Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15362, Nathaniel Call, N. H.

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(3-1776)
service    number
N.H.   Call, Nathaniel  S.15362

carded

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Vermont
N0 284[23]
[Nat]haniel Call
Lower Canada
who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Monroe of the Regt commanded by Col Dearborn in the N Ham line for 13 months
Ctf 28,423

Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont nat the rate of 43 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 2d day of Sept 1834 and [sent to] Tim. Hinman in D. [Vermont?] Joseph Cochran Jr. Esq New Boston N.H.

Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1834 - -  129.?9
Semi-anl. allowance ending Mar 4 - 21.?6
[total] $151.65

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by R. Burdine Clerk
Book E  Vol. 3  Page 58

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Declaration of
Nathaniel Call

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State of Vermont
Orleans District}  On this 22nd day of May 1834 personally appeared Nathaniel Call of Stukely in the Province of Lower Canada, before the Hon. Probate court holden at Barton within and for the District of Orleans, aged 69 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 7 1832. That he enlisted into the army of the United States in the fore part of March but cannot remember the day in the year 1782 for the term of three years and joined Capt. Monroe's Company & Col Dearborn's Regiment of the New Hampshire line and was mustered the fore part of April of the same year at Amherst N. H. by Capt. Monroe and at the time of mustering afs'd Capt. Monroe entered his name by his direction as one enlisted for during the war and soon after he marched to Saratoga in the State of New York and there joined the army and remained there & was passing up and down the river Hudson on various scouts in the vicinity until the close of the war in the month of June in the following year when he and the other during the war men were discharged which discharge has been lost. The day of enlistment and discharge he cannot remember but is certain that he did not serve up than fifteen months as a private in said Company. He resided in Andover N.H. when he entered the service and has lived since the war in the same town and removed to Danville Vt. and from there to the town above mentioned where he now resides. He was born is Salisbury N.H. June 28 1764 and does not know of any record of his age. He hereby relinquishes all claim to a pension except for the present and declares that his name is not on the pension list roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Nathaniel Call

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 revolutionarySoldier and Served as he states.
I John H. Kimball Register of the Probate court for the district of Orleans aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Nathaniel Call for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 22nd day of May 1834
John H. Kimball Register
[seal]

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Rec 5 Oct. 1832
State of Vermont 
Orleans District ss⎬  At a Probate Court holden at Barton within and for the County of Orleans aforesaid on this 3d day of September 1832 Elisabeth Newton of Barton in said County appears and makes her certificate which is in the words following --
I Elisabeth Newton do certify that during the War of the Revolution I was living in the Town of Andover in the State of Newhampshire that I lived a near nighbour [neighbor] to the family of Stephen Call who died in the war at Ticonderoga in the year 1777 or 1778  that his son Nathaniel Call who now resides at Stukley in the Province of Lower Canada was living at the time [of] the Revolution at said Andover with his Fathers family and assisted in carrying on the farm left by his Father until the winter of 1781 or 1782 when he (as the common report was) enlisted for during the war and immediately left home (as was said) to Join the Army and I well recollect that soon after the news of Peace he arrived home which was in the summer of 1783 and I well recollect seeing him with his Gun and equipments and dressed in his Regimentals
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
[signed] Elisabeth Newton

and the Court do certify that Elisabeth Newton who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing certificate is a credible person and that her statement is entitled to credit
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 3d day of September 1832
[signed] John Kimball Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Orleans aforesaid

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P
15362
INVALID.
File No. 15.362
Nathaniel Call
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7" 32
Index: -- Vol. 1, Page 62
[in brackets] Arrangement of 1870.

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Rec'd 8 May 1830
This may certify that I the subscriber after the close of the revolutionary war received a Certificate for eighty Dollars as a reward for my services as a during the war man which claim I disposed of to a man by the name of Gale and was by him cheated out of it the pay was drawn from Maj. Morrill the paymaster of such claim
[signed] Nathaniel Call

State of Vermont 
Orleans County ss} Derby December 28th 1829 then the above Certificate of Nathaniel Call Subscribed and Sworn to before me
[signed] Timo Hinman Justice of Peace

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addl. evidence for Nathaniel Call of Vermont
31 May 1834

[lower left]
Admit as [private?]
13 mo $43.33


Revolutionary Claim}
Free
Derby Vt 26 May}
Hon. Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington City

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Derby My 28 1834
Sir, Your letter of the 18th inst has come to hand and in pursuance of an intimation there given. I herein enclose a declaration of Nathaniel Call under the act of 7 June 1832 and in support of the claim refer you to the evidence already on file in the pension office. Please give me an early report of the result of the investigation and oblige
Your obt servt
[signed] Timo. Hinman

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Derby Vt.
20 Aug.
Revolutionary Claim
Free
Honbl Lewis Cass Secretary of War
City of Washington
District of Columbia
Suspended

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Derby August 19th 1833
Honbl J. L. Edwards
Sir there is a person by the Name of Nathaniel Call who who [sic] several years has been appying [applying] to the Secretary of the Treasury for a Pension under the act of 15th of May 1822 but has not produced support proof therefore I have wrote to the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer the claim to the War department
if his Calls name was not found on the Rool if the Rolls of the Regiment in which Call stated that he served was entire if transfered youl please to act on the same and make report and oblige
Your obedient Servt
[signed] Timo Hinman

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30,389
add evidence
Nathaniel Call
Transferred to the Pension Office by request
Treasury Department
26 Augt. 1833

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Re'5 Oct. 1832.
5048
Derby Sept. 25, 1832.
Sir, herein enclosed is an affidavit to be used in the case of Nathaniel Call.  if any further evidence should be required, it would be esteemed a favor to be informed by you of the names and residences of the officers and soldiers now living who served with him in the same company or Regt who would be likely to know the terms of his enlistment
You are apprised of course of these facts if any applications have been made by persons who served with him.  All communications should be directed to him at Derby Vt. instead of his place of residence in Canada
Respectfully yours
[signed] Timo Hinman

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Derby Vt.
27 Sept,
Free
Hon. Louis McLane
Secretary of the U.S. Treasury
Washington City

Revolutionary Claim }

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Revolutionary Claims
Free
Derby Vt.
Feb. 26,

Honbl Samuel D. Ingham
Secretary of the Treasury of the U.S. States
City of Washington
District of Columbia

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Rec 8 March 1830
1470
Derby Feby 22nd 1830
Honbl. Samuel D. Ingham 
Secretary of the Treasury of the United States
Sir I here inclose the Deposition of Nehemiah Philips and the affidavit of Levi Lufkin to Substantiate the claim of Nathaniel Call which is hoped will be satisfactory  Mr Lufkin gave his affidavit before but at that time it not thought necessary that subscribers should be stated as your predecessor (Richard Rush) onely required the witnesses to swear that the applicant had served as in his declaration was stated, as was generally reputed and believed that the applicant had served as he stated,  you in former communications refer to the records of the States in which the person applying served but I have not found records.  there is the Claim of Aron Parker Simon Clough who are in persuit of evidence and if consistant with the rules of your Office please to [paid?] out the evidence that will be requisite to substantiate claimes  your information will be cordially received
I thank you for the Blaks for. Jose Page Jonah Pratt & Silas Fox you there stated that if their writings were executed before the same Justice they ned not have the certificate of the County Clark to the signature of the Justice before whom the writing were executed,
I shall advise Aaron Parker Simon Clough Nathaniel Call as I believe they will [?] if they can demonstrate the fact 
please to accept of the respect of your Obedient Servt 
[signed] Timo Hinman
NB please to write and let these [tortering?] monuments of the revolutionary War know there fate

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Recd 8 May1830  
1844?
Derby April 29th 1830
Honbl. Saml D. Ingham
Sir  I here enclose the affidavit of Mr Levi Lufkin.  I have not got the County Clerks Certificate But as I have forwarded two affidavits from the same person  I thought it would not be necessary
the first New Hampshire Regiment that is stated in Lufkins affidavit was before Colo. H Dearborn commanded commanded [sic] by Col Scammel I expect that if the records at the War office are entire you will find the Name of Nathaniel Call which will be satisfactory. (this applicant is old and poor,) and if he can demonstrate his servis [service] it would help him in his old age yet if he cannot prove his servis he has no claim, there is several applications to me to forward for Revolutionary servis but I have not forwarded them expecting that  Congress would pass [?] Law for the Benefit  of the Revolutionary Soldiers.  I here inclose a [illegible] of Mr Call concerning his [commutation?] certificate. 
please to accept the respect of your obedient servt 
[signed] Timo. Hinman

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Derby Vt
30 April
Free
Revolutionary Claims

Honbl. Saml. D. Ingham Secretary
of the Treasury of the United States
City of Washington
District of Columbia

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State of Vermont 
Orleans County ss } Be It known that before me Timo. Hinman a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Orleans aforesaid personally appeared Levi Lufkin of Derby in the County aforesaid, and being sworn according to Law made oath that he was well acquainted with Nathaniel Call who has heretofore applied to him the said Lufkin for his affidavit from the month of April or May 1782 untill the close of the war and that he was in Capt James Monroes Company of Infantry in the first New Hampshiers [sic] Regiment commanded first by Henry Dearborn but at the close of the War by Col G Reed and that he ever understood that said Nathaniel Call enlisted for and during the War, and that the said Call was Discharged the forepart of June 1783 at Fishkill in the State of New York (honourable Discharged) and had the honour of receiving his arms and accouterments & further saith not
[signed] Levi Lufkin
The foregoing affidavit of Levi Lufkin Sworn and Subscribed this 27th day of April 1830 Before me
[signed] Timo. Hinman Jus of Pence

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Timothy Hariman Esq
Derby
Vermont

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I William Ash of Franklin in the County of Merrimack in the State of New Hampshire aged seventy three years depose and say that I enlisted as a private in the Revolutionary war in the year 1780 for the term of three years and faithfully served untill I was a discharged at Newburgh in 1783
When I enlisted I belonged to Andover New Hampshire  I then was well acquainted with Nathaniel Call who was a near neighbor to me and resided in Andover aforesaid
I first enlisted in Capt Jabez Morrills company of Infantry in one of the N H. Continental Regiments. I recollect that said Call enlisted about the same time I did-- I think he was one of the three years Men, but am not positive.  After I served a short time in Morrills Company I was transferred to Capt Monroe's company of Infantry, then found my friend Nathaniel Call aforesaid a private in said Monroes company and served in the same company with him & I know that said Call faithfully did duty untill we were both discharged together
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at Newburgh NY. I think that said Monroes  Company belonged at that time to George Reid's Regiment though Col Dearborn may have commanded said Regiment a portion of the time about this fact I am not positive -- we resided near together many years after the close of the war in Andover N.H
We were stationed during said period at different places viz  Westpoint. Fishkill Peeks Kill, Newburgh Kingsbridge &c &c--
I say said Call was a good soldier and have no doubt he served three years in active service in the the Revolutionary Army
I have resided in Andover and Franklin since the Revolutionary war and have myself received a pension under the act of 1818 for 14 years past
William Ash X his mark

Signed in presence of us
George W. Nesmith
Walter P. Flanders

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The State of New Hampshire
Merrimack March 6. 1834-
Personally appearing the aforesaid William Ash made solemn oath that the aforesaid Affidavit by him subscribed is just and true and further certify that the aforesaid Ash is a credible witness, and his statements are entitled to confidence & full faith
[signed]  George W. Nesmith  Jus Peace

State of New Hampshire Secretary's Office
March 6th 1834
The above named George W. Nesmith is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Merrimack duly qualified and his signature genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereto set the seal of State
[signed] Ralph Mehalf  Secretary of State

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Elisabeth
Elisabeth Newton
Affidavit

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Recd 8 March 1830
I Nehemiah Philips of Wheelock in the County of Caledonia and State of Vermont of lawful age depose and say that I was a soldier of the Revolutionary war in the New Hampshire line under Captain Monroe and was there acquainted with one Nathaniel Call who served in the same line, in the same Company several years, I think, at any rate more than one year at the latter part of the war. I think Call joined the army at Saratoga in the State of New York, we were discharged at Newberg in said New York. Said Call is now in Sheffield in said county,  but from the best information he resides in Stokeley, County of Bedford, Province of Lower Canada - and your Deponent further saith not
[signed] Nehemiah Phillips

State of Vermont 
Caledonia County ss }  Town of Sheffield  December 25, 1829
Then Nehemiah Phillips of Wheelock in the County of Caledonia & State of Vermont personally appearing and after being carefully examined & duly cautioned made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed contains the whole truth & nothing but the truth
Before me [signed] Moses Davis Justice of Peace
I hereby certify that the above named Nehemiah Phillips is, in my opinion, a man of truth and veracity -
Per me, [signed] Moses Davis  Justice of Peace

The above deposition of Nehemiah Phillips taken at the request of Nathaniel Call to be used in his behalf as a Revolutionary Pension Claimant for his services as a soldier in the Revolutionary war
Certified by [signed] Moses Davis Justice of the Peace

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 State of Vermont
Caledonia County}
I Benjamin F Deming Clerk of the County Court for the County of Caledonia aforesaid do hereby certify that Moses Davis Esquire was on the 25th day of December A.D. 1829 a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Caledonia and that his name within subscribed is his own proper signature In Witness whereof I have hereunto  affixed the seal of said Court this 13th day of February in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty
[signed] Benj F Deming Clerk

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Rec'd 8 March 1830
State of Vermont
Orleans County SS}
Be It Known that before me Timo Hinman a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Orleans aforesaid personally appeared Levi Lufkin of Derby in said County of Orleans and made oath in due form of Law that he the said Levi Lufkin was well acquainted with Nathaniel Call in the time of the American Revolution and that said Nathaniel Call served in Captain James Monroes Company of infantry in the first New Hampshire Regiment that he was well acquainted with said Nathaniel Call from the month of April 1782 untill the During War men were discharged which was in the month of June 1783 and that the said Nathaniel Call was inlisted for the war and served until its termination and furthermore that he has heretofore given his affidavit at the request of Nathaniel Call but in that he was not requested only to state that the statement of said Call was true as was generally reputed and believed, but he could have then stated, and now does state that he knows that said Nathaniel Call was inlisted for the war as he ever under stood and knows that Nathaniel Call was discharged when the During the war men were discharged
[signed] Levi Lufkin
Sworn and subscribed this Sixth day of Feby 1830
Before me- [signed] Timo. Hinman Just of Peace

State of Vermont
Orleans County  ss} I Ira H Allen Clerk of Orleans County Court do hereby certify that Timothy Hinman Esq 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 that the subscription thereto purporting to be his I believe to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court at Irasburgh this 11 day of February 1830
[signed] Ira H Allen Clerk

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Nathaniel Call
T Hinman for Nathaniel Call
recd 19 Sept 1829
CCC

[upside down, at bottom]
Derby Vt
Sept 11

Free

Revolutionary Claims
Honbl Saml D. Ingham
Secretary of the Treasury
of the United States -
City of Washington
Deptant of Columbia

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Derby Vt
Sept 11

Free

Revolutionary Claims
Honbl Saml D. Ingham
Secretary of the Treasury
of the United States -
City of Washington
Deptant of Columbia

[upside down, at bottom]
Nathaniel Call
T Hinman for Nathaniel Call
recd 19 Sept 1829
CCC

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[upper right corner] 1732
For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution approved on the 15th of May 1828 I Nathaniel Call of Stokeley in the County of Bedford in the Province of Lower Canada do hereby declare that I entered the servis [service] in the Continental Line of the Army of United States for and during the War,  and continued in its service until its termination at which time period I was a private in Capt James Monroes Company & the first New Hampshier Redgament of the New Hampshirer [sic] Line, and was discharged the servis of the United State in June 1783 which Discharge I have lost. And I also declare that I afterward received a certificate for for [sic] the reward of Eighty dollars to which I was entitled under a resolve of Congress passed the 15th of May 1778
And I further declare that I was not on the fifteenth day of March 1828 on the Pension List of the United State
[signed] Nathaniel Call

Before me Timo Hinman one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the County Orleans in the State of Vermont duly authorized to administer oaths in said County Personally appeared this day Levi Lufkin and Archelaus Weltch of the said County who did severally make oath that Nathaniel Call by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reputed and believed to have been a soldier in the Army of the revolution, in manner as therein stated
Witness my hand this 22nd day of August 1829
[signed] Timo. Hinman  Just of Peace

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I Ira H. Allen Clerk of the Court of the County of Orleans in the State of Vermont do hereby certify that Timothy Hinman before whom the within and foregoing affidavits were made and sworn to was at that time a Justice of the Peace and duly empowered to administer oaths in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this twenty Eighth day of August 1829
[signed] Ira H Allen Clerk

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Derby Sept 10th 1829
I here enclose the application of Nathaniel Call with a certificate of the evidence and should said Calls name be found registered at the War Office the evidence would be sufficient and it  should be found sufficient to entitle him to receive the benefit of the act of 1828[.]  you please to direct the communications to him to the Post Office in Derby Vermont and should the evidence be though [thought] insufficient please to inform by sending to the said Derby post office what further evidence will be necessary for Mr. Call to procure[.]  your compliance will much oblige the applicant and yours
Timo Hinman

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1732
Revolutionary Claims.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
7 Oct 1829
Nathaniel Call of Stokeley in the county of Bedford  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 Monroe's company in the first regiment of the 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
[signed] F A  Dickins

The applicant states that he received his certificate of Major Morrel 
Tres. Dept 11 May 1830 

It appears that Major Morrell receipted for a certificate issued in name of Nathaniel Call for $53.30 on interest from the 1st January 1783 - He must therefore  have left the service sometime the year 1782, as those who served the whole of that year received certificates for $80 - 3d Auds. office, 13 May 1830

TREASURY DEPARTMENT
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
8th October 1829 
It further appears that Nathaniel Call is not now on the pension list of any agency, and has not been so since the 3d March 1826
The name of Nathaniel Call cannot be found among those of the New Hampshire line, to whom Certificates for the gratuity of Eighty Dollars, were issued-
[signed] Peter Hagner Aud

20,392  $53 30/100
/correct/

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War Department
Bounty Land Office
Oct. 16, 1829
The name of Nathaniel Call, is not returned on the Records of the New Hampshire line, on file in this office, among those who acquired a right to Bounty Land, or to whom a Warrant has issued
[signed] Wm Gordon

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April 22. 1834 
Dear Sir
I knew Nathaniel Call, when I was a boy. He had certainly been a soldier, in the Revolutionary
war; but for how long a time, or under what command, I of course do not know.  I know, too, William Ash, & have no doubt of the truth of what he states.
It would give me great pleasure to assist in getting a pension for Mr Call, as I well remember him & know him to be poor
Yrs with regard
[signed] D Webster


Mr Edwards

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Act 1828
papers to be filed with Ad
OW Inv
Fill #15,362

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Nathaniel Call.
N. Hamp line
Lower Canada

Ad. File No 15,362

{Act 1828  "Evidence insufficient"}

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Papers in claims
Nathaniel Call
Alexander Magoon
see letter to Timo Hinman 29 Aug '33
Treasury Department
Pension Office
Vermont
30.389
Nathaniel Call
ac
[5 mo pen decd?]
[ans?] Hon. D. Webster
No 23d 1834
let Timo Hinman May 11, 1834
L Hon D. Webster