
1 baby fire dog                 Do
1 flat iron                          Do
1 cheese tub                     Do
2 chests                             Do
1 wooden clock                 Do
1 looking glass                  Do
1/2 a cart                           Homer Grant
one hog                             Horace Aspinwall
1/2 mare                           Joseph Palmer
one [illegible]                    Eben Byles
three bows                        Joseph Palmer
12 Sheep and lambs          Eben Byles
Two yearlings                    Rowe Cooley
equity in everything
in mortgage farm             Joseph Palmer

Time of sale
2 March 1823
do
do 
do 
do 
do
do
September 1820
January 4, 1820
fall 1820
fall 1820
fall 1820
September 1820
September 1820
Amount received in return
$ 2.oo and owed on note against me
$0.34    Do
$0.75 [illegible] as above
1.34   Do
1.50   Do
4.50    Do
0.34   Do
$10.00 attached by a grant and sold by me to him to satisfy a just debt
$28.28 sold to Horace Aspinwall the avails in and on this note against me
$20.00 and applied on any debt to Horace Aspinwall
$4.00 - Applied on debt due from me to said Byles
$62.00 and applied in past payment of my debt due to Horace Aspinwall
$20.00 - Applied on 2 [illegible] in said Byles home against me in [illegible] of D. Brewster
$16.00 endorsed on his note against me
Equity taken by decree of the Honorable Superior Court as by copy of record herewith, appears - for which I got nothing
All of the  Articles contained in my first schedule and not herein specified, nor contained in my present schedule have been consumed in support of myself and my family
                                      James Bugbee 


                                                  10 77
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Sworn to and declared on First day of May A. D.
1823 before the Court of Common Pleas, for the County of Windham, in the district of Connecticut

           Attest. David C. Bolles    Clerk

I, David C. Bolles Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Windham, in the State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration and oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said Court, and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, is Sixteen dollars, and 91 Cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court, on this 30th day of May A. D. 1823

               David C. Bolles Clerk of the Court
               of Common Pleas for Windham       
               County

That it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that  James Bugbee did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the sum of nine months and under one engagement on the Continental state.
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District of Connecticut, ss.
At a Court of Common Pleas, holden at Brooklyn within and for the County of Windham, in said district-
On this thirtieth day of March A. D. 1821, personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record for the County aforesaid, [ Having the power of fine and imprisonment]
James Bugbee of Ashford in County District aged sixty three years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz: That he enlisted for the term of one year and one month on the first day of December in the year 1775 in the State of  Connecticut
in the company commanded by Captain William Hull
in the regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Webb
in the line of the State of Connecticut - on the Continental establishment: the he continued to serve in the said corps Colonel Knowlton's Rangers until the 16th day of November 1776 when he was taken prisoner at Fort Washington and released from Prison some time in the month of January 1777 -  in the State of New York
That he applied for a Pension under the Act of Congress of 18th March 1818 on the 7th day of April 1818. I was placed on the pension list of the Connecticut agency as er Certificate Number 3603 - That he is a farmer, that he is able to labor but very little through ill health and infirmity - That he has a wife named Thirza Bugbee aged forty five, rather infirm - That he applied for a continuance of his said pension,
pursuant to the Act of Congress of May 1st 1820 but his application was unsuccessful - that since the discontinuance of his pension he creditors have enforced the collection of their claims against him and have taken from him to satisfy his just bonafide debts, all his estate excepting the small amount contained int the annexed Schedule - necessary bedding excepted -
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; 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, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; 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 hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
                                     James Bugbee
A Schedule of all the Estate and income of James Bugbee aforesaid made out this thirtieth day of March A. D. 1821 -
1 chest 0.75 - 1 Table 0.75 - Two chairs 0.67
one pot 0.50                                              2.67
1 [illegible] 0.34 - 1 Tea Kettle 0.75 - 
1 dish kettle 0.25, 1 small pot 0.25            1.59
Shovel and tongs 1.25 - 2 pair fire dogs
1.25 - 1 pair flat irons 0.34                         2.84
1 brass kettle 2.00 - earthen ware 1.00
1 pewter basin and platters 83                  3.83
                 amount carried over               $10.93
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                  7.00
                                                           $38.73
     James BugbeeAmount brought over -------$10.93

4 bushels of corn 2.00 - 3 bushels of rye 2.00
                                                             4.00
100 weight of  pork 5.00 1 cow 10.00
1 shoal 1.80
                                                            11.80
one half of an old iron kettle 1.00
4 sheep 6.00                        
Sworn to and declared on the thirtieth day of March A. D. 1821 before the Court of Common Pleas, for the County of Windham, in the district of Connecticut.

                Attest. David C. Bolles   Clerk

I, David C. Bolles Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Windham, in the State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration and oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, the the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule , is thirty eight Dollars and 73 Cents $38.73 In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of the Said Court, on this 25th day of April

         David C. Bolles   Clerk of the Court
                              of Common Pleas for
                              Windham County.
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To the Honorable J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War the petition of James Bugbee of Ashford in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut humbly showeth that he was a pensioner under the law of the United States of 18th of March 1818 and was in 1820 stricken off the pension roll as a man of property when in truth he was not. That the schedule of his property in 1820 in June, now in the War Office will show that he was greatly in debt. Those identical debts have be force of law taken away all that he had except a small number of household articles of the first necessity which our laws protect from execution which do not amount of value to twenty dollars except {illegible} and bedding and some little provisions for the immediate use of his family.
     That your petitioner herewith transmits the copy of the Decree of the Court which swept away everything under him.
     He also sends to your Honour the testimony of the Selectman of the town who are overseers of the poor as to his present poverty and needy situation - 
     That your petitioner verily believes there is not one of his neighbors but such as will say upon on that his statement last made to you. They believe to be correct and that your petitioner was in 1818 ever since not worth one cent if his debts had been then paid and that your petitioner is very poor and needy and has a large family to support.
     Wherefore your petitioner prays your honour to take his case once more into consideration and to review all the testimony and upon being satisfied that your petitioner was on March 18 - 1818 and ever since a p oor old soldier as stated in his applications and he was stricken off the pension roll by mistake. To return him to his pension and he as in duty bound shall ever pray.
  Dated at Ashford this 14th November 1821
                              James Bugbee
State of Connecticut Windham County Ashford 14th of November A D 1821 that James Bugbee signer of the above came before me and made oath to the truth of the facts contained in the above petition
        Attest David Bolles Chief Judge
       of Windham County Court
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I Stephen Snow of Ashford in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut 65 years old do testify, and say that I have ever been acquainted with the within mentioned James Bugbee from his youth we are nearly of an age born and brought up near each other and I am now and for many years have been his nearest neighbor. I will remember him when he was brought home from New York after he had been a prisoner taken in Fort Washington and he was very sick weak and low and remained so about one year afterward.
     And I know that his creditors whom he owed in March 1818 have since that time taken away all his property except a pittance of household furniture and family provisions and one cow and he can safely swear out of jail at any time, and I am satisfied that the facts stated and sworn to by him in the foregoing  petition are true and he bears the character of a temperate industrious man of truth and veracity and he is lame in his shoulder which must disable him in a degree from working, as he otherwise might do, at his farming business, and he has a large family to support and further this deponent saith not
                              Stephen Snow
Windham [illegible] Ashford 14 November, 1821 Personally appeared Stephen Snow signer of the above deposition and made oath to the truth of the same
  before David Bolles Chief Judge of Windham
              County Court
     I testify that said Stephen Snow is a reputable farmer of fair moral character
             D Bolles Chief Judge
     David C Bolles Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut do certify that David Bolles Esquire, before whom foregoing affidavits have been made is Chief Judge of said County Court, that the foregoing signatures of his name are in his hand writing of full faith and credit ought to be given to his acts as such.
     In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Public Seal of said Court Brooklyn in said County this 19th day of November Anno Domino 1821
                          David C Bolles
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     This my certify that the under signed have been personally acquainted with James Bugbee for more than four years past and we do believe that the said Bugbee has been just in his dealing and his transactions have been fair with all mankind and he is in very low circumstances and we do not believe that he has put his property out of his hands for the purpose of obtaining a pension nor do we believe he wants to practice fraud on the United States he has got but very little property had one cow and household furniture in to amount the whole to about Seventeen dollars and no more and he has a family to the number of nine, himself included which he is in our opinion obliged to support and they are all poor himself infirm in one of his shoulders having been broke he is unable to do hard work am unacquainted with any kind of business but farming he is a very temperate man of good habit and very industrious. We believe he labors as much as he is able
     And further the Deponents Saith not
Ashford November 13th 1821
                         Abel Dow
                         John Preston
                         Daniel Knowlton
                         Peter S Minard
                                     Selectmen
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Windham County [illegible] Ashford November 13th A D 1821 Then appeared Abel Dow John Preston Daniel Knowlton and Peter S. Minard Selectmen of said Ashford and made solemn oath that the within Certificate was the truth and nothing but the truth
    Attest Thomas Dow Justice of the Peace
    
  I David C. Bolles Clerk of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut do certify that Thomas Dow Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit hath been made is duly enrolled as a Justice of the Peace within and for said Windham County, that the above signature is in his hand writing and full faith and credit ought to be given to his acts as such
     In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 
     my hand and affixed the public Seal of said
     Court of Brooklyn is said County this 19th
     day of November Anno Domini 1821
                             David C. Bolles

              James Bugbee's
              Petition
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Be it hereby known that I Horace Gaylord
of Ashford in the County of Windham and State of
Connecticut, aged fifty two years, do testify
and say, that I have examined the "Report
of the Secretary of War published by the resolves of
U.S. Senate of the 5th and 30th of of June 1834 and 3d
of March 1835 in 
relation to the Pension establishment of the U.S. and [illegible] that 
James Bugbee of
" Windham County Connecticut was a pensioner
under the act of 1818 at the rate of $96 per annum
and placed on the pension roll, Oct. 13, 1818 that
his pension commenced April 7th 1818 and was dropped
under the act of May 1st 1820 and restored-- commencing
May 1st 1823 and died Jan 26, 1827 -
and I further testify that I was well acquainted with
the aforesaid James Bugbee and with
Thirza Bugbee his widow and found from a book of
Records of Deaths, in this society, kept by myself
and also by my father for many years in which I have the
the following entry
Viz
Jan 26th 1827
James Bugbee died aged 69"
and that I knew them as husband and wife and do
further testify that Thirza Bugbee now of Windham
is now alive and is now the widow of the aforesaid
James Bugbee  and has ever remained the widow of
said James Bugbee (the (Revolutionary Pensioner,) since his death
Horace Gaylord
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State of Connecticut Windham
County ss Probate District of Ashford
Be it known that on the ninth day
of September AD 1853 personally appeared before me Horace Gaylord Signer
of the within and forgoing Deposition and
made solemn Oath to the truth of the same
before me
I further certify that the said Horace
Gaylord is to me well known and is a
credible person
Jared  D Richmond Judge of
the Court of Probate for
said District
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Ashford Sept. 13th 1853
Hon. L.P. Waldo Commissioner
of Pensions

Sir
your letter of the 17th August
last stating that the additional
Evidence in the case of Thirza Bugbee
under her claim very doubtful,
was received-- also stating that the
declaration proof and additional
Evidence all tend to show the death
of her husband to have been not within
10 years of the time the pensioner James
Bugbee died
I have enclosed herein the certificate
of Henry Fowler Clerk of the Pension
Agency at Hartford
which I think
confirms the Original declaration
Also the Deposition of Horace Gaylord
who examine the Report of the Secretary
of War as [illegible] as publish by
the resolves of U.S. Senate of the 5th
30th Jan 1834 and 3d of March
1835
It appears by the above certificate and
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and also by the above Deposition
that James Bugbee the Pensioner
died the 26th January 1827
Very Respectfully
Jared D. Richmond
---
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Brief in the case of Thirza Bugbee, widow of James
Windham County and state of Connecticut
act 3rd Feby. 1853

Claim (original,[crossed out or " increase])
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by the rolls? If wither, state the substance.
Husband was a pensioner under the
Act of 18" March 1818. & Cont
Record evidence of Marriage
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Name and residence of Agent
Jared D. Richmond Esqr
17
Ashford
Windham Co:
Conn
Name and residence of Agent
S.C. Boynton,
Examining Clerk.
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Pension Office
13th June 1853
Sir:
James Bugbee was inscribed upon
the roll of Connecticut as a private in the
War of the revolution, at the rate of $96.00 per 
Annum. To what time was he paid?
I have the honor to be pr:
Respectfully your Obt Servt
JP Waldo
Commissioner
Pensioned under the act March 18, 1818
[crossed out of June 7 1832]
James Bugbee Died 26th January 1827
Paid to his death

Fr Burt 
Auditor
Franics Burt. Esqr.
Third Auditor of the Treasury

N.B.-- We gave you
the death of
John in
stead of James Bugbee in
the former answer
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Pension Agency
Hartford Sept. 6. 1853
I hereby certify that it appears from
the Books in this Agency that James Bugbee
a resident of Windham County State of Connecticut
was a pensioner of the United States under the
act of 18 March 1818 at Ninety Six Dollars
per annum and died on the 26th day
of January 1827

Attest Henry Fowler
Clerk for Pension Agent
State of Connecticut
County of Hartford
Be it known that on this 6th day
of September 1853 before me Horace Gaylord a Notary
Public in and for the County and State aforesaid personally
appeared Henry Fowler above named and made
oath to the truth of the above certificate by him
subscribed
Horace Gaylord Notary Public
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Ashford August 3d 1853

Hon. L.P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions &c
Your letter of the 20th June last
was recd saying that Mrs Thirza Bugbee did
not for with sufficient evidence of her
identity & Widowhood, also that her Husand is not the within ten years
of the time she sets forth in her declaration
and proves is to have taken place"
I have no copy of the declaration or of the
proof in support of it, but my impression
is that it was in January 1827
that she declares his death to have taken
place. I may have made a mistake of
ten years in allowing the declaration
I am now unable to account for in
if such a mistake exists.
I have enclosed herein four depositions
which I think will establish his death
to be in January 1827. That Thirza Bugbee
who claims a pension as his widow and who
now lives in Windham in Connecticut is in
point of fact the widow of the said James who
was a Revolutionary Pensioner of Connecticut at the time of his death
Respectfully,
Jared D Richmond
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I Benjamin C. Simmons of Ashford in the County
of Windham and State of Connecticut aged sixty three
years depose and say that I was well acquainted with
James Bugbee a Revolutionary Pensioner of
the United States formerly residing in said Ashford
with whom Thirza Bugbee lived as his wife which
I have not the least doubt the was, and that the said
Thirza Bugbee is now living in Windham, Windham
County as the widow of said James Bugbee above
named. I do not recollect the time of the decease
of the said James Bugbee further your deponent saith not
Benjamin C. Simmons
State of Connecticut, County of 
Windham ss 
Probate District of
Ashford July 27 A.D. 1853

Then then personally appeared Benjamin
Simmons signer of the forgoing deposition and made solemn oath to the truth
of the same and I certify that said
Benjamin is to me well known and
that his is a credible person and
entitled to belief
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed
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the seal of said Court of Probate the
day and year last above mentioned
Jared D. Richmond Judge
of the Court of Probate
for said District
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I Lois H. Carpenter of Ashford
in the County of Windham and State of
Connecticut aged sixty two years do
depose and say that I was well acquainted with
James Bugbee late of said Ashford
deceased and late a Revolutionary Pensioner
of the United States. He lived in in said Ashford now [illegible] the neighbourhood when I then lived for two
or three years untill he died and I
saw him and his wife Thirsa Bugbee
frequently. James Bugbee aforesaid
died in the month of
January A.D
1827. The reason why I recollect the
time is that my Father died in
January 1826 and Mr. Bugbee died
the January
following.
He was a
Pensioner, but how much he drew I
Cannot say, my impression is it was ninety six
dollars per annum
---
the aforesaid Thirza Bugbee
now lives
in Windham
on the County of
Windham
and State of Connecticut and is the widow
of the said James Bugbee. I know her to
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be the same identical person who
lived with the said James Bugbee as
his wife untill he died; and after
his death she came to live at our
house and has lived their by spell
some two or three years since his
death. I was not present at the
marriage, but they lived together as Husband and wife, during all the time I was
acquainted with them, which was several
years and have no doubt in the last but
what she was his lawful wife and is
now his widow and further deponent saith
not
Lois H. Carpenter
State of Connecticut Windham County
ss
Probate District of Ashford August
1st
AD 1853
Then personally appeared Lois H.
Carpenter Signer of the forgoing deposition
and made solemn Oath to the truth
of the same and I certify that I have
long been acquainted with the sd
lady and believe her to be a credible
person and the above statement she
has made
Entitled
to credit and belief
In testimony
whereof I have hereunto
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set my hand and affixed the seal
of
said Court of Probate the day
and year last above mentioned
Jared D. Richmond Judge
of the Court of Probate
for said District
[seal]
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I Lydia Dow of Windham County
of Windham and State of Connecticut
aged seventy five years do depose and
say that I was well acquainted with
James Bugbee late of Ashford in Dence
County deceased and late a Revolutionary
Pensioner of the United States and of the State of Connecticut seen him and was some acquainted with him prior to the Spring of 1824 when he moved on to the place of my husband
Thomas Dow. Now in Eastfow in same county. He used to call occasionally
at our house to see my Husband on business
but I became more intimately acquainted with
him and with his wife Thirza Bugbee
after their removal on to my Husbands
place above mentioned
They lived but a short distance from
us and I was frequently at their house
Had he lived untill the first of April
1827 He would have staice on this
place according to my recollection three
years. But he died, I should think
in the latter part of the month of
January 1827, the day I do not
collect, nor have I any means of telling
but that is the time according to my
best recollection.
I further depose and say that the said
James Bugbee was a Revolutionary Pensioner
of the United States, but how large a pension he drew I am unable now to state precisely, I think it was short of a hundred
dollars
I further depose and say that the said
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Thirsa Bugbee now resides in Windham
County of Windham and State aforesaid and
that she is the widow of the said James
Bugbee and know her to be the same
person who lived with the said James
Bugbee as his wife and further dependant
saith now
Lydia Dow
Windham County of Ashford July
21st 1853
Then personally appeared Lydia Dow
signer of the forgoing Deposition and made
solemn oath to the truth of the same before
me and I certify that I am well acquainted with the said Lydia and consider
her to be a credible person and the statement she has made within the credit of tesitmony
whereof the [illegible] set my hand and seal of Court of Probate for arrangement this day above
magistrate Jared D Richmond Judge of Probate
for Ashford District.
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I Mariette D. Bartlett of Windham
County of Windham and State of
Connecticut aged thirty seven years do
depose and say that I was well aquainted 
with a James Bugbee late of
Ashford deceased and late a Revoltionary Pensioner of the United States
He lived on my Fathers, Thomas Dow, place (then
in Ashford Now Eastford) according to
my last recollection, nearly three
years. He died in the winter of 1827
in the month of January according to
my best recollection. The reason why 
I recollect the time is that my
Brother Henry L. Dow was married
the last day of December 1826 and
Mr Bugbee was sick at that time very
soon after with a lung fever of which
he died. His death may have taken
place in February, but my impression
now is that it was in January as above
State
I further depose and say, that I am
well acquainted with Thirza Bugbee
of Windham County of Windham and
State of Connecticut and know her to
be the Widow of the said James Bugbee
die? I first knew them at the time
they move on to my Fathers place
when they staid untill his death a
period of almost three years. They were
war neighbors of my Father and
I was after them-- Mrs Thirsa Bugbee
his widow has lived a cosiderable
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portion of the time since his death with my sisters and myself. I also further depose and say that Mr. said James Bugbee was a Revolutionary pensioner with State of Connecticut and drew a  pension according to my best recollection of ninety and [illegible] dollars per annum and am further deponent saith not
                          Mariette D Bartlett

Windham County of Ashford July 15th 1853 then  personally appeared Mariette D. Bartlett signer of the foregoing deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same before me and I certify that the said Mariette is well {illegible] to me and considered by same to be a credible person and the statement she has given [illegible]
                        [illegible] D. Rishnnow 
                        Justice of the Court of 
                        Probate for the District
                        of Ashford
Page 55

Ashford April 29, 18223
This may certify that I have since the year 1821 had and am [illegible] put into my hands for collection against Mr. James Bugbee of said Ashford I am of which did not exude four dollars and I am [illegible] longer all of which [illegible] am still unpaid and I never have since the [illegible] were put into my hands been able to find property of J. Bugbee which was by law exempt from [illegible] sufficient to pay said debt or debts.
       Ebenezer Byles [illegible] Sheriff Deputy

Windham of Ashford April 30, 1823
Personally appeared Ebenezer Byles Signer of the above and foregoing writing and made solemn oath that the same contains the truth and nothing but the truth 
Sworn before me Philip Hayward, Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above named Ebenezer Byles is well known to me and is a man of the {illegible] integrity honesty and respectability and [illegible]
   Philip Hayward Justice of the Peace
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I David C. Bolles Clerk of the County Court within & for the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut do certify that Philip Hayward Esquire, before whom the foregoing & annexed affidavits of Ebenr. Byles & Isaac Kendal Jr. have severally been taken, is duly enrolled as a Justice of the Peace within & for sd County - That the several signatures of his name annexed thereto are in his handwriting and full faith & credit ought to be given to his acts as such.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the publick Seal of said Court at Brooklyn in said County this 30th day of May AD 1823.
David C. Bolles Clerk.
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Ashford April 30th A.D. 1823
This may certify that I had an attachment put into my hands against Mr. James Bugbee of Ashford in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut, in November 1821. I then made diligent search for property whereon to levy sd attachment but could find none except such as was by law exempt from being taken on Exn. and since that time I have had on Execution in my hands to collect against sd Bugbee amounting to fifteen dollars but am unable to find property to satisfy sd Exn. or any part thereof.
Attest Isaac Kendal Jr Constable

Windham SS Ashford May 1st AD 1823
Personally appeared Mr. Isaac Kendall Jr signer of the above and foregoing writing and made solemn oath to the truth of the same Sworn before me
Philip Hayward Justice of Peace

Windham SS Ashford May 1st AD 1823
I certify that the above mentioned Isaac Kendall is well known to me and that he is a man of integrity and honesty and is and has been for one year last October a Constable in the town of Ashford
Philip Hayward Justice of Peace
Page 58

Windham County SS Superior Court January Term ASom. 1821
Upon the Petition of Joseph Palmer of Ashford in Windham County stating to this Court that on the 26th day of February 1812 James Bugbee and James Bugbee Junr, both of said Ashford for a valuable consideration by them received of your Petitioner conveyed by deed of warrantee to your Petitioner two tracts or parcels of land with the buildings thereon standing, lying partly in said Ashford and partly in said Ashford and partly in Mansfield in Windham County and is the same lands that Solomon Welch sold the said Bugbees & also stating that said deed has the following conditions viz - The condition of the above deed is such whereas the sd. James Bugbee and James Bugbee Junr. have made and executed into the said Joseph Palmer a note of hand of even date with said for the sum of three hundred & fifty dollars payable in one year from the date with annual interest and also stating that if the said James and James Junr. their heirs executors administrators or assigns should pay said note according to the true intent and meaning of the same the sd. deed to be void otherwise to remain in full force, and also further stating that on the 25th day of April ADon. 1809 the said James and James Junr. conveyed by like deed of warrantee the above described land to Solomon Welch then of said Ashford now deceased conditioned
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conditioned among other things that the said James and James Junr. should well and truly pay the executor or administrator of the sd. Welch eight hundred thirty three dollars thirty four cents within eighteen months after the decease of the said Solomon and by so doing said deed to be void - otherwise to stand in full force and virtue, and also stating that the said Solomon Welch died on or about the first day of January ADon. 1811 - And that Abel Simons Esqr. then of said Ashford but since deceased took administration on the goods and estate of said Welch deceased in due form of law and that after the said Simon had taken administration on said Welch' estate, viz, on the 7th day of September 1812 he the said Simon administrator as aforesaid for a valuable consideration sold & assigned said note and deed, to your Petitioner and also stating that the said James Bugbee & James Bugbee Junr. nor either of them had not kept & performed the condition or conditions contained in said deed or deeds but had wholly failed and refused to perform the same, nor had the sd. Bugbees or either of them paid said notes or any part thereof, and also praying said Court to consider his cause as a court of equity and order and appoint some just and reasonable time in which the said James Bugbee and James Bugbee Junr. shall pay your Petitioner the amount of said notes and deeds and in default thereof they the said James Bugbee & James Bugbee Junr.
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their heirs and assigns and all persons claiming under them to be forever thereafter be secluded and banned as per Petition on file will appear. And this Court having inquired into the truth of the facts stated in said Petition and having duly considered of the same do find them to be true and that there is due to the Petitioner on sd. notes on the 7th day of January ADon. 1821 - the sum of one thousand eight hundred & eighty one dollars and eighty four cents, and this Court doth therefore order and decree that upon the sd. James Bugbee & James Bugbee Junr. failing to pay to the Petitioner the said sum of $1881.84 cents on or before the first Monday of March AD. 1821. with the interest thereon from the seventh day of January AD 1821. together with the cost of this suit taxed at $17.22 shall be forever thereafter foreclosed in equity to redeem said mortgaged premises.
A true copy of record
Examined Sam Gray Clerk
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I Joseph Palmer testify and say that I have lived in the Town of Ashford for more than sixty five years that I ever since my remembrance have been acquainted with James Bugbee of Ashford in the county of Windham state of Connecticut that I recollect dureing the revolutionary war said Bugbee returned it was said from New York having been taken a prisoner at Fort Washington that he was very sick and low for a long time that I used to visit him with my father who was his attending physician that since then I have attended upon him with severe attacks & from the similarity of symptoms have attributed his sickness considerably to the injury his constitution received by his sufferings and sickness at that time. And further as it regards his pecuniary circumstances having lived a neighbour to him for about fourteen years and doing business with and for him have known him ever to be in debt more than he was able to discharge but from the hope that his son who lived with him would be able to assist and support him his friends and creditors let him live untill he was stricken from the Pension List (and his son died insolvent) when his creditors who were first apprised of it struck upon him and took everything not leaveing one half what the law of the state would allow him. And further at the time his schedule was made out and sent on for the continuance of his pension there was a great error or emission (for by request since) I have examined the same and find no exhibit was made of all of his debts except what was secured by mortgage after those for which a petition for foreclosure was brought which debts amounted to more than three hundred dollars at the time whereby he has become very destitute no house to live in except one with a small garden hired by a widowed daughter who is poor and no means except her labour and the said James Bugbee is aged is lame and decriped and unable to support himself by labour is poor & in indigent circumstances and needs aid from his country
Joseph Palmer M.D

Ashford April 29th, 1923
NB
It has in no way come to my knowledge that the said Bugbee has debts or property in any persons hands that he expects to take benefit from or with intention to defraud his creditors or to obtain his pension or do I believe it
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State of Connecticut Windham County SS
Ashford May 1st 1823
Then personally appeared Doctr. Joseph Palmer the subscriber to the within deposition and made solemn oath that the same is the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth before me
Josias Byles Justice of Peace

This may certify that the within named Doctor Joseph Palmer is confirmed a man of truth and verasity by all who are acquainted with him
Certified by me Josias Byles Justice of Peace

Woodstock May 1st 1823
I hereby certify that I have for a number of years been acquainted with Docr. Joseph Palmer the within deponent and know him to be one of the principal inhabitants of Ashford and a man of much merit. Full confidence can safely be placed in his statements and probity
Eben. Stoddard

I David C. Bolles Clerk of the County Court within & for the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut do certify that Josias Byles Esquire before whom the proceeding & annexed affidavits & Dr. Joseph Palmer & Genl. Stephen F. Palmer, have severally been made, is duly enrolled as a Justice of the Peace within & for said Windham County - that the signature of his name annexed thereunto, is in his handwriting & full faith & credit ought to be given to his acts as such - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the publick seal of sd. court at Brooklyn in sd. county this 3rd day of May 1823
David C. Bolles
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State of Connecticut Windham County SS Ashford May 1st 1823
Personally appeared the within named Stephen F. Palmer and made that the within deposition by him subscribed contains the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth before me
Josias Byles Justice of Peace

I certify that the within named Stephen F. Palmer is considered a man of truth and verasity Certified by me Josias Byles Justice of Peace

Woodstock May 1st, 1823
This may certify that I have for many years been acquainted with General Stephen F. Palmer the within subscribing deponent & know him to be a gentleman of great respectability in whose veracity entire confidence may be reposed
Eben. Stoddard
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I hereby certify that I have lived a neighbour to James Bugbee of Ashford in the county of Windham state of Connecticut for twelve years that I have at all times considered him in embarrassed circumstances and to owe more than he was worth and find he was stricken from the pension list his creditors have striped him of everything that he is lame & unable to support himself, that he is poor & needy, & no children or relative in circumstances to help him.
Stephen F. Palmer

Ashford 29th April AD 1823

To Whom Concerned
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I Artimas Fletcher of Mansfield in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut of lawful age testify and say that I am neighbour to James Bugbee of Ashford in sd. County and have been well acquainted with him for more than twenty years past. When his pension was granted to him he was greatly in debt to many persons and when he was stricken off the pension roll his investors struck upon him and he had to part with every thing that he had to pay them except a few articles excused by law from attachment. He is quite an infirm man, his son James Bugbee Jr who lived with him and on whom he relied for help to get a livelihood died last September and left no estate and there is no doubt but that James Bugbee does stand in need of the assistance of his Country for support
Artimas Fletcher

State of Connecticut Windham SS Ashford 30th April 1823
Personally appeared Artimas Fletcher signer of the above deposition a man personally known to me as a credible witness and made oath to the truth of sd. deposition before
David Bolles Chf. Judge of Windham County Court

I David C. Bolles Clerk of the County Court within & for the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut do certify that David Bolles Esquire, before whom the preceeding affidavit hath been made, is Chief Judge of said County Court - and that the foregoing signature of his name is in his handwriting. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the publick Seal of sd. Court at Brooklyn in sd. County this 30th day of May AD 1823
David C. Bolles
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I Joseph Palmer of Ashford in the county of Windham State of Connecticut testify and say according to the best of my recollection in the spring or forepart of summer in the year 1777 or 78 when I was a student at Physicks I went with my father who was the attending physician to visit Jame Bugbee of said Ashford who it was said at the time had been captured at Fort Washington & confined in the British prison ship at New York and at this time greatly emaciated & very sick with a feaver & local affictions in the lungs whereby he remain'd in a very low state for for a length of time with symptoms of an approaching Heatiche
Ashford Novr. 14th 1821
Joseph Palmer

Windham County SS Ashford Novr. the 14 1821 personally appeared Joseph Palmer MD and made oath before me that the above is the truth & the whole truth according to his best recollection
John Warren Justice of the Peace
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I David C. Bolles Clerk of the County Court, or Court of Common Pleas, within & for the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut do certify that John Warren Esquire, before whom the within affidavit hath been made is duly enrolled as a Justice of the Peace within & for sd. Windham County, that the foregoing signature of his name is in his hand writing & full faith & credit ought to be given to his acts as such - In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the publick seal of said Court at Brooklyn in said County this 19th day of November Anno Domini 1821.
David C. Bolles
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At a Superior Court holden in Brooklyn in and for the County of Windham and State of Connecticut on the first Tuesday in January ADom 1821.
Present the Honoble. Jeremiah G. Brainard Esqr. Judge

Upon the Petition of Joseph Palmer of Ashford in Windham County Stating to the Court that on the 26th day of February 1812. James Bugbee and James Bugbee Junr. both of said Ashford for a valuable consideration by them received of your Petitioner, conveyed by deed of warrantee to your Petitioner Two tracts or parcels of land with the buildings thereon standing, lying partly in said Ashford and partly in Mansfield in Windham County and is the same land that Solomon Welch sold the said Bugbees & also stating that the said deed has the following considerations - the condition of the above deed is such - whereas the said James Bugbee and James Bugbee Junr. have made & executed unto the said Joseph Palmer a note of land of even date with said deed for the sum of three hundred & fifty dollars payable one year from the date with annual interest - and also stating that if the said James and James Junr. , then heir, executive adminisor. or assigner shall pay said note according to the true intent
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intent and meaning of the same the said deed to be void otherwise to remain in full force - and also further stating that on the 25th day of April AD. 1809 the said James & James Junr. conveyed by like deed of warrantee the above described land to Solomon Welch then of said Ashford now deceased - conditioned among other things that the said James & James Junr. should well and truly pay the executor or administrator of the said Welch - eight hundred, thirty three dollars thirty four cents written eighteen months after the decease of the said Solomon and by so doing said deed to be void - otherwise to stand in full force and virtue - and also stating that the said Solomon Welch died on or about the first day of January AD 1811 - and that Abel Simmons Esqr. then of said Ashford, but since deceased took administration on the goods and estate of said Welch deceased in due form of said - and that after the said Simmons had taken administration on said Welch's estate - viz on seventh day of September 1812, he the sd. Simmons administrator as aforesaid for a valuable consideration sold and assigned said note and deed to your Petitioner and
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and also stating that the said James Bugbee & James Bugbee Junr. not either of them, had not kept and performed the condition or conditions contained in sd. deed or deeds, but had wholly failed & refused to perform the same nor had the Bugbees or either of them paid sd. note or any part thereof, and also praying sd. court to consider his cause as a court of equity and order and appoint some just & reasonable time in which the sd. James Bugbee & James Bugbee Junr., shall pay your Petitioner the amount of sd. notes & deeds and in default thereof they the said James Bugbee & James Bugbee Junr. their heirs and assigns and all persons claiming under them to be forever thereafter excluded & barred - and Petition on file will appear.

And this Court having inquired into the truth of the facts stated in said Petition - and having duly considered of the same - do find them to be true, and that there is due to the Petitioner on said notes on the seventh day of January AD 1821, the sum of one thousand, eight hundred and eighty one dollars and eighty four cents.

And this Court doth therefore order and decree that upon the said James Bugbee and James Bugbee Jur. failing to pay to the Petitioner, the said sum of one thousand eight hundred & eighteen dollars & eighty four cents on or before the first Monday of March AD 1821 with the
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with the interest thereon from the seventh day of January ADom 1821, together with the cost of this just taxed ct $17.22. Shall be for ever there after forclosed in equity to redeem said mortgaged premises

The above and foregoing annexed are true copies of the Superior Court of the State of Connecticut. In testimony whereof the Public Seal of said Court is hereunto affixed at Windham this 24th day of April ADom 1823.
Sam Gray Clerk
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161.066
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Willimantic 1st June, 1855
Sir 

A__d is the application and declaration of Widow Thirza Bugbee for a Bounty Land warrant. Pleae reccollect the circumstance of her obtaining a pension certificate in Sept. 1853. Her husbands name being confounded with another mans name, who was a soldier from same town. His name James Bugbee was found in Belden's office  Rushford Ct in documents published by Congress in 1818 & 1814--Jared Richmond Esq of Ashford was her agent & obtained her pension for her two years since.

Levin P. Waldo Esq. Commissioner of Pensions
S. J. C. Bartlett for Thirza Bugbee

Address to J. Bugbee Willimantic CT
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2 columns of writing on page

1st column

Connecticut
James Bugbee, priv.
served 13 mo. from Decr 1775
1st Sched. dated 21 June 1820.
Redemption right in a farm $303.59
Half of the rents of profits of " 50.--
Personal property                 161.78
        Total                            $515.37

Resd June 16, 1823
Sched 2 under act of Ma 1, 1823
[dated 1 May1823]
Exhibits personal property to the
amt of     $16.91
accounts for the dec use of 
property &c.
Redemption land with  pres???? (illegible)
taken by decree of rt Hon Supr 
court Jan 7 1821 as appears by
papers properly authenticated
sold Jan 7 18?? (blurred out) 1 hog to Storrs & 
Aspinwall for $28.28 awaits applied 
to past paymt. of a debt due se S & (corner of page is missing


2nd column

Sept. 1820 sold of a Cart to M Grant for $10 attached by [?] to satisfy a debt. --In the fall of 1820sold Jo Palmer 1/2  for $20 applied to the paymt of a debt due Storrs & Aspinwall In the 
fall of 1820. Sold 1 calf to E. Byles 
for $4 to satisfy a debt owed sd B. In the fall of '20 sold 3 cows to Jo Palmer for $62 in part payment of a debt due Storrrs & Aspinwall
Sept 1820 sold 12 sheep & lambs to E. Byles for 20 dolls. applied on 2 debts in favor of D. Brewster.
Sept 1820 sold 2 yearlings for $16 applied to paymt of a debt dueL. R. Cooley to whom they were sold.
sold 2 Mar 1823, some articles of furniture (items & prices given) to the amt. of $10.77 to H. Breckenridge to satisfy a debt due sd. B
Total amt sold  $171 65/100 for which there is a certificate of the Clk Ct as to the corrections 
of sales --
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Congress of the United States
house of Representatives
Official Business-Free

Richard P. Freeman 
M.O.
[stamp] WASHINGTON D.C. 6 JAN 10 12-M 1929 NOTIFY YOUR CORRESPONDENTS OF CHANGE OF ADDRESS

Pension Department,
Revolutionary War Division.
Interior Department.
Washington, D.C.

Cong. Freeman wrote me a letter to this bureau just enclosed in this envelope, Mary B Bishop's letter to [illegible] re: which Ive requested [illegible] to get from Pension Bureau record of 3 soldiers James Bugbee W. 479 Japheth Corttes W. 17649 & Ashbel Gridley W. 17961 - she also asked
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for Edmund Farwell there was no
Rev
pension claim for him - her letter
was returned to -
Cong Freeman -
AWF
Jan 22 - 1929
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WALTER H. COLEMAN.
B 191 BERKELEY PLACE
BROOKLYN, N. Y., May 25 1894
Sir
There was living in the town of Willimantic, Connecticut in the year 1859 Jan 21 an aged
widow named Thina Bugbee.
Her husband had been a soldier in the Connecticut or R I troops of the Revolutionary war and she was a pensioner. (So
understood)
She lived in the family of Mr S. J. C. Bartlett
There had been some difficulty in granting the pension about record proof of Marriage I believe, owing to general carelessness in those days and after now in making and preserving records.
Exactly when she died I do not know but it
was after 1859 and I think she continued to be one of the latest Revolutionary pensioners
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2

in the State of Conn.
Will you do me the favor to have your files Examined, as well of rejected, or suspended cases, as of these allowed and inform me what
they and the records show as to her & her husband & children & grandparents. 
If the case is found and my information proves correct I should like a detailed memo of the facts, names of parties, dates of birth  marriage, death, service &c &c. or any thing else serving to aid an ancestral search.
I will cheerfully pay any copying or other fee
for the Search as hereby asked

Very respectfully
Walter Coleman
To
The Hon Commissioner of
Pensions
Interior Dept
Washington D.C.
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CUSTOMERS ROOM
October 15, 1926
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:

Kindly send a copy of pension papers
of James Bugbee of Charles Webb's Regiment, of the Knowlton Rangers of Connecticut, Revolutionary War, and any information which you may have
concerning said James Bugbee and family.
Will send check for any charge connected
with this service.
Very truly yours,
Marion E. Clark
[stamp] PENSION U.S. OFFICE OCT 16 1926