Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25362, Samuel Ashman, New York
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SERVICE
New York

NUMBER
W25362

Ashman [Ashmun] Samuel
             Parthenia
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New York
Saml. [Samuel] Ashman [Ashmun]
Clinton in the State of N. York
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain Wright of the Reg. [Regiment] commanded by Col. Willet [Willett] in the 
N. [New] York
for 17 months & 13 days
____________________________
Inscribed on the Roll of N. [New] York
the rate of 58 Dollars 32 Cents per annum,
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
___________________________
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of July 1833 and Sent to JC. Hubbell
Chary [now called Chazy NY]
___________________________
Arrears to the 4th of Mar '33 $116.64
semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sp '31 29.16
_______________________________________
                                        $145.80
_______________________________________
Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Go C Stiles Clerk
Book E Vol. 3, Page 41
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14390
Samuel Ashman [Ashmun]
application for a pension

From Apl '82 to Sept 3, '83
16 mo. 3 days
1          1
_______________
17 [mo.] 15 [days]

aoned
17 mo. 15 days pri [private]
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State of New York
County of Clinton ss:
On this Second day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open court before John Palmer First Judge, John Warford, Miles Stevenson, James M Wood, Judges the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid now sitting Samuel Ashman [Ashmun] a resident of Champlain in the County of Clinton & State of New York aged sixty eight years last February - Who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed Jun 7th 1832 -
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated - that he was born in the town of Fort Edward in the County of Saratoga and State of New York in the year 1764 has no record of his age - that before he entered the service he lived in the town of Stillwater in the State of New York - that since the Revolutionary War he lived in the town of Richmond in the County of Berkshire in the State of Massachusetts about four years from whence he removed to Champlain
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aforesaid where he has since lived and now lives.
That he first entered the service a private in the summer of 1781 and as a volunteer in the Revolution of the State of New York & served at Fort Edward which at that time was commanded by Col. John McKinster [McKinstry] and again in the fall of the same year he again volunteered in the same service and went to Saratoga was placed under Levy officers names of whom he cannot now remember. recollects seeing Pliny Moore then a Lieutenant but was not under his command - that he served in these two tours, as near as he can now recollect, Six Weeks [underlined] - 
That in the month of April in the year 1782 he enlisted a soldier in a company commanded by Captain Job Wright in Col. Marinus Willett's Regiment of New York State troops in the town of Stillwater aforesaid for the ter of two years, that he recollects the following named officers belonging to said Regiment. Majors Benscoten [Bunschoten] and Finch - Captains Pierce, Wright, Newel, Joseph Harvison [sp?] and Tiercy [sp?] - Quarter Master Matthus Trotter.[illegible] Tunday [sp?] - Mustered at Albany and received equipment and was first stationed on a piquet [picket] guard at Ballston which was commanded by Captain Wright and two subalterns Pliny Moore & Jesse Hubbell - that in August following moved up the river Mohawk to the West. Passed through Schenectady, Stone Arabia, Canajohairie, Fort Plaain to Fort Nellis, where he remained with said
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troops until the following winter - that in the month of February 1783 he with said Regiment with a detachment of Rhode Island 
regular troops from Saratoga Garrison rendez-vous'd  at Fort Herkimer for an expedition through the wilderness in order to surprize [surprise] & take Fort Oswego occupied by British troops in the borders of Lake Ontario, but from [illegible] [illegible] not generally known there was no attack and the object faild [failed] that after the Regiment returned to Fort Herkimer they remained there and at Fort Plain until the following winter. this deponent was at Fort Plain with a part of the Regiment. while there General Washington with his suit & General Green [Greene] made a visit there, and to the Forts on the Mohawk of inspection - from Fort Plain he with the Regiment was marched to Schenectady where they remained until the latter part of January 1784 where he was discharged and returned home - that he has no documents ney [nay] [illegible] that he received at Schnectady a written discharge from his said service & which was an honorable one, but cannot now recollect by whom it was signed - that he has not got it nor can he now tell where it is - that some time after the war he gave his said discharge to William Luch Esquire in order for him to obtain the pay for said services in the City of New York and as a voucher that he was the identical Samuel Ashman [Ashmun] who did the service
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and who was entitled to the said pay but cannot recollect that he ever saw the discharge or had it after that time - that he received for his pay State Notes & which he sold for [?] [?] shilling the pound - that he has procured the testimony of Livy Stoughton whom this deponent knew in the same regiment - and Joseph Hewins whom he also knew in the service. He hereby relinquishes any 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.

That he states the names of the following persons to whom he is known in his present neighborhood and who can testify as to his veracity & their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution - (Viz) Lilas Hubbell and Elnathan Rogers -    -    -
Sworn to & subscribed this
day & year aforesaid - Sam'l [Samuel] Ashmun
Geo [George] M Beckwith acting Clerk of Clinton Comm [Common] Pleas

We Silas Hubbell & Elnathan Rogers - residing in the town of Champlain in the County of Clinton & State of New York hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Ashmun, who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration. that we believe him to be sixty eight years of age. that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we [illegible]
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Silas Hubbell
Elnathan Rogers

in that opinion
Sworn & Subscribed the
day & year aforesaid
before me -
Geo [George] M Beckwith Acting Clerk of Clinton
Court Pleas

And the said court 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 this court further certifies that it appears to them that Silas Hubbell & Elnathan Rogers who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in the town of Champlain in the County of Clinton & State of New York and are credible persons and that their statement are entitled to credit.

I George M Beckwith acting clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Clinton do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Ashman [Ashmun] for a pension -
The testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal of Office this Second day of October 1832 -
Geo. [George] M. Beckwith Acting Clerk
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State of New York}
County of Rensselaer} ss
Livy Stoughton, of the City of Troy in said county being duly sworn says that he is well acquainted with Samuel Ashman [Ashmun] of the town of Champlain in the County of Clinton, & State of New York - That in April 1782 the said Samuel Ashman enlisted in a regiment of New York State Troops, commanded by Col. Marinus Willett, in which regiment this deponent also served; that this deponent & said Ashman [Ashmun] were in different companies of said regiment, but were always on intimate terms; and this deponent has actual, personal knowledge that the said Ashman [Ashmun] was in service in said regiment, from the time of his said enlistment, in different parts of this State, till the latter part of January 1784.
[signature] Livy Stoughton
Sworn & subscribed the}
8th day of September}
1832 before me, Ira A. Eastman}
Commr [Commissioner] & C. Troy}

State of New York
Rensselaer County} ss
I Archibald Bull Clerk of the County of Rensselaer do hereby certify that Ira A. Eastman whose signature is affixed to the above affidavit was on the day of the date of the same one of the Commissioners in & for said County duly authorised to take affidavits and that I am acquainted with the handwriting of said Commissioner & verily believe the above signature to be genuine 
Witness my hand & Seal of office this 8 September 1782
Archibald Bull Clerk
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[upper right corner] R
14390
Samuel Ashman [Ashmun]
Clinton county
N.Y.

aom d
5660
165

14 382

May 8 '33

J. C. Hubbell esq. 
Chary [Chazy] New York
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[printed form with handwritten answers]

BRIEF in the case of [John Cooper crossed out] Samuel Ashman [Ashmun]
of Clinton Co [County] in the State of New York
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? [answer handwritten] open Court

2. If before a Judge, do it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? [no answer]

3. How old is he? [answer handwritten] 62 years

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

[first entry] 
Period 
In 1781 Years [none written], Months 1, Days 12,
Rank. As a Private
Names of Gene
ral and Field Officers under whom he served.
Col McKinstry

[second entry]Period 
In 1782 Apl [April] to 2 Sept 83
Years [none written] 16 mo. [months] 3 Days
Rank. As a " [ditto mark under Private]
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Capt Wright  Col Willett

17 mo. 15 [total duration of service written in]

5. In what battles was he engaged? [answer handwritten] none

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? [answer handwritten] Stillwater Nyork [New York]

7. In his statement supported by living witnss, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? [answer handwritten] By a living witness

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
[answer handwritten] Correct

I Certify that the foregoing statement and th answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Richard Cutts
Examining Clerk.
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No [Number] 13491
Parthena [Parthenia] Ashman [Ashmun]
widow of Samuel
NY
Act 7 July 1838
married 1790
Rejected, husband
died 29 August 1846
avnw [sp?] Act 17 June 44. 
$58.32 per annum 
[word crossed out] 29 August 1846

Silas Hubbell
Champlain
NY
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State of Massachusetts}
Berkshire County} ss.
I William Peirson Clerk in and for the town of Richmond in the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that the following is a true copy of a Record upon the Town ^book^ of said Town of Richmond now in my possession and that the said record is in the usual form in which marriage records were kept in those days as appears from the Book of Marriage Records

---------Copy----------
"Samuel Ashmun and Parthenia Raymond were married on the 17th day of Feb'y [February] 1790. Were married by the Rev'd D. Perry
William Pierson Town Clerk
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
State of Massachusetts}
Berkshire County} ss.
Be it known that before me William Stevens a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly authorized by law to administer oaths personally appeared William Peirson Clerk of the said town of Richmond and made oath in due form of law that the above is a true copy of a Record now in his possession as set forth and described in the foregoing certificate.
Sworn and subscribed this tenth day of June 1847. before me William Stevens
{Justice of Peace
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State of Massachusetts}
County of Berkshire} ss

I Charles Sedgwick Clerk of the Court of ^Common Pleas for^ the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that William Stevens within named and subscribed is a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county, duly commissioned and qualified that his commission was dated on the sixth day of March one thousand eight hundred and forty-three and will expire on the sixth day of March one thousand eight hundred and fifty And that his signature within written is genuine and I verily believe
Given under my hand and seal of said ["County" crossed out] ^Court^ this 10th day of June 1847.
Charles Sedgwick Clk [Clerk]

The words "Common Pleas for" & "Court" interlined before signing
Charles Sedgwick Clk. [Clerk]
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State of Newyork}
County of Clinton}ss.
Eunice Goodrich being duly sworn saith that she is the sister of Parthena Ashmun widow of Samuel Ashmun deceased. That said Samuel Ashmun in his lifetime drew a pension from the United States for services in the War of the Revolution, that the said Samuel and Parthenia were married in the town of Richmond, County of Berkshire in the state of Massachusetts by the Rev. David Perry a Congregational Clergyman and Minister of the Parish in the said town of Richmond that the said marriage took place on the seventeenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety that said deponent was present and witnessed the said marriage and that the said Parthenia is still alive and remained the widow of the said Samuel Ashmun and further deponent saith not --  
Eunice Goodrich

Subscribed and sworn to}
before me this 17th day of June 1847}
Horatio G Robbins
Justice Peace

Parthia Ashmun being duly worn saith that she is the identical person mentioned in the within Certificate of the Clerk of the Town of Richmond County of Berkshire State of Massachusetts and named in the foregoing affidavit of her sister Eunice Goodrich. That her late husband Samuel Ashmun was a Revolutionary pensioner and died in Champlain County of Clinton State of Newyork on the twenty ninth day of August last and that said deponent still remains his widow and further saith not.
[signature] Parthenia Ashmun

Sworn and subscribed before me this
28th day of June 1847 Horatio G Robbins
Justice Peace
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State of New york
Clinton County ss
I Charles H. Jones Clerk of the County of Clinton do hereby certify that Horatio G. Robbins is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Clinton duly Commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the first day of January 1846 and will expire on the 30th day of December 1849. and that his Signatures within written are genuine.
Given under my hand and official Seal
the 24th day September 1847
Charles H. Jones
Clk [Clerk]
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Alby [Albany]
4937
New York
Parthenia Ashman [Ashmun]
widow of Samuel Ashman [Ashmun]
NY
who served in the Revolutionary 
war, as a Private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
58 Dollars 32
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the
5th day of July, 1849
and sent to
Silas Hubbell,
Champlain,
NY

[illegible] on Roll of Pensioners under act
[illegible] 2, 1848, Page 2 Vol. 4
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State of New York}
Clinton County} ss:

On this eighteenth day of February 1848 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Parthenia Ashman [Ashmun] a resident of Champlain in the County of Clinton aforesaid aged Twenty sever 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 7th 1838 entitled an Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows; That she is the widow of Samuel Ashmun who was a private under Lieutenant Philip Rogers in Colo [Colonel] McKinstry's Regiment or Colo [Colonel] Van Veghten Regiment from what she has heard her husband say in his lifetime she believes that Col McInstrys [McKinstry] commanded a part of the time for one month & twelve days in the War of the Revolution and that the said Samuel Ashman [Ashmun] in the same war two years in Capt. Job Wright Company in Col. Marinus Willet [Willett] Regiment.
She further declares that she was married to the said Samuel Ashman [Ashmun] on the seventeenth day of February in the year seventeen hundred and ninety. That her husband the aforesaid Samuel Ashman [Ashmun] died on the twenty ninth day of August 1846 - -
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That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz at the time above stated.
She further states that her husband the said Samuel Ashman [Ashmun] was a pensioner of the United States and drew a pension in his lifetime. She further swears that she is now a widow and that she has never before made any application for a pension.
Sworn to and subscribed on}
the day and year above written}
Before me
Horatio G. Robbins
Justice Peace

Parthenia Ashmun

State of New York}
Clinton County} ss 
I hereby certify that Parthenia Ashman [Ashmun] the above mentioned Applicant cannot by reason of old age and bodily infirmity attend the Court to make her Declaration. In witness whereof I have here unto set my hand this 18th day of February 1848. 
Horatio G Robbins
Justice Peace
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May 1, 1940

BA-J/AWF
Samuel Ashman [Ashmun]
W. 25362

Mr. Chester A. Ashmun
Placerville, Box 124
California

Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you state that you are interested in soldiers with surname Ashmun, who served in the War of the Revolution.

The Revolutionary War records of this office have been searched and the record of one soldier, only, with that surname has been found, that of Samuel Ashman. This surname was searched under similar spellings.

The data which follow concerning Samuel Ashman [Ashmun] were obtained from claim for pension, W. 25362, based upon his service in the War of the Revolution.

Samuel Ashman [Ashmun] was born in February, 1764, at Fort Edward, Sratoga County, New York. The names of his parents were not given.

While residing in Stillwater, New York, Samuel Ashman [Ashmun] volunteered in the summer of 1781, served six weeks as private in Colonel John McKinstry's New York regiment, stationed a part of the time in Fort Edward. He enlisted sometime in April, 1782, served in Captain Job Wright's company, Colonel Marinus Willett's New York regiment, and was
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discharged sometime in January, 1784.

Samuel Ashman [Ashmun] lived after the Revolution, in Richmond, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, about four years, when he moved to Champlain, Clinton County, New York.

He was allowed pension on his application executed October 2, 1832, then a resident of Champlain, New York. He died in Champlain, August 29, 1846.

Samuel Ashman [Ashmun] married February 17, 1790, in Richmond Massachusetts, Parthenia Raymond. The date and place of her birth and names of her parents were not given.

The widow, Parthenia Ashman [Ashmun], ws allowed pension on her application executed February 18, 1848, at which time she was aged seventy-seven years, and living in Champlain, New York. 

There is no reference to children.

Eunice Goodrich, sister of the widow, Parthenia Ashman [Ashmun] was living in Clinton County, New York, in 1847, and stated that she was present at the marriage of Samuel Ashman [Ashmun] and Parthenia Raymond.

The papers on file in this claim contain no further discernible family data.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of the widow, Parthenia Ashman [Ashmun], you should apply to the Comptroller General,
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General Accounting Office, Records Division,
this city, and furnish the following

Parthenia Ashman [Ashmun] widow of Samuel Ashman [Ashmun]
Certificate # 4937
Issued July 5, 1849
Rate $58.32 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1848
Act of Februry 2, 1848
New York (Albany) Agency.

Very truly yours

A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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[Left side]
Mil. [Military] Hist. [History] to F W Ames
Titusville, Pa.

8. Hist. to Minnie C and E. Ashmun
Waupaca, Wis.  F.W.
1940 May 1 - list to Chester
Ashmun 

[Middle]
Rev'y [Revolutionary] WIDOW, & c.
File No. 25362
Parthena Ashman [Ashmun]
wid. [widow] of
Samuel Ashman [Ashmun]
Priv. [Private] Rev'n [Revolutionary] ar. [army]
Act: Feb 2nd 1848
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 20
[Arrangement of 1870.]

July 18/94
Aug. 24.0
Elizabeth
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No. 13491
Parthena [Parthenia] Ashman [Ashmun]
N.Y.

[illegible] Claimant

[crossed out]

Silas Hubbell
[crossed out]
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592 Albany
New York
__________________
Parthena Ashman [Ashmun]
widow of Samuel Ashman [Ashmun]
who was a Private
in the Revolution
Husband [deceased] 29 August 1846
______________________
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
68 Dollars 32 Cents per annum, to commence on
the 29th day of August 1846
_____________________
Certificate of Pension issued the
5th day of July 1849
and sent to Silas Hubbell
Champlain, NY
_____________________
[Act of JUNE 17, 1841.]
Recorded in Book: A
Vol. 2 Page 70
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Samuel Ashmun Clinton Co. NY Act of 7 June 1832
$58.32 pension
To what time was he last paid

Pension office}
June 29 1849}
Died 29th Aug't [August] 1846
pd [paid] to his death.
BLB
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Joseph Hewins of West Stockbridge in the County of Berkshire & Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged sixty eight years being duly sworn deposes & says that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary War & served nearly two years in Col. Willets [Willett's] Regiment, that about the month of November in the year 1782 he became acquainted with Samuel Ashmun now residing at Champlain in the State of New York, that he was then doing duty as a soldier in Col Willets [Willet's] Regiment of New York State troop, that having been acquainted with him when a boy _ he about one month previous to November aforesaid heard & understood he was in same Regiment that he then understood & now verily believes that said Ashmun engaged in said service the Spring previous & had done duty from that time till he saw him in November afores'd [aforesaid].
That after, he saw him in November aforesaid, he continued on terms of intimacy with him & very frequently saw him on duty in said Regiment till about the time said Troops were discharge which ^was 6th Jan'y [January] 1784 according to his discharge which he now has in his possession which is dated January 6th 1784 That he & Hewins enlisted in the month of April 1782 for two years, that he understood at the time of said service that said [words "engaged in said service" crossed out] Ashmun engaged in said service about the time he did.
[signature] Joseph Hewins

Berkshire ss. September 17th 1832 the above named Joseph Hewins personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed before me & I further certify that said Hewins has been a Representative & Selectman of the Town of West Stockbridge & is a man of respectable standing & character & of truth & veracity
Robins Kellogg Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Berkshire ss.
I Charles Sedgwick a Clerk of the Superior Judicial Court being a Court of Record in the County of Berkshire do hereby certify that Robbins Kellogg Esq before whom the within affidavit was executed is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Berkshire & that I believe his name hereto subscribed to be his true & proper signature.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of the said Court at Lenox on this 18th day of September A.D. 1832.
Chas. Sedgwick Clerk
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Hon. J L Edwards
I have taken the liberty of attaching this affidavit to the papers of Samuel Ashmun in the 
best manner I could, it having been accidentally omitted by her before. 
June 1st 1833.-
I have the honor to be
yours respectfully
J C Hubbell
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State of New York
Clinton County ss.
George V. Hoyle being duly worn at maketh oath and saith that Samuel Ashman late of Champlain in said County did on the Twenty ninth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty six, that deponent was present at his death, and helpt [helped] lay out the corps [corpse] after the death and further deponent saith not

[On right side] George V Hoyle

[On left side]
Sworn & subscribed before me} 
the 16th day of March}
1848 and I certify that}
the above named George}
Hoyle is a credible witness}
Horatio G Robbins}
Justice [of the] Peace
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Copy of Samuel Ashmun's
Pension Certificate
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Payments to be made
at Newyork by
President of United States Bank
Agent for paying pensioners
in the agency of New york

Recorded in the Pension Office
in Book volume 3 page 41
by Geo. C. Stiles 
Clerk
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War department [underlined]
Revolutionary Claim
I certify that in Conformity with the Law of the United States of the 7th June 1832 Samuel Ashmun of the State of New york who was a private in the Revolutionary Army is Entitled to receive Fifty Eight Dollars and thirty two Cents per Annum during his natural life Commencing on the fourth of March 1831 and payable Semiannually on the 4th of March and 4th of September in Every Year

Give at the War office of the United States this 29th day of July One Thousand Eight Hundred and thirty three
John Nobb
Acting Secretary of War

Examined and
Countersigned
J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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13491 Oct 15 47
Aod cy
Parthena Ashmun
NY

J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
District of Columbia
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Champlain Clinton Co. NY Sept 27 1847

Sir
Enclosed I send the Evidence of my Claim for a Pension from the Government of the United States. I also send a Copy of the Original Pension Certificate of my deceased Husband Samuel Ashmun the Original having been surrendered according to law in drawing the arrears of his said pension. If the Evidence is sufficient you will please have my name entered on the Pension Roll and forward me a Certificate - 
Respectfully yours 
Parthenia Ashmun [signature in different handwriting]

J L Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
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Mrs Parthena [Parthenia] Ashmun
Nov 6. '47 [1847]
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Pension Office
November 6th, 1847

Madam
The certificate of the Town Clerk of Richmond Mass presented by you in support of your Claim to a pension as the widow of Samuel Ashmun late a pensioner of New York Rolls is satisfactory to establish your marriage prior to 1794. But before you can receive a stipend as his widow you must file a declaration in conformity with the enclosed printed sheet, and produce the Certificate of the Comptroller of New York sustaining his alleged service in 1781 for 1 mo [month] 12 days under Col McKinstry and 2 years from April 1782 under Capt Wright of Col Wilett's regiment.

Mrs. Parthena Ashmun
Champlain
Clinton Co [County]
NY
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Mrs. P. Ashman [Ashmun]
Wid [Widow] of Samuel
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[printed text]
In pursuance of a law passed the 27th of April, 1784, entitled "An act for the settlement of the pay of the Levies and Militia, for their service in the late War, and for other purposes therein mentioned," the following certificates have been issued, bearing interest at five per cent per annum, viz:

[handwritten in table without headings]
21st Oct. 1779. Samuel Ashman [Ashmun] priv't [private] 1  8  5/4
31st Dec. 1782. D'o [Ditto] [Ditto] 18 15 1

[printed below table]
STATE OF NEW-YORK
COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, Albany, 
[handwritten] 17th Dec'r 1847
[Printed] I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No. [handwritten numbers] 2 & 8 [printing continued] now remaining in this office, and that the service for which the certificates above named were issued, were performed under the following officers, viz:

First - under [name handwritten] Lt Philip Rogers in Col. [name handwritten] Corn's [Cornelius] Van Veghten Reg't [Regiment]

Second - under [name handwritten] Capt. Job Wright in Col. Marinus Willett Reg't [Regiment]

[signature]
Philip Phelps
Dep [Deputy] Comp'r [Comptroller]

[handwritten vertically along left edge]
No Rolls of Col. Willett appears in this office later than 31 Dec, 1782
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1844 no. 694 
Apl 3rd 1848

Silas Hubbell for
Parthenia [Parthena] Ashman [Ashmun]
Wid [widow] of Samuel

[upper right] Paid 10
Hon'l [Honorable] J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington
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Champlain Mar. 27th/48

J.L. Edwards Esquire

Dear Sir.
I enclose the Declaration of the widow of the late Samuel Ashman [Ashmun], who was a pensioner of the United States which will show she is entitled to a ["pensation" crossed out] pension under the act of 7th July 1838. It will be a great kindness to decide the case of the aged worthy woman as soon as may be.
I remain very respectfully,
Your Obt [Obedient] Sert. [Servant]
Silas Hubbell
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[upper left corner]
Champlain NY
April 5. 1848

[Addressed to]
Hon'l [Honorable] J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington

[along left edge in different handwriting]
April 12th 1848
Silas Hubbell
April 12/48
Mrs P Asham [Ashmun] Wid [Widow]
of Samuel
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Champlain April 5th 1848
J.L. Edwards Esqr.
Dear Sir, Mrs. P Ashmun has handed me your letter to her Nov'r 6th 1847 also the enclosed Certificate of the Comptroller which I see should have accompanied her Declaration which I forwarded to you a few days. As it appears by your letter of 6th Nov'r the proof of her marriage is complete. I presume there will be nothing wanting to entitle her to a pension
I remain very respectfully
Your Obt [Obedient] Sert. [Servant]
Silas Hubbell
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Sept 14/48
Samuel Ashmun
M Ames
Silas Hubbell

Champlain
NY

JL Edwards
Comm [Commissioner] of Pensions
City of Washington

No answer required
ser let 17 Act '48
S. Hubbell
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Champlain Sep'r [September] 8th 1848

J L. Edwards Esquire
Commission

Dear Sir
Last Spring I forwarded to the papers to prove the marriage between Samuel Ashmun deceased now and Parthena Rymond. Ashmun was a soldier of the Revolution, drew a pension several years and deceased August 1846. The widows declaration and evidence of marriage I forwarded together as abovementioned & one or two mails. I forwarded to you the Certificate of the Comptroller of the State of New York at Albany showing the Corps in which said Ashmun all which made ample proof to entitle her to a pension as the widow of the deceased soldier.
Mrs. Ashmun old & infirm has been withering with anxiety to receive her pension but it has not come.
Your earliest attention to the case will much oblige a worthy woman & your Obt [Obedient] Sert [Servant]
Silas Hubbell
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Champlain
29 June 1849

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Respt. Cl.
Parthena Ashman [Ashmun]
4937 48

[Addressed to]
J L Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington
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Champlain Clinton Co. N.Y
Hon'l [Honorable] J. L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

Dear Sir
I had the pleasure a letter of which the following is a Copy.

" Pension Office October 17 1848
Sir. In the case of Parthena Ashmun widow of Samuel Ashmun, the service of her husband and the date of their marriage are satisfactorily established. But before a Certificate can issue to her she must file a Declaration made before a Court of Record or a Judge of such a Court as required by the printed regulations with which Mrs. Ashmun has been fournished [furnished]. The Declaration which she now presents was taken before a Justice of the Peace which is not admissible.
I am respectfully your Obt. [Obedient] Svt [Servant] J. G Berret for commissioner of Pensions - "
Silas Hubbell Esqr
Champlain New York

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The last of March Mrs Ashmun went before the Clinton County Court Judge Stetson presiding & It being a Court of Record. Made her Declaration as required by the foregoing letter which I forwarded to your office. Not hearing from you on the subject I, last month, addressed a letter to you requesting your attention to the subject not having received any communication from you on the subject. I once more take the liberty to call your attention to it. Mrs. Ashmun is lame & bowed down with rheumatism & suffers for the want of her pension, which it is clear she is entitled to. If there is any information in her papers (which I immagine [imagine] there is not) I should be very much obliged & Mrs A much more, if you will write & explain the reason of the delay -
I remain very respectfully
Your Obt [Obedient] Svt [Servant]
Silas Hubbell
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Silas Hubbell
Oct'r [October} 17. 48
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Pension office
Octobre 17 1848

In the case of Parthena Ashmun widow of Samuel Ashman the service of her husband and the date of their marriage are satisfactorily established. But before a certificate can issue to her she must file a declaration made before a Court of Record or a judge of such a court as required by the printed regulations with which Mrs. A. [Ashmun] has been furnished
The declaration which she now presents was written before a Justice of the Peace which is not admissible.

Silas Hubbell Esq
Champlain
NY
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Parthena Ashmun
Pension Paper
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 4th of July 1836.
State of New York}
Clinton County } ss;

On this 2nd day of February 1849 personally appeared before the Honorable Lemuel Stetsen Judge of Clinton County Court. in open Court at the Court house in Plattsburgh in the County aforesaid Parthena Ashmun, a resident of the Town of Champlain in said County aged seventy eight years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4th 1836. That she is the widow of Samuel Ashmun who was a private and served in the war of the Revolution under Lieutenant Rogers in Colonel McInstrys [McKinstry's] Regiment. (From what she heared [heard] her husband say in his lifetime she believes that Colonel McInstry [McKinstry] commanded a part of the time) for one month and twelve days; And that she said Samuel Ashmun her said deceased husband served two years in Captain Job Wright's company, in Colonel Marinus Willets [Willett's] Regiment in the said War of the Revolution in the New York line.
She further declared that she was married to the said Samuel Ashmun on the seventeenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand seen hundred and ninety; That her husband the said Samuel Ashmun
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died on the 29th day of August 1846; and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appears by reference to the proof annexed to the Declaration of the said Parthena Ashmun heretofore made & filed in the pension office in the City of Washington and refuted by having been taken before a Justice of the Peace. And she further declared that her husband the said Samuel Ashmun drew a pension on account of his said services in his lifetime.

[on right, signature] Parthena Ashmun
[on left]
Sworn to and subscribed on}
the day & year above written}
before me the 23rd Feby [February] 1849
L Stetson
County Judge
for the County of Clinton

State of New york
Clinton County Ss
I Charles H. Jones Clerk of the County of Clinton, do hereby certify that L. Stetson Esqr before whom the foregoing declaration & affidavit was taken, was at the time presiding Judge of said County, duly qualified and that this signature above written is genuine

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of said County the 23'd day of February 1849
Charles H. Jones
Clerk
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Champlain Mar 3rd 1849
J. L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions

Dear Sir
I enclose another Declaration of Parthena Ashmun, widow of Samuel Ashmun deceased, who served as a private in the War of the Revolution, the proof of his services and of their marriage was forwarded to your office last summer all complete except her Declaration was taken by a Justice of the Peace that was done by mistake, by refering [referring] to those papers on file in your office with this declaration you will see she is entitled to the pension

I trust it will now be attend [attended] without delay & you will please have the goodness to forward the Certificate to me as Mrs. Ashmun is old & infirmed & wants it for her support - 
I am very respectfully your Obt. [obedient] Svt [servant]
Silas Hubbell
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Champlain
May 1st 1849

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Parthena Ashmun
4937-48

[addressed to]
Honl [Honorable] J. L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington
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Champlain May 1st 1849
J L Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions -
Dear Sir
I beg leave to call your attention the claim of Parthena Ashmun for a pension -
In October last past I received a letter from your office of which the following is a copy.
Pension Office October 7th 1848. 
Sir, In the case of Parthena Ashmun, widow of Samuel Ashmun, the service of her husband and the date of their marriage, are satisfactorily established: But before a Certificate can issue to her she must file a Declaration made before a Court of Record or or a Judge of such a Court, as required by the printed legislations with which Mrs. Ashmun has been fournished [furnished]. The Declaration which she now presents was taken before a Justice of the Peace, which is not admissible. 
I am respectfully your Obt. [Obedient] Sevt [Servant] 
J G Berret
for Commr. [Commissioner] of Pensions

Silas Hubbell Esq
Champlain
New York
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In March last Mr. Ashmun made a new declaration before Clinton County Court Judge Stetson presiding which I forward with the Clerks Certificate to your office.
Mr. Ashmun is 78 years old much bowed down with rheumatism. in anxious want of his pension
Your immediate attention to his case will confer a great favour on him
& much oblige your obt [obedient] sevt [servnt]
Silas Hubbell
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[Stamp reversed in upper right corner]
RECORDS DIVISION
AUG 20 1908

For The Pension Bureau
Washington
D.C.

Dear sirs: -
I am intensely interested in obtaining statistics or information for a Genealogy Book, and also documental proof regarding my ancestry in order that I may become a "Daughter of the American Revolution". - My father's grandfather Samuel Ashmun enlisted and served in the Revolution and drew a pension. - He enlisted from Massachusetts in Richmond I believe - I wish to secure absolute proof and facts regarding it. -
There on my mother's
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side - her father's grandfather Moses Jones - enlisted in Morris or Morristown New Jersey and drew a pension: - 
Please be kind enough to let me know all you can and as soon as you can conveniently. -
I wish to become a D.A.R. of the National Order then the Local Chapter at Oshkosh before I return to the north where I am engaged in teaching. -
Thanking you in advance I remain
Very sincerely yours
Elizabeth E. Ashmun
Waupaca, Wis.
Box 23. Route 2.

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U.S.
PENSION
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Later.
Colonal [Colonel] Watson or an officer of some kind and served in the Rev. War but we can't find out exactly but are anxous to find out about them. He was at Fort Niagara. It may be the Nat. [National] Chapter of D. [Daughters] American Revolution will write me.
E.E.A.

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U.S.
PENSION
OFFICE.
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[On right side, logotype] HOTEL SUPERIOR
Lake Superior Hotel Co.
PROPRIETORS [small type]

Superior, Wis. [Crossed out and replaced with] Waupaca, Wis. Aug. 16 1908

Pension Bureau
Washington, D.C.

Please send me a statement of the service of one Samuel Ashmun who served in the American Revolution and received a pension afterwards. We believe that he enlisted from Richmond, Mass.
I also wish a statement of the service of one Moses Jones who enlisted probably at Morristown New Jersey. This information will be necessary for membership to The Daughters of the American Revolution.
Hoping to hear from you
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[Hotel Letterhead]
[On left side, illustration of hotel building with the caption AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN underneath]
[On right side, logotype] HOTEL SUPERIOR
Lake Superior Hotel Co.
PROPRIETORS [small type]

very soon, I am
Yours truly
Minnie C. Ashmun
Waupaca, Wis. [Wisconsin]

R.F.D No. 2
Box 23

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U.S. PENSION OFFICE
AUG 20 1908
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[illegible] July 2nd 1894
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir
My Grandfather Samuel Ashmun was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army and drew a pension for a number of years prior to his death in 1846.
I do not know whether he enlisted from Connecticut or Massachusetts but think the former _ after the war he received a donation of 200 acres of land from either the state or gen'l [general] Government which was located in the town of Champlain - Clinton County & State of New York upon which he settled in about 1790 and lived there continuously until his death as above stated in 1846.
Can I obtain from or through your office the necessary information to constitute my Grandfather's military record
Any expense attending the matter will be cheerfully paid.
Very respectfully yours
J. W. Ames
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[Illegible] July 2nd, 1894
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir
Can I obtain through your office the miltary record of my Great Grandfather Ebeneezer Ames of Bridgwater Massachusetts and who was a Soldier in the Revolutionary Army and died in 1779 - Born March 15, 1739 -
Very truly Yours
J. W. Ames
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Placerville, Calif.
Mar 27th, 1940.

U.S. War Department,
Dept of Veterans,
Washington, D.C. 

[handwritten note in another hand] only Ashman or Ashmun [underlined]

Dear sirs, -
I recently wrote to the war Dept., Dept of Records, concerning what Ashmuns took part in the Revolutionary War.
Their records only showed a Samuel [check mark and "only" above] Ashmun. They said their records was not complete, and suggested that I write Dept of Veterans.
I am quite sure there was a John [check mark above] Ashmun [underlined] who saw service in this War, and may be others. Any information
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that you may be able to give me, will sure be appreciated.
If your records has names of relatives of those that saw service I would like that also.
There was some Ministers of the Gospel, of name of Ashmun, who also were in the Revolutionary War.
Respectfully yours,
Chester A. Ashmun
Placerville
California
Box 124

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RECEIVED
APR 1 1940
MAIL SUB-DIV
Reader No. 10
VETS ADM [Administration]
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In reply to your request of ______  [date cut off by scanner] for a statement of the military history of Samuel Ashman [a underlined] a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his ^and [inserted above] (his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. 
Ind. [Individual?] F. [File] 25,362

[Typed form with handwritten entries]
[First entry] Dates of enlistment or appointment: 1781
Length of service: 6 wks. [weeks]
Rank: Pri. [Private]
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. CAPTAIN. COLONEL.
served at Fort Edward which
was commanded by Col. John McKinsdry
STATE: N.Y.

[second entry] Dates of enlistment or appointment: Apr. 1782.
Length of service: 6 Jany 1784
Rank: " [Private]
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. CAPTAIN. Job Wright
COLONEL. Maximus Willer
STATE: " [N.Y.]