Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 18359, Isaac Whiting, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Whiting, Isaac Mary
W 18359
CONTENTS

20.130
New York
Isaac Whiting
of Erie Co in the State of New York who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Main of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Sproat in the Massachusetts line, for the term of three years, from May — 1781 to — 1783
Inscribed on the roll of New York at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 8 th day of April, 1830
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 of April 1830 and sent to J. Root Esq Buffalo. N.Y.
Arrears to 4th of September, 1830 $ 39. 20 Semi-annual all'ce ending
$ 39. 20
{ Revolutionary Claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820. }
Rec: Book D. Vol. 5. fol: 154

Erie County, ss.—I do hereby certify, that Joseph Clary _____ whose name is subscribed to the annexed affidavit _____ was, at the day of the date thereof, a justice of the peace in and for said county, duly elected and sworn, and acting as such, and that the signature of J. Clary _____ is the proper hand writing of the said justice. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said county, the 28 th _____ day of November _____ eighteen hundred and Twenty Nine _____
Elijah Lusk  CLERK.

State of New York
Erie County ss Isaac Whiting of Buffalo in the county of Erie & State of New York being duly sworn deposeth and saith that in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty one he this deponent at the Town of Hinton in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts enlisted in the service of the United States for three years that he was a private in the company in the second regiment commanded by Col Sprague commanded by Captain James Mear of the Massachusetts line and served in said company for the said term of three years as a private soldier that at the expiration of the said three years he was honorably discharged by General Renox who then commanded West Point that his said discharge has been lost or worn out that this deponent is poor & needy and has not property real & personal of the value of fifty dollars. Isaac Whiting
Sworn to & subscribed
Before me this 12 th day of October 1829
J. C. Cary one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County of Erie
Oct 12 th

State of New York Erie County ss Nicholas Cook of Buffalo in the said County of Erie being duly sworn deposed and saith that he this deponent was a life Major in the revolutionary war during the years one Thousand Seven Hundred & Eighty one two and three and that during all that time was acquainted with Isaac Whiting a private soldier in the Company of Captain James Main of the Massachusetts line and that the said Isaac Whiting served in the said company three years and was honorably discharged at West Point in the fall of the said year one Thousand Eighty hundred and Eighty three by General Enox who then commanded West Point and this deponent further saith that the said Isaac Whiting is the same person who took & subscribed the foregoing & annexed affidavit Nicholas Cook
Sworn to and Subscribed
this 12 th day of October 1829
Before me J. Clary one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County of Erie

State of New York Erie County ss
I Elijah Leech Clerk of said County of Erie do hereby certify that Joseph Clary before whom the within Affidavits were made and taken was at the time and still is one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County, acting as such under the authority of this State.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this Twenty eighth day of November in the year eighteen hundred and Twenty Nine

Isaac Whiting - Pension Paper

State of New York County of Erie ss
on this fifth day of March in the year 1830 personally appeared in open court, in the court house of the said county of Erie held at the Court House in the Town of Buffalo in and for said county being a work of record having jurisdiction as common law of all actions as law in said county Isaac Whiting a resident in said county of Erie aged fifty four years when 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 of March 1818 and of the 1st of May 1820 that the said Isaac Whiting enlisted for the term of three years or during the war in the month of May in the year 1818 in the State of Massachusetts in the Company Commanded by Capt James Main in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Ebenezer Sprague in the line of Massachusetts on the Continental Establish- ment that he continued to serve in said Corps until the winter of the year 1818 when he was discharged from service at which point in the State of New York that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the pension that his name is not on the roll of any State except the State of Massachu- setts - and that the following are the reasons that he the said Isaac Whiting has not before applied for a pension that he has had but a small family has been in good health until a few months past and been able to maintain himself family without the aid of a pension from the Government but am now in want of a pension for my necessary support
And in pursuance of the acts of the 1st of May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift or in any other manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish

It is to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress intitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed before on the 18 th 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 which is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed that since the 18 th of March 1818 the following changes have taken place viz he had had a contract for a lot of land on which he made some im- -provements and had some stock on the land which he sold and used the avails thereof for his and his family's support that he has at this time no family which sworn and declared on the 10 th day of March 1830 before me Elijah L. Root Clerk      Grace Whiting of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Erie
Schedule of the property of Grace Whiting viz Real Estate None either in Law or equity remainder or reversion personal property None except his necessary clothing that the said Grace Whiting has no trade or occupation but that of a farmer and that he now works at wages

ways with a farm as a hired man for small wages Not enough to support him in clothing &
Isaac Whiting
I, Elijah Seech, Clerk of the County of the County of Erie, in the State of New York, do certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court, that the said Isaac Whiting did serve in the Revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the com- mon enemy, for the term of nine months, un- der an engagement on the continental estab- lishment; I also certify that the foregoing oath & the schedule thereto annexed, are truly cop- ied from the Records of the said court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion that the said Isaac Whiting has no property whatever, except his wearing apparel, as mentioned in the said schedule.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, & affixed the Seal of the said court, on this 1 st day of March, 1830.
Elijah Seech Clerk

2565
New York Albany Mary Whiting widow of Isaac Whiting who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of Dec: 1847 and sent to
Am. N. H. Hall Hof R
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 241 Vol. 4.

State of New York
Erie County ss: On this eighth day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty four personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Erie Mary Whiting a resident of the township of Brantford in the Gore District Canada West, aged seventy years and upwards who being 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 Leoniqs passed July 7 1838: That she was married in the month of March in the year 1791 or 1792 (this deponent is unable to state which) but she is certain that it was one of those years to Isaac Whiting who was a private in the army of the Revolution, that the said Isaac Whiting was a pensioner of the United States as will more fully appear by the certificate countersigned by J. L. Edwards hereto annexed and numbered 20130.
She further declares that she was married to the said Isaac Whiting at the time above mentioned by James Evings Esq. a justice of the Peace in the town of Pittsford in the County of Rutland in the state of Vermont that such marriage was solemnized at Pittsford in the said County of Rutland by the said James Evings a justice of the Peace at the time above mentioned. That she remained the wife of the aforesaid Isaac Whiting her husband until the death of the said Isaac Whiting That the said Isaac Whiting died on the eighth day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty two at the Township of Brantford in Canada West aforesaid and that she has ever since remained unmarried and still remains a widow. That she is not aware of any public

a private record of her marriage, unless there is one made in the office of the town clerk of the said town of Pittsford where she resided at the time of her marriage but she thinks that there is no such record.
Sworn and subscribed before the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Erie the day & year first above written Manly Colton Clerk Erie Co.
Mary her + Whiting Mark,
State of New York
Erie County ss: I hereby certify that the preceding declaration was this day made and sworn in open court in the Court of Common Pleas of the said county of Erie that the said court has a clerk and seal and is by statute a court of record having power to fine and imprison
Witness my hand and the seal of the said Court of Common Pleas at Buffalo this eighth day of February 1844
Manly Colton Clerk Erie County

Isaac Whiting
Payable on the 4th March and 4th September, of every year, by the President of the U.S. Branch Bank at New York.
Recorded by Wm Allison
Clerk in Book D Vol. 5 Page 154.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I Certify, That, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
Isaac Whiting,
late a Private in Captain Wain's company and Colonel Sproats regiment in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New York Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to commence on the eighth day of April one thousand eight hundred and thirty.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this eighth day of April one thousand eight hundred and thirty.
J. G. Caton
Secretary of War.
Examined and countersigned,
J. L. Edwards

In the matter of the application of Mary Whiting for a Pension
Declaration of 1843.

105 1/2
Mary Whiting of Canada
NY
act 7. July 30
m 92. d 42.

State of New York Erie County p.
Personally appeared before me Harley A. Child Esquire one of the Justices of the Peace for said County of Erie Jacob Cooley who is to me known and he being by me duly sworn did depose and say that he is a brother of Mary Whiting widow of Isaac Whiting who was in his lifetime a Pensioner of the United States, that he was well acquainted with said Isaac Whiting in his lifetime, that the said Isaac Whiting died at Brantford in Canada West sometime in the fall of 1842, that he was known to be  known Isaac Whiting & Mary Whiting then Mary Cooley before their marriage and that he was present at their marriage when , that they were married at the town of Pittsfield in the County of Rutlands in the State of Vermont in the month of March 1842. that they were married by James Ewing a Justice of the Peace of the said County of Rutlands and at the house of the said Ewing, that this deponent is confident of the time and place of their marriage, that he took them to  to married them in his slight to the office of the said Justice, that he has frequently seen and visited the said Isaac and Mary Whiting since their marriage and has always known them well.
This deponent further says that the said Mary Whiting still remains the widow of said Isaac Whiting and that she has not been married since the death of the said Isaac Whiting.
And this deponent further says that at the time the said Isaac Whiting applied for his pension as a soldier in the Army of the Revolution Citizen of the said County of Erie and  the he was a resident of the State of New York, and that he afterwards removed to Brantford where he continued to reside until his death. that the said Isaac Whiting continued to draw a Pension as a pensioner of the United States until he died.
Jacob Cooley
Subscribed and sworn before me this 26 th day of June 1845, at the City of Buffalo in the County of Erie State of New York, and I certify that I know the said Jacob Cooley and I believe his statement is entitled to full credit.
Harley A. Child Justice of the Peace

State of New York Erie County, ss
Personally appeared before me, David Root of the City of Buffalo in the said County to me known, and he being by me duly sworn doth depose and say that he was acquainted with Isaac Whiting in his lifetime, that for several years prior to the year 1842 this deponent was the agent of the said Isaac Whiting for receiving his Pension as a pensioner of the United States and that during that time the said Isaac Whiting resided at Brantford in Canada West as this deponent always understood and as he believes, that sometime in the winter of 1842 Mary Whiting wife of the said Isaac Whiting called upon this deponent at the City of Buffalo and this deponent then delivered to her the Certificate as signed by the Secretary of War and under which this deponent had drawn said Whiting's Pension as aforesaid and this deponent further says that he has been informed and believes the said Isaac Whiting died at Brantford in Canada West sometime in the year 1842.
Subscribed and sworn before me this 30th day of June 1845 at the City of Buffalo in the State of New York and I certify that I know the said David Root and believe his statement is entitled to full credit
David Root
Parley A. Child Justice of the Peace
State of New-York, COUNTY OF ERIE.
ss.
I, MANLY COLTON, Clerk of the County of Erie, and of the Court of Common Pleas thereof, do hereby certify that Parley A Child Esq. , whose name is subscribed to the annexed Affidavit was at the time of taking the same 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 and verily believe the signature of Parley A Child Justice of the Peace to be his genuine signature.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my name and affixed the Seal of the said Court of Common Pleas and of said County, this 30th day of June A. D. 1845.
Manly Colton Clerk. by J. H. MacCly Sepck

State of New York Erie County ss.
Personally appeared before me Harley A. Child one of the Justices of the Peace for the said County, Dennis Bowler in the  town of said City with whom I am acquainted, and he being by me duly sworn did depose and say, that he was present when the said David Butts named in the annexed affidavit handed to the said Mary Whiting the Pension Certificate referred to in said Butts affidavit. That the said Certificate was annexed by this deponent to the declaration made by the said Mary Whiting sworn by this deponent sent to J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions. That the said Certificate was handed to this deponent at the same time it was handed to said Mary Whiting by said David Butts.
Sworn and subscribed before me this 30 th day of June 1875 at the City of Buffalo in said State of New York, and I certify that I know the said Dennis Bowler and I believe his statement is entitled to full credit.
Harley A. Child
Justice of the Peace.
Dennis Bowler

June 14, 1940.
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BA-J/ADY W.18359 Isaac Whiting
Mrs. Emma S. Mellinger 830 South New Hampshire Avenue Los Angeles, California
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter relative to Isaac Whiting, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The data contained herein were obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W.18359, based upon the military service in that war of Isaac Whiting.
The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of Isaac Whiting are not shown.
Isaac Whiting enlisted in Plympton, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, in May 1781, and served three years as private in Captain James Main's Company, Colonel Ebenezer Sprout's Massachusetts Regiment.
About 1791 he moved from Washington County, New York, to Erie County, New York.
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 12, 1829, at which time he was a resident of Buffalo, Erie County, New York, and aged about sixty-three years.
He died October 8, 1842, in Brantford Township, Canada, West.
Soldier married in March 1791, or 1792, in Pittsford, Rutland County, Vermont, Mary Ceoley.
Soldier's widow, Mary Whiting, was allowed pension on her application executed February 8, 1844, at which time she was a resident of Brantford, Gore District, Canada, West, and aged seventy years and upwards.
In 1844, John Whiting, aged forty-three years and upwards, son of Isaac and Mary Whiting, was living in Gore District, Canada.
In 1845, Jacob Ceoley, a brother of soldier's widow, Mary, was of Erie County, New York, his age not shown.

In 1844, Keziah McLeod, aged sixty-three years and upwards, was residing in Brantford Township, Gore District, Canada. She was a sister of soldier's widow, Mary. There are no further family data.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name of person paid and possibly the death date of widow, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C., and cite the following data: "Mary Whiting, widow of Isaac Whiting, Certificate No. 2565, issued December 22, 1848, rate $80.00 per annum, commenced March 4, 1848, Albany, New York Agency, continued under the Act of February 2, 1848".
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 1833.9
Mary Whiting Widow of Isaac Whiting Rev. Deacon
Act: Feb 2 d 48
Index:—Vol. M , Page 332

Mch. 11. 98 Hon. H. C. Brewton. H. of R.
1900 Jany Feb 3 - Mrs. M. L. Courtright Buy 25 Mch
1911 Jan 19 Hist. V.L.M. to Jean H. Howell June 14. Visit to Mrs. M. L. Mellinger 987

ion as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion in this Bureau. Isaac Whiting W.F. 1835-9
   DATE OF ENLISTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     May 1781 3 yrs. Pvt. James Main Ebenezer Sproat Mass.                                                   
Battles engaged in, ✓
Residence of soldier at enlistment, En. at Plympton, Plymouth Co. Mass.
Date of application for pension, Oct. 12. 1829. His cl. was al.
Residence at date of application, Buffalo Co. N.Y.
Age at date of application, 63 yrs. He died Oct. 8. 1842 at Brantford, Canada West
Remarks: Soldier married at Pittsford, Rutland Co. Vt. Mar. 1791 or 1792 Mary Cooley. He was allowed pension on an application executed July 8. 1844 while a resident of Brantford, Can. Dist. Canada West aged 70 yrs. A son John was a resident of Can. Dist. Canada in 1844.
Very respectfully,

Los Angeles, Calif.
4/30/40
Pension Dept.
Revolutionary War Office.
Dear Sir: - I notice in DAK lineage book Isaac Whiting (1766-1842) rec'd a pension, & his widow rec'd pension in 1845- Will you kindly in- form me if in either pension record it gives names of children & place of abode at time of application & at time of death? While I do not know this is ancestor I am seeking record on, would appreciate any information
Respectfully
(Mrs) Emma S. McEllinger 830 So. New Hampshire Ave
Los Angeles, Calif.
If in widows pension data please give me any information (1845)

144 Franklin Street Buffalo - N.Y. January 13 th - 1911
JAN 16 1911
Will you kindly send me the record of Isaac Whitney of Erie Co. N.Y. He was on the Pension List of 1830-1 am quite sure. I will be greatly obliged very truly (wife) Jane H. Howell. over

As Printed list of 1835- shows that there was an Isaac Whiting and no Isaac Whitney a record of the former was sent.

only one
not 28944 Meas
37537 Meas

Out
Bay City Michigan Jan. 10. 1900.
To The Commissioner of Pensions, Pension Office.
Will you please find out for me all you can about Isaac Whiting who was a soldier in the American Army under

George Washington: He died for some years a sension which he went to Buffalo to get. Hoping to hear from you soon I am
Yours respectfully.
E. H. Bontright.
Address,
Mrs M. L. Bontright 1808 Centre Ave

Put to Ben to a Mailly 2nd April 1844
Mep's Hall and Brown Dec 24 th 1844.
Lot to ditto August 11. '41.

Ref.
New York 9681
Mary Whiting, of Canada, widow of Isaac Whiting who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 8 th October 1842 of Erie Co. in the State of N. York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Main of the N.Y. commanded by Col. Sproat in the Mass. — line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16. day of October 1845 and sent to Messrs. Hall & Bower, Buffalo, N. York
Total amount, $400 —
[Act July 7, 1838.]
President 23 Jan. 1845.
Recorded by D. Bower — Clerk, Book D. Vol. 1. Page 189

act 44. 895
7356
Albany, N. York
Mary Whiting
widow of Isaac Whiting
who was a Private
in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 th day of October 1845, and sent to Miss H. Hall & Bowen Buffalo, N. York
[Acts of March 3, 1843.] & June 17. 1844.
Recorded in Book A, Vol. 2. Page 91.
Ref?
Let to M. H. Hall, Nov. 6, 1845.

House of Representatives Washington Dec. 13. 1878
Sir,
I enclose herewith the application of Mary Whiting for the continuance of her pension I suppose under the act of last session, passed February 2 d 1878.
I hope there will be an early decision of the application.
I am my resp y Your most obed t Serv t . A. K. Hall
Col. J. L. Edwards. Genl. of Pensions

No 10572 J.R. 383
Mary Whiting, of Canada Moro of Isaac N.Y.
act 7 July 1838 and joint resolution of the 23 January 1845
Adm d 2 years from $80 a per ann
8175 Adm d act 3 March 1843 and 17 June 1844 $80 a per ann 895
E
Hall & Bower Buffalo N.Y.

Nov. 3, 1845.

Buffalo Oct 31. 1875
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Comm. of Pensions,
Dear Sir,
On looking
carefully at the pension certificates issued to Mrs. Mary Whiting we find that the first entitled her to a pension from 4 th March 1836 to the 4 th March 1841 and the second from the 4 th March 1845 to 4 th March 1848.
We supposed the applicant was entitled to a pension from the 4 th March 1836 without any break in the allowance of the pension and as it is possible that the two years of pension may have been left out by mistake we write to enquire whether she is not entitled to a pension for the two years between '41. & '45.
We are very Resp y Your obed t Serv t C. A. H. Hall
9856

House of Rep s
Washington 27 th Feby. '44
James L. Edwards Esq.
Dear Sir:
Sir:
I am requested to hand you the accompanying papers of Mary Whiting an applicant for a Pension under the Act of 7 th July '38 - Be so good as to examine them at your earliest convenience & notify me if any thing further is to be supplied & if not please enclose me the Certificate when granted.
Very respectfully
Your obedt. Servt.
Wm A. Moseley

Buffalo, Sept. 1 st 1875.
J. L. Edwards Esq Sir,
We enclose an a/c. of Mary Whiting, - which we send in answer to your letter of the 11 th ult.
May we ask quite quite this matter your early attention.
Very Respectfully
Hall & Bower

July 5, 1895.
State to care Mary Martin
J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissaire of Customs
Washington D.C.
1895

Buffalo, July 1. 1845.
J. L. Edward Esq. Sir,
We enclose the depositions of Jacob Covley Gen. N. Root & D. Bowen, which, together with those we have before sent, we think will be sufficient to authorize the granting a Pension to Mrs. Whiting. She is in very needy circumstances, and we hope her application will be favorably considered by the Department. We sent the afft. of the town Clerk of the town of Pittsfield last Fall.
Very Respectfully Hall & Bowen

Affid in the Case of Mary Whiting ap= pleaded for a summing
Halet Bourn Agents for appt Buffalo N.Y.

State of Vermont Rutland County } Pittsfield Town Clerk's office April 13. 1874 I Saml H Kellogg do depose & say that I am the Legal Clerk of the Town of Pittsfield aforesaid, that I have carefully examined the Records of Marriages in of said Town now in my office, and I cannot there find the Record of the Marriage of Isaac Whiting and Mary Cooley. Neither do I find any Marriages Recorded of an earlier date than 1796 none but very few until 1800. —
Saml H Kellogg S. Clerk
Subscribed & sworn before me April 13. 1874 Abel Penfield Justice Peace
STATE OF VERMONT, RUTLAND COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE.
I, Frederick W. Hopkins, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland, do certify that Abel Penfield Esquire was, at the date of the Certificate to which this is attached, a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified — — — — — and that I verily believe his signature to the same is genuine.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of court, at Rutland in said County, this 15 th day of April Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and forty four. F. W. Hopkins

Nov. 25. 1844
Adah the Cane
Mary Whiting
Dee
James L. Edwards Esq. Comm. of Resolutions Washington D. C.

J. L. Edmunds Esq.,
We enclose add ag ts in support of the claim of John Whilings widow for a pension. They were returned as open because in want of a Clerks Cert. under Seal.
Very Resp y ,
Hall & Bowen
Butfalo Oct 19. 1844

Alfred of Nathan Griffith

Upper Canada - London District
Personally came before me Rev. Sheffield Esquire One of the Mayors Justice of the Town
in and for said District, Nathan Griffith of Westminster in said District, and being duly sworn cloth depos - and say, that he was a Corporal in the company of Captain James Mear, in the 2 d Regiment of the Massachusetts line, commanded by Colonel Sprout in the Revolutionary War, during the years One thousand seven hundred and Eighty One two, and three, and that Isaac Whiting was enlisted in said company at Plympton in the County of Plymouth, in the common Wealth of Massachusetts, in the early part of the year One thousand seven hundred and Eighty One, and served in said company as a pri- vate soldier until the month of December One thousand seven hundred and Eighty three - When he was honorable discharged at West Point by General Knox Who then commanded the post at West Point, that the time for which the said Isaac Whiting enlisted was three Years, that the said Whiting now resides at Buffalo in the State of New York as this deponent is informed and believes it to be true.
Nathan Griffith
Sworn Before Me The 12 th day October 1829 Rev. Sheffield

Paid 9 3/4
W m Adyer Sherwood Buffalo State of New York Iona Kreser

Isaac Whiting
1807
Portia papers -
How
E. F. Norton, H. R.
Dec. 21. 1829
On final settlement Certificate Vol 1 page 182 No 17833 —

Rec. 8 April 1830.
Hon J L Edwards War Dept Pensions office
Washington City

Buffalo March 30 th 1830
Sir
The Pension papers of Isaac Whiting have been returned to Mr Sherwood the Friend of Mr Whiting with your instructions which would be hard to comply with if the land mentioned in the record had been his at any time since the year 1818 or any time since. how could a poor old man enrolled or prove what he did with a few dollars ten or twelve years past or give proof of the persons to whom he paid it so long ago probably he did at the time suppose that it would even be necessary for him to make an application for a pension and neglect to request each person to whom he paid the money to make a memorandum of the money he received and the articles he let him get The fact is that Isaac Whiting has been poor ever since he left the revolutionary service and has never had property enough to prevent his being intitled to a pension on any construction of the pension law made with a view to the intent of Congress when these laws were passed. Now for the very object of the law when I made out his papers on the first day of March term I was much injured by mistake supposed the land he mentioned under contract was since 18 th March 1818 put them down according to the same was read to the old man by me some person for me and he agreed to it but I expect he did not fully hear all the affidavits as

says he did not and is quite deaf on the papers being read to him as being returned he noticed the mistake an Affidavit which is enclosed with the papers returned I never knew any before the paper law in its construction to  sign impossibilities -
Yours respectfully
J Root
J L Edwards Esquire
Please write to Mr Sherwood on the subject
2r

Dec. 26/44
Adal Oles can
Mary Whiting
free J. L. Edwards Esq. Com. of Pensions Washington D. C.

J. L. Edwards Esq. Comm. of pensions
Sir,
We enclose an affdt in the matter of the appn. of Mary Whiting widow of Isaac Whiting for a pension.
It should have been sent with the affdts for- warded four three weeks since but was omitted by mistake.
We are very Resp'y Your mo. ob't serv'ts Hall & Bowen
Buffalo 18 th Dec r 1844

Canada West
Yore District, to wit:
Personally appeared before me W.B. Vannery Esquire one of her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said District Mary Whiting of Brantford in the District aforesaid who is to me personally known and she being by me duly sworn did depose and say that she is  was the widow of Isaac Whiting deceased; that in the month of February 1844 she appeared before the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Erie in the State of New York and made a declaration for the purpose of procuring a pension as the widow of the said Isaac Whiting; that she is informed and believes the said declaration & papers thereto annexed were filed with the Com- missioner of Pensions at Washington in the month of March or April 1844.
And this deponent further says that she now makes this affidavit for the purpose of claiming the benefit of a Resolution of the Congress of the United States approved January 23, 1845. That she has not since the death of the said Isaac Whiting as mentioned in her said declaration intermarried but continues to be a widow and that she now resides at Brantford in Canada West
Subscribed & sworn to before me this 10 th day of September 1845 at the Hespeler town of in said District And I certify that I know the said Mary Whiting and that her statement is entitled to full credit W.B. Vannery J.P. G.D.
her Mary x Whiting Mark

Canada Gore District to wit
I Andrew Stewart Clerk of the Gore District Court do hereby certify that W. B. Vancoery - Esquire whose name is subscribed to the final of the foregoing affidavit or deposition was at the time of taking said affi- davit a Justice of the Peace in and for the said District and further that I am acquainted with the signature of the said W. B. Vancoery Esquire and that his signature subscribed to the said affidavit or deposition is in his own proper hand-writing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Official Seal of the Gore District this tenth - day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & forty five
Clerks Office of the Gore District Court
1845
at Hamilton.
And Stewart Clerk. D.F.

Mrs Mary Whitnig Application for further Pension
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State of New York County of Erie ss.
On this twenty second day of September A. D. 1848 personally appeared be- fore me a justice of the Peace in & for the county of Erie, Mary Whiting a resident of Bransford in the county of Wentworth in Canada west, aged 70 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oaths make the fol- lowing declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 2 nd February 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revo- lutionary war. That she is the widow of Isaac Whiting who was a private in the army of the Revolution and who died on the eighth day of October 1842. That she drew a pension un- der the acts of March 3. 1843 and June 17 th 1844 at the rate of eighty dollars per annum and that her certificate has been surrendered to the pension agent at Albany, and that her husband was a pensioner of the United States at the time of his death.
She further declares that she is
still a widow,
Sworn to and subscribed { Mary her Whiting on the day and year { Mark first above written in pre- sence.
James L. Dickey D.P.
A. H. Thompson Dennis Root J. N. Tuttle

Erie county ss:
Dennis Burns of the city of Buffalo being duly sworn doth depose and say that he knows Mary Whiting named in the within affidavit to be the same person who drew a pension as stated by her in said affidavit
sworn before me this 8 th day of September December 1848.
Dennis Burns
J A Dickin JP
State of New York
Erie county ss
I certify that I know the above named Dennis Burns and that his statement is entitled to full credit.
and I further certify that I know the within named Mary Whiting to be the same person who drew a pension as stated by her in the within affidavit
Dec 8 th 1848.
James G Dickin JP
State of New York ss Erie county clerk's office
I Moses Swift clerk of said county certify that James G Dickin Esq whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and whose writing was at the time of subscribing the same two preceding affidavits a Justice of the peace of said county duly authorized to take the same and further I am well acquainted with his hand
writing and believe his signature to said instrument is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county the 8 day of December 1848
Moses Swift clerk William Dyer clerk

State of New York Erie County ss
Isaac Whiting of Buffalo in said County being duly sworn saith that the land mentioned in the Statements and affidavits by him made in the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Erie on the first day of March last in the town of said Marsh as having been owned by me and disposed of since the 18 th of March 1818 was put down and named in the Record by the attorney who made out the said Papers by mistake that the land I mentioned and intended to have so put down, was a certain lot of land which I had a contract for containing about 150 acres as near as I can now recollect in the County of Washington in the State of New York which I sold for fifty dollars about the year 1790 for a small sum towards that soon after that time I moved from said Washington County to the westward and sold the above  land for the said land and my expenses money on the road and nothing that I have not since that time directly or indirectly owned any land, tenements or hereditaments whereon now has be sold or disposed of any, or received any payments for such land, since sworn this 31 st day of March 1830 before me Henry Sheldon Justice of the peace for the County of State of New York
Isaac Whiting

XXXXX Erie County, ss.—I do hereby certify, that Henry Slade whose name is subscribed to the annexed Affidavit was, at the day of the date thereof, a justice of the peace in and for said county, duly elected and sworn, and acting as such, and that the signature of " Henry Slade ," is the proper hand writing of the said justice. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said county, the 31st day of March eighteen hundred and thirty .
Elijah Seach,
CLERK.
By H. Newcomb Deputy. XXXXX

Mary Whitings Pension app n Affec n

Canada Gore District to wit }
Personally appeared before me Nathan Sage Esquire One of Her Majesty's Justices of the peace for the said district John Whiting who is to me known to be the
son of Isaac Whiting deceased who was in his life time as I know a pensioner of the United States and the said John Whiting being duly sworn did depose and say that he is a son of Isaac Whi- ting late of Brantford aforesaid who in his life time was a pensioner of the United States - That the said Isaac Whiting died in the township of Brantford on the 8 th day of October 1842 and that the deponent saw him after his death and was present at his funeral
Deponent further saith that he was at Buffalo with Mary Whiting the mother of the deponent and Widow of said Isaac Whiting when she made her declaration in Court for the purpose of obtaining a pension and that the said Mary Whiting is the widow of said Isaac Whiting and has not been married since his death
Deponent further saith that he is the age of forty three years and upwards
Subscribed and sworn before me this 12 th day of February 1844 at the town of Brantford in said district And I certify that I know the said John Whiting and that his statement is entitled to full credit and I also certify that Mary Whiting named in said Affidavit is the widow of Isaac Whiting therein named
Nathan Sage J.P.
John Whiting

Canada Vermont District to Wit
Personally came before me Nathan Gage Esquire one of the Majesty's Justices of the peace for the said district Ruzah McLeod of the township of Bransford in the said district who being duly sworn doth depose and say that she was acquainted with Isaac Whiting formerly of Bransford aforesaid and now deceased and with Mary Whiting formerly his wife and now his widow that she knowing the said Isaac Whiting and Mary Whiting then Mary Gage before their marriage and that she was present at their marriage which took place at Pillsford in the County of Rutland in the State of Vermont in the month of March in the year 1791 or 1792 - that they were married in the presence of this deponent by James Ewing a Justice of the peace of the said County of Rutland and at the house of the said James Ewing - that this deponent is confident of the time and place of their marriage - that this deponent has frequently seen and visited the said Isaac Whiting and Mary Whiting since their marriage and has always known them well and that she is certain that they were married as early as 1792 and in the month of March
This deponent further says that the said Mary Whiting still remains the widow of the said Isaac Whiting and that she has not been married since the death of the said Isaac Whiting
And this deponent further says that the said Isaac Whiting died at Bransford aforesaid on the Eighth day of October 1842 - And
This deponent further says that she is the sister of the said Mary Whiting and that she knows that the aforesaid Isaac Whiting had for several years previous to his decease a Pension Certificate as a pensioner of the United States Government for services during the Revolutionary War
And this deponent further says that she is of the age of fifty three years and upwards
Sworn and Subscribed before me at the town of Bransford in the said district this 12 th day of February 1844
And I certify that I know the said Isaac McLeod and also the said Mary Whiting and that they are entitled to full belief and credit
fin Kerrah X McLeod mark
Nathan Gage J.P.

Canada } I, Robert Nichol Law Deputy clerk of the Gore Gore District } District Court do hereby certify that Nathan Gage To Wit } Esquire whose name is subscribed to the Swat of the foregoing affidavits or depositions, was at the time of taking the said affidavits a Justice of the peace in and for the said District, And further that I am acquainted with the signature of the said Nathan Gage Esq. and that his signature subscribed to the said affidavits or depositions is in his own proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the official seal of the Gore District Court this 4 th day of October in the Year of Our Lord one Thousand eight hundred and fortyfour.
Robert Nichol, Law Deputy clk G.D.C.
He. Clerk's office of the Gore District Court, } 4 th October 1844 - at Hamilton.