Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2,036, Potter White, Navy (R.I.)

SERVICE
NUMBER
Navy (P.I.)
White, Potter Mary
N. 2,036 B.L.Wt. 285-60-55
CONTENTS

No. 250 New York Jan
Potter White
Whitall in the state of New York to was a board Frigate Queen of France Marine in the regiment commanded by Colonel Whipple of the U. S. Navy for the term of Five Years
scribed on the roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 23 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 of Nov 1818 and to John C. Parker Esq. Granville N. York
  arrears to 4th of Sep 1819  131.20    Semi-ann. all'ce ending Mar 1820  48.00    15 Mo. 12/30  $179.20  
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
continued
Supplement certificate issued 7 Nov 1827 and sent to General Osborn Marshall Green Co. N.Y. Duplicate certificate issued 24 August 1838 and sent to to a Pension Exp Franklin Road
Sept 25. 1835. sent cert. of transfer to Genl. R. Dick, Leesburg

Peter White 3 Marine yrs to 83 Frigate Queen of France Whipple - Commander
Fill the blank enclosed & return it with this Declara- tion (which is not in form) to the War Dept.
Admitted
Peter White paper for Pension J. B. Parker agent Francis Wade County N.Y. Mariner by car. Powder Monkey Ship Queen of France 1778 - 2 years
Additional proof explanatory Declaration within Service Admitted

State of New York Washington County ss.
Navy of U.S.
DISTRICT ss.
On this fifteenth day of November 1818, before me, the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County of Washington in the said district , personally appeared Peter White aged fiftyone years, resident in Whitehall in the said County , who, being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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:" That he, the said Peter White enlisted for the term of  during the war on the twenty fifth day of October in the year one thousand seven hundred eighty eight in Providence in the state of Rhode Island and Maine in the company commanded by Captain John Peck  then under command of  Colonel  of the Navy of the United States  on the Continental Establishment ; that he continued to serve in the said Navy in the service of the United States, until he was  taken prisoner at Charleston South Carolina in 1780  and remained a prisoner on parole after about seven weeks  he was exchanged during the war that he was with Commodore Hopkins in taking the British Garrison at Sullivan's Island and also with him at the Battle of Charleston South Carolina when he was taken prisoner with the Commodore & crews of the several vessels and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services. That about 25 years ago he received one hundred dollars as stated in the annexed supplemental Declaration Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid. Peter White
I, Jonathan Wood Judge, &c. as aforesaid, do certify that it appears, to my satisfaction, that the said Peter White did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months at one time, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. I am also satisfied that he needs the assistance of his country for support. as well from my own knowledge as due proof made to me under oath. And I further certify that the annexed Declaration was taken by me on the 23rd April 1818-  Jonathan Wood one of the Judges of Washington Common Pleas

State of New York Washington County ss
Isaac White of the Town of Whitehall in the County of Washington in the State of New York aged forty nine years upwards — Do according to the act of Congress of the United States of America entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" make the following Declaration under oath that is to say I do solemnly declare that I was on the eighteenth day of March last and now am a resident citizen of the United States to wit in the Town aforesaid and State aforesaid and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I am in need of assistance from my country for support I do further declare that I was a marine or powder monkey — in the war of the Revolution and that I served as such in the said war of the Revolution against the common enemy upwards of two years during the said War on the Continental establishment That I belonged to the American Ship of War Queen of France of twenty four guns commanded by Captain John Pick Rathbun. That I entered the said service on Board the said Vessel sometime in the Month of October one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight when lying at Boston and sailed from thence on Board of the American Vessel the Warren under Commodore Hopkins for one cruise and continued afterwards on Board the Queen of France aforesaid in the Naval Service under the Command of Commodore Whipple until I was taken Prisoner at Charleston South Carolina in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty and continued a

prisoner (on parol after about seven weeks) and remained until the close of the said war - and do further declare that I have now no other evidence in my power of said service than I was with Commodore Hopkins in taking the British Georgia Fleet and with Commodore Whipple in taking the British Jamaica Fleet, and also with him at the Battle at Charleston South Carolina when I was taken a prisoner with the Commodore and the several crews and continued as a prisoner as aforesaid until the peace, and that I never had any written discharge from the said service And I do further declare that I hereby relinquish all claims to any and every pension allowed me by the Laws of the United States or any Individual State previous to the eighteenth day of March last past Witness my hand this twenty third day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred eighteen
Witness -
John Parker
Peter White
Washington County State of New York
On the twenty second day of May - in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen before me the Subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County personally appeared the above named Peter White who being by me first duly sworn according to Law in explanation of the foregoing Declaration saith that during the first year he served as powder monkey as in the foregoing Declaration and during the last year of his service on board the said vessel he served as a mariner in the mizen top and continued so serving until taken prisoner as above stated, and that he is confident the Queen of France vessel was under the continental establishment as long continentals vessels were ordered to Charleston by Congress under Com- modore Whipple - and further that long after the war and about twenty five years ago he received at the Audit Office in Philadelphia nearly one hundred Dollars back pay as a mariner while on board the said vessel Queen of France - That his shipmates are many of them dead - he does not know where any of them reside if living -
Explanatory Declaration
Witness -
Peter White

Sworn this 23 rd day of May before me Jonathan Root one of the Judges of Washington Common Pleas
State of New York Washington County ss.
Be it remembered that on the twenty third day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen at the Town of Granville in the County of Washington & State of New York before me Jonathan Root Esquire one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Washington in the said State duly appointed qualified and sworn (the said Court being one of the Courts of Record of the said State) personally came and appeared the before named applicant Peter White — who resides in the Town County and State aforesaid mentioned in the above Declaration and in my presence subscribed the foregoing declaration and also before me then and there he was duly sworn to the truth of the facts contained & set forth in the said Declaration And it appearing to my satisfaction as well from the said Declaration under oath as from such other evidence as was in the power of the said applicant to produce that the said applicant served in the Revolutionary war as aforesaid against the common enemy and that the Declaration aforesaid under oath of the said applicant is in all other respects true Do therefore certify & transmit the testimony in the case consisting of the aforesaid Declaration under oath and the affidavit of Elijah White of the Town of Granville in said County

to me well know to be a man of truth & veracity humanity and mind together with the proceedings had thereon to the Honorable the Secretary of the Depart- ment of War according to the requisitions of the act of Congress in that case made - Given under my hand and seal at the Town of Granville in the County of Washington & State of New York the day and year first above written in this certificate
Jonathan Wood Judge
State of New York Washington County
I, Daniel Shepherd Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington do hereby certify that Jonathan Wood by whom the above certificate was made is one of the Judges of the said Court of the said State acting under the authority of the said State and that the above is his signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court the 11th day of May 1818
D. Shepherd Clerk
State of New York Washington County
On the 22 nd day of May 1810 before me Jonathan Wood in the above certificate named being one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas as above named as further certify from the testimony of Samuel E. Jones of Whitehall in said County being first duly sworn who testified that he is well acquainted with Potter White in the aforesaid Declaration and that being with the said Potter White in Boston on 3 rd Feb y 1793 he saw the Clerk of the Continental Ship Queen of France and saw the Roll of said Ship in his poss- -ession wherein Potter White's name was enrolled and the said Clerk stated the wages due to the said Potter White & informed him he could obtain them in Philadelphia and that afterwards in the same year he was with the said Potter White in Philadelphia where and when he received from the Auditor his arrears of pay as a mariner in the service of the United States on board the Ship Queen of France - and I certify that from the testimony of Ransom Hudson Esquire as well as my own knowledge during acquaintance with the said Jones & Hudson I am satisfied of the truth of the said testimony - and further that I am satisfied of the truth of the affirmatory Declaration of Potter White as stated above
Jonathan Wood
Potter White - Additional Proof

State of New York
Washington County ss. Elijah White — of the Town of Granville in the County of Washington and State of New York being duly sworn saith that he is acquainted with Peter White deceased in the annexed Declaration under oath and that he is the same Person who subscribed the same and that he is in honest ready circumstances, and standing in mid of Western of this Country for Support and do hereby believe the facts set forth in the Said Declaration are true the Said Peter White being a man of truth & veracity and a sober steady moral man — and that he is a resident of the Town of Whitehall in the County of and was on the eighteenth day of March last State aforesaid. further saith not
Sworn this 23 rd day of April 1813 Before me
Elijah White
Jonathan Root — — — —
one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of State aforesaid.

State of New York Wash. County. Ss. John C. Parker of said County
new aff
hereby depon saith that he is acquainted with Peter White in the annexed declaration named and knows him to be in redound circumstances and in need of support from his country, and that he has much confidence in the integrity and veracity of the said Peter White he having as far as has come to his knowledge been esteemed a man of credibility. Has been acquainted with him nearly two years - further saith not.
Sworn this 22 May 1814
J. C. Parker
Before me Jonathan Hall one of the judges of Wash. County
unsworn car hey ma story

Patter White Potter -
Cash No
Direct to Daniel Shipherd Arnyfe County of Washington State of N.Y.
Danl. Shipherd Salem, N. Y. Nov. 9 th 1828.

Seal of New York
Washington County ss
On this twenty ninth day of August 1820 personally appeared in Open Court being a Court of Record Common Pleas and a Court of Record for the said County Peter White aged fifty four as he has hitherto learned from correct information altho by former accounts he should be fifty one and upwards resident in White Hall in the County aforesaid who first being duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows. That he entered on board the United States Ship of War Queen of France of 24 Guns Captain John Peck Peabody in October 1778 for and during the war and sailed under the Warren under Commodore Stephens in cruise and afterwards continued on board the Queen of France under Commodore Whipple until taken Prisoner at Charleston South Carolina 1780 and continued a prisoner after seven weeks unexchanged on parole and during the seven weeks was five days without any provision from the British or others and remained unexchanged until the peace that on the twenty third day of April 1818 he made an Original Declaration for a pension and hath received a certificate for the war Office dated the thirtieth day of November 1819 Numbered on the Book thereof 16250
And I do solemnly swear that I was a citizen of the United States on the 18th 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 with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war passed on the 18th March

1818 and 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 which is contained in the Schedule herunto annexed and by me subscribed That I am by occupation a cooper and unable to labour more than about one fourth of the time by reason of rheumatism and cramps that I have six children living with me to wit Lucy White aged fourteen and four twins and named Delance a boy child caused by a White swelling the other Amphilus White both aged ten years, Jean Ann White aged eight years, Delaphina Fidelice White aged five years Alexander White aged two years. That my wife is a Female American and been under the care of a Physician for about three years most of the time all which I am obliged to support and that they are unable to support themselves  Patter White  Seven August 20th 1820 In Open Court D. Sheffield Clerk
Schedule of the Property of Patter White of White Hall in the County of Washington & State of New York to be annexed to his affidavit to be made before the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County to wit
Real Estate I have none.
Personal property excepting necessary wearing apparel and bedding for myself and family
4 Pen frames 5 pint tin Daws, 3 cups & saucers 1 Tea Kettle One Small pot - 1 Small dish Ruler & knives & Forks, 4 Drown earthen Plates 2 common pitchers - 1 common fine cheese 10 Table Spoons - 2 Tea Spoons - 2 Old plates 1 Old wash Tub

2 Small Notes - 1 old leaf of tract - 1 Bible and Psalm Book Debts due me I have none and owe about one hundred Dollars Peter White
Dated August 21 st 1820
I Daniel Shepherd Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington do hereby certify that the said Court of Common Pleas is a Court of Record has a Jurisdiction unlimited in amount has power to fine and imprison & has a seal. And I do further certify that the foregoing Accounts 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 six Dollars and twenty four  eighty three cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal and the seal of the said Court on this twenty ninth day of August 1820
D. Shepherd Clerk

6066 Mary Pillsburgh Mary White widow of Potter White
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private
on board Frigate Queen of France
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March , 1848.
1st July Certificate of Pension issued the first day of April 1853 and sent to
S. H. Pugh
Present
(2036)
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 289 Vol. 2

Mary White of Potter No 8296 Pennsylvania

State of Pennsylvania Crawford County } ss
On this twentieth day of May 1842 - personally appeared be- fore John H. Work one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas Mary White who by reason of infirm- ity is unable to appear in open court - she being a resident of said county aged seventy - years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the Benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7 th 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows. That she is the widow of Potter White - who was a marine in the Navy of the United States & for his services as such drew a pension. the certificate of which is herunto annexed - She further declares that she was married to the said Potter White - on the eighteenth. day of December in the year Seventeen hundred & ninety - that her husband the aforesaid Potter White - died on the ninth day of September 1841; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred & ninety four viz: at the time above stated.
Sworn to & subscribed, on the { day & year above written, before
John H. Work Judge of the Court of Common Pleas Mary W. White

State of Pennsylvania Crawford County } ss
Nathaniel Jones
being duly sworn saith that he is the brother of Mary White the applicant in the foregoing petition that he is aged sixty three years that he was present when the above mentioned Potter White asked consent of the parents of the above named Mary White & that he believes they were married shortly afterwards for they have ever since lived together. And that the marriage must have taken place about the time mentioned in this declaration viz: in December 1790. That the family record, which deponent has often seen the line record . & that it contained the date of the marriage above named. That said record has since been burned with the house of the said Potter White which was in Granville New York State about twenty five years since & to the best of his knowledge there is no other record or any certificate of marriage or any person living who witnessed the said marriage. Deponent further saith that he was present when the above named Potter White died which was on the ninth day of September A.D. 1841 and that she has remained a widow ever since that period.
Nathaniel Jones
Erasure on the 22 line from the bottom was done before signing Sworn to & subscribed this 20 th day of May A.D. 1842 before John H. Work

State of Pennsylvania } Crawford County }
John Dick being duely sworn saith that he was present when Potter White died which was on the ninth day of September A.D. 1841 & further saith not. Sworn & subscribed this 21 John Dick John Dick day of May A.D. 1842
W. Dick Justice of the Peace
State of Pennsylvania } Crawford County }
John P. Davis Prothono- tary of the Court of Common Pleas of Crawford County hereby certify that John A. Work is one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine also that W. W. Dick is an acting justice of the peace & that the signature purporting to be his is genuine In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 23 day of May 1842 John P. Davis Prothon.

FAMILY RECORD.
MARRIAGES.
MARRIAGES.
Potter White, was = Married to Mary Jones Oct r 25 th 1790.
William H Granger was Married to Sarah Van- Buskirk, Daughter of Potter & Mary White, Oct r 4, 1829
Sarah Granger, was first Married, to Andrew Van- Buskirk, Jan y 1. 1821. He Died April 1. 1828

FAMILY RECORD.
BIRTHS.
BIRTHS.
Potter White, was born 14 th of July 1769
Sarah Granger, was born 17 th of Jan y 1802
Mary White, was born 13 th of June 1772
Chaney J. Van Buskirk was born 26 th of Sept 1822
Mary Van Buskirk was born 6 th of March 1825
William H Van Buskirk was born 5 th of June 1827
William H. Granger was Born 19 th of Sep- tember 1808

213627 20 March Sept 27/55
Mary White wid of Potter White deceased of Potter White
Pri: Capt Rathbone
Revs Pension
Revolutionary War
Penn Feb 48 - 6064
Ad: 6000 ad: 6000 per 25/56 B. B. D.
Clamant Sandwich DeKalb Co Ill.

State of Illinois Randall County
On this 5 th day of July A.D. 1853 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid Mary White and 83 years a resident of the town of North ville County of La Salle State aforesaid Who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of the White deceased who was a man on board the ship of War in the tame Rathbone in the Revolutionary war and that he enlisted at Boston Massachu- setts and that he continued in the actual service and was a prisoner seven years and that he was taken prisoner by the British and sent home on parole and she further declares that her said husband drew a pension of 76 dollars a year during his life and that this deponent now draws a pension of 76 dollars a year as his widow. She further states, that she was married to the said Potter White at Lancaster Massachusetts on Frank- sgiving day in the year 1783. And that her said husband died near Meadville Pennsylvania September 13 1841 and that she is now a widow and she further states that the record of her said marriage was burned at White Hall New York 37 or 38 years ago.
She makes this declaration for the purpose

of obtaining the bounty, to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3 rd 1855
Henry White
We Robert G Dickson and Adelia Dickson residents of the town of Northville county of LaSalle State of Illinois upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged before us  in our presence by Mary White and that we believe from the ap- pearances and statements of the said appli- cant that she is the person she represents herself to be and we further state that we know the said Potter White during his life time and know that he and the said Mary lived together and cohabited as man and wife and that they always treated each other as such
Robert G. Dickson
Adelia Dickson
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to before me and subscribed the day and year first above written and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in this claim.
Edward Walker Justice of the Peace
Last app. 4th inst Purdue
Sebill

State of Illinois } ss County of Kendall }
I hereby certify that Edward Walker Esq. before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavit were made is and was at the time of taking the same an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the said County of Kendall and State aforesaid duly Commissioned and qualified and that the signature above is genuine. A testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the County Court of Kendall County this 7th day of July 1855
Jeremiah J. Cole Clerk

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Potter White a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR; you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau. W. File 2036
   Providence R.I. DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. Oct. 25 1778 LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Pondumunday Commodore Hopkins Ship "Warbler"   mariner John Peck Rathburne Ship "Queen of France" U.S. Navy   Com. Whipple   second until captured at Charleston S.C. 1780 not   each until Peace end of War.  
Battles engaged in, captured British Georgia + Jamaica Fleets + siege of Charleston
Residence of soldier at enlistment, _____
Date of application for pension, Apr. 23, 1818.
Residence at date of application, Whitehall Washington Co. N.Y.  1021 Crawford Co., Pa. 1838  1838 Mar. 10, Pa.
Age at date of application, Born July 14, 1769  Dec 18
Remarks: Col. mar. Fanesborough, Mass. Oct. 25, 1790  Mary Jones  1/2  June 13, 1772  he died Sept. 9, 1841
not all free. on appl. ex. May 20, 1842 res. Crawford Co., Pa.  Ch-  Paul b. Sept 29, 1791. Potter b. 1793. Samuel b. 1795. Moses b. 1797. Mary b. 1799. Sarah b.  Jan 17, 1802 m. Jan 4, 1821 Andrew Van Brink wed, Apr 1, 1825 + she m. Oct 4, 1829 Mr. Alfranger.  Sol. men. minor ch. in 1820: Lucy 14, Bathsheba } 10, Jan Ann 8, Delcalfa Fidelia 5 + Alexander 2

1909 Apl. 30 Hist to B.H. Wiley - P
Rev.  WIDOW, &c.
File No. 2036
Mary White widow Potter White
Act _____
Index : Vol _____, Page _____
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Pre. QPO ✓ _____ Quare

Free Pension office Washington D.C. Sandwich Ill Sept 19 th

Lib to Mrs. Van Keorne
Jan 2 2 '47
Lib. to same Feb July
18. 47
Cin to G. M. Phillips
July 30. 1851.

Albany White. of Potter Pennsylvania
Rejected
See let: 31 May '42 Thos. Van Horn, let: to same 21 Sep: '42 same July 11 1843 same March 2 1844 was not a widow at time of passage of act 7 July 1838.
Sol to Thos. Van Horn Nov 20 '45
Act 7 July 1838,

Pension Office
March 29 1853
Pa. Rolls. Pittsburg or Philadelphia.
acts 1818 or 1820
$96 per annum
to Potter White To what time paid? Suppld
John H. Gullaker Esq Creditor
Philadelphia Roll, Paid to 4 th Sept. 1841.
B.L.B.

D 9.356 D. Pennsylvania Pilsbry Mary White widow of Potter who was a Pirate in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of April 1853 and sent to
S. A. Peugh Present
[Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book Vol. 2
Page 119

O 6064
Pennsylvania Pittsbg
Mary White widow of John Potter
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
3 Cuzz 30 3/4 June 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the first day of April 1853 and sent to
S. A. Pugh Present
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 289 Vol. 2

Mary White Pa
Taken up by direc- tion of Mr. Cole Chief Clerk
with the permiss- ion of the Court. J. S. P.
J. S. Pugh Present

State of Pennsylvania Crawford County ss
It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me John Galbraith President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, now in session in Meadville in & for the County of Crawford, that Potter White late of the County aforesaid deceased was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States at the rate of $96.00 per annum and that he died on the night of before  the  day of  October  eighteen hundred & forty two leaving surviving him a widow, Mary White who still survives him. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the 21 day of August A.D. 1852
John Galbraith President Judge District
State of Pennsylvania Crawford County ss
I Joseph Brown Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County hereby certify that John Galbraith is and was at the time of making said certificate President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal of Office this 21 day of August A.D. 1852
Joseph Brown Pro.

LINSEED OIL CAKE GROUND COARSE OR FINE
FREDONIA LINSEED OIL WORKS HESS & SMALL, PROPRIETORS INDEPENDENT OF ALL TRUSTS & COMBINATIONS
W. B. HESS O. V. SMALL
FREDONIA, KANSAS
4/14/09.
Commissioner of Pensions. U.S. Government. Washington, D.C.
Honorable Sir:
Our family is endeavoring to trace our ancestry back to the revolutionary war. My mother's grand-father served in the navy during the war, but as the older members of the family have died, and the family become scattered, we are unable to establish definitely his identity in the service.
My mother's maiden name was White, and her ancestor's name was the same, but possibly it was spelled "Whyte", "Weight" or "Wieght". His given name was Potter. We are not certain as to where he enlisted from, but we think from Boston. He was a boy of 14 years at the time of his enlistment. As stated above his service was all in the navy, and it is a family tradition that he suffered many hardships while in the service. We know that he was honorably discharged, but we are unable to say where he was discharged or when.
His wife's maiden name was Mary Jones. She received a pension for years and until her death. At one time we understand that she received quite a sum in back pensions. During later years, and possibly all the time she received her pension in De Calb County Illinois, and possibly at Sandwich, Asbury or Millington, as we had relatives living in the vicinity of these towns at that time.
This information is meager, but possibly your department can trace it up from these facts. We should like very much to know the date of his enlistment, the term of his service and the date of his discharge, and such other facts of interest in connection with his service, and we would appreciate it very much if you could furnish us with this information.
Yours respectfully
J. H. Wiley
2036

Mr. Evans
FREE
Mrs. Lyman
Hon. J. P. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D.C.

Franklin Aug th 18 th 1878
Dear Sir
Enclosed is an application for a new Certificate of Pension. Will you be good enough to enclose to me as soon as convenient the Certificate —
Yours very obed t Serv t ,
E. P. Blamey
Thos. S. P. Edwards

Sept 20. 1842
Pa Mary White
FREE
J. L. Edwards Comm. Pensions - Washington City D.C.

Meadville Sept- 13 th 1842
Dr Sir
Please inform me what more must be proven to secure the claim of Mary White widow of Potter White deceased, whose application was forwarded to you not long since
Thos Van Horn
J. L. Edwards

Washington, May 19. 1857.
Sir
Herewith I enclose you the certificate of J. M. Farrelly, Esq. Sixth Auditor of the Treasury as to the credibility of Nathaniel & Joel Jones, whose affidavits are on file in your office touching the claim of Mrs Mary White (of Pennsylvania) widow of Potter White to a Pension (Act 1838) Vorn
Very Resp Yr obed Servt Geo. M. Philips
Jas E. Heath, Esq Board of Pensions

Treasury Department Auditor's Office, May 19. 1851
I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Nathaniel Jones who made an affidavit before W. W. Dick, Esq. a Justice of the Peace in Bradford County Pennsylvania, on the first day of November, 1843, in the case of the application of Mrs. Mary White for a Pension; - as also with Joel Jones, who made an affidavit in the same case before said Magistrate, on the sixth day of February, 1844, and know said Nathaniel and Joel Jones to be persons of great respectability, to whose evidence full faith and credence may be given
J. W. Foster
Jas E. Heath, Esq., Board of Pensions

No 8707 Mary White widow of Potter adm ts with 3 children 434 7 2 yrs pri $80 per annum from 4 March 1843 to 30 June 1848 & at $96 pr annum from 1 July 1848
Cert to S. A. Pugh Present

Brief in the case of Mary White widow of Potter County and State of Pennsylvania act 3 March 1823 4 c
Claim, ("original," or "for increase." )
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was a pensioner acts 1818 & 1820
Documentary Proof of my consented with M c Coll Chief Clerk
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Name and residence of Agent
S. A. Peugh Esq Present
Thornton Lipton
Examining Clerk.

Dear Sir
I leave for Montgomery County in the morning, and as I wish to examine at an early day, the papers of Mrs Mary White widow of Potter White, of Pennsylvania I will be under obligations if you place the annexed memoranda on file so that I can see them on my return. For my authority I have to say, that I filed some time since her declaration (if I mistake not) If not her declaration, I did some evidence in her case
Very Resp t Yours
Rev R. S. Evans Ch. Clk Pension Off ce
Geo M. Phillips
Mrs Mary White of Penn a widow of Potter White an applicant under Act 1838.
Geo M. Phillips to examine

Free
Pen:"> Pen: office
7 Mar
Philip Barber Esq. Secretary at War Washington City

Windham Gaumber 2/18/7
Dear Sir
I incl on Potter White papers for a new Certificate I believe find hope according to your direction and hope that you have now forward his Certificate as I assure you he needs it as much as any other man can as he is poor & a large family and not able to be about please to direct your letter to me in Windham Town County State of New York
J. Le. Edwards Esq
Barnet Osborn

Potter White a gd —

Application for a Transfer
Crawford County Pa
On this 4th day of September 1833 Before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Crawford personally appeared Peter White who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the ship Queen of France. Commanded by Captain John P. Rathbun under Commodore Whipple 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 lately removed: That he now resides in the State of Pennsylvania where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable in future. The following are his reasons for removing from the State of New York to Pennsylvania. to wit with a view of benefiting his health & bettering his condition.
Sworn and subscribed before me at the Borough of Meadville.
Peter White
R. L. Potter

Crawford County ss
Before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for said County personally appeared Noah Munson who made oath in due form of law that Potter White who has taken the above oath & who has subscribed his name as above is the identical person described in the affidavit.
Sworn and subscribed
Noah Munson
before me Sept. 4
1833. R. L. Potter
I R. L. Potter a Justice of the Peace for the County of Crawford do certify that Noah Munson who made the above affidavit before me is a man with whom I am personally acquainted I believe him to be a person of Veracity & entitled to Credit.
R. L. Potter
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State of Pennsylvania } Crawford County }
I Edward A Reynolds Prothonotary and Clerk of the Superior Court of said County do certify that R. L. Potter Esq. before the whom the foregoing depositions were taken and whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Certificate is a Justice of the peace duly commissioned and that the signature of said Justice to said Depositions & Certificate are genuine & of his own hand writing and that full faith is due to all his Official acts as well in Courts of Justice as elsewhere.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office the 14 th day of Sept r A D 1833.
Edward A. Reynolds Prothonotary & Clerk

Meadville, 5 th Sept 1833
Hon Lewis Cass Secretary of War Sir
Inclosed is Mr White's application to have his Pension made payable in Philadelphia instead of New York as heretofore. Mr White has resided for two years in this county during which time he has drawn his money in New York, but the agent declined paying it the last time alleging that as he resided in an other state it was not properly payable in New York. If Mr White's reasons for wishing the transfer are satisfactory to you will you do him the favor to have the order given immediately for its payment in Philadelphia as he has executed his Power of Atty to have it drawn there, and has forwarded it with a friend to have the money drawn for him

and it will occasion him some expense if it is delayed
Respectfully Yours Ira R. DICK
Letter white in g d —

Payments to be made on the 4th of March and 4th of September in each year, by the Agent for paying pensions at Philadelphia.
Due 9 th September 1841
Recorded in the Pension Office, by H. S. Evans Clerk, in Book H. Vol. 6 page 78.

TriPLICATE
WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify, that, in conformity with the laws of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, and May 1st, 1820, Potter White late a Marine in the Navy of the Revolution _____ is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Pennsylvania Agency, at the rate of Eight _____ Dollars per month; to commence on the twenty third day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. — This certificate is issued in lieu of one dated 7 th Nov r 1827, which was in lieu of one dated 23 rd April 1818 which have been lost or destroyed.
United States, this twenty fourth day of August in one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight
J. Cooper. Acting. Secretary of War.
Examined and countersigned,
J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions.

July 10 '43.
Mary White Pitts. Pa. 58
J. G. Edwards Esq. Washington City D.C.

Meadville June 30 th 1843
Dr-Sir
I have just been informed that an Act was past by Congress at its last Session Authorizing the payment of Pensions to widows who became so since the passage of the Act of July 7-1838 - If this is the case it perhaps authorizes the payment of a pension to M rs Mary White widow of Peter White, whose pension was refused in consequence of her not being a widow on the 7 th July 1838 -
Please inform me if her case is embraced in any act passed since your answer to her application.
Yours Respectfully
Thos Van Horn
J. G. Edwards C.F.

Jan 18. 1847 Long. 100° 45' W New Orleans
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Commission of Pensions Washington D.D.

I certify that I am Clerk of the Town of Lambsdowne & have held the Office nearly three years, That I have examined the Records from 1781 to 1820 - That I can not find the Marriage of Peter White & Mary Jones Recorded thereon - and the Registry of Births furnishes no evidence of their relation of Husband & Wife I further certify that the Records of Marriages and Births are very imperfect
Richard Whitney Town Clerk
Berkshire ss Jan 14 1847 Then personally appeared Richard Whitney and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed
Before me William J. Filley Justice of the Peace

July 12 1844
Rev. Dr. Benjamin Mayhew May 1838
J. L. Edwards Esq. Washington City D.C.

Meadville Feby 6
Sir
I herewith enclose to you a General Declaration of Mary White with Depositions substantiating her claim
Yours Respectfully Thos Ward
J L Edwards C.S.

Dec 21. 1846 Addison & Mary White
PAID PAID
30
J. L. Edwards Esq. Washington City D.C.

Meadville Decr 15- /46
J L Edwards
Dr Sir
I herewith enclose to you additional proof in support of the application of Mary White, widow of Potter White. In reply you will please address to me
Yours Respectfully
Thos Authorn Meadville Pa

Ms. A. 9. 2. 26 p. 31
Pa
July 7. 1838
Mary White
P.M. 1818
1838
J. J. Edwards Esq. Washington City D.C.

Meadville May 25 / 42
Dr Sir
Communications in re- lation to the claim of Mary Whites application therein enclosed with will please address to
Yours Respectfully Thos Van Horn
J. J. Edwards C.P.

Application for a new certificate.
County of Grant
On this twenty sixth day of October 1827 before me the subscriber a justice of the peace for said county of Grant personally appeared Potter White who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the ship Queen of France commanded by Captain John Peck Rathborne under whose command he served in the service of the United States that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of New York that he received a certificate of that fact under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War which certificate on or about the 10 th day of June 1827 at the town of Granville near Elijah White, was lost
Potter White
Sworn and subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid -
Samuel Reynolds justice of the peace
I certify that I well know Potter White the above signer and that he is the same Potter White described in the above affidavit
Henry Osborn
Sworn and subscribed to this 26 th day of October 1827 before me
Samuel Reynolds justice of the peace
I certify that the above deponent Henry Osborn is a person of veracity
Samuel Reynolds justice of the peace
[Handwritten flourish signature]

State of New York Greene County-ss
I Charles C. Steele clerk of the County of Greene Do hereby certify that Samuel Reynolds Esq. whose name is subscribed to the within Inuits and certificate was a Justice of the Peace at the time of signing the same Duly authorized and commissioned to take such Affidavits and make such certificate In witness whereof I have hereto set my Hand and Affixed the Seal of said County this 2nd Day of November 1827
Chas. C. Steele clerk
of the Records and Engrs.

8296
His band died 9 th Sept 41
Rejected

State of Pennsylvania Crawford County, ss
On this Twelfth day of October A.D. 1843, personally appeared before me James McDowell one of the justices of the peace, in & for said County Mary White a resident in and for said County aged Twenty Five years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pro- -vision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of Potter White who was a marine in the navy of the United States, and for his services in the same drew a pension the certificate of which was an- nexed to declaration of the above named Mary White dated the 20 th day of May 1842 & forwarded to J. G. Edwards Esq. She has no further proof of the services of her said husband Potter White. She further declares that she was married to the said Potter White on the eighteenth day of December Seventeen hundred & ninety. That her husband the aforesaid Potter White died on the ninth day of September A.D. 1841; That she was not mar- -ried to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred & ninety four. viz at the time above stated. She further avers that she has no family records nor certificate of marriage nor does she know of any person living who was at the cere- -mony or knows more of the circumstances attending it than Nathaniel Jones whose deposition is herewith annexed

She further alledges that the proof of the decease of the said Potter White will be found annexed to her declaration referred to above
Sworn to & subscribed on Mary White the day & year abovenwritten & I further certify that the said Mary White by reason of bodily infirmity is unable to appear in open court before me  McDowell
State of Pennsylvania Crawford County ss.
I William M c Arthur Clerk of the court of Common Pleas Crawford County do certify that James McDowell is a justice of the Peace as above & that the fore- going signature purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office & subscribed my name the sixth day of February A D 1844
W m M c Arthur Prothonotary

State of Pennsylvania Crawford County ss
Nathaniel Jones of Summer- hill Township Crawford aforesaid being sworn according to Law. Saith that he is aged sixty four years And that his the brother of Mary White widow of Potter White late a pensioner of late a pensioner of the United States. That Deponent is a native of Massachusetts & lived there until in the eleventh year of his age. When his father moved to Stamford Vermont. Which to the best of Deponents recollection was in the March of 1790. Deponent remembers that Potter White asked the father of the said Mary to give his consent to the Nuptials. & that the father gave his consent this was the fall after removing to Vermont That the wedding party went to Danes- borough a distance of about fifteen miles from S t Stamford. That the wedding party returned to Stamford. Deponent with his father remained at Stamford about three years. When he removed to Rensselaer County N.Y. where he remained about seven months. When removed again to Vermont near Whitehall where the fam- ily lived nine years at which place the father -or of Deponent died which was in the year 1803 Deponent continued to live at the said place of his father last residence until the January of 1817 when Deponent removed to Crawford County Pa. where he has since resided. Deponent further saith that he has been acquainted with the said Potter White from the year 1790 until the day of his death which was on the ninth day of September 1841 That Deponent further saith that he learned from the said Potter before his decease that his dwelling house was destroyed by fire about the year 1817 and that his family record was

destroyed at that time Defendant never having seen it since that period.
Defendant firmly believes that the marriage took place at the period stated in the declaration of the said Mary viz on the seventeenth day of December 1790. for they lived & cohabited together from that period until the decease of the said Potter at the date above named. Defendant further saith the year after said marriage she visited the said Potter & Mary in the town of Adams County of Berkshire State of Massachusetts & that they had a son who is yet living at Windham Green County N.Y. who is named Paul White
Sworn & subscribed this First day of November 1843
H. W. Dick
State of Pennsylvania Crawford County ss
I William M. Arthur Clerk of the court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid do certify that H. W. Dick is a justice of the peace as above & that the signatures on the above & annexed depositions are true & genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office & subscribed my name this 6 th day of Feby - A. D. 1844
W. M. Arthur Proth

State of Pennsylvania Crawford County
Joel Jones being duly sworn Saith that he is a pensioner of the United States & that he is aged about eighty years and that he is the brother of Mary White widow of Potter White who was also a pensioner. Deponent has in his possession in his a private record of his own family, which contains the following entry in relation to deponents marriage. September 27 th 1790 Joel Jones was married to Sally South- gate of Bridgewater Vermont. Deponent further al- ledges that shortly after this date while residing at South Am. he received a letter from his father informing him that his Sister Mary was married to Potter White. Deponent feels confident that he received said letter & information the winter succeed- ing the date above-named. he does not remember if the letter contained the precise date but that he received it in the early part of of January 1791. Deponent refers to another date in said record which is as follows. February 3 rd 1798 Moved to Westhaven. Deponent alleges that at this time the said Potter & Mary moved into & lived in the same house with deponent. at which time they had had three children of whom Paul & Potter were living & Samuel was dead. Deponent further alleges that the said Potter White died on the ninth day of September 1841 & that the said Mary has remained a widow ever since that period. Deponent knows of no fam- ily record by which said marriage can be establish- -ed or of any person by whom it can be proven and further saith not. Joel Jones Sworn to & subscribed This 6 th Febry 1844 W m Dick S o

State of Pennsylvania } County of Mercer } Ls.
On the 26 th day of June A.D. 1838 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Mercer personally appeared Potter White who on his oath declares that he is the same identical person who formerly belonged, as a Marine to the Ship "Queen of France" Commanded by Captain John P. Rathbone under Commodore Whipple in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the Pension roll of the State of New York that he received a certificate of that fact under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War; which certificate a short time since by accident got wet and worn so that it is now obliterated and illegible and of no further use; that he now resides in the State and County first aforesaid where he intends to remain and wishes his pension to be made payable there - in Pittsburgh in the same State - The following are his reasons for removing from the State of New York to Pennsylvania In consequence of the climate being more congenial to his health as he is very feeble and far advanced in years
Sworn & Subscribed to before me the day & year first aforesaid. - J. B. Hogen J. B. Hogen Justice of Peace
Potter White -
State of Pennsylvania } County of Mercer } Ls -
On the 26 th day of June 1838 be- fore me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Mercer personally appeared Matthew A. Irwin who on his oath saith that he well knows Potter (over)

White the person who makes the foregoing declaration and well knows him to be the identical person described in said declaration and affidavit. Matthew A. Brown sworn & subscribed to before me } the day and year first aforesaid } S. B. Hazen Justice of peace
State of Pennsylvania } } County of Mercer } I Samuel B. Hazen a Justice of the Peace in and for said County do hereby Certify that I am well acquainted with Matthew A. Brown the above deponent, named - and that he is a person of Veracity - Witness my hand and Seal the 26 th June 1838 S. B. Hazen Justice of Peace
State of Pennsylvania } } County of Mercer } I Hugh Bingham Clerk and Prothonotary of the Common Pleas Court of the County and in the State aforesaid do hereby Certify that Samuel B. Hazen before whom the foregoing affidavits were made and by whom the above Certificate is given is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly Commissioned and qualified and to whose official acts full faith and credit are to be given and that the name signed to the said affidavits & certificate is the genuine signature of said Samuel B. Hazen Given under my hand and Seal of said Court this 26 th day of June 1838 Hugh Bingham Prothry

STATE OF NEW-YORK, County of Schenectady, } ss. CLERK'S OFFICE.
I, SILAS H. MARSH , Clerk of the County of Schenectady, Do hereby Certify, That Albert A. Vedder Esq. before whom the foregoing Affidavit was subscribed and sworn, was, at the time of taking the same, a Commissioner of Deeds in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified as such; and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Albert A. Vedder and verily believe that the signature to said Affidavit and Certificate is genuine.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County, this 31 st day of July 184 4 .
W. H. Marsh Clerk.

State of New York } Schenectady County }
Certify that Sarah Granger of the City of Schenectady in the County and State aforesaid doth Depose & say, that in addition to what she wrote in her former affidavit (which she disposes in view of the pension office) and to which this refers, that the Annuaire is the Bible leave or Family record alluded in her former affidavit, and that the Entry on said leaf, was originally made by a friend of the deponent by the name of Whipple who erroneously put down the year as 1890 which error was first discovered by this Deponent's Father Peter White as far as the deponent knows, and the deponent further says her Father, said Peter, drew her, the Deponent's Attention to it, and told her that is wrong it should be 1790 that she then saw the mistake herself and she then deponent then requested her Brother Alexander (the man to whom she delivered her former affidavit) to correct the mistake and alter the (8) in the first Entry into a 7 which her brother then did, and as the Entry was in pale ink he traced the other figures with blacker ink in whole or in part, so as to make the year in figures more strong and legible, and this deponent further states that it was about two years before her father, said Peter, died, when he drew her Attention to the mistake in the Entry of his Marriage above stated, and further the deponent saith not
Sarah Granger
Subscribed & sworn the 4th day of February 1848 at the City of Schenectady
W. H. D. B. Commissioner of Deeds
I the above Commissioner further certify that the bible leaf or record Annuaire was by me taken or detached from the Bible in the foregoing affidavit alluded to, and the same from which copied in the former affidavit above alluded to, which was taken before me also, as will appear from inspection — W. H. D. B. Commissioner &c

Berkshire ss. Lanesborough Mass. July 8 th 1846 I hereby certify that I have carefully examined the Records of S d Town and cannot find the Marriage of Potter White & Mary Jones Recorded therein - Attest Richard Whitney Town Clerk
Berkshire ss. July 8 th 1846 The above certificate seems to be before me - William G. Kelley just of the place -
The certificate of the Clerk of the Court & Seal will not be necessary as it has been in several instances certified heretofore and probably in Record at Washington as he has made but many pension papers Examining & Certificate $1-00

Samsboro' Ms } July 8 th — }
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Thomas Van Horn Esq Meadville Pa.

State of Pennsylvania Crawford County. ss
Personally appeared before me J. G. Frier a justice of the peace in and for said County Alexander White who being first duly sworn on his solemn oath saith. that the accompanying Family record belonged formerly to his Sister (now Sarah Granger) formerly Sarah (White) & that the date of the marriage of Potter White was made in error 1890 or 1891 & that deponent altered the date at the suggestion of his Sister Sarah Granger to 1790 & that he further believes that 1790 is the correct date, from family conversation. deponent further saith that he always understood that his father & Mother were married at Lanesborough Mass by a Revd. Mr. Irish, & that the Revd. Mr. Irish was not the located clergyman but a substitute which may perhaps account for there being no record evidence in the proper County of the marriage, & that deponent visited that County in search of testimony but was not able to find any record of the marriage nor any person living who recollected about the aforesaid Mr. Irish, the accompanying record is the only one that deponent knows of in his father's family and further this deponent saith not
Sworn to & subscribed this 2 d day of Dec r . 1846
J. G. Frier
J. G. Frier
Alexander White
Crawford County Penn a
I Jas Ed d Farland Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County afo d . do certify that J. G. Frier is a justice of the peace & that the signature purport- ing to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I have herunto affixed my official seal & subscribed my name this 15 th December A. D. 1846. Jas. E. M c Farland, Clerk.

12.283 Oct. 18. 1845
May White, Aug 7. 1838.
J. L. Edwards C.P. Washington City D.C.

State of Pennsylvania Crawford County } ss
On this tenth day of October 1843 personally appeared before me Thomas Proctor a justice of the peace in & for said county Mary White a resident of Summerhill Township in the county aforesaid aged seventy four years, who being first duly sworn, according to law , oath , on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7, 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows;" That she is the widow of Potter White who was a man in the navy of the United States during the revolutionary war & for his services drew a pension, the certificate of which was annexed to a former application of Mary White above named which was subscribed on the 20 th day of May 1842 which application is now on file in the pension office. She further declares that she was married to the said Potter White on the 18 th day of December 1790 at the town of Lansborough in the county of Berkshire & State of Massachusetts by the Rev. David Irish of the Baptist denomination. That her husband, the aforesaid Potter White died on the ninth day of September 1841 at his residence in Summerhill Township, Crawford County aforesaid: That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred & ninety four: viz, at the time above stated.
Mary White
Sworn to & subscribed, on the 3 rd day of year above written before. The word "law" & the 7 th line from top & the word "States" on the twelfth line sworn underlined before signing.
Thomas Proctor
Justice of the Peace

State of Pennsylvania Crawford County } ss
Alexander White being duly sworn saith that he during the last summer made dil- igent search in the Town of Amesborough in the State of Massachusetts for record proof of his parents marriage without being able to find any such - That he does not believe that there was any entry made on the church records for the Rev David Irish who is said to have performed the ceremony was at the time but a substitute - further that he has made diligent search for living witnesses without being able to find any who can positively testify to the marriage of the said Potter & Mary White who are the pa- rents of deponent
Sworn to & subscribed this tenth day of October 1845
Alexander White at the  Massachusetts
Thomas Proctor J.P.
State of Pennsylvania Crawford County - ss
I William McArthur clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Crawford County do certify that Thomas Proctor is a Jus- tice of the peace as above & that the forego- ing signatures purporting to be his are genuine in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my official seal & sub- scribed my name this 13 day of Octo- ber 1845
W. McArthur Clerk

State of New York Schenectade County
Be it known that on the ninth day of September 1845 personally appeared before me the undersigned, a commissioner of oaths in and for said county, Sarah Granger to me personally known to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing instrument and acknowledged that she is married to William Granger & now resides in the City of Schenectade in said county with her husband said W m Granger. I further this deponent says that she was born as she has always understood in the State of Vermont town of West Haven on the 17th day January 1822. That her Father's name was Potter white & her Mother's name is Mary white & further that she had four Brothers older than herself two of which are now deceased and one Sister the following are their names & the years in which she believes they were born (to wit) Potter Potter the Eldest in the year 1791 57 Potter the 2 nd Son born 1793 - Samuel the 3 rd Son born 1795 and Moses the 4 th Son in the year 1797 and her Sister aforesaid name Mary was born in the 1799 the names in which they were born respectively she does not undertake to say, but thinks she has reliable knowledge understood & has reason to believe it's true that her Eldest brother Paul aforesaid was born on the 29 th September and this deponent further says, that she has frequently seen an entry in a Bible owned by her Father Potter white in the following words. Potter white was married to Mary Jones October 25 th 1790 and which she knows & now knows that it was in her Father's hand writing & further this deponent says that she frequently heard her Father say that he had written it & said that that was it was

it was the time he married the Deponents Mother, that for the purpose of preserving the record of her Father's Marriage, in consequence of the worn state of her said Father's Bible, she copied the Marriage record of her said Father, & further says that the said Bible of her said Father was in a small Bible of her own, from the said Bible of her said Father, & further says that the small Bible aforesaid was Wally Bound & sent to Paris, & she then bought (what is called) a large Bible & copied the aforesaid record from said small Bible into the large Bible now in her possession, and which now exists, & which is now before me & the record to which this Deponent Alludes is in the words before stated, and the Deponent further says that Bible of her Father which contained the Original Marriage record is worn out and she believes no part of it saved, as well the little Bible herein before mentioned & the Deponent further says that she always understood that her Mother's name before the Marriage her Father was Mary Jones & which she believes to be true, & the Deponent further says that it is or will be in the month (September) Eight years since she copied the aforesaid record of her Father's Marriage in her large Bible now in her possession from the small Bible aforesaid (now destroyed) and that her Father the said Letter which was presented and a witness to her copying or transferring said record & approved of it & it was the true time of the date of their Marriage as said & further this Deponent saith that her Father said Pittsburgh since some where about four years ago & further this Deponent saith rest
Subscribed & sworn this 9 th day of September 1848
W. W. D. L. B. L. W. W. D. L. B. L.  W. W. D. L. B. L. 186.
I do further certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Sarah Granger & know her to be a credible witness
W. L. M. B. C. June 1906

STATE OF NEW-YORK, County of Schenectady, } ss. CLERK'S OFFICE.
I, SILAS H. MARSH , Clerk of the County of Schenectady, Do hereby Certify, That Albert A. Leader Esq. before whom the foregoing Affidavit was subscribed and sworn, was, at the time of taking the same, a — Commissioner of Courts in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified as such; and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Albert A. Leader and verily believe that the signature to said Affidavit and Certificate is genuine.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County, this Ninth day of September 1845.
S. H. Marsh By W. Gilbert Deputy Clerk.

POWER OF ATTORNEY—Revolutionary Pension Claims.
Know all Men by these Presents, That I, Mrs Mary White , (widow of Potter White, dec d ) of Crawford County , State of Pennsylvania , do hereby constitute and appoint Geo. M. Phillips , of Washington City my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the Claim of myself , 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 ; And I hereby authorize my said Attorney 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 30 th day of March A. D., 1852.
Mary + White mark
Signed and Sealed in the presence of } Joseph H. Dickson R. G. Dickson Jane A Cook
STATE OF Illinois COUNTY OF LaSalle } ss:
On this Thirtieth day of March A. D. 1852 before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Mrs Mary White and acknowledged the foregoing Power, of Attorney to be her act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand, } the day and year aforesaid.
Joseph H. Dickson Justice of the Peace.

Claim of Mrs Mary White, widow of Peter White, of Penn a Act of 1838
STATE OF COUNTY
} ss.
Be it known, That on this
day of
A. D., eighteen hundred and fifty
, before the
undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared a resident of in said County, and
made oath according to law that he is the
who was a Revolutionary Pensioner
at the rate of
Dollars per annum; that 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.
J. Peace.
Mary White wid P. White Jn
W. J. Brugh
I,
Justice of the Peace, in and for said County do hereby certify that 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.
J. Peace.
State of Illinois } Lusk County } 8
I, Samuel W. Raymond Clerk of the County Court in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Joseph A. Dickson Esq r 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 — signature.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official Seal, this Second day of April A. D. 1852.
Sam W. Raymond
Clerk.