Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25560, Gilbert Eddy, Conn. Privateer 1812

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Service: Conn. Privateer 1812
Eddy, Gilbert, Prudence
Number: W.25560
B.L.Wt.

See Bounty Land Warrant 15046,160.55. for service above soldiers as Brig. Gen. M.Y.mil. from Sept 1 to 19, 1814

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2655
New York
Gilbert Eddy
of Pittstown in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Grant of the Reg't commanded by Col. Ely in the Connecticut line for 2 Years & upwards.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 80 Dollars per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28th day of Novmbr 1832, and [unreadable 3 words]
A**ais to 4th of Sept 1832 $120
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 [unreadable] 33  [$]40
$160
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Geo. C. Stiles Clerk, Book D Vol. 3, Page 84.

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5325
New York-Albany-
Prudence Eddy widow of Gilbert Eddy who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 dollars, - cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued 3d day of July 1855, and sent to F.A. Dickons, Present.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 15, Vol. H
(32)
1888 Mch 29. F.M. Eddy history Prior [?] 
Reg 3 M 55 50450

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50450
Act March 3/55
April 7/58
Prudence Eddy, widow of Gilbert Eddy, dec'd Private,
Capt. Isaac Gun[?] of the Revolutionary War,
Brig'r Gen'l
N.Y. Ma.
Ent   "
Dis   
War 1812.
Now a Revolutionary Pensioner
[difficult to read 2 lines, faded and overwritten]
N.Y. [illeg] 53-5325.
Third Auditor's office, October 22, 1855.
For service for this applicant, refer to the records on file in the Pension Office.
[signature hard to read] R Gramo
For 3 [?] Auditor
all'd 160 anm Jany 21/56 NNW[?]
Francis A. Dickins, atty, Present

F.A.Dickins, Nov 2d/55,
E'd IAng[?] Johnson
Ed[?]
136 [?]
Gilbert Eddy
Svd as Brig Gnrl
NY M[?] [illegible]
1st to 19th Sept 1814.
Vol E. 32.
E B Eshelman

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In the Matter of Gilbert Eddy for a Pension under the Act of June 7, 1832
8613

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State of New York County of Rensselaer} ss.
On this fifeth day of September personally appeared in open court before the Mayoral Court held in & for the City of Troy in the County & State aforesaid now sitting Gilbert Eddy a resident of the Town of Pittstown in the County of Rensselaer and State of New York aged seventy one years, who being first duly sworn according to law & doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832, that he entered the Service of the United States under the following named Officers and ___ or herein after stated, namely He resided in the Town of Groton in the State of Connecticut during the whole[?] of the Revolutionary War and that he entered the Service of the United States at said Groton at the several times and served according to his best recollection and belief as follows: First that some time in the year 1776 he enlisted into the United States Service a private soldier into Captain Grants Company belonging to Colonel Elija's Regiment of the Connecticut State troops for the term of three months immediately on his entering the service he marched with his company from Groton to Providence in the State of Rhode Island where he was stationed during the said three months for which he [illegible] when the time was out he was discharged and returned home to Groton aforesaid, they were discharged at New London. That some time in the latter part of the Summer or the first part of the fall in the year 1777 he was drafted into Captain Richard Hewitts Company-- belonging to Colonel Lattimore's Regiment of the Connecticut Militia for three months, that immediately on his being drafted he marched with his company to Beamis Heights in Saratoga in the State of New York where they joined the army he was in the Battle of Saratoga and was there at the taking of Gen Burgoyne and his Army he recollects that they had fifty two men killed and wounded in the Regiment he belonged to in the said battle & supposed after the Surrender of Burgoyne his company marched down the North River to Claverack where they

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were discharged at the expiration of the said tour of three months and then returned home to his residence in Groton aforesaid.
That some time after his return home as aforesaid he enlisted again into the United States service for nine months into Captain Richard Hewitts Company belonging to Colonel McClelland's Regiment of the Connecticut line of troops, that part of the said nine months they were stationed in New London and the remaining part of the said time they were stationed in the Fort at Groton aforesaid -- He does not recollect the year when this service was performed he not having any documents or records relating to the same--
That he again entered the Service of the United States whether by enlistment or otherwise he cannot [illeg] recollect in Captain Buckley's Company of the Connecticut Militia for the Term of four months that during this time he was employed with the Company aforesaid on board the prisoner ship in No*** River to guard the prisoners part of the time and the rest of the time was stationed at the ferry at Groton, the year he does not recollect.
He again entered the service of the United States at Groton aforesaid into Captain Avery's Company, of the Connecticut Militia for the Term of three months was employed to guard the shores  about New London a part of the said time and remainder part of the Term was stationed in the fort at Groton aforesaid the year this Service was performed he does not recollect.
That he again enlisted under Captain Buckley of Colchester in the State of Connecticut who was Captain in the [illegible] and served under him in that Service for the Term of three months he was employed in driving the United States transport Hartford to [illegible] transporting provisions and necessary stores for the Army.

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He again was called out after that last aforesaid services  and served there 2 months in the Fort at Groton, he was a soldier there in the Fort doing duty at that time the news of peace came. 
He also states that in the year 1781 he shipped on board of a privateer that soon after they put out to sea they were taken by the British Fleet and sent in to Halifax when they were kept prisoner six months then they were exchanged he returned home to Groton aforesaid he thinks this was prior to the service in after Captain Acery and Buckley as aforestated.
That soon after the close of the war he moved from Groton to Pottstown in the State of New York where he has lived ever since, that he is acquainted with Richard Geer and has been [illegible] and before the Revolution that he had in his possession the [illegible] roll of Capt Grants Company in which this deponents release is written the only documentary evidence this deponent knows of his service that the said Richard Geer is the only person that has testimony he can provide who can testify to any part of his services, he here by relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension to an annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state or if any only on that of the agency of the state of Connecticut
Gilbert Eddy
 Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Archibald Bull Clerk
County of [illegible] ss. Richard Geer being duly sworn saith that he is personally acquainted with Gilbert Eddy who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration

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[top left cut off] of the said town & that he is personally known to his Jurors as stated by him in Captain Grants Company, and Captain Richard Hewitt's Company, the nine months served and the three months served to Saratoga he knew when he went and when he returned, and also from his own knowledge of the facts contained in his statement of the list and under of his services as far as his knowledge extends in relation to them and also from information [illegible] at that time from other sources which he can rely on he believes his statement to be true and just in all the facts, that he believes the said Gilbert Eddy to be seventy six years of age.
Richard Geer

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Archibald Bull Clerk

We Wilber Sherman a Clergyman residing in the town of [illegible] in the county and state aforesaid and Jonathan Brown of the same place hereby certify that we are acquainted with Gilbert Eddy who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy one 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.
Wilber Sherman
Jon. Brown
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Archibald Bull 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

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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 Wilber Sherman who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Pottstown in the County and State aforesaid and that Jonathan Brown who has also signed the same is a resident of Pottstown aforesaid and also Richard Geer who has made the above affidavit is also a resident in Pottstown aforesaid are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit.

I Archibald Bull Clerk of the Mayors Court of the City of Troy do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Gilbert Eddy for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of office this fifth day of September 1832.
Archibald Bull Clerk

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Prudence Eddy
for Pension

Witnesses to prove marriage in her Bounty Land application 
1855

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Rensselaer County
NY
Justices Court Ss
I Prentiss L Jones Clerk of the Justices Court of the city of Troy (the same being a court of record) do certify that George A Davis is a magistrate as above and that the foregoing certificate purporting to be his is genuine.
In persuance whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this 19th day of June in the year 1835.
P. L. Jones
Clerk of the Justices Court of the City of Troy

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Conn.
Privateer
1812
Eddy, Gilbert
Prudence
W. 25560
B.L.H?.

see Bounty Land Warrant 15046,160.55. for service of above soldier as Brig Gen. N.Y. mil from Sept. 1 to 19, 1814

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Rensselaer County
N.Y. Judicial Court ss.  I Prentiss L Jones Judicial Clerk of the Judicial Court of the City of Toy (the [illegible] being a court of record) do certify that George A Davis is a magistrate as above and that the foregoing [certificate?] purporting to be his is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this 19ty day of June in the  year 1835
PL Jones
Clerk of the Judicial Court of the City aforesaid

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21.076

This card was handed to me by Mr. Noodle, Nov 1 1855,
Boynton

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FORM OF A DECLARATION
To be made by the Widow of a deceased person who has not had a Land Warrant.

STATE OF New York
COUNTY OF Rensselaer 
ON THIS 29 DAY OF March, A.D. ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND 69, PERSONALLY APPEARED BEFORE ME, A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, WITHIN AND FOR THE COUNTY AND STATE AFORESAID, Prudence Eddy, AGED 73 YEARS, A RESIDENT OF Pittstown (?) IN THE STATE OF New York, WHO, BEING DULY SWORN ACCORDING TO LAW, DECLARES THAT SHE IS THE WIDOW OF Gilbert Eddy DECEASED, WHO WAS A Private IN THE COMPANY COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN ? in the war of the Revolution and was a General in the War of 1812 with Great Britain THAT HER SAID HUSBAND ENLISTED OR VOLUNTEERED AT

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STATE OF
COUNTY OF
I hereby certify, that__________ Esq., before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavit were made, is and was at the time of taking the same, an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signature to the foregoing certificate is genuine.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of my office, this _____day of ____185___.
Clerk.

[sideways]

160 acres
CLAIM OF Prudence Eddy
TO BOUNTY LAND.
ACT OF MARCH 3d., 1855.

Original application of a Widow.
of Genl. Eddy
War of 
Revolution & 1812

Certificate that Royal Abbott is [under?] filed in case of James G. Jeffers.

FRANCIS A. DICKINS
Attorney.

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State of New York
Rensselaer County ss

On this twenty ninth day of March 1855 personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace within and for the State and County aforesaid, William Chapman and Allen Thurber who being duly sworn according to law, declares that they are well acquainted with Prudence Eddy widow of Gilbert Eddy deceast. whom we know to have been a Pensioner of the United States.  that we were present when Prudence Chapman was married to the above [illegible] Gilbert Eddy on the fourteenth day of May one thousand Eight hundred and thirty two and that the above date corresponds with the Family record which is all the record extent and that she is still the widow of said Gilbert Eddy
William Chapman 
Allen Thurber

Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year above written
Royal Abbott Justice Peace

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8613
Gilbert Eddy
admitted
80 $
He.
Samuel Kendrick
Troy
N.Y.

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BRIEF in the case of Gilbert Eddy of Pittstown in the State of New York.
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1.	 Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge:  Open Court
2.	If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicate is disabled by bodily infirmity:
3.	How old is he?  Seventy one years
4.	State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period.; Duration of Service.; Rank.; Names of General and Field Officers under who he served. Gen.

Enlisted in 1776;3 months; [blank]; Capt. [Grant?]; Co. Ely
Drafted 1777; 3 months; [blank]; Capt Rd Hewell, Col. Sullivan
And reenlisted; 9 months; [blank]; “” “”; Col. McClelland
“”””’ 4 months; [blank]; Capt Barkley
Team service; 3 months; [blank]; Capt Avery [or Claery]
“” “”’ 3 months; [blank]; Capt Barkley
Ship – 1781; taken from & kept; 6 months; [blank]; -------

5.	In what battles was he engaged?  Saratoga
6.	Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Groton Canal
7.	Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  Pension rolls Connecticut, Richard Geer living witness, [illegible] 15 [illegible] & [illegible] the east, & clergyman and Jon. Brown each by to had  [illegible] evidence?
8.	Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? And if so, in what respect?

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

D [Kinle?], Examining Clerk.

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BRIEF in the case of Gilbert Eddy of Pittstown in the State of New York.
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1.	 Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge:  Open Court
2.	If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicate is disabled by bodily infirmity:
3.	How old is he?  Seventy one years
4.	State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period.; Duration of Service.; Rank.; Names of General and Field Officers under who he served. Gen.

Enlisted in 1776;3 months; [blank]; Capt. [Grant?]; Co. Ely
Drafted 1777; 3 months; [blank]; Capt Rd Hewell, Col. Sullivan
And reenlisted; 9 months; [blank]; “” “”; Col. McClelland
“”””’ 4 months; [blank]; Capt Barkley
Team service; 3 months; [blank]; Capt Avery [or Claery]
“” “”’ 3 months; [blank]; Capt Barkley
Ship – 1781; taken from & kept; 6 months; [blank]; -------

5.	In what battles was he engaged?  Saratoga
6.	Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Groton Canal
7.	Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  Pension rolls Connecticut, Richard Geer living witness, [illegible] 15 [illegible] & [illegible] the east, & clergyman and Jon. Brown each by to had  [illegible] evidence?
8.	Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? And if so, in what respect?

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

D [Kinle?], Examining Clerk.

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March 1, 1934

xxxxxxxxx
BA-J/ady
Gilbert Eddy 
N. 25560

Mrs. F. J. Armstrong
Plattsburg
Missouri

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your relative to one Gilbert Eddy, a soldier of the Revolutionary War and War of 1812, also to Revo Territory.

The data contained herein are obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, N.25560, based upon the military service Gilbert Eddy in the Rev. War.

While a resident of Groton, Connecticut, he enlisted in 1776 and served three months as private in Captain Grant's Company, Colonel Ely's Connecticut Regiment.  He enlisted in the summer or fall of 1777, served three months in Captain Richard Hewit's Company, Colonel Latimer's Connecticut Regiment and was in battle of Saratoga and at the taking of Burgoyne.  He the enlisted and served nine months in Captain Richard Hewit's Company, Colonel McClellan's Connecticut Regiment.  He enlisted, date not given, and served four months in Captain Buckley's Connecticut Company.  In 1781 he entered on board a privateer, soon after was captured, carried to Halifax and held prisoner six months and then exchanged.  He enlisted, date not stated, served three months Captain Avery's Connecticut Company.  He enlisted, date not stated, served three months as teamster in Captain Bulkley's Connecticut Company.  He enlisted and served three months at Fort Groton and was there when peace was declared.  He also served in the War of 1812 as Brigadier General of New York Militia from September 1, 1814 to September 19, 1814.

Soon after the close of the Revolutionary War he moved from Groton to Pittstown, New York.

He was allowed pension, on account of his services in the Revolutionary War, on his application executed September 5, 1832, while a resident of Pittstown, Rensselaer County, New York, at which time he was aged seventy - one years.

He died May 27, 1848 in Pittstown.

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Soldier married May 14, 1832, in Pittstown, Prudence Chapman.

She was allowed pension, on account of the services of Gilbert Eddy in the Revolutionary War on her application executed June 14, 1855 at which time she was aged seventy-three years and a resident of Pittstown, New York. 

No reference is made to soldier's parents. One William Chapman was living in Pittstown, New York, in 1855, no relationship to the family stated. There are no further family data. 

The Revolutionary War records of this office fail to show that pension or bounty land was ever claimed on account of the services of Devotion Eddy, all spellings of the surname searched. 

Very truly yours, 
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator.

[written in left margin]

Date of widow’s death
Not on A.B.

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In reply to your request of , received for a statement of the military history of a solider of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. 

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OF APPOINTMENT 
LENGTH OF SERVICE 
RANK
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED 
CAPTAIN COLONEL 
STATE

Battles engaged in,
Residence of solider at enlistment, 
Date of application for pension, 
Age at date of application, 
Remarks: 

Respectfully, 
Commissioner

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Rev. War Section

3-1865
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
WASHINGTON

May 31, 1919

Mrs. Victor F. Clark,
#903 Lincoln Street
Beatrice, Nebraska

(stamp: U.S. Pensions Office Jun 5 1919)

Madam:

     In response to your letter of the fourth instant, you are advised that this Bureau is unable to furnish the record of a soldier of the Revolutionary War unless a claim for pension or bounty land has been filed herein on account of his services, and a careful search of the Revolutionary War records fails to show such claims on file for John Eddy, Zephiniah Eddy, Richard Center, Isaac Lamb and Captain Joseph Horton, described by you.
     In order to identify claims, if on file, for Gilbert Eddy and Thomas Horton, subjects of your inquiry, it will be necessary for you to furnish some of the following data with regard to each of them:  names of some officers under whom he served, his places of residence at enlistment and after service, the approximate dates of his birth and death, and the given name of his widow, if he left one.

Very respectfully,
[signature illegible]
Commissioner

[illegible handwriting]

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Woman's Missionary Union
Southern Baptist Convention
1111 Comer Building
Birmingham, Alabama

Mrs. F. W. Armstrong, President
     Plattsburg, Missouri
Mrs. H. M. Wharton
     Recording Secretary
Miss Kathleen Mallory
     Corresponding Secretary
Miss Juliette Mather
     Young People's Secretary
Mrs. Sumter Lea, Jr.
     Assistant Recording Secretary
Miss Ethel Winfield
     Assistant to Corresponding Secretary
     Secretary of Literature Department
Miss Pearle Bourne
     Associate Young People's Secretary
Mrs. W. C. Lowndes, Treasurer
     Greenway Apartments
     3401 Charles St., Baltimore, Md.
Mrs. R. K. Redwine
Mrs. Taul B. Whilte
Mrs. Carter Wright
     W. M. U. Representatives
Mrs. Frank Burney
     Margaret Fund Chairman
Mrs. Carter Wright
     Southwide Stewardship Chairman
Mrs. Una Roberts Lawrence
     Southwide Mission Study Chairman
Mrs. P. B. Lowrance
     Southwide Personal Service Chairman

W. M. U. Magazines
Royal Service--The Window--World Comrades

     "The Eddy Family In America" carries on page 148 the name of Devotion Eddy of whom it is said "Devotion went to Groton (Conn) from Swansea (Mass) with  his parents.  He became interested in farming and later in shipping.  It is stated that during the Revolutionary War he owned several privateers which greatly assisted the American cause.  He appears in the Land Registry of Groton until about 1781.  At about this time he went to New York state and settled near Pittstown"
     On page 239 it is said of Gilbert Eddy (son of Devotion) that "He was captured on the ocean and taken prisoner to Halifax, Nova Scotia...He served on his fathers privateers and it was probably on one of these expeditions that he was captured." He was a General in the War of 1812.
     Shall be grateful for any information about either of these men especially any records concerning Revolutionary War service of Devotion Eddy.

              [signed] Mrs. F.W. Armstrong
              Mrs F.W. Armstrong

Plattsburg Missouri 
2/6/34

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OUR BIG 3--COFFEES, CANDIES, CIGARS

BELCHER GROCER COMPANY
WHOLESALE GROCERS
PHONE 122

COLUMBIA, MO.

Please send me the Rev War record of Devotion Eddy born Sept 8th 1734 at Swansea Mass married Mary Sherman (sister of Capt Sherman of Rev. fame) Owned privateer vessels in the Continental cause, Rev War died at Partition [Pittstown?], NY. 1813 Wife died at 95.  Also the Indian Wars.  Entered Rev at Groton Conn.  Please send his son's Gilbert Eddy born Jan 23rd 1761 died 1845 married Prudence Avery. He was captured during the Rev war on his father's

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Our big 3-coffees, candies, cigars
BELCHER GROCER COMPANY
Wholesale Grocers
Phone 122
Columbia, Mo
191
privateer vessel & imprisoned at Halifax in a vessel's hulk for a year. Was at the battle of Saratoga + Bennington. He was a General of Division in war of 1812 in N.Y. state-was a Presidential Elector at the time of John Q. Adams accession to the office. He died in June 2[illegible]
dd Mrs. J. N. Belcher
1315 Reiser Ave
Columbia Mo_

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Columbia
Mo May 28th
Comissioner of Pensions
Will you please see what information you can give me in regard to me Great-grandfather Gen Gilbert Eddy
he is buried at Raymerton about ten miles North of Troy N.Y - the Inscription on his tombstone Gen Gilbert Eddy

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Died May 27th 1848 aged 89 years. At the early age of sixteen years he participated in the Capture of Burgoyne at Bemis Heights and at a later period of the Revolutionary struggle was captured at sea & carried to Halifax, where he was for a long time incarcerated in an odious prison ship.
Add Mrs. J. N. Belcher
1014 University Ave
Columbia Missouri

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Allinois Society
[Seal image states "SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION"]
John D. Vandercook, Secretary,
604 Masonic Temple
Address all mail communications to 
217 9. Park Ave, Austin, ILL.
Chicago, January 2nd, 1896.
Hon. Wm. Lochren,
Pension Commissioner,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:--
Gilbert Eddy, my great-grandfather, I am told, was an Aid-de-camp to an officer during the Revolutionary War and also served in other capacities. I am also informed that his widow, Prudence, drew a pension. If you have any information relative to this of to a pension drawn on account of services of Devotion Eddy, his father, who was a privateersman, will you please furnish me with the same.
Very respectfully yours,
John D Vandercook
Secretary.

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Febr. 4, 1896.  Hist'y to John D. Vandercook
                   Austin, Ills.
1907 June [illegible] Hist. to [illegible]
1919 June 13 " " " Victor F. Clark
1934 Mar. 1. Hist. to Mrs. F. W. Armstrong


WIDOW, &c.

File No. 2 S.S. 60
Prudence Eddy
    wid. of
Gilbert Eddy
     Priv. Rev. war

Act Feb. 3rd 1863

Index: Vol. A, Page 210

[Arrangement of 1870.]

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15.046
sev Rev. War M'id. File 25560
Gilbert Eddy wid. Prudence
[illegible] & Privateer
[illegible]

1911 Feb. 25- Hist. to Mrs J. N. Belcher see Rev. claims W. file 25,560 Gilbert Eddy- [signature shaped like a C with a line]

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No 3822
Prudence Eddy
Widow of Gilbert
NY
F.A. Dickens June 22 1853
30 Heby 1853

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Unreadable
Pen. Off.
Nov. 5/56
Sir
Please examin N.Y. Pen
war of 1817 for service of client
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For unreadable

unreadable,

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Prudence Eddy
Widow of Gilbert
Russell Co NY
Admd Feb, 3 1853
2(unreadable)  $80
for annunen
from 3rd Feb, 1853
Cert to
AA Dickens, 
Prest

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Pen Off. June 29 1853
Sir
Please inform me when Gilbert Eddy of [illegible] '32 $80k year was last paid 
Very Respectfully
[illegible]
C Clerk
R I Atkinson Eos
30 [Unsure]

[Upside down]
Gilbert Eddy deed 27 May 1845 paid in full
Saml. S. Rind
[illegible]
June 09/88

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Brief in the case of Prudence Eddy widow of Gilbert Russell
County and state of New York
3 July 1833
Claim, ("original,") [words stricken]
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
It is documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls. If either, state the substance.
Her husband was a pensioner [illegible] the all
of 7 June 1833 at $80 a year (service proved in his [illegible])
Marriage, her identity, as the pensioner's
[a line struck out]
widow, his death then present under her 
[illegible] by 2 letters certifying to be credible
( [illegible] in her [illegible] [illegible]   application [illegible] )

Thornton N. Platt
Examining clerk
Name and residence of Agent
A. Dickins Esq.
Present

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Suspended bounty land claim re-examined
No. 50.450
Treasury Department
Third Auditor's Office
January 14, 1856
served in Captain Militia
Company to the 
from the
Gilbert Eddy served as Brige Gene
NY [illegible] from the 1st to the 19th September/Sept
1814
Roh J. [illegible]
Third Auditor
Commissioner of Pensions
Department of the Interior
[illegible - Springhill]

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[Illegible]

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Pension Office
June 23, 1855
The application of Prudence 
Eddy widow of Gilbert of N.Y. has been 
examined and filed under the act of February/Feby 3, 1853.
The proof of marriage has been filed,
I am, respectfully,
[illegible] [illegible] [lieutenant]
[illegible]
Commissioner
F.A. Dickins, Esq.
Present.

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commissioner

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L.P. Waldo Esq.
Com of Pensions
[Was--illegible]
21 June 1855
Sir, Enclosed I have the
honor of presenting the [illegible] of 
Wm. Prudence Eddy, widow of Gilbert
Eddy for a pension under act of
3 Feb. 1853. For issuance of pension
identity and [illegible] you are [illegible]
to her application for [illegible] [illegible]
(No. 50.450) under act of 1855 and her late husbands papers filed under act 7 June 1832.
Yours [illegible]
Francis A. Dickins

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County Clerks
Certificate of Royal
Abbot Jr.

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Royal Abbott
Justice of Peace

State of New York
Rensselaer County
I, Ambrose [illegible] Shillincer
Clerk of said county do hereby certify that Royal
Abbott Jr. is a Justice of the Peace in and for the
County of Rensselaer dwelling in said county confines [illegible] and duly authorised by law to administer oaths affirmations that his term of office commenced on the first day of January 1833 and will expire on the 31st day of December 1858 and that his signature above [M/Wutten] is genuine 
of testimony which of I have hereunto described and [illegible] and affixed my official seal the 19 day of May 1833 A [illegible] Shillincer of Rensselaer

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The national archives
form VAM-51
12-5-41
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
Bounty Land Warrant Record Card
Name Eddy, James
Grade Private
Line New Hampshire
Warrant Number 3091
Acreage 100
Issued October 10, 1796
is the s Woodward, assignee
The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.