Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16504, Jabez Berry, New York.

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[form]
(3-1776)

Service                                          Number

New York      Berry, Jabez Sarah       W.16504

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[Form] 3608

New York
Jabez Berry
of Putnam in the State of New York, who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Rosecrantz of the Regiment commanded by Col Holmes in New York for 2 years.

Inscribed on the Role of New York at the rate of 80 dollars per annum to commence on the 4th day March 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of December 1832 and sent to T Morehouse, Clk of Co Putnam County.

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832                        $120
Semi=ant. allowance ending 4th mo'33        40
                                                   [total]     $160

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
[signed] Cromwell
Recorded by [illegible] Clerk,
Book D Vol B Page 156

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[Note]
[illegible] N York Oct /13/44
sent to [illegible] Albany " " "
Let to W. Valentine " " "

[form]
2220
New York
Sarah Berry widow of Jabez Berry who died on the 30th May 1834 of Putnam in the State of N. York who was a Private in the Co commanded by Captain Rosencrantz of the Reg commanded by Col. Holmes in the N. York line for 2 years, in N.Y.

Inscribed on the Roll of New York City at the rate of 80 Dollars........cents per annum, to commence on the 31st day of May 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of October 1849 and sent to Wm Valentine Albany N.Y.

Arrears to the 4th of semi-annual allowance ending
Increased from $57.83.
Deduct, former paybin

Revolutionary Claim
Act July 4, 1836
Section the 3 C

Recorded by Henry Robinson Clerk,
Book C Vol [illegible] Page 108

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11,343

Jabez Berry
Kent,
Putnam Co
N. York

Submitted

2 years

80


M agent

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11,343
Brief in the case of Jabez Berry, Kent, 
Co of Putnam in the State of New York
(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 disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. How old is he?  75 years.

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

[Chart]

Period     Duration of Service    Rank Name of General and Field Officers under      
                                                           whom he served.

May 1775  About 8 months  Private     Capt Rosecrantz, Col L Holmes
Afterward   About 3 months  Private    Capt C Ludington, Col. Bunthord [?]
August 1776  About 3 months  Private  Capt E Townsend, 
1777             About 3 months  Private   Capt E Townsend, Col H. Ludington
March 1778  1 year   Sergeant               Capt E Townsend, Col Graham
1780      6 weeks   Private                      Capt Knapp

5. In what battles was he engaged?  Fish Kill, New York

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? [illegible]

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

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

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

[signed] W Everett
Examining Clerk.

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Jabez Berry and Sarah Berry was married February the 25, 1779

Rebekah Berry was born December the 29th, 1779

Susanna Berry was born June the [?} 1782

Cornelious was born August the 12th 1784

Deborah Berry was born April the 9 day 1786

This is the same record of our [illegible] ages

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State of New York
County of Putnam, I Cornelius Berry of the town of Carmel in the County of Putnam being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is a son of Jabez Berry deceased and Sarah Berry now widow of said Jabez. That a family record was kept by the said Jabez and Sarah in the proper hand writing of the said Jabez. that this deponent has often seen and noticed the same. that the leaf which is hereto annexed contained the said record in the same condition he has often seen it and he has never seen any other record kept in the family of of the said Jabez, that the same record has since the death of the said Jabez been kept by the said Sarah. that the deponent has often seen the same as well since as before the death of the said Jabez, that the said Sarah now lives in the family of this deponent and has ever since the death of the said Jabez.

Sworn and subscribed               [signed] Cornelius O Berry
this day of May 1838 before me and
I do hereby certify that the said Cornelius Berry is entitled to Credit
W H Stoat  Clerk

Putnam County, I William H. Stoat 

Putnam County  I William H Stoat C Berry  of the county appeared. Whereby certify that the said William H Stoat before whom the preceding affidavit of Cornelius Berry was taken I am a justice of the peace duly qualified & sworn

In testimony whereof I the said William H Stoat Clerk as aforesaid have hereunto affixed my seal of office & subscribed my name this Seventh [?] day of May 1838
[signed] W H Stoat Clerk

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State of New York
County of Putnam 
On the twelfth day of September in the year of our Lord 1837 personally appeared before the court of Carmel held in & for the county of Putnam Sarah Berry a resident of the town of Carmel in the county of Putnam & State of New York aged seventy six years last September 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 [illegible] July 4 1836. That she is the widow of Jabez Berry late of the town of Carmel in the county of Putnam aforesaid deceased, who was a soldier in army of the United States during the Revolutionary War, that as she has always [illegible], the said Jabez Berry performed military duty in Westchester County in the State of New York, at different places & for different terms of service, that he also performed service as aforesaid in the county of Dutchess at Red Mills at Fishkill, and for the services which he so performed he obtained a pension which was continued when during her life, and the small [illegible] which was due at the time of his death has been due to the deponent. That part of the service which the said Jabez Berry performed as aforesaid was performed after the intermarriage between this deponent & the said Jabez Berry, thus this deponent [illegible] that the said Jabez Berry performed [illegible] of military service of six weeks upon the times in Weschester & other occasional periods of the length of which this deponent does not recollect, and for a [illegible] statement of the Jabez Berry services in the mountonary was to refers to her declaration & the papers which accompany it which are on file in the proper office at Washington. She further declares that she was married to the said Jabez Berry on the twenty fifth day of February in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and seventy nine. that her husband the aforesaid Jabez Berry died in the 29th day of May in the year of our Lord 1834 and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as well [illegible]

her to annexed
sworn & submitted    Sarah her X mark Berry

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day & year above written by me in the court, in this court, the [illegible] & September interview [illegible] & Common pleas intention before execution

J Morehouse Clk

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State of New York
County of Putnam  On this Eleventh day of September in the year 1832 personally appeared before the court of common [illegible] of the said county of Putnam Jabez Berry of the town of Kent in the County of Putnam and State of New York aged seventy five 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 provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 4, 1832. That he enlisted in May 1775 in the service of the United States in the town of Fishkill in said State of New York into Captain James Rosencrantz's company of minute men for five months. James Holmes was colonel (who afterwards joined the British) general Schylus brigade and served till the company was discharged at Albany in January 1776 - served about eight months. The service was performed principally near Ticondoroga. Afterwards he enlisted in Fredrickburgh in [illegible] into Capt Comfort Ludingtons company & went immediately thereafter to the city of New York this service was according to the enlistment for three months. Col. Swarthout had in charge the regiment in New York to which he was attached. That he enlisted in the month of August 1776 in Fredricksburg in said state into Capt William Black's company of rangers for three months & served the time within the county of Dutchess in the State of New York. Melanchton Smith was captain of another company and commandant of both. That he enlisted about the first of May 1777 at Fredricksburgh aforesaid into Capt Elijah Townsends company for three months which service was performed at a place called the Old Mills in said Fredricksburg to guard the continental stores at that place. That he enlisted for three months into a company commanded by Capt Elijah Townsend which was under the command of Col Henry Ludington & the said three months were spent on the [illegible] moving from place to place very often to/fro for their safety. Col Hammond was the Leut. Col. under Ludington. This service was performed in the year 1777 - That he enlisted in March 1778 for one year into Capt Elijah Townsends company in Col Morris Graham's regiment in general James Clintons brigade to reinforce the army of the United States and served as a sergant of

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 said company for one year. That afterwards he enlisted into a company commanded by Capt Israel Knapp for a short campaign but not less than six weeks  His service was performed on the hills in the county of Westchester & probably in the year 1780.
He Hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
He further declares on his oath aforesaid in answer to the interrogatories, propounded by the court—that he was born in Fredericksburg in the State of New York in the year 1757. That there was a record of his age in his father’s bible but that is gone but has got a record at home in his own writing—That he has lived in the same neighborhood where he was born, at the time of the revolutionary war—and at this time. That he was a volunteer in all cases in said war. That James Clinton was a general part of the years served afterwards a general Scott had
the command & as to regiments can not recollect any thing than herein before stated. That he received two discharges which are lost—one of said discharges was given by Capt. J. Rosecrants & the other was given by Col.
Morris Graham. (Signed) Jabez Berry.
Subscribed & sworn in open court before me. Asher Gilbert Dep Clk
[September 13, 1832 in open court]

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[form]

Widow, & C.

Fire No. 16504
Sarah Berry 
Widow of 
Jabez Berry
Pvt Rev War

Act July 4th 36

Index:  Vol A Page 52

[Arrangement of 1870.]

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New York 2220
Sarah Berry
widow of Jabez Berry, who was a
Pensioner [illegible] of 1832
who died on the 30th May 1834
of Putnam Co in the State of New York
who was a Pr & Sergt in the company commanded 
by Captain Rosencrantz of the regt commanded 
by Col Holmes in the New York
lines for 13 months & 9 days Private   44.33
1 mo & 15 days Sergeant        7.50
                                         $51.83

[line]
Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 51 dollars 83 cents per annum,
to commence on 31 May 1834

[line]
Increased from $32.25
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of Feb
1840 and sent to [illegible] 

[line]
Arrears to the 4th of Sept '39       272.74
Semi-annual allowance ending      25.98

deduction of [illegible]                $298.65
 payments to be made

Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836,
Section the 3

Recorded by D. Brown  Clerk,
Book A Vol 2  Page 111



[note]
Increased from $32.25
Increased from $51.83

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Letter to C. McEwen 8th Nov 1839
to Elnathan Sears 3 Jan 1840
[new column
New York (N.Y. City) 2,220.

Sarah Berry ,
widow of Jabez Berry, deceased,
who died on the 30th day of May 1834.
of Putnam Co in the State of New York 
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Rosencrantz, of the regmt, commanded
by Col. Holmes in the New York
line for 9 months and 24 days, private

[line]
Inscribed on the Roll of New York (City of N.Y.)
at the rate of 32 Dollars 25 Cents per annum.
to commence on the 31st of May 1834.
[line]
Certificate of Pension issued the 28th day of July, 
1838, and sent to Walker Todd, Esq, Carmel, New York.
[line]
Arrears to the 4th of March 1838 $127.19
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept  $16.12
      $143.31

Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836,
Section the 3d

Recorded by G.L. Rhodes Clerk,
Book A  Vol 2   Page 111

[note]
[illegible]
Sec Cet To Walker Todd 
Dec 9, 1837
to same 23, April 183

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Jabez Berry, New York City Act of June when last yo?
[signature illegible] 27, July 38

Died 30th May 1834 paid to that record

 

Jabez Berry Dutchess Co 
May 75 Capt Jas Rosecrantz Col Holmes - at Albany and about 8mo  [note cutoff]
aftermore " Comfort Luddington Swarthout New York City 
Aug 76 " Wm Clark to Rangers within Dutchess
May 77 " E. Townsend guarding col stores Red Mills 3 mo
March 78 """          Col Grahem Sergt for one year [note cut off]
afterwards " Israel Knapp  nobably 1780, six weeks

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I Jabez Berry found on E. Townsends role of Morris Grahams srgt for 78 - or on Israel Knapps Dutchess a militia for 1780?

[remainder of page too light to read, need re-scan]

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affidavit in favor of Sarah Berry for a pension

[remainder of page is blank]

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State of New York
Westchester County
I John R Smith clerk of the County of aforesaid do hereby certify that [illegible] whose name is scribed to the annexed and foregoing certificate was on the day of the date of said certificate a commissioner of deeds to take affidavits in and for the good county commissioned & sworn and duly authorized to take the same. And further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Jabez I can verity believe that the  signature to the said certificate is [illegible] is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have set in my hand and fixed my seal of office the 7th day of April 1837

[signature] [illegible] Smith Clk

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[note]

Carmel old
Matter of a new certificate
for 

[illegible] Mo 1 & 15 days
private into 13.lg - do
[line]
14.24

Hon. [illegible] Jones
[illegible]

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[stamp:  New York Oct 12]

Mr. Cole

J.L. Edwards Esq
Commisioner of Pensions
Washington City

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Albany N.Y. Oct 12th 1849

Sir

On the 5th Jul I received a pension certificate in the care of Sarah Berry widow of Jabez Berry. For an increase of her pension from $51.83 to $80 for under the Act of July 4th 1836 made payable at the Agency in the City of New York. On presenting the Power of Attorney at that Agency I was informed that no instruction to pay had been rec'd at that office.  It is probable the instructions has been sent to the wrong Agency. Will you please make the necessary corrections by giving instructions to the Agent in New York. The claimant resides in Sullivan Co N.Y . and the power of attorney is now executed in accordance with the pension certificate,
 I may be permitted to expect some surprise that errors of this kind would so frequently occur. It occasions, in some serious inconveniences and disappointment of the claimant. If these errors were not frequent this would be little or no cause of complaint, but the are becoming more everpresent.

I am yours very respectfully 
W Valentine

J. L. Edwards Eq
Comm of Pension
Washington

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Pension Office
October, 13th, 1849

Sir, 

Be pleased to drop from your role under Act, 4th July 1836, the name of Sarah Berry, widow of Jabez Berry, a private, to receive at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum, commencing 31st of May 1834, regulate your books accordingly.

I am Very Respectfully Your Obt. Sen.
J. L Edwards 
Commisioner of Pensions



Thos. W. Alcott Esq
Pension Agents
Albany N.Y.

Sarah Berry is not on the Books of the Albany Agency
Jenkins

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Payment to be made
at New York
by L Knapp Esq
Agent for paying pensioners, in the Agency of New York




Recorded in the Pension Office,
in Book A. Vol 2, Page 111 by 
D. Brown
Clerk

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WAR DEPARTMENT
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I certify that, in conformity with the 3d section of the law of the United States, of the 4th July, 1836, Sarah Berry of the State of New York, widow of Jabez Berry who was a Private Sergeant in the War of the Revolution is entitled to receive Fifty One dollars and eighty three cents per annum, during the time she may remain unmarried, commencing on the thirty first of May 1834
and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September. This certificate issued in & dated July 28, 1838, [illegible].

Given at the War Office of the United States, this thirteenth day of 


[seal]
examined and countersigned

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Letter
[remainder of page is blank]

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Albany, NY Jan 21st 1849

Sir,

Enclosed is the Declaration of Sarah Berry, widow of Jabez Berry for an increase of his pension [illegible] the Resolution of [illegible] of July 1st, 1848.
I herewith return her pension certificate under the Act of July 4th 1836 for the purpose of obtaining a new one at the increase rate.

I am yours very respectfully,

Wm Valentine

J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

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[signature illegible]
Acting comm of Pensions

C.McEwen Esq
Wurtsborough, New York

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War Department
Pension Office
Nov. 8. 1839

Sir,

The certificate of the comptroller of New York showing that three several certificates were issued to Jabez Berry, a Sergeant, is unavailable as evidence in support of the claim of Mrs Sarah Berry to an additional allowance of pension. The name of the Colonel of the regiment, and the name of the Captain of the company, both of which will be found in the volume referred to, are necessary in order to identify the soldier in whose favor the certificates were issued, as the husband of the claimant.

I am respectfully your [illegible]
[signature] Go Wm [illegible]

C MEwen Esq
Westsborough
N. York

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Payment to be made at the City of New York by L. Lorilland, Agent for paying pensioners, in the agency of the City of new York.

Recorded in the Pension Pffice in Book A, Vol D, Page 111 by

G.F. Rhodes, Clerk

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WAR DEPARTMENT
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM

I certify that, in conformity with the 3d section of the law of the United States, of the 4th July 1836, Sarah Berry, of Putnam Co. New York widow of Jabez Berry, deceased, who was a private in the Revolutionary War.

is entitled to receive thirty-two dollars and twenty-five cents per annum, during the time she may remain unmarried, commencing on the thirty-first of  May, 1834, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September.

Given at the War Office of the United States,this twenty eighth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.


[Stamp] Examined and Countersigned.

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House of Representatives
Feb 12, 1840

Hon J. L Edwards
Comm of Pensions

Sir, I send with this affidavit [illegible] in relation to the [illegible] of the Pension Certificate of Sarah Berry , w of Jabez Berry, which certificate was some time since sent to the pension office (or so intended) by T. C McEwen but miscarried or lost.
I am informed that the object in sending said certificate was to obtain an increase of pension to the [illegible] of five months as additional which had been conceded as rendered in 1775 under Capt Rosencrantz. The agent of NY B states that he enclosed with said certificate comptrolling certificate for about three months service done under Capt Knapp and Capt Crane as Sergeant which has not been allowed but on being required. He afterwards transmitted to the pension office the secretary's certificate showing that Knapp & Crane served under Colonel Ludington. By reference to these papers and the original papers of said Jabez Berry said agent [illegible] you will be be satisfied that she is entitled to eight months additional pay.
Respectfully yours
Nath'l Jones

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State of New York
Secretary of State's Office
Albany Dec 7th 1839

I certify that as appears in the book of minutes of the Council of appointment remaining at this office, on the 25th day of 1778, David Waterbury was appointed Captain of the company of the militia in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Henry Luddington in the County of Dutchess in this State. John Crane, a captain in said company and regiment. I also certify that it appears from said book of minutes, the on the 29th day of June 1780 in Colonel Henry Luddingtons regiment of militia in Dutchess County Isreal Knapp was appointed a Captain
given under my hand the day sworn first aforesaid.

[signed] Arch'd Campbell Dept Sec'y

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[Envelope]

Winterboro NY
Sept     20
Sept 23

Pension Office
accepting
Sarah Berry

4 Jul '30
No 2220

J.R. Poinsett
Secretary of War
City Washington

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Winterboro 20th Sept 1839

Hon. J. R. Poinsett

Sir I enclosed to you the pay certificate of the widow Berry. Together with the certificate of the Comptroller of this state. On which I claim an increase of pay for the widow  as it appears. she received it pension a little over nine months service of her husband as a private.
And by the Comptrollers certificate it appears that Jabez Berry served as a Sergeant which has not been allowed on her first application
I understand by the Comptroller that the original pay rolls has not been returned as yet. And if in the pension office. If you will have the goodness to refer to the payrolls of Capt Ludington Capt Walterberry Capt Crane & Capt Rosavinanne you may find efficient review to give the widow full pay

I am his hon [illegible]
Thomas C McEwen

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[envelope]

May 14
NY
Applicant
Sarah Berry

J L Edwards Esquire
Comm of Pensions
Washington City
Dis of Col

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Carmel Putnam Co NY May 7, 1838

Dear Sir

I enclose to you the affidavit of Cornelius Berry and the family record to which he refered in his former affidavit, identifying the same as being the record kept by Jabez Berry in his lifetime and by his widow since his death. This I presume is all that will be required. There is no public record in the church as this is the only private record ever kept in that family. There is then no record of the marriage unless this is one. The marriage was proved by two witnesses and this certainly to sufficient evidence of that fact.
In my last letter I also requested you to state what was the result of the application for a pension of Mrs. Townsend the widow of Isaac Townsend deceased a lieutenant in the army of the revolution Not having heard from you in that I expect the ongoing.

Yours respectfully
Walker Todd

J L Edwards

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[envelope]
2762
Oct 2
N.Y.
4 July 36
3Lec

J L Edwards Esquire
Comm of Pensions
Washington City
Dis of Col

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Carmel Putnam Co New York
September 28, 1837

Sir,

I [illegible] the papers of Sarah Berry widow of Jabez Berry on which she founds her application for a pension. You will please to send to me at this place  her pension certificate if she is entitled to a pension. And if the papers of evidence are deficient you would confer a favor by stating the objections. The applicant resides about one mile from the  post office in this place
Respectfully I can [illegible]
your Obt Servant 
Walter Todd


J L Edwards Esq
Com of Pensions

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[Envelope}

NY Feb 5
[illegible]
Sarah Berry


J L Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of the Pensions
Washington City
Dist of Col

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Carmel Putnam Co New York
January 31 1838

Sir

I see some time since your letter in relation to the application of Sarah Berry for a pension she being the widow of Jabez Berry dec.
Your letter informs one that she cannot be entitled to more than forty nine dollars a year for since the receipt of her papers a reexaminaton of the papers of husband has been made and that it now app that his services were overestimated.
I cannot say how that may be. The widow is now very poor & must petition to the poor house of county from which place the pension of her husband enabled him to find a more comfortable place to live if she is not entitled to the county which the law  [illegible]
In your letter I understand you to state that the proof of her marriage is insufficient although how by this oath of two witnesses who were present. Without conce [illegible] is to the better evidence by the church record I have to obviate the objection that she ought to have providence of the marriage obtained the affidavit of Jacob Green the pastor of the Church of Bedford having that at the time she & the other witnesses say she was married that the Rev Mr Mills was the pastor of that church no record was then kept of Marriages.
I have also obtained the affidavit of Cornelius Berry son of the applicant having that a family record has been kept in a bible in the family. from which it appears she was married in Feb 7 1779.
I assume that this will make our a perfect & I should be pleased to hear the result of her application which I cannot doubt will be favorable.
As soon as the matter is determined be pleased to inform me. She lives about a mile from me & I can give the information as soon as it is received.
Yours respectfully
Walter Todd

J. L. Edwards Esq

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Carmel NY
April 12

Mrs Berry


L Edwards Esq
Dept of Pensions
Washington Dist Col

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Carmel Putnam County NY
April 11th 1838

Sir,

It is a long time since I wrote to you and enclosed the pension papers of Sarah Berry the Widow of Jabez Berry deceased to which I received your reply informing me that the evidence in relation to her marriage was not such as you desired. You also informed me that if she was entitled to a pension that it would not be more that forty nine dollars a year. After receiving your letter I procured such additional evidence in relation to her marriage as seemed to be indicated by you. To my letter enclosing that evidence I have received no answer. Will you have the goodness to answer that letter   The widow is old, infirm and very necessitons. if she is to receive a pension to which I am satisfied she is entitled she cannot receive it too soon to relieve her wants.
I also enclosed to you early in the similar the pension papers of Mrs Townsend the widow of Lieut Isaac Townsend deceased who was an officer in the Army of the revolution. I have received no answer from you to my communication on enclosing those papers. Will you oblige me with an answer to the papers of Mrs Berry & also of Mrs Townsend with as little delay as possible

yours 
Walker Todd

To J L Edwards Esqr

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[envelope]

July 20 NY

J. L. Edwards Esquire
Com of Pensions
Washington City
Dist of Columbia

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Carmel July 25th 1838

Dear Sir

     Your note of the date of 23rd April last saying that the leaf containing the original family record described in the affidavit of Cornelius Berry should be transmitted to the pension office. That a copy of a private record could not be received as evidence.
    Early in May last I enclosed to you the leaf which contained the family record of the marriage of Jabez Berry to Sarah  Raymond.  now Sarah Berry widow of Jabez Berry. Hence I enclosed that leaf. I have heard nothing from you. Will you have the goodness to inform me of the result of her application for a pension.
   I will observe that her husband was a pensioner, she has proved her marriage by two witnesses, she has proved that then there was no record kept of marriages by whose settled minister she was married. The only family record was kept has been forwarded to you.
  It appears to me that the evidence she has forwarded is all that is required.
An early answer is requested,

Yours respectfully
Walker Todd

To J L Edwards Esq

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[note]

In the matter of the 
application of Sarah Berry for a pension

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[form]

State of New York
County of Westchester, 

I, John H Smith, Clerk of the County aforesaid, do hereby certify that [illegible] whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of the proof or acknowledgement of the annexed instrument, and thereon written, was, on the day of the date of the said Certificate, a Commissioner in and for the County aforesaid, residing in the said county, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorized to take the same. And further, that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said commissioner, and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate of proof or acknowledgement is genuine.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and afixed the seal of the said County, the [illegible] day of [illegible]

1838

[signature illegible]

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State of New York
Westchester Co
Jacob Green on the town of Bedford in the County of Westchester and State of New York being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is the pastor of the Presbyterian Church in the town of Bedford and has been such Pastor for the space of fifteen years last past.

That the Rev Samuel Mills was the pastor of this church during the years 1778 and 1779. As this deponent has learned from those who have had the management of the affairs of the church and fully believes that there was no record of Marriages kept in the church during the period and has been no such record kept from that time till the period of 1780 to the best belief and knowledge of this deponent.

Sworn and subscribed       [signed] Jacob Green
before me this 27th
day of January 1838

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The number and amount of certificates given by the Treasurer of the State of New York for levys and military services contained from the book VII.

To whom given - 

1780 
Decem '8 '38063 Jabez Berry Sergt   6
The number and amount of certificates given by the Treasurer of the State of New York for levys and military services contained from the book VIII.

To whom given - 

1779
Nov 24 4278h  Jabez Berry [illegible]   2  5        37
June 18 42833 Jabez Berry   2   15   7

Comptrollers Office
September 1839

I hereby certify from book 7 naming Jabez Berry who appears to have served in Capt Israel Knapps company is correct. The extract above from book 9 naming said Berry who those appearing to have served in [illegible]. David [illegible] (company) is correct and true.
In writing whereof I am hereto by my hand and appear [illegible]

[signed illegible]

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[note]

In the matter of the application of Sarah Berry for a pension

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State of New York
Putnam County 
I William H. Stoat clerk of the county of Putnam aforesaid do hereby certify that I said William H Stoat before whom the annexed affidavit of Cornelius Berry was taken was at the time of the taking said affidavit I still am a justice of the peace in the aforesaid county of Putnam duly commissioned 
In testimony whereof I the said William H. Stoat clerk as aforesaid here into set my hand & affixed my seal of office at Carmel in said county this 27th day of January in the year 1838.
[signed] W. H. Stoat clerk

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State of New York
Westchester County
I Hannah Shay of the town of North Salem in the County of Westchester, State of New York being duly sworn doth depose & say that she was eighty one years of age on the ninth day of September last s she has always understood and surely believes to be true that this deponent was well acquainted with Jabez Berry late of the Town of Carmel in the county of Putnam State of New York decreed that this deponent is also well acquainted with Sarah Berry the widow of said Jabez Berry [illegible] had been so acquainted since a very early period in lie that the deponent was present at the marriage of the said Jabez Berry to the said Sarah, then Sarah Raymond. that the said marriage took place in the month of February in the year 1778 or 1779 at the house of Thaddeus Raymond the father of said Sarah in the town of Bedford in the County of Westchester State of New York and the marriage ceremony was performed by a W. Mills, a clergyman in Bedford Aforesaid.

[Signed]    Hannah her X mark Shay

Sworn and subscribed before me a commissioner of deeds in and for the County of Westchester aforesaid April 3, 1837

[signed]   June Commissioner of deeds

I certify that the above said Hannah Shay is entitled to credit and that from bodily infirmity unable to attend court. April 9, 1837

[Signed]    Labud June Commissioner of deeds

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State of New York
Westchester County
I Hannah Shay of the town of North Salem in the County of Westchester, State of New York being duly sworn doth depose & say that she was eighty one years of age on the ninth day of September last s she has always understood and surely believes to be true that this deponent was well acquainted with Jabez Berry late of the Town of Carmel in the county of Putnam State of New York decreed that this deponent is also well acquainted with Sarah Berry the widow of said Jabez Berry [illegible] had been so acquainted since a very early period in lie that the deponent was present at the marriage of the said Jabez Berry to the said Sarah, then Sarah Raymond. that the said marriage took place in the month of February in the year 1778 or 1779 at the house of Thaddeus Raymond the father of said Sarah in the town of Bedford in the County of Westchester State of New York and the marriage ceremony was performed by a W. Mills, a clergyman in Bedford Aforesaid.

[Signed]    Hannah her X mark Shay

Sworn and subscribed before me a commissioner of deeds in and for the County of Westchester aforesaid April 3, 1837

[signed]   June Commissioner of deeds

I certify that the above said Hannah Shay is entitled to credit and that from bodily infirmity unable to attend court. April 9, 1837

[Signed]    Labud June Commissioner of deeds

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V2762

Sarah Berry
Widow of Jabez 
NY

on [illegible] of Col Holmes
Capt  }1775
5 Mo
8 mo 19 days   capt Townsend
1 mo 15 days Cap Knapp
[line]
14. 24

[formula]

adm'd
9 mo 24 o-hri
$32.25

pen: to commence on 31, May 1834

Walker Todd
Carmel

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Putnam County  Nicholas Agor of the town of Carmel in the County of Putnam being duly sworn doth [illegible] that he was sixty eight years of age on the fifth day of December last the deponent was well acquainted with Jabez Berry of the town of Carmel, did that the deponent can remember the said Jabez Berry was married as it was reported the deponent to believe it to be to Sarah Raymond during the Revolutionary War. that the said Jabez Berry to the knowledge of the deponent performed military services at Red Mills then in Dutchess County but moved to Putnam County State of New York often he was now to be married that at the term of this service aforesaid the said Jabez was living with the said Sarah that his wife can a farm belonging to the father of the said Jabez in what was then called the town of Frederick about three miles from the new place called the Red Mills when the deponent often saw him in the performance of his military service in guarding the provisions which was then collected. What the said Jabez & the said Sarah lived together brought  a family of children in this section of the country, that their marriage has never been doubted. They lived together  until the death of said Jabez Berry on the 29th day of May in the year of our Lord 1834 having the said Sarah his widow. the Jabez lived about a mile from deponent at the time of his death & the deponent putting him in to his coffin & in burying him.

Sworn & submitted in open court this 12th day of September 1837
C Morehouse Clk                          [signed] Nicholas Ayer

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[illegible]

act 4 July 1831, $80 year annum commencing 31 May 1834, deducting former year at $51.83 per annum.

N York City Hall

Mr Valentine 
Albany NY

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State of New York
County of Sullivan

On this 14th day of June 1849 before me Eli Bennett a Justice of the Peace in aforesaid county personally appeared Sarah Berry a widow of Mamakating in said County aged eight nine years last September who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Resolution of Congress of July 1st 1848 relative to services of thou who served in the War of the Revolution. That she is the widow of Jabez Berry who was a pensioner of the United States under the Act of July 7th, 1832 at the rate of Eighty dollars per Annum. In that the new receives a pension under the Act of July 4th of 1836 at the rate of fifty one dollars and eighty three cents per annum. In support of which claim she refers the pension department to the proof on file and to the resolution aforesaid. She further declares that she is now a widow.

Subscribed & sworn to before me this 14th day of June 1849

Sarah her X   mark Berry 

E. Bennett Justice of the Peace

I certify that I am personally acquainted with Sarah Berry and that she is the identical person above named & described. I further certify the reason for her not writing her name is on account of a trembling hand arising from nervous disability and old age.

E. Bennett M Justice of the Peace

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State of New York:
Sullivan County
Cleark's Office.

I certify that E. Bennett Esq, the person subscribing the annexed or foregoing affidavit and before whom the same was taken was on the 14th day of June A.D. 1849 Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly elected and sworn and authorized to take the same; and that his signature thereto is genuine.

In TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County this 16th day of June A.D. 1849.

[signed] {?}ad Wales Deputy CLERK.

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State of New York
Sullivan County

Before one the subscriber Justice of Peace for the said county of Sullivan personally appeared Sarah Berry. Who on her oath declares that she is the same person that was placed on the pension roll of the State of New York that she received a Certificate of that fact under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War which Certificate on or about the month of July 1839. She delivered the paid certificate even to Thomas C M'Ewen her agent for the purpose of having her pension increased and has not saw said third certificate since.
Sworn and submitted by making her mark before me this 31st day of January 1840

Sarah her X mark Berry

The word (being) in the forth line from the top war[illegible] before executed
James [illegible] Justice of the peace

I do certify that I am acquainted with Sarah Berry who made the foregong affidavit  is entitled to full credit and belief.
[signed] James [illegible] Justice of the Peace

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State of New York
Sullivan County 

Personally appeared before me as the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in aforesaid county Felix Kelly a resident of the town of Mamakating County and State aforesaid. who Being duly sworn according to law says on his oath that he is personally acquainted with Sarah Berry who made oath to and inscribed the annexed affidavit and that he knows her to have been a pensioner of the United States by the fact of his acting as her attorney in drawing her money at different times from the agent of the United States in the City of New York.

Sworn and subscribed before me this 31th day of January 1840

[signed] Felix Kelly
[signed]  James Sevens Justice of the Peace

I do certify that I am personally acquainted with Felix Kelly who made the foregoing affidavit, is entitled to full credit and belief

[signed]James Sevens Justice of the Peace

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 State of New York
Sullivan County

I personally appenned before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Thomas C. M'Ewen a resident of the Town of Mamakating, County and state aforesaid who being duly sworn according to the law says on his oath that he was employed by the widow Sarah Berry named in the annexed affidavit as her attorney or agent to apply for an increase of her pension and that he received her pay certificate and transmitted it to the pension department on the 20th day of September 1834 for the purpose of having said pension increased a new certificate  issued and have not seen said certificate since.

[signed] Thomas C M'Ewen

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 31th day of January 1840

[signed] James Xe[illegible] Justice of the peace

I do certify that I am personally acquainted with Thomas C M'Ewen who made the foregoing affidavit, in full credit and belief.
[signed] James [illegible] Justice of the peace

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State of New York
Putnam County 

I [illegible] clerk of said county do hereby certify that [illegible] for whom the foregoing affidavits since taken [illegilbe]

I am a justice of the peace in the county 

[illegible - page needs rescan]

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State of New York
Westchester County ,ss.  I Timothy Shay of the town of North Salem in the county of Westchester & State of New York being duly sworn doth depose & say that he was eighty years of age in the ninth day of September last. That this deponent was well acquainted with Jabez Berry late of the town of Carmel in the County of Putnam deceased. that this deponent is also well acquainted with Sarah Berry the widow of the said Jabez Berry deceased. that the deponent has been acquainted to with the said Jabez Berry and Sarah his wife since a an early period of his life and before the marriage of the said Jabez & Sarah, that the deponent was present in the month of February in the year 1778 or 1779 when he new Jabez Berry & Sarah Raymond, were married, that the marriage took place at the house of Thadeus Raymond the father of the said Sarah in the town of Bedford in the County of Westchester State of New York and was solemn by a Mr Mills a Presbyterian clergymen living in the town of Bedford aforesaid.
That the said marriage took place during the Revolutionary war and the said Jabez Berry. was then about the military service of the county on a furlough as was then reported. 
[signed] Timothy Shay

sworn and subscribed before me a commissioner in and for the County of Westchester April 3d 1837
Jabard June Commissioner of [illegible]

I certify that the above said Timothy Shay is entitled to credit and that from bodily infirmity he is unable attend  to court April 3 1837 Jabard June Commissioner of [illegible]

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 State of New York 
Putnam County Clerks Office  ss.
I  Jonathan Morehouse clerk of said court do hereby certify that Bonnet Boyd, Ebenezer Foster, David Kent & Stephen Pinkney are Judges of county courts
certificate hereto annexed, and I do further certify that the declaration of Sarah Berry, the affidavits of Timothy Shay, Hannah Shay & Nicholas Ages which are also hereto annexed the evidence what which the said judges signed the certificate  submitted as aforesaid and that the said declaration affidavits are as the same as who presented to the court.


In testimony where of I Jonathan Morehouse clerk as aforesaid have hereinto subscribed my name & official seal this twelfth day of September in the year of our Lord 1837. [illegible] which in this certificate [illegible]


J Morehouse CLK, by his deputy W.W. Stoat

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A court of common pleas held at the court house in Carmel in the County of Putnam in the State of New York on the twelfth day in the year of our Lord 1831 before Bernie Boyd David Kent Ebenezer Foster 
Stephen Pinkney   Judges of said court

Sarah Berry, widow of Jabez Berry deceased presented to the said court her declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of congress of 4th July 1836 which she has duly sworn to by the said Sarah Berry in open court. The affidavits of Timothy Shay and of Hannah Shay & Nicholas Ayon  were also present duly authenticated From the said [illegible] of their office  that said Sarah Berry is the widow of Jabez Berry , that the marriage between the said Jabez Berry and said Sarah Berry took place before the last pension of Military service performed by Jabez Berry for the United States during the war of the Revolution, that he saw Jabez Berry did perform military services for the United States & obtained a pension for such services as is states in said declaration, that said Jabez Berry is dead on the 29th day of May in the year of our Lord 1831, having the said Sarah Berry his widow, that she is now his widow. That the said Sarah Berry, Timothy Shay Hannah Shay..Nicholas Ayon to each of them is entitled to confidence and credit.

[signed]

Bennet Boyd
Ebenezer Foster
David Kent
Stephen Pinkney

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Putnam County   I Samuel Hawkins of the town of Kent in this County of Putnam being duly sworn doth depose & say that he is seventy-two years of age. that he is well acquainted with Jabez Berry who has subscribed the following  declaration and sworn to the same.  that he was acquainted with him in the revolutionary war & knows that he was a soldier in the service of the United States. In the year 1777 the deponent was a soldier in Capt Elijah Townsends Company. the said Jabez Berry was a soldier in the same company for the same time and he performed his duty as a good and faithful soldier in the service.  The service was performed at Red Mills in guarding the continental stores. 
That in the year 1778 the deponent was a soldier in the company commanded by Capt Elijah Townsend. He entered in the same not far from the month of March in that year for one year Jabez Berry aforesaid was the orderly sergeant of the company when [illegible] joined the said company & continued in that capacity during this year. The company for the year was attached to Col Morris Graham regiment in general James Clintons Brigade. This years service was issued in the county of Westchester in the community of White Plains and other parts of the county.

Sworn & subscribed in open court                [signed]Samuel Hawkins
September 12th 1832 Morehouse Clk

Putnam County for Isaac Drew of the County of Putnam being duly sworn doth depose & sayth that he is seventy six years of age, that he was a soldier in the revolutionary war, that in the year 1780 the deponent belonged to a company commanded by Capt Israel Thompson  he enlisted into new company for six weeks  and performed his duty as [illegible]

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lives in the County of Westchester. That he performed the service for which he certified. that Jabez Berry signed doth signed & subscribed to the following  declaration, was a soldier in the same company performed the duty of a soldier for six weeks with this deponent.
And this deponent further sayth that he also served in the company commanded by Elijah Townsend for three months in the year 1777. His services was performed in the county of Westchester. Col Luddington & Col. Thompson commanded the regiment to which the company was attached. The above named Jabez Berry was a member of said company for the said eleven months and performed his duty as a good soldier for the said time.

sworn & subscribed in open court                      [signed] Isaac Drew
September 13th 1832 Morehouse CLk

Putnam County   John Dupre of this town of Trent in the County of Putnam being duly sworn - with depose to say that in the spring or early in the summer of the year 1777 the deponent the service was performed on the lines for three months into a company commanded by Capt Elijah Townsend. I performed this service of a soldier for it when at the Red Mills in guarding of public stores. that he  was then acquainted with Jabez Berry who has signed & sworn his hand. That the said Jabez Berry was also a soldier in the company commanded by Capt E Townsend & performed his duty as such for three months with this deponent at the Red Mills aforesaid.

sworn & subscribed in open court                      John X Dupee
September 13th 1832 Morehouse CLk                       his mark

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Putnam County I Enoch Crosby of the towns of South East in the county of Putnam being duly sworn doth depose & say that he is eighty two years of age when he was a solder in the revolutionary war that he was in the northern campaign in the year 1775 in Col Waterburys Regiment that in that campaign he then heard that Jabez Berry  who has agreed to sworn to it above declaration were a soldier in Col Holmes regiment in the same campaign. He then knew of Jabez Berry & he were reputed to be a soldier & has ever since been reputed to have been such soldier. & the deponent verily believes that the said Jabez Berry was a soldier in the northern campaign in the year 1775.      

[signed]Enoch Crosby 

sworn & subscribed in open court
September 13th 1832 - Morehouse Clk

The above named Enoch Crosby doth further depose and say that in the year 1776 he knew of said Jabez Berry to be a soldier in the company of rangers commanded by Capt William Clark, that the said Jabez Berry was the sergeant of the guard, who took the deponent a prisoner on suspicion that he was a spy of the enemy. This deponent things that the said Jabez Berry must have performed his military services in that company as long as three months.

sworn & subscribed in open court                                      Enoch Crosby
September 13th 1832 - Morehouse Clk

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We Joseph Cole and Joseph Crane of the town of Carmel in the County of Putnam do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jabez Berry who has signed and sworn to the above declaration. That we have known him for the last fifty years and believe him to be seventy four years of age. That he is reputed in the neighborhood where he lives to have been a soldier of the revolution. thus had what performed services of said revolution. We concur as deponent so generally contentioned

sworn & subscribed September 17th 1832   Joseph Cole
in open court Morehouse Clk                       Joseph Crane

And the said court do hereby ascertain their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations transcribed by  said deponent. that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.
And the court further that it appears to them that Joseph Cole & Joseph Crane who have signed the preceding certificate are evidence persons and also shall be witnesses. Enoch Crosby  John Russell. Sam Drew & Samuel Howe. [illegible]  credible withnesses. their statement is entitled to  [illegible] Judge & Samuel Frederic Stone first 
Bennet Boyd Judge
Samuel Washburn Judge

State of New York
Putnam County   I Johnathon Morehouse Clerk of the court of common pleas for the county of Putnam do hereby certify that the foregoing in its present  condition contains the original findings of the said court in the matter of the application of Jabez Berry for a pension  In testament whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this fourteenth day of September in the year of our Lord 1832.  
Morehouse Clk

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