Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 18918, Nehemiah Closson, Vt

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CONTENTS

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Let. to Martin Adsit.
("O.C.") Sept. 10, 1840.

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24.561
New York
Nehemiah Closson of Steuben Co in the State of New York who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Paine of the regt - commanded by Col. Wheelock in the Vt. ma. line for 18 mo.
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Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 60 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of Ja'y 1834 and sent to Hon: E. Howell H. Rep'r
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Arrears to the 3th of Sept 1833.      $150.00.
Semi-anl. allowance ending March '34  30.00
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$180.00
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk, 
Book E Vol. 4 Page 94

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514.
Albany, New York
Mary Closson widow of Nehemiah Closson Vt" who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 60 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of June 1848 and sent to Hon. D. Rumsey for H of R
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Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 39 Vol. 4

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Reported

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Nehemiah Closson

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State of New York
Steuben County } SS. - Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace of the said County of Steuben Nehemiah Closson who being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades Viz - For Six months I served as a private in the year 1777 - For Seven months as a private in the year 1779 - and the remainder of that year I was absent on furlough - and for such service I claim a pension - 
/s/Nehemiah Closson
Sworn + subscribed this 29th day of July 1833 before me}
/s/John, R, Stephens J.P.

I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Nehemiah Closson the above named deponents, that he is a respectable and worthy old man, and that his statement is entitled to full credit and belief - 
/s/John, R, Stephens

State of New York
Steuben county ss. 
I William H. Ball Clerk of the county of Steuben do hereby certify that John R Stephens is a magistrate as above duly authorised so to act, and I am well acquainted with his hand writing and truly believe his signature to the above is genuine - Witness my hand and Seal of office this 29. day of August AD 1833
/s/Wm H. Ball

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State of New York
Steuben County} SS. On this sixteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two before the Judges -  - ['judges' crossed out] of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Steuben now sitting personally appeared Nehemiah Closson a resident of the town of Hornellsville in the County of Steuben and State of New York aforesaid aged seventy four years next December 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 1832 - That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers + served as he since stated to wit - In the month of April + on the eighth day of the month he ['entered' crossed out] enlisted in the service of the United States for the term of three years - at the town of Hartford in the County of Windsor in the State of Vermont under the command of Captain Samuel Paine - Lieutenant Eleser (Eleazar) Wheelock and Sergeant Charles Tilden - under the command of Colonel John Wheelock who was the only field officer having command of the corps to which the declarant belonged at the time of his enlistment - That he enlisted on Wednesday and the week following on thursday the Company set out on the march for Kingston in the County of Ulster upon the Hudson river under the command of the orderly sergeant Tilden and that they passed on their march down the Connecticut river as far as the town or Northampton in the State of Massachusetts and thence to the town of

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Salsbury in the State of Connecticut Thence to the town Rhinebeck in the County of ['Duts' crossed out] Dutchess and State of New York + thence crossed the Hudson river to Kingston where they met the Colonel John Wheelock and Captain Samuel Paine - The Lieutenant never joined the company after it arrived at Kingston - A few days after their arrival at Kingston the Company was transferred to the Command of a Captain Shoemaker whose first name the declarant cannot recollect that they were billeted upon the inhabitant of the village of Kinston ['until' crossed out] who used the rations of the troops as a compensation for boarding there - That the Company consisted of about sixty or seventy more enlisted in the State of Vermont with the declarant and about one hundred more who were under the command of Captain Shoemaker when they arrived the Lieutenant under Captain Shoemaker was one Peter Tenbroeck or Tenbrook The names of the other officers of the Company the declarant cannot recollect - He believes they arrived at Kingston some time in the latter part of the month of April but cannot be precise as to the time - After their arrival at Kingston they were regularly mustered + did military duty about that town + its vicinity except that ['they were' crossed out] the declarant together with about thirty others under the command of Sergeant Tilden were detailed some time about the latter part of August or forepart of September as near as be can recollect to escort a ['detachment' crossed out] body of about one hundred British. Prisoners who were said to have been captured from the Army under General Burgoine and were sent to the town of Goshen in the

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County of Orange where the detachment left there + then returned to duty at Kingston That while at Kingston they were principally employed in guarding some British Prisoners confined there Partly in their old hulks, that by ['at' crossed out] the Cooper [illegible] under the guard of a twelve gun sloop and partly in the Gaol at that place - There was also a magasine at that place which they were employed in guarding - That the troops to which declarant belonged continued at Kingston until some time in the month of October following his enlistment when they were discharged by Colonel John Wheelock The declarant cannot state the precise time of his discharge but be distinctly recollects that a few days after they arrived at their house in the town of Hartford where he enlisted and resided at the time of his enlistment he heard of the Capture of the British Army under General Burgoine the declarant was discharged in writing which discharge he kept for many years, and understood at the time that the before various officers Colonel Wheelock Capt Paine + Lieutenant Eleser (Eleazar) Wheelock was not actually commissioned but that they enlisted the troops to which declarant belonged under the understanding that if a sufficient number was raised then they were to be commissioned to the several officers in which they acted But a sufficient umber was not raised owing to the alarm excited by the approach of the Army under General Burgoine to the State of Vermont and for the

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reason that the requisite number of men was not enlisted the officers never were commissioned and the troops were discharged as he has before related - That the declarant was mustered on his arrival at Kingston + drew [illegible] clothing and [illegible] + ammunition which arms were left at the arsenal at that place when he was discharged That he never was during that engagement attached to any other troops or under any other commanding officer than he has before stated 
That he never heard any member attached to the Regiment of Colonel Wheelock but understood it was to be of the Continental line if it was completed -  That he remained at his residence in the said town of Hartford after his discharge as before stated until the first day of April in the year one thousand seven hundred + seventy nine where he enlisted at that place for the term of one year into a company of rangers intended to act as scouts upon the frontier of the State of Vermont under the Command Captain Solomon Cushman Lieutenant Elias Stephens and Lieutenant Moore whos christian name declarant has forgotten Sergeants Morse, Pilaceival (Percival) Baldwin + White Corporals Baldwin, Spalding, Havers + Tilden - That they were not placed under the command of any field officers but were detached to garrison a fort upon White river called Bethel fort in the town of that name - That the Company was first mustered at the mouth of white river + under the command of the Captain and officers marched by the way of Burlington and Manchester and Troy on the Hudson river + there crossed the river + so to Albany where they were reported to General Stark who there commanded at

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that place That they there drew arms + equipage and remained there on duty for some time under the Command of General Stark. That they was encamped in tents on the heights back of the City near the Old stone fort There was there at the same time a Pennsylvania Regiment under the Command of Colonel Alden which lay in the barracks + marched up the Mohawk River before declarant left that place + he does not recollect the names of any other officers of that Regiment or of any field officers then at Albany except General Stark The declarant does not know precisely how long the Company remained at Albany but he thinks about two months 
That they then left Albany + returned by the same route they to Bethel Fort upon the white river + was there stationed during the rest of the season under the Command of the same officers of the Company + no others to declarants knowledge - That besides the garrisoning of the Fort their employment was in scouting parties along the Vermont frontier guarding that frontier - That the declarant continued there until the month of November when the declarant and others of the Company were dismissed to rendevous at the same place at the call of the officers a small part of the Company remained in garrison + the rest with the declarant returned to their homes - That in a few days the declarant was called + went to the fort and was immediately sent out with a scouting party and was out about six days and upon their return were again dismissed as before with directions to hold themselves

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ready at the call of the Officers. That declarant returned to his home at Hartford aforesaid and spent the winter and was not again called out until his term of enlistment had expired That he did not receive any written discharge from his said last engagement but was at home at the time the term of service expired which was for one year - That in the winter following in the latter part of the year 1780 or 1781 in the forepart of the year the Company was again called together at the town of Royalton in the same County of Windsor to receive their pay and were there paid in continental money by the said Captain Cushman all except about fifteen Dollars of Declarant wages was there paid to him by the said Cushman the balance of his wages he never has received - The declarant further says that at the time of his last enlistment he received a bounty of eight Dollars but whether  that enlistment was in the Continental or State service he cannot say He then understood that these companies of rangers as they were called of which Captain Cushmans Company was one were raised and employed in the defence of the State of Vermont which was all the information he had upon the subject - During the time of his last service he was engaged in one skirmish with a body of Indians + tories about twelve or fourteen miles to the third branch of white river - The Company to which declarant belonged together with several companies of Militia were then under the Command of Colonel John House The Party of Indians and tories before mentioned had made an incursion into that part of the State of Vermont and

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[illegible] the town or Royalton. The troops of Colonel House collected and pursued after the retreating enemy + overtook them at the place, before mentioned the skirmish took place first at dusk and in the darkness of the night, the enemy made their escape. Declarant  was not in any battle or engagement except the one above mentioned during his service - When declarant was discharged from his first engagement at Kingston by Colonel Wheelock he was then paid off by him and signed a payroll according to his best recollection and belief This declarant saith that he was born, as he has been informed in the family of his Parents, and believes to be true on the thirteenth day of December in the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty eight at the Town of Lebanon in the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut That he has no correct Record of his age, this age together with that of the rest of the family of his Father was written in the Bible and kept in the family until by great length of time + use it has been entirely destroyed + lost - When called into the service he lived in the town of Hartford in the County of Windsor + State of Vermont as he has herein before stated - After the Revolutionary war for several years he continued to reside in the said town of Hartford. From thence he removed about fifty years ago to the now town of Hillsdale in the County of Columbia in the State of New York - Twenty two years ago he removed from that town then called Nobletown to the town of Canisteo in the County of Steuben in the same State and about two years ago he removed to the town of Hornellesville in the County last mentioned where he now resides

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That he was called into the service by enlistment in the manner he has before particularly set forth - That he cannot state the names of any other Officers of the Regular troops when he served than he has before done that is General Steele - Colonel Alden, Colonel Wheelock Captain Paine, Captain Shoemaker Lieutenant Tenbrook, Lieutenant Wheelock. Captain Cushman, Lieutenants Stephens + Moore and Colonel House (who had belonged to the Regular service) are all that he now recollects nor can he state whether all them belonged to the regular army or not - That he does not recollect serving with any continental or militia troops except those under the Command of Captain Shoemaker + Colonel Alden at Albany + Colonel House at the skirmish in Vermont as he has before stated - 
That he has stated the circumstances of his services as particularly as he can recollect them except that he was several times called out as a militiaman upon sudden alarms but never was out more than two or three days ['but' crossed out] and he cannot state those last mentioned services particularly- He was once called to Newbury in Vermont another time to Barnard in the same state upon false alarms and at several other times he was out upon scouting party He exposed situation of the State of Vermont kept the inhabitants in constant acquisition + alarm ready at all times to turn out for the defence of the State + calls were frequently made upon the whole militia of a district to repel a supposed or real invader
That he received a discharge from the service at the first term of his enlistment given by

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Colonel John Wheelock which was many years after lost or destroyed Declarant cannot tell which. He considered it useless after some time + did not take particular care of it - Major Thomas Bennet and Colonel Ira Davenport + Thomas Reynolds are no person residing in declarants present neighborhood who can testify to his character + veracity for truth and that their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution - The Declarant hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of any Agency or State - The declarant further states that he has no Documentary evidence nor does he know of any person whose testimony he can procure who can prove his services
/s/X his mark Nehemiah Closson

Sworn to + subscribed the day + year aforesaid.
/s/M L Rumsey Dep Clk
Steuben County 

We Thomas Bennet and Thomas  J Reynolds ----of Hornellesville in the County of Steuben hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Nehemiah Closson who has subscribed + sworn to the above declaration That we believe him to be seventy four years of age That he is reputed + believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
/s/Thomas Bennet
/s/Thomas J Reynolds
Sworn + subscribed the day + year aforesaid 
/s/ M L./ Rumsey Dep Clk
Steuben County

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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Thomas Bennet and Thomas J. Reynolds - who have signed the preceeding certificates are residents of the town of Hornellsville are credible persons + their statements are entitled to credit 
/s/ Geo C. Edwards
/s/John Cooper Jr
/s/Ezra Chapin}Judges - 
I David Rumsey clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Steuben in the State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Nehemiah Closson for a Pension 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this sixteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred + thirty two - 
/s/M. L. Rumsey Dep Clk
Steuben County

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23393
In the Matter of the application of Nehemiah Closson for a Pension - 
Declaration - 

I certify that the written papers passed through the hand of the Clerk in the same state they now are - Jany 3rd 1834
/s/FW Well
M Congress

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State of New York
Steuben County } ss.
On the second of July one thousand eight hundred and forty personally appeared before the subscribed a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid Mary Closson a resident of the town of Hornellsville in the County of Steuben aged Seventy four 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 Closson who was a private in the war of the Revolution that he lived in the State of Vermont at the time he entered the service she further declares that she was married to the said Nehemiah Closson on the Thirteenth day of July one thousand seven hundred and eighty three at Nobletown Columbia County New York by the Rev'd D. Deliverence Smith a Presbyterian Clergyman That her husband the aforesaid Nehemiah Closson died on the Sixteenth day of April of thousand eight hundred and thirty nine. 
That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January one thousand and seven hundred and ninety four namely at the time above stated. That the said Nehemiah Closson was a pensioner under the Act of the 7th day of June 1832 and that his pension certificate is numbered 24561 and dated the fourteenth day of Jany 1834. That she has no record proof of the marriage except the family record a copy which is hereunto annexed - /s/X her mark Mary Closson 
Sworn and Subscribed om the day and year above written before me} 
/s/Otis Thatcher Judge Steuben Com. Pleas

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Nehemiah Closson and Mary Crossman were married July 13th 1783.
I certify that the above is a true copy from the family record produced and sworn to by the within named Mary Closson and that I am satisfied that it is the original family record - I further certify that Mary Closson says that she cannot attend court without great personal inconvenience that she does not feel able to sustain the fatigue of the journey living over 20 miles from the County Seat and over a rough mountainous road 
I further certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Mary Closson and that full faith and credit should be given to her statement - Dated July 2d 1840 - 
/s/Otis Thatcher Judge Steuben Com. Pleas

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State of New York
County of Steuben} ss
Squier Pixley of Howard in the County of Steuben being duly sworn deposeth + says that he is seventy seven years old. That he resided in Egremont Berkshire County Massachusetts joining Nobletown Columbia County New York in the year 1783 and was personally acquainted with Nehemiah Closson that he lived about 3 or 4 miles from him that it was generally reported and believed that he was married to Mary Crossman during the summer of said year that he was not present at the marriage but was well acquainted with them after marriage that they lived together and had a family of children and that both families afterwards moved to the County of Steuben and that his acquaintance continued with the said Closson up to the time of his death in 1839
/s/Squier Pixley
Sworn and subscribed this 2d day of July 1840 before me}
/s/Otis Thatcher Judge Steuben Com. Pleas
I certify that I am personally acquainted with Squier Pixley above named and that full faith and credit should be given to his Statement
/s/Otis Thatcher 
Judge Steuben Com. Pleas

State of New York
Steuben County ss} 
[court seal affixed] I. William Hamilton Clerk of the said County, Do Certify that Otis Thatcher Esquire, before whom the preceeding Affidavits purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same, One of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the

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the said County, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said Affidavits and Certificates to be his proper hand writing and signature.
Witness my hand and seal of Office this Fourth day of July 1840. 
/s/Wm. Hamilton Clerk

7208
Mary Closson 
NY 
July 7 1838
m. 83.d '34 - 

adm'd 
18 mo pri
$60

Mess'r A. & J. E. Kendall 
present
Martin Adsit
Hornellsville
N York 
July 11. 1840

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FAMILY RECORD.

MARRIAGES

Nehemiah Closson & Marry Crossman were married July 13th, 1783

William Closson & Lovisia Piseley were married Jan 4th, 1809

John Closson & Eliza Beach were married Jan 30th, 1811

James Root & Gosie Closson were married Nov 16th, 1812

Luman Hamilton & Lydia Closson were married March 19th, 1815

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FAMILY RECORD.

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[first column] BIRTHS.

Nehemiah Closson Born Dec 13th 1738

Mary Crossman Born July 14th 1765

William Closson Born August 4th 1784

John Closson Born Jan 2nd 1787

Gosie Closson Born April 17th 1789

David Closson Born August 17th 1791

Cornelia Closson Born Dec 27th 1793

Lydia Closson Born April 12th 1796

Henry Closson Born June 30th 1798

Clarissa Closson Born Aug 24th 1800

[Second Column] BIRTHS.

Maria Closson Born April 20th 1803

Hannah Closson Born July 1st 1805

Polly Closson Born March 9th 1808

Nancy S Closson was Born Nov the 12 1818

[faintly written in pencil] Angelina [illegible] was born [illegible]

Clarrissa Clark Born Dec the 24, 1825

Charles A. Clark Born March 11 the [pen smear] 1829

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Jeremiah Closson Afft.
Steuben Co N York 
Done
23.393

C.L.M.

on rolls of Capt Cushman
12 months
Admitted
Private 18 months

Hon. E. Howell

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WAR DEPARTMENT, Pension Office, 183

Sir:
The evidence  in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the p apers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, sent this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A Statement, shewing the Service of Jeremiah Closson
[column headings: Period when the service was rendered.|Duration of the claimant's service(Years.|Months.|Days.)|Rank of the claimant|Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served.|names and Rank of the General and Field Officers.|Battles in which the applicant was engaged.|County through which he marched.|Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period.|Evidence by which the declaration is supported.|]
3d April 77|([blank]|6|[blank])|Private|Capt Saml Paine|Col'n Wheelock|[blank]|March to Northampton|74 Years Windsor Co.|Trecutting|
Transfer'd|([blank]|[blank]|[blank])|[blank]|Capt Shoemaker|Col'n Alden|[blank]|in Mass'ts from|Vermont|[blank]|
1779-|(+1|7| - )| " |Capt Solomon Cushman|Gl Stark|[blank]|thence to Connecticut thence to|[blank]|
Winter 1780 or 1781|([blank]|[blank]|[blank])| " |[blank]|Colo Morse|[blank]|Kingston/Station at Fort Bethel|[blank]|[blank]|
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I am, respectfully Your obedient servant, 
J. L. EDWARDS, Commissioner of Pensions.

See Roll of Capt Cushman - Vol 43 Blue Book

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832. 

The following regulations have been adopted: This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line,' State troops," " militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits et the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service. 
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law: 
1. The Regular Troops. 
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers. 
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service. 
4. Indian Spies. 
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record. 
DECLARATION, 
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832. 
State, Territory, or District of} County of} ss. 
On this [blank] day of [blank] personally appeared (a) before [blank] A. B. a resident (b) of [blank] in the county of [blank] and State, Territory or District of [blank] aged (c) [blank] years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) [blank], with [blank] and served in the [blank] (e) regiment of the [blank] line, under the following named officers : 
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service ; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers ;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. ⇒This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.] He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of [blank] 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. [blank] A. B. 
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.] 
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. 
I [blank] of the Court of [blank] do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of [blank] for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this [blank] day of [blank] &c. 
If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out. 
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz: 
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the [blank] and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with [blank] , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be [blank] years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid. 
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.] 
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a RevoIutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the [blank] and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the [blank] and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
I, [blank] Clerk of the Court of [blank] do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the applicacation of [blank] for a pension. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal [blank] of office, this [blank] day of [blank]&c. 
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction. 
It such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration,(l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person

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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be
attempted ; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute: And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6.{To a Soldier. {Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
{To an Officer.{Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons-one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from
their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct
proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the, declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties. which the Court is herein requested to perform;
and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.

[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he most assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making au affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith. that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below. and in the following grades:- For ____ year ____months, and ____days, I served as a ____ . For ____ months and ____days, I served as a ____; and for such service I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held; as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of service. The use of the phrase [in italics: about three or four months], is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers, the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or place where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit. [margin note: afft supplied]
[f]The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion or the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if he has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate. [margin note: but is added]

Proof of Service.
[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
⇒The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule [j] applies to continental troops only.
[k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration. [margin note: All done in the body of the declaration - ]

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18918 - wid
Nehemiah Closson
Oct. 16-1832
Hornellsville, NY. 74
apl 8.77 - Hartford Oh
Capt. Samuel Paine
Col Jno. Wheelock
Pvt 6 mos
apl 1.79
Apl Solomon Cushman col - 
Pvt 7 mos
No Bar
married Mary Crossman
July 13, 1783. at Nobletown NY
Died Apl. 16. 1839
No fam hist
Wid Ctf ['8129' crossed out] 514
Act Feby. 9, 48 - Iss'd
June 27, 48. Albany ctg

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[handwritten letter]

Canisteo, N.Y, Jan 1,1901.

Clerk of the Pension Bureau,
Department of Interior,
Washington, D.C.

Will you kindly furnish me a copy of the record of service on file in your office of William Root pensioner of the War of the Revolution?
He was a native of Massachusetts and later a resident of Greene County, New York, where he died.
Also a copy of the record of service of Nehemiah Closson pensioner of the War of the Revolution. He resided at Hornellsville, New York and received his pension there.
Respectfully,
/s/Grace M. Pierce

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18918
Rev WIDOW, &c.
______
File No. 18918
Mary Closson Wid of Nehemiah Closson
Priv Rev War
______
Act: Feb. 2nd /48
Index: - Vol. A, Page 138
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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7208 
N.Y. suspended
Let. to Martin Adsit
Aug't 24th; 1840
To same Sept. 10, 1840'
same apl 28 1843, to Same July 31, 43
Act 7. July 38

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[verso]
Repl.
Let to Wm Amos Kendall
Sept 23. '45

[recto]
6180
Albany, N. York
Mary Closson widow of Nehemiah Closson who was a Private in the Revolution
______
Inscribed on the Roll at the  rate of 60 Dollars --- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24. day of Sept. 1866 and sent to J. K. Kane Hornellsville, N. York

[Act of March 3, 1842.] + June 17. 1844.
Recorded in Book A. Vol. 2. Page 73.

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[verso]
8129
Albany N.Y.
Mary Closson widow of Nehemiah Closson who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 16 Apl. 1839 of Steuben Co. in the State of New York who was a Pri in the Compy. commanded by Captain Paine of the Reg commanded by Col. Wheelock in the ['Virginia' crossed out] Vt line for 18 months
______
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany N.Y. at the rate of 60 Dollars --- Cents per annum, to commence o the 4th day of March, 1836.
______
Certificate of Pension issued the 22nd day of Feby. 1844 and sent to Mess'r A + J E Kendall Present
______
Whole amount due . . . . $300.00
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by F. L. Swann Clerk.
Book d., Vol A Page 151.

[recto]
Rep Feb 22 1844

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DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of 2d February, 1848, entitled "An Act making further provision for surviving widows of the soldiers of the Revolution.

STATE OF New York
Steuben COUNTY. } ss.
On this 24th day of May 1848 personally appeared before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said county, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, Mrs. Mary Closson, a resident of Hornellsville, in the county of Steuben State of New York, aged 83 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 the 2d February, 1848, granting pensions to the widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war; that she is the widow of Nehemiah Closson, who was a Private of Militia, in the war of the Revolution, and that she has drawn a pension at the rate of Sixty dollars ---- cents, per annum, under the Act of 17th June, 1844. She further declares that she is still a widow. 
/s/X her mark Mary Closson
In the presence of [illegible] Stephens
N'iel Finch

SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED on the day and year above written, before 
N'iel Finch Justice of the Peace.
I certify that the declarant is personally known to me, and that she is the same individual she represents herself to be in the foregoing affidavit.
/s/N'iel Finch Justice of the Peace.

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Ho Reps June 23, 1848

I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with N. Finch before whom the written declaration purports to have been sworn to + know that he is a Justice of the peace of the town of Hornellsville in the County of Steuben and State of New York I am also acquainted with the hand writing of said Finch and verily believe his signatures to the written declaration and certificate are genuine - 
D. Rumsey Jr.
M C from NYork

admitted
Hon. D. Rumsey Jr.
H of R

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[addressed envelope]

Aug 25. 1845.
Addl tes case
Mary Closson 

2

J L. Edwards Esgr
Comr of Pensions

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[handwritten letter]
Washington August 23d 1843

Dear Sir,

Will you please examine the inclosed letter from the Secretary of the State of Vermont in relation to the claim of Mrs Mary Closson, to a pension, an account of the services of Capt Saml Payne in the war of the revolution, and see if this additional testimony is of any account in satisfying your minds in relation to her right

Very respectfully
Your Obt Servt 
/s/John E Rendall 

For Amos Rendall

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[addressed envelope]
[postmark: MONTPELIER Vt. AUG 15]

10

Messrs A. + J. E. Kendall
Washington City

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Secy of State's Office, Vermont
Montpelier Aug. 14th 1845

Messrs A. & J.E. Kendall,
Gentlemen,
In Dec. 1843 I received a letter from you wishing proof fr. this office. in case of Mrs Mary Closson - that Capt Saml Payne had a corps in 1777 duly commissioned; I then found no proof. I have since that time spent a large portion of time in perfecting the copies & index made by my predecessors & in examining the Revolutionary papers and in all cases when I find more proof I deem it my duty to write to inform of the fact. 
I find an account v the State in favor of Samuel Paine, dated Aug. 1778 - "to going on express to the Northern Army & scouting by order of the Comtee. of Safety 42 days & found myself the whole of the time except 16 days [British Pounds] 12.12.0:" and on so acct it is certified by Jacob Bayley Brig. Genl. & Chairman of Comtee. of Safety, "that Capt Samuel Payne did perform the above service, and was an officer of great service, not only in the above but at many other times on the grants & has rec'd no pay."  Said account was duly paid. 
You did not give the name of Mary Closson's husband.

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Although I suppose this will not answer your purpose, yet it is deemed safer to inform you.
Respectfully,
[signed] F.F. Merrill
Depy. Secy. State

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[addressed envelope]
6446
Sept 13 '44
Hornellsville 
Sept 2
NY
Mar 3 1843
Mary Closson
acts '43 & '44
140
$60 per annum

NY Free
J. K. Kane
Hornellsville N.York - 
J. L. Edwards
Comr. of Pensions
Washington D.C.

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[handwritten letter]

Hornellsville Steuben Co N.Y. Sept. 2d 1844

J. L. Edwards Esq
Dear Sir.
Enclosed I forward to you the declaration of Mary Closson a pensioner of the U. S. for a pension under act of Congress 3 March 1843

Yours with respect
/s/J.K. Hale

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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of the 3d March 1843 granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the act of July 7th 1838

State of New York
Steuben County} S.S.
On this nineteenth day of August A.D. 1844 personally appeared before me Nathaniel Finch one of the Justices of the peace of this county aforesaid Mary Closson - a resident of the town of Hornellsville in the said county of Steuben aged seventy nine - years who being by me 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 on the 3d of March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Nehemiah Closson who was a private in the army of the revolution that the declarant does not recollect the regiment corps or company in which he served that the annual amount of pension she received under the act of July 7th 1838 is sixty dollars - per annum. She further declares that she is still a widow 
Mary Closson her X mark
Sworn to and subscribed on this day and year above written before me
[signed] N. Finch Justice

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I certify that the above declarant is personally known to me. dated August 13th 1844
/s/N'iel Finch Justice of the Peace

State of New York
County of Steuben} ss I William Hamilton Clerk of the said county of Steuben, do hereby certify that Nathaniel Finch was on the date of the above jurat and certificate a justice of the peace in and for the said county duly appointed and qualified, and that the signatures above purporting to be his are genuine.
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this 26th day of August 1844
/s/Wm Hamilton Clerk

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[handwritten letter]
Secretary of State's Office
Vermont

Montpelier Dec. 11. 1843.

Messrs A. + J.E. Kendall, 

Gentlemen, 
Your letter, forwarded for Hon. Mr. Dillingham, relative to Capt. Saml Payne, was duly received; and in compliance with the request of Mr. Dillingham, I have deviated from the rule of this office, acquiring payment in advance for every examination, and have made the requisite search. I find nothing among the Pay Rolls concerning Capt Payne, except an account dated Aug. 1778. against this State, for going on express to the northern army &c. 42 days, which act. is certified by J. Bailey Brig. Gen. + Chairman of Com'tee of Safety, in which certificate Gen. Bailey certifies that Capt Samuel Payne did perform said service, and was an officer of great service, not only in the above, but at many other times on the grants "&c. - 
Mr. Edwards, Com'r of Pensions, remarks in the letter a copy of which is before me, that "if such service was authorised and rendered, the records of the office of the Secretary of the State with verify it." This is not precisely true, inasmuch as the Pay Rolls & Rev. Papers in this office are not supposed to be fully complete. -

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[handwritten letter]

Should a certificate of either of these facts be available to you, I will forward it to you on receiving $2. post. paid.
No letter has been received by this Office from Mr. Adsit on the s'd subject.
Respectfully 
/s/F. F. Merrill
Dep Secy of State

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free
Edwards Esq
Commissioner Pension,
Washington City

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June 19 1843 NY.
Hornellsville
N.Y. June 13}
M. Closson

J. L.

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[handwritten letter]

Hornellsville June 13th 1843.
J. L. Edwards Esqr

D'r Sir
Enclosed is a new declaration of Mrs. Mary Closson I suppose it will not be necessary for her to get new affidavit to her marriage and forwarded three to ['the' crossed out] you some three years ago together with the original family record showing beyond all doubt the time when + place where her marriage took place. I hope these affidavits will not be required again for the reason that two of the witnesses reside some one Hundred + fifty miles from here and it will be attended with a good deal of trouble and expense to obtain them again should the witnesses still be living + reside where they then did
The old lady is quite infirm and very needy these if no likelyhood of her troubling the War Department long should she obtain a pension of which I think there is not doubt.
I hope the evidence will be satisfactory and that a certificate may be forwarded to her or me as soon

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[handwritten letter]

as her case can be examined
Mrs. Cloey Harding drew a pension under the Act of 1838 - Her certificate was returned to the pension office - what is necessary to place her again on the roll under the late law - Your early answer will much oblige
Your most obt servt
/s/Martin Adsit

JL Edwards Esq
Com Pensions &c -

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[handwritten letter]

as her case can be examined
Mrs. Cloey Harding drew a pension under the Act of 1838 - Her certificate was returned to the pension office - what is necessary to place her again on the roll under the late law - Your early answer will much oblige
Your most obt servt
/s/Martin Adsit

JL Edwards Esq
Com Pensions &c -

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State of New York
Steuben County ss} On this third day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three personally appeared before the subscriber of the town of Hornellsville in the County aforesaid and one of the Judges of the County Courts of said County Mary Closson a resident of the said town of Hornellsville in the County of Steuben aged seventy seven years ten months and twenty days who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." - 
That she is the widow of Nehemiah Closson who was a private in the army of the revolution and a pensioner of the United States under the law of the United States passed the 7th of June 1832 and whose certificate is as follows "War Department. Revolutionary Claim. I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June 1832. Nehemiah Closson of the State of New York who was a private in the revolutionary war is entitled to receive sixty dollars an --- cents per annum during his natural life commencing om the 4th of March 1831 and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September in every year. Given at the war office of the United States this fourteenth day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty four - 
/s/Lewis Cass
Secretary of war
[seal: L. S.]
examined and Countersigned} 
J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions}
She further declares that she was married to the said Nehemiah Closson, o the 13th day of July in the year seventeen hundred and eight three

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that she was married to him prior to his leaving the service, but that the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz at this time above stated
/s/X her mark Mary Closson

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me
/s/Otis Thatcher Judge Steuben County Court

And I the said Otis Thatcher do certify that the above named Mary Closson owing to age and bodily infirmity cannot attend at a court of record of the County of Steuben in order to make the above declaration.
/s/Otis Thatcher Judge &c.

State of New York
Steuben County ss} I, William Hamilton Clerk of the said County do Certify that Otis Thatcher Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit purports to have been Sworn, was at the date of the same One of the Judges of the Count of Com: Pleas in and for the said County, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name Subscribed to the said affidavit and also to the above Certificate to be his proper hand writing, and Signatures. Witness my hand Seal of Office, this 10th day of June 1843
/s/Wm Hamilton Clerk

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[addressed envelope]
Aol 28. 1843
Mrs. Closson
req'd 1838 N.Y. 

Hornellsville
N.Y. Apl 22  Free

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

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[handwritten letter]

Hornellsville April 21st 1843

J.L. Edwards Esqr

Dear sir
Some two or three years ago I made application for a pension for Mrs. Closson widow of Nehemiah Closson under the act of July 1838. I forwarded to you the necessary affidavits proving her marriage, a leaf from the family Bible containing the original record of the marriage &c.&c. - The application was then denied o account of Mr. Closson decease being subsequent to the passage of said act of July 1838 - he having died in April 1839 - 
Will you please inform me if there is any modification of the several pension laws that will allow the old Lady a pension at this time your reply much oblige her - she is very needy and a pension would be of great service to her could she obtain it
I am very Respectfully
Your obt servt
/s/Martin Adsit

J. L. Edwards Esq
Com Pensions
&c &c -

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[addressed envelope]

mss. Sept 7 1840
add proof Mary Closson, 

Hornellsville NY Sept 1 } Free

James L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

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[handwritten letter]

Hornellsville Augt 31st 1840

J. L. Edwards, Esqr
I enclose as directed the leaf from Mrs. Mary Closson's Bible on which is the original record of her Marriage. The old lady parted with it with a great deal of reluctance I told her I would ask you to return it after you had examined it to your satisfaction
She is very anxious that it should be returned if possible for it to be
Respectfully Yours
/s/Martin Adsit

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State of New York
Chenango County ss} Abel Hacket of the Town of Oxford being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he was present at the marriage of Nehemiah Closson + Mary Crossman some time in July in the year 1783 that they were married at Nobletown Columbus County New York by the Rev'd Deliverence Smith a Presbyterian Clergyman that they lived together and has a family of children near me + afterward, removed to the western part of the State
/s/Abel Hacket
Sworn + subscribed to this 11th day of June, 1840 before me
/s/Uri Tracy Justice of the Peace

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State of New York, Chenango County Clerk's Office, SS.
I, ALFRED PURDY, Clerk of the County of Chenango, and of the County Courts of said County, do hereby CERTIFY, that Uri Tracy, Esq., whose name is subscribed to the annexed, or foregoing [illegible] was on the Eleventh day of June 1840 a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly qualified, and that full faith and credit are to be given to his official acts, as such; and further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Uri Tracy and verily believe that the signature to the annexed Certificate is genuine. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the SEAL of the said County, the fifteenth day of June 1840
A. Purdy Clerk

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State of New York
Chenango County ss} Josiah Hacket of the Town of Oxford aged Eight Two Years being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was present at the marriage of Nehemiah Closson + Mary Crossman Some time in the month of July in the year 1783 that they were married at Nobletown Columbia County State of New York by the Rev'd Mr Smith a Presbyterian clergyman that they lived together and had a family of children of Five or six who I was well acquainted with + recollect distinctly of their being a very heavy thunder shower the day of their marriage + that they after I removed from Nobletown removed to the western point of the state. + further saith not
/s/Josiah Hacket
Sworn + Subscribed to this 1oth day of June 1840. before me
/s/Charles Squires a Justice of the Peace in + for Chenango Co.

I hereby certify that I am acquainted with the above named Josiah Hacket that he is a man of good character and that full truth faith + credit should be given to his statement
Dated [illegible] June 10. 1840
/s/Charles Squires J.P.

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State of New York, Chenango County Clerk's Office, SS.
I, ALFRED PURDY, Clerk of the County of Chenango, and of the County Courts of said County, do hereby CERTIFY, that Charles Squires Esq., whose name is subscribed to the annexed, or foregoing Certificate was on the tenth day of June 1840 a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly qualified, and that full faith and credit are to be given to his official acts, as such; and further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Charles Squires and verily believe that the signature to the annexed Certificate is genuine. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the SEAL of the said County, the fifteenth day of June 1840
A. Purdy, Clerk