Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 18,422, Jacob Williams, Conn.

SERVICE
SERVICE Down.
Williams, Jacob Mary
NUMBER _____
W. 18422
CONTENTS

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Connecticut 4043
Mary Williams
widow of Jacob Williams
who died on the 28 th August 1828 of Hartford Co in the State of Connecticut who was Sergt. & Corp t in the company commanded by Captain Conn. of the reg t . commanded by in the Conn. time for 9 months Sergt. 45 15 " Corp t . 55 $ 1 0 0
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 100 Dollars — Cents, per annum, to commence on the 1 th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th day of July 1844 and sent to Hon. J. H. Seymour, Hartford, Conn.
Arrears to the 1 th of March 1844 1300:00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4. Sep. 50:00
Special Acts of March 1. 1843 } $ 1350:00 " May 31. 1844 } { Revolutionary Claim, { Act July 4, 1836, { Section the }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk Book C. Vol. 1. Page 84

Mary Williams Mary Williams Petition
praying for a pension as widow of a reputed soldier in the war of the Revolution
Jan y . 7 1839
Ref d to the Committee on Rev d . Pensions
Jan. 4. 1840
Ref d under Resol s to Com e on Rev d . Pensions
April 4 1840
Bill  326
July 30 1842
Ref d to the Com e on Rev d Pensions Aug t . 18. 1842 - Bill N o 582
Forcayf 159
Rev. Pension Comm.
J. P. [unclear] Brookhaven 154

To the Honorable, the House of Representatives, & Senate of the United States now in Congress convened.
The Petition of Mary Williams, of East Hartford in the County of Hartford & State of Con- necticut, humbly represents -
That she is the widow of Sabbeth Jacob Williams late of said East Hartford deceased, that her said husband was a Soldier of the Revolution, that he served about six years during said war, most of the time as a Corporal & Sergeant - that he endured much fatigue, privation, and hardship during his Service - was in many battles & served his country in that trying period as became a patriot - that she was the wife of said Jacob, during all  most of his said service, and by great trials and privations, man- aged to support herself and children during his absence in the Army - that she preferred her claim for a Pension to the War Department, during the summer last past, and received a letter from the commissioner of Pensions, to Hon.

No. L. Ellsworth through whose agency she preferred her claim for a pension, which letter is herunto annexed marked A. by which she was notified that her claim for a pension was rejected by the Commissioner, on the ground of said Jacob's desertion, at or near the close of the war in 1782 - Relative to said desertion, or supposed desertion, your petitioner avers, that, while her said hus- band was on his way home on a visit, (being permitted by furlough in the month of November 1782) he was taken sick at Stamford Connecticut, and was unable to get home - and your petitioner avers that she hired a man in East Hartford, to go and bring her said husband home - And he accordingly went - After your petitioner's said husband was brought home, he was confined to his house with severe sickness until the ensuing Spring when, as the war was ended, he did not return to the Army - Your petitioner supposes that in consequence of said sickness & consequent detention from duty he was returned to the war Department as a deserter

Department as a deserter - Your petitioner therefore prays Your Honorable Body to examine into the evidence herunto annexed & on finding the facts true to grant her a pension, or in some other way give relief as she in duly bound & will ever pray -
Dated at S East Hartford
December 11 th A.D. 1838
Mary Williams
In Presence of Martin Stanley Samuel S. Cannon
State of Connecticut
County of Hartford } East Hartford Dec 13 th 1838
Then personally appeared Mary Williams, to me personally known, to be a person of good character for truth & veracity, & of sound mind and being cautioned to declare the whole truth, in my presence sub- scribed the foregoing petition and made solemn oath that the same is true to the best of her knowledge & belief -
Before me -
Martin Stanley Justice of peace

I Salitha Carver of Bolton in the county of Tolland and State of Connecticut aged 81 years do testify and say that during the revolutionary war I was acquainted personally with Jacob Williams late of East Hartford, county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, deceased; and know that he was sick for a number of months after his return home from the army in the fall of 1781 or 1782 I think probably the latter year as I was not acquainted with the said Jacob until after I was married which was in August 1781 and I should think it was probably a year or more afterwards that he was sick as above stated on his return from the army Salitha Carver
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 12 th day of December 1868
Daniel W Badger Justice of Peace
I certify that the above named Salitha Carver is a person of truth and the above statement entitled to full credit
Daniel W Badger Justice of Peace

War Department Pension Office August 29 th , 1838.
A Sir, In the case of Mrs Mary Williams, widow of Jacob Williams, whose papers have been examined and filed in this Office under the act of the 4 th of July 1836, it is established by the rolls that her late husband enlisted a Corporal in December 1776 for the war, was promoted Sergeant st of June 1780, reduced to the ranks in March 1781, and deserted November 12, 1782. By this act of delinquency he forfeited all claim to the provisions of the act of the 7 th of June 1832; and she can assert under the act of the 4 th of July 1836 such claim only as he would be entitled to, if living, under the act of the 7 th of June 1832.
I respectfully refer your correspondent Professor T. Wright to the regulations of the 9 th of July 1836 and the 17 th of July 1838 (herewith enclosed) for the necessary information to enable the widow of the late Doctor Jonathan Wright to assert her claim for her late

husband's service under either, as her marriage may have taken place before, or after the last service.
I have the honor to be
very respectfully
Your obedt. servt.
J. L. Edwards
Hon.
J. L. Ellsworth
Comm r of Patents Washington City.

440 K 3733
Mary Williams widow of Jacob.
Con:
Act 4 July - 1836
Maria in 73s
Holls - Corpl. Det. 76. War. Ser. g June 86. reduced March 87 - deserted Nov 12 1782 -
H. L. Ellis worth Com d of Patents

State of Connecticut } County of Hartford } District of Hartford —
On this twenty second day of August A.D. 1838, personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the District of Hartford in the County of Hartford State of Connecticut, Mary Williams, a resident of East Hartford in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut aged ninety 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 4. 1836: That she is the widow of Jacob Williams late of East Hartford deceased, who was a private, corporal, & Sargent, in the Army of the Revolution, that he went into the service after their marriage, by enlistment as she believes — was in the service in all, four or five years, as she believes — came home frequently on furlough — once while on his way home from New York was taken sick, & she sent a man to get him home — that she remembers his being a corporal, but his officers names she does not recollect, the precise time he went into the service, she does not remember, that he was in service during the war, she believes — that her maiden name was Mary Barrer — She further declares that she was married to the Jacob Williams on the 31 st day of March in the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy three, and that her husband, the

aforsaid Jacob Williams died on the 28 th day of August A.D. 1828, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. For proof of the service of her said husband she would refer to the proof hereto annexed -
In presence of Nathaniel Goodwin. Philo Alwood
Mary her Williams mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before before me Seth Terry Judge
State of Connecticut } Hartford County -
I, Nathaniel Goodwin Clerk of the Court of Probate within for the District of Hartford in the Court of Hartford and State of Connecticut hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original pro- ceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of the widow Mary Williams for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this 22 nd day of August A.D. 1838. -
Nathaniel Goodwin, Clerk
of the Court of Probate for the District of Hartford.
State of Connecticut } District of Hartford } Hartford County - I, Seth Terry Judge of the Court of Probate, within for the District of Hartford in the County of Hartford State of Connecticut hereby certify that Nathaniel Goodwin whose name is sub- scribed to the above certificate is Clerk of said Court, duly ap- pointed & sworn according to law, & that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine -
Seth Terry Judge

I certify that on application for widow of the service of Jacob Williams I have examined the Records of Settlement made with the Connecticut Line of the Continental Army and find in a settlement made with the 4 th Connecticut Regiment John Durkee Enp Col o before July 1780 where he is entered as a Corporal July 11 1777 Time of Settlement July 1 1780 Making 2.11.20 Amt of Wages £ 38.9.4 again same Regiment where he is entered July 1 1780 as a Corporal to the June 1 1780 and as Sergeant from June 1 1780 to the July 1 1781 making 12 months Amt Wages £ 27.16.0 again same Regiment where he is entered as a private and commenced service July 1 1781 Time of Settlement Dec 31 1781 Amount Wages £ 24.0.0  Comptroller Office Hartford Conn Aug t 20 1838
Henry Kilbourn Compt r 

I James Ely Pastor of the Congregational Church in Bolton Tolland County State of Connecticut hereby certify that it appears from the records of said Church now in my possession that Jacob Williams was married to Mary Carr March 31 st 1833 Bolton August 18 th 1838 James Ely
State of Connecticut Tolland County ss Bolton 18 th August 1838 Personally appeared Rev James Ely Pastor of the Congregational Church in Bolton Before me David Strong Justice of the Peace for said Tolland County I made oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate by him subscribed Before me
David Strong Justice Peace
And I further certify that the above James Ely is a man of truth & veracity & his certificate is entitled to full credit
David Strong Justice Peace

I George Reynolds of East Hartford County of Hartford & State of Connecticut aged 54 years being duly sworn do testify and say that I was well acquainted with Jacob Williams who was a soldier of the revolution and that he died Aug 28 th 1828 I am likewise well acquainted with the widow Mary Williams the widow of the above named Jacob Williams and know that she has remained a widow ever since the death of the above named Jacob Williams Sworn to and subscribed this 22 nd day of August 1838 Before me George Reynolds Martin Stanley Justice of Peace
And I further certify that the above named George Reynolds is a person of truth and the above statement entitled to full credit Martin Stanley Justice of Peace

State of Connecticut
I Royal H. Hinman Secretary of Said State of Connecticut do hereby certify that Seth Terry Esq whose name is herunto annexed was on the day of the date of his certificate, & still is the Judge of the Court of Probate in & for the District of Hartford in the County of Hartford in said State, that I am acquainted with his hand writing & that the annexed signature purporting to be his is genuine - I further certify that Esq. Howard & Martin Stanley Esqrs whose names are affixed to the annexed affidavits, were, on the day of the several dates of the same, & still are, acting Justices of the Peace in & for the County of Hartford & Tolland in said State viz, S t Stanley for Hartford County & S t Howard for Tolland County - that I am acquainted with their several hands writing, & that the annexed are their genuine official signatures & that full faith & credit are due to their official acts
In testimony whereof I have caused the Seal of said State to be hereunto affixed, & have subscribed my name this 22 d day of August A.D. 1838. /-
Royal H. Hinman Secretary of State

MARY WILLIAMS.
[To accompany bill H. R. No. 582.]
————— AUGUST 18, 1842. —————
Mr. TALIAFERRO, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, made the following
REPORT:
The Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mary Williams, of East Hartford, in the State of Connecticut, report:
That the petitioner states her husband, Jacob Williams, was a soldier of the Revolution; that he served about six years during said war; that she was the wife of said Jacob Williams during all his said service, and by great trials and privations managed to support herself and children during his absence in the army; that the petitioner presented her claim to the War Department in the summer of 1838; that it was rejected, upon the ground of said Jacob's desertion near the close of the war. (See Commissioner's letter.) Petitioner states, in relation to the supposed desertion, that while her said husband was on his way home on a visit, (being permitted by furlough,) in the month of November, 1782, he was taken sick at Stamford, Connecticut, and was unable to get home; that petitioner hired a man to go and bring him home; that, after he was brought home, he was confined to his house, by severe sickness, until the ensuing spring, when, as the war was ended, he did not return to the army. Petitioner supposes that, in consequence of said sickness and consequent detention from duty, he was returned to the War Department as a deserter.
The Commissioner of Pensions says, it is established by the rolls that her late husband (Jacob Williams) enlisted as a corporal in December, 1776, for the war; was promoted sergeant 1st of June, 1780; reduced to the ranks in March, 1781; and deserted November 12th, 1782.
The committee are not satisfied as to the alleged desertion. It seems somewhat unreasonable to suppose that a soldier who is acknowledged to have served his country for near six years should desert so near the close of the war. If there be justice in granting pensions to widows whose husbands served only six months, it cannot be unjust to grant a pension to a widow whose husband is acknowledged to have served nearly six years. The committee therefore report a bill for her relief.
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St. Asaph Aug 27 38
I have the honor to enclose an application for a pension for Mary Williams -
I enclose also Mr Goodwin's letter and take this opportunity to say that Mr Goodwin is a gentleman of high respecta- bility and good standing at the Bar in Northfield -
Yours Respectfully Wm Lloyd-Jones
Wm Lloyd-Jones

Many Williams

An act for the relief of Mary Williams, widow of Jacob Williams, deceased.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Mary Williams, of East Hartford, in the State of Connecticut, widow of Jacob Williams, a revolutionary soldier, deceased, be placed on the pension roll, under the act of July fourth eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and that she be paid such annual pension while she remains a widow as her said husband would have been entitled to had he been living on the seventh of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.
Approved, March 1 st , 1843.
A true copy from the Roll in this Office.
Dept. of State, March 1 st 1843. }
Nathaniel Webster Clerk.

Pension Office, May 21. 1844
Sir,
I have the Honor to return herewith the papers of Mrs. Mary Williams, accompanied by a copy of my letter of the 16 th of December last to the late Secretary of War, which will shew why the Department was unable to grant the widow a pension.
I have the Honor to be, Very Respectfully, Your Ob t Servant, J L Edwards
Hon. S. C. Bates, Chairman of the Pension Committee, Senate U States.

May 16. 1820
ct. Williams -
J. L. Edwards Esq
Comm. Pension
Washington
J. H. Brockway
Mr.
Comm.
PA

Washington May 16. 1840
J. L. Edwards Esq
Sir
I herewith transmit you a document from the Comptroller's office touching Jacob Williams claim for a pension.
I have the honor to be
Your humble Servt
John D. Brockway

July 3. 1840
W. Williams Tilden G. Knapp.
L. E. Edwards Esq. Comm. Pension Washington
J. A. Brockway H. 22

Washington July 2. 1840
J. L. Edwards
Sir
I send you a certificate from the Comptrollers office in the State of Connecticut appertaining to the claim of Mrs Mary Williams for a pension on account of the services of Jacob Williams in this certificate I have just read from Hon. Abner Hemenlee of Belerone.
Will you be good enough to inform me whether in the cases of Mrs Elizabeth Fildes widow of Ebenezer Fildes and Emma Swift widow of Wm Swift in both of which cases the applicants have been informed that they ought to change their declarations from the act of 1836 to the act of 1838. it will be necessary to obtain new proof of the length of service.
I am Sir
with great respect
Your obed Servt
John D. Macculloch.

Wm J. H. Brockway A.R.

Comptroller's Office
Hartford May 13 1840
I certify that on application for evidence of the services of Jacob Williams I have examined the Books of payrolls remaining in this Office and find on a Pay Roll of the 8th Company 8 Regiment raised by order Genl Assembly Connecticut 1775 Col. Swift - the name of Jacob Williams appears and entered service July 10 Time of discharge not having served 3 Mo 7 days went to Newbury - and on examining the Records of the Connecticut Line of the Continental Army I find the name of Jacob Williams in a settlement with the 4th Connecticut Regiment John Duer Esq Col. before Jan'y 1780 where he is entered as a Corporal and commenced service Jan'y 11 1777 Time of settlement Jan'y 1 1780 having served Two Years Eleven Months Twenty days again in same Regiment as Corporal from Jan'y 1 1780 to Jan'y 1 1780 having served 5 Months and as Sergeant from Jan'y 1 1780 to Jan'y 1 1781 Seven Months  from July 10 to Oct 17 1775 as private 5.7 from Jan'y 11 1777 to Jan'y 1 1780 as Corporal 2.11.20 from Jan'y 1 1780 to Jan'y 1 1780 as Corporal 5. from Jan'y 1 1780 to Jan'y 1 1781 as Sergeant 7.
Henry D. Chapman Compt

Mansfield Conn May 16 th 1843
Sir
Yours of the 9 th inst enclosing yours of the 26 th inst is received in which you state the papers in the case of Mary Williams claiming a pension under the act of July 4 th 1836 have been examined and placed on file and there is nothing in the deposition then offered to alter the decision heretofore made
I should think that there was some mistake in this as the statement of Mrs Williams referred to was was sent in obedience to a requisition of yours bearing date March 23 rd last in answer to a request that you should forward to me her pension certificate under a special act of Congress passed at the last session of that body which requisition was as follows
“Pension Office
Sir
March 23 rd 1843”
In reply to your letter of the 23 rd inst I have to inform you that before a pension certificate can be issued for Mrs Mary Williams she must produce some proof of Identity She should therefore make a statement under oath relative to her deceased husband's service so far as the same is within her knowledge and designate the member of Congress who presented her petition to that body She must also authorize you to receive her pension certificate before it can be transmitted to you I am very respectfully J D Spencer Esqo Mansfield Conn
Your Obt Servant
Conn
J L Edwards
It would appear that by this special act that the decision made in the Summer of 1838 judging from the report on which said act was predicated was revised
The said report after embracing the subject matter of her petition and the reason of her claim being rejected by yourself namely the alleged desertion of her husband concludes in the following words
“The committee are not satisfied as to

the alleged desertion. It seems somewhat unreasonable to suppose that a soldier who is acknowledged to have served his country for near six years should desert so near the close of the war. If there be justice in granting pensions to widows whose husbands served only six months it cannot be unjust to grant a pension to a widow whose husband is acknowledged to have served nearly six years. The committee therefore report a bill for her relief.
Now I should think it plain from this report that the committee intended that Mrs Williams should have the same pension that she would have been entitled to had not her husband's name been placed on the roll as a deserter.
I therefore wish you to review the case in connection with the report and special act in her favor and transmit me the result.
Yours very respectfully
Samuel H. Clarke
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington City

Rejected
Set. to Hon. H. S. Ellsworth, 29 Aug. 1838.
" Hon. Jno. Carr, Feb. 3, 1840.
To Hon. J. H. Brockway,
May 20, 1840.
To Hon. J. H. Brockway
July 3, 1840.
to Saml. D. Carver April 26. 1843.
" same 9. May 1843.
To Secy of War Decem 16. 1843.
do to Hon. D. B. Bats May 21. 1844

A special paper in the March 1843: but we can do nothing under the law. See letter 29 June 1843 to claimant. See letter to Hon. J. C. Bates, April 1. 1844 -

A Resolution explanatory of "An act for the relief of Mary Williams, widow of the late Jacob Williams, deceased."
Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in carrying into effect an act approved the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred forty-three, entitled "An act for the relief of Mary Williams, wid- ow of Jacob Williams, deceased," the pension to which said Jacob Williams would have been entitled had he been living on the seventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, be deemed and the same is hereby declared to be, a pension for two years' service, and that the Secretary of War interpret said act ac- cordingly.
Approved May 31 1844.
A true copy from the Roll in this Office.
Dept. of State, July 5 th 1844.
R. K. Caled Chief Clerk.

David Williams deposition in case of Mrs Mary Williams application for pension
This paper is to be placed with the papers in the above case

I David Williams of East Hartford in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States aged 84 years being duly sworn do testify and say that I was well acquainted with Jacob Williams of East Hartford and was knowing to the fact of his being a sergeant in the Revolutionary army and serving for a number of years in the same I was also knowing to the fact that he came home on a furlough I should think in the year 1831 or 2 the precise year, at this time I do not recollect; I know that he was taken sick before he reached home, and was sick six or eight months so that he did not leave the house I further testify that he was a man of strict integrity and the best man that went in my opinion direct from the army
In presence of Samuel H. Sawyer James Roberts
David his Williams mark
State of Connecticut County of Tolland } ss East Hartford On this 10 th day of June 1839 before me Samuel H. Sawyer a Notary Public within and for the State aforesaid personally appeared said Williams above named and made oath in due form of law to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and signed my hand officially the day and year before mentioned. Samuel H. Sawyer Notary Public

Mansfield, Ct. March, 23
by Free
Mar 28 1843
to
Mary Williams and Jacob
Spec. att.
Mar 28 1843
Edward Esgo Commissioner of Pensions Washington City
D.C.

Mansfield Conn March 26 1843
Sir
A bill having passed Congress for the relief of Mrs Mary Williams of East Hartford widow of Jacob Williams and she has requested me to procure her certificate and transact the necessary business in order for her to obtain her pension I therefore wish you to forward her certificate as soon as convenient to me at this office and much oblige
Yours with Respect Samuel D. Hawer
I should like you to send me the forms necessary for widows who have drawn the pension under the act of July 1838 to be reinstated under the recent act H. D. Hawer
(from S. D. H.)

June 28 44
Mary W. Williams
Miss J. H. Lymann
Lawns by
Com o of Pensions Washington
D.C.
Wm Lloyd
2/5

S/p - Acts of March 1. 1843 & May 31. 1844
Count roll (act July 4, 1836) $100 pr Ann. From 4 March 1831
Supt of Mts $45 Capt 15 per Ann. $100
Mar 28 44
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Hon. J. H. Seymour Hartford Ct

Brooklyn. N.Y. June 25 1844
J. L. Edmonds Esq. Com r of Pensions
In Sir
If you have not acted on the case of Mrs Mary Williams of Fort Hartford Conn I should be glad to have you do so soon. The day I saw you last I called at the State Department and requested one of the Clerks to furnish you with a copy of the act of the late session of Congress, explanatory of the act of 1832, directing that the name of Mrs Williams be placed on the Pension list. Hoping to hear from you soon at Hartford Connecticut I remain Very Respectfully
Your obed servt Thos H. Seymour

Mansefield Conn. April 4 th 1843 J. H. Edwards Esq.
Sir yours of the 28 th ultimo is received and I shall this day call on Mrs Mary Williams for the papers mentioned in your letter and transmit from Hartford
Yours very Respectfully
Samuel Harker

IR. 582.
Mary Williams
2 1 2

Frankford Pa May 1
Inu
Commissioner of Pensions General Post Office Dept War Dept Washington City Pa
8 1/2

Taunton Ct Po May 6 1843
Dear Sir
The inclosed letter addressed to this
office and directed to Samuel D. Burrow on inquiry I find no such person in this place or vicinity I return it to the General Post office as it may be misdirected
Yrs Obedt Servt Henry Sabin

St Lawrence,

May 23. 1844
Dear Sir
You mistook my object in returning Mrs Williams papers. I gave a note for them. My object in asking for the papers was to see whether her title. her bond ought to be considered as a dispute in part, altho' no notice on the rolls. I have no further use for them.
Yr truly,
J. D. Ball
J. S. Edwards Esq.

(Copy)
Pension Office, December 16. 1843.
Sir
I have the honor to return you the letter of the Honorable J. H. Ferguson, with the letter of Mr. Carver, and the letters from this office in the case of Mary Williams, upon which an appeal is taken from the decision of this office communicated in my letter of the 29: June last, to the Claimant, marked A. in which you concurred.
By reference to the act of the 1 st March last, (Pension acts page 47) you will perceive that it allows her such pension "as her husband would have been entitled to, had he been living on the 7 th of June 1832." As it is shown by the rolls that he deserted, and is admitted by Claimant that he never rejoined his regiment, he was not, if living at the designated date, entitled to any pension agreeably to the uniform and established rules of Adjudication in this Department. This violation of his enlistment forfeits all pay or bounty to which he would have been entitled by the terms of his enlistment if he had fulfilled it, and the pension claimed is a bounty for honorable service to be computed by the "pay" to which he was entitled in that service.
I have the honor to be, (Very) resp y ; Your ob t Servant;
Hon. J. M. Porter. Secretary of War,
(Signed)
J. L. Edwards.

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 18422
Mary Williams Widow of Jacob Williams Sergt Rev War
Act: July 4 th 86
Index:—Vol. 71 , Page 343
[Arrangement of 1870.]

War Department, Pension Office, February 3, 1840.
Sir,
Bill In answer to your enquiries I have the honor to state that M rs Deborah Campbell having married her first husband James Miller after the expiration of his military service has no claim under the Act of 4 July, 1836, and by her subsequent marriages forfeited her claim under the act of 7 July, 1838, as she was not Miller's widow at the date of its passage.
As she has never asserted a claim before this Department no evidence in relation to her marriage is on our files, but the rolls show two years service of James Miller as a piper in the Rhode-Island Brigade.
In the case of M rs Mary Williams, rejected under the Act of 4 July, 1836, because of an entry on the rolls showing the desertion of her late husband, Jacob Williams, the proof of the marriage in 1773 is of the highest grade, viz. The records of the congregational church of Bolton, Tolland county, Connecticut.
alt The claim of Catharine Smith of Delaware County, New-York, under the act of 7 July, 1838, was ad.

justed last July, and there is no reason to be- lieve that she is not satisfied with the allowance. To that part of her petition in 1837 which relates to the alleged arrears due her late husband under Act 1 March, 1823, it may be replied that her late husband died before the passage of the Act. But any balance due to a deceased pensioner for more than eight months may be obtained by appli- cation to the Office of the Third Auditor.
The papers enclosed in yours of 25 th inst. respecting the foregoing cases are herewith returned.
I have the honor to be very respectfully, your ob t serv t J L Edwards
Hon. John Carr, House of Representatives.

no 7
Mary Williams, Ct Vt
Sam. D. Carrow Esq (Mansfield) Con.

I Mary Williams of East Hartford in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut make the following statement under oath.
I am the widow of Jacob Williams and am now in my 95 th year my husband the aforesaid Jacob Williams was a Revolutionary soldier and served five or six years as a corporal on Dugay's under what officers I do not recollect more than serving under Col. Lusk and Capt. Pratt and he frequently came home on furlough and finally came home on furlough and on account of severe sickness did not return to his duty until by peace being fully established and his Regiment disbanded he was prevented from doing so; and after my application for a pension in the summer of 1838 was rejected I presented a petition to Congress through the hands of the Hon. Isaac Toucey.
Sworn and subscribed this 4 day of April 1843
Before me
Almer Hale justice of the Peace Mary her Williams mark Martha Williams
Cyrus Warner
I Mary Williams of East Hartford in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut do by these presents constitute and appoint Samuel Darrow of Mansfield in the County of Tolland and State of Connecticut my true and lawful Attorney for

me and in my name to receive from the Commissioner of Pensions at Washington City my pension Certificate according to a law passed for my benefit at the last session of Congress. Witness my hand and seal this 4 th day of April 1843
Signed Sealed and delivered in presence of
Abner Hale
Mary her Williams mark
Seal
Martha Williams
Cyrus W. Carver
State of Connecticut County of Hartford ss. East Hartford Be it known that on this 4 th day of April 1843 before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the County, appeared personally opposed Mary Williams before named and acknowledged the foregoing power of Attorney to be her act and deed. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last above mentioned
Abner Hale Justice of the Peace
State of Connecticut
Secretarys Office
I Noah A Phelps Secretary of State
for said State of Connecticut do hereby certify that Abner Hale whose name is subscribed to the paper above and foregoing was on the day of the date affixed to the same a Justice of the peace for the County of

Hartford in said State and the foregoing signature purporting to be his public private signature, officially and full faith, and credit is due to his official acts.
In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of said State to be hereunto affixed and have subscribed my hand this 5 th day of April 1845
Noah A. Phelps Secretary of State