Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22,925, Thomas Coats, Conn.
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(8-1776)
SERVICE
Conn.



Coats, Thomas
Delano, Lois
Former widow

NUMBER
W.22.925
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11724

Vermont Montpelier,
Lois Delano decd formerly widow of Thomas Coats, who died on the 11th Oct 1814, of _______ in the State of ___________ who was a private & Corporal in the ________ commanded by Captain _________ of the __________ commanded by ___________ in the Revolution line for 6 mo & 11 days private, 1 mo & 6 days Corporal. Inscribed on the Rollf of Montpelier at the rate of 25 Dollars 61 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of Mach, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day December 1854 and sent

Arrears to the 4th of 
Semi-annual allowance ending
John B. Meriden 
N.C

Revolutionary Claim
Act July 7, 1838
G. J. Getty Clerk
Recorded by
Book D
Vol. 1
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4596

V 4596
Lois Delano
formerly widow of Thomas Coats
Vermont
Act 4 July '35
Comp. in 75. 7mo 11 days
Ne Nov. 75. d14
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Declaration of Lois Delano in order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the act of Congress of the 4th of July, 1836.

State of Vermont
District of Lamoille

On this 20th day of June A.D. 1834 personally appeared before the Hon. the Probate Court for the District of Lamoille and State of Vermont present the Hon. Samuel A Willard, Judge of Probate for said District, Lois Delano a resident of Morristown in the County of Lamoille and State of Vermont, aged eighty three (83) years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth, on oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4, 1836. That she is the widow of Thomas Coats who was a private in the Revolutionary Army. I believe he belonged to the State troops of Connecticut. That he former husband the said Thomas Coats, enlisted into the Army in the year on thousand seven hundred and seventy five (1775) in the month of April or May I think for the term of six (6) months but served a longer time than 6 months. I think he served until the last of December on first of January following. I do not recollect the names of any of the officers except Samuel Prentiss who was Major. I well recollect his name as I was well acquainted with him before and have been since. I think the Colonel was Oliver Smith tho' of that I am not certain. He first entered the service
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service at New London Connecticut but was soon order to Rosebury, Massachusetts when he served the rest of the time. He came home once during this time in November, which was when we were married. i think it was at the end of the 6 months for which he first enlisted. He returned to Rosebury Ma, again in a few day(s) and did not arrive home again until the last of December of first of January. That sometime afterward, I do not recollect the precise time he was drafted into the service and went to Rhode Island & New York & was gone a number of weeks. He was afterward drafted or volunteered. I do not recollect which & went to fight the Indians. I should think that he was out in the service during the Revolutionary War from 9 to 12 months in the whole. She further declares that she was married to the said Thomas Coats on the 12th day of November A.D. 1775 and that he husband the said Thomas died in Hyde Park, Vermont on the Eleventh (11th_ day of October A.D. 1814. She further declares that she remained the widow of the said Thomas Coats until the first day of February A.D. 1820, when she was married to Jonathan Delano and that her husband, the said Jonathan Delano died on the 16st. day of April A.D. 1835 and that she had remained a widow ever since that period as will (mournfully?) appear by reference to the proof hereto announced.

Lois Delano (signed with an X labeled "her mark")
Witness
S. Potter Poland
Edward L. Mays
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Subscribed and sworn to this 20th day of June A.D. 1839 at said Morristown. I further certify that the said Lois Delano is a person of truth and veracity and fully entitled to credit.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Probate Court and subscribed my name at the Probate office in Morristown in said District of Lamoille this 20th day of June Anno Domini 1839

S. P. Poland Register
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May (illegible)

Lois Delano of VT deed
Administrators Declaration Act 4th
July 1836

John Bryant Agent
Meridien N.H
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State of Vermont
Lamoille County ss.

On this first day of April 1852 before me S. S. Pike Judge of the Court of Probate within and for said County personally appeared Lovel Gates a resident of Sterling in said County Administrator upon the Estate of Lois Delano late of said Sterling, deceased, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath in the capacity of such Administrator make the following declaration in order in the right of said Lois Delano, deceased, to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 4th of July 1836 under which as the declaration verily believes the said Lois asserted a claim in her lifetime and also a subsequent one under the Act of the 7th July 1838 for the service of her first husband Thomas Coats who was a Continental Soldier in the Army of the Revolution wherein as such he was several times engaged both precious to and after his marriage to the said Lois (before marriage Lois Brown) but neither of her said claims were ever admitted-A part of the service of said Thomas Coats as this declarant understands to wit, 7 mos and 11 days was proved to the satisfaction of the Department of the Certificate of the Comptroller of the State of Connecticut and now supposed to be on file in the Pension Office and for which he now prays an allowance under the first named Act that of the 4th July 1836; together with such additional service of the said Thomas Coats in 1777 and subsequently as he
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may be able to establish by proofs. Her father declares that he has not been enabled to obtain record evidence of the date of the marriage of the said Lois to Thomas Coats but his confident belief is that it took place before the last period of his service to wit in the Autumn of 1776, here by praying that reference may be had to the accompanying deposition of Lydia Smith, made before Wm. C Stanton a Notary Public for the State of Connecticut on the 8th day of October 1851. He further declares that the said Lois formerly the widow of Thomas Coats died at said Sterling on the 29th day of August 1844 being at the time of her death the widow of Johnathan Delano. 
And in reference to the service of said Thomas Coats additional to the 7 mos & 11 days stated as aforesaid this declarant would further state that he has reason to believe and does believe that he rendered one tour as a Corporal in the Company of Captain Stanton at Groton in 1777 and that evidence of which was obtained and used in supports of the claim to a Pension of Sally Lewis widow of Valentine Lewis of Connecticut and is now supposed to be on file in the Pension office in her case and to which he prays that reference to be had an also to the Certificate of Wm. C. Stanton Esq which will be herewith transmitted together with the affidavit of Anna Coats relative to the service of said Thomas Coats.

(Smuel Gaton?)
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Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above written
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Probate Court an subscribed my name at Johnson in the county and state aforesaid this first day of April A.D. 1852

S.S. Pike Judge
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I Lois Delano of Morristown int he County of Lamoille & State of Vermont, formerly Lois Coats of the age of 84 years do upon testify & say that I am the same Lois Delano who is trying to procure a pension for the Revolutionary services of Thomas Coats & I am the same widow Delano that made a Declaration that case some months ago, nearly a year I believe, which declaration with other papers then forwarded to the Office of the Commissioner of Pensions at Washington D.C. I suppose to be state in that Office. I now further testify & say that my first child, Thomas Coats was born at Storington Connecticut A.D. 1776 the 12th day of Dec. & (illegible) that my husband Thomas Coats was in the service of the (illegible) Geates as a soldier. He was then at Roxbury, Ma. My second child by said Coats, Lois Coats was born at said (illegible) Ct, January 11 1779. My 3rd child, Isaac, was born January 27, 1781 my fourth Mary was born February 27, 1783 & my fifth Lyman was born April 4, 1785. And further this department saith ust.

Geo. W. Gates
Lovel Gates

State of Vermont
Lamoille County

Morristown June 8, 1840
Personally appeared Lois Delano and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by her subscribed, contains the truth & nothing but the truth and I further certify that said Lois Delano is a person of truth and veracity. The words Lois Coats between the 15th & 16 lines in the above affidavit as well  as the word "Delano" 5th line of this certificate in(illegible) before signing

Geo. W. Gates Justice of the Peace
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I Patty Smally of Hyde Park in the County of Lamoille & State of Vermont of the age of 56 years do (illegible) testify & say, That my mother & Mrs. Lois Delano who has now a pending claim to a pension were sisters as I have always been told. My mother was 5 years older than Mrs. Delano (formerly Lois Coats,)my mother's maiden or pre-nuptial name was Elisabeth Brown. Aunt Delano's was Lois Brown. I have often heard my mother, when living tell about Thomas Coats, the first husband of the now widow Lois Delano of Morristown, CT being in the Revolutionary War. Tom Coats was in the service with my mother's first husband David Parker. My mother said that said Coats enlisted into the service sometime in the winter or spring of the year. returned home to Storrington, Ct the fore part of November following & was married to her sister Lois, the returned again to the army then stationed, I think she said at Roxbury, Mas and was there until after their first child was born, which was the month of December next after the marriage. I have very often heard my mother converse about it & recollect it well from various circumstances; one of which was that she said it was the intention of Mr. Coats to have been married before he entered the service tho after he enlisted, but was presented by (illegible) in the family & after unavoidable accidents. He was called out to New London, Ct. very suddenly but supposed he could with ease (illegible) to Storing, Ct. & be married but was ordered to Roxbury, Mas. he was taken sick at said Roxbury sometime after he went there, which rendered it impossible to return home, when sent for to be married. But as before stated, did afterward return, was married & went back into the service at said Roxbury, Mas. I further testify & say that my mother is
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dead & has been for some years.
And further this (illegible) saith not.
Patty Smalley

State of Vermont
Lamoille County, p

Morristown June 8, A.D. 1840
Personally appeared Patty Smalley and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by her subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth; And I further certify that said Patty Smalley is a person of truth and veracity.
Geo. W. Gates Justice of the Peace

The (illegible) to Storring , Ct in the herein & the word C. in the 25th line were inter(illegible) before signing. 
Geo. W. Gates Justice of the Peace

I Mary Noble of Hyde Park in the County of Lamoille and State of Vermont of the age of 57 years do depose, testify, & say that I am the same Mary Noble that made an affidavit sometime in the month of June A.D. 1839 to be use by Widow Delano of Morristown, Ct. (late Mrs. Lois Coats) & in addition to what I them testified to I now say, that I am the daughter of said Widow Delano and her fourth child by Thomas Coats. That I was born February 27, 1783. That my oldest brother Thomas Coats, the first child of the said Thomas & Lois Coats was born at Storrington, Ct. on the 12th day of December A.D. 1776 as I have always understood from my infancy both from my parents & others, and  have, as I think, & verily do believe good reason to believe the said to be a fat. I have a family record of my family in which I entered the time of my birth which was as above mentioned. I made the entry when a young woman. There were those in my father's family, older than myself
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 something more than 2 years difference in between the ages of each. My parents had a record of the births of these children in a bible, but it is not entirely destroyed. According to the best of my recollection it appeared from that Thomas Coats, Jr. my parents first child was born as above stated on the 12th day of December A.D. 1776. I presume I took the record of my own birth from said family record of my parents. I have always understood from my parents & others, that my older brother, Thomas, was born when my father was in the United States Army during the Revolutionary War. That my father was at that time at Roxbury, Mas & that it was after he was married to the said Lois. The last time I heard from my oldest brother, he was somewhere in the State of New York, but I do not know here he now resides. And further this deposement saith not.
Patty Noble

State of Vermont
Lamoille County, p.

Hyde Park June 8, 1840
Personally appeared Mary noble and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by her subscriber contains the truth and nothing but the truth; and I further certify that said Mary Noble is a person of truth & veracity.
Geo. W. Gates. Justice of the Peace

The words "the daughter of" on the 6th line & the words to believe the same in the 12 line were (illegible) before signing. Also the parts of the 2nd & 3 lines on that are stricken out on this page were erased before signing. Also the word "not" in the last line but for (illegible) before signing.

Geo. W. Gates.
Justice of the Peace
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(Copy)

"Payment to be made at Montpelier by W.H.H. Brigham Esq Agent for paying Pensioners in the Agency of Vermont."

NB not correctly completed-
see offer to amend in (illegible)
scan on letter of Dec. 29. 1854

Recorded in the Pension
Office in Book A. Volume
2 Page 61. by
G.T. Getty. Clerk."
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(Copy)

Department of the Interior
Claim for Military Services

I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States of the 7th July 1838 Lois Delano, deceased formerly widow of Thomas Coats, who was a private and Corporal with the Revolution was entitled to a Pension and having died on the 29th August 1844, her only surviving children, Thomas Coats, Prentiss Coats, Lois Ellsworth, Polly Noble, Anstes Billings and Hannah Gates are entitled to the amount at the rate of Twenty Five 66/100 Dollars per annum commencing 4th March 1836, and ending 4th March 1841. Also Acts 3d March 1843 and 17th June 1844 at the same rate commencing 4th March 1843 and ending 29th August 1844; when she died.
Payable to Lovel Gates Administrator

Given at the Department of the Interior
this Eleventh day of December one thousand eight hundred and fifty four
R.M. Clelland
Secretary of the Interior

(II.S)
Examined and
Countersigned
L.P Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions."
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I Thomas Coats a resident of the town Macomb in the County of St Lawrence and State of New York aged upwards of 79 years depose and say that at Hyde Park in the State of Vermont in the autumn of 1855 before Joshua Sawyer a Notary Public I gave an affidavit to be used in support of the pending claim to a pension of my late mother Lois Delano of Vermont, deceased under the act of the 4th of July 1836. Who was formerly the widow of Thomas Coats wherein I stated the names of my parents, the time and place of my birth, and so forth. That I now repeat what I then stated that I am son of Thomas Coats formerly of Storington in the State Connecticut and their first child. That I was born in said Storington on the 12th day of November 1777 as always told me by my parents the said Thomas and Lois from my earliest recollection. I then stated that I had no record of my birth but might there have stated upon oath as I now do a fact besides the early and continued declarations which did then and does now enable me to fix the date of my birth at the previous aforesaid to wit That my mother the said Lois once had a family record in an old Bible wherein a record of my birth was from I have the most distinct recollections of having sure said record since I was 30 years old but what subsequently became of said Bible and record I do not know not having seen the former for a great number of years. Furthermore, my recollection is that my parents often told me that I could never forget my age as the year of my birth was expressed by two kinds of figures which are 1777. They used to talk in my hearing about Burgoyne being taken and whenever any doubt was as to long ago it was invariably remarked that it was the same year in which
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''Son was born" from which facts and circumstances I feel well assured that I was born on the day and year aforesaid that is on the 12th day of November 1777.
Thomas Coats

State of New York
County of Lawrence
SS Sworn and subscribed to by the said Thomas Coats well known to me to be a credible witness this 5th day of February 1857
Before me George F. Rowland
Justice of the peace in and for said family
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STATE OF NEW YORK
St. Lawrence County
Clerk's Office SS:

I, BENJAMIN G. BALDWIN, Clerk of said County of St. Lawrence, and also Clerk of the Courts of Record directed by law to be held therein, do hereby CERTIFY that George F. Rowland before whom the annexed affidavit was made, was, at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and duly authorised to take the same; and I further Certify that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of said Justice, and verily believe his signature to the jurat of the annexed affidavit is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said County and Courts, this 9th day of February 1857

BG. Baldwin Clerk
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State of Vermont
Lamoille County ss }

On this 12th day of November 1853 personally appeared before the subscribed Justice of the Peace within and for said County Lovel Gates a resident of Sterling in said County Administrator upon the Estate of Lois Delano late of said Sterling deceased who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration supplementary to a declaration made by him in the capacity of such Administrator, before the Hon. S. S. Pike Judge of the Court of Probate for said County on the first day of April 1852 on order in the right of said Lois Delano, deceased, the benefit of the Act of July 4th, 1836 for the Connecticut Revolutionary Services of her former husband Thomas Coats. That this his supplementary declaration is made for the purpose of renewedly claiming an allowance for 7 mos & 11 days services of Thomas Coats at Roxbury in 1775 of which he believes there is record evidence on file and that the same has been admitted by the Department Claiming also for additional service to wit for 1 month & 6 days service rendered by said Thomas Coats as a Corporal under Captain Stanton at Groton Fort in the spring of 1777 as is shown by the affidavit of Gen. William C. Stanton, made before the Probate Court for the County of Windham State of Connecticut on the 11th day of July 1853, subjoined to which is a copy of an order, whereon is the name of said Thomas Coats as a Corporal to which affidavit he prays that reference maybe had upon a reexamination of the case and that part of the same which has referred to service-And not having been enable to obtain record evidence of the marriage of Thomas Coats to Lois Brown he prays that the parole evidence on file may be further considered and regarded as
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satisfactory to wit the affidavit of Lydia Smith, who states that she was married to Moses Smith in November 1777-That her sister Lois was married to Thomas Coats some where about two years or nearly that before she was married and that she recollects the tour of service of her brother in law Thomas Coats at N. London under Capt William Stanton of Stonington in 1777 and also recollects the names of several other persons that then and there served with said Coats. He also prays that further reference may be had to the deposition on file in reference to the marriage of Lois Brown to Thomas Coats of Anna Coats and Anner Baldwin.
And as respects the service of said Thomas Coats the declarant would further state that he has in his possession many of the papers left by him from which he has selected those hereunto attached whereon is borne the original and genuine handwriting of the said Coats. That he now has in his possession the original order referred to in the deposition of Gen Wm. C. Stanton aforesaid, whereon is the signature of Thomas Coats. And of which the following is a copy

"Groton April `14th 1777.
"Capt Stanton, Sir. please to pay the Bearer here of our Wages and Billet for the"
"whole of the Time of Service in your Company at Groton fort and the Order shall"
"be Your Discharge from we the Subscribers.
Elisha Hewit
George Wilkinson
Joseph Starkweather
Cyrus Wheelerfifer
Joseph Hewit 3th
Elnathan Minor
Phinehas Lewis
Thomas Coats Cr
Levi Hall
Asa Frink
Jeremiah Maine
Paul Brumly
Dudley Morgan
Jared Stephens
Asa Lewis
Amos Morgan
Daniel Willson for my son Stephen
Nathaniel Ames
Eleazar Williams
Harry Hewit
Samuel Steward
Nathan Denison
Hazzard Hull
Daniel Latham
Andrew Denison
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Allen Palmer
Edward Stanton
Stephen Breed
Peleg Stanton
Walter Palmer
Joseph Breed
Sherman Babcock
William Hall
James Stanton Sergt.
James Hakes
Bradish Hall
Randall Billings
John Hinckley
Jonas Babcock
Nathaniel Searle D M.

On the back of the original is found the following
"Stonington June 24, 1777.
Recvd of Wm Stanton Ninety nine Pounds Nine Shilling & 4 Lawful money it being the Wages Due the Within Subscribers for one month and Six Days Service in his Company in March and April Last
(signed) John York"

That on comparison with the handwriting of said Coats that his signature upon said order is his own genuine signature and that he should have hereunto attached said original but for his obligation to return the same to the source from whence it came into his hands as a Loan to enable him to make the comparison of hand writing as he has done and from which he is entirely satisfied that the said Thomas Coats rendered the last named tour of service for which he claims allowance to wit: 1 month and 6 days at N. London as a Corporal in the spring of the year 1777 and subsequently to his marriage; that feeling confident from what he understands to be the evidence on

(written in the left ledger)
This document apparently ancient, but unauthenticated except by the supplemental declaration and Stanton's affidavit was sent to the office for examination, and the copy found to be correct. It was returned to John Bryant, Meriden, NH 2nd March 1854 by order of Mr. Cole
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file certified by the Hon. Benjamin Gallup Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut in reference to the last named service and his own examination of original papers, he has to pray a reexamination of all the papers on file in the case with the additional evidence herewith transmitted; that in reference to the service of the said Thomas Coats the declarant has only further to say that his belief is that there is evidence on file going to show that his tour at Roxbury ended in December 1775 as reported by the Commissioner of Pensions to the Hon Henry Hubbard July 2 1840; that he is also of the belief that he rendered one or more short tours of service previous to that at Roxbury in 1775 and also on or more short tours subsequent to that at N. London in 1777, proof of which he has not as yet been enabled to obtain.
Saml Gates

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written Before me
Arad Baker Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont, Lamoille County
I Staughton S. Pike Judge of the Probate Court within and for the district and county aforesaid hereby certify that Arad Baker is a Justice of the peace within and for the county aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified as such, and is more acting of such, within power under the laws of the State to administer oaths and that the foregoing is his genuine signature - In writings whereof & hereunto set my hand & seal of about this 12th day of November 1853 - S. S. Pike Judge
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Thomas Coats his Book Stonington 
Jeremiah Crowning 
to three days work of making wal
to one days weding
to two days hilling
to one days Roping
August the 31 days
to half a days laying wal
September the 9 to laying wal one day
September the 11 to laying wal one day
October the 4 day to one days work harvesting corn
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Hyde Park February 15 1812

For value received are (illegible) severally to pay for Joshua Sawyer or offer the sum of three dollars on the first day of January went with use
Thomas Coats
David Brown

Stonington Jan the 16 1777
Wm Kinne Sir please to let the Bearer have two Bushels of corn and charge the same to me
Thomas Coats
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Stonington February the 9 Day D 1797
then received of Thomas Coats the sum of five Shillings which is in full of all Books a accompls up to this day
York York
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Lois Delano of VT deceased
formerly the widow of Thomas
Coats suspended claims
Act 4th july 1836 ---

Additional proof of marriage
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State of Connecticut
New London County
Ss Stonington

On this 17th day of October AD 1859 personally appeared before me Eunice Bennett subscribed to the foregoing deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same, her testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & have affixed my notarial seal the day and you (illegible) (illegible) written
Wm. Stanton Notary Public

Windham County, fr Stonington Oct 29 1859
I hereby certify that Eunice Bennet who has subscribed the foregoing deposition & personally known to the subscribed as a credible witness.

Attn
Wm C Stanton Justice of the Peace
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Meriden Aug. 5 1840

Mr. Hubbard
DSir I have lately received from my friend at Morristown Vt The forwarded to you an other affidavit of Mrs. Lois Delano in support of her pending claims to a Pension which I herein enclose and which you rec'd please forward to the Department and oblige

Your Obd Srvt
John Bryant
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Washington Jan 18/58

Sir,
I herewith enclose two depositions in support of a claim for a Pension now on file in your office--said claim has not hitherto been allowed--the proof being deemed insufficient--the depositions were enclosed to me with a request that I unto forward them to you---
Very respectfully,
I am (illegible)
L. F. S Foster

Hnble
Mr. Whitng
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Tow Clerks Office Stonington
Connecticut Feb. 3. 1846

I John D Noyes Town Clerk of said town do hereby certify that upon application to me for record evidence of the Marriage of Thomas Coats formerly of said Stonington to Lois Brown. I have made careful search of the records in my possession from 1770 to 1794 but can find no record thereof nor a record of the births of their children

John D Noyes T Clerk
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copy
Commissioner of Pension reports
to the Hon Nathan Belcher 
in Feb 1855 in the case of Loie Delano
dec' formerly the
widow of Thomas Coats--The original being in the hands of Gen. Wm. C. Stanton
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(Copy.)
"Pension Office February 12th 1855.

Sir
I have at your request, personally examined the papers filed with the application of Lois Delano, deceased, formerly the Widow of Thomas Coats of the state of Vermont, admitted under the Act of July 7th 1838 and have to inform you that I do not find the evidence such as to warrant the admission of the claim under the Act of July 4th 1836-- The claim is asserted for two periods of service; one for Seven months and eleven days in the year 1775, and the other for one month and six days, supposed to have been in the year 1777. The first period of service is shown to have been in the year 1775 ending December 17th of that year record evidence--The precise time when the second period was performed is not shown--From the affidavit of William C. Stanton it appears that Thomas Coats with others gave an order to Bearer, on Captain Stanton for her wages and billet for the whole time of his service in his Company at Groton Fort, which order is dated April 14th, 1777---There is no time stated when said service was performed--It is certain it must have been performed before the date of the order--Now it is a well known historical fact that the Militia near Groton Fort including the Regiment commanded by Major Nathan Gallup, were called out for short tours of service in the year 1776, and there is no evidence that payments were made until the year 1777--
The first payment to Captain William Stanton who served in Gallup's Regiment was made April 20th, 1777--It follows that the service of Coats might have been and probably was, in the year 1776. nit at what time does not appear--- Your correspondent relies chiefly upon the affidavit of Mrs. Lydia Smith to prove that the marriage of these parties was before the last period of service-- Mrs. Smith has given two affidavits--The first was sworn to by her on the 11th day of March 1839, in which she says she was married in the
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month of November 1777 and that he sister Lois was married before she was and so far as she recollects she should "think something like a year before" In her second affidavit taken December 8th, 1851 she says her sister was married "somewhere about two years" before she was--I can find no good reason for taking the fact as stated in her last affidavit rather than as stated in the first--If the marriage of the claimant was something like a year before Mrs Smith was married it would have taken place early in the year 1777- It is not from this evidence, shown to have happened before the last period of Thomas Coats service-
It is necessary for me to recapitulate the other evidence in this case which certainly does not strengthen the claim of your correspondent-After examining the whole I am of opinion it does not establish the fact claimed, and that this case cannot be admitted under the Act of July 4th, 1836-
The papers you left with me and the letter of your correspondent are herewith returned- The decision of this Office was communicated to him by letter dated December 29th 1854.
I have the honor to be
Very respectfully
Your Obt. Svt.
L.P. Waldo
Commissioner

Hon. Nathan Belcher
House of Reps.
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Hon. L. S. Foster
D E(illegible)

I enclose papers in case of Mrs. Lois Delano late of Vermont (dec'd) & formerly wife of Thomas Coats of Stonington Conn.
The widow Delano made application for a pension under Act 4 July 1836 and after her death the application has been reviewed by an administration. After a prosecution of the claim for years the Department finally sent a pension certificate under Act July 7 1838 & 3 March 1843 decided committing an (illegible) in the computation, they allowed not so much as should have been & a copy of which pension certificate is herewith enclosed.
You will also find copies of much of the correspondence in this tedious case and also a copy of my deposition which has subsequently been substantiated by the original Roll of Capt Wm. Stanton.
You will (illegible) other paper (illegible) Esq. Bryants letter to you.
The claim that beyond any doubt (reasonable at least) we have established this claim under Act of 4 July 1836 & that Thomas Coats did render a tour of service at New London after his marriage to "Lois" that from the Deposition of Mrs. Lydia Smith now dead, the Roll of Capt Wm. Stanton & the Deposition of Thomas Coats herein enclosed (a new and additional piece of testimony).
The claim is more fully set forth in Esq Bryants letter herein enclosed.
I would respectfully ask you to examine this claim carefully & then present the new piece of testimony enclosed herein & here trust Judge Minot the present commissioner of pensions will take a correct view of this just claim & allow the same.
I expected to have read these papers in time to have had a personal interview with you before you left
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nowith but did not.
I assured Esq Bryant that you would render any assistance in this claim & that I would prefer your services to any one else.
I am Respectfully, 
Wm. C Stanton

(illegible) Dec 17th 1855

P.S. If any change is made in pension claim would than you for the earliest information.

(written in left side ledger)
Gen Stanton's letter
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Lovel Gates Administrator of Lois Delano letter to Bryant ----
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Hyde Park Vt. Dec 1, 1854

Dear Sir

Since the receipt of yours of the 28th instant, I have complied with the exaction contained in the letter of the Hon. Commissioner of Pensions to yourself as agent in the case of Lois Delano formed, widow of Thomas Coats duties Nov. 24, 1854, as obtained from the Probate Court for the county a certificate as to the amount of my hour as administration where for estate.
This I could have done before had I have known that the Department had anything to do with the settlement of estates, or with our state and county affairs.

Respectfully & truly yours,
Lovel Gates

P.S. I have the claim he admitted upon the reception from you as agent of the enclosed certificate, I wish you to (illegible) the Commissioner that the pension may be made payable at the Montpelier Act. Agency---
Lovel Gates

John Bryant Esq.
Meriden NH
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Washington Feb 12/56

DSir,

I enclose a rather formidable file of papers connected with the applications of the administrator of Lois Delano for a Pension-
The case has been before the Department and denied on the ground that the proof was insufficient-- There is more additional evidence which is herewith enclosed and which will I hope prove satisfactory- I send all the papers in the case some being copies of orig-
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inals in your office (illegible) have them altogether may save you the trouble of reference---

Very respectfully
I am, Sir, your
Obt. Servt
L.F.S. Foster

Hon. J Minot
Commissioner
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Meriden NH July 16 1853

Sir
Enclosed is additional evidence of the service of Thomas Coats a Connecticut soldier in the Army of the Revolution to be used in the pending claim of Lois Delano of Lamoille Co. VT dec'd the papers in whose case were filed by her form agent Mr. Mays as long ago as 1839 under the Act of July 4th 1836 and suspended for lack of proof of marriage and was newly asserted by her Administrator on behalf of her children in April 1852 that is by Lovel Gates Esq whose declaration and additional proofs will be found to have been filed in May 1852 in whose behalf my belief is that all the proof in said case may be reexamined together with the affidavit of Gen. Wm C. Stanton herewith sent and that a report may subsequently be made to 
You Obe Sevt
John Bryant of Meriden N.H.
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Morrisville, Ct June 19, 1841
Hon. J. L. Edwards Court of Pensions

Dear Sir,
I have made a thorough trial to get the (illegible) testimony to substantiate the claim of Mrs. Delano for a pension for the revolutionary service of Thomas Coats but have not been able to obtain it. All the evidence in the case consistent with (illegible) that I know of or can as yet get any claim to is already before the Department & if the Department adheres to their former opinion. I do not see why the old lady must not abandon the idea of provuring a pension. SO for as relates to my private feeling i do much regret it as she is in very indigent (illegible) (illegible) & needs the letter (illegible) that he had fond hoped to me from Government. You will und(illegible) that mean my more private feeling not as wishing to be disrespectful toward you for the conclusions to which you (illegible) in the discharge of your official & responsible duty. I have without fee or (illegible) at much trouble & (illegible) in by into assist her. tho she is in a way related to me but the result have been as above mentioned. If you still consider the evidence not to be sufficient to entitle her to a pension I would respectfully request you if not inconsistent with the rules of the Department
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Morrisville, Ct June 19, 1841
Hon. J. L. Edwards Court of Pensions

Dear Sir,
I have made a thorough trial to get the (illegible) testimony to substantiate the claim of Mrs. Delano for a pension for the revolutionary service of Thomas Coats but have not been able to obtain it. All the evidence in the case consistent with (illegible) that I know of or can as yet get any claim to is already before the Department & if the Department adheres to their former opinion. I do not see why the old lady must not abandon the idea of provuring a pension. SO for as relates to my private feeling i do much regret it as she is in very indigent (illegible) (illegible) & needs the letter (illegible) that he had fond hoped to me from Government. You will und(illegible) that mean my more private feeling not as wishing to be disrespectful toward you for the conclusions to which you (illegible) in the discharge of your official & responsible duty. I have without fee or (illegible) at much trouble & (illegible) in by into assist her. tho she is in a way related to me but the result have been as above mentioned. If you still consider the evidence not to be sufficient to entitle her to a pension I would respectfully request you if not inconsistent with the rules of the Department
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to return the papers to me. It is my first efforts of the kind & I wish to present the forms & that I have been at some considerable trouble in procuring.
I have the honor to be
With very great respect
Your Honor's Obt. Servt.
Edward L Mays
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Morrisville Dec 8 1841

J.L. Edwards Esq

Sir
Herewith the declaration of Lois Delano of this town for the purpose of obtaining a Pension under the Act of 1838 is forwarded- She has been an applicant under the act of the 4th of July 1836 and failed through inability to prove the time of her marriage- I have known the family when and with whom she lives for several years but have not known her. The paper were given to me by Mr. Gates and by (illegible) them (illegible) that E.S. Mays Esq who has now left her has had the care of the other applications. All the evidence that can be obtained in the case is now in the department & whether it can be brought over and was under this application. I know not but certainly I can see no means why it cannot. She is old, (illegible) and poor and not able to furnish any means to help herself of (illegible) this (illegible) wont be (illegible) with (illegible) and of the whole be obtained then will be but tells of it. There can be no doubt of her marriage in over the years named - (illegible) but you can for her -- disnt communications to me at Morrisville
Yours with Respect Saml A Willard
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Meriden NH Dec. 4 1854

Sir
Your favour of the 24th in the case of Lois Delano of NW dec'd (Act 4th July 1836) formerly the widow of Thomas Coats came duly (illegible) and I have since obtained and herewith (illegible) the requisite proof of the (illegible) of the Bond of Lovel Gates the Administrator upon the Estate of Lois Delano, which I hope and trust will prove to be satisfactory and upon the receipt & filing of the same the claim will be admitted for 7 mos 11 days service of Thomas Coast as a private in 1775, & 1 mos & 6 days as a Corporal in 1777 of which there is evidence on file-And it is the desire of Mrs Gates the Administrator (see his letter to me of the 1 instant) that the pension be made payable at the Montpelier Vt agency.

Very respectfully 
John Bryant

Hon L.P. Waldo
Comm. Pensions
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State of Vermont, Lamoille County
Morrisville, June 22, 1839.

Sir,
Enclose are papers for the purpose of obtaining a pension for Mrs. Lois Delano. We have not been able to find and record of either of her marriages & have, of course been obliged to resort to other testimony & trust that it will be deemed sufficient. The persons who officiated at the nuptials on both occasion we understand to be dead & we have procured the best evidence in our power.

I have the honor to be
With very great respect
Your Honors Obt. Servt.
Edwards L Mays
Atty. for Petitioners

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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Lois Delano dec'd formerly 
widow of Thomas Coats
Lamoille Co, Vermont
admd, July 7 1838
6 mos & 11 days pri   $21.21
1mos & 6 days Corp      4.40
                                   $25.61
per annum from
4 March 1836 to
29 Aug 1844 when she
died  Except 2 years
pay to Lovel Gates adm. for
Tho. Coats-Prentiss Coats 2
Lois Ellsworth 3 Polly Goble 4
Anstes Billings 5 Hannah
Gates 6  only children

Cert to John Bryant Esq
Meriden NH
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Lois Delano formerly the widow of
Thomas Coats of Vt deceased

Administrators pending claim
Act 4th July 1836--

Proof of Thomas Coats service
in 1775 7 mos 11 days---
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State of Connecticut
Comptroller Office
Hartford Nov. 25th 1853

I certify that on application for evidence of Thomas Coats in the war of the Revolution I have examined the documents remaining within office and find the name of Thomas Coats on a Pay Roll under the following heading "A Pay Roll of the 3rd Company of the 6th Regiment said hr. order General Assembly Colony Connecticut, May A.D. 1775." where the said Coats is credited with service as a private from May 6th to Dec. 17th 1775 7 months 11 days

R.G. Painey Comptroller
by Geo Robinson Clerk
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Meriden N.H. April 7, 1859

Sir
The communication, herewith serve from Lovel Gates Esq Administrator upon the estate of Lois Delano of Vermont, deceased. Was received by my by yesterdays mail; by the perusal of which it appears that he has concluded to accept of a new Pension Certificate under act July 7, 1838 agreeably to Office letter of December 29th 1854. Which, new Certificate, when issued, you will please forward to me according to Mr Gates' request expressed in his said communication.

Truly your Obt. Servt.
George Bryant

Hon. George C. Whiting
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington.
D.C.
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Meriden NH Dec 26. 1852

Sir
As expected Lovel Gates Administrator of Lois Delano of NH dec'd who resided in Hyder Park Vt and more than 100 miles from me & who I have not seen for more than four years last past has written me expressive of his dissatisfied feelings in the case of said Lois for the reason that the claim was not admitted at first asserted and by him renewed under the act of the 4th July 1836- Enclosed in his letter, from the perusal of which you will receive what his feelings and wishes are in relation to it. And as from the knowledge I have & recollection of the proof in the case I am of the opinion that it has been made out under the act of the 4th July 1836 and that it shold have been admitted under said act instead of that of the 7th July 1838- And can formably to the desire of said administrator as expressed in his said letter I have respectfully to request a reexamination of his declaratory and particularly of her supplemental declaration made on the 12th day of November 1853 together with the proofs on file to which I would refer you And to the letter of Col Edwards late Commissioner to E. L. Mays Esq under date of August 23 1839 in which he says--- "In the case of Mrs Lois Delano formerly the widow of Thomas Coats dec'd under the Act of the 4th July 1836 and March 3 1837 the only term of service duly set forth and established is the term of 7 mos 11 days ending December, 76-If no later term shall be established her claim cannot be brought within the precisions of the foregoing act upon an alleged marriage in November, 7h" Subsequent to which a later term of service was discovered and established to wit, 1 mos & 6 days as a Corporal under Capt Wm. Stanton in March & April 1777 as shown by the affidavit on file of Gen. Wm. C. Stanton dated July 11 1853 for which service
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it appears an allowance was made on the date settlement of the claim under the act 7th July 1838. In your letter to me of Dec. 12 1854 in relation to the admission of said claim, I notice that it is stated that you could not allow it under the Act of the 4th of July 1836 as the evidence of the fact of service after her marriage has not been shown with sufficient (illegible) to justify an allowance under said Act. Now as the date of the marriage of Thomas Coats to Lois Brown was proved by the testimony of Lydia Smith to have been one or two years previous to her own marriage which took place on the 20th of November 1777 as shown by a copy of the family record of Moses & Lydia Smith as sworn to by Eunice Bennett I have to request of you a reexamination of the two affidavits on file of Mrs. Lydia Smith & that of Mrs. Bennett-- In the last affidavit of Mrs. Lydia Smith you will find of I mistake nor that she stated. 
"That I distinctly recollect a tour of duty performed by my brother in law Thomas Coats who was the former husband of my sister Lois Coats who was subsequently married to Mr. Delano. The tour of duty I refer to was rendered at Groton Bank on New London under Capt William Stanton of Stonington. I now well remember it and that it was in the spring before I was married" Now Sir, if you find upon a reexamination of the papers in the case as I apprehend you will, that the marriage was established by the affidavit of Mrs. Lydia Smith and to have been as early at any rate as 1776 and that it is proved also by the same, that one tour of the service of Thomas Coats was performed after his marriage to Lois Brown, is it not clear that Mrs. Delano no as entitled under the act of the 4th of July 1836? Such certainly is my own most candid opinion--Mr. Gates
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as you will also perceive by his letter does not appear to feel satisfied with the annual amount allowed. And I am myself inclined to the opinion that an error occurred in your computation for I make it for one month & 6 days as a Corporal $4.39 2/3 and for 7 mos 111 days as a private $24.55 1/3 = to $28.95 instead of $25.69 as shown by the certificate which I herewith return for correction, if found to be wrong--Trusting that should you come to the conclusion upon a review of the whole matter, that the claimant is entitled under the act of the 4th of July 1836, as I trust you will, that you will still admit it under that act conditioned that a deduction be made for what may first been realized under the act of the 7th July 1838.

Respectfully yr Obt Servt
John Bryant Agent

Hon L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
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Groton April 14 1777

Capt. Stanton, Sir, Please pay the bearer hereof our wages and billet for the whole of the term of service in your Company at Groton Fort and the Order shall be your discharge from we the subscribers.

Walter Palmer
William Hall
Bradish Hall
Jonas Babcock
Aphen Breed
Joseph Breed
James Stanton Sergt.
Randall Billings
Nathaniel Searle Drum.
George Wilkinson
Joseph Hewitt ;5
Thomas Coats, Corp
Jeremiah Maine
Jared Stephen
Daniel Wilson for my son Stephen
Harry Hewitt
John York
Hazzard Hull
Joseph Starkweather
Elnathan Mina
Levi Hall
Paul Bromley
Asa Lewis
Nathaniel Ames
Lemuel Steward
Elisha Hewitt
Cyrus Wheeler
Phinehas Lewis
Asa Frink
Dudley Morgan
Amos Morgan
Elezar Williams
Nathan Denison
Andrew Denison
Allen Palmer
Peleg Stanton
Edward Stanton 
Sherman Babcock
James Hakes
John Hinkley
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The original document of which the within is designed to be a correct copy & as I verily believe it to be was sent to the pension office at Washington & accompanied the Declaration of Sally Lewis widow of Valentine Lewis, or else was subsequently sent on as proof in the care & is now supposed to be in the pension office at Washington (illegible) March 12th 1852

Wm C. Stanton Notary Public

P.S Mrs. Sally Lewis as I am informed made her application from Norwich in New London County Conn. 

Referred to as forwarded in the case of Sally Lewis N.act '36 admd No. 2406 but not among the paper- see envelope

(Written in the right ledger)
Capt Wm. Stanton Company order for wages 1777 Thomas Coats Corp. among them

Wm. C. Stanton
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CERTIFICATE OF JUSTICE COMMISSSION

EASTMAN & DANSFORTH, PRINTERS

State of Vermont, }
Count, SS, }

I, E. B. Sawyer Clerk of the County Court of the County of Lamoille in the State of Vermont, which is a court of record, do hereby certify that
Joshua Sawyer
is an acting notary public in and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the 1st day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forth-4 and will expire on the thirtieth day of November next; that his signature to the foregoing affidavit is genuine, and that he is duly qualified by the laws of this State to administer 9oaths?)
Given under my hand and the seal of said County Court, this 24th day of October A.D. 1855

E. B. Sawyer Clerk
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Stonington August 21 1840

Sir

Yours of the 15th just I received on the 19th, and agreeable to your request have examined the records of this town---
I do not find the marriage of Thomas & Lois Coats, or the Births of their children on record neither can I find the birth or Baptism of their children on any of the Church records in this town for (illegible) Stonington.
I learn from Col Isaac Williams (who is a pensioner) that he was well acquainted with Thomas Coats, and says, that he moved into the State of New York or Vermont in the year 1797--that he was Lawfully married in the year 1779 or 1780 and had when her left Stonington several children---
he also states that said Thomas Coats was in the service at Roxbury in 1775 in Col. Parsons Regiment, and that he was then single and unmarried.

Respectfully
your Obt Servt
John D Noyes

J.L. Edwards Esq
Washington
D.C.
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Meriden NH  Nov 11 1854

Sir
You last report under date of the 8th of Nov instant in the case of Lois Delano of Vt dec'd formerly widow of Thomas Coats Act 4th July 1836 has been received. In reference to which permittance respectfully, to suggest that the requested proof of the appointment of Lovel Gates as administrator and the number and names of the surviving children was forwarded with said Gates declaration in May 1852 and is believed to be on file in the care, a copy of which I herewith enclose in the hope that the original may be found and that it will have to be satisfactory.
Very respectfully
John Bryant

Hon. L. P. Waldo
Com. Pensions
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copy
John Bryant Letter to Gen Wm C. Stanton dated Feby 20 1855 reporting to him the result of further trial in the case of Lois Delano dec'd under the Agency of the Hon Nathan belcher in Feby 1855
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(copy)

"Meriden N.H. Feb. 20th. 1855.

Gen Stanton,

Dear Sir, As advised by your favor of the 9th January last-I on the 8d day of Feb inst. enclosed to the Hon. Nathan Belcher your letter to him with one of my own a copy of which I herewith send you and sundry papers in the case of Lois Delano dec'd formerly the widow of Thomas Coats, and on Saturday last rec'd his favor of the 13th inst and the Commission's further report to him in the case, touching which I am free to say that I am more than ever disappointed in the adverse result, both of which I enclose to you in order to show you the assigned reason for adhering to the former decision made in said case under the Act of the 7th July 1838. The Commissioner as you will notice says
"The claim is asserted for two periods of service, one for seven months and eleven days in the year 1775 and the other, one month & 6 days supposed to have been in the year 1777- The first period of service is shown to have been in 1775-The precise time when the second period was performed is not shown-From the affidavit of Wm. C. Stanton it appears that Thomas Coats with others gave an order to bearer on Capt Stanton for his wages and billet for the whole time of his service in his Company at Groton Fort which order is dated April 14, 1777. There is no time stated when said service was performed. It is certain it must have been performed before the dates of the order-Now it is a well known historical fact that the Militia near Groton Fort including the Regiment commanded by Maj Nathan Gallup were called out for short tours of service with year 1776 and there is no evidence that payments were made until 1777. The first payment made to Capt William Stanton who served in Gallup's Regiment was made April 20, 1777-It follows that the service of Coats might have been and probably was in 1776, but at what time does not appear."
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Now the supposition that the tour of service rendered by Capt Stanton might have been in 1776 is certainly without any definite or reasonable foundation. But there is reason for the belief that the service was completed at the date of the order and at the place where dated, to wit, at Groton April 14th 1777 for it is incredible to believe that the men who signed said order rendered the service the year before that is in 1776 and that they all met again at Groton on the 14th of April 1777 to subscribe their names to said Order, but possibly, not probably they might have so assembled--But to the contrary there is what I regard as positive evidence, was rendered in the spring of 1777 such evidence is contained on the back of said Soldiers Order which reads as follows:

"Stonington June 24th 1777.
Received of William Stanton Ninety Nine Pounds Nine Shillings & 4d lawful money it being the wages due the within subscribers for one month and six days service in his Company in March & April last.
John York."

Now, Sir, as said evidence might have been and probably was overlooked by the Commissioner or his examining Clerk upon the reexamination lately had, would you so much further trouble the Hon. Mr. Belcher as to ask of him any further in relation to this unfortunate case--If so I pray you to do it for I feel an unwillingness to do it myself as he is not as I could wish one of our N.H. Representatives-Please let me hear from you expressive of your feelings and determination on the subject as soon as conveniently may be and in so doing you will again oblige.
Your Obt Servt
John Bryant
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P.S. On looking over what I have written I find I have omitted another piece of important evidence on file. That the last period of the service of Thomas Coats was after his marriage which is contained in the affidavit of Mrs. Lydia Smith given before yourself on the 8th day of Oct. 1851 a sentence of which reads as follows--- "That I distinctly recollect of a tour of service performed by my brother in law Thomas Coats who was the former husband of my sister Lois Coats who was subsequently married to Mr Delano and subsequently she became the widow Delano and whether now living or not I cannot tell as I have had no news relative thereto--The tour of duty I refer to was rendered at Groton Bank or New London under Capt William Stanton of Stonington--I now well remember it was in the Spring before I was married" Among those who went & served in Capt Stantons Company as aforesaid I recollect the names of my brother in law Thomas Coats, James Stanton, Randall Billings, Cyrus Wheeler, Dudley Morgan (who married my husbands sister) & Elezar Williams--

mrs. Smith was married Nov. 20th 1777 so that the Spring before would be March & April 1777-

Should you again write to Mr Belcher you will please present him our associated thanks for his attention to the Mrs. Delano claim--

J. Bryant."
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Mr. Bryants
letter
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Meriden NH Nov 23, 1855
Hon Lafayette S Foster
Dear Sir, By the advance of Gen Wm C Stanton a gentleman associated with e in the prosecution of a certain claim, to wit the claim of the widow Lois Delano decd formerly the widow of Thomas Coats for whose service she claim has been asserted under the act of the 4th July 1836 and admitted under the act of the 7t July 1838 with which none of us are satisfied. I enclose to Gen Stanton two original reports in the case together with several copies of other papers from which and from Gen S. you well learn the grounds of the rejection of the claim under the act of the 4th of July 1836. In relation to which we have to request your friendly aid before the new Commissioner of Pensions Judge Minot of the State relative to which I have enclosed to Gen Stanton a piece of additional evidence lately obtained, that is the affidavit of Thomas Coats the eldest child of Thomas and Lois Coats which to me seem to make it clear that tour of the service must have been rendered after the marriage, I mean the tour under Capt Stanton in the spring of 1777. The Fen has some papers and i some what conversant with the case and will see and converse with you relative to it before your departure for Washington and well I doubt not lay us both under obligation to you for our effort where justice done at last in the unfortunate case.
Respectfully yours
John Bryant
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copy
Mrs Lydia Smiths affidavit on
file in the Pension Office, proving
the marriage of her sister Lois
and that one tour of her brother in law
Thomas Coats service was
performed after his marriage
at Groton Bank under Capt
William Stanton, it being
the service described in
Gen Stantons affidavit
to wit 1 mo & 6 days as Corporal
in March & April 1777
see John Yorks receipt
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(copy)
I Lydia Smith, widow of Moses Smith, decd of Stonington in the County of New London and State of Connecticut aged ninety years in April last being duly sworn according to law, do on oath depose and say that from the best of my recollection I have once made a statement in relation to the marriage of my sister Lois to Thomas Coats. I was then somewhat at a loss as to the length of time that elapsed between the date of her marriage and my own. I was truly present at wedding when my sister Lois Brown was married to Thomas Coats and officiated as I in my former deposition stated but as to the precise date of marriage or whether it was about one year or two years, I on mature reflection are mostly inclined to the opinion that it was longer than was in my former declaration stated & I do now state that from the nest of my present recollection, that my sister Lois aforesaid was married to Thomas Coats somewhere about two years, or nearly that before I was married and that I was married to Moses Smith in 1777 in the month of November.  That I once had a record of my marriage but I gave it up to Latham Hall Esq of North Stonington when he assisting me in getting proof for a Pension and I have not seen it since, but presume he sent it to Washington with my papers. That I distinctly recollect of a tour of duty performed by my brother in law Thomas Coats who was the former husband of my sister Lois Coats & who was subsequently married to Mr Delano & subsequently she became the widow Delano & whether now living or not I cannot tell as I have had no news relative thereto. The tour of duty I refer to was rendered at Groton Bank or New London under Capt William Stanton of Stonington. I now well remember it & that it was in the spring before I was married. Among those who went & served in Capt Stanton's
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Company as aforsd. I recollect the names of my brother in law Thomas Coats, James Stanton, Randall Billings, Cyrus Wheeler, Dudley Morgan who married my husbands sister, and Eleazor Williams. The length of this tour of service I do not recollect, but suppose it to have been the usual length of your of duty at New London & Groton at that time. He was also out at other times after his marriage to my sister but I cannot give particulars. In this tour at Groton aforesd or New London the Company was considerably made up from the inhabitants in the immediate vicinity or neighborhood.
Lydia Smith her mark X

In presence of Eunice Bennett
Wm C Stanton
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Hon L P Waldos Report in the case
of Lois Delano of Vt. decd
made Dec 29, 1854


The Administrator Gaty decline
the acceptance of a certificate
under the act of the 7th July 38
and the claim is still pending
under the act of the 4th July 1836
November 1855
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Pension Office
29th Dec. 1854

Sir,
The certificate of Pension returned by you, in the case of Lois Delano decd, widow of Thomas Coats of Vermont, has been received.
Upon the evidence adduced as to the date of the marriage this case cannot be admitted under Act 4th July 1836. If it is the wish of the administrator the defective computation as to the service will be corrected, and a new Certificate under Act 7th July 1839 &c be issued. I shall wait his determination.

I am, respectfully, your obt sevt
L P Waldo
Commissioner


John Bryant Esq
Meriden
N.H.
Page 71

Hon L Waldo Commissioner of Pensions
Reported the case of Lois Delano
of Vt decd dated Nov 24 1854
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Pension Office
24th Nov. 1854

Sir,
The additional evidence in the case of Lois Delano decd formerly widow of Thomas Coats of Vermont, has been received.
I would inform you that the amount of the administration bond given by Lovel Gates has not been certified to this office.

I am, respectfully, you obt servt
L P Waldo
Commissioner


John Bryant Esq
Meriden
N.H.
Page 73

Hon L P Waldo Commissioner of Pensions
December 12, 1854
[unk] that he had admitted the case
of Lois Delano under the Act of July 7, 1858
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Pension Office
Dec. 12, 1854

Sir,
I have admitted the case of Lois Delano decd of Vermont, under the act of July 7, 1838, and subsequent acts but cannot grant a pension under the act of July 4, 1836, as the evidence of the fact of service after her marriage has not been shown with sufficient clearness to justify an allowance under said act.

I am, respectfully, your obt servt
L P Waldo
Commissioner



John Bryant Esq
Meriden
N.H.
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copy
William C. Stanton affidavit
now on file in the Pension Office
in the case of Lois Delano of
Vt decd the former widow of
Thomas Coats- by which is
established one tour of Thos
Coats service subsequent to
his marriage to Lois Brown
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(copy)
I William C. Stanton of Voluntown in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut depose and say that upon application to me for evidence of the service of Thomas Coats in the War of the Revolution subsequent to his marriage to Lois Brown which I understand and is reputed took place in 1775 or 1776 I have made diligent search and found what I regard as evidence of one month & six days such service in Capt. William Stanton's Company of Groton ending in April 1777. Capt. Stanton aforesaid was an ancestor of my father's family and consequently a distant relative of mine.
The evidence is contained in an original paper now in my possession and of which I certify the following is a correct copy-
"Groton April 14, 1777- Capt. Stanton, Sir, please to pay the bearer here of our wages and billet for the whole of the time of service in your Company at Groton Fort and the order shall be your discharge from we the subscribers.
George Wilkinson  Asa Lewis    Peleg Stanton
Joseph Hewitt  Nathaniel Ames  Edward Stanton
Thomas Coats Jr  Samuel Stuart  Sherman Babcock
Jeremiah Maine  Daniel Latham  James Haker
Jared Stephens  Elisha Hewitt  John Hinkley
Daniel Witson for my son Stephen  Cyris Wheeler fifer  Walter Palmer
Harry Hewit  Phinehas Lewis  William Hall
Hazzard Hull  Asa Frink  Bradesh Hall
Joseph Stakrweather  Dudley Morgan  Jonas Babcock
Elnathan Minor  Amos Morgan  Stephen Breed
Levi Hall  Eleazor Williams  James Stanton Sergt
Paul Brumley  Nathan Denison  Randall Billings
Allen Palmer  Nathaniel Pearl DMdd
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On the back of the original I find the following "Stonington June 25, 1777
Recd of Wm Stanton ninety nine pounds nine shillings & 4 lawful money it being the wages due to the within subscriber for one month and six days service in his Company in march and April last.
(signed) John York"

I do further certify that I have formerly had and copied a similar document with the exception of the receipt on the back which was signed by John York & that said document was used in the case of Sally Lewis widow of Valentine Lewis and reference being made to it & could not be found.
Attest  Wm. C. Stanton
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Comptrollers Office
Hartford Feby 13 1839

I certify that on application for widow of the services of Thomas Coats, I have examined the Books of papers remaining in this Office relating to the War of the Revolution and find his name on a Pay Roll of the 3rd Company 6th Regiment raised by order of General Assembly Court 1775 where he is entered as a private and commenced service May 6th Time of discharge Dec 17 making 7 months 11 days. Samuel Prentice Mag
Henry Kilboure Comp
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Johnson Vermont March 31st 1859

Sir
In the month of December 1854 (at which time I was  resident of Hyde Park in the State of Vermont) I received from my then but now deceased Agent John Bryant Eq of Meriden NH an original Pension Office letter of which the following is a copy.
"Pension Office Dec 12, 1854"
"Sir I have admitted the case of Lois Delano decd of Vermont under the act of July 7, 1838, and subsequent acts, but cannot grant a Pension under the act of July 4, 1836, as the widow of the fact of service after her marriage has not been shown with sufficient clearness to justify an allowance under said act.
I am respectfully your obt servt
L P Waldo Commissioner

John Bryant Esq Meriden N.H."

On receipt of the Commissioner's letter aforesaid I informed my said Agent that I was not satisfied with the allowance of the claim (made by one as Administrator) under the Act of July 7, 1838 and subsequent acts instead of that of July 4, 1836, nor with the annual amount allowed; that my said Agent subsequently informed me that he has returned the Certificate of Pension, made payable to me as Administrator and granted under act 7 July 1838 & to the Pension Office for correction as to time of commencement of the Pension, and also of the annual amount allowed, which according to his computation should have been $28.95 instead of $25.61 per annum; that in the latter part of said Dec. 1854 or forepart of Janu 1855 I received from my said Agent a second letter from the Pension Office of which the following is a copy-
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"Pension Office 29th Dec. 1854
Sir- The certificate of Pension returned by you in the case of Lois Delano decd widow of Thomas Coats of Vermont has been received. Upon the evidence adduced as to the date of the marriage this case cannot be admitted under act 4th July 1836. If it is the wish of the administrator the defective computation as to the service will be corrected and a new certificate under act 7th July 1838 to be issued. I should await his determination.
I am respectfully your obt servt
L. P. Waldo
Commissioner

John Bryant Esq
Meriden N.H."

Later, and as I now think sometime in the month of February 1856 my said Agent caused (through Hon L. F. S. Foster US Senator from Con.) other evidence to be filed in the Pension Office showing  that Lois Delano was married to Thomas Coats her first husband prior to the expiration of his last term of service, and he (Senator Foster) by Pension Office report under date of Feby 18, 1856 was informed that
"The only material testimony in the papers submitted is the affidavit of Thomas Coats, who alleges that he is the first child of the said Lois and that he was born on the 12th November 1777- without enquiry as to the failure of the parties to produce this important witness till this late day and the claim has now been pending since 1839- if the deponent will state how he has been enabled to fix the date of his birth at the period aforesaid we will re open the case."
After much delay by reason of the absence of the "deponent" the said Thomas Coats in the state of Wisconsin, his affidavit was taken
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stating how he had been enabled to fix the time of his birth and which together with the affidavit of Lois Ellsworth second child of said Lois was forwarded to the Pension Office by Hon Mr Foster who received from the Office a report in the case subsequently as follows;
"Pension Office Hany 12 1858
Sir, The attorney General has recently decided that there is no law for allowing to the children of a deceased Revolutionary soldier or his widow the amount of an unadjusted Pension which such soldier or widow might have been entitled to at his or her decease. In accordance with this decision the Secretary of the Interior has decided not to allow any claims embraced thereby."

And such being the present situation of the matter  have come to the "determination" to accept of a new and corrected Certificate under act 7th July 1838 &c (se office letter of Dec 29 1854) reserving the night to still further prosecute the claim under act of 4th July 1836 which the "decision" of the Attorney General shall have been reversed by Congress.
My former Agent John Bryant, having deceased as aforesaid. I hereby authorize and appoint George Bryant Esq of Meriden N.H., Agent to act for me in the premises and to whom my request is that my new and corrected Certificate be forwarded soon as may be.
Very respectfully your obt servt

Lovel Gates
adm Estate Lois Delano decd

Hon. Geo. C. Whiting Comr Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Menden NH Nov 1, 1854

Sir
I now have before me your [unk] repert in the case of Lois Delano of Vt decd formerly the widow of Thomas Coats Act 4th July 1836 under date of Sept 19, 1854 wherein you state that "the proof of the date of the marriage is insufficient. I enclose you a copy of the letter to which you refer, in which you will perceive that according to the statement of Col Williams Thomas & Lois were not married till 1779 or 1780." I now have to pray a further consideration of said case and that the "statements" of Col Williams be placed entirely aside, as it amounts to nothing at testimony and ought not, in my humble opinion, be prejudiced to the date of the marriage, proved by the sworn testimony of a credible witness on file, that of Mrs Lydia Smith, to have been previous to her own marriage which took place in November 1777. It will be found if I mistake not on examination of the file that Mrs Smith stated in a former deposition that she was present at the marriage of her sister and acted as bride maid in that occasion. That in a subsequent affidavit on file, made in October 1857, she repeats, that her own marriage to Moses Smith took place in the month of November 1777 and that she once had a record of her said marriage, that she gave up the same to Latham Hall Esq who aided her in obtaining her pension. A copy of that record I have lately been enable to obtain which I herewith send, subjoined to which is the affidavits of Mrs Eunice Bennett and which shows the marriage
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of Lydia Smith to have been on the 20th of Nov 1777. It will also be found, that Mrs Smith stated in her affidavit made in October 1851, that she distinctly recollected a tour of service performed by her brother in law Thomas Coats at Groton or New London in the spring before her marriage- that it was the spring of 1777. That she recollected the names of several others who went and served with Thomas Coats under Capt Stanton at Groton or New London, whose names may probably be found on the copy of the original roll which you have on file. Deeming any further that I can say or suggest in order to an admuser of the claim, I now subscribe myself.
Respectfully your obt servt
John Bryant


Hon L P Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
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J. L. Edwards Esq to J. L. Mays Esq
in the case of Mrs Lois Delano
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War Department
Pension Office
Augt 23 1839

Sir,

In the case of Mrs Lois Delano, formerly the widow of Thomas Coats, decd, under the Acts of 4th July 1836, and 3d March 1837, the only term of service duly set forth and established is the term of 7 months 11 days ending 17 December '76. If a later term shall be established, her claim cannot be brought within the provisions of the foregoing Acts upon an alleged marriage in November '76, unless the date of the marriage can be shown by the [unk] grade of evidence. [unk]testimony unaided by any record whatever, can not, will safely, be relyed upon to vis a remote date with the requisite procession where an error of a few months is decisive of the question.

Very respectfully your obt
J L Edwards


E. L. Major Esq
Morrisville
Vt.
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State of Vermont
La Moille County} I Philo G. Camp of Hyde Park in the County of La Moille Clerk of La Moille County Court hereby certify that Geo. W. Gates is a Justice of the Peace within & for the county of La Moille duly commissioned & qualified, that his commission is dated Nov 25th 1839 & will expire on the 1st day of Dec 1840 & that signature hereunto attached is true & genuine. In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand & affix the seal of sd Court at my Office in Hyde park afsd this 8th day of June AD 1840.
P. G. Camp Clerk
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I William C Stanton of Voluntown in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut depose and say that upon application to me for evidence of the service of Thomas Coats in the war of the Revolution subsequent to his marriage to Lois Brown which I understand (and as is reputed) took place in 1775 or 1776, I have made diligent search and found what I regard as evidence of one month and six days such service in Capt. William Stanton's company at Groton ending in April 1777. Capt Stanton  aforesaid was an ancestor of my Fathers family & consequently a distant relative of mine.
The evidence is contained in an original paper now in my possession and of which I certify the following is a correct copy, to wit:
"Groton April 14 1777
Capt Stanton sir, please pay the bearer her of our waged and billit for the whole of the time of service in your Company at Groton Fort and the order shall be your discharge from we the subscribers.
Hazzard Hull
George Wilkinson   Joseph Starkweather
Joseph Hewitt 3th   Levi Hall
Thomas Coats [unk]  Paul Brumlry
Jeremiah Maine   Asa Lewis
Jared Stephens  Nathaniel Amos
Daniel Wilson for my son Stephen  Samuel Stewart
Hary Hewet  Daniel Latham  Elisha Hewit
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Cyrus Wheeler fifer
Phinehas Lewis
Asa Frinch
Dudley Morgan
Amos Morgan
Eleazor Williams
Nathan Denison
Andrew Denison
Allen Palmer
Peleg Stanton
Edward Stanton
Sherman Babcock
James Hakes
John Hinckley
Walter Palmer
William Hall
Bradish Hall
Jonas Babcock
Stephen Breed
Joseph Breed
James Stanton Segt
Randall Billings
Nathaniel Searls Dr M"

on the back of the original I find the following
"Stonington June 24 1777
Recd of the Wm Stanton ninety nine pounds nine shillings & [unk] lawful money, it being the wages due to the
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within subscriber for one month and six days service in his Company in March and April last.
John York"

I do further certify that I have formerly had and copied a similar document (with the exception of Receipt on the back which was signed by John York) * that sd document was used in the case of Sally Lewis [unk] of Valentin Lewis & refference being made to it, & could not be found.
Attest  Wm C Stanton


State of Connecticut
Windham County} ss. Probate District of Voluntown
I Benjamin Gallup 2nd Judge of the Court of Probate within and for the Probate District of Voluntown do hereby certify that on this 11th day of July 1853, before me personally appeared William C Stanton a resident of said Probate District and well known to said court and made oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate by him subscribed and that said William C Stanton is a credible witness.
I do further certify that said Stanton has this day presented to said court a manuscript document of which the foregoing is a true copy compared by me with the original and that I am fully and decidely of opinion that the Document is truly genuine and contains the original signatures of the soldiers in said Capt Stanton's company.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
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subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said court this 11th day of July 1853.
Benjamin Gallup 2nd Judge of Probate



Lois Delano the
wid of Thos Coats- Dec 3
Vt claimant Act 4th July 36
 a suspended case

Additional proof

John Brant agent
Meriden
N.H.
July 1853
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see Lydia Smith's affl she was a sister of Mr Delano
Edward Coats of whom the specks named
Eunice Brown, probably another sister, Aug 10, 1780
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Thomas Coats d. 1814
Lois Delano (Brown) Vt Nov 12, 75
apl 75.7.10 Compl. certificate
dis Dec 17, 1775
came home and was named
[unk] same year
went to R 5 & NY sub,
agau apl the Indians in
all 9 to 12 mos


1840
    57
1783
1st child born 1776 decd
2nd                 1779
3                      1781
4 Mary             1783
Lydia Smith says she was in Nov 77'that loss was nt abl a year before-Ni 76
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Hyde Park Vt. Dec. 21st 1854

Dear Sir
By the Pension office letter of the Hon. L. P. Waldo under the date of Dec. 12, 1854 which you so kindly enclosed to me, I learned that the claim of my mother in law Lois Delano deceased which has so long been pending under your Agency has at length been admitted under the Act of the 7th July 1838. This is not he Act, as you are aware under which I, as Administrator , claimed, and consequently believing as I did when I made my supplemental declaration on the 12th day of November 1853, and as I still believe, that Thomas Coats rendered at least one tour of service at New London as a Corperal in the Spring of 1777 under Capt. Stanton which was subsequent to his marriage to Lois Brown, I am not satisfied with the allowance of the claim of Mrs. Delano under the Act of the 7th July 1838 and subsequent acts, instead of that of the 4th of July 1836, now with the annual amount allowed.  And my disappointment is the greater on account of your having encouraged me to hope and expect that the liberal thing would be done by the present Officers of the Pension Department. And as I suppose you have many of the papers in the care I have to request your continued Agency and to have you respectfully request a reexamination of the papers
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in the case, and particularly my supplemental declaration made as aforesaid and the proofs therein refered to, and in my behalf to pray the allowance of said claim under the Act of the 4th of July 1836. And in case of failure to obtain such allowance I shall feel like taking an appeal but shall leave it entirely at your discretion. You will also plan to act at discretion as to making known to the Department my aggrieved feelings and the return of the certificate issued under the Act of the 7th July 1838. Please write me again as soon as in the receipt of a further report and again oblige.
Your Friend & obt servt
Lovel Gates
Administer of Lois Delano deceased

To John Bryant Esq
Meriden
New Hampshire
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Meriden NH Feb 3, 1855
Dear Sir
By the advise of Gen Wm C Stanton of Voluntown with whom I have had some little correspondence in relation to business matters, and whose letter to you of Jany 9 I herewith enclose I have respectfully to state to you that for some time past I have had under my agency the claim to a pension of Lois Delano of Vt decd who was formerly the widow of Thomas Coats for whose Connecticut services a claim has heretofore been asserted under the act of the 4th of July 1836 and which has lately been admitted under the act of the 7th July 1838 which is not deemed just and is not satisfactory to those interested as you will perceive by the enclosed letter  of Lovel Gates Esq the administrator under dates of Jany 18, 1855. A further consideration of the case is therefore desired under your associate agency, and I deem it proper to make known to you the ground of the claim under the act of the 4th July 1836 and do herewith enclose to you copies of several of the papers on file in the case for you to examine at your room, in order to a understanding of the case before going to the Pension Office and calling up the same; and in the first place would refer you to paper No 1 being a copy of the declaration of Lovel Gates the Administrator of Lois Delano & to No 2 being a copy of Gen W C Stanton affidavit made July 11, 1853. To No 3 being a copy of the affidavit of Mrs Lydia Smith proving the marriage and one tour of the service of Thomas Coats subsequent to her marriage. No 4 copy of the
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family record of Moses and Lydia Smith and of Mrs Bennetts affidavit made before Wm C Stanton Esq Oct 24, 1854, proving that Lydia Brown sister of Mrs Delano was married to Moses Smith Nov 20th 1777, being all the copies that I deem necessary to ask your attention to. The claim in the right of Mrs Delano decd is for two tours of service only, the first of which for 7 mo 11 days as a private in 1775. The second for 1 mo & 6 days as a Corporal under Capt Stanton in 1777 which is proved by Mrs Smith to have been subsequent to his marriage to Lois Brown. Both of which tours have been allowed under the Act of the 7th July 1838 as is shown by the Pension Certificate a copy of which I herewith enclose to you. The case was for a long time suspended for the lack of record evidence of marriage and as more could be found it was at satisfactory proved by the testimony of Mrs Lydia Smith whose own marriage was proved by the family record submitted by Mrs Bennett. I also enclose with the other papers, the two last office letter to show you the assigned reason for the rejection of the claim under the act of the 4th of July 1836, and its admission under the act of the 7th July 1838. And now Sirs in conclusion I have to request of you an examination of the several papers on file in this case, from which I suspect you cannot but come to the conclusion, that the tour of 1 mo & 6 days as a Corporal under Capt Stanton in 1777 must have been subsequent to the marriage of Mrs Delano to her first husband Thomas Coats, and if so, it is clear that the claim should be admitted under the first named act. Hope you will have an advisement with Mr Waldo himself in the subject of the claim, and that you will be able to satisfy him that is the right of their mothers the
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children are entitled under the act of the 4th July 36 and that you will induce him to change the decision that has been made, and in sp doing you will confer an obligation upon Gen Stanton and
Your obt servt
John Bryant of Meriden NH



Hon Nathan Belcher
MC from Connecticut
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copy
Gen Wm C Stantons affidavit
made July 11, 1853
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I William C Stanton of Voluntown in the County of Windsor and State of Connecticut depose and say that upon application to me for evidence of the service of Thomas Coats in the War of the Revolution subsequent to his marriage to Lois Brown which I under stood and is refuted took place in 1775 or 1776. I have made diligent search and found what I regard as evidence of one month and six days such service in Capt William Stantons Company at Groton- ending in April 1777 Capt Stanton aforesaid was an ancestor of my fathers family and consequently a distant relative of mine.
The evidence is contained in an original paper now in my possession and of which I certify the following is a true copy.
Groton April 14th 1777- Capt Stanton, Sir, please to pay the nearer hereof our wages and billet for the whole of the time of service in your company at Groton Fort and the order shall be your discharge from me the subscribers.
George Wilkinson  Hazzard Hull
Joseph Hewitt  Joseph Starkweather
Thomas Coats   Elnathan Minor
Jeremiah Mann  Levi Hall
Jared Stephens  Paul Brumly
David Wilson for my son Stephen  Asa Lewis
Harry Hewet  Nathaniel Ames
Samuel Stuart
Daniel Latham
Elisha Hewett
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Cyrus Wheeler fifer
Phinehas Lewis
Asa Smith
Dudley Morgan
Amos Morgan
Eliazer Williams
Nathaniel Denison
Andrew Denison
Allen Palmer
Peleg Stanton
Edward Stanton
Sherman Babcock
James Hakes 
John Hinckley
Walter Palmer
William Hall 
Bradish Hall
Jonas Babcock
Stephen Breed
James Stanton Sergt
Randall Billings
Nathaniel Searle Dr. M.

On the back of the original I find the following
Stonington June 25 1777
Recd of Wm Stanton ninety nine pounds nine shillings & 4d lawful money- it being the wages due to the within subscribers for one month and six days service in his company in March and April last.
John York
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I do further certify that I have formerly had and copied similar document with the exception of the recpt in the back which was signed by John York and that said document was used in the case of Sally Lewis, widow of Valentine Lewis ad reference being made to it & could not be found.
Attest  Wm C Stanton

State of Connecticut
Windham County  Probate District of Voluntown
I Benjamin Gallup Judge of the Court of Probate within and for the Probate district of Voluntown do hereby certify that on this 11th day of July 1853 before me personally appeared Wm C Stanton a resident of said Probate district and well known to said Court, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate by him subscribed and that said Wm C Stanton is a credible witness. And I do further certify that said Stanton has this day presented to said Court a manuscript document of which the foregoing is a true cope, compared by me with the original and that I am fully and decidedly of opinion that the document is truly genuine and contains the original signatures of the soldiers on said Capt Stantons Company.
In testimony whereof  have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court this 11th day of July 1833.
Benjamin Gallup
Judge of Probate
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(copy)
"State of Vermont
Lamoille County ss} I certify that at a Court of Probate held at Johnson in said County on the first day of April 1852 before me S S Pike Judge of Probate for said County it was proved to the satisfaction of the Court that Lois Delano formerly the widow of Thomas Coats, died at Sterling in said County on the 29th day of August 1844; that she was at the time of her death a Vermont applicant and had then at the Pension Office a pending claim to Pension for the services of her first husband the said Thomas Coats under the Acts of Congress of the 4th July 1836 and 7th July 1838; and that she left six children by the names of Thomas Coats, Lois Ellsworth, Polly Noble, Anstes Billings, and Hannah Gates; and that at said Court Lovel Gates of said Stirling was duly appointed and commissioned Administrator of the estate of said Lois Delano.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Johnson aforesaid this first day of April AD 1852.
S S Pike Judge"

(L.S.)
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State of Connecticut
Comptrollers Office
Hartford April 19th 1852

I certify that on application for evidence of the service of Thomas Coats in Capt William Stantons Company at New London in the year 1777, I have examined the documents remaining in this office, and do not find any Pay Roll of the service of Capt. Stantons company at that time.
I find in "Haskells Receipts" under heading "The United States Dr. To the State of Connecticut, for sundry expenditures for the service and expenses of Militia called out for the defence of said State," three entries to Capt William Stanton as follows,
1777 Apl 20th Capt Wm Stanton, New London, Alarm [unk] L 45.14.6
" 21    ditto    ditto L 23.0.6
Oct. 20    ditto    ditto 41.5.2
I also find in the same account and under the same heading, an entry to Major Nathan Gallup, under whom the said Capt Stanton served as follows viz.
1777 May 21st Maj. Nathan Gallup his Regt sundry
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alarms. Amount paid L 3461.1.3 [unk]
R. G. Pinney Comptroller by Geo. Robinson Clerk
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Meriden N. H. Sept 15th 1854

Sir
I have before me your report under date of March 2, 1854 in the case of Lois Delano of Vt., decd, former widow of Thomas Coats which was somewhat unexpected and not satisfactory to her administrator Lovel Gates Esq. And in relation to said report permit me at this time as the continued Agent of said Administrator to address you in relation to said report and particularly that part of the same which reads as follows,
"It is proper to add that from a letter filed as proof in this case it would seem upon the authority too of Col. Isaac William (who appears to have known the parties wellnddn who at the time the statement was made, was a pensioner) that the marriage took place as late of "1779 or 1780". Agreeably to your request I herewith transmit the original pay order dated June 24, 1777 on Capt Stanton signed among other by Thomas Coats." Said order was thankfully received in return by me.
Now as respects the letter referred to in you said report as having "been filed as proof in this case" there is something unaccountable about it. Mr Gates the Administrator says that former Agent of Mrs Delano in her life time and certainly nothing of the kind by myself. Since my acquaintance with the claim and the Coats children of Mrs Delano, no pretence has ever been made that her marriage took place subsequent to 1776. I have therefore to request a copy of said letter and the name of the person who filed the same and the date when so filed. I am informed
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in your said letter that "the claim is suspended until the date of the marriage is substantiated in the manner required by our known rules." Now if your rules are such that nothing short of Public or Private record evidence of marriage will answer this case may at once be abandoned. But if otherwise and the testimony of a individual who was present and witnesses the marriage and can fix the date from the date of her own marriage will so I respectfully ask your further attention to the testimony on file of Lydia Smith which was taken before Wm C. Stanton, Notary Public on the 8th day of October 1851. And I would also pray your attention to that part of Mrs Smiths testimony which related to a tour of service of her brother in law Thomas Coats and others after his marriage to her sister Lois under Capt Stanton in the spring of 1777 that being the service to which reference is had in the pay order by you returned to me as states in your letter to me as aforesaid. And if circumstantial evidence can be considered I would respectfully pray your attention to the testimony on file of Anna Coats. And also to that of Anne Baldwin who is certified to ne a "person of unquestionable reputation" and as a witness is entitled to full credit and belief." Should the testimony of Mrs Smith, Mrs Coats, and Mrs Baldwin prove to ne satisfactory as to the marriage of Lois Brown toTthomas Coats as I trust it will be, this claim as I suppose will be admitted for 7 mos 11 days service of Thomas Coats as a private in 1775 and 1 mo & 6 days as a Corporal under Capt Stanton at Groton in 1777.
Respectfully yr obt servt
John Bryant

Hon. L. P. Waldo
Comr of Pensions
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Lois Delano of Vt. decd
suspended claim Act 4th July, 36
Additional evidence



John Bryant agt.
Meriden
N.H.
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State of Vermont
Lamoille district ss.} In Probate court holden at the Probate office in Johnson in said district on the first day of December AD 1854
Present Hon Giles A Barber Judge
I Stoughton S Pike Register  of said court of Pronate hereby certify that on the first day of April AD 1852, Lovel Gates now of Hyde Park in said district was duly appointed by this court, Administrator on the estate of Lois Delano late of Sterling in the county of Lamoille deceased and that on the same say the said Lovel Gates executed a bond to his court in the penal sum of five hundred dollars,  with good and sufficient society conditioned for the faithful discharge of his trust as such administrator, and a letter of Administrator was duly issued to the said Gates.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affix the seal of said court of Probate at the Probate office in said district this 1st day of December AD 1854.

S S Pike Register
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Payment to be made
at Montpelier
by Wm H H Bingham Esq
Agent for paying pensioners,
in the Agency of Vermont


Recorded in the Pension
Office, in Book A Volume
2  Page 61 by
G T Getty Clerk
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Claim for Military Service

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 7th July 1838, Lois Delano, deceased, formerly widow of Thomas Coats, who was a private and corporal in the Revolution was entitled to a pension and having died on the 29th August 1844, her only surviving children Thomas Coats, Prentiss Coats, Lois Ellsworth, Polly Noble, Anistes Billings and Hannah Gates are entitled to the amount at the rate of twenty five 61/100 dollars, per annum. commencing 4th March 1836, and ending 4th March 1841. Also acts 3d March 1843 and 17th June 1844, at the same rate commencing 4th March 1843, and ending 29th August 1844; when she died.
Payable to Lovel Gates. administrator

Given at the Department of the Interior this eleventh day of December one thousand eight hundred and fifty four.

R Mc Clelland
Secretary of the Interior

Examined and Countersigned} L P Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
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Lydia Delano decd
Additional proof of marriage
Anner Baldwins Depo.
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I Anner Baldwin of North Stonington in the County of New London and State of Connecticut aged sixty eight years on oath do depose and say that I was born in this town & have resided here most of the time since. That I had an uncle by the name of Thomas Coats who formerly resided in this Town & with his family removed from here to the New countries, as they were called, many years since. That my uncle Thomas Coats wife's name I do not know for they were reputed to have been married before my earliest recollection & as long ago as I can remember them they were living together as husband and wife & had children. Their oldest daughter, whose name was Lois Coats was several years older than myself.
Anner Baldwin

State of Connecticut
New London County   North Stonington March 22d 1852
Then personally appeared before me Anner Baldwin signer to the above deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my notorial seal.
Wm C Stanton Notary Public

Windham County ss Voluntown April 6th 1852
I hereby certify that Anner Baldwin above named is personally known to me and that she is a person of unquestionable reputation & as a witness is entitled to full credit & belief.
Wm C Stanton Justice of the peace

I hereby certify that the above named Wm C Stanton is a Justice of the Peace & has a right to act as such.
C F Cleaveland
WC
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Brief in the case of Lois Delano decd widow of Thos Coats
Lamoille County and State of Vermont
act 5 July 1838

Claim, ("original")

Proof exhibited, (if original)

Is it documentary , traditionary, or supported by the rolls? If either, state the substance.
Record of Service- Parol evident of marriage and identity. The service and identity have been admitted by the office many years ago, and it agreed to admit the case under the act of 1858, but the parties were preparing the claim under the act of 1836, and of course, were unwilling to take under 1838, if they could establish that her marriage occurred before the termination of her  husbands last tour of service. I do not think the proof sufficient to them that fact, but it is abundantly sufficient to show that it occurred before 1 Jany 1794, which entitles under the act of 1838. A witness. Lydia Smith, was married in 1777 and she declares claimant was married before she (deponent) was. Certificate of Court as to death and heirship filed agreeably to the Regulations.
->Hand this back to Triplet

Thomton Triplett
Examining Clerk

Name and residence of Agent
John Bryant Esq
Meriden NH
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Lois Delanos Afft
made July 21 1840
Augt 13 1840
Mr Lyl
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State of Vermont, La Moille County ss.
I Philo G Camp of Hyde Park Clerk of La Moille County Court hereby certify that Geo. W. Gates whose name is hereunto attached is a Justice of the Peace within & for the county of La Moille duly commissioned & qualified, that his commission is dated November 25th 1839 & will expire on the 1st day of Dec. 1840 & that his signature hereunto is true & genuine. In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand & affix the seal of sd Court at my office in Hyde Park afsd this 21st day of July AD 1840.
P. G. Camp Clerk
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I, Zebulan Delano of Hartford in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont aged seventy two years, testify and say, that I was well acquainted with Thomas Coats and his wife Lois Coats who were family from the State of Connecticut but about the year seventeen hundred and ninety nine removed to the town of Hartford aforesaid when they resided many years and lived together as husband and wife and raised up a large family and some years since they removed to Hyde Park in the county of Lamoille and state of Vermont where the said Thomas Coats died and soon after, the said Lois Coats then widow to said Thomas removed back to Pomfret in said county of Windsor, where after being some few years, she was again married to Jonathan Delano who was a pensioner of the United States at Pomfret aforesaid, by the Revd  William Grow in the month of January 1820 and I was present at the wedding but cannot remember the day of the months and father say not.
Zebulon Delano

State of Vermont
Windsor County ss.} Sworn to and and subscribed this 31st day of May AD 1839. Before me
Oel Billings Justice of the Peace

I, Lional Udall of Pomfret in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont aged fifty eight years, testify and say that I was well acquainted with Thomas Coats and his Lois Coats who were formerly from the town of Stonington Ct. and about the year seventeen hundred and ninety nine said Coats and wife removed to the town of Hartford in said County of Windsor, where they resided many years raising up quite a large family, and sone years since said Coats and wife removed to Hyde Park in the County of Lamoille and State of Vermont when the said Coats died, and soon after his death his said widow Lois Coats removed to Pomfret aforesaid and lived in my family three or four years when she was again married at my house, in my presence to Jonathan Delano by the Revd William Grow in the month of January AD 1820. I have heard the said Coats say in his life time, that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary war and further say not.
Lional Udall

State of Vermont
Windsor County ss.} Woodstock May 31, 1839
Sworn to before Oel Billings Justice of the Peace. I further certify that Zebulon Delano & Lional Udall above are credible witnesses.
Oel Billing Justice of the Peace
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I Otis Chamberlin Town Clerk of Pomfret, hereby certify that I have searched the records of said town for the marriage of Jonathan Delano to Lois Coats and I can fin no such marriage on record. Pomfret May 31st AD 1839
Otis Chamberlin Town Clerk

I Otis Chamberlin of Pomfret aforesaid in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk of Pomfret aforesaid, and that the above certificate is true as certified by me.
Otis Chamberlin Town Clerk

State of Vermont
Windsor County ss.} Pomfret Town Clerks Office in AD 1839 May 31st
Sworn to before Isaiah Tinkham Jr Justice Peace

I Isaiah Tinkham of Pomfret one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the county of Windsor am well acquainted with Zebulon Delano, Lionel Udall, and Otis Chamberlin signers of the foregoing depositions & know them to be credible witnesses.
Isaiah Tinkham Jr Justice of Peace

State of Vermont
Windsor County ss.} I Norman William Clerk of the County Court of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Oel Billings and Isaiah Tinkham Jr are acting Justices of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified, that their commissions were dated on the 7th day of November 1838 and will expire on the 30th day of November 1839 and that their signatures before written are genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said County this third day of June AD 1839.
Norman Williams Clerk
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Have the cases of Lois Delano of Vt deceased Act 4th July 1836 and of Elizabeth Wells of NH decd been reached & reported, papers in which have lately been filed by me.
Feb 26 54
W Bryant
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Enclosed
Original order wherein is the name of thomas Coats Corpl 1777
Recd from Gen Stanton, and to ne returned to him 1833

Paper referred to above returned to John Bryant Meriden NH
March 2/54
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Revy WIDOW, &c.

File No. 22925
Lois Delano
former wid of
Thomas Coats
Corpl Rev War

Act March 3d/43 June 7th 1844
Index:- Vol. A,  Page 111

[Arrangement of 1870]
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8710
Vt
Rejected
Let to J A Millard
Dec 17th 1841
Let J Bryant Aug 2/32

act 7 July 38
see papers under act 36 suspended
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Free
L.H.S. Foster

Hon. J. Minot
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C


Lois Delano for wif of
Thomas Coats
Vt act 1838

Cole
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Lois Delano
formly widow of
Thomas Coats Vt
Let E S May Aug 23 1839 Vt
to Hon H Hubbard July 2 1840
In D Noyes 15 Aug 1840
E L Mayo 26 Aug 1840
J Bryant Sept 13/53
act 4 July 1836
-> see papers act 1835 rejected
Let to John Bryant March 2/54

Let to EL May June 26, 1841
" L L  & A L Smith May 27/46
J Bryant 19 Sept 1854
same Nov 8, 1854
J Bryant 24 Nov 1854


Return this paper to Mr Cole or CC

return this paper to Bryant
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1t/on L F S Foster Jany 12/58
Geo. Bryant Apl 11/59
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State of Vermont
Lamoille County ss.}

I certify that at a Court of Probate held at Johnson in said County on the first day April 1852 before me S.S. Pike Judge of Probate for said County it was proved to the satisfaction of the Court that Lois Delano formerly the widow of Thomas Coats died at Sterling in said County on the 29th day of August 1844; that she was at the time of her death a Vermont applicant and had then at the Pension Office a pending claim to Pensions for the service of her first husband the said Thomas Coats under the acts of Congress of the 4th July 1836 and 7th July 1838; and that she left six children by the names of Thomas Coats, Prentiss Coats, Lois Ellsworth, Polly Noble, Anstes Billings, and Hannah Gates and that at said Court Lovel Gates of said Sterling was duly appointed and commissioned Administrator of the estate of Lois Delano.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Johnson aforesaid this first day of April AD 1852.
S. S. Pike Judge

When through with this case I wish Hon L S Foster to return this [unk] to & often
Th C Stanton
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I Lydia Smith widow of Moses Smith decd of Stonington in the County of New London and State of Connecticut aged ninety years in April last being duly sworn according to law do on oath depose and say that from the best of my recollection I have once made a statement in relation to the marriage of my sister Lois to Thomas Coats I was then somewhat at a loss as to the length of time that elapsed between the date of her marriage and my own. I was truly present at wedding when my sister Lois Brown was married to Thomas Coats & officiated as I in my former deposition stated but as to the precise date of marriage or whether it was about one year or two years I on mature reflection am mostly inclined to the opinion that it was longer than was in my former declaration stated & I do now state that from the best of my present recollection, that my sister Lois aforesd was married to Thomas Coats somewhere about two years or nearly that, before I was married and that I was married to Moses Smith in 1777, in month of November. That I once had a record of my marriage but I gave it up to Latham Hull Esq of North Stonington when he was assisting me in getting proof in my application for a pension and I have not since seen it, but presume he sent it to Washington with my papers.
That I distinctly recollect of a tour of duty performed by my brother in law Thomas Coats who was the former husband of my sister Lois Coats & who was subsequently married to a Mrs. Delano & subsequently has become the widow Delano & whether now living or not I cannot tell as I have had no news relative thereto.
The tour of duty I refer to was rendered at Groton Bank or New London under Capt. William Stanton of Stonington I now well remember it & that it was in the spring before I was married; Among those who went & served in Capt Stantons compy as afsd recollect the names of my brother in law Thomas Coats, James Stanton, Randall Billings, Cyrus Wheeler, Dudley Morgan who married my husbands sister, and Eleazer Williams. The length of this tour of service I do not recollect but suppose it to have been the usual length of tour of duty at New London & Groton at that time. He was also out at other times after his marriage to my sister but I cannot give particulars. In this town to Groton afsd or New London the company was considerably made up from the inhabitants in my immediate vicinity or neighborhood.
Lydia Smith her mark X

In Presence of
Eunice Bennett
Wm C Stanton

State of Connecticut
New London County} ss. Stonington Oct 8th 1851
Then personally appeared, wid Lydia Smith who has subscribed to the to the above deposition by her mark in my presence and made oath to the truth of the same before me the subscriber.
Theo C Stanton Notary Public
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Windham County ss Voluntown Dec 8 1854
I hereby certify that wid Lydia Smith subscriber to the foregoing deposition is known to the subscriber and is a credible person, that her statement are justly entitled to full credit & belief as a witness in any case.
Tho C Stanton Justice of the Peace

I Anna Coats of Sterling in the County of Windsor and state of Connecticut aged eighty five years in July 1851 widow of Amos Coats, deceased, on oath do depose and say that I was from and brought up in that part of the old Town of Stonington which is now North Stonington in the County of New London in the state of Conn. aforesaid. I was married at Stonington now North Stonington afsd to Amos Coats Nov 6th 1783. That soon after I was married, Thomas Coats who resided in sd Town, a cousin of my husband, come to see me I never having seen him before, I was not personally acquainted with said Thomas Coats nor his wife until after I was married.
Thomas Coats wife, was a Brown before marriage her maiden name was Lois Brown & they (she & Thomas) were reputed to have been married some years before I was and at the time I was married they had a number of children. That about three or four years after I was married and went to keeping house, my husband hired one of Thomas Coats daughters to work for me and she was then a woman grown, her name was Lois Coats.
I knew the said Thomas Coats and his wife & family they being relatives of ours as afsd stated until the time the said Thomas and family removed from North Stonington into the "New Countries" as they were then called.
Anna Coats her mark X

In presence of Betsey Coats
Wm C Stanton

Windham County ss Sterling Dec 8th 1851
Personally appeared before, Anna Coats who has subscribed the above deposition by her mark and who is personally known to the subscriber as a witness whose testimony is entitled to full credit and belief and made oath to the truth of the same.

Attest Wm C Stanton Justice of the Peace
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Lois Delano
proof of marriage and and of additional
service of Thomas Coats
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STATE OF CONNECTICUT
Windham County, }{ ss. Office of Clerk of County COurt

I Uriel Fuller Clerk of the County Court for the County of Windham, and keeper of the Seal thereof, do hereby certify and made known to whom it doth or may concern, that William C Stanton Esq is and since the 20th day of June, 1851 hath been a JUSTICE OF THE PEACW, within and for the County  of Windham, in said State, duly appointed and commissioned, having full power and authority by the laws of said State, to take the acknowledgments of Deeds, and to certify the same: also to administer Oaths, to take affidavits and depositions out of courts , and to give certificates thereof; and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to his official acts and attestations. And I do also further certify, that William C Stanton is, and since the 28th day of May AD 1850 hath been a NOTARY PUBLIC, within and for the STATE OF CONNECTICUT, duly appointed and commissioned, having full power and authority by the laws of said State, to administer Oaths and take depositions in any case in which a Justice of the Peace might administer or take the same, and also to take the acknowledgement of deeds.
And I further certify that I believe the foregoing signature of the said William C Stanton to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court, at Brooklynn this ninth day of December in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty one.

Uriel Fuller Clerk
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No8110
Lois Delano
formerly widow
of Thos Coats
Vt
act 7. July '38
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State of Vermont}
Lamoille District Ss}
At a Probate Court holden at Morristown within and for the District of Lamoille on the 4th day of December AD1841
Present Hon Samuel A Willard Judge 
Personally appeared Lois Delano of Morristown in the County and District of Lamoille in the State of Vermont aged Eighty five years who being first duly sworn doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the Act of Congress passed the 7th day of July AD 1838.
She declares that she is the widow of Thomas Coats who was a private in the Revolutionary Army of the United States and that said Thomas Coats enlisted into the Army she believes in April or May AD 1775 and she believes he served under Col. Smith and Major Samuel Printiss.
She further declares that before marriage to said Coats her name was Lois Brown and that she was duly married to said Thomas Coats on the 12 day of November AD 1775 or 1776 and she believes in 1775.
She says that she has made a declaration to obtain a Penson under the Act of Congress of the 4th of July 1836 and that she them stated that she was married in 1775 and that it now seems to her that she was married to said Coats on the 12th day of November 1775 but the testimony of her sister Lydia Smith taken to be and in the other declaration tends to prove that her said marriage was consum-
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mated in the autumn of 1776
She further declares that the infirmities of age have made her forgetful and greatly impaired her recollection and that although she knows she was duly married to said Coats she may be mistaken one year as to the time of said marriage but she says she is confident that it was on the 12th day of November 1775 or 1776
She further says that all the evidence in relation to her said marriage and the service of the said Coast is already on file in the Department and is referred to
She further declares that the said Thomas Coats died at Hyde Park in Samoille County aforesaid on the 111th day of ((February AD 1814)(crossed out)) October AD 1814. and that she remained the widow of the said Coats until the 1st day of February 1820 when she was married to Jonathan Delno who died on the 16th day of April AD1835. and that she has ever since remained a widow. She says the witness of the death of said Coats and Delano is in the Department and is referred to.
Lois (her X mark) Delano

Witness Louel Gates}
              Sam'l A Willard}
Subscribed and sworn to before me Samuel A. Willard Judge

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of Said Court and subscribed my name at Morristown in said District this 4th day of December AD1841 and I certify that the applicant is considered a person of truth
Samual A Willard Judge
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I Lois Delano of Morristown in the County of Lamoille and State of Vermont of the age of eighty four (84) years do depose, testify & say that I am the same Lois Delano that has claim pending before the Commissioner of Pensions for a pension for the Revolutionary services of Thomas Coats. (said Coats was my first husband & my maiden or antenuptial name was Lois Brown.) I further depose and say that Edward Coats was not a brother of Thomas Coats my first husband, they were only cousins. The father of the said Thomas Coats & the father of Edward Coats were brothers and married sisters. I further depose and say that Eunice Brown the person whom Edward Coats married was not my sister nor do I know that were any related by consanguinity. I further say that I do not know when Edward Coats was married to Eunice Brown. [illegible word] moved with my husband Thomas Coates to Stephentown in the State of New York in the month of June, I think, A.D. 1778 about 2 years and 7 months after our marriage, and Edward Coats was not then married. I sometime afterwards heard of the marriage of said Edward to the said Eunice but do not recollect how long after. I further say that I know I was married two years or thereabouts before my sister Lydia Brown whom Moso Smith married was married. I recollect it well from the
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circumstance that in consequence of my husbands being drafted into the service & being absent from home to Rode Island, New York, &c we h=did not commence house keeping until a year from the 25th day of December after our marriage & that my sister Lydia was married the next fall after , I think in Nov. And further I say not.
Lydia (her X mark) Delano
 Attest Geo W. Gates
Louisa Gates

State of Vermont}
Lamoille County SS}
Morristown, July 21 AD 1840
Personally appeared Lois Delano and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by her subscribed contains the truth & nothing but the truth and I further certify that said Lois Delano is a person of truth & veracity.
Geo W Gates Justice of the Peace
The words "were brothers and" and the words "was married" were interlined before signing
Geo W Gates Justice of Peace
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I Lois Ellsworth of Hancock in the County of Addison and State of Vermont aged upwards of 77 years depose and say that I am a daughter of Thomas and Lois Coats formerly of Stonington in the state of Connecticut; that my mother's name before her marriage was Lois Brown ; that I have always understood and do verily believe that my father and mother the said Thomas and Lois Coats were lawfully joined in marriage at Stonington aforesaid in the year 1776. That my mother the said Lois after the death of my father the said Thomas (which took place I now think about the year 1814) was again married to Jonathan Delano of Vermont about the year 1818; that said Delano died about the year 1835 and that my mother the said Lois was at the time of her death *August 1844) an applicant for a Pension for the Revolutionary services of her first husband the said Thomas Coats.
I further depose and say that the affidavit of my brother Thomas Coats of Macomb in the state of New York executed before George F. Rowland Esq on the 5th day of February 1857 relative to the time and place of his birth has been shown me wherein he states that he is "a son of Thomas Coats, formerly of Stonington in the state of Connecticut and their first child" that he was born at said Stonington on the 12th day of November 1777; which statements I have no doubt are strictly true for I have always so understood from my parents the said Thomas & Lois; that my mother the said Lois once had a family record in an old Bible as stated by my said brother, wherein was a record of his birth, I now
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well recollect, but what become of it I am unable to say.
I further depose and say that I am the second child of the said Thomas and Lois Coats and was born the January before the dark day (so called) in the year 1780 as my said parents always told me ; that I have no record of my birth ' and that if any doubt is ever expressed as to the year of my birth I have always referred to January 1st, of the year in which the dark day took place for the record of my birth
Lois (her X mark) Ellsworth

Witness George E.T. Avery
              Zerah Barnes

State of Vermont}
Addison County SS}
Sworn to and subscribed by the said Lois Ellsworth (well known to me to be a person of credibility and whose testimony may be relied upon under any circumstances whatever) this 26th day of June 1857
Before me Zerah Barnes Justice of the Peace


STATE OF VERMONT
-----------------------
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
Montpelier, June 29, 1857

I certify that Zerah Barnes Esq., whose name is subscribed in his own proper hand=writing to the foregoing Certificate was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County of Addison duly qualified, with full power and authority under and by virtue of the laws of said State to administer Oaths and take Depositions, and Acknowledgements of Deeds, and that to his official acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are, and ought to be given.
Given under my hand and the Seal of this office, this 29 day of June A.D. 1857
Charles M. Willard Secretary of State.
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9577
Vermont Montpelier
Lois Delano decd family
widow of Thomas Coats
who was a Private/Corporal
in the Revolution.

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of 25 Dollars 61
Cents per annum, to commence
on the 4th day of March, 1843
& end 29th August 1844.

Certificate of Pension issued
the 11th day of Decem 1854
and sent to John Bryant, Meriden, NH

[Acts of March 3, 1843, and June 17, 1844]

Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2  Page 61


Dec 12, 1854 Letter to
John Bryant
J. Bryant 29 Dec 1854
Hon N Belcher
Feby 12 1855
Let Hon L F S Foster,
Feb 18/56
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I, Simeon Noble of Hyde Park in the County of Lamoille & State of Vermont of the age of 61 years depose & say, that for Forty two (42) years I have been acquainted with Lois Delano of Morristown in the County of Lamoille and State of Vermont formerly Lois Coats: That I was well acquainted with her first husband Thomas Coats, who I have ever understood & believe was a Revolutionary Soldier. Have frequently heard him tell about enlisting & going to New London & from there to Roxbury, MS & tell about his being drafter in to the service & going to Rhode Island &c have heard him frequently converse about the many hardships & privations that the "old soldiers" had to endure. Should think for what I have heard him say that he was in the service of his country in the whole 10 or 11 months. That I was also well acquainted with Jonathan Delano the second husband of said Lois from the of their marriage to the time of his death, which took place in the month of April A.D. 1835 & know that the said Lois is the widow of the said Thomas Coats & of the said Jonathan Delano, and that she has remained a widow ever since the death of the said Jonathan Delano- and further this deposement saith not.
Simeon Noble

State of Vermont}  Hyde Park, June 20, 1839
Lamoille County, ss}
Personally appeared Simeon Noble and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth and I further certify that said Simeon Noble is a person of truth & veracity.
Geo. W. Gates
Justice of the Peace
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I, Mary Noble, of Hyde Park in the County of Lamoille & State of Vermont of the age of fifty sic (56) years depose and say, that from my infancy I have been acquainted with Lois Delano of Morristown in the County of Lamoille & State of Vermont formerly Lois Coats: That I was well acquainted with her first husband, Thomas Coats. (I lived with them at Stonington Ct, until I was 14 years of age & then removed with them to Vermont.) who I have ever understood and verily believe was a Revolutionary soldier. Have frequently heard him tell of being in the service under Major Samuel Bennett-said he was first stationed at New London, Ct. but afterward sent to Roxbury. Ms. when he served out the full term of his enlistment and some more-I think he said that he enlisted for 6 months tho I do not remember positively-I have heard him tell of going to Rhode Island as a soldier after he left Roxbury but whether he enlisted then or was drafted I can not tell do not remember or I ever heard him say-Have also heard him tell of going to fight the Indians but cannot recollect where. Should think from what I have heard him say that he was out nearly a year in the whole. That I was also acquainted with Jonathan Delano her second husband for the time of their marriage to the time of his death which took place in the month of April AD. 1835 & know that the said Lois is the widow of the said Thomas Coats & of the said Jonathan Delano; and that she has remained a widow ever since the death of the said Jonathan Delano. And further this deposement saith not.
Mary Noble

State of Vermont}   Hyde Park June 20, AD 1839
Lamoille County. ss}
Personally appeared Mary noble & made solemn oath that the above affidavit by her subscribed contains the truth & nothing but the truth; and I further certify that said Mary Noble is a person of truth & veracity.
Geo. W. Gates Justice of the Peace
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I, Hannah Gates of Morristown in the County of Lamoille and State of Vermont of the age of 41 years depose & say, that I have been acquainted with Lois Delano of Morristown in the County of Lamoille & State of Vermont, formerly Lois Coats from my earliest recollection: That I was well acquainted with Thomas Coats her first husband who I have every reason to believe & have ever understood was a Revolutionary soldier. I lived with said Coats until the time of his death, was present when he died, which was at Hyde Park, Vt, on the 11th day of October A.D. 1814. I recollect the day from the circumstance that the last time he ever went out of doors was the day that the battle was fought at Lake Champlain (Sept. 11, 1814) & in just one month from that day he died. That I was well acquainted with her second husband, Jonathan Delano from the time of their marriage to the time of his death which took place in the month of April A.D. 1835. I was present when he died but do not recollect the day of the month. He died at Stonington Vermont and I know that the said Lois is the widow of the said Thomas Coats and of the said Jonathan Delano and that she has remained a widow ever since the death of the said Jonathan Delano and further this deposement saith not.
Hannah Gates

State of Vermont}  Morristown, June 20 1839
Lamoille County, ss}
Personally appeared Hannah Gates and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by her subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth and I further certify that said Hannah Gates is a person of truth & veracity.
Geo. W. Gates Justice of the Peace

The word Coats in the third line was striken out and the word Delano interlined before signing
Geo. W. Gates Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont}
Lamoille County, ss}
J. Philo G. Camp of Hyde Park in S. County Clerk of Lamoille County Court hereby certify that Geo. W. Gates is a Justice of the Peace in Pa S. County duly comprised & qualified that his (illegible) is date Nov. 6, 1838 (illegible) explain as the 1st day of Dec. 1839 & that his sequa? hereunto is law & (illegible)

In (illegible) where of I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of P. Court at My Office in Hyder Park ap. this 30th day of June A.D. 1839
P.S. Camp Clerk
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I, Lydia Smith, of Stonington, New London County, State of Connecticut, of lawful age, do depose and say, that I was seventy eight (78) years old the twenty third day of April 1839: that I am a native of said Stonington, and have lived therein more than forty five years: my first name before my marriage with Moses Smith, was Lydia Brown: I have a sister now living I believe in the State of Vermont: her name before she was married was Lois Brown; I cannot state the exact age of said Lois, but she is two or three years older than myself; Said Lois was married to Thomas Coats of said Stonington of that part of Stonington now called North Stonington in consequence of the town being divided; Charles Phelps, a justice of the peace, administered the ordinance of marriage; I was preset at the marriage; which took place in what is now called North Stonington; I stood up as bridesmaid on that occasion; and Edward Coats was bridesman; I was married in November seventeen hundred seventy seven; said Lois was married before I was, and so far as I can recollect I should think something like a year before I was married; said Lois and Thomas then lived some years in North Stonington aforesaid as a married couple, and there had three children; if not four; said Thomas I now have every reason to believe has been dead many years; after the death of said Thomas, said Lois married a man by the name of Delano, as I have always understood; and I have understood that said Delano is now dead, and that said Lois is his widow surviving him, and that said Lois now lives in Vermont;
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my husband was in the revolutionary war, and I have frequently heard him and the said Thomas tell over about their having been in said war and matters in general relating thereto.
Lydia Smith

County of New London, ss: Stonington in the State of Connecticut may 11th 1839
Personally appeared Lydia Smith, signer of the foregoing deposition, and made solemn oath to the truth of the same before me. And I hereby certify that I am, and have been for a long time, personally acquainted with the said Lydia Smith, and that she is a person of truth and veracity. 
Charles Bennet Justice of the Peace

I, John D Noyes Town Clerk of the town of Stonington in the County of New London & State of Connecticut Do hereby certify that I have carefully examined the records kept in this town for marriages & to find the marriage of Thomas Coats to Lois Brown, but do not find the same entered thereon---
John D. Noyes T. Clerk Stonington May 11th 1839

State of Connecticut County of New London ss: Stonington May 11, 1839. Personally appeared John D. Noyes, Town Clerk of said Stonington, signer of the foregoing certificate, and made solemn oath to the truth of the same before me. I am personally acquainted with said Noyes, and he is a person of truth and veracity.
Charles Sabin, Justice of Peace
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State of Connecticut
New London County} ss.
I John DeWitt Clerk of the County Court in & for sd New London County do hereby certify that Charles Bennet Esq before whom the annexed deposition of Lydia Smith was taken was on sd 11th day of May 1839 and still is a Justice of the Peace for sd New London County & that his signature thereto affixed I believe to be genuine, and also that Charles Sabin Esq before whom the annexed deposition of John D Boyes was taken was on sd 11th day of May 1839 and still is a Justice of the Peace for sd New London County & his signature thereto affixed I believe is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said County this 27 day of May 1839.
John DeWitt Clerk
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I Lydia Smith of Stonington of law
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Lois Delano formerly widow of Thomas Coats
Vt. act of 1836

Declared June 20th 1839- age 83- Lamoille County
3 mos & more} Thos Coats enlisted April or May 1775 as private, for 6 mos and served until last of Decr- Recollects no officer excepting Saml Prentiss- major. Thinks the Col was Oliver Smith.
First entered service at N London- soon ordered to Roxbury, Mass at (as she thinks) the end of first 6 mos and he returned to Roxbury & did not again get home until last of Dec or first of Jany.

some weeks}
Indians
in all from 9 to 12 mos} Some time after he was drafted & went to R.I. & N.Y. and was gone some weeks- afterwards drafted or volunteered & went out to fight the Indians.
Thinks he was out on Revy war, in all, from 9 to 12 mos.

Married Nov 12, 1775
Thos died at Hyde Park, Vt (Lamoille Co) Oct 11, 1814
Decl married Jona Delano Feby 1, 1820
who died Apl 16, 1835
She has remained a widow ever since
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Second statement- July 21, 1840
Maiden name Lois Brown- Edward Coats was not a brother, but a cousin of Thomas. Their fathers were brothers and married sisters. Edward Coats did not marry my sister- not related to me.
I removed with husband to Stephentown N.Y. in (I think) June '78- about 2 yrs & 7 mos after marriage- Sometime after heard of Edward's marriage to Eunice Brown. I was married about 2 yrs before sister Lydia, &c.

Second Decl- act of 1838- made Dec 4, 1841
Still thinks she was married in '75 but it may have been in 76


Margaret Worden- Monroe Co N.Y.- aged 75- May 16, 1839
maiden name Margaret Brown- Lived with her father Humphry Brown in Stonington-
was present at marriage of Thos Coats and sister Lois in Novr 1775 by Chas Phelps J.P.- was 12 yrs of age at time of marriage-
Thos said he was in [unk] of Roxbury  Thetford to throw the "red coats" over the wall with his bayonet.
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Zebulon Delano- of Windsor Co Vt. aged 72- May 31/39
Well known Thos & Lois= formerly from Ct- but about 1799 they moved from there here, where they cohabitated many years & raised a large family- some yrs since they removed to Hyde Park, Lamoille Co, when Thos died- and soon after Lois- then widow- returned to Pomfret, where after some years married to Jona Delano (who was a pensioner) by Revd Wm Grow, in Jany 1820- I was present but cannot remember the day of the month.

Lional Udall- same statement- 2d marriage at my house in Jany 1820

Cert of Town Clerk of Pomfret- no records of this 2nd marriage

Simeon Noble- of Hyde Park- 61 yrs- June 20, 1839
For 42 years have known Lois Delano, formerly Coats, and well knew Coats who I understood & believe was a Revy soldr
Often heard him tell about emlisting & going to R. I.- hardships, &c. should think from his recitals that he must have been in service 10 or 11 months
Well knew Jona Delano- He died in Apl 1835- and Lois his widow- has so remained ever since

Mary Noble- same statement
Coats died at Hyde Park the day the Battle of Lake Champlain was fought Sept 11, 1814- Delano died Apl '35
Lois widow ever since
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Lois Delano- June 8, 1840
my first child, Thomas, was born Decr 12th '76 while my husband was at Roxbury, in service. My 2d, Lois, Jany 1 '79- my 3rd, Isaac, Jany 27 '81- 4th, May, Feby 27 '83- 5th, Lyman, Apl 4, 1785

Patty Smally- of Hyde Park, age 56- June 8/40
My mother & Lois were, as I understood, sisters- mother was 5yr older than she- Her name was Elizabeth Brown. Often heard mother speak of Coats service in Revr was in service with mother's 1st husband Danird Parker- mother said Thomas entered service in the spring- returned home the forepart of Novr- and married her sister Lois- & then returned to the army- then stationed at Roxbury & was there when first child was born in December, next after the marriage.
Mother said Thomas intended to have married before entered the service, but sickness & unavoidable accidents prevented &c &C- mother is dead

Mary Noble- same date- I am 4th child of Lois- was born Feby 27, 1783- always understood my eldest brother, Thomas, was born Decr 12, 1776
My parents had a record- which is destroyed- and I recollect the date of Thomas' birth from that I have a record of my own birth- transcribed from that
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Lydia Smith- of Stonington- aged 78- May 11, 1839
native of Stonington &c- 1st name Lydia Brown- Lois is my sister- she is 2 or 3 yrs older than I- she was married in what is now North Stonington- by Cahs Phelps J. P.- I was brides maid & Edward Coats groomsman- I was married in Novr '77- Lois was married, as nearly as I can recollect, about 1 year before I was.
They lived & cohabitated some years in Stonington some years & there had 3 or 4 children. Thomas, I understand, has been decd many years- Lois married Delano, who is reported dead

Service 

order for pay, on Capt Stanton, dated April 14th 1777, at Groton- for service there- signed by (interalia) Thomas Coats, corps

Certif of Comptroller- Feby 13, 1839
Thomas Coats name on roll of 3d Company 6th Regt- raised by order of Gen assembly- from May 6 to Dec 17th in 1776 7 mos 11 days

Certif of Town Clerk of Stonington- no record of the marriage on births of children
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Lydia Smith-again Oct 8 1851
Distinctly recollect at tour of service performed by Thomas Coats- at Groton Bank, or New London, under Capt Wm Stanton of Stonington- (Capt Stanton's christian name is not given in the order)
I well remember it was in the Spring before I was married (Nov 77)- James Stanton, Randall Billings, Cyrus Wheeler, Dudley Morgan- who married my husband's sister- and Eleazer Williams. I don't remember the length of he tour, but suppose it was the usual duration of tours in Groton-
He was also out at other times after marriage but I cannot recollect the particulars- In the tour to N. L. & G the company was mostly made up of men from my immediate neighborhood.

Anna Coats- of Windham Co, Ct., age 85, Dec 8 51
Born and reared in (now) North Stonington- married there to Amos Coats Nov 6, 1783- Thos & Lois reported to have been married some years before me- and when I was married had a number of children- Three or 4 after my marriage- a daughter of Thos & Lois was a young woman grown
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Anna Baldwin- of N. Stonington aged 68, Mar 22, 1852
Born in N. S. have resided there mostly since my uncle Thomas was a married man as long ago as I can recollect

Declaration of Lovel Gates} ss. Lamoille Co. admr of Lois Delano
nothing new

Certif of Comptroller of Ct. Apl 19, 1852
Of payts to Capt Wm Stantons co at N. S. in 1777} 3 payments L 45.14.6
                             D 3.0.6
                                 41.52
                             --------
                          L $ 110.0.2
                                  20
                             --------
                             $ 2200
                             ---------
                             $366.66

Eunice Bennet- Oct 17, 1854
Moses Smith & Lydia Brown married
Nov 20, 1777- as by sworn transcript of Family record

Wm C Stanton  Reduplicate roll of service under Capt Wm Stanton- showing about 1 mo 6 days service in 1777

Cert of Judge of Probate- death of Lois Delano- Aug 29, 1844- witness names not given
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Lovel Gates- admr
Thos Coats- Prentiss Coats- Lois Ellsworth- Polly Noble- Anstes Billings & Hannah Gates- surviving children

Another certif- comptr of Ct 7 mos 11 days service

Decl of Lovel Gates- of Lamoille Co- Nov 12, 1852
Nothing additional except that there is an endorsement on the back of Wm Stanton's roll showing that his service at Groton in 1777 was one month & 6 days
Comparison of hand writing of Thos Coats on several original documents annexed, and on the order of Capt Stanton- showing that they are identical



Lois Delano died
Vermont
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Case of Lois Delano of Vt decd
Act 4th July 1836

copy
Lovel Gates Administrator
declaration on file with
Pension Office
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(copy)

State of Vermont
Lamoille County ss.} On this 12th day of November 1853 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace within and for said County Lovel Gates a resident of Sterling in said County Administrator upon the estate of Lois Delano late of said Sterling deceased, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration supplementary to a Declaration made by him in the capacity of such Administrator before the Hon. S. S. Pike, Judge of the Court of Probate for said County on the first day of April 1852 in order in the right of said Lois Delano deceased, the benefit of the act of July 4th 1836 for the Connecticut Revolutionary Service of her former husband Thomas Coats. That this his supplementary Declaration is made for the purpose of renewedly claiming an allowance for 7 mos & 11 days service of Thomas Coats at Roxbury in 1775 which he believes there is record evidence on file; and that the same has been admitted by the Department, claiming also for additional service, to wit for 1 month & 6 days service rendered by said Thomas Coats as a Corporal under Capt Stanton at Groton Fort in the spring as is shown by the affidavit of Gen William C. Stanton made before the Probate Court for the County of Windham State of Connecticut on the 11th day of July 1853, subjoined to which is a copy of an order, whereon is the name of said Thomas Coats as a Corporal, to which affidavit he prays that reference may be had upon a reexamination of the case; and that part of the same which has reference to service. And not having been enabled to obtain record evidence of the marriage of Thomas Coats to Lois Brown he prays that the parole evidence on file may be further considered and regarded as satisfactory; to wit the affidavit of
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Lydia Smith, who states that she was married to Moses Smith in November 1777; that her sister Lois was married to Thomas Coats some where about two years or nearly that before she was married; and that she recollects the tour of service of her brother in law Thomas Coats at N. London under Capt William Stanton of Stonington in 1777 and also recollect the names of several other persons that then and there served with said Coats. He also prays that further reference may be had to the Depositions on file in reference to the marriage of Lois Brown to Thomas Coats of Anna Coats and Anner Baldwin.

And as respects the service of said Thomas Coats the declarant would further state that he has in his possession many of the papers left by him from which he has selected those hereunto attached whereon is to me the original and genuine hand writing of the said Coats. That he now has in his possession the original order referred to in the Deposition of Gen. W. C. Stanton aforesaid whereon is the signature of Thomas Coats. ANd of which the following is a copy-

"Groton April 14th 1777"
"Capt Stanton, Sir, please to pay the Bearer hereof our wages and Billet for the whole of the Time of Service in your Company at Groton Fort and the Order shall be you Discharge from we the subscribers."
George Wilkinson  Harry Hewit  Paul Brumbley
Joseph Hewet    Hazzard Hull   Asa Lewis
Thomas Coats   Joseph Starkweather  Nathaniel Ames
Jeremiah Maine   Elnathan Minor   Samuel Steward
Jared Stephens   Levi Hall   Daniel Latham
Daniel Wilson for my son Stephen
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Elisha Hewit   Allen Palmer   Stephen Breed
Cyrus Wheeler fifer   Peleg Stanton   Joseph Breed
Phinehas Lewis   Shermon Babcock   James Stanton Sergt
Asa Frank   James Hakes   Randall Billings
Dudley Morgan   John Hinckley   Nathaniel Serle DA
Amos Morgan   Edward Stanton
Eleazor Williams   Walter Palmer
Nathan Dennison   William Hall
Andrew Dennison   Jonas Babcock

On the back of the original is the following


"Stonington June 24 1777"
"Recevd of Wm Stanton, Ninety nine Pounds Nine Shillings & 4d Lawful money it being the Wages due the within subscribers for one month and six days service in his Company in March and April Last.
(signed) John York"

That on comparison with the hand writing of said Coats hereunto attached and other writings left by him he find that his signature upon said order is his own genuine signature and that he should have hereunto attached said original but for his obligation to return the same to the source from whence it came into his hands as a Loan to enable him to make the comparison of hand writing as he has done and from which he is entirely satisfied that the said Thomas Coats rendered the last name tour of service for which he claims allowance to wit; 1 months and 6 days at New London as a Corporal in the spring of the year 1777 and subsequent to his marriage; that feeling
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confident from what he understands to be the evidence on file certified by the Hon. Benjamin Gallup Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut in reference to the last named service and his own examination of the original papers, he has to pray a reexamination of all the papers on file in the case with the additional evidence herewith transmitted; that in reference to the service of the said Thomas Coats the declarant has only further to say that his beliefs, that there is evidence on file going to show that his tour at Roxbury in December 1775 as reported by the Commissioner of Pensions to the Hon. Henry Hubbard July 2, 1840; That he is also of the belief that he rendered one or more short tours of service previous to that at Roxbury in 1775, and also one or more short tours subsequent to that at N London in 1777 proof of which he has not as yet been enable to obtain.
Signed   Lovel Gates
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written.
Before me    Arad Baker Justice of the Peace"

"State of Vermont
Lamoille County ss.} I, Stoughton S. Pike, Judge of the Probate Court within and for the District and County aforesaid hereby certify that Arad Baker is a Justice of the peace within and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified as such and is now acting as such, with power under the Laws of this State to administer oaths; and that the foregoing is his genuine signature
(L. S.) In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand & seal of Court this 12th day of November 1853.
S. S Pike Judge"
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Thereupon by my husband who is now deceased Fifty years ago this present season, That i was married to Elisha Bennett Feb 23 1804 which stands on my family record this "Groton February the 23 AD 1804 was married It being a very snowy afternoon," That my Father & Mothers Family Record of which the foregoing is a correct copy as aforsd stated was taken by my mothers attorney when application was made for her pension & I have not since seen it. That Lois Brown who married Thomas Coats formerly of [unk] was my mothers sister & afterwards moved to Vermont & her husband died & she again married, her last husbands name was Delano.
Eunice Bennet
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June the 12th AD 1756, then Moses Smith was born
April the 23 AD 1761 then Lidia Brown was born
November 20AD 1777 then Moses Smith and Lidia Brown was married
May the 20 AD 1778 then Eunice Smith was born
April the 20 AD 1780 then Russel Smith was born
November the 30th AD 1783 then Moses Smith was born
May the 19 1782 then Lucy Smith was born
October the 8 1785 then Clarry Smith was born
October the 26 1787 then Sophia Smith was born
October the 16 AD 1791 then Lucy Smith was born
July the 19AD 1793 then John Smith was born
September the 27 AD 1796 then Lidia Smith was born
June the 20 AD 1798 then Patty Smith was born
May the 10 AD 1801 then Henry Smith was born

I Eunice Bennet of Stonington in the county of New London and state of Connecticut aged seventy eight years, May 20th 1854 and Daughter of Moses Smith & Lydia Smith named in the above family record on oath do depose and say that the above is a correct copy of my Father & mother's Family Record and was copied
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State of New York
Monroe County ss.}
Margaret Worden in the 76th year of her age deposeth and says that her maiden name was Margaret Brown and that she resided with her Father Humphrey Brown in the town of Stonington County of New London and State of Connecticut and that she is sister to Lois Coats and that she was present at the marriage of her said sister with Thomas Coats in Nov 1775, by one Charles Phelps a magistrate of Stonington County aforesaid and that she was twelve years of age at the time of said marriage and she also recollects of hearing said Coats relate aneckdotes in elation to the revolutionary war herd said Coats say he was in the Battle of Roxbury and was on that helpt to throw the Brittish red coats over the wall with his bayonet. She further says she was well acquainted with Major Samuel Prentiss of Stonington and further this deponent saith not.
Margaret Worden her mark X

Sworn and subscribed this sixteenth day of May 1839. Before me
Charles D Hagaman J. P. 

I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with Margaret Worden for ten years past and believe her to a person of truth and veracity.
Brighton May 16 1839
Charles D. Hagaman J.P.
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State of New York
Monroe County Clerks Office ss.}
I Ephraim Goss Clerk of the Court of Monroe County certify that Charles D. Hagaman is a magistrate as within and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this 17th day of May in the year one thousand one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine.

Ephraim Goss Clerk of the Court of Monroe County
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I Thomas Coats now a resident of Macomb in the County of St. Lawrence and State of New York now temporally  at Hyde Park, County of Lamoille, Vermont aged upwards of 77 years depose and say that I am a son of Thomas and Lois Coats formerly of Stonington in the State of Connecticut, that my mother's name before marriage was Lois Brown, that I have reason to believe and do believe, although I have no record of the fact that my parents the said Thomas and Lois were lawfully married at said Stonington sometime in the year 1776, that I am their first child- that I was born in said Stonington on the 12th day of November 1777 and although I have not a record of my birth I am enabled to state and do state confidently and correctly, as to the time as above stated. I further depose and say that my parents, the said Thomas and Lois Coats had subsequently born to them five other children by the names of Prentis Coats, Lois Coats, Polly Coats, Anstes Coats, and Hannah Coats who were living at the time of the death of my said mother, she being at the time her death the widow of Jonathan Delano, whose names at the time of her death were Prentis Coats, Lois Ellsworth, Polly Noble, Anster Billings and Hannah Gates, who are still living for aught that I knew. I further and lastly depose and say that my father the said Thomas Coasts, as my belief is, having so understood
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from my childhood, took part and was early engaged in the Connecticut service of the Revolution, and that one or more tours of service were performed by him after his marriage to Lois Brown, that my mother as I understand, previous to her death asserted a claim to a pension for the services of my father the said Thomas Coats under the act of the 4th of July 1836.
Thomas Coats

State of Vermont
County of Lamoille ss.}
Sworn and subscribed to the 23 day of October 1855 Before me
Joshua Sawyer Notary Public

And I do further certify that the deponent Thomas Coats is entitled to full credit as a witness and that I have no interest in the prosecution or event of this claim of service.
Notary Public


Lois Delano of Vt decd the widow of
Thomas Coats [unk] claim to pension
under the act of the 4th July 1836

Additional evidence that her marriage to Thomas Coats took place in 1776 & before the last period of his service