Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26179, for Lemuel King, Connecticut
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Conn
King, Lemuel
Jane
W. 26179
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J. L. Edwards Esq.
Pension Office
Washington City
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Middletown
September 22d 1823
Sir,
I transmit my application for a regular certificate, which I will thank you to send to me as soon as convenient, directed to me at Vernon, Connecticut.
I am, Sir,
Very respectfully,
Your Obb. Serv.
Lemuel King

J. L. Edwards Esq.
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State of Connecticut 
County of Middlesex
Middletown
On this 22d day of September in the year 1823, personally appeared Lemuel King of Vernon (formerly Boston) in the county of Tolland, and state aforesaid, and made oath, in due form of law that he is the same person, who was placed upon the pension - roll of the state of Connecticut, originally at half-pay, that he was afterwards placed upon said roll at full pay by virtue of an act of Congress on application to the judge in the District of Connecticut, the deponent being an invalid in consequence of having received seven severe cuts with a saber at Horse-Neck in said state in the Revolutionary War: that he served in Col. Wells Regiment at the time he was disabled; that his disability consists of a total stiffness of the right knee, and still continues: that he was placed last upon said roll at the rate of eight dollars per month, which he has received to the 4th of
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March A.D. 1823, and having never received a regular certificate, he now wishes to obtain one. 
Lemuel King
Subscribed and sworn to, on the day and year first before written, before me the undersigned 
Notary Public duly appointed and sworn residing in said Middletown.
Witness my signature 
and seal of office 
Jona Barnes
Notary Public
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Connecticut
Lemuel King
Private in the army of the revolution
inscribes on the roll of the Connecticut agency at the rate of $5 per mo. “increased”
to $8 by the law of the 24 April 1810 to take effect from the passage of the act
Formal Certificate from
29 Sept. 1823 until sent
to the pensioner  
Middletown
Connecticut
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1887 July 12 Lemuel King with history
prior
92 Connecticut 
Jane King widow of Lemuel King who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
From $40
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 dollars 00 cents per annum, to commence on 1 of July, 1848
Certificate of Pension issued the 15th day of March 1837 and sent to
S. A. Peugh
Present

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, page 301  Vol. 1
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Declaration
State of Connecticut
Tolland County So Ellington
On this 14th day of August in 1883, personally
appeared before the Court of Probate for
The District of So. Ellington in the County and
state aforesaid, Widow Jane King, a resident
of Vernon, in said Tolland County, (which
is annexed to said district of Ellington) aged
seventy years and six months, a credible person
who being first duly sworn according to law
doth on her oath make the following declaration
in order to obtain the benefit of the provision
made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838
Entitled, an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows.
That she is the widow of Lemuel King late a resident of said Vernon who was a private soldier in the army of the revolution and was severely wounded there, and was pensioned in the year 1789, under the Connecticut agency, as an invalid pensioner.
He belonged to Webbs Regiment.
She further declares, that she was married to
the said Lemuel King, in said Vernon, by the
Rev. Ebenezer Kellogg pastor of the Congregational Church in said town, on the 16 day of December seventeen hundred ninety, and it is recorded in said pastors records; she
has also a record of it in her family bible
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She sends a copy from said clergyman’s records, not being willing to mutilate the Bible record if it not indispensable. She further declares, that she was married to her husband the aforesaid Lemuel King on the sixteenth day
of December seventeen hundred and ninety;
that her husband the aforesaid Lemuel 
King died at said Vernon, on the seventeenth 
day of November, eighteen hundred and twenty
seven.
That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred ninety four, at the time above stated.
Jane King
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year
above written
Before said probate court
In testimony whereof I Moses B. Bull 
clerk of the Court of Probate of Ellington aforesaid
Hereby declare that the foregoing contains the 
original proceeding before the said court of probate
this 14th day of August 1838. And I further
certify that the court declare of their 
own knowledge that the applicant widow
Jane King is the surviving widow of the 
aforesaid Lemuel King which was also
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well known to the said court as an
invalid pensioner, of the United States
in testimony whereof, I have hereunto
subscribed my name and affixed the
seal of the said court of probate at
Ellington aforesaid this 14th day of August
and 1838.
Attest Moses B. Bull clerk
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I, Elijah F. Reed, a reisident of East Windsor,
in the county of Hartford in Connecticut, do
hereby certify and say that I removed from 
East Windsor to Vernon (then called North
Boston) in the county of Tolland Connecticut 
in the month of April 1789. That then commenced the practice of physician in Vernon and resided there until the month of May 1797
when I again removed to East Windsor where
I have since resided. That on my first entering
the now town of Vernon I became acquainted with Lemuel King residing in that place,
who had been a soldier of the revolution once
and had been very severely wounded by the broad swords of the British Light Horse in an 
unexpected attack, of which I have heard him detail the particulars.
That an intimate acquaintance with
him was continued until the time of his death
which I believe was about 11 years since. That
I have a strong belief that for many years previous to his death he received a pension from the general government. That I am knowing to the marriage of said Lemuel King to Jane Brownson of Vernon, then North Boston, by the Reverend Ebenezer Kellogg, then pastor of the church in that place, as I was present at the 
wedding, previous to the year 1792 and feel confident that it was in the year 1790 and 
that his widow is still living and since his 
death has not been married. 
Elijah F. Reed
State of Connecticut 
Hartford County   To East Windsor
on the 14th day of August and 1838
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Personally appeared before me Jesse
Charlton a Notary Public of and for the 
state of Connecticut aforesaid Doctor
Elijah F. Reed, a resident of said East
Windsor a credible person, and one of
the principal physicians in said town
and made solemn oath to the truth
of the written certificate by him subscribed
before me.
In testimony whereof I do hereunto 
subscribe my name and affix my
seal of office at East Windsor in the 
county of state aforesaid on the day and 
year first named.
Attest Jesse Charlton
Notary Public
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Lemuel King
1674 
marriage
Vol 351
Jane King
Connecticut 
Act 7 July 38
12 mo. Pri
40$
no deduction
Hon. O. Holt
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I hereby certify that in a volume of records
of marriages made and kept by the Reverend
Ebenezer Kellogg, a former pastor
of this first church and society whose
pastoral charge he commenced the 24th of
Nov 1762, and terminated with his life September 3rd 1817.
I found the following entries “the persons under written were married by me Ebenezer Kellog” “December sixteenth seventeen hundred and ninety Lemuel King to Jane Brownson” I
certify the above to be a true copy from
said record with the exception that in
the original the date of the month and 
of the year is in legible figures as 16th
and 1790.
Chester Humphrey Pastor of the first
Congregational Church in Vernon. 
State of Connecticut 
County of Tolland and Vernon
On the 10th day of August and 1838 personally
appeared before me Jesse Charlton a Public Notary 
for the state of Connecticut. The Rev. Chester Humphrey 
who is at this time pastor of the Congregational Church
in said Vernon a credible person and made solemn
oath to the truth of the above certificate by him subscribed 
before me
Attest Jesse Charlton
Notary Public 
In the testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and seal of office the day and year first named 
Jesse Charlton Notary Public
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April 9, 1910
Mrs. Frank L. Stone,
210 South Street,
Pittsfield, Mass.

Madam:
I reply to your letter without date received the 28th ultimo,
You are advised that from the papers in the claim of Lemuel King, Wid. File No. 26,179, Revolutionary War, it appears that he was a Private in Colonel Levi Wells ‘ Regiment and was wounded in the head, shoulder, arm and knee, at Horseneck, December 1780, for which her was pensioned from March 4, 1789, under Act of Congress dated September 17, 1837.
He married at Vernon, Tolland County, Connecticut, December 16, 1790, 
Jane Brownson, and died at said Vernon, November 17, 1837.
His widow was allowed pension on an application executed August 14, 
1838 while a resident of Vernon, Connecticut, aged seventy years and six
months. 
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
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Lemuel King
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I Henry Kilbourn Comptroller of Public
accounts for the state of Connecticut do hereby 
certify that in the books of the pay table remaining in this office relating to the Revolutionary War. I find the following entry viz

Lemuel Kings certificates for half pay

East Windsor March 17th 1863
This may verify that Lemuel King of Boston
was a soldier in the regiment in the year
1780 and on the 16th day of December said
King was in the faithful performance of his 
duty and in his action with the enemy
was wounded and much disabled. 
Levi Wells Col Commandant

Somers March 17th 1783
This may certify that Lemuel King of North Bolton in Hartford County was a patient of mine by reason of wounds he received from the enemy at Horse Neck in December 1780. Three wounds by cutlasses on the head, one wound on his shoulder, whereby the shoulder blade was laid bare also one wound on the upper side of the arm and one on the lower arm bone it being laid bare, also one in the knee by which the knee pan was separated from the adjacent parts by means whereof he yet remains a cripple.

Asa Hamilton Phy & Surgeon
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Boston March 19th 1783
This may certify that Lemuel King by
reason of the wounds mentioned above remains
a cripple and is unable to maintain himself.
Ezekiel Olcott
Judah Strong 
Selectmen of Boston
The above is an exact copy from the Record
Volume letters half pay page 56
And I further certify that there is in the books of the payable remaining in this office a very large account with Col. Levi Wells previous to the year 1780 and that during the year 1780 there are charges against him in the following months of the year 1780. Viz
in January 26 20,000 pounds Jan. 28th 800 and in March and in April and in June and in August and in September and in December of that year and the acct. is balanced.
I know of no rolls of Col. Levi Wells regiment in this office or anything showing more definitely the exact amount of time he served.
Dated at Hartford this 14th day of December AD 
1838.
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Henry Kilbourn Comptroller
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I John McGregory a resident of Newport in Sullivan County state of New Hampshire but now on a visit at Enfield in Hartford County Connecticut where I was born in the year 1756, I was out in the service in the Revolutionary War, for which I received a pension. 
And I do hereby depose and say that I was out as a substitute for Uriah Hull of said Enfield, we served at Horse Neck in Stamford we were under the command of Col. Mead our employment was to stand guard and go out upon patrols to guard this part of the country from the low boys or tories. While I was here I saw Lemuel King who was dreadfully wounded and then lay languishing with his wounds and in this condition. Dr. Hamilton a general surgeon of Somers in Connecticut was sent down to see and assist King. I saw the doctor there myself but for how long time said King enlisted to serve or did actually serve I cannot say. 
John McGregory

State of Connecticut 
Hartford County
To Enfield on this 18th day of October 1838 personally appeared before me Jesse Charlton a notary public of and for the state of Connecticut. John McGregory who signed the foregoing deposision and he then and there made solemn oath to the truth of the same and I satisfied my self that he is a credible and respectable man. 
In testimony thereof I do hereunto subscribe my name and affix my seal of office at East Windsor at my office in Hartford County on the day and year aforesaid.
Attest Jesse Charlton 
Notary Public
Oct 18th
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I Roswell Smith a resident of Vernon in Tolland County Connecticut aged 80 years hereby depose and say, that I served in the Revolutionary War as a private soldier for which I receive a pension.
And I further depose and say that I was well acquainted with Lemuel King formerly of this town but now deceased. I was not out with him myself, my brother, David Smith was with him in the same company in one campayon (campaign?) Viz in Capt. Bissells company, at Horse Neck, when they were attacked in the night by the Tory light horse, or refugees. They were attacked in the night and King received seven wounds to the bone and was left for dead. He was a cripple after that all his days. He was a very tall and large man, and enlisted when he was least than sixteen years of age, and a real soldier. The officer’s confidence in his courage, strength, and address soon made him a corporal and used to send him after deserters. All this I have heard my brother and said Lemuel King tell repeatedly. For how long a period he served I cannot say or in how many tours, my said brother David has been dead one year.
Roswell Smith
State of Connecticut 
Tolland County
To Vernon On this 10th day of October and 1838 personal appeared before me Jesse Charlton a Notary Public
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Of and for the State of Connecticut Roswell Smith who then and there subscribed the written deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same and he is a credible person with whom I am well acquainted. 
Attest Jesse Charlton
Notary Public
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I Royal R. Hinman Secretary of the State for the state of Connecticut do hereby certify that at the session of the general assembly of said state by adjournment, holden at Hartford in said state in January and 1780, the following appointment was made in the following terms.
This assembly do appoint Levi Wells Esq. to be Lieut. Colonel Commandant of one of the regiments now ordered to be raised to be continued in service until the first day of January next.
In testimony whereof I do hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said state at Hartford in said state on this 13th day of December A.D. 1838
Royal R. Hinman Secretary
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1910 April. 9 histories to Mrs. Frank L. Stone
Widow, &c.
File No. 26179
Jane King
Wid of
Lemuel King
Pri Rev War
Act: Feb 29 48
Index:-Vol A, Page 404
[Arrangement of 1870]
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Reposted
92
Connecticut 
Jane King
Widow of Lemuel King
Who served in the Revolutionary War as a private
Inscribed on the roll at the rate of 40 dollars no
cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848
Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of June 1848, and sent to Henry Fowler 
Hartford, Conn

Recorded on roll of pensioners under act February 2, 1848, page 301 vol. 1
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2430
Connecticut
Jane King
Widow of Lemuel King
Who was a private 
In the Conn Line for 12 months
Inscribed on the roll at the rate of 40 dollars no cents per annum, to commence on the 4th of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25th day of Oct. 1843 and sent to Henry Fowler Heartford, Conn

[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1 Page 71
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Let to Hon. O. Holt
Jan. 29, 1839.
Jane King widow of Lemuel King, dec. who was a pensioner under the Act for Invalids and who died on the 17th of Nov. 1827.
of Tolland Co. in the state of Connecticut who was a private in the Revolution commanded by (blank) of the (blank) commanded by (blank) in the Connecticut line for 12 months private. 

Inscribed in the roll of Connecticut at the rate of 40 dollars no cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1839
Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of January, 1839 and sent to Hon. O. Holt, and R. J. Charlton 
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1838 =$100:00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4th ‘39 40:00
$140:00
{Act July 7, 1838}
Recorded by S. A. Elliott Clerk,
Book A Vol. 1 Page 191.
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Jane King
Connecticut 
Act of July 1838
Suspended
See let. 7th Sep 1838 to Jesse Charlton, Ha. O. Holt. Dec 31, 1838
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Bureau of Pensioners 
Army the list of Invalid Pensioners of Tolland County Conn, recorded on page 648 of Connecticut men who fought in American Revolution is our Lemuel King/Priv/Wells
Will you kindly inform me regard to same. My respt 
Mrs. Frank L. Stone
210 South Street
Pittsfield, Massachusetts 

Stamped:
March 29, 1910
&
Pension A Office
U. S. March 28, 1910
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Would you kindly make two copies and send one to this address:
Mrs. Clifton Chapman 
10 Florence Street
Rockville, Connecticut 

Stamped:
Pension A U.S. Office March 28, 1910
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3-871
Record Division
Department of the Interior 
Bureau of Pensions
Briefed by Aor. April 6, 1910
Claim No. 
certificate No.
Claimant
Soldier: Lemuel King
Service: Conn.
Additional Service: Rev War
A pensioner 
Put in Webb’s Reg & (should be Well’s)
No ____ claim, state records _____, 190___
Remarks: 
Ow wivid File 26179
In Well’s Reg
There is ow Inv. F. 32945 Mass to other Inv. or Wid. or Reg.
Chief Division
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80199 W Broadway
Yonkers, N Y
June 17,1883

To the Hon Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir
Lemuel King was a soldier between 1775 and 1780 belonging to Col Webbs Regiment of Conn
Information is wanted as to the number of his regiment 
name of his company 
time of service
Where and when wounded and any incidents that you may have of the wounding
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His residence in after life was Vernon Conn. but during the war that town may have been part of Boston or Windsor.
Yours Respectfully 
Hezekiah Kino
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Jane King widow of Lemuel King
92
Luc to $96/ Dec $40
Com’g 1 July 1848

S. A. Peugh
Present
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State of Connecticut
County of Tolland Vernon January 8th 1851
Be it known that on this 8th day of January A.D. 1851 before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Tolland personally appeared Jane King who being first duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Lemuel King who was an invalid pensioner of the United States on the roll of the Connecticut Agency in Hartford at the rate of ninety six dollars per annum and that she is now receiving a pension as his widow under the act of February 2nd 1848 at the rate of forty dollars per annum. That she claims under the joint resolution of July 1st 1848 the same rate of pension as was allowed her deceased husband is ninety six dollars per annum.
Signed and sworn to before me this 8th day of January 1851. And I certify that I am personally acquainted with the declarant and know she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
Her mark X
Jane King
Thaddeus C. Bruce Justice of the Peace
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I, John P.C. Mather, Secretary of the state of Connecticut and keeper of the seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern, that Thaddeus C. Bruce is and since the fourth day of July last past hath been Justice of the Peace within and for the county of Tolland in said state, duly appointed and commissioned having full power and authority by the laws of said state to take the acknowledgment of deeds and to certify the same, also to administer oaths, to take affidavits and depositions out of court, 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 further certify that I believe the foregoing signature of the said Thaddeus C. Bruce to be genuine. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said state, at Hartford, this 10th day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one. 
Jno P.C. Mather
Secretary of State
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of Act of Congress of 2nd February 1848 entitled an act making further provision for surviving widows and soldiers after Revolution.
State of Connecticut
Tolland County and Vernon
On this 10th day of April 1848 before me a Justice of the Peace of Tolland County, personally appeared Jane King, a resident of Vernon in the county of Tolland and state of Connecticut aged eighty years, who being first Sworn according to the law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed on the 2nd February 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the War of the Revolution. That she received a pension under the Act of 17 June 1844 at the rate of forty dollars per annum.
She further declares that she is still a widow sworn to and subscribed the day and hear above written Jane King before me Thaddeus C. Prince Justice of the Peace 
I further certify that Jane King the declarant above named is personally known to me to be the same individual who drew a pension as stated in the foregoing declaration. 
Thaddeus C. Bruce Justice of the Peace
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2579

Application
Jane King
For pension under Act
March 3 1843
$40 per an

Henry Fowler
Hartford
Con.
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Declaration 
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of the 3 March 1843, granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the act of July 7 1838
State of Connecticut 
Tolland County and Vernon
On this 19th day of June 1843 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for Tolland County Jane King a resident of Vernon in the county of Tolland state of Connecticut aged seventy five years, who being first duly sworn according to the law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the third March 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
That she is the widow of Lemuel King who was a private in the Army of the Revolution and pensioner under the Act of 18 March 1818 and received a pension as his widow under the Act of 7 July 1838 at the rate of forty dollars per annum certificate bearing date 21 January 1839 which has been surrendered to the Pension Agent in Hartford.
She further declares that she is still a widow 
Jane King
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me and I certify that I am personally acquainted with the declarant know that she is the widow of Lemuel King and am fully satisfied of the truth of the foregoing declaration 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name Thaddeus C. Bruce Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut 
Office Secretary of State
I do hereby certify that Thaddeus C. Bruce Esq. is and on the 19th day of June last past was a Justice of the Peace within and for the county of Tolland in said state duly appointed and commissioned, as appears found in this office- and that the written signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said state this 10th day of July 1843.
Noah A. Phelps
Secretary of State
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East Windsor Hill
Hartford County
Connecticut 
August 14 1838
Sir I herewith transmit the application of Jane King, widow of Lemuel King, deceased, late of Vernon, Tolland County Conn, for a pension under act of July 7 1838.
And I am Sir, with the highest respect, your obedient servant. 
Jesse Charlton
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State of Connecticut
I, John B Robertson, secretary of the state of Connecticut and keeper of the seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern Thaddeus C Bruce is, and since the 20th day of June, last past have been a justice of the peace within and for the county of Tolland in said state, duly appointed and commissioned having full power and authority by the laws of said state to take the acknowledgment of deeds and to certify the same: also to administer oaths, to take affidavits and depositions out of court, and to give certificates thereof: And that full faith may and ought to be given to his official acts and attestations. 
And I further certify that I believe the foregoing signature of the said Thaddeus C Bruce to be genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said state at Hartford this 17th day of April in the year of our Lord, 1848
John B Robertson
Secretary of state
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East Windsor Hill
HartfordCounty
Conn.
December 17, 1838
Hon. Sir,
I hererwith send the evidence on which Lemuel King was pensioned as an invalid which proof you asked in yours of September 7th 1838
As Mr. King’s loss and sacrifice was very great, cannot his widow be entitled to something more than the years service, which the evidence I think sustains. 
I will not plead with you in this case. I know you will be disposed do what you lawfully can do.
With the highest respect your obedient servant
Jesse Charlton
J L Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions
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Payment to be made at Hartford by
Horace Goodwin 2nd Esq.
Agent for paying pensioners, in the Agency of Connecticut
Payable on the 4th September and 4th March
Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 2d, 1848, page. 301, Vol. 1
Leo Jenkins
Clerk
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War Department
Widows Pension
I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2d, 1848, 
Jane King
widow of Lemuel King who was a private in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of forty dollars per annum, commencing on the 4th of March 1848, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.

Given at the War Office of the United States this twelfth day of June one thousand eight hundred and forty eight. 
W. L. Marcy
Secretary of War

Examined and Countersigned.
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions 
By F. S. Evans