Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26,669, for Abijah Jennings, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Jennings, Abijah Eleanor
N. 26,669
CONTENTS

Rep
573.
New York City
Eleanor Jennings
widow of Abijah Jennings who was a private
in the Connecticut line for 8. Months.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 26. Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 d day of June 1843. and sent to
P. M. Irving 15 1/2 Wall Street New York.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1. Page 107.

N. 1199 2762 Declaration of Eleanor Jennings N.Y. act 7. July '38

Benjamin Brothwell of the Town of Fairfield County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut a Pensioner of the United States, under Act of June 7 1832. Deposeth and saith that in the Spring of 1780 a Guard was raised in said Fairfield for 8 months service under command of Ensign Samuel Silliman of said Fairfield Isaac Robbins Sergeant, by authority of the State of Connecticut and was attached to Col Samuel Whitneys Regiment in Genl Gold Sillimans Brigade which Guard was Infantry and was raised expressly to Guard the person of said Genl Gold Silliman who had just returned from captivity, having been surprised in his own house by the British and carried to Long Island the year before - said Guard was at the Quarters of said Genl Silliman in said Fairfield and Deponent testifies that he was a private in said Guard and that Abijah Jennings of said Fairfield now dead was also a private soldier in said Guard and that they both enlisted for eight months and both served faithfully for that time said Ensign Silliman paid Deponent in 20 & 40 Shilling Bills of Connecticut State Bills for said Eight months service
Benjamin Brothwell
State of Connecticut County of Fairfield - ss Personally appeared Benjamin Brothwell and subscribed and made oath to the truth of the above Deposition before me who I certify is a credible Witness Isaac Sherman Justice of Peace well known to me

State of Connecticut County of Fairfield ss Bransport. I Ira Sherman Clerk of the Probate Court. in and for the District of Stratford in said County, do hereby certify that Ira Sherman is a Justice of Peace for said County, duly commissioned and qualified That his Commission will expire in June 1839 and that his signatures to the Depositions of Benjamin Prothwell, John Knapp Whitall, Bridalce & John H. Nichols are genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this 4 th day of October 1838.
Ira Sherman Clerk
12 Prothwell

John Knapp of the Town of Fairfield in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut a Pensioner of the United States, under Act of June 7 1832. Deponent and Saith that he lived in the said Town of Fairfield during the Revolutionary War near to Abijah Jennings and the husband of Ellen Jennings who is now applying for a Pension and Deponent says he remembers that said Abijah Enlisted into a Company of Connecticut State Guards under Command of Lt Samuel Sillaman and was attached to Col Samuel Whiting's Regiment in Genl Gold Sillaman's Brigade and was raised as Deponent understood for 8 months and was employed during said 8 months in guarding the Prisoners in which said Genl Sillaman then lived in said Fairfield. said Genl Sillaman having before that been taken by surprise in his House by the British and carried to Long Island and after he was exchanged and arrived home again to said Fairfield said Guard was then Enlisted in said Fairfield to guard their Prisoner for 8 months Thinking said Guard served as aforesaid in 1780. and Deponent remembers that said Abijah was one of said Guard often saw him in service in said Guard at Genl Sillaman's House, and fully believes that said Abijah served the term of said Enlistment as a private John Knapp

State of Connecticut County of Fairfield ss Bridgeport August 15. 1888 Personally appeared John Knapp and subscribed and made oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition before me who I certify is a credible witness well known to me. Isaac Sherman Justice of Peace

Mehitable Beardslee of Bridgeport in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut 57 years of age deposeth and saith that she was present at the Marriage of Abijah Jennings to Ellen or Ellenor Seeley, in the Town of Stratford in that part now called Bridgeport and saw them married and as she thinks by the Baptist Minister of Fairfield, she was young at the time and does not recollect the name of the minister who married them nor the year it took place.
Mehitable Beardslee
State of Connecticut County of Fairfield ss Bridgeport Sept 15 th 1838 Personally appeared Mehitable Beardslee and Subscribed and made Oath to the truth of the above Deposition before me who I certify is a credible Witness
Isaac Sherman
Justice of Peace

John W Nichols of Farmfield in the County of Farmfield and State of Connecticut of lawful age Deposeth and saith that he is the Clerk of the Baptist Church Located in the Town of Farmfield in said County and has the custody of the Records of said Church, do depose and say that it appears by the Records of said Church that the Rev. Seth Higby was the ordained Pastor of said Church in June 1782 and continued the Pastor thereof until April 1794, and that there was no marriages Recorded in said Records or elsewhere within the knowledge of Deponent by said Higby during his Ministry, nor does it appear by the Records of said Church that it was ever customary to Record Marriages by the Ministers of said Church John W Nichols Clerk of said Church
State of Connecticut County of Farmfield ss Personally appeared John W Nichols and Subscribed and made oath to the above Deposition before me who I certify as a Credible Witness well known to me Isaac Sherman Justice of Peace

State of New York
City and County of New York 3 d ss: On the seventeenth day of October A.D. 1838 personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas of the City and County of New York, then sitting, Ellen Jennings, a resident of the City and County of New York, aged Seventy one years, who being 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 Abijah Jennings, late of the Town of Fairfield in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut who was a private in the guard mentioned in the annexed affidavits of Benjamin Brothwell and John Knapp; that the said Abijah Jennings, as she is informed and believes entered the service of the United States in the said Guard as a Volunteer in the Spring of the year 1780 and left the same in Eight months after so entering such service, being the time he had agreed to serve, he having served full Eight months in said guard; that the said Abijah Jennings resided in the Town of Fairfield aforesaid when he entered the said service and performed the said service in said Town; that according to her best recollection and belief the said guard in which the said Abijah Jennings performed the service aforesaid was under the command of Ensign Samuel Silliman of said Town of Fairfield, and that Israel Bebbins was sergeant of said guard; that she has no documentary evidence in support of her claim for a pension. She further declares that she was married to the said Abijah Jennings on the Seventeenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety three; that her husband the aforesaid Abijah Jennings died on the Twenty first day of March in the year of our Lord 1814; that she was

not married to him previous to his leaving the said Service but the Marriage took place previous to the first day of January 1794, Viz. at the time above stated, and that she has not married since the death of the said Abijah Jennings but still remains his widow.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written in Open Court
Ellenor J Jennings her X Mark
Joseph D. ... D. P. Myrah
Attorney at Pleas Dorset of N. Corn. Place

State of New York
City and County of New York } ss. Laura Johnson of the City of New York daughter of Abijah Jennings deceased, referred to in the annexed affidavit, and of Ellen Jennings, of the City of New York, widow of the said Abijah Jennings, being duly sworn deposeth and saith that she is thirty nine years of age; that she was fifteen years of age when her father the said Abijah Jennings died; that she has often heard him as well as others tell of the service performed by him mentioned in the annexed affidavit of Benjamin Brothwell and John Knapp and in the annexed Declaration or affidavit of her said mother, and that her said mother has never been married since her father's death.
Sworn to and subscribed the 17th Day of October 1838 Before me in open court
Laura Johnson
Abijah Jennings
D P Ingraham Assistant Winding Judge N.Y. Com. Pleas

State of New York City & County of New York } ss. I Joseph Hoxie Clerk of the City and County of New York and also Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the said City and County do hereby certify that D. P. Ingraham whose name is subscribed to the declaration or affidavit of Ellen Jennings hereto annexed and also to the affidavit of Laura Johnson hereto annexed, is one of the Judges of the said Court duly Commissioned and sworn and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and verily be- lieve that the signatures to the Surats to said Declaration and affidavit are genuine.
In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said Court of Common Pleas this Eighteenth day of October A. D. 1838.
Joseph Hoxie

In the matter of the application of Mrs Eleanor Jennings for a Pension }
City and County of New York ss.
Mrs Laura Johnson formerly Laura Jennings being duly sworn deposes and says that she is the second child of the above named Eleanor Jennings and that deponent was Forty three years of age in August last 1842
Deponent further saith that she has an elder sister Mrs Lois Turney formerly Lois Jennings now living at Fairfield Connecticut who was Forty six years of age in April last 1842.
Deponent further saith that there was once a family record of Marriages Deaths & Births in her mother's family in which she distinctly recollects seeing the account of the marriage of deponent's mother to deponent's father Abijah Jennings as having taken place on the Seventeenth day of October 1793 and deponent further saith that the above marriage and date is a matter of common reputation in her mother's family and has been so ever since deponent can recollect
Deponent further saith that the above family record existed until her father's death when her mother gave up housekeeping since which the family record above mentioned was lost and deponent has not seen it for 20 years
Deponent further saith that she has a distinct recollection of her own age, and of her elder sister's age as appearing on said record and that her sister above mentioned was not born until about  upwards of two years after

her mother's marriage and that her mother never had any other children than deponent and her sister aforesaid.
Sworn before me this 16 th of January 1843 }
Laura Johnson
James Lynch Your Judge
New York City, N.Y.
January 16. 1843.
Affidavit in the case of Eleanor Jennings made by Laura Johnson.

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3 rd March, 1843, granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have secured pensions under the Act of July 7, 1838.
State of New York City & County of New York } ss: On this third day of April 1843 personally appeared before the undersigned, a Commissioner of deeds for the City & County of New York, Eleanor Jennings, aged 76 years, a resident of the City of New York, who being first duly sworn, according to law, oath on her oath make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 3 rd March 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Abijah Jennings who was a Private in the War of the Revolution, and that she received a pension at the New York City Agency at the rate of Twenty six dollars and sixty six cents under the Act of July 7, 1838.
She further declares that she is still a widow. Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year above written before Eleanor her Jennings mark Geo. Ireland Commissioner of Deeds
I hereby certify that the above deposition is known to me to be the identical Eleanor Jennings in her declaration described.
Geo. Ireland Commissioner of Deeds

STATE OF NEW-YORK, CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW-YORK, } ss.
I, NATHANIEL JARVIS, CLERK of the City and County of New-York, and also Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said City and County, being a Court of record, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That George Ireland before whom the annexed deposition was taken, was, at the time of taking the same, a Commissioner of Courts in and for said City and County, duly commissioned and sworn, and authorized by the laws of this State to take the same; and that I believe the Signature of said Commissioner thereunto subscribed is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court and County, the 20 th day of April 184 3
Nathl Jarvis
Clerk.
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128 C. B. ...

L. 15.
Recd M. D. 26 January 1843.
New York 23 Jan'y. 1843.
James Lynch.
Appeals from decision of commiss. of Pensions on the case of Mrs. Eleanor Jennings.
Pension Bureau
Report. as directed by Act of 21st March
without
the

months is decisive of the claim -
Appse
Genl Watson Esq New York.
J. L. Edmards
It appears that there is the positive testimony of the sister in law * as to the day of the marriage, & the year of the marriage is fixed, by a town record of an event very likely to make a durable impression on the mind. The fact that the marriage was celebrated by a person who was not a settled minister accounts for the non production of any parish record, and I now transmit an affidavit of Laura Johnson stating the loss of their family bible record and stating the ages of Mrs Jennings two children, and the entries thereof in said record as well as the time of the marriage of her mother - While on the one hand there is a great propriety in protecting the Government from imposition by requiring the best evidence of facts occurring at such remote periods, which the nature of the case will admit of, the benevolent object of the Statute ought not to be defeated to the prejudice of honest bona fide applicants, where the circumstances are such, that there is no room to suspect fraud; from the nature of the case it seems to me that the applicant has produced the best evidence the nature of the case is susceptible of, and that she has established beyond all reasonable doubts that she was married in Oct 1793. I pray you to excuse me for troubling you in this matter, but from the tenor of the last letter of Mr Edmards, I was under the impression that the only hope of a successful result would be in an appeal to you from his decision -
which I respectfully Submit
To the Hon
I am Very truly & with great Respect
John C. Spencer Secy of War -
Yr. O. St.
James Lynch
* Grisel Jennings

Senior officer report of d. [illegible] [illegible]
owned by A.S.E.
St.
To the Hon
John C. Spencer Sec. of War Washington

New York Jan'y 23 1843
Sir
Mrs Laura Johnson, formerly a tenant of mine, & who I know to be a very worthy conscientious person, has requested me to address you on the subject of an application pending by her mother Eleanor Jennings for a pension under the act of 7 th July 1838 - as the widow of Abijah Jennings. From Mrs Johnson I learn that all the requisite evidence has been forwarded to Washington and is in the Pension office, and that the only impediment is that Mr Edwards deems that the evidence of the day of her marriage is not as strong as it ought to be.
The following is a copy of a letter addressed to the Hon. Thos. B. Osborne M.C. from Connecticut Pension office Aug. 12 1842
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the certificate of the Town Clerk of Fairfield in the case of Mrs Eleanor Jennings, bearing that an innuendo of the Small pox in the spring of 1793 was voted in that town and thus far strengthens one of the witnesses (Fidel Jennings) who asserts that the marriage took place in October after the innuendo, but for the reasons stated in my letter of 31. July 1841 to A. Watson Esq of which a copy was forwarded to you on 25 th ult it is not with the other proof sufficient to establish the alleged date of the marriage with the required certainty.
To Hon. Thomas B. Osborne. House of Reps.
I have the honor to - J. L. Edwards
The letter of July 31 1841 above referred to is as follows
Pension office July 31. 1841
Sir
The additional evidence in the case of Mrs Eleanor Jennings is not sufficient to establish the date of the marriage with that precision & certainty which its approximation to the limitation of the act of 7 July 1838 renders indispensable to a favorable decision. Indeed parol testimony unaided by any record or document is too uncertain in relation to distant dates, to be relied upon in cases where an error of two or three

February 23. 1841 Fairfield, Conn. Affidavit of Enziel Jennings.

I Grizel Jennings of the Town and County of Fairfield Connecticut aged 73 years being under Oath do depose and say that Abijah Jennings now deceased was my brother, That my said brother Abijah was married to Eleanor Seely his present widow on the 17 th day of October 1793 in the Town of Trumbull in said County of Fairfield by the Rev. Stephen Rice a Baptist Clergyman then officiating in the Town of Fairfield aforesaid That my brother Abijah died on the 22 nd day of March 1815 in the said Town of Fairfield in which Town he had ever lived until the time of his disease. And I do further swear that my said brother died at about the age of 53 years according to the best of my recollection. I do further swear that the said Eleanor still remains the widow of my said deceased brother Abijah Jennings; and further the deponent saith not—
Dated at Fairfield the 23 rd day of February 1841 Grizel Jennings
State of Connecticut } to Fairfield February 23 rd 1841 County of Fairfield }
Personally appeared Grizel Jennings the subscriber to the foregoing deposition and made oath to the same before me. and I further certify that said deponent is personally known to me and that I consider her a credible person—
Rufus Blakeman Jus of Peace

State of Georgia County of Fairfield } ss
I Thomas Robinson Clerk of the County Court in and for the County of Fairfield in said State of Georgia do hereby certify that Rufus Blackman Esq before whom the Deposition of Grizel Jennings was taken is now and since the 20 th day of June last past has been a Justice of the Peace for said County duly commissioned and acting as such and duly authorized to administer oaths & take the acknowledgment of deeds. That his commission is dated the 2 nd day of May A D 1840 and will expire with the 19 th day of June A D 1841 - and I further certify that the signature annexed to said Deposition on the other side hereof purporting to be his is his genuine official signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the Seal of said County Court in Fairfield this 23 rd day of February A D 1841
Thomas Robinson Clerk

June 1841
Fairfield Co Comt.
Affidavits of Grizel Jen- nings, Elizabeth Mason, and Mary Burr.

I Mabel Jennings of Fairfield in Fairfield County and State of Connecticut, being duly aged nearly seventy four years sworn & and I do depore and say that I have heretofore given a deposition to be used in the Pension claim of Eleanor Jennings widow of Abijah Jennings deceased formerly of Fairfield and now said to be on file in the Pension Office in Washington - That in said deposition I testified regarding the time of the marriage between Abijah & Eleanor and being again requested to give another deposition in regard to the same matter and the reasons of my recollection of the period of said marriage I do further depore and say, that Abijah was my brother, and that I have distinct recollection that said marriage of Abijah & Eleanor took place in October (1793) Seventeen hundred & ninety three & that they were married by the Rev Stephen Root my recollections are aided by the fact that as his sister when speaking of that event at any time during the whole course of my life & long before any Pension act touching this case was ever passed, I have always uniformly spoken of it as having occurred at the period above mentioned I am also certain as to the time from the fact that I know in the year 1793 Seventeen hundred ninety three in the Spring of that year the small pox raged very extensively in our neighbor- hood & was in our family, and that she the said Eleanor (before that time having had & been cured of said disease) was sent for & came to attend on my father's family then sick with said disease she did come, which was the first of my acquaintance with her, & also I believe the first time that Abijah

was no granted with her but from her attendance at our house at that time their intimacy com- menced which ripened into marriage and I know that their marriage followed & was consum- mated in October following said Spring of 1793 which circumstances I have often alluded to when talking over such matters, and of which I am not mistaken - was aged nearly seventy four years, first duly intoned Fairfield June 5. 1841
for yet recordings
State of Connecticut } Fairfield County } ss Personally appeared Mirah Jennings and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by her subscribed and I certify that she is known to me and is a credible person - Thomas Robinson Sub of Plea
State of Connecticut } Fairfield County } ss
I Thomas Robinson Clerk of the County Court in and for the County of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut and Keeper of the Seal thereof & of the Commission of the Justice of the Peace for said County. Do hereby certify that I the said Thomas Robinson am now on this fifth day of June 1841 a Justice of the Peace for said County duly commissioned & acting as such and duly authorized to administer oaths & take the acknowledgment of deeds - That my commission is dated the 2 nd day of May A.D. 1840 & will expire with the 19 th day of June A.D. 1841 - and I further certify that the above signature purporting to be mine is my genuine official signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County Court in Fairfield this 5 th day of June 1841. Thomas Robinson Clerk

I Elizabeth Mason of Fairfield in Fairfield County & State of Connecticut aged Sixty Eight years being duly Cantined & sworn Do depose and say that in the Spring of the year 1793 Seventeen hundred & Ninety Three the Small pox raged very considerably in said town of Fairfield, a fact of which I have distinct recollection. I was afflicted at that time with said disease. The fact that Small pox raged at that time in said town is also a matter of notoriety with elderly people, and I have often heard it alluded to. I am acquainted with Girel Jennings of said Fairfield. Said Girel sustains a fair moral character, and is a creditable person and fully entitled to belief said Girel is the sister to Abijah Jennings deceased family of said Fairfield - and from the says not dated at Fairfield June 7th 1841 Elizabeth M a 53
I Mary Bunn of the town & County of Fairfield State of Connecticut aged forty nine years being duly Cantined & sworn do depose and say that I have always understood from my parents who are now dead that I had the Small pox in the Spring of the year Seventeen hundred & Ninety Three (1793)

my parents then resided in Fairfield I have always believed said fact to be true, and I further depose and say that the fact that Robinson resided extensively at the time of his in Fairfield is a matter of notoriety -
I am well acquainted with Girel Loring of Fairfield who was sister to Abijah Loring formerly of Fairfield now dead and whose widow Eleanor is now said to be an applicant for a pension - said Girel sustains a fair moral character, is of good standing & repute in society and is a credit to her sex & fully entitled to credit. Dated at Fairfield June 7. 1841
State of Connecticut Fairfield County } Fairfield June 7 th 1841 Personally appeared Elizabeth Mason and Mary Burr and respectively made oath to the truth of the foregoing by them respectively subscribed and I certify that they are each credible persons - Thomas Robinson Sub of Penn

State of Connecticut Fairfield County ss
I Thomas Robinson Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut and Keeper of the Seal thereof do hereby certify that I am a Justice of the Peace for said County duly commissioned as stated in my previous certificate hereto attached and acting as such and that the signature on the preceding page hereof purporting to be mine is my official signature as such Justice
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said County Court in Fairfield this 27th day of June 1841
Thomas Robinson Clerk

December 21. 1840 Hartford, Conn't
Certificate of the Comptroller.
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John

Comptroller's Office
Hartford Dec 21 1840
I certify that I have examined the Books of papers lying in the Office relating to the Revolutionary War, and find in the records of the Gov & Council of Safety, under date of Augt 1777 that Samuel Silliman was appointed Ensign of the 1st Company of Trained Art in the 1st Regt of Militia in this State &c also I find on the Pay Table Book under the head of War
1781 To order on Lieut Ensign Samuel Silliman July 21 for 6 mos Pay Roll as finished $152.18.0
The above Certificate is given at the request of Mr Watson Esq to apply in the case of Royal Earnings as Revolutionary Soldiers — H. Newcomb Compt.
1 Ensign 8 Privates } $152.28 — 517.26 1 Corporal }

Hartford Dec 21 1840
Sir Enclosed you have Certificate of the appointment of Ensign James Gilliman also a charge of $132.18.0 against former his Company at Fairfield probably for services rendered in 1780. hope it may be satisfactory.
I remain Yours Respectfully H. Kilbourn Clerk
Rev. Watson Esq.

State of Connecticut } Fairfield County } ss I Thomas Robinson Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut. Do hereby certify that Samuel A. Nichols Esq. whose name is annexed to the certificate on the other side hereof as Town Clerk, is the Town Clerk of the town of Fairfield in Fairfield County Connecticut, duly appointed as such at the annual Town meeting of said Town in December 1840 for the year then next ensuing, and duly qualified and acting as such and that his acts as such Town Clerk are entitled to full faith and credit, and I further certify that the signature on the other side hereof purporting to be his, is known to me to be his genuine official signature. That I am well acquainted with said Samuel A. Nichols, who is a citizen of the same town with myself, to wit, Fairfield aforesaid, and that he is a credible person -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said County Court in Fairfield this 9 th day of November 1841 Thomas Robinson Clerk
Hon. J. B. Estlin, H.R.

Town Meeting holden in Fairfield March 5, 1793 being legally warned Voted y' Sam l Square Esq r be Moderator Voted y' this Town have liberty to inoculate for the Small Pox under the restrictions & regulations of the Law of this State Voted and agreed that inoculation for the Small Pox shall be permitted in the Town of Fairfield from the 5 th day of Instant March untill the first of April next and from the 1 st first first of October next untill the annual Town meeting in December next
The above is a true Copy of Record Fairfield Octob. 9 th 1841 Attest Samuel A. Nichols Town Clerk
Oct 9. 1841 Fairfield, Ct Certificate of the Town Clerk.

L. Edwards Esq.
New York June 15 1841
Commissioners of Pensions Washington City
Sir
Additional Documents are here enclosed in the case of Mrs Eleanor Jennings widow of Abijah Jennings which we hope will be satisfactory
I have the honor to be y. ob. Servt
33 West New York May Watson

House of Representatives
August 11. 1842
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions -
Sir. I enclose additional evidence in the case of Mr Eleanor Jennings whose application for a Pension is pending before the Department - The affidavit is to be used in connection with the evidence already in the office & it is hoped will be sufficient -
I am acquainted with Samuel A. Nichols Esq. Town Clerk of Fairfield, Connecticut, & know the enclosed Certificate purporting to be his is genuine -
very respectfully Your Obedt Servt
Thomas B. Osborne

Jan 7 1841
My Auntroot Eleanor Jennings
Woburn Mass
Massachusetts
United States

To the Hon J. Edwards son of M c Curran Washington City
Sir Enclosed is the necessary paper required by you in the last letter sent to me the other documents are in yr hands the petitioner is very aged and infirm as well as very poor which I hope will be an inducement to you to expedite her lodgement as as early (Day as possible
Respectfully I have the Honor to be A. Watson No 33 Ann St By W. Watson

W. 1199.
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26 Oct 1838
Custom Office
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7 July 1838.
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New York Feb. 23 ? 1838
J. A. Bennett
United Sec d at War. Washington City
Sir the Honor. I Have, of, Transmitting
to You the affidavits &c - of Mrs. Eleanor Jennings who claims a pension for husband Having been in the United States Service as a Document Enclosed She is a poor aged woman and. Totally Helpless. the perusal of the enclosed papers I Have no doubt. will satisfy you of. the Truth of her application
Yr. most Respectfully
Alex Watson
Clinton 158 & Cherry St New York
Mrs Jennings Resides at No 56. Ludlow St.

Jan 28 60
Eleanor Jennings
NY
No 2762. 26 Oct.
Washington City
Maryland
Washington
ms

Dr. Edwards Esq. London
New York Jan'y 17 th 1827
About three Months ago I had the honor of transmitting some papers relating to the claim of Eleanor Jennings for a pension since which time I have not heard from the Department Supposing the papers to be lost I did not expect so much delay but presuming it must arise from the multiplicity of business - I have taken the liberty of requesting your attention to the case and I believe there is no person more worthy or better qualified to the favor of Government than the said Eleanor Jennings
I have the Honor Respectfully y r obed Servt Alexander Watson
158 Cherry St New York

New York Feb. 25 1841
To the Hon. J. L. Howard Comm. of Finance
Sir agreeable to your note enclosed is the document required which I presume will be satisfactory and may be presented to request your attention to the documents
and oblige you
Respectfully
W. H. Hudson
No. 23 Ann Street

New York April 4. 1843
Mr
I herewith forward application of Mrs Eleanor Jennings for one year's additional pension under act March 3. 1843
Very respectfully
Your obedient servant
Diana M. Loring
157 1/2 Wall Street
J. L. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions

su      Apr 22 1841 Urlin
file with papers
am d Apr 22 1841
Rev. Mr. J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Internal Revenue Washington City D. C.

April 19 th 1841
S. L. Edwards Esq. Comm er of Pensions Washington City. Sir.
Yours of April 1 st is received and contents duly noted. you state that the claimants marriage should be established by record evidence. if neither the records of the clerks office of the town of Fairfield or the records of the church of which the Reverend Stephen Price was Pastor. bear any evidence of the Marriage. The record of the birth or baptism of the claimants eldest child may furnish evidence in this case.
May I beg leave to state to you that in my previous note I stated no record evidence could be obtained. you then requested evidence of her Marriage. and affidavit to that fact properly certified. which affidavit I was forwarded to you. As it regards the Rev d S. Price. he was not a forced minister. he was a baptist whose tenets do not permit Baptism. of course no certificate of Baptism is to be had of the Children
As it respects the party making Application for a pension. I have known them upwards of fourteen years. and although poor are respectable and am confident of the justness of their claim. with respect to myself I am well known for the last thirty years in Washington as a large contractor for the Navy and with Col l Gibson for the Army
I Have the Honor to be Ob dt Serv t Alexander Watson

N York 2762.
Eleanor Jennings
let. to Alex s Watson 28. Feb. 1839
to same Dec r 15. 1841
to same April 1, 1841.
to same May 7. 1841
" " July 31, 1841 ✓
" Hon. J. B. Osborne July 25. 42 ✓
" " " " " Aug t 12. 42
Act July 1838

Eleonore Jennings $26.00 in cash Car. 60 cents at 7 Feb '35 New York City Ride Lunch at E. James Lunch New York

New York 6977
Eleanor Jennings
widow of Abijah Jennings
who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 21 st March 1814 of New York in the State of New York who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Lieut. Sellaman of the regt. commanded by Gen. Sellaman in the Connecticut line for 8 months
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 26. Dollars 66. Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th day of January 1843 and sent to James Lynch, New York
Arrears to the 4th of March 1841 $33.30 Pension annual allowance ending
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by D. Brown, Clerk, Book A. Vol. 2. Page 85.
Reported

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 26,669
Eleanor Jennings
Widow of
Abijah Jennings
Full Ponal line
Act: March 3d 1843.
Index:—Vol. A , Page 3751
[Arrangement of 1870.]