Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 15704, for Reuben Smith, New York

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Service - New York

Smith, Ruben
Susannah


Number - W.15704

b. July 12, 1762 at North Salem Westchester County New York  and resided there at enlistment and in 1834
d. July 7, 1836

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3494

New York

Reuben Smith
No. Salem in the State of New York
who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Prudell of the Regiment commanded by Col. Crane in the New York
line for 15 months


Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 50 Dollars ---- cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of December 1832 and sent to Hon. A. Ward
Present

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832              $75.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 1833  $25.00


$100.00


{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by John Cromwell Clerk
Book D Vol. 5 Page 204

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Paid at the Treasury under the Act of 6 April 1838 from 4 March 1836 to 7 July 1836.  The day of his death.  Agent notified 16 Oct. 1839

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New York 3022

Susannah Smith
widow of Reuben Smith

who was a pensioner under the Act of 7 June 1832 and who died on the 7 July 1836
of Westchester in the State of New York
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Capt. Truesdell of the Regiment commanded
by Col. Crane in the New York 
line for 15 months.

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 50 Dollars per annum,
to commence on the 7 July 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 30th day of May 1839 and sent to Frederick J. Coffin, Somerset, N.Y.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1839       $133.33
Semi-annual allowance ending Sept. $25.00

$158.33

{Act July 7,}
{1838.}

Recorded by D. Brown
Book A Vol. 2 Page 100

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2292

Susannah Smith
Widow of Reuben
Smith 7 July 1838
Papers
For Pension

7 July 1836

original

family record registered
Capt. Trusdale
Vol. 8, p. 57 - $85.22
12 months and 24 days

Admitted 
Private 15 months


Frederick J. Coffin Esq.
Somers
N.Y.

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State of New York
County of Westchester

On this 25th day of September in the year 1838 personally appeared in open court of the same being a Court of Record before the Court of Common Pleas of, the County of Westchester aforesaid Susannah Smith a resident of the town of North Salem in the county of Westchester aforesaid aged Seventy Three years
Widow of Ruben Smith deceased she 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 7, 1838 entitled "An Act granting half-pay and pensions to certain Widows". That she is the Widow of the above named Ruben Smith who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution that the said Ruben Smith performed duties as a Private, aforesaid in this Declarant is informed and surely believes under Officers and in diverse Regiments, for a long period of time, but under what Officers and for what time he served this Declarant is not informed; that in consequence of such service this Declarant is informed and believes an application was made on behalf of her said husband under the act of Congress passed 7th June 1832 and her said husband was placed on the pension Roll and did receive a pension or annuity of fifty Dollars per year during his life. that the said Ruben Smith at the time he was inscribed and placed on the pension Roll of the United States was a resident of the Town of North Salem, in the County of Westchester and State of New York. She further declares that she was married to the said Ruben Smith on the 19th day of June in the year 1785. That her said husband the said

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Ruben Smith died on the seventh day of July in the year 1836 that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz. at the time above stated.

Susannah Smith (her mark)


Sworn to and subscribed
the day and year above written
before

John H. Smith Clerk

? County Common Pleas

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State of New York
Westchester County 

Personally appeared before me Knapp Remington Esq. one of the Justices in and for the County of Westchester Samuel Truesdell and made oath in Due form of Law and says that he he's 74 years of age and that he was well acquainted with Ruben Smith and Susannah Philips and was at her marriage to the said Ruben Smith in North Salem in the year 1785 and has known them to have lived as husband and wife til the time of his death which was in the year 1836.

Samuel Truesdell

Sworn and subscribed
the 29th day of July 1838
Before me
Knapp Remington Justice of the Peace

I certify that the above named Samuel Truesdell is a Person of Truth 

Knapp Remington
Justice of the Peace

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Samuel Truesdell

Affidavit

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State of New York
Westchester County

Personally appeared Before me Knapp Remington Esq. one of the Justices in and for the County of Westchester Sybil Truesdell and made oath in Due form of Law and Says that she is 64 years of age and that she well acquainted with Reuben Smith and Susannah Phillips and was at her marriage to the said Reuben Smith in North Salem in the year, 1785 and has known them to have lived as husband and wife til the time of his death which was in the year 1830.

Sybil Truesdell

Sworn and subscribed
this 26th day of July 1838
Before me,
Knapp Remington Justice of the Peace

I certify that the above named Sybil Truesdell is a respectable person and of truth.
Knapp Remington Justice of the Peace


State of New York
County of Westchester

I John H. Smith Clerk of the said County and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County, Do certify that Knapp Remington before whom the above and annexed affidavits of Samuel Truesdell and Sybil Truesdell was taken was on the day of the dates of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Westchester commissioned and sworn.  And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Knapp Remington and verily believe the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my and affixed the Seal of the said County,
this 26th day of September 1838.

John H. Smith Clerk Westchester County Common Pleas

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Sybil Truesdell

Affidavit

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State of New York
County of Westchester

George P. Smith being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is the son of Ruben Smith deceased of the Town of North Salem in the County of Westcherster who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States. That a Record of Marriages and births was kept by the said Ruben Smith of his family that the Record now produced in open Court before the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Westchester is a true family Record of the family of the said Ruben Smith deceased and that it appears from the said Record that the said Ruben Smith was married to Susannah Phillips the Declarant in the annexed papers named on the 19th day of January in the year 1785 that the said family Record was kept in the family of the said Ruben Smith deceased and was always regarded as containing a true statement of the marriage of the said Ruben Smith and the births and deaths of his family. And this deponent further saith that his said Mother the said Susannah Smith has never married since the death of her said husband the said Ruben Smith.

George P. Smith

Sworn to this 25th day
of September 1838 before 
me William Lockwood


I William Lockwood a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Westchester do certify that I am personally acquainted with George P. Smith the above named deponent and do believe that he is a person of veracity and credibility.
Dated 25th Sept. 1838

William Lockwood
Justice of the peace

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State of New York
County of Westchester

I John H. Smith Clerk of the said County and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County Do Certify that William Lockwood before whom the above affidavit of George P. Smith was taken was on the day of the dates of taking the same a Justice of the peace in and for the said County of Westchester commissioned and sworn and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said William Lockwood and verily believe the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County
this 26th day of September
1838

John H. Smith
Clerk 
Westchester County Common Pleas

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14677

Reuben Smith
application for a 
Pension under the 
Act of June 7th 1832


admitted
15 months private
50$

patrol and guard service
of 6 months disallowed

Hon. A Ward


along side

Nathaniel Bayless 
Clerk of the County of

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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

State of New York
County of Westchester

On this sixteenth day of October in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty two appeared before me Edward Kemeys of the Town of Mount Pleasant One of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Westchester Reuben Smith a resident of the Town of North Salem in the said County and State of New York aged seventy years, who being unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity and 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 under the following named officers and served as herein stated that is to say he was enrolled in the Col. Crane Regiment of militia in the County of Westchester and State of New York at the age of sixteen years  and that on or about the month of September in the year 1778 he was drafted out of Capt. Joseph Truesdell's Company in and Col. Crane's Regiment for the period of six months that he was attached during that period to the company under the Command of Wright Carpenter as a private that said Company was drafter from said Regiment under the command of Col. Crane and the declarant believes from

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the other Regiments in the Brigade of Militia in said County of Westchester that said Company was in actual service on the lines in the County of   Westchester aforesaid for and during the full end and term of six months and  that this declarant served the whole of said period in said Company and at the expiration of said period he received his Honorable discharge from said service which he thinks he received on or about the month of March 1779 that he was discharged from said Company in the said County of Westchester. 
And the Declarant further saith that on or about the month of May in the year 1779 he was again drafted from said Col. Crane's Regiment of Militia for the period of nine months and was attached to Capt. Cornelius Steenrod's Company (as a private) of said Regiment, that after the declarant was so drafted as aforesaid he was stationed on the lines in the said County in actual service until the full end and term of nine months, and was under the Command of said Captain Steenrod and attached to the Regiment under the command of Col. Samuel Drake and was under  the command of General McDougal or in other words attached to his Brigade that at the expiration of the period for which he was drafted he received an Honorable Discharge from said service on or about the month of February 1780.
And the Declarant further saith

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that on or about the month of May in the year 1780, he was a private in Captain Joseph Doolittle's Company of militia in said Col. Crane's Regiment in the said County of Westchester. That at that time said Company was divided into three classes, and each class was required to perform active duty in their turn from the month osf May 1780 until the Spring of the year was about the month of April 1782 guarding the lines in the County of Westchester aforesaid and in protecting the inhabitants from the incursions of the enemy, that this declarant continued to serve in that way every third day and night on active duty until the month of April 1782 aforesaid or thereabouts. When the Declarant was Honorably discharged from said service and the declarant saith that he served during said period in all in active duty for the period of six months at the least calculation.
And the declarant further saith that he was born in the Town of North Salem in said County of Westchester on the 12th day of July in the year 1762. that he has a record of his age fixed in a frame with a glass over it that it is in his dwelling house in said Town of North Salem.  That he resided in said Town of North Salem at the several times when he entered the service, and that he has resided in said Town of North Salem ever since as certified for the period of ?.  (illegible) which ? of

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fourteen years he resided in the Town of Carmel then called Dutchess County but now called Putnam County and that he now resides and has for upwards of thirty years last part resided in the Town of North Salem aforesaid, and that he entered the service as herein before set forth.  That he has no documentary evidence of his service, and that the only proof he has or can obtain of his said service is Samuel Truesdell whose affidavit is hereto appended, That the names of the persons to whom he is known in his present neighborhood and who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier that he knows served under General McDougal of the Continental army and that he does not now recollect the name of any other officers of the Regular Army under whom he served. That he never received any written discharges.
He hereby relinquished every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.

Reuben Smith


Sworn to and subscribed
this 16th day of October
1832. Before me
Edward Kemeys one of the 
Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in 
the Westchester Courts

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We Samuel Truesdell and Jesse Clarke residents in the Town of North Salem, in the County of Westchester and State of New York hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Reuben Smith who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy 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. 

Samuel Truesdell
Jesse Clark

Sworn to and subscribed
this 16th day of October
1832

Edward Kemeys one of the Judges
of the Court of Common Pleas in the Westchester Courts

And I the said Judge do hereby declare that I propounded the following interrogatories to the said applicant and received the replies thereunder written.

1 Question - Where, and in what year was you born?

Answer - In the year 1762 as above stated in my declaration and in the town north of Lewis

2nd - Have you any record of your age and if so where is it?

Answer  I have a record of my age - it is kept in a frame with a glass before it and is suspended in one of my rooms in my dwelling house.

3rd Question - Where were you living when called into the service; where have

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you lived since the revolutionary war: and where do you now live?

Answer - I resided at that time in North Salem Westchester County and have lived there since excepting for the period of fourteen years and then resided in Carmel Dutchess County and State of New York. I now reside in said Town of North Salem.

Question - How were you called into the service; were you drafted; did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute for whom?

Answer - I was drafted into the service at the declaration I entered
as stated in my declaration. I did not enter as a substitute for anyone

Question - State the name 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

Answer - I have no recollection of ever having served under any other officers of the continental army except General McDougal and I served under the officers in the militia already named and set forth in my declaration, my principal service was in guarding the lines in the County of Westchester as stated in my declaration.

Question - Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given and what was ?

Answer - I never received written discharge but was discharged honorably from and served as ? - as stated in my declaration

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Question - Did you ever receive a commission and if so by whom was it signed, and what has become of it ?

Answer - I never received a commission

Question - 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 service as a soldier of the revolution.

Answer - Samuel Truesdell and Jesse Clarke

And I the said Judge do hereby declare my opinion after the interrogatories of the matter and after putting the prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. 
And I do hereby certify that it appears to me that Samuel Truesdell and Jesse Clarke who have signed the preceding certificate are residents of the Town of North Salem in the County of Westchester and State of New York and are credible persons and that their statement are entitled to credit.  And I do further certify that it appears to me that the said applicant is unable to appear in Court by reasons of bodily infirmity.

Edward Kemeys one of the 
Judges of the Court of Common 
Pleas in and for Westchester County


Westchester County Samuel Truesdell of the Town of North Salem being duly sworn on his oath saith that he is now aged seventy two years that he was well acquainted with Reuben

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Smith in the Revolutionary war and has ever since been acquainted with him, and this deponent knows that said Reuben Smith was enrolled as a private soldier in my Father's Jesse Trusdell's Company in Col. Crane's Regiment of Militia in the County of Westchester and State of New York during the war and that he was drafted on or about the month of September from my father's company for the period of six months and was attached to a company under the command of Wright Carpenter and that he served out said period according to the best of this deponents' recollection and belief and was honorably discharged from said service in the month of March 1779 after the expiration of said term of service.
And the deponent further saith that said Reuben Smith was again drafted into the said service on or about the month of May in the year 1779 according to the best of this deponent's recollection for the period of nine months and that he served under the command of Captain Cornelius Stunrod in his company in the Regiment under the command of Col. Drake and said Smith served out said period in active service for the said period of nine months and that deponent ? was honorably discharged in or about the month of February 1780 according to the best of this deponent's recollection and belief.
And this deponent further saith that on or about the month of May 1780 the said Reuben Smith was a private in Capt. Joseph Doolittle's Company and that the said Company was divided into three classes and each class was required to perform a said Duty every three days and that said Smith was then actually

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in service from the said month of May 1780 to the spring of the year 1782 and that this deponent believes that he done at least six months active service in that time when he was honorably discharged from said service that said Smith's service was confined purposefully to the County of Westchester ? in guarding the lines and in preventing the incursions of the enemy and further this deponent saith not. 

Samuel Truesdell

Sworn this 16th day 
October 1832 before me
Edward Kemeys one of the Judges
of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Westchester Courts

I certify that I am personally acquainted with Samuel Truesdell and know him to be a man entitled to full credit and belief

Edward Kemeys one
of the Judges of the Court of Common Please in and for Westchester County

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I Nathaniel Bayles Clerk of the County of Westchester State of New York do certify that Edward Kemeys whose name is subscribed to the  foregoing affidavits and examination and certificate is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas (which is a Court of Record) in and for said County and that I am well acquainted with his and believe his signature subscribed to be genuine. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this 19th day of October 1832.


N. Bayles

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A 
Family Record

Reuben Smith was born in North Salem Westchester County State of New York July the 12th 1762
Susannah Philips was Born in Smith Town Long Island State of New York January 30th 1765.


Married June 19th 1785.


Names - Births - Marriages - Deaths



Mary B. Smith  - April 14th 1786 - November 20th 1803

Polly Smith - August 18th 1788 - October 15th 1814

Horace Smith - May 17th 1791 - December 26, 181?

Temperance Smith - February 10th, 1793 - February 22nd, 1812

Sally Smith - January 10th 1796 - August 12 1815

Samuel H. Smith - November 7, 1797 - 

Niles F. Smith - December 3rd 1799 - 

George Smith  - November 20th, 1801 - November 5, 1827





Chauncey Northrup - May 31st, 1815

Susan Soldell - Sept. 19th, 1815

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This ? certified William Holmes the drawing of the within is a True record according as the said Reuben Smith Delivered to me
South East February 17th 1818

William Holmes

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L side

Oct. 4 - 1900 - Hist. to 
Mrs. Jean P. Robinson 
East Haven Conn. 



NY

Rev. Widow, &c.

File No. 15704

Susannah Smith
Widow of 
Reuben Smith
Priv. Rev. War

Act July 7th 1838

Index: Vol M, Page 222


[Arrangement of 1870]

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New York City

Reuben Smith on roll act June 7, 1832 at the rate 
of $50 per annum to what time paid?   


John Harry Esquire

paid to 4th March 1836
J.H.

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Honorable 

J.L. Edwards Esquire
Comissioner of Pensions
Washington


NY May 4

Additional proof
Susanna Smith

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29th April 1839

Dear Sir

Enclosed I send this family Record of Reuben Smith late of the Town of North Salem in the County of Westchester State of New York deceased who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the time of his death
The Declaration of Susannah Smith the widow of the said Reuben Smith is now on file in Pension Office.  I ? the enclosed papers to ? with the papers now on file in your office will be amply sufficient to entitle Mrs. Smith to her pension.
Be pleased to forward her Certificate to me if granted.

Your obedient servant

Frederick J. Coffin

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Treasury Department
Second Comptroller's Office
October 12th, 1839.

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The widow of Reuben Smith a Pensioner on the Roll of the New York City Agency, at the rate of fifty Dollars and ... cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March, 1836, to the 7th of July, 1836, the day of his death.

Respectfully yours,

Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.


To the Commissioner of Pensions,

Present.

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State of New York
County of Westchester

I George Smith being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is the Son of Reuben Smith late of the town of North Salem in the County of Westchester aforesaid; that he is thirty four years of age that the paper hereunto annexed in the original family Record of the said Reuben Smith that this deponent lived in the family of the said Reuben Smith upward for the greater part of the time from the birth of this deponent up to the time of the death of his said father the said Reuben Smith that the said family Record hereto annexed was at the time of the death of the said Reuben Smith kept by him and in his possession and has been ever since the death of the said Reuben Smith kept by Susannah Smith the mother of this deponent.

George Smith

Sworn to this 26th day of April 1839 before
me Knapp Remington
Justice of the Peace

I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with George Smith in the above affidavit and that he is of ? character and that his statement in the above affidavit is entitled to full credit and belief

Dated the 26th April 1839
Knapp Remington Justice of the Peace

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Westchester County

I John H. Smith Clerk of the County Courts in and for the County of Westchester do hereby certify that Knapp Remington before whom the within affidavit of George Smith was made and sworn was at the time the said affidavit was sworn to as aforesaid court on the 26th day of April 1839 a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county of Westchester that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Knapp Remington and that the signature of the said Knapp Remington to the within affidavit and certificate subscribed is his genuine signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this thirtieth day of April 1839.

John H. Smith Clerk

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East Haven, Conn,
Sept. 19th, 1900

Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

I am very anxious to be a Daughter of the American Revolution and I will send you all the information I have of which the following is a copy.
"Reuben Smith is mentioned as private in the Fifth

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Regiment of the line, Col. Lewis Duboys, page 59".
"Reuben Smith in Fourth Regiment, Albany County Militia, Col. Van Rensselaer, page 106."
"Reuben Smith Fourth Regiment, Westchester Co. Militia, Col. Thaddeus Crame or Crane. page 216."
I do not know whether this Reuben Smith is one or three. My Father's name is Jacob Miller Smith, and his Father's name was Reuben Smith, My Mother's maiden name was Helen Glenn Paterson.  Please give me all the information you can, and as soon as possible.

Yours Respectfully,

Jean P. Smith Robinson

P.S. Should there be any expense I will remit
Jean P. Robinson


Mrs. Jean P. Robinson
East Haven, Conn.
Box 6

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O.W. & N. Division
Sept. 24 1900
Received.









Pension Office
Sept. 21 1900