Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 18,097, for Quomony Quash, Massachusetts
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3-1776

Service
Mass.

Quash, Quomony
or
Quamony
Talbot, Ellen
(Former Widow)

Number
R. 18,097
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18,044
R
Massachusetts

Quomony Quash of Plymouth in the State of Massachusetts who was a private in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Jackson of the Massachusetts line, for the term of 3 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 20th of January 1821 and sent to Nathan Hayward Esq., Guardian to the Pensioner,
Plymouth, Mass

Arrears to 4th of September 1820. 28 mos. 22/30 $229.86 Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 other: 1821 -$48
$277.86

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
&
first of May
1820
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Quamony Quash
Plymouth
13 Apr 1818 - private
Jackson's ?? Map
.80 Three years
Further evidence of
service required.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ss.

On this 13th day of April A.D. 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Southern Circuit, personally appeared Qamony Quash of Plymouth aged fifty five years, resident in the said Circuit, who being by me first duly cautioned according to law, on his oath made the following declaration, by him signed, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war,"

/See his said Declaration enclosed/
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And I, the said Judge, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Quamony Quash did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress, and that the said Quash is poor and needs the assistance of his country for support.

Nahum Mitchell

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

ss.  1818.

I hereby certify, that [blank] is one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, consisting of the Counties of Plymouth, Norfolk, Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket in said Commonwealth -- that the same Circuit Court of Common Pleas is a Court of record -- that the signature to the above certificate is the true signature of the said Judge, and that the seal thereunto affixed is the seal of the said Court.

Clerk of the Judicial
Court for the County
of [blank]
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I Quamony Quash of Plymouth in the County of Plymouth in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and a citizen of the United States and resident therein set forth and declare on oath that I was a soldier in the war of the revolution for more than nine months on the Continental establishment that from my reduced circumstances I need the spirtance of my Country for support and am therefore desirous to obtain a pension from the United States arguably to the late law of Congress of the 18th March & I do relinquish all claims to any former pensions granted me 'if any' by any law of Congress.

That I entered the service in 1775 and was a waiter to Colonel Cotton eight months and in December 1780 I enlisted again for three years in the Massachusetts line was in Captain Watsons Company and in Colonel Jacksons Regiment at West Point State of New York and after remaining with the Regiment to the best of my recollections about one year I was detached and sent up the North River to Albany from there to Rutland in the State of Massachusetts to guard prisoners where I was honorably discharged in 1783. I have no written discharges, but had one and I have look into that I marched to West Point in 1781 under Sergeant Grace Keith of Bridgewater.

Quamony Quash
his X
Mark

Sworn to April 13 1818
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17.682
Quamony Quash
Plymouth Mass

John B. Thomas,
Sgt.
Plymouth, Mass

Rec'd 2 Jan: 1821
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SCHEDULE.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
County of Plymouth ss.

On this nineteenth day of July 1820, before the Circuit Court of Common Please for the Southern Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, having a power also of fine and imprisonment, and keeping a record of their proceedings, personally appeared in open Court, being a court of record for the said County Nathan Hayward Guardian of Quomony Quash & testifies to said Court that said Quash is incapable of taking an oath & that he is a resident in Plymouth in said county that the sd. [said] Quash as appears by the annexed deposition served in the Revolutionary war for the term of three years in Capt. [Captain] Watson's company, in Col. [Colonel] Henry Jackson, Regiment & Massachusetts line, that the said Quash has not received a certificate of pension that his original declaration was made April 13th 1818 & returned for further evidence which is also annexed that the said Quash is unable of stating his age is a labourer by occupation is subject to Rheumatic affection & mental derangement that he possesses neither real nor personal property has a wife & two small children which with himself are supported by said town of Plymouth as paupers

Nathan Hayward
Guardian of Quamony Quash


Sworn to, and declared, on the 19th day of July A.D. 1820. before Nahum Mitchell C. Justice of said Court.

I, John B. Thomas clerk of said court do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is nothing dollars and cents.  In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this Twenty sixth day of Decr. [December] A.D. 1820

Jno B Thomas
Clerk of the Court for the County of Plymouth
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[stamp with oval border] DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR PENSION OFFICE FEB 12 [1883??]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Plymouth County.

I. Wm. T. Whitmore

Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for said County and Commonwealth, certify that Joseph Stetson & Wm T Whitmore Esquires before whom the affidavit hereto attached now made, and who subscribed the certificate thereof, now at the date,thereof

Justice s of the Peace for said County of Plymouth, duly commissioned and authorized to administer the oaths and to take acknowledgements, &c., and that their signatures thereto are genuine.

In testimony whereof, I have hereto placed my name, and the seal of said Supreme Judicial Court, this thirtieth day of December eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.

Wm. T. Whitmore Clerk.
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I, Abigail A Willis of Kingston in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts on oath depose and say that I well knew Quomony Quash who was a Revolutionary pensioner and lived in said Kingston at a place about four miles from the village of Kingston and a little father from the village of Plymouth in the woods near the line between said two towns.  That I often saw Quomony Quash and knew him well and now know his widow Ellen & have known her for over sixty years.  That said Ellen's name before her marriage was Ellen Stephens I think but as I was a child then I am not certain.  That she lived in the family of my Grandfather Melzar Adams and that when a child I lived in the same house and often saw said Quomony Quash come there to see said Ellen and that he took her away from my grandfather's to marry her, and I know of my own knowledge that they lived together as husband and wife for many years and until he died that they were reputed to be man and wife and had children born to them and always acted faithfully by each other as husband and wife.  I am now sixty six years of age & am disinterested

Abigail A Willis 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Plymouth ss
(over)
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December 18th A.D. 1867 Then personally appeared the above named Abigail A Willis to me well known as the person she represents herself to be and a very respectable person and entitled to the highest credit and before me made oath that the foregoing statement by her subscribed is true, I am disinterested.

Joseph Stetson Justice of the Peace
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I, Nathan Brooks of Kingston in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts do hereby certify that I have searched the records of the said town of Kingston and that no [naming??] of Quomony Quash of said Kingston who was a revolutionary pensioner and deceased between thirty and forty years ago, [and no??] record of the births of his children be found that he lived in a remote part of the town in the woods and so it probably happened that no record of said births was made, I am disinterested.  No record of Quomony Quash [illegible] to be found.

Nathan Brooks
Town Clerk

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouths ss. December 28th 1867

Then the above named Nathan Brooks to be well known as Town Clerk of Kingston made oath that the above statement by him subscribed is true before me.  I am disinterested

Joseph Stetson Justice of the Peace
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I, Asa Barrows of Plymouth in the County of Plymouth, and State of Massachusetts on oath depose and say that I well knew Quomony Quash who was a revolutionary pensioner and lived in Kingston in said County of Plymouth in a place about [crossed out: two] four miles or more from the village of Plymouth in the woods near the line between said two towns.  That I often saw said Quomony Quash and knew him well and that I also well knew and now know his wife Ellen who is still living and that I know of my own knowledge that they lived together as husband and wife for about twenty years, that they were reputed to be man & wife, and always acted faithfully as such and had children born to them.

I am sixty nine years of age.

I am disinterested.  I live 3/4 of a mile from where they did.

Asa Barrows

Witness Wm T Whitman


State of Massachusetts Plymouth County SS. Aug [August] 21st 1867
Then personally appeared the above named Asa Barrows to me well known as the person he represents himself to be and entitled to the highest credit, and before me made oath that the above statement by him subscribed is true.  I am disinterested

Wm T Whitmore
Justice of the Peace
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Widow's Claim for Pension.

Mrs. Ellen Talbot formerly Quash Widow of Quomony Quash 
[crossed out: co.] Revolutionary Pensioner [crossed out: Reg't] of the Massachusetts Line [crossed out: Volunteers.]

D.E. Damon
Attorney 

Plymouth Mass.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by HALLGREEN & WARREN, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
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Sold by HALLGREEN & WARREN, Stationers and Publishers of Law Blanks, 14, Exchange Street, Boston.

WIDOW'S DECLARATION FOR PENSION.

State of Massachusetts
County of Plymouth
} SS.

On this Eleventy day of May A.D. 1867 personally appeared before me Wm T Whitmore Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court in and for the County and State aforesaid, Ellen Talbot a resident of Kingston in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts aged about 72 years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Acts of Congress, approved March 18th '18, July 1, 1848 and February 3d 1853 [crossed out: July 14, 1862] That she is the widow of Quomony Quash who was a Private in the [crossed out: in Company commanded by] Massachusetts line in the War [crossed out: in the Regiment of] of the Revolution [crossed out: in the war of 1861,] and that her said husband enlisted at Plymouth Mass [crossed out: on or about the] in said War [crossed out: day of A.D. 186] for the term of three years she thinks under Colonel Cotton and continued in actual service in said war, for the term of over three years she [crossed out: and] thinks, and died at Kingston Mass, on or about the twentieth day of April AD. 1833 [crossed out: A.D. 186] and the cause of his death was rheumatic fever - and that at the time of his death he was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of ninety six dollars a year under [crossed out: received while in the service of the United States] the Act of Congress of March 1818

That she was married to the said Quomony Quash about the year on the day of 1812 at Kingston Mass she thinks but does [crossed out: by one] not know exactly when or by whom [crossed out: a] that her husband, the aforesaid marriage was Ellen Stephens [crossed out: and that she has remained a widow since the death of her said husband, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereunto annexed.] And she further states that she is informed and believes there is no public record of her said marriage and no private record of said marriage as neither of them could read or write and the best evidence she is able to procure of her marriage is evidence of their living together as husband and wife and having children - that since his death in April 1847 she married again to one Peter Talbot and he died - that she is now a widow, and was a widow from April 1833 to April 1847 [crossed out illegible words]

[crossed out: That the name and age of her child under sixteen years of age at her husband's decease, and the place of residence is as follows:]

She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Pension to which she is entitled by reason of the services and death of her said husband, under all the acts of Congress concerning widows of Revolutionary services [crossed out: July 14, 1862] and also declares that she has not in any manner been engaged in, or aided or abetted the rebellion in the United States.  And she hereby constitutes and appoints D.E. Damon of Plymouth Mass her Attorney to prosecute the claim and procure a certificate, and to do all other things necessary in the premises, with power of substitution, hereby ratifying all that he may do as aforesaid.

Ellen Talbot X her mark formerly Ellen Quash

Witnesses.
John Waterman
Leave N [Beclkon??]
}

Sworn to, subscribed, and acknowledged to be her free act, before me, the day and year first above named, and I certify that I have no interest, direct or indirect, in the prosecution of this claim. and I further certify that the above declaration was read to the said declaration and that she was made fully acquainted with its contents before administering the oath

Wm T Whitmore Clerk

State of Massachusetts
County of Plymouth
}SS.

On this eleventh day of May A.D. 1867 personally appeared before me Wm T Whitmore Clerk of Supreme Judicial Court within and for the County and State aforesaid John [Watersands??] and Isaac N. Barrows residents of Carver & Plymouth in the County of Plymouth State aforesaid, who, being duly sworn according to law, declare that they are personally acquainted with Mrs. Ellen Talbot formerly Ellen Quash widow of Quomony Quash who acknowledged the signature to the above declaration to be her signature, and say that they were acquainted with her, and her said husband Quomony Quash [crossed out: before he entered the service] and know that they lived together as man and wife, and were so reputed.
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That she is the widow of the identical Quomony Quash who performed the military service mentioned in said declaration, and is now [crossed out: has remained] a widow [crossed out: since his death].  That their knowledge of the identity of her husband with the soldier is derived from a personal acquaintance with them both for many years, and from their acquaintance with her know that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.

[crossed out: That the name and age of the child of Mrs. under sixteen years of age at her husband's decease, and the place of their residence is as follows:]

And they further testify that they reside as above stated, and have no interest in the prosecution of this claim.

John Waterman
Lew N Barrow

Sworn to and subscribed before me, and I certify that I have no interest, direct or indirect, in the prosecution of this claim; that I believe the affiants to be credible persons, and the declarant is the person she represents herself to be.

Wm T Whitmore Clerk.

State of
Couty of
} ss.

I  Clerk of the   Court, within and for the County and State above named, the same being a Court of Record, do hereby certify that   and   before whom the within declaration and affidavit were made, and who ha   thereunto signed   h   name   w   at the time of so doing, the said   and the said   a   in and for the County and State above named, duly commissioned and sworn, and that all   acts are entited to full faith and credit, and that   signature thereto   genuine.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto signed my name and affixed the official seal of said Court, this   day of   A.D. 186

Clerk.



Widow's Claim for Pension.

Mrs. Ellen Talbot formerly Quash Widow of Quomony Quash [crossed out: Co.] Revolutionary Pensioner [crossed out: Reg't.] of the Massachusetts Line [crossed out: Volunteers.]

D.E. Damon
Attorney
Plymouth Mass.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by HALLGREEN & WARREN, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.


Applicant's Post-Office Address, Kingston, Mass.

EXPLANATION.

1.  PROOF OF MARRIAGE. -- Record evidence, if possible, must accompany the application of a widow.  If there is a County, Town, or Church record of the marriage, the Clerk, who has custody of the Record of Marriage, must certify to a true copy thereof, and make oath thereto before a Judge, Notary Public, Commissioner, or Justice of the Peace.  The fact that the Judge, &c., is such, must also be shown by Certificate and Seal of a Court of Record, annexed to said copy, in the same way that the application and witnesses' affidavit are authenticated.  If there is no public, but a private family record containing the marriage, or the births of children, such private record should be sent to me.  It will be returned when used.  Testimony to cohabitation and general repute as man and wife will not alone be sufficient proof of the marriage, unless the claimant is unable to present either public or private record evidence, or the testimony of persons who were present, and so states in her declaration.

2.  Witnesses will here state in what manner they derive their knowledge of the soldier's identity, and if they or either of them were present at the marriage, it should be here stated.


[stamp with oval border: DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR PENSION OFFICE FEB 12 [1886??]]
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Rank

No 18094 Revy

ACT OF JULY 14, 1862.

Ellen Talbot
Plymouth Co. [County] Mass. [Massachusetts]
formerly widow of
Quom'y Squash [Quash]
Penr. [Pensioner]
See [illegible]

Revolutionary
Pension Office,   , 186  .

Respectfully referred to the Adjutant General, for official evidence of service and death.

Joseph D. Barrett
Commissioner.

REJECTED


Received, Feby [February] 12, 1868.
D.E. Damon
Plymouth Mass

Rejected - Let [Letter] to D.E. Damon, Nov [November] 29 1870
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Plymouth May 16, 1870

Dear Sir

You wanted I should present more evidence of the marriage and I herewith send it.  That was quite readily procured.

But you also wanted evidence of death of Peter Talbot, that was more difficult and I thought I should not get it.  Had been informed that he was sent to Insane Asylum at  Taunton [crossed out: illegible] and died three years ago, that upon sending they found he had been removed.  I finally found he was sent to State Alms house in Western part of state & on residing then got proof of his death of later date than I supposed.

Yours respectfully D. E. Damon
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Plymouth Mass. Nov. 22, 1870

Hon. H. Van [Auerman??]

Dear Sir

I wish to inquire about the claim of Ellen Talbot for pension as widow of Quomony Quash a Revolutionary pensioner.

Cannot the case the decided soon.

Yours respectfully
D.E. Damon
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[oval stamp with double line border:  DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR PENSION OFFICE.  NOV 25 1870]
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B.

Department of the Interior

PENSION OFFICE, (Navy Branch,)
   , 18

Sir:
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Sir 29 Nov [November] 1870

In the case of Ellen Talbot, formerly the widow of Quomony Quash, a revolutionary soldier and penr. [pensioner].  I have to state that she cannot obtain a pension since a lack of [illegible] and death on the 7th [illegible] of the Act of July 4 1864, which is construed to apply to claimants as well as pensioners,- forbids the allowance of a pension to any one who re married after the death of the soldier per  [illegible] I am
DE Damon
Plymouth Mass
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Genl [General] Alexander Spotswood
[Heus??] of

Rejected

Sept 18th 51

Copies
for Col [Colonel] Geo [George] Mackay
Sent March 5, 1852
Let [Lieutenant?] R.J. Burckett
March 16, 1856
(Rev pen. [Revolutionary Pension] book)
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Letter of Guardianship
Quomony Quash. Recorded [Lib??] 31 Feb [February]
350 & [compared??] letters

Beza Hayward Reg.m
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Plymouth ss  By the HONOURABLE Joshua Thomas Esquire,

Judge of the Probate of Wills, and for granting Letters of Administration on the Estates of Persons deceased, having goods, chattels, rights, or credits in the County of Plymouth within in Commonwealth aforesaid.

To Nathan Hayward of Plymouth in the County or Commonwealth aforesaid Esqr. Greeting.  Whereas the Selectmen of said Plymouth have made complaint to me, that Quomony Quash of Plymouth aforesaid Labourers, does by [illegible] Drinking & Idleness, so spend waste & [lessons??] his Estate as thereby to expose himself & Family to want & suffering Circumstances, & the Towns of Plymouth aforesaid to the Expense of his & their support & maintenance, therefore [crossed out word]

TRUSTING in your care and fidelity, I do, by these Presents, pursuant to the power and authority to me granted, in and by an Act of the General Court, of the said Commonwealth, nominate and appoint you to be Guardian unto the said Quomony Quash, to take care of ihm [os] of his Estate both real & personal, to make a true & perfect Inventory of his Estate & exhibit the same into the Registry Office of the Court of Probate for said County at or before the twenty eighth day of June next, you are to pay all his just debts so far as his Goods Chattels Rights & Credits extend, & you are hereby invested

with full power and authority to ask, demand, sue for, recover, receive and take into your custody, all and singular such part and portion of estate as [crossed out: accrues to in right of]

[crossed out: or which] by any [crossed out: either] way or means whatsoever, doth of right apertain or belong to him and to manage, employ and improve the same for his best profit and advantage, and to render a plain and true account of your guardianship upon oath, so far as the law will charge you therewith, when you shall be remaining upon you account (the same being first examined and allowed by the Judge or Judges, for the time being, of Probate, &c.) [crossed out: unto the said minor who   shall arrive at full age, [illegible]] as the said Judge or Judges, by his or their decree of sentence, pursuant to law, shall limit and appoint.

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the said Court of Probate. -- Dated at Plymouth the twenty eighth day of March in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen

Joshua Thomas
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I Samuel Holmes of Plymouth in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age to give evidence tesitfy and say that I was a soldier in the Revolutionary War that I very well know Quamony Quash a black man who was a soldier in Captain Watsons company in Col. [Colonel] Henry Jackson's Regiment.  I was at West Point myself as a soldier durring the war and there frequently saw the said Quash on duty in said Jacksons REgiment.  Quash enlisted for three years in the continental service in the year 1780 and I believe served to the end of the war.

Samuel Holmes X his mark

witness [N??] Hayward

Plymouth ss May 6th 1820

Personally appeared the above named Samuel Holmes and made oath that the above deposition _ by him subscribed
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was true.  I further certify that said Holmes is a man of respectable character and entitled to full credit._

Nathl [Nathaniel] M. [Daim??] Justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth._
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I Cato Howe of Plymouth in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts testify & say that I was a soldier in the revolutionary war - that the time for which I had [served??] expired in the fall of 1779 - that I came to Plymouth & soon after my arrival I inlisted [enlisted] again for three years - That Quomany Quash inlisted about the same time & went with me to West Point & was a soldier three years in Colonel Henry Jacksons Regiment

Cato Howe X his mark

Witness J.T. Hayward

Plymouth ss [crossed out: May] June 1st, 1820


Personally appeared the above mentioned Cato Howe and made oath that the above deposiitons by him subscribed is true.  I further certify that said Cato Howe is a man of respectable character and entitled to credit.

Nathl [Nathaniel] M Davis
Jus [Justice] Peace for the County of Plymouth.
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I Timothy Allen of Plymouth in the County of Plymouth & Commonwealth of Massachusetts testify & say that I was a soldier in the revolutionary war in Colonel Henry Jacksons Regiment that I very well know Quamony Quash a black man, who inlisted [enlisted] in the year 1780 & was a soldier in the last three years service in the same Regiment with myself.

Timothy Allen


Plymouth ss May 9th 1820

The above named Timothy Allen personally appeared and made oath that the above deposition by him subscribed was true.  I further certify that said Allen is a man of good character & entitled to full credit

Nathl [Nathaniel] M Davis Justice of Peace for the County of Plymouth
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Quom

Ellen Talbot
Widow of 
Quomony Quash
Revolutionary Pensioners
deceased

[oval stamp with double line border: DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR PENSION OFFICE MAY 19 1870]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Secretary's Office, Boston, May 14, 1870.

I Herby Certify, That at the date of the attestation - hereunto annexed S.C. Wrightington was a Justice of the Peace for all the Counties in the Commonwealth, _

Leander Lovell was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth and Joseph Stetson was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth, in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to their acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of court.

In Testimony of which, I have hereunto affixed the SEAL OF THE COMMONWEALTH the date first above written

Oliver Warner
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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I Thos. [Thomas] J. Marsh of Tewksbury in the State of Massachusetts hereby certify that I am Superintendent of the State Almshouse at Tewksbury Massachusetts and that Peter Talbot a colored man who had at a time previous thereto lived in Plymouth County in said State was removed by the Board of State Charities [crossed out:fs] from the Insane Asylum at Taunton Massachusetts to the said State Almshouse at Tewksbury May 22d 1866 and that said Peter Talbot died at said State Almshouse at Tewksbury aforesaid on the Tenth day of February A.D. eighteen hundred and sixty-seven [1867] 

I am disinterested

Thos. J. Marsh


State of Massachusetts [crossed out: Plymouth]
Middlesex ss. May 5th 1870 Then personally appeared the above named Thomas J Marsh to me well known as the Superintendent of the State Almshouse at said Tewksbury and before me made oath that the foregoing statement by him subscribed is true.  I am disinterested

S C Wrightington
Justice of the Peace
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I James Cox of Plymouth in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts on oath depose and say that my age is sixty six years and that I well knew Quomony Quash and his widow Ellen now the widow also of Peter Talbot.  That said Quomony was said to be a revolutionary pensioner.  That said Quomony and said Ellen lived together as husband and wife until the death of said Quomony and had children born to them and were reputed to be lawfully married.  I never heard their fidelity to each other or the fact of their marriage called in question.  I am disinterested

James Cox


State of Massachusetts Plymouth County ss
June 30th 1869 Then personally appeared the above named James Cox (Town Treasurer) to me well known as a highly respectable and credible witness and before me made oath that the foregoing statement by him subscribed is true.  I am disinterested

Leander Lovell
Justice of the Peace.
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I Leucas Dunham of Plymouth in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts do solemnly swear that my age is seventy nine years and that I well knew Quomony Quash a colored man and a revolutionary pensioner and that I know his widow Ellen Talbot formerly Ellen Quash.  That I knew said Quomony and said Ellen lived together as husband and wife until the death of said Quomony and had children born to them and were reputed to be lawfully married.  I never heard their fidelity to each other or the fact of their marriage called in question.  I am not interested.

Lucas Dunham


State of Massachusetts Plymouth County ss.
June 30th 1869
Then personally appeared the above named Lucas Dunham to me well known as a highly respectable and credible witness and before me made oath that the foregoing statement by him subscribed is true.  I am disinterested

Leander Lovel
Justice of the Peace
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I, Thomas E. Keeley, now of St Croix County in the State of Wisconsin do hereby certify that I was formerly pastor of the Baptist Church in Kingston in the State of Massachusetts and while living in said Kingston on the twenty second day of April A.D. 1847 I united in marriage Peter Talbot and Ellen Quash widow of a man whose name was said to be Quomony Quash, colored persons, I am disinterested.

Thomas E. Keely.


State of Wisconsin St Croix County ss.
May 25th 1869
Then personally appeared the Rev. [Reverend] Thomas E. Keeley well known to me as a clergyman in good standing and entitled to credit and before me made oath that the foregoing statement by him subscribed is true.  I am disinterested

[Juof??] Moffat [crossed out: Justice of the Peace]
Notary Public
St Croix Co Wis
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I Nathan Brooks of Kingston in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts hereby certify that I am Town Clerk of said Kingston and that I have searched the records of said town and cannot find any record of the marriage of Peter Talbot to Ellen Quash.

Nathan Brooks Town Clerk


State of Massachusetts Plymouth ss.
May 19th 1869
Then personally appeared the above named Nathan Brooks to me well known as Town Clerk of said Kingston and made oath that the foregoing certificate by him subscribed is true. before me. I am disinterested

Joseph Stetson "Justice of the Peace
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Kingston Mass [Massachusetts] March 2nd 1869

To the Hon [Honorable] Commissioner of Pensions

Nearly 2 years ago I obtained some certificates and papers which was sent to you by a Mr Damon of Plymouth for Widow Ellen Talbot
Her former Husband was Quaminy Quash who here drawn a pension as a Revolutionary pensioner
The Lady [illegible] Ellen Talbot is old & very destitute unable to [illegible] or read much [illegible], and has not received any news from the paper that was sent to you nearly 2 years ago
She would like to [illegible] from the papers
I called Mr Damon of Plymouth who collects pensions & He Had not received any news since the papers arrived
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If you will, [illegible] a Letter to Her in my name I will see that she receives it
as she is old and poor and Has no one to care or ask for a letter for Her

Yours with due Respect
William H WIllis
of Kingston Mass

To The Hon Commissioner of Pensions
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[stamp: REJECTED]

(3-224.)

No. 18097
, Ex'r.

OLD WAR WIDOW

Ellen Talbot

P.O. formerly widow of Quomy Squash [Quomony Quash]

Rev'y [Revolutionary] War

Died at

other claim.

,18 ,

Clerk

Application filed: Feby [February] 12, 1868.
Attorney:
P.O.

Ex'r.
Date.