Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14713, Stephen Felton, Mass

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Mass.

Felton, Stephen
Sarah

W. 14713

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6448
Massachusetts

Sarah Felton

widow of Stephen Felton
Mass.
who was a Private
in the Revolution

Husband died 8th April 1841

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 23 Dollars 33
Cents per annum, to commence on 
the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd day of Dec, 1844
and sent to Almon Brainard
Greenfield, Mass.

Act of March 3, 1843.

Recorded in Book A. Vol. 2 Page 29

June 17, 1864

Rep.

Let. to Hon. Geo Ashner

Feb. 4. 1846.

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21659
Massachusetts

Stephen Felton
of New Salem in the Sate of Mass. who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain King of the Reg commanded by Col. in the Mass. line for 7 months. 

Inscribed on the Roll of Mass. a
at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of Oct. 
1833 and sent [?] E. Alvord 
Greenfield Massa.

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Stephen Felton

New Salem

22285

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Franklin
Ss.

On this fourteenth day of August eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court, before the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, now sitting, Stephen Felton a resident of New Salem in said county of Franklin and Commonwealth aforesaid, aged seventy five 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 paped [proposed?] June 7, A. D. 1832. That he entered the service of the United States, and served as [unsure] private[?], under the following named officers - The names of the field officers he does not [unsure], in the company commanded by Capt. King of Northfield, and Lieut. Conant - that he entered the service on some of the first days of October or November A.D. 1775 - and left the same on some of the first days of December or November following - that he resided in said New Salem when he entered the service - that he was a volunteer - that he marched through Borne [Bone?], Rutland, Shrewsbury, and Waltham to Brooklyn where he was stationed during his term of service - which was two months.

He further declares on his oath aforesaid, that he again entered the service of this United States on the second day of August A.D. 1776, and left the same on or about the first bad[?] day of December following - that he served under Col Woodbridge and Lieuts. Col. William Stacy, Capt. Merriman, Lieut. Isaac Powers, and Lieut Ebenezer Goodale - that he resided in New Salem when he entered the service, where he has lived all the time since the Revolutionary War, and now lives - that he was drafted - that he marched through Northfield Mass. and Charleston N. H. where he crossed Connecticut River and marched through Rutland and beyond to [unsure] - that he was born on the 21st - day of October A.D. 1756 - that he does not know of any record of his age - and that he received no discharge from the service of either of the periods of his engagement. 

He further declares that he is known to Mr. and Mrs. Harding, William Knight Capt. Joel Osgood, and Col. Nahum Bryant, who resides in his neighborhood, and can testify as to his character, and their belief as to his services as a soldier of the Revolution.

He hereby, relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is no on the pension roll of the agency of any state.

Sworn and subscribed to the day and year aforesaid,
Attest E. Alvord Clerk

Stephen Felton

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We, Alpheus Harding, Clergyman, and Holland Goodnow, residing in said New Salem

hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Stephen Felton, who had subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy five years of age; that his is reupted and believed, in the neighborhood where resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Alpheus Harding
Holland Goodnow
Attest E. Alvord Clerk

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 Alpheus Harding who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in said town of New Salem. And that Holland Goodnow who has also signed the same is a resident in said town and is a credible person; and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
Attest E. Alvord Clerk

I, Elijah Alvord, Clerk 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 Stephen Felton for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this fourteenth day of August A.D. 1832.
E. Alvord, Clerk

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Stephen Felton
22,285

Private 7 months

5[unsure, 4?]1606
June 21, 1833

P- 4 eq
2333
4666
11.67
58.33

E. Alvord Esq. 
Greenfield
Mass.

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BRIEF in the case of [handwritten] Stephen Felton
of [handwritten] New Salem in the State of [handwritten] Massachusetts

(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? [handwritten] In open court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. How old is he? [handwritten] 75 years

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
[below in a table with the format right to left: Period, Duration of Service, Rank, Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served]

Oct. or Nov. In 1775 ... 2 months, private, Capt.:King
"on the 2nd of August 1776, he enlisted, and was discharged on or about [underlined] the last day of Dec: following" -

5. In what battles was he engaged? [handwritten] None named

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? [handwritten] In New Salem

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? [handwritten] Two living witnesses and traditionary evidence

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? [handwritten] The declaration and an affidavit courtly [?, can be?] authenticated - the other affidavit not-

I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

Examining Clerk

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State of Massachusetts
Franklin County ss.

On this twenty eight day of September A. D. 1844, personally appeared before me, Almon Brainard, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Franklin aforesaid, Sarah Felton a resident of Wendell [?] in the County of Franklin aforesaid, aged eighty two 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 proposed on the 3rd March 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War, that she is the widow of Stephen Felton who was a private in the army of the Revolution, and a pensioner under the act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832, at the rate of twenty three dollars and thirty three cents per annum and whose certificate bore date at the War Office October 8- 1833 and signed Lewis Cass, Secretary of War and Numbered 21659. That she has always understood her said husband served not less than six months and was out two terms once under Capt. King and once under Capt. Merriman in Col. Woodbridge's Regt. at Ticonderoga. That she refers to the evidence of her said husband's service to the proof on file in the Department furnished [?] by him at the time he was pensioned [?] as aforesaid. She further declares that she was married to the said Stephen Felton on the twenty second day of October in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven; that her said husband died on the eight dsay of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred forty [?] one and that she is still the widow of the said Stephen Felton and has never intermarried [remarried?] since his death and is still a widow; That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but that her marriage took place at time above stated. 
Sarah Felton
[handsigned 'x' mark]
Her Mark

Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above before me, Almon Brainard, Justice of the Peace

[list of signatures]

[unsure]
N. [C.H.?] Grennell
Ebenezer Felton
Almon Brainard

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin ss. Sept. 28 - 1844

I certify that Sarah Felton, the subscriber of the within declaration and who has this day appeared before me and made oath to the within declaration is personally known to me to be the widow of the within named Stephen Felton, deceased, who was a Revolutionary pensioner.

Almon Brainard, Justice of the Peace

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I, Ebenere Felton of Wendell [?] in the County of Franklin and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, of lawful age depose and say the Stephen Felton late of said Wendell [?] dec. was my father, that he died at said Wendell on the eighth day of April A.D. 1841. -- That the said Stephen Felton was a Revolutionary pensioner under the act of Congress of June 7 - 1832 at the rate of 23.33 per annum. That he died leaving a widow, Sarah Felton, who is my mother and who is still a widow.
Ebenere Felton

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I, Alpheus Harding of New Salem in the County of Franklin and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age depose and say, that I am the regular ordained and settled [unsure] Minister of the First Congregational Society in said New Salem and have in my possession and keeping the records of the Church of said Society, as well as those records kept or made by the former ministers of said Church, as those made by myself that the first minister of said Church was the Rev. Samuel Kendell. That I find on examination of said records made by the said Samuel Kendell, the following record under the head of Marriage, in the Book of records of said Church, to wit, 

"Stephen Felton and Sarah Deland, married October twenty second seventeen hundred and seventy seven"

And I certify that above is a true entry [unsure] of the record aforesaid, with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows, 

"Stephen Felton and Sarah Deland married Octr. 22-1777"

Alpheus Harding, Pastor of the first Church in New Salem.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin County ss.
October 5th, 1844
Here personally appeared Alpheus Harding, signee of the above affidavit, and who is personally known to me, and a credible witness, and made iath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true. 

Before me, Almon Brainard, Justice of the Peace.

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[handwritten] Reg [?]

WIDOW, &c.

File No. [handwritten] 14713

[handwritten] Sarah Felton
widow of
Stephen Felton
Pri [unsure, rank: private, maybe] Rev War

Act: [handwritten] March 2nd & 3rd & June 11th 43

Index: --- Vol. [handwritten] a, Page [handwritten] 233

Arrangement of 1870.

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Franklin SS.
I, Henry Chapman, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth for the County of Franklin, do certify, that [handwritten] Almon Brainard Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said [handwritten] Almon Brainard Esq. and believe his signature to said certificate [handwritten] is genuine.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the [handwritten] Supreme Judicial Court for said Commonwealth, this [handwritten] first day of [handwritten] November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and [handwritten] forty four.
[signature] H. Chapman, clerk

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J. L. Edwards Esq.

Sir, 

Some weeks since I endowed through the Post [pension?] Office to you some papers in the case of Relief Gibson, widow of Thomas Gibson - and also in the case of Sarah Felton, widow of Stephen Felton, for your examination and refut [?].
I have not received [?] any answer concurring these, and would now by that you would state if they were received, and what dispostion [dispensation?]  has been made of them.

Yours truly,
Geo Abraham

House of Rep. 
Feb 3, 1846

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J. L. Edwards Esq.
Pension Office

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Home of Reputation [unsure]
Dec. 18, 184[5?]

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Com. of Pensions

Sir,
The accompanying papers have been transmitted to my care with the agenda [unsure] that I should obtain from you the proper certificate.
If the papers are [unsure, replan?] please send me the [unsure, --ful?] certificate.

Yours Truly, 
Geo Ashman

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I, Jonathan Meacham of New Salem in the County of Franklin, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy six years, testify and say that I entered the service of the United States on the first day of November A.D. 1775 - in the company commanded by Theophilius King of Northfield, in which Gilbert was Lieutenant, and Conant [unsure] Ensign - that I left the service in the month of February the next - and I was stationed at Brooklyn ms. 

I further testify that I have been acquainted with Stephen Felton of said New Salem from a period of many years prior to the war of the Revolution - that he was a member of said Company and that he served with me as such until the last od December A.D. 1775 - when the time of his engagement expired.

Jona. Meacham

August 11th 1932
Franklin Ss. There personally appeared Jonathan Meacham above named, and made oath that the above statement by him subscribed is true. 
Before me, Fred H. Allen, Just. Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin ss. I, Elijah Alvord, clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts do hereby certify that Frederick H. Allen Esq. is a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Franklin; and that the above is his genuine signature.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affix. the seal of the said court this fourteenth day of august A.D. 1832.
E. Alvord, clerk

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[written sideways at top of page]
Stephen Felton
Jon. Meacham.  aft. [affidavit]

I hereby certify that Jonathan Meacham, whose deposition is on this sheet, is a man of truth and a credible witness. 

New Salem, July 15, 1833 
Fred H. Allen, Justice of the Peace

Franklin ss. 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I, Elijah Alvord, clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Franklin, do hereby certify that the above is the genuine signature of Frederick H. Allen Esq., who is the same Justice of the Peace before whom the within affidavit was sworn to. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Greenfield this eighteenth day of July A. D. 1833
E. Alvord, clerk

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin County, Wendell, 9th December, 1836
This may Certify that these nine Pensioners

Stephen Felton who power is dated 5th September 1836 - $23.33

Aaron Fisher "__________ _____" [indicating it is 'same as above'} 5th Sept 1836 - $46.67

Nathaniel Wilder "__________ _____" 5th Sept 1836 - $14.50

Zedekiah Fiske "__________ _____" 5th Sept 1836 - $40

Samuel Oscutt [unsure] "__________ _____" 8th Sept 1836 - $33.33

Abraham Stone "__________ _____" 8th Sept 1836 - $15.83

Timothy Armstrong "__________ _____" 12th Sept 1836 - $19

Joel L Benjamin "__________ _____" 14th Sept 1836 - $14.40

Samuel Reed 3rd "__________ _____" 16th Sept 1836 - $48

[total] 255.00

Have all of them again severally [unsure] Acknowledged their respective Powers in presence of the several subscribing witnesses in favor of Sumner R. Morse to receive and for them severally.

Before me,
[signature] Joshua Green,
Justice of the Peace

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Commonwealth Bank:
Pension Office, 
Boston ss, Dec. 1836

Sir,
The nine powers of Attorney contained in the enclosed list were presented to this Office for pyament in October last and returned for want of an additional witness. When again presented more than ninety days had elapsed from their date.
I would inquire whether under these circumstances you will permit them to be paid. 
The Pensioners reside in the interior of the State and will be subjected to the expense of getting new papers if these should be rejected. 

I am, very respectfully, your obt. [obedient] servt.
John K Simpson

[bottom of page]
J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner. Pensions
Washington
D.C.

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[left page]
74
Stephen Felton
New Salem
2.00

[right page]
Payments to be made at [handwritten] Salem Mass
by [pension agent name?, unsure]
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of Mass. 

[bottom of page] 
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book E Vol. 2
Page 26 by D. D. Addison
Clerk

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WAR DEPARTMENT
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United State of the 7th June, 1832, [handwritten] Stephen Felton of the State of Massachusetts [typed] who was a [handwritten] Private in the army of the Revolution [typed] is entitled to receive [handwritten] Forty Three [typed] dollars and [handwritten] Thirty Three [typed] cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on 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 [handwritten] Eight [typed] day of [handwritten] October [typed] one thousand eight hundred and thirty [handwritten] Three.

Examined and Countersigned 
[signature]
Geo Wm Crump
Commissioner of Penisons

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22285
Stephen Felton

[bottom of page]
E. Alvord Esq.
Greenfield, 
Mass.

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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of [handwritten] Stephen Felton which require further proof or explanation. 

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides: [handwritten] yes

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides: [handwritten] yes

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served: [handwritten] yes

V. [asterisk] Has he mentioned 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? [handwritten] No

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? [handwritten] yes

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? [handwritten] yes

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? [handwritten] yes

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? [handwritten] yes

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? [handwritten] yes

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XI.
Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?
[handwritten] yes

XII.
If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?

XIII.
If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?

XIV.
[typographical dagger] If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
[handwritten] yes

If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? 
[handwritten] No

Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?
[handwritten] one instance he has not

XV.
Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
[handwritten] yes

XVI.
[typographical dagger] Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? 
[handwritten, crossed out] No - see short brief

XVII.
Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?

EXPLANATORY NOTES.

QUERE V. In an case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
      "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, etc. 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.

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3

      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 his service. The use of the phrase [italics] about three or four months [printed] is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expression are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, etc. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn [shown] under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places 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.

QUERE XIV. [italics] Proof of Service

      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 affidavit the time of the claimants 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.

QUERE XVI [italics] 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 paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate. 
            [small hand symbol with finger pointing right] In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

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James Abercrombie of [unsure, --ham] in the County of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the seventy ninth year of my age do testify and say that sometime in the [unsure] of July seventeen and seventy six, I enlisted in the revolutionary army of the United States, in the Regiment commanded by C. S. Naadbridge

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire ss.

I, Solomon Stoddard, clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth for the County of Hampshire, do certify that Cyrus Kingman Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the within Certificate was at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the peace within and for said County, duly Commissioned and acting under the authority of the Commonwealth - and that full faith and credit is, and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity - and that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said Cyrus Kingman and believe his signatures within to be genuine - -

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas in said Commonwealth this tenth day of August in the year of our LORD one thousand eight hundred and thirty three. 
S. Stoddard Clerk

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Stephen Felton
James Abercrombie's aff. 

[next page, written sideways]

James Abercrombie
Defendant [unsure]

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James Abercrombe
Defendant [unsure]

[next page, written sideways/top of folded page]

Stephen Felton
James Abercrombie's affidavit.

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Sarah Felton
widow of Stephen

acts 43 & 44 - 276

$23.33 per annum

married 22 Oct. 1777
husband died April 8, 1841

Send cert: to 
Almon Brainard
Greenfield
Mass

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Greenfield. Nov. 2- 1844

Hon. J. L. Edwards, Comm. [commissioner] of Pensions

Sir, Enclosed is the application of Sarah Felton for a pension. 

Should her claim be allowed, her certificate can be forwarded to me at her attn. 

I am respectfully yours, 
Almon Brainard

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Stephen Felton of New Salem amends his declaration by making his affidavit [crossed out] as follows.

Personally appeared before me the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County of Franklin, Stephen Felton a resident of New Salem, in the County of Franklin, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, who being duly sworn, deposeth, and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequant [consequent] loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the [underlined] precise time when he entered and left the service, except for the time when he entered the service the second time, but can state positively that he served not less than the pension mentioned below, and in the following grades: For two months I served as a Private in the war of the Revolution and For five months I served as a private in the same war; and for such service I claim a pension.
                                                                  Stephen Felton

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Franklin Ss. July 15 1833. Then personally appeared Stephen Felton, who has subscribed the foregoing affidavit and made solemn oath that the same is true.
Before me Fred H. Allen Justice of the Peace

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                         Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Franklin ss. I Elijah Alvord, clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the Commonwealth aforesaid for the county of Franklin, do hereby certify that Frederick H. Allen Esq is a Justice of the Peace for the said county; and that his name subscribed to the within certificate is his true and proper signature. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Greenfield this eighteenth day of July A.D. 1833

                                                       E. Alvord, Clerk

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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefits of the resolution of Congress of the 23rd January 1845

Whereof the Act of 30th April 1844 prohibited me from drawing a pension for the same time during which my husband was a pensioner. I now make the following statement and oath to obtain the benefits of the above mentioned resolution.

I am the widow of Stephen Felton who was a private in the war of the Revolution. I have drawn a pension at the rate of 23.33 dollars per annum from the fourth day of March 1843 and now I ask for the amount due me from the 4th March 1836 [unsure] to the fourth day of March 1843 when my former pension commenced.

Sworn to and subscribed before me on this eight day of September in the year 1845 at 

Almon Brainard
Ansel Lesune

Sarah Felton
[unsure]

Almon Brainard       Justice of the Peace

I certify that the declared is personally known to me and that she is the same individual she represents herself to be in the foregoing affidavit. 

[signature] Almon Brainard   Justice of the Peace

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Clerk of
do hereby certify that
who has signed the foregoing is a Justice of the Peace for the County of 
in the State of 
and that the above is his signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my Seal of Office this
day of
in the year 1845 at
in the State of Massachusetts

Mrs. Sarah Felton
L. B. True
Agent
Washington D.C.

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Franklin SS.

I, Henry Chapman, Clerk of this Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth for the County of Franklin, do certify, that [handwritten] Almon Brainard, Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of the Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said - [handwritten] Almon Brainard, Esqr. - and believe his signature to said certificate - [handwritten] is genuine.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the - [handwritten] Supreme Judicial Court. - for said Commonwealth, this  - [handwritten] Eighth day of - [handwritten] September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and [handwritten] forty five.

[signature] H. Chapman. Clerk