Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2500, Joseph Wetherbee, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Wetherbee, Joseph or Wheatherbee,
N 2500
Hannah
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Reported
Sister Nathaniel Bruce 21 st Nov 1849 1868 Aug 29 E.S. steam-history - Brnt
409
C.
New Hampshire
Hannah Wetherbee widow of Joseph Wetherbee
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private
Mass Line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 90 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th day of Nov 1849 and sent to
Nathaniel Bruce Mt. Vernon New Hampshire
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 29 1848, Page 45 Vol. 1
July
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Can't find J. H. Smith Amherst May 16, 1820
17504 R New Hampshire
Joseph Wheatbee
of New Boston in the state of New Hampshire who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Prescott of the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year
scribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 8— Dollars per month, to commence on the 7 of July 1819
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 of June 1820 and sent to J. H. Smith Esq. judge of Amherst N. H.
arrears to 4th of March 1820. \frac{29}{31} 63.48 semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep: 1820. 48 —
$ 111.48
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
Can't

January second, Seventeen hundred and ninety four, Married in New Boston Joseph Weatherbee & Hannah Pettingill of N. B.
I, James Duntforth Town clerk of New Boston hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the Records of said Town with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in faint legible figures, as follows, Jan'y ye 2 1794
James Duntforth.
I James Duntforth above named depose and say, that I hold the office of clerk in the aforesaid Town of New Boston in the County of Hillsborough in the state of New Hampshire and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town with the exception above named James Duntforth
State of New Hampshire Hillsborough ss. February - 16 th A. D. 1849
Sworn to & subscribed
Before me Nathaniel Bruce } Justice of the Peace

Joseph Wheatlee.
J. R. Smith
Judge
Amherst
N. H.
Admitted
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Joseph Watterlee 70 of
Sworn to 7 th July 1829 1 year Mr Lins

I Joseph Weatherbee a resident Citizen of the United of the Town of New Boston in the County of Hillsborough in the State of New Hampshire in the seventieth year of my age do solemn- ly swear that about the first May A- 1775 I enlisted & served my country eight months in the Revolutionary War in the Company commanded by Capt. James But- in Col. Whitcomb's Regt. Massachusetts Line, a few days before my eight months expired; I again enlisted for the term of one year as a private soldier in Capt. Joseph Moore's Company in Col. William Prescott's Regt. in the Massachusetts Line & continued to serve on the Continental establishment in said Corps until the month of Jan y A 1777 when I was honorably discharged at a place called Rye (if my memory serves me right) in the State of New York & about twenty or thirty miles easterly of the City of New York I was in Bunker-hill battle & in some skirmishes & have never been placed on the pension list of the United States and am re- duced in my circumstances & stand in need of the assistance of my Country for my support. I have no further evidence

at this time that I can offer in sup- port of my claim for a pension under the late Act of Congress.
Test: to the signature of Joseph his Weatherbee by mark mark J. H. Smith
July 7th A.D. 1819 Then Joseph Weather- bee made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed.
Before me J. H. Smith } a sworn to justice of the court of common pleas

J. H. Smith Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Hillsborough do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Joseph Weatherbee did serve in the Revolutionary War against the Common Enemy on the Continental Establishment nine months & longer and I further certify from my own knowledge that the said Joseph Weatherbee is reduced in his circumstances in life so much as greatly need the assistance of his Country for his support I now transmit the proceedings & the testimony taken & had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to Act of Congress of March 1818 J. H. Smith of the Court of Common Pleas for said County
This certifies that the signature of J. H. Smith on this paper is in his own hand writing & that he is one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Hillsborough In testimony whereof I have here affixed the seal of said Court
Moses Eastman Clerk

copy Wheatbee 14 Joseph Wheatbee (17504)
17504 Mrs Bosca
Sept 1820
Hamilton on another 17504 - valuation whole account 296.06
Continu
Smith Barker Smith & Clark Amest May 1821

TO the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, now sitting at Amherst of Hillsborough and State of New-Hampshire.
within and for the County
Joseph Wetherbee  1820  July 20  years aged Seventy resident in New Boston
in said County, comes into Court, and, in pursuance of an Act of Congress, passed on the 1st day of May, 1820, brings with him, and in his proper person, exhibits to said Court a Schedule by him subscribed, containing his whole estate, and income, (his necessary clothing and bedding excepted) as follows:
House & land barn standing on Peter Cochran's  $50.00 land valued at fifty Dollars
one Cow 20. one pig 3. Three stone hammers 2.50 Two old axes 1.00 one shovel and two hoes 1. Iron wan 2. Grid iron & iron square 1.50 Cookery wan .50 Potato wan 2.50 five milk pans & glass bottles 1.10 Seven table & tea spoons .40 one table fifty .50 one beef & Three cider barrels 1.83 Six Chains 3.00 two wheels 2. Wooden pans 1. two Chests 1. one Salt mortar .13 bread trough & 2 surrs 1.40 Three sickles .50
$96.86
And the said Joseph Wetherbee in pursuance as aforesaid, produceth to said Court the following oath, by him duly taken and subscribed, viz:
I Joseph Wetherbee 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, 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.

And the said Joseph Netherbe doth here in Court further declare on oath, that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows, viz. That in the year 1775 he enlisted as a soldier in Capt. James Burt's Company in Col. Asa Whitcomb's Regiment to serve eight months. That he fully and faithfully served said time, during which he was in the battle of Bunker Hill - That a little before the above term expired he enlisted in Capt. Joseph Moore's Company in Col. Prescott's Regiment in the Massachusetts line on the Continental establishment to serve during one year - That he served at White Plains and at the end of the year was discharged at Pitsfield - N.H.
That the date of his original declaration in order to obtain a pension is the 7th day of July 1819 And the number of his pension certificate is 17504 That his occupation is Stone Cutter That the number and names of his family residing with him, and their ages and capacities to contribute to their support, are as follows, viz. my wife Hannah aged sixty one who is a weakly woman and not able to maintain herself - and my son Jonathan Netherbe aged thirty - his Joseph Netherbe mark
Wherefore he prays the opinion of the said Court as to the value of the property contained in the said Schedule and that the same together with a copy of the premises be duly certified, to the Secretary of War. Sworn and declared before the Hon. J. Darling J. K. Smith Justice of said Court the 5 day of July 1820 Eastman Clerk
Hillsborough ss.] Court of Common Pleas. July 5.
The aforesaid Schedule and oath, and the above declaration, duly subscribed and sworn by the said Netherbe having been by him exhibited in person and presented to the Court, and the same being seen and considered: It is the opinion of said Court, that the value of the property, contained in said Schedule is 896.06
Wherefore the Court order that a copy of the premises with the proceedings thereon, be duly certified, to the Secretary of War.
Attest, Eastman Clerk.
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. Hillsborough ss.] I Eastman Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the said County of Hillsborough being a Court of record, do certify, That the foregoing Schedule and oath and the declaration annexed, with the proceedings and opinion of the Court thereon, are truly copied from the records and files of said Court.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court the 5th day of July 1820 Eastman Clerk.

State of New Hampshire? Hillsborough County ss.)
On this twenty second day of August, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty eight, personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas holden at Amherst, within and for the County of Hillsborough aforesaid; Hannah Wetherbee a resident of Lyndeborough in said County, aged seventy four 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 7 th July 1837, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows":
That she is the widow of Joseph Wetherbee late of said Lyndeborough deceased who was a private in the Army of the Revolution, and a pensioner of the United States, under the act of Congress of the 18 th March 1818, and at the time of his death, inscribed on the pension list, Moll of the New Hampshire agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month.
She further declares that she was married to the said Joseph Wetherbee on the second day of January in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and ninety two ; that her husband, the aforesaid Joseph Wetherbee died on the twenty fourth day of March, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty nine, at Lyndeborough aforesaid and that she has remained a widow ever since that period.
That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz: at the time above stated.
Hannah Wetherbee
Sworn and subscribed, on the day and year above written, before the Justices of said Court of Common Pleas, in open Court.
Witness
Leonard Wilson
{ Presiding Justice of said Court
I certify, that the words, " Hannah Wetherbee, second, & ninety two ," in the above declaration, under second, & which appear scratched & altered, were so scratched & altered before the same was executed.
Hubbard Newton Justice of the Peace

I Andrew Wallace, Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature, and also Clerk of the Common Pleas for the County of Hillsborough in the State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that Leonard Wilcox within named is a justice of the aforesaid Superior Court of Judicature and that he is also ex officio a justice of the Court of Common Pleas for said State, and the Presiding Justice of said Court of Common Pleas at the present Term of said Court in said County of Hillsborough and that the within signature, purporting to be his, is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said County, and subscribed my name at Amherst in said County, this twenty fifth day of August A.D. 1838.
A. Wallace Clerk

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston:
October 2. 1849.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Joseph Wetherbee is borne on rolls of 8 mos. Service, in Capt. James Burt's Co. Col. Asa Whitcomb's Reg't. as a Sergeant, from Harvard. _____ and on a muster roll of Capt. Samuel Hill's Co. Col. Josiah Whitney's Reg't. as a private from Aug 19. to 26. 1777. 6 days. & 55 miles travel. _____
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
W. H. Calhoun, Secretary of the Commonwealth.

APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF REVOLUTIONARY SERVICES,
made by the Widow of the party who rendered the service.
Hannah Witherbee  7 th State of New Hampshire County of Hillsborough Town of Syndebrough
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office, of the service of Joseph Witherbee a private in the war of the Revolution.
He was a native of the Town of Haverhill in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts
He enlisted from the Town of _____ in the County of _____ and State of _____ in the year 17 _____ as a _____ in the Company commanded by Captain _____ in _____ Regiment and he served as follows, * viz:—
He drew a pension under the Act of 1818 which law only required one years service or less. I am informed that he proved one years service which was sufficient to entitle him to a full pension and in his Declaration I am informed that from the Pension Office that he also stated that he served eight months in Col. Whitecomb's Regt under Col. James But I have not the means of knowing the time of enlistment or the time of service
* Here describe as fully as may be, the length of service, the rank, &c. of the claimant, or the capacity in which he served, and all other particulars known.

but from what I have heard my late husband, Joseph Withnall, say, I am led to believe he served two years or more
I am now eighty  eighty two years old, and my memory does not enable me to state the services more fully than above stated.
WITNESS my hand, this twent  twenty fourth day of September
A. D. 1849.
Witness
Nathaniel Bruce Nancy Stearns
Her mark: Withnall mark
Signed by said in my presence,
Thomas Withnall
Nathaniel Bruce JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.

Merritt Lehman, NH Oct 22-1849
Hon J L Edleards, Commr of Pensions Sir - Yours of the 31 August enclosing a copy of a letter bearing date May 16-1849 was duly received. The letter was never received by me, if it had been, you would not have been troubled with any further communication until the enclosed certificate had been sent. I was not aware that letters were mislaid or failed of arriving at their destination before this, yet I have suspected that it might be so, for I have in one of my letters at least, asked for information as to the course to be pursued by widows (who were married prior to Jan 1 1794) in order that they may get the same pension that their husbands did on proving their marriage, agreeable to a Resolution of Congress 1848. I mean those who drew a less pension, but have received no pension. I now presume said letter was not received, therefore if this should be received I wish you would give me the necessary information. I herewith send you the certificate from the Secretary of State of Massachusetts as to service of Joseph McWhorter late husband of

Hannah Withbee of Lyndeborough.
I know of no other proof of service of said Withbee which can be now obtained Therefore you may issue a certificate for said Hannah Withbee and send the same to me.
As to the case of Anna Withbee I am not fully prepared to send you on to her  more but shall in a few days. -
Respectfully yours. Obedient servant
Nathaniel Bruce

NH
Mont Vernon Aug 28/49 Hon Commissioner of Pensions
I will again call your attention to the applications of the widows Hannah Withlee and Amee Willman which I forwarded to your office the past winter for a pension with a letter requesting the pension certificates to be sent to me when issued. I have written several times but have received no answer. Other papers sent about the same time which I forwarded them, the certificate has a long time since been received. I know not the reason why I should not on the papers which I forward, receive the same attention as others.
The widows are old and if they are to receive any thing for their benefit by way of Pensions it would be more acceptable while they are living.
Yours. Respectfully
Nathaniel Bruce.

State of New Hampshire Hillsborough County } ss.
On this fourth day of December in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty eight personally appeared before me L. R. Woodbury Judge of the Court of Probate for said County of Hillsborough Hannah Wetherbee a resident of Lyndeborough in the aforesaid County of Hillsborough 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 provision made by the Act of Congress, passed July, Twenty ninth eighteen hundred and forty eight, entitled, An Act for the relief of certain surviving widows of Officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary Army;
That she is the widow of Joseph Wetherbee late of Lyndeborough aforesaid, deceased, who was a Pensioner under the Act of Congress of 1818, that he was a private in the army of the Revolution, and at the time he entered the service, was a resident of Harvard in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that he served more than two years, but the time when he entered the service or when he left, or under what Officers he served and the like, it is impossible for her to state as she has no documentary evidence or any

living witness to ascertain the facts, and for Proof of her said husbands services she relies upon the evidence in the war Department, and would refer to the records of service in said Department, and to the evidence now on file which her said husband furnished in order to procure a pension under an act of Congress 1818.
She further declares that she was married to the said Joseph Witherbee on the second day of January in the year seventeen hundred and ninety four, that her husband the aforesaid Joseph Witherbee died on the twenty fourth day of March eighteen hundred and twenty nine, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place prior to the first of January eighteen hundred, viz, at the time above stated.
Attest Nathaniel Bace.
Hannah her  X Witherbee mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, "prior" was inserted before. Before me L. R. Woodbury Judge as aforesaid
I certify that the foregoing declaration was executed at the residence of the applicant, and for the reason that the applicant is, in my belief, unable to attend Court on account of her

bodily infirmities without injury to her health Luke Woodbury } Judge as aforesaid
The State of New Hampshire Hillsborough County ss.
I Perley Dodge Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County do hereby certify that Luke Woodbury is an acting Judge of the Court of Probate of Will and Granting let- ters of Administration in and for said County duly Commissioned and qualified that his Commission was dated on the first day of January A.D. 1836. and according to the Constitution of this State has a series of years yet to run, that said Probate Court is a Court of Record unlimited in its juris- diction in the probate of Will and the settle- ment of Estates with right of appeal and has a Clerk or Register I further certify that the signature of said Luke Woodbury on this paper is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court this 24th day of February A.D. 1849 Perley Dodge Clerk.

I Ezekiel Upton of Lyndeborough in the County of Hillsborough and state of New Hampshire, depose and say, that I was acqua- inted with Joseph Wetherbee late of said Lyndeborough, deceased, who was a Methodist Pensioner, that he formerly lived in New Boston, that he moved from said New Boston to Lyndeborough aforesaid - where he died about twenty years since, leaving a Widow Hannah Wetherbee who has not since intermarried but now continues the widow of the said Joseph Wetherbee
Lyndeborough
Ezekiel Upton
Feb 20 - 1849
State of New Hampshire
Hillsborough ss. Feb 20 th 1849 Personally appeared the above named Ezekiel Upton and made oath that the above statement by him subscribed is true
Before me Nathaniel Bruce Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that the above deponent, Ezekiel Upton, is a credible witness, personally known to me
Nathaniel Bruce Justice of the Peace

State of New-Hampshire.
Hillsborough COUNTY, ss.
I,
Perley Dorr
Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas, of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Nathaniel Brune
is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was
dated on the thirteenth day of June 1845 and will expire on the twelfth day of June 1850 and that his signature above written is genuine.
Given under my hand, and the seal of said County, this
24th day of February 1849
Perley Dorr
CLERK.
Sold by John F. Brown, 171, Main-Street, Concord, N. H.

FREE
Mr. W. H. West
Hon. James L. Edwards Com r Pension Washington D. C.

Amherst 29 th July 1840.
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Sir, your communication from the Mission Office in relation to the claim of Mrs. Hannah Wetherbee, was duly received, for which you have my thanks - particularly for the suggestion of the 4 th Service in the militia. But before Mrs. Wetherbee will be able to obtain the aid, necessary to procure the testimony of this last mentioned Service of her husband; it will be necessary to ascertain whether the evidence of her marriage is now , or is likely to be made out -
In your's of the 20 th July, it is said, that "if no record proof of the date of the marriage, can be found, any documentary evidence, going to establish the fact, that they lived together, at any period previous to Jan y 1. 1794 as man and wife, may be satisfactory."
The fact of husband & wife living together, as such, in this state, is never to be shewn by any document or record, none being required by law or ever adopted in practice -

The depositions of Daniel Dodge and his wife, & of Mary Gackman, all persons of unimpeachable character, contain the evidence of the highest nature, raw in existence, there being no record, or documentary evidence whatever, of their marriage or cohabitation -
These witnesses are certain, beyond any doubt, that Joseph Wetherbee & Hannah his wife were  married as early as 1791 or 1792; & lived together as man & wife from that time -
The record of the marriage, if one ever existed, is proved to have been destroyed, by John Moor the son of the clergyman who celebrated the marriage.
It is possible, that the claimant might obtain other living witnesses to the same facts & circumstances, already proved by the depositions forwarded to the Department; though even of this, I am doubtful -
Mr. Wetherbee's family were always very humble, & very poor; & I never & noted but by few; & those few have all been dead and by time; with the exception of the persons whose depositions you have -
As the evidence, therefore now is...

The department, is to be deemed by the proper officer, incompetent , to prove the marriage within the rules of the Pension office, the claimant however miserably poor & distressed, must submit to her fate; & however hard, try to learn the additional lessons of self denial, which poverty & old age so forcibly inculcate.
Should you think, on a re-examination of the case, that the marriage is so far proved, as to authorize you to allow her claim, & you will be so kind, as to so signify to me, I will endeavor to furnish the evidence of the 2 nd service - otherwise on account of the expense, it must be omitted, as the applicant is too poor to pay any part of the expense already incurred.
Yours most respectfully &c Hubbard Newton

7097 June 1. 1840
N.H. July 7 1838
FREE
Ames L. Edwards Esq. Com r Pensions Washington D.C.
1849 69 1750 42

Amherst. New Hampshire 25 May. 1840 James L. Edwards, Esquire,
Dear Sir, I now enclose to the Pension Office, the application of Hannah Wetherbee, the widow, of Joseph Wetherbee, for a five years pension under the law of 1834. It will be perceived, that the declaration was made out & sworn in Court, in Aug. 1834. And, in September 1834 such evidence of the marriage, as could then be found, the deposition of Daniel Dacey & Elizabeth Dacey his wife, who from their intimate acquaintance with the applicant remembered her marriage with Joseph Wetherbee, though not present at the marriage was taken. No record was, in being, of the marriage; & until August 1839, no account of the records of Rev. Mr. Moore, who celebrated the marriage, could be obtained; when by accident, I learned from his son, John Moore a very respectable merchant, that these records had been burnt by his daughter - no other evidence of the marriage was found, until the 16 th May instant, when the deposition of Mary Calkins a very aged widow was taken, by me. She is the widow of one of the most respectable and wealthy citizens in this county, of lifetime . She is, to all appearance, of as sound mind &

memory, & as intelligent, as any lady at any age - from the means of her knowledge as testified in her deposition, she appeared to be certain of the facts testified therein -
I have never taken a deposition, when the witness appeared more guarded, & better to understand & remember the facts sworn, than in this one of hers -
I would, if possible, have been glad to have furnished other testimony of the marriage of the applicant in this case; but after long delay & much expense, she has no hope of finding any fuller testimony - I have forwarded no evidence of the death of Joseph Witherlee, as his death was claimed in, or after the year 1929. & the payment of his pension obtained - his death is suggested on the pension roll, as having taken place 24 March 1929 -
The applicant is extremely poor, & can not be at any more expense for the purpose of looking up evidence; I must obtain the little pension, which is due her from the Government, on the evidence she now furnishes, or actually suffer through want - There is no doubt whatever , but that she is legally & honestly entitled, under the law, to the bounty of the Government; & I can

lest feel anxious, that a liberal construction should be given to the widow produced-
This case, I believe, furnishes as full widow, as the one of Polly Leavitt of Amherst in this country, with the exception, of a certificate of a member of Congress. This applicant has not the good fortune to be known, by any public man , or member of Congress . She is of a humble rank in life; & I believe a humble christian; & will be grateful to Heaven, as well as to the Government, for success in this application. This sir, is the last application, on my docket, for a pension, under the laws of 1836 & 1837, with which, I shall find it my duty to trouble you, sir, - And here permit me to make my acknowledgements, & believe me when I say, I do it with the utmost sincerity, for the courtesy, I have so uniformly experienced at your hands, amidst all the perplexing details of your office; while I pray you, to accept my best wishes, for your happiness here, & hereafter. Yours very respectfully &c Hubbard Newton

Depositions of D. & E. Dodge Apl n of
Hannah Wetherbee

I Daniel Dodge of New Boston, aged seventy one years depose and testify, that I was well acquainted with Hannah Witherlee whose maiden name was Hannah Wettingell, she lived in my family, as early as the year 1787 and afterwards at several times, and left my family in the year seventeen hundred and eighty nine; and within a year, or two years afterwards, she was married to Joseph Witherlee. I was not present at the marriage, but was well acquainted with Joseph Witherlee his wife, both before, and after their marriage and have no doubt whatever, that they were lawfully married, as early as seventeen hundred and ninety one; or seventeen hundred and ninety two. So far as I can learn all then is now, no person living, who was present at the marriage of the said Hannah Witherlee.
I further say, that the said said Joseph and Hannah Witherlee have from the time aforesaid till the death of the said Joseph, lived together as as man & wife, & brought up a family of children and the fact of their marriage has never been doubted, to my knowledge or belief.
I further say that, I have ever under- stood, that said Joseph Witherlee, was a pensioner at the time of his death, & have no doubt of the fact - and that said Hannah Witherlee is now, and ever has been, since the death of the said Joseph, a widow. I further say that said Hannah is a credible person and entitled to belief. Daniel Dodge
I Elizabeth Dodge, wife of said Daniel Dodge, aged seventy four years, depose and say that I know the facts stated in the above deposition, & have a full belief that it is true - Elizabeth Dodge
State of New Hampshire Hillsborough County } ss. Sworn and subscribed this fourteenth day of September A.D. 1898. before me - I further certify that the above deponents Daniel Dodge & Elizabeth Dodge, are persons of good character for truth, & entitled to full credit. Hubbard Newton Justice of the Peace

I Mary Cochran of New Boston, in the State of New Hampshire, widow, aged eighty nine years, do hereby depose and say, that I was well acquainted with Hannah Weatherly, now the widow of Joseph Weatherly, fifty years ago - her maiden name was Hannah Wettenkill. She was married to Joseph Weatherly who had been a soldier of the Revolution as early as the year 1791, or 1792 - I was not present at her marriage but I lived a near neighbor to her from the time of her marriage; she lived in New Boston - I was often at her house, at the birth of her children, & on other occasions. Joseph Weatherly and his wife, lived in a house on my husband's land; he was poor & labored for my husband at that time, for the support of his family - And although I have no minutes to refer to, for the purpose of ascertaining the exact date of Hannah Weatherly's marriage, yet from the intimate acquaintance I had with her, I think I can not be mistaken, in the fact, that her marriage took place as early as seventeen hundred & ninety one, or seventeen hundred and ninety two - Joseph Weatherly and his wife tho' poor sustained good moral character & were always received, by their friends, as having been lawfully married, & I have never heard the fact of their marriage doubted by any one - I further say, that Hannah Weatherly's character for truth is good, & that she is entitled to full credit as a Witness -
attest. H. Newton
Mary Cochran
State of New Hampshire -
Willborough ss. 16th May 1840 Sworn and subscribed before me - and I further hereby certify that the above deponent is a person of good character for truth, of sound memory, & of an intelligent & discriminating mind, and is entitled to full credit as a witness -
Hubbard Newton Justice of the Peace

State of New Hampshire } Hillsborough County } set.
I Andrew Wallace, clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Hubbard Newton is an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified that his commission was dated on the nineteenth day of May 1836, and will expire on the nineteenth day of May 1841, and that his several signatures hereon before written, are genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said County this twenty fifth day of May
A. Wallace Clerk

I John Moor aged fiftyfive years depose and say that the Rev. Solomon Moor late of New Boston in the county of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, settled minister of the Gospel and Pastor of the Presbyterian Church and society in that town, now deceased, was my father—
I further say that he did in his lifetime keep records of the marriages solemnized by him; and that he did join in marriage many who applied to him for that purpose—
I further say that I have seen the records of such marriages, kept by him— and I further say, that since his death, these records, with many other papers left by him, were collected together and burnt up by my daughter, being supposed, at the time, to be of no value— This was done, as near as I can recollect, not far from fifteen years ago.
John Moor
State of New Hampshire Hillsborough County } ss
Sworn and subscribed this 17th day of August A.D. 1839— And I further certify that the above deponent John Moor sustains a good character for truth, and is entitled to full credit as a witness either in, or out of Court— (before me)
Hubbard Newton Jus of the Peace

Joseph Weatherby

I Samuel Laurence late a Lieut., in the Army of the Revolution, do depose and say, that among other services which I performed during that war, I entered upon the continental establishment on the first of January A.D. 1776, and was an Ensign in Capt. Joseph Moors Company, in Lieut. Col. Prescott's Regiment of the Massachusetts line for the year's service (so called), and I well recollect one Joseph Weatherbee, then of Hanover, in Mass a and who is present while I give this Deposition, states to me that he lives at New Boston in New Hampshire, and I know that he was a Soldier in that Company during that year, he belonged to the first eight months service, & before his time expired, he enlisted into Capt. Moors Company and joined it, the first of January aforesaid, and continued in it, until the end of the year when he was discharged with the rest of the Company at P'keepsill in New York.
Sam d Laurence
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
On the second day of January in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty Personally appeared Samuel Laurence Esq r and made Oath that the above Deposition by him subscribed is just and true in all its particulars. and I Certify that the said Samuel Laurence is well known to me, to be a respectable Citizen, and a Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex, that he is entitled to full faith and entire credit before all tribunals, and in all places and that he is wholly disinterested in the application of Joseph Weatherbee to be placed on the pension list. —
Given under my hand the day and year aforesaid
Sam d Dana for the middle Ground Just e of the Peace and Court of Common Pleas, and a Justice of the Peace throughout the said Commonwealth.

I Moses Chase of Gorton in the Common Wealth of Massachusetts Do depose, and say, that I belonged to Capt. Jo- seph Moors Company as within stated by Samuel Lawrence Esq.; and I well remember Joseph Weatherbee formerly of Her- -ward in Massachusetts, but who, now present at the taking this Deposition, says, he lives at New Boston in New Hampshire, and I well knew that the said Joseph, belonged to the same Company during that year, he belonged to the eight months service, and before that period expired, he enlisted for one year, into Capt. Moors Company, when the years service commenced, he entered the Company and continued in it, to the end of the year, when he was dismissed at Peekskill or Newport with the rest of the Company, I lived within three miles, of said Weatherbee, before we went into service and I knew him well until he was dismissed as aforesaid.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts 11th Febry
On the second day of February in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and twenty, before me, Samuel Dana Chief justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the middle Circuit, and a justice of the Peace, throughout the same Common Wealth, personally appeared Moses Chase, and made oath that the above deposition, by him subscribed, is just and true in all its particulars — And I certify that the said Moses Chase is a cred- ible witness, and is no way interested, in the application of Joseph Weatherbee to be placed on the pension list. —
Given under my hand the day and year aforesaid. —
Sam l Dana

N. Hampshire
Hannah Wethalce
lits to H. Newton 20. July 1840
lits to Seame 6 Aug 1840
Ad July 1838

220 Hannah Wetherbee widow of Joseph New Hampshire Suspended Set to Nathl Bruce May 16 th 49 to same 31 Aug th 49
Act 29 July 1848

Joseph Weatherbee Store Cutter
In July 1819 of New Boston, Hillsboro Co NH in 70 th year of his age formerly of Harvard
About May 1. 1775 he enlisted to serve 8 mos in the Siege of Boston under Capt James Burt & Colo Whelcomb. A few days before his term expired he volunteered for one year under Capt Joseph Moor, Capt W m Prescott & discharged at Rye, near NY City (20 miles easterly). Was at White Plains & (discharged) Peekskill. Was in Battle Bunker Hill & several skirmishes. Saw Laurence Sat. Lt in Capt Joseph Moor's Co of Colo W m Prescott's Regt was a witness to above Service in 1796
In his family July 1820 was his wife Hannah aged
57 + son Jonathan aged 13 years
In Aug t 1838 his widow Hannah of Lynchboro, Hillsboro Co NH aged 74 yrs - mar d as Hannah Pettengill Jan y 2 1794 at Lyndonston NH He died Mar ch 24, 1829 at Lynchboro NH
The widow was alive in Dec 1848

Joseph Weatherbee d 1829. Hannah m. Jan. 92
Pension 1818
Hannah wife 57. m 1820 child 13 yrs old b. 1807 May 75 son. J. Burl. Whitcomb 74 12 Moor. —
proof of S. M. Ward and proof of marriage

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 25 00
Hannah Mettachee Widow Joseph Mettachee Pr. Rev. War
Act: July 29, 1848
Index: Vol. M. , Page 318.
[Arrangement of 1870.]