Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 11711, Jonathan Wakefield, Mass. N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass N.H.
Wakefield, Jonathan Elizabeth
No. 11711 B.L. 9053-160-55
CONTENTS

Duplicate Certificate issued 19 th May 1842, And sent to Hon. Emanuel Barker House of Representatives.
L. B. B. French. May 6/57
Reg 3 m 55-60308
4575. New Hampshire Jonathan Wakefield of Sullivan in the State of N H who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain _____ of the Reg t commanded by Col. Sprout in the N H line for 90 Days
Inscribed on the Roll of N H at the rate of 32 Dollars 22 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 th day of Jan y 1833 and due to Stebbins (H. of Rep s ) Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $48.33 Pemi-anl. allowance ending 1 Mar 33 16.11 $64.44
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. F. Blair Clerk, Book 5 - Vol. 1 st Page 194.

6.394
New Hampshire Concord Elizabeth Wakefield - widow of Jonathan Wakefield
who served in the Revolutionary N. H.
war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 32 dollars 22, cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853 14 th October 1859
Certificate of Pension issued 17 th day of May 1858 and sent to
Edward Wyman, Newport N. H.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 163. Vol. H.

60308 Oct 3 rd Mch/55
April 11./55
Jonathan Wakefield
Passumps - New Hampshire
Private
Oct 2 nd Mch 1860
Revolutionary War
9th Reg. Line 4575
Byington
Ad. 160 acs Oct 19/55
Ed.
Ed. Wyman Newport N. Hamp.
Civ E. Wyman Oct 2 nd /55
Vol 101, page 6.

Wakefield Elizabeth Application for Pension. Act 3d. February 1853.

State of New Hampshire, Sullivan County ss. On this twenty eighth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred fifty eight, before me, Alvah Smith, judge of the Court of Probate for said county of Sullivan, personally appeared Elizabeth Wakefield, a resident of Newport in said county, aged eighty one 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 law of the United States, passed the 3d February 1853; that she is the widow of Jonathan Wakefield, who was a private in the Revolutionary War and a pensioner of the United States, receiving Thirty Two Dollars Twenty Two cents per annum under the act of Congress of the 7th June 1832, and who also received a Bounty Land Warrant for 160 acres and numbered 9.053; that she was married to the said Jonathan Wakefield by Rev. Abijah Wines, then of said Newport, on or about the 15th April 1807; that she never had any certificate of said marriage and has no record of it; that her name before said marriage was Elizabeth Goodwin and that she was born in Warner in said state 22d August 1776; that her said husband, the aforesaid Jonathan Wakefield, died on the fourteenth day of October A.D. 1857 at said Newport, and that she now resides in said Newport and is a Widow and ever has remained so since the death of her said husband, Jonathan Wakefield.
For proof of the above statements the deponent is respectfully referred to the accompanying affidavits and to evidence on file in the Pension Office at the City of Washington.
Attest: Alvah Smith Betsey Fletcher
Elizabeth her  Wakefield
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year first above written, at her place of residence in said Newport, she not being able to leave home on account of bodily infirmity.
Before, me, Alvah Smith judge of Probate.

I, Thomas A. Twichell, of Newport in the county of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire, of lawful age depose and say, that I am Town Clerk of said town of Newport, and have in my possession the Record Books of said town; that I have made careful and diligent examination in the book of marriages, but do not find any record of the marriage of Jonathan Wakefield and Elizabeth Goodwin. T. A. Twichell
Town Clerk
I, David Fletcher, and I, Betsey Fletcher, both of Newport county of Sullivan and state of New Hampshire, both of lawful age, depose and say, that we were and are well acquainted with Jonathan Wakefield, late of said Newport deceased, and with his widow Elizabeth Wakefield, and have been so acquainted for more than forty years; that they are reported and believed to have been duly married, and we know they, the said Jonathan and Elizabeth have lived together as husband and wife for said term of more than forty years last previous to said Jonathan Wakefield's death; and also that said Jonathan Wakefield died on the fourteenth day of October A. D. 1857, in our house in said Newport, and that we were both present when he died.
David Fletcher
Betsey Fletcher
State of New Hampshire, Sullivan S.S. Office of Probate Court. I, Edward Hyman, Register of said Court, hereby certify that Hon. Alvah Smith, before whom the foregoing declaration was made, is Judge of said Court, duly commissioned and sworn and that his signature thereto is genuine. I further certify that T. A. Twichell, David Fletcher and Betsey Fletcher above named severally signed and made solemn oath to the truth of the above affidavits, before me this day, that I am well acquainted with all three of said affiants and that they are all credible & respectable persons.
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court which is a Court of Record this 28th day of April A. D. 1858.
Edward Hyman, Register

Jonathan Wakefield
5204
Private
9 Month & 20 Days
adm
$32.22.
Rev H. Hubbard H.R.

DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
State of New-Hampshire, } County of Sullivan. } ss.
On this 22 nd day of August 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before the Judge of the Court of Probate, now sitting, Josiah H. Wakefield a resident of Newport in the County of Sullivan and State of N. H. aged 71 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That he was in Sutton in the County of Worcester & State of Mass where he first entered the service. He enlisted under Capt. Abijah 1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 st Bn  1 the names of the Lieutenants 1 st Bn were Pratt & Pratt, and that he enlisted in said Bn. 1 st Bn the first of January 1778. that said company belonged to Col. Sprague's Regiment. For the time of three months that he marched to Providence Rhode Island, then to Watcher, 1 st Bn and from them to South Kingston R.I. where he remained in the service till the time of his enlistment of three months fully expired which was the first of April A.D. 1778. that he was then & there discharged. He further states that he again entered the service on the 18th day of June A.D. 1778 at said Sutton in the company of Capt. Hemenway (who I think then lived in Sutton) and Capt. 1 st Bn at Leicester, Massachusetts. soon after, that the name of one of the Lieutenants of said company was Edmund 1 st Bn who then lived in Douglas Mass. & that a man by the name of Gleason who lived in said Sutton was an officer in said company at that time, that he enlisted for the time of six months, that said company belonged to Col. Wadsworth's Regiment of Massachusetts State Troops. that he first marched to Providence Rhode Island and soon after to Barrington and from them to Siventon R.I. and from thence he went with said company on the 9th day of August to the Island of Rhode Island & took possession of the British Forts on Butts Hill, that he remained on the said Island till the Retreat of General Sullivan from the Island and then crossed Howland's Ferry to said Siventon & from them to Greenwich R.I. and then crossed Howland's Ferry to said Siventon & from them to Greenwich R.I. when he was transferred to Capt. Samuel 1 st Bn company who belonged to Charlestown Massachusetts. that he marched from said Greenwich to Warwick R.I. where he remained in the service in said company till the first of January A.D. 1779. which was six months and twelve days from the time of his said enlistment and was then and there discharged. He says he was in the Battle at Rhode Island, under the command of General Sullivan.
He further says that in the month of October 1780 at the time of the burning of Royalton Vermont, he went as a volunteer in the company of Capt. Moses Whipple of Croydon New Hampshire to Sharon Vermont and then back to Lebanon N. Hampshire and from them to Newbury Vermont and from thence home and actually performed at this time in said company, duty Eight days.
He further states that he has no documentary evidence of his services, and knows of no one who can testify to his services except Samuel Goldthwaite, Josiah Wakefield and Nathaniel Wheeler whose depositions are hereto affixed.
He has stated all the officers whom he recollects except General Greene, who commanded a Black Regiment while Declarant was stationed at Greenwich, and a Capt. Butler belonging to Col. Wadsworth's Regiment.
He says he was born at Sutton in Massachusetts in 1761. There is a record of his age in the 1 st Bn of said Sutton. He entered the service as a volunteer in said Sutton when he first joined the service and never received any written discharge.
He is known to Abijah Powers & Paul Jacobs who can testify as to his character & their belief in his services as a soldier of the Revolution.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State,
Sworn to and subscribed, the
Day and Year aforesaid
Jonathan Wakefield
Frederick A. Sumner Judge of Probate
We, Abijah Powers residing in Groydon
and Paul Jacobs
also
residing in Groydon
hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Jonathan
Wakefield, who has subscribed and sworn to the above obligation; that we believe him to be 71 years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the
Abijah Powers
Day & Year aforesaid
Paul Jacobs
Frederick A. Sumner Judge of Probate
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court certifies, that it appears to them that Abijah Powers who has signed the preceding certificate, is a resident in the Groydon and that Paul Jacobs, who has also signed the same is a resident in the Groydon and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, Frederick A. Sumner Judge of Probate
Sarah Nettleton Register of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Jonathan Wakefield for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 22 day of August 1832
Sarah Nettleton Register of Probate

Nathl Whuleen Affidavit-

I Nathaniel Wheeler of Croydon in the County of Sullivan & State of New Hampshire depose & say that Jonathan Wakefield of Newport in said County volunteered as a Private in the Spring of the Revolution in October 1780 at the time that Royallton was burned into Capt Moses Whipple's Company & marched to Sharon Vt then to Lebanon Vt then to New- bury Vt then returned home & that he performed eight days actual Service at that time that I was with him all the time my age is 74 years Nathl Wheeler
State of New Hampshire } Aug. 22 d 1832. Then Nathl Wheeler Sullivan } who is a disinterested and credible witness personally appeared and made solemn oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed
Before me. Elijah Parnas Justice of the Peace
I Aaron Nettleton Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire do hereby certify, that Elijah Parnas is a Justice of the Peace and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine in witness my hand and Seal of the Court of Probate This 22 d day of August A.D. 1832 Aaron Nettleton Jr Register of Probate

I Samuel Goldthwait of Newport County of Sullivan & State of New Hampshire since aged 77 years testify & say that the first day of January 1774 I was then in the field row of said Newport in Sullivan Mass. which was enlisted as a Private in the Army of the Revolution under Capt. Abigail Preble's Company of the 1st Regiment of New Hampshire Militia or State Troops for the term of three Months that he marched to Providence Rhode Island then to Middlestown then to South Kingston where he was discharged on the first day of April that he was in the service three Months that I enlisted with him & served in the same Company all the time also that in the month of August follow- ing I was in Rhode Island & saw said Abigail there who had the appearance of a soldier. Samuel Goldthwait
State of New } July 28 th 1832 then the said Hampshire } Samuel Goldthwait who is a Sullivan ss } disinterested & credible Witness appeared before me and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him, subscribed is true. Abigail Preble

I Aaron Netherton Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that Elijah Powers is a Justice of the Peace and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine
Witness my hand & Seal of the Court of Probate
August 22 d 1832
Aaron Netherton Register of Probate

I Josiah Wakefield of Newport County of Sullivan & State of New Hampshire aged seventy years depose & say that in the summer of 1778 my Brother Jonathan Wakefield of said Newport then lived in Sutton Mass- achussetts & that I did also. that I then understood that he the said Jonathan had enlisted into the Revolu- tionary army for the term of six months & the latter part of August I was in Watertown and saw him there in the service and I have always understood that he served his term of enlistment out & have no doubt but he served six months at that time Josiah Wakefield
State of New Hampshire Sullivan ss August 14 1852 then the said Josiah Wakefield who is a disinterested & Credable Witness Personally appeared and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him submitted is true before me Abijah Pease Justice of the Peace
15 august

I Aaron Nuttall of Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that Elizabeth Bowers is a justice of the Peace and that the true within signature purporting to be his is genuine
Witness my hand & the seal of the Court of Probate this 22 nd day of August A.D. 1832
Aaron Nuttall Register of Probate

Claim of Jonathan Wakefield to Bounty Land Set 3. March 1855 War of the Revolution
60,308

State of New Hampshire
Sullivan County S.S. On this thirtyfirst day of March A.D. one thousand eight hundred fifty five personally appeared, before me, Edward Wyman a justice of the Peace within and for the county and state aforesaid, Jonathan Wakefield of Newport in said county of Sullivan aged ninety four years, who being duly sworn according to law, declares, that he is the identical person who was a soldier in the War of the Revolution and who is now in the receipt of thirty two dollars twenty two cents per annum as a Revolutionary pension; that he has no documentary evidence and respectfully refers the Department to the papers in his case on file in the pension office at the City of Washington.
He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which he may be entitled under the Act approved March 3 d A.D. 1855.
He also declares that he has never received nor applied for Bounty Land under this or any other act of Congress till this present application.
Witness
Benezar D. Fletcher Edward Wyman
Jonathan his X Wakefield mark

Mr Daniel Fletcher and Betsey Fletcher residents of Newport in the county of Sullivan within named upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by the within named Jonathan Wakefield in our presence, and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant and from our acquaintance with him that he is the identical person he represents himself to be.
Daniel Fletcher Betsey Fletcher
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year first within written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person he represents himself to be and that I have no interest in this claim.
Edward Wymen Justice of the Peace.
State of Northamptonshire County of Sullivan ss.
I J. M. Gylucoe Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County, do hereby certify that Edward Wymen Esq before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavit were made and executed and who thereto subscribed his name was at the date thereof an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned & sworn, and that his signature herewith are genuine.
Given under My hand and the seal of the Court the 7 th day of April A D 1855
J. M. Gylucoe Clerk

her WIDOW, &c.
File No. 11711
Elizabeth Wakefield Wid. of Jonathan Wakefield Print Rev. War
Act: Febry 3 rd  1853
Index:—Vol. (3) , Page 308
[Arrangement of 1870.]

No. 60308
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
Received Apr. 11, 1888.
Jonathan Wakefield Rev. War
Warrant 9053-160-88
Ed. Wyman Newport N.H.

✓ 9053
✓
160 ames

FREE
Hon. Com te of Pensions Washington City D.C.
[Handwritten signature]
Jonathan Mayhew
Mar 29/12
Dear

60308
Yarah Wakefield wid Jonathan Doynton
Ms. B. June 52--4575
Hon. J. Minot Comr of Pensions Washington City D.C.
FREE

no 7.014
State War Office.
May. 14 th 1858.
Sir
Be pleased to inform the time to which the within- named pensioner was paid up to date of his death,
Yours Respectfully
Geo. A. Colburn
Commissioner.
No. J. H. Knison Esq. M rs Auditor
3 d Auditor's Office
May 15. 1858.
Sir:
Jonathan Wakefield Concord N. H. 1832 at $32. 37 / 100 per annum, appears to have been paid to Sept. 4. 1837.
Very Respectfully
W. J. Mannin
Auditor
Gen. C. Whiting Esq. } Comm ee of Pension }

Original Certificate destroyed by fire. See proof on file with the papers of Nathan Carr, N.H. will, act 1832, no 3084.

2 sep! Co: 48 p. 14 Oct 1857, 2, wit
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Newport R.I. 15 th October 1855.
Hon. Comr. of Pensions,
Dear Sir,
With this you will receive the certificate of the Secretary of State of Massachusetts, of the service of Jonathan Wakefield in the War of the Revolution. Said Wakefield's application for bounty land is number 60,308.
Respectfully yours Edward Wymann.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston. October 13 th 1855.
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 Jonathan Wakefield is borne on pay roll of Capt. Samuel Vames (Comp. Col. Nathanial Wade's Regt. from June 18 th to Dec. 31, 1778. 6 Mos. 13 days) time included, as private from Sutton.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
E. H. Wright Secretary of the Commonwealth.

APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF REVOLUTIONARY SERVICES,
Made by the
of the party who rendered the service.
County of Sullivan
State of New Hampshire Town of Newport.
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office, of the service of Jonathan Wakefield in the war of the Revolution.
He was a native of the Town of Sutton in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts
He enlisted from the Town of Said Sutton in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts in the year 1778 he believes as a private in the Company commanded by Captain Burkhard and others in Regiment and he served as follows,* viz:—
  under Capt. Burkhard  about  3 months  } according to the best of his recollection as a private - was in the battle at R.I.    " "  Hammond  " 03 "    " "  Lamb  " 03 "  
* 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.

I am now ninety four years old, and my memory does not enable me to state the services more fully than above stated.
Witness my hand, this eighth day of October A. D. 1855.
Signed by said Jonathan Wakefield in my presence, Daniel G. Fletcher
Attest, Edward Hymann
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
Jonathan his Wakefield Mark

Col. Miles will give such information as is strictly proper & usual in such cases. G. A. A.
Col. Miles 5 May 1857

Newport N.H. April 29. 1857.
Sir
Being desirous of knowing for what service I as a New Hampshire Claimant was pensioned under the Act of the 7th June 1832, you will please examine the file of papers in my case and report to the Hon B.B. French of the City of Washington as you find and in so doing much oblige your aged and Witness Madison Harding Atty. Servt. George Bryant Jonathan his Wakefield mark R
Hon Geo. C. Whiting Comr. Pensions Washington D.C.

Elizabeth Wakefield wid: of Jonathan,
N. H.,
Admit for #32. 22 per Annuity 2 d Rec: Act Feb: 3 d 185 3 , Am; 14 th Oct: 1857, when Jonathan died.
Edward Wyman. Esq;
Newport,
N. H.,

Newport N.H., 28th April 1858. Hon. Comr. of Pensions,
Dear Sir,
With this you will receive the application of Mrs Elizabeth Wakefield for a pension.
Hoping the papers are correct in form as I am sure they are in fact,
I am, Sir,
Respectfully Yours,
Edward Wyman.

Brief in the case of Elizabeth Wakefield widow of Jonathan , Sullivan County and State of New Hampshire , act 3 rd Feb: 1853.
Claim, ("original," or "for increase.")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was pensioned under the act of 7 th June, 1832, at the rate of $32.22 per Annum since 14 th Oct: 1851, as appears from the testimony of two witnesses & report of the Thin Auditor. Two witnesses testify that the parties lived together for one 40 years & were generally united man & wife.
Widowhood Divinity is established by parol proof which is Satisfactory. (If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Edward Wyman Esq. Newton
Name and residence of Agent
New Hampshire
J. C. Brattle Examining Clerk