Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18383, Oliver Dutton, Conn. Continental. Mass.

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SERVICE
Conn.
Continental
Mass.

Dutton, Oliver
Phebe

NUMBER
S. 18383
B.L. Wt. 9437-160-55

CONTENTS
This woman's former husband was also pensioned for service in the Revolutionary War.

See case of Stephen Powers, Mass., W. 25550

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[Note: Most of the handwritten words are too faded to decipher]

6909

Massachusetts

Oliver Dutton
of Hampden in the State of Mass, who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain [field left blank] of the Regt. commanded by Col. Throop in the (?) Conn. line for 49(?) Mass.(?) (?) Continental.

Inscribed on the Roll of Mass(?) at the rate of 28(?) Dollars 32 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 4th day of Mar(?) 1831 and ? ? ? ?

Arrears to the 4th of Mar $16.64
Semi-anl. allowance ending Sept. (?) 24.16
                                                                $120.80

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by J.H.(?) Blow(?) Clerk
Book 8 (?) Vol. 2? Page 46.

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[Note:  Much of the writing is too faded to be deciphered, indicating it was perhaps written in pencil.]

77.313 Mar. 3. 1855.

Apr. 18.

Phebe Dutton widow of Oliver Dutton, Pri.

Capt. Carpenter.
Col. Wood.

Ent.—June—1778.
Dis.—Feb.—1779.

Revolutionary War

Private Col. Wood's regt.
(?) Troops
(?)

June 8/39.
I have duplicate to be sent to D.E. Cheney
Orange, Mass.

[Written down the middle, facing upwards:]
Febr. 8/39
Let. to D.E. Cheney, Orange, Mass. enclosing instructions for duplicate—proof of publication.
entry of caveat requested.——Inq

Preston N. Carver.
Shutesburg.
Mass.

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11.419

Oliver Dutton
Mass

Private 14 MS & 15 days
(?)

E.A. Clary Esq
Present(?)

B.832(?)

Jas. W. Crook

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BRIEF in the case of Oliver Dutton, County of Hampden in the State of Mass.
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1.  Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  Court

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

3.  How old is he?  72 years

4.  State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

[Following text appears in four columns:]

Period.
Entered as a volunteer In 1776 Aug

Duration of Service.
Months
3 1/2

Rank.
As a
private

Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Gen.
Lieut Jewett(?) Col Throop

Period.
enlisted Aug 1777

Duration of Service.
Months
3

Rank.
As a
private

Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Col Woodbridge & Capt Chapin

Period.
enlisted May(?) 1778

Duration of Service.
Months
8

Rank.
As a
private

Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Woodbridbge & Chapt Carpenter(?)
Col Stevens Capt Fisher

5.  In what battles was he engaged?

6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service?  East Hoddan County

7.  Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  Traditionary & incidental evidence

8.  Are the papers defective as to form or authentication?  and if so, in what respect?  Correct

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

Examinining Clerk.

Jno. Watson
28th Febry 1833

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77.313

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{Note:  Much of the handwritten words are all but completely faded and nearly impossible to decipher.]

(4)

State of Massachusetts, }
County of Hamphire,       } ss.

On this (?) day of August(?) A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid, Phebe Dutton, aged (?) years, a resident of (?) in the State of Massachusetts, who being duly sworn according to law, declares, that she is the widow of Oliver Dutton, deceased, who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain (?) in the 13th(?) Regiment of (?) commanded by Colonel (?) in the Revolutionary war with Great Britain declared by the United States [crossed out: on the 18th day of June, 1812], and that her said husband was drafted at (?), on or about the first(?) day of (?) A.D., 1776, for the term of eight(?) months, and continued in actual service in said war for the term of (?), and was honorably discharged at (?), on the (?) day of (?), A.D., 1779(?).

She further states that she was married to the said Oliver Dutton on the tenth(?) day of July, A.D., 1823(?), by one (?), a Minister(?); and that her name before her said marriage was Phebe Powers; that her said husband died at (?) on the (?) day of (?), A.D., 1843, and that she is now a widow.

She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the "act approved March 3, 1855."

Phebe Dutton X her mark

We, (?) and (?), residents of (?) in the State of Massachusetts, upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Phebe Dutton, in our presence, and that we believe, from the appearance and statement of the applicants, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.

[Signature excessively faded]

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.

[Faded signature] Justice of the Peace.

The Commissioner of Pensions will please forward my Warrant to [name and city faded and written above crossed-out EDWARD DICKINSON, Amherst], Mass, who as my agent will receive the same and transmit it to me.

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampden County SS.

On this twenty seventh day of August A.D. 1832, Personally appeared in open court before the Hon. Oliver B. Honin(?) Esqir—Judge of the Court of Probate within—& for the County of Hampden now sitting at Springfield within &/or  said County of Hampden.  Oliver Dutton a resident of Ludlow in the County of Hampden & Commonwealth aforesaid, aged seventy two 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 &  served as herein stated; to wit, That he enlisted at East Haddam in the State of Connecticut in the month of August 1776 as a volunteer in the Company of State Troops or Militia of Connecticut, commanded by Lieutenant Nathan Jewett (the Captain of said Company being detained by sickness) in the Regiment commanded by Col. Throop; that he marched with his Company to East Chester on the Hudson River a few miles below White Plains & remained there about a fortnight when we were compelled to retreat before the enemy to White Plains; remained there until the last of October & there marched to a placed called Rye Pond, where he remained till sometime in the month of December when he was honorably discharged, having served as a private in said Company three months & a half & then returned home to East Haddom; that he was constantly in the service during the said term, was frequently sent in detachments to different places in the vicinity of White Plains; was in no engagement during the campaign; that he was in Genl. Parson's Brigade & Maj. Genl. Lee's Division—

That in the spring of the year 1777 he removed to Ludlow aforesaid, and about the last of August in the same year, immediately after hearing of the battle of Bennington, Vt., he enlisted for three months in the Company commanded by Capt. Ephraim Chapin of Springfield in the Reigment of Colonel Ruggles Woodbridge of Hadley or South Hadley Ms. in the Militia or Hale(?) Troops of Massachusetts—that he enlisted at said Ludlow & marched to

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Bennington Vt. & from thence to Pollet Vt. at which place he was detached in a scout of about three hundred men, under the command of said Col. Woodbrige, & marched to Shunsborough (now Whitehall) & returned to Stillwater the day previous to the Battle at  that place; during the battle he was one who manned the lines; from there moved to Albany where we encamped for a short time & then were ordered down the River to Newburgh & from there to White Plains & near Kingsbridge & from there back to White Plains & about the last of November he was honorably discharged having served out his term of enlistment, three months & returned home to said Ludlow; that he was discharged by a Genl. or Regimental order & received none in writing; that he was constantly on duty during this campaign, either on scouts comp or field duty or on fatigue; his Lieut. Col., name he does not remember—his Major; name was Rand—Genl. Gates was in command while he was at Stillwater—he remembers after seeing Genl. Warner, Parsons, Lincoln, Putnam Heath & others at & near White Plains.

That he enlisted again at said Ludlow in the Massachusetts Troops about the fifth of May 1778 in the Company of Infantry commanded by Capt. John Carpenter in the Regiment commanded by Col. Hood & marched to White Plains; that he was soon after transferred to the Corps of Artillery and soon after transferred to the Corps of Artillery under command of Col. Stevens, in the company commanded by Capt. Fisher; that in the month of October the said corps was ordered to a place called Ploquomins(?) N.J. & having crossed the Hudson at Kingsbury we proceeded to said Ploquomins(?); that he with a detachment was ordered to Lebanon, Pennsylvania with about three hundred horses belonging to the corps; that he continued in the service under the command of the said Col. Stevens after his transfer to that corps till the time of his discharge which was on the sixth of January 1779, at said Lebanon, by Genl. Turner of Virginia, who had instructions from Col. Stevens to discharge said detachment; that he then returned to said Ludlow, having served the full term of Eight months, arrived home the 26th January 1779—that he had a written discharge from Genl. Turner but he has lost the same; and had no written discharge after his other terms of service, but was discharged by a General or—

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by a General or Regimental order read before his Regiment or Brigade—that he after saw Genl. Washington during the first & third campaigns—

That this Deponent has no documentary evidence and knows of no person whose testimony he can prove who can testify to his service.

That he was born in the town of East Haddom aforesaid on the 11th of March 1760 where he resided till after the Revolutionary war when he removed to Monson in the County of Hampden aforesaid & lived there two years and that he then returned to said Ludlow where he has ever since resided, & that he is authorized to refer to Benj. Jenks Esq Post Master at said Ludlow, Albert Mosson(?) Esq Post Master at Springfield, Deacon Ezekiel Fuller & others of said Ludlow for testimonials of character.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension of the (?) of any state.

Oliver Dutton [shaky, oversized signature seeming to imply lower literacy]

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.

And the said Court, after the investigation of the matter & after writing the interrogations(?) preserved by the war Department, hereby declares their decision that the abovenamed Applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states—And the said Court further decides that Ebenezer B.(?) Wright who has subscribed the annexed Deposition is a clergyman residing in said Ludlow & that William Pease(?) who as subscribed the same is also a resident in said Ludlow & is a credible person, said that their Regiment is entitled to credit.

I Justice Willard Register of said Court of Probate do hereby certify that the

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foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Oliver Dutton for a Pension

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this twenty seventh day of August on the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two

Justice Willard
Registrar

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10.412
Oliver Dutton
Served in the year
1776—3 1/2 months
"77—3 " [shorthand for ditto, the same as above]
"78— 8 "

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DECLARATION in order to obtain Bounty Land, or Extra Pay and Arrears for Heirs of deceased Soldiers, during the late War with England or Mexico.

STATE OF Massachusetts }
COUNTY OF Franklin         }  ss.

On this  twenty sixth day of January A.D. 1859; personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, Loren Briggs resident of Shutesbury in the State of Massachusetts aged fifty four years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed the 3d June AD. 1858, granting Bounty Land to the heirs of certain persons who were engaged in the Military service of the United States; That he is the Child and next of kin to Phebe Sutton deceased; who was a Revolutionary Pensioner under act of Feb. 3d 1853; that the aforesaid Phebe Sutton made application for Bounty Land before her decease, and the the [sic] Warrant issued after her death, the Warrant not being available to the heirs at that time, and the Warrant not being assigned he entrusted it to the case of Abraham L. Howe, of Shutesbury, Franklin County Massachusetts, to ascertain what should be done with the Warrant and he reported to your declarant as having lost his pocket book, with the Warrant in it in Attleboro Mass. on the 4th day of June A.D. 1849.

Revoking and countermanding all former authority that may have been given, I hereby constitute and appoint Dumon(?) E. Cheney of Orange, Massachusetts my lawful attorney to prosecute said claim and to receive the duplicate Warrant when issued; to give all necessary receipts and discharges therefor; to appoint an attorney or attorneys under him for said purpose; and to do all things in the premises which are of may be necessary as I might if personally present.

Loren Briggs  [Stamped seal with the initials L.S. inside]

We Nathan Hunting and Harvey Spear residents of Shutesbury in the State of Massachusetts upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration and Power of Attorney, was sworn to, acknowledged and subscribed by Loren Briggs in our presence; and that we know from our personal acquaintance that he is the Child and next of kin to Phebe Sutton dec'd the Widow of a Revolutionary Soldier, who received a pension to the time of her death, and pensioned under Act of 8 Feb. 1863.  And who made application for Bounty Land during her lifetime, and the warrant issue after her decease, and Abraham S. Howe of the Town, a person to us well known reports as having the Warrant in his possession and on the 21st(?) of same 1847.  was lost with his pocket book in Attleboro, Mass.  Your deponents further swore they are disinterested in this claim.

Nathan Hunting
Harvey Spear

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to, and the Power of Attorney acknowledged before me, on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the identical person he represents himself to be, and the child of Phebe Sutton dec'd, and that I have no interest in this claim.

Henry Pierce, Justice of the Peace.

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I Abraham Howe of Shutesbury in the County of Franklin and Commonwealth of Massachusetts being of lawful age upon my oath depose and say that I had in my possession in the year eighteen hundred and fifty six a Land Warrant for 160 acres issued to Phebe Sutton and on the twenty fourth day of June in the year eighteen hundred & fifty seven I lost from my pocket said Land Warrant in Attleborough Massachusetts—I further depose & say that said Land Warrant had not been assigned by the said Phebe Sutton nor by any other person when I lost it as aforesaid.

Dated at Shutesbury aforesaid this ninth day of December A.D. 1858

Abraham S. Howe

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin SS.
Subscribed and duly sworn to by the said Abraham S. Howe before me this 9th day of December A.D. 1858.  I hereby certify that the deponent is credible and that I have no interest in the case

Hardin Heminway(?) Justice of the Peace

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Conn. Continental Mass. Dutton, Oliver Phebe Number S. 18383 B. L. Wt. 9437-160-55 This woman's former husband was also pensioned for service in the Revolutionary War. See case of Stephen Powers, Mass., W. 25550

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[Left Column]
18383
INVALID.

File No. 18383
Thomas Dutton
[illegible]
Act: June 7th 1832
Index:-Vol. 1, Page 441
[Arrangement of 1870.]

[Right Column]
1915-Oct. 22. Hist to Mrs. Frederick A. Waldronn.
1917 Apr 18 Hist. to Miss Celestine C. Waldron

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9437

Duplicate
Aug/53

Rev [Ams?]

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0.77313

ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.

Received Apr 18th 1855.

Oliver Sutton.  Dec. Pri.
Capt. Carpenter.
Rev. War.

9?07  160—3-3

Preston. M. Carver
Shutesbury
Mass.

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Franklin County, SS. C.J.J. Ingersoll Register of the Courts of Probate and Insolvency, which are Courts of Record for the County and Commonwealth aforesaid, do hereby certify that Henry Pierce whose Signature is affixed to the Certificate on the paper hereunto annexed, was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and authorized by the laws of this Commonwealth to take the acknowledgment of Deeds, and administer oaths; and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity: and that his signature to said certificate is genuine. Given under my hand and the seal of said Court of Probate, at Greenfield, this twenty eighth day of January in the year of our Lord on thousand eight hundred and fifty nine. C. J. J. Ingersoll [illegible] Probate and Insolvency

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Franklin, ss.
I, GEO. GRENNELL, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Franklin, do certify, that Joseph L. Smallidge, Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the {insert 2} Certificates on the paper, hereto annexed, was at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth:  and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Joseph S. Smallidge Esq and believe his signature to said Certificate is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said Commonwealth, this ninth day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty five.
Geo, Grennello  Clerk.

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77.313

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Secretary's Office, Boston
March 27, 1855.

I Hereby Certify, That from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the service of Oliver Dutton is borne on pay roll of Capt. John Carpenter's Comp. Col. Ezra Woods Regt. served at North River N. Gate(?) for 8 mos. service, arrived at Camp June 23, 1778, discharged Feby 2, 1779, 7(?) mos. 28 days, board(?) included as private.

Also on pay roll of Capt. Johnson Chapin's Comp COl. Ruggles Woodbridge's Regt. from Aug 12(?) to Nov.(?) 23, 1777, 3 mos. 26 days as private.

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above  written.

E.N.(?) Winter(?)
Secretary of the Commonwealth

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We Ebenezer B. Wright, a Clergyman residing in Ludlow in the County of Hampden & Commonwealth of Massachusetts & William Pease residing in the same Ludlow testify & say that we are well acquainted with Deacon Oliver Dutton of said Ludlow who has subscribed & sworn to a Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress for the relief of the officers & soldiers of the Revolution, passed June 7th 1832—that we believe him to be seventy two years of age; that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opnion.

The said Wm. Pease further testifies that he remembers, when a boy about eleven years of age, seeing Deacon Dutton & Deacon Ezekiel Fuller first after they had returned from a campaign & saw thru both drill & exercise the company of MIlitia in Ludlow, & after heard people say that said Dutton & Fuller had been in the army, well before or after their return—

Ebenezer B. Wright
William Pease

Commonwealth of Massachusetts }
Hampden County SS— }

Sworn to & subscribed by the said Ebenezer B. Wright and William Pease this eighth day of August A.D. 1832
Before me James W. Crooks Justice of the Peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Hampden ss.  I John Ingersoll a Clerk of the Common Pleas Court being a Court of Record in the County of Hampden do hereby certify that James N. Crooks Esqr. before whom the Above certificate was verified is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Hampden & that his name thereto & subscribed is his hand & genuine signature

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Common Pleas Court of Springfield on this twenty seventh day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two

John Ingersoll Clerk.

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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Oliver Dutton which require further proof or explanation. 

I.	Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes
II.	Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes 
III.	If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? 
IV.	Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes 
V.	*Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout of pension he is entitled? Yes
VI.	Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? Yes
VII.	Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes 
VIII.	Has the Court given their opinion? Yes
IX.	Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes
X.	Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes

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2 

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

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

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

XIV. †If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? 
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? 
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?

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

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? Yes 

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

EXPLANATORY NOTES. 

QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For___year_____ months, and --- days, I served as a______; and for______months, an ______days , I served as a______; and for such service I claim a pension.

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

COUNTY OF BRISTOL.

I, John S. Brayton, Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court, within and for the County of Bristol aforesaid, do hereby certify that John Daggett Esquire, before whom the annexed Affidavit was made, was at the time the same was taken, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County of Bristol aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that all his official acts as such are entitled to good faith and credit.  And I know that his signature thereto is genuine.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and official seal this Twenty Ninth day of March in the year eighteen hundred and fifty nine.

John S. Brayton, CLERK.

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State of Massachusetts, County of Bristol SS.

I, H.M. Ide Jr, Editor and Proprietor of the Taunton Democrat, do make oath and say that at the request of Damon E. Cheney, of Orange Mass, I caused to be inserted on the 18th Feby, 1859, in the weekly issue of my paper, the notice of a lost Land Warrant, No. 9437, which issued under Act of 3d March 1855, to Phebe Dutton, the widow of a revolutionary solider, and that said notice has duly appeared in my paper once a week of the term of six successive weeks.

H.M. Ide Jr.

[Insertion of said news clipping:]

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

FRANKLIN COUNTY, SS.—Notice is hereby given that Land Warrant No. 9437 for 160 acres, under act of 3d March, 1855, issued to PHEBE DUTTON, a revolutionary soldier's widow, who died before the issue of the aforesaid warrant, the said warrant being in the possession of ABRAHAM HOWE, of Shutesbury, Mass., and on the 4th day of June, in Attleboro, Bristol County, Mass., the above described warrant was lost, with the pocket-book of the aforesaid Howe.  The above notice is given by the subscriber, as it is his intention to apply to the Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C., for a duplicate of the original.

DAMON E. CHENEY, Attorney
for the heirs of Phebe Dutton.

feb 18  6wd

Bristol SS.

On this 29th day of March 1858, personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace—A.M. Ide Jr, to me well known as a credible person subscribed and made oath to the foregoing affidavit, and I certify that he is the identical person he represents himself to be and that I have no interest in this claim.

John Daggett Justice of the Peace.

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Secretary's Office, Boston, April 11, 1855.

I hereby Certify, That at the date of the attestations hereunto annexed, Calvin D. Eaton was a Justice of the peace for the County of Hampshire in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.

E.M. Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

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[illegible] sale thereof to [illegible]
the County of Huron and State of
[illegible] estate [illegible] Husband [illegible]
History in the County and State of [illegible]
to be to the act of March 1855 his Wife [illegible]
Revolutionary War pension and to his and the
tenth day of Sept. AD 1843
at her request.
Monroe Eaton

State of [illegible]
[illegible] County 
On the Seventh day of April AD 1833
[illegible] deponent to the [illegible]
[illegible] to say appeared then it has [illegible]
[illegible] if it is recorded the top [illegible]
[illegible]

Before me Calvin D Eaton Justice of the Peace

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(3-1776)
Service
Conn.
Continental Mass
Dutton, Oliver Phebe
Number S.18383
B.L. Wt 9437-160-55
Contents
This woman's former husband was also pensioned for service in the Revolutionary War.
See case of Stephen Powers, Mass.,
W.25550

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Orange — Mass April 2d 1857

Sir

Enclosed herewith, please find copy of Taunton Democrat [name underlined], also affidavit of its publisher showing notice of lost Warrant—No. 9437—issued to Phebe Dutton dec'd.  A cavet [caveat] has been filed in the General Land Office.

Please forward duplicate to me soon as practicable and oblige—

Resp. Yours
Damon E. Cheney—
Court of Pensions

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GENERAL LAND OFFICE,
May 31st, 1859.

Sir:

In reply to your letter of 7th ult(?):  I have to state that there is on file in this Office a CAVEAT against the issue of a Patent on Bounty Land Warrant No. 9437, for 160 acres, act March 3, 1855, in the name of Phebe Dutton, filed by Damon C. Cheney.

Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J(?) Mabin(?)
Acting Commissioner.

To Hon. Geo. C. Whiting
Commissioner of Pensions.

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Mass
Orange, 29, 1859.

Sir—

If the enclosed papers are not sufficient to warrant the issue of a duplicate in lieu of the original, you will please give instructions for how to proceed, the loss of the [following words underlined] Warrant and pocketbook [end of underlining] were advertised in the papers last summer—

The Warrant may appear at the General Land Office for a patent to issue, If so it will be a fraudulent assignment, as the Warrant issued after the death of the applicant and lost before the 3d of June 1858.

Will you present the issue of the pattent(?) or give me the No. of the Warrant that I may—

Very Resp. Yours, D.E. Cheney-

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Orange Mass. June 8, 1857.

Sir,

In December or January last, I forwarded to you a declaration for a duplicate of Warrant No. 9437, under Act of March 3d, 1855, for 160 acres, Executed by Loren Briggs, of Shutesbury Franklin County, Mass, the only son of Phebe Dutton, to whom the aforesaid warrant issued—and in your communication of Feb 8, you requested me to furnish in addition to what had already been furnished publication of its loss and to file a cavet [caveat; word underlined] in the [following words underlined] General Land Office [underlining ends] the latter act I did immediately, and then I caused a publication of the loss of the warrant in the County where it occured [sic] for a term of ten weeks, at the expiration of that time I sent a coppy [sic] of the paper which contained the notice of the lost warrant, and an affidavit of the publisher that it had appeared for a term of six successive weeks.  Since that time I have herd [heard] nothing from it, will you inform me the cause of so long a delay—

Resp. yours,
D.E. Cheney—
Commissioner of Pensions.

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Rev sid(?)
H

Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Gentlemen—

Will you kindly give me copy of record contained in war(?) office [following words underlined] Rev. Service [underlining ends] of one Oliver Dutton of East Haddam Conn. and Ludlow Mass.  His second wife, Phebe Powers

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Dutton was granted a pension in 1855 [year underlined]

Thanking you for your trouble.  I am
Respectfully yours

(Miss) Celestine C. Waldron
808 Hillside Ave.
Plainfield
N.J.

Edict(?) 10"—1917

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M. Redlee(?)

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Gentlemen—

Will you kindly inform me if your records show application for pension by Oliver Dutton or Judith Hubbard Dutton his wife, both of Ludlow Mass.  If so and pension

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was granted kindly state when and for how long it was drawn.

Respectfully Your
(Mrs.) Frederick A. Waldron
808 Hillside Ave.
Plainfield
N.J.

Act of 1832(?)