Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 15331, Samuel Walker, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Walker, Samuel Shultis, Dorcas
W 15331
B.L.Wt. 107-60-55
B.L.Wt. 7977-100-1790
Former widow
CONTENTS
This woman's other husband was pensioned. See claim of Philip Shultis, New York, S I.

5322
Attorney.
New York Vermont
Let to J. H. Woodward & Son 9/50 " " Same Fr 11/51 " " " June 9/53 " " Mrs D. Shultis Jan. 25/55 1855 Feb. 22 d Cert to P. Ag. March 1, Transf d from Abby to Burlington Vt. fr. A. March 1854 Natals. Bridget.
Dorcas Shultis, formerly widow of Samuel Walker also widow of Philip Shultis Private in N.Y. Line who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private for two years
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th day of Jan y 1850 and sent to
Hon. J. Meacham House of Reps.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 188 Vol. 4
Reg 3m 55 76/54

76154 Act mar 3, Apl 18 55
Loreas Shultis, Shultis wid. Samuel Walker priv:
N. Glantl Ave,
Cont. Lois.
7 D. A. M. }
Rev' war
Rev' Pensonei - Oct 48- 5322
AD: 60 Acres. Nov: 3:7855.
Bypt Dr.
St. A.
E. Seymour St. Albans, Vt.
S.A.H.E. S. ymou, Jan: 9/56 - Hon Sabin Dec 8/56

No - 10 -
Appd. Philip Smith

I Philip Shuttis of Highgate Franklin County & state of Vermont aged Fifty Two years disson and say that I am the son of Philip Shuttis deceased late of Highgate in s d county. That my father the s d Philip married Dorcas the widow of Sam l Walker when this deponent was seventeen years of age - he was not present at the marriage but his father the s d Philip brought to his home the s d Dorcas and told deponent she was his mother or words to that import. & his father & the said Dorcas cohabited together as husband and wife and had children born into them. The oldest called Hiram Shuttis is forty six years of age. Deponent further saith that he always understood from his step mother the s d Dorcas that her first husband the said Sam l Walker was a soldier of the Revolution and that they moved from Rensselaer County New York when they came to Highgate. and the said Dorcas is now the widow of his father the s d Philip Shuttis and further saith not Philip his Shuttis mark Subscribed & sworn to before me this 27 th day of November 1849
Personally appeared before me at Highgate on the 27 th day of November 1849 the above named Philip Shuttis and made oath to the above affidavit And I certify he is a man of truth & credibility
Jo s A. Cutter Just. Peace

State of Vermont } I Joseph H. Brainerd Clerk of the County Franklin County } Court of the County of Franklin aforesaid. Do hereby certify do hereby certify that Joseph Cutler was one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Franklin aforsaid for the year ending with the 30 th day of November A.D. 1849 that the within signature purporting to be his
I believe to be genuine & that full faith & credit ought to be given to the official acts of said Cutler.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the County Court aforsaid and subscribed my name officially at St Albans in the County of Franklin aforesaid this first day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty nine.
Sec 25 th
Joseph H. Brainerd Clerk

No — 6

I Henry Tichout of Essex in the county of Chittenden and state of Vermont aged Sixty nine years upon and say. That I am a native of Cooksbrough Pensylvania county New-York and that I left there in the A.D. 1788. or 1789 with my father and his family and settled in Highgate Vermont. That I have a sister now living in Ellenburg New-York named Dorcas Shultis the widow of Philip Shultis. I further depose that sometime before my father moved from Cooksbrough aforesaid my sister the said Dorcas was married to one Samuel Walker I cannot tell how long before we left Cooksbrough but they the said Sam l & Dorcas had one child which was called Phebe. Deponent further saith that he has a distinct recollection of seeing the said Sam l Walker & his sister the said Dorcas despect at the period of their marriage - he further saith that the said Sam l Walker & wife moved to Highgate a few years after deponent did. He says the said Sam l was reputed to be a Soldier of the Revolution. And that after the death of the said Walker his widow the said Dorcas married Philip Shultis. And she is now the widow of the said Shultis. Deponent further saith he well remembers his sister the said Dorcas & the said Samuel Walker rode together on the day of their marriage as aforesaid. He further saith that

That the s d Walker & his wife had a son younger than their Phebe Walker which was called John Walker & he has known him from his birth and he now lives in Clinton County New York and is sixty years of age or thereabout he further saith that that the s d Dows has lived in Highgate Vermont until very recently she has gone to live with her son in Ellenburgh New York & further saith not Her I know Witness
Chas. H. Needs }
State of Vermont
Chittenden County } Personally appeared the above named Henry Tichant at Essex in s d County on the 21 st day of Nov. 1849 and made oath to the facts therein stated And I certify the s d Henry Tichant is personally known to me & a man of truth & credibility
Henry Ward Jr. Peace
State of Vermont } I D.B. Bickley Clerk of the County of Chittenden do Chittenden County } hereby certify that Henry Ward Esq. was on the 21 st day of November 1849 a Justice of the peace within and for the County of Chittenden duly Commissioned and sworn that I am well acquainted with his handwriting and verily believe his signature to the preceding Certificate to be genuine - In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of Chittenden County this twenty first day of Dec. 1849.
D.B. Bickley - Clerk of Chittenden County -

76154 J. 112
Claim to Bounty Land of
Dorcas Shuttles alias
Dorcas Walker, widow of Samuel Walker deceased.
Revolutionary War She now draws a pension. under act of 7 July 1838 of $8,000 per year
H. E. Seymour St. Albans Vt. Attorney.

Plattsburgh April 11 th 1855
Dear Sir,
Your letter was delayed on its passage, and has just come  been received. I did not obtain the pension of Mrs Dorcas Shelton, who was the widow of Samuel Walker, but made out the papers to obtain her semi annual stip- ends. Her certificate was sent to her last year by mail. She receives $80.00 per annum, under act July 7 th 1838 and subsequent acts. A statement of these acts, and reference to her pension papers for proof of her husband's service and of her marriage, will be sufficient to obtain her bounty land. under Act March 3 rd 1855.
H. C. Seymour Esq
Truly Yours, J. D. Woodward.

J. S. Woodward April 11th 1835. Recd. 13th

State of Vermont, County of Franklin On this 8th day of March 1855, personally appeared before me, a minister in Chamury in and for said County, who being duly sworn according to law, declared that Dorcas Shuttles or Shuttles aged 87 years a resident of Highgate in said County, who being sworn according to law declares, that she is the widow of Samuel Walker deceased who was a Revolutionary Soldier and who served in the New York line and she believes enlisted for and during the war of the Revolution that at any rate he served in said war and as she believes was Honorably discharged but the particulars of his service and when & where he enlisted or was discharged she cannot now state. She states she is on the Pension List as a widow and receives $80.00 or $96.00 per year per year and has resided about 8 months last past in Highgate & before that for several years last past resided in Chazy, New York except a part of the time she has been one of her sons in law in South Hero,

Vermont and her pension has been paid at Plattsburgh, New York always hitherto she thinks either by or through J. D. Woodward Esq. of said Plattsburgh.
She further states she was married to said Walker in May she thinks when she was in her 17th year at Coxsburg New York by a justice of the Peace she thinks and her name before marriage was Dorcas Brockout and her said husband and deserted her 59 years ago and has never since been heard of.
And she was married to Philip Shuttis in said Highgate 52 years ago in what month she does not recollect by Peter Mather Saxe Esq. a justice of the Peace and said Shuttis died in said Highgate in Jany. 24th, 1844 she thinks and she refers to the proofs on file in the Pension Office in her said Pension case for the particulars of her said husband, Walker's service and of her marriage and the death of her said husband. She makes

This application to obtain Widow Pension said she may be entitled to under any of Congress or Confederation and particularly under the act passed the third day March 1835 and she states she has
and she states she has never before received or applied for Pension under any act of Congress or other- wise and affirms W.E. Day member of S. Albans his attorney with power irrevocable to obtain said pension
Attest,
C. M. Ferris
John Winter
Henry E. Seymour
Dorcas her  mark Walter alias
Dorcas her  mark Shattis
See order to make distribution therefore are the day & year first above written; and I hereby certify that I believe and have good reason to believe from the applicants appearance & statements and the representations of others and all the circumstances of the case that she is the identical person who draws the pension of V. & is the person she represents herself to be and I have no inter- est in this claim. I know she is the identical person she represents herself to be, if such knowledge can be acquired at one interview & hearing by letter from S.D. witness my hand Henry E. Seymour Master in Chancery.

we Edwin M. Ferris of Swanton Vermont and Henry C. Seymour of St. Albans, Vermont, on our oaths, say that the within foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by said Dorcas Walker alias Shullis in our presence; and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be - She is very old and feeble & her recollections very indistinct; and we are disinterested witnesses.
Henry C. Seymour, Edwin M. Ferris
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 8 day of March 1855 and I certify I know the affidavits to be credible persons and that I have no interest in this claim.
V. Ferris } Justice of the Peace
State of Vermont County of Franklin } I James Davis Judge of the Probate Court in & for said county certify that Henry C. Seymour was on the 8th day of March 1855 a Master in Chancery in & for said county and as such authorized by law to administer oaths & the signatures of persons like his are genuine. I also certify that V. M. Ferris was on the 8th of March 1855 a justice of the peace in & for said county and authorized by law to administer oaths and that the signatures of persons like his is genuine. In witness my hand & seal this 31st day of March 1855. James Davis Judge.

No 1
Dorcas Shultz formerly widow of Samuel Walker
New York Albany Agency
P. 2 yrs p 80 con 4 March 1836 to 41 - for 43 & 48 V 48.
b.d. Oct 1798 b of Vandenburg 2 o N.Y. Rep.
H. J. Meacham N.Y.

State of New York 43
Franklin County 3
On this 23 d day of October A.D. 1841 personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Justices of the court of Sessions in and for said County Dorcas Shultz a resident of Ellenburgh aged eighty two 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 th A.D. 1838 entitled an "act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows," and all subsequent acts in relation thereto. That she was formerly the widow of Samuel Walker who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war attached to the New York line or state troops. she does not know which. That she believes he served for a period of about three years in the latter part of the war, she cannot tell the names of his company or field officers but has heard him say that he served some in a company commanded by Capt. Vandeburgh or Vanburgh she believes he lived at or near the new City (so called) Troy where he entered the service but she was not acquainted with the s d Sam l Walker until 1785 and does not know his place of residence at the time he entered. She further declares that her maiden name was Dorcas Tichout

and that she was married to the s d Samuel Walker at Cookborough Penns lv a County New York in the month of May A.D. 1786 by Esq. Ketchum then a Justice of the Peace living there And that the said Samuel Walker died October 1797. She further states that she has no record of her marriage to the said Samuel Walker but that she and the s d Samuel had children born into them the eldest called Phebe born about one year subsequent to marriage Jennie about three years both of whom are now dead. And John Walker now living in Saranac Clinton County New-York and born in A.D. 1791 as she believes - she has no records of the family
She further declares states that she afterwards married Philip Shultis in the month of September A.D. 1803 who was also a soldier of the Revolution and at the time of his death received a pension from the United States of about $43 per annum and that his death took place January 4 th 1845. And she further swears she is now a widow and that she has never before made any application for a pension. Witness
Catharine Shultis
Dorcas
X Shultis mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year before written before me
Elisha B. Smith Justice of Peace

I hereby certify that I believe Dorcas Shethis the person who subscribed the foregoing declaration, by making her mark thereto in my presence, to be a woman of truth and credibility. And I do further certify that by reason of her age and infirmity she is unable to appear in open court.
Dated October 23 rd 1849.
Elisha B. Smith Justice of Superior Franklin Co.
State of New York } Franklin County } ss. I Henry S. Brewster, Clerk of the County of Franklin, do hereby certify that Elisha B. Smith was on the 23 rd day of October 1849, a Justice of the Peace duly designated as a member of the Court of Sessions of the said County, and qualified to act as such - that said Court is a court of record, and that his signature above written is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court and County the 25 th day of October 1849.
Henry S. Brewster Clerk

Phoebe Foster of Ridgfield Clinton County New-York aged Seventy Six years after being duly sworn saith. That her maiden name was Phoebe Tichout. That she lived at Coosburgh Rensselaer County New-York at the close of the Revolutionary war And in the A.D. 1788. she with her father & his family moved to Highgate Vermont. She further saith That she has a sister now living in Ellenborough in d state by name of Dorcas. widow of Philip Shultis and who is about seven years older than deponent. And that her sister the d Dorcas was married to one Samuel Walker at Coosborough aforesaid two or three years before deponent moved from there - she well remembers they had one child when she moved to Highgate as aforesaid Deponent further saith That she has a record of the ages of of her children and that record is now before her and it is there recorded that her oldest child was born April 22 d 1791. And well knows that her sister Dorcas & the d Walker had at that period three children one of which John Walker now lives in the town of Lawrence in this county distant from the residence of deponent about three miles and she has known him from his birth to the present time.
She further saith that the d Samuel Walker & wife also moved to Highgate Vermont where they lived until the death of the said Walker as she believes in 1797 - She further saith that her sister the d Dorcas

afterwards married Philip Shultis and that they lived together until his death which occurred about four years ago and she is now a widow Widow Norman P Foster } her Phoebe X Foster mark
Subscribed and sworn this 24 day of October 1849 }
Before me
Jonathan Roberts
Justice of the Peace
And I do hereby further certify that I have been acquainted with the above sworn Deponent for about fourteen years and that she is a person of truth and credibility
Jonathan Roberts
Justice Peace

State of New York } Clinton County }
I W m R Jones deputy clerk of said County of Clinton do hereby certify that Jonathan Roberts whose name is subscribed to the foregoing sworn was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly elected or appointed and qualified. And I further certify that I was well acquainted with the the hand writing of said Roberts and verily believe his signature to be genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county the 26 th day of October 1849
W m R Jones Deputy

No 7 and 8

I John Barr of Highgate Franklin County Vermont depose & say that I am sixty five years of age & have resided in this Town from infancy that was sixty years ago there came to this town one Samuel Walker & his wife named Dorcas who at that time had a family of three children one named Phebe another John Walker and to have moved from the state of New-York. Deponent & the children of the s d Sam l Walker attended the same school & he is confident that the eldest was as old as deponent he further saith that some years after the death of the s d Walker his widow married one Philip Shultis & that the s d Shultis died about four years ago. And he further saith that the maiden name of the widow of the s d Walker & the s d Shultis was Dorcas Tinkout and that she was esteemed by those in the neighborhood who knew her to be a woman of truth. And further saith not. John Barr
Personally appeared before me at Highgate on the 30 day of Nov 1849 John Barr who has signed the above & made oath to the same And I certify he is personally known to me & person of truth & credibility Walter C. Stevens Justice Peace

Hannah Chapel of Highgate Franklin County & state of Vermont aged Sixty Six years after being duly sworn saith. That she became acquainted with one Samuel Walker and his wife Dorcas. about fifty five years ago - They then lived in this town and had Three Children the oldest called Phebe which was very near the age of deponent & is now dead - a younger named John Walker now living in Lawrence near Plattsburgh and deponent thinks only about five years younger than she is. She further saith that after the death of the sd Walker his widow the sd Dorcas married one Philip Shultis with whom she lived until his death which occurred about four years ago - She further saith that she always understood that the widow of Walker & now of the sd Shultis was named Dorcas without before her marriage to the sd Walker - And that she now lives in Ellabury New-York.
Hannah Chapel
Hannah X Chapel mark
Sworn to before me on the 31st day of October 1849 And I certify deponent is a person of truth & credibility
Walter C. Stevens Justice Peace

State of Vermont } Franklin County } }
J. L. L. (Patchin Deputy Clerk of Franklin County Court do hereby certify that Walter C. Stevens is a Justice of the Peace in the said County of Franklin duly qualified & appointed & that I believe his signature to the two affidavits within to be genuine In testimony whereof I have set my hand & the seal of said Court this 5 th day of November A.D. 1849
J. L. (Patchin) Dk. Clerk

Michael L. Van Der Cook of Pittstown Rensselaer County New York aged Forty Five years after being duly sworn saith That his father settled in said Town before the Revolutionary war and a part of said Town was from that period called Cookesborough That when deponent was a boy of some eight or nine years of age there resided his fathers family one Dorcas Sicheut That soon after the above period the said Dorcas was married to one Samuel Walker who he also well knew - he cannot tell the precise time of the marriage but he has his fathers books in which are charges of the date of A.D. 1787 and 1788 against the said Samuel Walker and the said Samuel & Dorcas then cohabited together as husband and wife and after a period of some three or four years they moved from this place to Vermont and they had then two or three children. deponent thinks they left before the A.D. 1792. Deponent further saith that the said Samuel Walker was reported by those that knew him to have been a soldier in the Revolutionary war and he concurs in that opinion. He further saith there is few if any in this place that lived in vicinity of the said Walker at the time he died as they are either dead or have left this part of the country.
Deponent further saith that he was acquainted with Capt. Vandebury who commanded a company in the New York continental line and that during and since the war of the Revolution he lived in said County of Rensselaer distant from the former residence of the said Samuel Walker about twelve miles and further saith not
State of New York } Rensselaer County }
Mich. L. V. D. Cook
Personally appeared at Pittstown in said county on the 12th day of Nov. 1849 the above named M. L. V. D. Cook and made oath to the same before me James N. Halsted Justice Peace

I hereby certify that M. S. D. Cook who has signed the foregoing affidavit is personally known to me as formerly an editor of President and vice president in New-York and is a man of truth and credibility James N. Walsted Justice Peace
STATE OF NEW YORK, Rensselaer County Clerk's Office, { 88 } I, AMBROSE H. SHELDON, Clerk of the County of Rensselaer, do hereby Certify that James N. Walsted whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of proof or acknowledgment of the annexed Instrument, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, one of the Commissioners of the  Justices of the Peace of the County of Rensselaer, dwelling in said county; duly authorized to take such proof or acknowledgment. And that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Commissioner  Justice , and verily believe that his signature to the said Certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine, and that said Instru- ment was executed and acknowledged according to the laws of the State of New York. In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my name, and affixed the Seal of said County, this 13 th day of November A. D. 1849
A H Sheldon clk

I Michael L Van Der Cook of Pittstown Rensselaer County New York do hereby say That Hugh McChesney is the Town Clerk of said Town of Pittstown and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Hugh McChesney and believe his signature to the certificate on this sheet to be genuine. I also further depose and say that for many years I have been town clerk of said town & had in my possession the records of said town and I do hereby believe there is not any record of a marriage on said books previous to the A.D. 1800 and further saith not
Mich. L. V. D. Cook
Sworn to on the 12th day of November 1845 at Pittstown before me and I certify the affiant is a man of truth and credibility
James N. Colsted Just. Peace

I Hugh McChorney do hereby certify That I am the town clerk of Pittston in the County of Wyoming & state of New York. and that after an examination of the records of said town say that I am not able to find the record of the marriage one Samuel Walker and Dorcas Sidwell said to have been solemnized in that part of said town of Pittston known and dis- -nated as Cooksborough and said to have taken place soon after the war of the Revolution -There being no records of marriages in This Office previous to the A.D. 1800
Dated at Pittston November the 10. 1849
Attest. Hugh McChorney Town Clerk of Pittston

State of Vermont } On this 14 th day of Franklin County ss } February, A. D. 1855. Before me the subscrib- ing authority a Justice of the Peace in & for the county afo d , personally appeared Dorcas Shultz, who on her oath, declares that she is the same identical person who recently resided in the town of Chazy in the State of N. York, from whence she has lately removed, that she drew her last semi-annual pension on the 14 th of March A. D. 1854 that she now resides in Highgate in the county of Franklin & State of Vermont, where she intends to remain, and wishes her pension to be paid in future at Burlington, Vermont. The reasons for removing from Chazy to Highgate is that she now resides with her son in law, John Winter. Her pension certificate is N o 5322, & signed by T. Coving, Secretary can't be signed by _____ of the Interior J. L. Edwards, Com d of Pensions
Attest C. M. Gilpin } G. W. Platt } x Dorcas her Shultz's mark
Sworn to & subscribed this 14 th day of Feb y 1855
Before me T. J. Ferris Justice of the Peace

I Jacob Garman of Highgate in the County of Franklin and State of Vermont aged fifty years do depose testify and say that I am personally acquainted with Dorcas Shullis of Highgate in said County formerly of Shazy New York and widow of Samuel Walker deceased she now resides with her son-in-law John Winters of Highgate and I know that she is a Pensioner of the United States and the identical person named in the Pension certificate dated January 30th 1850 No 5322 exhibited to me
Subscribed & sworn to before me this 14 th day of Feby 1855
J. V. Ferris Justice of the Peace
And I further certify that the deponent is a credible witness.
J. V. Ferris Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont, } I. James Davis. Judge of the Franklin County. ss.) Probate Court for the District of Georgia and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Valentine S. Ferriss who has affixed his name to the annexed affidavit of Jacob Gar- man, and the declaration of Dorcas Shultis is a Magistrate in & for the county of Franklin aforesaid duly authorized by Law to administer oaths, and take acknowledgements, & I believe the signatures pur- porting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal and affixed my seal of Office at St Albans in said district this 17th day of February 1855,
James Davis, Judge

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Walker, Samuel GRADE Private LINE New York
WARRANT NUMBERS 7977 and 107 — ACREAGE 100  60 — ISSUED August 4, 1790 1855 Ht. 7977 to Henry Hart, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.

Ray WIDOW, &c.
File No. 15331
Dorcas Skellie former widow of Samuel Walker also widow of Philip Skellie born near War
Act: Feb 29 48
Index:—Vol. M , Page 20
[Arrangement of 1870.]

10830
Albany.
New York.
Dorcas Shultis, formerly Widow of Samuel Walker who was a pensioner under the Act of 7 th June '32. and who died on the _____ day of Oct. 1798 of _____ in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Vanderburg of the 2 nd N.Y. Reg t commanded by _____ in the _____ line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th day of Jan'y 1850 and sent to Hon. J. Meacham H. R.
Total amount, $ _____
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Book _____
Vol. _____
J. Chase Clerk, Page 545.

8747 Albany New York.
Dorcas Shultis, formerly widow of Samuel Walker who was a Private in the Revolution for two years
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 30 th day of Jan y 1837 and sent to
M rs J. Meacham House of Reps
[Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 2 Page 89

Pen. act 2 nd Feb. 68, V.A., Baptist.

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Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
FREE

1877 ✓
Coacere

St Albans Vt Feby 19 th , 1855,
Hon L. P Waldo
I herewith send the declaration of Mrs Dorcas Smith's for a transfer of her pension, and the afft of Jacob Carman in support of the same. Very Respectfully Yours Affec d M m Bridges

This widow states that her first husband, Samuel Walker (who died in Oct. 1797) was pensioned at $96 per annum -
I cannot find his name on printed list of I st . pensioners of Rensselaer Co., N. Y., nor of any Co. of H. to which he after- wards removed.
M. R.
MAR 7 - 1911

Washington Dec. 12 th , 1849.
Dear J. Edwards
I enclose the papers sent me by Henry Weed of Kingsburgh Vermont. I shall be glad to hear from your decision in these matters, and will immediately make it known to Mr. Weed.
Respectfully Yours J. Meacham M.C.

Albany Pension Agency.
February 24 th 1855.
L. P. Waldo, Esquire,
Commissioner of Pensions:
Sir—In reply to your letter of the 22 d inst. I have to state that Dorcas Shultis. a Pensioner under the act of 2 d February. 1848 — at Eighty — Dollars per Annum — was last paid to the fourth — day of March — 1854. —
I am, Sir, very respectfully,
Your obedient Servant,
James M. French
Pension Agent.
per Cornelius Glen. —
"

Plattsburg N.Y. June 2. 1853.
Sir.
Mrs Dorcas Shultus is now a pensioned at $80. per annum under the act of July 2. 1848. as the widow of Samuel Walker her first dec d husband. Her second and last dec d husband Philip Shultus was a pensioner under the act of June 7. 1832. at $43.33. per annum. and died in January 1846. So she entitled to a pension as his widow under the act of Feb y 3. 1853. in addition to the one she already receives. & as I found what time do pensions commenced under that act. &
Respectfully Yours.
J. D. Woodward. Atty for Mrs Shultus
Hon d Lorenzo P. Waldo.
Comr. of Pensions
P. S. I write at the request of Mrs Shultus her son. W.

Plattsburg N. Y Nov. 4. 1850
Doc.:
I enclose the pension Certificate of Mrs Dorcas Shultus & her application for an increase of her pension
Respectfully yours
J. D. Woodward, Atty for Mrs Shultus.
J. L. Edwards Esq Can. r. c

I Henry Sturtevant of Highgate Franklin County Vermont aged Sixty three years do here by say that I have been acquainted with Dorcas Shullis the widow of Philip Shullis for more than forty years. He does not know the period of her marriage to the s d Shullis but that they lived & cohabited together as husband & wife & children born unto them and lived together until the death of the s d Philip about four years ago. And he is told & believes she now lives with a son in Ellinborough Franklin County New York. He further saith that previous to the marriage of the s d Dorcas to s d Shullis she was called the widow of Walker & she had a son John Walker who deponent well knows & believes him to be now Sixty years of age.
He further saith that during the whole period of his acquaintance with the s d Dorcas Shullis she has been esteemed by them who knew her to be a person of truth & credibility.
Henry Sturtevant
Sworn to before me at Highgate Nov 1. 1849 And I certify the s d Sturtevant is personally known to me and is a man of truth & credibility.
Wm Robinson Justice Peace

State of Vermont Franklin County p } A
This may certify that William Robinson Walter C. Stearns of Highgate in the County of Franklin are both Justices of the Peace within the said County Given under my hand at St Albans in said County of Franklin this 2 day of November A.D. 1849
J. L. Dutcher Dep Clerk
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76154
me
Noreas Shells
and Philip
and Saml. Walker
ad 60-acre-no-10, or 48-5325
Boynton
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St. Albans, 3 d Jany. 1836.
Hon. Com te of Pensions,
Sir,
A warrant for 60 acres no. 107 has been recd. issued to Doreas Shuttles in case no. 76, 154 at 3 d March 1835, & taken as the widow of Samuel Walker deceased - By your letter of Nov. 23 d 1835 signed by C. H. Rhetts Esq. for Com te you say she is intitled to but 60 acres because her husband Sam l Walker recd. 100 acres for his service - You will see she is on the Rolls as a pensioner as widow of said Walker. Her last husband Philip Shuttles was also a pensioner, paid in this district she died some years ago. I think in this case her marriage to Shuttles is proved this death if it be not, perhaps you will find the proof in the Pension case on file.
Now I ask will you not at once considering her case no. 76. 154 as of right she is almost 90 years old, issue a 100 acre warrant to her as the widow of Philip Shuttles for his Revolutionary Service. What that was, his Pension case will shew.
Yours truly, Henry Hart Agt. V. E. Secy recd. Aug 1/790 7977
If the trouble be not too much, please give me the number of the 100 and 60. acres to Sam l Walker.

Dorcas Shultz
Reference to the widow in the case of Dorcas Shultz

In the case of Dorcas Shultz
No. 1. Declaration of Dorcas Shultz. That she was formerly the widow of Samuel Walker - That she was married to him in Cookesborough N.Y. in the month of May 1786. and that he died October 1797. That she has no record of her marriage - That she after the death of Walker married Philip Shultz in AD 1803. and that he died January 4 th 1845. and is now a widow No 2. Affidavit of Phebe Foster. sister of applicant - That her sister Dorcas Shultz was married to Samuel Walker two or three years before she (applicant) moved from Cookesborough and she moved from there in 1788. and that at that time her sister Dorcas & her husband Walker had one child. She states she has a record of the ages of her children and that her eldest was born Apl. 22 d . 1791. and that Walker & wife Dorcas had then three children one of which John Walker she has known from his birth & lives near her No 3. Certificate of Dept. Secretary of state of New-York of the service of Sam l Walker in the New York line from May 19. 1779 to January 1782 No 4. Affidavit of James Wool that he lived in two miles of Sam l Walker during the war and was well acquainted with him - And that he
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Walker first joined the army as a levy and afterwards enlisted in the 2 nd Regt. New York line & knew his service & was honorably discharged - That a few years after the war the said Walker was married to Dorcas Tichout, of Cookborough who also well knew -
No. 5 Affidavit of M. S. Farnsworth that he knew said Walker & Dorcas Tichout before marriage and that they were married before 1787, a record against his memory. That the said Farnsworth's wife with two or three children moved from Cookborough to Vermont before 1792 - Traditional that Walker had been a Revolutionary soldier - That there is no record of marriages in said town previous to 1800. No. 5. Also Certificate of Hugh McChesney Town Clerk of Pittstown that there is no record of marriage before A.D. 1800.
No. 6. Affidavit of Henry Tichout. That his sister Dorcas married said Walker - remembers seeing them in their wedding dress & that they rode out on that day of their marriage. That he left Cookborough in 1788 or 1789 & that Walker & wife had one child there - That Walker moved to Vermont - That John Walker is fifty years old and that Walker was reputed to have been a soldier of the Revolution.

No. 7. Affidavit of John Barr of Highgate, Vermont That Sam c Walker & wife & three children moved then from New-York some sixty years ago, and their oldest child fifty five years old. After the death of Walker his widow married Philip Shuttis
No. 8. Affidavit of Hannah Chapel who knew Walker and wife and after the death of Walker she married Philip Shuttis -
No. 9. Affidavit of Henry Stinson of Highgate Vermont. Who has known Dorcas Shuttis for forty years as the wife and now the widow of Philip Shuttis
Applicant requests that should her claim for a pension be allowed - that a Certificate be made payable at Burlington Vermont, if the rules of the pension office will admit of it - as she resides occasionally with children in Vermont - and she can obtain payment more conveniently in Burlington
Henry Stinson for and behalf of Dorcas Shuttis

State of New York Secretary's Office
I certify that it appears by the Military Register in this office, that on the 19 th day of May 1779 Samuel Walker enlisted as a soldier in the 5 th New York Regiment and was mustered to January 1782.
and I further certify that it appears by the Battalizing Book of the Commissioners of the Land Office of this State in this office, that Samuel Walker was a private soldier in the 2 d New York Regiment Capt. Vandenberg's company at the close of the revolutionary war, and that a lot of land containing 600 acres was granted to him in the Military Tract as Bounty Land by patent dated July 7. 1790.
Wm. Campbell Dep Sec. of State
Albany Nov. 8. 1849

State of New York
County of Clinton On this Second day of November 1850 Before the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for said County personally appeared Dorcas Shul- tus a resident of Ellenburg in said County aged Eighty four years who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following de- -claration in order to obtain the arrears of pensions into which she may be entitled under any law of Congress. - That she is the widow of Philip Shultus and Samuel Walker her de- ceased husband. - That said Samuel Walker was a pensioner of the U.S. at $96. per annum - and she is now a pensioner as his widow under the act of July 7 1848. at $80. 00 per annum. -
She claims an increase of her pension from March 4. 1835 to the present time for and during her natural life at $96. per annum. deducting the amount she has already re- -ceived. - & refers to her papers on file in the Pension Office in support of her claim.
Sworn and subscribed to { Her pension certificate before me this day and year } accompanied by appli- -cation & she requests her Certify that Defendant is a } new Certificate sent to her credible person & cannot write } attorney J. D. Woodward of her name owing to age & infirmity } Plattsburg, N.Y. her & the above was carefully read over } to her & she well knew the contents } thereof. -
Dorcas Y Shultus Witness Hiram Sheltree
James B. McLean Justice Peace

State of New York County of Clinton ss I the subscriber Clerk of said County certify that James B Mc Lean before whom the within declaration of Dorcas Shultus was taken and sworn on the second day of November 1850 was at said time a Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly qualified. and his signature to the above certificate is genuine - Witness my hand and official seal this fourth day of November 1850. —
W R Jones Clerk
Dorcas Shultus. decln. for an increase of her pension. —

State of New York Rensselaer County Town of Lansingburgh } ss: }
James Wood, of Lansingburgh in said County & State, being duly sworn deposes & saith, that he is now Eighty six years old on the 11 th day of October last. That he was a Soldier in the Revolutionary War, that he was acquainted with Samuel Walker, during the War of the Revolution, who at that time lived in said Town of Lansingburgh about two miles at that time from deponent's residence, & who was also about the age of the deponent. That said Samuel Walker, was also a Soldier in the Revolution, and was & joined the Army first as a Key in the New York Troops & after so serving for a short period, he enlisted in the Continental Line. He alleged to deponent as a reason for enlisting in the line, that he was taunted by those of the line as being a "Junker", and accordingly enlisted for during the war, deponent further remembers that when the said Walker, returned from his service from the Army at the close of the war, he was in the Uniform of the Army at that period, in addition he wore a badge of Honor, worn on the Coat as a Mark of approbation for having served faithfully the whole period of his enlistment. Deponent well remembers that the said Samuel Walker, served in the Second New York Regiment.
Deponent further says a few years after the close of the war the said Samuel Walker, was married to one Dorcas Dischont. He believes the marriage took place in the year 1785 or 86, said Dorcas Dischont, lived in Cohoesborough, a few miles distant from deponent's residence and with whom he was also acquainted, that he was not present at the marriage but from the period they were said to have been married, they lived & cohabited together as husband & wife, & had children born unto them. And after living at Cohoesborough, a few years as aforesaid they the said Samuel & Dorcas, moved

from there with a family of two or three children. deponent Cannot state where they went, Subscribed & sworn to before me } me this 13 th day of November 1849 }
James his  X Wood mark
Wit, J Wilson Justice Peter Rich. D. Cook
I now in virtue of the years I certify that James Wood, the deponent above named cannot write his name. That I am acquainted with him & have been for several years last past & believe him to be in sound mind & memory & a man of truth & credibility, Data Washington Nov. 13, 1849 - J Wilson
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STATE OF NEW YORK, Rensselaer County Clerk's Office, { ss. I, AMBROSE H. SHELDON, Clerk of the County of Rensselaer, do hereby certify, that Isaac Tansom whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of proof or acknowledgment of the annexed Instrument, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, one of the Justices of the Peace, of the County of Rensselaer, dwelling in said county; duly authorized to take such proof or acknowledgment. And that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Justice, and verily believe that his sig- nature to the said Certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine, and that said Instrument, is ex- ecuted and acknowledged according to the laws of the State of New York.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my name, and affixed the Seal of said County, this 13 th day of November A. D. 18 49 .
A H Sheldon
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