Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24,240, Elijah Freeman, New York
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
New York

Freeman, Elijah 
Pernel 

NUMBER 
W.24.240
B.L. Wt. 27569-160-55


CONTENTS
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1126

New York, Albany 
Pernel Freeman 
widow of Elijah Freeman 
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Incd. from HhO

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
96 Dollars 00
Cents per annum to commence on
 the [crossed out] 4th day of March, 1848.
[written in] 1st of July 1848

Certificate of Pension issued the 
14th day of Dec 1850
and sent to 
Henry Robinson Esq
Greenwich
Washington Co; 
N.Y

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 70 Vol. 4
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49.078 Act Mar 3/55        Cir Wm Valentine Sept 15/55
Pernel April 1755
Pernel Freeman wid
Elijah Freeman prt
Pensioner
Under Act Feb 2d 1848
Revolution War

NY Feby 48 - no 1126
Ad: 160 Act May 17th 1856
Boynton
William Valentine
Albany
NY

{overwritten making partially illegible}
2769 iss May 23/06
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A 16344
New York
Elijah Freeman
of Easton in the state of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Van Schaick of the New York line, for the term of one year.

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 8th of October, 1819

Certificate of Pension issued the 14th of Jany 1819 and sent to the Pensioner Easton, N. York

Arrears to 4th of Mar 1820 $39:22
4th mts. 28/31 $39.22

(Revolutionary claim,)
(Act 18th March, 1818)


(right side)
See letter respecting apn. for continuation Feb. 20. 1827 to Hon. H.H. Ross - to J. William, 14 Apl 1829 - 24 March 1830 - 12 Apl 1830 - to H. Freeman 20 May 1830 do 24 July 1830 - do. Aug. 27, 1830 - Nov. 8 1830 do. to J. Ellsworth 14 Mar. 1831 do. to H. Freeman July 5, 1831
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Samuel Badger
Deposition
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I Samuel Badger do hereby depose and say that I am a resident of Town of Cambridge County of Washington and State of New York that I am in the fifty second year of my age that I am acquainted with Pernel Freeman, widow of Elijah Freeman, deceased, that I was acquainted with Elmer Freeman deceased in that he was a son of the aforesaid Elijah and Pernel Freeman, that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said Elmer Freeman & was at sea on a whaling voyage with him. That I have examined this day two documents purporting to record the births of Lyman Freeman and said Elmer Freeman on one of which pieces of paper or documents appear the date of the birth of Lyman Freeman as having taken place on the eleventh day of January 1794 and the other contains the date of the birth of Elmer Freeman, both of which appear in the hand writing of Elmer Freeman, which I verily believe to be correct and his genuine hand writing, and also that I have examined the Journal kept by the said Elmer, now in the possession of Manly  C. Freeman, which is the hand writing of the said Elmer and that his birth appears recorded in said Book or Journal and that the said Lyman and Elmer Freeman are sons of the aforesaid Elijah Freeman and Pernel Freeman the said Pernel being now the widow of the said Elijah Freeman and resides in the Town of Easton, County of Washington and State of New York, one of the papers or documents above alluded to, purports to record the birth of Elmer Freeman as having taken place on the twenty ninth day of April one thousand seven hundred and ninety five in hand writing of said Elmer Freeman, both of which papers or documents as well as the leaf from the Journal above alluded to are sealed within to this my deposition, that the aforesaid Lyman and Elmer Freeman are both now deceased, that the said Elmer Freeman has a son Lyman Freeman and his birth is recorded on one of the within & said documents to viz on that containing the date of his own birth, that the date of 31st of October 1818 on said paper is the date of the birth of one other of his children which also appears on the same paper with that of his own birth , that the said Elmer died in the year one thousand eight hundred & twenty four.
Samuel Badger 
Six word interlined in the above before execution
Subscribed & sworn before me this 7th day of April 1843
Horace Bigelow Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Samuel Badger that he is a credible and competent witness and I verily believe full faith & credit may be given to his deposition as above set forth. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day & year last above written
Horace Bigelow Justice
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I further certify that the leaf within alluded to was  taken from the said journal in my presence, which I verily believe to be original and genuinely. 

Horace Bigelow justice

I certify that I was acquainted with Lyman Freeman the reputed son of Elijah & Pernel Freeman the date of whose birth is recorded on on the annexed paper

Horace Bigelow

State of New York
County of Washington

I Edward Dodd clerk of the said county hereby certify that Horace Bigelow Esquire is a Justice of the peace as above and within and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his are genuine-Given under my hand the seal of the said county this 8th day of April 1843

Edward Dodd Clerk
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September 26th 1822
Saw two ships standing on the wind
April the 19th left [unclear] bound to Japan
I Elmore Freeman of Easton was Born in Easton in the County of Washington April 29th 1795
June the 13th 1821 Sailed from Nantucket Bound Round Cape Horn
June 24th St Johns Day Hoisted out our Beef and pork threw 3 Barrels overboard
June 26 Discovered a Dead whale to Leward we were Lying two under Close reefed top sails Foresail Fore top mast [unclear] and Mizen sails
Elmore Freeman
Wrote my watch Below
Elmore Freeman

3 lines written in right margin illegible
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Would wish to [illegible]
Learn to live as you
By one tin pan 50
By one pound of tobacco 50
Lear to live as you would 
Labon Cottell in by one hat 1.50
by one tin pot 50
By Articles But handue Stockings [illegible] 96
By 2 lb tobacco at 60 ct lb 1.20
By Cash at [illegible] 75
$4.90 [total]
By one pound Tobacco 1.50
By Cash 2 /50 2.50
By Cash 3/25 3.25
By one pound of tobbacco 0.50
By pair of Duck Trousers 2.00
By one pound of Tobacco 0.50
By do do =c 0.50
By One Jacket

I Elmer Treman of the town of Boston and County of Washington and State of New York Was Born April 9th 1795
Was Married August 8th 1816 Lyman Freeman was born August 29th the same year.

Born October31st 1818 Elmer Freemans Whiting
This 30th day of January in the year of our Lord 1818
Elmer Freeman Was 22 years 5 months and one Day old
At the time was Wrote
I was [illegible signature] Oct 31 1818
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No 17-
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

I, Martin Tellorton Collector of the District of Nantucket
Do hereby Certify, That
Elmore Freeman
an AMERICAN SEAMAN, aged twenty six years, or
thereabouts, of the height of five feet six inches,
light complexion, brown hair & light eyes,
born at Easton in the State of New York
has this day produced to me proof in the manner directed in
the Act, entitled, "An Act for the relief and protection of
American Seamen;"--and, Pursuant to the said Act, I DO HEREBY
CERTIFY, That he is a CITIZEN of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA


In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and Seal
of Office, this Fourth day of June in the
Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Seventy
One -
M. T. Morton col'd
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I Samuel Badger do hereby depose and say that I am a resident of Town of Cambridge County of Washington and State of New York that I am in the fifty second year of my age. That I am acquainted with Pernel Freeman widow of Elijah Freeman, deceased. That I was acquainted with Elmer Freeman, deceased - That he was a son of the aforesaid Elijah and Pernel Freeman. That I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said Elmer Freeman & was at sea on a whaling voyage with him, That I have examined this day two documents purporting to record the births of Lyman Freeman and said Elmer Freeman, on one of which pieces of paper or documents appears the date of the birth of Lyman Freeman as having taken place on the eleventh day of January 1794 and the other contains the date of the birth of Elmer Freema, both of which appears in the handwriting of Elmer Freeman, which I verily believe to be correct and his genuine handwriting, and also that I have examined the Journal kept by the said Elmer, now in the possession of Manly C Freeman, which is the handwriting of the said Elmer and that his birth appears recorded in said Book or Journal and that it was written in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty two, that the said Lyman and Elmer Freeman are sons of the aforesaid Elijah and Pernel Freeman the said Pernel being now the widow of the said Elijah Freeman and resides in the Town of Easton, County of Washington and State of New York, one of the papers or documents above alluded to, purports to record the birth of Elmer Freeman as having taken place on the twenty-ninth day of April one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five is the handwriting of said Elmer Freeman, both of which papers or documents as well as the leaf from the Journal above alluded to are sealed within to this my deposition, That the aforesaid Lyman and Elmer Freeman are both now deceased, that the said Elmer Freeman has a son Lyman Freeman and his birth is recorded on one of the within & said documents viz on that contains the date of his own birth, that the date of 31st of October 1818 in said paper is the date of the birth of one other of his children which also appears on the same paper with that of his own birth, -- That the said Elmer died in the year one thousand eight hundred & twenty four, --
Samuel Badger

Six words interlined in the above before execution--- --- --- 
Subscribed & sworn before me this 7th day of April 1843 ---
Horace Bigelow Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Samuel Badger that he is a credible and competent witness and I verily believe full faith & credit may be given to his deposition as above set forth. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day & year last above written. ---
Horace Bigelow Justice
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I further certify that the leaf within alluded to was taken from the said Journal in my presence, which I verily believe to be original and genuine.
Horace Bigelow Justice

I certify that I was acquainted with Lyman Freeman the reputed son of Elijah & Pernell Freeman the date of whose birth is recorded on on the annexed paper
Horace Bigelow

State of New York County of Washington ss
I Edward Dodd clerk of the said county hereby certify that Horace Bigelow Esquire is a Justice of the Peace as above and within and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine. Given under my hand and the seal of the said county this 8th day of April 1843
Edward Dodd Clerk
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Elijah Freeman Pension Papers

Declaration for Continuance date 6th Decr. 1825.

B.
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State of New York
County of Warren
At a Court of Oyer and Terminer heard
in and for the said County of Warren at the court house in
the town of Caldwell in said County on the Sixth day of
December A.D. 1826. Present their Honors
R Hyde Walworth Circuit Judges
Walter Geer [illegible] 
Harvey Powers 
Judges of the Common Pleas said County

Personally appeared in open Court being a court of Record, 
proceeding according to the course of the common Law and 
possessing the power of fine and imprisonment Elijah Freeman
residing in the town of Queensbury in said County and being
first duly sworn on his oath saith that he is a pensioner
of the United States under the act of Congress of the 18 of March
1818. that his pension certificate is numbered 16.344 and
that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows. In the
year 1776, he enlisted in the continental service under Capt
Job Wright in Col. Van Schaiack's Regiment of the New York
troops, afterwards commanded by Col. Peter Gansvoort for
the term of one year as a common soldier. that he served
out the year and was honorably discharged. after which
in performed various services in the Revolutionary war as a
militiaman. he served as a militiaman at five different
times and in all about one year and for which he never
received any compensation.

And in pursuance of the Act of Congress of the 1st of May
1820, I Elijah Freeman do solemnly swear that I was a
resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March
1818, and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in
any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof
with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself
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within the provisions of an 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," passed the 18th day of
March 1818, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me
nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed
Subscribed & Sworn this 6th
day of December A.D. 1826
in Open Court
Elijah X Freeman
Thomas Archibald Clerk

Schedule of Elijah Freeman's property and Estate
Elijah Freeman lives in a house with a small piece of Land in Queensbury aforesaid, belonging to Mr Haviland, for which
he is to pay $25 per year rent and has occupied it about eight months. He has no real property whatever, except the
above in possession. His personal property is as follows
One old man worth -- perhaps $20.00
one one horse waggon [illegible] both old
15.00
Beds and bedding that have been in use many
years nearly worn out and property to myself & family, but worth but little to any one else
15.00
Eight old chairs and one old table-
2.00
some crockery and hardware & Small articles
of household furniture in all worth not more than 5.00
one old sleigh $1.00 - 1 old cutter may be $5.00
a few farming utensils of little value-- 3.00
His age is now 72 years - he is quite infirm. blind of

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one eye and a cripple in both arms and unable to labour but little-- his memory and recollection is much gone. His family consists of his wife aged 54 years and infirm & one daughter aged 14 years - he has other
children who are some of age, married and have families, and all except the daughter above named have removed from him-- none of his children are able to support him without distressing themselves and families. He is very deaf and it is with difficulty that he can hear so as to understand
Elijah Feeman
his mark
State of New York
County of Warren ⎬ 
Clerk's Office
I Thomas Archibald Clerk of the County of Warren and often Court of Common pleas 
and of Oyer & Ferminch of
the said County. Do hereby certify that the preceding is a true copy of the original filed in the said Office this sixth day of December A.D.
1826. and by order of the said Court, I do further certify that the value of the property of the said Elijah Freeman as mentioned in his Schedule above is Eighty dollars
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the common seal of the said County this thirty first day of January A.D. 1827
Thomas Archibald Clerk
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49,078
Pernel Freeman
Rev widow
for Land

From Wm Valentine
of Albany
NY
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From Wm Valentin of Albany N.Y.

DECLARATION
REVOLUTIONARY WIDOW FOR BOUNTY LAND.
STATE OF New York
COUNTY OF Washington
ss.
On this twenty seventh of March 1855 before me, Samuel Skiff a Justice of the Peace in
and for said county, personally appeared Pernel Freeman aged Eighty two years, a resident of Cambridge in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the Bounty Land to
which she is entitled under the act of Congress, passed March 3d, 1855, that she is the widow of Elijah Freeman who was Private in the Revolutionary War, and for the service of her husband aforesaid she now receives a pension at the rate of Ninety Six Dollars per annum, under the act of Congress, passed Feby 2, 1848. For evidence of the services of her husband aforesaid, this declarant
refers the Department to the evidence on file in the Pension Office at Washington, and requests the Land Warrant forwarded to her Agent, Wm. Valentine of Albany N.Y.
She further declares that she is now a widow; and that she has not received or made application for bounty land under this or any other act of Congress.
Pernel
Freeman
her mark
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this
twenty seventh of March 1855
Nathaniel Kingon
Samuel Skiff Justice of the Peace
I certify that Pernel Freeman is the identical person above named and described. And I further certify that I have no interest whatever in the result of the matter above referred to. I certify the reason of said Pernel not writing her name is she never learned to write
Samuel Skiff Justice of the Peace
ss,
STATE OF New York
County of Washington
Nathaniel Kingon and
Lyman F. Rathburn of Cambridge
in said county, who are credible and competent witnesses, being duly sworn, deposeth that 
Pernel Freeman is the identical person above named and described.
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this twenty-seventh day of March 1855
Nathaniel Kingon
Lyman F Rathburn
Samuel Skiff Justice of the Peace
State of New York
COUNTY of Washington
.
I N.B. Milliman Clerk of the County aforesaid, do hereby certify, that Samuel Skiff
is and was at the within date, Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly qualified and authorized by
law to administer oaths for general purposes, That I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Skiff,
and verily believe his signature within written is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the official seal of said county, this
29th day of March 1855 -
NB Milliman
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8960
Pernel Freeman
Declaration
869 Act March
30 1843.
N.Y.
Act 7. July 3o
M 92. d 36
Admd
12 mo pri
40

Wm Valentine Albany N.Y.
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State of New York
County of Washington
On this 7th day of April 1843 personally appeared before me one of the Judges of the County Courts of said county Pernel Freeman a resident of the Town of Easton in said
County Aged seventy years old & upwards who is unable from bodily infirmity to attend or appear in open court and who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the resolution of 16th
of August last & Act 23 same month explanatory of the Act of 7th July 1838
and also the benefits of the Act of March 3 1843 supplementary to the said resolution
and Act, granting a pension for five years from 7th July 1838 & also for one year
from 4th March 1843 to certain widows. That she is the widow of Elijah Freeman
deceased who was a private soldier in the war of the Revolution and a pensioner of the
United States, and that her said husband performed service in said war under Capt
Job Wright & Col Van Schaick, she declares that her said husband informed her that
he enlisted and served at one time one year, and that he performed other service in addition to said one year, but does not recollect how much more than the one year, she has heard her said husband say that he was in service in Saratoga County & at Lake
George & many other places, and for further evidence of his services he would offer
to the proof on file in the Pension office on the application of her said husband
for his pension, she further declares that she was married by Esqr Fift a Justice
of the Peace then residing in what is now known as the Town of Easton County of Washington & State aforesaid
on the twelfth or thirteenth day of January in the year one thousand seven hundred
and ninety two, that she has no record of her said marriage and never had any but
is enabled to state accurately as to the date of her marriage by the dates of the births
of her children, that she has no record of the birth of her eldest child but has a record
of the second and third child, the name of the first was Milton which deceased when
about eighteen months old, the second was named Lyman and the third was named
Elmer, the second child viz Lyman was born on the eleventh day of January in the
year one thousand seven hundred and ninety four, and the third child viz Elmer was born
on the twenty ninth day of April 1795, which three children are all deceased, that
her said husband Elijah Freeman died on the tenth day of December in the year
one thousand eight hundred and thirty six and that she was married to the said Elijah
Freeman previous to the first day of January one thousand seven hundred and ninety
four viz at the time above stated. she further states that she knows of no person living
who was present at her said marriage &
that none of her children have been baptized & therefore no records
four words in the fourth & six words in the twentieth lines before execution. Subscribed & Sworn before me this 7th day of April, 1843
John McLean Judge of
Washington County
Pernel Freeman
her mark
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And I the said Judge certify that from information
attained from reliable sources, the said Pernel Freeman
in the foregoing declaration named is a person of truth &
veracity & that full faith and credit may be placed in
her aforesaid declaration 
John McLean Judge
of Wash. Co. County-
And I further certify that the said Pernel Freeman did
not sign her name to the said declaration for the reason
that she never knew how to write
John McLean Judge of
Wash. Co. County
-
State of New York
County of Washington
I Edward Dodd Clerk of the said county hereby certify that
John McLean Esquire is a Judge of Washington County Courts as above and within
and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine - I further certify, that said courts are courts of record-
Given under my hand and the seal of the said
County the 8th day April 1843-
Edward Dodd Clerk
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
MCS/eel

                                               May 11, 1929
Mrs. Donald Huntoon
513 Fenelon Place
Dubuque, Iowa

Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W.24240, it appears that Elijah Freeman was born, February 17, 1754, place not stated.

He enlisted in March, 1776, and served one year as a private in Captain Job Wright's Company in Colonel [illegible]oose Van Schaick's New York Regiment. He afterwards served five tours in the New York Militia amounting in all to about one year.

He was allowed pension on his application executed October 8, 1819, while a resident of Easton, Washington County, New York.

In 1826, he lived in Queensbury, Warren County,  New York, where he had moved in May, 1821. 

He died, December 10, 1836.

The soldier married, January 12 or 13, 1792, in Easton, New York, Pernel or Parnell, her maiden name not given.
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She was allowed pension on her application executed
April 7, 1843, at which time she was about seventy years
of age and was living in Easton, New York.

In 1848, she lived in Jackson, Washington County,
New York, and in 1855, she lived in Cambridge, Washington
County, New York.

Elijah and Parnel or Parnell Freeman had the following
children:
Milton - died aged about 18 months.
Lyman - born January 11, 1794, died at Sackett's Harbor in the United States Service during the War of 1812.
Elmer or Elmore - born April 29, 1795, died in 1824; married August 8, 1816 and had a son, Lyman, born August 28, 1816.
Eunice
Matilda - aged about 35 years in 1831 and the wife of Samuel Bridge.
Hiram _ aged over 30 years in 1830, married Elizabeth, her maiden name not given and a resident of Napoli, Cattaraugus County, New York, in 1830.
Manly C. - a resident of Queensbury, New York, in 1831.
Pamela - wife of William Brownell.
Paulina - wife of Kenyon Rathbun.
Ruth - wife of George Brownell.
Harriet
Phebe
Anna

Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.
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Let to Wm Valentine 
Nov 4th 1849

3098
New York Albany
Pernel Freeman
widow of Elijah Freeman
who was a Private
in the Revolution.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
40 Dollars --
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the
1st day of Dec. 1843
and sent to
Wm Valentine
Albany NY

[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol 1 Page 106
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(totally black - illegible)
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72194
New York
Pernel Freeman
widow of Elijah Freeman
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818,
and who died on the 10th December 1836
of Washington in the State of New York
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Wright of the
Regt. commanded by Col. Vanchaick in
the New York line for 12 months-

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 40 - Dollars -
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day
of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30th. day of
May 1843 and sent to Wm Valentine
Albany - N.Y.
Total amount, $200.00-
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Allstenard - Clerk,
Book A Vol. 2 Page 77
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letters 27 March 1832 to Hon J W
Taylor & B. Kuara P. Agt. to Hon
J. W. Taylor April 3. 1832
Nov. 30th 1833 dup. certify
iss: and sent to the Honble
John Cramer M.C. on
the 3d Decem month 1833
see Stephen Freeman
papers No 13,174 iss 12th
July 1819 for affidavit
of lost certificate - see letter to J.
Freeman 19 April 1836

Elijah Freeman
of Easton in the State of N. York
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Wright of the regt commanded
by Colonel Van Schaick in the New York
line, for the term of one year
from 1776 to 1777

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to
commence on the 8th day of October 1819
and

Certificate of Pension issued the 14 of January
1820 and sent to Pensioner
Easton, N.Y.
Continued on the Roll on 20 day of
August 1831 and notification sent to
I Ellsworth at Saratoga Springs
Pension commencing on the 15th
of August 1831
Amount due on 4th of March 1832
$53. 44
Revolutionary Claim,
Acts March 18, 1818,
May 1, 1820.
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State of New York
Warren County ss 
Be it remembered that on the
day of the within date personally came before me
Ira A. Paddock a commissioner in the County of
Warren authorized and required to take the proof
and acknowledgment of deeds &c the within named
grantors Elijah Truman and Parnell his wife known
to me to be the persons described in and who have
executed the within deed and acknowledged that they
severally signed sealed and delivered the said within
deed for the uses and purposes therein mentioned
and the said Parnell being by me examined
privately and apart from her husband acknowledged that she executed the said within deed freely
and voluntarily on her own part without my
fear compulsion or threats of her said husband
and I having examined the same and finding therein
no material alteration in estimation or matures
do allow it to be recorded
all which I do accordingly certify according to
the statute in such case made and provide
A copy Ira A Paddock
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This Indenture made the thirty first day of Augustin the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five between Elijah Freeman of the town of Lawrenceburg
County of Warren and state of New York, Pernell his wife of the first part, and Benjamin Sisson of the town county and state aforesaid 
of the second part, that the said part is of the first part and in consideration of the sum of eight hundred and fifty dollars money of account of the United States of America to thine in hand paid, by the said part of the second part, the receipt whereof is hereby 
confessed and acknowledged, have granted, bargained, sold, remised, released, and confirmed, and by these presents Do grant, bargain, remise, release, and confirm unto the said part of the second part, his heirs and assigns, for ever, All that certain part or parcel of land situate lying and being in the
town of Lawrenceburg County of Warren and state of New York, being part of Lot number
one hundred and their and is description and bounded as follows beginning two chains east
of the South east corner of lot number forty four and in the south twenty seven chains and twenty links to the north east corner of Walter Briggs house then
north eighty eight degrees east two chains and fifty links then south eighty five degrees and thirty minutes east five chains to the north east  corner of said Walter Briggs land then south forty four degrees fifteen minutes east on said line sixteen chains and twenty nine links, thence north twenty five chains and thirty nine links thence south 
eighty seven degrees west twelve chains and eighteen links then north seven chains 
and fifty links then south eighty seven degrees west seven chains and fifty links to the place of beginning unto fifty two acres of land

Together with all and singular the hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining, and the reversion and reversions remainder and remainders, rents, issues and profits thereof, and all the estate, right, title, interest, 
claim and demand whatsoever, of the part of the first part of in and to the same; to have and to hold, the said bargained and described, premises with the appurtenances thereunto belonging to the said part of the second parties heirs and assigns, to their sole and only proper use, benefit and behalf for ever. And the said party of the first part, for their heirs, do grant, bargain, promise and agree, to and with the said party of the second part,
his heirs and assigns, that have bargained premises, to the said party of 
the second part, his heirs and assigns, against all and every person or persons lawfully claiming or to claim the whole or any part of the above mentioned or described premises to 
Warrant and Defend forever by this presents

In witness whereof, The said parties the first part have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year above written.
Sealed, signed, and Delivered,
In Presence of
George Green
Hiram Freeman

A copy
Elijah Freeman L.S.
Pernell Freeman L. S.
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State of New York Warren County Ss

I Thomas Archibald Clerk of the Couty Courts of the County of Warren do hereby certify that Horatio Buell Esqr. whose name is subscribed to the annexed affidavits was on the day of the dates of the several affidavits a Judge of the County Courts of the County of Warren duly commissioned and sworn and dwelling in the said county and duly authorised by the laws of said state to perform the duties therein mentioned and further that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said Judge and verily believe that the signature H Buell subscribed to the said annexed affidavits is the proper handwriting of the said Judge. And I do further certify that the original Deed of which the annexed is a copy was recorded in the Clerks Office of the said County in Book of Deeds marked C. page 267 &c and recorded on the first day of September 1825.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said county this 15th day of September 1828
Thomas Archibald Clerk

Certificate fees  $050
Serch fee  .25
fees   $0.75 (total)
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State of New York
Warren County ss
Gridley J. Packard of
said town being duly sworn saith that
he is well acquainted with Elijah Truman
formerly of Easton - That this deponent is a
merchant in said town. That said Truman
frequently purchased goods of this
deponent before December 1825 for which
he paid upon delivery, but to what amount
this deponent cannot ascertain. That from
December 1825 to April 1826. This deponent
gave him a credit on book to twenty five
Dollars which he paid to this deponent
and balanced the books-- and that during the
time the account was accruing he
frequently purchased and paid for goods
in hand - that he also purchased & paid
for goods after the closing this account
and this deponent further says that
he has no doubt the said Elijah expended
his whole property in support of himself
and family and is really destitute
and further this deponent saith not
Gridley H Packard [signature]

State of New York
Warren County ss
Be it remembered that on this
11th day of September 1818, that the above named
Gridley H. Packard well known to me to be the
person mentioned in the foregoing affidavit personally
appeared before me Horatio Buell, a Judge of the ┃
County Courts of Warren in the State aforesaid and
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being then & there duly sworn by me, made oath that the said affidavit was in all respects just & true. I also certify, that I am well acquainted with the said Gridley H. Packard and that he is a credible witness, and that in my judgement full faith & credence may be given to his statement.
Sworn this 11th day of September 1828
Before me
H. Buell.
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Warren County
State of New York ss 
Bethuel Peck of Queensbury
in said County of lawful age
being duly sworn deposeth and saith
That he is well acquainted with Elijah
Freeman formerly of Easton - That he
is reputed to have been and this deponent
verily believes was a soldier in the revolutionary war - that he came to the town of Queensbury about six or seven years
ago and resided on a farm which afterwards
sold to Benjamin Lisson- that while he
lived on said farm he borrowed of this
deponent two hundred and fifty Dollars
and secured it by his own bond and a
mortgage on said farm - that the loan
was made and the security given about
the tenth of May 1825 - That the interest
was to be paid annually and the principal
in two years- That Mr Lisson purchased
the farm subject to the mortgage and
and the payment of it is a part of
the consideration money on the farm and
has paid it the last summer-
That said Freeman borrowed the money
to pay debts- that he paid nearly one
hundred Dollars to his son who had lived
with + labored for him - that he paid
some to Dort Stower and more to merchants
to whom he was indebted-- but what parties
law sums to one or to another this deponent
cannot state. That he paid this deponent
fifteen Dollars for medical services for him
self and his family. that at another time he
paid this deponent about five Dollars for other
like services in his family & further this deponent saith not.
Bethuel Peck
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State of New York Warren County Ss
Be it remembered, that on the 12th day of September 1828, came before me Horatio Buell, a Judge of the County Court of the said County of Warren, the above named Bethnel Peck, and made oath to the foregoing affidavit. And I also certify, that the said Bethnel Peck is well known to me and that he is, in all respects a credible witness.
H. Buell.
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State of New York
Warren County ss 
John A. Ferris of Queensbury
in said County Merchant being duly
sworn saith that he has been more
than ten years a merchant in said
town - That from 1823 to 1825 inclusive
Elijah Freeman formerly of Easton and
who is reputed to have been & this deponent
believes was a revolutionary soldier purchased
goods of this deponent which were charged
on book to the amount of Fifty seven
Dollars & upwards & from time to time made
payments. That the balance of the
account was paid about the fifth of
September 1825 by his son-

That said Freeman also purchased goods
to an inconsiderable amount, which were
paid for in hand.
and this deponent further saith that
he is decidedly of opinion that the produce
of said Freeman's farm did not defray
his family expenses without encroaching
on the principal.

and further this deponent saith not

John A Ferris [signature]

State of New York
Warren County
Be it remembered that
on the 12th day of September 1882, came
before me Horatio Buell, a Judge of the County
Courts of the County of Warren aforesaid, the above
named John A. Ferris, and made oath to the
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foregoing affidavit. And I also certify, that the said John A. Ferris is well known to me and that he is in all respects a credible witness.
H. Buell.
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State of New York
Warren County ss
Benjamin Tipson of Queensbury
in said County of lawful age being duly
sworn saith that he is well acquainted with
Elijah Truman formerly of Easton who is
reputed to have been a soldier of the revolution. 
That this deponent purchased from him
the farm described in the deed a copy of
which is hereunto annexed for eight hundred
and fifty Dollars which was the full value
of the farm and received from him and his
wife the and the copy of which is annexed
and came into possession in April 1826-
That he paid a wagon and harness estimated at
fifty Dollars towards the farm and about one
hundred Dollars the fall after the purchase
this was in money. That he agreed to pay
Bethuel Peck a bond & Mortgage given by said
Truman for two hundred & fifty Dollars in
May 1825 which this deponent has paid & cancelled - That he gave him their notes one of $350 one of $70 & one of $500- and paid the $350 the first of April 1826 when he took
possession. That the $50 note was transferred to Reuben Leeds in payment as this deponent understood for a john of cattle & which this deponent part to said Leeds - That the $70 note was due in Nov 1826 which this deponent paid to said Truman some short time after it fell due- That this deponent understood said Truman was considerably in debt when he sold the farm. This deponent further saith that said Truman was infirm- and in habits of intemperance in consequence of which he was incapable of paying his debts and supporting his family on the farm - and spent his money for liquor and other things lavishly-- That said Truman
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hired a house and garden of Joseph Haviland
after the first of April 1820 - but at what rent
this deponent cannot particularly state.
and further this deponent saith not-
Benjamin Sisson [signature]

State of New York
Warren County 
Be it remembered, that on the 
12th day of September 1828, came before me
Horatio Buell, a Judge of the County Courts of
the said County of Warren the above named
Benjamin Lisson, and made oath to the foregoing
Affidavit. And I also certify that the said
Benjamin Lisson is well known to me, &
is in all respects a credible Witness
A. Buell.
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27.569
Neo Any
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of
Congress of 2d February 1848 entitled "An Act making
further provision for surviving widows and Soldiers of
the Revolution"

State of New York
County of Washington
On this Tenth day of July one
thousand Eight hundred and forty Eight
personally appeared before Horatio Emmons as
Justice of the Peace of the Town of Easton Washington
County State of New York Pernel Freeman a
resident of the Town of Jackson in the said
County of Washington aged Seventy five years
who being first duly sworn according to law doth
on her oath make the following declaration
in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made
by the act of Congress passed on the 2d February 1848
granting pensions to widows of Pensioners who served
during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow
of Elijah Freeman who was a Private in the Army
of the Revolution. And the annual amount
of the pension which she received under the Act
of 17th June 1844, was forty Dollars she further
declares that she is still a widow.
Pernel Freeman X her mark

Sworn and subscribed on the day  
and year above written before me
H. Emmons Justice of Peace

I certify that the said Pernel Freeman is personally known to
me and the reason she does not sign her name is becauseshe
never learned to write
H. Emmons Justice
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State of New York
Washington County
I Henry Shepherd Clerk
of said County do certify that on the day
of the date of the within jurat + certificate
Horatio Enmon Esq was a Justice of the
Peace in and for said County duly elected
and sworn and that his signature within
subscribed to said Jurat and certificate
is genuine.
Witness my hand and official
seal this 13 day of July AD
1848 
H Shepherd Clerk

In the matter of Pernel Freeman
declaration

Taken out of a bundle of Rev Cases

CR Ingalls 
Greenwich NY
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State of New York  
Washington County 
On this Ninth day of October. 1850 personally
appeared before me the subscribing authority, a
Justice of the peace in and for said County
Pernel Freeman of Jackson in said County
and made Solemn Oath in due form of Law, that
she is the identical widow of Elijah Freeman
deceased who was a Soldier in the Revolutionary war
and a pensioner of the United States; That
she now draws a pension at the rate of Forty
Dollars per Annum, and that she believes herself
entitled to an increase of pension, and therefore asks for whatever may be found due her 
under any of the act or Resolutions of Congress
which are applicable to her case. I further
request that my pension Certificate may be
sent to Henry Robinson as my agent or Attorney
at Greenwich, Washington County N.Y.
Pernell Freedman x his mark

Sworn and Subscribed this 
Ninth day of October - 1850 
before me.
H Emmons, Justice of the peace

I certify that the above named declarant, is well
known to me, and that she is a Respectable & credible
person
H. Emmons Justice
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State of New York
Washington County
I Henry Shepherd Clerk
of said County do hereby certify that on the
9th day of October 1850 Horatio Emmons Esquire
a Justice of the Peace in and for said County
duly elected and sworn and that his signature
subscribed to the Jurat and certificate within
Witness my hand and official
seal this 16 day of Oct 1850
H Shipherd Clerk


Application of 
Pernel Freeman
for increase of Pension

[illegible] per annum
deducting former pay'ts
at $40 per annum
Com'g 1 July 1848

Henry Robinson
Atty
Greenwich Washinton Co NY
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I Phebe Hoxie hereby certify that I am a resident of the Town of Easton
County of Washington and State of New York and in the seventy eighth
year of my age am acquainted with Pernel Freeman, widow of Elijah Freeman, deceased, and who now resides in the Town, County and State aforesaid
that I was acquainted with said Pernel previous to her reputed marriage
to said Elijah she having resided in my family some weeks during the
winter previous to her said marriage, that about two months after she
resided in my family as aforesaid, one of my children was born
and that the said child was fifty two years of age last March Viz
March one thousand eight hundred & forty three, and that the next
winter after the birth of the said child the said Pernel and Elijah
were reputed to have been married. I was not present at their marriage, but Know it from general report in the neighbourhood at that
time, that I then resided in the neighbourhood & but a few miles distant
from where they resided, and from the time of their marriage as aforesaid to the time of her said husband Elijah Freemans death they have
lived together & Known as man & wife and brought up a large family
of children--
affirmed to by Solemn affirmation before
me this 8th day of April 1843
Phebe
her
Hoxie
mark
Royal Slocum Justice
I certify that the above named Phebe Hoxie appeared before me and subscribed her name & made solemn affirmation according to Law to the above statement, that the said Phebe is averse from conscientious scruples for
making oath except by affirmation, I further certify that I am
personally acquainted with the said Phebe, that she is a competent & credible
witness and I verily believe the most implicit reliance may be placed upon
her statement as above set forth. In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand the day & year last above written
Royal Slocum
I further certify that the
above deponant
cannot write her name otherwise than
by her mark
Royal Slocum
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State of New York
County of Washington 
I Edward Dodd Clerk of the said County hereby
certify that Royal Slocum Esquire is a Justice of the peace as within
and that the within signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of
the said County this 10th day of
April 1843-
Edward Dodd Clerk
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I Mary Harrington do hereby depose and say that I am a resident of the
Town of Easton County of Washington and State of New York, amin the
seventy ninth year of my age. that I am acquainted with Pernel
Freeman widow of Elijah Freeman deceased, that my second child was
born in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety one & my third
child was born in March one thousand seven hundred and ninety six
that between the births of the said two children I attended the funeral
of a deceased child of the said Elijah & Pernel Freeman, and that said
Pernel had another child born two or three months after the said
death of the other child, that I have a record of the birth of my
children by which I can state the time of the death of their said
child, that from the time of the death of their said child I have
been acquainted with them up to the time of her said husband
Elijah Freemans death, that from that time they have been reputed
to be & have lived together as man & wife & brought up a large
family of children. the
above facts are true to the best of my knowledge and belief
the word time interline before execution ⎬ 
Mary Harrington
her mark
Subscribed & Sworn before me this 
6th day of April 1843--
Horace Bigelow Justice of the Peace
witness Wm Valentine
I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with
the above named Mary Harrington that she is a credible & competent witness and verily beloeve full credit may be given to the above deposition
as therein set forth
Horace Bigelow Justice
State of New York
County of Washington 
I Edward Dodd Clerk of the said County hereby certify that Horace Bigelow Esq is a Justice of the Peace as above and
that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of the said County
this 8th day of April Edward Dodd Clerk
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State of New York
Warren County
I Alpheus Hawley of Queensbury in said County of lawful age being duly sworn saith that while Elijah Truman formerly of Easton resided in said town of Queensbury he purchased goods & liquor of this deponent & his parties to the amount of about twenty Dollars which he paid to this firm That this deponent is of opinion that after
said Truman came to this town he appeared to this deponent unable from age infirmity and intemperance to be incapable of conducting his business with prudence, discretion and economy- that he frequently was intoxicated and was then lavish of his money-- and this deponent has no doubt that he has expended all his
property and is reduced to poverty and further this deponent saith not.
A Hawley [signature]
State of New York
Warren County ss
Be it remembered that on the 12th day of September 1828 came before me Horatio Buell, a Judge of the County Courts of the County of Warren, Alpheus Hawley above named and made oath to the foregoing affidavit. And I also certify, that the said Alpheus Hawley is well known to me is in all respects, a credible Witness 
H. Buell
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Received of Elijah Freeman two hundred dollars of the within date September 13 1820
Recd December 27 1820 on the within thirty three dollars

Due Interest $34.33
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SS 215.25
On Demand with interest I promise to pay Leonard Cuzzens on Barer two hundred and fifteen Dollars & 35/100 for value (Illegible)

(illegible) May 12th 1819
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In the matter of Elijah Freeman 
Affidavit
E
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State of New York
Saratoga County ss 
Isaac Freeman of the
town and County of Saratoga being
duly sworn deposeth and saith in addition to
the facts stated by him in a an affidavit heretofore made by this deponent
in the matter of Elijah Freeman of
Easton in the County of Washington A
petitioner for a pension. That in the
year 1820 he bargained with said Elijah
for an exchange of farms-- that the
farm be conveyed to said Elijah was valued
at one thousand three hundred Dollars
and the difference agreed on was $2500
That the farm of said Elijah not containing
as much land as was represented. this
deponent claimed a deduction in the sum
to be paid that the said Elijah declined
making any-- That the question was
submitted to the determination of Calvin
Smith Esqr and Elisha Baker who awarded
a deduction of fifty one Dollars & twenty
seven cents which was made accordingly
this deponent paid the remainder at different
times.
Isaac Freeman [signature]

Saratoga March the 6th 1830.
Sworn & subscribed & before me this 6th day of March 1836
William B. Cadwell Justice
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State of New York
Saratoga County ss. 
I Thomas Palmer Clerk of the said
County of Saratoga do certify that William B.
Caldwell whose name is subscribed to the jurat
of the within affidavit, was at the date thereof a
Justice of the peace in & for the said County of Saratoga
duly qualified to administer oaths, and that the signature
purporting to be his is genuine.
Witness my hand and the seal of the County
Court of said County the Sixth day of
March 1830 
Thomas Palmer Clerk [signature]

Isaac Freeman
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State of New York
Washington County ss 
Mary Harrington now
the wife of John Harrington of
Easton in said County who was the wife of
Samuel Shiff late of Easton deceased - of
lawful age being duly sworn saith that on
or about the 17th day of January 1824
Elijah Freeman of Easton aforesaid paid to this
deponent two dollars on account of a debt due from
the said Elijah to the said Samuel Shiff in his
life time for blacksmithing-- and further
that the annexed receipt is in the hand writing
of her said former husband Samuel Skiff.
Mary Harrington
Subscribed and sworn this 3d day
of March AD 1830 before me
Martin Mason Justice of the Peace
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Recd Easton January 17th 1821 of Elijah Freeman Three dollars in full of all accounts
Samuel Shiff
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State of New York
Washington County ss. 
I, James Proudfit Deputy Clerk of the
County of Washington do certify that Martin Mason
Josiah Dunton, and Ebenezer Norton whose names
are subscribed to the Jurats of the annexed affidavits were at the dates of the several affidavits
Justices of the peace in and for said County duly
qualified to administer oaths, and further that I am acquainted with
the hand writing of each of said Justices and verily believe the
signature of each of them to be their proper hand writing.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
the seal of the said county the ninth day of March 1830.
James Proudfit Dep. Clerk
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State of New York Washington County
Joel Potter and Leonard Cozzens of Easton the County
aforesaid being duly sworn make oath and say
that they are well acquainted with Elijah Freeman
of Easton who is reputed to have been a soldier of
the Revolution that between the year 1820 and 21
the said Elijah was indebted to them in the sum
of seventeen dollars for leather which the said
Elijah paid to them
Joel Potter
Leonard Cozzen
subscribed and sworn this 3d
day of March AD 1830 before
me Martin Mason Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Washington County
Ruth Brownell of Cambridge
in said County aged twenty six years and upwards being
duly sworn maketh oath and saith that she is well acquainted with
Elijah Freeman of Easton who is reputed to have been
a soldier of the revolution. That in the year 1821 the
said Elijah was indebted to her in the sum of ten dollars
which the said Elijah paid to her.
Ruth Browneth X her mark
Hiram Freeman [signature]
Subscribed and sworn
March 1st 1830 before
Me
Josiah Dunton Justice of the Peace
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State of New York Washington County ss
Stephen Townsend of Easton in the County aforesaid being duly affirmed says that he is well acquainted with Elijah Freeman of Easton aforesaid who is reputed to have been a soldier of the revolution, that in the year 1820 16th of November the said Elijah was indebted to him in the sum of eight dollars and eight cents which the said Elijah paid to him. 
Stephen Townsend
subscribed and affirmed this 3d day of March 1830 before Martin Mason Justice of the Peace
State of New York Washington County
Jonathan Mosher of Easton in the County aforesaid being duly affirmed saith that he is well acquainted with Elijah Truman of Easton aforesaid who is reputed to have been a soldier of the Revolution that in the year one thousand eight hundred twenty the said Elijah was indebted to him in the sum of about
twenty Seven dollars for Medical attendance and medicine which the said Elijah paid to him according to the best of his knowledge and belief.
Jonathan Mother
Subscribed and affirmed this 3d day of March AD 1830 before Martin Mason Justice of the Peace
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State of New york
Washington County ss 
Harriet D. Freeman of Cambridge in said
County aged twenty one years and [illegible] being duly sworn
maketh oath and saith that she is well acquainted with
Elijah Freeman of Easton. who is reputed to have been a
Soldier of the revolution. That in the year 1827 the said
 Elijah was indebted to her in the sum of thirteen dollars
which the said Elijah paid to her.
Harriet D Freeman [signature]
Subscribed and sworn
March 1st 1830 before
me
Jesiah Dunton Justice of the
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State of New York
Washington County ss Leonard Cozzens of Easton in said County being duly sworn saith That he some time since made an affidavit in behalf of Elijah Freeman of Easton aforesaid on applicant for a pension - That the facts stated therein were stated from his then best recollection of them
and this deponent now says that the annexed note is produced to him by Hiram Furman which bears date Easton May 12th 1819 - and that the sum of two hundred and fifteen Dollars 35/100 was loaned by this deponent to said Elijah at the date of said note and this deponent understood & believes the money was appropriated by said Elijah to pay debts he then owed and this deponent further says that on the 13th of Nov. 1820 as appears by an endorsement on said note the said Elijah paid him on said note two hundred Dollars and on the 27 of Dec. 1820 as appears by another endorsement thereon the said Elijah paid this deponent the further sum of thirty three Dollars being the balance of said note and this deponent further saith
Leonard Cozzens
Subscribed and sworn this 3d day of March AD 1830 before me Martin Mason Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Washington County ss
Hiram Freeman of Napoli in the County of Cattaraugus aged thirty years & upwards being duly sworn saith that he is the son of Elijah Freeman of Easton in the County of Washington who is reputed to have been a soldier of the revolution
That in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty he lived with his father in which year the said Elijah Freeman bargained & sold his farm in Easton aforesaid with & to Isaac Freeman That said Isaac [illegible] him money on the contract with which the said Elijah paid some of the debts herein after mentioned.
and this deponent further says that the farm of the said Elijah in Easton aforesaid was valued at Three thousand eight hundred Dollars which this deponent believes was then the fair value of the farm and the best price which would be had for it-- That he agreed to convey to said Elijah in part payment a farm in the town of Queensbury in the County of Warren which was then valued at one thousand three hundred Dollars - and the said Isaac agreed to pay him two thousand five hundred Dollars in money - the bargain was concluded and the deeds given - 
and the $2500 was paid except the sum of fifty one Dollars & twenty seven cents
which was deducted in consequence of a deficiency in the quantity of land in the Easton farm the said Isaac Claimed a deduction - the said Elijah refused to make it & the matter was submitted to the arbitration of Calvin Smith (who was an attorney at law) & Elisha Baker (who was a surveyor) who remanded that fifty
one Dollars & twenty seven cents should be deducted from the consideration money & that deduction was accordingly made. The deed from Isaac Freeman now before this deponent bears date 15 Nov 1820 and he believes both deeds were executed & bear date on the same day. and this deponent further saith that he then knew that his father was then duly in
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debt and hurling in habits of intemperance this
deponent went with him to pay his debts out
of that money.
This deponent knew of the following debts which
were paid - the amount paid is stated from
recollection in some cases and in others from
vouchers which he has lately examined and is
confident the sums are nearly accurate.
Garret J. Van Schaich of Easton for borrowed money $1700,
Leonard Coggins - D. - Do Nov 13-1820 $200,
--,--,-- Dec 27 1820 - $33,
John Doty - Fort Ann - as surety for John Alvin about $200,
Gideon Cornell - Easton - for blacksmithing - $12,
Hiram Freeman - the deponent for work & labor which this deponent did for the said Elijah after he became twenty one - $150,
Charles Starbuck - through Troy now Tioga - note given for goods purchased by said Elijah of said Starbuck for several years - $200,
Elisha Baker - then of Easton for surveying & drawing deeds - $7,
Coggin & Potter of Caston for cotton - $17,
Joseph Safford of Greenwich for [illegible] cloth - $5,
Deduction on farm as stated above - $51.27,
Jonathan Mosher of Easton for practice of physic - $27
Aaron C. Dennis formerly of Easton for years - $7.95
[subtotal] 2610.23
[crossed out paragraph] This erasure was made before sworn J Williams.

That the said Elijah removed to the farm in
Queensbury about the month of May 1821
and that had two cows - one horse & some small
amount other chattel property-- the particulars
of which this deponent cannot now state.
And this deponent further says that about
the month of Sept 1825 according to his best
recollection - the said Elijah sold his farm in
Queensbury to Benjamin Lisson for eight hundred
Dollars and a one horse waggon & harness
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which waggon & harness was valued at fifty dollars - now nearly worn amt
That out of the avails of the farm & personal property he paid the following debts
Doct' Peck of Queensbury for borrowed money - about $2.50
Francis Fritz of Do for blacksmithing about 10.00
Isaac Cole of Do blacksmithing & probably other things an amount which this deponent cannot recollect at least 15.65
Seth C Baldwin prev of Caldwell for fees for drawing pension papers & counsel 7.00
Dudly Hubbell of Queensbury for work 30.00
Davin Champlin Do the sum this deponent does not recollect
Walter Briggs Do Br
ands and other things 15.00
Henry Ray Do for work 20.00
Justin Lesly Do for cattle pair by a note received in part pay for farm 50.00
Hiram Freeman the deponent for money which this deponent had earned by working by the month & lent by this deponent to said Elijah - after he was 21 150.00
[total] 547.65
And this Deponent further says that Manly C Freeman a brother of this Deponent took of the money received for the farm in Queensbury (as this deponent believes without the knowledge of his father) 50.00
[total] 597.65
And this deponent has heard said Manly say that he took it without his father knowledge & that he might as well do so as not.
This deponent further saith that the horse which his father took to Queensbury was sold to William 
Brownell of Cambridge for fifty dolls and was paid for partly in money & the rest in meat grain & work
This deponent further says that his father
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said debts of which he this deponent had no
personal knowledge but which are proved by
the affidavits forwarded to the Secretary at war
and also other debts as appears by receipts among
his father's papers which in consequence of
death & removal of parties cannot now
be proved.

and this deponent further says that his
father has become so superannuated as to
be incapable of making any correct communication respecting his business--and further saith not
Hiram Freeman [signature]
---
Sworn this 4th day
of March 1830 before
me
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State of New York,
Washington County ss 
William Safford of Easton in said County of lawful age
being only duly sworn saith that he is well
acquainted with Elijah Freeman of Easton
who is reported to have been a soldier of the
revolution - That on the 18th of November
1820 Joseph Safford of Greenwich in said
County had an account of five Dollars
eighty seven unto against the said Elijah for dry [illegible]
Cloth - That at that day the said Elijah
paid that amount to this deponent for
the said Joseph in satisfaction thereof.
Wm. Safford [signature]
Sworn this 2nd day of
March 1830 before me
C.F. Ingalls
Justice of the Peace
in & for the County
of Washington
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Greenwich Washington Co. N.Y.
April 2 1830
Sir
Your favor of the 24th March on the
ject of Elijah Freeman's application is
received, in which you are pleased to say that the
documents are not satisfactory; and in
which you are pleased to say that in all
such cases of a father paying money to
his son for labour performed for his father
the claimant is required to show that there
was a written contract between the father and
son prior to the performance of the labour.
Had you told me that if proof of a
written contract made before the labour
was performed had been offered the fact
of the execution of such contract was prima
facie evidence of fraud I should have
acquiesced in the opinion and made no
complaint
but to have proof required
of a species of evidence which an experience
of twenty years in professional business
convinces me has not in a single case existed
I confess surprises me.
I know not indeed what may
have been the practice of fathers and sons
in other places, but I have known many
who were suspicious of each other, and
yet did not practice making written
contracts about their labour.
Your rule appears to me to have
the operation of an ex post facto law, and
altho one which may prevent fraud,
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where it exist, will also prevent the most
perfectly honest man from obtaining the
benefit of the law.
The rule makes no
discrimination and it appears to me to
operate with so much rigour that I
cannot but hope it may be reconsidered.
Having been considerably acquainted with
Elijah Freeman I am confident
he never made written contracts with
any one about labour of any description.
You will pardon me for the liberty I take
when I say that the answer of the Department is entirely unsatisfactory.
I shall be gratified to hear from
you again on the subject, and to be informed whether the sale mentioned is sanctioned by any Judicial determinations.
I am Sir Respectfully
Yours-
Israel Williams
Greenwich Wash County April
1st 1830
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In the matter
Elijah Freeman
a pensioner
J. Doty
Affot


G
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State of New York
county of [illegible]
to John Doty of [illegible] in the county of [illegible]being duly sworn[illegible] defer and say that in the year 1815 he was sheriff of the county of[illegible] a first aid -during which time  he appointed our John prince of [illegible] in said county his [illegible]and that Elijah Truman[illegible] of Easton and charles Starbuck [illegible]bail [illegible]deposit for said prince that prince failed in 1817 and left the county[illegible]left [illegible] unsatisfied for a large amount and on investigation it was discovered that prince had collected the money on [illegible]of the execution or bad[illegible]of it but not in discharge of his bail.had it in his[illegible]when he abscondid[illegible].queries of which said truman and Starbuck[illegible]liable to [illegible]for the monies so collected by prince-in 1817 0r 1818 this [illegible]made a[illegible]with said Truman +starbuck for something les than they were liable for on[illegible] by which they agreed to pay [illegible]about[illegible] hundred dollars or more,the execution[illegible]cannot now collect--the our half of which[illegible]the said Elijah Truman paid to this [illegible],after he [illegible]from eastern[illegible]in warren county, in the year 1821 or 1822[illegible]can recollect-a [illegible] of which said half [illegible]were paid before said[illegible]
[illegible] before me this 17th day of [illegible]Jhaiuas Archibald clerk John Doty
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In the matters of Elijah Freeman

Affidavits

F
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State of New York 
Warren County 
Isaac Cole of Queensbury
County of Warren of lawful age
being Duly Sworn
saith that he is well acquainted with Elijah
Freeman Late a resident of Queensbury
Warren County, but now a resident of Easton
Washing County who is reputed to have been
a soldier of the Revolution, That in the year
1826 the said Elijah Freeman was indebted
to this Deponent in the sum of Thirty five
Dollars & forty three cents, For Blacksmith
work, which sum he in the year 1826
paid to this Deponent, that the debt was contracted
in the year 1822, 1823, 1824, 1825
Isaac Cole
Subscribed & Sworn
March 10 1830 before me
Samuel J. Tallmadge Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Warren County
Isaac Cole of Queensbury
County of Warren of lawful age
being Duly Sworn
saith that he is well acquainted with Elijah
Freeman Late a resident of Queensbury
Warren County, but now a resident of Easton
Washing County who is reputed to have been
a soldier of the Revolution, That in the year
1826 the said Elijah Freeman was indebted
to this Deponent in the sum of Thirty five
Dollars & forty three cents, For Blacksmith
work, which sum he in the year 1826
paid to this Deponent, that the debt was contracted
in the year 1822, 1823, 1824, 1825
Isaac Cole
Subscribed & Sworn
March 10 1830 before me
Samuel J. Tallmadge Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Warren County ss 
Dudley A Hubbell of Queensbury in the County of Warren of lawful age being duly Sworn Saith that he is well acquainted with Elijah Freeman of Easton in the County of Washington who is reputed to have been a soldier of the revolution. That from the year 1822 to the year 1825 the said Elijah Freeman was indebted to this deponent in the sum of thirty five dollars for labour and Services which sum he at that time paid to this deponent that the debt was contracted in the year aforesaid And this deponent further says that the said Elijah Freeman paid to Henry Ray the sum of twenty dollars for neighbour in the year 1821 as this deponent very believes from the best of his knowledge and belief.
D A Hubbell [signature]
Subscribed and sworn before me March 11th 1830
Bartholomew Griffen Justice of the peace
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State of New York
Warren County
I Thomas Archibald Clerk of the County of
Warren do Certify that Samuel S Talmadge
and Bartholomew Griffin whose names are
Subscribed to the Jurats of the annexed affidavits
swore at the dates of the several affidavits Justices of the peace in 
and for the said County duly Elected and qualified
to administer Oaths and further that I am acquainted with
the hand writing of each of said Justice and verily believe
the signatures of Each of them to be their proper hand writing
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
the Seal of the said County, this Eleventh day of March
1830.
Thomas Archibald Clerk
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To the Chancellor of the State of New York
The petition of Stephen Freeman of Saratoga in the County of
Saratoga - Respectfully showeth That Elijah Freeman a brother of your petitioner now an inhabitant of the Town of Easton, in the County of  
Washington has been for several years past a Lunatic or Crazy man.
And your petitioner further showeth unto your Honor, that the said Elijah Freeman a short time before he became a crazy man received a certificate from the Secretary at War, that his name was inscribed on the pension list roll of the New York agency at eight dollars per month as will appear by the certificate now in possession of your petitioner.
And your petitioner further showeth unto your Honor that the said Elijah has not received from the United States any part of his pension since he became crazy as your petitioner verily believes.
And your petitioner further showeth unto your Honor, the said Elijah Freeman, was seventy seven years of age on the seventeenth day of February last.
And your petitioner further showeth unto your Honor that the said Elijah Freeman is destitute of property and is unable to labor and has for Several years past been supported by the charity of his relations and neighbors.
And your petitioner further showeth unto your Honor that your petitioner is now in the seventy third year of his age, now receives a pension of eight dollars per month, and has no other means of support except the pension.
Your petitioner therefore prays that a commission de lunatice enquis rends, may be issued to such persons as your Honor shall deem fit to appoint to enquire into the Lunacy of the said Elijah Freeman.
And your petitioner further prays that he may be allowed to prosecute this application for the said Elijah as a poor person.
And your petitioner will ever pray &c
Stephen Freeman
Saratoga County ss: 
The petitioner Stephen Freeman was duly sworn before me on the twenty third day of April 1831. that he had heard the foregoing petition read and knew the contents that the same is true of his own knowledge except as to
matters set forth upon his belief and as to those matters he verily believes the same to be true.
Endorsed, Filed April 23. 1831
Wm L. P. Warren
Master in Chancery
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Order.

At a Court
of Chancery held for the State of New York, at the town of Saratoga Springs, on the twenty third day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty one.
Present. Esek Cowen Vice Chancellor of the Fourth Circuit.
---
In the matter of Elijah
Freeman a Lunatic
---
On reading and filing the
petition of Stephen Freeman of Saratoga in the County of Saratoga, showing among other things, that Elijah Freeman of Easton
in the County of Washington, now is, and for a long time past has
been unable to manage his estate and affairs by reason of lunacy,
and on Motion of M. Ellsworth, Solicitor for the petitioner, it is
ordered, that a commission in the nature of a writ de lunatico
inquirendo, issue directed to Stephen Cornell, Job Benson, Robinson Butler, Isaac Wait and Mathew Slocum Junior of Easton,
aforesaid, to enquire of the Lunacy of the said Elijah Freeman,
and of his inability to manage his affairs by reason thereof.

Commission

L. S.


The People of the State of New York,
by the grace of God free and independent.
To, Job Benson, Stephen Cornell,
Robinson Butler, Isaac Wait and
Matthew Slocum Junior, of Easton in the
County of Washington - Greeting.


Know ye, that we have assigned three or more of you to enquire by the oaths of good and lawful men of our County of Washington, by whom the truth of the matter may be better known, whether
Elijah Freeman, of the town of Easton in the said County, is a
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lunatic or enjoys lucid intervals so that he is not fit for the government of himself his Manors, messuages, lands, tenements, goods and chattels, and if so from what time, after what manner and how,
and if the said Elijah being in the said condition hath alienated
any lands and tenement or not? and if so what lands and tenements
to what person or persons, where, when and after what manner and
what lands and tenements goods and chattels as yet remain to
him and of what person and persons as well the lands and tenements
so alienated as the lands and tenements to him retained are held
and after what manner and how much they are worth by the
year in all issues and who is the nearer heir &c. &c. and of what
age. And therefore we command you three or more of you that
at certain days and places which you shall for that purpose
appoint, ye diligently make inquisition and the same distinctly
and plainly made to us in our chancery under your Seals and
the seal of those persons by whom it shall be made without
delay ye send and this our writ. For we command by the tenor of
these presents our Sheriff of our County of Washington aforesaid
that on certain days and places which you shall make known to him
he cause to come before you three or more of you so many and
such good and lawful men of his bailwick by whom the truth of the
matter in the premises may be better known and enquired into.
Witness Reuben H. Walworth Esquire Chancellor
of our said State at the Town of Saratoga Springs the twenty third
day of April one thousand eight hundred and thirty one
G. M Davison, Clerk
Judiah Ellsworth Solicitor
---
Precept of Commissioners
By Virtue of a Commission in the nature of a writ de lunatics
inquirends bearing date at Saratoga Springs, the twenty third day
of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty one, to us whose
names are hereunder written and others in the same commission
named directed to enquire of Elijah Freeman of Easton, in the
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County of Washington be a lunatic or not.
These are therefore to will and require of you to cause
to come and appear before us twenty four honest and lawful men
of the County of Washington aforesaid on the twenty eighth day of
April instant at ten OClock in the forenoon at the dwelling
house of Cornelius W Abeel in Easton being the nearest place or
house to the dwelling house of the said Elijah where the said commission can be executed, then and there upon their oaths to enquire
of the Lunacy of the said Elijah Freeman and of all such matters
and things as shall be given them in charge by virtue of the said
Commission. And thereof fail not at your peril.
Given under our hands and seals this 25th
day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and thirty one
Job Benson (L.S.)
Robinson Butler (L.S.)
Matthew Slocum Jr (L.S.)
To the Sheriff of the
County of Washington.
Endorsed - The execution of this precipe appears
by the panel hereunder written
W. F. Hitchcock Sheriff
E Bell Depy
Ebenezer Norton
William L English
Isaac Bull
Joel Potter
Luke English
Cornelius Potter
Luke Chapin
Edward Worth
Seth Worth
Timothy A Burbank
Charles Harrington
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Cornelius W Abel
James M. Skiff
Stephen Durham 
Francis Norton
Gideon Cornell
--
Inquisition
Washington County SS:
An Inquisition taken at the house of Cornelius
W Abel situate in the town of Easton in the said County being
the house nearest the dwelling house of Elijah Freeman
the Lunatic mentioned in the Commission hereunto annexed, at
which the said commission could be executed on the twenty eighth
day of April one thousand eight hundred and thirty one before
Matthew Slocum Junior Robinson Butler and Stephen Cornell
Commissioners appointed by virtue of a writ de lunatico inquirends under the seal of the Court of Chancery of the State of
New York bearing date the twenty third day of April in the
year last aforesaid to them the said Commissioners directed
to enquire among other things of the Lunacy of the said Elijah
upon the oaths of Ebenezer Norton William L English Isaac
Bull Joel Potter Luke English Cornelius Potter Luke
Chapin Edward Worth Seth Worth Timothy H. Burbank
Charles Harrington Cornelius W Abeel James M Skiff Stephen
Durham L Francis Norton and Gideon Cornell, good honest
and lawful men of the said County who being summoned and
charged upon their oath say that the said Elijah Freeman is a
lunatic and of unsound mind and doth not enjoy lucid
interval so that he is incapable of the government of himself ┃
his messuages lands and tenements goods and chattels and that he hath
been in the same state of Lunacy for the space of three years last
past.
And that the said Elijah three years ago this present
spring fell from the second story of a house and in the fall struck
his head against the side of the house which occasioned the said
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Lunacy of the said Elijah
And the said jurors do further say that at the said
time of becoming a lunatic as aforesaid the said Elijah was not
entitled to or in possession of any lands tenements goods or chattels
exclusive of wearing apparel except one iron basin and an old one
horse waggon worth at most not over five dollars.
And the said jurors also find that the said Elijah
Freeman is not now possessed of any property except wearing
apparel.
And the Jurors also find that Matilda wife of
Samuel Bridge aged about thirty five years, daughter of the said
Elijah Hiram Freeman Son of the said Elijah aged thirty years
and rising Samela wife of William Brownell Paulina wife of
Kenyon Rathbun Ruth wife of George Brownell Manly
Freeman Harriet Freeman Phebe Freeman and Anna Freeman
are the sons and daughters of the said Elijah Younger than the
said Matilda and Hiram - And that Stephen Freeman of
Saratoga in the County of Saratoga and Elisha Freeman of
Cattaraugus County are the only surviving brothers of the said
Elijah.
In Witness whereof as well the said Commissioner
as the said jurors have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year first above written.
Matthew Slocum Jr (L.S)
Robinson Butler (L.S)
Stephen Cornell (S.S.) - Commissioners
---
Ebenezer Norton (L.S.) William L. English (L.S.)
Isaac Bull (L.S.) Luke English (L.S.)
Joel Potter (L.S) Edward Worth (L.S.)
Cornelius Potter (L.S.) Seth S. North (L.S.)
Luke Chapin (L.S.) J. H. Burbank (L.S.)
Charles Harrington (L.S.) Cornelius W Abeel (L.S.)
James M. Skiff (L.S.) Francis Norton (L.S.)
Stephen Durham (L.S.) Gideon Cornell (L.S.)
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4
Petition

To the Chancellor of the State of New York.

The petition of Stephen Freeman of Saratoga with in the County of Saratoga

Respectfully showeth
That by the return of the Commissioners and the Inquisitor hereunto annexed it appears that Elijah Freeman is a lunatic and had no property beyond five dollars when he became so and has none now except wearing apparel. That your petitioner has only two brothers living, the lunatic and Elisha who lives in Cattaraugus County. That Hiram the oldest son of the Lunatic resides in Cattaraugus County. Manly the other son of the Lunatic is a tin pedlar and refuses to aid the Lunatic or to have anything to do with him. The daughters and their husbands are unwilling to take charge of the Lunatic. Your petitioner therefore prays that the Custody of the said Lunatic and his property may be committed to your petitioner.
[signature] Stephen Freeman.

Saratoga County ss: Stephen Freeman being duly sworn on the second day of May 1831 did depose that he had heard the foregoing petition read and knew the contents that the same is true of his own knowledge.
[signature] G.M. Davison
Clerk in Chancery

Order
At a court of Chancery held for the State of New York, at the town of Saratoga Springs on the second day of May, one thousand and thirty one.

Present - Esek Cowen. Vice Chancellor of the Fourth Circuit.

In the matter of Elijah Freeman a Lunatic.

On reading the petition of Stephen
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Freeman praying that the case and custody of the person and management of the state of the said lunatic may be granted to the said Stephen Freeman. And on reading on inquisition duly executed on the Twenty Eighth day of April last pursuant to a commission issued out of their court. Whereby amongst other things it is found that the said Elijah Freeman was a Lunatic and not capable of the government of himself his lands tenements goods and chattels; therefore and on Motion of a W. Ellsworth, Solicitor, for the said petitioner It is ordered, that said Stephen Freeman be the committee of the person and estate as well real as personal of the said lunatic and that the said Stephen Freeman enter into a recognizance before a Master of their Court in the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars with one sufficient surety conditioned that the said Stephen Freeman shall truly honestly and faithfully perform the trust and office of the Committee of the person and estate real and personal of the said lunatic and that he account to the Court according to law. And therefore a Commissioner issue Committing the person and estate of the said Lunatic to the said Stephen Freeman.

Bond.

To vow all men by these presets that are Stephen Freeman and Isaac Freeman are held and firmly bound to the People of the State of New York, in the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars lawful money of the State of New York, to be paid unto the said People for which payment we bind ourselves our heirs executors and administrators [illegible] and severally by these presents. Sealed with our Seals and dated the second day of May, in the Year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred and thirty one.

Whereas by an order of the Court of Chancery of the State of New York, the above named Stephen Freeman hath been appointed guardian and committee of the person, and estate
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of Elijah Freeman a Lunatic. Now the condition of this obligation is such that if the said Stephen Freeman shall well and faithfully perform the trust and office of guardian and committee of the person and estate real and personal of the said lunatic and shall account to the Court of Chancery of the State of New York according to law, then this obligation to be void, else to remain in full force.
Sealed and delivered in the presence of [signature] W. L. F. Warren.
[Signature] Stephen Freeman (L. L.)
[Signature] Isaac Freeman (L.L.)

I certify that in pursuance of an order of the Court of Chancery of the State of New York, made on the second day understand I have perused the within bond, and do approve of the same. Dated this third day of May 1831. I have also examined as to the surety Isaac Freeman and do find him competent for such surety.
[Signature] W.L.F. Warren
Master in Chancery 

Inventory.
In Chancery.
In the matter of Elijah Freeman a Lunatic.
A just and true inventory of the whole real and personal estate of the said Lunatic Elijah Freeman made and filed pursuant to the order in this cause.
The lunatic has no right claim on title to any real or personal estate or the income of any real or personal estate.
The Lunatic has no personal property of any kind except his wearing apparel, which consists of two suits of old common every day wearing apparel, for any person except Lunatic not worth any thing.
The Lunatic owed debts amounting in the whole to about three hundred dollars. Dates May 3 1831.
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Stephen Freeman
Guardian & Committee
Saratoga County ss: The above named Stephen Freeman being duly sworn before me on the Third day May 1831. did depose that the fore going is a just and true inventory of the whole real and personal
estate of the above named Lunatic so far as he has been able to discover the same,
Wm L. F. Warren
Master in Chancery.
---
Commission
L.S.
The People of the State of New York, by the grace of God, free and independent:
To Stephen Freeman of Saratoga in the County of Saratoga
Greeting;
Whereas, by our certain writ issued out of our Court of Chancery, tested the twenty third day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty one, we assigned Stephen Cornell, Job Benson, Robinson Butler, Isaac Wait and Matthew Slocum, Junior, or any three or more of them, to enquire by the oath of good and lawful men of the County of Washington, by whom the truth of the matter might be the better known; amongst other things whether Elijah Freeman, of Easton in the County of Washington, was a lunatic or person now compos mentis, or enjoys lucid intervals, so that he is not fit for the government of him
self, his manors messuages, lands and tenements, goods and chattels, and if so, from what time and after what manner to and by our said writ we commanded them, that the inquisition which they should thereupon make under their seals, and the seals of those by whose oath they should make the same, distinctly and plainly, and without delay they should send to us in our Court of Chancery, together with our said writ to them thereupon directed. And whereas by a certain inquisition taken on the
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twenty eighth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty
one, at the town of Easton aforesaid, before Matthew Slocum, Junior,
Robinson Butler and Stephen Cornell, three of the commissioners in our
said writ named, pursuant to our said writ, and duly returned there
with by them into our said Court of Chancery, and filed in the office
of our Clerk of our said Court for the fourth Circuit, it is found and
thereby manifestly appears, that the said Elijah Freeman is a
lunatic and of unsound mind, and doth not enjoy lucid intervals, so
that he is incapable of the government of himself, his messuages, lands
and tenements, goods and chattels, and that he hath been in the same
State of Lunacy for the space of three years last past. Now therefore
know ye, that we, being desirous that the estate as well real as personal, and also the person of the said Elijah Freeman, should
be well, faithfully, diligently and discreetly managed, conducted
attended to governed and taken care of, do hereby assign you the said
Stephen Freeman to be the committee of the person and estate of the
said Elijah Freeman; and do grant and commit unto you the custody
and control of the person of the said Elijah Freeman; and do also
grant and commit unto you his estate, as well real as personal, and
the case and management of the same, during our pleasure, to be
signified by our Vice Chancellor of our fourth Circuit, and we do
hereby command you, that you take proper and diligent care of the
person and estate of the said Elijah Freeman, and collect and receive
the rents, issues and profits of the said estate; and that you abide
and obey such orders respecting the said estate, and the disposition
and management thereof, and respecting the support and management
and care of the said Elijah Freeman and his family as our said Court
shall from time to time make in relation thereto; and that you keep
and render a just and true account of the said estate, and of the manner
in which you shall have discharged the trust hereby reposed in you, when there unto lawfully required; and that you do not interfere with any
thing but of what you may render an account.
Witness, Reuben H. Walworth Esquire
Chancellor of our said State, at Saratoga Springs, the third day
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of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one.
[signature] G.M. Davison, Clerk.

In Chancery.
In the matter of Elijah Freeman, a lunatic.

I certify, that the preceding are copies of the papers of record on file, and of the orders entered in this cause in any office, and also of the commissions issued in the said cause. In testimony whereof, I have affixed the seal of the Court of Chancery of the state of New York, the third day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty one.
[signature] G.M. Davison
Clerk in Chancery
4th Circuit
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Greenwich NY
April 17
Pension office
Free
Honbl Secretary at War
Washington City 
21 April
filed
answer unnecessasry see letter
April 14 1829
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Secretary at War
Sir
About the 11th of July last I enclosed to your Department - testimony in support of the application of Elijah Freeman to be restored to the pension, and had hoped before this to have received an assurance but no communication has been received I apprehend that something may have prevented the documents from reaching the proper office
May I trouble the Department to inform me when the documents have been received and if so what is the result - The old man is in actual need of the bounty - Let this be my apology for troubling you at this time.

With respect
[signature] J. Williams

Greenwich Washington City April 15th 1829
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Pension Office
Augt 27 1830
L
free
Ellicottville NY
August 18 1830
Secretary of War
Washington City
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Hiram Freeman of the town of Napoli Cattaraugus
County (N.Y.) being duly sworn deposeth and
saith that in the year eighteen hundred and twenty
he this deponent entered into a written Contract
with Elijah Freeman in which he this deponent
agreed on certain terms stated in said contract to
Labour for the said Elijah Freeman for a stipulated
term of time; and that the said Contract was written by
Elmer Freeman since deceased and executed before
the performance of the labour, that after laboring
for the said Elijah for the term stipulated in said
Contract which was according to the best
recollection of this deponent Eleven months the
said Elijah gave this deponent his note for the
amount of his wages and the said Contract was
given up and destroyed, and that the note aforesaid
was afterwards paid to this deponent out of the avails
of the said Elijah's farm in Easton. And this deponent
further saith that in the year eighteen hundred and
twenty four he this deponent entered into a second
written contract with the said Elijah by which he
this deponent agreed to labor for the said Elijah on
terms stated in said contract; that this contract was
written as this deponent believes by an Attorney
was executed before the performance of the labour
and deposited with this deponent's mother; that in
the month of May or June in the year 1825 a settlement took place
between this deponent and the said Elijah at which
time the said Elijah's Farm in Queensbury was mortgaged
to Doct. Peck for the purpose of procuring money to
pay the wages of this deponent, which amounted to
one hundred and forty Dollars, and the contract was
given up and destroyed. And this deponent further
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saith that he this deponent has frequently laboured
for the said Elijah and received wages when there
was no written contract between them; and
Further this deponent saith not.
Hiram Freeman [signature]
Sworn and subscribed this 11th
day of August 1820
before me Benjamin N. Willman Justice

You will due me a favor in writing to me

Elizabeth Freeman wife of Hiram Freeman
being duly sworn deposeth and saith that in 
the month of May or June in the year
1825 she this deponent was present at a
settlement which took place between Elijah
Freeman and Hiram Freeman at which time
the farm of Elijah Freeman in Queensbury was
mortgaged to Doct'r Peck, and one hundred and
forty dollars Dollars paid to Hiram Freeman
and a written contract existing between the
said Elijah & Hiram Freeman was given up and
destroyed. And further this deponent saith not.
Elizabeth Freeman X her mark
Sworn & Subscribed this 17th
day of August 1830
before me Benjamin W Willman Justice
I hereby certify that Hiram Freeman
contracted in point of Veracity is good and
have no doubt but the above Statement
is correct
Benj W Willman Justice
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State of New York
Cattaraugus County
Clerks Office SS.
I John W. Staunton Clerk of the court
of Common Pleas of the County of Cattaraugus
do hereby certify that Benjamin H. Hillman
Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavits were
taken and subscribed was on the day of the date
of the same to wit, on the 11th day of August
A.D. 1830, a Justice of the Peace commissioned
and sworn and duly authorized by law to act as such. And further
that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice
and verily believe that the signature "Benjix H. Hillman " subscribed 
to the certificate of acknowledgment purporting to be his, is genuine-
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my land and affixed
the seal of the said County this 16th day of August A.D. 1830.
John W. Staunton
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Isaac Freeman Deposition

Isaac Freeman affvt. in the matter of Elijah Freeman

to accompany file H
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State of New York
Saratoga County
Personally appeared Before me Isaac Freeman
of the town of Saratoga and County aforesaid
Being duly Sworn deposeth and saith that he the
said Isaac Freeman on or about the month of December
1820 Bought of Elijah Treason of the town of Easton and
County of Washington and aforesaid State a farm that
then belonged to the said Elijah for which he the said
Isaac gave him the amount of thirty five hundred
Dollars and paid him in the following day Viz
In takeing up, a Mortgage that then was lying against
said farm to the amount of Seventeen hundred dollars
or there about, per Gerrit L Van Schaick and further
let him have a piece of Land in the County of Warren
and town of Queensbury to the value of one thousand
Dollars or there about as then called the residue
was paid some in money and some was turned towards
his debts which was numerous to the amount of about
Eight hundred Dollars or there about and
further he the said Isaac Saith not.
Isaac Freeman [signature]
Sworn before me
this 19th day of July 1828
James Mott Commissioner
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State of New York
Saratoga County
I Thomas Palmer Clerk of the
the County of Saratoga do certify that James Mott
whose signature appears to the Jurat of the within
affidavit was on the day the same purports to have been
taken a commissioned in and for the County of Saratoga
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
subscribed my name and affixed
the seal of the said County this
13th day of November 1828
Thomas Palmer Clerk
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Elijah Freeman and wife to Isaac Freeman}
copy deed + proofs
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full Covenant Deed
This Indenture made the thirteenth Day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and twenty Between
Elijah Freeman of Easton in the County of Washington and State of New York and Parnell his wife of the first part
and Isaac Freeman of the town and County of Saratoga and State of aforesaid of the second part Witnesseth that the said
party of the first part for and in consideration of the sum of three thousand Eight hundred Dollars of Lawfull
Money of account of the United States to them in hand paid at or before the Ensealing and Delivery of these
presents by the said party of the Second part the Receipt whereof is hereby confessed and acknowleged have granted Bargained
Sold alien remised released conveyed assured enfeoffed and confirmed and by the Presents do grant bargain sell alien
remise release convey assure enfeoff and confirm fully freely and absolutely unto the said party of the second part
and to his heirs and assigns for ever all that certain piece or parcell of land Situate lying and being in Easter aforesaid being
Part of great lot number thirty seven in the grand Division of the Saratoga patent a part of said farm piece or parcel of Land
was granted to the said party of the first part by Gerritt Van Horn of New York and part by preserved Amos and Eleaner Herrington
and Nicholas Herrington boundary as follows beginning at the South East Corner of the Vanhorn farm and runs thence North
Eighty nine degrees and forty minutes West forty six chains and Eighty links thence north one degree and fifteen minutes West
thirty six chains and Ninety five links thence due East six chains and ninety three links thence north one degree and
fifteen minutes West fifteen chains and four links thence north Eighty six degrees and forty five minutes East twenty eight chains
and thirty six links thence north one degree and
fifteen minutes West one chain and thirty five links thence north Eighty
Nine Degrees and forty minutes East Eleven Chains and thirty seven links thence South one degree and fifteen minutes East
twenty chains and twenty two links thence South one degree and thirty five chains and ten links 
to the place of beginning containing two hundred and thirty eight acres two Roods and twenty three perches the courses as the needle
pointed in 1817 together with all and singular the appurtenances privileges and advantage whatsoever unto the said above
mentioned and described premises in any wise appertaining or belonging and the reversion and Reversions Remainder and
Remainders Rents Issues and propts thereof and also all the estate right title Interest property claim and Demand whatsoever
as well in the law as in Equity of the said party of the first part of in and to the same or any part or parcell there of with
the appurtenances To have and to hold the above granted Bargained and described premises with the appurtenances unto the said
party of the second part his heirs and assigns for their own proper use benefit and behoof for Ever and the said parties of the
first part for themselves and their heirs do covenant promise grant and agree to and with the said party of
the second part his heirs and assigns that they the said party of the first part at the time of Ensealing and delivery
of these presents are lawfully seized in their own right of in and to the afore said described
premises within the
appurtenances of a good sure perfect absolute and indefeasible Estate of inheritance in the law in fee simple without
any matter of condition to alter change determine or defeat the same and have in themselves good right full power
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any Matter of condition to alter change determine on & [illegible] the same and have in themselves good right full power lawful authority to grant bargain sell Convey and release the same unto the said party of the Second part his heirs and assigns in manner aforesaid and also that he the said party of the Second part his heirs and assigns shall and may from time to time and at all times and forever hereafter peaceably and quietly have hole occupy possess and enjoy the said hereby granted and Bargained premises with the appurtenances and also that the said party of the first part and their heirs 
and all and every other person or persons Whoom[sic] soever lawfully or Equitably deriving any Estate right title dower Joint the or Interest of in or to the herein before granted premises by from under or in trust for them and  then shall and will at any time on times hereafter upon the reasonable Request of the said party of the Second part his heirs or assigns Makes do and Execute on cause or procure to be made done and executed all and every such further and other lawful and Reasonable Conveyance and assurance in the law for the better and more effectively vesting and confirming the premises hereby intended to be granted in and to the said party of the Second part his heirs and assigns forever as by the said party of the Second part his heirs or assigns on his or their [illegible] [illegible] in the Law Shall be Reasonably Devised advised or required and the said party of the first part for themselves and their heirs covenant and agree to and with the said party of the Second part his heirs and assigns to Warrant and by these presents for Ever[sic] defend above described and released premises, and Every part and parcell [sic] thereof to the said party of the Second part his heirs or assigns against the said party of the first part and the heirs and against all persons Whoomsoever [sic] Lawfully claiming the same or any part thereof.

In Witness Whereof the parties hereunto have interchangeably set their hands and seals the day and year first above Written.
Elijah Freeman (LS) [handwritten]
Parnell Freeman X his Mark (LS) [handwritten]

A copy [handwritten]

Sealed and delivered presence of Calvin Smith Hiram Freeman
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State of New York
Washington County ss
On the fourteenth day of
at the town of Easton in said County of Wash-
before me Calvin Smith a Commissioner for said Coun-
for taking the acknowledgments of deeds came
Elijah Freeman and Parnell his wife to me
known to be the within named [illegible]
Grant-
and severally acknowledged they duly executed-
the within Indenture as their deed and I have
then examined [illegible] said Parnell separately
and apart from her said Husband she
acknowledged she executed the same freely
without any fear or compulsion of her
said Husband but it therefore be Recorded.
Calvin Smith
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State of New York
Washington County SS. 
I Jesse S Leigh Clerk of the said County
of Washington do certify that Calvin Smith Esq.
the commissioner who acknowled the original deed
of which this purports to be a copy was on the 14th
day of November 1820 a commissioner in and for the said
County of Washington appointed and sworn and duly authorised
by law to take the proof and acknowledgement of deeds &c
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name
and affixed the seal of the said County this 7th day of
February 1829.
J. S. Leigh Clk
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State of New York
Washington County ss
Samuel Badger of Easton in the County of Washington aged thirty six years
being duly sworn saith that the within is a
true copy made by this deponent of an original
deed executed by Elijah Freeman & Pernell his wife
(now) of Easton to Isaac Freeman - and further
that the annexed is a true copy also made
by him of an original certificate endorsed on
said original deed in the hand writing of Calvin
Smith Esqr formerly of Easton & now of Jackson
in said County - and further this deponent saith
not.
Samuel Badger [signature]
Sworn this 4th day of
Feby 1829 before give
Charles F. Ingalls Justice of the Peace
in & for the County of Washington

State of New York
Washington County SS.
I Jesse S Leigh Clerk of the said County
of Washington do certify that Charles F Ingalls Esq.
Before whom the foregoing affidavit of Samuel Badger was taken was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace of said county appointed and sworn and duly authorized by law to act as such justice and to take affidavits +c - and I further certify that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and do verily believe that the signature "Charles F Ingalls" above subscribed is genuine and the proper hand writing of the said Justice - 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name
and affixed the seal of the said County this 7th day of
February 1829.
J. S. Leigh Clk
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State of New York
Washington County 
Calvin Smith of Jackson in said County aged forty nine years and upwards being duly sworn saith that on or about the thirteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and twenty. Elijah Freeman there and now of Easton in said County sold and conveyed the due form of law his farm in Easton
aforesaid to Isaac Freeman for its fair value and for the full consideration expressed in the deed of said conveyance that this deponent [illegible] the writings relating to said conveyance among which was a deed of said farm executed by said Elijah Freeman and Parnell his wife to said Isaac Freeman that this deponent then saw the said Elijah and his said wife sign seal and deliver said deed for the purposes therein mentioned and there subscribed his name to the same as a witness that this deponent being there a commissioner for said county for taking the acknowledgement of deed the said Elijah Freeman and his said wife then duly acknowledged the execution of said deed before this deponent and this deponent then wrote on said deed a certificate of said acknowledgement in due form that this deponent verily believes the annexed to be a true copy of said deed and of said certificate This deponent further saith there is no other deed of said farm any part of which is in the hand writing of this deponent. This deponent further saith that a very large proportion of said consideration money was then secured to be paid not to said Elijah Freeman but to his creditors that this deponent was then informed and
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State of New York
Washington County ss. 
I Jesse S. Leigh Clerk of the said County of
Washington do certify that George W. Germain before
whom the annexed affidavit of Calvin Smith was taken
was at the time of taking the same a Judge of the
Court of Common Pleas of said County Commissioned
and sworn and duly authorized by law to take affidavits - and I
further certify that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the
said Judge and do verily believe that the signature "George W
Germain" subscribed to the said affidavit is genuine and the proper
hand writing of the said Judge. In testimony whereof I have here
unto set my name and affixed the seal of the said County this 7th
day of February, 1829.
J. S. Leigh Clk

Copy of a deed from Elijah Freeman & wife to
Isaac Freeman
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verily believes that said Elijah was there in
[illegible] very reluctantly so sell his farm a
foresaid on which he had resided for many
years only by reason of his being there involved
in bonafide debts to a large amount and
which he had no other means of discharlying and further this deponent saith not.
Calvin Smith
Sworn this 29th day of January AD 1829 before me
George W. Germain a
Judge of the Court of
Common Pleas of the
County of Washington N.Y.

fees $1.00

Elijah Freeman and wife to
Isaac Freeman proofs
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Elijah Freeman
affdt
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State of New York
Washington County ss
Elijah Freeman of Easton in
the County of Washington being duly
sworn says that he is the same Elijah Freeman
whose name has been inscribed on the roll
of revolutionary pensioners No 16.344-
That he formerly possessed a considerable
real and personal estate, but was at the same
time in debt, that about twenty years ago
his debts accumulated faster than his income.
That to rest his pressing demands he borrowed
money - at first in small sums & afterwards
in larger - of Gerrit J Van Schaich of Easton
Jonathan Burr of Lansingburgh-- Leonard
Coggins of Easton and others-
That upon the loan from Mr Van Schaick
about the year 1814 or 1815 he confessed a
Judgment for his security-
That about that time he became security
for one John Prinn as a constable & deputy
Sheriff who absconded and left this deponent
chargeable with about one hundred & seventy
five - one hundred of which this deponent paid and
settled about the year 1817 -
That in the year 1818 This deponents
real estate consisted of a good farm in
Easton aforesaid of about one hundred and
fifty acres tolerably well stocked & supplied with
farming utensils- That he was so much
embarrassed that his credit was impaired
and he was under the necessity of selling
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from time to time portions of his loose property
to pay debts- support his family & carry on
his farm. That being old and his memory
frail it is impossible for him to state to
whom the different items of property were
sold and the appropriation of the avails
and he further says that about the year
1820 his debts had accumulated so much
that he could not possibly pay them and
keep the farm - and he therefore sold his
farm to one Isaac Freeman who agreed
to pay off all this deponents debts and
convey to him a farm situate in the
town of Queensbury. That this was the
most favorable bargain he was able to
make of the farm, that the sale was
bona fide and made only for the purpose
of paying just debts and finding another
home. That said Isaac Freeman paid
some of the debts with his own hand-- and
some of them was paid by this deponent
out of the money received by him from said
Isaac - one of the debts to wit Van Schaick
amounting to about one thousand seven
Dollars was paid by said Isaac-
Leonard Coggins of two hundred was paid
by this deponent out of that money and
a debt to Connell & Abel for merchandize
and a blacksmiths bill to one straight and
others which this deponent is not able to
state in consequence of the frailty of memory
That eight years ago this spring this deponent
[illegible] to the farm he got of Isaac Free-
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man in Queensbury- which he undertook to
manage as well as he could by means of hired
help. That it was out of repair - that
he laid out considerable for repairs - that
his wife was sick one summer- himself the
next and his son the fourth who
died at his house.
That farm and not produce near enough
to pay the hired help and support the
family - that stone debts - and doctors
bills accumulated till he was obliged to
mortgage the farm to Doct. Peck of
Queensbury aforesaid to raise money to pay
those debts and also to pay seventy five
Dollars the [illegible] of the sum which this
deponent had to pay or bail for said John
Prim - this mortgage was given for about
two hundred and fifty Dollars about four
years ago - That two years ago this deponent
finding himself again in debt for more than he
it possibly pay. sold that farm and
paid up all his debts - and has maintained
his family consisting of himself & wife &
on an average four children for the last
eight years. That this deponent from old
age has so far lost his memory that he
cannot remember to whom he has paid all
the money. The Queensbury farm he sold for
Eight hundred Dollars to Benjamin Lisson
being the highest price he could get for
it. This deponent has said nothing
of the estate he possessed except an old man
and one horse wagon - cutter - and a scant supply
of old household furniture and $50 in [illegible] bills.
Elijah Freeman [signature]
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Subscribed and sworn
this 21st day of May 1825 before me
Charles F Ingalls one of the Justices of the
Peace in and for the County of Washington
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Washington County
Affidavit made the Twenty six day of May 1828
by Gerit J Vanschaick who Deposeth and said that
Elijah Freeman owed him this Deponent in the year
1814 by Bond & Mortgage the sum of Eight Hundred
Dollars. and afterwards a Judgement of [illegible] to
this Deponent for the amount not Recalled but
Reference to the Clerks Books you can find, but the whole
amount when closed, amounted to about sixteen hundred
Dollars. and further this Deponent says that he thinks
that the property of the said Elijah when sold was
worth about three thousand Dollars and further
More this Deponent saith not. 
Garrit J Vanschaick [signature]
Sworn and Subscribed
before me this 26 day of May 1828
Gideon Cerell Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Washington County
Leonard Coggens of Easton
in said County being duly sworn saith
That in or about the year 1821 or 1822 he
this deponent had a demand againt Elijah Freeman of Easton aforesaid for a bona fide
debt of two hundred Dollars and that he
received the money from the said Elijah
in payment thereof.
And further saith not.
Leonard Coggens [signature]
Sworn this 20th day of May 1820 before me
Gideon Cornell Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Washington County ss 
Samuel Badger of Easton
in said County aged thirty five
years and upwards deposes and says that
he is well acquainted with Elijah Freeman formerly of Easton - lately of Queensbury in the county of Warren but now of Easton
who is reputed to have been a soldier in
the revolution. That he is also well
acquainted with the pecuniary circumstances
of said Elijah. That he is in very indigent
circumstances - That the only property he
possesses to the knowledge of this deponent
is an old man and one horse wagon not
worth more than thirty Dollars-- and a few
articles of old household furniture which
in the opinion of this deponent is not worth
to exceed twenty or twenty five Dollars
and that said Elijah is very infirm and
wholly unable to earn his living.
And further this deponent saith not.
Samuel Badger [signature]
Sworn this 20th day of
May 1828 before me
Gideon Cornell Justice
of the Peace
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State of New York
Washington County ss 
Eunice Freeman of Easton
in said County of lawful age being duly
sworn saith that she lives with Elijah
Freeman her father at the time he sold
his farm in Queensbury to Benjamin
Lisson- That it was sold for eight
hundred and fifty Dollars-- that Mr Lisson
paid fifty Dollars in a wagon & harness
a mortgage to Doct Peck for two hundred
and fifty Dollars & the rest was to be
paid in money. That a part of the
money received from Doct Peck on the
mortgage was paid to Hiram Freeman
brother to deponent for money which the
said Elijah Freeman had of Hiram & which was earned
by said Hiram after he was twenty one
years of age and which he let his father
have to pay debts- eighty Dollars at one
time, twelve at another and a good many small
debts which Hiram paid for his father out
of his earnings. - the whole amount of which
this deponent does not know-
And this deponent further says that when
the farm was sold to Mr Lisson the family
was supported wholly out of the money which
her father received for the farm - that the
family had been [illegible] before & was after
the sale. the expenses of supporting the
family justly heavy & that he had no
other income-- & he expended his money very
fast- That her father very frequently drank
excessively and spent money very duly of
which the family could give no account
and they were very soon reduced to a state of
want & have now no means of support
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And this deponent further says that in her
Judgment he had so far lost his memory &
Judgment before he sold his farm to Mr
Lisson as to be incapable of conducting his
business with common prudence & discretion.
And further this deponent saith not.
Eunice Freeman [signature]
Sworn this 2nd day of
October 1825 before me
the words had of Hiram
which was interlined before sworn.

State of New York
Washington County

Be it understood that on the Second day of October
1818 came before me Charles F Ingall one of the
Justice of the Peace and for the County aforesaid Eunice Freeman
above named and made oath to the foregoing affidavit
and further certify that I am satisfied she is a credible
witness.
Charles Ingalls
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State of New York
Washington County ss 
Israel Williams of Greenwich
in said County of Washington Attorney at law of
lawful age being duly sworn saith. That in May
last Elijah Truman employed this deponent to
collect testimony & prepare affidavits in support of
his application to be restored to the pension roll
and produced a declaration made in Court in the
County of Warren - that finding he had not accounted
for the disposition of his property in that declaration
this deponent obtained from him the account contained
in the annexed affidavit made by him the 26th
of May before Mr Justin Ingalls. 
He then was able to recollect tolerably well tho
his memory had lost much of its former strength
the disposition his property. This deponent not
having the forms prescribed by the department
applied for and obtained a copy in August from
the Department - and discovered that the forms
required the account of the deposition of the
property to be contained in the iteration made
in Court-
This deponent then had an interview with
said Freeman for the purpose of his making a
further declaration in the Court which Justices
held in this County on the last Tuesday of August
but found that there was so great & evident a decay
of mental powers within the three preceding months
that he doubted his competency to take an oath
& for that reason alone did not prepare such
amended declaration & further this deponent
saith not-- J Williams
Washington County ss. 
Be it understood that on the sworn
day of October 1828 came before Charles C Ingalls one
of the Justices of the Peace in and the said County Israel
Williams to me known and made oath to the foregoing
affidavit and I further certify that he is a creditable
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State of New York ss:
Washington County
I Jesse S. Leigh Clerk of the said County
do certify that Charles F. Ingalls and Gideon
Cornell Esqr. before whom the within and preceding
affidavits were sworn were at the times the same
purport to have been taken and sworn Justices of the Peace in
and for the said County appointed and sworn and duly authorized
by law to act as such Justices- And I further certify that I
am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justices and
verily believe that the signatures of the said Justices within
subscribed in the proper hand writing of the said Justices.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name
and affixed the seal of the said County this 16th day
of October 1828
J. S. Leigh Clk
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Saratoga County ss:
On the 8th day of October in the year of our Lord
1819 Personally appeared before the Mr Abraham May
one of the judges of the Court of Common pleas of the
County of Saratoga. Stephen Freeman a resident
in the same of Saratoga in the County aforesaid When
being by me duly sworn according to law, on his oath
deposeth and Saith he is personally acquainted with Elijah
Freeman, and actually knows that the said Elijah did
Enlist himself a Soldier in Captain John Wrights company
in Col. [illegible] Van Schaick Regiment in the month of May 1776 in the Revolutionary war for one year and actually served the year out
against the common enemy as this deponent was a soldier 
in the Company and Regiment aforesaid for the term of
one year with the said Elijah, and that the said Elijah
is under reduced circumstances and actually stands
in need of the assistance of his country for his support.
Stephen Freeman [signature]
Subscribed Sworn to & declared
before me the day & year aforesaid
Graham May [signature]

Saratoga County ss:
On the 8th day of October in the year of our Lord
1819 Personally appeared before me Abraham May
one of the judges of the Court of Common pleas of
the County of Saratoga. Simeon Rockwell a resident
in the Town of Matterson in the County of Saratoga, who being
by me duly sworn according to law deposeth and Saith he is
personally acquainted with Elijah Freeman and actually knows
that the said Elijah did enlist himself a Soldier in Capt Jab
Wrights Company in Col. [illegible] Van Schaicks Regiment, in the
month of March 1776 for one year, in the Revolutionary war, and
actually served the year out against the common enemy as this
deponant was a soldier in the company & Regiment aforesaid
for the term of one year with the said Elijah and that the said
Elijah is under much reduced circumstances and actually stands
in need of the assistance of his country for his support.
Simeon Rockwell [signature]
Sworn to and Subscribed
before the day and date
above mentioned
Abraham May [signature]
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Saratoga County ss:
On the 8th day of October in the year of our Lord
1819. Personally appeared before me Abraham May
one of the judges of the Court of Common pleas of the
County of Saratoga, Holterm Dunham a resident of
in the Town of Stillwater in the County of Saratoga
being by me duly sworn according to law, on his Father
deposeth and saith, that he is personally acquainted
with Elijah Freeman, and actually as [illegible]
Lieutenant did enlist the said Elijah in Capt Job
Wrights Company in Col. [illegible] Van Schaicks Regiment
in the month of March 1776, for one year, and that the
said Elijah did actually serve as a faithful
Soldier the full term of one year, as this deponent
was a Lieutenant in the Company and Regiment
aforesaid for the full term of one year as aforesaid, and
that the said Elijah is actually under reduced circumstances
and actually stands in need of the assistance of
his country for his support, will further this
deponent saith not.
Holterm Dunham [signature]
Sworn to & Subscribed before
me the day and year above
mentioned,
Abraham May [signature]

Saratoga County ss:
I Abraham May, one of the judges of the Court at
Common Pleas of the County of Saratoga do certify
that from the respectable and creditable Witness hereunto
annexed I am fully satisfied that the said Elijah Freeman did actually serve in the Revolutionary war against the Common
enemy for the term of one year, and I further certify that
from the respectable standing of the Witnesses, hereunto annexed I am fully satisfied that the said Elijah is actually under
[illegible] Indigent circumstances, having no property, and
actually stands in need of the assistance of his country for
his support. And I now transmit the proceeding testimony
taken and had before me to the Secretary for the department
of war pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of
Congress. Given under my hand at the Town of Orange this
Eighth day of October in the year of our Lord 1819.
Abraham May
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State of New York
Saratoga County ss:
I Thomas Palmer Clerk of the county of Saratoga Do hereby certify that Abraham, Moe whose name is subscribed to the Jurate of the within affidavits and to the within Certificates was at the date thereof and now is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County acting under the authority of this State and that the within are his signatures. In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto Subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said County the [illegible] October 1819
Thomas Palmer
Clerk


Elijah Freeman
New York line
Col Van Shaick Rogan
March 1779
New York line
aquitted
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Albany Augt 5th 1843
Sir
I herewith enclose the declaration
of Pernel Freeman, under the Act of 3 March 1843
I am yours very respectfully
and Obt Servt
Wm Valentine
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WAR DEPARTMENT REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
Duplicate.
I certify, That, in conformity with the Laws of the United States of the 18th March 1818, and May 1st 1820, Elijah Freeman late a private in the New York line of the Revolutionary war is inscribed on the Pension List Roll of the New
York Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to commence on the eighth day of October one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.

Given at the War Office of the United States, this thirtieth day of November one
thousand eight hundred and thirty three.

Secretary of War.

Examined and countersigned
Commissioner of Pensions-

This certificate issued in lieu of one dated on the 29th [illegible] 1831, which has been lost or [illegible] at the agency, the agent will transmit it to this Department.

Elijah Freemans name was dropped from roll on the - & again continued, commencing 15th 1831 under the acts of May 1st 1820 & March 1833
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file 2
Hon Secty
[stamp] Saratoga Springs
Page 123

Hon. Secretary at War
the enclosed unexpected
came to hand today after letter of yesterday
[illegible] the [illegible]
I send it merely in confirmation.
Yours &c
Judiah Ellsworth
Saratoga Springs Aug 11, 1831.
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Payment to be made at Albany
by
Thos W. Olcott
Agent for paying Pensioners,
in the
Agency of New York
Payable on the 4th September and 4th
March
Recorded in the Pension Office on the
Roll of Pensioners under act February
2d, 1848, Page 69 Vol. 4
Geo. Jenkins, Clerk
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
WIDOW'S PENSION.
I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2, 1848,
Pernel Freeman
widow of Elijah Freeman
who was a private in the revolutionary war
is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of
forty dollars per annum, commencing on the
4th of March, 1848, and continuing for life, unless she should again
marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.
Given at the War Office of the United States this
3d day of August
one thousand eight hundred and forty eight
W.L. Marcy
Secretary of War.

Examined a Countered
J L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
By F. S. Evans
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Albany April 26th 1843
J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
I herewith enclose the declaration
and proof in the application of Pernel Freeman, widow of
Elijah Freeman deceased.
I trust that the date of the marriage
will be deemed satisfactorily established before the first of
January 1794. therefore would beg leave to submit the case
without comment on.
I am Yours very respectfully
And obt Servt
Wm Valentine
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Albany N.Y. Oct 26th 1847
Sir
On the 26th of April 1843 I forwarded the
Declaration and proofs in the application of Pernel
widow of Elijah Freeman under the Act of 1838 and
she was allowed $40 per Annum.
At that time I was but little acquainted with
the rules & requisitions of the Department and the
mode of proceeding, I had no pension roll and did
not think to enquire how much her husband received
or under what Act he was pensioned.
I have recently noticed that he was a pensioner
of Warren County under the Act of 1818, for services
in the Massachusetts Line - from which & from the
amount allowed her, I infer that she was only pensioned
for one years service. I have recently discovered his name
upon the Militia rolls of this State & would therefore enquire
if she was pensioned for any other service than such as
was performed in Massachusetts.
I furnished no evidence
of his service & therefore suppose she is entitled to an increase.
Please inform me what service her husband claimed &
why she was not allowed more than $40 per Annum.
I am Yours very respectfully
Wm Valentine
J.L. Edwards Esq
Com of Pensions
Washington
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John C Calhoun Esq
Secretary at War
Washington City Filed
Case of Elijah Freeman 
Easton NY
Recd Dec 6 1849
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Mr John C Calhoun
Kind sir please to lend attention
To the within papers as soon as
may be convenient and oblige yours
Most humble Servant
Elijah Freeman
Direct your Returns Easton Washington
County State of New York
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Respected Sir
Enclosed is a volume of documents and
testimony for the purpose of obtaining
a restoration of the name of Elijah
Freeman to the pension roll.
I hope and believe they will be found
sufficient- Knowing the individual and his family.
Please to communicate the determination
of the department to me as soon as
convenience will permit.
I am very respectfully
your humble servant
Israel Williams
Greenwich Wash'n Co'y N.Y.
Feby 11th 1829
Page 131

Secretary at War
Sir
I enclose a number of affidavits
in the case of Elijah Freeman an
applicant to be restored to the pension roll
giving further accounts of the Disposition
of the proceeds of his real estate
By a letter of your department I perceive
that he is required to account for
$3500 (for which he sold his farm).
From my recollection of the former
documents it appears that he is charged
with the nominal amount of sale which
was calculated to be $3500 for his homestead
in Easton - for which he received in part
payment a farm in Queensbury valued at
$1300 in that trade - but which he afterwords
sold for $850 - and received in part
payment a horse and waggon valued at $50.
The old man was not quite as fortunate
as the Vermonter who sold his dog for $1000
received in part pay't 2 puppies at $500 each.
I would respectfully observe that it appears
to me the true sum to be accounted for
is only $3350 - and that taking the [illegible]
made by Hiram Freeman in connection
with the other proofs a satisfactory account
is given of the expenditure of $3207.93 leaving 
at a small balance unaccounted for.
Hiram has been and still is residing in the
County of Cattaraugus - and I have had no
opportunity of obtaining his aid until within
the last few days-- but it seems he was
will acquainted with his father's affairs
before his removal and able to trace out many
things which another would not be able to do
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My conviction of the merits of the application
is so strong that I cannot but hope the
case may receive a review and the additional
evidence now furnished receive their due wright
and the old man be yet restored and enjoy (if
he should be capable of enjoying) the bounty of
government.
Those who know him believe him honest
altho he has suffered from an inordinate
propensity for strong drink - tho of late
he uses none-
I am with respect your
Humble Sevt
Israel Williams
Greenwich March 16. 1830
Please to inform me of the result
IW
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file 2
Revolutionary Claim 
From
Hon Secretary at War
Washington

War Dept
August 16th 1831
Pension Office
[stamp - illegible]
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Hon. Lewis Cass
Secretary at War
In pursuance of the
intimation contained in a note from the War Department
of May 14. 1831 in relation to the claim of Elijah Freeman
to a pension I now endorse the affidavit of Col. Peck
and M Paddock Post Master at Glens Falls.
They are Gentleman of the first respectability and they
give a full account of the contract between Freeman &
his son which it has been thought exclude him from a
pension.
The note from the Department is as follows:
"It appears from
evidence deposited in this Department some time [illegible]
that he (Freeman) paid a certain sum to his son
for labor alleged to have been performed for the Father.
In said cases the claimant is required to prove that
there was a written contract entered into between
the parties prior to the performance of the labor. In
this case no such contract was existed. His claim
to renewal of his pension can not therefore be allowed."
The affidavits to prove that there
was a written contract entered into prior to the performance
of the labor - a deed upon a condition or another
[illegible] containing the terms to support the Father to
pay his debts. But the property was reconveyed and
then the Father borrowed the money of Col. Peck
and paid for the labor + the debts and that was
only a fair equivalent.
Here then can it be said that there
was not a written contract but as required by the
regulations of the Department.
It is therefore inserted that the rule has
been fully complied with. We have get the affidavits
of disinterested men; and but if there be the least
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doubt one half of Queensbury can be sworn on the subject.
I will simply call your attention to the
facts of this case. The papers sent to the Department
under the seal of the Court of Chancery state that
Freeman is a lunatic and the finding of the Jury
must satisfy every person that he now subsist upon
it's Charity. The papers now sent obviate the only
difficulty suggested in the evidence formerly sent
to the Department.
May I not act in favor of
this not so crazy soldier a re-examination of the
case. Wherever he is known, no one has greater sympathy
from the people. All knew him well he swore
how poor he is, and how not the government
is. The members of Congress insist that he has
been provided for and as I suggested to the
Department a certain class insist there [illegible]
has been adopted by the Department which
does not carry into effect the intention of
Congress
I ask on looking to all the evidence are
you not satisfied that Elijah Freeman is in
but indigent circumstances as to be unable to
support himself without the assistance of his country;
and that he has not dispose of or transfered his
property or any portion thereof with a view to obtain
a pension" (Mark 1. 1823 page 85.90 Less
17th Cong.)
The secretary is directed to return the names +c
and as to the time from which he should draw when
restored. The act declares that no pension hereafter
to be allowed shall commence before the passage of the
Act: And others [illegible] + c. That is all he applications
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when the pension have not been allowed before shall
[illegible] from the time of completing the proof. In this
case the limitations preclude an allowance before the
[illegible] of the act but there is no other limitation.
Freeman then can be restored to the pension
roll and his restoration dated as far back as justice
requires. It ought to be clearly dated back to the
time of his fall and the consequent insanity.
Please inform me and in conclusion and a 
early decision is expected.
yours &c
Juliah Ellsworth
Saratoga Springs Aug 10. 1831.

P. S. An allusion crept into my letter enclosing the
evidence to certain members of Congress. I think
I ought not to have made any such allusion as I
found my letter was filed: and I request
it [illegible] that the clause alluded to be 
strucken out. If a call should be made
in the [illegible] for the papers in this case I
should not like the clause I now request
to be strucken out.
I. E
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Revolutionary Claim
Free
Hon. Secretary at War
Washington City
by
son
[stamp] Saratoga Springs
filed
Pension Office 
May 13 1831
Page 138

Saratoga Springs May 6. 1831.
Secretary at War
Under the Act 1st Sess. 15th Cong. Chap. 18.
approved March 18. 1818. Elijah Freeman a soldier
the Revolutionary Army (now a Lunatic) became
entitled to a pension. His original certificate is
dated January 14. 1820 and his pay began
on the 8th day of October A D. 1819.
By the Act 1st Sess 16th Cong Chap 51. Approved
May 1, 1820. pensioner is required to deliver to Secretary at
War a certified copy of a Schedule contain:
his whole estate (clothing and bedding excepted) 
verified by oath &c. The act dispensed with oath
in case of Lunacy and allows Guardian or
Committee to make schedule (or as our Law calls
it an inventory).
The enclosed papers show the lunacy
of the pensioner and all the proceedings in
Chancery our highest court of Record. No value is
annexed to the property because the verdict of the
Jury and oath of guardian shows there is none
The schedule or Inventory is sworn to before one of the
Judges called a Master in Chancery. The
papers are supposed to be perfect; if however there
is any formal defect on its being stated it will be
supplied forthwith
The Committee are not aware that any
schedule has ever been furnished if so the
lunatics name has never been stricken from the
Roll: but if it has been stricken off the Schedule
shows it should be restored
In the first case the pensioners name never
having been stricken from the Roll the Act (1820)
declines he shall not receive the pension till he files
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his schedule and then if he continues to receive he
receives from the time of the his pension but is the
necessary construction, and has accepted as committee
are informed.
But in case a schedule was filed and
pensioners name stricken off. The Act 2d Sep. 17th
Cong. Chap 58. Approved March 1, 1823. directs the
Secretary at War to restore to the list of pensioners
the name of such person when he shall furnish evidence
that he is in indigent circumstances &c:
As the name of the lunatic is to be struck if the
evidence is satisfactory from what time will he receive
his pay?
From the 1st clause of the 3d section of this test
it appears that the construction of the former act was
to pay from the time of suspension. Congress however
here provides for the case of suspension as well as
restoration and declares that no pension hereafter to be
allowed on claims or Schedules heretofore filed under the
act of 1818 & 1820 or under this act shall commence
before the passage thereof (this Act). Of course if the
lunatic has heretofore filed a schedule and is stricken
off and now restored he can go back no further than the
passage of the act. If his pension is now allowed on this
Schedule he can go no farther back than the same
period. 1823.
Sat sums the limitation and without the
limitation pensioners (Suspended or restored) would
receive all pay in arears.
This 5 Secture however has another clause
And all other pensions hereafter to be allowed under the
acts aforesaid shall commence from the time of
"completing the proof". This is a limitation of pensions when
there are schedules mentioned in the first clause.
Schedules in the first clause and not proof in the
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second clause. The first clause provides for the case of
pension formerly allowed upon schedules being furnished. The second clause provides for now applications.
This case of the lunatic of no schedule
has been filed comes within the meaning of the words of
the first clause "under the act or acts (1818 & 1820) to
which this is a supplement. If there has been
a schedule it comes within the meaning
of the words "or under the provisions of this act".
Congress expressly says pensions within the first clause
shall not commence before the passage of this act. But
all other that is different from those before spoken
of shall commence from the time of filing schedules
nor from the time of completing proof using [illegible]
all the way than those used in first clause.
But again if the limitation of the last
claus is applied to cases coming within the [illegible]
the word other must be stricken out altogether.
And as the greater includes the less the first clause
is necessary: and the section as construed would
be all pensions whether allowed upon schedules or other
proof shall commence from the time of completing such
Schedule a proof.
The construction I contract for gives every clause and
every word in each their full meaning and the other
construction unclear regulatory while clauses and strikes
out important words.
I should not have troubled the Department with
a word on the subject but I am told by a member of
Congress (Clay man) that the construction against
which I am contending had actually been adopted
and that the construction adopted except by Gen Porter
have been uniformly against the pensioner and
in favor of the Government. We expect on only ensure
directed to the undersigned at Saratoga Springs Saratoga County
Judiah Ellsworth
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James S Tefft
Deposition
Page 142

I James S Tefft hereby depose and say that I am a resident of the Town of Easton County of Washington and State of New York am a son of Stanton Tefft, deceased, that my said father resided in said County & State and was a
Justice of the Peace in & for said County & held said office for and during a term of about fifteen years ending in the year one thousand eight hundred and four. That my said father kept no records of marriages, it not being required by law at that time, that I am in the fifty ninth year of my age. James S Tefft

Subscribed & Sworn before me this 7th day of of April 1843--}
Titus Baily Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted into the above named James S Tefft. That he is a competant [sic] and credible witness, and a person of good standing and I verily believe full faith and credit may be given to his deposition as above set forth. Titus Baily Justice

State of New York
County of Washington ⎬ I Edward Dodd Clerk of the said County hereby certify that Titus
Bailey Esquire is a Justice of the Peace as above and that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine-
Given under my hand and the seal of the said
County this 8th day of April 1843
Edward Dodd Clerk
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I Charles Herrington hereby depose and say that I am a resident of the Town of Easton County of Washington and State of New York in the sixty eighth year of my age and
acquainted with Pernel Freeman widow of Elijah Freeman deceased the said Pernel now residing in the Town County & state aforesaid, that I was acquainted with the said Elijah previous to his reputed marriage to said Pernel and was so acquainted with him to the time of his death which death took place about five or six years ago and that the said Pernel now remains his widow. That about the year one
thousand seven hundred and ninety two the said Elijah and Pernel were reported to have been married I was not present at their marriage but know by general report in the neighbourhood [sic] at the time that they were married as I know it to be upwards of fifty years from that time to this date; from a variety of facts and circumstances That I know them to have been married & known as man and wife before the first day of January one thousand seven hundred and ninety three as above stated. That I know them to have had one child older them their son Lyman which child died when about one & a half years old. Charles Herrington

One word ceased on the 6th before execution
Subscribed & Sworn before me on this 8th day of April 1843
Horace Bigelow Justice of the peace

I do certify that Charles Herrington is personally known to me & that the above deposition of his is deserving full credence.
Horace Bigelow Justice
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State of New York
County of Washington ss:
I Edward Dodd Clerk of the said County hereby certify that Horace
Bigelow Esquire is a Justice of the peace as within and that the within signatures purporting to be his are genuine-
Given under my hand and the seal of the said
County this 10th day of April 1843-
Edward Dodd Clerk
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2720
Pernel Freeman
Declaration
Act 3d March 1843
$40 per an
Wm Valentine
Albany
N. York
Page 146

State of New York}
County of Washington}
On this 20th day of June one thousand eight hundred and forty three personally appeared before this subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county. Pernel Freeman a resident of Easton, Washington County, Aged seventy years & afterward, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress ratified on the 3rd of March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War: that she is the widow of Elijah Freeman who was a private in the Revolution under Col Van Schanih and Captain Job Wright, and has rec'd an annal amount of forty Dollars for five years under the Act of 7th July 1838. She further declares that she is still a widow. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 20th day of June 1843
Titus Baily Justice}  Pernel Freeman X {Her Mark}
Witness Whipple Carpenter
State of New York}
County of Washington} I Edward Dodd, clerk of the said county hereby certify that Titus Bailey Esquire is a Justice of the Peace as above and that the foregoing signature proportions to be his is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said County this 3rd day of August 1843
Edward Dodd Clerk
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In Chancery [underlined]
In the matter of Elijah Freeman
March 18th 1836.
Lunatic -}

Saratoga Springs
March 18 1836

I certify that on the third day of May 1831, a commission was issued out of & under the seal of the Court of Chancery of the State of New York, appointing Stephen Freeman a committee of the person & estate of the above named lunatic; and that no order has since been entered vacating such appointment. In testimony whereof I have affixed the Seal of said Court the day and year first above written

Nich Hill Jr
Dep. Clk. in Ch. 4th Circ.

Seal

State of New York
Saratoga County Sc.

I Stephen Freeman of Saratoga, in the County aforesaid being sworn says that Elijah Freeman the lunatic mentioned in the foregoing certificate was alive on the 4th of March
instant. Stephen Freeman

Subscribed and sworn March 187836, Before me,
G. M. Davison
Clerk in Chancery
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State of New York City
City & County of New York, SS
Stephen Freeman of Saratoga,
in the County of Saratoga, being by me
duly sworn, saith, that Elijah Freeman
the Lunatic mentioned in the foregoing
certificate was alive on the day of
March 1836.
Stephen Freeman
Sworn before me this 14 day of April 1836
H. Walworth
Seal [hand drawn]
Deputy Clerk of Court of Chancery
First Circuit
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State of Warren County} SS

Dr. Bethnel Peck of Queensbury
in said County being duly sworn says
says that he is well acquainted with Elijah
Freeman reputed and generally known as
a soldier in the Revolutionary Army
That in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty the said Elijah removed into the Town of Queensbury in [crossed out] and took
possession of a farm of fifty acres. That in
the year one thousand eight hundred
and Twenty four or five ---- he
conveyed by deed to his son Hiram
the [crossed out] said farm on a condition expressed in the deed or in a paper execute at the same time that the said Hiram should support and provide for the said Elijah and his
wife and pay said [illegible] debts.  That this convey and was an absolute and bona fide conveyance that the said Hiram continued
in possession of the said farm about one year and a difficulty then arising between the said Elijah and his son the farm was given up to Elijah and he agreed to pay Hiram the money advanced to pay his debts and a fair compensation for his labor during the time the contract was in force. The paper was then destroyed and Elijah then borrowed of this deponent two hundred & fifty dollars to pay the debt due to Hiram which was then paid and secured by
Page 150

a Mortgage on the farm. The money paid to Hiram [words crossed out] was no more than a
for compensation. That Hiram then left the farm and Elijah resumed to the management of the until his whole property was exhausted in the support of the said Elijah and his family. The said Elijah is now a lunatic and
destitute of property.  
Bethnel Peck [signature]

Subscribed and sworn before me this fifth day of 
August 1831 Ira A Paddock Supreme County Commissioner

and I further certify that the same Bethnel Peck is a respectable and credible person and is well known to me from personal acquaintances.

Ira A Paddock Supreme Court Commissioner
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State of New York
Warren County ss
I Thomas Archibald Clerk of
the County of Warren do hereby certify that
I have examined the Commissions Remaining
in this office and do find a commission appointing
Ira A. Paddock whose name is
Subscribed to the annexed
affidavit was duly appointed
a Supreme Court Commissioner in and for the County
of Warren & I do further certify that Ira A Paddock Esq
was on the day of the date of said annexed affidavit
a Supreme Court Commissioner Commissioned & Sworn
and dwelling in the said County and duly authorized
by Law to take affidavits and further that I am
well acquainted with the hand writing of the said
Supreme Court Commissioner & verily believe that the
Signature of Ira A Paddock Subscribed to the annexed
Affidavit is the proper hand writing of the said Commissioner.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name
and fixed the Seal of the said County this 8th day of 
August 1831
Thomas Archibald Clerk
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State of New York
Warren County ss:
Ira A. Paddock of the
Town of Queensbury in the County of
Warren being duly sworn says that he is will
acquainted with Elijah Freeman reputed and
generally known as a soldier in the Revolutionany Army. That some time in or about the
year one thousand Eight hundred and
twenty the said Elijah Freeman removed into
the town of Queensbury and took possession
of a farm of about fifty acres of Land that
same time in the year one thousand Eight
hundred and twenty five this deponent
was called on by the said Elijah Freeman
and his son Hiram Freeman and requested
to draw some markings between them in
relation to a farm in said town and then informed
this Deponent that the said Elijah Freeman had
some time before then conveyed his said farm in
Queensbury to his son Hiram in consideration
that his son Hiram should pay the debt then
due by the said Elijah and support him and
his wife during their lives, and by reason
of some disagreement they wished to have
the farm conveyed to the said Elijah and
a bond and Mortgage drawn for the said
Elijah to due Bethuel Peck for about two
hundred and fifty Dollars to raise money
to refund to the said Hiram for the Debts he
had paid of the said Elijah and to pay
him for his labor on the said farm which
was reconveyed and given up to the said
Elijah and which payment for the labour
of the said Hiram this deponent believes
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was nothing more than a fair commission
for his labour. That the Deed the bond
and Mortgage was made and executed and
the money paid over by the said Peck to
the said Elijah, and by him to the said Hiram.
And that the said Elijah then resumed the
management of said farm until the whole
of the property was exhausted in the support
of the said Elijah and his family - and
this Deponent further saith that he believes
the said Elijah was for some years incapable
of managing his property in consequence of
his mind being impaired, and that in
Consequence of his inability be fooled and
squandered away some part of the property
and some part went in support of his
family. That his wife and children used
every means to prevent it, but were unable.
And this deponent believes that the property
of the said Elijah was all Exhausted as aforesaid from a want of capability to manage
it and while laboring under a partial
mental derangement, without any intention to dispose of his property in order
to procure a pension from Government.
And this Deponent is now informed that the
said Elijah is now a prefect lunatic
and wholly destitute of property which this
Deponent believes in every respect true.
Ira A. Paddock [signature]
Subscribed & Sworn before
this 8th day of August
1831
A. T. Seaman
Commissioner of Deeds + c
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State of New York
Warren County  
I Thomas Archibald Clerk
of the said County do certify that
A. T. Seaman Esq whose name is subscribed
to the Jurat of the annexed affidavit was
on the day of the date of the said affidavit a
Commissioner in and for the said County -
Commissioned and Sworn and duly authorized by Law
to take affidavits &c Residing in the said County
and further and further that I am acquainted with
the hand writing of the said Commissioner and verily
believe that A. T. Seaman Subscribed to the said Affidavit
is the proper hand writing of the said Commissioner.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name
and affixed the Seal of the said County this 8th day
of August 1831
Thomas Archibald Clk
Page 155

And further certify that the
said Ira A. Paddock is a reputable
and Credible person and is well
known to me from personal
acquaintance and has been for
same year past.
AT Seaman
Page 156

Elijah Freeman, late a Revolutionary pensioner
of the New York Agency, was placed on the roll Jany 14. 1820, to commence October 8 1819 A

He was dropt [sic] from the Roll under the operation of the act of May 1, 1820.

He is now applying for a renewal of his pension. His declaration is dated December 6. 1825, and the property exhibited in his Schedule is valued at $80.00

He was required to account for all the property
disposed of since the date of the law under which he was pensioned, viz March 18. 1818.

He states, that in the year 1820, finding himself
much in debt he sold his real estate to Isaac Freeman for the sum of $3800, and took in payment a farm in Queensbury, valued at $1300, and the balance he received in claims against himself and money; except about $51, deducted from the amount, on account of the
land falling short in quantity. A

The deed from claimant to Isaac Freeman will be found in the paper marked H. It bears date Nov 13th 1820: acknowledged the next day; but it does not appear to have been admitted to record.

On the 10th of May 1825, the mortgaged the Queensbury Farm to Doctor B. Peck for $250; and on the 31st August 1825 he sold his interest in the said farm to Benjamin Sisson for $850. Claimant also sold "loose property" to pay his debts, carry on his farm and support his family; but his memory fails him too much to state the items sold, and the application of the proceeds file. File C

The deed to Benjamin Sisson, with Sisson's affidavit, showing how the same was paid, will be found in the file marked D.
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2.
Amount to be accounted for.
Amount received in exchange of farms with Isaac Freeman . . . . } . . . $2500:00

Amount of money borrowed of Doctor Peck
on Mortgage. . . } . . . . $250:00:

Amount received of Benjamin Sisson for the
Queensbury Farm sold to him} . . . . . $850:00

$3600

Amt received from sale of one horse wagon
250:00

$3650. 00 [double underlined]


J. Van Schaicck. Bond and Mortgage,  contracted in 1814 | 1600 | "
Leonard Cozens, Note for money borrowed" in 1819 | 200 | "
Gridley & Packard, book account, from 1825 to | 1826 | 25 | "
Doct B. Peck, money borrowed on Mortgage in 1825 | 250 | "
Ditto . . . . for medical services | 20  | "
John A. Ferris, for goods, from 1823 to 1825. 
| 57 | "
Isaac Freeman, allowed him on account of land
falling short, which he bought. . . .} | 51 | 27
Samuel Shipp, an account. . . .  | 3 | "
Mary Harrington: blacksmiths work, by her husband | 2. | "
Joel Potter, account for leather . . . . | 17 | "
Ruth Brownel, account in 1821
Stephen Townsend, on account in 1820 | 8. | 08
Jonathan Mosher, on account in 1820 . | 27 | "
Harriet Freeman, on account  in 1827 | 13 | "
Hiram Freeman, for work and labor, performed
for claimant after he became of age} | 150 | "Hiram Freeman, for money lent claimant | 150 | "
William Safford, an account in 1820 | 5. | "

amt carried over $ | 2588 | 35 [double underline]
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(3)
Amount brought forward . . . .  | 2588 | 35
Isaac Cole, for blacksmiths work in 1826┃35 | 43
David Champlin, for shoemaking, from 1821 to 1825 | 20 | 37
D: A. Hubbell, for services on farm in 1821... |35 | "
John Doty, Sheriff of Washington, proving that claim paid him $150, as Security for John Prince} Deputy Sheriff, who jailed. . . . | 150 | "
Amount proved to have been paid
$ | 2828 | 15 [double underline]

Recapitulation
Amount to be accounted for . . .  $3650.00
Amount accounted for  . . . . . . . . . 2829.15
$ - 820:85

To this amount, [illegible} , must be added
$200 borrowed from L: Cozens in 1819, &
$150, borrowed from Hiram Freeman in 1824}
350.00 [underlined}
Balance not accounted for $1170.85. [double underlined]

Hiram Freeman, states in his affidavit, which will be found in file H,  that he knows [underlined] of sundry debts which have been paid; but for which the affidavits of the
Creditors cannot be obtained: Some being dead, and others having removed. He gives their names; the amount due each person, and the origin of the debts. They amount to about $530.

It is further alleged that much money has been paid away, which cannot be remembered.
That the claimant has become a lunatic and can throw no light on his case.  The paper marked H, contains the proceedings in a commission de lunatic inquinendo, with the inquisition in the case. The claimant was found a Lunatic, without any property whatever, save his wearing apparel;
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and a guardian Commissioned to assume the custody of his person.

[line]

There is another point in this case. It appears that the claimant has paid from $250, to $300, or more (for the precise sum is not stated) to his son Hiram, for labor, alleged to have been performed by him.

The claimant was informed, that according to the regulations of the Department, this fact would be an objection to his claim, unless he exhibited evidence of a written contract, executed between himself and his son, prior to the performance of the alleged services.

It is responded that two such contracts were executed, but that they cannot be produced, having been delivered up and destroyed.
To prove which, the following testimony is offered.

Hiram Freeman, deposes that in the years 1820 he entered into a written contract with his father, before the performance of the labor, to work for him, of $10 per month. That contract amended to "upwards of $100." In the year 1824 he entered into a similar contract with his father. In 1825 he left his father's service, and he received $50 less than his "honest due". See paper K.

Hiram makes a further affidavit and states that the contract which he made in 1820, was drawn up be Elmor Freeman, since deceased, that he worked eleven months: took his father's note for his wages, and surrendered the contracts,
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5
which was destroyed. In 1824, he entered into
a similar contract, which was drawn up by an
attorney, (name not given) and deposited with his
(deponents) mother. In 1825, he had a settlement
and received in money, on that account $140. This
second contract was also given up and destroyed
He states, that he has frequently worked for his
father and received wages when there was no
written contract between them.  paper L
Elizabeth Freeman wife of Hiram, deposes,
that she was present at the settlement which took
place in 1825, between her husband and father, when
a written contract between them was given up
and destroyed. On that occasion $140 were
paid to Hiram by his father. paper L
Doctor Bethuel Peck, deposes, that in 1824
or 1825, the claimant conveyed to his son Hiram
his farm in Queensbury, on a condition expressed
in the instrument of conveyance, that Hiram
should support claimant and wife and pay
Claimants debts. Hiram was in possession
under said agreement, about one year, when the
agreement was cancelled: the farm given
Back to claimant, who agreed to pay Hiram
the money he had advanced for claimant,
and also to pay him a fair compensation for his
labor on the farm. That claimant borrowed
on mortgage, of this deponent, $250, for that purpose,
which was paid to Hiram.  paper M

Manly Freeman, deposes, that he is "knowing" 
He a written contract for labor, between the claimant and his son, which was delivered to a third
person to keep: knows, the son performed the labor.
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6.

that the claimant paid him $140, and that the contract was given up and burnt in the year 1824. 
See paper N.

Ira A. Paddock deposes that in the year 1825, he was called upon to draw a deed of re-conveyance of the Queensbury farm to the claimant, and a mortgage of the same property to Doctor B. Peck, which he accordingly drew up for the parties: that the sum of $250, borrowed from Peck, was paid to Hiram Freeman, and that he believes it was a fair compensation for his services. see paper O.

P is a letter from Israel Williams, an agent for the claimant to which attention is respectfully requested. It is argumentative, and the writer asks for a reconsideration of the case. It contains this remarkable passage; viz

"Having been considerably acquainted with Elijah Freeman, I am confident he never made written contracts with any one about labor of any description."

The file Q contains correspondence with the Department, from the agents of the claimant.

[line]
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OCT 29 1928
DEPUTY COMMISSIONER
[STAMP]
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MRS. DONALD HUNTOON
512 FENELON PLACE
DUBUQUE, IOWA
October 26, 1928.

E.W. Morgan Acting Commissioner
Bureau of Pensions
Department of the Interior
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
In regard to Elijah Freeman, Revolutionary soldier [note overwritten - I had asked for more info - N24240]
1) Born February 17, 1754 at
Norwich Connecticut
2) Died December 10, 1836 at
Easton near Cambridge, New York
3) Residence at the time of
enlistment Easton, New York
4) Same residence after his
service. Easton
5) Given name of his widow.
either Pernelia Hammond
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lain's company of Col. Lewis DuBois
regiment of levies.
Certificates 25976 and 26031.
From information I had from
a genealogist, I understood the
date of the Pension to be January 13,
1792. However as other
mistakes have been made due
to the fact that Elijah Freeman
had a brother Elisha, this
may also be due to the similarity
in the names.
Thanking you for your response, I am
Respectfully yours,
Dorothy Trewin Huntoon
(Mrs Donald Fraser)
Page 165

of Pittstown, New York, as her descendants state, or Parmella Follett, as a history of "Washington County, New York" gives it. (This matter is now being examined.)

His service was as follows, according to "New York in the Revolution" and abstracts of records from the Section of Manuscripts and History at the New York State Library in Albany:-

1) Private in Capt. Peter Van Woert's company of Col. Cornelius Van Veghten's regiment of Albany County Militia (Saratoga district)
Certificates 34135 and 34223. 
2) Sergeant in Capt. Colbe Chamber-
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WIDOW, &c.
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File No. 24240
Pernel Freeman
Wid of
Elijah Freeman
Priv Rev War

Act: Feb 2nd 1848
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 255
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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1929 May 11 Hist to Mrs Donald Huntoon MCS
Page 168

State of New York
Saratoga county ss:
On the 5th day of October in this
year of our Lord 1819. before me Abraham
Mae, and of the judges of the Court of
Common pleas, of the County of Saratoga
personally appears Elijah Freeman, a resident
in Easttonton in the County of Washington, aged 66 years
who being by me first duly sworn according to Law, doth
make on his oath the following declaration, in order to
Obtain the provisions made by the late Act of Congress
Entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged
in the land and Navel service of the United States in the
Revolutionary War, that he the said Elijah Freeman
Enlisted himself a soldier in Captain Job Wrights Company
in the month of March in the year of our Lord 1776 in Col.
Jause Van Schaick Regiment, in the Continental service
against the common Enemy for the term of one year
and actually served the year out in the service of his
County against the common enemy, and at the Expiration
of the said years faithfull service was discharged in the
city of Albany, and that he this deponent is under very
reduced circumstances and actually stands in the need of
the assistance of his Common County for his support
being lame by having the [illegible] of the right arm
broken loose from the Shoulder, which renders his
deponent almost incapable of Labouring for the support
of himself and family, and humbly prays the aid of his
Common country for his support.
Elijah Freeman [signature]
Subscribed Sworn to and declared
before me the day & year aforesaid
Abraham Mae [signature]
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K
ans'd
20 May 1830

[illegible]
4 May
John H Eaton Esq
Sec't at War
Washington City
DC

Pension Office 
18th May 1836
Page 170

In addition to my former affidavit in the
case of Elijah Freeman who is reputed to have been
Soldier of the Revolution; I Hiram Freeman do
depose and say. That I entered in to a written
contract with my Father (the said Elijah Freeman) before
the performance of the Labour in the year 1820. the
contract was that I was to work for ten dollars per month
and my Father find me my summer clothes. This contract amounted to upwards of one hundred Dollars. And
in the year 1824 I entered into another written Contract
with my Father to Labour for him (before the performance
of the Labour) shortly after which I moved to Queensbury
with my wife and entered upon the Labour. And in the
year 1825 made him an offer to leave him which he
accepted; and what he paid me was fifty dollars
less than my honest due. I have never received one
cent from him since that time; neither did I ever
have any of his property except as a Compensate
for labour performed. or money lent as same
any other person be so good as to bought to me.  
Hiram Freeman [signature]
The above Sworn and Subscribed before me this 
20 day April 1830 at Napoli 
Martin Morrill JP [signature]
Catteragaus County State of New York
State of New York
Catteragaus County
Clerk's Office ss:
I, John W. Staunton Clerk of the County
of Cattaraugus do hereby certify that
Mastin Morrell Esquire whose name
is subscribed to the certificate of the above affidavit
was on the day of the date of the same to wit on the 20th
day of April 1830 a Justice of the Peace commissioned
and sworn and duly authorized by law to act as
such and further that I am acquainted with the hand
writing of the said Justice and verily believe that the signature of Martin Morrell subscribed to the said certificate purporting to be his is genuine. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County this 1st day 1830.
 John W. Staunton 
Clerk of the Court of Com Pleas
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Washington County ss.
I Manly Freeman of the town
Queensbury County of Warren and State of
New York of lawful age being duly sworn
do say in addition to my former affidavit
made in February last and sworn before
Josiah Dunton Esq. that I am knowing to
a written contract made between my father
Elijah Freeman and his son Hiram Freeman
which contract was for the performance of labor
and was signed sealed and delivered to a third
person to keep until the parties should become
dissatisfied, and I also am knowing to the
said Hiram Freeman Commencing labor for Elijah Freeman in pursuance of said contract, and also that Elijah Freeman
paid the said Hiram one hundred and forty
dollars, which sum I know to have been his
just due at the time the contract was given up and burnt
which was in one thousand eight hundred a
twenty four.
Manly C Freeman [signature]
Subscribed and sworn
4th day of August 1831 before
me B. F. Skimmer Judge of Wash Coun clerk

I, Benjamin F. Skinner of the town of Cambridge
County of Washington and State of New York do hereby
certify that I have been acquainted with Manly
C Freeman the person named in the above affiant
from his childhood up to the present time, and that
he is of good moral character and full confidence
is to be placed in his testimony, and I do further
certify that the above named Elijah Freeman
is now living.
B.F. Skinner

Dated Cambridge August
4th 1831
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State of New York
County of Washington
SS; I Jesse S Leigh clerk of the said county do
certify that Benjamin F Skinner Esq. before whom the
within affidavit purports to have been sworn was at
the date of the same one of the judges of the county
courts in and for the said county commissioned & sworn
and duly authorized by law to act as said judge and
that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of
the sad Judge and so verily believe that the signature
"B F Skinner" subscribed to the said affidavit is genuine
and the proper handwriting of the said Judge.
In testimony whereof I have here unto sub-
scribed my name and affixed the said of
of the said county this fifth day of August
one thousand eight hundred & thirty one
J S Leigh Clk