Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3627, Joseph Tuttle, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Tuttle, Joseph Sally
H 3627
CONTENTS
1761 at Farmington Conn. res there at end.

Attest to M. H. Halsey 24. April Cir: to Pen: Agt: 24. May '4 4th June 1840. transferred Michigan, from 4 Sept: notification sent to M. H. Halsey Same day. -
Michigan.
Albany 30,828
Joseph Tuttle
Niagara Co. in the State of N. York was a Private in the company com Captain Tuttle of the in the cont.
time for 1 year
Incribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 40 Dollars Cents per annu commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7. day of Sept 1836 and sent to Sherman M c Lean, Royalton, Niagara Co. N.Y.
  Arrears to the 4th of Sept. '36  220.00    mi-ant. allowance ending 4. March '37.  20.00     $240.00  
{ Revolutionary Claim, { Not June 2, 1832.
recorded by D. Brown Book E. 2 Vol. 4 Page 72 Clerk

30.828
Michigan Joseph Tuttle decd.
of _____ in the State of Michy who was a Teamster in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the _____ commanded by _____ in the Revolution for two years
Inscribed on the Roll of Detroit at the rate of 192 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. & Enog 4 7 September 1848
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 d day of Febry 1834 and State
Arrears to the 4th of Irving Tainton Com Semi-annual allowance ending Adrian
Income from $400 Michy
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by _____ Clerk, Book _____ Vol. _____ Page 109
2 4 7 2

1106 Nicholas Sally Tuttle widow of Joseph Tuttle who served in the Revolu Con war, as a transferred
Inscribed on the Roll at the 192 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to comm the 4th day of March, 18 September Certificate of Pension is 22 nd day of and sent to
Erving Ad Enoch
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners July 29, 1848, Page 204

To Same March 23/54
" Post Master, Rose, MI. 24. March 1854.
Duplicates under acts 1832 & 1835, issued 20. March 1854, & sent to Livingston Co. Adrian, Michigan — Phoebe Agent sent
Duplicates etc. (to the same) Let to E Taylor & J Smith Sept 54

State of Michigan } County of Lenawee } ss:-
I, Abner Tuttle of Fairfield in the county of Lenawee and State of Michigan, being first duly sworn according to law, Do depose and say, that I am fifty five years old - that I am a son of Joseph and Sally Tuttle late of Fairfield aforesaid deceased - that the said Joseph Tuttle was a Pensioner of the United States at the time of his death, at the rate of forty dollars per annum - that the said Joseph Tuttle lived and died at my house in Fairfield aforesaid on the fourth day of September in the year 1848. - that I was present at the time of his death, and that the said Joseph left him surviving the above named Sally Tuttle his widow.
And I further depose and say that the said Sally Tuttle also lived and died at my house in said Fairfield on the seventh day of December in the year 1852. that I was also present at the time of her death, and that the said Sally Tuttle left her surviving the following named children of the said Joseph and Sally Tuttle (to wit) Abner Tuttle this deponent Maritta Tillotson. of Greenfield in the county of Erie and State of Pennsylvania, and Sally Hoople of Bellville, Midland District in the Province of Canada West, and that the said Abner Tuttle, Maritta Tillotson, and Sally Hoople are the only surviving children of the said Joseph and Sally Tuttle deceased.
Abner Tuttle
Sworn to and subscribed on this tenth day of

February in the year 1854 before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace within and for the said county of Lenawee, and I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Abner Tuttle the above named deponent and that he is a respectable resident of Fairfield aforesaid and is a credible witness.
And I further certify that I have no interest whatever in any claim of the children of the said Joseph and Sally Tuttle for arrears or increase of pension, nor in the prosecution of any such claim.
Philander Savage Justice of the Peace

State of Michigan County of Lenawee ss.
I, Ira Delano of Fairfield in the county of Lenawee and State of Michigan, being first duly sworn according to law, Do depose and say that I am sixty four years old — that I am a near neighbor of Abner Tuttle, and have been for the last fifteen years — that I was well acquainted with Joseph Tuttle and Sally Tuttle late of Fairfield aforesaid deceased — that the said Joseph and Sally Tuttle lived and died at the house of the said Abner Tuttle in Fairfield aforesaid — that the said Joseph Tuttle died on the fourth day of September in the year 1848, — that I was at the house of the said Abner Tuttle on the day of the death of the said Joseph Tuttle a short time before he died and also a short time after he died, and I also attended the funeral, and that I was present at the house of the said Abner Tuttle at the time of the death of the said Sally Tuttle, and that she died on the seventh day of December in the year 1852.
And I also depose and say that I have frequently heard the said Abner Tuttle speak of his sisters Maritta Tillotson and Sally Hogle and fully believe that the said Abner Tuttle Maritta Tillotson and Sally Hogle are the only surviving children of the said Joseph and Sally Tuttle deceased.
Ira Delano
Sworn to and subscribed on this tenth day of February in the year 1854 before me a Justice

of the Peace in and for said County of Genesee and and I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Ira Delano the above named deponent and that he is a respectable resident of Fairfield aforesaid, and is a credible witness.
Philander Savage Justice of the Peace

State of Michigan } County of Lenawee } p:-
I Mahala Reynolds of Fairfield in the county of Lenawee and State of Michigan, being first duly sworn accor- -ding to law Do depose and say that I am thirty one years old — that I am a near neighbor of Abner Tuttle of Fairfield aforesaid and have been for the last fifteen years — that I was well acquainted with Joseph Tuttle and Sally Tuttle late of Fairfield aforesaid deceased, — that the said Joseph and Sally Tuttle lived and died at the house of the said Abner Tuttle in Fairfield aforesaid — that the said Joseph Tuttle died on the fourth day of September in the year 1848. — that I was at the house of the said Abner Tuttle on the day that the said Joseph Tuttle died and a few minutes after his death — that the said Sally Tuttle died on the seventh day of December in the year 1852. that I was not present at the time of the death of the said Sally Tuttle, neither did I attend the funeral on account of my own health and the badness of the weather at the time, but I well remember the day of her death. Mahala her Reynolds mark
Sworn to and subscribed on this tenth day of February in the year 1854, before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Lenawee, and I hereby certify that Mahala Reynolds the above named de- -ponent is a respectable resident of Fairfield aforesaid and is a credible witness. Philander Savage Justice of the Peace

POWER OF ATTORNEY—Revolutionary Pension Claims.
Know all Men by these Presents, That I, Abner Tuttle of Fairfield in the County of Lenawee and State of Michigan, Administrator of the Estate of Joseph Tuttle and Sally Tuttle late of Fairfield aforesaid deceased ,
hereby constitute and appoint Erving Fainton of Harford in the State of New York my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the Claim of Joseph Tuttle and Sally Tuttle for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or Increase of Pension, that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Agent to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said Claim, on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments; and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, which Certificate I wish made payable to myself as the Administrator of the Estate of the aforesaid Joseph and Sally Tuttle
to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
WITNESS my Hand and Seal this tenth day of February
A. D. 1854.
Abner Tuttle Administrator
Signed and Sealed in the presence of
Philander Savage Isaac DeLano
STATE OF Michigan } ss. COUNTY OF Lenawee
On this tenth day of February A. D. 1854 before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Abner Tuttle and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand, } the day and year aforesaid.
Philander Savage Justice Peace.

CLAIM OF
ACT OF
STATE OF Michigan COUNTY OF Genawa } ss.
Be it Known, That on this tenth day of February A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty four before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Abner Tuttle a resident of Fairfield in said County, and made oath according to law, that he is the Administrator of the estate of Joseph Tuttle and Sally Tuttle late of Fairfield aforesaid deceased — that said Joseph Tuttle
was a Revolutionary Pensioner
at the rate of forty Dollars per annum; that he has been informed that the said Pension ought to be increased; that he is directly interested as a Claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said Claim.
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid, before me, Philander Savage Jus. Peace.
Abner Tuttle Administrator
I, Philander Savage Justice of the Peace in and for said County, do hereby certify that Abner Tuttle who executed the foregoing paper, is a respectable resident of this County, and is, I believe, directly interested in said Claim as therein set forth. And I further certify, that I have no interest whatever in said Claim, or the prosecution thereof.
Philander Savage Justice Peace.
State of Michigan County of Genawa } ss
I, John Miller Clerk of the Circuit Court in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify, that Philander Savage before whom the foregoing papers were executed, was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and the name thereunto subscribed is his signature.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official Seal, this 12th day of February A. D. 1854.
John Miller Clerk.

STATE OF Michigan COUNTY OF Lenawee
ss.
It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me, Conider A. Stacy Judge of Probate in & for the County of Lenawee aforesaid
that Joseph Tuttle _____ was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of $ 40. (forty dollars) _____ per annum, and that he died on the fourth day of September _____ eighteen hundred and forty eight leaving surviving Sally Tuttle his widow, and that the said Sally Tuttle died on the seventh day of December eighteen hundred and fifty two , leaving surviving the following named children of the said Joseph and Sally Tuttle deceased, (to wit) Abner Tuttle, Maritta Tillotson, and Sally Hogle. _____ and that the said Abner Tuttle, Maritta Tillotson, and Sally Hogle are
the only surviving children of the aforesaid. Joseph Tuttle and Sally Tuttle deceased. And I further certify that the above-mentioned evidence consists of the affidavits of Abner Tuttle, Ira Delano, and Mahala Reynolds , which are herunto annexed
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, this 13 th day of February one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four
Conider A. Stacy Judge of Probate

County of Niagara
On this Ninth day of January
One thousand Eight hundred and twenty Nine personally appeared in Open Court being a Court of Record for the County of Niagara in the State of New York Joseph Tuttle Resident in said County aged Sixty six Years Who being first duly sworn according to Law took on his Oath While the following declaration in order to obtain the Pensions Where by the Act of Congress of the 18 th March 1818 and the 1 st of May 1820 that he the said Joseph Tuttle enlisted for the term of Nine Months in the latter part of the Month of April or first of May 1781 in the State of Connecticut in the Company Commanded by Colonel Patterson Captain Gresham Tuttle in the Regiment Commanded by Colonel Patterson According to the best of this Deponents recollection in the Line of the State of Connecticut or the Continental Establishment that he continued to serve in said Corps until the last of January or first of February 1782 the said term of Nine Months when he was discharged from the service in Newburgh in the State of New York.
Sworn to a declaration for the ninth day of January 1829. In Open Court before me. Henry Martin Clerk. Joseph Tuttle. State of New York Niagara County Clerk's office.
And in pursuance of the Act of the 1 st of May 1818 and 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a Resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 th day 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 intent thereby to diminish it as to being myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled "an Act" to provide for certain persons who have served in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not now 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 viz
One Table $1.00 - A part of a set of Framing and Wheelwright Tools $10.00 One Trunk $1. One Chest

The Declarant is a Carpenter & Wheelwright by trade and is unable to obtain a living by his trade on account of infirmity & blindness. Sarah Tuttle is the Wife of this Declarant and Twenty Years of age & is unable to contribute much for the support of the family. This Declarant and his Wife depend for support principally on the Charity of the son of the Declarant who has a family & is in indigent Circumstances. This Declarant has made no Application for his Pension before this time because he has been unable until lately to discover the necessary evidence which would entitle him to it.
Sworn to & declared on the Ninth day of Jan y 1829. in Open Court before Me as Clerk
Joseph Tuttle.
Henry Austin Clerk
I Henry Austin Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Niagara in the State of New York do Certify that it appears to the Satisfaction of the Court that the said Joseph Tuttle did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding Declaration against the Common Enemy for the term of Nine Months under one engagement on the Continental Establishment. I also Certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are true Copies from the Records of the said Court. And I do further Certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is Three hundred Dollars.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 18 th day of Feby A D 1829 at Lockport.
Henry Austin Clerk

District of Columbia Washington County 311.
I Erving Taintor of Harford in the county of Cortland and State of New York being first duly sworn according to law depose and say that I am forty two years old - that in the month of November 1850 this deponent was at the house of Abner Tuttle son of Joseph and Sally Tuttle, in the town of Fairfield county of Lenawee and State of Michigan that this deponent at that time was at the house of the said Abner Tuttle the old Family Bible of the said Joseph and Sally Tuttle which contained a record of the births of the children of the said Joseph and Sally Tuttle - that the record was taken from the said family Bible and attached to an affidavit in the presence of said deponent, by the said Abner Tuttle, for the purpose of proving the Marriage of the said Joseph and Sally Tuttle in an application for a pension at the Pension Office in the City of Washington - that at the time aforesaid this deponent, at the request of the said Abner Tuttle, made a copy of the said family record, in the family bible of the said Abner Tuttle, and that the leaf containing the said copy has been removed from the bible aforesaid and is attached with wafers to this affidavit and is believed by this deponent to be a true and faithful copy of the original record,
And this deponent further says that as Agent of the Claimants in this case he has made diligent search and inquiry for said record and affidavit, and that they cannot be found.
Erving Taintor.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 11 th of Nov 1853
H. G. Myers J. P. Pooce

   NAMES. BIRTHS. DEATHS.   Month. Day. Year. Month. Day. Year.     Abner Tuttle Feb 9 th 1799   Levis Tuttle Oct. 9 th 1809   Maritta Tuttle May 30 th 1812   Sally Tuttle April 27 th 1814    F. Mr. Waldo says this with the other proof in the case may be considered suffi- cient to establish the date of the marriage. J. T. D. Phelps Esq.
The above record was copied from the old record in Joseph Tuttle's old family Bible Nov. 16 th 1850

In the matter of the application of Joseph Nuttle for a pension
Declaration proofs
Indemnity G. Hard
✓
Hon. G. Hard

State of New York County of Niagara ss On this 7 th day of May in the year 1834 personally appeared in open court before the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Niagara in the said State Joseph Nettie a resident of the Town of Royalton in said County of Niagara aged Seventy three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declara- tion in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the act made by the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty according to his best recollection - That he is confident it was the year before Cornwallis was taken - That from loss of memory he cannot recollect the names of any of the officers under whom he served except the Captain of the Company whose name was Gershon Nettie and who was the father of him this de- -clarant - That he enlisted in the Connecticut line of troops but cannot recollect the name or number of the Regiment in which he served or so enlisted - That he enlisted early in the Spring of the said year 1780 - That at the time of his enlistment he resided in then Farmington now Bristol in the County of Hartford in the State of Connecticut - That he enlisted in Farmington aforesaid for the term of three years - That he mustered at Hartford with twenty or thirty others or more a few days after he so enlisted - That he with the others so mustered at Hartford were marched under the orders of his Gershon Nettie to Newburgh in the State of New York - That in their route they passed thro' Haverbury, Milford, Nashville Penna & where they made a short stop - That at Newburgh aforesaid they joined the Army and were organized into a regular Company That during the summer of 1780 he was stationed at Newburgh & New Windsor generally but was at different places for short periods in their vicinity - That the next succeeding fall or first of winter he had a furlough when the Army went into winter quarters he then

declarant obtained a furlough or leave of absence until the next Spring and went home and remained at home during the winter - That early in the Spring of 1781 Seventeen hundred and eighty one he this declarant returned to the Army in company with a number of others - That they halted a short time at Diskill Barracks and then proceeded on to New Burgh aforesaid where they joined the Army he this declarant in his father's 2 d Captain. Gresham Mottles Company - That at the time he returned to New Burgh in the Spring of 1781 some of the Army were at New Burgh some at Diskill Barracks & some at West Point - That after remaining at New Burgh a few days they were ordered from New Burgh and marched from there across the River and thence down the River to a place between Darrytown and Jobb's Ferry about one and an half miles back from the River - That they lay there whilst they were so stationed at the place last aforesaid they and he this declarant were engaged in skirmish with the British at Darrytown - That they remained at Darrytown or near there as aforesaid until the fall or near the fall, the weather having begun to be quite cool That from Darrytown they were marched to Philadelphia and thence to the head of Elk River - That at the time they left Darrytown as aforesaid and during their whole march to the head of Elk River he did not know the object of the movement That after they got to the head of Elk River (most of the Army then took boats or shipping and it was then said that the object of the movement was to take Cornwallis - That the company to which declarant was attached and some others remained at the head of Elk River to guard the baggage and stores - That a short time after that, declarant heard that Cornwallis was taken and afterwards the Army returned to the head of Elk River - That at this time the weather was

of Old River that at the time the weather was
quite cool and it had got to be late in the fall that they were then marched from Old River to Fish- kill Barracks where declarant remained but a few days and then had leave of absence until the next Spring when he went home where he remained until the next Spring (1782) That in April in the Spring of 1782 he again joined the Army at New Burgh and was part of the time at New Burgh and a part of the time at New Windsor - That he was a short time also at Kings Ferry and at Platts Point but most of the season was at West Point and Poughkeepsie - That they left West Point in the fall of that year marched back to New Burgh where a great many of the soldiers were discharged and went home - That the father of declarant stayed at New Burgh about a fortnight after they got back there and declarant stayed with him for some days when he declarant was discharged from the Service and went home That he received a written discharge or short mem- orandum in writing from his father as captain as aforesaid as evidence that he was discharged That he declarant has no recollection what has become of his memorandum in writing or dis- charge and does not recollect that he ever saw it after he got home - That he was so discharged at New Burgh in January 1783 having been in the Service nearly three years and this That he this declarant cannot state the precise time that he was in the Service as aforesaid but is positive that it was at least two years and eight months from the time of his enlistment to the time of his discharge as aforesaid and that it is for that time that he claims a pension - This declarant further states that he enlisted for the term of three years in the Spring of 1780 as aforesaid and continued in the Service of the in the United States Army from that time

to the month of January 1788 aforesaid except when he was absent upon furlough as above States whilst the Army was in winter quar- =ters - That whilst at home in the winter season on furlough as aforesaid he was not engaged in any business - That his Service aforesaid was as a private In answer to the questions propounded to him by the said Court of Common Pleas This declarant States
1 st That he was born Farmington Now Bristol in the County of Hartford in the State of Connecticut in the year Seventeen hundred and fifty one - That he has no record of his age - That when he entered the Service he lived at Farmington afo- =said - That since the Revolutionary he has lived in Claremont, New Hampshire, Whitesboro in the State of New York, Watertown New York, Upper Canada and lastly in the town of Royallston in the County of Middlesex where he has resided for the last six years and eight months -
That he entered the Service as a regular sol- dier as above States - That from loss of memory as aforesaid he cannot recollect the names of any of the officers attached to the Regiments or company in which he served except his father Captain Gershom Putnam aforesaid
This declarant further States that from loss of memory he cannot state the precise time that he was actually out of the Service deducting the time that he was absent on furlough but according to the best of his recollection he was actually out on duty or in field or Garrison in his Service after deducting his said furlough not less than the following times or periods to wit
In the year 1780 for the term of Eight months - In the year 1781 for the term of Ten months -

In the year 1782 for the term of nine and an half months making twenty seven and an half months - This declarant hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State - I swear to & subscribe in open Joseph Nuttle court day and year first aforesaid Henry Atwater Clerk of Niagara County Court -
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states -
William Dayton J. Van Horn Franklin Butterfield
We Franklin Butterfield one of the judges of the county courts of the county of Niagara residing in the town of Hartland in said county and Sherman McLean Physician and surgeon residing in the town of Royalton in said county hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joseph Nuttle who has made subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy three years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolu- -tion, and that we concur in that opinion sworn and subscribed the Shurman McLean 7 th day of May 1834 in open Franklin Butterfield court - Henry Atwater Clerk of Niagara County Court
I Herby certify that the foregoing is a true and of the court of common pleas of said county do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceed- -ings of the said court on the application of Joseph Nuttle for a pension - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 7 th day of May 1834

We Franklin Butterfield and Sherman McLean above named do hereby further certify that we have been some time acquainted with the above named Joseph Nuttle that his faculties of mind are impaired by age so that in the opinion of the undersigned he cannot recollect the names of officers under whom he served in the Revolutionary War and so that we should not expect him to recollect the circumstances attending his service except such prominent ones as were calculated to make a deep impression upon one mind at the time - That we have no doubt of his service in the Revolutionary war for the time stated in his above declaration - That he is a man of strict integrity is our opinion -
Witness our hands to this declaration before
on this 7th day of May A.D. 1834
Henry Atkinson of Macon County Court
Franklin Butterfield Sherman McLean

Onida County ss. }
Zebulon Little of Westmoreland in said county being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is now in his fifty-ninth year of age; that he has been acquainted with Joseph Little (now of Niagara county N. York) from childhood (of this deponent;) that said Joseph Little was from home the three last years of the revolutionary war; that he went from home as a soldier to join the revoluti- onary army, and at that time it was reported & verily believed that he was in the service as a soldier — that several years since he said deponent was present when the deposition of Joseph Barton (of Onondaga county was taken) that he said Barton testified positively that said Joseph Little was with him in service as a soldier in the revolutionary army and that this deponent understands from report, & verily believes, that said Joseph Barton is now dead. —
Sworn and subscribed before me this 13 Sep
Lebanon Little
Human Excess of the Power —
State of New York
Osceola County, 3d March 1834.
I have been acquainted with the above named Zebulon Little for many years; during all that time he has sustained the reputation of being a man of veracity . —
of Veracity : — Human Enos Justice of the Peace

Clerks Office Oneida County N.Y.
I, George Brown Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Truman Erie Esq before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn was on the day of the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and duly authorized to act as such; and further that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed thereto to be his proper hand writing and signature
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County this 5 day of March 1834.
George Brown Clerk By Tho s S. Rudd Dep.

State of New York Onondaga County ss.
B. Martha Manroff of Herkland in the County of Onondaga being duly sworn says that she was during the latter part of the resolution - any man. This deponent was well acquainted with Joseph Tuttle of Farmington now Bristol in the County of Hartford Connecticut and that she well knew that the said Joseph Tuttle was and for a considerable length of time in the service of the continental army as she this deponent was then informed and believes to have been about as much as three years And further says not
Sworn & Subscribed this 14th day of Sept 1832
Her Martha Manroff mark
Lord Justice of the Peace
State of New York Onondaga County ss.
I certify that I am well acquainted with Martha Manroff above named & that she is a person of good moral character & that she is entitled to full credit & further that at the time of taking the oath I was a Justice of the Peace & was then a Commissioner of Deeds & I am now Dated the 8th March 1834
Lord Comr of Eng

State of New York Oneida County, ss. Clerk's Office, p: I George Brown Clerk of the County aforesaid, do hereby Certify that J. Pond Esq before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same a Justice of the peace in and for said County, and duly authorized to act as such: and further that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the same to be his proper hand writing & signature. And I further certify, that J. Pond Esq whose name is subscri- to the within Certificate of Credibility was on the 14 th day of September 1832 and still is a Commissioner of Pleas in and for said County and duly authorized to act as such: and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed thereto to be his proper hand writing & signature. Witness my hand & seal of Office at Utica this 5 th day of March A D 1834 George Brown Clerk By Thos. J. Rudd Dep y

Oneida County ss Reuben Hickcox of the town of Westmoreland in said county being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he is well acquainted with Joseph Fittle of Raystown in Niagara county, that he this deponent near the close of the Revolutionary war was in the Continental service in the Quater- Master's department in Capt. Gensharn Fittle's company, that he entered the service early in the spring of the year, that he continued in said service til the latter part of the month of November of the same year and that said Joseph Fittle was in said service all the time that this depo- nent was & that this deponent left said Joseph Fittle in said service
Sworn & subscribed before me this 11th day of August 1828
Reuben Hickcox
Enuman Enos Justice of the Peace
I certify that I am acquainted with Reuben Hickcox & that he sustains the reputation of a man of integrity and veracity
Enuman Enos

Clerks Office Queida County ss: I. George Brown Clerk of said County do hereby certify, that Townman Enos Ely before whom the within affi- davit purports to have been sworn was on the day of the date of the same a Justice of the peace in and for said County and duly authorized to act as such, and further that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed thereto to be his proper handwriting and signature. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County this 5 th day of March 1834 Geo Brown Clerk
Joseph Lutter Rudolph Koppers

In the Matter of Joseph Tuttle a Soldier in the Revolutionary War
State of New York §. On the twenty fifth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight, hundred and twenty eight, before me Justus H. Rathbone a Commissioner to perform certain duties of judges of the Supreme Court. Came Joseph Barton of Albia in the County of Onondaga State aforesaid Merchant. To me well known who being by me duly sworn made oath and testified, that in the year 1780 he the said Barton was a private in the Company commanded by Capt. Gershon Tuttle. For the term of nine months, and that during the whole of that time Joseph Tuttle above named was also a private in the same Company. That the said Joseph Tuttle was the son of the said Capt. Tuttle and was enlisted into the service in Bristol in the State of Connecticut. where this deponent knew him both before and after his enlistment; and this deponent has been informed and firmly believes, that the said Joseph Tuttle now resides in the town of Royalton in the County of Niagara and State of New York.
Joseph Barton
Sworn this 28 th Aug t
1828. before me
J. H. Rathbone Comm r

I hereby Certify that I was well acquainted with Joseph Paxton the person who subscribed his name to the above affidavit, for many years previous to his death which took place in the summer of 1832. That he was a man of fair character, for truth and veracity, and a respectable citizen of the City of Utica where he had resided for many years. dated Utica March 5. 1834 J. S. Hathbone
Clerks Office Oneida County } ss. George Brown Clerk of said County do hereby Certify that Justus H. Hathbone Esq. before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn was on the day of the date of the same a Com- =missioner to perform certain duties of judges of the Supreme Court and duly authorized to act as such, and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed thereto to be his proper handwriting & signature. Witness my hand and seal of Office this 5 th day of March A.D. 1834 Geo Brown Clerk

State of Michigan } County of Wayne } As
Be it known that I Erving Taintor of Harford in the county of Cortland and State of New York being first duly sworn according to law do depose and say that I am the Agent or Attorney for prosecuting the claim of the children of Joseph and Sally Tuttle late of Harsfield in the county of Lenawee and State of Michigan accused for any amount of Revolutionary Pension or increase of Pension that may be due that I am fully authorized to receive the certificate that may be issued for the said claim that in my letter to the Commission of Pensions of the 13 th of February last I requested the Commissioners to send the said certificates to me at Adrian Michigan. That I have received a letter from the said Commission dated on the 16 th of March 1854 informing me that the said certificates were issued from the Pension Office on the 22 nd day of February 1854. that I have frequently called at the Post Office in said Adrian and that I have not received the said certificates and suppose the same to be lost
Erving Taintor Sworn & Subscribed } Before me at Detroit } This 28 th March A.D. }
10521. Thos H Hartwell Notary Public Wayne Co Michigan

CLERK'S CERTIFICATE.
Printed and sold by Bagg, Patten & McDonald, corner of Jefferson Avenue and Griswold St.
STATE OF MICHIGAN, } ss.
County of Wayne
J. E. Hawley Jr Clerk of said County of Wayne
Do HEREBY CERTIFY, that J. H. Hartwell whose name is subscribed
to the Certificate or proof of acknowledgment of the annexed Instrument, and therein written, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Notary Public for said County,
duly Commissioned and qualified, and duly authorized to take the same: AND FURTHER, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such
Notary and verily believe that the signature to the said Certificate or proof of acknowledgment is genuine: I FURTHER CERTIFY that said Instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the Laws of this State.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County, at Detroit this 28 th day of March A. D. 1854.
H. R. Northland  By Clerk.

State of Michigan County of Wayne } ss
Be it known that I Abner Tuttle of Fairfield in the county of Lenawee and State of Michigan being first duly sworn according to law do depose and say that I am one of the children of Joseph and Sally Tuttle late of Fairfield aforesaid deceased - That I am Administrator of the estate of the said Joseph and Sally Tuttle That I have duly appointed Erving Taintor of Hartford in the County of Cortland and state of New York my Agent or Attorney to prosecute the claim of the children of the said Joseph and Sally Tuttle for any amount of Revolutionary Pension or increase of Pension that may be due and have fully authorized my said Agent or Attorney to receive from the Commissioners of Pensions the certificate that may issued for the said claim - That I have been informed by my said agent that the certificates was issued from the Pension Office and directed to him at Adrian Michigan on the 22 day of February 1854. That I have also been informed by my said Agent that he has not received the said certificates, that I have not received the said certificates myself, and believe the same to be lost.
Sworn & Subscribed Before me, at Detroit This 28 day of March A.D. 1854.
Abner Tuttle
Thos H Hartwell
Notary Public
Wayne Co
Michigan

State of Michigan County of Genesee 3 88
Abner Little of the township of Fairfield in said County being duly sworn  affirmed deposes & says that he is the son of Joseph Little an illegitimate deponent & now of the age of fifty three years & upwards. That said Joseph was married as deponent believes to Sally Sharkey in the year Seventeen hundred & ninety Eight. That said Joseph & Sally by their said marriage had four children, to wit Abner Little the deponent. Sarah Little born October the ninth 1800. Maria -to Little born May 30 1802 & Sally Little born April 27 th 1804. That said children are all living with the exception of Sarah Little deceased.
And deponent further says that said Joseph & Sally kept a family bible which said family bible is now in the possession of this deponent. That said Joseph & Sally kept a record of the births of these said children in said bible. That said record was copied into the family bible of this deponent on the 16 th day of November 1880 by Erving Taintor, & the leaf containing the old family record was removed from the family bible kept by said Joseph & Sally for the purpose of being used as evidence in the procuring of a pension for said Sally Little the widow of said Joseph and as deponent believes was sent to Washington for the purposes.

aforesaid, And deponent further says that said family record of said Joseph & Sally stated the births of their said children as herein before mentioned & this deponent as being born on the 9 th day of February. 1799.
And this deponent further says. that said family record of said Joseph & Sally, was written in the family bible as long ago as this deponent has any recollection thereof.
And this deponent further says that said Joseph Tuttle departed this life on the 4 th day of September 1848. & that his said wife Sally departed this life on the 7 th day of December 1852, and that Sarah the daughter of said Joseph & Sally died when she was about ten years old. And further deponent saith not.
Subscribed & affirmed to me
before me this 17 th Oct
1853. R R Beecher
Justice of the Peace
Abner Tuttle

STATE OF MICHIGAN, LENAWEE COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE.
ss. I Hereby Certify, That _____
Robert R. Buecher
whose name is subscribed to the annexed and foregoing Certificate of Affidavit was at the date thereof, and still is, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly qual- ified and authorized by the Laws of this State, to take the same, and to all of whose Official acts as such Justice of the Peace full faith and credit are due and ought to be given; And that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Robert R. Buecher and ver- ily believe his signature subscribed to the annexed and foregoing Certificate of Affidavit is genuine. I further certify, that
the
the annexed instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the Laws of the State of Michigan, to entitle it to record therein.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF , I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Circuit Court, for said County, at Adrian, this 17th day of October A.
D. 185 3
John Miller Clerk of said Court and County.

May 16 1874. Mr. Stewart
FREE
Pension Office Washington D.C.
May
per to 4 Sept 39 - trans from that time.
Right. Waiting Pen est reply

Application for a Transfer
County of Lenawee . ss:
On this Eighth day of May 1845 before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Lenawee personally appeared Joseph Tuttle who, on his Oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company, commanded by Captain Gersham Tuttle in the Regiment commanded by Colonel (Name of the Colonel forgotten), in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of New-York from whence he has lately removed, that he now resides in the State of Michigan where he intends remain, and wishes his pension to be then payable, in future. The following are his reasons for removing from the State of New-York to the State of Michigan viz: Abner Tuttle son of said Joseph Tuttle, resides in the State of Michigan, in the County of Lenawee, and said Joseph Tuttle came to live with his said son Abner Tuttle, with whom he intends for the future, to reside -
Sworn, and Subscribed to before me } Joseph Tuttle the day and year aforesaid Daniel J. Sinclair Justice of the Peace
State of Michigan } Lenawee County } ss:
Benjamin Baker of the township of Fairfield County & State aforesaid, being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is personally acquainted with the above named Joseph Tuttle, and that the said Joseph Tuttle who has taken the above Oath, is the person described in the affidavit. Subscribed and sworn to

this Eighth day of May A.D. 1840.
before me -
Benjamin Baker
Daniel D. Sinclair Justice of the Peace.
I do hereby certify that the above named Benjamin Baker is a person of veracity - Daniel D. Sinclair Justice of the Peace.

To Hon. G. L. Edwards.
Please to attend to the within Transfer, and forw. the same to the Subscribes.
Yours with due Respect
M. H. Halsey
(Adrian, Lenawee Co. Michigan)

STATE OF MICHIGAN,
R. W. INGALS' Print, Adrian, Mich.
Circuit Court for the County of Lenawee, ss.
TO ALL WHO MAY SEE THESE PRESENTS—GREETING:
I, William R. Powers, Clerk of the Circuit Court of the County of Lenawee, Do hereby Certify that Daniel D. Sinclair
Esq., whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of the Proof or Acknowledgment of the annexed instrument in writing, and thereon written, was at the time of taking such Proof or Acknowledgment, an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly elected and qualified to act as such: To all of whose official acts full faith and credit should, and of right ought to be given. And Further , That I am acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and verily believe that the Signature of said Proof or Acknowledgment is Genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said circuit court, at the village of Adrian, this 14th day of May A. D. 1840 W. R. Powers Clerk.

STATE OF Michigan COUNTY OF Lenawee } ss.
It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me Judge of Probate Conrider A. Stacy Judge of Probate in & for the County of Lenawee State of Michigan that Joseph Tuttle was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of $ forty dollars per annum and that he died on the fourth day of March eighteen hundred and forty eight leaving surviving Sally Tuttle his widow, who also died on the 7th day of December 1852. leaving her sur- viving Abner Tuttle  Marritta Tillotson , Sally Hoagle and that the said Abner Tuttle  Marritta Tillotson and Sally Hoagle are
the only surviving children of the aforesaid. Joseph Tuttle and Sally Tuttle his widow
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this Eleventh day of one thousand eight hundred and fifty three
Conrider Stacy Judge of Probate

POWER OF ATTORNEY — Revolutionary Pension Claims.
I know all Men by these Presents, That I, Abner Tuttle of Kalamazoo in the county of Lenawee and State of Michigan son of Joseph and Sally Tuttle late of said Kalamazoo deceased as
hereby constitute and appoint Irving Taintor of Hearstown, New York my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the Claim of said Joseph and Sally Tuttle for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or Increase of Pension, that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Agent to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments; and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, which Certificate I wish made payable to Abner Tuttle
to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
WITNESS my hand and Seal this 12 day of July
A. D. 1853
Signed and Sealed in the presence of
D. D. Bennet }
Isaac Dimond
Abner Tuttle
STATE OF Michigan COUNTY OF Lenawee } ss.
On this first day of July A. D. 1853 before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Abner Tuttle and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand, } the day and year aforesaid.
D. D. Bennet Justice Peace.

CLAIM OF Joseph Tuttle and Sally Tuttle his widow ACT OF June 7, 1832, and July 29 1848. STATE OF Michigan COUNTY of Lenawee } ss.
Be it known, That on this first day of July A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty three , before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Abner Tuttle a resident of Fairfield in said County, and made oath according to law that he is the son of Joseph and Sally Tuttle late of Fairfield aforesaid deceased, and that the said Joseph Tuttle
who was a Revolutionary Pensioner
at the rate of forty Dollars per annum; that he has been informed that the said Pension ought to be increased; that he is directly interested as a claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid, before me. D. D. Bennet J. Peace.
Abner Tuttle
I, D. D. Bennet a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, do hereby certify that Abner Tuttle who executed the foregoing paper is a respectable resident of this County, and is, I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth.
D. D. Bennet J. Peace.
I, John Miller Clerk of the Circuit Court in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Davis D. Bennet before whom the foregoing papers were executed, was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and the name thereunto subscribed, is his signature.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official Seal this Eleventh day of July A. D. 185 3 .
John Miller Clerk.
By John Barbor Depy Clerk

5 X 1000
July 28, 1925
Eva D. Tuttle Napton, Missouri.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 3627 it appears that Joseph Tuttle , the son of Gershom Tuttle, was born in 1761 in Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut.
In 1829 he was a resident of Royalton, Niagara County, New York. He was allowed pension on a certificate which was issued September 7, 1836. He died September 4, 1848 in Fairfield, Lenawee County, Michigan.
Soldier married in 1878, Sarah or Sally Sharker. She died December 7, 1852 in Fairfield, Michigan aged about ninety-three years. Their children were:

Abner born February 9, 1799, and in 1840 living in Fairfield, Michigan. Louis " October 9, 1800. She died at the age of ten years. Maritta " May 30, 1802, married Tillotson, his given name not stated. Living in Greenfield, Erie Co., Penn. in 1854. Sally " April 27, 1804, married Hogle, his given name not stated. Living in Bellville, Midland District, Province of Canada, West, in 1854.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.
after Rev- Rel- lived in Claremont, N.H. Whilston Watertown, N.Y. & Upper Canada - ?

Royalton N.Y. 3 Oct 9 th
Free
Oct 15
Hon. Joseph of  Cap Century at New Washington City
(Pension Office)
Additional to nominal in the name of Joseph of  Cap

Royaltown Niagara Co. N.Y. Oct. 9 th 1832
Sir — Joseph Little of this town a Revolutionary Soldier, again requests me to lay his case before your Honor, indulging the hope that the following explanation, the enclosed papers and those presumed to be on file in your department will entitle him to a pension under the Laws passed at the last Session of Congress —
Mr. Little applied for a pension under the act as amended in 1828 (if I mistake not) and procured affidavits from Joseph Barton of Attica Reuben Hickox and Zebulun Little both of Westmoreland in this state, which were taken in August 1828 — Barton stated, that he was with Joseph Little in the Continental service, nine months at one time — Hickox stated that he served with the said Little eight months, and left said Little in the service — The above mentioned testimony and Joseph Little's affidavit, were forwarded to your department early in the year 1829 by Joseph Center Esq. of Lockport — Here it may be proper, and I am requested by Mr. Little to state, that he was mistaken in the name of the Colonel — An impaired memory has entirely obliterated from his mind the recollection of the names of the principal officers under whom he served, and occasioned the error alluded to —
I received a letter from the department under date July 18-1831, with reference to his claim for a Pension, which stated that there was no proof in

this department but his own statement —
Presuming that Bartow, Kieckhof and G. Little affidavits were mislaid, or not received at your department — to avail himself of the benefits of the late Pension law, Mr. Little went to Athens to obtain the testimony of Bartow and Kieckhof ascertained that both died a few days previous to his arrival as you will learn by the newspaper enclosed, which event has unfortunately deprived him of all foundation to a claim for a pension, unless the testimony of Bartow & Kieckhof can be found, but if affidavits of Bartow & Kieckhof with the affidavit not, and the foregoing statement with the affidavit of Mr. Little now on file, and the enclosed proof, be insufficient then other corroborating testimony will be furnished if a decision to that effect requires it
Please give me information of the result as soon as convenient, and if unfavorable with the testimony adduced, be so good Sir if the request is not unreasonable, to suggest the method of proceeding in this unusual case to substantiate Mr. Little's claim to a Pension
Respectfully Your Obedient and my humble servant
Sherman McLean
Hon. Lewis C. C. Secretary of War

Mar 18 1848 act
Joseph Tuttle
N.Y.
Additional affida
vits -
left by
B. Cooke
Who requests that the can be examined -
affs sent to Hon. J. Hans - Feby 8. 1834
Joseph
Tuttle

Royalton N.Y. Aug. 29 th .
Free
Sept 5
W. of L. Edwards Hon. J. L. Edwards Consumption of Pensies Washington City
For Little Spade

Joseph Tuttle of Royalton in the county of Niagara and State of New York, being duly sworn doth depose and say, that he was a Soldier in the army of the Revolution, and served in the company commanded by his father Capt. Pershon Tuttle, but the number of the Regiment and name of the Colonel this deponent from loss of memory cannot recollect. — That this deponent petitioned Congress at its last session for a pension, and which was presented as this deponent has been informed, by the Hon. Gideon Ward member of Congress, that an act was passed on the 28 th day of June 1836, giving him this deponent a pension at the rate of forty dollars per year to commence on the 4 th day of March 1831, and further saith not.  Dated Royalton Augt 27 th 1836
Joseph Tuttle
Subscribed and sworn this 27 th day of August 1836 Before me Sherman McLean Justice of Peace
State of New York Niagara County
I, Abijah H. Mose clerk of said County do hereby certify that Sherman McLean Esquire before whom the annexed affidavit was taken was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Niagara duly elected and sworn and that same well and truly with his hand writing and truly believe the signature  Sherman McLean within subscribed to be his genuine signature.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the Seal of said County at Lockport the 27 th day of August A.D. 1836
A.H. Mose clerk

I know all men by these presents that I Joseph Tuttle of Royalltown in the county of Niagara, and State of New York, do hereby constitute and appoint Sherman McLean my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to receive from the War Department of the United States a pension certificate, agreeably to an Act passed for my relief, dated June 28 th 1836 — Witness my hand and seal this 29 th day of August 1836 —
In presence of Lewis Allender
Joseph Tuttle
State of New York } Niagara County } ss.
Be it known, That on the 29 th day of August 1836, before the Subscriber a Judge of Niagara County Court, personally appeared Joseph Tuttle above named, and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his act and deed — In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last above written —
Franklin Buttsfield Judge of Niagara County Court

Royalton Niagara Co. N.Y. Aug. 25 th 1836
Sir -
Agreeably to the directions contained in your Letter of the 11 th inst. I forward you herewith, the Affidavit and power of Attorney of Joseph Tattlo, in order to obtain his pension Certificate. If the papers are correct please forward the Certificate to me as soon as convenient. If not correct please furnish the forms necessary and oblige
Your Obedient And my humble Servant Sherman M c Lean
Hon. J. L. Edwards

Doc. Title NY
The petition of Joseph Tuttle praying Congress for the passage of a law authorizing the auction of his wound on the prison- roll -
— York
Feb. 3 rd 1836
Ref to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions
Can Rev. Pensions
Mar. 3. 1836. Bill n. 421.
Read.
Hara

To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America
The petition of Joseph Tuttle of Rutland, humbly respectful — that the enlistment in the army of the United States, according to his best recollection — in the year 1780, under his father Capt. Gershon Tuttle, and under whom he served between two and three years — Your petitioner having been refused the benefit of a pension by the Commissioner of Pensions respectfully begs leave to make a statement of facts relative to his application with the decision of the Commissioner thereon — After the passage of the Act of 1828, your petitioner to avail himself of its provisions, obtained affidavits as proof of his service, made a declaration, agreeably to the provisions of said act — which was forwarded to the Secretary of War, but by some unaccountable neglect of the person to whom the business was entrusted, the affidavits were not sent — Your petitioner having positive proof of service, was induced to make another application under the act of 1832 — Another declaration was made and executed agree- ably to the requisitions of said Act, on the 7 th day of May 1834, which with numerous affidavits, were forwarded to the Commissioner of Pensions, whose decision was un- favorable, in consequence as was alleged, of discrepancies in the two declarations, particularly in regard to the amount of time served, dates, and that there was an insuperable objection to that part of the last declaration which states "that he, the declarant in company with several others were marched to the head of the Elk and was stationed there to guard the baggage and stores which, as alleged by the Commissioner was erroneous, because none of the Connecticut troops were ever as far south" — In regard to the discrepancies in the two declarations relative to the amount of time served, your petitioner would beg leave to state, that when the first declaration was made, he was informed that the state- ment in the declaration need only embrace the number of months of service as required by the act of 1828 — in —

addition to which, the declaration was written in the Court room, and in the last moments of the session of the Court, waiting for the completion of the declaration, the agitation of your petitioning mind was  such by the hurry and confusion was such, that it may account for unintentional errors in that declaration. The discrepancy in dates of your petition can only repeat what was stated in his last declaration - that owing to a memory very much impaired by old age, it is utterly impossible for him to recollect the precise time when those events transpired as stated in both declarations, neither can he recollect what officers he served under except the Captain whose name was Peabody  Little the father of your petition - The insuperable objection raised by the Commission of pensions - that your petition could not have been at the head of the Elk's, for reasons before stated, would have led him more solemnly to declare, that he was then in the service of his country and in confirmation that your petition was then as well as other belonging to the Cavalry line, he hopes the accompanying affidavits will remove the greatest objection urged by the Commission of pensions - In explanation of the statement in that part of the declaration above referred to, your petition did not mean to be understood that the whole army stationed on the North River were marched to the head of the Elk's, but only a detachment, and a few of that detachment were left as above stated to guard the baggage and stores, and among whom was your petition.
Among the affidavits now on file in the office of the Commission of pensions it will be observed, that there is one from Joseph Barton of Otis and another from Benjamin Hickson of Mendon, who served their country with your petition, and were his mates together, both of whom state positively to the service of your petition - for their character and exactitude we would respectfully refer your Honorable body to the members from that Congressional district -

9 - from that Congressional
Your petition is aware, that there has been frequent imposition in obtaining pensions, and of the caution necessary to guard against it, yet he flatters himself with the fond hope that from the abundance of the testimony adduced, although he may have committed many unintentional errors in his declaration by reason of his age and defective memory - your Honorable body will be pleased to grant him a pension of such an amount as his claim may merit - As your petition is in duty bound will humbly pray
State New York January 1836 -
Joseph Tuttle

I Roger Avery of Royalton Niagara County, and State of New York, doth depose and say, that and now a pensioner I was a mule- teer, soldier, attached to the Connecticut line of troops, that he then deposed was at the head of the Col. lines, and at Yorktown at the taking of Cornwallis -
This deponent would also state that he knew, and saw several of the said Connecticut troops, at the head of the Col. and also at Yorktown - That Capt. Douglass of New London Ct. under whom this deponent served, was also there - This deponent has been acquainted with Mr. Joseph Tuttle for some time, that in our conversation about Revolutionary transactions, and from other circumstances, this deponent has no hesitation in saying that he believes said Tuttle was a Revolutionary soldier and that he was at the head of the Col. - And further this deponent saith not -
State of New York Niagara Co. ss.
On this 11 th day of January 1836 personally appeared the above named Roger Avery and made oath to the foregoing.
Sherman McLean Justice of the Peace

We the subscribers have been acquainted with Mr. Joseph Little for several years, that he is a man of truth and veracity — but unfortunately his memory is very much impaired by old age — Having frequently heard him say that he was a Revolutionary soldier, and served his country faithfully, and have also heard him relate a great variety of incidents and transactions peculiar to revolutionary times, which, with other corroborating circumstances, establishes the belief in us, without a shadow of doubt that he was a revolutionary soldier — We are fully convinced that the merits, and validity of his claim to a pension, are equal to many who received the bounty of our country's gratitude, and it is our united and earnest wish that his petition to Congress for a pension, may receive that favorable consideration which his claims and many circumstances require —
Rayalton N. York Decemr 25. 1835 —
Thomas W. Luan P. Master Rayalton
Lee Brundage
Guiney Hiss
B. Sheldon
J. H. Hithcock
Parker Liscumbe
Aaron Barrett
Davis Hurd
Honso W. Hencourt J.P.
Solomon Richardson
Elias Richardson
Thomas Richardson
Elias Richardson 2 d
Daniel Green
Joshua Mayton
Byrcher Dwight
James Baldwin
Anson Baldwin
Deut Williams
John Carrington
Eda Carrington
Amos Brannon

J. Charles Hammond of Royalton, County of Niagara and State of New York, would respectfully inform the Honorable Members of Congress, assembled, in behalf of Mr Joseph Tuttle, your petitioner for assistance, that I have been acquainted with him for several years - that his character for truth and veracity is unexceptionable though his memory is somewhat impaired, and that, in my opinion, he richly deserves the reward of a Revolutionary Pensioner and his Country's gratitude. I cheerfully concur in opinion, with a number of gentlemen of the first respectability in this town, who have expressed their belief from a variety of circumstances, that Mr Joseph Tuttle was a Revolutionary Soldier. His needy circumstances calls for relief, and it is to be hoped that Congress will grant the prayer of their petitioner, as an act of justice for services, rendered.
Royalton Jan. 13 th 1836
Charles Hammond Minister of the Gospel
I certify that the Rev. Charles Hammond who signed the foregoing Certificate is a very respectable Clergyman, in good and regular standing.
Dated Royalton June 13 th 1836
Sherman McLean Justice of the Peace

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County of Niagara Is.
On the ninth day of January One thousand Eight hundred and twenty nine personally appeared in Open Court being a Court of Record for the County of Niagara in the State of New York Joseph Tuttle resident in said County aged Sixty six years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the act of Congress of the 18 th March 1818 and the 1 st of May 1820 that he the said Joseph Tuttle enlisted for the term of nine months in the latter part of the month of April or first of May 1781 in the State of Connecticut in the Company commanded by Captain Gershaim Tuttle in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Patterson according to the best of this deponents recollection in the Line of the State of Connecticut on the Continental Establishment, that he continued to serve in said Corps until the last of January or first of February 1782 the said Term of nine months when he was discharged from the service in Newburgh in the State of New York.
Sworn to and declared on the ninth day of January 1829 in open court before me Henry Catlin Clerk.
Joseph Tuttle.
State of New York Niagara County Clerks office
And in pursuance of the act of the 1 st of May 1818 and 1820. I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day 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 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 18 th 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 & by me subscribed, Viz One Table $ 1.00. A part of a set of Farming and Wheelwright Tools $ 10. One Trunk $ 1. One Chest $ 1.
The Declarant is a Carpenter & Wheelwright by trade and is unable to obtain a living by his trade on account of infirmity and blindness. Sarah Tuttle is the wife of this declarant, and Seventy years of age and is unable to contribute much for the support of the family. This declarant and his wife depend for support principally on the Charity of the son of the Declarant who has a family and is in indigent circumstances. This Declarant has made no application for his Pension before this time because he has been unable until lately to discover the necessary evidence which would entitle him to it.
Sworn to and declared on the Ninth day of January 1829. in Open Court before me as Clerk. Henry Catlin Clerk.
Joseph Tuttle

I Henry Catlin Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Niagara in the State of New York do certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Joseph Tuttle did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common Enemy for the term of nine months under one engagement on the Continental Establishment. I also certify that the foregoing Oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Records of the said Court. And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is Thirteen dollars.
(Seal)
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court on this 16 th day of February A D. 1829. - at Lockport.
Henry Catlin Clerk.
I certify that the foregoing pages, numbered from one to three, inclusive, are truly copied from the originals on file in this Office
February 17. 1836.
J. L. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions

Joseph Tuttle
Spouse act. P. Act '36 Michigam Died 4 th of Sept. 1848 - left a widow Sally - non- compus - Abner Tuttle her Guardian.
Joseph Tuttle Served two years as Teamster - Recd at $40 per annum. Served with Capt. Gershon Tuttle. A. increased of pension is claimed under act of 7 th Jan 32
see papers of forl. Marshall-
Act 7 th Jan 32, 22.9.
" " " Preserved Marshall
P. Act 7 th Jan 32 ct
" " " Perez Marshall
P. Act 7 th Jan 32 Mop.
" " " P. Elmer Johnson 32-ct
Each of the above named served in the same co of Dramsters, under Capt. Gershon Tuttle,
H.G. Wade Present.

State of Michigan County of Genesee
p I Corridor Astery Judge of the Probate Court in for the District of Genesee
In said State, do hereby certify that at a Probate Court held before me in said County at Flint, on the 9 th day of February 1852, said Certificate was addressed to show that Joseph Tuttle, late a United States pensioner from the State of Michigan at the rate of $40 per annum, died on the fourth day of September (1848) one thousand eight hundred and forty eight, that at his decease he left a widow him, surviving named Sally Tuttle, who has not intermarried but still remains a widow, that on account of infirmities of old age she is entirely unable to transact any business, and for such reason Almon Tuttle whose affidavit is hereto annexed, has been appointed and constituted her guardian, and is duly authorized to act as such, - and that the pension certificate of said Joseph Tuttle is
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and impressed the seal of said Court this 9 th day of February 1852. Corridor Astery Judge of Probate

State of Michigan County of Genesee } ss. Abner Tuttle of Hamfield in said County knows first duly sworn according to law deposes and saith, that she is the Guardian of Sally Tuttle deposants mother, and who is the widow of Joseph Tuttle, deceased, that deposant has always under- stood from her said father Joseph Tuttle that he was a Seaman in the Revolutionary War, and that he rec d a pension for such ser- vices, but often said he did not receive what he was justly entitled to, that this deposant as the Guardian of said Joseph Tuttle widow, has appointed Mr. Wade of Washington City his attorney to prosecute this claim against the Government, and makes this declaration for the purpose of confirming the claim, in order to obtain the benefits of act of 7th June 1832. Abner Tuttle
Sworn and subscribed before me this 9 day of February 1852 by Abner Tuttle whom I certify is a credible person, Comider Atten
Judge of Probate

Joseph Tullio New York
7 June 32.
precautions by act Congress 4411 p. 404 Gratuit
27 May
Power of Attorney in Tullio Case
Joseph Tullio

Know all men By these presents that I. Abner Tuttle of Fairfield, in the county of Lenawee and State Michigan, Guardian of Sally Tuttle of Fairfield aforesaid have appointed and by these presents do constitute and appoint Abijah Catlin of the State of Connecticut my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to make application at the Pension Office at Washington for arrears of pension which I claim to be due me as the Guardian of Sally Tuttle aforesaid for the services of her late husband, Joseph Tuttle deceased as a Weamster in the Revolutionary War.
And I hereby grant full power to my said attorney to act for me in the said premises and hereby revoking all former powers by me granted.
Witness my hand and seal this fifteenth day of February in the year 1858.
Sealed and delivered
in presence of
Hiram S. Eddy, Samuel Hinskly
Abner Tuttle
State of Michigan County of Lenawee } ss
Be it known that on the 15 th day of February 1858 before the subscriber a justice of the Peace in and for said county personally appeared Abner Tuttle above named and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be his act and deed.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last above written.
Samuel Hinskly Justice of the Peace

PROBATE COURT.
ESTATE OF
Sally Butts
DECEASED.
Copy of LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION.
Copy of Will

STATE OF MICHIGAN, } ss.
Probate Court for said County :
COUNTY OF Lapeer .
In the matter of the Estate of Sally Tuttle
deceased.
By Conrad A. Tracy said County.
Judge of Probate for
To Abner Tuttle
of said County GREETING :
Whereas, Sally Tuttle lately departed this life intestate, being at, or immediately previous to his death an inhabitant of the County of Lapeer and having while he lived and at the time of his decease, Estate within said County of Lapeer to be administered; whereby the power of committing administration and full disposition of all and singular the goods, chattels, rights, credits and estate whereof the said deceased died possessed, in the State of Michigan, and also the hearing, examining and allowing the account of such administration doth appertain unto me; and you having given a bond in the premises, which has been duly approved and filed as required by law in that behalf: NOW, THEREFORE, trusting in your care and fidelity, I do, by these presents, commit unto you the said
Abner Tuttle
full power and authority to administer and faithfully dispose of according to law, all and singular the goods, chattels, rights, credits and estate of said deceased, within the State of Michigan, which shall at any time come to your possession or to the possession of any other person for you, and to ask, gather, levy, recover and receive all the goods, chattels, rights, credits and estate whatsoever, of said deceased, which to him while he lived and at the time of his death did belong: and to pay and discharge all debts, and charges chargeable on the same, or such dividends thereon as shall be ordered and decreed by said Court: Hereby requiring you to make and return to said Court, within three months, a true and perfect inventory of all the goods, chattels, rights, credits and real estate of said deceased, which shall come to your possession or knowledge, or to the possession of any other person for you, and also to render a just and true account of your administration to said Court, within one year, and at any other time when required by said Court, and to perform all orders and decrees of said Court by you to be performed in the premises.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Probate Court, at Adrian the 26 day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty- three
Conrad A. Tracy
Judge of Probate.
Recorded, Lib.
Fol.

State of Michigan } Seney County } p
I Conceder A. Stacy Judge of Probate in & for the County of Seney and State of Michigan do hereby Certify that the within is a true copy of the original letters of Administration issued from & recorded in the Probate office that I have carefully compared the same with the original Record & that it is a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of such original and I further certify that the said Abner Tuttle administrator of the said Sally Tuttle deceased has given bail as such Administrator, in the penal sum of one thousand dollars which has been duly filed with & approved by said Court
In Witness whereof I Conceder A. Stacy Judge as aforesaid ex officio Clerk of the said Probate Court have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Probate Court this 26. day of December A.D. 1853 Conceder A. Stacy Judge of Probate

Adrian Michigan March 17, 1832. Hon L. P. Waldo
Dear Sir
When I was in Washington last November I presented the claim of the children of Joseph and Sally Tuttle of this State for arrears of pension which after an examination was reported to me in these words " I have concluded to allow the claim " There was at that time a letter handed me dated the 10 th of that month containing several requirements to be complied with before the claim could be satisfactorily adjusted. That letter lay upon your table one or two days and I had conversations with you respecting those requirements. I showed you a copy of the Family Record of Joseph and Sally Tuttle's family - told you that I could make an affidavit that I made that copy from the original record in the old family Bible and knew it to be a true copy of the original record - that the original record was attached to an affidavit and sent to the Pension Office in order to prove the marriage of the said Joseph and Sally Tuttle and that the said original record could not now be found. and you informed me that said copy and affidavit would be sufficient to prove the marriage. I accordingly made such affidavit attached the said copy to it, and found filed the same to you in your office.
I also called your attention to that part of said letter which required a new certificate of the Court certifying the time of the death of the said Joseph and Sally Tuttle and the number and names of the living children. and the evidence upon which said certificate was granted

in agreement with your new rule in such cases I urged that it was an unnecessary requirement as there was now on file a certificate of Court of recent date certifying the time of their death and the number of the living children, in agreement with the former rule of your Office and I understood you to waive this requirement saying that you would " let that go ".
The subject of an administrator was talked of considerably. I requested that the Pension Certificate should be made directly to the children without the trouble and expense of getting out administration. You said that it would be necessary in order to guard your Office against deception and fraud, and mentioned a case that had recently occurred in New Hampshire wherein the certificate of Court did not include all of the children - the one who was left out afterwards claiming his share of the pension. You remarked that if there was an administrator appointed he would be likely to hunt up all the children , and therefor would save your office from fraud and imposition from that source. I inquired the amount of bonds you would require in this case. You evaded mentioning any particular sum, but stated that it must be more than the amount of pension but you should not require double the amount as was usual. You closed the conversation in these words as near as I can recollect -
"Yes Mr Taintor when you get an administrator appointed and the evidence of his appointment is furnished to this office, and a certificate of the amount of his bond, I will send you the Certificate instanter " Whereupon I immediately left the office, confidently believing that all that was necessary to be done was to get an administrator

appointed, have him give bonds sufficient to cover the amount of the pension, have the fact of his appointment and the amount of his bond certified to your office and then you would immediately send the Certificate to me.
I accordingly wrote to Abner Little of this county one of the claimants in this case to take out administration according to your requirements and suggested that the bond in his father's case should be $3,000 and in his mother's $1,000. making $4,000 in all and to send the evidence of his appointment and the certificate of the amount of his bond immediately to you, which I am informed by Mr. Little was done as soon as the Laws of this State would permit - namely, on the 26 th day of December last.
After waiting until the 19 th day of Jan. and not receiving the certificate as I expected I address a line to your office inquiring the reason of the delay, and received in reply yours of the 28 th of Jan. informing me that you had received the evidence of the appointment of Abner Little Esq. administrator but the other requirements of your letter of the 10 Nov. last had not been complied with.
I was not a little surprised at this answer, because I had supposed from the conversation above referred to that nothing else would be required but the appointment of an administrator and a certificate of his bond. But you know that it is one of the easiest things in the world to be mistaken, and thinking that I might possibly have misunderstood you in reference to a new certificate of Court, I concluded that the shortest and best way would be to get a new Certificate and send it and the evidence upon which it was granted to you at once. I accordingly came into this vicinity obtained affidavits of the facts in the case, and a

new certificate and sent both the certificate and the affidavits to your Office accompanying them with a letter requesting you either to send the Certificate of Pension or the answer to my letter to me at this place and particularly requesting you to point out wherein the requirements of your letter of the 10 th Nov are not fully complied with , in case that has not already been done. These last papers were mailed to you at this place on the 15 th Feb. last since which I have heard nothing from you. I address a line to your Office on the 11 th inst and now address this to you for the purpose of calling your personal attention to this matter, as I am confident that there is something wrong — a screw loose — somewhere, and I am anxious to find out when it is that it may be rightened. Either I must have materially misunderstood you in our conversation, else the Certificate has been for a long time unjustly withheld.
I have this one request to make. Will you immediately on the receipt of this personally examine the papers now on file in this case, and call to mind the conversation above referred to. And then if there are any requirements to be complied with, inform me what they are — whether further proof of the marriage, another certificate of their deaths and the number of children, new evidence of the appointment of an administrator, greater amount of bonds or a certificate of the same or send me the Pension Certificate .
Please address me at this place and much obliged
Your humble servant
Erving Gainton

Please hand this to Mr. Waldo.

Adrian, Michigan, March 11, 1854, Hon. G. P. Waldo Commissioner of Pensions
Sir:
You will doubtless recollect that when I was in Washington in November last, after I received your letter of the 10 th of that month in the Joseph Tuttle case of this State, under the Act of 1832. I had a conversation or rather conversations with you respecting the requirements of that letter. I informed you of the nature and amount of proof I then could make of the marriage, and understood you to say that it would be " sufficient " which proof I then filed. I also called your attention to the requirement of that letter respecting another certificate of the Court certifying the date of the death of Joseph and Sally Tuttle and the number and names of the children now living and the evidence upon which that certificate was granted. I mentioned the fact that there was then on file such a certificate recently made excepting the evidence upon which that certificate was granted — that not having formerly been required — and understood you to say that you would " let that go " but should insist upon the appointment of an Administrator and when you should receive the evidence of his appointment and a certificate of the amount of his Bonds you would settle me the Certificate " instanter ".
Believing that all that was necessary to be done was to have an Administrator appointed, and the amount of his Bonds certified to your Office, I immediately wrote to Abner Tuttle Esq.

of Fairfield in this county, one of the claimants in this case to have him take out Administration according to your requirements and forward the evidence to you, which was done as soon as the laws of this State would permit — namely — on the 26 th of Dec. last.
After waiting a sufficient length of time and not receiving the Certificate of Pension as I expected I addressed a line to you on the 19 th of Jan. last inquiring into the cause of the delay and received in answer your letter of Jan. 28 th stating that you had received the evidence of the appointment of Mr. Tuttle as Administrator but the other requirements of your letter of the 10 th Nov. last had not been complied with. Not knowing precisely which of those requirements were referred to, as I supposed I had complied with all that you required in our conversation — but thinking that I might possibly have misunderstood you in regard to a new certificate of Court respecting the date of their deaths and the number and names of the living children, I came into this vicinity and procured evidence of those facts and a new certificate, which were forwarded to you on the 13 th of February last, and in an accompanying letter I requested you to send the Certificate, or the answer to my letter to me at this place . and particularly to point out wherein I had not complied with the requirements of your letter of your letter of the 10 th Nov. last, if so be that those requirements were not fully complied with.
I have now waited what appears to me to be a long time to hear from you, and have received nothing. Will you do me the favor immediately  — if it has not been previously done — on the receipt of this, to send the Certificate of Pension " instanter " as you said you would.

or send me the reasons why it is longer withheld. Be particular to point out wherein those requirements are not complied with and much oblige
Your humble Servant Erving Gainton
P.S. Address me at this place E.S.

Washington D C Nov 7 th 1853
Hon L P Waldo Commissioner of Pensions
Sir I herewith present additional evidence in the case of Joseph Tuttle late of Michigan deceased and Sally his widow also deceased whose children claim an increase and allowance of Pension for the services of their Father who was a Seaman in the Revolutionary War, under the acts of Congress passed June 7 1832 and July 19 1848.
I would here only take occasion to point out a discrepancy or apparent contradiction in the testimony showing the time of Joseph Tuttle's death. In the affidavit attached to the Power of Attorney of Mrs Wade Abner Tuttle the present applicant swears that his father the said Joseph died on the 4 th day of September 1848. yet in the certificate of the Court it is stated that the said Joseph died on the 4 th day of March 1848 which certificate I suppose was procured on the testimony of the said Abner Tuttle
Again in an affidavit of the said Abner Tuttle herewith presented he swears that his father died on the 4 th day of September 1848 which is undoubtedly correct I can explain the matter in no better way than to suppose that the person who filled the certificate of the Court made a mistake in so doing.
As it will make but little difference I cheerfully submit the matter to the decision of the Com te .
After an examination of the very lengthy and pointed letter of Mrs Wade it will not be necessary for me to refer the Commission to any

particular points in the testimony heretofore presented.
I would simply arrest the attention of the Commission to one fact contained in the evidence now adduced viz the last time that the names of Gershon Tuttle's Company are mentioned, Joseph Tuttle's name was among them.
Respectfully Yours
Erving Waintor

Home Rep! July. 16 th 1836
Dear Sir,
The enclosure is a line from Mr. Horn of Ohio one of the best on Pensions he has charge of the Core of Mr. Little. He wants information I suppose -
Yours &c.
William Lloyd
A. F. Edwards Jr.

Adrian, Michigan Feb. 13, 1854.
Hon. Loren P. Waldo, Commissioner of Pensions
Sir:-
I have the honor herewith to transmit to you additional evidence and papers in the case of Joseph and Sally Tuttle of Mich. in compliance with the requirements of your letter of the 10 th Nov. last, and believe that I now have fully complied with the same. If I have not please point out particularly in your answer to this what further will be required, as I understood in my conversation with you on the 12 th or 13 th Nov. last that I should fully comply when I should furnish evidence of the appointment of an Administrator and a certificate of the amount of his Bond.
Since the receipt of your letter of the 10 Nov. I have filed proof of the marriage which you said at the time was sufficient.
I now send a new certificate of setting forth the time of the death of Joseph and Sally also the names of the living children, and heretofore furnished the evidence of the appointment of Abner Tuttle Esq. Administrator of the estate of the said Joseph and Sally also a certificate showing the amount of his Bond. "What lack I yet?"
You will now please "just do as you see you would" and "send me the Certificate instanter " Address me at this place , and much oblige Yours &c Erving Painter

Pension Agency at Detroit March 28. 1854
Sir
Abner Tuttle Administrator &c. with Erving Gaintee Esq. his Attorney called to-day to receive the amount of Pension due to him as Administrator of the Estate of Joseph Tuttle deceased under Act of June 7. 1832 and as Administrator of the Estate of Sally Tuttle deceased under Act of July 29. 1848.
But they had not received the Pension Certificates which it appears from your letter to Mr Gaintee were mailed to him at Adrian a month since.
Being in doubt about the proper course to pursue and the amount being large, I declined to pay, except on the presentation of the Certificates, and have advised them to apply for * Duplicate Certificates
Respectfully
Your Obedt Servt
Elisha Taylor
Hon L. P. Waldo Commissioner of Pensions

Adrian, Michigan
Dec. 26. 1853
L. P. Waldo Esq. Commissioner of Pensions:
Dr Sir: Enclosed herewith you will please find certificates from C. W. Stacy Judge of Probate of Lenawee County in this State that I have been duly appointed Administrator on the Estates of my Father & Mother, Joseph and Sally Tuttle, and the same is herewith sent you agreeable to instructions of my agent, Mr. Erving Laintor, who has been employed to prosecute my said claim to an allowance by the Department.
Respectfully Yours Abner Tuttle

Harford Cortland Co. N.Y. Aug 8, 1853.
Hon. Loren P. Waldo,
Sir; I herewith send you a Power of Attorney &c in the claim of the heirs of Joseph Tuttle and Sally Tuttle his widow late of Michigan deceased. You will please examine the in this case papers on file in your Office, and communicate to me the result of your investigation.
I have expected long before this to receive a communication from you in relation to the claim of Prusha Bulkley widow of Nathan Bulkley late of Connecticut deceased who was a Seaman in the Revolutionary War in which case I filed additional testimony in February last, but have not.
Will you have the goodness to write me in relation to it, and inform me whether the claim has been allowed or not.
Respectfully Your obedient Servant Erving Taintor

Mr. Ward will please obtain from the Pension Office, the copies of the affidavits, filed in the application of Soph. Tuttle , who has applied for a pension. - Mr. Tuttle made two application one in 1828. the other in 1834. - Finish these documents as early a day as they can be procured,
Feb. 13. 1856
Chas. Atkinson of Gen. V.P. & Co.

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Rose New York
August 25 th 1853.
Hon. Le P. Waldo Com d of Pensions, Sir.
When I left Washington on the 1 st of April last, I had the honor of submitting for your personal examination, the papers in the claim of Joseph Tuttle - passed by special act of Congress - and asking your official decision as to the validity of the claim under act of 7 th June 1832.
For convenience in examining the merits of the claim I beg leave to submit a brief statement of the facts, respecting the proofs furnished. —
Joseph Tuttle, made of application for the benefits of the act of Congress of 7 th June 1832 - soon after its passage, - he claimed to have enlisted for 3 years in Capt Gershom Tuttle, Co. in 1780, from Farmington Conn. - and was discharged in Jan y 1783 having served at least 2 yrs 3 1/2 Mo s . In support of his claim he furnishes the testimony of Reuben Hickox , who swears positively as to this identical Joseph Tuttle the claimant, having been in service in the Quota Master Department in Capt Gershom Tuttle's Company - as "he served himself in the same Co from early in the spring untill the latter part of Novr " in the Continental service, which was near the close of the war. - Reuben Hickox testifies positively that said Tuttle was in service in said Co all of this time, and that he left him still in the service when he returned home,

Detroit Michigan March 28, 1854.
Hon L. P. Waldo Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
Not having received the certificates in the Joseph and Sally Tuttle case of Michigan up to this date and believing them to be lost I came to this place and made inquiries of Elisha Taylor Esq Agent for paying pensions and am informed that it will be necessary to obtain new certificates before the pension can be paid I therefore herewith send to you my own affidavit and the affidavit of Abner Tuttle Esq setting forth the facts in the case, and request you to issue new certificates and send them to Elisha Taylor Esq of this City as a matter of convenience to me and Mr Tuttle.
Your earliest attention to this matter is respectfully solicited and will much oblige
Your humble servant Erving Sainton

Mixed Coco
Rose March 28/54
Dear Sir
In reply to your mistranscription about a letter to E. Tainton I have to say that no such letter has been recd here Very Respectfully Your obed Serv
E. N. Thomas Rm Rose

Joseph Tuttle Oct 32, N.Y.
Ewing Painter

And I here submit this brief statement of the facts respecting the claim, believing that sufficient evidence has been produced to satisfy the Department that the claim should be adjusted at the rate of $183. per annum, deducting former payments, and that a certificate will be accordingly issued for such amount.

The evidence upon which this claim for an increase of the pension is, that which has recently been discovered and shows conclusively that Ezra Tuttle was a Captain of a Co of Teamsters, of the Continental line and that Joseph Tuttle was an enlisted Teamster, — for evidence of which I refer the Department to the proofs filed in the Pension Office in the claims of Preserved Marshall pns act 32 C't his widow Ruth act 32 33, which claim has been allowed at the rate of $16 per month for the Team service. — Perez Marshall pns act 32 Mass. no children living consequently no claim for increase on account of service as Teamster has been permitted. — Isaac Marshall applicant for a pension act 7th June 32 N.Y. in his declaration asserts a claim for two years service as a Teamster with Captain Ezra Tuttle (of Farmington) and states in his declaration that Joseph Tuttle , Preserved Marshall and Perez Marshall , were Teamsters with him in Captain Ezra Tuttle's Co — also supposes Benjamin Johnson pns 32 C't
Thus we find no less than five witnesses who testify to the service of Joseph Tuttle with Captain Ezra Tuttle , and abundance of evidence of Capt G Tuttle's service having been admitted at the Pension Office, as Military service, and that of his Teamsters being entitled to the rate allowed the Continental Teamsters $12 per annum.
over,

Joseph Barton testifies to having served in 1781, 8 Mo. in Capt Gershon Tuttle Co, during all of which time Joseph Tuttle the applicant was in service in said Co. that he knew he enlisted at Bristol (formerly Hamorton Ct), was acquainted with him before subsequent to his
Martha Mansop testifies she knew of his being out in the service of the Continental Army &c,
Zebulon Tuttle testifies he knew he was absent from home in service the 3 last years of the war , &c
The Department having no knowledge of the service in the 2 d Mo Dept. and especially of Capt G Tuttle's Co. This claim was rejected, at that time — Upon application to Congress Joseph Tuttle was allowed a pension of $40. per annum. — The question I now respectfully submit for the decision of the Commissioner is, — whether the claim should not now be admitted for the same amount per annum, that is allowed others of the same company for similar service , (subject to a deduction of what has been recd, — Upon the production of the proofs required by the Pension Office, prior to the claim being presented to Congress, that is, evidence of the service of Captain Gershon Tuttle's Co having him been  in a military capacity — as there is positive proofs furnished that the service was rendered, —
Over,

Washington April 13 th 1882
Sir,
I inclose herewith the application of the widow of Joseph Tuttle , for her Guardian, Abner Tuttle , claiming the benefit of the act of Congress of 7 th June 1832, for the services of her late husband, — Joseph Tuttle who received a small pension under a special act of Congress, to which papers, together with the papers of Col. Marshall , act 1832, McKee , special attention is requested, in his declaration Col. Marshall , speaks in particular of the services of Joseph Tuttle as a Seaman with Captain Garrison Tuttle , by reference also to the papers of Preserved Marshall , act 1832, of Mass. , it will be seen that each of the last named persons have been pensioned for services performed in the same Br. of Seamen .
I am respectfully, Your obedient servant W. G. Wade
Hon. E. Heath Comm. of Pensions

Jan 26
My Dear Joseph Smith
G. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
Dear Sir

Wadsworth Jan, 21 1835
Dear Sir, I have been requested to attend to a pecu- liar case in your office, all the information I have upon the subject is contained in a private letter to me, and as the nature of the business, in part, explains it that is I would do it in person. I enclose the letter which I would thank you to return, at the time you give me a statement of the intention of the Core of the Soldiers mentioned in it.
I am Respectfully Your obedt Servt J Turrell
J. L. Edwards Esq Commissary of Pensions

War Department Pension Office February 17. 1836.
Sir,
I have the honor to return herewith, the Hon. Mr. Storey's note to you, accompanied by the original papers in the case of Joseph Tuttle with the exception of his declaration made in 1829, a copy of which I enclose you.
I have the honor to be, Very respectfully, Yours Ob dt Serv t . J. L. Edwards
Hon. Gideon Hard, House of Representatives.

Joseph Tuttle
Joseph Tuttle left Middlebury March 1st 1840 aged 72 years and 10 months at his home in Middlebury no previous notice given has been received since
for the relief of Joseph Tuttle
CHESA
Mr. Tuttle's residence in Middlebury is now occupied by his son, Mr. Joseph Tuttle
Joseph Tuttle was born in Middlebury March 1st 1840
March 1st 1840
1840
1840
Before Withdrawn by Hon H Allen, Vt

Ms 149
24th CONGRESS, 1st Session.
H. R. 421.
MARCH 3, 1836.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. STORER, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, re- ported the following bill:
A BILL
An Act For the relief of Joseph Tuttle.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 2 of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That 3 the Secretary of War be directed to place the name of Joseph 4 Tuttle, of New York, on the revolutionary pension roll, and to 5 pay him at the rate of forty dollars per annum, commencing on 6 the fourth day of March, anno Domini, eighteen hundred and 7 thirty-one, and to continue during his natural life.
Approved June 28 th 1836.
A true copy compared with the Roll in this Office
Dept of State } June 30 th 1836 }
Albion Bicknell Chief Clerk

HR. N. 421
JOSEPH TUTTLE.
[To accompany bill H. R. No. 421.]
MARCH 3, 1836.
Mr. STORER, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, made the following
REPORT:
The Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, to which was referred the petition of Joseph Tuttle, ask leave to report:
That the testimony offered by the petitioner establishes a service by him of at least one year, as a private soldier in the war of the revolution; and, in the judgment of the committee, he is clearly entitled to a pension. The Department of War had refused to grant his application on the ground that the evidence furnished is not sufficiently specific, and the claim is now made to Congress.
Your committee being of opinion the petitioner is entitled to relief, herewith report a bill.

Please hand this to Mr. Waldo

Hartford N.Y. June 12, 1853
Dear Sir
I received your favor of May 11 th when due, and have since corresponded with Mr. Abner Tuttle of Michigan and he informs me that he has not executed a Power of Attorney to Mr. Wade since he executed the one to you, therefore I conclude that the one filed by Mr. Wade, (if genuine) is the one which Mr. Tuttle executed to him previous to the one he executed to you .
He also informs me that his mother died on the 7 th day of December last.
I have sent to him the necessary papers to make out in the case - proving her death &c.
I write this as a precautionary measure to put you on your guard against any pretensions of Mr. Wade to authority to act in the case.
With due respect
Your Humble Servant Erving Taintor
Hon. L. P. Waldo Commissioner of Pensions

Harford N.Y. Jan 19, 1854. Hon. G. P. Waldo Commissioner of Pensions Sir:-
Not having received the Certificate of Pension in the Joseph Tuttle case, of Michigan I am induced to send this note of inquiry to ascertain whether it has been issued or not, and if so, to whom it has been sent.
I wrote to Abner Tuttle one of the claimants in this case before I left Washington in November last, to have him take out letters of Administration immediately and forward a certificate to you, so that the Pension Certificate might be issued as speedily as possible.
He afterwards wrote that in order to comply with the laws of Michigan it would take until the 26 th day of December to get out the letters of Administration.
I directed him to send the certificate immediately to you, and have been waiting for some time expecting to receive the Certificate of Pension by every returning Mail but have not received it. If it has not been issued will you issue it immediately or give me the reasons why it has not been done and much oblige
Your humble Servant Erring Saintur

65 Washington March 10/52 Mch 10 th 1852 H. G. Wade
Ref d to list of Pensions in Report ASSTS
Rel d to S d . Inates application for a Pension
Triplet

Washington, Mar 10 th 1852.
Hon Alex H. Stuart, Secretary of the Interior, Sir,
Joseph Tuttle applied for a pension for two years services as a Teamster. claim was rejected or suspended, - applied to Congress, - was allowed, a pension for 12 Months service as private, - Abundant evidence can now be furnished to fully establish his services for two years as a Cont. mounted Teamster, - I respectfully request the honor of being informed, whether, the claim for the two years services, - and the widows claim for a pension as his widow, can not be adjusted at the Pension Office, - upon proper & satisfactory evidence of the two years services and of marriage prior to 1800,
I am, respectfully, Wm. C. Smith, W. G. Wade

Brief in basis of Joseph Tuttle, decd of Sally Tuttle, decd.

Brief in the cases of Joseph Tuttle, deceased, and Sally Tuttle, deceased, widows of said Joseph, - Lenawee County and State of Michigan - Acts June 7, 1832 and July 29, 1848.
Joseph Tuttle was pensioned by special act of Congress approved 28 th June 1836, at $40 per annum. His heirs now claim an increase, under act of June 7, 1832 and adduce proof that he served two years and over, as a teamster. - They also claim, under act of July 29, 1848 for the amount due from the death of said Joseph, to the death of his widow.
The above named pensioned in his declaration in a claim in 1834, which was rejected, states that he entered in the beginning of the year 1780 for three years in the Company of Captain Tuttle,  Hurhorne Connecticut troops - that he was twice furloughed for short periods of time, - but was in actual service 2 years and 8 months. The claimants now present, as new evidence a duly verified copy of an ancient book of accounts, properly authenticated, which shows that said Joseph was in the service as a teamster

in Captain Gershon Tuttle's Company. from July 1. to October 1. 1799. = The parole proof of various witnesses, duly certified to be credible, shows that Joseph was in said Company at various periods, and up to nearly the close of the war. Service in this Company has been recognized as military by the office in several cases, = The the record and parole evidence here referred to has been burned sufficiently to sustain the original Declaration of so as Joseph, to warrant a reliance upon its averments to show the length of service. In both cases, therefore, the claimants have been allowed pension at the rate of $92 per annum, the payments made to their father under the special act of Congress to be deducted.
The marriage of Joseph and Sally Tuttle is shown to have taken place prior to 1800, by duly verified copy of private record of the age of the oldest child, and parole testimony certified to be credible. The certificate of death shows that Joseph died 4 th September 1848, and that Sally died 7 th December

1852 - and that the following are the only surviving children: - viz: - Abner Tuttle, Maritta Tillotson, and Sally Hogle - Pension ordered to be paid to Abner Tuttle, duly appointed administrator in both cases for distribution to the children of the deceased Joseph and Sally
R. Geddy
Ex. Clerk
Certificate to be sent to Erving Tainter Esq. Rose, New York.

29.548 20.913
Joseph Tuttle Revo. N. York.
Rejected. See letters to Joseph Center, 4 April 1829, and S. McLean 18 July 1831.
Partn Sec t.; at War hington City
Providence 2 Feb 1829.

New York
Joseph Tutter
Rev. 10778
Suspended
see letter to
Hon G. Hanes May 17
1834. — do. letter B. Root
H.R. Feb. 12. 1836.
let to Hon. J. Turrentine Jan. 2. 1835.
let to Hon. G. Hanes, H.R.
Feb 17. 1836
Act 7 June '32

32980
Set. to Bitter Apr 30 35 " Beck May 19 — " Beck July 27 37 " Bitter Aug 22 — " Oct 4 38 " Clin Sept 4 — " Jan 12 39 Hon. Pua Baylor 8 Jan 41 Hao R. M. Young. Clin Reps. Mar 23 1937.

30,828
Michigan
Henry Sainton Nov 9 1853 Alma Tuttle & E. S. S. 1854. E. S. Sainton Jan'y 28. 1854
a 57 1832 -

HR. 421
Joseph Tuttle
Act June 28. 1836. Albany Acro. Roll, $40 per annum, to commence 4 Mar 1831.
Send cut to
Sherman M c Lean Royalton Niagara Co Ny.
Com: on Pensions

old papers. New York Rev. Joseph Tuttle
Suspended Among those under act of '32
See letter to Hon G. Hand
HR 7 Feb '34

PROBATE COURT.
ESTATE OF
Joseph Tuttle
Copy
DECEASED.
LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION.
Joseph Tuttle

STATE OF MICHIGAN, } ss. COUNTY OF Genesee }
Probate Court for said County :
In the matter of the Estate of Joseph Tuttle.
deceased.
By Benjamin A. Stacy said County.
Judge of Probate for
To Abner Tuttle.
of said County GREETING :
Joseph Abner  Tuttle lately departed this life intestate, being at, or immediately previous to his death an inhabitant of the County of Genesee and having while he lived and at the time of his decease. Estate within said County of Genesee to be administered ; whereby the power of committing administration and full disposition of all and singular the goods, chattels, rights, credits and estate whereof the said deceased died possessed, in the State of Michigan, and also the hearing, examining and allowing the account of such administration doth appertain unto me ; and you having given a bond in the premises, which has been duly approved and filed as required by law in that behalf : NOW, THEREFORE, trusting in your care and fidelity, I do, by these presents, commit unto you the said
Abner Tuttle
full power and authority to administer and faithfully dispose of according to law, all and singular the goods, chattels, rights, credits and estate of said deceased, within the State of Michigan, which shall at any time come to your possession or to the possession of any other person for you, and to ask, gather, levy, recover and receive all the goods, chattels, rights, credits and estate whatsoever, of said deceased, which to him while he lived and at the time of his death did belong : and to pay and discharge all debts, and charges chargeable on the same, or such dividends thereon as shall be ordered and decreed by said Court : Hereby requiring you to make and return to said Court, within three months, a true and perfect inventory of all the goods, chattels, rights, credits and real estate of said deceased, which shall come to your possession or knowledge, or to the possession of any other person for you, and also to render a just and true account of your administration to said Court, within one year, and at any other time when required by said Court, and to perform all orders and decrees of said Court by you to be performed in the premises.
[SS]
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Probate Court, at Adrian the 26 th day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty- three
Benjamin A. Stacy
Judge of Probate.
Recorded, Lib.
Fol.

State of Michigan Senanaukee County } p.
I Conrider A Stacy Judge of Probate in for the County of Senanaukee and State of Michigan do hereby Certify that the within is a true copy of the original letter of Administration issued from and recorded in the Probate office; that I have carefully compared the same with the original record and that it is a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of such original and I further certify that the said Abner Tuttle Administrator of the said Joseph Tuttle deceased has given bail as such administrator in the penal sum of three thousand dollars which has been duly filed with & approved by said Court.
In Witness whereof I Conrider A Stacy Judge of Probate as aforesaid & the officio Clerk of the said Probate Court have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court this 26 th day of December A.D. 1853
Conrider A. Stacy Judge of Probate

Pension Office Nov 10 1853
I certify that the within extracts are correctly transcribed from a book Ancient locking accounts &c. with a ledger and their transactions, in the possession of Edwin Dawson Esq. so far as they refer to Joseph Patten. - The book from which they are taken are evidently authentic.
J. Ripley Examiner

A Copy of entries in the Books of Nehemiah Hubbard D.D.M.G. of the State of Connecticut in the Revolutionary War, made for the purpose of showing the service of Joseph Tuttle as a Teamster in said War
“Hartford Sept 1, 1779.”
Quartermaster General Dr
To paid Gershom Tuttle for Pay Wolt & Rect for
service of his Comp y Teams from July 1 to Sept 1, 1779
   Samuel Newell 1 Team 61 days @ 2.8 £146 8   Seth Marshall 1 do 61 do @ 2.8 146 8   Serah Marshall 1 do 61 do @ 2.8 146 8   Ditto 1 do 61 do @ 2.8 146 8   Theodon Tuttle 1 do 61 do @ 2.8 146 8   Abner Tuttle 1 do 61 do @ 2.8 146 8   Abiah Lewis 1 do 61 do @ 2.8 146 8   Joseph Mathews 1 do 61 do @ 2.8 146 8   Bissell Woodford 1 do 61 do @ 2.8 146 8   Jonah Lewis 1 do 61 do @ 2.8 146 8   James Woodford 1 do 61 do @ 2.8 146 8   Theodore Root 1 do 61 do @ 2.8 146 8   Eliza Phelps 1 do 61 do @ 2.8 146 8   William Jerome 1 do 61 do @ 2.8 146 8   Ira Lankton 1 do 61 do @ 2.8 146 8   ✓ Joseph Tuttle 1 do 61 do @ 2.8 146 8   Sam l Marshall 1 do 61 do @ 2.8 146 8   Job Lankton Cook 2 months @ £18.0 36 0   Joshua Shinnay do 1 month @ 18 0   Gershom Tuttle Conductor 2 months @ £24.0 48 0   Ditt. for Extraordinary trouble having   almost 2 Companies £ 24.0 24 0   Subsistence 2 months 61 days @ 2/ 6 2   Extraordinary Subsistence 30 days @ 2/ 3 0   Horse hire 61 days @ 3/ 9 3   £ 248 9 1"  

Hartford Novem r 19 th 1779
Quar ter Master General
Dr
To paid Gershon Tuttle p r Pay Roll & Rec d for the services of a Company of Teams for the month of Sept 1779 Viz.
   Samuel Newel 1 Team 30 days @ £ 4.10 £ 135 0   Theodon Root 1 ditto 30 ditto @ 4.10 135 0   Abel Lewis 1 ditto 30 ditto @ 4.10 135 0   Joshua Shinnacy 1 ditto 30 ditto @ 4.10 135 0   Jesse Matthews 1 ditto 30 ditto @ 4.10 135 0   William Jerome 1 ditto 30 ditto @ 4.10 135 0   Timothy Phelps 1 ditto 30 ditto @ 4.10 135 0   Preserve Marshall 1 ditto 30 ditto @ 4.10 135 0   Seth Marshall 1 ditto 30 ditto @ 4.10 135 0   Sam l Marshall 1 ditto 30 ditto @ 4.10 135 0   Ira Lankton 1 ditto 30 ditto @ 4.10 135 0   Bissell Wolford 1 ditto 30 ditto @ 4.10 135 0   James Sheddarn 1 ditto 30 ditto @ 4.10 135 0   Theodon Tuttle 1 ditto 30 ditto @ 4.10 135 0   Amer Tuttle 1 ditto 30 ditto @ 4.10 135 0   ✓ Joseph Tuttle 1 ditto 30 x ditto @ 4.10 135 0   Dan l Rowe 1 ditto 30 ditto @ 4.10 135 0   Jonathan Hart 1 ditto 30 ditto @ 4.10 135 0   Benjamin Wilcox 1 ditto 30 ditto @ 4.10 135 0   Simeon Curtis Cook 30 ditto @ 18.0 18 0   Benj o Jerome Cook 30 ditto @ 18.0 18 0   Gershon Tuttle Condu r 1 month 24 0   Subsistence ditto @ 3/ 3 0   Conductors Horse 30 days @ 3/ 4 10   Expense one month while over the North River 24 0   per agreement 24 0   Extra pay for a Sab Condu r 1 Month 21 0   Subsistence for ditto 1 Month 3 0   £ 295 3 10  

In the account with Daniel Jones mentioned in the Ledger are the following entries
"Hartford Connecticut Feby 29 th 80 Quarters Master General Dr To paid Daniel Jones A S R M G. for Bill For cash paid Sundry Persons for Bill & Receipt 70 3/4
1780
June 5 No 1 To paid Nath l Benton &c 20 " 35 ditto Gershom Tuttle Cond r & Jon a Hart Sub Cond r Pay Roll for themselves & 24 Teams from Oct 1 st to Dec 31 st Inclusive, and Tuttle bills for expence from Do £ 9336 " 5. Feby 22 " 161 ditto Gershom Tuttle Cond r Pay Roll for himself and Jon a Hart Sub Cond r & 22 Teams from January 1 st to Feby 29 th £ 5166 " 0
Hartford State Connecticut May 23 rd 1780
Quarters Master General Dr.
May 17 To ditto Gershom Tuttle for service of Teams for do £ 3434 " 18, 6"
Gershom Tuttle's Account resumed
"Hartford State Connecticut Feb 16 th 1780
Quarters Master General Dr
To paid Gershom Tuttle Cond r for Bill For service of 11 Teams 220 days each @ 16/ £ 1936 " 0 For ditto of 1 ditto 179 ditto @ 16/ 143 " 4 Gershom Tuttle Cond r 7 months & 6 days £ 15 108 " 0 Nimrod Surto Cook 7 months & 6 days @ 6 43 " 4 Hire Horse hire & expences settling accounts 4 " 10 2235 " 4 Advance forty for one 10 £ 89408 " 0 "

The account with Gresham Tuttle Conductor on the Ledger commences "May 16 th 1878" On the "Contra" side after a balance was struck July 30 th 1879 are the following entries Viz.
   1879   Sept 3 By his By against the C. G. F. £ 147 7   " 11 th By his Pay Roll rendered in 2489 1   Oct 26 th By his bill against the C. G. F. Forage 147 7   Nov 19 By his ditto against ditto 154 15 10   By his Pay Roll rendered in for the month of September 1879. 2953 10   £ 5892 1   1879   Nov 26 th By his Bills of Expense C. G. F. £ 546 8   Dec 3 rd By his ditto against L. M. Vent for shung cattle 327 12   By his ditto against C. G. F. 320 1 6   1880 1194 1 6   Jan 1 By Dan Jones acct Dr to balance 1133 12   2397 13 6   May 31 By his Bill rend d in this day C. G. F. & L. M. F. £ 5390 4   June 21 By his ditto ditto 2375 14 8   July 8 th By his ditto ditto 1620 5 4   By dett carried to folio 7 - - - - - £ 9386 4 0   On folio 7 is the following   1880   July 8 th By amount brought from folio 6 £ 9386 4 0   22 nd By his bill rendered in against C. G. F. 1001 0 8   Aug 18 th By his ditto ditto 967 0 0   Nov 1 By his ditto ditto L. M. F. & C. G. F. 1379 0 0   Feb 16 By his Pay Roll for service of Scano 89,408 0 0   By his Bill Expense 2287 19 4   £ 104429 4 0  

June 1. 1840
Mr Stewart
James L. Edwards Esquire Commis n : of Pensions Ward 8 th City of Washington

MECHANICS' & FARMERS' BANK,
Albany Pension Agency,
May 29. th 1840
JAMES L. EDWARDS, Esquire,
Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 26 th inst. I have to state, that Joseph Tuttle _____ a Pensioner under the Act of 7 June 1832 — at Twenty Dollars per annum was last paid to the 4 th day of Sept r 1839 —
I am, Sir,
Very respectfully,
Your ob't serv't,
Thos. W. Olin
PRES'T AND PENSION AGENT. for
L. Jenkins

Joseph Tuttle, deceased Ladaw Lenawee Co Michigan
Admitted -
Act June 7. 1832 -
Two years as Teamster at rate of $192 per annum, from 4 th March 1831 to 4 th September 1848, when he died. deducting former payments, under special act of June 1836, at $40 per annum
Sally Tuttle, deceased, widow of Joseph, deceased.
Adm d , Michigan
Act 29 th July 1848 - Act as above at rate of $192 per annum from 4 th Sept. 1848 to 7 th December 1852 when she died -
Pay in both cases to Abner Tuttle, adm r for distribution among the heirs of said deceased viz: Abner Tuttle, Marietta Tiddson and Sally Noble -
Certificate to Ewing Tainter Esq r Adorian Box New York Mich g

War Department, Pension Office July 18, 1831
Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 9 th instant I have to inform you that Joseph Tuttle's case has again been examined. He states that he served in a regiment commanded by Colonel Patterson, in 1781 and 1782. At that time there was no regiment in the continental army commanded by such an officer. If Tuttle was in the service at that time, he must have been in a militia or State regiment. The rolls contain no evidence of his service, and there is no proof in this Department but his own statement. It is therefore very clear that he did not serve in a regiment of the continental army. As the law under which he claims extends to none but those who belonged to the continental establishment, his

claim to a Pension cannot of course be allowed. The letter from this Office of April 4, 1829 to Mr. Gentry did not say that Tuttle had made a mistake in his declaration. It stated the facts in the case, as I have now given them.
I am, respectfully Your Obedt. Servt. J. L. Edwards
Sherman McLean Esq. Royalton. New York.

To the Hon Peter B Patten Sec'y at War
Sir. Enclosed I send you the application of Joseph Dutton for a pension. I think the declaration & oath & certificate are according to the requisition of the of the pension acts. If they should not be you will please let me know what there may be wanting - Joseph Dutton is in great misery & want & is very anxious that he may receive pension money if entitled to the same as soon as may be -
I am most respectfully your obed Servt.
Joseph Dutton
for P. B Patten Sec'y at War
Lockport Niag County Feby 17 th 1829.

(Copy)
War Department Pension Office May 17 1834
Sir,
The claim of Joseph Little to the benefit of the act of June 7 1832, has been examined and suspended.
In his original declaration under the act of 18 March 1818, he alleged that he enlisted in Captain Gershorn Little's Company, Colonel Patterson's regiment, in Connecticut, for 9 months in May 1781, & discharged 1st January 1782, at Newburgh.
In his declaration under the act of June 1832, he alleges that he enlisted early in the Spring of 1780, in Captain Little's Company, Colonel not named, for 3 years, and with the intermission of a short time upon furlough he served out his enlistment, and was discharged at Newburgh in 1783 — He also states that in the Spring of 1781, the regiment marched to the head of Elk and that he was stationed there to guard the baggage and stores. This discrepancy is sufficient of itself to discredit his claim, but there are other and insuperable objections to it — No part of the Connecticut State Troops were ever employed as far South as the head

of Elk, and consequently such a service could not have been rendered in any State regiment; - and there were no such Officers in the Connecticut Line, on Continental establishment, in 1780, as Captain Tuttle and Colonel Patterson - nor is the name of Joseph Tuttle found upon the rolls of any of those regiments. His papers are placed on file.
I have the honor to be very respectfully
Your obedt Servt
(Signed) James L. Edwards.
Hon. G. Hoad

Rev  WIDOW, &c.
File No. 3627
Sally French
Widow
Joseph French
Same Rev. War
Act: July 29, 1844
Index:—Vol. M. , Page 285-
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Feb - 13 - 1903
Edw. D. Tuttle - Middlesex N.Y.
1923. Sept. 13. Heist to Mrs. H. C. Clark
Aw
to Eva D. Tuttle - MMH

REJECTED
10,228
P. O. _____
Joseph
Smith
Service: _____
Joseph -
Enlisted: _____
, 18
Discharged: _____
, 18

16634
New York Life Insurance Company.
OWM
ASSETS, $262,000,000.
John A. McCall, President.
Edward Tuttle, Agent, Lock Box 55, Middletown, N. Y.
The Oldest International Life Insurance Company in the World. Supervised by 22 Governments.
FEB 9 1903
(No 1) Middletown, N. Y., Feb 4 th 1903
Commissioner of Pension Washington D.C. 3,0828
Dear Sir
Joseph Tuttle a resident at the time of Royalton Niagara Co NY was granted a pension as a revolutionary Soldier said pension being granted I think about 1831
Some years later about 1836 I think he applied for an increase of Pension which was granted as near as I can learn about Dec 1853 or Jan 1854
In support of his claim for the increase of Pension referred to

New York Life Insurance Company.
ASSETS, $282,000,000.
John D. Call, President.
Edward Tuttle, Agent, Lock Box 55, Middleport, N. Y.
The Oldest International Life Insurance Company in the World.
Supervised by 32 Governments.
(Nov)
Middleport, N. Y., ..... 190
Joseph Tuttle Cut out of his family Bible the family history of the family to substantiate the fact that he was the husband of Sally or Sarah Hamlin.
What I would like & what I request of you is that you supply me with the original sheet cut from the family bible giving the family history of the Tuttle family or send me a certified copy of it Either will answer my purpose
Matters have recently arisen in the affairs of the Tuttle family which render it substantially necessary that I get this

New York Life Insurance Company.
ASSETS, $262,000,000.
John A. McCall, President.
Edward Tuttle, Agent, Lock Box 55, Middletown, N. Y.
The Oldest International Life Insurance Company in the World. Supervised by 82 Governments.
(No 3)
Middletown, N. Y., ..... 190
Kindly take this matter up with reasonable promptness & oblige Thanking you in advance Kindly Consider me Very sincerely Yours Edward. Tuttle

ES. MMH  Div Rev 7812 Thos. Lee
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 2, 1925
The attached letter is respectfully returned with the information that the data furnished is not sufficient to enable this Bureau to make intelligent answer to the queries therein contained.
Please fill out such of the blank spaces below as the information in your possession will permit, and return to this Bureau.
1st name of widow No. of claim,  Sally
Name of soldier Joseph Tuttle
P.O. address of claimant,  see at enlistment and after service Conn.
Company,
Regiment,
State where enlisted Connecticut
Date of enlistment  birth
Date of discharge  death after 1790.
If unable to furnish company and regiment give names of commanding officers.
Return attached letter with reply.
Wilder S. Fletcher Commissioner.

WASHINGTON D. C. 1059 BUREAU OF PENSIONS Department of the Interior
Napton Missouri March 6-1925.
Bureau of Pensions Washington D. C.
Will you please see if Joseph Tuttle drew a pension for Revolutionary service. Kindly send me any information that you have on this line.
Respectfully Eva Duvall Tuttle.

W3627
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 192
In reply to your request of _____, for the history of Joseph Tuttle, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, the following is taken from the _____ claim for pension.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Spg. 1780 6 Jan. 1783 Private Gershon Tuttle Col. of Trams Conn                                                   
Battles engaged in, Tarritown  Residence of soldier at enlistment, Farmington Conn  was on a trip to which  Date of application for pension, Jan 17 1836  his cl was al  Residence at date of application, Niagara Falls NY  Age at date of application, 66  born at Farmington Conn. in 1761  Remarks: Sol. was the son of said Gershon Tuttle. Sol. mar. Sally Sharkey in 1798. He d. Sept 4, 84 at Fairfield Mich. She d. Dec 7, 1852 at Fairfield Mich. Their ch were Abner Feb 9, 1799 - Louis Oct 9, 1800 - Maritta May 30, 1802 - Sally Apr 27, 1804
Respectfully,
I did not mention  GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE Sons ap. not necessary as father's claim had been allowed
probably he was transferred in Patterson's Commissioner. Brig. of Mass Troops but he was not his immediate officer.

LUCY WOLCOTT BARNUM CHAPTER ADRIAN, MICHIGAN
Sept. 10, 1923
Hon. Washington Gardner, Comr. of Pensions Washington, D. C.
My dear Mr Gardner
Have you in your Revolutionary War records any data regarding Joseph Tuttle who is claimed as a war veteran buried in Weston, Lenawee Co. Michigan . He died Sept 4, 1848 aged 90 yrs. elly, his wife d. Dec. 1852 aged 99 yrs.
Any attention will be greatly appreciated as the family are very hazy as to the date of his origin.
Yours truly Mrs. Harriet C. Clark 416 Broad Street Adrian, Mich.