Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26919, for Jonathan Powers, New Hampshire

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Service;  N H
Powers, Jonathan
Rebecca
W 26919

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2876
Vermont
Jonathan Powers
of Lyndon in the state of Vermont who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Emerson of the regt commanded
by Col. Cilley in the New Hampshire
line for 3 years.
Inscribed on the roll of Vermont
at the rate of 80 dollars 00 cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

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Jonathan Powers,
1 May 1820
Vermont.
not entitled
(March 1819)

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State of Vermont
County of Caledonia ss} On this 24th day of February 1829 before the Probate Court for the District of Caledonia, a court of record expressly made such by the laws of the State of Vermont, personally appeared in open Court Jonathan Powers resident in Lyndon in Said County and district aged Sixty nine years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the 1t May 1820; that he the said Jonathan Powers enlisted for the term of three years on the 17th day of April in the year 1777 in the State of New Hampshire in the Company commanded by Captain Amos Emerson in the regiment commanded by Colonel Cilley, in the line of the State of Newhampshire on the Continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the said corps until the months of February 1780 when he was discharged from the service in Danbury or Reading in the State of Connecticut; that his name has been placed on the pension List and dropt therefrom under the act of May 1st 1820. And in pursuance of the act of May 1st 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale or in any  manner, disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed - 
an undivided half of 85 acres of land in Lyndon being part of right No. 1 - $235.00
1 Cow $17.00 - 1 heifer $13.00 12 Sheep $16.00 - 46.00
1 old Sleigh $4.00 1 Chain $1.00 1 harrow $2.00 - 7.00
2 Iron Wedges 0.50 - household furniture $16.49 - 16.99
one note against Oliver Woods for $150.00 very doubtful as to ever collecting anything - 50.00
[total] $354.99
/s/Jonathan Powers
I did not make a declaration and exhibit a schedule of my property under the act of May 1" 1820 because I was informed that those pensioners who made application under that act

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and who had about the same amount of property that I possessed were unsuccessful: On the 18th March 1818 and on the 1st May 1820 I owned 62 acres of land in Kirby in the County of Caledonia which I sold to Merit Newhall about seven years since at the sum of six hundred dollars - I was also possessed of a small stock of cattle & a few of farming tools which could not have exceeded in value two hundred & twenty five dollars, the above was all the property I then possessed except my household furniture which was about the same as at present, and I was in debt at that time about two hundred dollars - 
I am a farmer by occupation - have been past labor for two years - unable  to do any work except some little chores 
I have no family except my wife Rebecca aged 65 ['years of' crossed out] her health very poor - 
/s/Jonathan Powers
Sworn to, & declared on the 24th day of February 1829 
Before, /s/Benj. F. Deming 
Judge of the Court of Probate
I Samuel B. Mattocks Register of the Court of Probate for the district of Caledonia do hereby certify, that it appears, to the satisfaction of the Court that the Said Jonathan Powers did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine  months, under one engagement, on the continental establishment. I also certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court; And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the Said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is three hundred & fifty four dollars and ninety nine cents - 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the Said Court on this 26th day of February A.D. 1829
/s/Sam'l B. Mattocks
Register of the Court of Probate for the district of Caledonia

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Jon'a Powers' Declaration
P.O. July 21 1832

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State of Vermont
District and County of Caledonia} ss.
On this 13th day of July A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Hon. Benjamin F. Deming Judge of the Court of Probate for the District aforesaid now sitting Jonathan Powers a resident of Lyndon in the County and District aforesaid aged seventy three 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 provisions of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832 
That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1777 for the term of three years and served in the first Reg't of the New Hampshire line under the following named officers Cap't Amos Emerson  - Col. Joseph Cilley until Feb. 1780. That he has been on the pension roll and dropped therefrom on account of property - that the proof of his service is now in the War Office.
His present residence is at Lyndon, Vermont and at the time of his first application he resided at Kirby Vt.
/s/Jonathan Powers
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.
I Amos Paul Register of the Court of Probate for the District of Caledonia aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the

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application of Jonathan Powers for a pension
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 13th day of July A.D. 1832 - 
/s/Amos Paul, Register

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4735 
V Vermont Montp
Rebecca Powers widow of Jonathan Powers who was a private in the N. Hampshire Line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. 
Certificate of Pension issued the twenty seventh day of Jan'y 1844 and sent to Hon'ble S. S. Phelps U. S. Senate
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1 Page 29

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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows.
State of Vermont
Caledonia County}ss.
On this twenty fifth day of March A.D. one thousand eight hundred and forty one personally appeared before me George W. Denison one of the Judges of the County Court within and for said County of Caledonia, being a Court of record, Rebecca Powers, a resident of Lyndon in the County of Caledonia aforesaid, aged seventy five 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 7, 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." that she is the widow of Jonathan Powers who formerly resided in said Lyndon and afterwards in Burke in said County and who died at Lowell in the County of Orleans in said State of Vermont on the fifth day of November A.D. 1840 being then then resident, that her said husband the said Jonathan Powers was a private in the Army of the Revolution and as she understands was a three year man in Capt. Emerson's Company in Col. Cilley's Regiment, that the said Jonathan Powers was a pensioner at the time of his death under the law of the United States of the 7th June 1832 at the rate of eighty dollars per annum - that the pension certificate of the said Jonathan Powers is dated the seventh day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two. and is numbered two thousand eight hundred and seventy six (2876) in figures and certified to be recorded in Book D. Vol 4 page 79 to the testimony of the said Jonathan Powers in obtaining which the applicant respectfully refers for further proofs 
She further declares that she was married to the said Jonathan Powers he then being Jonathan Powers Jun'r on the twentieth day of April A.D. one thousand seven hundred and eight four at Dunstable as it then was called said to be called Nashua now in the State of New Hampshire, by the Rev'd Joseph Kidder then a settled Minister of the Gospel of said

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town, that her husband the aforesaid Jonathan Powers died on the fifth day of November 1840, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz at the time above stated.
/s/X her mark Rebecah Powers
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written. 
before me /s/G. W. Denison Judge of Cal. Co. Court
Witness
/s/George C. Cahoon
/s/G. W. Denison
I George W. Denison Judge aforesaid certify that the above named Rebecca Powers the applicant in my opinion ['can not' crossed out] from bodily infirmity can not attend the Court to make her declaration. 
I further certify that the word five in the age of the applicant was written on an erasure before taking the oath and execution, and that word can not in this certificate was crossed before signature, being surplusage - 
/s/G. W. Denison Judge of Cal. Co. Court

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In the matter of Rebecca Powers for a Pension
Deposition of Franklin Munroe to her marriage
This Deposition accompanies two declaration, one  under Act of 7 July 1838 - the other under act of 3d March 1843

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State of New Hampshire
Hillsborough County ss
On this second day of February one thousand eight hundred & forty one Franklin Munroe, of Nashua, in said County, and Town Clerk of said town, which town was formerly called Dunstable, having been first duly sworn testifies & says, that on the Record Book of Marriages of said town on the third page thereof is found the following Record
"Jonathan Powers Junior and Rebecca Woods both of Dunstable were joined in marriage April the twentieth one thousand seven hundred and eighty four by Rev'd Joseph Kidder"
I Franklin Munroe, above named depose & say, that I hold the office of Town Clerk of Nashua formerly called Dunstable, in the county & state aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town, with the exception of the date which is expressed on the Record in fair legible figures as follows "April ye 20th 1784"
/s/F. Munroe Town Clerk of Nashua NH
Subscribed and sworn to this second day of February AD 1841
Before me, /s/Isaac Spalding, Justice of the Peace

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State of New Hampshire
Hillsborough County. Sct.}
I Perley Dodge Clerk of the Common Pleas Court of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Isaac Spaulding is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County; duly commissioned & qualified; That his commission was dated on the fourth day September 1837. and will expire on the third day of September 1842. and that his signature above written is genuine
[county seal affixed] Given under my hand and the seal of said County this third day of February 1841. 
/s/P. Dodge Clerk.

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In the matter of Rebecca Powers for a Pension 
Deposition of Mary Wood to her marriage & husband's death - 
This Deposition accompanies two Declarations, one under Act of 7 July 1838 the other under Act of 3d March 1843 -

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I Mary Woods of Lowell in the County of Orleans & State of Vermont of Lawful age being duly sworn do testify and say, That I was present at the mariage of Jonathan Powers a revolutionary soldier, (and recently died at Lowell Vt) that he was Maried to Rebecca Woods Sister of Deponent late husband, s'd Mariage was celebrated at Dunstable New Hampshire by the Reverent Joseph Kidder in the fore part of April AD 1784 as witness thinks but it might have been AD 1783, that the said Jonathan Powers died at the Dwelling House of Horace Woods a Grand son & near neighbour of the witness on the 5th Day of November last part, that the said Rebeca Powers is now living & is the Widow of the said Jonathan Powers, Deceased, & further the Deponent saith not
/s/Mary Woods
State of Vermont Orleans County ss, Lowell 
February the 2nd AD 1841 Then Mary Woods of Lowell in the County of Orleans aforesaid Personally appearing and after being carefully examined and duely cautioned made Sollemn Oath that the foregoing Deposition by her subscribed contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth
Before /s/John Harding Justice of the Peace 
State of Vermont
Orleans County  Clerk's Office February 22d 1840
I Henry M. Bates Clerk of Orleans County Court do hereby certify that John Harding of Lowell is a Justice of the Peace duly qualified (within & for the County of Orleans) that his Commission bears date October 29 1840 and will expire the last day of November 1841 and the the foregoing signature purporting to be his I believe to be genuine
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & Seal of Office this 22" day of Feby 1841
/s/H. M. Bates Clerk

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[verso]
Dropt from the Roll, and Notification sent to Sam'l. B. Mattocks, Danville, Vt. April 15, 1829. 
Susp'd under act June 1832 for pension certificate 

[recto]
3552. 
Vermont Roll
Jonathan Powers Cilley's R't private New Hampshire Line 
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 17th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 12th of Oct'r 1818 and sent to Isaiah Fisk Esqr Lyndon Vermont
Arrears to 4th of Sep't 1818 36.80
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Mar. 1819 48.00
Arrears 4 Mo 18/30 $84.80
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
Cilley 3 years
Kirby Caledonia Co

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Revy WIDOW, &c. [initials: own]
File No. 26919
Rebecca Powers wid of Jonathan Powers
Priv NH Line
Act: March 3d 43
Index: Vol. P., Page 138
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Hon'l Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington City
Pension.

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[handwritten letter]
Lyndon Vt. Nov. 21, 1832

To the Hon'l Lewis Cass
Secretary of War.

Sir, Agreeably to an initiation from the Pension Office accompanying the applicant's declaration both which are herewith returned, I therewith transmit my Pension Certificate received under the act of March 1818 - and beg leave to state that the Hon'l William Cahoon of the House of Representatives is personally acquainted with me if the Department wish a reference
I am, sir, respectfully Yours
/s/Jonathan Powers

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8040
Vermont Montp'r
Rebecca Powers widow of Jonathan Powers who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 5th of Nov'r 1840, of Lyndon in the State of Vermont who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Emerson of the Regt commanded by Col'l Cilley in the N. Hamp're line for 3 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 27th day of January and sent to Hon'ble S. S. Phelps U.S. Senate
Total Amount, $400.00
[Act July 7 , 1838.]
Recorded by F. H. Davidge Clerk, 
Book D Vol. 1 Page 135

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I Jon'a Powers of Kirby in the county of Caledonia and state of Vermont aged fifty seven do testify declare and say that on the 17th day of April 1777 I enlisted in Capt. Amos Emerson's Company Col Seley's (Cilley) Reg't of the New Hampshire line of Continental Troops and served in s's Reg't the term of three years and was discharged the 17 Apl 1780 by Col. Seley (Cilley) - & I further say that I am in reduced circumstances and am dependent on my daily labour for support and have need of the assistance from my country and am a citizen of the United States - 
/s/Jonathan Powers
State of Vermont
Caledonia ss} St. Johnsbury 17 Ap'l 1818 
Personally appeared Jonathan Powers signer of the foregoing deposition and made Solemn Oath that it contains the truth - 
/s/Isaiah Fisk Chief Judge Cal. Co. Ct.

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State of Vermont
Caledonia County ss} I Isaiah Fisk Chief Judge Caledonia County Court do hereby certify that it appears to my Satisfaction that the within name'd Jonathan Powers did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the foregoing declaration against the comon enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary of the department of war pursuant to the direction of a late act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary war which s'd declaration is made in order to obtain the provisions made by said act 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court this 17th day of April AD 1818
/s/Isaiah Fisk
Attest /s/Curtis Stanly Clerk of Cal. Co. Ct.}

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State of Vermont
Caledonia ss} Lyndon Sep'r 14th 1818 
I hereby certify that from the evidence of the Agt Mervin Kirby and Neighbour to Jonathan Powers signer of the foregoing Declaration he is worthy one hundred and fifty or two hundred dollars
/s/Isaiah Fisk Judge Cal. Co. Ct.

Jon'a Powers Deposition
Admitted
Jonathan Powers appears currently on the N.H. Rolls

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[verso]
J. Powers

[recto]
Payable on the 4th of March and 4th of September in each year, by D. Robinson Esqr Agent for Paying United States pensions, Bennington Vermont
Recorded.

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WAR DEPARTMENT. 
Revolutionary Claim
I CERTIFY, That in conformity with the Law of the UNITED STATES, of the 18th of March 1818 Jonathan Powers late a private in the Army of the Revolution is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Vermont Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars [blank] cents per month, to commence on the seventeenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
[seal affixed] GIVEN at the WAR OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES, this twelfth day of October one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
/s/J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War

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Jonathan Powers must sent his pension certificate under Act March 1818. 
Admitted 7 Dec. '32
Private 3 years
$80.00
send to Claimant 
Lyndon Vermont.

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[handwritten letter]
City of Washington
Jan'y 1, 1844. - 

Sir, 
I am requested to transmit the accompanying documents to your Office for your action thereon. 
I have to invite your attention to them as early as other duties will permit and that I may be advised of the result. Should there by any informality or defect in the evidence I desire an early opportunity to communicate it to the applicant. 
I am Sir Very respectfully Yours &c
/s/Sam'l S. Phelps
To the Comm'r of Pensions

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STATE OF VERMONT,
COUNTY OF Caledonia ss.}
I Curtis Stanley Clerk of the County of Caledonia aforesaid, do hereby certify that Nathan Pike before whom the annexed acknowledgments and affidavits No 1 & 2 have been made at the respective dates thereof was a Justice of the Peace within & for the County of Caledonia aforesaid duly qualified for that purpose, acting under the authority of this state, and that his name subscribed thereto is his own proper signature. 
[county seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said County at Danville in said County, this fourth  day of Sept in the year one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen
/s/Curtis Stanley CLERK.

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STATE OF VERMONT,
COUNTY OF Caledonia ss.}
I Curtis Stanley Clerk of the County of Caledonia aforesaid, do hereby certify that Nath'l Knight before whom the annexed acknowledgment and affidavit No 1 has been made at the ['respective'] date thereof was a Justice of the peace within & for the County of Caledonia aforesaid duly qualified for that purpose, acting under the authority of this state, and that his name subscribed thereto is his own proper signature.
[county seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said County at Danville in said County, this fourth day of Sept in the year one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen
/s/Curtis Stanley CLERK.

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Silas Simonds (Symonds) Dep'n in the case of Jon'n Powers

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I Silas Symonds of lawfull age testify and say that I ingaged in the Revolutionary Army in the year 1778 and in the Month of May the same year I joined the army and found Jon'a Powers in the Reg't (V.I.Z.) in Col'o Joseph Silley's (Cilley) Reg't in the Newhampshire line and further testify that the said Jon'a Powers was with the armey about two years and then was discharged and went off - 
/s/Silas Symonds 
State Vermont
Caledonia County} Waterford August 15th 1818
Then personally appeared the above named Silas Symonds and made sollom Oath to the foregoing Depotion by him subscribed contains the truth before me 
/s/Nathan Pike Justis Peace
I hereby certify that the above named Silas Symonds is a man of truth
/s/Nathan Pike Justis Peace

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Jesse Heath Deposition in the case of Jon'n Powers

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I Jesse Heath of Lawfull age Testify and say that I inlisted into the Continental Army in the Spring of 1777 into the first Newhampshire Reg't Commanded by Col. Joseph Cilley and Capt. Emerson's Company & Joyned the reg't at Ticonderoga in May in the above mentioned year and that Jona't Powers Joyned about the same time and served in the same Company three full years and was honorable Discharged
/s/Jesse Heath
State of Vermont
Caledonia County ss} Ryegate Aug't 18th 1818. 
Then Personally appeared the above named Jesse Heath & made Solemn Oath to the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed that it contains the truth
/s/Nath'l Knight Justice of the Peace
I hereby Certify that the above named Jesse Heath is a man of Good Credibility
/s/Nath'l Knight Justice of Peace

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9873
Declaration of the Widow Rebecca Powers for a Pension under Act of 7 July 1838 in 84 - 
adm'd 2 yrs pri/80.

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I George C. Cahoon of Lyndon in the County of Caledonia and State of Vermont aged 45 years depose and say that in the year 1841 I assisted and was present when Mrs. Rebecca Powers widow of Jonathan Powers a Revolutionary Pensioner late of Lowell Vermont deceased made her annexed declaration for a pension before the Hon'e George W. Denison then a Judge of Caledonia County Court and obtained for her the deposition of Mary Wood & Franklin Munroe herewith transmitted evidencing the marriage and death of the said Jonathan Powers, that I have personal knowledge that the said Jonathan Powers was a pensioner as set forth in the declaration of the said Rebecca having frequently and nearly all the time from his first receiving a pension to the time of his death made out his papers for the drawing of  his pension - that his original pension certificate was transmitted to the Pension Agency at Burlington Vermont in March 1841 for the purpose of drawing the balance of pension due at the time of the death of the said Jonathan Powers - that when her said Declaration and the proofs were ready for transmission to the Pension Department I was informed that said Department had decided that widows of Revolutionary Officers and Soldiers who had died after the passing of the act of Congress of the 7th of July 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" were not embraced within the provisions of said Act, and that for that reason said Declaration & proofs have remained in my hands ever since - And that I have recently been informed that said Department now decide otherwise - I further say that on the fourth day of the present month of December 1843 I was at the residence of said Rebecca Powers in said Lyndon and saw her still living the widow of the said Jonathan Powers deceased and took her declaration as such under the Act of Congress of March 3d 1843 extending the privileges of the above named act. 
/s/George C. Cahoon
State of Vermont
Caledonia County ss} At Danville December 8, 1843 Subscribed and Sworn to 
Before me /s/Edward A. Cahoon Justice Peace

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State of Vermont
Caledonia County ss} I Samuel B. Mattocks clerk of the County Court of the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the Hon. George W. Denison is one of the assistant Justices of the Said County Court duly Commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated the 29" day of October 1840 and will expire on the last day of November A.D. 1841 and that his Signatures within written are genuine. 
[court seal affixed] Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this 15" day of April A.D. 1841
/s/Sam'l B. Mattocks Clerk.

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STATE OF VERMONT,
Caledonia County,....ss.} I, Sam'l B. Mattocks Clerk of the County Court of the County of Caledonia in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify that Edward A. Cahoon Esq of Lyndon is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the 31st day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three and will expire the thirtieth day of November next, and that his signature to the annexed certificate is genuine, 
[court seal affixed] Given under my hand and the seal of said County Court, this Eighth day of December A.D. 1843. 
/s/Sam'l B. Mattocks 
Clerk.

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4931
Declaration of the widow Rebecca Powers for a Pension under act of 3d March 1843 - 
$80.

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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3d March 1843 granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received or are entitled to receive pensions under the Act of July 7. 1838 an act approved the 23d day of August 1842 amendatory thereof and a resolution approved the 16 day of August 1842 entitled a resolution declaration of the Pension Act of July 7, 1838 
State of Vermont
Caledonia County ss} On this 4th day of December A.D. 1843 Personally appeared Rebecca Powers a resident of Lyndon in the County of Caledonia aged seventy seven years 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 act of Congress passed on the 3d March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War That she is the widow of Jonathan Powers who formerly resided in said Lyndon and afterwards in Burke in said County and who died at Lowell in the County of Orleans in the State of Vermont on the fifth day of November A.D. 1840 being then there resident, that her said husband the said Jonathan Powers was a private in the Army of the Revolution and as she understands was a three years man in Capt. Emerson's Company in Col. Cilley's Regiment, that the said Jonathan Powers was a pensioner at the time of  his death under the law of the United States of the 7th June 1832 at the rate of eighty dollars per annum - that the pension certificate of the said Jonathan Powers as appears by a memorandum taken of the same bears date 7 December 1832 & is numbered 2876 & certified to be recorded Book D. Vol. 4 page 79 and March 1841 was returned to the

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Pension Agency at Burlington Vermont in drawing the pension then due to said Jonathan - to which and the testimony of the said Jonathan Powers in obtaining which this applicant respectfully refers for further proofs.
She further declares that she was married to the said Jonathan Powers he then being Jonathan Powers Jun'r on the twentieth day of April A.D. one thousand seven hundred and eighty four at Dunstable as it then was called said to be call Nashua now  in the State of New Hampshire by the Rev'd Joseph Kidder then a settle minister of the Gospel of said town. 
She further declares that she is still a widow and that her husband the aforesaid Jonathan Powers died on the fifth day of November 1840 as above set forth and that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz at the time above stated - 
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written
/s/X her mark Rebecca Powers
Witness
/s/Edward A. Cahoon
/s/William C. Powers 
Before me /s/George C. Cahoon Justice of the Peace
I George C. Cahoon a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Caledonia and the State of Vermont certify that Rebecca Powers the declarant in the foregoing declaration is personally known to me to be the widow of Jonathan Powers a Revolutionary Pensioner formerly residing in said Lyndon late of Lowell in said State deceased
/s/George C. Cahoon Justice Peace

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STATE OF VERMONT,
Caledonia County,....ss.} I, Sam'l B. Mattocks Clerk of the County Court of the County of Caledonia in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify that George C. Cahoon Esq of Lyndon is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the 31st day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three and will expire the thirtieth day of November next, and that his signature to the annexed certificate is genuine,
[court seal affixed] Given under my hand and the seal of said County Court, this Eighth day of December A.D. 1843.
/s/Sam'l B. Mattocks
Clerk.