Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 10952, William W Ellsworth, New York
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SERVICE
New York 
Ellsworth, William W.
Barbara 
NUMBER
W.10952                                
B.L.Wt. 26628-160-55
CONTENTS
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7.750
Ohio - Pittsburgh.
Wm. W. Ellsworth, of Cleaveland [Cleveland] in the State of Ohio, who was a [illegible] & Sergt, in the Comp'y. commanded by Captain Hardenburg of the Regt. commanded by --- in the N.Y. Militia line for two years.
Sergt. 16 mos = $60.00
Private 8 mos $26.66
$106.66

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio (Pittsburgh) at the rate of 106 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of Mar, 1833 and sent to P. Hoadly, Cleaveland, Ohio.

Arrears to the 4th of Mar. 1833 213.32
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. 1833 53.33
$266.65

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Wm R. Palmer, Clerk,
Book E Vol. 8, Page 110.
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2.676 Illinois
["Ohio, Cleveland" crossed out]
Barbara Ellsworth
widow of NY. William W who served in the Revolutionary war
as a Pri &  Sgt

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 106 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.

Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of Octr. 53 and sent to
Loren Prentiss Cleveland Ohio

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 163 Vol. A
32

1854 Nov. 25
Transferred from Cleveland O to Springfield Ill. fr. to Sept. 5th & Note to J. E. Bassett

[written vertically]
Reg M 55-56570
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56.570 Act Mar 3 / 55
Apl 10 / 55

Barbara Ellsworth wid of Wm. Ellsworth Sergt.
Capt. Ellsworth
Col.
Revolutionary pension
Boynton
Ills. Feby 53 - No 2676

av:160.aa May 16 / 56
B. O. Y[illegible signature]

McClure & Cogswell
Woodstock Ill.

to McClure & Cogswell Sept. 12 / 55
" [to McClure & Cogswell] Octr. 13 / 55
31

Vol. E. 74.

[written diagonally across page]
Wt 26628: ss May 20 / 56
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The State of Ohio, Cuyahoga County
Common Pleas
November Term 1832

On the fifth day of November A 1832 in open court before the Judges then of now sitting personally came William W. Ellsworth a resident of Mayfield township in said county of Cuyahoga and state of Ohio, aged sixty nine years on the 26th day of December 1831 who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress passed June 7 A 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States and served as herein stated.
May 1. 1778 he went on to the frontier to Shindekin [presumably Fort Shandaken] toward Delaware river to guard against the Indians in a notch of the mountains, was out seven months. He then lived at New Paltz Ulster County New York, and went as a substitute in the New York militia under Capt. Korsodus Hardenburgh. He went as a serjeant [sergeant] and acted in that capacity.
May 1. 1779 went on to Lackawack staid six months and three weeks, twenty two in number, to guard against the Indians, was a serjeant and served under Captain Schoonmocker [Schoonmaker], one month for himself and the residue of the term for his neighbors as a substitute.
In 1780 last of April, he went to Lurin Kill, 25 miles S.W. of Kingston, served three 1/2 months under Captain Brodhead.
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was a serjeant [sergeant], went then to Memecottin, was there two 1/2 months.
April 1. 1781 enlisted in Poughkeepsie for nine months in the New York militia under Captain Gilbert Livingston, Lieut. Benjamin Ostrander, ninety five privates in the whole, marched to the Blue Mountains west of Saugerties was there nine month, went first from Poughkeepsie to Fishkill, then in a sloop up the river to Cantines Point, then to Esopus, then to Saugerties, received orders there from Major Paulding then marched to the Blue Mountains, built Fort Defiance, and having served out the time was dismissed in Esopus 1st January 1782.
The applicant resided in New Paltz until forty five years old, then removed to Seneca in Ontario county. Fifteen years ago last February came to Chagrin, Cuyahoga county Ohio. After six months removed to Euclid the adjoining township same county. After two years went back to Chagrin, continued there about four years, then removed to Mayfield his present abode where he has been nine years last February.
In the year 1778 in the forepart of the year he was a serjeant in Captain Potters company and was frequently called out in pursuit of Tories some expeditions were out a week, sometimes two or three weeks and also during the winter of 1779. In the winter of 1780 he was frequently called out in the same manner. He cannot particularize these services, but from 1778 to the close of the war he was most of the time engaged in the regular militia service as before stated [illegible] in pursuing and guarding the Tories.
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The applicant was born in Poughkeepsie Dutchess county and state of New York, but while an infant his parents removed ["over the river"crossed out] to New Paltz in Ulster county. The preceding services were all under the authority of the State of New York. He does not know whom to call in as living witnesses. There is no clergyman in Mayfield where he now resides. He has no documentary evidence and was always honorably discharged.
The applicant is well known to Peleg Sterman, Samuel Waldo, to Isaac Brown of Chagrin. The two magistrates of Mayfield; to Caleb Lietch late magistrate in Orange the adjoining township and to Dr. John M. Henderson, postmaster at Chagrin. They will all certify to his character and have known him many years. So will Judge N. Allen & Dr. George W.  Card of Chagrin.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
William W. Ellsworth ["his" and "mark" written above and below the "/" mark designating his signature]

Sworn to in open court Nov. 6. 1832.
[signature] Horace Perry, Clerk Com. Pleas

We Isaac Brown of Chagrin, Justice of the Peace and Caleb Lietch, late Justice in Orange do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William W. Ellsworth who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to sixty nine years of age, he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion.
[signatures] 
Isaac Brown
Caleb Litch

Sworn to in open Court Nov 6 1832
[signature] Horace Perry, Clerk Com Pleas
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And the said Courts do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them Samuel Brown & Caleb Litch who have signed the within certificate are residents in the County of Cuyahoga and are credibles  persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
The State of Ohio, Cuyahoga County ss.
I Horace Perry Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said Court in the matter of the application of William W. Ellsworth for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this fourteenth day of November one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
Horace Perry - Clerk, CP

Entered
W. W. Ellsworth
20201
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State of Ohio
Cuyahoga County} ss
On this 20th day of August 1852, personally appeared before the probate court within and for said county, being a County Record, Barbara Ellsworth a resident of said county, aged 68 years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress, passed July 29, 1848. She declares that Wm. W. Ellsworth, deceased was a private & Sergeant in the army of the revolution, and held a certificate of pension for $106.66/100 per annum, during his life, commencing March 4th 1831, which certificate is dated March 28, 1843, is hereto attached and herewith surrendered & she refers to the evidence on file, on which said certificate was issued as evidence of the service of said Wm. W. Ellsworth, in the war of the Revolution. She further declares that she does not know and cannot state what company or regiment the said Wm. W. served in, nor the length of such service, but she in like manner refers to the said evidence on file to show these facts. She further declares that the said Wm. W. Ellsworth died on the 22 day of March 1852. She further declares that she was married to the said Wm. W. Ellsworth on the 4th day of August 1799. That she was not
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married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the second of January 1800, viz: At the time above stated. She further declares that she is now a widow, & that she has never before made any application for a pension.
Barbara Ellsworth ["her" and "mark" written above and below the "X" mark designating her signature]
Witness - L. Prentiss

Subscribed & sworn to on the day and year first above written, in open Court. Witness my hand and seal of said Probate court this 20th day of August 1852.
[signature] F. W. Bringham Judge

The State of Ohio, Cuyahoga County, SS.
I hereby Certify, That F. W. Bringham Esq. who has subscribed the foregoing paper as a Judge of Probate Court was at the time of so doing, such judge in and for the county of Cuyahoga, and State of Ohio, duly authorized to administer oaths and take acknowledgments of Deeds, and that the same is in due form according to the Laws of Ohio, entitled to full faith and credit in all places, and that the foregoing is the hand writing of said F. W. Bringham.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand as Clerk of the Court of Probate for said County and State, and caused the Seal of said Court, it being a Court of Record, to be affixed, at Cleveland, this 20 day of August A. D. 185__
H. P. Platt, Dep Clerk 2

[shadow of clerk's seal visible next to his signature, but seal no longer affixed]
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56570
Application of Mrs Barbara Ellsworth
For Bounty Land
Act 1855
She was the widow 
a Revolutionary solder

Agents
McClure & Cogswell
Woodstock
McHenny Co
Illinois
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State of Illinois
McHenry County } ss
On this fourth day of April A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me Joel H. Johnson Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for the County of McHenry and State of Illinois an officer duly authorized to administer oaths for general purposes Barbara Ellsworth aged 72 years now a resident of the
town of Greenwood in the County and State aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of William Ellsworth deceased who was a Sergeant and private in the company commanded by Captain Potter she thinks in the Revolutionary War as will more fully appear by the papers now on
file in the Pension Office connected with a pension which she is now receiving. She also states that she does not now recollect the
exact time he entered the service in said war nor the time he was discharged.
She further states that she was Married to the said William Ellsworth on the sixth day of August A.D. 1799 by one Sloan a justice of the peace and that her name before her said Marriage was Barbara
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Hitt and that her said husband died at the town Mayfield Cuyahoga and State of Ohio on or about the 22d of March A.D. 1852 and that she is now a widow.
She also declares that she is now receiving a pension for the sum of One Hundred and six dollars and sixty six cents per annum under the act of February 3, 1853 which is made payable now at Springfield Illinois instead of at Cleveland Ohio where it was formerly paid.
She also refers to the proof of her Marriage with the said William Ellsworth and also of his death as made by her in her application for said pension and prays that the proof therein made, may be made and taken as proof of her marriage with, and the death of her said
husband for the purposes of this application.
She makes this application for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3 1855-
She also hereby constitutes and appoints McClune & Cogswell her agents to ask for and receive any bounty land warrant to which she may be entitled and to do any act in and about the same which she could do.
Barbara Ellsworth ["her" and "mark" written above and below the "X" mark designating her signature]
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We John S Bassett and William D Hoag residents of the town of Greenwood in the County of McHenry and State of Illinois upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration by a power of Attorney were signed and acknowledged by Barbara Ellsworth in our presence; and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
[signatures] 
John E. Bassett
Wm. D. Hoege

State of Illinois
McHenry County }ss
The foregoing declaration power of attorney and 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
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my said office at Woodstock this 4th day of April AD 1855
[signature] J. H. Johnson
Clerk of the Circuit Court of the County of McHenry and State of Illinois
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State of Illinois
McHenry County } ss
William D Hoeg of the County and State aforesaid after being duly sworn according to law on oath saith that he was personally well acquainted with William Ellsworth late of Mayfield in the County of Cuyahoga, Ohio now deceased - that he was not present at his death but recollects of hearing of his death at the time which was in March 1852 - that he was also personally well acquainted with the wife of the said William, the present applicant Barbara Ellsworth and knew them to live together as husband and wife and to be reputed as such before the death of the said William. that he now knows that the said
Barbara is a widow from the fact that she now resides near him with one John E. Bassett, that he sees her frequently and never knew or heard of her having any other husband that the said William.
He further saith that he has no interest in this claim
[signature] Wm. D. Hoege
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 4th day of April A.D. 1853
[signature] J. H. Johnson
Clerk of the Circuit Court of the County of McHenry and State of Illinois
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State of Illinois
McHenry County } ss
John E Bassett of the town of Greenwood in the County and State aforesaid after being first duly sworn according to law on oath says that he was personally well acquainted with William Ellsworth late of the town of Mayfield in the County of Cuyahoga in the State of Ohio now deceased, that said Ellsworth died on or about the 22d day of March A D 1852 at said Mayfield - that he was present at his death and assisted at his funeral-- that he is also personally well acquainted with Barbara Ellsworth the present applicant for bounty land and knew her to be the wife of the said William from having seen them live to either as man and wife adn be reputed as such before the decease of the said William - that he has been personally well acquainted with the said Barbara since the death of her said husband as she has lived with this affiant ever since the death of her said husband and that the said Barbara now is a widow.
And he further saith that he has no interest in this claim.
[signature] John E. Bassett

Subscribed & sworn to before me this 4th day of April 1855}
[signature] J. H. Johnson
Clerk of the circuit court of the County of McHenry and State of Illinois
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20201
Wm. W. Ellsworth
Ohio
Admitted from 1778
Sergeant 16 months 80
Private 8 - [months] day - 26.66
------
106.66

P. Hoadley
Cleaveland, Ohio
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BRIEF in the case of William W. Ellsworth
County of Cuyahoga in the State of Ohio
(Act 7th June, 1832)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 69
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period. | 
Duration of Service. | Years. | Months. | Days. 
Rank. | As a 
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. | Gen.

Subs In 1778 | 7 [months] 15 [days] | Sergeant | Catp Hardenburgh
1779 | 1 [month] | " [Sergeant] | Capt Mocker [Schoonmaker]
Sub 1779 | 5 [months] 21 [days] | " [Sergeant] | Capt Mocker
1780 | 3 [months] 15 [days] | " [Sergeant] | Capt Brodhead
enlisted 1781 | 9 [months] | Private | Capt Livingston

5. In what battles was he engaged? None
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Ulster Co N. York
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  Traditionary
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? No clergyman

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
[signature] Chs. W. Forrest
Examining Clerk
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This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.
O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY.

L. W. B.
W. 10952.
Om
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, 
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
November 3rd, 1897.

Madam:-
Replying to your request for information concerning William W. Ellsworth, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you are advised that he made an application for pension on November 5th, 1832, at which time he was 69 years of age and residing in Cleveland, Ohio, and his pension was allowed for two years' actual service as a private and sergeant in the New York troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Hardenburg. He enlisted in Ulster County, New York.
His widow, Barbara, made application and received a pension for the service of her husband as above set forth.
Very respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.

Mrs. John Fowler,
Unionville, Lake Co.,
Ohio.
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State of Ohio
Cuyahoga County } ss
On this tenth day of August A.D. 1853, personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in & for said County, duly authorized to administer oaths, Catharine McGuner, resident of the said County of Cuyahoga, aged 62 years, who being duly sworn according to law deposes and says - that she was acquainted with William W. Ellsworth, the identical person named in the annexed certificate of pension to whom the same was issued, and also with Barbara Ellsworth, now the widow of the said William W. Ellsworth, whose affidavit is hereto attached & marked &c. That she thus became acquainted with the said William W. & Barbara Ellsworth in the year 1799, and that they commenced living together as husband & wife during that year That she was not present at the time of this marriage but lived in the same neighborhood, & well recollects the fact - That it was publicly & universally understood that the said William W. & Barbara at the time above stated were lawfully married to each other & that they were as fully & as publicly recognized as man & wife as ever any two persons were - That all this took place in the year 1799 & that in the forepart of the Summer of 1800 Margaret Ellsworth, own daughter of the said William W. & Barbara was born. that said Margaret is now dead.
That the said William W. & Barbara Ellsworth were people of the first respectability & standing in society & continued to
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live together as man & wife from that time namely from the year 1799- till the death of the said William W. which took place at
Mayfield in said County, in the month of March 1852. That the said William W. & Barbara, had serval children, many of whom are now living, and this affiant says that she has not the least doubt
but that the said William W. & Barbara were lawfully married to each other, and that too in the summer of 1799, as above stated. 
[signature] Cathanne McGuner

Subscribed & sworn to before me this tenth day of August 1853 }
[signature] David Hoege 
Justice of the Peace


Also personally appeared Simeon McGuner who being first duly sworn, says that he has known the said William W. & Barbara Ellsworth ever since 1806. That the said William W. & Barbara were then living together as man & wife, & then had three children, the oldest of whom was said to be about five years old at that time. That they were people of the first respectability in society, & were regarded as man & wife. That he never heard it even suggested that they were not lawfully married. That they
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thus continued to live together as man & wife till the death of the said William W. which took place in the month of March 1852, at Mayfield in said County. That this affiant fully believes that the said William W. Ellsworth & Barbara Ellsworth were lawfully married in the year 1799, as set forth in the above affidavit of Catharine McGuner.
[signature] Simeon McGuner

Subscribed & sworn to before me this tenth day of August 1853
[signature] David Hoege
Justice of the Peace

Also personally appeared John Presly who in like manner makes Solemn oath that he has known the said William W. & Barbara her since 1812. Tha they were people of high respectability, had a number of children, and lived together as man & wife till the death of the death of the said William W. which took place in the month of March 1832 - That they were always regarded as lawfully married, and this affiant fully believes that they were thus married, & that too at the time stated in the affidavit of the said Barbara unto attached marked A, although he has no personal knowledge as to the time of the marriage, excepting
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what he has learned from the said Barbara. That the said Barbara is the widow of the identical William W. Ellsworth named in the annexed certificate of Pension.
[signature] John Presley

Subscribed & sworn to before me this tenth day of August 1853 }
[signature] David Hoege
Justice of the Peace.

Also personally appeared the said Barbara Ellsworth, who makes oath, that she is the widow of the identical William W. Ellsworth named in the annexed certificate of Pension, & to whom the same was issued. That she was lawfully married to the said William W. Ellsworth on the 4th day of August 1799 & that she lived with the said William W. as his wife till the death of the said William W. which took place on the 22nd day of March 1852, at Mayfield in said County. That she is the identical Barbara Ellsworth, who made an application for Pension as the widow of the said William W. to which application the said Certificate of
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Pension was attached, but which was taken from said application, & sent to L. Prentiss at Cleveland Ohio, is now hereto attached.
That she has no other testimony than that already furnished, & the above affidavits to prove her marriage with the said William W. Ellsworth, there being no record evidence of the same, nor any person now living, except this affiant who was present at the same time of said Marriage, the said Nancy Green, whose testimony was previously taken in the application of this affiant above referred to, having since died.
[signature] Barbara Elsworth

Subscribed & Sworn to before me this Tenth day of August 1853 }
[signature] David Hoege
Justice of the Peace
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[This page is a duplicate of page 24, with the addition of the clerk's certification placed on top of the underlying letter.]

Pension was attached, but which was taken from said application, & sent to L. Prentiss at Cleveland Ohio, & is now unto attached.
That she has no other testimony then that already furnished, & the above affidavits to prove her marriage with the said William W. Ellswith, there being no record evidence of the same, nor any person now living, except this affiant

The State of Ohio,
CUYAHOGA COUNTY, SS. }
I, JAMES D. CLEVELAND, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for said County, do hereby Certify that David Hoege Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken, and who has thereunto subscribed his name officially in his own proper hand writing, was at the date of the said affidavit and now is an adding Justice of the Peace, within and for said Cuyahoga County, authorized by the laws of the State of Ohio, to take acknowledgments as aforesaid, and duly commissioned and sworn, and to all whose official acts, full faith and credit are due, and ought to be given throughout the United States and elsewhere, and that said [left blank] is executed and acknowledged according to the lawsof the State of Ohio.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the Seal of said Court, at Cleveland, this 16th day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty three.
[signature] Jas D. Cleveland Clerk.
__ Deputy Clerk.
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State of Ohio
Cuyahoga County } ss.
Be it known that on the Sixteenth day of August A.D. 1832, personally appeared before me, David Hoege a justice of the Peace within & for said County of  Cuyahoga, State of Ohio, & duly authorized to administer oaths therein, Jacob Presley who makes Solemn oath that he is of the age of eighty years, that he now resides in Mayfield in said County, & has resided there for about thirty years - that previous to that time he resided in Ulster County, State of New York - that he was well acquainted with Wm W. Ellsworth, the identical person to whom a certificate of Pension was issued for one hundred & six 66/100 dollars per annum, dated the 28th day of March A.D. 1833, and also with Barbara Ellsworth the wife of said Wm W. Ellsworth -  that the name of said Barbara Previous to her marriage with said Wm W. was Barbara Hitt that this deponent resided in the same neighborhood with said Barbara & Wm. W. at the time of this said marriage - that this deponent was not present at the time of said Marriage but remembers well the time when it took place, in said Ulster County - that it was well understood in the neighborhood at the time that said Marriage did take place at the time hereafter named, that he fully believes said Wm W. and Barbara were duly and lawfully married by one Jerry Sloan, a Justice of the
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Peace in & for said County of Ulster, on or about the Fifteenth day of August A.D. 1799, that being the time when said marriage was said to have taken place as aforesaid - that said Barbara & Wm. W. lived together as husband & wife, from the time of said Marriage till the death of the said Wm W. which took place on the 2nd day of March
1852, that said Wm. W. & the said Barbara were people of good character and standing in society & have raised a family of children & have always been regarded as husband & wife lawfully married ever since said Marriage, that said Wm. W. & Barbara resided in said town of Mayfield, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, at the time of his death, and had resided there for about thirty five years previous to that time & previous & the last named time they resided in said Ulster County.
Jacob Presley ["his" and "mark" written above and below the "X" mark designating his signature]

Subscribed & sworn to before me this sixteenth day of August AD 1852. }
[signature] David Hoege
Justice of the Peace

I hearby certify that I am acquainted with the above named Jacob Presley and believe him to be a man of truth and that he cannot write his name on the account of blindness
[signature] David Hoege J.P.
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THE STATE OF OHIO
CUYAHOGA COUNTY, SS.
I hereby Certify, That David Hoege Esq. who has subscribed the foregoing paper as a Justice of the Peace was at the time of so doing as appears from the Records of said County a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Cuyahoga, and State of Ohio, duly authorized to administer oaths and take acknowledgments of Deeds, and that the same is in due form according to the Laws of Ohio, entitled to full faith and credit in all places, and that the foregoing is the hand writing of said David Hoege.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand as Clerk of the Court of Probate for said County and State, and caused the Seal of said Court, it being a Court of Record, to be affixed, at Cleveland, this 24 day of August A.D. 1852
[signature] H. P. Platt Dep. Clerk.

[Illegible/faded seal affixed next to the Clerk's certification]
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State of Ohio
Cuyahoga County } ss
 It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has this day been exhibited to the Probate Court of said County, being a Court of Record, and being in Session, that Wm. W. Ellsworth was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of One Hundred & six dollars and sixty six cents per annum; was a resident of Mayfield in said County, and died in the said
township of Mayfield on the 22d day of March 1852; that he left a widow whose name is Barbara Ellsworth.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of
said Court, at Clevland the 20 day of August 1852
[signature] H. P. Platt Deputy Clerk
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State of New-York,
County of Ontario. } SS.
I, Reuben Murray Jr., Clerk of the County Court, in and for the County and State above mentioned, do hereby certify, that Adam Yeckley whose genuine signature appears above, is, and was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn; that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit and that the aforesaid County Court is a Court of Record, having general jurisdiction.
Given under my Hand and Seal of Office, at Canandaigua this 14th day of July 1852
[signature] Reuben Murray Jr Clerk

[Illegible seal affixed next to the Clerk's certification]
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April 25th 1853.
Rel to case of Barbara Ellsworth.

L. Prentiss 
Cleveland
Ohio.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
PENSION OFFICE, OFFICIAL BUSINESS
Commissioner
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[scan of the outside of an envelope with no distinguishable writing.]
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[Stamp]
FREE

[Postmark stamped seal]
CLEVELAND O.
AUG 17

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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August 19, 1853.
No. 3.425
App of Mrs Barbara Ellsworth widow of William

Act Feb 3 1853

Allowed $106.66/100 per an.
Com. Feb 3 1853

Loren Prentiss
Cleveland Ohio

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
PENSIONOFFICE, OFFICIAL BUSINESS
Commissioner
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[Very dark contrast, difficult to read]

W. W. Ellsworth, dec'd 
Let to L. Prentiss [illegible] / 52
" " " " May 25 / 53
" " " " [illegible] / 53
[illegible] Sept 18 / 53
[illegible] May 24 / 53
Act 29 July 1848
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Ohio
Barbara Ellsworth

[Stamp]
FREE

[Postmark stamped seal]
CLEVELAND O. 
NOV 21

Official
L. P. Waldo Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.

[illegible vertical writing across address]
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[Postmark stamped seal]
WOODSTOCK ILL.
APR 5

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Commissioner of Pensions
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56,570
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WOODSTOCK ILL.
OCT 8

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C.

56570 
Barbara Ellsworth wid.
William W. 
Boynton Ill's.
2676

McC.
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CLEVELAND O.
OCT 14

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C.

Oct 17, 1853
Letter in case of Barbara Ellsworth
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THIRD AUDITORS OFFICE
Official Business

Hon. L. P. Waldo, 
Commissioner of Pensions.
Washington, D.C.

Ellsworth
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Brief in the case of Barbara Ellsworth widow of William
Cayuhoga [Cuyahoga] County and State of Ohio
act of Feb 3, 1853

Claim (" original," or "for increase.")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, tradition, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance. 
Husband a private & Sergt. in New York Militia 2 yes and pensioner under act of June 7, 1832 at $106.66/100 per annum
Sergt. 16 mos
Pri. 8 " [mos]

Allowed $106.66/100 per annum to com Feb 3, 1853

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Marriage proved by Simeon Mr Guner, John Presley, & Nancy Green of said County, who are certified to be credible
Death proved by credible witnesses
Identity and widowhood proved by credible witnesses

Name and residence of Agent
Loren Prentiss
Cleveland
Ohio
Examining Clerk.
I. L. Gray
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OW&N

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U.S. PENSION OFFICE.
C.
OCT 27 1897

Unionville O. Oct 25 - 97
Mr. Henry Clay Evans.
Commisioner of Pensions
Washington D.C

Dear Sir
My Grandfather William Elsworth, Mayfield Township was in the revolutionary war and I desire joining the daughters of the revolution
was advised legally to apply to you for information. he was a pensioner, think the law firm of Spangler and
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Baldwin of Cleveland O transacted his business for him. Please answer imediately and oblige
Mrs John Fowler
Unionville
Lake Co.
O.
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Rev'y WIDOW, &c.

File No. 10952
Barbara Ellsworth
Widow of
William W. Ellsworth
Sergt. Rev. War
Act: Feb 3d 53
Index: - Vol. A, Page 214
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Nov 3/97 Mrs. John Fowler
Unionville, Ohio
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Ohio
Barbara Ellsworth
Act 3 Feb '53

Transfer to Springf. Ill's. fr. 4 Sep '54

Notify
Jno. E. Bassett
Greenwood Township
McHenry Co
Ill's.
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U.S. Pension Agency
Cleveland O. Nov 20 / 54

To L.P. Waldo Commissioner of Pensions
Sir,
Enclosed you will find the application of Barbara Ellsworth for a transfer of her
pension to the Illinois Agency, at Chicago Ill.
I have paid the pension of Barbara Ellsworth to Sept. 4. 1854.
I am respectfully etc.
[signature] E. Hessenmueller
Pension Agent
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SALEM N.C.
NOV 27

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C. 

Supplemental Nov 30 / 52
Appl. of Charity Lookebee Dec'd wid
of David
N.C.
Act 7th July 1838

Elisha Smith
Salisbury 
N.C.
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Danbery N C
Nov 22
Paid 3
Dr Elisha Smith

Salem  
N.C
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Cleveland Apl. 19, 1853
Dear Sir,
I need a letter from the commissioner of Pensions in reference to the claim of Barbara Ellsworth, for Pension, in which he says that her claim is suspended, on account of some defect in the proof.
My recollection of the matter is that the proof was full- quite so, and I would
ask that the matter might be examined, and so if there is not sufficient evidence to [illegible, perhaps "resume"] the allowance of the claim - If there is not, please give the specific defection - 
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She is old, & needy, and May I therefore ask your early attention to it.
Very Truly Yours
[signature]  L. Prentiss
To the Com'r. of Pensions }
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Cleveland Jany 21/53.
Dear Sir,
Yours of the 20th ult. is rec'd, in reference to the Pension matter of Barbara Ellsworth, widow of William W. Ellsworth. 
I am not certain from your letter, whither you want the marriage and the identity proved or only the identity.
I sent on the affidavit of Nancy Green who swears that she was at the marriage of said Barbara Ellsworth, & Wm W. Ellsworth, & that it took place before 1800.
I also sent the affidavit of Jacob Presley in reference to the same point- Have you
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got these affidavits & if you have I would enquire whether they are not sufficient; excepting as to the point of identity.
Please write me as to these points & I will endeavor to supply the necessary evidence.
Nancy Green is dead, she was the witness by whom we were able at the time to prove the marriage by positive testimony-- She died soon after her affidavit was taken.
Yours Truly
[signature] L. Prentiss
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Cleveland Oct. 13/53.
Dear Sir;
I received yours of the 4th inst. in reference to the claim of Mrs Barbara Ellsworth - Permit me to enquire whether the proof of marriage is sufficient to enable her to get a Pension under the late law, & whether anything further is necessary to enable her to take under that law.
She may conclude to take under the late law, & I should like to know whether she can or not, so that I can inform her, & perhaps save trouble & expense.
Would the application have to be changed, would it have to be shown whether there was a record or not in case she applied under the new law?
Yours,
[signature] L. Prentiss

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Pension Office
September 28th 1853
Sir:
I will be obliged if you will state to what time William W. Ellsworth, who was a pensioner on the roll of the Ohio (Pittsburg) Agency, under the Act of June 7th 1832, at
the rate of $106.66 per annum, and whose papers are herewith submitted, was last paid?
I am, respectfully,
Your Obt. Svt.
[signature] L P Waldo
Commissioner.
On Cleaveland Agency, and Paid to 4th March 1852;- no date of death on our Books
[signature] F. Burt
Auditor.

F. Burt, Esqr. 
Third Auditor.
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Cleveland O. June 3, 1853,
Sir:
Yours of the 28th ult. is rec'd, & as it seems that further testimony must be taken, I must ask the favor of you to send me the papers in the case, in order that I may prove the identity which I can not well do without the certificate of Pension, sent with the papers.
Excuse me for making one more enquiry -namely- does not the recent law render it unnecessary to prove that the marriage was previous to 1820?
Very Respectfully
[signature] Loren Prentiss
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1853
Answered 8 June
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Cleveland Aug 16/53.
Dear Sir:
I enclose additional proof of the identity of Mrs Barbara Ellworth, & of her marriage before 1800 to Wm. W. Ellsworth.
It seems to me that the proof is amply sufficient- If it is not, the rules of the Department account to a virtual denial of Justice to the widows of aged pensioners.
First there is her own affidavit, showing her marriage took place Aug. 4, 1799.
Next the positive testimony of Nancy Green heretofore sent who was present at the marriage, and then comes the affidavit of Catharine McGuner, who know Mr & Mrs Ellsworth to have lived together as man & wife in 1799 on - & that they were reputed to have been married. 
Then there are several affidavits showing that they have lived together as husband & wife from a time running back far enough to satisfy anyone that they were married as early as she swears.
This is the best testimony that can be got. In this State the testimony
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of the widow in a court would be allowed when she was a party, & would be sufficient, where there was no opposing testimony & it certainly seems to me that her testimony, sustained and corroborated as it is, ought to be amply sufficient to establish the date of the marriage. The fact of the marriage can hardly be doubted, & can there be any well founded doubt as to the date?
It seems to me not.
The widow is in need of the Pension - very much ["very much" underlined] in need of it, & I hope it will be allowed at once. 
Yours respectfully
[signature] Loren Prentiss

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1163 Aug 25/ 52
Barbara Ellsworth
Application for Pension. 

The Certificate can be sent to me at Cleveland, Ohio, L. Prentiss
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[Printed form with handwritten answers]    

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Wm. W. Ellsworth of the State of Ohio who was a Private, and Sergeant, in the army of the Revolution.
is entitled to receive One hundred & six dollars and Sixty Six cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the
4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this twenty Eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
[signature] Lew Cass
Secretary of War.

Countersigned. }
[signature] .J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
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Served in Capt Gilbert Livingston's Comp Infantry Pauldings Regt
resides in Cuyahoga Co, has resided there sixteen years- previously resided in Ulster Co N.Y.
Sept 1833

[illegible mathematical notations summing numbers]

[Written sideways]
Payments to be made at Pittsburgh, by [illegible] BriBank, Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of Ohio (Pittsburgh).

Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book E. Vol. 8, Page 110. by
[signature] Wm. R. Palmer, Clerk.
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of William W. Ellsworth which require
further proof or explanation.
1. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?
V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout [sic] of pension he is entitled?
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary
service? No
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
XIV. If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? 2.5.6.7.

EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For------ year ------months ------. and --- days, I served as a ------ For------ year ------months ------. and --- days, I served as a ------; and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or for months is too definite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
+QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate. 
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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Woodstock McHenry Co Ills
Oct 8th 1855
Sir, your circular of the 20th within is at hand. You say in that the revolutionary service of William W. Ellsworth the husband of Barbara Ellsworth does not appear of Record in your office. That is very singular, inasmuch as the claimant Barbara now draws a pension for the services of the said William, and the same is now paid at Springfield in this state. Heretofore the said Pension has been paid at Cleveland Ohio. I see also by records and documents now in the possession of the Claimant Barbara that the husband drew a pension for about twenty years before he died and that was several years ago. How did he get a pension for that length of time unless his name is to be found in your office? How does the claimant Barbara now get her Pension unless his name can be found in your office? Our opinion is that there is some mistake about it and that if
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your clerks perform their duty they can find the name of William W. Ellsworth a private and Sergeant in the Revolutionary War, in Captain Livingstons Company and Col Pauldings Regiment.
We therefore wish you again to examine the claim for Bounty Land  no. 56,570 under the act of March 3, 1855, and see if you cannot find his name. If not, tell us how the same claimant draws a pension at the present time at Springfield in this state.
Yours &c
[signature] McClure & Cogswell
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State of New York
County of Ontario SS. 
Nancy Green a resident of the town of Seneca County of Ontario and State afforesaid aged seventy years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following statement. deponent says she was formerly well acquainted with Barbara Elsworth, widow of William Elsworth deceased and that she was also acquainted with the said William Elsworth late husband of the said Barbara. That she first became acquainted with them before they were married they then resided in the town of New Paltz in the County of Ulster State of New York and deponent then resided in the same town and a near neighbor to the said Barbara maiden name was Barbara Hitt. deponent was present and saw them married. They were married at the house of deponents father some time in the summer of the year 1799, at the town of New Paltz afforesaid deponent does not now remember the particular month or day of the month on which they were married but is confident of the year and season of the year on account of the age of some of her own children.
and deponent further says that she was acquainted with the said William Elsworth and the said Barbara after their marriage that they lived together as husband and wife and raised a family of children they removed from the town of New Palts afforesaid in the County of Ontario State of
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New York and that deponent and her family also removed from the town of New Paltz afforesaid into the said County of Ontario that she lived near them and was well acquainted with them when they resided in the County of Ontario that they there lived together as husband and wife during the time they resided there and they many years ago they removed with their family from the County of Ontario to the State of Ohio where the said Barbara now resides since which time deponent has bot been acquainted with them only that she has occasionally heard from them.
Nancy Green ["her" and "mark" written above and below the "X" mark designating her signature]
Signed in [illegible] of Nancy Green
[signature] B Banesup witness

Subscribed and sworn to Before me this 12th day of July in the year 1852
[signature] Adam Yeckley Justice of the Peace in and for Ontario County

State of New York
County of Ontario ss. 
I Adam Yerkley a Justice of the Peace in and for said county do certify that I am well acquainted with Mrs Nancy Green who took and subscribed the foregoing affidavit and I further subscribe that she is a person of good moral character and that her statements therein contained are entitled to credit and that the reason she did not write her name to the same was for cause she never learnt to write 
Given under my hand this 16th
day of July in the year 1852
[signature] Adam Yeckley Justice of the Peace
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The State of Ohio
Cuyahoga County }
On this 20th day of Nov. A.D. 1854, before me the subscriber Pension Agent at Cleveland in said County Ohio Agency personally appeared Barbara Ellsworth who on her oath declares that she is the identical Barbara Ellsworth the widow of William Ellsworth who was a private & sergeant in the Revolutionary war: that her name was placed on the pension Roll of the State of Ohio that she is now on her way to Greenwood Township McHenry County State of Illinois, where she intends to remain & wishes her pension to be payable in future at Chicago Illinois Agency.
The following are her reasons for removing from Lake County State of Ohio to said State of Illinois:
She has living in Greenwood Township McHenry Co. Ill. a man by the name of John E. Bassett, who is her adopted child, whom she has brought up & whom she has educated & who now wishes to provide for & take care of her,
Barbara Ellsworth
["her" and "mark" written above and below the "+" mark designating her signature]

Sworn to & subscribed before me the 20th day of November A.D. 1854.
E. Hessemmueller
Pensions Agent
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I George Norton of Chester Township Geauga County Ohio make solemn oath, that I am well acquainted with Barbara Ellsworth & that she is the person described in the above affidavit, which she signed by making a mark, in my presence
[signature] Thomas Norton 

Sworn to & subscribed before me on this 20th day of November A.D. 1854, And I also certify that I am acquainted with said Thomas Norton & know him to be a person of veracity
[signature] E. Hessenmuller
Pensions Agent