Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 18153, Nathaniel B Torrey, Mass.

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for 10 Pensions 7 th of 1820.
Vermont
Nathaniel B. Torry,
of Franklin co. in the state of Vermont, who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Wigglesworth of the Massach ts . line, for the term of three years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 21. of August, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25. of July, 1820, and sent to Seth Wetmore, agent, St. Albans, Vermont.
Arrears to 4th of March, 1820. $: 147.87. Semi-ann. all ce ending 4. Sept. 1820. 48 " 18 mo. \left. \begin{matrix} 15 \\ 31 \end{matrix} \right\} 1820. $: 195.87.
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. }

Repatu Feb 28/49
3747 City New York Albany Sarah Torrey, widow of Nathaniel B. Maj 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 8 day of Feb 7/1849 and sent to
M r P. Richardson 17 Wall St New York
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2. 1848, Page 225 Vol. 4.

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 th of July 1838 entitled, "An act granting half pay and pensions, to certain widows"
State of New York Ontario County ss
On the seventh day of February in the year Eighteen hundred and forty-four, personally appeared before Chester Loonis, a Judge of the County Court, of the County of Ontario aforesaid, Sarah Torrey, a resident of the town of Naples in the county of Ontario aforesaid, aged seventy-three years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows"
That she is the widow of Nathaniel B. Torrey, late of Georgia, in the County of Franklin, and State of Vermont, who was attached to a body of troops of the State of Massachusetts, in the War of the revolution, commanded by General Glover, as she the deponent has understood and verily believes. That she has heard her late husband the said Nathaniel B. Torrey, speak of having enlisted, and of having been attached to the suite of the said General Glover, in the war of the revolution, but the particular details of the revolutionary services of her late husband she is unable to state. That she has heard her said husband state the length of time he had so served, but that she is now unable to recollect the precise period he claimed to have so served, but that she is quite sure that he claimed to have so served, several years. That she has understood and believes that her said husband was born in the town of Killingly in the State of Connecticut, but that she is unable to state whether he resided at that place, when he

he entered the service with the troops under General Glover as aforesaid. That she recollects hearing her late husband speak of having been employed, for a part of the time he served in the army; under the direction of Doctor Homan, understood by deponent, to have been a surgeon of the Army - and that while so employed, he her said husband attended upon the sick and disabled soldiers, in the Army Hospital. The said deponent further declares, that she was married to the said Nathaniel B. Torrey, on the eighth day of November in year seventeen hundred eighty-nine in the Presbyterian Meeting House, at Sauerborough in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, by the Rev. Daniel Collins, a minister of the Gospel. and that her husband the said Nathaniel B. Torrey died on the twenty-sixth day of December in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-one, at Georgia in the County of Franklin and State of Vermont - That she was not married to him prior to the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January in the year seventeen hundred and ninety four - Viz. at the time above stated.
That she knows that her said husband, about the year eighteen hundred and nineteen or 1820 - became an applicant for a pension on account of his revolutionary services, and that a pension was granted him on such application - and that she has reason to believe that her said husband's name, was placed on the pension-roll, by the Commissioner of Pensions of the United States on the 25 th day of July in the year 1820, and that she understood that the said pension to her said husband was subsequently discontinued on account of his possessing a greater amount of property than was allowed to be possessed by pensioners under the law in pursuance of which his said pension had been granted, or of some subsequent law.
The said deponent further declares that she has remained the widow of the said Nathaniel B. Torrey from the

time of his death as aforesaid, and that she has continued to the date hereof, unmarried since the death of her said husband as aforesaid. That she is now feeble and infirm, and unable to attend in open court, to make her said declaration aforesaid, the distance of her residence from the place at which the County Courts of the County of Ontario aforesaid are held, being more than twenty miles.
The said deponent further declares that she has no documentary evidence of the services of her said husband in the war of the revolution.
Sworn to and subscribed by the said Sarah Torrey before me on the 7 th day of February 1844
Sarah Torrey
Chester Loomis
A. Judge of the Ontario County Courts.
State of New York. Ontario County, ss
I Chester Loomis, a Judge of the County Courts of Ontario County aforesaid, certify that Sarah Torrey, who has made and sworn to the foregoing Declaration, before me, is unable, from bodily infirmity to appear in open court to make her said Declaration. Dated, Naples in said County February 7 th 1844
Chester Loomis
Judge H.

marriage Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Berkshire County, Hunsborough } January 17, 1844. Town Clerk's office . . . . . ss. }
Nathaniel B. Terry and Sarah Hall were joined in marriage, November eighth, One Thousand seven hundred and eighty nine - I certify that the above is a true copy of the Records, with the exception of the Date, which is expressed in the Records in full legible figures as follows. Novem r 8. 1789 Attest - Levi P. Chase. Town Clerk
I Levi P. Chase above named, depose and say, that I hold the office of Town Clerk of the Town of Hunsborough, Berkshire County in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts - and that the above is a true Extract from the Records of said Town of Hunsborough, with the exception of the Date as above named, and certified by me - Levi P. Chase Town Clerk Of the Town of Hunsborough,
Berkshire ss. Hunsborough Jan y . 23. 1844. Personally appeared the above named Levi P. Chase & made solemn Oath to the truth of the above certificate by him subscribed - before me Richard Whitney Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Berkshires
I Charles Sedgwick Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County do certify that Richard Whitney Esq. before whom the within Affidavit of Levi P. Chase was sworn in & was on the 23 d Jan y last a Justice of the Peace within said County duly commissioned & qualified that I am well acquainted with his hand writing & verily believe the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. —
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this 13 th day of February 1844. Charles Sedgwick Clerk

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N.B. Torrey. recd. Aug. 30. 1828 ack'd 1 Sep t
Yr Sincere
Hon. Richard Rush Sec. Treasurer. City Washington
Revolutionary claim -
Dept. Human writer

For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution" approved on the 15 th of May 1828. I Nathaniel B. Torrey of Georgia, County of Franklin and State of Vermont do hereby declare, that I enlisted in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued in its service until its termination; at which period, I was a private infantry and acted and served as a steward to Gen d Glover of Glover's Brigade of the Massachusetts Line - I enlisted in Capt. Brown's company, in the Regiment of said Line.
And I also declare that I was entitled to receive a certificate for the reward eighty dollars; to which I was entitled, under a resolve of Congress, passed the 15 th May, 1778.
And I further declare, that I was not, on the 15 th day of May 1828, in the pension list of the United States.
Witness my hand, this 22 nd day of August In the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty eight
Subscribed and sworn before
on this 22 nd day of August, 1828
In Nathaniel B. Torrey Mark
Seth Whitmore Jus. Dean
Before me Seth Whitmore Jus. peace in the County of Franklin & State of Vermont, personally appeared then & there Nathaniel B. Torrey and Joseph S. Robinson, & Abner Nichols of Georgia of said County, who did severally make oath that Nathaniel B. Torrey by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reported and believed to have been a soldier in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated
Witness my hand, this 22 nd day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty eight
Seth Whitmore Jus. Dean

In corroboration of the statement set forth in the preceding declaration, - the declarant refers to the evidence transmitted to the Hon. Secretary of the department of War. (to the pension office) on the 21 day of August 1818. from which he was placed on the 25 day of July 1820 placed on the pension roll. & received a certificate of that date. No. 17.648. and registered by J. H. Howland Clerk in book No. Vol. 4. page 188 - considering that from the act of May 1820. that it was designed solely for Paupers, he did not apply for a renewal of his pension - should the evidence be found satisfactory. It is my request that the amount of two years full pay, may be transmitted to me directed to the care of the Hon. Seth Wilton at St. Albans, Vermont - and charge I further observe that I enlisted as a soldier - that Genl. Groom took me from the line for his Steward. served in that capacity till the close of the war. my discharge is either lost or sent to the Hon. Secy of War - my health is so feeble as to have impaired my memory -
Witness to the signature or marks of Wm Torrey - J. S. Robinson
his Nathaniel D. Torrey mark
State of Vermont. Franklin County Court Clerks Office August Franklin County ss & 22. D 1820. Horace Jones of St. Albans Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Franklin do hereby certify that Seth Wilton of St. Albans is one of the Executive Councils of the State of Vermont, and by virtue of said office a Justice of the Peace for the whole State, and that the foregoing certificate is signed by him in his own proper hand writing. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and affixed the Public Seal of said Court Horace Jones Clerk

St. Albans. (Vermont) August 22. 1828.
Sir,
Being called on by the wife of Nath l H. Ferry the foregoing declarant, to take his statement, relative to his services as a Soldier in the Revolutionary war - I found him to be aged, infirm & his memory very much impaired - he could not recollect the name of the Regiment in which he served nor the Col. who commanded the Regiment - but recollects the Captain's name was Barnes. he further recollects that he was at Sand l Louis taken from the ranks & placed as a waiter - he states he was a waiter to Dist. Harmon or Horniman - that he who was a Steward, or waiter to Gen l Glance - I have left a blank for the name of the Regiment for the above reasons -
respectfully your most Ob d & humble
for Seth Wetmore

N B. Torrey
Charlotte
W. H. ...

State of Vermont } District of Georgia
, ss.
On this 21 day of August 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the United States  Circuit Court of Probate for the said district, personally appears Nathaniel Pr. Torrey , aged Sixty years, resident in Georgia in the said district, who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the 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:" That he the said Nathaniel Pr. Torrey enlisted in Boston in the state of Massachusetts in October 1776 in the company commanded by Captain Francis or Amos & Col. Weygyleworth  of the  regiment of the Massachusetts ; that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States until the October 1779. , when he was discharged from service in Highland state of New York , that he was in the battles of
and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.
Seth Willson Judge
I, Seth Willson Judge, &c. as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Nathaniel Pr. Torrey did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy; and I now trans- mit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
S. Albans
May 18
1819
Seth Willson Judge
I further certify that the said Nathaniel Pr. Torrey was on the 18th day of March 1818 a resident citizen of the United States residing in Georgia in 81 years of age. - That he is now in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his country for support - that the declarations herewith of proof and evidence of the declarant's custom pecuniary situation.
Seth Willson Judge

To the Hon. S. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions.
The petition of Sarah Torrey respectfully represents that heretofore she applied for and received from the War Department of the United States at Washington a certificate dated the 5 th day of November 1844, granting to her a Pension, as the widow of Nathaniel B Torrey, who was a private in the War of the Revolution, and died on the 26 th day of December 1831, under the Acts of Congress of March 3 rd 1843, and June 17 th 1844. That your petitioner has drawn a Pension by virtue of said certificate annually, since the date of its issue as aforesaid, at the rate of Eighty Dollars per annum, until the termination of the period for which the said certificate was granted, namely the 4 th day of March 1845, when it was cancelled and made void. That your petitioner at the time of the issuing of the said Certificate the town of Naples in the State of New York, and afterwards removed to resided in Lancaster County in the State of Pennsylvania, and received the amount of the said Pension at the City of Albany in the State of New York, and that since that time she removed to and now resides in the town of Williamsburgh, in the County of Kings and State of New York, and that she has not been married since, but continues the widow of the said Nathaniel B Torrey. Wherefore your petitioner prays that her name may be re-enrolled on the Pension List, and a new certificate of Pension be issued to her for the said sum

of Eighty dollars annually, payable in the City of New York aforesaid, for the term of her natural life, according to the provisions of the Act of Congress passed February 2 1848.
And your petitioner will ever pray & Witness William Leaycraft Justice of the Peace.
State of New York
Sarah Torrey
County of Kings ss: On this First day of December 1848 personally appeared before me the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, Sarah Torrey known to me to be the identical person named in and who held the Certificate of Pension described in the foregoing Petition.
And the said Sarah Torrey being now by me duly sworn says that all the statements contained in the said petition by her subscribed, are true.
Witness my hand the day and year first above written
Sarah Torrey William Leaycraft Justice of the Peace
State of New York
County of Kings ss: I hereby certify that William Leaycraft by whom the above Certificate was awarded given is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, and that the above is his signature
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 1 st day of December 1848
John M. Hicks Clerk of Kings County

I hereby constitute and appoint William P Richardson of the City and State of New York my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to apply for and receive from the Hon. Commissioners of Pensions, or other Officer of the United States at Washington the Certificate of Pension, (should one be granted) which authorised by the Act of Congress of the 2 d February 1848, giving and granting unto my said attorney full power to do all and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in the premises, as fully as I myself might do. Witness my hand and seal this First day of December 1848
In presence of William Laycraft Justice of the Peace
Sarah Torrey

Reps.
Albany, N. York 6340
Sarah Torrey
widow of Nathanial B. Torrey
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 5. day of Nov. 1844
and sent to N.B. Hewett
Prattsburg
N. York
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A, # June 17. 1844
2, Page 87.

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 18153
Sarah Toueg Widow of Nathaniel B Toueg Dis. New Mar
Act: Feb 24 48
Index:—Vol. W , Page 279
[Arrangement of 1870.]

St. Albans March 10 1861
Mass.
Free
Hon. Richard Rush
Sec. of State
City Washington
Revolutionary claim

J Wetmore for N B Torrey - 917 Rec d 31 January 1829

S t Albans Vermont, Jan y . 24. 1829
Hon. Rich d Root. Sec. Treasurer.
At the request of Mr Wallis Esq. I, on the 22 August last transmitted his declaration for a pension under the act of May 1828. - I recd an answer from you that under date Sept. 1. 1828, that none with the enclosures had been recd. presenting the claim of N o to Ivey. and that the claim will be examined with all convenient despatch, and result communicated to me - from the great length of time - Mr Ivey feels that the result has been lost by your communication - but the same might have miscarried - as no communication has been recd from the department - will you be so obliging as to communicate to me for the information of Mr Ivey whether the claim has been examined. etc. Your attentions will greatly oblige the old Gentleman Mr Ivey. - in behalf of Mr Ivey. Leth Wetmore

Feb 26 1844
Nippon Maru Feb 25
Japanese story
7 Feb, 1838
War Department
Union Office
Hon. J. J. Edwards
Veneer of Union Washington
free
Encl.

Naples Ontario County New York February 21 st 1844
Hon. S. L. Edwards, Sir,
Enclosed is an application from Sarah Torrey, widow of the late Nathaniel B. Torrey, a revolutionary pensioner, placed on the pension roll July 25 th 1820. — The applicant would respectfully refer you for further evidence and information to the War Department to sustain her claim,
I would merely mention, that in order to avoid the unjust exaction of a gratuity, in obtaining the poor widows pension, I hereby transmit such evidence as is required or could be obtained, agreeable to the prescribed rules of the War Department. Hoping you will find satisfactory evidence, in granting the widows application, without further communication I remain
Your humble servant,
P. B. Torrey

Oct 15 1844.
For Sarah Jarvis
Oct 15 43
Ms A. 9. 2. 4
Hon J. J. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
FREE

Prattsburgh Steuben County N.Y. Oct 11. 1844. J. L. Edwards Esqr
Dear Sir
Annexed is a Declaration Made by Mrs. Sarah Fanny in order to obtain the benefit of the Pension act, of the 3 d of March 1813, which if correct, so as to obtain a Certificate, you will please enclose it to P.B. Fanny. Maple Ontario County N.Y., And in case it is incorrect, you will please send the declara- -tion back to me at Prattsburgh, N.Y.
Yours With Much Respect A. S. Hewitt

Naples N.Y. Sept. 3
Sept 6 1849
Mr Brown
7
War Department Pension Office G. W. Trump Esq. Acty Comr of pensions Washington

Naples Ontario County New York Sept 2. 1844
Dear Sir
Enclosed I return to you the Certificate of Pension in the case of Sarah Torrey
You will see by reference to it that the Certificate does not state when the pension was to commence a clerical error for which I send the Certificate to be rectified
You will please return the Certificate to me at this place, and oblige
Truly Your Obt. Servt.
J. B. Torrey
Col. J. Mump Esq. Actg. Commission of Pensions

18257
Sarah Torrey
N.Y.
Act 7 th July '38
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P. B. Torrey Esq
Naples
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1828 papers to be filed with a d our mid
File #
18153

Nathaniel B. Torrey - Rob- Mass. line -
Not allowed act 1828
Vermont -
Ex 4 , one old Book of Ref. " Inval. Ad. Wils. " other old book.
S 2 # 18.153 Adt Wils - " # 53.816 " Inval

2 20 Feb 1848
Mr Cole
4 Decem 1848
per
Hon. J. L. Edwards.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
6340
1848

Rep d .
Certif. corrected & returned 6. Sep. '44. See letter to H. B. Hewett, Oct. 15. 1844
New York 8623
Sarah Torrey
widow of Nathaniel B. Torrey
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 26. Dec. 1831 of Ontario Co. in the State of N. York who was a Private in the commanded by Captain _____ of the regt. commanded by Col. Nigglesworth 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 27 th day of August 1844 and sent to P. B. Torrey Naples, Ontario Co. N. York
Total amount, $ 400 —
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book D. Vol. 1. Page 183

Sarah Toney widow of Nathl B Toney Pens a - act 38.43.244 New York act 48 - 3747
It appears from papers exhibited to me, that H G Wade is authorized to investigate the above named claim, July 15/57.
Wm Cole
July 17 1857
Ex B Mr Wade adul 57

Washington D.C.
February 15 th 1851.
Sir,
In behalf of claimant, I request to be permitted to examine the papers of Nathaniel B. Doney, pensioned Act 1818. His widow Sarah Doney pensioned Act 1838, from New York.
I am respectfully,
Your Abt Servt,
W. G. Wade
H. H. Heath Esq. Com g Pensions,

New York Dec 2 1848
Hon. J. L. Edwards Commr. of Pensions Sir.
Herewith I enclose to you the application of Sarah Torrey for a renewal of a pension (she has been receiving and which has terminated during the current year), authorized by Act of Congress of February 2 1848.
Will you be pleased to advise me if there is any deficiency in the papers presented, and if there be none to forward to me the certificate applied for, when issued.
I am Sir
Very Respectfully
Your Servant.
Wm W. Richardson 17 Wall St. N.Y.

Revolutionary Claims.
Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
15 April 1829.
The annexed paper, relating to the claim of Nathaniel B. Torrey , under the abovementioned act, is respectfully referred to the Secretary of War, with a request that he will be pleased to cause me to be informed whether a discharge, and, if so, what discharge, was received at the War Department, from the claimant, on an application stated to have been heretofore made by him for a pension.
The Hon. the SECRETARY OF WAR.
J. D. Graham
Letter from the War Department 17 April 1829

I Isaac Lackey of Swanton in the County of Franklin and State of Vermont aged Sixty Three after being first duly sworn according to law depose and say that in the  first of the year 1776 I enlisted for three years under Colonel Shepard and im mediately joined his regiment marched to Providence in Rhode Island and there became acquainted with Nathaniel B. Sney now of Georgia in the County of Franklin and State aforesaid and to the best of my knowledge he served in the Continental Service for the term of three years am knowing that the 2 nd Sney belongs to guest and further say not Isaac Lackey
Sworn to before me Frederic Bliss Vice Judge August 14 th 1818 of Franklin County Ct

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Sarah Torrey
abt '43
& '44 - 218.-
$80 pr an
H. B. Hewett, Prattsburg N.Y.

State of New York Steuben County } ss
On the 21 st day of October 1846, personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the peace of the County of Steuben and State of New York, Sarah Torrey a resident of Prattburgh in the County of Steuben and State of New York, Aged Seventy three years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obta- -in the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3 rd March 1813, granting pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war, that she is the widow of Nathaniel B. Torrey, who was a private in the revolution, and that she received Eighty Dollars per annum under the act of July 7 th 1838. She further declares that she is still a Widow
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written,
Sarah Torrey
J. A. Johnson J.P.

Prattburgh, Steuben County N.Y. October 21. 1844.
Dear Sir Your communication of Oct 13 th came duly to hand. Enclosed was a Declaration made by Sarah Torrey, in order to obtain a Certificate under the Act of March 3 rd 1843, which you returned to me together with printed instructions, pointing out the course to be pursued by the applicant, in order to obtain the benefits of the act of June 17. 1844.
I am led to conclude you are in an Error, in returning the Declaration, as the Applicant has never drawn under the Act of March 1843, and neither has she any Certificate under that Act,
I am aware that under the Act of June 1844 a certificate is not necessary, where the Pensioner drew under the act of March, 1843. But in this case the Pensioner has not drawn under any other act than that of July 7 th 1838, Consequently I have thought proper to return to you the Declaration, that if it of itself proves right, the applicant may get a certificate under the act of March, 3 rd 1843.
I think if there is any Error on my part it must be in the Declaration, if that is wrong you will please point out the Error, and if correct you will please return to me a Certificate.
Yours With Much Respect
Rev. J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions
M. B. H. Wilts Prattburgh Steuben Co. N.Y.

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Sept. 1. 1828
Nathaniel B. Torrey, of Georgia, in the County of Franklin, in the State of Vermont has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private in captain Second State 's company, in the Massachusetts regiment of the Massachusetts line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing.
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
My order the Secretary A. Jenkins
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
10 th September 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to in the
It further appears that Nathaniel B. Torrey is now on the pension list of any  any agency, and has been so since the 3 d March 1826 at the rate of  dollars per month.
The name of Nathaniel B. Torrey cannot be found among those of the Massachusetts line, to whom certificates for the gratuity of eighty Dollars, were issued -
John H. Agnew Auditor