Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26,620, Joel Whitney, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Whitney Joel Lydia
V 26620 B.L.Mk 35679-160-55
CONTENTS

2367. New Hampshire
Joel Whitney
of Cheshire in the State of N H who was a private in the company commanded by Captain  of the regt commanded by Col Bradsburn in the N H   line for 6 mos
Let 30 Nov. 1800. 10/53
Inscribed on the Roll of N H at the rate of 20 Dollars ~ Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 th day of Nov 1832 and sent Leav Chamberlain Fitzwilliam N H
Arrears to 14th of Sept 1832 $30 -- Semizant. allowance ending 4 Nov 33 10 ~ $40 ~
{ Revolutionary Claim, { Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by J H McBlain Clerk Book 2. Vol. 1 st Page 193.
3 d gr. 1842

Application N: 9040 of Joel Whitney Fitzwilliam NH

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of the 7 th of June 1832.
State of New Hampshire County of Cheshire } ss
On this twenty first day of August 1832. personally appeared before the justices of the court of Common Pleas, held at Keene within and for the County of Cheshire aforesaid.
Joel Whitney a Resident of Fitzwilliam in the County of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire aged sixty nine years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7. 1832.
That he enlisted into the service of the United States, in the month of July 1780, for six months and served for six months in Capt. Smart's Company of Infantry in Col. Bradford's (he thinks the Thirteenth) Regiment of the Massachusetts Line under the following named officers. The Regimental officers as far as he recollects were Col. Bradford & Lieut. Col. Smith - Adjutant Fowle. Quarter master Sergeant, Graves. The company officers were Capt. Smart. Lieutenant Freeman - Orderly Sergeant Packard. That he receded at Harvard Massachusetts where he entered the service. That he marched thence through Worcester to Springfield where he passed winter and then to West Point. That at the time of the escape of Arnold and of the execution of Andre, the said Whitney and the company to which he belonged was stationed below West Point near the Jersey line after which the company came to winter quarters at West Point and at the end of six months he was discharged. That he has no written discharge from the service. That a discharge signed by Adjutant Fowle made for said Joel and his brother Salomon Whitney now living in Harvard was given to his said

Brother which the said Joel understands is lost. That he was born in Harvard Massachusetts in October 1762 & lived there till the close of the war, and has since lived in Ridge New Hampshire, and that for forty five years past he has resided in Fitzwilliam aforesaid. That he has no record of his age.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to any pension or annuity, except the present and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State.
Joel Whitney
Sworn to and subscribed this day a year a. foresaid
S. Hale Clerk
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier as he states. -
I Salma Hale, Clerk of said Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Joel Whitney for a pension. -
In testimony whereof the Committee set my hand and seal of office this 29 th day of August, A D 1832
S. Hale, Clerk

James Whitney who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 20 Dollars 00 Dents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 day of Nov 1833 and sent to
Oliver L. Hales Princeton Connecticut
Entered on Roll of Pensioners under act January 2, 1833, Page 352 Vol. 3
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No 14. 429.
Lydia Whitney. M rs J. Dool.
Illinois.
July 7. 1838.
To the bury.
Is (Per
M rs 1786
H. died Feb. 1. 1842.

State of Illinois } Bureau County } Probate Court of said County.
On this Twenty fifth day of August A.D. 1849 personally appeared before the Probate Court of said County the phone being a Court of record, Lydia Whitney now a resident of the Town of Council in the said County of Bureau and State of Illinois aged eighty five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."
That she is a widow of Joel Whitney of the Town of Fitzwilliam in the County of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire who was a Soldier in the American Army of the Revolution and a pensioner therefor, and his said pension was paid at the Pension Office or Agency in Concord in the State of New Hampshire.
She further declares that she was married in the Town of Ringe in the State of New Hampshire by the Reverend Edward  Rev. Payson, to the said Joel Whitney about the latter part of the month of November (1786) in the year seventeen hundred and eighty six; that her husband the aforesaid Joel Whitney died in the said Town of Fitzwilliam on the first day of February Eighteen Hundred and Forty two; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January Nineteen hundred and ninety four, viz. at the time above stated. She further swears that she has never intermarried, but is now the widow of said Joel Whitney, and that she has never before made any.

application for a pension, saving and excepting for the allowance of pension due to her by said husband at the time of his said decease — Sworn to and subscribed in open Court, on the day and year first above written before J. S. Salisbury Probate Justice of the Probate Court in and for said County of Bureau and State of Illinois — Lydia by  X Whitney mark
I De Graff Salisbury Justice of the Probate Court in and for the County of Bureau and State Illinois hereby certify that Lydia Whitney whose name is subscribed to the above Declaration did on this Twenty fourth day of August Eighteen Hundred and Forty nine appear before said Court and the said Declaration having been read to her, and the contents thereof fully explained she made solemn oath to the truth of the same and being un- able to write did in open Court affix her mark thereto as above appears — & that she is entitled to full credit & belief. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of said Court to be affixed hereto at Princeton in said County the day and year last above written — De Graff Salisbury P. J. P.
I Alfred V. Thompson Clerk of the Commis- sioners Court in & for said County hereby certify that De Graff Salisbury whose name appears subscribed to the above certificate is the Justice of the Probate Court of said County duly elected and qualified and that his signature thereto is gen- uine and that as such full faith and credit are due to all his official acts. And I further certify that the said Probate Court, is by the Laws of this State made and declared to be a Court of record, and that the above seal is the genuine seal of said Probate Court. Witness my hand and the Seal of said Commissioners Court at Princeton in said Bureau County the 24th day of August 1849 — Alfred V. Thompson Clerk

Mar 3
203722 Aug 20/55
Lydia Whitney Heir of Col. Whitney
July 8/55
En Census Total Off
1725
Revolutionary War
Ills July 48-6180
AD: 1600 July 23, 1856
[Handwritten signatures and initials]
Claimant for new Bearings Princetown Ills
Sept. 11/56 let to Com: Gen. Land Office - 2 of
Vol - M - 1 - 149

Please Address,
W. M. Zearing Princeton Bureau County Illinois
202722

State of Illinois) County of Bureau } ss. On this 9 th day of August, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five, personally appeared before me, a justice of the Peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid Lydia Whitney aged about 74 years a resident of the Town of Lamoille, in the county of Bureau and State of Illinois, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Joel Whitney, deceased, who was a private, in the company commanded by Captain _____ in the _____ Regiment of _____ commanded by _____ in the Revolutionary War, or War for Inde- pendence with Great Britain, declared by the United States on or about the year A.D. 1775, and that her said husband enlisted at _____ in the State of Massachusetts on or about the _____ day of _____ A.D. _____ for the term of _____ and continued in actual service in said War for the term of fourteen days and upwards and was honorably discharged at _____ on the _____ day of _____ A.D. _____. She further states that she was married to the said Joel Whitney about _____ on the _____ day of _____ A.D. 1791 by Seth Payson, a minister of the Gospel and that her name before her said marriage was Lydia Willard that her said husband died at Fitzwilliam, State of New Hampshire on the first day of February A.D. 1842 and that she is now a widow. She makes this declaration for the purpose of ob- taining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3 rd A.D. 1855. She further states that she now receives, (for the servi- ces rendered as aforesaid, by her said husband Joel Whitney, now deceased,) as a pension from the United States Government the sum of ten dol-

lars every six months. She also states that she knows of no public or private record of her marriage to said Joel Whitney - that there was a family record made which is now torn soiled and illegible.
Lydia her Whitney mark
We Elisha Fasset and Theodore Babson, residents of the County of Bureau in the State of Illinois upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Lydia Whitney 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, and we further state that we knew (of our own personal knowledge) the said Joel Whitney, alluded to in the foregoing declaration, in his lifetime, and that we knew him previous to his decease in the year 1842, to live and cohabit for years with the said Lydia Whitney in the Town of Fitzwilliams in the State of New Hampshire, and that they the said Joel, and Lydia Whitney lived together as husband and wife and were generally so reputed, and that we never doubted their being husband and wife and never heard the fact of their being husband and wife, doubted or brought in question by any one.
Elisha Fasset Theodore Babson
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written, and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
Jonathan J. Holbrook J P
State of Illinois } County of Bureau } I do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written, and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.

Clerk of the County Court of said County do hereby certify that Jonathan S. Holbrook whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate was at the time of executing the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly sworn, commissioned, and authorized to take the same; that his signature thereto is genuine; and that full faith and credit are and of right ought to be due to all his official acts.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said Court this 13 th day of August A. D. 1855
J. P. Thompson Clerk by George V. McLaughlin

State of New Hampshire Cheshire Co. Town Clerk's Office Rindge N. H. 27 th day of May 1851
Mr. Joel Whitney and Maria December Mrs. Lydia Willard the seventh day of Rindge One Thousand Eighty Six
I certify that the above is a true copy of the Records, with the Exceptions of the date, which is expressed on the Records in fair legible figures, as follows 7 th December 1786
Attest Thomas Ingalls Town Clerk
I Thomas Ingalls, above named do hereby affirm that I hold the office of Town Clerk, of Rindge, in the County and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said Town, with the Exception above named as certified by me
Thomas Ingalls
Clerk of the Town of Rindge
State of New Hampshire Cheshire Co. Rindge May 27. 1851
Sworn to and Subscribed before me Stephen Bolson Justice of the Peace

State of New-Hampshire Cheshire County ss.
I Leonard Risco, Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature, of said State, for said County, do hereby certify that Stephen K. Sherwin whose name is subscribed to the within Certificate was on the twenty seventh day of May A.D. 1851, and now is, a Justice of the Peace within and for said County duly commissioned and sworn as such according to law; and that his signature aforesaid within written is in my belief genuine. Given under my hand and the seal of said court this sixteenth day of June A.D. 1851.
Leonard Risco. Clerk

9040 Joel Whitney
a Roll of screen
W.C.E.
6 Months
admits
$20--
Levi Chamberlain Edw. Nelson
Fitzwilliam
NO

9040
BRIEF in the case of Isaac Whitney of Fitzwilliam of Cheshire Co in the State of New Hampshire (Act 7th June, 1839.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? a Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? —  3. How old is he? 69  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     1780 July — In 87 — 6 — private Gen. Capt. M c art. Col. Bradford  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Howard Mass  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? one living Witness  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? No Clergyman's Certificate 
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
M c G. Eastman Examining Clerk.

Reury
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 26620
Lydia Whitney
wid of
Joel Whitney
Grn' New Mar
Act: Feb 2d 48
Index:—Vol. M , Page 333
[Arrangement of 1870.]
18 188

Illinois Agency. Lydia Whitney, widow of Isaac.
On order March 30 1843. June 17, 1844. etc.
$ 20 pr Annum
On March 1 st 1843.
[Husband died Feb. 1, 1842.]
Charles L. Kelsey, Princeton, Bureau & Illinois.

No. 421
Lydia Whitney widow of Joel
Sees
Act. 7 th July 1838
Rejected
To Blainants - Oct 25 th 1838
C. S. Kelley Aug. 19/53
" 30 th Oct. Nov. 10/53
Adm'd act 4 th Dec.
See OK
1838
No. 422
Lydia Whitney wid of Joel
Sees
Admitted
act March 3 rd 1838

Princeton, Bureau E. Ills. Sep. 3 rd 1856.
Commr. of Pensions
Sir
On 19 Aug. ult. I rec d . M. L. W. N o 35679 of 160 acres, issued to Lydia Whitney under act of 1855 dated 29 th July 1856. I learn Mrs. Whitney died last December leaving no minor heir. I deem it right to send it you. enclosed please find it. Resp d Yrs.
W. M m Learing

FREE Prof. Wm Lloyd 356 79 3/4 Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D. C.

FREE
Commissioner of Pensions Washington City Dist. Columbia

P. 452 Illinois
Sydia Whitney widow of John
who was a Pirate in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 20 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 th day of Nov r 1843 and sent to
Charles L. Hovey Princeton Bureau Co. Wis.
[Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. L Page 229

affidavit in Joel Whitney's case

I Salmon Whitney of Harvard in the County of Worcester and commonwealth of Massachusetts of Lawful age do depose and say that I served in the Revolutionary war as one of the continental troops six months commencing in July A.D. 1780 joined the army at west point in Col. Bradford's Regiment and Capt. Samuels Company Inverness Lt. Joel Whitney of said Harvard served with me the same term of time in the same service under the same Officers and in the same mess all which I well recollect and can testify to
Salmon W. Whitney
State of New Hampshire Chepise N. June 21 st 1832
the above named Salmon Whitney personally appeared and made solemn Oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit
Before me Robinson Perkins Justice Peace
I certify that I have long been acquainted with the above named Salmon Whitney and that he is a credible witness
Robinson Perkins Justice Peace
Cheshire. August 21. 1832
I Salma Hale, clerk of the Judicial Courts in said county certify that Robinson Perkins is a Justice of the Peace in and for said county and I believe that the foregoing official signatures are in his own hand writing. In testimony whereof I hereunto affix the seal of our Superior Court of Judicature S. Hale, Clerk

Bounty Department
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Lands of the Interior
OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS
This hereby certifies that under the Act of March 3rd 1831 entitled "An Act to add to certain Acts granting Bounties and Land to certain Officers and Soldiers who have been engaged in the Military Service of the United States."
Such and the said I hereby certify that the said 160
is entitled to locate ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY ACRES , at any Land Office of the United States, in conformity to the legal subdivisions of the public lands, upon any of the public lands subject to sale at the minimum or lower graduated prices.
Given under my hand and the seal of the Department, this 29th day of July 1850
J. P. [Signature] No 35679
C. A. [Signature] Commissioner
Please locate this Certificate at any of the United States land offices, or it will be located for you by the General Land Office on the return of it, with your request and the fee of one dollar therefor, specifying the State and Land District in which you wish the location made. If you locate it, fill up and sign the following application.
To the Register of the Land Office at _____
I locate this Certificate, in the in Township _____ of Range _____ Section _____
Register.

Whitney

Brief in the case of Lydia Whitney, wid of Joel Bureau — County and State of Illinois .
act March 3 d 1843, June 17, 1846, &c
Claim, ("original," or "for increase.")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Houston pensioner Act June 7, 1832. $20 per annum.
Recd evidence of money in 1836.
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Name and residence of Agent
Chas. L. Kelley Princeton, Illinois
Examining Clerk.
Osden Miley

e e e
Third Auditor Off. Nov 12 th / 83
No papers received with this letter.
Sam l J. Birds, Acting Auditor.
W. Randall

Pension Office November 10. 1853
Sir:
Please state to what time the Pension of Joel Whitney Jr. who was inscribed on the New Hampshire Roll, under the Act of June 7, 1832, at the rate of $20. per Annum, and whose papers are herewith transmitted, was last paid.
If the arrears were paid to his death, please also state to whom they were paid.
Very Resp't Your Obed't Servt.
S. Waldo Commissioner
J. Burt Esq. Third Auditor (over.)

Joel Whitney, Act 7 th June 1832 $20.00 p. annum. - Died 1 st Feby 1842, Paid to his death. - Arrears Paid Lydia Whitney by her Attorney V. M. Kimball on settlement 3 rd yr. 1842.
Thos. S. Prince Actg. Auditor. "

Princeton Bureau Co. Ill. Oct. 29 th 1853
Hon. Loren P. Waldo Commissioner of the Land Office Washington D.C. Dr Sir
Enclosed is the additional testimony in the case of Lydia Whitney. The Justice of the Peace has amended his certificate, by certifying that the witnesses are credible , as suggested in yours of the 19 th of last August. The delay has been occasioned by the absence of the Justice from the State.
Please inform me what course she must pursue to obtain arrears of pension & oblige
Yours Very Res. Charles L. Holsey

Princeton Bureau Co. Ill. May 28 th 1858-
Hon. Loren P. Waldo Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
Dear Sir
Several Years since Mrs. Lydia Whitney the Widow of Joel Whitney a Revolutionary Pensioner applied for a Pension. Nothing was heard from the Department until last Winter when she was informed I am told that nothing was wanting except evidence that she is the identical widow of said Joel Whitney.
It is now considerably over Sixty Years since her marriage, and we know of no person living who then knew them - but enclosed you will find the affidavits of two persons who knew them from twenty to forty years ago as husband and wife, which I presume will be sufficient, though not having seen the letter from the late Comr. I do not know exactly what is required.
I suppose if the pension is allowed it will date back to the time of her application.

or perhaps to that of her husband's decease. If not please inform me what steps will be requisite to obtain the back pension. She is now entirely supported by charity and I am anxious to get for her what the law allows while she is yet in the land of the living.
I am told that there was evidence of service that would have entitled Joel Whitney to a considerable increase of pension, and that he was on the point of applying at the time of his decease. If such evidence can now be obtained will it materially benefit her to exhibit it?
Very Res. Yours
Charles L. Halsey

Pension Office May 7 th 1852
Madam:
I herewith enclose you the report upon your case made on the 25 th of October last which was inadvertently sent to Lowell, Mass- sachusetts.
Very Respectfully your Obedient F F C Ripley For Comr of Pensions
Mrs Lydia Whitney Lowell La Salle Co. Ill.

90240 Irene Whitney
Levi Chamberlain Edward Halman Fitzwilliam NH

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Docel Whitney which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? _____
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes
V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? Yes
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? Yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? Yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?
so
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
so
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
[Handwritten line]
XIV. † If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility?
And is the official character and signature of the magistrate certified by the proper officer under his seal of office?
Yes
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
Yes
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?
Yes
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
so as to 5th
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For _____ year _____ months and _____ days. I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____: and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
†QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
†QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

No. 14.421 Lydia Whitney, wid of Int Ill.
See 7, July 1838
etc.

Princeton Bureau County Ill. July 4 th 1857 James E. Heath Commissioner of Pensions Washington Sir
Herewith I forward the application of Mrs. Lydia Whitney widow of Joel Whitney late of Fitzwilliam N. H. a deceased revolutionary pensioner - for a pension according to the Act passed July 7 th 1838.
It was made as you will perceive the 24 th of August 1849 but on account of inability to procure proof of the marriage prior to 1794 we have been delayed until now - Enclosed is the Certificate and affidavit of the clerk of the Town of Rindge N. H. of the marriage.
Mrs. Whitney is very aged, and as the matter has been delayed so long, I hope your department will be able to appere it, so that she may receive something be- fore her death.
I am not familiar with making applications for pensions, and there may be some- thing defective in this - if so please be so good as to inform me fully. I will be greatly obliged also if you will inform me whether

Mrs. Whitney can obtain anything for the time which has elapsed since her husband's decease now nine years - and whether she may be entitled to further relief under any other act of Congress -

State of Illinois Bureau County ss
In the matter of the application of Lydia Whitney widow of Joel Whitney deceased a Revolutionary Pension for a Pension
Elisha Fasset of said County of lawful age being first duly sworn says: That he is of the age of Fifty Eight years and by occupation a farmer - That he resides at Camille in said County where he has had his residence for eighteen years last past and that prior to that time he resided in the Towns of Fitzwilliam and of Keene in the State of New Hampshire; That when a youth he lived in said Town of Fitzwilliam from his earliest recollection until he was twenty one years of age with the exception of two years when he was about eleven & twelve years of age.
That during all of said time one Joel Whitney who was generally understood to be a Revolutionary Pensioner resided in said Town having a Wife named Lydia Whitney with both of whom he was well acquainted, at least they were living together as Husband and Wife and generally supposed to be such. That afterwards he the said deponent was occasionally absent from said Town until he was about Twenty Five years old when he removed to the Town of Keene in New Hampshire where he resided about twelve years; That while he resided in said Keene he was in the habit of visiting in said Town of Fitzwilliam from time to time and thus continued his acquaintance with its inhabitants; and deponent thinks it was about this time he heard of the death of said Joel Whitney - but cannot be positive whether it was before or after his removal from said Town of Keene or not. That said Joel Whitney and Lydia Whitney had a family - deponent being personally acquainted with several of their children. That about ten years ago the said Lydia Whitney removed to the State of Illinois and has ever since resided at Camille in the County of Bureau in said State of Illinois. That ever

Since she removed to Illinois deponent renew- ed his acquaintance with said Lydia Whitney and knows her to be the identical person who at the times aforesaid resided in said Town of Fitz- william as the Wife of said Joel Whitney and as far as deponent can tell he thinks that she is now about Ninety Years of age and further this deponent says not.
Elizer Traps
Subscribed and Sworn to before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said Raritan County by the said Elizer Traps this Twentyth day of May A.D. 1853 And I hereby certify that I have been well acquainted with the said Elizer Traps since A.D. 1834 and that he is the identical person described in said deposition. Witness my hand and seal the day of May A.D. 1853.
Jonathan H. Bobbitt J.P.
Theodore Babson of the County of Raritan and State of Illinois of lawful age being first duly sworn says: That he is Forty Eight Years of age and by occupation a farmer; that for about Thirteen years last past he has resided near Somerville in said County of Raritan where he now resides; that for about five years being from the time he was fifteen years of age until he was Twenty years of age he lived in the Town of Fitzwilliam in the State of New Hampshire, that while he so lived in said Fitzwilliam one Joel Whit- ney resided there having a Wife one Lydia Whitney and they had a family of several children. That some years after deponent removed from said Town he resided in the City of Boston in the State of Massachusetts and that about in the year 1828 or

On 1829 deponent went to said Town of Fitz- william upon a visit and visited a couple of days at the house of said Joel Whitney and Lydia Whitney who were living at the same place where they did when deponent resided in said Town - and it was then generally understood there that said Joel Whitney was a Revolutionary Soldier - That the acquaintance of deponent with said Lydia was interrupted for a term of years until about ten years ago when it was renewed at said Canville, where the said Lydia has continued ever since to reside and now does - Deponent says that he is well acquainted with said Lydia Whitney and that he believes she is now about or above ninety years of age and that he knows she is the identical person who resided in the said Town of Fitzwilliam as the Wife of said Joel Whitney and who was there generally so regarded - and further said deponent, says so etc - Theodore Babson
Subscribed and sworn to before me the under- signed a justice of the Peace in and for the County of Rensselaer and State of Illinois by the said Theodore Babson this twentieth day of May Eighteen Hundred and Fifty Three
And I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the said Theodore Babson and have been ever since Oct. 1840 and that he is the identical person de- scribed in said deposition and who subscribed the same.
Witness my hand and seal this 20 th day of May A.D. 1853 Jonathan H. Hobbs J.P.

State of Illinois Rutland County ss
I Benjamin L. Smith Clerk of the County Court in and for said County do hereby certify that Jonathan T. H. H. brook whose name is subscribed to the within facts was at the time of the date of the same to wit the 20 th day of May A.D. 1858 an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned, sworn and authorized to administer oaths and take the said affidavits - that I am acquainted with said signatures and believe the same to be genuine, and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official Seal of said County the 28 th day of May A.D. 1858.
Benjamin L. Smith Clk