Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1560, Samuel Butterfield, Vt.

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(3-1776)
Service Number
Vt Butterfield, Samuel. R. 1560   

Contents

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Tohsha... v.t. Orange County March 10 1862
Dear
Sir we do hereby request your
honor to let Nile & Addiwan of Woshing

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vt 1832

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1560
P.O. Samuel Butterfield
Service: ____
[stamp] REJECTED
Enlisted: ____, 18.
Discharged: ____, 18.
Application filed: ____, 18.
['Alleges:' crossed out] 
['Re-enlisted:' crossed out]Printed list of 1852 gives as cause of rejection: Did not serve in any regularly organized corps".
Attorney: ____
P.O. ____
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____Recognized.  ____Contract.
____Cert. of Dis.  Searched for ____, 18.
1927 May 12. photos mailed to A. W. DeGooch, U.S. Shipping Board. Wash. D.C. (see receipt for payment in James Todd W 15006.) [initialed] aes

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SUBMIT IN DUPLICATE 1-681 PHONE Branch 476
All inquiries regarding this job should refer to Requisition No. 14963
Requisition for Duplicating, Addressograph, Photostat, and Blue Print Work.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
WASHINGTON
May 10, 1927. 192
CHIEF, Division of Publications, Room G 137.
Please furnish work specified below.
Bureau ordering Pension Deliver to Room No. 5033
(ALL COPU FOR DUPLICATING WORK SHOULD BE PLAIN AND WRITTEN IN ELITE TYPE, EXACTLY LINE FOR LINE AS IT IS TO APPEAR ON FINISHED JON.)
Title and description of job photostat copies of three pages from the Rev. War pension claim, R.1560, Samuel Butterfield.
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: /s/O. L. Gambon Chief Clerk of Bureau. W. E. Wilson Chief of Branch or Division
[annotated 'Reed' with receipt stamp: DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS DEPT OF THE INTERIOR RECEIVED MAY 10 1927]
NOTE: No order made "SPECIAL" unless statement showing necessity is written below and approved by Chief Clerk of Bureau ordering ____
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 addressed? ____Dated? 
Addressograph from lists ____
Enveloped, size ____Cards, size ____
Proof list ____ Pay rolls ____
Labels (submit sample) ____ Corrections ____
Fill in letters ____Tabulation sheets ____
Photostat x Size actual Official use? ____Repay? yes $ 0.45
Blue Print Size ____ Official use? ____Repay? ____ $____
Remarks 
(OVER)____
[annotated in margin: See receipt for payment in Jas. Ladd. W15006]

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NOTE: Routine changes of addresses may be made on this blank without formal reference through or initialing of chiefs of branches or chief clerks of bureaus.
____ 192 .
(Date)
INDICATE BY AN X IN PROPER SQUARE ACTION TO BE TAKEN. 
[blank box] Make new addressograph plate }
[blank box] Change present addressograph } On list ____
[blank box] Destroy addressograph plate }
as follows: 
Now reads 1 ____
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Should read 1 ____
2 ____
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FOR USE OF DUPLICATING AND ADDRESSING SECTION
ADDRESSOGRAPH
The above change was made ____ 192  .
Operator
MULTIGRAPH
Operator ____ Date ____ Type set by ____
Remarks: ____
MIMEOGRAPH
Operator ____ Date ____ Cut by ____
Remarks: ____

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32,663
Samuel Butterfield
Application
Vermont
rejected W L Short 10 March  1835

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State of Vermont 
Probate District of Bradford
County of Orange}
On this 30th day of September AD 1834 Personally appeared in open court before the Probate Court for the District of Bradford in the County of Orange State of Vermont now sitting Samuel Butterfield of Topsham in the said County of Orange aged sixty nine years last April, who being first sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7th 1839 - That he entered the [illegible] of the United States at Newbury in the State of Vermont in the Spring of 1780 in the month of April or May as he thinks. under the following named officer Herald as herein stated. He enlisted into a company commanded by Capt. Frye Bayley of said Newbury in Col. Peter Olcott's regiment/militia. Served in such company + regiment until the war closed in 1783 - + was employed in keeping guard in said Newbury, going on scouting parties + discharging other duties as a soldier in the defence of the frontier settlements which were then in a state of constant fear + apprehension of attack from New Forces + Indians who made frequent excursions from between this country [illegible] + Britain. That, in the summer of 1782 if he recollects right he was ordered by his officers to go + be first in defending the Fort at Peacham  in V.T. about 20 miles Northwesterly from said Newbury under the command of Capt. Nehemiah Lovewell + did duty at said Fort about one month + then returned + joined Capt Bayley's Company as before. He thinks that Capt Bayley's, was the only company stationed at Newbury during the time he was there. He believes that there he was with a body of Troops Stationed at Haverhill on the opposite side of river in New Hampshire at the same time, + that previous to entering the service, there was Corps of regular Troops Stationed at Fort Haverhill under the command of col. Harlan. He served as a private the whole time + was discharged without any written discharge + has no documentary evidence of his service. That he was born at Dunstable (now Tyngsborough) in Massachusetts in April 1765 + has no record of his age [illegible] it be at said Dunstable or Tyngsborough, that he entered the service voluntarily + resided at Newbury when he entered the service (having removed to that town with father when he was about 6 months old + [illegible]) to reside in said Newbury until he was about 20 years of age + then removed to Topsham in Vermont, where he does now + has been since resided. That he cannot be more particular in stating the circumstances of his service or the names of officers than he has been in the foregoing declaration. He adds that he was not engaged in any civil pension

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during the period of service as above related. he refers the court + War Department to Jonathan Jenness, Esq., [illegible] Taplin Esq + Col. James Peters as persons in his neighborhood who can testify of his character for truth + veracity + their belief of his service as a soldier of the revolution.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to any pension annuity except the present + declare that his ae is not on the roll of any agency of any State.
Sworn to + duly [illegible] the day + year aforesaid - 
/s/Samuel Butterfield

We, George W. Campbell, a clergyman residing in the town of Bradford + John McDuffie of Bradford in the County of Orange, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Butterfield who was subscribed + sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 69 years of age, that he is reputed + believed in the neighborhood, where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolutions + that a we concur i that opinion.
Sworn to and subscribed the day + year aforesaid
/s/Geo. W. Campbell
/s/John McDuffie

We John Bayley of Newbury in the County of Orange + State of Vermont aged 69 years - + James Bayley of said Newbury aged 67 years - do testify + say that we personally know that Samuel Butterfield who has subscribed + sworn to the above declaration did in the year 1780 enlist into Capt. Frye Bayley's Company + Col. Olcott's Regiment that he served in said Company + Regiment as he states until the close of the war and was enlisted in the same company + regt. + served the same period of time with him.
Sworn to + subscribed the day + year aforesaid 
/s/John Bayley
/s/James Bayley

And the Court aforesaid do hereby  declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter + after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that Samuel Butterfield the above applicant was a revolutionary soldier + served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that George W. Campbell who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Bradford, which lies in the immediate vicinity of the town of Topham the evidence of the application + that

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John McDuffee who has signed the same is also a resident of said Bradford + is a credible person + that this certificate is entitled to credit. + the court further certifies that John Bayley + James Bayley, who has subscribed the foregoing affidavit + were duly sworn to the same before this Court are credible persons.
I Simon Short Clerk or Register of the said Court of Probate do hereby certify that this foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Butterfield for a pension. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand + affixed the Seal of said Court this 30th day of September AD 1834
/s/Simon Short Clk