Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3838, Ichabod Fuller, Mass.

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(3-1776)

Service                                      Number
Mass          Fuller, Ichabod          R. 3838
                             Martha

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11 897
Pennsylvania
Ichabod Fuller
of Erie Co in the State of Pennsylvania
who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Robinson of the Regt commanded by Col. Daggett in the Massachusetts line
for 2 years

Inscribed on the roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 11 day of July 1833 and sent to  Thomas H Sill Esq

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833     $160.00
Semi-Anl. allowance ending 4 Sept is  40.00
                                                          $200.00

{Revolutionary Claim,
{Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by W.L.Williams, Clerk
Book  E   Vol.  5   Page 19

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Icabod Fullers
Pension application
Ichabod Fuller

19990

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State of Pennsylvania
County of Erie - ss. 
on this Seventh day of August _ _ 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the judges of the Court of Common Plea, for the said County of Erie now sitting Icabod Fuller, a resident of the Township of Greenfield, in the said County of Erie and State of Pennsylvania after eighty five years , who being first duly sworn according to an oath, on his oath made the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 - that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated - In the month of April 1775 I was residing in the town of Attleborough in the County of Bristol in the state of Massachusetts; immediately after the Battle of Lexington the slain were received in the Inn, where I then lived, I volunteered in the militia in a company under the command of Capt Robinson and immediately marched to the neighborhood of Boston when I remained on duty shortly as a Soldier for about three weeks, including the time the taken of in marching to and returning from said place- I was employed during a considerable part of this time as a sentry in Baxter Neck - there was not then any record of an organization of the Army -
But great numbers of Militia were there from all parts of the country- In about three weeks our Company was marched back again to Attleborough-   
In the month of June 1775 after the
slain occasioned by the battle of Bunker Hill,
I was what was called a minute man, and marched, from Attleborough, in a company commanded by Capt Robinson  to Winter Hill near Bunker Hill. The wounded at Bunker Hill

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were brought to Winter Hill, and I was put into the hospital, under the direction of Doctor Fuller of Attleborough, as to assist in taking care of the wounded and remained there and in that service for about two (three crossed out) week; making in all about  three week I was out on this [illegible] -- I was in the Regiment of Militia under the command of Capt Daggett of Attleborough -- I returned home at the expiration of this time having been discharged from the firm-
     In the month of July 1775 at Attleborough I was drafted in the Militia for a tour of four months serving in a company commanded by Capt Pratt and in a regiment commanded by Col Carpenter and was marched to the North Kingston on the Narragansett Bay in the State of Rhode Island to guard the coast and the Inhabitants from the British vessels of war-
I remained on that station for the period of four months then returned home and was discharged from the service-
     In the month of July 1777, there was a
claim of the enemy invading and plundering
the habitant about Swansea in the Masssachusetts side of Narragansett Bay, and I was called as a minute men to go for the protection of the inhabitants. I went in a company commanded by Capt Caleb Richardson there was rather more than one hundred men our company; we were stationed in Swansea to protect coast-  other companies of men, were stationed at other points near us, we remained there, at that city for about the period of two months at the expiration of which period of time were returned home-
     In the month of May 1778 I volunteered in
the militia in the Company command Capt
Richardson, at Attleborough, and was marched to Rhode Island, was then at the time General Sullivan

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evacuated the field, and assisted in getting off
the sick and disabled men, after Gen'l Sullivan
had occupied the field our company was
marched to New Bedford and was stationed
near that place in Barracks, to watch and
guard the coast, and remained there in that
duty till the last of October of that year-,
and then I went home- after I had been home a few days I went again to New Bedford as
a substitute for Joseph Fuller who had been
drafted in Capt. Fuller's Company of Militia,
I went to New Bedford on this tour about the
first of November 1778 and remained there doing duty in that company until about the first of March 1779 - Our duty was to guard the coast, in the spring about the first of March I was discharged and went home- There was no other troops at the place where we was, but other companies of Militia were stationed at different points along the coast in the same part of the country-
     Sometime in the month of August 1779, I entered the service as a substitute for my Brother Samuel Fuller who had enlisted in the State Troops (as I believe) in a company commanded by Capt Seaven, to guard the coast at Nantasket on the Massachusetts Bay
I went to Nantasket as a substitute for him about the middle of August 1779 and remained there then in the said service 
until about the middle of October when Samuel Fuller returned and took my place and I returned home- our duty here was to guard the coast-While I was there several vessels of
war of the Enemy carrying Hessian troops  came in to Nantasket- our Troops fired at them
and disabled the vessels and they surrendered and the vessels were taken and the Hessian
troops made prisoners-

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He has no documentary evidence of his service in his [illegible], nor does he knows whether there is any [illegible] now living by [illegible] he can prove his services
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to [illegible] on currently [illegible] and declares his [illegible] not on the [illegible] well of the agency of any state.
The applicant further states to the Court that one tour has been omitted ty mistake for the forgoing writing that on the last of October 1775 he enlisted in a company commanded by Capt Robison for the campaign and in November marched to [illegible] hole I remained there on duty tele the later end of February, then were marched in Col French Regiments to Dorchester, then to [illegible] points near the British fleet, thence [illegible] with about forty men to Rhode Island was [illegible] the lack of clay making a tour of seven months service at that time 
Titus was lieutenant of same company on that tour
In answer to [illegible] says he was born in in Attleborough Bristol Co Massachusetts in the year 1747 that a copy of the town record of his age was brought [illegible] about seven years ago that he has searched for as [illegible] cannot find its never received any written discharge
After the war he removed to Pownwell Vermont, resided there about twenty years then moved to Bridgewater, Penns towards head of Susquehanna thence came to Stockton in New York lived there one years & came there to Greenfield Erie Co. Penns (his present [illegible]) about three years ago

Sworn subscribed this 7th day of August 1832 in Open Court
Edwin J Kelso Pro
Ichabod Fuller

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The court propounded the following interrogatories to the applicant

1st Where and in what year were you born?
2.  Have you any record of your age; and if so where is it?
3  Where were you living when called into service;
where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were 
 you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a substitute & And if a substitute, for whom?
5.  State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served, such Continental and militia regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service
6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the
service; and if so by whom was it given and
what has become of it
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood and who can

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testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the revolution
I    Levi Fuller   a clergyman residing in the township of Venango Erie County Pennsylvania
and Joseph Shattuck    residing in Greenfield
township in said County hereby certify that
we are well acquainted with Isabod Fuller who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be eighty five years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where
he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid- 
Levi Fuller,  Joseph Shattuck
Edwin J Kelso  Pro

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 and the annexed Depositions 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
Revd Levi Fuller_____who has signed the
preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the Township of Venango Erie County Pennsylvania and that Joseph Shattuck  who has also signed the same is a resident in the Township of Greenfield in same County & State and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
Certified this 8th Nov 1832 to which time this case was continued-
 Henry Shippen  Prest.

I Edwin Kelso Clerk of the Court of Erie County
do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Icabod Fuller for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and seal of _____office this 8th day of
November 1832
Edwin J. Kelso   Clerk

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State of Pennsylvania
Erie County SS
I Edwin J. Kelso Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Erie do hereby certify that the within contained on two sheets of paper attached by a red ribbon on which the seal is affixed, contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter
of the application of Icabod Fuller for a pension. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office this 29th day of November AD 1832
Edwin J Kelso Clerk

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Chautauqua County }
State of New York  ss. }
William Reynolds of the town of Chautauqua in the said County being duly Sworn before Jesse Brooks a Justice of the peace of the said county makes oath and says he was
personally acquainted with Ichabod Fuller of Bridgewater in the County of Susquehannah in Pennsylvania in the year 1829 and that he knew him at that place from that time
back to 1813 that he was a man reputed for his truth and veracity and it was the common report that he was a soldier of the Revolutionary Army, and that such was the general belief of the people in that place 
thinking his age at this time about eighty four years.
Sworn and Subscribed this 15th day of September 1832 before me J. Brooks  J.P.
Jesse Brooks

                his
William (X) Reynolds
             mark
I hereby certify that I am acquainted with the above William Reynolds and believe him a man of truth and veracity--
Mayville September 15 1832  J. Brooks J.P.

Chautauqua County }
State of New York  ss. }
Susannah Reynolds of the town of Chautauqua in the said County being duly Sworn before Jesse Brooks a Justice of the peace of the said county makes oath and says she was
personally acquainted with Ichabod Fuller thirty years in the town of Bridgewater in the County of Susquehannah in Pennsylvania that he was a man of  truth and veracity and it was the common report that he was a soldier of the Revolutionary Army, and that such was the general belief of the people in that place 
thinking his age at this time about eighty four years.
Sworn and Subscribed this 15th day of September 1832 before me J. Brooks  J.P.
Jesse Brooks
                his
Susannah (X) Reynolds
             mark
I hereby certify that I believe the above named Susannah is a person of truth and veracity--
Mayville September 15 1832  J. Brooks J.P

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State of New York }
Chautauqua County } ss
I James B Lowry Clerk of said County do certify that Jesse Brooks Esquire before
whom the within affidavits purports to
have been sworn and makes the
Certificate of the bottom ___ thereof, was
at the date of the same one of the Justices
of the peace in & for the said County &
that I am acquainted with his hand writing &
verily believe his name subscribed thereto, to be in the said Justices proper handwriting
Witness my hand and seal of Office this
15th day of September 1832
     James B Lowry  Clerk

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Icabod Fuller
Pension Application
Ichabod Fuller
19990

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Tioga County}
State of Pennsylvania}
---
Jacob Cummings of the Township of Farmington in the said County being duly ┃
Sworn be the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County make oath and says he was personally acquainted with Ichabod Fuller
seven years in the Town of Attleborough in the County of Bristol State of Massachusetts and some time in the month of June in the year 1777 he appeared as a sergeant with listing orders under Capt Caleb Richardson of the same place and that he inlisted under the said Fuller and joined the said Capt Richardsons Company in Colonel Heys Regiment of the said States troops and served untill the first day of January following a part of the time on the Narraganset Shore and the remaining part of the time in the Town of Warren in the
State of Rhode Island- and there discharged and don't recollect of Seeing Sergeant Fuller in this time but understood he served in some other department but does not know where as the Regiment served by companies at different places and he further saith that he understood and that it was the General Report that served at other times in the State and since that time has known him in the State of Vermont, and thinks his age at this time about Eighty years &  that he was a man of truth and veracity and that the above service was in the Revolutionary War.   -- Jacob Cummings
Sworn and subscribed this 3rd day of Oct 1832
Before me --Samuel Snow Justice Peace

I hereby certify that I believe the above named
Jacob Cummings is a man of truth and veracity
Elkland Oct. 3d 1832  --Samuel Snow J.P.

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Tioga County ss
I Jonah Brewster Prothonotary in & for said County do certify that Samuel Snow before whom the foregoing deposition was taken is a Justice of the peace and that I am well 
firmly believe the signature is Samuel Snow & is in the proper handwriting of the said Magistrate. In testimony whereof I have  
hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Willsborough the fourth day of October A.D. one thousand eight hundred & thirty two
Jonah Brewster Prothy

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Tioga County Ss. --  I Jonah Brewster Prothy do certify that I was for many years acquainted with Ichabod Fuller in the County of Susquehannah & State aforesaid and that the said Fuller was a man of truth & verity and of good moral character
Willsborough   Oct 4th 1832
Jonah Brewster Prothy

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Martha Fullers
Pension Papers
    3245

Martha Fullers
Pension Papers

See No. 3245

3838

M. Farnham
Attica
N.Y.
Oct 7 1841

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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit
of the third Section of the act of Congress of the 4th of July 1836 -
State of New York}
County of Genesee} Ss.

On this twenty forth day of April AD 1841 personally appeared before me Paul Richards Esquire a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Genesee
Martha Fuller a Resident of the Town of
Sheldon in the County of Genesee and State of
New York aged eighty four 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 4, 1836-- That she is the widow of Ichabod Fuller
who was a private in the War of the
Revolution in Captain Robinsons Company
and Colonel Richardson Regiment- also
in Captain Richardsons Company and
Colonel Richardsons Regiment and
also in Captain John Tylers Company
and Colonel Putnams Regiment and that
during the Revolutionary War this said Ichabod Fuller lived in the Town

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of Attleborough in the County of Bristol
and State of Massachusetts- That he
was a pensioner and drew a pension
from the United States before he died
of Eighty dollars per annum for services which he performed in the War of the Revolution- and had a pension Certificate- She does not  know how long be served in the Revolutionary War but reference can be had to his papers in the War department which he made to procure his pension-
She further declares that she was married to the said Ichabod Fuller on the sixth day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and seventy four at the Town of Coventry in the County of Kent in the State of Rhode Island by Judge Stephen Palmer
and that her husband the aforesaid Soldier Ichabod Fuller died on the first day of July
in the year of Our Lord one thousand
Eight hundred and thirty six in the
Town of Greenfield in the County of Erie
and State of Pennsylvania-  That she has remained  a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by

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reference to the proof hereunto annexed-
Subscribed and sworn}
to on the day and in}
the year first above}
written before me}
Witness Paul Richards
Paul Richards or of the Judges of the Court
Common  Pleas of said County

Geauga County ss.- I Paul Richards the Judge before whom the above declaration was made and the above affidavit was taken do hereby certify that the said Martha Fuller made her
mark for the reason that she can not write
her name and that the reason why she
made the above declaration before me
is because she is not able to attach
Court on account of her bodily infirmity
to make the said declaration-
Given under my hand on the day and in
the year first above written -
Paul Richards  Judge

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State of New York}
Wyoming County} Ss. 
Amos Fuller of Sheldon in the said County of Wyoming being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is the son of Ichabod Fuller deceased and of Martha Fuller the Applicant for a pension named in the declaration hereunto annexed and that he was present and this Deponent knows the fact that the said Ichabod fuller died on the first day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty six in the Town of Greenfield and County of Erie and State of Pennsylvania and that the said Martha Fuller has never married since that time but has ever since the death of the said Ichabod Fuller remained and continued the widow and is now
the widow of the said Ichabod Fuller deceased and that the said Martha Fuller before she was married to the said Ichabod Fuller deceased was Martha Cummings by name and that this Deponent is fifty three years of age and has lived with the said Martha Fuller the said Applicant for a pension all the time
and ever since the death of the said Ichabod Fuller and that he was her husband when living.
 Amos, Fuller
Sworn to and subscribed this 27 day of August
1841 before me Moulton Farnham Commissioner of Deeds of Wyoming County-
.........................................................................  
State of New York}
Wyoming County} Ss.
I Vine T Hibbard of Darien in Genesee County being duly sworn deposeth and saith

          NOTE:
(Most of the deposition of Vine T. Hibbard has faded to  the extent that it is largely illegible- )

...................................................
Sworn to and subscribed this 28 day of
August 1841 before me Moulton Farnham Commissioner of Deeds Wyoming County

Wyoming County Ss.  I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Amos Fuller who has signed and sworn to the first above affidavit and with Vine T. Hibbard who has subscribed and sworn to the last above affidavit hereunto
annexed and that they are both men of integrity and reputable for truth and veracity and full confidence should be placed in them
and each of their affidavits - August 25, 1841
Moulton Farnham
-
Moulton Farnham

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I certify that I am well acquainted
Paul Richards  & Moulton Farnham
the County of Wyoming

Notified that the former is a Judge of the County Court in that Court and the latter a
Commissioner of Deeds of said County
(Illegible) October 2, 1841
To the Secretary of War
The above are the papers of Martha Fuller
for a pension and I can see nothing in the
way if he drawing her pension as all the
requisition of the law are complied with
The Applicant is very old and infirm and
it is my desirous that her certificate
be made out before the 4 day of Sept next
please forward her certificate to
Moulton  Farnham Attica, Wyoming
County, New York. I suppose the business
can be done immediately before the
4th Sept next-
Yours respectfully-
Moulton Farnham

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'-
19990
Ichabod Fuller

E.
Admitted
2 years
Private
$80.--

Tho. H. Sill
Erie Pa

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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
183
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned.
The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form.  On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done
These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus:  } ). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your
claim.

A Statement, showing the Service of Ichabod Fuller, Erie County  Pennsylvania
_____________________________________________

Period when    | Duration of the     | Rank of
the service       | claimant's service |    the
was rendered.  |  Years, Months,     | Claimant                   
                        |  Days.                    |
________________________________________________
Vol.- 1775              21 Days               Private

Drafted 1775   about 21 Days             "
              1776   about 4 months          "
              1777   about 2 months          "
Volt'd     1778    from July 6 to last      "
                          of Oct. to about
 few days  after from 1st Nov.              "     
Vol 1778 from July
last of Oct
few days after, from 1st Nov.              "
to about 1st March 1779
        1779 from about middle Augst  "
             to middle Oct--
           1779
.......................................................................................
Names and Rank   Capt Robinson
of the Company     Capt Robinson
officers under          Capt Pratt
whom he served.     Capt Richardson
                                 Capt Richardson
                                 Capt Seaver
                                 Capt Robinson


Names and Rank       Col Daggett
of the General            Col Carpenter
and Field officers.       Col French


Battles in which
the applicant was       (None)
engaged.


Country through
which he marched.           Mass. & Rhode                
                                          Island
Place of abode
when he entered            Bristol County 
the service and                      Mass
age at the present           85 years of age
period

Evidence by which            A living witness 
the declaration is
supported.

I  am, 
Your obedient servant,

J.L EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions
.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops,"  "militia", and "Volunteers", all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged
in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
     Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval service.
4. Indian Spies.
    As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of considered a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
On this
DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of }
County of  ______________       }  ss.

On this _______day of______personally appeared (a) before _________ A.B. a resident (b) of
_______aged (c)__________ 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 provion made by the act of Congress, passed 
June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) ______, with
______and served in the _________ (e) regiment of the _________ line, under the following named officers:
{Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he enered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged
belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.
and the country through which he marched. >This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.}

He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of ___________.
 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.         A.B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I __________________ of the Court of _________
do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of
______________________for a pension.
     In  testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this ________
day of  ___________________&c.

If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the ____________ and C.D.residing in (the same)
hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with
__________, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be ________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.

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary
Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A.B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the  _______
and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the
who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the ________ and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, _____________ Clerk of the Court of ________ do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of ____________ for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this_____ day of _____
&c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person

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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted
; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war,  and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute?
And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6.{To a Soldier
    Did you ever receive a discharge from the 
     service, and if so, by whom was it given                          
    and what has become of it?
{To an Officer
    Did you ever receive a commission, and if       
    so, by whom was it signed, and what
   has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
    The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
    The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons -one of whom should be
the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion.
If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the character and standing of other persons, giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct
proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done or by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a  Justice of the peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
....................................................................................
{a} The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
{b} The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
{c} The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
{d} The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
{e} Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. 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 ______. For_______month and
______days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase (about three or four months) is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is
highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil
pursuit.
{f} The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
{g} The opinion of the Court is always required.
{h} The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
{i} The Clerk must fix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

       Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
             Proof of Service.
{j} In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
The notes from {a} to {i} are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops, The proof required by rule in note {j} applies to continental troops only.
{k} This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
{l} If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
{m} The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.

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REJECTED
3838
P.O.________________
Martha Fuller
Service: widow of Ichabod
Enlisted:_______________,18  .
Discharged:___________, 18  .
Application filed:______, 18  .

The printed list of 1852 gives
cause of suspension as Discredited by the rolls-no proof of service.

Attorney:_________________

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3245  July 4, 36
N.Y.
viz. Let. to Sill & Foster 20 May '3
to Moulton Farnham}
Oct 12, 1841}
Same Oct 27th 1841. Let to E. W.
(Illegible)  Oct 10  1845

Ichabod Fuller Pa act 7 June--when last for?
(Illegible)
8 May 38

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James L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

3245
Jan 2nd 38
Pa
4 July '36
3 Dec.

Page 29



Erie Pa. 25th Dec 1889

Dear Sir
Enclosed we send the application of Martha Fuller for a pension, under the act of July 4th 1836. We believe the proof is according to
the rules adopted by the department. If however any thing further in evidence  is required to establish her right to a pension it will be procured if the evidence can be obtained-
We are very respectfully yours
Sill & Foster
To James L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of
Pensions

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J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of
Pensions---

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Erie Penn April 18th 1833

Sir,

I hereby return the pension papers of Ichabod Fuller with his supplemental affidavits--
I did not understand from the circular, 
accompanying his application, the precise record, of making additional statements and of applying the aspects herein notices--
I have in point of form adopted the only mode which appears practicable. I believe it is not in his power to obtain any additional evidence and he is unable from sickness and infirmity
to attend in his condition--I preferred it would
not be required for him again to make
detailed and particular statement of his
services, which he could not do more particularly than he has done. He has therefore made a summary statement of his services, including also his particulars (as to his not 
being in civil employment) and hope that it
may more satisfactory-
I am very respectfully,
your ob't sev'nt
Thomas H. Sill

J. L. Edwards Esq. --Commissioner of Pensions

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Ichabod Fuller's
Supplemental Declaration

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A supplemental affidavit to the declaration of
Ichabod Fuller--made by him in compliance
with a requisition of the pension Office-

I, Ichabod Fuller by reason of old age and consequent loss of memory being unable to state with precision the length of my services during the revolutionary war declare the following to be true to the best of my
recollection and belief and for which I claim a
pension. In the year 1775- I served as a private
Soldier-- eight months and two weeks in an embodied corps called into service by the authority of the State of Masssachusetts and I was informed at the time and believed
during the above mentioned period I was not engaged in any civil pursuit-- and was either in the field or garrison--

On the year 1776 - I served four months as a
private-- and in the same manner as above stated in 1775
In 1777 I served two months as a private- and in the same manner as above stated
In the year 1778. I served five months as a private and in the same manner as above stated
In the year 1779 I served five months as a privateand in the same manner as above stated

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The tours the names of my officers and the other particulars of my services during the above mentioned periods of service are stated in my former declaration; to
which I would respectfully ask a reference.
Ichabod Fuller
Sworn and subscribed before me this 16 day of
April AD 1833
Myron Backus

Personally appeared before me the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Erie and State of Pennsylvania Ichabod Fuller, who being duly sworn
deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he can not swear positively as to the precise length of his services; but according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grade
For two years and fourteen days I served as a private soldier and for such service I claim a pension
Ichabod Fuller

Myron Backus

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State of Pennsylvania}
Erie County } ss
I Edwin J Kelso Prothonotary of the
Court of Common Pleas in and for
the County of Erie do hereby
Certify that Myron Backus Esquire before
whom the within deposition
purport to have been sworn was
at the date of the same, one of the
Justices of the Peace in and
for said County duly commissioned
and sworn. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 18th day of April 1833-
Edwin J Kelso, Pro
"

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Mr Cole

Hon. H. Putnam
Attica
N.Y.

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Hous of Reps
Feby 22nd 1851
Hon J. E. Heath

Sir, I am requested to ask you to Examine the case of Martha Fuller the widow of Ichabod
Fuller a Revolutionary Pensioner
   She applied for a widows pension which I am informed was not allowed for want of proof of
service-- The claim is now made under the act of July 1, 1848 which makes the Pension certificate evidence of the service in favor of the widow, as the Atty writes to me--
An Early Examination and allowing of a pension proper is desired--
Resp'y Yours
H. Putnam

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J. L. Edwards  Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

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(Illegible) October 20, 1841
Wyoming County N. York
J L Edwards Esquire
Dear Sir
I received your letter in due season of Oct
12. 1841 relating to the claim of Martha Fuller
You state that her claim has been rejected
by the Department and the reasons given
in detail to Sill & Foster May 30, 1838-
You further state that some information
is required whether she communicated the
fact of a previous application and if so why
it was not referred to-
She did state the fact to me that she had
applied in Pennsylvania (I believe) and that
she had not received a certificate-- she soon
moved to Genesee County (now Wyoming Co.)
and she says all she knows is that Sill told her or some one whom she sent that she had not got a certificate but she is unable to inform me what the reasons are--
I could see no reason as her husband was a
pensioner under the act of 1832- I am the
one and the only one to blame for not
referring to her previous application as I drew
her papers and the reason why I did not is,
I did not know that it was necessary
till since I sent her papers away and then
I found it in the pension Laws and regulations
If I had known that to be the Rule when I
drew her declaration I should have stated it
Now I should be greatly favoured if I can
obtain those objections which were sent to Sill & Foster-- Will you please send me
the reasons why her claim was disallowed and
whether she can amend her declaration
and I will attend to it promptly-- your answer
will confer a great favour on me--
Yours with respect
Moulton Farnham

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Attica N York
Sept 29, 1841

J.L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions\

Dear Sir
I have received answers from Seth M. 
Gates, M.G in the cases of Lois Parmenter - Philo Porter & Thaddeus Gilbert-- I received your letter to day stating that you had
answered the above to the Hon.Seth M Gates-you also State that it does not appear that
any papers in support of the claim of
Martha Fuller have been received- your questions are Under what act did she claim?
When were the papers sent? and by
whom- The answers are- They were sent August 28. 1841 from this post office by me and she claims under this section of the
Act 1836 as her husband did previous to the revolution- I sent them to Hon M. Gates and as
he left Washington August 30. the papers did not reach Washington till after his departure and they were sent to him and yesterday morning I received them from him and to day
before I received your letter I sent them to Hon Gates to have him forward them so you will have them in a week or 10 days-- Of course her papers never reached the pension
office-
I am your obt servant
Moulton Farnham
Please answer me in the case of Grizel Austin
as soon as convenient
M Farnham

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J. L. Edwards  Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

Page 42

Elle Andrews
Oct 10. 45

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Pension Office
Oct 10 1845,

Sir.
In relation to the claims of Martha Fuller and Lucy Raymond, I have to inform you that the enclosed copy of a letter to Messrs Sill & Masters of the 30th May 1838 will
show the state of the former case; and for information relative to Mrs Raymond's claim, I would refer you to Mr. R. G. Murray, of Darien, N. York to whom a letter was addressed on the 27th (illegible)



E.W. Andrews, Esq
Warsaw, NYork

3245-36 M F.
3062-36 L.R.

Page 44

M. Farnham
Oct 12, 41
O C

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94
Pen., Off
Oct 12  '41

Sir
The claim assisted by Martha Fuller in the State of New York without any reference to one previously assisted in Po is disallowed for the reasons assigned in detail to Messrs Sill & Foster on 30 May '38
---
Some information is required whether she communicated the fact of a previous application and if so why it was not referred to-
Moulton Farnham Esq
Attica NY.

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War Dept
Pen: off
May 30  '38

Gentlemen
The papers in the case of Mrs Martha Fuller
widow of Ichabod Fuller (deceased) have been examined & filed in this office-
Upon a reexamination of the papers in support
of the claim of her deceased husband under Act  7 June 1832 it would appear that it was very improperly admitted by the Clerk (not now in the office), who adjusted it-
In his first declaration his estimate of the several terms of his service amounted in the aggregate to about 12 months, while in the supplemental statement he enlarged the estimate of each so as to make an aggregate of more than 24 months - This last amount was allowed without requiring as the regulations enjoined the record proof of each term from the rolls of the Mass service then in the office of the Sec'y of Mass & now in this Dept.
Her claim resting upon the evidence
which these rolls afford of her late husband
service under the designated officers of each
term is not sustained -
The first service in 1775 alleged to have
been rendered under a Captain Robinson
of Col Daggett's Regt estimated at one time at 6 weeks

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and at another at 8 mo is not borne out by the
rolls which furnish no evidence of the service
of either the claimant or the designated officers at that period-
---
The 2nd term in 1776 alleged to have been 
under Capt Pratt. Col Carpenter is not verified by the rolls of Capt Josiah Pratt for 76 who belong to Col Mitchell not with Carpenters Regt the 3 & 4 terms under Capt Caleb Richardson in 77 & 78 derive no
support from the rolls of that company for those years-- Abial Fuller is borne uniformly in
the rolls of that company-
the 5th term (as a substitute for a brother) in Capt Fullers Company in 78 is not sustained by any roll of either of the Capts bearing that name.
There are several of the family of Fullers on the roll but no Ichabod Fuller-
No roll of Capt Seaver's company in which the
6th term is alleged to have been performed
has been found nor indeed any evidence that
there was such an officer in the Mass Militia
   Under these circumstances the Dept is con-
strained to withold from the claimant the benifits of the act of July 1836 unless the service be established agreeably to the regulations.

Messrs Sill & Foster
Erie Pa

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M. Farnham
October 27 1841

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239
Pen off
Oct 29th '41
Sir
.
Agreeably to your request
a copy of letter of 20 May 38 in the case
of Martha Fuller is herewith forwarded
With respect to the suppression of the
fact stated by claimant viz that she had
made an unsuccessful application in (illegible)
no satisfactory reason is assigned by
you- whether the regulations
prescribe it or not, the fact is important
in itself & being stated by claimant
should not have been suppressed by
the draftsman of her statement-
Moulton Farnham Esq.
Attica  NY

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1st declaration of Ichabod Fuller
apl 75.Capt Robinson-Col. Daggel from Attleborough Bristol
3 weeks neighborhood of Boston
June 75 "Capt Robinson went to Winter Hill Hospital for 3 weeks
July 76 - drafted served 4 mos Capt Pratt Col 
Carpentenal Rgmt
July 77 - drafted served 2 months Capt Caleb Richardson Swanzy-
July 78 Volunteered & served 3 or 4 mo Capt Caleb Richardson R. Island- in a few days substitute for his brother in Capt Fullers Company 4 mo. N.Bedford
Aug 79.  substitute for his brother in Capt Seaver 2 mo. Nantasket-

2nd   declaration-
75  8 mo. 14   X above 6 weeks
76  4 mo-       X above 4 mo. the same
77  2 mo-       X  above 2 mo the same
78  5 mo.        X  above  3 or 4 -weeks 
79  5 mo.        X above  2 weeks

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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Erie County } ss
I William Kelly   Prothonotary of the                    
Court of Common Pleas of & for
the County of Erie do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application
of Martha Fuller for a pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 25th day of December A.D. one thousand Eight hundred and thirty seven
William Kelly Pro.

Martha Fuller
Pension Application
3245
Penn-

Page 52

State of Pennsylvania
Erie County ⎬ On this Sixteenth of
October one thousand Eight hundred and
thirty seven personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Erie Martha Fuller a resident of the Township of Greenfield in the County of Erie aforesaid in the said State of Pennsylvania aged Eighty two years, who being first duly sworn, according to Law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Provisions made by the act of congress passed July 4, 1836: that she is the widow of Icabod Fuller who was during the revolutionary War a resident of
the Township of Attleborough in the County of
Bristol and State of Massachusetts, and was a
private in the Militia of the said State, that her
said husband served at different times as a
Militia man in the service of the United States during the said war, from great age and defective memory this applicant cannot state the particulars of his service, but recollects that he was on several tours of duty in the years 1775, 1776-1777 and perhaps in subsequent years she believes sometimes as a volunteer sometimes when drafted and sometimes as a Minuteman- some of his services were to protect the Country along Narraganset
Bay and Providence River from the occupying
of the enemy, she believes he was at Swanzey and at other places along that coast- She recollects also that he was called at the Battle on Dorchester Heights near Boston - She recollects that for some time he served in the Company commanded by Capt Caleb Richardson - Her said Husband Ichabod Fuller made application for a Pension, under the Pension Law of 1832 and obtained a Pension Certificate, in the year 1833, as she believes for the annual amount of Eighty dollars -- He continued to draw his Pension

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until the 4th of March 1836, and died on the
first day of July 1836. This applicant drew
the amount due on his pension till the time
of his death, and sent on and surrendered his
Certificate of Pension at the time She drew
the said demand of pension --All the documents above referred to are as she believes filed in the Pension office of Washington City-
She further declares, that she was married to the said Icabod Fuller on the Sixth day of April in the year one thousand seven hundred and twenty four that her husband, the aforesaid Icabod Fuller died on the first day of July 1837; and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by
reference to the proof hereto annexed.

                  her
Martha       X      Fuller
              mark

Sworn to and subscribed }
on the day and year above written},   
before  In Open Court}
William Kelley   Pro.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the facts set forth in the above deposition and declaration are true.

By the Court   William Kelley   Pro.

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until the 4th of March 1836, and died on the
first day of May 1836. This applicant drew
the amount due on his pension till the time
of his death, and sent on and surrendered his
Certificate of Pension at the time She drew
the said demand of pension all the documents
above referred to are as she believe filed
in the Pension office of Washington City-
She further declares, that she was married to the said Icabod Fuller on the Sixth day of April in the year one thousand seven hundred and twenty four that her husband, the aforesaid Icabod Fuller died on the first day of Jul 1837; and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by
reference to the proof hereto annexed.

                  her
Martha       X      Fuller
              mark

Sworn to and subscribed }
on the day and year above written, before
in Open Court
William Kelley   Pro.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the facts set forth in the above deposition and declaration are true.

By the Court   William Kelley   Pro.

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State of Pennsylvania
Erie County ss.
 On this______   day of _________       1837 personally appear in open Court, being the Court of Common Pleas of the Court of Erie aforesaid, Icabod Fuller
of the Township of Greenfield in the County
of Erie aforesaid, who being duly sworn
deposeth and saith, that he is as he always
was infirm and believes the son of Icabod
Fuller and Martha Fuller the before mentioned
applicant, that he is now forty five years of
age that he has lived with this said Parents
and near them since his earliest recollection,
and has always understood that his
said Parents were married about the year
1784 at Coventry in the State of Rhode Island
he had three Brothers older than himself; the
oldest one of the name of William Fuller
who if now living will be about sixty two
years of age - His Father the said Icabod Fuller, died the first day of July 1876 at the said Town of Greenfield and his mother still remains a widow and unmarried-
Ichabod Fuller
Sworn to and subscribed this sixteenth day
of October 1837- in open court- 
William Kelly Prot.
-
And the said Court do hereby certify that the
above named Ichabob Fuller who sworn to and subscribed the above deposition is a credible witness and that they believe him to be disinterested in the matter of the said deposition.
By the Court  William Keller Prothonotary

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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Erie County ss

I William Shelley Prothonotary of
of the Court of Common Pleas in &
for the County of Erie do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Martha Fuller for
a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 25th day of December A.D. one thousand
Eight hundred and thirty seven-
William Kelley Pro

Martha Fuller
Deposition
3245
Penn

Page 57


State of Pennsylvania}
Erie County} Ss.
Before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace within and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Jacob Cummins a resident in the town of Chaunce in the said County who being duly sworn  deposeth and saith that he is the Brother of Martha Fuller widow of Icabod Fuller of the township of Greenfield in the County of Erie and State of Pennsylvania that her maiden name was Martha Cummins. That before her marriage she lived in the family of her father in the town of Coventry in the State of Rhode Island. This deponent is now seventy four years of age-- at the time of the marriage of the said Martha with the said Icabod Fuller this deponent was living in the same Town - the marriage took place in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy four. This deponent was present and saw them married-after the said Marriage the said Icabod and Martha always lived together as man and wife and have raised a family of children-
Jacob Cummings
Sworn and Subscribed to}
this Eighth day of December}
A.D. 1837.}

Before me
Edmund Hull J.P.

Edmund Hall the justice of the Peace
before named do hereby certify that I am acquainted with Jacob Cummins who has sworn to the above deposition that he is a credible witness and to the best of my
knowledge is disinterested in the matter of the above deposition-
Edmund Hull  Justiice

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STATE OF NEW YORK,
ERIE COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, ss.
I Horace Clark, Clerk of the county of Erie do hereby certify that Edmund Hull Esq.
whose name is subscribed to the annexed Deposition or affidavit & a Justice of the Peace.
in and for said county, duly elected and sworn and acting as such. And further, that I am
acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice Edmund Hull and verily believe the signature to be his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my
name and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County this  21st
day of December A. D. 1837.
Horace Clark  Clerk

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Deposition}
 Tioga County ss}
     
Before me the Subscriber
a Justice of the Peace within and for the
County of Tioga aforesaid personally came
Elizabeth Wakely (the wife of John Wakely)
(formerly Elizabeth Cummings); who on her
solemn oath deposes and saith that she
in the sister of Martha Fuller, the widow
of Icabod Fuller of the Town of Greenfield
in the County of Erie and State of Pennsylvania,
that the maiden name of the said
Martha Fuller was Martha Cummings
that before the marriage of the said Martha with the said Icabod Fuller-she resided with her father in the town of Coventry in the state of Rhode Island and the deponent also resided with her father in the same family-This deponent was present at the marriage of the said Icabod Fuller with her sister all of them, before mentioned will recollect the circumstance- This deponent was then about nine years of age after the said Icabod and Martha were married they removed to the Town of Pownal in the State of Vermont, and this deponent for several years lived as neighbors to her.-- They always continued to live together until the death of the said Icabod, as this deponent indicated & believes-
Sworn to and subscribed this third day
of October 1837-
Elizabeth C Wakely
Before me-
Godfrey Bowman JP-

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I, Godfrey Bowman before whom the within
deposition of Elizabeth Cummings was taken
do certify that I am acquainted with the
said Elizabeth, and that she is a credible
Witness, and to the best of my knowledge
and belief is disinterested in the matter of
the said deposition - Witness my hand
this third day of October 1837
Godfrey Bowsman JcP.

Tioga County ss
I John F. Donaldson, Clerk of the Court
of Tioga County certify Godfrey Bowman Esq
to be a magistrate as above, and that the
signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
Subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office this fourth day of October A.D. 1837
 J F Donaldson Clerk of
the Court of Tioga County.