Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26363, for Memucan Rew, Connecticut

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SERVICE                                          
NUMBER W 26363
Connecticut
Rew, Memucan           
Hannah

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V. Ellis   U
 17, 1851
    Exam
Secy of the    [illegible word]
..... Jany 3.
1851 

V. Ellis  Apr 7. 1852


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        4993
New York
Hannah Rew
widow of Menucan Rew
  Con
who served in the Revolutionary 
was. as a private,

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
       26 Dollars-
Cents per annum, to commence on 
the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the
11th day of Aug 1849,
and sent to 
     W. T. Jackson
            Havana
                  N.Y.

   ..... ed on Roll of Pensioners under act
................2, 1848. Page 174   Vol. 4

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State of New York
    St Lawrence County - Js -
On this 4th day of December 1847 personally appeared before Mr Enos Beach a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Hannah Rew & being duly Sworn deposeth and Saith that She had a Certifficate [sic] of her Marriage to Memucan Rew Signed by a Justice of the peace by the name of  Baker in the Town of Canaan in Litchfield County and State of Connecticut dated March 1781 & that the Said Certificate is lost
                          [Signed]  Hannah Rew
Subscribed & Sworn before 
me at  Messina in Said County
this 4th day of December 1847
   [Signed]  Enos Beach  JP

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State of New York
St Lawrence County} SS-

  On this twenty ninth day of  June one thousand eight hundred and forty seven personally appeared before me  Phineas Attwater one of the Judges of the Court of Com. Pleas in and for the said County of St Lawrence, Hannah Rew a resident of the Town of Messina in the County and State aforesaid, aged eighty three years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled "An Act giving half pay and pensions to certain  widows" that she is the widow of Memucan Rew who was a private, and also sergeant, in the army of the Revolution, that he the said Memucan Rew was drafted to serve in the army of the revolution in the Town of Farmington State of Connecticut previous to her marriage with him in 1781  this deponent knows that he served under Capt Peter Curtis and served under said Capt six months and also that he served under Maj Ezekiel Scott about the same period that he was marched to White Hall in the State of New York in  one campaign and was marched to Horse Neck in another campaign served one year   this deponent obtained this information of her husband's service from him after their marriage, this deponent  has no

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documentary evidence in support of her claim, that her husband left no papers in her possession stating thereto that he husband the said Memucan Rew died in the month of September 1813 in the Town of Farmington State of Connecticut - This deponent further declares that she was married to the said Memucan Rew on the eighth day of March, 1781 in the Town of Canaan State of Connecticut by a Justice of the Peace by the name of Baker, that she has no evidence of her marriage except a record in a family Bible made in the year 1818 by her daughter Karen Rew   At the time of her marriage which served on the leaf of the Bible is hereunto annexed - this deponent was not married prior to the service being performed by her husband in the army but the marriage took place previous to the first of January 1794, viz at the time above stated    This deponent further declares that she knows that he husband hired and paid one Theodor Andrus to enlist and serve in the army of the revolution during the war, that he served at least eighteen months, by which arrangement he was to be exempted from being drafted into the service 
This deponent has had five children by the said Memucan Rew only two are now living viz Nancy Rew and Maria married to Jacob W. Gould -  Sworn to and subscribed on the 29th June 1847 the day and year above written -
   [Signed]  Hannah Rew
Before me
   [Signed]  Phineas Attwater Judge of StLaw Com. Pleas

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I certify that Hannah Rew who made and signed the foregoing Declaration is unable to attend the Court of the County by reason of the infirmities of age  she residing more than thirty miles from the Court House the nearest Court of Record - and having no personal knowledge of her character two affidavits annexed were taken to prove her a person of truth and veracity - I also certify that I have hereunto affixed or attached a leaf from the family Bible containing record of deponents marriage - Messina June 29th 1847
     [Signed] Phineas Attwater Judge  SL

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[This appears to be a page from the family Bible of Hannah Rew]

                        FAMILY RECORD

                          MARRIAGES
Memucan Rew and Hannah Ives was Married
March 8th 1781
Henry Rew  son of Memucan and Hannah Rew was married to Anna Benson January 21st AD 1810
Jacob W Gould was married to Maria Rew
February 12 AD 1818


Taken from family Bible in pension office  
 Phineas Attwood

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[Page from Hannah Rew's family Bible.]

                    FAMILY RECORD

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     BIRTHS                              
Henry Rew was born      
 March 14 AD 1782       
George Rew was born     
   July 2d AD 1785.           
John Rew was born          
    August 21st AD 1787.
William Rew was born
September 11th AD 1790.
Maria Rew was born
  June 14th 1795.

Celestia Gould was born
December 17th AD 1819
William Rew Gould was born
June 24th AD 1822 -
Lydia Maria Gould was 
born   August 8th AD 1824
John Ives Gould was born
August 6th AD 1827
Elsa Gould was born 
January 21 AD 1831

DEATHS

(Henry Rew)   Died of Consumption .....
1840  Celestia, daughter of
Jacob W. and Maria
Gould, aged 20 years
and 17 days.

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State of New York
St Lawrence County} SS-
Alfred Colburn of the Town of Messina Cy of St Lawrence State of New York aged sixty years, being first duly sworn according to law, deponent under such that he has been acquainted with Mrs. Hannah Rew for twenty years, and having lived near her in the Town of Messina aforesaid, his place of residence that during that period there has been a widow, and  reported to have been the widow of Memucan Rew has uniformly sustained a good moral character during the acquaintance of the deponents and is to be believed as a woman of truth and [illegible word] - that deponent would put the fullest confidence in her statements and Oath -
     [Signed]  Alfred Colburn
Sworn and subscribed 
before me this 29th day
of June 1847 -
    [Signed]Phineas Atwater  Judge of
       S Law Com Pleas

I certify that I am well acquainted with Alfred Colburn Esqr who made and subscribed the above affdvt that he has been a magistrate for the last fifteen years and is a an of truth and veracity
  [Signed]   Phineas Attwater Judge S

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State of New York
St Lawrence County} SS-
John Polly of the Town of Messina County of St Lawrence State of New York aged sixty three years being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith, that he has been acquainted with Mrs. Hannah Rew who lived near this deponent in said Town of Messina during which time for twenty eight years she has been reputed to be the widow of Memucan Rew that she has uniformly sustained a character for both truth and veracity and that deponent has the fullest confidence in her statements under oath -
    [Signed] John Polly
Sworn and subscribed
before me this 29th June 1847
{Signed] Phineas Attwater Judge of
St Law Comm Pleas-

I certify that I am well acquainted with Capt. John Polly who made and subscribed the above affidavit & that he is a man of truth and veracity and fully to be relied upon -
   [Signed]  Phineas Attwater Judge SL

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                   13584
  Hannah Rew
wd of Memucan 
            NY
   act. 7 July 1838
  married before
    1994
  admitted
  Pri  7 mos 14 days
                 $26
   per annum for
    4 March 1836
  to 4 March 1848

  Under act 3 March 1843
& 17 June 1844 from 4 March
1843 to 4 March 1848
from 4 March 1848 for 
life

W.T.  Jackson
Havana
NY

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State of New York
County of St Lawrence} Js
I Martin Thatcher Clerk of the County and the State aforesaid. do hereby certify that Phineas Attwater before whom the affidavits of Hannah Rew, Alfred Colburn and John Polly were taken, was, at the time of taking same a Judge of the Common Pleas Court in and for the County aforesaid (which said Court is a Court of Record), and duly authorised [sic] to take the same. And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and Verily believe that his signature above written is genuine -
                            Given under my hand and 
Seal                      the seal of said Court and 
affixed                  County this 1st day of July 
here                      AD 1847
             [Signed]  Martin Thatcher  Clerk

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I, Marvin Curtis, of Farmington, Hartford County and State of Connecticut, of lawful age, being duly Cautioned and sworn, depose and say, that Memucan Rew belonged in this town, and that he lived here when I was a boy, about the year 1775.  He was a near neighbor to me, and I knew him well.  My age is eighty years.
  [Signed]  Marvin Curtis

State of Connecticut} ss Farmington.
County of Hartford} August 29th AD 1848.
Personally appeared before me this twenty ninth day of August AD 1848, Marvin Curtis, signer of the foregoing deposition, and made solemn oath to the truth of the same.
    [Signed]   Saml S. Cowles 
                    Justice of Peace.

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Rew Memucan son to John Rew Born November 27:1753 -
  The foregoing is a true copy of the original record, found in Vol. 8th  Page 8th of the records of this Town -
   [Signed]  Simeon Hart
                       Town Clerk
State of Connecticut
Hartford County}
Farmington Aug 25, 1848}

State of Connecticut } ss Farmington,
County of Hartford}  August 25th AD 1848.
  Personally appeared before me this twenty-fifth day of August, AD 1848, Simeon Hart, Town Clerk of Farmington aforesaid, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing copy from the Records of this town.
   [Signed]  Saml L. Cowles
      Justice of Peace

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I, Thomas F. Bishop of Avon, Hartford County and State of Connecticut, of lawful age, being duly cautioned and sworn, depose and say that in the year 1775, I think in the early part of the month of May, Noadiah Hooker of Farmington aforesaid, raised a company in Farmington and vicinity, and went into the Revolutionary service, and were stationed in Roxbury Massachusetts.  I had a brother in that company, named Samuel Bishop, and I was informed by him that they were at Roxbury before the battle of Bunker Hill.  Noadiah Hooker was Captain of the Company.  They returned some time in December 1775. Peter Curtis was a commissioned officer in the same company.

In the year 1776, Noadiah Hooker and Ichabod Norton, both of said Farmington, raised Companies which they commanded, and I had a brother, Joseph Bishop, in Norton's company.  They went to Fort Ann, I believe on Lake George, and my brother died at Fort Ann.  William Hart of Farmington and many others that I knew, who are now dead, were in Norton's company.  I have  a strong impression that I have seen Memucan Rew's name on the roll of a company which was at Roxbury in 1775, which was kept by Samuel Richards of Farmington, who is now dead, but I have no other knowledge of my own concerning Rew's service.

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Ezekiel Scott has told me that he (Scott) [name inserted] was at Roxbury in the year 1775, but I have the impression that he was in Lieutenant Hooker's company.  Ezekiel Scott belonged in Farmington abovementioned.  Avon, where I now live, was at the time a part of Farmington.  My age is eighty five. And further deponent saith not -      [Signed] Thomas F. Bishop

State of Cnnecticut,} ss. Farmington,
County of Hartford,}  August 21, AD 1848.
   Personally appeared before me this twenty first day of August, AD 1848, Thomas F. Bishop, signer of the foregoing deposition, and made solemn oath to the truth of the same.
                   [Signed]  Saml. S. Cowles,
                                     Justice of Peace

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State of Connecticut Hartford County, ss. Farmington
August, 17. AD. 1848
I, Ezekiel Cowles, of Farmington, Hartford County and State of Connecticut of lawful age, being duly cautioned and sworn, depose and say, that according to my best recollection the term of service for which the army was raised in the year 1775 was seven months. In that year Ezekiel Scott and Noadiah Hooker, both inhabitants of Farmington above mentioned, each raised a company in this town and vicinity. Noadiah Hooker was full captain
and Ezekiel Scott was Captain Lieutenant;
Samuel Wyllys was Colonel. They were stationed at Roxbury near Boston, State of Massachusetts. I believe that Memucan Rew of this town was in the service in the year above mentioned, 1775, but I cannot state positively. In the year 1776 two companies were
raised (for the campaign in this town, one under the command of Noadiah Hooker, and the other under the command of Ichabod Norton. They were raised for the defence of the Western Lakes, and stationed not of the time at Skensbury [Skenesborough] on Lake
George. I think the term for which they were raised of this town was six months. Memucan Rew of this town enlisted in Captain Noadiah Hooker's company for that service as a corporal and I have a clear recollection now of his wearing at that time the badge of that office. I also have a clear recollection of his marching off with the com-

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-pany at the time they left town to go into the service.
Although I was not with the company myself, yet
from facts and information given to me at that
time, I have no doubt he served during the term
for which he enlisted. The companies were raised
I verily believe in the month of May in 1776. On
his return from said campaign, as I was at that
time informed by common repute, he was engaged
in Canaan in this State as a schoolmaster, and
stopped there, and soon after was married to a respectable woman belonging to that town. In 1776,
I was twenty years of age, and I should think he
was about three years older than I was. - And
further deponent saith not
Ezekiel Cowley
State of Connecticut
ss. Farmington,
County of Hartford ⎬ August 17th, AD. 1848.
Personally appeared before me this seventeenth
day of August, AD. 1848. Ezekiel Cowles, signer
of the foregoing deposition, and made solemn
oath to the truth of the same,
Saml S. Cowles
Justice of Peace

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State of Connecticut
Hartford County}  Clerk's Office, S.S.
   I Chauncey Howard, clerk of the County Court within and for said County, hereby certify that Samuel S. Cowles Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the within Deposition, was , on the day of date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and fully authorised [sic] by law, to  take the same, - And further that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and believe that named "Saml. S. Cowles" subscribed to the within Deposition are his proper and genuine signatures. -

In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed
the Seal of said County Court, this 21st day of
September, A.D.1848.
    [Signed]  Chauncey Howard, Clerk

[A seal is affixed to the left of this last paragraph]

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State of New York
Schoharie County} Js

Levi Ives of Said County Being By me Duly Sworn Says That in the year one thousand Seven hundred and Eighty one I was a Resident of the State of Connecticut Litchfield County and Town  of Canaan and this Deponent further Says that it was Currantly [sic] Reported at that time that Memucan Rew was married to Hannah Ives who was my Sister By one Mr Baker who was the then Justice of the Peace of the Said Town of Canaan and this Deponent further Says that soon after that time the Said Rew and the Said Hannah moved to the Town of Farming Town in the Said State and Command keeping house and Lived together as man and wife and had Children and this Deponent further Says that a short time after the Said Rew and Hannah had moved from the aforesaid Town of Canaan to the Town of Goshen the She the Said Hannah Came to this Deponent and Requested him to Go to the Said Baker Justice of the Peace as aforesaid for the Purpose of Getting a Certificate of the Marriage of the Said Rew to the Said Hannah Ives and this Deponent further Says that in accordance with Said Request he this Deponent did go to the Said Baker Justice of the Peace as aforesaid and that the Said Justice Did then and there Draw up and Subscribed a Certificate of Said marriage as aforesaid which Said Certificate was by the Said Justice Delivered to this Deponent, and By this Deponent to the Said Hannah and this Deponent further Says that the Said Certificate Stated that in March 1781 in the State of Connecticut County of Litchfield and Town of Canaan At the house of Eben Brownell, Memucan Rew was By the Said Justice married to Hannah Ives and Said Certificate was Signed By the

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Said Baker in his official Capacity and this Deponent further says that he was on the 25th Day of May last Passt [sic] Eighty Six years of age and that he now resides in the State of New York County of Schoharie and Town of Summit and this Deponent further Says that it is impressive that the Said Certificate Did Also State that the Said Menucan Rew and Hannah Ives was married according to Law and the Deponent further says that about the years after said Marriage the said Baker Justice of the Peace as aforesaid Married them Deponent to Caroline Pratt and who is  Still the wife of the Deponent and further this Deponent Saith not
              [Signed] Levi Ives
Subscribed and Sworn to
Before me this 28th Day
of August 1847
  [Signed]  Abrm VanTuyl  Justice of the Peace

State of New York
Schoharie County} Js   I Stephen Maham Clerk of said County Do hereby certify that Abm Van Tuyl Esqr the person subscribing the foregoing oath or deposition and before whom the same was taken was on the 28th day of August 1847 a Justice of the Peace of said County and duly authorized to take the same and further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Justice and verily believe that the name Abm Van Tuyl subscribed to the said deposition is his proper and genuine Signiture [sic]
   In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affiixed the seal of said County the 2nd day of September A.D. 1847.
   [Signed] Stephen Maham  Clerk
                        Scho Co.

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        No 13584
   Hannah Rew
          NS
Let. to Hon. D. Wilmot
   March 13, 48
  Hon D. Wilmot Feb 27, 49

Act 7 July 1838

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Hannah Rews Case

Affirmed - evidence of service
as corporal}                Alexr H.H. Stuart
not sufficient}                  April 1st 185...

[An oval stamp appears vertically on right of the above information]

THE PATENT ADHESIVE   
       PAPER BAND

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               10, 706
            New York
          Hannah Rew
Widow of Memucan Rew
who was a pensioner under the Act of....
and who died on the ... of Sept 1813,
of St Lawrence Co in the State of New York, 
and was a private in the .................
commanded by Captain ........... of the
..... commanded by ......... in
the New York line for 7 Mos 14 dys.

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 26 Dollars  ----
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of
March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the Eleventh day of August 1849, and sent to
   W. T. Jackson, Havana, N.Y.

Total amount,                  $    ___________________
                      [Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Henry Robinson Clerk,

Book D   Vol. 1   Page 179

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                       8614
   New York
Hannah Rew
widow of Memucan Rew -
who was a Private
in the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate 
of 26 Dollars --- 
Cents per annum, to commence
on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued 
the 11th day of Aug 1849
and sent to
W. T. Jackson
     Havana 
            N.Y.

[Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2     Page 84

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Revy WIDOW, etc.

File No.   26, 360

Hannah Rew
    Wid of
Memucan Rew
    Priv Rev War

Act: Feb 2nd 1848
Index:- Vol. M   Page 157
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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rew       w Revly

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     Department of the Interior
Washington April 20 1852

Sir
   I have examined the case of Hannah Rew widow of Memucan Rew upon an appeal from your decision and have to inform you that your decision is affirmed, as the evidence of the Service of Rew as Corporal does not appear to be sufficient.
                   I am Very Respectfully
                       Your obedient Servant
              [Signed]  Alexr  H.H. Stuart -
                                            Secretary


James L. Edwards
     Commissioner of Pensions

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State of New York
St Lawrence County} Ss   I Martin Thatcher County Clerk of the County of St Lawrence and also Clerk of the Court of Record directed by Law to be held in and for said County do hereby certify that Enos Beach whose name is subscribed to the jurat of the Annexed Affidavit of Hannah Rew was at the time of taking such Affidavit a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid Elected and sworn  and duly authorized to take the same.  And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such Justice and verily believe the signature to the jurat of said Affidavit is genuine.
   In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court and County this 15th day of September
One thousand eight hundred forty eight

     [Signed]  Martin Thatcher Clerk
                      By J.R. Tappen    Deputy

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Hannah Rew
of Pa. See Com. letter of
     Feb 27, 1849


Depose    Will you
before he saw [two illegible words]
Hannah Rew]

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State of Connecticut,
Hartford County, ss}  Farmington, July 21, AD. 1849.
Ezekiel Cowles (whom I certify as a respectable old man, and of apparent sound mind) after being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is ninety three years of age, -that when a young man, and all through the Revolution, he resided a near neighbor  to, and was intimately acquainted with  Memucan Rew, a revolutionary soldier of Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut, - who was during said Revolutionary War a resident of that town and a soldier in the War of the Revolution; - that Capt. Scott, who served in the War of the Revolution, commanded men from said town of Farmington, that Capt. Scott's beat or command embraced the town of Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut, - and that this deponent knew of no other person of the name of Memucan Rew belonging to said town or County
       [Signed] Ezekiel Cowles
  Subscribed and sworn before me this
21st day of July AD 1849.
    Saml L. Cowles    Justice of Peace.

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State of Connecticut
Hartford Co.  S.S.
     Hartford   July 27
                           1849

I hereby certify that Samuel S. Cowles of Farmington in said State, is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Hartford, and that his signature hereunto attached is in my judgement genuine.
           [Signed]   James Dixon
                              late a Representative
                                 in Congress from the 
                                   State of Connecticut

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State of Connecticut} Avon July 18 AD 1849
Hartford County SS]
   Thomas Fitch Bishop  (whom I certify is a respectable old man, and of apparent sound mind), after being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is eighty-four years of age, that when a young man and all through the Revolution he resided in the same town and was imtimately acquainted with Memucan Rew a Revolutionary soldier of Farmington Hartford County, Connecticut,  who was during said Revolutionary war a resident of that town  (that Major Scott, who served in the war of the Revolution commanded men from said town of Farmington, that Major Scott's bout on command embraced the town of Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut, and that this deponent knew of another  person of the name of Memucan belonging to said town or County.
      [Signed]     Thomas F. Bishop
Subscribed and sworn to before me 
this 18th day of July AD 1849.
   [Signed]  Samuel L. Cowles
    Justice of Peace

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State of Connecticut
Hartford County SS} Farmington July 20 AD 1849.
Marvin Curtis (whom I certify is a respectable old man and of apparent sound mind,) after being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says, that he is eighty-one years of age, that when a young man and all through the Revolution, he resided a near neighbor to, and was intimate and acquainted with Memucan Rew, a Revolutionary soldier of Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut, who was during said Revolutionary War as resident of that town, and lived directly across the street from the house in which this deponent lived and now lives, and that this deponent knew of no other person of the name of Memucan Rew belonging to said town or County, and that the said Memucan Rew was the identical person and late husband of the present widow Hannah Rew, herself an applicant for a pension from Pennsylvania.
            [Signed]  Marvin Curtis

Subscribed and sworn before me this
20th day of July AD1849.
                              [Signed]  James Cowles
                                            Justice of Peace

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Hon J.L. Edwards
Comr Pensions
    Dr Sir  Will you please examine & Report to me on the enclosed case of Hannah Rew.
Havana August 7 1849          Yours truly
          [Signed]  W T Jackson

Hannah Rew
of Pa the Court letter of
    Feb. 27, 1849

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                                   State of Connecticut
                                       Comptrollers Office
                              Hartford 23 August 1847

    I Certify that an application for evidence of the service of Memucan Rew in the War of the Revolution, I have examined the documents remaining in this Office relating to that War, and find a copy of a Pay Roll sworn to by the Captain and Certifyed [sic] by the Committee of Pay-Table as correct, headed as follows
" A Pay Roll of the 2d Co. in the 2d Regt. raised pr order Genl  Assembly Conn.  May 11, 1775" in which Ezekiel Scott is entered as Captain and Memucan Rew is private, and as enlisting May 4th and serving until October 12th - 7 months & 14 days.  The time of discharge was evidently intended to be written Decemr as much the greatest part of the soldiers are credited enlisting early in May & being discharged in Decemr. making a few days over 7 months service.  A few left the company for Quebec on the 1st pf Sept. -  The Amt. of Wages credited him is L 14.18.8 corresponding with Amt. with that credited others who served 7 months & upward, to about 18 December, being the sum due him for 7 months & 14 days service is 40/ pr month of Billeting.
     The following is an extract of the Roll, in the order in which it is made:-
[This information is listed in five columns]
   Mens Names & Quality  
   Time of Enlistment  
   When Discharge  
   Months & days in Service  
   Amt. of Wages  etc.   etc.

Elisha Peck    May 8   Decemr 18  7 # 10   L14.13.4
Stephen Ranny   " 5        "       18  7 # 13    14.17.4
Amos Ranny       " 5   October 28  5 # 26    11.14.8
Thomas Ritch     " 8         "       18  7 # 10    14.13.4
Memucan Rew   " 4         "       18   7 # 14   14.18.8
Robert Robinson "6         "       17   7 # 11   14.14.8
Elijah Royce        " 9         "       19   7 # 10   14.13.4
James Scott        " 4         "       18   7 # 14   14.18.8
Isaac Silver         " 10     Septr   16   4 # 6       8.8.0 Abram 
   Schallanx        " 3      Decemr 18   7 # 13 14.17.4
Samuel Stow      " 9         "         19  7 # 10  14.13.4
Robert Stevenson " 8        "       18   7 # 10  14.13.4
Marshal Stocking  " 8       "        18   7 # 10  14.13.4
Abner Stocking    " 6        Septr  1    3 # 26   7.14.8
Wm Shattuck       " 6     Decemr 18  7 # 12 14.16.0
and then follow many other discharges in December at the same rate as above -
          [Signed]  Abijah Catlin 
                     Comptroller

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                                        March 3d  1848
Col. Edwards
Comss of Pensions
              Dr Sir
                           Enclosed are papers relating to the case of Hannah Rew a revolutionary widow and applicant for the benefit of the Pension Laws -
   Your early attention to this case is respectfully requested
                                   Respectfully etc
                                       D. Wilmot

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                                  Hartford 26 Aug 1847
Mr Rew       Dr Sir  Enclosed is a certificate for the service of your father in the revolutionary war. The mistake is the time of his discharge was not discovered until the certificate was being drawn but I trust it is in such a shape as  will place it beyond doubt that he served for a period of 7 mos 14 days. No other evidence of service has been found after the most diligent search
                Respectfully yo obt sevt
                     [Signed]  Abijah Catlin

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53                                                  No  33.-
                               Pension Office
                                Jany 3/52
                Commiss. of Pensions

Rel: to the case of Hannah 
Rew Act 7th July
1838 - appeal of V. Ellis
Esqr. -

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                                     Pension Office
                                           January 3d 1852.
Sir:
    I have the honor herewith to transmit the papers relating to the case of Hannah Rew, on which Mr V Ellis appeals.
    For the service of her husband as private a pension has already been granted, But she claims that he also service six moths as Corporal ,  That he was a private as shown by competent record and provide testimony, but only one witness proved him a corporal and that one was not in the service himself and knows nothing of the fact except that he saw Memucan Rew with the Company. Whether he served with it at all and if so, how long are points that can ony be guessed at as they are not proved.
                         Very Respectfully
                                Your obd Sevt
                    [Signed]  H. Heath
                           Commissioner of Pensions.
Honl  A. H. H. Stuart
Secy. of the Interior.

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52

Refd to the Comm Pensions
for Report
Dept Int}
Decr 30/51}

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     Washington 30th Dec '51

The Secretary of the Interior
Sir,
I ask an appeal from the decision of the Commissioner of Pensions, in the pension case of Hannah Rew widow of Memucan Rew, Penna. roll.
                       Very respectfully
                             Your obsevt
                              Vespasian Ellis
                                       Attorney

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                 STATE OF CONNECTICUT,
                   LITCHFIELD COUNTY,} ss.  Litchfield

     I Frederick D.  Beeman Assistant Clerk of the COUNTY COURT in said County is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and by Law authorized to administer OATHS and to take the acknowledgement of DEEDS.  And that his ___ commission was dated on the 26th day of June   A.D., 1848 and will expire on the 20th day of June, A.D., 1849 & that the signature to the accompanying instrument purporting to be his, is genuine
      Given under my hand and the Seal of said Court this 12th day of October A.D. 1848.
  [Signed]  Frederick D. Beeman
                             Assistant Clerk

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                      Canaan  September 16th 1848

This certifies that I have examined the Records of this Town and can find no Record of the Marriage of Memucan Rew to Hannah Ives
         Attest  William Douglas Town Clerk

Litchfield County Js  Canaan Sept. 16th 1848
   Personally appeared before me William Douglas Town Clerk of the Town of Canaan and made oath to the truth of the above certificate by him Subscribed
   John Elmore Jr  Justice of Peace

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                         Feb 6 - 1851
Hannah Rew
     Pa
    Increase

   Cap Triplett
 Act 48     NC

Vespasian  Ellis
            Atty

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To the Commissioner of Pensions

Sir,  The Widow, Hannah Rew, whose husband, Memucan Rew, was a Revolutionary Soldier of the Connecticut line, I think, & which said Widow was pensioned in the year ....[blank .... on the Pennsylvania agency at the rate of $26 per year, claims that her pension should have been much larger.  He was a private in Capt Scotts Company in 1775 for 7 months & 14 days, & also a Corporal in Capt Hookers Company in 1776 for 6 months.  The pension of $70 [?] was allowed for the 7 m & 14 ds

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service in Capt Scotts company as a private, & no allowance was made for the 6 months services in 1776 as Corporal in Capt. Hooker's Company.
   She claims an increase for the last named service of 6 months as Corporal, upon the proofs filed in the case.
                    Respectfully submitted
                            Vespasian Ellis
                                     her attorney
                 Jany 31st 1851

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Hannah Rew
Tioga Co
               Pa

Claims owe
 increase.

living and
drawing a
pension

I wish to see
the papers
    V Ellis

Exa by Ellis
Jan 18  51

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Sullivan, Tioga Co  December 19, 1850

The Comissioner of Pensions will please permit Mr Vespasian Ellis to examine my pension application & proof on file in the pension office for the purpose of procuring an increase of pension for me, and the Commission will please reexamine & decide my case, at such time as Mr Ellis' may  request the same & oblige me
                      [Signed]         Widow
                                    Hannah Rew
Witness
Jacob W Gould
L. M. Gould

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V Ellis
argument

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To the Secretary of the Interior 
Sir
   In the case of Memucan Rew I consider it sufficient to refer to the deposition (2d one) of Schoharie [?]  County who knows the service as Corporal for 6 months & his testimony is confirmed by the opinion of Mr. F Bishop that he had seen the roll of Capt Hookers Company.
   The deposition of Cowles is clear & explicit. He was a school master & all that time (1775) 20 years of age, & not an ignorant man, or one likely to be imposed on, or to impose on others.
Submitted        V Ellis Esq

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State of New York
Schoharie County} Js    Levi Ives of the town of Summit in the County of Schoharie & State aforesaid being duly sworn before John Weston A Justice of the Peace in the town of Cookskill in said county deposeth and saith that according to documentary and record evidence which he believes to be true he was born on the 25 day of May 1761 in the town of Goshen in County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut.  That he was married on the 3d day of Nov, 1784 in the town of North Canaan County aforesaid at he house of
Nathaniel Stanley by a Justice of the Peace by the name of Baker.  And this deponent further saith that Memucan Rew was married to Hannah Ives who was the sister of this deponent ads this deponent learned by the marriage certificate which he procured from the magistrate two years previous to the marriage of this deponent at the house of Ichabod Brownell in thee same town and county and about seventy rods from the house of the said Nathaniel Stanley and by the same magistrate that married this deponent
    [Signed]  Levi Ives
Subscribed and sworn before me this 14th day of June 1848 and I certify that the said Levi Ives is a creditable witness -
   [Signed]  John Westover Justice of the Peace

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State of New York
Schoharie County
Clerks Office Js}  I Stephen Maham Clerk of said County Do hereby Certify that John Westover Esq whose name is Subscribed to the herein Deposition was on the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly Elected and sworn and duly authorized to make the same and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing pf the said Justice and verily believe that the name John Westover subscribed to the within Deposition is his proper and genuine signiture  [sic]
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the Seal of said County this 16th day of June A.D. 1848
     [Signed]  Stephen Maham Clerk

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Know All Men by these Presents that I Hannah Rew of the town of Messina in the County of St. Lawrence and State of New York do hereby Constitute and Appoint Henry Rew of the town of Sullivan in the County of Tioga and State of Pennsylvania my true and Lawful Attorney for me and in my name to carry forward my petition for a Pension as widow of the late Memucan  Rew -a Revolutionary Soldier of the United States, to employ attorney or attorneys as he may think best to receive any such monies and give a discharge for any monies belonging to me or that I might claim of as through the Agencies for Paying Persons in the United States and finally to do any Act authorized by any law that I migh [sic] lawfully do if I was Personally Present Given under my hand and Seal at Messina aforesaid this 20th day of June, 1847
         [Signed]   Hannah Rew
in Presence of
Alfred Colburn
[Signed] William. R. Gould

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Hannah Rew 
        to 
Henry Rew

Power of Attorney
St Lawrence County
   Clerk's Office}Js
Recorded in this Office the 1st day
of July 1847 at 11 A.M.
in Book No. 2 of Power
of Attorney on pages
 210
    [Signed] Martin Thatcher Clerk

Recd. July 1st 1847 at 11 AM

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State of New York
St Lawrence County} Ss on this 30th day of June 1847
Personally appeared before me the undernamed Justice of the Peace of Messina in the County aforesaid, Hannah Rew known to me as the person who executed the within Power of Attorney and Acknowledged she executed the same for the uses and purposes therein mentioned
    [Signed] A Colburn Justice of the Peace


[Written horizontally below the prior information]

Hannah Rew
       to
Henry Rew

Power of Attorney
St Lawrence County} Js
Clerks Office
Recorded in this Off. the 1st
of July 1847 at 11  A.M.
Book No. 2 of Power
of Attorney on pages
210
   [Signed]  Martin Thatcher Clerk
   
Recd July 1st 1847 at 11 AM