Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2404, for Alexander Magoon, New Hampshire

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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE N.H.
Magoon, Alexander
Hannah
NUMBER W.2404
CONTENTS

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31769
Vermont
Alexander Magoon of Stanstead the Pro [PROVINCE] of L [LOWER] Canada a private in the Compy [COMPANY] commanded by Captain Robinson of the regt [REGIMENT] commanded by Col. [COLONEL] Reid the in the N. [NEW] Hamp [HAMPSHIRE] 
line for 13 m. [MONTHS] 28 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Burlington at the rate of 46 Dollars 44 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of June
1840, & Delivered to John Kimball Esqr [ESQUIRE] Present
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1840 $417.96
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept [18]40
23.22
_________
$441.18

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by D. McCurdy Clerk,
Book E2, Vol. 3, Page 85.

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2788
Vermont Burlington
Hannah Magoon, widow of Alexander Magoon
who served in the Revolutionary N H war, as a
private Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
46 Dollars 44 Cents per annum, to commence on
the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5th day of November and sent to O. Newcomb
Derby Vermont
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 3, 1853, Page 30, Vol. A

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Alexr [ALEXANDER] Magoon L [LOWER] Canada
June 7 1832
Allow 13 m [MONTHS] 28 ds [DAYS]
per Capt [CAPTAIN] Robinson Col [COLONEL] Reid
$46.44 per anm [ANNUM]
Jno [JOHN] Kimball Esq
Present

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State of Vermont 
Orleans County Ss} At a Probate Court holden
at Barton within and for the County of Orleans on this 12th day of February A.D. 1834 personally appeared in open Court
Alexander Magoon a resident of Stanstead in the Province of Lower Canada aged 73 years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th A.D. 1832- That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated - 
That in the year 1777 in the month of July (as I believe) I was living in the Town of Moultenboro [MOULTONBOROUGH] in the State of Newhampshire [sic] when there was a call for every fifth man that belonged to the training Company to turn out to stop the progress of Burgoynes [sic] Army - the
Class which I belonged to (the Town being classed into five men to a class) agreed to pay me four dollars pr {PER] month in addition to my wages and I enlisted for two months and was gone several days over three months started immediately after my enlistment
with a number of others and when we had got
as far as Sanbornton Joined Capt [CAPTAIN] Taylors[sic] Company and marched to Concord where we joined Col. Thomas Stickneys [sic] Regiment from Concord we marched to Charleston (then called number four) from there to Bennington where we arrived a few days before the Benington Battle. The party to which I belonged commanded by Col. Stickney marched round upon the west of the British forces and commenced the battle agreeable to the Orders of Gen [GENERAL] Stark - I had the [illegible] that from my [illegible] in the battle then threw it down and took one from one of the British soldiers as he lay dying upon the Ground soon after the Battle I was taken sick with the Measles and did not return home until some time in October - one circumstance I will mention which is omitted that is my Capt. Capt. Taylor had his thigh broken by a musket ball and I helped to carry him to the Town of Bening [BENNINGTON]

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tion after the battle was over-- the battle
being a few miles from the settlements 
in in [sic] Benington [BENNINGTON] -
Some time after the above service the year I
cannot recollect but know it was in the winter
previous to Sullivans [sic] expedition up the
Wyoming among the Indians my Father
returned home on a furlo [FURLOUGH] (he then being a soldier enlisted for during the War-) after his furlo [FURLOUGH] had expired
and he was about to return to the Army My Father proposed to Lieut. [LIEUTENANT] Hoit who was Lieut. of the same company to which my Father belonged to have me take my Fathers [sic] place (said Hoit also being at home on Furlo [FURLOUGH]) and the Captain also being at his home (which was at Exeter) on furlo [FURLOUGH]) accordingly I agreed to take my Fathers [sic] place and set out from Moultonboro [MOULTONBOROUGH] in company with said Lieut. Nathan Hoit and when we had arrived at Exeter I had
became rather sick of my undertaking and was unwilling to go on said Hoit & the Captain (whose name was [illegible] Robinson) told me if I would engage to serve seventeen months I should then be discharged whether the war
should then be ended or not (they then supposing the war would be at an end before my seventeen months should be ended) I accordingly engaged to serve seventeen months in the place of my Father whose
name was Alexander Magoon as also my name is the same of that of my Father - I accordingly set out and joined to the army at Reding [REDDING] in the State of Connecticut from
Connecticut we marched to Easton in the State of Pensylvania [PENNSYLVANIA] from thence to (Wyoming) on the Susquehanna River then marched to Tioga where we made a short stand and built a Fort where we left the sick & Invalids we then marched to Chemung River where we had a battle with the Indians we then marched to Seneca Lake  from there to the Genesee flats while at that place Gen. [GENERAL] Sullivan with the main body of our party returned toward home- but Col. [COLONEL] Dearborn with about 200 hundred men went on a scout (I being one of them) to destroy two Indian Towns on Kioga [GANOGA] Lake when we had arrived at the last mentioned town we found that the Indians had all fled except a few old squaws and some others that could not travel we took at that place three old squaws of those that were left and brought them as far Eastown in the State of Pensylvania [PENNSYLVANIA] - in our our [sic] march into the Indians we destroyed all the corn and burnt [BURNED] the dwelling which belonged to the Indians -
(The applicant corrects one as error) The battle was at Newtown not Chemung as above stated) also the Lieut. [LIEUTENANT] Nathan

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Hoit belonged to Col. [COLONEL] Scammels [sic] Regiment and Robinson Company to which I belonged to not Reeds was in Col. Reeds Regiment -
Gen [GENERAL] Sullivan was principal Commander--- Gen Poor Commanded the Newhampshire [sic] Bregade [BRIGADE] Col. Cilley Col. Dearborn & Col. Reed commanded the three Newhampshire [sic] Regiments -
The Captains that served in Reeds [sic] Regiment of which I remember were Capt. Robinson - Cherry & Howes McGregory -
The [illegible] of said Regiment was name [sic] Bell -
one circumstance more I will mention that is the day after battle at Newtown Gen. Sullivan (as we were short of provisions) proposed to his men to proceed upon half allowance of provision or return back with the promise if
we would proceed on upon half allowance the deficiency should be made up by Congress and also that each man should receive an extra suit of clothes for extra [illegible] 
and take though the woods, and we unanimously agreed to proceed on and we did proceed upon half allowance (and some times much less) and could not possibly have survived had we not lived considerably upon the spoils of the Indians-- but when we had returned to Easton Gen Sullivan applied to Congress to have the deficiency of our rations and an extra suit of clothes made up to us but did not succeed as Congress did not see fit
to fulfil what Gen Sullivan had promised and Sullivan was so much dissatisfied that he resigned his command (or that was what the soldiers supposed to be the cause of
his resignation) -
I was born at Exeter in the State of Newhampshire on the 9th day of March 1763 where I suppose is record of my age in the Town Clerks office I removed with my Family whereas near as I can remember was about 10 years old when my Father removed to Moultenboro [MOULTONBOROUGH] above written where I lived until I was about 26 years old (except when I was in the war) I then removed to Danville in the State of Vermont
where I lived about six years & then lived in Derby about two years when I removed to Stanstead my present place of residence where I have since resided - after my Seventeen months service above written I was discharged by a written discharge by Col. Reed which was burned when my house was burned in Stanstead about twenty years ago -
my first service was in the Malitia [MILITIA] and the last in the Continental line -
I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Alexander Magoon

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I John Vance of Wolcott in the County of Orleans aged 77 years and Revolutionary pensioner do testify and say that Alexander Magoon who has made the foregoing declaration before the Hon. [HONORABLE] the Probate Court for the purpose of receiving the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 was in what is commonly called Sullivans [sic] expedition as I myself was a soldier in the same expedition and was well acquainted with sd  [SAID] Magoon at that time and know that he served through said expedition I then belonging Cilleys [sic] Regiment in the same expedition and I further state that I have heard the said declaration read to which the said Magoon has subscribed and made oath and I do know that his statements relative to his
service in Sullivans [sic] Expedition is substantially true
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
John Vance

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states - And the Court
further certifies that John Vance who has
subscribed and sworn to the above certifies
[HE] is a resident in Wolcott aforesaid -
and that his statement is entitled to credit- 

I John H. Kimball Register of the said Court
do hereby certify that the foregoing contains
the original proceedings of the said Court
in the matter of the application of Alexander
Magoon for a pension

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 12th day of February A.D. 1834
John H. Kimball Register

[sideways left] 31.522  Alexd [ALEXANDER] Magoon's declaration
[sideways right illegible]

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After Alexander Magoon had made his declaration and subscribed and made oath to the same and John Vance whose deposition is hereunto annexed had made his deposition and set out on his way for his home the said Magoon says he had not stated the whole of his seventeen months service but continues
on addr [ADDRESSING] to his declaration as follows - "After we had returned from the expedition in the Indian County on the Suseuhannah SUSQUEHANNA] and had arrived at Eastown in Pensylvania [PENNSYLVANIA] on our return which was in the month of October we continued there one or two weeks (as near as I can remember) we then marched to Danbury in the State of Connecticut where we made winter quarters at the opening of the spring about the first of April we marched
to West Point from there to the White plains
where were stationed a few weeks from the white plains we returned to West point where we continued until my seventeen months had expired when I was discharged by writing as before mentioned -
I have no documentary evidence of service and
know of no living witness that I can procure except John Vances [sic] which accompanies this declaration -
Sworn to and subscribed as aforesaid-
Alexander Magoon
[upside down] Alexander Magoon

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Province of Canada
District of Montreal} On this twenty ninth day of July A.D. eighteen hundred and fifty three personally appeared before me Horace Lyman Esqr [ESQUIRE] Commissioner of the
Superior Court of the District of Montreal Hannah Magoon a resident of Granby in the Province of Canada East aged seventy five years, who first being duly sworn according to law, made the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3d February 1853 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war, that she is the widow of Alexander Magoon who was a private in the Revolutionary war, and was a pensioner of the United States under
act of the 7th of June 1832, and that his name was on the roll of the Montpelier Vermont Agency
She further subscribes she was married to the said Alexander Magoon the [illegible] day of December Eighteen hundred and six
that her said husband died on the thirteen the night of January A.D. 1848 that she was not married to him prior to the second of January Eighteen hundred, but at the time above stated. She further declares that she is now a widow.
Sworn before me at Granby Hannah her x mark Magoon this 29th July 1853
Horace Lyman Commissioner 
Superior Court Montreal

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Sworn to and subscribed, before me, on the day and year above written, and I certify that by reason of bodily infirmity, and old age the said Hannah Magoon is unable to appear in open court. I further certify that I have no interest in the result of this case and am 
not concerned in this prosecution.
Granby 29 July 1 1853} Horace Lyman Commissioner Superior Court Montreal

We, Samuel Wentworth Monk, William C. H. Coffin & Louis Joseph Amedee Papineau, Joint of the Superior Court for Lower Canada, in the District of Montreal do hereby certify that Horace Lyman, Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the foregoing deposition, is a
Commissioner appointed to receive affidavits to be read in the said superior Court, and that full faith and credence are due and ought to be given to his Signature and acts in such capacity, in all places.
Given under our hand and Office Seal at
Montreal in Canada this tenth day of August
one thousand eight hundred and fifty three
Samuel Wentworth Monk, William C. H. Coffin 
Louis Joseph Amedee Papineau

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Province of Canada
District of St Francis} I Samuel Mallory of the
Township of Ascot Parrish, Provence
and District aforesaid, Aged 60, do depose
and say that I was personally acquainted with
Alexander Magoon formerly resident in the Township of Stanstead District & Province
aforesaid, and also Hannah Hobart then
widow of Elijah Hall of the said Township
of Ascot, and deponent for the said that the
aforesaid Alexander Magoon and the said Hannah Hobart were married and resided in the aforesaid Township of Ascot about the year one thousand, Eight hundred and six, and that the said parties afterwards removed to Stanstead aforesaid
Samuel Mallory
Sworn to before me this 12th day of July 1853
Township of Ascot 
Charles Brooks J.P.

I Charles Brooks, one of Her Majesty's
Justices of the Peace in and for the District of Saint Francis and Province of Canada residing at Lewisville in The Township of Ascot, do certify that I am personally acquainted with the
above deponent Samuel Mallory, and
believe him to be a person of credibility
Charles Brooks J.P.

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Province of Canada
District of Saint Francis} I Gersham Wilcox, of the Township of Ascot, Province and District
aforesaid, Farmer, Aged 69, do depose and
and that I was personally acquainted with
Alexander Magoon, formerly resident in the District and Province aforesaid and also Hannah Hobart, then widow of Elijah Hall
of the said Township of Ascot, and deponent further saith that the aforesaid Alexander Magoon and the said Hannah Hobart were married and for a short time resided in the aforesaid Township of Ascot about the year
one thousand Eight hundred and six, and
that the said parties after removed to Stanstead aforesaid
G. Wilcoks

Sworn to before me this 12th day of July 1853 
at Ascot aforesaid Charles Brooks J.P.}
I Charles Brooks one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the District of Saint Francis & Province of Canada residing at Sennerville in the Township of Ascot, do certify that I am personally acquainted with the
above deponent Gersham Wilcox, and
believe him to be a person of credibility

Charles Brooks J.P.

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Province of Canada
District of Saint Francis} I Eli Moulton of the Township of Ascot, Province and District aforesaid, Farmer, Aged 63 do depose and say that I was personally acquainted with Alexander Magoon formerly resident in the Township of Stanstead District and Province aforesaid and also Hannah Hobart, then wife and widow of Elijah Hall of the said Township
of Ascot, and deponent further saith that
the aforesaid Alexander Magoon and the
said Hannah Hobart were married and for a short time resided in the said Town of Ascot about the year one thousand eight hundred and six, and that the said parties afterwards
removed to Stanstead aforesaid, and I further state that the said Hannah Hobart is now the widow of the said Alexander Magoon, pensioner, deceased
Eli Moulton
Sworn to before me this 12th day of July 1853 at Ascot aforesaid} Charles Brooks J.P

I Charles Brooks one of her Majestys [sic] Justices of the Peace in and for the District of Saint Francis & Province of Canada residing at Somerville in the township of Ascot, do certify that I am personally acquainted with the above deponent, Eli Moulton and believe him to be a person of credibility
Charles Brooks J.P.

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We the undersigned [illegible] for
the District of Saint James, certify under the
Seal of the Court that Charles Brooks, Esquire is a
Magistrate for the District of Said James
and having a perfect knowledge of his hand
writing that the signature attached to this document is his signature

Bell & Stuart PH.

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We hereby certify under this seal of this Supreme
Court that Charles Brooks, Esquire, is a magistrate for the District of Saint Francis and having a perfect knowledge of his hand writing that the signature attached to this document is his signature
Bell & Stuart
PH

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We the undersigned [illegible] of the Superior Court for the District of Saint James do hereby certify that Charles Brooks, Esquire is a magistrate for the District of Saint James, and duly qualified to act as such, that we have a perfect knowledge of his signature and that the signature attached to this document is his -

Bell & Stuart
PD

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We the undersigned [illegible] of the Superior Court for the District of Saint James do hereby certify that Charles Brooks, Esquire is a magistrate for the District of Saint James, and duly qualified to act as such, that we have a perfect knowledge of his signature and that the signature attached to this document is his

Bell & Stuart
PD

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I Hobart Magoon of Granby in the Province of Canada East, of lawful age depose and say that my mother, Hannah Magoon, who is the widow of Alexander Magoon a revolutionary
pensioner of the United States, was formerly a resident of Stanstead in the Province of Canada and that she with her husband removed to Granby, the place of her present residence in the year Eighteen hundred and Thirty nine
Hobart Magoon

Sworn to and subscribed before me this Twenty first day of October A.D. 1853, and I certify that I am well acquainted with the above deponent and that he is a person of credibility
Horace Lyman
Justice of Peace

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State of Vermont 
Orleans County ss. ⎬
On this 14 day of August 1832 personally
appeared before the Hon. [HONORABLE] Probate Court holden at Derby within and for the District of Orleans Ephraim Magoon of Shipton in the Province of Lower Canada aged 74 years who being first duly sworn in
open Court according to law deposes and says that Alexander Magoon of Stanstead Lower Canada served with me in Gen. [GENERAL] Starks [sic] Brigade and Col. [COLONEL] Stickneys [sic] regiment in the year 1777 between five and six months- this service was in the summer and fall of that year. It was generally reported during the remainder of the war and has been since that time that this same Alexander Magoon took the place of his father of the same name who had enlisted for three years during the war and served that term of enlistment out until the final close of the war
Subscribed & sworn in this 14th day of August 1832
Ephm [EPHRAIM] Magoon

I, John H. Kimball Register of the Probate Court aforesaid do hereby certify that Ephraim Magoon the signer of the foregoing affidavit appeared in open Court this 14th day of
August 1832 and made Solemn oath that the facts set forth in said affidavit are true
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 14th day of August 1832
John H Kimball Register

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I Dudley Magoon of Bolton in the Province of Lower Canada aged 63 years after being duly sworn depose and say that my father Alexander Magoon enlisted into the army of the United States at Exeter in the State of New Hampshire for a during the war man, and served several years. He came home on a furlough and was prevailed upon by his family to remain at home and sent my Brother Alexander Magoon to take his place in the army which he did and according to my best recollection he served until the war closed and further your deponent says not -
Dudley Magoon

State of Vermont
Orleans County Ss. ⎬ 
Derby July 31, 1832
I hereby certify that Dudley Magoon by whom the foregoing affidavit is subscribed then personally appeared before me and made solemn oath that the facts therein set forth are true, and I further certify that it was made to appear to my satisfaction that said Dudley of Magoon is a credible witness
Attest D M Camp Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont
Orleans County} I Ira H Allen Clerk of Orleans County Court do hereby certify that D. M. Camp before whom the above affidavit was sworn was on the day of the date of his certificate a Justice of the peace within and
for the County of Orleans and his signature
thereto subscribed I believe to be genuine.

[illegible] affix the seal of said Court this 13 day of August 1832
Ira H Allen Clerk

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[illegible] xx 2404

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2075.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
25 March 1833

Alexander Magoon of Stanstead in Lower Canada has applied to the Secretary
of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private
in captain Robinson's company, in Reed's regiment of the N [NEW] Hampshire line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by
the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary
Francis A. Dickins
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,

THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
26th March 1833
It further appears that Alexander Magoon is not now on the pension list of any agency, and has not been so since the 3d March 1826

The name of Alexander Magoon does not appear among those of the New Hampshire line, to whom certificates for the gratuity of Eighty Dollars were issued - It appears from a
Register of Coll [COLONEL] Reed's Regiment of the New Hampshire line, on file in the Pension Office, that Alexander Magoon enlisted for three years on the 15th May 1777 - and that he was discharged on the 20th May 1780 -
Peter Hagner Auditor

Exd Ref - [illegible] 2404 OK no records of [illegible]

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Derby August 9th 1833
Honbl. [HONORABLE] Lewis Cass
Sir there was an application made by Alexander Magoon to the Secretary of the Treasury for a Pension under the act of 15th May 1828 some time in the month of Feby [FEBRUARY] inst. [this month] But by a communication from that department said Magoon Did not enlist for the war and serve to the end. But that he Magoon was discharged before the war closed therefore I have requested the Secretary to hand over the Declaration and evidence to the War Department and hereby request you to review and examine the same and make report and you will oblige your Obedient Servt [SERVANT]
Timo [TIMOTHY] Hinman
I here inclose [sic] the affidavit of Ephraim Magoon if you do not find the applicant intitled [sic] to full pay as a private under the act of 7th June 1832 -
please to inform the [illegible]
J.H.

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(Copy)
War Department
Pension Office
July 31, 1834.
Sir, I have attentively examined the declaration
of Alexander Magoon, and have come to the conclusion that the services he claims to have performed in the Continental line were all performed by his father in person and not by substitute.
From the rolls it appears that Alexander Magoon enlisted in the 3d Company in Reed's regiment for three years on the 15 May 1777 and that he was discharged on the 20 May 1780, that a certificate for the balance
of his pay was given to his son Alexander, at Exeter New Hampshire, on the 13th November 1780. 
The present clamant alleges that he enlisted at Reading Connecticut, in 1779, in his father's place and signed an enlistment for and during the war and that he entered at Reading Connecticut in 1780, and in the spring of the same year went to West Point & remained
to the close of the war. - In his second declaration he says he enlisted for 17 months and served out that time, and that he entered at Danbury Connecticut in 1780.
It will readily be believed as is the record of 
enlistment of Alexr [ALEXANDER] the father served until May 1780 that the story of his sons going to West Point in that year & continuing [illegible] or of having served 17 months from the [illegible] 1779, [illegible] be correct admitting he was substitute for his father.
It appears from the records that Mr Magoon the farther returned home May 1780 and that he

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sent his son Alexander down to Exeter in Novr
of that year for a certificate from the Treasurer for the balance then due him as I have before stated and that his son did not perform any service whatever in Col Reed's regiment.
Under this view of the case his claim is
Disputed, and the papers placed upon the files of
this Office.
I am respectfully your obt. servt. [OBEDIENT SERVANT]
(Signed) J.L. Edwards
Tim. [TIMOTHY] Herman Esqr [ESQUIRE]
Derby Vermont

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I Jonathan Sinclair of Haverhill in the County of Grafton and state of Newhampshire [sic]
(aged fifty eight years on the 27th day of February) depose and say that I lived in Stanstead from childhood until I was more than twenty one years old and was well acquainted with Alexander Magoon of Moultonborough and also his son Alexander
they living a mile from my Fathers [sic] house
I well recollect hearing it often stated that Alexander Magoon (the Father) was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and I have also heard it stated that Alexander (the son) took
his Fathers [sic] place and went into the army and that his Father continued at home-- and I further state that when I was a youth I often saw Alexander Magoon Junr [JUNIOR] at my fathers [sic] house and often heard him talking with my father about his being out in Sullivans [sic] Expedition against the Indians and also about his being in the Bennington battle and at the taking of Burgoyne army My Father was also out in the Revolutionary war and from the manner they conversed about the war I think there cannot be the least doubt but that the said Alexander Magoon Junr [JUNIOR] was out in Sullivans [sic] Expedition and also at the Bennington battle and the taking of Burgoyne and his [illegible] the said Alexander Magoon Junior now lives in Stanstead Lower Canada - all the above conversation which I allude to took place before I was twenty one years of age-
Jonathan Sinclair

State of New Hampshire
Grafton Ss on the 22d day of January AD 1836
Jonathan Sinclair, with whom I am personally well acquainted, and who is a reputable and credible witness, personally appeared and in my presence subscribed his name as above
written, to the foregoing declaration with his own

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hand, and made oath that said declaration is true
Before me Nathan B Felton Justice of the
Peace.

State of New Hampshire
Grafton Ss.
I Nathan B. Felton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Grafton, hereby certify that Nathan B. Felton
whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate, is a Justice of the Peace for said County, duly commissioned & sworn, and that his signature, so subscribed as aforesaid, is genuine, being in his own proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand & affixed the seal of said Court, this twenty second day of January Anno Domini Eighteen hundred and thirty six.
Nathan B. Felton Clerk

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I, Thomas Haines of Concord in the County
of Merrimack and State of New Hampshire, depose and say, that I served as a soldier in the
War of the Revolution, for about six years-- I belonged to Col. [COLONEL] Cilley's Regiment, and Genl [GENERAL] Poor's Brigade, till Genl Poor died-- In the winter of 1777- or 78 or 79 - I cannot fix certainly upon the year, we were quartered
at Reading in Connecticut, and Col. [COLONEL] Reed's Regiment of the same brigade was quartered near to Col. Cilley's. I there became acquainted with Alexander Magoon, a young man who belonged to Capt. [CAPTAIN] Robinson's Company in Col. Reeds Regiment, and who, as I understood, took the place of
his father, Alexander Magoon whom I had before seen in the army - I was then and afterwards well acquainted with Alexander Magoon, the younger, as long as the Regiments of Col. Reed and Col. Cilley belonged to the same Brigade We were together at West Point, after wintering at
Reading. And I think we were at Danbury in Connecticut the next winter - sometime afterwards, Col. Cilley's Regiment was marched to Saratoga and I do not recollect that I saw said Magoon afterwards-- I should think that I was knowing to the service of said Magoon, and frequently saw him while in the army for more than one year-- it may have been two years
Thomas Haines

Concord July 5, 1836.
State of New Hampshire
Merrimack ss. July 5. 1836 - Then Thomas Haines who is well known as having been a Revolutionary soldier, and who is a credible witness, subscribed the above deposition & made oath to the truth thereof, before me, Samuel A. Kimball, Justice of the Peace.

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State of New Hampshire
Merrimack SS

I Stephen C Badger Clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas within and for the County of Merrimack aforesaid do hereby certify that Samuel A Kimball is an acting Justice of the Peace - within & for said County, and that the
signature within written purporting to his
is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and have affixed the seal of said Court this
fourteenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty six -
S.C. Badger Clerk

Thos [THOMAS] Haines Deposition

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14th 7 
James Way

James Way
State of Vermont,
Orleans County ss⎬
I, Samuel C Crafts, Clerk of Orleans County Court, do certify that James Way is a Justice of Peace in and for the County of Orleans aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, his commission was dated the fifteenth day of November, AD. 1836 and will expire on the last day of November, AD 1837 and that his name subscribed to the above certificates is his own hand writing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this
twenty fourth day of January AD 1837
Saml [SAMUEL] C. Crafts Clerk

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[illegible]

Saml [SAMUEL] Clark

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War Department Pension Office February 25 1837

Sir,
I have received the additional testimony
in support of the claim of Alexander Magoon and have filed it with his papers. The claim was rejected in July 1834 for want of proof. The discrepances in the several statements of the claimant [illegible] that at court are doubtful, 
and the evidence arising from that was from being satisfactory.

I herewith enclose a copy of my letter to Mr
Herman at the time of this claim. This proof
is still unsatisfactory The papers remain on the 
files of the office. Mr Kimballs letter is herewith returned.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully your obt servt [OBEDIENT SERVANT]
J L Edwards
Hon. [HONORABLE] John Page
Senate, United States

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I Paul Cook of Glover in the County of Orleans and State of Vermont aged eighty years and a pensioner of the United States depose and say that I was out in Capt [CAPTAIN] Chases [sic] Company in Col. [COLONEL] Reeds [sic] Regiment and was among those who went out in the expedition against the Indians up the Susquehanna River in what was commonly
called Sullivans [sic] expedition-- Alexander Magoon who now lives in Stanstead and who as he states was in the same expedition and I have been conversing with said Magoon relative to said expedition and he has given
a very correct account of what took place during said expedition which no man could have done unless they had been through said expedition
Paul Cook

State of Vermont
Orleans County ⎬ Irasburgh [IRASBURG] 5th September 1838
Then Paul Cook who has subscribed the foregoing deposition personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the same-
Before me John Kimball Judge of Orleans County Court

I further state that the said Paul Cook is a
credible witness
John Kimball Judge

State of Vermont
Orleans County ss ⎬ I, Samuel C Crafts, Clerk of Orleans County Court, do certify that John Kimball, is a Judge of the County Court within and for the County of Orleans, and by the Constitution and laws of Vermont, by virtue of said office, a Justice of the Peace within and for said County. And that his signature to the above and within certificates is his own hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at Irasburgh [IRASBURG] in said County this fifth day of September AD 1838
Saml [SAMUEL] C Crafts, Clerk

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I John James of Newport in the County of Orleans and State of Vermont aged seventy seven years and a pensioner of the Revolution depose and say that I was a soldier in the Revolution and was one of those who went with Gen. [GENERAL] Sullivan up the Susquehanna River to drive out the Indians I belonged to Cap [CAPTAIN] Amos
Morrills [sic] Company in Col [COLONEL] Cilleys  [sic] Regiment and and [sic] well remember that Capt Robinson commanded a company
in Col. Reeds Regiment and I further State that
Alexander Magoon present who now lives in Stanstead Lower Canada who states that he was also out with us in the same expedition and served in Robinsons Company I cannot 
recollect seeing said Magoon at that time or during said expedition but I have been conversing with said Magoon this day and
I have put many questions to him relative to what took place during said expedition and I am fully satisfied that Magoon was in said expedition as he has given a minute
account of many incidents which took place during said expedition which it must be next to an impossibility for any man to have done unless he had been present
John his x mark James

State of Vermont
Orleans County Ss} Irasbrough [IRASBURG] September 5th 1838 then personally appeared John James who has subscribed the foregoing deposition and made oath to the truth of the same
Before me John Kimball Judge of Orleans County Court
I further state that the said John James is a
credible Witness
John Kimball Judge

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I John Elliot of Concord New Hampshire
depose and say that I entered the army of the Revolution in the year 1775, and served till the close of the war. I was first in the company of Capt. [CAPTAIN] Gordon Hutchins, and next in Capt. Isaac Sherman's Company, till he was promoted, when Capt. Caleb Robinson took the command and I continued in the company under him
While in this Company I knew two men, who were soldiers in the same, of the name of Alexander Magoon, father and son, the old man was there first, but whether his service
was under Capt. Shearman or Capt. Robinson,
I do not remember. The son Alexander Magoon Jr. was in said Company when commanded by Capt. Robinson, and, as I understood at the time, took the place of his
father who left & went home. I cannot be sure as to the time when Alexander Magoon Jr. first joined Robinson's Company, but my impression is that it was in the year 1777, 78 - We were at Reading, Connecticut, at West Point afterwards at Danbury, Con. [CONNECTICUT] How long Alexr [ALEXANDER] Magoon Jr continued in Capt. Robinson's company, it is impossible for me to tell now, but I should think and believe that I knew him in said Company for a year at least, and
probably for a longer period -
John Elliott

Merrimack Ss -
Concord March 15. 1839 ⎬ Then the above named John Elliot, who is reputed and believed to be a credible witness, subscribed the above deposition, and made oath that the same was in his belief true-
Before me,
S.A. Kimball, Justice of the Peace

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State of New Hampshire
office of Secretary of State
Concord March 23. 1839
I hereby certify that from the Records in this office it appears that on the day of Attestation of the annexed Instrument J. A. Kimball was duly in
Commission as a Justice of the Peace within & for the County of Merrimack and that his signature to said Instrument is true & genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed
the Seal of said State
Jonah Stevens Secy [SECRETARY] of State

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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
Secretary of State.
JOSIAH STEVENS, JR. Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Jeremiah Shaw is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Strafford duly Commissioned and qualified:
that his Commission was dated on the 24th day of November 1834 and will expire on the 24th day of November 1839 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this 22d day of October 1839
Josiah Stevens Secretary of State.

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I Jacob Moulton of Moultonborough in the County of Strafford and State of Newhampshire [sic] aged seventy nine years do testify and say that in March 1778 I removed with my Mother and her family (my Father being dead) into said Town of
Moultonborough and I occasionally worked in said Town several periods before removing and I became acquainted with Alexander
Magoon and his family-- and I well recollect that some time after we had lived in said Town and as I believe the fall following our removal into to the place Jonathan Magoon son of said Alexander came to our house and said he wished to get something to treat an old friend and upon enquiry we were informed that his father had got home from the army to which I understood he belonged. I further state that
his son Alexander Magoon Junr [JUNIOR] did go into the Army (as was said) and take the place of his father and I know that the said Alexander Magoon Junr was gone quite a length of time and as I believe between one and two years and as I then understood
and always supposed that he served in the army in the place of his Father and I know that Alexander Magoon Senior did not return
to the army - I further state that the said Alexander Magoon Junior removed from Moultonborough into Danvill [DANVILLE] Vermont and then into Stanstead Lower Canada where I have seen him at his house in said Stanstead
Jacob Moulton

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State of Newhampshire [sic] Strafford Ss. October 19th 1839
Personally appearing Jacob Moulton the signer of the within, who is a man well known to me, as a respectable man and creditable witness and made oath that the above within affidavit by him subscribed is true before me
Jeremiah Shaw Justice of the Peace

I have known the within named Jacob
Moulton for fifty years I know him to be a
man of Veracity
June 12th 1840
Thos. [THOMAS] Shannon

I have known Jacob Moulton for twenty years and concur in the above-
Paul Wentworth
I am well acquainted with the above named
Thomas Shannon and Paul Wentworth - They are representatives of the respective towns in which they reside & members of the Legislature of the State of New Hampshire - They are men of standing and of undoubted veracity - and the signatures are genuine
I have no doubt-
Ira A. Eastman
Washington June 22, 1840

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Nathan Lee
Deposition
12' /2
John Kimball Esq
Barton
Vermont.
[illegible stamp]

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I Nathan Lee of Wolfborough in the County of Strafford & State of Newhampshire [sic] aged seventy seven years and Revolutionary
pensioner of the Unightid [UNITED] States depose & say that previous to the war of the Revolution I was living in Moultonborough in said County of Strafford and was well acquainted with Alexander Magoon & his son
Alexander Magoon Junior who then lived in the same town -
I further state that in the spring of the year 1777 Alexander Magoon Senior did enlist for three years, into the army of the Unightid [UNITED States (I being present at the time) & I well remember that in the fall of the year of
1778 - after the said Alexander Magoon Seignior [SENIOR] had served out about one
half of his enlistment he came home on furlo [FURLOW] & did not join the army again during his three years enlistment I further state that I well remember that Alexander Magoon Junior did join the army soon after his father
came home & served (as I then & ever since understood] in the place of his Father until the three years of his enlistment had terminated, which was in May 1780. I further state that the first of July 1779, I enlisted into the army of the United States & went to Fishkill Newyork [NEW YORK] & did duty under Colonel Jackson there till General Sullivan returned from his expedition among the Indians & then I joined General Poor's Brigade at Danbury &
Reading & there I found Alexander Magoon Junior who had been up with Sullivan --- I further state that in the spring of 1780, which could not be but a short time before his enlistment expired, the said Alexander Magoon Junior & myself were on duty together at Fort Arnold on Westpoint: The above Danbury & Reding being near together we were sometimes at one place and sometimes at the other for winter quarters & said Alexander Magoon Junior was here with us -- I further state that before the war & after the war, I
lived a near neighbour [NEIGHBOR] to both the said Magoons ---
Nathan Lee

State of New Hampshire Stafford SS November 5th 1837 Personally appearing Nathan Lee the signer of the above who is a man well known to me as a respectable man & a creditable witness & made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true before me
Isaiah G [illegible] Justice Peace.
---

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State of New Hampshire
I Josiah Stevens Secretary of the State
aforesaid do hereby certify that said Isaiah  G. [ILLEGIBLE] is an acting Justice of the Peace within & for the County of Strafford, duly Commissioned and qualified that his Commission was dated on the fifteenth day of June AD 1835 and will expire on the fifteenth day of June AD 1840 and that his Signature to the said Instrument is true and genuine
I hereunto set my hand and the
seal of said State this twenty eighth day of
November AD 1839.
Josiah Stevens Secy [SECRETARY] of State

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I Paul Wentworth of Sandwich N H say that I am well acquainted with Nathan Lee now of Wolfborough and formerly of said Sandwich who has made the foregoing deposition, that the said Lee has a good moral character and is known as a man of good integrity, said Lee moved from the town of Moultonborough
to said town of Sandwich -
Paul Wentworth
June 12, 1840-

I am well acquainted with the above named Nathan Lee & in point of veracity he stands unimpeachable.
Thos. [THOMAS] Shannon
June 12th, 1840

I am acquainted with above named Nathan Lee
and have been for twenty years, and concur
in the above statement
Wm [WILLIAM] Randall
June 12, 1840

I am well acquainted with the above named Paul Wentworth Thomas Shannon and William Randall. They are members of Legislature of the State of New Hampshire and men of
undoubted standing & veracity - The signatures I have no doubt are genuine -
Ira A. Eastman
Washington
June 22d 1840-

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Granby Canada East
District of Montreal July 7th AD. 1853
I hereby certify that Alexander Magoon pensioner for service in the U.S. Revolution 
Died late of the night of the thirteenth early in the morning of the fourteenth of January A.D. 18[illegible], and that his wife is still a widow, and that the amount of pension that he drew, was forty six dollars and forty four cents per annum, and that his certificate for a pension was  returned to the agent to be sent to the War office [illegible] U.S. the March following, and that said certificate  was signed by J. R. [illegible] Secretary of War. Hobart Magoon
Sworn before me at Granby this 29 July 1853.
Geo. [GEORGE] M. Abbott. J.P.

I hereby certify upon oath that the above described Alexander Magoon pensioner, died as stated above and that his wife is still a widow.
Wm [WILLIAM] B. [illegible] Deputy Revenue Inspector
Sworn before me this 29 July 1853 Geo [GEORGE] [illegible] J.P.

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I hereby certify that the above named Hobart Magoon  and Wm [WILLIAM] B. Vipond
are persons of integrity and worthy of belief -
Geo. [GEORGE] M. Abbott J.P. [JUSTICE OF THE PEACE] 
Granby 29th July 1853}

We Alexander Maurice Delisle and William
Henry Brehant, Esquires Joint Clerk of the Peace for the District of Montreal, do Certify that George M. Abbott, Esquire whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Depositions, is a Justice of the Peace duly appointed in and for the District of Montreal, in that part of the Province of Canada heretofore Lower Canada, and that full faith and credence are due and ought to be given to his signature and acts, in such capacity in all places -
Given under our hand and office seal, at Montreal in Canada this tenth day of August 1853 four words interlined approved
[illegible] Brehaus
Clerk of the Peace

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Derby 19, Aug. 1853. -
Hon. [HONORABLE] L. P. Waldo
Dear Sir,
Enclosed I send you the declaration of Hannah Magoon for a pension under the act of Feb 3d, 1853. -
The declaration you will see is taken before a commissioner specially appointed for that
purpose for the reason that she is so infirm that she cannot travel, and living some fifty miles from any Judge of a Court of record, she could not get one to come to her to take her declaration. -

It is hoped therefore this requisition may be
waived and the declaration received; otherwise she must be deprived of the benefits of the act.-
The certificate when issued you will please
forward to me.
Very respectfully yours
O. Newcomb

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Vermont
Derby 28, Act 1853
Hon. [HONORABLE] L. P. Waldo
Dear Sir,
Agreeably to your
requisition of the 10th inst. [this month] in the case of Hannah Magoon, I now send her additional declaration, that no record testimony of her marriage exists, together with an affidavit
proving her removal from Stanstead to Granby.
I am Sir, very respectfully Yours
Orem Newcomb

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Moultonboro [MOULTONBOROUGH]
Alexander Magoon
aged 73 in 1834 [minus] 73 [=] 1761
on role Vol. 2 Corl [CORPORAL] [illegible]
July 1777 2 mo. 8 Taylor Stickney
March 1778. his father retd. [RETURNED] home on furlough and he took his place. Caleb Robinson Capt. [CAPTAIN] agreed to serve 17 mo. [MONTHS] joined at Reading - marched from there to Easton & then he Wyoming. Col [COLONEL] Reids Regt
[illegible] & Samuels Rgt. [REGIMENT]

Witness Jno [JOHN] Vance Cilley Regt [REGIMENT] 
Jno JOHN] Sinclair.
Tho [THOMAS] Haines " " [CILLEYS REGT.]
Sam [SAMUEL] Clark Scammel
Jno [JOHN] [illegible] 
[illegible] Moulton
Jno JOHN] Fennels - Cilley
Paul Cook Reed
[sideways] Nathan Lee

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dec. under Act 1828
Spg [SPRING] '[17]79 joined Robinson Co [COMPANY] Reading Conn [CONNECTICUT] Col [COLONEL] Reid taking the place of his father
for during the war-men
 [illegible] a gratuity
march'd [MARCHED] as discrib. [DESCRIBED] [illegible] 
remd [REMAINED] at West Point until close of the war

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Alex [ALEXANDER] Magoon enlistd [ENLISTED] May 15. [17]77 for 3 years
and served to Apl [APRIL] 20 1780. 36 mo [MONTHS] 5 days.
See Reid [illegible]
See below. Capt [CAPTAIN] Caleb Robinson Co [COMPANY] Col [COLONEL] Reid
[illegible] 21.2. &c [ETC] 
Payroll Apl [APRIL] 1778 on commd
May " [1778]}
June " [1778]}
July " [1778]} omitted ded [DEDUCT] £ [British pound] 2. for each mo.
Augt " [1778]}
Sept " [1778] Joined
Feby [FEBRUARY] - 1779. omitted *
May [illegible] Sept [illegible] '[17]79
Nov & Dec 1779 joined
Apl. 1780 disch? [DISCHARGED]

Sullivan Expn. [EXPEDITION] Com June [17]79
* probably the time he was at home-- It seems that he serve comc again in May '[17]79 and endd [ENDED] 
Apl 20th 1780 11 mo & 20 ds [DAYS] =
                          2            8    
                        13 mo     28 d [DAYS] -

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Brief in the case of Hannah Magoon wid [WIDOW] Alexr [ALEXANDER] Canada East act 3 February [18]'53
Claim, ("original," or "for increase.")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Husband Pensioner at $ 46.44, act of
7 June 1832
Identity & Marriage &c [ETC] proved by
abundant parol evidence (widow knows
of no record)
date of death alleged 13 Jany [JANUARY] [18]'48
confirmed by [illegible] 
Name and residence of Agent
O. Newcomb Derby Vt. 
McRae Examining Clerk

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Vermt. [VERMONT]
No. 3.046
Hannah Magoon wid [WIDOW] of Alexander
Canada East.
1853 Oct. 10. Let [LETTER] to O. Newcomb
Admitted $46.44 for per Anm [ANNUM] 
Commg. [COMMENCING] 3 February 1853
Burlington Agt [AGENT] Newcomb Derby Vt.

Act 3 Feb 1853.

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May 15 [17]77 [illegible] 7 2 yr
March 78
[illegible] ab - B.21-2
Feby 80 Jun 80 
[illegible]
Oct 79
[illegible] Sept 79
May 79
Apr 79
[illegible] feb 79
Joined Dec 17[79]
Joined Nov
Oct 78

[sideways] May 15 '77 7

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Sept 78
[illegible] admitted [illegible] July & Augt 78
Aug 78 [illegible]
July 78 [illegible] £ [British pound] 2
Jan 78 [illegible] 2
[illegible] 78
Dec 78
[sideways] 7 1/2 [illegible 77
12 78
12 79
4 20 80
[upside down]  on Capt Taylor roll Vol 1 2 mos 8 77

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Pension Off [OFFICE] Nov 2 [18]'53
Sir
Please certify date of Alexander Magoon's death,
pensioner Act 7 June 1832, Vermont
Respr [RESPECTFULLY] L P Waldo Commr [COMMISSIONER]
F Burtley 3d aud [AUDITOR]}
Alexander Magoon, Act 7th June 1832 $46.44 pr an [PER ANNUM]
Died 14th January 1848, Paid to his death.
Saml [SAMUEL] L Reids 
Actg [ACTING] Auditor

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Revy [REVOLUTIONARY] 
WIDOW, &c. [ETC]
File No. 2404
Hannah Magoon, Widow Alexander Magoon,
Priv. Rev. [PRIVATE REVOLUTIONARY] War.
Act. Feb. 3. 1853.
Index:--Vol. M. Page 2.

[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Province of Canada
District of Montreal} On this twenty first day of
October in the year of our Lord One thousand
Eight hundred and fifty three before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace within and for the District aforesaid personally appeared Hannah Magoon, who being duly sworn according to law, makes this further declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of
Congress, passed February 3d 1853 that she has caused diligent search to be made, and that no record testimony exists of her marriage
with Alexander Magoon who was her husband
and who, in his life time, was a revolutionary pensioner of the United States.
Hannah her x mark Magoon

Sworn to and subscribed this twenty first day of October A.D. 1853
Before me Horace Lyman Justice of Peace

I, Charles Edward Shiller Deputy Clerk of the Peace for the District of Montreal do hereby
Certify that Horace Lyman Esquire
whose

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whose name is subscribed to the within
deposition is a Justice of the Peace duly appointed in and for the District of Montreal in that part of the Province of Canada heretofore
Lower Canada, and that full faith and credence are due and ought to be given to his
Signature in acts in such Capacity, in all places -
Given under my hand and Office Seal, at Montreal this twenty second day of October 1853
C E [CHARLES EDWAED] Shiller 
Dy'a'K [DEPUTY CLERK OF THE] of the Peace

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Declaration of Alexander Magoon
Transferred to the Pension Office by
request.
Treasury Department
26 Augt. 1853

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R. '25 of Aug [AUGUST] 1833 2075.

For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an act entitled "an act for the relief of certain
soldiers of the time of the Revolution" approved on the 15th of Mar [MARCH] 1828.

Before me David A. Camp one of the Judges of the County Court within and for the County of Orleans in the state of Vermont personally appeared Alexander Magoon of Stanstead in
the province of Lower Canada known to me as a person of good repute and entitled to credit, who first being duly sworn, does on his oath say that early in the spring of 1777 he thinks in April that he volunteered into Capt. [CAPTAIN] Taylors [sic] Company and Col. [COLONEL] Stickneys [sic] Regiment and Gen. [GENERAL] Stark's brigade, of Newhampshire [sic] troops for the term of six months and rendezvoused at Charleston N.H. and staid [STAYED] there two or three weeks and then marched directly to Bennington and was there engaged in the Bennington battle and staid [STAYED] in that vicinity until Gen. Burgoyne was taken when he was discharged and returned home to Moultonborough in the State of N. H. but thinks that he had not a written discharge - In the spring of 1779 he joined the Continental troops at Reading in the State of Connecticut in the Newhampshire [sic] line in Capt. Caleb Robinsons [sic] Company and Col. Reeds [sic] Regiment and Gen. Poors [sic] Brigade by taking the place of his father of the same name who had enlisted for during the war. The present applicant signed at that time an enlistment for during the war and was accepted by the officers in the place of his father who was then discharged. He never received any bounty in lands nor money, nor a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars
as he can recollect. Soon after he joined the army they marched to Westpoint and staid [STAYED] there about three weeks and then marched to Easton in the State of Pennsylvania staid there about a fortnight as he believes
and then marched to Wyoming and then to Tioga and to Skaneateles lake where we had a battle with the indians, [sic] and finally dispersed them. Immediately after the battle he marched to the Genesee River. There Col. Dearborn selected 200 men, none than six feet high and none past 20 years old and the applicant was one. These men made a scout to Lake Erie and were absent from the main army
three weeks and overtook the army before they arrived at Easton in Pennsylvania which was done in the latter part of Oct. Then
the Newhampshire [sic] troops returned to Reading in Conn. and went into winter quarters there and staid [STAYED] all winter. In the spring of 1780, he marched to West Point and from that place was sent on a scout to New York and staid [STAYED] on the White plains there about three weeks and returned to West point and remained there to garrison the
fort until the close of the war. He labored on the fortifications and occasionally scouted in the vicinity during the remainder of the
war. He was discharged by Col. Reed and had a printed discharge

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signed by Gen. [GENERAL] Washington and countersigned by Col. [COLONEL] Reed and by him delivered to the applicant. Gen Poor was killed in a duel at West Point some considerable time before the close of the war. He has never made application for a pension before the present time. He kept his discharge until his house was burnt [BURNED] about 22 years ago when it was burnt [BURNED] therein.
In testimony whereof he has hereunto annexed his signature
Witness my hand this 7th day of March 1833
Alexander Magoon
D M Camp Judge Orleans C. [COUNTY] Court
Before me David M. Camp one of the Judges of the County Court within and for the County of Orleans and State of Vermont personally appeared this day John Sias and Benjamin Hinman both of Derby in said County, persons known to me as credible witnesses who did severally make oath that they have heard
the above named Alexander Magoon occasionally relate his war stories for at least thirty years last past and have never known these stories questioned or disputed-- The said Hinman particularly remembers having heard the story above related by sd [SAID] Magoon about the battle of Bennington related by him 
for thirty years past, and the said Sias remembers having heard both the afsd [AFORESAID] Magoon and his father relate substantially the same story, related above in the foregoing declaration more than thirty years ago and has never known those statements denied or doubted in point of truth and they both believe the statements afsd [AFORESAID] to be true as related by the present applicant who is now before us and we know him to be the same man
Witness my hand this 7th day of March 1833.
John Sias Affiant.
Benj [BENJAMIN] Hinman Affiant.

D M Camp Judge of Orleans Co. [COUNTY] Court.

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Note the Branch Bank of the U.S. most convenient to the claimants [sic] residence is at Burlington in Vermont The most convenient post office for the claimant to receive
his letters is at Derby in Vermont.

I Ira H Allen Clerk of the Court of the County of Orleans in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify that David M. Camp before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavits were sworn was at the time a Judge of said Orleans County Court and duly empowered to
administer oaths, and I believe the signature annexed to the same and purporting to be his to be genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of the said Court
this 8th day of March 1833
Ira H. Allen Clk [CLERK]