Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35690, Joseph Videto, Mass.

SERVICE
Noass.
Videto, Joseph R.
NUMBER _____
S. 35.690
CONTENTS

May 13-1931
MISS ALICE L. PRIEST 16 BREWSTER TERRACE BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS
Pension Bureau - Revolutionary War Washington - D. C. Dear Sir,
Re pension of Joseph Videto , Survivor File No. 35690.
I have four pages of copy of this photo- stat. gotten Aug. 21-1925 - Three pages of his original application made Apr. 28-1818 - And one page dated Nov. 21-1842. Treasury Department, showing that "The Children of Joseph Videto. dec d " are paid from March 4 to July 11-1839.
Is there, please, anything to show who these children were? Or any of them? The person who received the money?
Very truly yours, Alice L. Priest

Dead Letter to Comm. & H. 1. Nov 1841
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 8 th April 1838 from 4 th March to 11. July 1839. Agent Notified 23 Dec 1842.
Notification sent to John M c Pherson Portland Me. July 14. 1820
7,434
Maine
4
Joseph Videto
of North Berwick in the Dist of Maine who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Phinney of the Mass line, for the term of one year
Inscribed on the Roll of the List of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 28 th of Apr. 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 th of Feb. 1819 and sent to A. K. Parris, Esq. Paris, Maine.
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819. 81.83 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Sept 1819 48.00
$129.83
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

Nov 1. 1841
Mr. Lawrence
FREE
To the Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

Portland Oct 27 1841 -
To the Commission of Pensions
Sir
Enclosed is an affidavit showing the death of Sarah Smith a volun- -tary pensioner, entitled to a pension as per certificate of 5th March 1819, and payable at the pension office in Portland - His Children are quite destitute and are desirous of obtain- ing the balance due to their father at the time of his death, if regular will you send the proper papers to our case, if there are any defects, will you please inform us that they may be remedied.
Yours resp
Coaman & Fox

Joseph Videto. private Col. Shinnery - club & line "78 - 1 year April 28 1918
See the judges certificate on file
Admitted

To the Hon.ble Albion P. Paris Judge of the District Court for Maine District. Humbly sheveth. That your petitioner Joseph Violette of North Yarmouth in the County of Cumberland in the Com- monwealth of Massachusetts is now sixty six years of age. That about the first of April in the year seventeen hun- dred and seventyfive. Selected in Captain John Worthley's Company in Dillenbeck's Regiment. I went to Cambridge and served eight months. in the year seventeen hundred and seventy- six I was transferred from Capt. Worthley's Company to Captain Blaisdell's Company. in Col. Wigglesworth's Regt. I was ordered to Tyndeborough where I served to the end of that year. I was then transferred from Capt. Blaisdell's Company to Captain Hill's Company in Col. Swift's Regt. I was ordered to Pennsylvania and on the fourth day of Octo- ber seventeen hundred and seventy seven. I was in the battle fought at Germantown after this I went to Valley Forge and there suffered every hardship till the last day of December of the said year my time that I had enlisted for was then out and was discharged. After this I entered into the service of the New State of Connecticut where I served the remainder of the war. being far advanced in age. very infirm and destitute of property not where with to support myself. and absolutely stand in need of the support offered by Country for whom

- Independence I have fought and suffered every hardship -
Apr. 20. 6.
Joseph Videto
I Richard Stubbs of North Yarmouth in the County of Cumberland and of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby and say I have ex- amined the above statement made by Joseph Videto and that I am knowing to his serving in the Continental Army at Cambridge and at Tyendinague as therein stated as I was a soldier there at the same time further saith not -
Richard Stubbs
Sworn to before
Alcion K. Parris
U.S. Judge
I Jeremiah Stubbs of North Yarmouth in the County of Cumberland in the Common- wealth of Massachusetts. Sixty four years of age do hereby and say that I have examined the above statement made by Joseph Videto and that I am know- -ing to his belonging to Captain Worthley Company in Col. Minney's Reg t and of his serving at the time at Cambridge as therein mentioned, which Reg t was in the Continental Service further saith not
Jeremiah Stubbs
Sworn to before
Alcion K. Parris
U.S. Judge

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty eighth day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally came Joseph H. Violette the applicant named in the papers hereunto annexed, and after being duly cautioned and examined, made oath that the several statements by him made in the annexed application, signed in my presence, are wholly true.
And the said applicant further offered in evidence the depositions
of Richard Stubbs and of Jeremiah Stubbs, both soldiers in the Revolutionary army which depositions were taken and sworn to before me, and are hereunto annexed
And it appearing to me in the examination here had, that the several persons above named are credible witnesses, I do hereby admit the annexed declarations as evidence, and certify the same as being satisfactory proof to me that the said Joseph H. Violette the applicant, served as a private soldier - in the revolutionary war, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months and upwards in continuation on the continental establishment. And I do further certify, that from the declaration of the applicant made before me, under oath as aforesaid, it does appear that in consequence of his reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support; all which I do hereby certify and transmit to the Secretary of the Department of War, agreeably to the provisions of an Act of Congress, passed March 18, 1818, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war."
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused my Official Seal to be affixed the day and year first mentioned.
Alcibiades L. Parrish
Judge of the United States in and for the District of Maine.

N 107. Joseph Didelot
Bohr
J. Videto was by occupation a Mariner which he is unable to pursue by reason of age & infirmities — He resides on one of the small Islands (belonging to the town of N. Yarmouth) in Bassco Bay — att. J. Mufsey jun U. S. D. C. Clerk
What is the person's occu- pation, health, &c. ? Cooke
Cont. 7434
5 March 1819
John C. G. [unclear] from Clerk of the U. States District

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. DISTRICT OF MAINE, ss.
At a District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland — within and for the District of Maine, on the first Tuesday, being the sixth — day of June and by adjournment from day to day, on the ninth . . . day of June . . . in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable ALBION K. PARRIS, Judge of said Court.
ON this ninth . . . day of June . . . in the year above written, personally appeared in open Court, the same having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Maine District, Joseph Videto . . . aged sixty eight . . . years, resident in North Yarmouth in said District, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a private . . . in the company commanded by Capt. Worthley . . . in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Phinney . . . in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the 20 th day of April . . . A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 7434 . . . was granted. And 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 the 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 ; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described on the back hereof, also subscribed by me.
Joseph Videto
Sworn to and declared, on the ninth day of June A. D. 1820. }
BEFORE
Albion K. Parris
U. S. District Judge for the District of Maine.

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz:
Real estate — none — Personal estate — a fourteen feet yaul boat which cost last year pretty three dollars I have no income — nor have I any family
Joseph Videto
Swanton Before Alvin H. Parris U.S. Dist. Judge
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me  by occupation and  which I am  able to provide by reason of
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.      

MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
I, JOHN MUSSEY, JUNR. Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record 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 forty one . . . . dollars and fifty . . . . cents. and no more
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this ninth . . . . day of June . . . . A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.
$41.50

May 20, 1931
Miss Alice L. Priest 16 Brewster Terrace Brookline, Massachusetts
Rev.& 1812 Wars Section MCS:MLB
Dear Madam:
As a possible means of obtaining the names and addresses of the children of Joseph Videto, S. 35690, to whom the last payment of soldier's pension was made, it is suggested that you address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C., citing the following data:
Joseph Videto, Certificate 7434, issued March 5, 1819, rate $8 per month, to commence April 28, 1818, Act March 18, 1818, Maine Agency.
Joseph Videto died July 11, 1839.
Very truly yours
E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner

35 690
Rev INVALID.
File No. 35 690
Joseph Videto His Rev. wife
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index: — Vol. 2 , Page 495
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1925 Aug 27 - copies related to Alice S. Prison - Aug 27 1921 May 20 - first the Miss Alice J. Fried also known as the names of the children's children's children's

BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Finance Division
Aug. 9. 1925
Chief Rev. Sect. Division.
I have this day received from Miss Alice L. Priest cash No. 85/100 in payment of for $..... requesting
photostat copy post office address as per memorandum letter herewith.
Copies mailed to Finance Division D. O. J. RANDALL Chief Finance Div. 266.2 Aug 22. 1925

3-2006 OFFICE OF CHIEF CLERK
Job No. 2260
Date Aug. 8-1925
Subject Joseph Videto S 35690
1 copies of 2 pieces consisting of 4 pages to be (No.) (No.) (No.)
forwarded when completed to the Rev. War. Sec. Division. 4 1872
Remarks: .....
Approved:
W.E. Wilson Chief Clerk
Chief Clerk.
[Faint, mirrored text from the reverse side of the document]

Miss Alice L. Priest, Grace Dodge Hotel, Washington, D. C. wants photostat copies of four pages, certified, from Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 35690- Joseph Videto- Mass. Troops.
Received payment
85 cents
Antonia H. Ford.
August 3, 1925.
W. H. Wilson Chief Rev. War Pensions section

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
Nov. 21 st 1842.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the 3d section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, The Child ren of Joseph Videts, dec d . a Pensioner on the Roll of the Maine _____ Agency, at the rate of — Eight — Dollars and _____ Cents per annum month , under the law of the 18 th March 1818, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March — to the 11 th July 1839.  Respectfully, yours,
Comptroller.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.