Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24566, for Nehemiah Lovewell, Vermont
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(S-1776)
SERVICE
Vt.

Lovewell, Nehemiah
or Lovel
Betsey

NUMBER
W. 24566
CONTENTS
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2453.
Vermont Montpelier
Betsey Lovewell
widow of Nehemiah Lovewell
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Lieut.  & Capt
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
400 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 day of Dec. 1848 and sent to
H.H. Sylvester
Chief Clerk
Patent Office
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 67 Vol. 3
Let to H. H. Sylvester
April 26 '49
Reported
Dec 16/48
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State of Vermont
Chittenden County ss ⎬
I, Sarah Russell of Richmond in said County, being duly sworn depose and say that at the
time my deposition was taken by Gen. Bedel about two years ago this summer, he examined a family record in a bible belonging to me, to find the age of my oldest son, and
I further state that the said Bible was not in my possession nor any record made therein until some twenty years after my marriage and that there might have been an error in the entries made therein. I further state that my brother Thomas Hazleton died about three or four
years ago, and that not long before his death he sent word among other messages to me, that I had always counted my age one year too young, and that I was in truth one year older than I had always stated. I attached no particular importance to this fact if it were true, since it made little difference with me and I cannot state when this year was [lost] in my recollection, nor am I at this distance of time able to recollect with perfect distinctness the
particular dates of occurrences but I again state my belief that my deposition of Dec 1839 was correct in its statements. And that having no interest in behalf of the petitioner, I was not nor am now influenced by any one in making the above statements
State of Vermont,
Chittenden County ss ⎬
Sarah X her mark Russell
Richmond Aug 26th 1840
Then personally appeared the above named Sarah Russell to be well known to be a person of unimpeachable character for truth, and in my presence subscribed the above deposition, and being duly sworn did depose and say
that the same was true-
Before me
CM Huntington Jus. Peace
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State of Vermont
I William Noble Clerk of
Chittenden County Chittenden County Court
do hereby certify that Charles
M. Huntington before whom
the within Deposition of Sarah
Russell was taken & certified, was
at the time of certifying the same & still
is a Justice of the Peace within & for
the County of Chittenden duly
Commissioned & Sworn, & that his
name thereto subscribed in I believe
his own genuine signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the seal of said Court at Burlington
in said County this 26th day of August AD. 1840
William Noble
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Lady Betsy Lovell's
declaration [evidence]
4743
N. H.
widow of Nehemiah
Act 4 July 1838
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1 Stephen Powers - aff
2 Mary Taplin
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the third Section of
the act of Congress of the fourth of July 1836
State of New Hampshire County of Grafton ss
 On this first day of October Anno Domini 1839
appeared in Open Court, before the Judge of the Court
of Probate now sitting within & for County of Grafton
aforesaid, being a Court of Record, Betsey Lovewell
now a resident of Newbury in the County of Orange
State of Vermont, & late of Haverhill in the County
of Grafton & State of New Hampshire aforesaid, aged
Seventy seven years, the ninth day of May last,  who
being first duly sworn according to Law doth on
her oath, make the following Declaration to
obtain the benefit of the provisions made
by the Act of Congress, passed the 4th day of July 1836.
That she is the widow or Relict of Nehemiah Lovewell
late of Newbury aforesaid, deceased, who served in
the Army of the United States, in the Revolutionary War,
 as near as she can recollect, & by the best
information she can obtain, as follows:
That her said husband, the said Nehemiah
at & before the commencement of said Revolutionary
War resided in the Town of Newbury aforesaid. That in
hearing of the attack of the British Troops on the Americans, at Lexington, in the State of Massachusetts
on the memorable 19th day of April 1775, he, the said
Nehemiah Lovewell, as Sergent or Commander of
party of Men about Sixteen in number, Marched
to the vicinity of Boston in the then Province of
Massachusetts & joined the American Army, & remained
there more than two years, was in the noted Battle of
Bunker Hill, & many other Battles, Assisted in Fortifying
[Frontiers]
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Dorchester Heights, and had the pleasure of marching into
Boston, under General George Washington, when the British
Troops evacuated that place, in the month of March 1776.
That immediately, on his return home to said Newbury
in the year 1777 - He was appointed & commissioned a
second Lieutenant in Captain Elisha Burton’s Company
in a Regiment whereof Samuel Henrich Esquire was
Lieutenant Colonel Commandant in the Vermont line,
said Commission to continue from the 15th day of July 1777 to the 15th day of January following the arduous tour of Duty.
This Regiment performed during this campaign in assisting
in the Battles, Siege and Caption of General Burgunyone’s army is too well known to need particulars, having the highest commendation of Generals Gates, Stark & the Legislature of the State of Vermont.  & after being honorably Discharged at
the end of the Campaign by General Gates, he the said Lovewell returned home to said Newbury. & soon after his return home, he the said Nehemiah Lovewell, was appointed & commissioned a Captain in a Regiment of Volunteers in the Continental line Raised for an expedition to (or against) Canada commanded by Timothy Bedel Esquire as Colonel. This appointment she thinks commenced about the middle of December 1777 & was intended for one year, unless sooner discharged, & was to have Double pay & Doubled rations for the arduous natural Duty of a Winter Campaign. But for some reason or other the Expedition failed, & the Regiment was discharged on or about the last day of March 1778, the service of the Rgt being about three & one half months as Captain & paid by the General Government. The said Lovewell’s Commission in this case is lost or mislaid. Reference to the Rolls of the Regiment Company for Proof of the Services may (as she thinks) be seen at the Department. That about the time of the said Lowell’s last appointment aforesaid, and before said regiment was discharged
he the said Captain Nehemiah Lovewell & others, were sent into Canada, as a flag of true (as she understood, then & ever since) by order of General Horatio Gates, to conduct through the woods into Canada some British officer or Officers, who had been exchanged, & wished to return this way to Canada, (& for other purposes). That on the arrival
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arrival of said Flagg in Canada there being some misunderstanding between the then commanding Officer in Canada (she thinks Gen Carleton) and General Gates, the Flagg was not acknowledged & the Flagg, were all detained a Prisoners of War, & Imprisoned
one year, before they were charged, or permitted to return
home. For past proof of this, she would refer the Department
to the Papers, & proof in the case of the application of Capt Frye Bailey for a Pension under the act of Congress of March 1818.
He the said Fry Bailey was one of the Flagg & then lived in said
Newbury & afterwards in Chelsea in said County of Orange &
State of Vermont & it is supposed that the said Frye Bailey
made proof of his being detained a Prisoner as aforesaid, with
said Nehemiah Lovewell, if not, proof can be made. That
he, the said Capt Nehemiah Lovewell, by virtue of Orders from
Colonel Peter Olcott Raised a company of Men for the
Defence of the Frontier of the State of Vermont for two months, commencing on the first day of February 1780.
 & the men were raised in the Vermont line & were stationed & served at Peacham,
in said State of Vermont & were paid for their services by
the Treasurer of said State. That on the 10th day of February
1781, the said Nehemiah Lovewell (or Lovel being the same person) 
was appointed & Commissioned as a Captain, by Thomas
Chittenden, Governor of the State of Vermont, in a Regiment
of Infantry whereof Samuel Fletcher Esq was Lieutenant
Col Commandant, in the Vermont line, to continue
service untill the 15th day of December following. 
 & said Lovewell’s Company
was stationed with his command, at Peacham in
said State of Vermont being Ten Months & five days in guarding & protecting the Frontier & Public Property as usual,
& were paid by the Treasurer of the State. That in the month
of February 1782, the said Nehemiah Lovewell was nominated 
as a Captain - James Smalley & Nathaniel White as Lieut’s in a Regt for the Next Campaign & the Governor was [illegible]
to Commission, these, & others according to the report of the
Committee of the General Assembly of the State of Vermont.
The Commission in this service, either lost or mislaid, as the
service was performed & is supposed to be about Ten Months.
& said Lovewell’s Command was at Peacham aforesaid in said State of Vermont, & in the Vermont line. That from the commencement
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Commencement of the year 1780. She thinks, & fully believes that the
said Capt Nehemiah Lovewell was constantly employed by General
Jacob Bailey of said Newberry, as a Captain to [superintend] the Military
movements on this Frontier - Whether the said Nehemiah Lovewell
was in commission by any other authority, or not, to the close
of the Revolutionary War in the Fall of the year 1783. He the said 
General Jacob Bailey being (as she then & has ever since understood)
authorised by Authority of the General & Several of the State Governments & several of the General Officers, to superintend & conduct the Military affairs, on this Frontier, and as a proper Person
for Scouting in the Woods between this Frontier & Canada, in order
to make discovery of the Movements of the Enemy.  The said Capt 
Nehemiah Lovewell was employed by the said General Jacob Baily
to assist in Performing this service; it being well understood & believed
that the Enemy intends to destroy this Frontier & the Public Property
therein, if in their power. And
that the Enemy did attempt its
Destruction in the Summer & fall of the year 1780. And that the said
Capt Nehemiah Lovewell & his party were the first that made the
Discovery of the Enemy, & gave notice to the Commander General Jacob
Bailey; which gave what was called the Great Alarm. The Enemy, 
however found out that they were discovered (as they afterward said). shifted 
their course & went to destroy the Village of Royalton & made a [illegible] retreat into Canada.  This [shews] the Majority of the means resorted to &
the benefit of the Skill & execution of the said Capt Nehemiah Lovewell.
That she is confident that her late husband the Capt Nehemiah
Lovewell served from the commencement to the end of the Revolutionary
War-Except some very small intermissions-- She thinks & fully
believes she has been several other Commissions of the said Capt Nehemiah
Lovewell’s. And thinks it is strange that the ones herewith described, have been preserved, as she did not conceive them of any consequence & did
not take any care of them, in order to preserve them, and others are lost, mislaid or Destroyed. That she has no other documentary evidence of the
Capt Nehemiah Lovewell’s Services, & must depend on the Rolls
at the War department and the Documents & evidence herewith described
for the support of her claim. [insert] She further declares that she was married to the said Capt
Nehemiah Lovewell (after being published for that purpose) in
Newbury aforesaid in the 8th day of August Anno Domini 1781, at her
Honored Father’s dwelling House, Capt John Haselton, by the Reverend
John Richard, the then settled Minister of the Gospel of the Town of
of Piermont in the County of Grafton aforesaid. There is no record of
his marriage that she can find, but there are now living several
Persons who were present at the time & place of her Marriage
to the said Captain Nehemiah Lovewell Viz: Doct Samuel White, the brides man & Mary Taplin, my sister [illegible] & she was a bridesmaid at the wedding.  That her husband the same said Nehemiah Lovewell died at said Newbury on the 14 day of July in the year 1801.  That she has remained a widow
Ever since that Period as will more fully appear by the proof herewith annexed. [Three years ago [manly Fluge?] to try to get a pension [illegible] years ago, &c.]  And I made a declaration before the Judge & collected under my husband’s services. [& despite] all was at the pension  office, but find they are lost.
Betsey Lovewell
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I Simeon Stevens Jr. Town Clerk of Newbury in
the County of Orange State of Vermont, depose & 
say that I was chosen Clerk of said Town
at the annual meeting in March last
& have held said office ever since.
At the request of Madam Betsey Lovell,
widow of Captain Nehemiah Lovell,
to find the record of her marriage there
if on the Town records.  I have searched all
through from the earliest in 1760 up
to 1820 & find no record of her marriage
or of any other married in said
Newbury before 1786. [?] few
before 1790- There are records of
many families in said Newbury - 
the births of children and deaths.
But Mrs Lovel had no children
& of course there are no records 
 of Captain Lovewell’s family - I remember the
death of said Captain Lovewell about
40 years ago & of hearing of his continued
 services as an officer & commander 
the old war & of Mrs. Lovell his wife
being the first white female child
born in the Coos Country as this
valley was formerly called. She is a
very respectable amiable lady &
have no doubt of her marriage with
Capt Lovell before he finished is services
in the revolutionary war as she
States & as I have always understood.
S. Stevens Jr.

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State of New Hampshire Grafton ss
Court of Probate Oct 1 1839. Then S. Stevens Jr. who subscribed this affidavit made solemn oath to the same before me.
Edward Webber Judge
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last & have held said office ever since.
At the request of Madam Betsey Lovell,
widow of Captain Nehemiah Lovell,
to find the record of her marriage there
if on the Town records.  I have searched all
through from the earliest in 1760 up
to 1820 & find no record of her marriage
or of any other married in said
Newbury before 1786. [?] few
before 1790- There are records of
many families in said Newbury - 
the births of children and deaths.
But Mrs Lovel had no children
& of course there are no records 
 of Captain Lovewell’s family - I remember the
death of said Captain Lovewell about
40 years ago & of hearing of his continued
 services as an officer & commander 
the old war & of Mrs. Lovell his wife
being the first white female child
born in the Coos Country as this
valley was formerly called. She is a

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State of New Hampshire Grafton ss
Court of Probate Oct 1 1839. Then S. Stevens Jr. who subscribed this affidavit made solemn oath to the same before me.
Edward Webber Judge
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State of New Hampshire
Grafton Court of Probate Oct. 1, 1839
Then the declarant named on the
preceding sheet Betsey Lovewell made
solemn Oath to the foregoing declaration
by her subscribed
Before me
Edward Webber Judge of Probate

I, D. H. Collins, Clerk and Register of the
Court of Probate for said County do hereby
certify that the foregoing contains the original
proceedings of the said Court, in the matter
of the application of Betsey Lovewell for a
pension and that the testimony following hereto annexed was taken in open Court.
Whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and the seal of said Court
this first day of October A.D. 1839
D. H. Collins, Register
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Stephen Powers of Newbury in the
County of Orange & State of Vermont aged
Seventy Seven years & a pensioner under
the act of June 1832 depose & say that I have
lived in said Newbury seventy four years.
When the revolutionary war commenced I was a
boy but I knew Nehemiah Lovewell,
then of said Newbury. & my impression is
that he was in the service almost all the war.
When I was 16 years old in the Spring
of 1781 I enlisted under said Nehemiah
Lovewell who was captain & commanded a
Company. I joined it at Newbury [then]
marched to Peacham, & had our head quarters
there through that season. & he commanded
the company through all the time I was
in the service. & I left him in the command
 when I left, which I think was
in November 1778; it was late in the
fall. We were employed in scouting out
West towards the [?? same] of the summer
in squads. I think he came back to Newbury
 once or twice in the season. & was
married to Betsy Haselton at that time
as I believe & as I understood. He died
nearly forty years ago & the said Betsey
Lovewell has remained his widow ever since.
She had no children by him but
they always lived at said Newbury to
his death.  & since his death she has lived in
said Newbury & in Haverhill in
New Hampshire. When I applied for
pension I borrowed of the said Widow Lovel
her late husband’s Captains commission for
1781 & I sent it on to the Pension office with
my papers. I suppose it is there now.
 I also borrowed of her a former Commission which
 he had for a former year but as l  did not need
that to prove my claim, I did not send it on &
think I returned it to her.
Stephen Powers
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State of New Hampshire
Grafton Court of Probate Oct 1 1839
Sworn to by the within named Stephen Powers
Before me
Edward Webber Judge of Probate
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I Mary Taplin of Corinth in the
County of Orange State of Vermont
aged seventy five years depose & say
that I am Sister to Mrs Betsey
Lovewell.  I am two years younger
then she is. I well remember her
marriage. I was about Seventeen
years old & she was about nineteen.
It took place at my honored Father’s
Captain John Harelton's, in Newbury
 & was before the Revd John
Richard. It was in August in the
year Seventeen hundred & Eighty
one. & I think it was the eighth
day but am not positive as to the
day. The year & month I am positive
of from my age & my own marriage
& the age of my oldest child & from
Doct White & myself acting as bridesman
& bridesmaid on her marriage. The said
Richard moved off west soon after & died.
& no papers of his can be found if he made any. 
Nor is it known where his descendants
now live - They spell the name Lovewell
but many people spell it Lovel & it is all
the same name. According to my last
memory said Lovewell was when he married
and my said Sister a Captain the
army & Commanded a company stationed
at Peacham Vermont, about 20 miles
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Rev. and 1812 Wars Section
June 3, 1924

Winifred L. Glover
8772 -- 113th St.,
Richmond Hill, L. I. New York.

Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the
Revolutionary War pension claim W. 24586 it appears
that Nehemiah Lovewell or Lovel was born about 1748. He
was the son of Nehemiah Lovewell of Newbury, Orange County, Vermont, who later moved to Corinth, Orange County,
Vermont and died there.
While residing at Newbury, Vermont, Nehemiah Lovewell, Jr. upon hearing of the battle of Lexington,
marched as a Sergeant and joined the army near Boston;
he was engaged at the battle of Bunker Hill, officers
not stated.
He was appointed on July 15, 1777, Second Lieutenant
of Captain Elisha Barton's Company, Lieutenant Colonel
Samuel Herrick's Vermont Regiment, was in the battle of
Bennington and both battles at Saratoga.
In December 1777 he was sent as Lieutenant with
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Captain Frye Bayley, by Major General Gates into
Canada with a flag of truce and was detained and
held in captivity about one year.
On February 1, 1780 he was appointed Captain
of a company raised for the defence of the frontiers
of Vermont, by order of Colonel Peter Olcott and served
two months.
From February 10, 1781 he served as Captain in
Colonel Samuel Fletcher's Vermont Regiment until June
30, 1781.
From July 1, 1781 he served for one hundred forty 
seven days as Captain in Colonel Benjamin Wait's Vermont
Battalion.
Soldier married August 8, 1781 in Newbury, Vermont,
Betsey born May 6, 1762, the daughter of Captain John Haselton or Hazeltine of said Newbury. 
He died July 14, 1801 in Newbury, Vermont and his
widow Betsey was allowed pension on her application executed
October 1, 1839 while a resident of said Newbury.
They never had any children.
Respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.
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State of Vermont
Secretary of State’s office
Burlington June 6, 1848
I, Elliot E. Kellogg, Deputy Secretary of
State of Vermont, hereby certify that 
upon “A Pay Roll of Capt Nehemiah Lovewell’s
Company in Col. Benjn Waits Battalion in the
service of the State of Vermont, commencing the
1st day of July A.D. 1781, and ending Nov. 1781
inclusive,” occurs the name of Moses Hall
who served from July 1. 1781, to November
24th 1781; and also occurs in the same
pay roll the name of Levi Hall, who
served the same length of time.
And I further certify that in “Captain
Jacob Hall’s Pay Roll for 1781, for
scouting,’ occurs the name of said
Moses Hall who was paid for seven
days service & 48 miles travel; and
also occurs the name of Levi Hall who
was paid for nine days service & 68
miles travel. The Pay Rolls above
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referred to are found in the “Records
of the service of the Vermont Troops
in the Revolutionary War being a transcript
made by order of the General Assembly
of Pay Rolls, Pay Table orders & receipts
originally filed as vouchers in its
Treasurer's office,”
In testimony whereof, I have
hereunto set my hand
and affixed the seal of
this office, at said Burlington in said 6th day of June
1848.
Elliot E. Kellogg Dep. Sec. of State of Vermont.
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No. 11
Henry Stevens
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I Henry Stevens of Barret County of Caledonia
in the State of Vermont in my fifty ninth year of
my age depose and say that in addition to an
affidavit made by me on the 11th day of November
1848 in the matter of the application of Betsey Lovwell,
Widow of Capt Nehemiah Lovwell, Record for
an increase and transfer of her pension from the Act
of July 7th 1838 to that of July 4 1836. I further say
that for many years and long before the passage
of the Act granting pensions dated July 4th 1836,
I had been engaged in various Antiquarian researches
& in Vermont [touching] its early History and
particularly during the Revolutionary war.
That the name of Nehemiah Lovwell
and his services are familiar to me, as being a matter
of record in the archives of said State - from which it
appears that said Lowell was stationed with his
company in the town of Peacham in the summer and
fall of the year AD 1781. I further say that for the
whole period of my life I have resided within
about fifteen miles of the said Betsey Lowell, &
have been acquainted with her and also with
Moses Hall, one Levi Hall & one William Tiel
as stated in my Affidavit aforesaid, and nearly
all the old persons residing in the neighborhood.
And that it has always been handed down by
tradition and believed that the said Lovwell
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was a married man while in the
service in the year 1781 and of which fact from
the Circumstance before stated. I have never
had any doubts before or since the date of the her
application for a pension and in the absence of new
evidence, no fact has been more fully established
I further say that Moses Hall Levi Hall and
Wm Tiel above named are men of good
standing and fully competent to testify in this case
and that their testimony is entitled to full greit
and belief.
Henry Stevens

District of Columbia
Washington County to wit:- before the subscriber
 a Justice of the peace in and for
said County personally the above named
Henry Stevens and made Oath in due
form of law, that the foregoing statements by
by him made and subscribed are true to the
best of his knowledge and belief -
A. K. Morsell, J. P.
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We the undersigned having read the annexed affidavit of Henry
Stevens Esqr believe it to be correct and true in all particulars.
Mr Stevens has for many years devoted much time & money
in the various researches connected with  the early history of the State of Vermont, and particularly to that which relates to the revolutionary history of the State: and has made himself acquainted with all the old and respectable persons of that day who resided in Vermont
during the last half century and with many who performed an action and [seminal] parts in its early history.
We consider the historical and traditional knowledge which
Stevens has acquired such as to entitle his opinions & statements to our full belief. That he is a gentleman of high standing and
known probity and that we consider his opinion as to the competency and 
credibility of the witnesses he has named such as to justify a
full belief in the truth of their statements.
Washington City [Feby or July]18, 1850

J. Meacham
Wm Hebard
Lucius  B. Peck
William Henry
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Court of Common Pleas of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Ira Goodall is an acting Justice  of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated
on the eleventh day of June AD 1836 and will expire on the eleventh day of June AD 1841, and
that his signature above written is genuine
Given under my hand and the Seal of said County this 29th day of August AD 1840

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George Banfill’s Depo.
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I, George Banfill of Haverhill New Hampshire
aged fifty two years depose say that forty
six years ago my Parents gave me to Capt Nehemiah Lovewell to be brought up by him & his
wife as their child, they being childless. I lived
with them until his death in 1801. He was 
was wealthy & I lived with [who] having nearly
all his property until the year 1811 or 1812-Soon
after this she [said] out [insert] I went west with a Nephew of
her husband. In 1820 he died & she wrote to
me to come [illegible] her as she had suffered him
to manage her property & it was entangled.
& I went & found she had lost it all except
a small remnant. I then moved her home
to my house & ever since then she has been
Poor & has resided with me most of the time.
Some four years ago Genl Moody Bedel
called on her & stated to her that he would get
Pension for her on obtaining proof of
her marriage & of her husband’s service as
Captain in the revolutionary war. He
said he would go & get the proof of both
& got it - [It lay along & he went because & saw]
[how] he had got all necessary proof & he took her
declaration & said he sent all [and] to the War
department but it did not come. He afterwards
 told her in my presence that he had received a 
letter from the Pension office
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respecting her pension. That he would have
pay as a Lieutenant, but he said he would prove
he served as Captain. She was going to
Berlin in Vermont to get John Taplin
Esq deposition from [?] & testimony
about it. It never and nothing came.
& [she was?]  anxious about it & at her request
I asked Goodall & [?] counsellor at
Law in Bath to write to the pension
office about it. They did & received an answer
that her papers were not there & had not
been there. At least no mention of them was
found. Then Genl Bedel said they were
all lost.  That he had sent them all
Including a Commission & a copy of another,
the original of which was in the war
department in Stephen Power’s Pension
papers. He said it was now two years before
he sent them all in.
She had ever been as a parent to me & was now fearful
 her papers & proof lost. & She requested me to go
& pick up such proof as I could. & she employed
Morris Goodall & [illegible] to assist us.
At their request I went to see Sarah Russel
& get her deposition, her being present at the 
marriage. I called on Judge Briggs to take it but
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he was not there in Commission. Then with an
Esqr Benoni Thompson a respectable magistrate
who lived near her & she said nothing about any
family record but told her story just as she
pleased. I said nothing while it was taken & knew
nothing of the record nor did I know but that
her deposition perfectly agreed with the one
Genl Bedel took. as I had no minutes of that.
I found all the witnesses agreed that it was in
1781 they were married & that it was while he
commanded the forts in Peacham that year.
I believe that is the truth beyond a doubt.
Since Morris Goodall & I [have] received a line 
from the Hon Commissioner of Pensions dated 17
August 1840. I at that request went to see Mrs
Sarah Russel & get the bible she speaks of in
her first deposition in 1838. I saw it, in
the middle leaf there was a line written in a school
boy hand that her oldest child was born in 1781
& nothing more of it - no record of her marriage nor
of the month or day in the year & if she is 80 now,
as her brother suggested to her as she seems, then the
child was born in 1780 instead 1781 & the record
was made over twenty years after the event
recorded - I urged her by using pleas. I wanted to send 
the bible in or let Esq Huntington send it, or send the leaf  
but she absolutely refused & said if that went she
must [would?] go with it, & it should not go out of
her possession to the Pension Office nor should [her]
[??] I could not persuade her to let the bible be sent to the
Pension Office.
George Banfill
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George Banfill’s Depo.

Grafton ss August 28 1840 Then
George Banfill within named
personally appeared & made oath that the
within deposition is true. & I do
certify that he is a credible witness.
before me Ira Goodall Justice of the Peace

State of New Hampshire
Grafton County set
I Nathan B Felton Clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Ira Goodall is an acting justice
of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated
on the eleventh day of June AD 1836 and will
expire on the eleventh day of June AD 1841 and
that his signature above written is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said County this 29th day of August AD 1840
N. B. Felton Clerk
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No 18
Jos Berry
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The affidavit of Joseph Berry of Newbury in the County of Orange and the State of Vermont, of the age sixty years, sheweth that on or about the 22nd day of July AD 1820 he was present and assisted in the taking of Hepzibah Johnston’s 
deposition to be used in establishing the the claim of Mrs Betsey Lovewell, widow of Capt. Nehemiah Lovewell to a pension. Mrs Johnston - I well recollect fixed the time of the marriage of Capt. Lovewell with Betsey Haseltine, his wife, above mentioned from certain facts and data about which she could hardly be mistaken, one of was that on its being announced, as she was about her household 
affairs that Capt. Lovewell and his bride and the company
Attending the wedding had come in sight,  of taking in her arms her daughter Jane, and going to the door with her still
holding her in her arms, and looking at the cavalcade as it
came up and passed be [by?] her dwelling - Jane’s age she stated and which she corroborated by ancient record 
made as it appeared by her husband in his lifetime of the birth of his children. Another corroborating fact that she mentioned was that her husband moved that spring from his homestead farm on to a small farm of his called the White farm, (where she then was) which was the same spring on which Jane was born, and that her husband as I think and verily believe stayed on the White but one year or thereabouts. She further stated that her family and Capt Lovewell’s, both before and after his marriage were near neighbors, and that she well recollected of his coming
home from Peacham, where he was stationed at the fort with his Company, for the purpose, as it was said, of being married, which
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was but a day or two prior to the day of his marriage as before mentioned.
I said Berry further say that i was well acquainted with Mrs. Johnston and her family for about twenty years previous to her death, which took place about two years ago, and we have no more respectable people in the place. Mrs Johnston was, ever since I knew her, remarkable for the strength and clearness of her intellect. And she testified at the time of taking her deposition as before mentioned, apparently with a perfect understanding of all the facts narrated in her deposition, and so as to fix an entire 
impression of their truth on my mind.
Joseph Berry

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 12 day
of July 1848. and I hereby certify that said Joseph
Berry is personally well known to me and that
he is a highly credible witness.
J W. D. Parker Justice of the Peace
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STATE OF VERMONT ORANGE COUNTY, SS.

I, Calvin Blodgett Clerk of the County Court
of the County of Orange in the State of Vermont, do hereby
certify that J. W. D. Parker Esq
is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county,
duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was
dated on the first day of December in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty seven
and will expire the thirtieth day of November next, and that
his signature hereto annexed is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said County Court, this
17th day of July A.D. 1848
Calvin Blodgett Clerk
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I Samuel White of Newbury in the County of Orange
and State of Vermont do depose testify and say as follows-
I am in my ninetieth year since last November. [I] have
resided in Newbury since the year 1773 and
have been ever since that time until very recently a
practicing physician-- I was well acquainted with
Captain Nehemiah Lovewell formerly of Newbury and
with his wife Mrs Betsey Lovewell. Her maiden name
name was Betsey Haseltine. Said Nehemiah and Betsey
were married at Newbury aforesaid by the Revd Mr Richards,
a minister of the gospel, then settled at Piermont in Newhampshire, but he occasionally came across 
Connecticut River and solemnized marriages in Newbury - They were married in the year 1781, during the Summer season as I think, or in warm weather, but I cannot fix upon
the precise time with certainty, it was so long ago.
I was brides man and Polly, or as she was Sometimes
called Mary, Heseltine, a sister to the bride, was brides
maid - said sister is now the wife of Brigham Taplin
of Corinth, Vt. - Said Nehemiah Lovewell died at Newberry
about the year 1801 leaving said Betsey his widow and
she has ever since remained his widow and now is.
Said Nehemiah was a Captain (or was so called) during
a considerable part of the revolutionary war, and he
raised a company of men at and about Newbury - I think, and have reason to believe, the fore part of the year
1781. And said company was stationed at a small fort
Peacham, about twenty miles north of Newbury.
I was called in the Court of my professional business to
Peacham and while there I called on said Captain Lovewell
at said fort and know that he commanded there.
Samuel White
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State of Vermont
County of Orange SS. Be it remembered that at
Newbury in the aforesaid County of Orange on the 23d
day of December AD 1839 before Joseph Berry Justice
of Peace within and for said County, personally appeared
Samuel White and made solemn oath
that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed contains
the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth
And I certify that I am well acquainted with
said White and that his reputation for truth and
veracity is good, and his statements are entitled to
belief-
Joseph Berry Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont Orange County ss
Orange Co. Clerk's Office December 27. 1839
 I Perley C Jones Clerk of
Orange Court hereby certify that Joseph Berry is a
Justice of the Peace in & for said Orange County duly
commissioned & qualified that his commissioned is
dated the 25th day of November AD 1839 I will expire
on the 30th day of November AD 1840 and that I believe
the above signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set the
Seal of Orange Co. Court & affixed my name this 28th
day of December AD 1839
Perley C Jones Clerk of Or. Co. Court
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Betsy Lovewell
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Declaration Act 4 July 1836
State of Vermont Bradford District ss
On this 13th day of August 1847.
Personally appeared before the
Probate Court of the District of Bradford at a session
thereof holden at Newbury within & for said District
Betsey Lovewell a resident of Newbury in the
County of Orange & State of Vermont aged 85 years who
being first duly sworn according to law doth
on her oath, makes the following declaration in
order to obtain the benefit of the provision made
by the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836: That
she is the widow of Nehemiah Lovewell who
was a Lieutenant & Capt in the war of the Revolution
 and for a detailed statement of his service
She refers the department to her declaration
heretofore made under said act & upon file as
she supposes in the Pension Office.
She further declares that she was married
to the said Lovewell on the eighth (8th) day of August
Seventeen hundred eighty one (1781) at said Newbury.
That she has not any record of her marriage nor
does not know of any, (nor of Births of children as
She has not ever had any) that for proof of her
Marriage to the said Nehemiah Lovewell, and
her husband the said Lovewell's death she refers
the department to her Declaration & accompanying documents heretofore forwarded & also to
the accompanying proof; she further declares
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that she has remained a widow ever since the
death of the said Nehemiah Lovewed; that she
is now drawing a Pension under the act of 7th
July 1838 (or of June 17th 1844.) That the said Capt
Nehemiah Lovewell had the command of a Company
in the war of the Revolution the year that she was
married to him & was stationed at Peacham as
she then & has ever since understood & that while
he had the command of said Co. came home to
Newbury when she was married to him.  That after
marriage he returned to his command.
Betsey Lovell
Subscribed & sworn to by the above Declarant in
open Court before me on the day and year first
above written
Stephen Thomas Judge of Probate

State of Vermont Bradford District
  I John W Batchelder Register of the
Probate Court within and for the district of Bradford
do hereby certify that the Hon Stephen Thomas is Judge of Probate
within and for the district of Bradford duly commissioned and
qualified. that his commission was dated on the 1st day of December
AD 1846 and will expire on the 30th day of November AD 1847
and that the signature above written purporting to be his is
genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereunto affix the Seal of
said Court at Bradford and Subscribed my
name this 13th day of August AD 1847
John W. Batchelder Register
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7691
Betty Lowell
declaration for a
Pension
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DECLARATION.
in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of July 1827 entitled ""An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows," 
State of New Hampshire County of Grafton ss
On the first Tuesday of October 1820 personally appeared before the Judge of in the County of the Court of Probate held at Haverhill in Grafton County this day in open court Betsey Lovewell, a resident of Newbury in the County of Orange
and State of Vermont, aged Seventy eight years, who being first duly sworn
according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7th, 1838, entitled ""An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows," That she is the widow of Nehemiah Lovell who was a Captain in the army
of the revolution, and served as such & as Lieutenant & as an independent commander of ranging parties & scouts during most of the revolutionary war. He first in 1775 on the above after Lexington Battle [raised] seventeen soldiers & marched them for Boston. Was in Bunker Hill battle & there stationed at Winter Hill. Remained in that [??] until the campaign of 1777, when he was appointed a Lieutenant in the Vermont State troops in Capt Burton’s Company in Col Henrich’s Regiment & was in Bennington Battle & assisted at the Capture of Burgoyne. He was then ordred into Canada by Genl Gates with Capt Powell & Lieutenant Frye Bailey to carry a flag of truce [however?] some Brittish Officers, when he was made a prisoner & detained a year in Quebec. & just before he left on this expedition he was appointed & commissioned
a Captain in Col Timothy Bedel’s Regiment
for a [Winter’s] campaign into Canada,  but being a prisoner, he did not join this regiment but drew as the [illegible] Captains pay during this year’s captivity. &  he knew he has been said & [??] to pay a debt he contracted while a prisoner in Canada for provisions he bought to [heal] his wounds & himself from [illegible]. After
his return he had [several] commands, all as Captain in
1779, 1780 & 1781 & 1782. In 1780 he was Captain of a Company raised by the Convention to guard the frontier & was stationed at Newbury & Haverhill opposite fort Peacham about 20 miles above in Vermont. In 1781 he commanded a company stationed at the fort or block house in said Peacham through the summer until late in the [year].

She further declares that she was married to the said Nehemiah Lovewell on the eighth day of August in the year seventeen hundred and eighty one. That her husband, the aforesaid Nehemiah Lovewell died on the fourteenth day of July 1807. That she married to him prior to his leaving the service [illegible insert] but the marriage took place previous
to the first day of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz: at the time above stated and that she has not since been
married to any other person but is now his widow, and she [reserves] the right if she can hereafter prove service after the marriage to pension for life.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year as above written, before Edward Webber Judge of Probate
Betsey Lovewell
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Betsy  Lovewell
P. W. Ladd
Newbury
Vt.
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the
act of Congress of June 17th 1843, granting
pensions for four years to certain Widows who had received pensions under the Act.of March 3d 1843 -
State of Vermont Cou ty of Orange
On this 13th day of July A.D. 1845
personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice
of the peace in and for the afore said County of
Orange Betsey Lovewell a resident of Newbury
in the aforesaid County of Orange Aged eighty
three years, who being first duly sworn according to
law doth on her oath makes the following declaration
in order to obtain the benefits of the
provision made by the act of Congress passed
June 17th 1843 granting pensions to Widows
of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
That she is the widow of Nehemiah Lovewell,
who served as Captain and Lieutenant, and that the
amount of pension which she received under the
Act of March 3 1843 was four hundred dollars per
annum. She further declares that she is still a widow.
Betsey Lovewell
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written,
Before me Benj’n Atwood Justice Peace
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I certify that the above named Betsey Lovewell is
personally known to me and has been for more them
fifteen years last past.
Benj'n Atwood Justice Peace

State of Vermont
District of Bradford -
Probate office July 15. 1844.
I J. W. D. Parker Judge of the Probate Court within and
for the district aforesaid do hereby certify
that Benj’n Atwood is a justice of the Peace within and for the
County of Orange duly commissioned and qualified to
act as such. That his commission commenced on the 1st
day of December 1843 and will expire on the 31 day of
November 1844 and that his signature above written as a
Justice of the Peace is genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and affix the
seal of said Probate Court the day and year first above written.
J W D Parker Judge of Probate
Please make this payable at Concord NH
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[left margin-vertical]
1924 June 3 Hist to Winifred L. Glover MMHF
1927 Apr. 19 photos mailed to A W DeGoosh AW

Revy
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 24566
Betsey Lovewell
Wid of
Nehemiah Lovewell
Capt Rev War

Act July 4th 36
Vol A, Page 44
{Arrangement of 1870.}
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6104
Vermont
Betsey Lovewell
widow of
Nehemiah Lovewell, dec’d
[crossed out -’who was a pensioner under the Act of’]

and who died on the 14th July A.D. 1801.
of Orange Co in the State of Vermont
who was a Lieutenant and Captain
in the Vermont militia
line for 12 months in each grade

Inscribed on the Roll of Montpelier
at the rate of 400 Dollars - Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 19" day of March
1841 & sent to the claimant at
Newbury, Orange Co. Vermont

Arrears to the 4th of March 1841 $2,000.00

{Act July 7, 1838.}

Recorded by D. McCurdy Clerk,
Book  A Vol. 2 Page 45.
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[circle stamp]
BATH N H
AUG 3

Aug’t 7 
N.H.
Betsy Lovewell
add’l proof

FREE
Hon J. L. Edwards
Commr of Pensions
Washington City D. C.
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Bath Augt 3d 1840
Hon. J. L. Edwards

We enclose you further
evidence in the case of the application
of widow Betsey Lovewell-- and we hope
that it will be satisfactory on the two
points of identity & time of marriage.
In relation to the question, whether the father [received] or the son the evidence we suppose to be most
Conclusive. We are greatly obliged to you for 
the copy of the letter which you have [remitted] 
to Genl Bedel in April last, for the reason
 that it accounts for the [illegible] of replies to 
our communications to the department
 and explains to us other matters that have
 seemed to us mysterious until the receipt
 of that copy.  And now although
it may be uninteresting to you we will
detail to you all the proceedings touching
the application of Mrs Lovewell.
Mrs Lovewell we believe about two and a half
or 3 years ago applied to Genl Bedel to obtain
for her a pension under the act of July 4, 1836.
And he proceeded on in the business as he infomed 
her from time to time. Made her declaration for her & went about & procured testimony touching the case. And as long ago as one and a half years, according to our recollection of the story Mrs Lovewell has told us, informed the Old
Lady that he had procured sufficient testimony
to entitle her to a pension.  And that he had sent on her papers to the Department at Washington & that a pension certificate would be forthcoming-- but suggested to her
the idea of the propriety of his receiving
one fourth part of the pension that should be drawn,
being the same share to which he was entitled in certain
other cases in which he had had an agency in procuring
pension certificates. The old lady did not see fit
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to assent to his proposal-- Sometime afterwards she again
saw the Genl and he gave her the same information
as before and again proposed taking
compensation for his serving the share
of the pension as before. She did not consent
to it as she says - nor did the pension certificate
come. And still she retained her confidence
in the Genl that he was doing his duty in the
case and that the stories he had told her
of having forwarded her papers were
true-- In June 1839 (we think it was in that
month,) the old lady sent an agent to us
to learn of us any thing we might know of the
matter, and her prospects. And to procure our
aid in the case in learning what the Genl
had done in the case-- She beginning to
doubt whether he was doing any thing - as
he shew her no letters from the Department
and continued his importunities to close
the trade for the fourth part of the pension.
We suggested the propriety of writing you on
the subject learning authentically what
was the true state of the case-- You writing
two letters, learned that no papers touching
Mrs Lovewell’s case had ever been on
the files of the department-- We communicated
this information to Mrs Lovewell & she
or her agent then called on the Genl in
relation to it-- And was informed by him
that it was true that they were not at the department
at the time one letter was replied to, but that
they had been forwarded since or about the time 
of the reply to Washington - that they
had been at Washington before - as he had
before informed the lady - but that they
had been returned to him for some
correction or addition & were resting his 
hands for that purpose at the time we wrote.
After waiting some time for reply to the papers
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so sent on the second time as was declared by the
Genl. - We again wrote the department & received
[your] reply in substance that no papers touching
her case had ever been at the department. This reply of course settled the matter that the lady had been misinformed
as to her case. She then employed
us to endeavour to place her case before the
department for examination and
allowance. The Genl [?] being again applied to in
 relation to the matter, said he did forward the papers
 as he had informed the Lady & this agent and that if they were not at the department they were lost [illegible 2-3 words] 
The old lady had never seen one jot of 
the depositions which the Genl had procured,
nor had her agent nor had we- Her agt then
(or Mr Banfill)  proceeded on to procure
the testimony of such persons as she informed 
him & us had knowledge of the facts in
the case-- and Genl Bedel has had no
agency in the matter since, excepting what he
[illegible of arrived?] without right-the effect [illegible insert] which has been to [interrupt] an intercourse with your [illegible-Rodel?] on the progress of the investigation.
Mrs Sarah Russell’s affidavit taken in 1838 was taken
[by] Bedel as is supposed. but its contents were not known
to us or to Mrs Lovewell. And we are informed
that Mrs Russell still supposes that her first is like
her last in substance. And we ask of the department
to say to us whether there are any interlineations
or names in the deposition of 1838 affecting
date of the marriage or not.  If so in whose
hand writing they appear to be made. We believe
Mrs Lovewell has made an honest claim under the act of 1836. That it is only [embarrassed?] from
some contrivance of the Genl to thwart her
rights or no better reason than that she would
give him the ¼  he asked-- & we ask also
that you would inform us at what period the Genl
forwarded Mrs Russell’s & any other papers
& what other papers he was forwarded. An early
reply would oblige. Very truly. Goodall & Woods
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No. 8
Page 1

Bath 20th Feb 1840
Sir
In yours of the 9th of Jan in due [season], I shall endeavour to
answer it;  I hope to your satisfaction. Although I am very much out of Health, & have been for some time past & am
now [barely] able to Write. As to Mrs Betsey Lovewell’s claim
for Pension as the Widow of Capt Nehemiah Lovewell
late of Newbury in the County of Orange & State of Vermont
Deceased. As is stated in her Declaration, as to the services &
Death of her late husband, is in my opinion True, 
being well acquainted with them both from the year
1770 untill his death & with her ever since, & with
their connections in this Country, and much more
particularly acquainted with him, in the Revolutionary
War. The senior Lovewell was an Elderly gentleman
very much in favour of the Revolution, & was willing
to do all in his power in support of the good cause, as
he called it. & Join as a Minute Man, as did most of the
Gentlemen, & do Private Soldier’s duty when wanted.
Suffice it to say that he was the Father of the Present
applicant’s husband-- You state that it is said that
I had some time ago presented her papers to the
Department, and that I had stated to the applicant
that your department had offered her the pay of
Lieut - as your records show, no correspondence
with me on the subject. I think this [position] materially contracts itself. I say however that it is not
that I ever said so. I was after enquired of what
thought the widow would obtain as a Pension, by
herself & others, & I undoubtedly told her, & others that
it was my opinion that she would obtain the amount
of a Lieut pay or more, Either for life or for five years
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No. 2
and this is all I ever said to the applicant, or to any
body else. You ask me the favor to state such facts as I 
possess touching this claim. I was solicited by the 
applicant to assist her in obtaining a Pension. I agreed
to do it, & asked her what evidence she had of her late
Husband’s services. She Produced, & gave me a Lieutenant’s
Commission, from the authority of the State of Vermont
for six months from the 15th day of July 1777 to the 15th day
of January 1778. a copy of which is herewith enclosed [No. 1]
No other evidence was ever furnished me, by her, & she stated
that I knew more about the business than any body
else. That I must do the best I could for her. I asked her
when she was married, & she could not tell me, only
that it was in the time of the Revolutionary War
& she said, that Mrs Mary Taplin of Corinth, her
Sister was at her wedding, & that she would send for
her sister & talk the business over & come to some
conclusion about the time that the Marriage took
place. & after she & her sister had an interview I was
sent for. I repaired to the applicant’s, & took Mrs Taplin’s
Deposition, who stated that her sister, the applicant
was married to said Capt Nehemiah Lovewell
in the month of August 1782 & made oath to it
before me. No. 2 herewith enclosed, which I believed was
true then & now do still believe so, from my own
recollection, living as I did, at the time, in sight of
where the Marriage took place. I then went in search
of other evidence, to Mr Stephen Powers of Newbury,
who in conversation Informed me that he had
Borrowed a Commission of the applicant, of her late
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Husband’s, as a Capt, in order to establish his said [previous]
own claim to a Pension, but the date of the Commission the
said Powers, could not remember. &, supposing that the
commission would be of use in the case of the applicant, I
requested said Powers to send for the Commission, or a
copy of it. Said Powers said that he would through his
agent Esqr Berry & you had the goodness to send a copy
of the Commission, which I received, & found it to be
dated the tenth day of Feb 1781 to continue untill
the 15th day of Decr following, unless sooner discharged, the
original you have in the office [illegible insert-’which you can see’?]. When the Copy of
this Commission arrived, I informed the applicant, that
it would not secure a Pension for life, as her
late Husband’s services according to this Commission
was in 1781 - & that her Marriage according to her sister’s
Deposition was in 1782 - some time elapsed, when the
applicant stated to me, that she should state in her Declaration, that her Marriage was in the year 1781, in the
month of August, & that the Evidence would testify to the same. I went to Doct Samuel White, who was groomsman
at the Weding, he told me that he remembered of being
at the Weding, but had no data to refresh his memory
to the time it took place, but that he believed that
it was in the time of the Revolutionary War, & stated
that he was an Old Man, & that every thing appeared
to him as a dream (or like a dream,) & was not willing to
give a Deposition stating any particular time, or even
the year that the Marriage took place-- I did not take
his Deposition at the time, & concluded to go to John Brown
of Northfield in Vermont, who it was said was at the Weding. When I arrived there I found that he had died 
some time before-- I then proceeded to Richmond in
said State of Vermont, to see if I could find Sally (or in other
words) Sarah Russell, Widow of the late Lieut John Russell, who
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who it was said at the Weding, she being on a visit at
Burlington, I proceeded thither, & found her at her Son’s
Tavern, where I put up for the night, & while at supper
Mrs Russell recognised me, & spoke to me, I told her that after Supper I wanted to ask her some questions, & after supper I asked her, if she was at the Marriage of Capt Nehemiah Lovewell to Betsey Hazeltine.
 She said that she, was, & told me the Names &c. 
And I asked her if she could remember the time
the Marriage took place. After a pause, she said that
she could not, but said he my first born was not
year old, say about ten months old, being then with
me & nurst at the Breast, & it was weaned at about one
year old, and that the child’s Birth was recorded in the
Family Bible, then at Richmond, which would give
the [[best or right] time. I asked her if it would be convenient for her to go to Richmond, the next day, for I wanted her
Deposition. She said yes, if her Son would go with her, &
her son agreed to go with her. In the morning we went
to Richmond, & on examining the Family Bible, it was
found that Mrs Russel’s first born, was on the 19th day of
October 1781, which would prove the Marriage to be in
August 1782. [insert]  I took her deposition before Esq Huntington [illegible]. No. 3
 Although this did not answer for the
applicant’s Declaration for 1781- it agreeing perfectly with
my opinion, as I have before stated. I then concluded
that if any after service of Capt Lovewells could be made
to appear, a Pension for life might be obtained for the
Applicant. For this purpose, I repaired to Montpelier in order
to search the records & proceedings in the State of Vermont.
I there found that on the 25th of Feb. 1782, the Assembly appointed
a Committee to bring in a Nomination of Officers for to
command the Troops to be raised for the next Campaign
and the Committee reported among others, the said Capt
Nehemiah Lovewell as one of the Captains, and the report
was accepted, & the Governor requested to commission the persons to
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to their several officers, as mentioned in the report. On the Secretary’s Certificate herewith enclosed, in his numbers No.5. This was all I could find after searching about a week. No record of any Commission to any person could I find in the State.  I then returned
home, but within a short distance of home I was thrown
from my Carriage, & very much injured, of which I
have never recovered-- this misfortune delayed the applicant
business, & she employed Ira Goodall Esq to assist her in my
stead, I being at that time unable to attend to it-- now if the
aforesaid resolve of the State of Vermont is competent authority to entitle (him the Deceased, if alive, or her his widow) to a Pension is for you to Judge., [insert] 
on any commission or pension for 1782, her claim is good.
I know that the said Capt Lovewell did actually do duty in the Frontier, to the close of
the War under Genl Jacob Bailey from the commencement
of the year 1780 - but whether he was paid by Gen Bailey,
or not. I do not know but fully believe that at
Bailey had competent authority to employ & pay
troops for Guards &c when wanted, and not employed and
placed under him, by other competent authority, and
paid by that authority, which or who employed the Troops
for the defense & protection of this Frontier - No record of the Marriage
of the applicant, is to be found, either in the Town or of
the Revd Clergyman who performed the ceremony, for he
early removed from this vicinity & Died long since & no trace
of his papers or [?] has been found, although proper such
enquiry has been made for them.  As to the services of the
applicant’s husband, as I have before stated, I know that
he went in order to goe to the vicinity of Boston, as is stated
in the Declaration of the applicant. That he was in Col Heinrich’s Regiment in 1777 - At the taking of [Burgunyone], as his commission (No 1) shows. I know that he was elected as
one to goe, & did goe into Canada, as one of a Flagg of Truce
& was detained about one year as a prisoner. I know that he was
appointed by my Father Col Timothy Bedel, as a Capt in a
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Regiment, then to be raised for a Winter Expedition to Canada
this appointment, was about the time of the Flagg going into Canada) and he said Lovewell  was born on the Rolls, as a Captain of a Company, & was paid
after his return as a Capt by James Lewis Paymaster of said Regt 
from Dec 15th 1777 till the 31 day of March 1778 both day[s], inclusive, it being done in my presence, but whether said Lovewell [deducted] this pay, from his year’s Imprisonment, when he was Paid for his year’s imprisonment at the [note] of Government in the month of Jany 1779, I do not know.  Or whether he rec’d his pay as a Lieut, being such, when he was sent into Canada (or in other word when he was employed to goe, by Genl Gates). The sum he rec’d would be about the same either way-- the sum which he rec’d was 216 Dollars as
Wages. And afterwards he applied to the State of Vermont
for his rations, & Rec’d 40 Dollars for the same in Jan
1783, as may be seen by the Treasurer’s certificate herewith
enclosed. (No. 4) Now whether he Lovewell is to be considered a Capt or a Lieut. while a prisoner you must Judge, he being the same person. I know that he was in command as a Captain in the year 1780 for Two months as appears by
the Secretary’s certificate of the State of Vermont, in his
Numbers (No 3),  & paid by the Treasurer of the State., I know
that he served as a Capt in Col. Fletcher’s Regt in Vermont
in 1781, the time the Commission states is 10 months & 5 days. But the Pay Rolls, being two, will not amount to that time.
Capt Lovewell’s services as a Lieut & Capt with his being determined, & paid, as a prisoner of war is sufficient to ensure
a Pension, for his Widow, the present applicant for life.,  if the Marriage took place as the proof which has
been presented to you, is Correct & true, that the
Marriage took place in the Summer of 1781.
This time is not correct as I believe, & as two of the
Principal witnesses have before sworn that the Marriage was
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was in the Summer of 1782. I cannot help thinking that
something has been done either wrong in this matter
and in order to ascertain it, I would recommend that
you should write to some person in Richmond or Burlington
to see Mrs Sarah (sometimes called Sally) Russell, and carefully put the following 
Question to her, & take the answers Viz; Was you at the
Marriage of Capt Nehemiah Lovewell of Newbury in
this State, to Miss Betsy Haseltine of the same place. 
The answer will be yes. Who was Groom Man & Maid. The
answer will be Doct Saml White & Mary Haseltine now
Mary Taplin - Was your first born with you at the
Weding. The answer will be yes- How old was your
child at this time. the answer will be under a year
old say about ten months. What time was you
Married to Lt Russell. Answer the 27th day Feby 1780
When was your first child born. Answer the 19th day of
Oct 1781. Have you a Family record. answer yes, in
the Bible- Turn to the Bible & it will be as here
stated, unless the figure of one has been altered
was to read 1780 instead of 1701. Mrs Russell in my
opinion is an honest woman, & I think has made
mistake in her last Deposition, or has been deceived.
If this should be as I think, it will shew what can be
done where people are so disposed. For before it was
known when the last Commission of Capt Lovell
was in authority, there was nothing said about the
Marriage but in 1782 but now the last Commission
that the said Capt Lovewell held, & served under appearing
to be in 1781 evidence to prove the Marriage in that or this
year to ensure a Pension for life becomes Necessary & I
think unjustly obtained-- if I have not answered your
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request. Please to write again, & I hope I shall be in
health to answer it sooner than I have this;  ill health
must be my apology - I will however mention on this
more whether of any weight or not, that is the applicant
did not live or reside in this State when she made her
application, but has resided in Newbury 
Vermont ever since last
March & came from there in the morning & returned at
Evening. This not being according to your rules and
regulations in the occasion of my mentioning it. If
any competent authority for Capt Lovewell’s services
in 1782 is in your possession, Including the Month
of August, the applicant’s claim is good for a Pension
for life, otherwise only for five years. As I think it is
said by some that Capt Lovewell served in Vermont
under Colo Wait in 1782 & that Nathaniel White
was said Lovewell’s Lieut. If so, it is not within my
knowledge or recollection, your files will shew when
Nathaniel White served, I presume, as his Widow
in the recpt of a Pension for her husband’s services-
& of course will shew the time he served as a Lieut under said
Lovewell-- I am with due respect, your obt servt
Moody Bedel

Hon J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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Letter
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Bath Dec 30 1839

[Honored] Sir
I forward to you further evidence of 
the service of Nehemiah Lovell.
The state records shew that he received pay
 as Lieutenant while a prisoner 12 months in 
1777 & 1778 & this Lieutenant’s commission was
for the Campaign of 1777 to the capture of Burgoyne,
when Genl Gates sent him with
a flag of truce to Canada & he was detained.
He was appointed a Capt in Bedel’s Regt in July of 
1777 for a winter campaign but his being
a prisoner prevented. The roll of Bedel’s Regt shew the Lieut.
after his return in 1778. He had short services in 
1778 & 1779 & 1780 as Capt. & in 1781. He served
from the first [insert-’of this campaign’?]] to June 30 1781 as the Vermont pay roll shews &  from July 1st to Nov 1781 - 147
day again. & was paid as rolls then Show as you
will see by enclosed certificates from the rolls of
No. 1- 2- 3 & 4 of enclosed. Next relates to relations
of his - on the whole there is proof of his having been 
Lieutenant from July 1777 to his going to Canada with
the flag in Dec. 1777 & of his remaining there a Captain as  Lieut.
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one year [illegible] pay as Lieutenant for 12 months while a
captive. See No. 1 enclosed-- Then in 1778 & 1779 & 80 this
is proved by rolls, over  5 months service as Captain 
& by No 2 & No 4 enclosed about 7 months pay is taken as
Captain for 1787 making over a year’s [monies paid] as 
Lieutenant & [was] a year as Capt. I have no doubt he
served over two years as Captain from 1777 up to fall
of 1782, but perhaps it would be difficult to make the
proof. & we had rather taken for 1 year as Lieut. & one as Capt, making 400 per year (we believe) than to try to raise it
to all two years as Capt’s pay- We hope the proofs
now sufficient to support two years services as Capt & Lieut.
& that the proof of the marriage is also satisfactory,
as we furnish some of the most respectable witnesses in
the Country - Doct White the groomsman whose word
is law in his vicinity, Col White (not of the [Council]) but
most reputable old Gentleman & Mrs Russell & Mrs Rebecca
White, who knows it was in 1781 by her own marriage
the same year, who was intimate with her. & we would refer 
you to Hon J W Williams M C from Lancaster as to his
standing & [no?] to the Hon J H White’s the Councillor of State who took her testimony & certifies to her respectability-- you
will find Lovewell’s commission as Capt in 1781 for
the Second service in 1781 (I think) No 2 of enclosed pay
roll certificate in Stephen Powers Pension papers.
All his other communions are lost. Should either paper
[warrant [illegible insert]] please send them to the Clerk or Secretary who certifies for correction. & [that] Madam Lovewell [annuities?] be relieved & her poverty [removed] as  soon as convenient.  & you will greatly oblige her & your [servants?]
 Goodall & Woods
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Hon J L Edwards
Com'r of Pensions
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Bath Oct 2d 1839

Hon J L Edwards
Sir
We enclose the declaration
[reading?] of Madam Betsey Lovewell for
Pension. Her late husband Nehemiah
Lovewell, as will be seen, was engaged all
the war for his country. First two years as a
Sergeant - Then as a Lieut. & afterwards for
five campaigns as a Captain to its close.
You will remember that we wrote you
of this case several times supposing that
you had the papers as she had employed
Genl Bedel to obtain it near three years
ago & he [advised] her that he had sent on
her declaration & her husband’s commissions.
One or more of them she had preserved & the
rest were lost except one she thinks is
in your office in Stephen Powers
application for a pension under the
act of 1832 -- He told her you had written
him an offer to give her Lieutenant’s pay
but as he held Captain’s Commissions for
1778, 1779, 1780 ‘81 & 1782, he Bedel thought
you would give her Captains pay & was
waiting for it. She thinks he has her papers
still but he says he sent them on & they
are lost. She hopes there is evidence enough
at your office from the rolls & commissions to give
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Captains pay- she is a Lady of the old school
refined in manners. & after having struggled
through the early settlements of the country,
being the first female white child born
born in the Coos County & being a Witness
to the attack of Tories & Indians on Genl Bayley’s
House & her husband in the field opposing
Them.  She is now reduced in circumstances
& the charity of her country will be well
applied. She is anxious to have as early
an answer as convenient as she has
[early?] trusted an agent she now fears
was faithless. I enclose an old roll I had
to show he was Captain in 1780.
We are with sentiments of respect
most truly yr obt srvnts
Goodall & Woods
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No. 1
Copy of the Commission
from the Governor or
President of Vermont
to
Lt Nehemiah Lovel
naming Lovewell
from July 15th 1777 to January
15th 1778
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State of Vermont

In Council of Safety Manchester 15 July 1777
To Nehemiah Lovel Gentleman
We reposing especial trust & confidence in
patriotism, Valour, conduct & felicity, do by these
presents constitute and appoint you to be second
Lieutenant in Captain Elisha Barton’s Company
of Rangers & fourth second Lieutenant, in the Regiment
commanded by Samuel Henich Esq Lieut Colonel
Commandant, and Raised within this State for the immediate
defence thereof. You are therefore carefully & diligently to
Discharge the duty of second Lieutenant in said Company
& fourth second Lieutenant in the Regiment aforesaid
by doing & performing all manner of things thereto belonging
& we & strictly charge & require all Officers & Soldiers in your
command to be obedient to your orders according to
your rank, and you are to observe an follow such orders
and directions from time to time as you shall receive
from the commanding officer of the Northern department
this Court or any other your superior Officers according to the rules & Discipline of War, in pursuance of the
trust reposed in you. This commission to continue
in force untill the 15th day of January next.
Mar. Chittenden President
Attest Ira Allen Sect

The above is a true copy of the original.
Attest Moody Bedel
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Pay Table Office
Bennington 22d Feby. 1782
The above account being approved
of the Treasurer is hereby
directed to pay unto Capt. Fry
Bayley or order the sum of Twenty four pounds and unto
Sgt . Nehemiah Lovewell the sum of Twelve pounds agreable unto the above resolve.
Nathl Brush Tim Brownson} Committee

Treasurer’s Office Feb. 20, 1783
Recd of Ira Allen Esq. Treasurer the contents of the
within order being thirty six pounds Lawful money for
myself and behalf of Capt. Fry Bayley
Nehemiah Lovewell Jr

State of Vermont
I Allen Wardner Treasurer of said State do hereby certify
that the foregoing is a true copy of a paper now on file in
this office.
Treasurer’s Office  Windsor Sept 15. 1838
Allen Wardner Treasurer of State of Vermont-
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A Pay Roll for Capt. Frye Bayley and Lieut Nehemiah Lovewell while in captivity, sent with a Flagg by the Hon’ble Major Genl
Gates in the month of December 1777

Names | No. of months Service | Wages for month # S. D. | Amount of Rations # S. D. |  Amount of Pay & Rations | Cash rec’d om Jan 7 1779 | Balance due 
Frye Bayley | 12 |  8.0.0 | 24.0.0 | 120.0.0 | 96.0.0 | [blank]
Nehemiah Lovewell | 12 | 5.8.0 | 12.0.0 | 77.6.0 | 64.16.0  | [blank]

Bennington Feby 22. 1782 Personally appears before me, Lieut. 
Nehemiah Lovewell and makes solemn oath that the above acc’t is just and true & that he recd for the above am’t from the United States in the month of Jany 1779 the sum of Sixty four pounds, Sixteen shillings, Continental money, & no more
Isaac Tichenor Jus. Peace

State of Vermont
In Genl Assembly Feb. 22. 1782
Resolved that the Committee of Pay Table be directed to
allow the sum of Twenty four pounds to Capt. Frye Bayley
and Lieut. Nehemiah Lovewell the sum of Twelve pounds L. M. being for rations due to them and for the within amt & that an order be drawn upon the Treasurer accordingly.
Attest Ros. Hopkins Clerk
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No. 2 Deposition
Mary Taplin
Marriage August 1782
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I Mary Taplin of Corinth, in the County of Orange & State of
Vermont, of Lawfull age, being in my seventy third year
Testify & say, that I was present at the Weding or Mariage of
my Sister, now the Widow Betsey Lovell to Capt Nehemiah
Lovewell, late of Newbury in said County of Orange & State of
Vermont Deceased, which Weding or Marriage took place
at my late Father Capt John Haseltine’s Dwelling House in
Newbury, and the said Weding or Marriage was performed
and solemnized by the then Rev John Richards of the
Neighbouring Town of Piermont, who was then the settled
Minister of the Gospel in that Town, in the County of Grafton
& State of New Hampshire. Said Weding or Marriage was
performed & took place on the Eighth day of August Anno
Domini 1782. I being present & acted in the capacity
of Brides Maid, and Doct Samuel White, then & now of
said Newbury acted in the Capacity of Brides Man. And I
know that the person, Betsey Lovewell who is now in
my presence, to be the same person that was married
to the said Captain Nehemiah Lovewell at the
time & place aforesaid. She the said Betsey Lovewell being
my Sister, and our Maiden Names were Haseltine, and
I am confidently certain, that my sister the aforesaid
Betsey Lovewell has not been married to any person since
the death of her husband the said Capt Nehemiah Lovewell
& that she now is, & ever since has been the Relic or Widow
of the said Capt Nehemiah Lovewell, and that he the said
Captain Nehemiah Lovewell Died in said Newbury on the
Fourteenth day of July Anno Domini 1801. And I attended
his funnel the next day in said Newbury. I was well
acquainted with said Capt Nehemiah Lovewell, before
During & ever after the Revolutionary War, untill his
death, and know that he on hearing of the attacks
of the British Troops on the Americans at Lexington
in the State of Massachusetts, the said Nehemiah
with a number of others, Immediately turned out and
repaired to the vicinity of Boston Massachusetts (as I understood and believed) and joined the American Army, & was in the
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Noted Battle of Bunker hill &c. and it was (as I think) more than Two years before he returned home, or his party which
remained alive, and that he the said Nehemiah Lovewell
was an officer at the seige & taking of General Burgoyne’s
army, as I understood & believed, and afterwards in I think
in the fall or Winter of 1777 & 8 when said Lowell was
Called Captain, he was sent into Canada, as one of a
Flagg & the Flagg as I understood, was not acknowledged.
& he the said Lovewell, & the party with him were
Put in Prison & Detained about one year, before he
returned home from Canada, but declared as Prisoners
of War, as was said & believed. And after he returned home
from Canada, he was in command as I understood on this
Frontier as a caption untill the close of the Revolutionary
War and did command the Troops stationed in this
Town of Newbury aforesaid & at Peacham for a guard
& Scouts. At the time he was married to my sister as aforesaid.
Mary Taplin

State of New Hampshire County of Grafton ss Haverhill
the 10th day of March 1837 Then Mary Taplin with whom
I have been acquainted for Fifty years & know her to be a considered in the vicinity where she resides, a person of
Truth & Veracity & I concur in that Opinion & believe
her a credible Witness, personally appeared & made
solemn oath that the above & foregoing deposition by her
subscribed is true before me Moody Bedel Justice of the Peace


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No. 2 Deposition
Mary Taplin
Marriage August 1782
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I Sally Russell of Richmond in the County of
Chittenden & State of Vermont of Lawfull age being
Seventy Seven years old. Testify & say that I was at the
Wedding or Marriage of Captain Nehemiah Lovewell
late deceased, to Betsey Haseltine both of Newbury in
the County of Orange & State of Vermont, which
Wedding or Marriage took place at the then Dwelling
House of Captain John Haseltine in said Newbury.
The Wedding or Marriage was performed & solemnised
by the Reverend John Richards, the then settled Minister
of the Gospel of the Neighbouring Town of Piermont
in the County of Grafton & State of New Hampshire.
Said Marriage was performed, in the Summer season
of the year 1782, I think + believe, in the month
August. From my Family Record in the Bible I
find my oldest child was born on the 19th day of
October 1781 and I am confident it was not a
year old when I carryed it to said Wedding. I know the
Person now called the Widow Betsey Lovewell
to be the same person that was married to the
Captain Nehemiah Lovewell as aforesaid. I have
seen her sundry times since the death of her said
Husband, she living about two years in the adjoining
Town of Williston. & fully believe she has has remained a 
Widow ever since the death of the said Captain
Nehemiah Lovewell. Doctor Samuel White, and
the Person formerly Mary Haseltine now Mary Taplin
performed the duty of Bride Man & Bride maid at
the aforesaid Wedding. The said Widow Betsey Lovewell
I understand now lives in the House with Mr George
Banfill in Haverhill in the County of Grafton aforesaid.
Sally Russel her mark
Witness Moody Bedel
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State of Vermont Chittenden County ss Richmond
this 7th day of July 1838 then Sally Russell with
whom I have been personally acquainted with for
a number of years,  to be considered in the neighborhood
where she resides a person of respectability, truth
and veracity, and I concur in that opinion, and believe
her a credible disinterested witness, personally appeared
and made solemn oath that the within deposition by
her subscribed is true

Before me C M Huntington, Justice of the Peace
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Rebeckah White of Lancaster in the County of Coos and
State of New Hampshire Widow of the late Lieutenant Nathaniel White, and now a pensioner, Testify and say
that I resided at Bradford in the County of Orange
and State of Vermont in the year A.D. 1781, and that
I was married to said Nathaniel White in July of that
year. I was at that time well acquainted with Captain
Nehemiah Lovewell of the Vermont troops under
Colonel Benjamin Wait, my husband was Lieutenant
in said Lovewell’s Company. I was also acquainted with
said Lovewell’s wife; her maiden name was
Betsy Hazeltine. I was not present at the Marriage
but I know from common report that they were
married the same year that I was married, and
that they lived together as man & wife up to the time
of his death.

Rebeckah White her Mark

State of New Hampshire Coos ss. 
Lancaster December 21. 1839
Then Rebeckah White who is well known by me
for a number of years to be considered of unquestioned
veracity for truth, and that I believe her to be
a disinterested witness in this case, Personally appeared
and made solemn oath that the above deposition by
her subscribed is true.
Before me
John H. White Justice of the Peace
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State of New Hampshire Coos ss
I James M Rix Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas within and for the County of Coos and State of
New Hampshire, do hereby certify that John
H. White is a Magistrate as within, duly empowered
to administer an oath, and that the signature
purporting to be his is genuine.
In witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal
of said Court, this twenty first day
of December Anno Domini 1839
James M Rix Clerk
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Deposition
of
Sarah Russell
[Marriage Do] 1839
[illegible A.D.?] 1781
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I, Sarah Russell of Richmond in the County
of Chittenden and State of Vermont, do depose and say
that I am nearly seventy Eight years of age-
That I resided in Newbury in this State in
the years 1780, 1781 & 1782 and was well acquainted
 with Nehemiah Lovewell & his wife Betsey
Lovewell, and her sister Mary, now Mary Taplin
of this State-- The maiden name of the said
Betsey & Mary was Hazeltine-- I was present at
the marriage of the said Nehemiah Lovewell &
the said Betsey Hazeltine in August 1781- Doctor
Samuel White acted as groomsman, and Mary
Hazeltine the sister of the said Betsey as bridesmaid.
I also know that the said Nehemiah Lovewell
was called a Captain during the war of the revolution,
 both before and after his marriage, and
that he commanded a fort at Peacham in
this State, about 20 miles from Newbury and
that he was away on service as a captain after
 his marriage. And that his wife (the said Betsey )
 remained in Newbury a near
neighbor to me, and he frequently returned
to said Newbury from scouting excursions
and for recruits and then went again - and
this was after his marriage with said Betsey.
Sarah Russell her Mark 

State of Vermont Chittenden County ss
Richmond December 26, 1839
Then personally appeared the above named
Sarah Russell, whom I have known for many years as a person
of undoubted character for truth & veracity and made solemn
oath that the foregoing deposition by her subscribed contains the whole truth & nothing but the truth relative to the
matters therein set forth -
Before me
Benoni Thompson Jus. Peace
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State of Vermont
Chittenden County, SS.

I William Noble Clerk of Chittenden
County Court do hereby certify that
Beroni Thompson before whom the
within Deposition of Sarah Russell was
taken & certified, was at the time of taking
the same, & still is a Justice of the Peace in & for
said County of Chittenden, duly commissioned
& sworn, that his name thereto subscribed is
I believe his own genuine signature,
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of said Court at Burlington in said County of
Chittenden this 26th day of December AD. 1839.
William Noble Clerk



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Deposition of
Sarah Russell
[Marriage Do] 1839
[illegible A.D.?] 1781
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I Azariah Webb of Lunenburg in the County
of Essex and State of Vermont testify and say
that I was a Captain in the Revolutionary War
and belonged to the New Hampshire Troops and
am now a Pensioner. I well knew Captain
Nehemiah Lovewell, he commanded a company
in Colonel Wait’s Regiment and was stationed
at and had the command of the Troops stationed
at the Fort at Peacham in this State in the year
I think of 1781. I acted at that time as Commissary
and I should say Capt Lovewell had the command
there something like a year, but can’t now recollect
the exact time; he was there until the Troops were
all discharged from that place. I knew of his
being engaged in the service previous to his
being stationed at Peacham; he used to be engaged
a good deal in scouting parties. It appears to me
that Capt Lovewell was married while he was stationed
at Peacham but cannot recollect for a certainty.
Azariah Webb

State of Vermont Essex County ss
Lunenburg  Dec 21, 1839
Then personally appeared
Azariah Webb & made solemn oath that the
foregoing Deposition by him subscribed
contains the whole truth & nothing but the
truth Before me
John Dodge Jus Peace
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State of Vermont  I William Gates Clerk of
Essex County  the County Court in [said]
for the County State aforesaid do hereby
certify that John Dodge before
whom the within Deposition of Azariah
Webb was taken and sworn to is a
Justice of the Peace in and for said
County, duly commissioned and qualified,
and that his name subscribed to the
within certificate I verily believe to be
his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto subscribed my
name and affixed the
seal of said Court this
21st day of Decr AD 1839
Wm Gates Clerk
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Bath Augt 6. 1840
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Dr Sir
Enclosed is a second
affidavit of Mrs Hepzibah Johnston
relative to the application of the
Widow Betsey Lovewell for a 
Pension. We hope and
believe that this, in connection
with the many affidavits
to the same point heretofore
forwarded will leave
no doubt as to the accuracy
of Mrs Lovewell’s declaration
as to the time of her marriage.
We hope to hear from you soon
on the subject of this
 application in answer to our
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recent letter to you enclosing sundry
affidavits & giving you a history
of the proceedings in this case
under Bedel’s administration.
Very respectfully
Goodall & Woods
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Sec'y of State of Vy
on Capt N Lovewell
Father
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State of Vermont
Secretary of State’s Office
December 7 1839
[left margin vertical note - ] Old Mr. Lovewell & his son not of this family. 
I hereby certify that there is on file in this office
a paper purporting to be a ”Pay Roll of Capt John
G. Bayley's Company in Newbury for guarding and scouting
from April 1777 to May 1777 under the command of Col.
Peter Olcott, on which Roll is the name of “Nehemiah
Lovewell,” with an allowance as a private for 19 days service,
 and the name of "Nehemiah Lovewell Junior” with
an allowance, as a private for 21 days service.

[left margin vertical note - ] not this man as supposed
Also "A Pay Roll of a party of men belonging to
Colo. Peter Olcott's Regiment under the command of Capt.
Frye Bayley, employed in scouting, dated at Newbury 8th
May 1781,” on which Roll appears the name of Nehemiah
Lovewell, with an allowance for one month and 7 days
service as a private.

[left margin note - ] No. 1
Also a Pay Roll for Capt. Frye Bayley and Lieut.
Nehemiah Lovewell while in captivity sent with a flag
by the Hon. Maj Genl Gates in the month of December 1777
on which Roll is an allowance to Lieut Lovewell for
12 months service.

[left margin vertical note - ] Old Mr. Lovewell
Also "A Pay Roll of Capt Fray Bayley's Company
 in Newbury from May 1781 till the end of the
war, and scouting, guarding &c. in sundry alarms under
the command of Col. Peter Olcott and Robert Johnson
on which Roll is the name of “Nehemiah Lovewell” with
an allowance for 12 days service as a private

[left margin vertical note - ] not this family as supposed
Also a “Pay Roll of Capt. Thomas Johnson's
Company of minute men in Newbury for the year
1776 under the command of Col. Peter Olcott for
scouting and guarding, s’d year;” on which roll is the name of
“Nehemiah Lovewell,” with an allowance for 6 days
service as a private, and the name of "Nehemiah Lovewell Senior,” with an allowance for 18 days service as a private.
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private.

[left margin note - ] No. 2
Also “a Pay Roll of Capt Nehemiah Lovewell’s
 Company in Col. Benj Waits Battalion in
the service of the State of Vermont commencing the 1st
day of July 1781 and ending the ___ Nov 1781 inclusive;”
In which Roll Capt. Lowell is allowed for 147
days service.

[left margin note - ] No. 3
Also "A Pay Roll of Capt Nehemiah Lovewell’s
Company raised by order of Peter Olcott Esq. Cal’d for
the defence of the frontier of the State of Vermont,”
on which Roll Capt Lovewell is allowed for two
months service commencing February 1. 1780.

[left margin note - ] No. 4
Also a “True List of (the names and sums of) Capt.
Nehemiah Lovewell’s Pay Roll of himself and Company,
in the service of the State of Vermont, from the commencement of the Campaign 1781 to the 30th of June in
said year inclusive taken from the original roll in
the Pay Master's Office,” on which List Capt Lovewell
is allowed the sum of #22.

I further certify that the above Pay Rolls
appear to have been duly approved, and ordered to
be paid, by the proper officers of Vermont, and to have
been paid accordingly.

Given under my hand and the seal of this office this seventh
day of December in the year of our Lord 1839
Ferrand F. Merrill
Deputy Secretary of State
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Six months as Lieutenant to Captain Burton in 1779 per Commission 6 mo 160
12 months in captivity as Lieutenant under flag after Burgoyne’s capture  12 mo 320
5 months 12 days in 1778, 79 & 80 proved by rolls [not last] it seems as Capt.
7 months nearly by payroll as Capt in 1781  480
800 / 2 = 400
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I James Bayley of Newbury in the County of Orange
and State of Vermont of the age of Seventy two years last
August do depose testify and say as follows:
I have resided in said Newbury and in Corinth and
 Ryegate, towns adjoining ever since I was nine years old.
Nehemiah Lovewell and Captain Nehemiah Lovewell
the former, the father and the latter his son. said
Colonel Lovewell owned a large farm in said Newbury
near my father’s farm, the meadow land of which
was in the same bow of Connecticut River with
my father’s-- said Colonel Lovewell sold said farm
in the fall or fore part of the winter of 1780 to
his two sons the above named Captain Nehemiah
Lovewell and Henry Lovewell.  And said Colonel
Lovewell soon after went to Corinth to live, where
he continued to live until his decease-- Said Nehemiah
Lovewell-- the Son-- was a Lieutenant in the
service of the United States during the former part of
the Revolutionary war and during the latter part of
the war he was a Captain and in command
of a company. While a Lieutenant he went into
Canada with Capt Frye Bayley and a Mr Powell
with a flag of truce, sent as I believe by Genl Jacob
Bayley - The flag was not respected and the men were
taken and detained for nearly or quite a year. On
their return to Newbury said Lovewell was presented
with a captain's commission and he soon after
raised a company of men at and about Newbury,
which was marched to and stationed at a fort at
Peacham Vermont about twenty miles from
Newbury - I well remember of said company starting
off for Peacham under the command of said Captain
Lovewell, and I was at the fort subsequently that
Season and saw the company there under command
of said Lovewell. Said Colonel Lovewell never
acted as an officer of any grade during the revolutionary war to my knowledge or belief for he was then an old man and quite intemperate, yet he often volunteered and did duty as a private
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said Captain Lovewell married Miss Betsey
Hazeltine of Newbury while he was in the
service aforesaid. I should think in the summer
I remember the fact of the marriage from my
sisters being married about the same time.
Said Captain Lovewell continued in the service
after his marriage as above stated - James Bayley

State of Vermont
County of Orange SS. Be it known that on this 15th
day of July 1840 before the Subscriber a Justice of the
Peace in and for said County, personally appeared the said James Bayley who hath subscribed the foregoing
deposition in my presence, and made Solemn Oath, that the
same contains the truth, the whole truth and nothing
but the truth. And I certify that the said deponent is a
credible witness-- Joseph Berry Justice Peace

I certify that the words "I was nine years old,” were
interlined over 5th line 1st page before signing
Jos Berry Jus Peace

I John Johnson of Newbury in the County of Orange
and State of Vermont of the age of Seventy four years of
since last April do depose testify and say that I was
well acquainted with Colonel Nehemiah Lovewell
Senior and with Captain Nehemiah Lovewell Junior,
his son, both formerly of this town. I was born and
have always lived in this town and can well recollect
the incidents that transpired hereabouts during the
revolutionary war. I have known said Captain
Lovewell as an officer commanding a company of
militia during said war but I never knew of said
Colonel Lovewell’s having any command at all. Said
Captain Lovewell raised a company of men at
this place and vicinity and went to Peacham with
it. And while there I was sent twice by my father,
the late Colonel Thomas Johnson, with messages to
said Captain Lovewell one of which was to advise
him of imminent danger-- to enlarge his company
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and double his sentries &c-- I then saw said
Lovewell at Peacham, in command of his company
in the fort and know that he was stationed there
for that purpose-- said Captain Lovewell married
Betsey Hazeltine and his widow the said Betsey is now
living in this town
John Johnson

State of Vermont
County of Orange SS. Be it known that on this
15th day of July 1840 before the Subscriber a Justice
of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared
 John Johnson who hath subscribed the foregoing
deposition in my presence, and made solemn
Oath that the same contains the truth, the whole
truth and nothing but the truth-
And I certify that the said deponent is a credible Witness
Joseph Berry Justice Peace

I Samuel Johnson of Newbury in the County
of Orange and State of Vermont of the age of Seventy
Seven years last November do depose and say
that I served as a private soldier and Captain
Nehemiah Lovewell in two campaigns during the
revolutionary war, the first was the winter
after I was seventeen years old at a block
house built by Genl Hazen’s Regiment in Cabot, 
and the second the spring summer and fall
when I was in my nineteenth year - The above
named Captain Lovewell was a son of Colonel
Nehemiah Lovewell who lived in Newbury until
the year 1780 or the fore part of 1781 - I lived
with my father in Newbury, from the time I
was eight years old until several years
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after the close of the revolutionary war about
one mile below the place of residence of Captain
Frye Bayley and a little more than a mile above
the residence of said Captain Lovewell. Said
Bayley and Lovewell and a Mr Powell were sent
to Canada, with a Brittish Officer, bearing a
flag of truce, I should think in the former part of
the war - News Soon after come that they
were detained by the authorities there. Nearly
a year after, they returned to their homes and
reported that they had been kept on an island
below Quebeck as prisoners of war and had been
finally sent home by the way of Halifax,
of the truth of which statement I have no doubt.
I never knew, nor do I believe that the before
mentioned Colonel Lovewell ever had or held
any command as an officer during the revolutionary
war - and if my recollection in this
subject was less distinct and certain, said
Colonel Lovewell’s habits of intemperance, and his
inability both mental and physical would
sufficiently confirm my belief. Said Captain
Lovewell stated his age to be thirty three years
the summer that I served under him at Peacham
and I should think his father said Colonel Lovewell
must have been from 65 to 70 years old at that
time-- I do not recollect when said Captain
Lovewell was married. He may have been
married during the season that I was at Peacham.
He was several times off at Newbury. His wife
was Miss Betty Hazeltine daughter of Esquire
John Haseltine formerly of Newbury.
Samuel Johnson

State of Vermont
County of Orange SS. Be it known that on
this 20th day of July 1840 before the subscriber
a Justice of the Peace in and for said County
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personally appeared Samuel Johnson who hath
Subscribed the foregoing deposition in my presence
and made Solemn Oath that the same
contains the truth, the whole truth and nothing
but the truth. And I certify that the deponent
is a credible witness-- and further that the word
‘campaign’ in the 5th line line was misspelled
and [attend] before signing.
Joseph Berry Justice Peace

State of Vermont Orange County SS
I Perley C Jones Clerk of Orange
County Court hereby certify that
Joseph Berry is a Justice of the
Peace in and for said Orange County
duly commissioned and qualified that
his commission is dated on the 27 day
of November AD 1839 and will expire on
the 30 day of November AD 1840 and that the
above signature purporting to be
his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand &
affixed the seal of Orange County Court this 22d day
of July AD 1840
Perley C Jones Clerk of Orange Co. Court
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State of Vermont County of Orange ss
On this first day of May AD 1843
personally appeared before the Subscriber, a Justice of the
Peace in and for the said County of Orange, Betsey
Lovewell, a resident of Newbury in the aforesaid County
of Orange, aged Eighty one 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 30 of March 1843 granting pensions to
widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War
That she is the widow of Nehemiah Lovewell,
who was a Lieutenant in the early part of the war and
subsequently a captain in Colonel Samuel Fletcher’s
Regiment of Militia and that the annual amount
of the pension which she received under the act of
July 7th 1838 was four hundred dollars-
She further declares that she is still a widow
Betsey Lovewell
Sworn and Subscribed on the day and year above written
John Stevens Justice Peace

I certify the above named Betsey Love is personally
known to me and has been for more than thirty years last past
John Stevens Justice Peace
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State of Vermont Orange County ss. 
Probate Office May 2, 1843.
I J. W. D. Parker Judge of Probate within and for the
District of Bradford in said Orange County do
hereby certify that John Stevens is a Justice of the Peace
within and for said County of Orange duly commissioned and qualified to act as such. That his commission commenced on the 1st day of December AD1842 and will expire on the 30 day of November AD 1843 that his signature within written is genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereto set my official hand and affix
the seal of the said Probate Court the day and year first above written.
J W D Parker Judge of Probate
for Bradford District
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Bath N.H. Jany 29,41

Kind Sir
Mrs Lovewell has made oath to a new
declaration. As she could not [illegible]
consistently with the facts she knows but which
unfortunately we cannot prove to the
satisfaction of the pension Commissioner.
She has stated that as it is supposed as that
is [new] forms it will be passed over.
If she can hereafter prove to the full
satisfaction of the Comm’r of Pensons
she was married before he finished
all his services in the revolution,
she supposes a pension for life may then
be granted her. In the meantime
she applies as directed under the
act of 1838 & hopes a speedy answer.
With much respect
I am yours truly
Ira Goodall
of Bath N.H.
Hon J.L. Edwards
Com’r of Pensions
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I Moses Hall of Shipton District of St
Francis Canada East, aged 83 years,
Depose testify and say that in the year 1781
I enlisted in to the war of the revolution
from the Town of Barnett in the State of
Vermont in Capt Nehemiah Lovewell’s Co.
That said Co was stationed at Peacham in
said County. That while we were stationed
there the said Capt Lovewell left the Co
under the command of the Lieut and went
to Newbury the place of his residence, as was
understood by the Co, to be married. That
when he returned it was understood he had been
Married. That he left Peacham Several
times afterwards during same Season on
business to Newbury (and as we supposed
to see his wife). That late in the fall the Co
was discharged my self and Levi Hall were
discharged at the post and the rest of the
Co took opposit road from Barnett. And
went to Newbury where I understood said
Lovel was intending furnish them a
Supper which I afterwards learnt he did.
Moses Hall
Sworn at Shipton in the said District this
19th day of July 1847 before
me Samuel Daniels J.P.
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I further certify that the within affiant
is personally known to me & that he is a
Gentleman of truth and credibility and
that his statement can be relied upon
Samuel Daniels, J.P.
I hereby certify that the above subscribing Samuel
Daniels is personally & intimately known to me. That the
above is his proper signature, that he is an acting
Justice of the Peace for the District of St Francis in the
province of Lower Canada, having taken the oath of
qualification before me in my capacity as Commissioner
by Dedimus Potestatem. Given under my hand & the
Seal of my office as Notary Public for Lower Canada
this 20th day of July 1847
D Thomas Public Notary & Com. for Ded. Po.
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Newbury Vermont May 4. 1843

Sir
Enclosed is the application of Betsey Lovewell
for a pension under the act of Congress of
March 1843- You will please address her
in answer, at this place
Yours &c
Joseph Berry
for the applicant

J. L Edwards Esq
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[truncated envelope]

ne
[Comm'r] of Pensions
[Washington] City
Page 98

I Hephzibah Johnston of Groton in the County of Caledonia 
and State of Vermont of the age of eighty five 
years last December do depose
testify and say that I am the widow of the late Colonel
Robert Johnston of Newbury in this State, that I was
married to said Johnston on the 13th day of July
sixty years ago this present month, and came from
Lyme Newhampshire the next day after to live with
said Johnston at said Newbury with whom I lived as
his wife until his death in the year 1824. My
said husband’s farm was near Captain Nehemiah
Lovewell’s farm and I soon became well acquainted with
him after coming to live with my said husband.
Consequently I knew him where he was a single man
as also after he was married. My first child was
born on the sixth day of May following my
marriage as above stated being in the year 1781-
Said Captain Lovewell married with Miss Betsy
Haseltine in the summer season after the birth
of my child above mentioned, and when it could
not have been more than three of four months
old- I was not at the wedding; it was holden
at the house of the brides father Esq John Hazeltine
some three or four miles off, but I will remember
the day on which they were married and of standing
in my house and seeing them pass by to said
Lovewell’s house, on horse back, attended by quite
a number of people on horse back also, who had
attended the wedding, and were escorting the newly
married couple to their home. I was also acquainted with
Colonel Nehemiah Lovewell formerly of said
Newbury but subsequently of Corinth in Orange
County who was the father of said Captain Lovewell
of whom I have above made mention.
Hephzibah Johnston

State of Vermont
Caledonia County ss. Be it remembered that on the
22nd day of July AD 1840 at Groton in the said
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No. 5
Jas Johnson
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I James Johnston of Newbury in the County
of Orange and State of Vermont of the age of Seventy
four years last May do depose testify and say as
follows-- I am a son of the late Colonel Robert Johnston
 of this town, was born here and have always
lived here-- I was well acquainted with Colonel
Nehemiah Lovewell, also with his sons Captain
Nehemiah Lovewell and Mr Henry Lovewell.
My father’s farm was situated in said Newbury
close by the farm owned and occupied by said
Colonel Lovewell until he sold out to his two
sons above mentioned which was I think in 1780.
The two sons then came into possession of and carried
on the said farm jointly-- Said Captain Lovewell
raised a company of men at and about Newbury
in the spring season of 1781 to be stationed, as I then
understood, and have now no doubt of the fact.
At Peacham about twenty miles distant from
Newbury and said company was there stationed,
as I also believe, during the ensueing summer
season, until late in the fall or first of winter.
I fix upon the time more particularly from the
following facts and circumstances-- My father
above mentioned married Mrs Hephzibah Bell of Lyme
N Hampshire for his fourth wife in the month
of July 1780, and during that season and until the
ensueing spring his family lived on the old farm,
the one above mentioned. He then let out the old
farm to a Mr John Russell and moved with his
family on to a smaller farm of his a little
distance below the old farm where we lived
for two or three years and in the month of May
following (1781) my sister Jane was born.
Said Captain Lovewell and Miss Betty Hazeltine
 were married the next summer after
my father’s marriage above stated. I well
recollect the day of the marriage, but can
not specify the day of the month and perhaps
not the month, the I think it was in August
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I think my said sister must have been about
three months old for my mother stood in the door
with her in her arms when Captain Lovewell
 with his bride passed by our house.
I well recollect to have seen them pass by-
They were all (said Lovewell, his wife and a
large wedding party) on horse back as was
the custom of riding in those days, and on a
good round Canter. I recollect another
circumstance that occured that summer-
Several youngsters of about my age with my
self were passing up to the common or usual
place of meeting on publick occasions in town-
On our way we called at a house, and as we
went in, we saw said Betsey Hazeltine in a
room where she appeared to have been weaving
and by her on the loom seat sat said Captain
Lovewell-- some one of our party asked
said Lovewell if he was not going up to
the meeting. He answered that he thought
he should by and by. but the thought Betsey
would not like to stay alone all day. And
we then remarked on leaving the house that the
Captain would [served] in cutting and
[Arce]-- meaning a former sister of said
Betsy Hazeltine-- I also recollect the day
on which said Capt. Lovewell returned
from Peacham with his company. This
information was circulated in the neighborhood
the day before, and the boys and
youngsters, of whom I was one, assembled
at said Lovewell’s house on that day to see
the company dismissed, which was then and
there done. The farm and business at said
Lovewell’s was carried on during his absence at
Peacham, by Henry Lovewell herein before mentioned,
as I think-- said Nehemiah Lovewell the
Elder, was called Colonel Lovewell from
my earlyest recollection, and I never knew
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of his holding or exercising any command
during the revolutionary war
James Johnston

State of Vermont
 County of Orange SS. Be it known that at Newbury
in said County on this 23d day of July 1840 before
the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for
said County personally appeared James Johnston
who hath subscribed the foregoing deposition in my
presence and made solemn oath that the same
contains the truth the whole truth and nothing
but the truth. And I certify that the deponent
is a credible witness-- I further certify that the
word "married” was interlined over 24th line first
page before signing
Joseph Berry Justice Peace

State of Vermont
Orange County SS
I Perley C Jones Clerk of Orange
County Court hereby certify that
Joseph Berry is a Justice of the peace
in and for said Orange County duly
Commissioned & qualified that his
commission is dated the 27 day of
November AD 1839 and will expire
on the 30th day of November AD 1840
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of Orange County Court this 27 day
of July AD 1840, at Chelsea in said County
Perley C Jones Clerk of Orange Co Court
Fees 10.34
Ten pound the former owe 0.34
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State of Vermont
Secretary of State's Office
Montpelier September 25th A.D. 1848
I hereby certify that there are on file
in this office papers purporting to be "Returns of provisions
and stores received by Ephraim Eddy A.C. of Issues
at the Post or Garrison at Peacham”, for the months
of August, September, October and November A.D. 1781,
and on all of said papers, in the list of persons “to whom
receipted,” is the name of “Azariah Webb,” inserted
at different times & under different dates in several
months.
I further certify that there are no papers in
this office having any connection with the Commissary
Department or operations at the said Garrison, at
Peacham except those that are under date of August,
September, October or November A.D. 1781.
In testimony whereof I hereto set my
hand and the seal of this office
this 25th day of September A.D. 1848.
Ferrand F. Merrill
Deputy Secretary of State
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State of Vermont  Orange County ss
On this 8th day of August personally
appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace
duly authorised by the Laws of said State to administer
Oaths, Betsey Lovewell a resident of Newbury in the
County of Orange, Aged Eighty Six 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 provisions made by the Act of Congress
passed on the Second of Febuary A.D. 1848 granting
Pensions to Widows of persons who served during the
Revolutionary War. That she is the Widow of
Nehemiah Lovewell who was a Captain in command
of a Fort at Peacham in this State and that she
received Four Hundred Dollars per Annum
under the Act of the Seventeenth of June A.D. 1844
She further declares that she is still a Widow
Betsey Lovewell
Witnesses
John Stevens
O. C. Hadlock

Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year above
writen before me John Stevens  Justice of the Peace

I certify that the above named affiant is personally
known to me and that she is the same individual
who drew a Pension as stated by her foregoing
Declaration
John Stevens
Justice of the Peace
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STATE OF VERMONT
ORANGE COUNTY, SS.
I , Calvin Blodgett Clerk of the County Court
of the County of Orange in the State of Vermont, do hereby
certify that John Stevens Esq is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the first day of December
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty six and will expire the thirtieth day of November next, and that
his signature hereto affixed is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said County Court, this 30th day of September A.D. 1878
Calvin Blodgett Clerk
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Henry
Stevens
affidavit
No 10
Page 107

I Henry Stevens of Barnet in the County of
Caledonia and State of Vermont, more than fifty
Six years of age, depose and say that from my
youth I was personally acquainted with Moses
Hall who lived on a farm adjoining my fathers
for many years & who recently removed to Shipton
in the Province of Canada East.  That I have
frequently heard him speak of belonging to Capt
Nehemiah Lovewell's Company while he was
Stationed at Peacham fort in Seventeen hundred
& eighty one; that he stated that said Capt Lovewell
left Peacham while stationed there & went home
to Newbury and was married during the time
his company was stationed there, and that at
the time the company was to be discharged
Capt Lovewell invited his company to go to
Newbury and participate of an entertainment
at his house; that I have heard Levi Hall
of said Barnet deceased, say that he
Served in Capt Lovewell’s Company at Peacham
aforesaid with Moses Hall. He also stated that
Capt Lovewell was married while stationed
at said Peacham fort; that I have also been
told by William Tice late of Danville in said
County deceased that he was stationed at
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Newbury at the time Capt Lovewell came from
Peacham fort to Newbury. And that he was
invited and did take supper at Capt Lovewell’s
House with the Company. And that at that
time Lovewell was a married man and kept
house, that the said Halls & Tice were men
of veracity; that I never had any doubt of
the truth of their statements in relation to
the service & Marriage of the said Capt Lovewell.
That it is a matter well established by traditionary
history that in this vicinity, that said Capt
Nehemiah Lovewell was married while he was
in command of a company at Peacham aforesaid.
And that he took his company to his home in
Newbury & gave them a supper at the time
they were discharged.
Henry Stevens
Sworn to and Subscribed by the above
affiant on this 10th day of November AD 1848
Before me
George Howes Jus Peace

I further certify that the above affiant Henry Stevens is personally known to me & that he is a man of undoubted truth
and veracity
George Howes Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont
Washington County
I Shubael Wheeler Clerk of the County Court
within and for the County aforesaid, which is a Court of
Record, hereby certify that George Howes Esqr is 
an acting Justice of the peace for said County, duly
commissioned and qualified, that his signature to the
foregoing Certificates are genuine; and that he is qualified
by the laws of this State to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my
hand and affix the Seal of this Court,
at the Clerk’s Office in Montpelier
in said County of Washington, this
10th day of November A.D. 1848
Shubael Wheeler Clerk

paid .50
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Washington Dec 13 48

Sir

I am desired to request you to
issue to Mrs Betsey Lovell of Vermont
widow of Nehemiah Lovewell dc’d
a certificate of pension under the Act of
July 2, 1848, and transmit it to her own
address at Newbury Vermont.
I hope you will be able to have
this done within a few days, day before the
18th of the month.
I am Respectfully
H H Sylvester

Col Edwards
Commr Pensions
Please say to bearer, if this request can be granted.
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Washington City Dec 4 ‘48

My dear Sir,
Since I saw you I have found
that had the dec. of Mrs Lovewell by me.
As the Comm’r was good enough to direct
that it should be taken up, I now had it.
Please hand on the proper Clk for
[entry] and so that it be immediately attended to.
I am Respectfully
H H Sylvester

Mr Cole
Penna Office

Ask the Com’r Send the certificate to me
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No 2453.
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[Note, the word CANCELLED is written vertically and superimposed on the following text.]

WAR DEPARTMENT.
WIDOW'S PENSION.
I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2, 1848,
Betsey Lovewell widow of Nehemiah Lovewell
who was a Lieutenant & Captain in the revolutionary war,
is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of four hundred
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 16th day of December  one thousand eight hundred and
forty eight,
W. L. Marcy
Secretary of War.

Examined and Countersigned.
J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
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Aug 1 ‘49
Enclosed are some papers in the case
of Betsy Lovewell, a pensioner of Vt., under
 the Act of 1838 for an increase [at] transfer to the
Act of 1836. Be pleased to examine them and
reply.
The Henry Stevens, whose affidavit you
 will find [at] the Vermont [illegible] of that
name.
I am Respectfully
H H Sylvester

Col. Edwards
Page 115

Washington July 18 ‘50
Sir
In your letter of the 26th of Apl last on the subject
of the application of Mrs Betsy Lovewell for an increase
and transfer of her pension from the roll of July 1838 to that
of July 4 1836, under which she originally applied, you
state that "no additional evidence with regard to the service
of claimant’s husband has been added.” Respecting the
date of the marriage & the service after it, you say that “the
witnesses should state more specifically the means they
have retaining the date of that occurrence.”

That [upon it] to the claim for increase [illegible]] wa[i]ve
it altogether, and only ask the transfer to the roll of July 1832.
The Witnesses who testify to the service after the marriage,
who are Moses Hall, Levi Hall & Wm Tice, [who] are in
the service under Capt Lovewell at the time of which they
speak.  And the certificate of the Sec’y of State of Vermont also shews the same. The two affidavits of Harry Stevens, Esq
as [dec=decent?] and highly respectable resident [in] all the parties
throw sufficient light upon the subject. The proof is positive, and not conjectural, but [conditional] on all sides by
tradition, which without the proof now added would be
esteemed ample in any Court of law.
The character and standing of Mr Stevens
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by whom we propose to establish the credibility of the
[Witnesses], Halls & Tice, you will find supported
by the whole [Delegation] in Congress [fortunately or from [illegible].
I shall be very happy to have the decision
in [time] to enable Mrs. Lovewell to draw her 
pension under the act of July 1836 on the
coming 4th of March.
I am Respectfully
H H Sylvester

Hon J. L. Edwards
Page 117

Washington March 4. 1850

Sir
Agreeable to your request, I return
herewith the old pension certificate of Mrs Betsey
 Lovewell. Will you do me the favor to send
me the other in a day or two? If you can do so
you will very much oblige.

[Yours] Truly
H H Sylvester


Hon J L Edwards
Com Pensions
Page 118

[Hon or For] J L Edwards
Esq Washington City
Page 119

Hon J L Edwards
Dr Sir
We suppose there is no
lenger any difficulty as to Capt Nehemiah
Lovewell’s services. His father being a
private only. The service in 1777 is captain
then. He was a Lieutenant in that Campaign
in taking Burgoyne & that fall a Capt’s
Commission was made for him for a
 Winter’s Campaign,  but he went in to Canada
with a flag & held as a prisoner & when 
he got home after a year’s detention he
drew Captains pay.
The marriage we think & trust is now
 satisfactorily found to be August 1781
 as Mrs Johnson, Doct White,  Col Webb
Mrs Taplin, Mr Powers & Mrs. Russell all
Swear & Mrs. Johnson [?] a record conclusion
compared with Mrs. Russel’s made over 20
years after & by one who knows not the month
 or day be explained, as it is by her mistaking
her age one year, so the and record made by it
would be naturally a year too late -  but her child
might be born in Jany 1781 & she attended the wedding
the last of August 1781 when it was 8 or 10 months
old. & it could not be 1782 as the child would be older if [illegible] is right. But we believe all the other [testimonies]

[left margin vertical note-largely illegible]
Plus two journeys of 80 miles each having been made to [get] the ? & proof of ??? the poor widow ??
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& other records shew it must have been
 in Aug 1781 they were married . [Even]
Mrs. Russel swears he was in the
service before & after the marriage, 
& that it took place while he commanded
 them at Peacham Ft. Of course the main facts
 agree with the other witnesses & records 
made from memory 20 years after
 event cannot outweigh other records
& some five or six most reputable
witnesses -
There was an [illegible] in the letter to Genl Bedel-
”Comment here is unnecessary.” If by that & what goes before
& after any interpretation is intended as to
taking the testimony or making the witnesses
say any thing wrong - it is repellent and 
most decidedly & unquestionably as unworthy
& unjust.
Hoping we can by [answering] & 
that the pensioner, because if not satisfied
will write to Mrs Russel for the bible 
as we cannot get it. Mrs Lovewell is suffering
 for her pension, we [illegible]

Goodall & Woods
Page 121

Feby 22/50
Wm Ames
Let this claim
Be allowed
under act of 36

If her old cert. is
not here, ask
first for a
return of it to
the office

H.H. Sylvester
Present
Page 122


Proof of Marriage Betsey & Nehemiah Lovewell
2 Mary Taplin
 Stephen Powers
3 H Johnson
4 Azariah  Webb
5 Jas Johnson
6 Sam’l While
7 Jos Bailey
8 Sam’l  Palmer
9 Moses Hall
10 Henry Stevens
11 [illegible]
12 Reuben White
13 [Hepzibah?] Johnson
14 [illegible]
15 Jane Johnson
16 Mary Taplin
17 Sarah Russel
18 Jos Berry
Page 123

A payroll of men which joined Cap’n Lovewell’’s
Co from Jan to  March 1780 Inc[lusive?] 
A Muster roll of said Co dated Jam 1782 copied &
Sec’y of State of Vermont
Payroll of Capt Nehemiah Lovewell’s Co from
Dec 15 1777 to Mar 31 1778
Taken out and filed with detached
rolls
Page 124

Jos. Berry
Mar 15. 1837
O.C.

Rec’d. Vol. 45. p. 211
Page 125

War Dept.
Pension Office
March 15, 1837

Sir 
In reply to your letter
of the 8th inst. I have to infom the
that I cannot consistently with the
regulations of this Dept. transmit
the original commission of Capt Nehemiah
Lovel, dec’d, but a certified Copy
will be sent to the widow if she desires it.

Jos. Berry, Esq
Newbury Vt

[Pension employee note below]
See orig com. in claim of
widow of Nehemiah Lovewell W. 24566
Page 126

4743
Betsey Lovewell
widow of Nehemiah
Hon H. Hubbard 16 Jany 1841
Let to Moody Bedel Esqr
25 April 1840
let to Goodall & Woods Jun, 30.
1840 & 17 Aug 1840 to do
to do Sept 5. 1840.
Act 1836
Page 127

Betsey Lovewell
wid of Nehemiah
N. H.
Ad July 4 1836
Let Goodall & Woods
21 Nov 1839 Genl
Moody Bedel 9 Jany 40

Act. 36
Page 128

Let to H.H. Sylvester
Feb 22/50
Page 129

Mrs Lovewell undoubtedly
Entitled to the pay of Lt &
Capt 12  mo. each
under Act of July 7
1838 at least.
She was mar’d in  1782
and not 1781. See Mrs
Sarah Russell’s aff’t
1838 and Gen Bedel’s 
letter

The [fam’y ??] of
Mrs Russel is not for
Apr 15 1840
Page 130

[7696?]
Betsey Lovewell
Wid of Nehemiah
Vermont
Act July 1838
Married 1782
Dec’d 1801

Allow
Lieut 12 mo 160
Capt 126 mo 240
$400
Vermont Militia

Claimant
Newbury Vermont
Page 131

No 7616
Betsey Lovewell
wid of Nehemiah
Vt
Act 4 July 1836
Adm $400 pr an 
from 4 March 1831 deducting
what has been paid
under the Acts 7 July 1838,
3 March 43, 17 June 44 &
2 Feby 48, at the same
Rate


H H Sylvester
Present
Page 132

8772 ONE HUNDRED THIRTEENTH STREET
RICHMOND HILL, LONG ISLAND

In filling out my solication papers
for membership in D.A.R. I do not
know how to obtain official proof of
service except by applying to the
Patent Office. From written reports
which I have, I can trace my
eligibility from three lines of ancestors.
Can you give me information as to
correctness of following-

[circle stamp]
PENSION OFFICE U S
APR 28 1924
Page 133

[half page is laid on top of full size page. For full transcription of full size page, please see scan 135, as the partially covered page is NOT reproduced here]

6769

3 - 2233
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Finance Division

Apr. 9 1927
Chie, Rev. War. Section

I have this day received from
A. W. De Grosh
Cash  No. ________
for $45/100, requesting
photostat copy
as per letter herewith
[OK not ??]

1927 Apr 19 photos mailed
 & Finance Div. Notf’d AW

O. J. RANDALL
Chief Finance Division.

HCL
C13
Page 134

April 9, 1927
Commissioner of Pensions,

Sir,
Please furnish photostat copy of one
page from the Rev. War pension claim, W.
24566, Nehemiah Lovewell,
and two pages from the Rev. War pension
claim, S. 40927, Alexander Leslie.

A. W. DeGoosh
U. S. Shipping Board,
Washington, D.C.

rec’d payment
45 cts A E Wilson
A. E. Wilson,
Chief Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.

[rectangle stamp] 
FINANCE DIVISION
BOOK-KEEPER’S DESK
APR 9 1927
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Page 135

SUBMIT IN DUPLICATE.   I-681   PHONE Branch 476

All inquiries regarding this job should refer to Requisition No.  14281
Requisition for Duplicating, Addressograph, Photostat, and Blue Print Work.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
WASHINGTON
CHIEF, Division of Publications, Room G 137.

April 13, 1927
Please furnish work specified below.
Bureau ordering Pension
Deliver to Room No. 5033

(ALL COPY FOR DUPLICATING WORK SHOULD BE PLAIN AND WRITTEN IN ELITE TYPE,
EXACTLY LINE FOR LINE AS IT IS TO APPEAR ON FINISHED JOB.)

Title and description of job photostat copy of one page for the Rev. War pension claim, NehemiahLovewell, W. 24566.    
No. of copies  1 of each page Shall form be kept standing?      days
For further information see     A. E. Wilson Room No. 5033 Phone No. 541
Approved:   O. L. [Ganbin]   Chief Clerk of Bureau    A. E. Wilson Chief of Branch      
NOTE: No order made ""SPECIAL unless statement showing necessity is written
below and approved by Chief Clerk of Bureau ordering

[oval stamp]
DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS 
DEPT OF THE INTERIOR
RECEIVED
APR 13 1927
CHECK WORK DESIRED
Duplicate
Multigraph      single or double space?   Facsimile signature?
Mimeograph   one side or both sides?   Facsimile signature?
Folding  once or twice?

Assembling
Stapling  Once? Twice? Side? End?


Electric typewriter   Fill in addresses?  Dated?
Addressograph from lists
Envelopes, size
Proof list
Labels (submit sample)
Fill in letters
Cards, size
Pay rolls
Corrections
Tabulation sheets

Photostat X Size Actual  Official use? Repay? Yes $.15
Blue Print    Size    Official use? Repay?  $

Remarks
(OVER)
Page 136

NOTE: Routine changes of addresses may be made on this blank [obscured]
Reference though or initialing of chiefs of branches or chiefs of [other? obscured]
Bureaus.

(Date)

INDICATE BY AN X IN PROPER SQUARE ACTION TO BE TAKEN.

Make new addressograph plate

Change present addressograph plate

Destroy present addressograph plate

On List

as follows:

Now reads
1
2
3
4
5

Should read
1
2
3
4
5

FOR USE OF DUPLICATING AND ADDRESSING SECTION
ADDRESSOGRAPH
The above change was made
Operator

MULTIGRAPH
Operator  Date  Type set by  Date
Remarks

MIMEOGRAPH
Operator   Date Cut by
Remarks
Page 137

425
Vermont Montpelier
Betsey Lovewell
widow of Nehemiah Lovewell
who was a Lieutenant & Captain
in the Vermont Militia line
for 12 months in each grade 

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
400 Dollars –
Cents per annum, to commence
 on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the
19th day of June 1843
and sent to Joseph Berry,
Newbury, Vt.

{Act of March 3, 1843.}
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1 Page 28.


Instructions under the
Act of 1844 sent 22d July
1844 to P. A. Ladd, Newbury
Vermont.
Let to H H Sylvester
Dec 15, 1848
Page 138

4933
Vermont

Betsey Lovewell
widow of Nehemiah Lovewell
who died on the 14 July 1801
of Orange Co. in the State of Vermont
who was a Lieut & Capt in the —- commanded
 by Captain — of the Regt. commanded
of the Regt commanded by Col. [blank] 
in the Vermont Militia
line for 12 months in each grade

Inscribed on the Roll of Montpelier
at the rate of 400 Dollars 00 Cents
per annum, to commence on the 4th day of
March, 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of
March 1858 and Sent to
H H. Sylvester, Present

Arrears to the 4th of
Semi-annual allowance ending

Deducting what has been
paid at the rate of $400.00
under Acts 7 July 1838
3 March 1843 & 17 June 
1844 & 2 Feby 1848.

Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836,
Recorded by
Section the

Recorded by J P Chase Clerk
Book D. Vol 2 Page 342
Reported
Page 139

Capt.
Lovel
Page 140

BY HIS EXCELLENCY
 THOMAS CHITTENDEN, Esquire,
 Captain, General, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the State of Vermont,
 to Nehemiah Lovell Esquire GREETING.

In Pursuance of your Election by the Honorable the Board of War, to the Office of Captain the Company in a Regiment of Infantry raised for the Defence of this
State whereof Sam’l Fletcher, Esq. is Lieut. Col. Command’t and to continue in service until the
Day of December next, unless sooner discharged: I DO, by these Presents, fully authorise and impower you to be Captain of said Company in the said Regiment. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of Captain of said Company by doing and performing all Manner of Things thereunto belonging. And I do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as Captain.
And you are to observe and follow such orders and Directions 
from Time to Time, as you shall receive from me the Governor of this State for the Time being, or any other your superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, and
the Laws of this State, in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you.
Given under my Hand and the Seal of this State, this
10 day of February 1782
Thos. Chittenden

By His Excellency's Command, 
Joseph May Secretary.

Entered in War Office and [endorsed] by the Board.
Attest Ira Allen  Sec’y of the Board of War