Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26,812, for Lent Ives, Connecticut
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SERVICE
Conn.
Vt.

Ives, Lent
"    , Mary

NUMBER
W.26.812

CONTENTS
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Letter to Pension Agent
June 18 1838
do (ditto) to Hon. W. Slade, June 22. 1838


Vermont (Bur(lington))18.628.
Lent Ives,
of Rutland Co. in the State of Vermont
was a private
in the company commanded
by Captain Kimball of the Regiment commanded
by Col. Chandler in the Connecticut
line for  7 mos. 20 days Private
18 months Drummer - 
----
Reduced from $50. per annum
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont (Burlington )
to rate of 27. Dollars 71 cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
----
Certificate of Pension re-issued the 16th day of June,
05.5 and sent to Hon. 
W. Slade, H(ouse) Rep(resentatives)

(Difference of rate)
Arrears differen of rate to the 4th of March, 1838 = $06.03
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. 1838     13.85
---
$19.88
----

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by S. A. Elliot, Clerk,
Book E2  Vol. 3  Page 77
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Burlington
Vermont 5749
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Mary Ives
widow of Lent Ives
Conn
who was a Private & Drummer
in the Revolution
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
27 Dollars 71
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
-----
Certificate of Pension issued the
21st day of June, 1844
and sent to
John C. Harris
Wallingford, VT
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[Act of March 3, 1843]
Recorded in Book A
Vol 1.   Page 27
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Reported
see letter to J. C. Harris
July 1. 1844 -
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Solomon Miller &
Alex'dr Miller Esq'r
Affidavits relating to
Mr. & Mrs. Lent Ives
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I Solomon Miller of Williston in the
County of Chittenden and State of Vermont, aged 78
years and upwards, do depose testify and say that
I emigrated from West Springfield in the State of
Massachusetts to Wallingford in the State of Vermont,
^in the year of our Lord, 1784, where I resided about five years, during which time
I became acquainted with Lent Ives Esq. late of the same
Wallingford, deceased, and with his wife, now
surviving him, and residing in the same Wallingford.
Mrs. Ives' maiden name was Mary or Polly MIGHILL.
They were cohabiting together as husband and wife,
when I came into Wallingford; and during my
residence there they had sundry children born to
them. My acquaintance with the parties has been
continued from its commencement, until the decease of
Mr. Ives, and with Mrs. Ives, until the present time.
I do not know the fact of their having been married,
at any time; but as it was never customary, in this
State, for people to cohabit in the relation of husband &
wife, without being married. I presume Mr. Ives and
his lady were, like other honest and good citizens,
lawfully joined in wedlock.  And further this affiant
saith not the words "in the year of our Lord 1784."
being interlined between the fifth and sixth lines before
signing and swearing
Sol'm (Solomon) Miller

I, Alexander Miller of Wallingford in the County of
Rutland and State of Vermont, aged 63 years & upwards
do depose testify and say that I have resided in said
town ever since the month of February, 1787.  I was
then a junior member of the family of my late father,
Solomon Miller Esq. deceased; and very soon after became
acquainted with Lent Ives Esq. and his wife, Mrs. Mary
Ives. Mr. Ives died in the month of June 1838.
Mrs. Ives is now living at said Wallingford.  Ever since
my acquaintance with Mr. and Mrs. Ives, was, they were
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then and ever since universally reputed to be lawfully
married, and had several children.  they were married
before my father came into Wallingford, and before my
acquaintance with them. The date of Mr. Ives death
corrected, from June, 1839, to June, 1838, before signing
or swearing. And further this affiant saith not
Alex Miller


State of Vermont
Rutland County ⎬ Be it known that on this 26th day of
July 1839, before me the subscriber, a Justice of the
Peace in and for said ^ county personally appeared the above named
Solomon Miller, and Alexander Miller, who have in
my presence subscribed their respective preceeding affidavits,
and made oath in due form of law, that the same, so
by them severally subscribed as aforesaid, contain the truth,
the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.  And I do
hereby certify that I am well acquainted with both
of the said affiants; and that they are gentlemen
of repute, and of truth and veracity.

Howard Harris, Justice Peace
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STATE OF VERMONT
Rutland County Clerk's Office, ss }

I, Frederick W. Hopkins, Clerk of the
Court for the County of Rutland, do certify that
Howard Harris was at the date
of the certificate to which this is annexed a Justice of
the Peace --------
within and for said County, duly commissioned: that his
commission is dated on the first day of December
A.D. 1838, and will expire on the thirtieth day of
November A.D. 1839, and I verily believe his signature
to the same is genuine.

In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court
at Rutland in said county this fifth day of August
A. D. 1839

F. W Hopkins
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Lent Ives
11 mos. Private
3 mos. Teleceter
2 1/2 mos. Militia

2448

15 months Private Infantry
3 mos Wagoner of Artillery

cuts

10 May 1777 for 8 mos. 
discharge 18 Aug 1778
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STATE OF VERMONT,
RUTLAND COUNTY, SS.}
On this 4th day of July A.D. 1832 personally
 appeared in open Court before the Judge of the ____ Court of Probate
now sitting, Lent Ives a resident of the County of Rutland and State of
Vermont, agede73or9 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make
the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7,
1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served
as herein stated.
 In March 1777 he enlisted into
Col. Chandlers Regiment Capt. Kimbells 
 Co; Lieut. Hotchkiss of the Connecticut
line for the time of nine months, at
Cheshire, County of Newhaven, Connecticut
he joined his Regiment at Newtown Conn.
and marched to Peekskill N. Y. and staid
there as near as he can recollect until Sept.
then marched to Fort Mifflin, Penn. 
soon after he arrived their the Fort was
Evacuated, and the British took possession
of it. - thence he marched to Mt. Holly
he encamped at Whitemarsh some time
thence to Germantown, he was in the battle
of Germantown - he was discharged at
Valley forge in Feb 1778 having served
Eleven months - In the summer of 1778 he
Engaged as a teamster under Maj. Skidmore
to drive an ammunition wagon for two
 field forces attached to Lt. McDougal's Regiment
and served on the Hudson river for three
months - In the Summer of 1779 having
 removed to Vermont he served one month
 in Capt. Jackson's company of Vermont Militia
 at Castleton -- In the winter of 1779-80 - 
he was again called out for the Militia and 
Capt. Jackson, and was marched to Lake
Champlain and went down to Ticonderoga
and served three or four weeks - At the 
time the British & Indians descent the Mills at
 Branden he was called out in the Militia and
 went to Brandon, and picked the enemy down
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over the month of Otter Creek then returned having
 served about three weeks, he was born in
 Cheshire in  Newhaven County, Conn. on the 27
Nov. 1758. he ^does not know of any record of his birth
he lived in Cheshire at the time he enlisted
In April 1779 he removed to Wallingford in this
County and has resided there ever since - 
knew Gen'l Washington, La Fayette, McDougle,
Gates, Putnam, and many others - he does not
recollect whether he received a written discharged
if he did he has lost  - he is known to Elder
Page, and Joseph Randall Esq. and  most of
the Inhabitants of Wallingford.  He has no
evidence to prove his service unless he can prove
his Militia service by Dea(con) Joseph Randall

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present.
and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State.

Sworn to and subscribed the}    Lent Ives
day and year aforesaid.}

R. C. Royce, Registrar

 We Frederick Page a Clergyman residing in Wallingford
and Joseph Randall residing in the same place, hereby certify, that we are well
acquainted with Lent Ives - who has subscribed and sworn to the above
declaration; that we believe him to be 73 years of age; that he is reputed and believed,
in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn and subscribed the}   Frederick Page
day and year aforesaid.}        Joseph Randall

R. C. Royce, Registrar

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter,
and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named
applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
And the Court further certifies, 
that it appears to them that Frederick Page who has signed the preceding
certificate, is a Clergyman, resident in Wallingford and that Joseph Randall
who has also signed the same, is a resident in Wallingford
and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

Rodney C. Royce Registrar
Clerk of the Court of Probate
do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings
of the said Court in the matter of the application of Lent Ives Esq. for a Pension

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of office this 4th
day of August A.D. 1832
R. C. Royce, Registrar
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Nathaniel Ives'
Affidavit, proving the
deceas of his father
Lent Ives Esq'r
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I, Nathaniel Ives, of Wallingford in the County of
Rutland and State of Vermont, aged 42 years and upwards,
do depose testify and say, that Lent Ives Esq'r late of
said Wallingford, deceased, was my father, and that he
died on this 30th day of June, 1838. And I further
depose and say that Mrs. Mary Ives, now of the same
Wallingford aforesaid was the reputed lawful wife of the
said Lent, and that she hath not intermarried since
his said decease. The said Mary is my mother.

Nat Ives

Subscribed and sworn to in open Court, this 30th day of July, 1838,
before me,

Wm Hall Judge


State of Vermont}
Rutland County}

I, Henry B. Towslee, Clerk of the Probate
Court for the District of Rutland in said County
do hereby certify that the Hon. William Hall is
Judge of said Court; that he is authorized by
the laws of this State to take acknowledgements of
affidavits, as above; and that the foregoing signature
purporting to be his is genuine.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of said
Court, and subscribed my name at Rutland in said District
this 30th day of July, 1838.
Henry B. Fowler
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V
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6238
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Mary Ives
Vt.
Act 7. July '38
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Admd
7 mo. 20 days Pprivate
18 days Drummer
--------
$27.71

Died 30 June '38
Pen. Com: 1 July '38

Hon. Wm Slade
Middlebury, Vt

Rutland
Vt.
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State of Vermont}
Rutland County}

On this thirtieth day of July, 1838,
before the Honble William Hall, Judge of the Court of
Probate for the District of Rutland in said County, personally
appeared Mary Ives, a resident of Wallingford in said County,
aged seventy four years, who being 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 7, 1838, entitled ""an act
granting half pay and pensions to certain widows:"" That
she is the widow of Lent Ives who was a private in
the war of the revolution, whose services are more particularly
set forth in his own several declarations now remaining in the
War Office of the United States, by reason whereof, he was
inscribed upon the pension Roll of the United States, on the
16th day of June, 1838, at the rate of twenty seven dollars
and seventy one cents per annum, agreeably to the provisions of
the act of Congress passed the 7th day of June, 1832, to which
declarations of the said Lent Ives and the accompanying 
documentary proofs this applicants doth hereby refer for proof to
sustain this her own application.

She further declares that she was married to the said
Lent Ives on the ____ day of September, in the year
seventeen hundred and eighty-two; and that her husband,
the aforesaid Lent Ives died on the 30th day of June in
the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight; 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 and ninety four, viz at the time above
stated.

Mary "X" Ives, her mark


Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written,
before me. And I do hereby certify, that by reason of bodily
infirmity the said applicant is unable to attend the Court
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aforesaid; for which reason I have taken this her declaration
out of Court, at the place of her residence.

Wm Hull Judge


State of Vermont}
Rutland County ss}

I, Henry B. Towslee, Clerk of the Probate
Court of the District of Rutland in said County,
do hereby certify that the Hon. William Hall
is judge of said Court; and that the foregoing
signature purporting to be his is genuine.


In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal
of said Court, and subscribed my name, at Rutland in
said District, this 30th day of July, 1838.

Henry B. Towslee
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Howard Harris, &
Thomas Mighell's
Affidavits relating to
the intermarriage of
Lent Ives, & Mary Mighell
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I, Howard Harris of Wallingford in the County of Rutland
in the State of Vermont, aged thirty Eight years, do depose, testify and
say, that I hold the office of town Clerk in and for said town of
Wallingford, and by virtue of said office have the custody of
all the records of said town; and that I have carefully
examined the said records, but do not find therein any record
of the intermarriage of Lent Ives, and Mary Mighell; and
I do verily believe, that there is no such record upon the
Books belonging to said.   I was well acquainted with the
said Lent Ives, in his lifetime, and had been so acquainted
for many years. I am also acquainted with the said Mary
his widow, and well know her to have been the reputed
lawful wife of the said Lent, who is now deceased.
Mrs. Ives has not intermarried since the decease of
her said husband.

Howard Harris



State of Vermont
Kirtland County ⎬ Be it known, that on the 13th day of March,
1839, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said
County, personally appeared the above named Howard Harris,
to me well known to be Town Clerk of said town of Wallingford,
and who hath subscribed the preceeding affidavit in my
presence, and made solemn oath that the same contains
the truth, and nothing but the truth. And I do hereby
certify that the said affiant is a credible witness.

Samuel Townsend, Jr.      Justice Peace
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I, Thomas Mighell of the town of Peru in the County of
Clinton in the State of New York, at present residing in the
town of Wallingford in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont
aged eighty two years, do depose, testify and say, that Mrs. Mary
Ives, of Wallingford aforesaid, is my sister, and is now in the
seventy fifth year of her age. I further depose and say that I
was present at said Wallingford in the month of September, (I am
unable to recollect the particular day of the month in the year
1782, and witnessed the intermarriage of my said sister with
Lent Ives, Esq'r late of said Wallingford, deceased. The marriage
took place at our father's house; and the name of the officiating
magistrate was Abraham Jackson Esq'r who has been now
many years deceased.   No record of the transaction was made in
my father's family; and I have never seen any more of it in
the family of Mr. Ives, where I have always been intimate and
familiar. And further this deponent saith not.
Thomas Mighell


State of Vermont}
Rutland County ss}

Be it known that on the 15th day of March, 1839,
before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County,
personally appeared the above named Thomas Mighell, who hath
subscribed the preceeding affidavit in my presence, and who is well
known to me as a person of truth and veracity, and made solemn
oath, that the same contains the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth.

Howard Harris Justice Peace
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State of Vermont}
Rutland County ss}

I, Robert Pierpoint, Clerk of the
County Court in and for said County, do
hereby certify that Howard Harris, and
Samuel Townsend junior, are, severally, Justices
of the Peace in and for said County, duly
commissioned and qualified; that their
commissions were dated on the 30th day
of October, 1838, and will expire on the
30th day of November, 1839. and that the
several signatures above written
purporting to be theirs respectively
are
severally genuine.

Given under my hand and the seal of said County
at Rutland in said County this 14th day of March, 1839

R. Pierpoint
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Vermont, 18.628
-----
Lent Ives
of Rutland in the State of Vermont
who was a private in the Company commanded
by Captain Kimball of the Regiment commanded
by Col. Chandler in the Conn. Ma.
line for 15 months
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3 or 7 mos. 20 days per Annum Less 
Rate
reduced to 
$25.55
-----
Inscribed on the Vermont.
at the rate of 50 Dollars - Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
-----
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of Sep.t
1833 and sent to R. Temple
Rutland, Vt
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept '33  $125.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 34   25.00
A. L. Miner, Esq'r    $ 150.00
Wallingford
Vt
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{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Eb'r Brown Clerk
Book E  Vol. 3  Page 71
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letter Pensioner  16 July 1835
letter A. L. Miner 4 March 1835
              same 19 March 1835
[do (ditto)] letter  Hon Wm Slade, March
27, 1838

[do (ditto) do (ditto)] letter to Hon. Wm. Slade,  29 March '38
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Burlington    5,663

Vermont
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Mary Ives
widow of Lent Ives
who was a pensioner under the Act of 7 June 1832
and who died on the 30 June 1838.
of Rutland Co in the State of Vermont
who was a private in the Company commanded
by Captain Kimball of the Regiment commanded
by Col: Chandler: in the Conn:
line for 7 mos.: & 20 days Private
            18 mos. Drummer
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Inscribed on the Roll of Burlington, Vermont
at the rate of 27 Dollars 21 Cents per annum
to commence on the( 4th day of March, 1836.) 
                                     1st July 1838
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Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of July 1840
and sent to Hon. Wm Slade,
Middlebury, Vermont
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Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1840                 $46. 18
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sep. 40 $13.85
$60.03

{Act July 7,
1838.}

Recorded by Wm. C. Zantzinger, Clerk
Book A.  Vol. 2 Page 43
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Letter to Hon. Wm Slade
October 7th 1821
do (ditto) to J.C. Harris Sept 2nd '43
do (ditto) to M. Bragg Nov 18 1843.
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Mary Ives Vt. act 7 July '38   $27.71 Cash pd
GML
7 Oct '41
no payment-- 3rd qu.  not in
JH
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6238.
Let to Jesse Gove
January 11, 1840

Act 7 July '38
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Lent Ives, Vermont roll (Burlington) Act 7
June 1832,  reduced from $50. to $27.:71 per
Annum

Be pleased to say to what time
he was paid

Pension Office}
June 22, 1838.}

{In pencil]
Per off the 4 Sept. 1834 @ $50.
per annum  
JH

He has not been returned
to the office and reduced
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Lent Ives Vt. . Act 7 June-- When last paid?

7. Jan'y '40

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Died 30th June 1838 ss of that piece
JH
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Rpt. Feb 14
W

Wallingford Vt } Free
1 Feb 80}


J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Wallingford  Rutland Co. Vermont Feby 9, 1835

J. P. Edwards Esq'r
Court of Pensions Washington City

In compliance with the requirements of the Pension
office with regard to Pensioners from this County - I
transmit the following statement.

In March 1777. In the town of Cheshire Conn,
I enlisted into the continental service - for one year -
under Lieut. Hotchkiss - Capt. Kimball - commanded the company
Col. Chandler commanded the regiment- I first
went under a militia officer to camp and was there
in an engagement-- I then joined the Col. Chandler's
Regiment at Newtown then marched to Peekskill
N. York - where we remained during the summer - In
the autumn following went towards Philadelphia
and was got the battle of Germantown. Then
crossed the Schuylkill and went into the State of
Maryland - then returned to Valley Forge and remained
thru the winter - I was also in the engagement at
White Marsh  - At Valley Forge I was discharged
when the year was out and returned to Conn. - 

In Nov. 1778 I enlisted into the team service
at Cheshire Conn. and served at Fishkill N.Y.
two months under Maj. Skidmore at the end of
which time I was discharged and returned to Conn.

In 1779 I think I came to Wallingford Vermont
where I have resided since. - Soon after I came to
Vermont - I went with Militia to Brandon in this
County (then called Neshoby (Neshobe)) and was out one month.
At another time I  ^ went with Militia to Castleton -
my brother Abram Ives was my captain - Joseph Randall
Lieut. - was about three weeks under Ethan Allen 
then returned home -
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When Johnstown was burnt, I went with Capt. Ives 
afn
to Tyconderoga (Ticonderoga) was about between them and
four weeks -

When I made application for a pension
I resided at Wallingford Rutland County, Vt.

The testimony was taken before the Probate
Court for the District of Rutland - The Hon. R. Pierpoint
was the judge of said Court-

I have hitherto drawn fifty dollars per ann
which is a sum considerably less than the amount of
actual service-

I have drawn my pension money up to
the 4th of Sept last -

All which is Respecfully Submitted.

Lent Ives

We hereby certify that Lent Ives he made and subscribed
the above statement - that he now resides in Wallingford
and is undoubtedly a Revolutionary Soldier -

S. L. Miner} Justice of the Peace
Lathere} for Rutland County ┃
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Declaration of
Lent Ives
2. Oct 1837.

Reduced-
7 mo. 20 days Private  $25.55
           18 days Drummer  2.16
27.71
-----
Hon W. Slade
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State of Vermont}
Rutland County ss}

On this 2nd day of October in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred & thirty seven personally
appeared in open Court, before the Probate Court of the
District of Rutland in County, now sitting, Lent Ives 
Esquire, a resident of Wallingford in the County of Rutland
aforesaid, & within said Probate District, aged seventy
Eight years, who, being first duly sworn according to
law, doth on his oath, make the following 
declaration, in addition to and in explanation of his former
declaration in this behalf made and transmitted to the
Secretary of War, in order to obtain the benefit of the
act of Congress passed June 7. 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States
under the following named officers, and served as
herein after stated, which declaration is in the
words following, to wit:

I the said Lent Ives, being sworn, as aforesaid
do declare, testify and say, That I am now seventy
eight years old & upwards. That I was enlisted
in the month of March A.D. 1777, by Lieut. Hotchkiss
into Capt. Kimball's company of the Connecticut Line,
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the regiment was under the command of Col.
Chandler & Lieut. Col. Whiting. Immediately after
my enlistment, which was for the term of
nine months, with Seventeen of my comrades
in arms; I was mustered into service by Lieut.
Hotchkiss, and drilled daily until marched to Crown 
Pond (Point), some 25 or 30 miles above New York, where
we arrived in the month of April.  After Danbury
was burnt by the British, we were marched
back to Cheshire Connecticut,-- the place of my
nativity, and where I enlisted in the service of
the United States.  Early in the following
May, by order of Col. Chandler, I joined his
Regiment at Newtown Ct. from which place
all marched to Danbury C and encamped for
a few days: then marched to Peekskill N.Y. -
where we lay in Camp for some 2 or 3 months.

From Peekskill, we marched under command
of General McDougal to Germantown Pa.
where we encamped, and were soon attacked
by the enemy, and I fought in the battle
at that place- We then marched to Whitemarsh
where we lay encamped for sometime:  Thence
to Valley Forge Pa. where we remained till Jan
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AD 1778 - The term of my enlistment here
expired, But as the new recruits had not
arrived, by request of my general & Colonel
& with the appearance of full compensation for our
services with others I remained in the service
at Valley Forge till sometime in the month
of February, when, with a number of my
comrades, I was marched under command of
Sergeant Mitchell to Fishkill, and was regularly 
supplied with rations on our march - In the
last of February we arrived at Fishkill, where
we delivered our army to an officer of the United 
States, whose name & rank I do not recollect-

At Fishkill I was dismissed from the service.
Nether myself, nor any of my comrade at
that place, received a written discharge -
I immediately set out for my native place,
& arrived at Cheshire Ct. in the month of
March 1778, within a few days of one year
from the time when I enlisted & was mustered
into service-

In all this time I have no recollection
of having drawn any pay for my services; But
I was paid in June 1778, by Sergeant Mitchell
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who had drawn my pay for me in continental
money, which had then became so depreciated
in value that one Silver Dollar
 would readily purchase seventy five Dollars
of these Bank page- I was paid at the rate
of Eight Dollars per month & received from
him as I believe, over eighty Dollars. The
exact sum I cannot now remember
upon further reflection I think I must have
received one month's pay in the early
part of my services, as I remember to have
had money in my possession which I cannot
otherwise account for.

In October AD 1778, I enlisted into the United States
team service under command Major
Skidmore, and drove an ammunition
waggon (wagon), containing the ammunition
for two Field Pieces, from Fishkill
to West Point, when this place was threatened
by the enemy  - I returned with my 
ammunition waggon (wagon) n to Fishkill, and then, by
command of my officers, took my horses,
four in number, to Quaker Hill, some six
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miles from Fishkill, where forage was
plenty, & remained at that place in charge &
care of the horses, till about the 1st of January
1779, when I was discharged from the
service, and returned home.

In the month of May 1779. I removed 
to the town of Wallingford, Rutland County,
 Vermont, where I have since resided

In September, after my removal to Vermont
the British & Indians made a descent upon
this State, and came as for as the town of
Castleton in this County.  The country was
immediately alarmed, & the proper authorities
called upon the inhabitants for volunteers
to repel the incendiary's of our territory. With
others, I turned out under Major or Capt.
Isaac Clark whose actual rank, at that
time, I do not certainly recollect and
was attached to a company commanded by
my brother Captain Abraham Ives.  We
marched to Castleton, & pursued the enemy
as for as Ticonderoga, We then returned,
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and were dismissed after a service of
about Fifteen days.

Early in the spring of 1780, I was called
out by General Ethan Allen; and under the
command of Captain Abraham Jackson,
and Lieut. Joseph Randall, [The latter of whom has
heretofore, before his decease, testified to a part, or all
the services I performed in company with him]
and marched to the fort at Castleton, where we
were engaged in patrolling the country for a
considerable distance around, for about Four
weeks, when I was discharged-

In the month of Sept. 1781, the enemy
came to Brandon in this County, burnt
the mills, & a number of dwelling houses
& barns: and upon the alarm being given,
I turned out with Capt. Abraham Ives
under command of Col. Clagham, and
pursued the enemy as far as the falls on Otter
creek, then in the township of Newhaven,
now the City of Vergennes and on this
expedition, I was absent from home about
Six weeks-
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In the Spring of 1782, the enemy came
down & burnt Johnstown N. Y.  On the
alarm being given, I turned out with Lieut.
Joseph Randall, under command of Isaac
Clark, then a field officer, but whose actual
rank I do not now remember, and marched
to intercept the enemy & cut off their retreat
to Canady (Canada). We marched to the west side
of West Bay, then known as Bullwaggy (Bullwaga)
Bay, on the west of Crown Point. The enemy
escaped, by passing a ssonjshall around us
on the west, & I returned home, after and
absence of six weeks.

The whole time that I have been actually
a duty in the service of my country, during the
war of the revolution is nineteen months
& a half-

I have no documentary evidence, other
than that heretofore transmitted, and then & now
referred to, nor do I know of any person
whose testimony I can procure, who can
testify to my services: But one person, to 
my knowledge, being now living, who was
personally acquainted with any part of my
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services in the war of the Revolution; and his
mental faculties are so impaired by age and
infirmity that he is now unable to remember ┃
my services-

I hereby relinquish every claim whatsoever
to a pension or annuity, except the present,
and declare that my name is only on the
pension roll of the agency of the State of
Vermont

Lent Ives

Sworn to & subscribed, the day & year aforesaid
Wm Hall   Judge

We. Stephen Martindale, a Clergyman
residing in the town of Wallingford aforesaid,
and James D. Butler Esq'r of Rutland, Vermont,
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with
Lent Ives Esquire, who has subscribed
& sworn to the above declaration, that we
believe him to be 78 years of age; that he is reputed
& believed, in the neighborhood where
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he resided, to have been a soldier of the
Revolution, and that we concur in that 
opinion.

Stephen Martindale Jr. .
James D. Butler

Sworn and subscribed the day & year
aforesaid
Wm. Hall  Judge

And the Court do hereby declare their opinion
that after the investigation of the matter, and after
putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War 
Department, that the above named applicant was a
revolutionary Soldier, and served as he stated.
And the Court further certifies, that it appears
to them, that the Rev. Stephen Martindale, who has
signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman, resident
in the town of Wallingford aforesaid, and that James
Butler Esq who has also signed the same, is a
resident in the town of Rutland, Vermont, and is
credible person, and that their statement is
entitled to credit

Wm Hall  Judge,
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I Henry B. Towslee, Clerk of the Court of Probate for the
District of Rutland, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains
the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the
application of Lent Ives Esq'r for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and seal of Office at Rutland
this 2d day of Oct. A.D. 1837

Henry B. Towslee
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State of Vermont
Rutland County
On this sixth day of June
Eighteen hundred and forty four personally appeared
before me William Hall Judge of the probate court of the
District of Rutland Mary Ives a resident of Wallingford
in the County of Rutland aged Seventy nine years
who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath
make the following declaration in order to obtain the
amount of pension which she claims from the fourth
of March Eighteen hundred thirty six to the seventh day of
July Eighteen hundred thirty eight from which period
she has been already paid under the act of the Seventh
July Eighteen hundred thirty Eight.  And the declarant further
alleges that she is still the widow of Lent Ives who was a
private during the Revolutionary  War that her pension
was allowed at the rate of twenty seven dollars and
Seventy one cents per annum and was paid to her at the
agency in Burlington in the State of Vermont and
further she saith not.

Mary "X" Ives, her mark

Sworn to and subscribed, on the
day and year above written.

Witness her mark
Henry Hall      before me

Judge of the probate court of the City of Rutland
Wm Hall   Judge

I William Hall, probate Judge of the Court
of the District of Rutland and State of Vermont do certify
that Mary Ives who is described in and who executed the
foregoing declaration in order to obtain arrears of Pension
is unable to appear in open Court on account of old age
and bodily infirmity and that she the above described Mary
Ives still remains the widow of Lent Ives and that She
is a person of Known Credibility.

The word "County" in the sixth line from the top obliterated & the
word "District" interlined, the word County in the twenty fourth line
from the top obliterated District interlined the word
"County" obliterated in the twenty fifth line from the top & the word
"District" interlined before signing & obliterated, & the word "County"
in the twenty seventh line from the the obliteration for "District"
interlined before signing.

Wm Hall   Judge
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State of Vermont}
Rutland County} ss.

On this Sixth Day of June
Eighteen hundred and forty four personally appeared before
before me William Hall, Probate Judge of the
Court of the District of Rutland Mary Ives a resident
of Wallingford in the County of Rutland aged Seventy nine
years who being 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 on the third of March Eighteen
hundred and forty three granting pensions to widows
of persons who served during the Revolutionary war
that she is the widow of Lent Ives who was a private
in the Revolutionary war that her pension was
allowed at the rate of twenty seven Dollars and seventy
one cents per annum under the act of July Seventh
Eighteen hundred and thirty eight she further declares
that she is still the widow of Lent Ives.

Mary "X" Ives, her mark. 

Sworn to and subscribed on the
day and year above written Before me
Wm Hall,   Judge

I William Hall Probate Judge of the Court
of the District of Rutland and State aforesaid do certify
that Mary Ives who is described in and who executed
the foregoing Declaration in order to obtain a pension
is unable to appear in open Court on account of old
age and bodily infirmity and that the the above
described Mary Ives still remains the widow of Lent Ives
and that she is known as a person of credibility.

The word "County" in the fifth line from the
top obliterated, the word "County" in the sixth
line from the top obliterated & the word
"District" interlined, & the word "Count" in
the twenty third line from the top obliterated & the word "County" in
the twenty fourth line from the top obliterated & the word "District"
interlined before signing either the declaration or certificate
above. 

Wm Hall    Judge
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State of Vermont}
District of Rutland ss}

I Henry Hall Register of
 the Probate Court within &
for the District of Rutland hereby
certify that William Hall is the Judge
of the Court & that his signatures to
the declaration & certificates on the first
third preceding pages are genuine.
Given at Kirtland in said District
this 12th day of June A.D. 1844.

Henry Hall, Register
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Lent Ives affidavit
30 Sept. 1837.
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I Lent Ives of Wallingford, in the County
of Rutland & State of Vermont, aged Seventy
eight years and upwards, a suspended Pensioner
of the United States, do depose, testify & say, that
from the 4th of March 1831, to the 4th of Sept
1834, I received a pension after the rate of
Fifty Dollars per annum, which pension
I was not only justly entitled to receive,
but which, I do verily believe, was much
less than had been provided for me by the Laws
of the United States.  That I have never
been made acquainted with the reason
of my said suspension, further than is set 
forth in a publication, purporting to be a
letter from the Commissioner of Pensions,
to the Hon. Mr. Slade, dated the 17th of Jan,
1835, wherein the commissioner is pleased
to apert his belief, merely, that the pensions
in the County of Rutland were fraudulent,
without stating the grounds of such belief
and calling upon the pensioners, at the same
time, for a written statement of their several
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and respective services. That, accordingly.
soon after the publication of said letter, I procured
to be written a statement, according to my best
recollection of my services performed during the 
revolutionary war; but, whether or not under
 the infirmities of age, and a constitution early
impaired by the hardships incident to a Soldier's
duty my recent statement coincides in every
minute particular with my first declaration
is now altogether out of my power, from memory
to determine. They are both of them true,
with this probable difference; that the first was
having been made somewhat earlier in life,
& under the impression that the most minute
practicable detail of services was required of
the declarant, which was not expected in the
second declaration, but only a summary 
statement of the prominent points in the service
the first is very probably more ample in detail,
& therefore more true.

As to processss of my services from my
 comrades in arms, that is now beyond my reach,
with one exception, they are all of them, so far as
I know, deceased.  A Mr. Joel Newton, now of
Salisbury, Addison County Vermont, was with
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me during a small part of the service I
rendered my country in thy State. I have
learned from a friend, within a few days past,
who called upon Mr. Newton at my request,
that his intellect is so much impaired by age
& infirmity & his memory became so defective,
that he has no definite recollection of my
services in the Revolutionary War.

The records of those services, on which I
rely for a pension, if indeed full records
were ever kept, have been lost, or were
not returned to the proper offices, or have
been disposed of in some other way.

Under such circumstances, I am llllllled
to say that I am cut off without hope,
unless my first declaration with its 
accompanying proofs, and my present declaration
herewith sent, shall be received & considered,
as they justly deserve: having been most
solemnly made in truth & honesty.

I am moreover cut off and deprived of ┃
part of the benefit of the record which the
Commissioner of Pensions is willing to admit
in my favour, From the 10th of May
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1777, to the 1st of January 1778, the sums
willing to allow, by his letter of Feb. 16, 1835.
for only 6 months & 20 days: - whereas, it is
in fact, 7 months & 20 days ~

From the regulations established by the
Secretary of War, on the 27th of June 1832, for
carrying into effect the act of Congress passed
on the the 7th of that month, I was led to expect,
& did verily believe, that the declaration and
testimony afterwards adduced (educed) in my own
case, would be accepted by the executive officers
of the government, as conclusive; and that
I should be permitted, uninterruptedly, to enjoy
the loan that had been granted as a compensation
 for services which had once been pretendedly
paid for in Bank Rags, otherwise called
Continental Bills, which it is well known,
were, at the time I received them, worth 
next to nothing, as one Spanish Milled
Dollar would readily purchase Seventy
Five Dollars of this pretended money ~
But without any known fault, on my part,
other than that of having become seperan
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nated, the sins of omission, committed
by others, in not keeping or preserving the
accounts of my services, amounting in all
to full Nineteen & a half months; the
premature decease & mental imbecility
of my comrades in arms, whose testimony
I cannot now recall or procure,  ~ seems,
upon More suspicion, to be visited upon
me, in my old age with a heavy hand,
once indeed, since the publication of
the commissioner's letter to Mr. Slade,
when despairing of a restoration of what
I had originally been allowed to receive,
Tho. (though) this was but a mere trifle over one
half the sum to which, as I honestly believe,
 I was by law entitled, I determined
to surrender my certificate, & put up
with the pittance the commissioner was
disposed to allow me. ~ with thy' determination
I placed my certificate in the hands of
A. L. Miner Esq. a Lawyer, then residing
near my residence, but now in the
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County of Bennington Vt ~  to be returned
to the Commissioner of Pensions. ~  Mr. Miner
has recently informed me, & I have no
doubt such is the fact, that he enclosed
my certificate to the Commissioner of
Pensions, & deposited his letter containing
it in the Post Office near my residence,
Where the certificate now is I know not;
and am wholly unable to give any further ┃
account of it.

When the Secretary of War, in his regulations
above mentioned, assured us, that "With respect to
"the other state troops & militia [other than those
"of Virginia & New Hampshire] there was
"no record to advert to, and no presumption
"to be rebutted:"   I honestly supposed that the
information was published in good faith;
& that the Department would recognize
such testimony as by its forms it had
 instructed us to procure. Much less did I expect
or apprehend, that, when a pension had thus
been ascertained, it would afterwards be 
reviewed & measured over by a record, which
I have been credibly informed, & do verily believe
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is both deficient and imperfect, & which
the Secretary of war proclaimed not to be
in existence.

However, not being in condition,
as in my Junior days, to contend with
Superior force, although I do still
apert & claim my just rights, secured to
me by the laws of my Country, which
entitle me to receive, as I sincerely believe,
not less than $78.00 per year, I must strive
to content myself with what the Honourable
Commissioner of Pensions may be pleased
to allow.~ And further this deponent saith not.

Lent Ives


State of Vermont}
Rutland County}

Be it known that on the 30th day of Sept
AD 1837, before me the subscriber, a Justice of
the Peace in and for County, personally appeared
the said Lent Ives Esquire, to me well known,
who hath subscribed the preceding affidavit
in my presence, and made solemn
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oath, that the same contains the truth,
the whole truth, and nothing but the
truth: And I do hereby certify that the
said affiant is a credible witness.

William Page
Justice Peace

State of Vermont}
Rutland County}

I Robert Pierpoint Clerk of the
County Court for the County of
Rutland certify that William
Page is a Justice of the
peace for said County and
that his signature above
is genuine.

In testimony wherehof I have herewith set
my hand and affixed the seal of said 
court at Rutland the 2nd of day of
August A.D. 1837.

R. Pierpoint
Page 53

I Mary Ives, of Wallingford in the County of
Rutland and State of Vermont, aged 77 years, on
the 14th day of July Anno Domini 1841, do depose,
testify and say, that I am the widow of Lent Ives Esq.
late of the same Wallingford, deceased, who was a
revolutionary pensioner of the United States, at the
rate of $27.71 per annum, as may appear by his certificate
bearing date the 16th day of June, 1838, now in the War
Office of the United States, and surrendered by him on or about the 30th of July 1838, on the occasion of drawing the
arrears of her said husband's pension, which, at the time
of his decease, which happened on the 30th day of June,
1838, amounted to $27.89.   And she further deposes
and says, that being the widow of the said Lent Ives, as aforesaid
and having been married to him before the close of the war
of the revolution, she made her declaration, conformably to the
act of Congress passed July 7, 1838, granting half pay & pensions
to certain widows, which declaration was duly sworn to before
the Hon. William Hall, Judge of the Probate Court of the
District of Rutland in said County on or about the said
30th day of July 1838 refer to the said declaration
and accompanying proofs, now in the said War office, being
had. And she further deposes and says, that she has
been informed and does verily believe, that the said
declaration and proofs were reasonably forwarded to the
Hon. Secretary of War; and that such proceedings were
thereupon had, that afterwards, and before the date of
this affidavit a certificate in due form was issued to
her granting her a pension, for the remainder of that
portion of the time of five years, specified in the said
act of Congress, which should elapse after the date of the
decease of her said husband. And the further deposes
and says, that the said pension certificate so granted
and
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and issued to her as aforesaid, if the same even was
granted and issued, has never yet been received by her;
or, if the same has been received, it has been casually
lost; so that she has never received any part of the
pension thereby granted. And further, this affiant
saith not. Dated at said Wallingford, this 7th day
of September, 1841.

Mary "X" Ives
her mark

Witnesses to the signing}
Nat Ives}
Harvey Button}

State of Vermont}
Rutland County}

Be it known, that at Wallingford
in said County, on this 7th day of September, 1841, before
me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for
said County, and duly authorized by the laws of said
State to administer oaths, personally appeared the said
Mary Ives, the affiant to me personally well known
who subscribed the said ^affidavit^ in my presence, and made
oath, in due form of law, that the same contains
the truth and nothing but the truth, according to
her best knowledge, information, and my belief: and
I do hereby certify, that the said affiant is a credible
witness.

Harvey Button   Justice Peace
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State of Vermont}
Rutland County ss.}

I, Frederic Hopkins, Clerk of the
County Court within and for said County, do hereby certify
that Harvey Button is a Justice of the Peace in and
for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and is
authorized by the laws of said State to take acknowledgements of affidavits, in the manner above written;
and that the foregoing signature, purporting to be his,
is genuine.

In testimony whereof, I have
hereunto affixed the Seal of said
Court, and Subscribed my name
at Rutland in said County,
this 11th day of September,
Anno Domino 1841.

F. W. Hopkins
Page 56

Additional testimony
in the case of
Mary Ives
Page 57

State of Vermont}
Rutland County ss.}

At Wallingford this 10th day of July
AD 1840, personally appeared before the subscribing 
authority, one of the Justices of the Peace within & for
the County of Rutland, Rev. Stephen Martindale Jr.,
Pastor of the congregational Church in said Town 
of Wallingford, who, being duly sworn, testifies and
says, that, from an intimate acquaintance with his
church for many years past, from the records and
minutes of the church which are yet preserved,
& from information derived in years past from
the early members of the church, he finds that the
congregational church was first organized
in year 1800, and was the second church of
Christ organized in said town -  the Baptist Church
having been organized in the year 1780. That
for some years previously, the friends of the
Congregational Church & order had occasionally employed
Congregational Minister to preach in said town:
that for many years after its organization, Lent 
Ives & the numbers of his family were frequently
in attendance during the services of the Church, &
assisted in its support, but that as neither Lent
Ives, or his wife Mary Ives, nor either of his
children were ever members of said church, their
names are not found upon the church records.

Stephen Martindale

Sworn to & subscribed before me the day &
year above written, Samuel Townsend, Jr., Justice Peace
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State of Vermont
Rutland County ⎬

 At Wallingford this 10th day
of July AD. 1840, personally appeared before the
 Subscribing authority, one of the Justices of the Peace within
& for the County of Rutland, Rev. J. H. Sherwin
Pastor of the first Baptist Church in said Town of 
Wallingford, who, being duly sworn, testifies & says, that
 the church of which he is pastor was the first Church
in said town, it having been organized on the 10th day
of Feb. AD 1780; That the records of said Church are full,
and give an exact account of the business of the church from
its organization till the present time; giving the names
of all who have been baptized & received into 
communion with the church; - That upon a careful
examination of the Records of this church, he finds neither ┃
the names of Lent Ives, nor the name of his wife Mary,
as neither of them were ever connected with said Church
and as this church never baptize infants; and as none
of the children of Lunt  Ives & Mary Ives have been
 members of this church, the names of said children are not
found upon the records of Church.

J. W. Sherwin

Subscribed, & Sworn to, before me; the day
& year above written. 

Samuel Townsend, Jr.  Justice Peace
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State of Vermont}
Rutland County ss}

At Wallingford this 10th
day of July AD 1840 personally appeared
Howard Harvey Esq. Clerk of the Town of
Wallingford, who, being duly sworn, testifies
& says, that upon a careful examination
of the records of said town of Wallingford, he
finds that but a very small proportion of
the Marriages + births occurring in this town,
have ever been recorded, & that, in this respect, 
the records are extremely imperfect - That no
record of the kind was made upon the books
in his office prior to "Nov 16th 1793", which
is the date of the first record of a marriage found
upon the books of his office, that neither the 
marriage of Lent Ives & Mary Mighell, nor the birth
of either of their children have at any time been
recorded upon the books of his office.

Howard Harris, Town Clerk

Subscribed & Sworn to before me the day
& year above written.    Samuel Townsend, Jr., Justice Peace
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State of Vermont}
Rutland County ss}

At Wallingford
this 9th day of July A.D. 1840 before me
the subscribing authority, personally appeared Mrs.
Patience Phinney, Widow, of said Wallingford,
who being duly sworn, testifies & says that
in the month of Sept AD 1782, at the town of
Wallingford, She was present with other witnesses,
at the marriage of Lent Ives & Mary Mighell
solemnized by Abraham Jackson Esq. Justice of
the peace residing in said town: Since which
time she has known the said Lent Ives  & Mary
Ives to live together as man & wife, until the
decease of said Ives - That, of the other witnesses present
at said Marriage, all have either deceased or gone to parts unknown except Thomas Michell, brother
of the said Widow Mary Ives.

Patience "X" Phinney
her mark

Subscribed & sworn to before me, the day and
year above written. And I hereby certify that the
said Patience Phinney is a credible witness

Samuel Townsend Jr     Justice Peace
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I Nathaniel Ives of Willington Butland County Vermont, 
Forty four years of age do depose testify & say, that
for more than thirty years past I have had free access to all
 the books & papers of my Father Lent Ives late of said Wallingford,
now deceased, that in transacting business for him during a
long series of years, I have never seen upon any of his books
 or papers any record of the date of fact of the marriage of my
parents, or of the birth or names of any of their children, nor have
I any reason to suspect that any such record was ever made
or none exists, except a private memorandum made by
myself, some few years since, for my own satisfaction.

Nat Ives

Subscribed & Sworn to before me at Rutland this 10th
day of July AD 1840.

F.W. Hopkins   Justice Peace

Written vertically: 
Mrs. Patience Phinneys} affidavit
Page 62

State of Vermont}
Rutland County ss}
 
I, Frederick W. Hopkins, Clerk of the
County Court in and for said County, do
hereby certify that Frederick W. Hopkins,
and Samuel Townsend Jr. are, severally,
Justices of the Peace in and for said County,
duly commissioned and qualified; that
their commission is dated the 25th of
November, 1839, and will expire on
the 30th of November 1840, and that the
several signatures above written,
purporting to be theirs respectively, are
severally genuine.

In testimony whereof, I have
hereunto affixed the seal of said Court
and subscribed my name at Rutland in
said County this 10th day of July,
anno Domino, 1840.

F. W. Hopkins
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H. R. July 21. 1840

Sir

I send herewith additional testimony in the
case of Mary Ives, widow of Lent Ives
together with the former papers in the case, 
which I received from you, some time since
for examination.

The marriage now stands proved by
two witnesses, and the absence of a record
of it from the Town Clerks ^office is^ fully accounted
for-- there being no records of marriages in
that town for about eleven years after the 
date of the Petitioners marriage,

The absence from the Church records
of the birth or baptism of their children
is also accounted for.

It strikes me that the marriage is
not only placed beyond doubt, but that the
most rigid rules of evidence in your Department
are fully satisfied.

Please report to me at Middlebury
Vermont, as soon as practicable.

Respectfully
William Stade

J. Gove, Esq.
I
Page 64

State of Vermont
Rutland ss}

On the 7th day of May 1833 personally came
before the undersigned authority, Lent Ives, Esq. who 
being duly sworn doth on his oath declare & say, in 
addition to & explanation of his declaration made
the 21st day of July 1832, that after his nine months
service in 1777 expired, he served two months more at
the request of his officers - his 9 months being out in
December & he was not discharged until Feb. 1778 &
did not reach home until March and he was
not paid until he was discharged & was then paid
for eleven months.  That his services as teamster
mentioned in said declaration in 1778, was by regular
enlistment under Maj. Skidmore for three months
and he served in the Artillery & was subject to
Martial law - Lt. Peck was one of his officers - he
was discharged about the 1 Dec. 1778, having enlisted he
thinks the last of Aug. on 1. Sept. & served 3 months.
He recollects that one of the Lieutenants, whose name
in has forgotten, struck him, & was tried for it & broke
by Court Martial as he understood. He further says
that when the British & Indians burnt Johnstown, state of
of N. York he volunteered & served in his brother's company.
Capt. Ives, Col. Ethan Allen, Lt. Jackson - he has forgotten
the year, but it was the latter part of the war - he marched
to Bullwaga bay & Crown point, & served one & a half
months & was discharged -  This service he got to state
when he made his declaration the 21 July 1882.
And he further says that by reason of old age & the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear particularly as to the
precise length of all his services, but according to his
best recollection he served not in them the person
mentioned below & in the following grades, viz, for fifteen
months as private of Infantry and for three months he served
as Wagoner of Artillery and for past service he claims a pension - Sworn before me this day of year aforesaid.

R. Temple    Justice Peace
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State of Vermont}
Rutland ss}

I Robert Pierpoint Clerk of Rutland
County Court do certify, that we Robt. Temple
before whom the foregoing affidavit was
taken, is a Justice of Peace for said
County duly commissioned and that his
signature hereto is in his own hand writing
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and
affix the seal of said Court this 9 day of May 1833

R. Pierpoint
Page 66


Mar 4

Wallingford, Vt }
Feb 26}

Hon. J. L.  Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Wallingford Vert (VT) - Feby 24. 1835

Hon.  J. L. Edwards

Sir

Mr. Lent Ives rec'd his return from
you last evening in which you inform him that
he cannot be allowed but six months & 20 days
actual service in the Rev'y (Revolutionary) war from intimations
in his return and others, I am induced to believe
that no time on service is now allowed - except
that is found enrolled in some regular organized
company - If such an now the decisions (of)
and those decisions "according to law," we have
in this county thus for labored under an error
Mr. Ives enlisted and regularly served in the team
service (as he calls it) and he also served in this
County three months as a volunteer or militia man
of which he can make [illegible] proof if there in
not sufficient already in the department  - I also
observe that you return him allowed 6 mos. & 20 days
from the 10th May to January 1st which is one
month short of the intervening time -  a mistake
which I presume will meet correction when it comes
to your observation.
Page 68

Mr. Ives still says, that he enlisted in March 1777 that
served in Conn. went to Danbury - Newtown, Camped
in March and April while there was snow yet on the
ground - and in May the troops were enrolled by the
Muster Master and those who were not able bodied
were discharged at which time the roll of Capt.
Kimball company was made out, and they marched
for Peekskill - &c (etc.) he was discharged in January, but
was requested to stay by the officers till nearly the
first March at which time he left for Connecticut and
did not arrive there till after the year was
out -

But Sir, why I address you at this
time, is to know whether services performed in
this State auto (ought to) be allowed if sufficiently proven
and whether services performed in other places are
to be stricken out unless actual enrollment can
now be found  We hope the pensioners in this
County are not to be punished for the sins of one
man - An answer to the above enquiry will
much oblige -

Your very humble &
Obedient Servant
A. L. Miner

Mr. Ives has been, until age impaired his faculties,
a man of much influence and respectably
A. L. Miner
Page 69

I also forward proof by this mail in relation
to Judge Randall, services in this state - think it
must be sufficient to establish his two months
service as Lieut. and 2 months as Sergeant - Please
forward returns to same if he is not to be allowed
I wish you to state the reasons - explicitly -

We had not supposed, until we received some
returns here, he that any new proof would be [exacted]
in case already allowed -  We supposed the object of
suspension was, that the identity of Pensioners might
be established - knowing that many fictitious names
had heretofore been  presented -

Respectfully Yours
A. L. Miner
Page 70

Rutland 13 Sept 1841

Dear Sir


The inclosed (enclosed) is sent in great haste, to
oblige Dr. Ives, whose mother is supposed to have received
a pension certificate. The session of Congress draws so near
to a close, now, that it is quite impossible, at this
moment, to explain the circumstances of the case.
I presume Mrs. Ives, or her son John, has received a certificate -
and I indulge this yanks [illegible], that they have lost it. 
I can only add, that I have had nothing to do with it,
since I transmitted to the Department her declaration, mentioned
in her affidavit.

We received the President's second note, yesterday morning.

I am very respectfully and
truly yours

Jesse Gove
Page 71

to June 22
Lent Ives
Vermont


J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions


H. W. Slade
Esq
Page 72


House of Reps June 20 '38

Sir

I have received from you a pension
certificate for Lent Ives for $27.71 per
Annum, in lieu of one for $50 which
has been cancelled. Will you have
the goodness to inform me to what
time Mr. Ives was paid on his
former certificate.

Respectfully William Slade




J. L. Edwards Esq
Page 73

July  1 . '44
Com

Mary Ives
Vt  NA
ab 43


Postmark:
WALLINGFORD   VT
June 27

"Free"


Hon. J. L. Edwards
Com of Pensions
Washington
DC
Page 74

Wallingford June 28th 1844

Hon. J. L. Edwards

I received Mrs. Mary Ives Certificate
for one years pension, I made out a declaration for two
years back pay on the same sheet of Paper and the
Certificate did not come for that one. Perhaps I have
made a mistake when I sent the papers I wrote
wishing to have you Examine Mrs. Hannah Culvers papers
as she was sick. Perhaps there is a mistake some where.
Mrs. Mary Ives health is good for so old a person.

Yours respectfully
John C. Harris

Hon. J. L. Edwards, 
Commissioner of Pensions
Page 75

May 29
Dr. Crump 
Jr. att.

(Dr. George William Crump was the Chief Clerk in the Pension Office in 1832-1846)

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Washington
Page 76

House of Reps. March 28 1838
Sir
Yours of yesterday in requiring that proof shall
be obtained from the Treasurer of Vermont as to
the service of Lent Ives. Before I sent you
the papers I made a brief of his alleged services
which I now find to be indispensable to enable
me to cause the summary examination to be
made of the rolls in the Treasurers office,
but which I have unfortunately lost. Will
you have the goodness to supply it, as
soon as convenient, so that I can get the
information from the Treasurer as soon as
possible.

Respectfully William Slade
---
J. L. Edwards Esq
Page 77

Middlebury, Vt.   Sept. 30, 1841

Dear Sir

I send, herewith, an affidavit of Mary
Ives, widow of Lent Ives, late a pensioner
of the U.S. together with a letter of Jesse
Gove Esq, transmitted with it to Washington,
from whence I have received it since my
return home.

If a certificate has been granted
to Mrs. Ives, it has either not been received,
or has been lost since the unift

If a certificate has been granted &
sent, please send me another, if the
accompanying proof is sufficient. It is
not, please said instructions.

Very respectfully yours
William Slade

J. L Edwards Esq
Page 78

Mary Ives
act 43
$27.71 per annum

John C. Harris
Wallingford
Vt
Page 79


Wallingford  June 11th 1844

Hon J. L. Edwards

Sir

I inclose to you the declaration
of Mrs. Mary Ives for arears of Pension and the one year act. 

Yours Respectfully
John C. Harris


Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Page 80

365. 8300 - 28
88.00
------
144.00

730  144
--------
365  158,400 (4)
           1460
------
124

730/ 1584.00  (216)
            1460.
----------------------
1240.
720
------
5160
4986
-------
Page 81

May 29. 1838

Dear Sir

In compliance with the suggestion in your
letter of the 27th of March last, I have addressed
an enquiry to the Treasurer of Vermont, with regard
to the evidence in his office, touching the service
of Lent Ives, and have received from him
the accompanying certificate stating that his
name is found on the rolls for 18 days
in Oct 1780. This, added to the 7 months
& 20 days already allowed as appears by your
letter above mentioned, makes 8 months &
 8 days, for which you will please send me
a certificate as soon as practicable.

I do not perceive the propensity of making
the absence of Mr. Ives name from rolls
in the office of the Treasurer of Vermont,
conclusive evidence against his alleged
service, since I am quite confident that
full and perfect rolls of the Vermont
troops have not been preserved in that
Page 82

office. I have had enough to do with the
early records of Vermont to know that
they are my imperfectly preserved. Every thing
connected with the government of the State during the
Revolutionary war, was, moreover in a state of
great confusion, and the wonder is that
any thing was placed so prominently on record as
to survive the period of the Revolution.

I am, very respectfully
Your obedient Servant

William Stade




J. L. Edwards Esq
Page 83

Sir

I send herewith a new declaration of Lent
Ives, together with his separate affidavit, and ask
you to reexamine his case. Your letter to Mr.
 Ives of the 16th of February 1835, which I herewith
send says that he served 6 months & 20 days, whereas
it is 7 months & 20 days from May 10. to January 1.

Your letter says that the service from May 10.
1777 to January 1. 1778 is all the military service
performed by Mr. Ives which is provided for by law.
Is not such service as Mr. I(ves) declares he performed
in Vermont in 1779 -80-81, & 82 provided for by law;
and is there no evidence among Mr. Ives' papers
of that service, such as was at the time he
was placed on the roll, deemed sufficient, and
clearly within the rules prescribed by the Suntary
of war?

Mr. Ives says he sent his certificate to the
pension office by Mr. A.L. Miner.  Has it been
received? 

Please inform me, if you should finally
decide that Mr.Ives is entitled to a pension
for only 7 months & 20 days, when that
pension may begin.

Respectfully,

William Slade
Page 84

Treasurer of Vermont
Certificate of Lent
Ives' Services -
Page 85

State of Vermont
Treasurer's Office Windsor April 23rd 1838

I Allen Wardner Treasurer of said State do hereby certify that
there is a paper on file in this Office purporting to be "A Pay Roll of 
Capt. Abraham Ives Company of Militia in Col. Ebenezer Allen's Regiment for service done in the month of October 1780".  I further certify that
 the name of Lent Ives appears upon said Roll as Drummer with
 an allowance for Eighteen days service awarded.  I further certify
 that on the 2nd June 1781 it appears that said Roll was approved
 and ordered to be paid by Tho. Chittenden and Timothy Brownson, Com. 
and also that the Treasurer paid said Roll on the said 2nd June 1781.  
I further certify that I have carefully examined all the Rolls in the
Office for Revolutionary Services, & that I do not find the name of Lent Ives on any of them except as above stated. 

Allen Wardner, Treasurer of the 
State of Vermont.
Page 86

Sept 6 '43
Lent Ives,
Vt Roll

(25)

Hon J. L. Edward
Commissioner of the Pension of
Washington City
DC
Page 87

Wallingford, V.T.   August 28th '43

Honorable J. L. Edwards

Sir

There is a widow that resides
in this town by the name of Mary Ives widow
of Lent Ives  a Soldier of the Revolution & pensioner.
Lent Ives was married to Mary lives, I do not
know what her maiden name was, I think she
said in 1782 and Lent Ives died some five or six
years ago. She thinks she is now Entitled to a
pension if it is not against the will of your office
I should be pleased to have you send the Act
that she can draw a pension if so entitled together
with the form of Declaration; when her husband
Lent Ives died from the time of his last drawing
to his death there was something coming to him
his widow made application for it. She had to
prove her marriage in order to get it which I
I suppose is not on file at the pension office.
I should like to know if that is satisfactory
without taking the Affidavit of that witness again
there is nor town record nor Bible record of the
Marriage. if you will please to inform me as soon
as convenient you will very much oblige

Yours with respect
John C. Harris

To
Honorable
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of the Pension, DP.
Washington City
DC

Pensioned under Act 138
May ind lut Aug 1840
$27.71       5663.
Page 88

Rutland Vt 16 Oct 1839

Sir

I transmit herewith the declaration and
accompanying proofs, of Mrs. Mary Ives, of Wallingford,
widow of Lent Ives Esq'r. late of the same place, deceased, for a
pension under the act of 7 July 1838.

The proofs are-

The affidavit of Dr. Nathaniel Ives, proving the decease of
his late father Lent Ives Esq'r.

The depositions of Howard Harris Esq'r. Town Clerk of Wallingford,
and of Thomas Mighell, relative to the intermarriage of Lent Ives and
Mary Mighell.

The affidavits of Solomon Miller, and Alexander Miller Esq'r.
relating to the marriage and cohabitation of Mr. & Mrs. Ives, since
the year 1784.

Be pleased to communicate your decision through me

I am very respectfully,
Sir
Your obedient Servant
Jesse Gove



James L. Edwards Esq'r.
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington
Page 89

Nov 18 '43OF

Mary Ives
Vt.
5663 Vt Roll
'38

Postmark: Troy N.Y. Nov 15  "FREE"

J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington City:
Page 90

Troy, 
November 14th 1843.

Sir, 

Mary Ives of Wallingford Vermont, widow of Leiut. Ives
deceased who was a private in the revolutionary war &
a pensioner who died 5 or 6 years since, requested me to
write you respecting her Pension. She is aged and
quite forgetful, she thinks she has received a Pension
certificate; but cannot tell when, and if she ever has
received one she has lost it.

Now sir, will favor me with the particulars in the
above case, and the necessary information to enable
her to procure her pension.

Respectfully Yours,
S. M. Bragg


J. L. Edwards Esq.
Pension Department,
Washington City.
Page 91

Mary Ives, widow of Lent Ives, Burlington, Vt
Roll. Act July 7. 1838, at $27.71 per annum

Be pleased to say whether payment
has been made in this case; and if so, to
What time.

Pension Office
Nov 18. 1843.

Paid from 1 July 1838 to 4 March 1841
LH
Page 92

Lent Ives
50

Payments to be made
at Burlington
by Present U. S. Branch Bank
Agent for paying Pensioners,
in the Agency of
Vermont

Sep. 30. 1833 of Wallingford
50 years, previous of
Cheshire, Connecticut

Recorded in the Pension Office
in Book E. Vol 3
Page 71 by Ele'r Brown
Clerk.
Page 93

WAR DEPARTMENT

REVOLUTIARY CLAIM.

I certify that in conformity with the law of the United
 States of the 7th June, 1832, Lent Ives,
of the State of Vermont.
who was a Private during the war of the
Revolution.
is entitled to receive Fifty ---- dollars (and)
(cents) per annum, during his natural life, commencing
on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually
 on the 4th of March, and 4th of September in
every year.

Given at the War Office of the United
States this 21 day of
September one thousand eight
hundred and thirty= three

Lewis Cass
Secretary of War

Examined and}
Countersigned.}

J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Page 94

Revy
WIDOW, &c. (etc.)
File No. 26.812
Mary Ives
Widow of
Lent Ives
Private Revolutionary War
---
Act March 3rd 1843
Indedx: Vol. A, Page 369
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Page 95

Lent Ives

R Temple

Rutland

Notified 
Amended
R. Temple

15 mos. Private Infantry

R. Temple
Rutland
Page 96

WAR DEPARTMENT
Pension Office,
April 9th 1833

Sir.

The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has
been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of
your case in a tabular form.  On comparing these papers with the following rules, and
the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed,
before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is
necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed,
you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: })  You will, when
you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and
you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your
claim.

A Statement, showing the service of
Period when the service was rendered

Duration of the claimant's service
Years -
Months- 
Days - 

Rank of the claimant.

Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served.

Names and Rank of the General and Field officers.

Battles in which the applicant was engaged.

Country through which he marched.

Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period.

Evidence by which the declaration is supported

I am, respectfully, 
Your obedient servant, 
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.

Mr. Lent Ives
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army,
and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia" and "volunteers, all
persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who
were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to
Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are
also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged
in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming
the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first in
stance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of
Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is
considered a Court of Record.
of
On this
DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State Territory
County of
day of
A.B. a resident (b) of
personally appeared (a) before
in the county of
and State, Territory or District
years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the
following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed
June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d)
and
served in the
(e) regiment of the
Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers, the time he left the service; (and if he served
under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the
town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged,
and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons
who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he
declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of
the Agency in the State of
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
A. B.
And then will follow the certificate of the Court.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary
soldier, and served as he states.
of the Court of
do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of
the application of
for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this
& c.
If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be
found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and
subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the
hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with
and C. D. residing in (the same)
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be
who has
years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier
of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid,
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after
putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary
Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B.
who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the
and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the
and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I,
Clerk of the Court of
do hereby certify that the foregoing
contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of
for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal
of office, this
day of
&c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission
; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if
possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services
of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light
upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will
also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful
in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal
means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted
; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected.
All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there
subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account
of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State
troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war
, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute?
And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such
Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
To a Soldier.{ Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given
and what has become of it?
Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what
has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify
as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that he answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are
requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court,
without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons -one of whom should be
the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from
their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed
and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion.
If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the character
and standing of other persons, giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct
proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the
enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration be
fore required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the
proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to
perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record,
or by a Justice of the peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper
Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a
Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is
his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before
the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the
declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure
, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period
of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the
opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will
low the rule laid down for his guidance.
The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not
conforming to the rule.
The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Cannel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the
cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the league of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so
dent to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the
he declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposes and saith, that, by reason
according to the ber
---
best of his
days, I served as a -. For - months and - days, I served as a
months, andimportant
, in all cases to determine with precision the period for which he applicant served, and the
directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the
tenth of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months,
is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons with and for
in them without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respect
and served two years
This form of a declaration is
term of engagement
into service by competent aupursuit
.
that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil
The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
The opinion of the Court is alway
---
Is rohird
the work must give his certificate in every case.
than it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public
seal of offer, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the
papers.
Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains
the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must
pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate,
Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses,
who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well
in the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the
messes and the official character and signature of
that of Militia, Volunteers and State Troops, The proof required by rule in
note applies to continental troops only.
⌨ This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
I must appear whether the servis taunter was
Military service.
the presumption from the last
stated is that it was